skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article touches on this issue by pointing out that:

>The Cloud is what happens when the cost of storing data is less than the cost of figuring out what to do with the crap

But I think that's wrong. The actual issue is that you often can't figure out "what to do with the crap" because the difference between useful data and crap data is determined at the point in time when you need it, not when you store it.

I'm relatively careful with deleting data, but even so, there were countless instances where I thought something was no longer needed and deleted it, only to figure out that, a month later, I needed it after all.

Also, the article has a few anecdotes like this:

>Scottish Enterprise had 753 pages on its website, with 47 pages getting 80% of visits

But that is completely orthogonal to the question of what is "crap." The fact that some data is rarely needed does not mean it's crap. If anything, the fact that it is rarely needed might make it more valuable because it might make it less likely that the same data can be found elsewhere.
Henceforth referred to as "Orange Monday"...
Show HN: Browser Router – Open links in different browsers based on URL rules
Browser Router is a custom link handler for Windows that intercepts HTTP and HTTPS links and opens them in different browsers based on user-defined rules.
You want to block subjectivity? Write some formulas.

There are three questions to consider:

a) Have we, without any reasonable doubt, hit a wall for AI development? Emphasis on "reasonable doubt". There is no reasonable doubt that the Earth is roughly spherical. That level of certainty.

b) Depending on your answer for (a), the next question to consider is if we the humans have motivations to continue developing AI.

c) And then the last question: will AI continue improving?

If taken as boolean values, (a), (b) and (c) have a truth table with eight values, the most interesting row being false, true, true: "(not a) and b => c". Note the implication sign, "=>". Give some values to (a) and (b), and you get a value for (c).

There are more variables you can add to your formula, but I'll abstain from giving any silly examples. I, however, think that the row (false, true, false) implied by many commentators is just fear and denial. Fear is justified, but denial doesn't help.
The AI is able to learn from video and you don't find that even a little bit impressive? Well I disagree.
> Can you look at the world model, like you can look at Waymo's world model? Or is it hidden inside weights?

I imagine it's the latter, and in general, we're already dealing with plenty of models with world models hidden inside their weights. That's why I'm happy to see the direction Anthropic has been taking with their interpretability research over the years.

Their papers, as well as most discussions around them, focus on issues of alignment/control, safety, and generally killing the "stochastic parrot" meme and keeping it dead - but I think it'll be even more interesting to see attempts at mapping how those large models structure their world models. I believe there's scientific and philosophical discoveries to be made in answering why these structures look the way they do.
Linking against GPL code on a backend server which is never distributed - neither in code or binary form. (Because what might happen tomorrow? Maybe now you want to allow enterprise on prem.)
If you complete BEGINNER, and tap it for every round thereafter, you win.
You obviously have to decide it on a case-by-case basis. But anything that is only used in a comparison is usually fine with saturating. And many things that measures values or work with measurements are fine with saturating if it's documented. Saturating is how most analog equipment works too, and in non-interactive use cases "just pick the closest value we can represent" is often better than erroring out or recording nothing at all.

Of course don't use saturating_add to calculate account balance, there you should use checked_add.
History mainly. Lotus Notes/Domino in the 90s was way ahead of its time and pioneered many technologies that would become mainstream only a decade plus later.
Technology for sorting through unordered piles of data also gets better over time. When I started storing digital photographs, face detection wasn't a thing, but it is now, so those tens of thousands of photos from the 90s suddenly became more useful to me.
No, I meant why you posted the Reddit thread in the first place.
Yes. Rather than compare to paper, compare to yesterday's HDDs. Do we need more HDDs today than then?
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Yet that's processing level stuff, not format stuff.
Even unlikely that the manufacturer made the best possible result from the sensor input as is.
I have always hated Gherkin because the extra layer of language expression / abstraction is superficial, and PMs can't write any ol' thing that makes sense, it has to be supported by the parser.

But LLMs can make sense of any ol' thing, so, and it shocks me to admit such, maybe Gherkin is back on the menu.
Sometimes it’s just off topic.
Windows Firewall, similar to IPtables, can only be set to on or off per rule. Yes, you can configure it however you like, but it has zero interaction with the user while it's running (except for a simple on/off checkbox on first socket listen occurrence).

In contrast, traditional third-party firewall programs for Windows were always fully interactive and would offer much finer control in that way. Something we would call a personal firewall. A personal firewall would allow users to inspect and control each and every network interaction (not just LISTEN).

Ever since I found a folder on my drive titled "xxx was here", back in 1999, on windows, I've been using a personal firewall. Changed many over the years, and now running Fort.

https://github.com/tnodir/fort
> fully commit to wickedness, inverting all the foundational moral goals

Mm, reminds me modern russian orthodoxy.
EPUB isn't all that different from what you're describing. It's bundled as a ZIP archive with a couple of XML metadata files - and the content is split into one HTML file per chapter or section to make it easier to handle - but the idea is the same.
Alpha Star was also trained initially from youtube videos of pros playing Starcraft. I would argue that it was pretty trivial a few years ago.
Billboards can make an ugly street look nicer. Cities without any billboards look like a concrete jungle. Just go to Brazil if you don’t believe me.
I had contempt of USB C (do we need to print books that can be opened from either end) and was amazed the thin steel panel and plastic connectors dont mind a whopping 24W.
The more governments and corporations try to shove AI into everything the worse this problem is going to get. Blindly trusting computers was always a terrible idea, and now computers are getting even less reliable.
I owe my developer career to my mother giving me her old laptop sometime in late 90s. With the condition that if I break it, I fix it. Helped me through the process of installing Windows 3.11 for the first time, and then I was largely on my own.

I was in second or third grade, I think. Highlights include figuring out that if you prevented most of the drivers from loading, it was just possible to run Doom with 4MB of RAM. And installing Windows 95 from a shopping bag full of floppy discs (literally, a bag), and deciding that while it was cool to have running, the resulting 4 or 5 MB of free disk space was not conducive to proper computing.
I always thought camera RAW formats were optimize continuous shooting rates. About being able to linearly write an image as fast as possible.

I don't know the details of DNG but even the slightest complication could be a no-go for some manufacturers.
>Is that the measure: a complete OS?

The fact that BSD was incomplete is relevant because it illustrates the fact that the only people who could run BSD were shops that had a source-code license for the proprietary AT&T Unix.
Frankly looking at many indicators it would seem large chunks of the US is doing terrible, not just the bottom 20%.

You now have enormous piles of debt, obesity, millions hooked on drugs, a blossoming private prison industry and a nation without a future?

I quote from Wikipedia:
‘In 2013, George Friedman, the head of Stratfor, wrote that the middle class' standard of living was declining, and that "If we move to a system where half of the country is either stagnant or losing ground while the other half is surging, the social fabric of the United States is at risk, and with it the massive global power the United States has accumulated."[54]’

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_of_living_in_the_Un...

Looks like most of the gains since the 80s have been concentrated to the top.
Yeah, but I meant a method that would take a custom prefix, like join does now. (In the hypothetical situation where join had different semantics.)
I’d love to read the document you are quoting - is it publicly available anywhere?
I think this should extend to also buildings. No more any logos or names. Maybe a small directory with limited font size should be allowed.
I have a strong suspicion that for all the low threshold APIs/services, before the real model sees my prompt, it gets evaluated by a quick model to see if it's something they care to bother the big models with. If not i get something shaked out of the sleeve of a bottom barrel model.
But if they instead go from video right into replay at time xy - and back..
Real-time and energy-constrained problems would be the top use cases in my mind given the current state of affairs. Beyond this, problems that are non-differentiable or where we desire strong symbolic interpretation. I think these techniques also tend to extrapolate more robustly than DNNs. Technically, any problem where algorithmic shortcuts like the chain rule of calculus break down.

I've been working on GP architectures that use short linear program tapes as part of their genome. Executing these programs can be done very quickly. Assuming the program tape is <=10kb in length and you are constraining to ~a megacycle in the interpreter, you can execute these programs 100k~1m times per second on a chunky workstation. The problems you can solve in this time & space are non-trivial. Once you evolve the desired program, you can write the interpreter for it in any language on any platform within half an hour.

Training is definitely going to be expensive but it can fit in one powerful machine. You don't need to keep a terabyte of data around in VRAM to make reasonable rates of progress. Paging out parts of the population to disk or S3 buckets is feasible with these techniques. It subdivides very nicely into however many islands you can afford to run.

Inference is essentially free and could run on the processor in your toaster oven.

These approaches can make CUDA & friends look like a Rube Goldberg machine by comparison. Being able to explain how the entire thing works to a peer in a single afternoon is perhaps another significant feature of these designs.

At the end of the day, there is a pretty good reason these techniques aren't popular - There aren't any quadratic scaling laws that constrain the architecture of GP. Only the much scarier exponential ones. I contend that the search space of all linear programs is viable, but I still don't have any proof that this is the case after chasing the rabbit for about a year. My central argument is that there are many high-quality programs out there. We just need to find one of them. I think the arguments against this tend to unfairly cast the problem as searching for a single needle in a haystack of 10^10000.
Feels like one of the better possible outcomes from this is that Congress realizes it has actual powers and starts using them. But I'm predicting things are going to have to get bad before people wake up to this problem.

I think if this continues the most likely thing is that the US Dollar will soon no longer be the world's reserve country. I'm surprised other countries haven't hedged this way already given what happened the last time this administration was in charge, but I would sure be looking for a way out of the US dollar if I was a non-US-country right now.

If the tariffs hold, I would be looking to cut out US-dollars from my transactions as quickly and aggressively as possible. Feels like a couple of cinder-blocks attached to my parachute at the moment, I might not know how to untangle them, but surely it can't be worse than the state I'm in right now.

In the US, I shudder to think what would happen if the economy got this derailed, and everyone's doing everything they can to untangle from it. I would kind of expect China or Europe's stable economies to be a sudden draw that the rest of the world adjust to. And I would be starting to look at what things I can get from the rest of the world as an alternative to the US.

When I voted against this outcome I knew that I voted against the rest of the policy changes from this regime (Encroachment on 1st amendment, General Oligarchy, etc.), but I didn't know I was also voting against a pseudo-scorched-earth economic policy intended to destroy the US. There are real ways in which I hope they are too stupid to know what they're doing because they're digging their own grave. I just also fear the number of people who are going to be in that grave with them.
It needs to be said that Darth Vader is not simply a villain who believes in the force but uses it for evil. He sincerely wants peace for the galaxy. In terms of goals Darth Vader and the Jedi ultimately want the same thing, or at least neither of them want "evil". Where they disagree is he just believes the best way to achieve peace is through gaining power, that's it.

It's essentially a contest of peace through control (order) vs peace through trust (balance), and for that matter the Jedi are not even successful in sustaining their beliefs.
The argument wasn't based on a comparison to the private sector. The argument is based on the fact that I prefer people who passionate about their jobs vs people who just want a stable paycheck. However the argument also applies to the private sector, which is why I mentioned it.
It's much better packaged now than n years ago when I stumbled on installation and whatnot and gave up, that's great. If you like me don't like the font size, search the book for how to scale UI, the last snippet on that page show's how to do a global font size change.

Plain Pharo is a really nice environment too.
> Medical facilities aren't a tragedy of the commons. You pay for one if you need it and if there are enough people who need one to pay for it to exist, it does. If there aren't, by what reasoning should it? The people paying are the same people using it and they don't value it by as much as it costs.

So if you have a very rare disease which might cost a lot more to treat because there's no economies of scale you are... Not worth it? Your life is unworthy because it's unprofitable to save you? Or your mom, dad, sibling, loved one?

You need to be very, very deep into pure inhumane financial thinking to even consider this as a good outcome for a society. Please die if it's too expensive to care for you, it's economical eugenics.
I wonder what the over/under is on the number of banks that will fail in the next 7 days and whether it will precipitate into a contagion vector.
And https://send.djazz.se automatically performs the conversion for you with kepubify and sends it to your ereader! No affiliation, just a happy camper chiming in
Thanks for taking the effort to lay it out for me! I did watch the video, and I think I can see what you are going for. I appreciate the goal - having tooling that dynamically adapts to the problem I am trying to solve sounds like a dream.

My main reservation, at least initially, was that the website comes across too focused on the paradigm for its own sake. Hence my comment - it feels like a PhD project trying to project complexity and impressiveness. Personally I would have appreciated more focus on what it is, and why its useful, not an abstract framing of "moldable development". I hope that's not too harsh - just wanted to give my 2c honestly.
Interestingly, I see evidence of that wrapper on my Sonoma machine, but `/usr/libexec/rsync/` only contains the `rsync.samba` binary,

On my Sequoia machines, there is no `/usr/libexec/rsync`, and the `rsync` binary at /usr/bin seems to just be the regular `openrsync` binary.
huh? Maybe for "internal" committee. For my PHD defense, I had 3 internals and 2 externals and the externals could have been anyone my advisor approved of (in practice for me, I picked my committee and my advisor just rubber stamped it, perhaps because he was content with my choices)
Sorry, I don't quite follow what you mean?
"We’re destroying our environment to (...)"

No we're not. I really dislike this "environmental" anti-technologist angle. A single steel plant in china has tenfold "environmental impact" than all photos stored on a platter everywhere.

Would you prefer the photos are a cocktail of weird chemicals on a negative and printed on glossy photo paper?

Digital data is the most ephemeral we are able to make it through vast effort.
Average, hmmm?
> No functioning democracy allows judges or politicians to sell their speech to the highest bidder for example.

That surely depends heavily on your definition of functioning democracy.
I'm willing to bet a decent number "don't care" until they do care because their permissions don't work or their time based script screws up or whatever else nobody thinks about when they're in panic mode about "I lost my data".
Shouldn't hedge funds be hedges against exactly this type of events? Now they really should show how good they are, by losing lot less than market does in general...

Or are they just an other herd following others...
'.dng's share the same file format structure as '.tiff's, but they have some extra fields.

For stills photography, Adobe's '.dng' format does fairly well, from 8-bit to 16-bit. It copes with any of the 4 possible standard RGGB Bayer phases and and has some level of colour look-up table in the metadata. Sometime this is not enough for a camera's special features and The Verge's article covers those reasons quite well.

For video, things get much more complicated. You start to hit bandwidth limits of the storage media (SD cards at the low end). '.dng' files were not meant to be compressed but Blackmagic Design figured out how to do it (lightly) and still remain compatible with standard '.dng' decoding software. Other, better compressed formats were also needed to get around the limits of '.dng' compression.

Red cameras used a version of JPEG 2000 on each Bayer phase individually (4 of them), but they wrapped it in patents and litigated hard against anyone who dared to make a RAW format for any video recording over 4k. Beautifully torn apart in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ_uo-x7Dc0

So, for quite a few years, video camera companies tip-toed around this aggressive patent with their own proprietary formats, and this is another reason why there's so many (not mentioned by The Verge).

There's also the headache of copying a folder of 1,000+ '.dng' stills that make up a movie clip; it takes forever, compared to a single concatenated file. So, there's another group of RAW video file formats that solve this by recording into a single file which is a huge improvement.
Why do CONSERVATIVE journalists always use CAPS LOCK to try and get their POINT ACROSS like children?
I do cull photos and docs but it takes effort and you will make mistakes. On the other hand, intelligent culling makes it easier to find things.

It’s a trade off especially with digital where there’s not that much cost associated with holding onto things relative to the physical world. My whole house is basically in storage because of a kitchen fire and I’m planning to be pretty selective about what I move back in.
Show HN: Helpedby AI – Multi LLMs chat with auto router, agentic RAG, MCP, etc.
What if, you didn't have to select a model every time you wanted to chat with an AI?

I built a chat platform with AI that has the capability to auto-route the best model to help you with your queries, such as Claude Sonnet 3.5 for coding tasks, GPT 4o for creative writing, and so on.

It also comes with members' invitation to the workspace, agentic RAG, and the ability to create your own MCP to solve your specific issues.

The best part is that you don't have to subscribe to anything. The service uses a pay-as-you-go model where you top up your balance, and it will be deducted based on your usage (token in & token out).

Try now at https://chat.helpedby.ai and let me know your thoughts!
The InkyFrame is nice but I prefer the eInk frame from HN user konschubert:

https://www.invisible-computers.com
How does your camera shop decide what to stock? How do they discover new brands to include? Without advertising smaller shops and by extension you would be unaware of any new brands or accessories available.

A ban on advertising would again stop grocery stores from discovering new products and testing them. Why bother when you can just partner up with P&g and stock only their stuff, your customers won't know there is choice so might as well just stock the brand that can offer you the best deal.
I was waiting for something like "... and we celebrated our XX wedding anniversary yesterday" given how you described her outlook :)
The incident had already garnered international attention since it involved workers of multiple international agencies. The footage was in the hands of the International Red Cross and the and the UN and was about to be presented at the UN council. There was no way to cover it up at this point. All that remains was about who gets the scoop, salvaging whatever credibility that remains while controlling the narrative.
They don't care because you care, so they never experienced the misfortune of not caring.
Russia's secret war in UK waters
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externals could have been anyone my advisor approved of

Don't they at least need to have a at least somewhat relevant PhD? Where I live that is definitely the case.
Do you know if it was actual videos or some simpler inputs like game state and user inputs? I’d be impressed if it was the former at that time.
I thought it was a real baby.
> Yes. I would be curious to hear what formed your impression that it is now considered an offensive bad thing.

I don't know, TBH. I think friends from US told me to be careful, that it's now politically incorrect to mention it, especially to express support for it/imply that it's a good thing? I don't live there so I wouldn't know for sure, especially given that when I interact with US colleagues I generally try to steer away from more potentially "touchy" subjects. I did notice myself that it's best to avoid some subjects in the US corporate world, since you never know what may be offensive. Or well, I don't, perhaps it's a me-problem.

(it's probably also that I don't understand all the local implications and sensibilities. Like, for me "melting pot" means the ability to take immigrants from all over the world, and turn them into "americans" with roughly the same culture & set of values. That, for me is unequivocally a _good_ thing, I think it's generally recognized that conflict at values-level is the most difficult one to resolve/ it's basically unresolvable. You can't have a nation working together if large parts of it have different set of values, that's just a recipe for internal divisions and long-term problems. Or anyway, that's my general line of thinking, that's why I personally have always felt that the "melting pot" was one of the best things US did, and did better than e.g. France or other nations. But I do recognize that there might be other problems associated with that, in the minds of US citizens; and being subjected to the "melting pot" can't be easy/pleasant for everyone, it's in the end about modifying/tweaking your identity so that's gotta be a hard process)
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