skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Author here -- Generally in single image super-resolution, we want to learn a prior over natural high-resolution images, and for that a large and diverse training set is beneficial. Your suggestion sounds interesting, though it's more reminiscent of multi image super-resolution, where additional images contribute additional information, that has to be registered appropriately.

That said, our approach is actually trained on a (by modern standards) rather small dataset, consisting only of 800 images. :)
I read a lot of AP articles that aren't verbatim press releases.. you must be in the classifieds or something.
Sustainable Materials: With Both Eyes Open (2012)
Hmm, that account they posted is full of memes portraying China and communism in a good light, I wonder what their motivation could possibly be
Thanks for link. Amazing work. I'm less than noob, so barely comprehend this topic, much less this paper.

ELI5: Per "5.2 Physics of Galaxy Rotation", could the Milky Way's relative movement, in addition to its spin, also effect the observed assymetry? In Figure 10, is the Milky Way also moving toward the blue and away from the red?

Thanks for humouring my question. Everything about astronomy and JWST just blows my mind. Like how Figure 10 sorta resembles yinyang. What a time to be alive.
That's their idea yes, but it's only an idea, and I am extremely dubious. It's much more like handwaving speculation by people who have no experience in drilling deep wells than a practical proven solution.

They're expecting the hole to be open air, with nothing at all to push back against formation pressure. It has to be, for the radiation system to work. But that means that this supposedly fused glass wall has to withstand all of the formation pressure all the way through the borehole perfectly. And they seem to be expecting this to happen from the vaporized material just condensing on the borehole walls. One little crack anywhere, and the whole borehole could flood with water or oil, possibly even blowing out at the surface. How do they recover from that? They'd have to figure out where the failure was, seal it, then get all the water out, each of which seems practically impossible.
I read about this years ago on HN and then ... nothing. Glad to see it back in the news. It really would be tremendous if it works.
I only know what I see.

Obviously the editorial page is not in favor of Trump.

The organization as a whole... IDK, I have a suspicion that they kind of view the chaos as good for business and exciting, rather than 'boring and dull' like Biden.

It's not a blatant bias, it's more subtle than that. It does not involve spreading falsehoods. More things like 'both sides!'.
Your logic is terrible and Chibsons are terrible instruments - usually they are unplayable. They are SHIT simply built for making a cheap revenue through infringement.

A Korean made Agile for $300 is an actually playable instrument and not garbage. You don’t play so I don’t expect you to understand. Let’s just put it in a method you can understand - Chibson is the equivalent of somebody using your picture and LinkedIn profile to apply and get hired for a job. Do you extend your excuses to that scenario?
It seems i forgot to cater for the quota applied to free "play" user in ClickHouse in my previous query... In fact, the threat actor did a lot more... this should give a better list of actions that was performed - Clearly showed he was testing his payload:

https://play.clickhouse.com/play?user=play#c2VsZWN0ICogZnJvb...
COVID and our current political predicament are basically the same event, and COVID was a once in a lifetime pandemic.

Sure something is always the most pressing threat to stability, but that does not imply all eras are similarly unstable.
Most of implementing RAG is a search problem, the R stands for "retrieval", which is the academic computer science term for "search".
“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.”
Sure, will make it open source soon.
Why do you think so? Google can continue to contribute to chromium as they are doing now, alongwith other contributors like Microsoft
Why does Russia have any right to say whether sovereign countries on its borders join NATO or not?

The only reason Russia cares is because it wants to continue controlling them -- not because it's worried about the mythical NATO invasion of Russia its news and leader trumpet.

And in contrast, the only reasons those countries want to join NATO is because they're scared of Russia invading them, which it historically has. (See: Finland and eastern Europe)
It does, but here we are talking about a spacecraft not exposed to sun radiation and without significant amounts of stored energy to generate heat to overcome the heat losses due.
There have been a number of futures that weren't.

I feel that the so-called market decides what goes in the future and sticks in the past.

No matter how good, cheap and effective something is. If it's embraced by markets (corn whatever reason, marketing campaign included), it will succeed.
I am sure about acoustic guitars and that’s why I specifically made that reference. There are situations with electrics as well - a standard Stratocaster versus a John Mayer PRS actually is noticeable to people who are at a level to understand these things.

Basically a lot of critique on my post boils down to “well I think and feel this” with no grounding whatsoever. I’ve seen those YouTube videos and they are entertaining but substantively shit from a professional musician standpoint.

I don’t wander into Ruby threads telling people JavaScript or Python is better.
Sorry, it was just an oversight. I will append the URL in the next deployment.
Not sure if that Readme is enough to explain an LLM what to do

I get the idea but I'm not sure if I want to spend the time to fill in the gaps and start an experiment

But I agree with the idea in general: Using informal DSLs as an intermediate language.

I'm not sure, though, if this approach (reduced syntax) is the right one.
Progress is not linear. Not every step is an advancement. It's possible for an entire field, and entire society to get lost en route to something nominally superior—or even to be led, by hucksters, into the weeds.

But the especially tedious misconception you're espousing is the myth of the Randian hero. This model of "people who get shit done" obscures collective labor contributions, and romanticizes individual exceptionalism, while dismissing interdependence and systemic support structures.

These special, few, "solitary geniuses" do not exist. What we have are plutocrats born into a privileged position and shameless enough to wield that privilege without democratic oversight or consensus.

Such people truly get only "shit" done.
What's a good way to learn the modern Ruby ecosystem nowadays?

I played with Ruby when I was a teenager (~2015 or so), and I definitely remember enjoying it. I know there's still a vocal group of users who love it, so I would be interested in digging in again.
I heard a blue jay mimic a golf trolley's squeaky wheel. They will mimic any sound, it's a sex thing, it doesn't have to be complicated.
Go to Customize Toolbar, check "Title Bar" at the bottom - that gives a Plasma-native title bar with window controls.
Great shoutout to Arizona State University for the images. I like to see when someone or some group gets some recognition for work they have performed in relative obscurity for a very long time. Years of craft, getting better and better at something most don't bother with. Then suddenly your expertise gets a spotlight in a meaningful way.

(Yes, I suppose there are many other sources that could provide images. These happen to be from ASU.)
I think this is the root of the problem.

I think library/runtime makers aren't saying "let's make an official/blessed take on this thing that a large number of users are doing" as much as they should.

Popular libraries for a given runtime/language should be funded/bought/cloned by the runtime makers (e.g. MS for .NET, IBM/Oracle for Java) more than they are now.

I know someone will inevitably mention concerns about monopolies/anti-trust/"stifling innovation" but I don't really care. Sometimes you have to standardize some things to unlock new opportunities.
The parliamentary structure does matter actually. There is no way for the president of the US to launch a war of conquest without approval of the US Congress (there are a limited set of military actions the president could authorize under the war powers act or an existing AUMF but they would not merit being described as an invasion). That would require majority support in both houses of Congress, which can barely hold together long enough to pass a spending a bill.
It about doubled over half a century. For comparison inflation over that period was 410% or something like that. So idk, it's bigger than it was, it's hard to say whether it's bigger than it should be. I probably wouldn't describe it as dramatically as you have but that's often the case between us with public services I think.
It always amazing to me how close some of these buildings to the site are.

These look like ordinary middle class buildings too. your view from your bathroom is an ancient temple from 3 century AD ?
The CLA just gives Google a license to use the code your contribute (and a license to any associated patents). You still own the copyright, and Google cannot sell the rights to your code.

https://cla.developers.google.com/about/google-individual
There are 'cloud kitchens' im California that have 30 to 40 "kitchens" at the same address, different apps. The largest on just has a double stove and cooks meat, side by side as the most kitchy vegitarian meals. The two roast beef sandwiches cost less than the salad, but the delivery driver could not hand us the food on premises. We walked outside and we're handed the meals. ( The vegitarian salad was in a separate bag ).
Does this mean we could look at deep space for clues about the physical rules that govern what happens beyond a black hole's event horizon?
Have you ever seen a perfectly flat rock anywhere on earth? One capable of supporting a large rocket? Also, the moon doesn't have the various navigation systems (GPS/radar) that is used when bringing rocket stages back the pad.
Who do you propose should fund lunar GPS for the benefit of private companies who want to land on the moon?
How should we rank the contributions of governments when it comes to progress (the imposition of order measured by institutional improvement) and defense (collective cultural self-preservation in the face of aggressive neighbors)?
We'll see I guess and I hope you're right.

IMO the simplest and most realistic way to reconcile "democracies don't invade each other" and "the US might do invasions now" is that the US is not a democracy within this model.

It certainly still is in a technical sense that is sometimes useful. But by other metrics, like "can the president start an unpopular war with a steadfast former ally" uhhhhh. If the military refuses an elected president's order to invade is it still a democracy?
But if they knew where it was relative to the surface of the Moon, they could have subtracted that from where it wasn't, or where it wasn't from where it was (whichever is greater), to obtain a difference, or deviation. The guidance subsystem could then use deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the missile from a position where it was to a position where it wasn't.
Yep. I expect they were feeling tired and the smartwatch readings just confirmed it. If they really felt like coming, the readings wouldn't stop them.
In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6.
"What are you doing?", asked Minsky.

"I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-tac-toe", Sussman replied.

"Why is the net wired randomly?", asked Minsky.

"I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play", Sussman said.

Minsky then shut his eyes.

"Why do you close your eyes?" Sussman asked his teacher.

"So that the room will be empty."

At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.
The Onion did a spoof about this, the “Montana Merkle,”whose human-like call has resulted in it almost becoming extinct: https://youtu.be/5D2VdaM8OcM?si=52J07cq3W_-RWPp8
Don't worry; they'll have plenty of time to regret that.

There's a reason they're sweating the data issue. As much as it sucks to say it, Google/Bing/Meta/etc. all have a shitton of proprietary human-generated data they can work with, train on, fine tune with, etc. OpenAI _needs_ more human generated data desperately to keep going.
They need to be able to steer drills for all kinds of reasons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAhdb7dKQpU

Actual answer seems to be drilling side holes also involves removing the pipe. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43371776
Something doesn't sit right with me. I would expect that the semicircle would be reflected nonlinearly. That would imply the reflection is not a true circle. Am I wrong?
> these include [...] an eight-legged hybrid human figure with goose and human heads identified by an inscription as “the two geese of Ra,” an otherwise unknown entity

Not to armchair this, but I am intrigued by what logic someone concluded that, an image captioned as "two creatures", which appears to show two identical creatures standing next to each other, is actually one conjoined creature.
I linked the Cheesecake Factory 2022 report below. I asked chat-gpt for some analysis and didn't double check the math so take with grain of salt. When you take into account the largest costs for Cheesecake Factory is labor of which 50% is waitstaff and leases for prime locations, profits from on premises alcohol sales do not compare to profits from takeout.

If 11% of sales are alcohol at 20–25% of the menu price and 25% of sales are off premises at 28–35% of the menu price, what is the percentage profit from alcohol and off premises food and non-alcohol beverage, assuming they are mutually exclusive?

To break it down:

Alcohol:

Cost percentage: 20–25%
Profit margin: 75–80%
Profit contribution: 11% × 75–80% ≈ 8.25–8.8% of total profit

Off premises:

Cost percentage: 28–35%
Profit margin: 65–72%
Profit contribution: 25% × 65–72% ≈ 16.25–18% of total profit
It's a moot point, but I *really* don't understand the Doppler-shift bias mechanism either. Help?

This one of the author's other papers they cited in this one,

https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/15/6/1190

I'm completely lost how they're eliding between the rotation orientation of the Milky Way galaxy, and relative linear velocities with stars in other galaxies. In the special relativity argument, where does the rotation axis of the Milky Way enter?
The garmin stuff kind of works as a realitive measure when most things are constant but completely break if you do something unusual like a long hike or a new cardio regiment
People have the power to not use iPhones, and should exercise it.
Yes, they must buy from Europe instead.
What kind of SIMD instructions were not available? I assume something like AVX512GFNI or SHA x86 intrinsics?

I think if you're in domain of using SIMD, besides base RAM usage of 2-5MB you should not see drastic difference unless you have a lot of allocation traffic. But I guess Rust solved most of this, just wanted to note that specific memory and deployment requirements are usually solvable by changing build and GC settings.
Another thing that occurred to me after watching some of their videos - how do they plan to control rate of penetration?

Their radiation head thing has to be a certain distance from the rock face it's cutting / vaporizing, but it isn't actually touching anything. So how do they know how fast they're actually vaporizing more hole and how fast to advance?

I'm sure you know this, but for the rest of the audience, conventional drilling rigs use the measured weight of the drillstring to determine how much weight is on the bit and how fast to advance. I don't see any good way for these guys to do anything like that.
I really like the spirit! This sort of concept was one of the first things I wanted to explore with a spiritually adjacent project (cataclysm). It's been a bit, so I need to take time to update the python JIT generation now that we have much better coding models, but I'm a big fan of this sort of abstraction. https://github.com/Mattie/cataclysm

As most of us here can see, for many tasks now you don't really need to worry that you have the exact right syntax. I think you still need expert precision when it matters immensely, but we all develop tools, scripts, layers and the like that manual precision isn't necessary.
Milk Kanban
I agree that it doesn't matter to many people. If the image is great, then it's great art. End of story.

But when it comes to history, fake art can pollute our knowledge of the painter and the history. While many fakes use the same typical subjects, imagine that a faker created a canvas with a different story. If this story gets injected into the history, everyone's knowledge of the painter is corrupted.
Agreed, sometimes I’ll ask Claude to chat using psuedocode before writing actual code, works fine for me.
Which model are you training and on what dataset?
Yes that does seem worrying, and might explain why they've only (publicly) drilled a few inches here & there. Maybe they could give the waveguides some outer grid or fins or whatnot to give extra support?
Show HN: Fashion Shopping with Nearest Neighbors
I made this website with my wife in mind; it makes it possible to browse for similar fashion products over many different retailers at once.

The backend is written in Swift, and is hosted on a single Mac Mini. It performs nearest neighbors on the GPU over ~3M product images.

No vector DB, just pure matrix multiplications. Since we aren't just doing approximate nearest neighbors but rather sorting all results by distance, it's possible to show different "variety" levels by changing the stride over the sorted search results.

Nearest neighbors are computed in a latent vector space. The model which produces the vectors is also something I trained in pure Swift.

The underlying data is about 2TB scraped from https://www.shopltk.com/.

All the code is at https://github.com/unixpickle/LTKlassifier
Biden gave Trump way more leniency about improperly storing classified documents than he gave himself. Because trump didn’t merely improperly store those documents, he stole them and then hid them and then lied about their existence when questioned about them, and then refused to give them back when formally asked for them.

Stop pretending that Trump is the same as Democrats. He is in a league of criminality that he shares with his buddy Putin, and it’s way worse than any we have ever seen in the US.
Wait, "once in a century"? How many times has this been proven such that they feel comfortable talking about the statistical rate of proofs?
Adding MITM to your chain of trust doesn't make it more trustworthy, it adds an extra possible attacker.
It is a soft-block text diffusion. They have one super-block of fixed size loaded and then allow the model to only unmask tokens by going through the soft-blocks. As the source code is available and I was able to change it into an actual block diffusion, but as the model was trained only on super-blocks, it was always trying to generate eos tokens at each block end before I extended it. I've tried a few workarounds that half worked, but I guess a very small scale finetune is needed to resolve it fully.
Was anyone else expecting an infinitely zoomable pictures from that title? I am disappoint
And you are being rather rude.

You can make the same point without resorting to name calling
Don't advertise blatantly like this on HN please
Inception of HTML IMG Tag
I would actually start with the Rails Guides docs, they’re very good and running the given commands should actually work:

https://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.htm

Just have a toy app you want to build in mind
Toyota is testing a hydrogen combustion engine.
https://www.toyota-europe.com/news/2022/prototype-corolla-cr...
We literally just invested $500B in infrastructure less than 4 years ago
Those are mostly passed on to the customer, no?
No, they did measure them, they just didn't bother to value them. People are spending less time in the restaurants (<10 minutes.) People spending time in the restaurants are getting service (cleaning etc.) and use of the space/dishes. They aren't accounting for these services.
The Brat Virtual Machine
Young people?
> Medicare should spend 1% of its budget each year to buy pharma stocks

People would just raise the price for pharma stocks then.

Maybe that is a good thing since it would make it harder to buy pharma stocks for others, but the government will still pay too mcuh.
Geez. I loathe the administration, but I would really prefer it if people on my side quit it on the hyperbole.

In no sense has the current administration expressed that “women” are enemies.

Feminists, like myself, need to quit it on the arguing “anyone who is anti-feminism is anti woman”.

It’s the exact same rhetorical flourish as “anyone who is anti-Zionism is anti-Semitic”.

In this era of Trump’s statements bearing no relationship to truth, we can’t sink to the same lows. Or the bullshitters have already won.
> I'm not sure how this could exploited by just making a PR, unless you for some reason have secrets enabled for builds by unknown contributors

In this context the renovate bot would be making the PR to a repo it had been installed on, making it a trusted contributor able to trigger CI builds on its PRs.
There is a straightforward way to win a naval conflict against China, which is basically a repeat of the strategy used with great success against Japan in WWII. Use mines and submarines to cut off their fossil fuel, food, and fertilizer imports. Starve them to death. Chinese leaders are aware of this vulnerability, and are working hard to reduce dependence on foreign energy as well as building a blue water navy that can protect their sea lines of communication. But progress has been slow.

As for Russia, their internal economy is very weak and they have far less industrial capacity than the old USSR. The only way they are able to financially sustain the invasion of Ukraine is through huge fossil fuel exports. Those exports pass through a limited set of choke points including pipelines, refineries, tank farms, and ports which are impossible to defend and can be wrecked with stand-off weapons. Some of your criticisms of overly complex US weapons systems are valid, but our cruise missiles are proven to work reliably.
also the secrets will be published as double base 64 encoded, so it will just look like a string of random chars at the end of the changed-files action in the log.
That's what I currently do but it's not easy to do at all. For one, there's no simple and built-in way to copy my desktop user settings to the new user. For two, when you switch to a new user, you can't simultaneously do things as the original user in the same desktop session.
that's because the US wiped out the previous inhabitants of North America

if that hadn't happened you'd likely be facing the same situation, i.e. having 30 neighbours instead of 2
To be fair a lot of us had a lot of education on the topic, and come from engineering backgrounds.
You are completely delusional if you think China is a better bet than the US.
A consultant sold them something with a high margin, they need to justify the bill.
Have we struggled with defining what a daemon is?

When “it becomes challenging to benchmark performance and ensure consistent outcomes,” should I worry that different products don’t fully comprehend client-server architecture?
You mean the institutions like social security?