skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I view ANN search for retrieval as clear winner in retrieval methods for domains with very large number of items like O(10 million +) that you want to high amount searches. I've worked at a couple different major tech companies and I'd consider two tower models + ANN as a classic pair. One tower for request embedding called on every request. One tower for item embedding. Compute all item embeddings periodically and build an ANN index. The top dot product of the two with minor constraints can be done by just running request tower and then doing search in the index.

The speed up is really necessity as direct methods are just too expensive both dollar wise and time wise (lowish latency is goal).
"...experience less eye strain than I ever did with a bunch of desk-bound LCDs."

Is this really true? As someone who has never used VR, I assumed that an issue would be higher eye strain.
I've been driving a 2019 Bolt for over a week now. I bought out the final year of the lease from a friend who didn't need the car anymore. Now I wish I had just purchased one.

Battery scandal aside(affecting 13? vehicles so far), I'm really happy with the car. It has a couple small quirks, but so far so good.

Granted, I've only been a passenger in a Tesla, but from what I've seen, GM is already competitive.
It's the ultimate trolley problem. Is murdering a million OK if it saves 50 million?

Stopping the Soviets early on, in the pre-MAD era, might actually have been worth the cost. We'll never know... and that's probably a good thing because we'd unquestionably be the bad guys in that timeline. People arguing on the Internet would accuse each other of being von Neumann instead of Hitler.
A half dozen frenchmen playing pretend revolutionaries an insurrection? Lets play:

So they killed Pierre Laporte, and kidnapped some British bloke.

I raise you:

- The IRA

- ETA

- Just about every political movement in France

- Black panthers

- the white militia movent

Thats without leaving the West. You really want to compare the FLQ to those guys?
I'm not sure that it is reasonable. It doesn't scale up to anything but the most trivial functions. It also does not prove the function is "actually correct", that is a fallacy. If you want that, you have to use formal.

The problem is not this one particular function, it's transferring this methodology to something more complex. A reasonable set of tests that does not aim to prove correctness is quite entitled to assume a reasonable implementation. You wouldn't have to arbitrarily re-run all your test cases with values incremented by 42 just in case someone incorrectly subtracted 42 somewhere, for example.
Not always true [1].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_conquest_of_Algeria
I always wondered if people actually bought movies on Amazon. I guess some people have to pay for the rest of us to enjoy the free stuff.
I just bought a Friendlyarm r4s two port gigabit rk3399 4GB linux SBC for $90 USD. It supposedly has hardware acceleration for networking. Though I see 910 Mbps vs the 950Mbps I was getting with the ATT router. I was able to acquire my EAP-TLS certs and can connect directly to the ONT. I even got ipv6 prefix delegation and wireguard working. Next up is transparent ad blocking a la pihole.

It's a fantastic device if all you need is 2 ports.
> Let's see if some fake woke person who's never been to a Russian Orthodox church will castigate me for being "racist" this time because "Russian Orthodox" contains the word "Russian".

Seems unlikely; you can't be racist against Russians.

https://satwcomic.com/white-on-white-hate-crime
yes, exactly. So that is why it is time to change the incentives / tax structure because there is a real housing crisis gling on for young families. Nearly everyone I know with a nice big house is over 65. And half of them are alone. On a personal level I understand amd sympathise with their choice not to downgrade to a smaller house. On a systemic level this is pretty ridiculous. Land value and property taxes should be raised significantly, whilst income taxws should be lowered. I still need to so more reading on Henry George, but I think this was a key part of Georgism
Amusing response. Kind of like telling a victim of a crime their stolen stuff wasn't worth anything anyways.

After first insisting there was no crime.
The biggest thing shooting Tesla in the foot is plug standard. Eventually, they'll have to adopt CCS in the US and switch over their chargers.

Gas stations aren't iPhone power adapters. You can't sell more cars than GM + Toyota + Ford + Stellantis + Honda + Hyundai + Nissan. And eventually, they're all going to convert most of their lines to electric.

At which point, new charger installs use the standard. At which point, customers start asking whether they'd buy a car with a standard charger, or a Tesla.
It seems like they were trying to boost the message of the government to the citizens. I'm not totally sure that's deploying the military against the citizens in a country that has a democratically elected government. I think the point here is that maybe they had good intentions, but the government didn't ask for the help, so it wasn't really "compatible" with the governments communications policy.
Not even "plausible deniability". They don't even need to ask for these things off the record because the generals are not idiots. They know what their bosses want well enough that nobody need ask. You see this behavior all throughout government.
The next year Mao, with Stalin's support, attacked the allies in Korea.
> as far as I know, ever alleged entrapment.

It's not like the prosecution is going to brag about it, when they simply have the option of not going to trial or make a plea bargain.

> Pretty sure you are just making things up now unless you have a source.

I wish.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_controversies_involvin...

https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1977/11/14/the-gang-that...

> and the fact that the FLQ members negotiated passage to Cuba seems to undermine this weird Castro thing too.

The calls, meetings and official visits were all recorded. There's nothing to undermine.
Being too eager to evaluate everything as survivorship bias is it own form of bias. Scrutinizing any particular instance of success can invalidate it as a survivorship case.

Being extended a unique opportunity during a chance social encounter is luck. Gaining greater access to new opportunities because you intentionally made an effort to develop good relationship with your colleagues and other people in your industry is not luck. It’s not a guarantee of success either, but it’s definitely not luck.
It requires an Oculus account. There are ways to get a new one even now that don't require you to make a Facebook account. If you check the subreddit you'll probably be able to figure it out in about ten minutes. I make a habit of not mentioning exactly how to do it here because I don't trust employees of companies on HN to avoid fixing any user-beneficial problem involving their work.
> TikTok is imho one of the closest approximations of a marketplace of ideas

Given they are fairly aggressive at censoring views that run against progressive perspectives, can they really be a true marketplace of ideas? Topics like the lab leak theory or nuanced views on trans issues will net you a ban a lot sooner than on other platforms.
Yeah! I double-checked that post while writing my comment and noticed the picture was gone, myself. I'm guessing it's because he was using the Facebook CDN.
Ok. What is YOUR threshold for major national security breaches of consistent origin past which we should implement focused control measures to mitigate the risk? And what would your control measures be?
Sorry to hear. Just incase that ever happens you should delete your comment
More recently, the military was deployed against citizens during the Oka Crisis.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oka_Crisis
Whistleblowers that don't get disappeared alongside their families.
Marilyn Strathern
Got it. I personally wouldn't work either if pay was that low.
100% coverage is baseline, not the ceiling.
The iPads feel like... drawing on glass with a plastic pencil. The expressiveness, pressure sensitivity, and tools are all incredible... but it's definitely in the drawing tablet realm of mark making rather than the paper realm of mark making.
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It's really fun when you have to connect wirelessly to the printer because the cord is missing and login via the internet for the HP software to use it, at the same time.

This is different to OPs story.

But for the HP software to not care that it made using the printers wireless mode so hard because of compulsory logins made me hate HP.
I think the moves to start banning the sale of ICE cars post 2030 or 2035 is going to start making a huge difference pretty quickly. There are definitely some compelling models on the horizon already, but now any laggards in the industry have to start moving right now.

It still could take three or four years for EV prices to come down to being generally affordable across the industry, but I’m pretty excited about some of the cars due to release over the next six months or so.
Whats the difference between a regime and a government?

One word for people we like doing a thing, one word for people we don't
it's a philosophical question that you might think is an interesting one to discuss with federal law enforcement, but I've heard not so much.
Sounds like there's a market for a Tesla dongle
These guidelines are great but none mitigate the disruptiveness and other negative impacts of today's hostile web.

It's not like I'm looking away from my monitor every 5 seconds and then completely forget where I am or what I was doing. Understanding the content is also not an issue.

The real problem is the insidiousness of the advertisements themselves.
Yet it's extremely popular to have huge, inefficient test suites running on continuous integration servers hundreds of times a day. It boggles the mind.
I don't totally buy it myself, but there is a case for polar opposite market segment targeting.

Cybertruck is positioning itself as a stainless steel workhorse capable of operating in in adverse conditions with little maintenance. Whether it will live up to Elon's forward looking statements is anyones guess.

While F150 is positioning itself as electric truck for people who buy Ford trucks... which could be reduced to a lifestyle choice.
What does this have to do with my reply above? Genuinely confused.
The Smart People in the USA realized population growth was a Bad Thing Actually™ and got really into saving the environment in the mid-1960s after we ended racism and poverty forever and needed something even more noble to do: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=segregationist...

edit: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED050960.pdf#page=13

"We have all heard about a population problem in the developing nations of Asia, Africa and Latin America, where death rates have dropped rapidly and populations have exploded. Only recently have we recognized that the United States may have population problems of its own. There are differing views. Some say that it is a problem of crisis proportions — that the growth of population is responsible for pollution of our air and water, depletion of our natural resources, and a broad array of social ills."

SUBTLE
Based on this episode of Darknet Diaries: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/93/
It sounds like they buy up dead/dying online properties, fire basically everyone, put the service on life support to keep it barely functioning, milk all the money they can from the remaining users as the service goes to shit, buy something else.
AR has a lot further to go on a fundamental technology level to reach "usable without uncomfortably dim surroundings". VR already works.

E.g. the very best AR stuff you can buy right now is still moderately-bright glowing pixels on top of whatever you're currently looking towards. So if you have too much contrast in the background, or actual light sources, they show right through and ruin much of the visual clarity.

As much as I like AR as a concept, it's much further from "ready". It has all the complexities of VR, plus real-world tracking, plus visual overlay - it'll necessarily trail VR until those latter two are "good enough", and they certainly are not at the moment.
Excludes "non-specific age group deaths" such as gunshot deaths.
related: Flash still hasn't really been replaced...
Shouldn't it be a few hundred dollars to have both?

(not that it's a good outcome, just feasible and not all that expensive)
This argument makes no sense. When people want "other browser engines" on iOS what they mean is "I want Blink so I can write my websites only for Chrome and push the operational burden on browser vendors to maintain compatibility" which isn't exactly innovative.

Apple's browser ban is literally the only thing in the whole world making it so that publishers have to put any effort into cross-browser compatibility and graceful degradation. Having a browser that people have no choice but to make work that doesn't move at the speed of Google's CI pipeline is such a good thing for users of Not Chrome.
Wow, that's 20% of Ford's market cap. They are going hard towards EV. Hope this works out well for them.

How's the quality on their recent models?
Ive is very over-rated. This is about hiring for the name, not the resulting outcome.
Thats a very dishonest history of the rights of Canadians derived as subjects to her Majesty.

And a very dishonest portrayal of the October Crisis, a time when English Canada was shocked that PET would go so far to stop the FLQ.

A journo even asked PET how far he was willing to go to rid Quebec of the FLQ and got the famous answer:
“just watch me”

No, PET knew he was violating the basic principles of Canadian freedom, but didnt care.
> US companies are more independent from the US government than Chinese companies are from the Chinese government.

It's not just a small difference. Facebook doesn't give data over to the US gov, sometimes not even law enforcement requests They do sometimes, but rarely.

Contrast that with data laws in China, there is no need for the state to ask for data, it's already being handed over to them.
They say they will eventually force everyone to Facebook. At least, that's what they said when I got mine back in January.
I think it will make sense to way over produce on renewables such that non-optimal times still produce enough electricity. And then use the excess of the spikes for either storage or energy intensive operations like aluminum smelting or large scale water desalination.
That’s not how IP works. Having access to documents but without the culture and the human capital to implement it is almost useless.

Our problem is that some entities think that speed of innovation is secondary and always takes a back seat to secrecy. That has a stifling effect on innovation, as it’s impossible to be perfectly careful, and the end result is progress stalls… which means China doesn’t steal anything because there’s nothing to steal… so they’ll just innovate stuff themselves and we’ll have nothing. What a victory!
There is a part of me that is disturbed. I like working at my big wooden table overlooking the city, nice natural light filtering in, the ability to detach from the screen and pace around to take a break. VR for work seems like a trap, you'll be consumed, ensnared by something that demands all your attention. You won't know freedom. Maybe this is the current state of headsets, clunky, like a chain with cables, bad tracking and screens. Maybe if it was seamless and I could slip it on as needed, like a pair of sunglasses.

The other part of me is that having a giant whiteboard and endless space seems cool. Imagine if the entire virtual space had powerful programming environments, some more powerful version of Mathematica, I could gesture and run a some powerful. Maybe that would be worth it, but it doesn't seem there yet.
I completely get the sentiment of the article, but if the point is diversifying browsers on iOS the battery life issues seem significant.
Every time you look up something on StackOverflow, refer to the API docs, or refer back to the ticket, use case, or requirements document, make a note of your question and the answer. Even when you just stop typing to take a break, note down where you are and what you just did.

Every time you think you need a TODO comment, make a note instead, or also.

Consider Kent’s Beck’s recommendation to write down every decision you make.

Some other views

https://shannoncrabill.com/blog/taking-notes-as-a-developer/

https://blogs.oracle.com/javamagazine/post/take-notes-as-you...
Interesting. Hadn’t seen it actually. BOW is problematic as a starting point, but this is neat and a long time ago too.
I guess you'd better hope you're never on the wrong side, politically, from a majority of ETH miners.

"This guy who we all hate now owns $100MM in ETH? Now he doesn't."
Amazing how this point is always missed. "The US cannot ban Tiktok!" as if Facebook was ever allowed in the PRC.
High coverage does not necessarily imply test suite effectiveness, nor does it even guarantee that your test suite provides positive value.

But 0% coverage does tell you a lot about your test suite effectiveness.

Also, beware the person too eager to proclaim that high test coverage is not necessarily good!

Last time someone told me this was discussing process maturity during a job interview. I let the team slide with this answer. Found out their coverage was effectively 0 and their process maturity was "break everything until right before each quarterly release" and I was out of there before my first week on the job.
Do we have data on this? I am surprised that "most of the heating is using natural gas" in France.

In France, my parents last 3 houses (i.e. since 1986) have been all 100% electric. The one from 1986 had a gas stove though, but based on gas bottle. Beside that all electric including the oven and washer/dryer.
There's nothing to fix it works great. And it's worked this way at every company I've ever worked at. As hard as it is to find devs who can do frontend and backend you can't find any who are good coders and also know how to generate customer insights and spend hours doing interviews and requirements gathering. They're different jobs. When it comes to actually designing a solution then tradeoffs on implementation approaches are definitely done with the dev team.
This is how Leetcode Feels Like to Me
I think the “Not Withstanding Clause” is the funniest bit of Chretien’s (the real author) constitution.
Honestly I feel like you're being very dishonest about your commitment to providing no support, you've provided all kinds of support already.
To be honest I am surprised its not more popular.

if you work at google and its one of the option to choose from! Is there any reason to "not" choose spanner for new project and instead use something else?
I mostly agree with the article but the first quote is strange :

> If today’s successful academics habitually work late in the laboratory, they’re likely to advocate that the next generation does the same.

If all successful academics work late, then advocating others do the same seems reasonable?
VR gear has improved dramatically, but there are some things you can do to make yourself more comfortable. https://web.archive.org/web/20190813004505/http://elevr.com:... I think the most important piece of advice is to take a break right away when you're feeling bad instead of trying to push through.
Alternative view point: other browsers on ios would actually force apple to compete and make designing for safari not a cluster fuck.

How exactly do you want engineers who don't have an apple computer or phone to test for safari?
VR with pass-through might still win this because it's more practical for work scenarios. Arguably this is still AR, but subtly different than HMDs with transparent displays.
While it is open-source, it doesn't really look self-hostable: https://github.com/outline/outline/issues/1881
Housing in Alaska can’t survive climate change. This group is trying a new model
Now you understand - testing is extremely close to useless. You can't perfectly choose the test cases for code without looking at its implementation. And by that point, you are just testing the implementation and working backwards.

What you want is a specification of the behavior, and to verify that the implementation satisfies the specification. This will be proven in the general case, and then you don't need to think about individual cases.
Why does everything that works need a digital version to make it "modern"? The physical lab notebook solves the problem at hand.

"In late 1987, Robert Malone performed a landmark experiment. He mixed strands of messenger RNA with droplets of fat, to create a kind of molecular stew. Human cells bathed in this genetic gumbo absorbed the mRNA, and began producing proteins from it.

Realizing that this discovery might have far-reaching potential in medicine, Malone, a graduate student at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, later jotted down some notes, which he signed and dated. If cells could create proteins from mRNA delivered into them, he wrote on 11 January 1988, it might be possible to “treat RNA as a drug”. Another member of the Salk lab signed the notes, too, for posterity. Later that year, Malone’s experiments showed that frog embryos absorbed such mRNA. It was the first time anyone had used fatty droplets to ease mRNA’s passage into a living organism."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02483-w
I'll answer even if it's rhetorical, but there are some blockchains (I used to work for one) that allow arbitrary state transitions as long as it's approved by an approved authority.

Now, Ethereum has another way to fix this: forbid transactions that use a gas fee MUCH MUCH larger than the current average one.
That is very true. YouTube's growth was still as explosive as TikTok's given the environment at the time for sure.
It may also mean "I don't want to pay the 30% app store tax, be subject to their review process, purchase an Apple device for development, etc."

Of course, those objections could come from good or bad actors alike.
> Using the color wheel to explain why purple is close to red is circular logic. The color wheel is an abstract human construction that places red near purple arbitrarily. The color wheel does not prove that red is fundamentally close to purple. If you’re stuck on color wheels and the kindergarten explanation, then I understand why my questions aren’t making sense to you, and I’m happy to leave it there.

The specific claim is that either red is close to purple or that all these models are showing things wrong, which is not circular logic.

You were invited to claim the models are wrong if you want. Do you want to?
What do you mean by light software? Are they not just dumb displays?
Maybe some people have multiple accounts, I agree that numbers seems too high
> Remember in 2018 how GM was going to kill Tesla because the Bolt beat the Model 3 to market by like five months?

Umm, no? That sounds like a straw man to me. I have been a Chevy Volt owner for a while now, and I love that car, and I certainly followed the news when the Bolt came along, and I don't remember anyone saying it was a "Tesla killer" (though, it's the Internet, I'm sure someone said that somewhere). I especially don't remember any "non-EV gearheads" (maybe EV gearhead is an oxymoron?) giving 2 shits about the Bolt.

I contrast that with the F-150 Lightning or the Mustang Mach-E, where I have "truck lover" family members who have never cared about EVs putting down deposits for the F-150.

Regardless of whether one chooses to anoint 2022 as "the year of X", it's clear to me that at least the EVs being offered (now or in the near future) by the legacy manufacturers are fundamentally way more compelling than previous options like the Bolt.