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Show HN: TabPFN v2 – A SOTA foundation model for small tabular data
I am excited to announce the release of TabPFN v2, a tabular foundation model that delivers state-of-the-art predictions on small datasets in just 2.8 seconds for classification and 4.8 seconds for regression compared to strong baselines tuned for 4 hours. Published in Nature, this model outperforms traditional methods on datasets with up to 10,000 samples and 500 features.

The model is available under an open license: a derivative of the Apache 2 license with a single modification, adding an enhanced attribution requirement inspired by the Llama 3 license: https://github.com/PriorLabs/tabpfn. You can also try it via API: https://github.com/PriorLabs/tabpfn-client

TabPFN v2 is trained on 130 million synthetic tabular prediction datasets to perform in-context learning and output a predictive distribution for the test data points. Each dataset acts as one meta-datapoint to train the TabPFN weights with SGD. As a foundation model, TabPFN allows for fine-tuning, density estimation and data generation.

Compared to TabPFN v1, v2 now natively supports categorical features and missing values. TabPFN v2 performs just as well on datasets with or without these. It also handles outliers and uninformative features naturally, problems that often throw off standard neural nets.

TabPFN v2 performs as well with half the data as the next best baseline (CatBoost) with all the data.

We also compared TabPFN to the SOTA AutoML system AutoGluon 1.0. Standard TabPFN already outperforms AutoGluon on classification and ties on regression, but ensembling multiple TabPFNs in TabPFN v2 (PHE) is even better.

There are some limitations: TabPFN v2 is very fast to train and does not require hyperparameter tuning, but inference is slow. The model is also only designed for datasets up to 10k data points and 500 features. While it may perform well on larger datasets, it hasn't been our focus.

We're actively working on removing these limitations and intend to release new versions of TabPFN that can handle larger datasets, have faster inference and perform in additional predictive settings such as time-series and recommender systems.

We would love for you to try out TabPFN v2 and give us your feedback!
I agree it’s worth the trade off. I use upscalers a lot.

I’m saying that it’s different enough that you shouldn’t compare the two.
By coincidence, when I was posting that link to the Rest is History - I normally only hear it, not watch the video version - I noticed one of the hosts resembles Jame Burke.
"Excitons in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect" (2024)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.18224
1. I have personally never met someone who only eats backyard eggs. The conditions of commercial egg producers are well documented.

2. You are still essentially using another living being for resources. Why keep the chickens in the first place? They are only going to waste because you bought the chickens in the first place, probably also from an industrial breeder, essentially subsidizing the industry.

3. If your way of producing eggs is more ethical, you could sell your backyard eggs to displace the (pretty awful) commercial producers rather than eating them yourself.

I agree that the case against exclusively consuming your own backyard eggs is weaker, but I also don’t think we are describing a considerable proportion of actual egg consumers in the West.
> the goal is to make it "easy" for the users to write correct programs.

I've only ever dabbled in Golang, but isn't the goal of Go ultimately to make it easy for devs to maintain programs with their hyperfocus on non-breaking changes and backwards compatibility (With previous versions)? It's less about being easy/nice to write the first time, but that you don't have to re-write it again and again with each version change, no?

I'm not saying the OP Article is correct, again, not familiar enough with the language to comment on that, but the whole reason I keep wanting to adopt it (just don't have the time) is everyone I know that uses it always sings its praises for the above features. Seems to be the defining point that drives it's adoption, at least among those I interface with.
He is paying for 5 employees and an office with 7k-10k a month? 25k / month revenue seems pretty low for that overhead.
Demystifying Docker: Understanding and Optimizing Your Images
Hmm. I never really knew where my dad got this mountain of Amiga disks. A mix of legit and not. As kids we would always find something new to play digging through them.

https://x.com/vyrotek/status/1722050918265274434
This list is a good summary. We have a lot of issues with logging in and two factor. Initial login and setup is particularly fraught.

And Teams. Everything.
My personal favourite is document format screw ups (‘corruption’ might be the right word) depending on which Word was used (app, browser, Teams Word). It’s such a shit product. Document footer problems and page numbering issues are a complete waste of my time.

Spending the first 10 minutes of every call trying to get sound working for everyone. Hey Teams, don’t switch what mic you are using.
Totally understand your position. For what it's worth, a lot of the higher end phones these days are much more durable. I have a handful of years out of date iphone and am not careful with it. It's been through a lot. I have always had a hard silicon case on it (seems dumb to not use a case), but the phone itself genuinely still looks brand new.

Also if you buy a few generations old refurbished, it's only a few hundred, not $1k.

All this being said, of course apps should run on low-mid end hardware. They're still wildly powerful devices.
Ex-MoviePass CEO Pleads Guilty; DOJ Calls Case Early Instance of "AI Washing"
Your situation is literally the opposite of what I was responding to and your situation is not included in what I was discussing.

Your situation is a completely irrelevant red hearing for the discussion we are having. You are actually rural, and are describing an actually rural life—not a suburban rural identity & not an urban suburban identity.

If you don’t even have state or county roads, like no paved roads going anywhere near where you are and there’s nothing around and there’s no police around and everything else you described then that’s not at all what I am responding to. Because what you describe sounds to me like you don’t have anything within walkable distance, and I was directly responding to somebody who says that they have shit they can walk to.

You are living an actual rural life because you are outside the range of services provided, relying on yourself instead and in terms of my own personal Urbanist Theory that’s exactly how it should be.
Think about what you're saying here: the signal of someone being an Android user instead of an iOS one means they're willing to sacrifice their own user experience for (not that much) money and being tied to Google.

As a company do you want people like that as your customer?

Tesco is a low-mid end supermarket chain in the UK, so this is kind of irrelevant as they need to hit everyone, but in such circumstances people should not complain if the UX sucks on their device because they were excessively cheap, and yet, of course, they do. The truth is the numbers in the article are unacceptably slow across the board.
The article states that browsing on the top of the line Android phones are about the speed of a four year old phone.

If other browser makers can’t make a performant browser on Android, what makes you think either Google or Firefox is going to make a faster one for IOS?

The article states that the inferior experience is on Android. If anything you need to make an app for Android because of how bad browsers perform even on top end phones
Ticketmaster now requires a smartphone for some tickets/venues:

"Delivery - Mobile - Free -
Your phone's your ticket. Locate your tickets in your account - or in your app. When you go mobile, your tickets will not be emailed to you or available for print."

I occasionally help a coworker buy tickets as he has a flip phone and no computer. Yesterday, the above was the only delivery option, so I couldn't help him. He was able to buy the tickets at the venue, but that is slowly going away as well.
>I would never post on HN to argue about pointer arithmetic or inference optimization, yet the law seems to be fair game for amateur hour.

In all fairness, You would probably be ok with criticizing software or a website that didn't work for you and offer improvements or features. There's certainly nothing wrong with that.
Systems Software Research is Irrelevant [pdf]
True unless i‘m not the 1 workn n web & hate 2 pop ur bubble but i‘m not workn in the web @ least not on earth well not the www but more of a REALM TYPE OF AN INTERNET if u get what i‘m tlkn about
Exactly this.

But there are some cases where you just have to rely on client side. Like when other player position is partially obscured, server have to send it's position but it might be almost not visible by naked eye.

Teleport hacks are unfortunately also not that simple, I think most of games do not trust client input but give some wiggle room for network latency, that can be exploited (it should be limitted to reasonable amounts to allow max like 200ms or so of latency)

Most "pro" cheaters (there is market for this stuff) use protocol level tools that are invisible to anti cheat software as those work as proxy on physically separate computer.
Yes, that's why NHS is so well funded.
Oh, wait, it isn't.

Government-organized resource allocation is, more likely than not, bad to very bad.
I averaged ~4 hours of sleep last year based on FitBit’s sleep tracker. I’m a parent too, so mostly that checks out.
I Have Lost Everything: The Toll of Cities' Homeless Sweeps
Worse than Origin of Life researchers?
I have been using the Quest 3 for work for a month and a half now, daily driving it as a trio of monitors for 6-10 hours a day. So far, no major complaints, but maybe we should start wanting for focus distance adjustment, 4 foot may not be ideal all day. I’d like to be able to bring focus in a few inches and out a foot, so that I can at least vary where my eyes are sitting all day, but outside of that I am very excited for whatever the quest 4 will be, because that will likely be a big enough leap from where we are now to be compelling for even more general usage as a computer instead of an “interface” device like they are now.
I was askance at him refusing the helpdesk request to do something in the app. One of my hats for decades was support and this feels like someone refusing to tell you what's on their screen, or whether a certain light is on, or to push a button.
From what I've seen they've targeted the low end in price, but solid mid-range in performance. It's hard to know if that's a strategy to get started (likely) with price increases down the road or they're really that competitive.

Intel's iGPUs were low end. Battlemage looks firmly mid-range at the moment with between 4060/4070 performance in a lot of cases.
So do you have an engineering solution that will get bits over the internet to people who don’t have a phone or computer?
Yep. He’s a member
Invisible XML
So they screwed up certificate rotation. I want to say "it happens" but I also want to say "I thought they are charging money for this, if they screw this up can we be sure there's no actual malware there"?
Seeing people blame the fires on "DEI" is making my head exploded.

The fact that otherwise intelligent people are eating it up has made me give up for a generation.

It is a truly depressing state of affairs.
When you’ve built 5KM of train tracks just to get around xD
I remember a version of Doom where each mob represented a process; believe shooting them with different weapons sent different signals.
> Canadabucks

I prefer Canadollars
These were browser benchmarks not app benchmarks.
What about running Adobe Acrobat in Adobe Acrobat?
I would say that _your_ idea of ownership is simplistic. You seem to be implying that ownership is only possible if you can own something in perpetuity without any related responsibilities. It's the same idea as "taxation is theft" and other libertarian nonsense.
Closer proximity to all the different vibration sensors in the skin helps with sensitivity as the bulk skin mass kind of acts as a low pass filter -- Consider the sensitivity with which you feel a splinter vs the sensitivity of that object on the skin surface.

Also, some people just seem to have a fetish for poking metal bits into themselves.

Maybe it's good for first dates or something, "wanna feel the lumps in my hand" is a bit more intimate than "wanna feel my glove"
Fractional quantum Hall effect in rhombohedral, pentalayer graphene: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42314581

Fractional quantum Hall effect:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_quantum_Hall_effect
The maximum deceleration is the traction limit of the tires; most braking systems on cars have the mechanical ability to exceed it, which is prevented by ABS on modern cars. If both the motors and the brakes can exceed the traction limit, as with the Nevera, then we don't know which is more powerful.

As an aside, spurious ABS activation is a form of runaway car automation that has been possible for decades. It is terrifying to experience.
And exactly this is the reason behind Apple users are being more profitable on average.
iPhone users contains a bigger percentage of people who don’t have the attitude „I only spent enough to get it usable“ and are willing to pay for getting better quality.
So visual programming x.0?

I am pretty sure PLCs with ladder logic are about the limits of the traditional visual/macro model?

Word-sense disambiguation is going to be problematic with the 'don't need to learn' part above.

Consider this sentence:

'I never said she stole my money'

Now read that sentence multiple times, puting emphasis on each word, one at a time and notice how the symantic meaning changes.

LLMs are great at NLP, but we still don't have solutions to those NLU problems that I am aware of.

I think to keep maximum generality without severely restricted use cases that a common DSL would need to be developed.

There will have to be tradeoffs made, specific to particular use cases, even if it is better than Alexa.

But I am thinking about Rice's theorm and what happens when you lose PEM.

Maybe I just am too embedded in an area where these problems are a large part of the difficulty for macro style logic to provide much use.
agents are the 2020s version of data science in the 2010s
New Year, New Disconnect
The statistics on early detection are very different than most think. Colonoscopies were one of the only tests with a statistically significant positive outcome, but even that has been challenged recently by multiple studies. [1]

I don't know the exact cause colonoscopies are not performing as thought, but for breast cancer it's quite interesting - basically treatment was improving at the exact same time early screening was being heavily promoted. And so years of survival continued to increase in a strongly proportional way to early screenings.

Naturally people assumed the correlation was causal, but it turns out screening mammograms are only marginally effective and that women are significantly more likely to receive unnecessary treatment (treating small tumors that would not have developed into large malignant tumors) than to receive beneficial treatment. [2]

If screening provides someone with piece of mind, then more power to them, but you're unlikely to meaningfully extend your life.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03228-z

[2] - https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1600249
> Somewhere in a fiction novel I read about a music industry executive who would listen to new material on a crappy little record player, not on super fancy studio monitor equipment

Tangent, but the Yamaha NS10, the de facto studio monitor, is used precisely because if you can make it sound good on those it will sound good on anything. They're awful.
> The median product engineer should reason about applications as composites of high-level, functional Lego blocks where technical low-level details are invisible.

We don't make buildings from Lego blocks. We do use modular components on buildings (ceramic bricks, steel beams, etc), but they are cemented or soldered together into a monolithic whole.

In my opinion, "serverless" (which, as others have noted, is an horrible misnomer since the server still exists; true "serverless" software would run code exclusively on the client, like desktop software of old) suffers from the same issue as "remote procedure call" style distributed software from back when that was the fashion: introducing the network in place of a simple synchronous in-process call also introduces several extra failure modes.
> you review the workflow (can be an intuitive list of commands, understandable by non-specialist) - to weed out hallucinations and misunderstanding

This is the idea that is most valuable from my perspective of having tried to extract accurate requirements from the customer. Getting them to learn your product UI and capabilities is an uphill battle if you are in one of the cursed boring domains (banking, insurance, healthcare, etc.).

Even if the customer doesn't get the LLM-defined path to provide their desired final result, you still have their entire conversation history available to review. This seems more likely to succeed in practice than hoping the customer provides accurate requirements up-front in some unconstrained email context.
This hiring freeze has not stopped Salesforce from acquisitions. I suppose this means that instead of investing in their current products, they're just going to buy existing ones instead.

According to Wikipedia the companies they have purchased since 2023: Airkit.ai, Spiff, Own, PredictSpring, Tenyx.
Being able to use company email on your personal devices and Mac laptops come to mind
You do realize there are other reasons to need service than tech support right? Like having to fight an insurance company to get the life saving medical care you pay them thousands of dollars for?
The people who have won the game in our current system love to point to this statistic, as if "extreme poverty" is the only thing that matters.

Even if people have a roof of their own head and bread in their belly, they don't like living with anxiety about being able to pay off debt, or what would happen if they had an unexpected hospital stay. And above all, they don't like working so hard only for the value they produce to be sucked up and used to buy back stock for the benefit of billionaires.
Dagu v1.16.0 Is Released - Local-First Workflow Engine
I think if Luigi had merely assaulted the CEO to teach him a lesson, and not killed him, then we probably wouldn't be having this discussion nationally. Or at least not to the same level of debate. That (admittedly arbitrary) line is a reason most DC characters like Batman and Superman generally refuse to kill even the most deserving of villains.
god forbid schools get more desirable instructors when, in a class of 100 students, they're getting paid close to $200k in revenue if they're charging $600 per credit hour, which is on the low side, and making hundreds of millions per year off of endowment investments
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I think you can avoid the extra `<div>` element and `formTarget`. You can use `this.element` to do so [0].

import { Controller } from "@hotwired/stimulus";

export default class extends Controller {
submit(event) {
event.preventDefault();
this.element.requestSubmit();
}
}

and

<%= form_with(model: post, url: post_path(post), data: { "controller": "autosave" }) do |form| %>
<%= form.label :title %>
<%= form.text_field :title, class: "input", data: { action: "blur->autosave#submit" } %>

<turbo-frame id="title-status">
</turbo-frame>
<% end %>

[0]: https://stimulus.hotwired.dev/reference/controllers#properti...
I'm not sure how making the language more expressive and less prone to errors makes programs more difficult to maintain? I'm not suggesting they keep adding new features and I do think they got that right. Too many languages keep bloating their languages with new features. A small feature set is the right goal, but I just think they picked the wrong feature set. The features are too primitive and put the burden onto their users vs. the lang devs.

There is no inherent correct or not, just opinion. If Go meets your needs, go for it (pun not intended, but still comical lol). I honestly don't think the ideal language exists (and it will look a little different for everyone), but something between Rust and Go with a little bit of OOP would be a sweet spot I think.
Believing you are smarter than 90% of people is the “data”.
Well the Franks study probably destroyed any chance for natural sleep conditions. Nedergaard is scathing:

https://www.thetransmitter.org/glymphatic-system/new-method-...

> The new paper used many of the techniques incorrectly, says Nedergaard, who says she plans to elaborate on her critiques in her submission to Nature Neuroscience. Injecting straight into the brain, for example, requires more control animals than Franks and his colleagues used, to check for glial scarring and to verify that the amount of dye being injected actually reaches the tissue, she says. The cannula should have been clamped for 30 minutes after fluid injection to ensure there was no backflow, she adds, and the animals in the sleep groups are a model of sleep recovery following five hours of sleep deprivation, not natural sleep—a difference she calls “misleading.”

> “They are unaware of so many basic flaws in the experimental setup that they have,” she says.

> More broadly, measurements taken within the brain cannot demonstrate brain clearance, Nedergaard says. “The idea is, if you have a garbage can and you move it from your kitchen to your garage, you don’t get clean.”

> There are no glymphatic pathways, Nedergaard says, that carry fluid from the injection site deep in the brain to the frontal cortex where the optical measurements occurred. White-matter tracts likely separate the two regions, she adds. “Why would waste go that way?”
This is difficult, because the mess that is mobile(?) (Android?) development could be better in general, but that also sounds like your software just is poorly designed...

When it's a "works for me" on one platform but falls over with different hardware, that usually points to some serious issues (e.g. threading, contention, false assumptions) in your code/app.

Not to say that there probably aren't buggy areas in Android itself, however with an appropriate test budget you could determine which are likely hardware (different phones) vs OS (common across devices, with simple repro apps) vs your software (you have bugzorz).
the TOS goes further and allows you to call gay people abnormal and mentally ill.

"We do allow allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation."

The carve out also focuses only on LGBT people. If calling someone abnormal and mentally ill can reasonably be considered insulting then according to this TOS you can't say it to someone with ADHD but you can say it to a gay person.

The TOS is not about enforcing truthfulness, it is about promoting good behaviour. For example according to this TOS you cannot call someone stupid if they have limited intellectual capacity. It doesn't matter if it's true or not because that's not the purpose of the TOS. I can't see any reason for a carve out specifically for LGBT people that allows this sort of technically justifiable insulting language when there is no such carve out for other groups.
This sub-thread is about denying healthcare. Not about denying claims. In fact, denying a claim (i.e. payment for healthcare services) has the moral implications discussed here mainly if not only because denial of payment is tantamount to denial of healthcare.