skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That reference/learning page is a great resource!

As for Pinecone itself, what are the main selling points as you see them for a simple application (e.g. comparing trigram-vectorized sets of strings) when compared to a home-rolled solution using postgres with array types? Better performance, ease of indexing, etc.?
The thing that really sucks about optical media is that it has been controlled by the media cartel meaning hollywood instead of tech companies. So were screwed out of a viable digital storage media because of greedy assholes.

I'd buy a BLu-ray drive RIGHT NOW if the media didn't cost $66 for a 5 pack of 100GB discs or $90 for a 50 pack of 50GB. That's more per GB than SSD or spinning rust. If the cost of the discs was 1/10th I'd already own one.
Hi, I totally agree, but I had like 1-2 hours left to implement the similarity check part, so I took a simple image similarity approach. (Also, I only have images for target spells for now, need to create target data with temporal data as well)

Your idea for gesture recognition is interesting, I will look into that in more detail.

PS: I already convert 3D to 2D with filtering so I can apply comparison of 2 2D+time data:

What, I originally had in my mind was to modify and use a similarity metric such as EMD (Earth Mover’s Distance) which I believe would be a great fit for our case.
These are for the times when someone says "I have to deliver some stuff N miles/km across town, why would I use a car?"

N is likely to be single digits, though not necessarily.

It's a somewhat similar rationale for why many big cities have bicycle couriers - it just makes more sense for a bunch of stuff to move it this way.

That doesn't mean that your 100 mile journey is also an obvious candidate for a bicycle (though it also doesn't mean that it isn't).
People say google search is terrible these days, but I find the opposite.

I can vaguely describe in a sentence the gist of an article I've read, or an image, and the proper result will usually be in the first page.

Of course, it doesn't always work, sometimes there are "hash collisions" so to speak, but I don't think the old algorithm would have been more successfully either, since if I knew the exact keywords to use, I wouldn't need to start with a vague description in the first place.
Thank you for finding and sharing these links. [1] seems to be an updated version of the PDF. The original inspiration for EWC seems to be gone from ready.gov, but there's a picture of it in my post. If anyone comes across the person/s who designed it, please give them my sincere regards, its genius.
> Uh yeah let’s equate that to an armed insurrection that killed 3 people

The only person that was killed during the capitol riot was one of the rioters shot by capitol security. Justified, to be clear, but it wasn't violence perpetrated by the rioters. Brian Sicknick died of natural causes [1][2][3].

1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/brian-sic...

2. https://www.npr.org/2021/04/19/988876722/capitol-police-offi...

3. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56810371
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Sicilian Defence (1. e4 c5) and how to develop it further by using different variations. It is easy to learn, it has hundreds of years of history and it is very popular in grandmaster tournaments.
On the ESA web page… 4 likes. Come on, world! We can do better than that.
That doesn't mean they can't sing. It means their songwriter's not that good.
SSC has an interesting post about this and similar things: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/03/17/what-universal-human-e...

If you lacked some common internal mental experience, would you know? This guy didn't. In the SSC piece, there's someone who didn't realize he lacked a sense of smell until high school.

I also came across recent tweets about "hey, some people have some not-under-their-control voice in their head, how bizarre" and others were like "that's a conscious". It never occurred to me that the idea of a third-party voice as your conscious was a real thing in "normal" minds, not a metaphor for their sense of right and wrong. Make me wonder about how sometimes media will portray an angel and devil on your shoulders urging you to do right or wrong. (No one hallucinates those, do they? I've always just assumed it's a metaphor, but so did the "no sense of smell" guy!)
That’s a hard sell. The personal utility one gets from a car is enormous and life changing. The contribution to the climate problem from one car is minuscule (but real).

A better approach might be to add a tax to carbon-based fuels that is used to fund carbon capture.
Viruses evolve to be more fit. Presumably, a mild version and more contagious version may even have evolved in one of the billions that were infected these years, but it didn't spread much because of self-isolation and restrictions. A variand that s more debilitating would be less likely to transmit.
You might be thinking of the Arctic Ocean. As far as I know, the Arctic is the area enclosed by the northern polar circle. It includes land, and some of your favorite countries are partly inside the polar circle
Keras is great for easy problems. But as soon as you want to color outside the lines its opinionated simple model just gets in the way. Every time I've tried to use keras for real work, it was a total pain in the butt. Do your homework in keras. Use something else for real work.
One is forced, the other is chosen.

For the most part global citizens choose to watch Netflix and Disney and listen to Lil Wayne.

Different story with internment camps.

Put another way, Americans listen to K-pop and watch Parasite because it’s good and they want to.
My consulting rate for just talking about areas of business is $400/hr. I live in SF so I’m maybe seeing a little less than half that post tax, which is why the offer may seem so out of touch.

It’s a pretty straightforward conversation. I just say what I’m willing to do. If it doesn’t work out, it’s okay. But that’s harder for enthusiasts.

I think part of this is that enthusiasts also want to help out and they’re usually unfamiliar with consulting style gigs. When both parties want to play and they’re both willing to discount/pay premium but bid and ask don’t cross even with the handicap, then this sort of thing tends to happen.

That’s why the value judgment comes in. They both want to play.
with all the billions being spent on fully self driving cars why doesn't a company build a fake indoor town where it can simulate various driving conditions, weather, lighting etc and put fake pedestrian everywhere and then have the AI be able to learn in an environment simultaneously more challenging (since you can throw all kinds of shit at it) and forgiving (since mistakes while training aren't hurting people).
The people in Omaha would probably be more likely to understand the role of religion in people's lives than the NYT exec editor, after all.
All of these cases are complicated.

Taking just Cambodia - the Khmer Rouge regime was of course supported by China with massive resources. However, the US has also killed tens of thousands of Cmabodians directly in bombing campaigns during the Vietnam War, between 30,000 and 150,000 (likely committing the war crime of Aggression, as they were not in a state of war with Cambodia); this helped galvanize the population towards joining the enemies of the US, helping the Khmer Rouge attain power.

Later on, in 1979 when the re-united Vietnam attacked the Khmer Rouge, both the US and China condemned the actions of the Vietnam liberators, and helped defend the Khmer Rouge from international opinion (since Vietnam was being supported in this by the USSR). The US sent lawyers to defend Pol Pot himself from the tribunals in the newly liberated Cambodia, and both China and the US helped keep Khmer Rouge affiliates on the UN seat for Cambodia until 1993. Of course, China went further and launched a retaliatory war against Vietnam for their liberation of Cambodia.

You also seem to be greatly minimizing the US involvement in many of these places. The US occupied Nicaragua for 20 years, installed a military dictatorship that ruled it for 50 years, and then trained, armed and directed guerillas that killed and tortured hundreds of thousands of civilians to try to stop the revolution that took down the Somoza dictatorship. Much of the rest of South America saw similar treatment from the US: coups taking down socialist popular movements and installing military dictatorships instead, then supporting violent militias if counter-revolutions started.

In the middle east, while many of the problems started with the British handling of the collapse of the Ottoman empire, and the USSR also led brutal wars of oppression, the US has picked up the torch in the last 30 or so years as the major source of strife in the region. They are responsible for:

- arming and training the Taliban

- installing Saddam Hussein in power, arming him, and directing him to attack Iran, even accepting his use of chemical warfare

- squashing Iran's brief democracy under Mossadegh, installing a military dictatorship under the Shah, starting the Iran Nuclear Weapons program, arming them (and then losing control to the islamic revolution)

- funding and arming Saudi Arabia and allowing it to spread its demented form of islamic fundamentalism, supporting even as we speak their invasion of Yemen

- supporting the Israeli apartheid state, illegal nuclear weapons arsenal, and illegal occupation of Palestinian territories

- invading Afghanistan in 2001 and killing thousands in the process, causing the deaths of as many as 100,000 civilians overall in the conflict
I've spent more energy forming strong relationships with my extended family. I've learned to work outside of work, and am picking up new skills. I don't want to be rudderless if things become turbulent.

It won't be a super catastrophe in my lifetime, but the economic repercussions could case me to be jobless someday, and our lifestyles may change significantly in the next 40 years.
If you're serious about finding real cultural value, you should do the exact opposite of what you just proposed.
Great! Now waiting for HDR and high bit depth.

AFAIK there’s no easy way to display WCG HDR graphics programmatically from a PC, even if most TVs now support it.
I wonder if there is comparative research on the mutations of SarsCov2 compared to other betacoronaviruses. Is it mutating similarly, or do the vaccines /self-isolation and distancing cause a different mutation pattern
I took that to mean something more like "in cases where we already exhaust waste heat, you could reclaim some of that energy". That does seem doable, my refrigerator is a little heat pump in reverse, why not stick a Peltier on the coils on the back and charge a battery to run LEDs to light the inside?
The study is not and has not passed peer review.
Pathogens can benefit from evolving in ways that allow them to spread more easily, and sometimes that means not killing your host too soon. But transmissibility with COVID is highest before symptom onset, so death of the host never comes into play.
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Storage is free. RAM isn't.

And even if it were, the size of an application in relation to its purpose is a relevant metric.
> It is the only endgame. The covid virus is not going away. Even if everyone on the planet suddenly got vaccinated simultaneously, the virus has an animal reservoir.

You know that Smallpox was in cows (aka: Cowpox), right? We still wiped it out.

Smallpox, Measles, Polio. We've wiped out diseases before, and we can do it again if we so try. I'm frankly more flabbergasted that people don't even know the history of diseases and are so pessimistic about this subject...
As I understand it, the hardware they’re using isn’t up to the task and it would be prohibitively expensive. The complexity is also greater but perhaps that isn’t insurmountable.
I like the economist, for keeping up with the latest news especially the brief updates on the first 2-4 pages.
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My main impediment for using anything like that is that my handwriting is incomprehensible to anyone except me. Like, my wife takes some time to figure out what it's written there, and sometimes - after long enough time passes - even myself
>There's very little in the way of savings because most parts are custom fabricated. The parts need to be tested, integrated, then tested after integration.

To piggy back on the the GP's point, the fabrication research is only one small cost center. Quality control costs much more in aerospace than many people realize. The reason why a bolt may cost $150 is because it has to be tracked, material coupons kept/tracked/tested, held in bonded storage etc. and not because we had to figure out how to make a bolt. Those costs don't come down as much with scale as, say, raw material.

If it were all about knowledge costs, many designs today would be dramatically cheaper because many use technology (and even refurbished rockets) from 50 years ago.
I didn't realize I was lactose intolerant until adulthood. I honestly never knew having to violently crap within minutes of eating most meals was abnormal since I'd been doing it my entire life and not really paying attention to whether anyone else was.
Without context it is a pointless statistic. The US was involved on the just side of the two largest wars in modern history. That's where the overwhelming majority of its foreign killings comes from. And while regrettable, they were lawful and necessary. You can't call someone a murderer for defending themselves from attack.
I think it’s interesting to note Christmas itself didn’t used to be “that big a deal” - the major holiday of the year was Easter.
I would suggest watching this video from Not Just Bikes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aESqrP3hfi8
It's like this for me, too. I have collections of visual facts but they don't cohere into a single visual experience, really
FSD isn't even close to human capability yet so its a moot point. When FSD is as good as a human driver we can then think about quantifying how seriously to take its occasional malfunctions / mistakes.
So far, the "China Initiative" cases have not gone well for the government, though they have still done a lot of damage to innocent people who were targeted.[0]

It's also clear that ethnically Chinese people have been specifically targeted.

Anming Hu is a Canadian citizen born in China, who was a professor at the University of Tennessee. The FBI got him fired before he even went to trial by telling the University he was a spy. In the end, all the FBI actually had on him was that he hadn't reported a small speaking fee on an official form. It wasn't even obvious if reporting the fee was necessary. The whole thing turned out to be a racially motivated fishing expedition by some local FBI agent, and Hu was acquitted. But the FBI majorly screwed up his life and career and smeared him in public first.

A lot of the cases have turned out to be like this. See Gang Chen's case at MIT. That one is almost Kafkaesque, when you read the charges and then read the background.

0. https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-09-16/why-trump-...
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Well...I see "keep the Earth at least (say) 80% as habitable as it currently is" as an "absolute must-do" engineering requirement. Praising progress already made, proclaiming faith in humanity's potential to unify toward that goal, etc. - those are social niceties & tactics. Extremely useful in advancing one's own social status within certain segments of the population. Not so useful in actually meeting the must-do requirement.

Certainly my own experience with big, tough "must-do" projects is that there's damned little overlap between the folks who jump up to do 95% of the posturing and talking, and the folks who show up and do 95% of that actual hard work needed to succeed. And that second crowd has fairly underwhelming respect for most of the first crowd.
> listing in detail the cost of every single service it has used, from bandwidth in India ($0.01 per request to its website)

what does this mean

requests != bandwidth. are they paying a penny per request?! that's a lot. or is their website several gigabytes? or are indian CDNs expensive?

highly suspicious of economic news service that doesn't understand the numbers it prints
A corner case, for computer security, but I subscribe via email to the Debian security advisories, because even though that is not my primary system any more, it is one of the convenient/low impact ways to know what I need to be aware of, wherever.

Also blogs of Bruce Schneier and Brian Krebs. I don't always read everything, but I do read some, and even just the titles are interesting.

And I echo what others have said about RSS feeds in general.
> Plus you can add and filter by metadata, like card type and properties.

I read through your docs and figure that will be part of the approach.

An idea I had was to find similar, or "next best", cards for replacement in popular decks or to achieve similar effects in order to bring down the cost of EDH, Modern, etc. formats. I'm just getting back into the hobby again, so having a tool like this would make my wife and wallet happy :)
It's almost inevitable that when something says "for the modern age" it means "built with electron or some other web tech". What would actually be a terminal for the modern age is a native tabbing UI etc wrapped around Alacritty.
The overton window of "acceptable program size" has shifted so many times as technology advances, surely you can recognize that your own personal attachments to a given SI suffix are irrelevant?

Our ancestors would argue that a 1MB application was bloated. Our children will complain about 1000GB bundles.

The programs, of course, do vastly different things as the realm of what is possible with technology inexorably advances.

Comparing a complete bundle for an advanced graphical application framework with a TUI application is apples to oranges, and the curmudgeons who are shaking their collective canes at the kids on their lawn are actually technically competent and can recognize this if they choose.

There are legitimate technical criticisms to doing things with JS and Electron and whatnot; but "the bundle is hundreds of megabytes" isn't that.
Just because the knowledge exists in the world doesn’t mean that you know it. Consolidating knowledge is a non-trivial exercise.
That's a good point that I didn't articulate and understanding of in my comment. I guess I meant more so that if the price gets higher and remains high, then its holders will not or are not selling, and I wonder if how long this illiquidity could sustain the price of bitcoin.
Will probably be available as Postgres extension at some point. Seems like only special indexing of vectors is needed
Google's OCR (as found in Lens, Docs and whatever) is insanely good. At least that was my impression based on my own notes (my writing is horrible and I often add very small side notes).

Oh yeah, camera quality makes a big difference.
You can edit the title of your post, or if it's been too long for editing to be an option, email hn@ycombinator.com to ask dang to do it for you. I had a similar reaction to others. Ask HN posts are supposed to just be a question, not a link to a site.
> China has clear ambitions to be the world's superpower

>> That is not clear to me. @worik

>>> The “dispute” regarding the construction of 11 Chinese buildings on the Nepali side of the territory in Humla came to the fore after Indian newspapers reported Chinese encroachment in June 2020...

>>> The most recent skirmish - on 20 January - left troops on both sides injured. It took place along the border in India's Sikkim state, which is sandwiched between Bhutan and Nepal. The year 2020 was particularly violent. The June clash in the Galwan Valley - fought with sticks and clubs, not guns - was the first fatal confrontation between the two sides since 1975. India acknowledged its deaths. China did not comment on reports it also suffered fatalities.

>>> Malaysia has said it has summoned China’s ambassador to protest against the “presence and activities” of Chinese vessels in Kuala Lumpur’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the South China Sea off the island of Borneo. Chinese vessels, including a survey boat, were operating off the coasts of the Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak in contravention of 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement late on Monday.

>>> China's growing economic footprint in Ukraine may already be producing geopolitical consequences that put the country at odds with core European priorities. Zelensky decided earlier this year to withdraw Ukraine's condemnation of Chinese government crimes against the Uighurs of Xinjiang, in what bore all the hallmarks of a quid pro quo to ensure deliveries of Chinese Covid-19 vaccines.

... these are just tidbits of the overall overarching theme of China dominating everyone everywhere in everything. These and other incidents seem to put the lie to the phrase: 'That is not clear to me.'

Either you're the least informed citizen in your country, you don't /ever/ read news, or you're outright lying. None of those are good options.

In any case, just the tiniest bit of searching would reveal China's hostile intent world-wide. To state otherwise is to be willfully ignorant.
You could make the same argument for the common Flu.
Yes, but I can't think of any language where, given Optional<Foo> x and y, x.equals(y) would return null instead of either true, false, or an exception if y is null.

That's what makes SQL null-values distinct - the fact that expressions that return booleans can return NULLs.
Diffusion is definitely not sufficient--natural convection is usually sufficient to do this on earth, but gravity is a requirement for most natural air convection.
Interestingly, a surprisingly large percentage of a spacecraft's power draw is spent just on air circulation (other conditioning adds as well).
Note: GP edited up to 100km, then 100mile.

I do trips in that range for weekends and holidays. Kid loves sitting up front and 70-90km is definitely an achievable distance - about 5 hours of riding time.
> The people in Omaha would probably be more likely to understand the role of religion in people's lives

If by “people’s lives” you mean specifics “the lives of people in Omaha”, plausibly.

Otherwise, no, not really.
Not sure why you are getting down voted. What you said is absolutely the case. I wear a mask when I am asked or there is a mandate, but I find it annoying at the very least.
That doesn't make sense. I appreciate the amenities I have, I know I believe quite clearly what a good life is like (with some limitations of course), and there is a somewhat clear path to improving or maintaining our lives and existences.

To throw it all away and "hope for the best" is foolish to say the least. If your life is good or tolerable, if you appreciate the wealth of knowledge and culture etc. it's because its been a long path to where we are. If you stop caring and stop trying, you're simply degenerating to a state where life is much harder, less cultured, with probably less creativity, entertainment, and so on. Cases of people genuinely preferring to live an isolated life in the jungle are extremely rare I believe. When I start romanticizing the Wild Life, I remember my grandmother that had a very difficult childhood, working all day in coffee plantations. She didn't learn how to read until later in life because feeding her family was the priority. She later, for the most part, resented farms and greatly appreciated the urban life -- she could still take care of a plant or two in her backyard. It's very easy to sit on top of civilization with disdain. I think it's our responsibility not only to maintain it, but to make the future amazing, as much as our imagination allows.

(Here is my personal contribution: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29547638)
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