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Apple Watch sleep apnea detection gets FDA approval (🔥 Score: 161+ in 2 hours)
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Launch HN: Silurian (YC S24) – Simulate the Earth (🔥 Score: 151+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6eDsH
Hey HN! We’re Jayesh, Cris, and Nikhil, the team behind Silurian (https://silurian.ai). Silurian builds foundation models to simulate the Earth, starting with the weather. Some of our recent hurricane forecasts can be visualized at https://hurricanes2024.silurian.ai/.
What is it worth to know the weather forecast 1 day earlier? That’s not a hypothetical question, traditional forecasting systems have been improving their skill at a rate of 1 day per decade. In other words, today’s 6-day forecast is as accurate as the 5-day forecast ten years ago. No one expects this rate of improvement to hold steady, it has to slow down eventually, right? Well in the last couple years GPUs and modern deep learning have actually sped it up.
Since 2022 there has been a flurry of weather deep learning systems research at companies like NVIDIA, Google DeepMind, Huawei and Microsoft (some of them built by yours truly). These models have little to no built-in physics and learn to forecast purely from data. Astonishingly, this approach, done correctly, produces better forecasts than traditional simulations of the physics of our atmosphere.
Jayesh and Cris came face-to-face with this technology’s potential while they were respectively leading the [ClimaX](https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.10343) and [Aurora](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.13063) projects at Microsoft. The foundation models they built improved on the ECMWF’s forecasts, considered the gold standard in weather prediction, while only using a fraction of the available training data. Our mission at Silurian is to scale these models to their full potential and push them to the limits of physical predictability. Ultimately, we aim to model all infrastructure that is impacted by weather including the energy grid, agriculture, logistics, and defense. Hence: simulate the Earth.
Before we do all that, this summer we’ve built our own foundation model, GFT (Generative Forecasting Transformer), a 1.5B parameter frontier model that simulates global weather up to 14 days ahead at approximately 11km resolution (https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Lcz-silurian-simulate-t...). Despite the scarce amount of extreme weather data in historical records, we have seen that GFT is performing extremely well on predicting 2024 hurricane tracks (https://silurian.ai/posts/001/hurricane_tracks). You can play around with our hurricane forecasts at https://hurricanes2024.silurian.ai. We visualize these using [cambecc/earth] (https://github.com/cambecc/earth), one of our favorite open source weather visualization tools.
We’re excited to be launching here on HN and would love to hear what you think!
Paraguay Loves Mickey, the Cartoon Mouse. Disney Doesn't (Score: 150+ in 19 hours)
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I give you feedback on your blog post draft but you don't send it to me (2021) (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
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Nothing: Simply Do Nothing (Score: 156+ in 13 hours)
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g1: Using Llama-3.1 70B on Groq to create o1-like reasoning chains (Score: 151+ in 9 hours)
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LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat (Score: 151+ in 5 hours)
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Bluesky Reaches 10M Accounts (Score: 150+ in 6 hours)
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Learn Git Branching (Score: 150+ in 13 hours)
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Tell HN: DanBC has died (🔥 Score: 153+ in 2 hours)
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I am sorry to announce that long-time HN contributor DanBC died last month after a prolonged period of ill health. May his legacy continue to inspire, and his contributions to this place and the wider world be remembered. Rest in peace, Dan.
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"Sadly Dan Beale Cocks, the wonderful Co-Chair of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Partnership Board died on 21 August 2024 after a long illness. Dan made a fantastic contribution to improving mental health and
coproduction in Gloucestershire for many years and he will be greatly missed.
Before Dan died, we asked if we could plan an annual Dan Beale Cocks Celebration of Best Practice in
Coproduction and he was delighted with the idea. It is intended to take this forward in collaboration with
the other Partnership Boards."
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Hi-Tech Bifocals Improved My Eyesight but Made Me Look Like a Dork (❄️ Score: 152+ in 3 days)
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USPS' long-awaited new mail truck makes its debut to rave reviews from carriers (❄️ Score: 152+ in 3 days)
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How to Succeed in Mrbeast Production (Leaked PDF) (🔥 Score: 177+ in 1 hour)
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We're not going to run out of new anatomy anytime soon (❄️ Score: 151+ in 3 days)
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Fuck founder mode. Work in "Fuck off mode" (Score: 150+ in 9 hours)
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Oracle, it's time to free JavaScript (🔥 Score: 151+ in 2 hours)
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D&D is Anti-Medieval (Score: 152+ in 1 day)
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The Rise of Open Source Time Series Databases (❄️ Score: 150+ in 2 days)
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The First HTML LSP That Reports Syntax Errors (❄️ Score: 152+ in 4 days)
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Plain Text Accounting (PTA) (Score: 150+ in 9 hours)
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uBlock Origin is no longer available on Chrome web store (🔥 Score: 152+ in 3 hours)
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The disunity of consciousness in everyday experience (❄️ Score: 150+ in 5 days)
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How to Lead Your Team When the House Is on Fire (Score: 152+ in 6 hours)
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Ask HN: Former gifted children with hard lives, how did you turn out? (Score: 152+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6ezmc
For various life reasons, I developed depression, and I am autistic and have ADHD (diagnosed, treated). I didn’t get treatment for my ADHD till after college.
The point of this Ask HN isn’t to start a pity party, but I am just getting some data on how others like me are doing.
I have an ACE score of 6. Currently, I look accomplished to people, but I don’t feel accomplished. My estimated networth is maybe 300K or more with home equity. My biggest concern with my quality of life is I don’t feel safe (don’t ask).
So what’s your ACE score, and how satisfied are you with your life?
ACE quiz: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/03/02/3870079...
Linux dev swatted and handcuffed live during a development video stream (🔥 Score: 150+ in 3 hours)
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Bitcoin puzzle #66 was solved: 6.6 BTC (~$400k) withdrawn (Score: 150+ in 8 hours)
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Open Source security camera on Raspberry Pi (Score: 151+ in 7 hours)
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Factor 0.100 Now Available (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
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Linux 6.11 Released (🔥 Score: 152+ in 2 hours)
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Google Has Officially Killed Cache Links (Score: 153+ in 6 hours)
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