skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like it when scientists, if that is what they are called these days, "PROVE" something beyond absolute doubt.

So I ASK. where are these dead brains that have been brought back to life.

I am sure, the Donald, the Musk and the Zuck and other persons who believe in reincarnation and immortality would be knocking on their doors tomorrow to get their dead brains revitalised.

Just a thought
It says this:

> Currently, there are 11817 unicode character glyphs in the database. Japanese, Korean and Chinese characters are currently not supported.
That video is what made me get a Toyota hybrid.

Seeing how simple the whole mechanism is, I totally get why the empirical reliability is so good.

Not to mention that the lecturer shows and explains things very clearly.
This has been around forever, right? I seem to remember using it like 15 years ago.
Can you use it in direct sunlight? That'd be the main advantage for me. I enjoy lounging outdoors with a laptop. My macbook screen is completely unusable in the sun.
Right-to-left and left-to-right is how hand-knitting charts are read. But also bottom to top!
Unless your business is customer service reps, with no ability to do anything but read scripts, who have no real knowledge of how things actually work.

Then current AI is basically the same, for cheap.
It was a serious question. You are free to answer it. I'm going to assume you're full of it if you don't answer it.
Think of it as an enum, Type branches the logic.

enum Service {
Exec { ExecStart: String, ... }
Forking { ExecStart: String, ... }
OneShot { ExecStart: String, ... }
}

You can argue that sometimes that ExecStart could be a different term, but it'd still end up being the same across multiple enum variants.
Ford and a few other makers have been using oil-immersed timing belts lately. They quite reliably fail after the car's warranty is up but well before the rest of the car is junk.
1000 years ago the 3.5 million year old human ancestors mentioned in the article were long, long dead. In fact, most human societies transitioned away from being hunter-gatherers to settlements and agriculture around 10,000 to 11,000 years ago.

Also the article, which you clearly didn't read, isn't reporting findings based on fantasist assumptions but studies of organic materials extracted from tooth enamel, the proportions of which are linked to the amount of meat eaten in a diet. You know, actual science.

Please don't continue, quit while you're behind.
Ask HN: Creating a deep dive on the 50 most influential papers for AI
I am feeling overwhelmed by the rate at which things happen in the AI space and that I have a lot of surface-level knowledge of scattered concepts in the space. Although I studied computer engineering, when discussing with Ph.D. in the AI space or cracked indie developers, the gaps in my knowledge become clear.

For that reason, I have decided to do a deep dive on the 50 most influential papers of the last 6 years in the AI space. I am going to try to understand the maths, implement the concepts of the papers and record a video series on YouTube where I explain each paper/ concept. Once this is done, I will have developed a deeper expertise and will post my favourite paper of the week.

I would really appreciate suggestions/lists to create the list of Top 50 papers!

(P.S. This is my first HN post)
That literally does not address my point at all. By including words like "more" rather than "always" you're basically admitting that there are non-zero circumstances where workers don't care or don't stay, which is all the point I made. You could justifiably quibble with "often", but you absolutely will not get away without a firing process.
What are the analogies here? If you can find the door in the book you just need the key.
STL files: https://microscope-stls.openflexure.org

Microscope: https://openflexure.org/projects/microscope/
Thanks for the detailed lesson feedback! Developing the game piece by piece made it harder to step back and see how the flow worked as a whole, and I can see where the gamification falls short.

For the next update, I’m planning to streamline the flow so that all patterns reinforce positive actions and avoid rewarding the wrong behaviors. I also want to separate the educational aspects more clearly to make the goals and outcomes easier to understand. Your insights will definitely help guide those changes—thank you again for sharing!
It's gonna be rough. If you can't make money charging people $200 a month for your service then something is deeply wrong.
Imagine taking your favorite fractal <formula here> and picking a random point in one of its non-trivial regions, trying to explain what happens there. Would you be better satisfied by <formula> or by specific step by step calculations that lead to that neighborhood?

Either way, now imagine taking not your favorite, irregular, non-describable, non-computable, enormously complex processes-driven fractal that is the real nature, then picking a random point in one of its non-trivial regions, trying to explain what happens there. Now ask yourself the same question and what comes to mind.

More short analogy would be that biology is physics with all elementary particles being different.
GenAI (and LLMs in particular) is a "solution looking for a problem" in the sense petroleum or electricity was, not in the sense cryptocurrency is. I.e. you take one look at it and it's 100% obvious it's a general technology that's going to be useful in some way for all kinds of work people do, and be doing in the near future, and itself will make possible things and endeavors that weren't possible before.

The devil is always in the details, but assuming that GenAI might be important for your business is correct no matter what business you're in, so it's worth it to pay attention and test it sooner rather than later.
are you just being obtuse about the artificial colors? that's what we were discussing. there are -only- natural colors in the European version vs the American one, in particular Red 40 is associated with cancer which is what we're talking about here

Official US Nutrition Label Information Froot Loops for Schools S NLI_13580_01-02-2018_Public Kellogg Company - Proprietary
Flavor Descriptor
NLI Description
Brand
Serving Size
Serving Size g
Serving Size oz
Calories
Calories from Fat
Total Fat 1 g 2 % %
Saturated Fat 0.5 g 3 % %
Trans Fat 0 g
Polyunsaturated Fat
Monounsaturated Fat
Cholesterol 0 mg 0 % %
Sodium 160 mg 7 % % Calories 389 Vitamin D 143 IU
Potassium % % Calories from fat 36 Vitamin E 0 IU
Total Carbohydrate 24 g 8 % % Total Fat 4.1 g Vitamin K NA mcg
Dietary Fiber 2 g 7 % % Saturated Fat 1.9 g Thiamin 1.34 mg
Soluble Fiber Polyunsaturated Fat 1.3 g Riboflavin 1.52 mg
Insolube Fiber Monounsaturated Fat 0.7 g Niacin 17.9 mg
Sugars 8 g Trans Fat 0.0 g Vitamin B6 1.79 mg
Sugar Alcohol Cholesterol 0 mg Folic Acid 357 mcg
Other Carbohydrate Sodium 571 mg Vitamin B12 5.4 mcg
Protein 2 g % % Potassium 171 mg Biotin NA mcg
Vitamin A 10 % % Total Carbohydrate 86.6 g Pantothenic Acid NA mg
Vitamin C 25 % % Dietary Fiber 6.2 g Phosphorus 83 mg
Calcium 0 % % Soluble Fiber 1.4 g Iodine NA mcg
Iron 25 % % Insoluble Fiber 4.9 g Magnesium 40 mg
Vitamin D 10 % % Sugars 28.4 g Zinc 5.4 mg
Vitamin E % % Sugar Alcohols NA g Selenium NA mcg
Vitamin K % % 2,000 2,500 Protein 6.4 g Copper NA mg
Thiamin 25 % % Total Fat 65g 80g Vitamin A 1786 IU Manganese NA mg
Riboflavin 25 % % Sat. Fat 20g 25g Vitamin C 54 mg Chromium NA mcg
Niacin 25 % % Cholesterol 300mg 300mg Calcium 13.3 mg Molybdenum NA mcg
Vitamin B6 25 % % Sodium 2,400mg 2,400mg Iron 16.1 mg Moisture 2.5 %
Folic Acid 25 % % Potassium 3,500mg 3,500mg Ash 0.4 %
Vitamin B12 25 % % Total Carbohydrate 300g 375g
Biotin % % Dietary Fiber 25g 30g
Pantothenic Acid % % Protein 50g 65g 00038000787881 96
Phosphorus % % 00038000926334 1
Iodine % %
Magnesium % % 00038000787928
Zinc 10 % %
Selenium % %
Copper % %
Manganese % %
Chromium % %
Molybdenum % %
NA = values do not exist or are incomplete.
INGREDIENTS: CORN FLOUR BLEND (WHOLE GRAIN YELLOW CORN FLOUR, DEGERMINATED YELLOW CORN FLOUR), SUGAR, WHEAT FLOUR, WHOLE GRAIN OAT FLOUR,
CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF OAT FIBER, HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE OIL (COCONUT, SOYBEAN AND/OR COTTONSEED), SALT, SOLUBLE CORN FIBER, NATURAL FLAVOR,
RED 40, TURMERIC EXTRACT COLOR, BLUE 1, YELLOW 6, ANNATTO EXTRACT COLOR
How is that even questionable ?
> Why’s the Spectrum’s screen layout different from, say, a C64? The explanation on the page sounds a lot like the 64’s.

This was done for some deep hardware reasons. The DRAM in ZX Spectrum was addressable in pages of 128 bytes (7 bits). So to select the address, the controller had to first select the page and then read the byte.

But due to the screen organization, the address of a pixel and the address of its attribute shared the same low 7 bits of the address (out of 14 in total) so that the CPU could address both without having to switch the page.
That game really is the final boss. I’ll dig into the recursion issue and get it fixed - Appreciate you taking the time to flag it!
Not many people would protest a cigarette ban because the effects of smoking are very visible.

Not many people will protest a TikTok ban because it's largely happening to someone else and not very many people care about issues of free speech, as long as it's not happening to them.
The Prius system is an excellent design, but as someone that loves driving, it just feels and drives awful- little tactile or audible feedback on any of the controls, and really unresponsive to inputs- arguably dangerously so. My regular daily driver is an old Porsche Boxster, and by comparison the Prius feels like I’m driving a dishwasher or playing a cheap arcade game- it will get you there reliably but it’s just not any fun. Life is too short for me not to enjoy the time I have to spend driving. My sister has an Audi A3 e-tron hybrid (basically an upscale VW Golf) that is extremely fun to drive, but also a very complex drivetrain and engine.

I think a pure EV with a small range extender not connected to the drivetrain mechanically- like the BMW i3 REX is the way to go. It’s even simpler and lighter than the Prius system, allowing for a much larger battery and more powerful electric motor.
There's a hidden procedure to disable it. I keep it saved in a note in my phone and have needed to use it one (1) time ever.

- Press Start button twice.

- Push accelerator to the floor twice.

- Push and hold brake pedal and shift into Neutral then release brake pedal.

- Push accelerator to the floor twice.

- Push and hold brake pedal and shift into Park then release brake pedal.

- Push accelerator to the floor twice.

- Start car.

You should see the Traction Control warning light stay on to signal it’s deactivated. It will automatically reactivate when the car is restarted.
Am I the only one who grew up with bees dying after stinging carrying a sort of unspoken significance or meaning?

I don't think I ever heard someone actually state it, but growing up I had the feeling that bees dying when they sting you was in some sense "significant" because it meant that bees had to be selective in when they chose to resort to violence.

It was almost like an unspoken fable or illustration about the importance of controlling aggression.
Let me speak as someone who was a delivery driver for over 10 years for an array of different restaurants.

With advent of ubiquitous GPS navigation came a wave of some the dumbest most functionally inept people I have ever encountered. There was a time when you had to be able to read a map and plan routes. But as soon as GPS showed up, anyone who could drive and enter and address in their phone was good to go making way more than other high school dropout work.

The biggest issue though is drug addicts. Lots and lots of drug addicts. It's an easy money job that you can smoke up/snort up/shoot up while doing. These guys are shameless and will be high off their ass driving around.
Universal within the scope of the Internet.
I'm also very interested in alternative company/governance models. To me, the traditional company structure seems fairly effective but I don't like the feeling of being an employee. There's an ownership/power dynamic that feels inhumane but fixable.

Before suggesting anything, it would be useful to understand your goals with a co-op structure. What are you trying to improve over the status quo delaware c corp that stripe atlas will setup? Are you planning to take investment?

In terms of solutions, Flexile is an implementation I don't see mentioned yet: https://flexile.com

It seems to be geared towards software companies that might not need everyone as a full-time worker. Not sure how many of these there are. It's by the Gumroad founder.
All that research indicates is that Walmart isn’t a good place to work. It doesn’t say anything about how much is saves you by shopping there.

I saw this first hand when Walmart showed up in my small city in the 90s. Everyone saved enormous amounts of money, complained about shopping there, and avoided working there because the pay was shit.

If you were low income and had a job outside of Walmart retail competition space, Walmart was a godsend. Think teachers, construction workers, etc.
Launchd is not used in systemd - why would anything be wrapped in it? The config is simple - User for the user and Group for the group. You can print it the result of "id" if you're not sure what the result is.
The list of offenses from China are foundational to the case for banning Tiktok. They belong to an argument that bootstraps itself. Those points aren't merely offered in a reactionary manner as a way to attempt to refute or deflect other criticisms.

What makes any specific point into whataboutism is its intended use as a counterpoint in a context where it doesn't change the outcome of the argument its responding to.
I'm not saying that Rand or Marx themselves said that altruism was a necessary component. I'm saying that it is and that neither was aware of that pre-condition/axiom of their philosophies. To be fair, I think Rand was aware, and that she wrote fantasies around what she viewed as the 'perfect man.' Her stuff is more aspirational than practical (same as Lenin, etc.).

From a game theory point of view, both philosophies, in order to work and be sustained, require that most actors within the system behave honestly within the rules of the game. This means, nobody cheats. And it would only take a small percentage of bad actors to break either system.

In this context, altruism is self policing to abide by the rules even when not abiding by the rules would be better for you.

PS I also disagree with your take on religion, if anything, Christianity's (for example) primary philosophy is built around the explicit imperfection of mankind. Also, I would argue that the Utopian Socialists and Lenin were aligned in their goals. They just had different ideas of how to get there. There have been many attempts at the gentler Utopian Socialist version of communism over the years and AFAIK they all fall apart after a while, because people are not altruistic.
Specifically, annual profit not valuation? So if the company had not become more profitable, you get nothing?
Swedish man dies in South Korea after being denied treatment at 21 hospitals
> whatever you learn will be obsolete next month

this is exactly the kind of attitude that turns university courses into dinosaurs with far less connection to the “real world” industry than ideal. frankly its an excuse for laziness and luddism at this point. much of what i learned about food groups and economics and politics and writing in school is obsolete at this point, should my teachers not have bothered at all? out of what? fear?

the way stable diffusion works hasn’t really changed, and in fact people have just built comfyui layers and workflows on top of it in the ensuing 3 years, and the more you stick your head in the sand because you already predetermined the outcome you are mostly piling up the debt that your students will have to learn on their own because you were too insecure to make a call without trusting that your students can adjust as needed
IMO the lack of real version control and lack of reliable programmability have been significant impediments to impact and adoption. The control surfaces are more brittle than say, regex, which isn’t a good place to be.

I would quibble that there is a modicum of design in prompting; RLHF, DPO and ORPO are explicitly designing the models to be more promptable. But the methods don’t yet adequately scale to the variety of user inputs, especially in a customer-facing context.

My preference would be for the field to put more emphasis on control over LLMs, but it seems like the momentum is again on training LLM-based AGIs. Perhaps the Bitter Lesson has struck again.
Look into vitamin K2.
Supposedly. :P

I think it was always naive.
OK, but that only fixed one of the three issues.
How long did that last?

I have a Prius that's at 100k right now. Repairing the battery is within my abilities but I'm concerned that if one or two cells fail, more will be right behind it.
Exactly. I've repeated this a lot this month: Coding is the easy part.
Yes, I dispute, because all of that are lies and brainwashing done by USA government. Please show prove of 1 million Uyghur locked up in China, genocide. Or you should apologize for your lies to the world. You say there is genocide in 2018, now is 2024, where is the bodies, people desperate to escape? Ur ambassador to China spent his time riding on Chinese bullet trains funded by Chinese government and vacation in the country, instead of going to Xinjiang and rescue all the 1M Uyghur people locked up camps?? What is your military doing? Should you save these poor people? Xinjiang is free for anyone to travel. People are allowed to freely leave and enter with all its neighboring countries. And USA say they love the Uyghur people, and the way they show their support is ban all the products, every single one, made by Uyghur people? Lol, you are not fooling anyone here. It is a fact Uyghur people can freely leave China if they want. And it is a fact, Uyghur population increasing faster than the broader population. And u can travel in Xinjiang today, there is Uyghur language everywhere, on shops, street signs. Uyghur language is taught in every government funded schools. Did the American boarding schools for native Americans teach their own language? Today, Uyghur kids are running in the streets, freely, speaking in Uyghur. Why don't you get all the countries you listed to form coalition army to save the poor Uyghur souls? Your government officials should not shake Chinese government official hands and travel on Chinese government trains to vacation in the country. No more talking, only action.
I wouldn't know. I only work with workstation or jetson stuff.

The DGX documentation and downloads aren't public afaik.

Edit: Nevermind, some information about DGX is public and they really are on 22.04, but oh well, the deep learning stack is guaranteed to run.

https://docs.nvidia.com/base-os/too
It seems like git self-hosters frequently encounter DDoS issues. I know it's not typical for free software, but I wonder if gating file contents behind a login and allowing registrations could be the answer for self-hosting repositories on the cheap.
Uggh, web crawlers...

8ish years ago, at the shop I worked at we had a server taken down. It was an image server for vehicles. How did it go down? Well, the crawler in question somehow had access to vehicle image links we had due to our business. Unfortunately, the perfect storm of the image not actually existing (can't remember why, mighta been one of those weird cases where we did a re-inspection without issuing new inspection ID) resulted in them essentially DOSing our condition report image server. Worse, there was a bug in the error handler somehow, such that the server process restarted when this condition happened. This had the -additional- disadvantage of invalidating our 'for .NET 2.0, pretty dang decent' caching implementation...

It comes to mind because, I'm pretty sure we started doing some canary techniques just to be safe (Ironically, doing some simple ones were still cheaper than even adding a different web server.... yes we also fixed the caching issue... yes we also added a way to 'scream' if we got too many bad requests on that service.)
There's a VR Game All the Kids Are Playing, and They're Convinced It's Haunted
Interesting idea. I wonder if there is a way to do the “dots” on the floor idea in a way that people wouldn’t notice them, but the cameras would.
It's a regular expression.
One thing I'd like to experiment with is "prompt to service". I want to take an existing microservice of about 3-5kloc and see if I can write a prompt to get o1 to generate the entire service, proper structure, all files, all tests, compiles and passes etc. o1 certainly has the context window to do this at 200k input and 100k output - code is ~10 tokens per line of code, so you'd need like 100k input and 50k output tokens.

My approach would be:

- take an exemplar service, dump it in the context

- provide examples explaining specific things in the exemplar service

- write a detailed formal spec

- ask for the output in JSON to simplify writing the code - [{"filename":"./src/index.php", "contents":"<?php...."}]

The first try would inevitably fail, so I'd provide errors and feedback, and ask for new code (ie complete service, not diffs or explanations), plus have o1 update and rewrite the spec based on my feedback and errors.

Curious if anyone's tried something like this.
An interesting paper on transdermal magnesium:

Myth or Reality—Transdermal Magnesium?
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5579607/

The short story -- As of 2017 the jury is still out as to whether something like an Epsom salt bath may be beneficial because of the magnesium.
AWS will discontinue support for AWS App Mesh
Maybe ban ASNs /s
I fit a fully assembled entertainment center in mine. Only an inch or two to spare in every dimension but it fit!
The first plane ever flies, and people think "we can fly to the moon soon!".

Yet powered flight has nothing to do with space travel, no connection at all. Gliding in the air via low/high pressure doesn't mean you'll get near space, ever, with that tech. No matter how you try.

AI and AGI are like this.
I think you misunderstood what people mean by "why" in the context of evolution.

For example, you ask a random person what his job is.

He: I fix TVs

You: Why?

He: Uh, that's what keeps a roof over me and keeps my family fed?

You: But clearly other humans do other jobs and still have roofs. So it's not a real "why". Your statement is falsified.

> Evolutionary explanations like these for "why" things are the way they are not just pure idle speculation, but they are also often unprovable, unfalsifiable, and have the same circular logic as bad religion

How DNA works at molecular level is science. How creators became what they are now is history. History usually doesn't have the same level of falsifiability as science does.
SciTools: Open tools for the analysis and visualisation of Earth science data
Only small problem is that models are neither thinking nor understanding, I am not sure how this kind of wording is allowed with these models.
The same could ba said for CPUs from Intel and AMD 5 years ago. Now people, myself included, buy AMD because it is simply the better choice.
Hi,
Major progress on loudness has been done in the broadcast area (see specs and publications around ebu r128 and itu-r bs.1770).
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Cheers
I have one. And a couple of Newtons. The Hannsnote 2 looks great outdoors but it is hard to get the lighting right to make it usable indoors.