skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The term seems to go back as far as 1987 per Google ngram:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=physically+bas...

(Tweak the patameters to end in 1995 to see what I mean.)

I poked around papers from siggraph 1986-1988 and the closest I could find to the use of the term was a panel discussion in 1998:

"STEVE FEINER: Our second speaker will be Professor Don Greenberg. ... Don's group has been at the forefront of computer graphics for some twenty years now, most recently doing pioneering work on physically based modeling and radiosity approaches." (
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1402242.1402254 )

I did run across a book using the term in 1994, "The State of the Art in Physically-based Rendering and its Impact on Future Applications" (to your point using the dash between physically and rendered):
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-57963-9_...

The term around then was basically a catch-all for raytracing, radiosity and BRDF-oriented rendering techniques as opposed to the triangle-texture-shading techniques. The former took way more compute-per-pixel/"visual impact" than the latter and thus was done in software while the latter was starting to fit into hardware transistor counts available at the time. There were a variety of sytheses of the various techniques, so some kind of shorthand was definitely needed.

My guess, being mildly involved in the field in the mid-90s, is that while one could have in 1987 said "physics-based" rendering, the researchers, some of whom actually trained in physics, knew that even the techniques they were exploring (raytracing, radiosity, BRDF, light fields) were approximations of physics from the physics and optics literature and not actually grounded in the cycle of hypothesis and experimentation that would constitute "physics-based rendering".

Later the term came to have more specific connotations. One good summary of it from a practical point of view when this book came out was:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38110448
Finding humour in racism may indicate any or all of:

1) cognitive flexibility
2) social intelligence
3) racism ;-)

Dodgy Dick would have been funnier.
Is it possible to add an autorun.inf to the fake cd?
> Advertisers love that, and so do platform owners. Its much easier to control and squeeze a few creators rather than a big diffuse group.

There’s most likely some middle ground for this. Too diffuse and it makes direct sponsorship difficult meaning the platform has more control over advertisements as they need to be algorithmically placed. Too centralized and you’re back in the land of cable where your advertising is less effective because of the broad cross section of the audience watching.

As far as “squeezing” creators goes… no, more centralized means higher demand which means higher pay and more control in creators hands.
> Which is interesting now that I think of it, nobody EVER calls New York just "York".

I don't know, kind of makes sense to me why that would be the case. Something tells me there are more places that start with "York" as opposed to "Jersey", so there are more chances to cause confusion in the former case.
That would only apply if the child is exposed to it, either directly or indirectly—which, if it's distributed publicly, is a possibility, though far from a certainty.

I would also say that there's enough difference between being sexually abused, in person, and having someone make a fake image of that, that it's at least questionable to apply the term.

I would further note that part of the reason to use the term CSAM is to emphasize that there is an actual child in actual danger that may need help.
Not an independent player so obviously important to be critical of papers like this [1], but it’s claiming a ~10x cost in LLM inference every year. This lines up with the technical papers I’m seeing that are continually improving performance + the related HW improvements.

That’s obviously not sustainable indefinitely, but these kinds of exponentials are precisely why people often make incorrect conclusions on how long change will take to happen. Just a reminder: CPUs were 2x more performance every 18 months and continued to continually upend software companies for 20 years who weren’t in tune with this cycle (i.e. focusing on performance instead of features). For example, even if you’re spending $10k/month for LLM vs $100/month to process the 10M item, it can still be more beneficial to go the LLM route as you can buy cheaper expertise to put together your LLM pipeline than the NLP route to make up the ~100k/year difference (assuming the performance otherwise works and the improved quality and robustness of the LLM solution isn’t providing extra revenue to offset).

[1] https://a16z.com/llmflation-llm-inference-cost/
I wouldn't oppose telling a client "we can meet at your data centre". I would not tell my wife "we need to discuss building our apartment complex" when we are planning interior decorations in our flat.
I Make Smart Devices Dumber
I am not sure what built to last means and not sure if evidence exists that it makes much different over multiple generations. Those SFH built to last as you would say, will still undergo major renovations as technology improves and tastes change. Certainly when in areas that are prone for specific types of disasters, there should be designs to minimize risk but again that happens in the US but often (not always) these major disasters play out in areas of risk but the even is black swan compared to history.
> no other social media platform (is willing) can do the same

Are we sure? My experience with Instagram is the opposite, whenever you linger a bit on a reel you'll start to get more of that content

It's a pain because you have to constantly press "not interested" to curate your feed, I'd pretty much prefer to have content feeds, so that I can watch anything without having it go in my (im)permanent record
Bluesky has RSS feeds.
This gives me an idea: thanks to anti-spam mechanisms residential proxies + headless browsers provide a better experiences than regular browsing on real devices.

Instead of PoW, maybe just make the clients prove they are capable of proxying browser sessions?
Kinda doubt it. They also suffer from large company inertia where their hybrid powertrains gave them a market leadership, similar to German cars and diesel engines, making difficult to pivot to a market where there's much stronger competition and they don't have the crown anymore.
How about the the costs?
"But what we know with certainty is that there is a small set of humans who don’t act like their lives are predestined. For better or worse, regardless of circumstances, country or culture they struggle their entire lives wanting to change the outcome. And a small percentage of these translate the “wanting to change” into acting on it. This small group is dissatisfied with waiting for life to hand them their path. They act, they do, they move, they change things."

Oh! I wish I could live by the storytelling and narrative that this gentleman does!

He thinks there is no such thing of a predestined life but he is actually predestined to think that way. And then he blames those who are not predestined and forces them to work in an Amazon warehouse and sleep in their car.

Look at his sprawling estate he wants us all to see right there at the top of his blog! His ego!

It sounds like his friend Glen is the guy I want to be around, ans Steve seems to think that it might not have been lucky for him that "we were both sent to bases in different parts of the U.S."

This is the equation I will leave you with.

Success = hard work + Luck

Luck is an uncontrolled variable, so success is uncontrollable. If anyone can refute that logic please do so.
It's nice to have a single feed of updates for all the releases of the software I use. Newsflash (https://gitlab.com/news-flash/news_flash_gtk) is an awesome, modern RSS reader. Highly recommended!
Now you can drop the PIV or PGP dependencies. OpenSSH can use webauthn to derive SSH keys.
Degrees that blend the humanities and computer science are certainly a positive development, especially in the "Age of AI" that we are living in.
Plenty of nitrogen in Mars' atmosphere.
PSA: before you start supplementing potassium (or gorging on bananans or potatoes), please be aware that too moch potassium can lead to heart rhythm disturbances, and that some common medications (like anti-hypertensives) can have further predispose you to developing hyperkalemia.
I just want to contribute by saying that CEE is awesome content and I look forward to every video they post. Happy to randomly see them on HN.
The very first versions. VK was just better from the times it only started attracting users.
NutriCounts
Hi everyone,

I was diagnosed with pre-diabetes three years ago, and my doctor advised me to eat healthy food. So, I started researching foods related to diabetes. Through this research, I learned how various properties of food affect our bodies and decided to find the healthiest options for my situation.

I initially planned to gather various properties of food and list them all in a spreadsheet. This allowed me to compare, sort, and filter out foods I didn't like, ultimately ending up with options that were both tasty and healthy. However, as the list grew, it became very difficult to manage using a spreadsheet. I also needed additional functionality that a simple spreadsheet couldn't provide. So, I decided to develop a tool that anyone could use easily to do the following:

Calculate daily requirements for macronutrients, vitamins, and minerals based on age, weight, and height.
Combine food items and check if your meals meet your nutritional needs.
Provide a detailed breakdown of calories, carbohydrates, protein, fat, fiber, sugar, vitamins, minerals, and glycemic index (GI) for various foods.
Be simple and easy to use.

After three years of research and collecting data on thousands of foods, I am thrilled to share the result: a comprehensive nutritional app based on European Food Safety Authority guidelines that includes all the features mentioned above and more.

I would really appreciate it if you could spend some time checking out the app and providing constructive criticism or advice.

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I'm more interested in why it never caught on regionally. There would rarely ever be any confusion, nobody in the states would think you were talking about York England. But it still never caught on for whatever reason.
Those around me just write a lot more slowly, writing in print (they don’t connect the letters like in cursive, they can’t easily read my very-clean cursive either, which gives a feeling that my cursive is a sort of superpower)
Afaict TT only cares about dwell time and maybe if you comment or something. These dislike buttons do nothing. In fact, since they increase dwell time using them makes it more likely for such content to reappear in your feed than if you simply scrolled.
Site fails to scroll with ublock in my browser/adguard on my network.
+1 - parent commenter clearly takes too easily of an offense here. Even the French people in my inntercircle agree that there is some level of elitism.
> There is no real market to enable price discovery

Note also that this is a feature, not a bug. You don’t want drug companies figuring out what price makes them the most money, because the market for patented drugs is not a competitive market (or a transparent one for the consumer). The price that makes the company the most money is not the same as the one that maximizes welfare.
The question seems malformed to me.

Text classification, clustering, named entity recognition, etc. are NLP tasks. LLMs can perform these tasks. ML models that are not LLMs (or even not deep learning models) can also perform these tasks. Is the author perhaps asking if the concept of a "completion" has replaced all of these tasks?

When I hear "traditional NLP" I think not of the above types of tasks but rather the methodology employed for performing them. For example, building a pipeline to do stemming/lemmatization, part of speech tagging, coreference resolution, etc. before the text gets fed to a classifier model. This was SOTA 10 years ago but I don't think many people are still doing it today.
The bookmark interface on modern browsers is pretty awkward to access. It's a bigger upfront effort to set up an SSB, but they significantly streamline the user experience once they're set up in a way that aligns with what you want to do.

Web Browsers have a sort of inner platform tendency where they roll their own window management, and it just gets very messy and integrates incredibly poorly with the window management of the operating system.

You can open CI in your browser to see how your build is progressing, and in the same window, with a few keypresses, check your private email and then go buy new tires for your car, file your taxes, and after that go watch some porn.

Web browsers are streamlining an undesirable type of context switching: These are all tasks from separate domains, and I don't understand why it would be desirable that all of these things are easily accessible from the same window at the same time.

Having dedicated launchers opening specialized windows allows for a sort of workspace mise-en-place that makes interacting with the computer much more focused and deliberate. Each tool has its place and function.
I'm pretty sure they don't test them. I got a good one the other day from a well known institution. It was a bill and the html part said I owed N amount but the plain text said 0.00. By default I read the plain text part but when I saw it says 0.00 I thought it was odd so checked the html and there it was the correct amount!
The Old Reader in browser and as backend for FeedMe on phone.
I can never relate when I hear this perspective. I’m an ex smoker and the idea of having a cigarette first thing in the morning makes me feel sick. There’s zero nostalgia for me. I now find smoking purely revolting.
I’d imagine you were recently elected and hiring staffers.
> bots that are attempting to poison Google or Bing's query suggestions

This seems like yet another example of Google and friends inviting the problem they're objecting to.
But this is the dream for the supposed protectors of children. You see, just because child porn production stops, does not mean those children disappear. Usually, of course, they go into youth services (in practice most don't even make it to the front door and run away to resume the child abuse, but let's ignore that). That is how the situation of those children changes when CSAM is persecuted. From the situation they were in, to whatever situation exists in youth services. In other words, youth services is the upper limit to how much police and anyone CAN help those children.

So you'd think they would make youth services a good place to be for a child, right. After all, if that situation were to be only marginally better than child prostitution, there's no point to finding CSAM. Or at least, the point is not to protect children, since that is simply not what they're doing.

So how is youth services doing these days? Well ... NOT good. Regularly children run away from youth services to start doing child porn (ie. live off off an onlyfans account). There's a netflix series on the subject ("Young and locked up") which eventually, reluctantly shows the real problem, the outcome (ie. prison or street poverty).

In other words your argument doesn't really apply since the goal is not to improve children's well being. If that was the goal, these programs would do entirely different things.

Goals differ. There's people who go into government with the express purpose to "moralize" and arrest people for offenses. Obviously, to them it's the arresting part that's important, now how serious the offense was and CERTAINLY not if their actions actually help people. And then there's people who simply want a well-paying long-term job where they don't accomplish much. Ironically these are much less damaging, but they still seek to justify their own existence.

Both groups really, really, really want ALL image generation models to be considered inherently harmful, as you say.
>It's sad because the HN crowd is technically maximally (?) literate

I laughed. While there certainly are very smart people here, HN crowd is pretty diverse and large parts of crowd are startup/business/framework of the week/ai bros folks. Not someone who would know what spi is from the top of their head.
This is interesting timing. I was asked at work to remove our RSS feed. Turns out no one but me knew what it was for they just saw the link in the site footer clicked it their browser showed a bunch of xml and they thought it was broken. I checked the logs turns out it gets 1000s of requests a day so I think that convinced them to keep it.
transmeta powered the thing i wanted most badly in the late 90s, the OQO:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OQO

good times
A link seems required for the hard to believe

https://youtu.be/iT1oRCNiuk0?si=s54asSJQsMqxCnZe
> All that risk ultimately just equates to a cost

Right. My point though is that that cost is because of political decisions we make, not inherent in the technology. We could also choose to make solar projects equally risky in such ways; force solar projects to require to be baseline generators, not risk grid stability, and stop subsidizing home panel installations and see what happens to the solar industry. I’m not saying we should do that because solar is an important partner in the energy mix, but nuclear is more important to decarbonize as we still fail to see a drop in green house emissions on any grid that’s invested purely in renewables with only nuclear showing that it can offload carbon inputs; renewables have only generally shown the ability to level off growth of carbon inputs at the grid level (unless you look relatively small grids not in the richest nations, but the richest nations are the biggest polluters).

> Also, costs rose not because of regulations in a vacuum. 3 mile island happened because of a lack of maintenance, you don’t solve that problem without spending more money on maintenance

Just not true on several fronts. First the consequences of 3 mile island were wildly overblown and generated unnecessary fear. The cleanup cost was $1B which is negligible. In fact the plant is being restarted on the other reactor by 2028. Secondly, reactor design is hugely important. Fukushima and 3 mile island are Gen II reactors while Chernobyl was a Gen I reactor and we can see the drastically smaller issues we’ve had from such reactors. Gen III reactors are much safer and are cheaper while Gen IV reactors are generally completely fail-safe (i.e. doesn’t matter the quality of maintenance on the safety of the reactor). So pretending like nuclear has a constant maintenance cost that’s ever increasing ignores our ability to solve problems like this at the design stage. The problem is that regulations that remain stuck responding to Gen I designs being constantly applied to newer generations.
Luckily god doesn’t exist so you can use your free will without being punished by anything :)
No, it's not. It's a soft 'H' sound in Arabic, the same as in Muhammad. It's closer to the English 'H'. The Scottish 'ch' is a different letter entirely in Arabic and doesn't appear in this name.
I guess that using block letters, also known as print writing. From Wikipedia: Elementary education in English-speaking countries typically introduces children to the literacy of handwriting using a method of block letters, which may later advance to cursive. The policy of teaching cursive in American elementary schools has varied over time, from strict endorsement, to removal, to being reinstated.
>This may mean some consumers will be priced out of insurance policies.

It will also further incentivize innovation in safety features.
Looks like some of their biggest food exports are potatoes and milk (mainly to UK/EU). I wonder if those are also contaminated.
If you build this and expand this to a blog post with some photos and some demo, you can post it here and I guess it will get a lot of upvotes.
Good article. Definitely worth reading in conjunction with this one https://cacm.acm.org/research/why-computing-belongs-within-t...
Betteridge’s law

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headline...
You are mostly correct, but the “Luck” factor has a hidden variable in it: The ability to see and notice when you are lucky, often called “optimism”. If you are pessimistic, you will not notice when a lucky break happens, and the opportunity will pass you by, but you will erroneously blame your lack of success to your lack of luck, not your pessimism.
This definitely wins by numbers - my local anime site features chinese 3d shows too and there’s a lot of them. But the viewership isn’t that good still, judging by the comments and voting.
I'm not offensed, it's just wrong.
“It’s just completely obvious that within five years deep learning is going to do better than radiologists.… It might be 10 years, but we’ve got plenty of radiologists already.” - Geoffrey Hinton 2016 [1]

He missed the 5 year deadline by a lot and it currently looks extremely unlikely his 10 year deadline is any good either.

[1] https://newrepublic.com/article/187203/ai-radiology-geoffrey...
> Google gives Android developers much more guidance in best practices and patterns that help developers avoid issues around architecture, injection, state and threading

Honestly I love this. I wish Apple put some effort into this in their documentations.
I wouldn’t sacrifice a life just to improve my own odds. What cold logic you imagine of those people!

Edit: ah, name checks out.
RPS is a bad measure. 20k RPS is a little if you're serving static files, a raspberry pi could probably do that. It's a lot if you're mutating a large database table with each request, which depending on the service, isn't unheard of.
While I am glad that you seem to have found a new workflow that you like, your description strikes me as a personal experience.

I am aware that a lot of people use searches as a form of navigation, but it’s also very common that people use bookmarks, speed dial, history, pinned tabs, and other browser features instead of searching.
My Firefox is configured to not do online searches when I type into the address bar, instead I get only history suggestions. This setup allows for quick navigation, and does not require any steps to set up new pages that I need to visit.

What I want to say that while you seem to imply that you found a different pattern of use that many people will soon migrate to, I think these patterns have always been popular. People discover and make use of them as needed.

It’s also strange that you put such a negative sentiment on interconnected documents. Do you not realize how important these connections were for you to be able to reach the point you are at now? How else would you have found the things that are useful to you? By watching ads?

Search engines are also … really not really a good example of the strengths of the interconnected web, as they are mostly a one way thing. Consider instead a Hacker News discussion about a blog, and some other blog linking to that discussion, creating these interconnected but still separate communities and documents.
Let’s chat about inferring meaning from pragmatic context at your data.
We measure savings in terms of call deflections. Clients we work with say that each time a customer talks to an agent it costs $2-$5. That’s not even taking into account call abandonments
Romania has state mandated public health insurance (if you're employed or if you make over minimum wage from non employement sources, you have to pay for public health insurance), but the private health insurance market is also thriving.

But, in Romania, Ozempic was negotiated/price controlled by the government to be for around ~100$/month. First year or two supply was enough, so we got it, this year demand in places with more cash is high, so Romanians don't get any more Ozempic (but we still have Rybelsus)