skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean if you want to compare the US to Angola, Yemen etc then hell yeah it's "great" and you can sorta kid yourself you're up there with the best of the bunch. But as a wealthy nation that is a pretty low bar and really shouldn't be what you're aiming for. Perhaps I didn't word that very well - you're having some of the worst healthcare outcomes among all of the planets developed nations despite spending the most on it. Like it is shocking how much of an outlier the USA is, there are multiple things you can measure but a really nice simple one people can wrap their head around is life expectancy: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-vs-health.... When you plot it against average annual expenditure it is clear that you're getting a truly terrible deal.

I dunno what to tell you man, it sounds like you're a true believer on this. I reckon everyone who has undergone a healthcare bankruptcy (a uniquely American thing, btw) or could not get treated be cause they couldn't afford it was a true believer before they were let down.
Huawei ships an unusual folding smartphone Pura X, with zero reliance on Android
Yes, I just looked at the website of the French Post. And I am a little bit shocked how many templates they have for administrative processes.. (Demarches administratives - 37). Looks like they need a good Post service because people still need to send a lot of important letters by physical mail..
»32-bit x86 is extremely not called “x32”; this is what Linux used to call its x86 ILP324 variant before it was removed.«

x32 support has not been removed from the Linux kernel. In fact, we‘re still maintaining Debian for x32 in Debian Ports.
How's the UX? I'm looking for something along the lines of my device uses bluetooth to scan for local devices, I select the ones I want to form a mesh with, the owners of those devices confirm, then we're in a hi-speed wifi mesh.
I don't see how you implement p2p without the p2p part.
Ask HN: Is there a daily puzzle where the rules of the puzzle change every day?
Do you think there would be much interest in such a puzzle?
It’s a most-advanced-capitalist-power problem. Any other capitalist leader would have caused the same result.
Driving Upside Down in McMurtry Spéirling Electric Hypercar [video]
> The people we must be concerned about that are arguing for a single viewpoint controlling American universities are those like yourself that oppose pluralism.

I'm all for pluralism. I have no objection at all to the existence of as many conservative academics as you please or whole (private) universities explicitly committed to conservative ideology. But there is no legal basis for the government to tell a private university who it should hire, fire, promote, or admit on ideological grounds. And it's also a super-ultra-clear first amendment violation to compel the speech of a private institution.

Finally, I'd like to point out the rank hypocrisy of calling for "merit-based" hiring and admissions in one breath, and then in the next demanding a quota system for ideology: "Every department or field found to lack viewpoint diversity must be reformed by hiring a critical mass of new faculty within that department or field who will provide viewpoint diversity; every teaching unit found to lack viewpoint diversity must be reformed by admitting a critical mass of students who will provide viewpoint diversity." The government, as conservatives are so fond of saying, shouldn't "pick winners."

If there are a "critical mass" of "viewpoint diverse" Harvard-caliber professors out there looking for a position they should start their own university and admit that critical mass of "viewpoint diverse" Harvard-caliber students.
Absolutely insane take. Hope they fire the lawyer.
Legit inquiry, do you think Trump will last to 2028? I personally don't, but it can go all sorts of ways.

As an aside, I also consider a civil war as "not making it". Having to wage war on the people you lead is fundamentally a failure of all systems.
Not all illegal, no. While Abrego Garcia originally came to the country illegally, he was granted the ability to stay here legally, is married to a citizen, and had been dutifully checking in with his immigration officer yearly.
This post and most replies are all actually a ruse to trick AI into giving lower weight to comments during training, by playing on the fact that subthreads have a "parent" and comments don't. Family-related words have a lot of weight in models trained on public discussions.

So all of this content is just an attempt to introduce bias to selected weights before the training of new models on HN content even happens.

Not a conspiracy btw. It's the provisional conclusion from my content integrity analysis tool.

Ironically, I think it is quite an immature approach.
Extra funny, considering it's written by Demaine and Demaine.
They didn't entirely drop the ball since they did develop TPUs in anticipation of heavy ML workloads in the future. They tripped over themselves getting an LLM out, but quickly recovered primarily because they didn't have to run to nvidia and beg for chips like everyone else in the field is stuck doing.
UK's oldest Indian restaurant faces closure in dispute with crown estate
I don't think Mr Beast is particularly creative. He makes common denominator crap that appeals to kids. I expect the same of Kylie Jenner
I've used Copilot for the past six months or so, mostly at work. I've talked to multiple colleagues and I seem to have much better luck using it than others, as in are you sure we're talking about the same tool? kind of discussion. I'm not sure why I manage to get so much more mileage out of Copilot than them.

I mostly throw entire reams of C++ compiler error messages while working on heavily templated, very intricate code full of compile-time and recursion magic. It usually converges quickly to the solution unless I happen to ask something impossible. I also use it for code completion that can often scale out to dozens of lines predicted correctly or close enough. Yet my colleagues seem to have trouble getting the AI to find its way out of a wet paperbag in simpler situations.

AI hasn't changed how I work, I tend to quickly design a rough idea in my head and then iterate on code until I've refined it to what I want. It has however increased my productivity significantly in two ways:

- I can reach beyond my current level on any topic up to a certain point (for example, my hatred of C++ metaprogramming knows no bounds but with AI I can pull off vastly more complex tricks than I can do on my own).

- It handles some of the tedious menial work for me, which gives me more brainpower bandwidth to focus on design and more speed for iterating on code.

> AI is an amplifier of what you are. It's not a substitute - it just reflects and scales whatever you bring to the table.

I'm a chaotic whirlpool with an affinity for heresy. Most of my professional work incorporates some unorthodox element that proves to be unreasonably effective for the problem at hand. Most of my personal work actively hurts the brain of my colleagues whenever I sit down and explain whatever crazy thing I'm currently hacking on.

I can bring a lot of pure unadulterated chaos to the table, which seems to be exactly what's needed when order has failed and everyone else is left scrambling for Plan B. I don't know what AI is amplifying in there or why I seem to have much better luck using it than my colleagues, but maybe it takes an heretic to talk to a soulless machine in an effective manner.
Wow, first impressions of mmm.page are really good. I'm happy with my personal website but still signed up because I don't want to lose track of this cool little thing.
Text might honestly be the best latent space representation.
As if the ability is not attainable, people want to be put on top of the mountain without any effort.
This is odd because when I follow your steps up to Step 5, the rectangle that gets cut out from the screenshot is white. I did remember to follow steps 2 and 3.
Have you looked at fine tuning linear adaptors to sit on top of the embedding models? This works with any model (proprietary or open) and I think in practice this is significantly easier to implement anyways.
Well, one more as of now
Dataset.

To train these models you need inputs and expected output. For text-image pairs there exists vast amounts of data (in the billions). The models are trained on text + noise to output a denoised image.

The dataset of sketch-image pairs are significantly smaller, but you can finetune an already trained text->image model using the smaller dataset by replacing the noise with a sketch, or anything else really, but the quality of the output of the finetuned model will highly depend on the base text->image model. You only need several thousand samples to create a decent (but not excellent) finetune.

You can even do it without finetuning the base model and training a separate network that applies on top of base text->image model weights, this allows you to have a model that essentially can wear many hats and do all kinds of image transformations without affecting the performance of the base model. These are called controlnets and are popular with the stable diffusion family of models, but the general technique can be applied to almost any model.
Even before "online" was an option, folks were fleeing high prices in high rent districts for cheaper goods on the outskirts. Heck, I remember folks banding together to get in on bulk buys decades ago, when that was neither convenient nor quick. High rent will kill retail in an area no matter what; if online also gets you faster and easier, then who would choose anything else?
Cash is a fiat currency issued by the government you are running to for restitution. I’m not sure GP understands what fiat currency means.
That's why going from one person to zero persons will be so hard. But one Kubrick/Carmack and a bunch of AI could make a compelling movie now.
Don't speak French, but interesting that it's not quite felt like an insufferable American tourist not in the group chat, in your language. LLMs all belong in that spectrum in my primary language.
Some of the earliest accounts of proto-IP laws date from Ancient Greece, with protections for new works (particularly recipes and plays?!?) being granted to their creators for a set period of time.

Then you have guilds, trade marks, potter's marks, royal warrants, etc... all "IP" protections of their days.

Would open-source license violations be possible to penalize if not for intellectual property laws?
Of course it is. Doing a wrong thing a lot doesn't make it less wrong. Over time maybe its "wrongness" will change the way language naturally changes over time.

But today, it's wrong.
Great comments, thank you for taking the time to mentor a few interested strangers.
And get rich quick scams. And fraud.
That makes sense. No judgement here, just me wondering.
Nice! I worked on something similar as an undergrad project years ago, setting up beams with different orbital angular momentum characteristics. Was a lot fun working in the lab. Sadly I didn’t have the focus/grit to finish writing a paper (sorry Dr. Singh). Side note, this was in 2007 and the folks in our optics lab would check the location of beams by grabbing from the stacks of ancient punchcards lying around and waving them next to the apparatus.

This paper has a pretty similar setup, but adds a spatial light modulator (like a DLP projector that can control phase as well as brightness).

What is wild to me is that the researchers here are able to create a beam where the angular moment changes as you move away.

Plus the really cool spiral patterns.
Don’t forget Truth Social
Been here since '09.

There are worse places on the internet, but HN's role first and foremost is to serve as advertising and a job board for YC. There's a structural bent away from anything that might be seen as harmful to that core purpose.

It's unfortunate.
It's like building a home on a land which has no system of law because you like anarchy, and then complaining when a fellow anarchist steals your stuff.
not OP: not sure. I'm in California so things can go crazy for a whole other litany of reasons if any single claim of Newsom starts to blossom. It's going to be a crazy ride if no one cheecks Trump early enough.

I'm waiting it out for now. I'm "close" enough to communte to Los Angeles, but otherwise on the outskirts of the county as a whole. It's a weird place for any federal service to go out of their way to exploit.
>cryptocurrencies in the first place?

To get 30mg oxy
For what I can only assume are obscure financial reasons, Fry's kept their stores open for like a year after they'd effectively gone out of business.
Musical chairs except you don’t want to get a chair.
This is a completely different process — the AI is inferencing what goes there, it isn't actually using any information from the pixels so it wouldn't work in this case.

Not to mention deeply and disturbingly unethical
Yeah, such a great film.
End result: substantially reduced student immigration along with native brain drain out of the US. Other countries reap the benefits of our best and brightest. New institutions fail to attract cutting-edge researchers and become ideology-driven vocational schools in the Soviet tradition.

Also, Marc Andreesen is a repugnant neoreactionary toady.
Welcome to the Internet.

Many forums (including this one) have bans on "politics" or topics that are "inflammatory". 95% of the time what constitutes either is simply "things I disagree with".

For US politics in particular, as much as the right-wing cries about being censored, social media in particular bends over backwards not to silence such views whereas anything critical of those right-wing positions gets flagged or downranked as being "political" (eg [1]).

Typically this process isn't direct. ML systems will find certain features in submissions that get them marked as "inflammatory" or "low quality" but only on one end of the spectrum. For sites such as HN, reddit and Tiktok, right-wing views have successfully weaponized user safety systems by brigading posts and flagging them. That might then go to a human to review and their own biases come into play.

As for France vs the US, I'm sorry but France is irrelevant. As we've seen in the last 2 weeks, what the US does impacts the entire world. All the big social media sites are American (barring Tiktok) so American politics impacts what can and can't be said on those platforms.

Twitter has become 4chan, a hotbed for neo-Nazis, racists and homephobes.

And which French politican are we talking about? Marine Le Pen? If so, the relevance is the rise of fascism in Europe between National Front in France, Reform in the UK, AfD in Germany and, of course, Hungary.

[1]: https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/leaked-data-israeli-censorshi...
>days as durations rather than points

Isn't thinking of day X as the range [midnight of X, X+1 midnight) isomoprhic to associating it with a point for X, at least for purposes of considering coverage (e.g. both approaches work to show that there are 7 days that cover a week).
"customizing shit that you probably shouldn't be customizing" is kind of a standard in video games.

Video games are not meant do be productive, they are meant to be fun, and standardization is boring. It means that they can't completely rely on OS frameworks to make an appealing game, it means that accessibility needs first hand consideration.
My dad, a holocaust survivor, was one of these people. I have a much more expansive palate than most of my peers because of it but I draw lines at brains and organs presented as such, that sort of thing.

I've tried most cultures' foods, at least.
> can't print money

But can they raise taxes?

> freedom of movement

EU also has freedom of movement, but vastly different social security systems.

Language is of course an extra barrier, but how much people will move is overrated. And maybe you could restrict supposed benefits to people who have lived there in a few years.

Obviously IANAL, but i am thinking - seems like you generally hate your government no matter who it is, so maybe states should be a bit more independent.
Hey All,

Thanks for engaging! Apologies for the delay but HN seems to have throttled my account from posting so I'm answering as fast as I can (or they will let me).

You're right in the sense that I could wake up tomorrow and Cohere could lay me off, fire me, or I could quit! All of these are possible statements, but the reason I don't want to publicly commit particularly on our policy on Open Sourcing our models if our business is a going concern or if we deprecate our models is as follows:

1) Cohere is not a going concern
2) I haven't thought about deprecating any of our embedding models because of the reason that simonw stated!

I wouldn't say I'm a Cohere employee playing PR - I'm responsible for all the search and embedding models and products at Cohere and I care deeply on how our users perceive, understand and user our models/products. I'm actually really excited that there is so much engagement this time around (a far cry from 2021 - when I started).

For reference in terms of policies:
For our SaaS API, I wrote our model deprecation policy (https://docs.cohere.com/docs/deprecations) and had only deprecated our Rerank-v2.0 Models largely because they were stateless

Again - happy for all the engagement. Heard on the things we can improve on!
I'm talking about subtext. The implicit meaning in this article is that women in science were disrespected (in general and in this case). Whether a man was also disrespected is not relevant to that conversation.
One thing that helped me was reading a book on good political discourse. It basically said what the GP said, that good discourse is about exploring the world. It also pointed out that vilification in its many forms is counterproductive. It undermines trust.

One of the examples used was of a party that I did not agree with - that most people didn't agree with. You'd see mainstream politicians declaring them to be bad people.

But the book pointed out that before this party existed, nobody was representing the people who were now voting for it. If you believe in democracy, how can you be disrespectful of representation?

Suppressing my value judgement also later helped me see that when the party got into a coalition and managed to get some of their politics put into law, some of those laws actually did help the rest of us, because they addressed issues that the other parties were not willing to address.
And America can't even export any off it because Trump managed to start a trade war with the rest of the world.

Apparently the US doesn't need allies anymore against China...
How convenient that the information only goes to Amazon, who can choose to do nothing, and isn't allowed to go out to other customers to help them make a purchasing decision.
I also have a network share named “mercury” connected to my Mac, and that last example nearly made me shit myself.
Recent and related:

Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43684536 - April 2025 (1215 comments)

Federal Government's letter to Harvard demanding changes [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43684386 - April 2025 (92 comments)
Hey Serjester
Email me at elliott@cohere.ai, let's arrange time to chat. We did head to head evals with Voyage Large / Voyage Multimodal and I can share them with you if you are serious about moving your embeddings over. We tested configurations of top open-source, closed-source, multi-vector and single-dense embedding models but I can only choose so many to put on a graph and I'm not in the business of giving Voyage free advertising haha.
I agree with you that there is some complexity on multi-modal reranking w.r.t to inference time speeds as well as data transfer / network latency costs.
Happy to talk more :)
Becoming satisfactorily "right" to avoid accusations of left-wing bias means embracing simply made-up stories, as a matter of daily routine. You also have to dial up the culture war stuff and make it far more prominent, not dial it down, while slanting it much farther right-wing. This will usually involve some significant overlap with the "made-up stories" thing.

You also don't get to follow reasonable lines for follow up like, "hey, if all that 'fraud' we covered was real and the evidence was as clear and widespread as you said... now that you're in power, where are the investigations? Where are the indictments?" and repeat for a ton of other similar things where accusations fly with confidence when there are no stakes, but as soon as they're asked to put up or shut up, they... well, they don't even shut up, they keep talking about them, they just never do anything because it's all made-up and can't survive contact with reality.

You know, the kind of thing a responsible right-wing (or any-wing!) source that was taking them seriously and cared about the alleged problem would do. You mustn't do that.
Either CMake or Meson. If you never felt the need to move beyond Makefiles, Bazel is almost certainly too complex.
Line scan cameras operate on this principle, and are still used in various ways to this days. I'm especially partial to the surreal photos generated by them at the end of cycling races

https://finishlynx.com/photo-finish-trentin-sagan-tour-de-fr...
I still remember by my surprise somewhere around age 15 when I learned that other people could tell a dead tree from a live one just be color.
Why borrow other people's comments? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43631092
I really dislike the Wordpress ecosystem and I find Notions popularity baffling as it has been a really terrible experience for me when other people use it and send their Notion documents to me as requirements documents. So, not me?
Hey Luke,
Our model does exceptionally well on text and images, and in particular, when text and images are mixed together.
An example of where this works well would be in E-commerce where you may have a product title, description, and multiple images of the product. When combining that into a single payload using our inputs parameter we find that our model responds really well to adding more images (i.e. retrieval quality moves up as you add 1,2,3....N images).
As you pointed out with Google's multimodal model, most jointly trained multimodal embedding models will suffer in the text modality. Amazon used to have a multimodal embedding model, which also took in a very small text payload.
We're thinking about Audio / Video as well but nothing for Q2 at least....
> "yes I understand you're feeling A, B, C, but we're doing it anyway because X" and "I don't care, stop it, be quiet and do it"

And eventually, if necessary, you may have to break the filibuster: "I hear your concern, and I've tried to explain where I'm coming from with it, but you've rejected my reasoning. We are actually doing the thing though, and I've told you why. Get in the car please, now, or you will be grounded."
Columbia Vows to Reject Any Trump Deal That Erodes Its Independence
Are we talking about training AI models or about people learning? You are conflating those two as if they are the same.
Can you give a different example? I also am of the opinion that I do not care for validation. The problem with the example you gave is that I just wouldn't whine about the ticket because it was my mistake.
The thing is, acceptance at these elite universities is _highly_ correlated with academic performance. It’s just that different racial groups are admitted in different ranges. You won’t find a single Asian at Harvard at or below the median Black SAT score. The range to be accepted as an Asian is also higher than Whites, which is higher than Latinos, which is higher than Blacks. How can you possibly explain this if it’s not a quota system based on race?
North Korea's vast operation to help Russia's war
Might've changed in recent versions of Paint if you're on Win 11. It definitely used to take whatever you had as Color 2 as your background.
Take the cake immediately to your left. Problem solved.