skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How do you represent 1/10 exactly in binary fixed-point representation?

The base of your number system does not need to be the same as the base associated with the fixed point position.

Easiest to explain: if you have a uint64 that represents a monetary value, you can let it express the number of dollarcents instead of dollars. Then you can express 1/10 dollar as 10 dollarcents.
Like what, for example? People always mention cameras but most of them are in private hands and if you ever want to check them as you had your bike stolen, you'll quickly notice that none of them work anyway =='

I do tend to agree with you, but adsurd it a little hyperbolic.
You want multiple NS records containing hostnames of nameservers from two or more providers on independent infrastructure (i.e. not two providers that are both hosted on, for example, AWS' compute).

I would advise against running your own nameserver unless you have confidence in your ability to operate it correctly.

You can increase the TTLs if you don't anticipate record data changing frequently, or are able to tolerate delays in your DNS record changes being served (until the cached answers expire).

Choice of resolver (e.g. 1.1.1.1, 8.8.4.4) is out of your control (except of course, on your own devices and machines). Increasing the TTLs may improve robustness, assuming that your clients' resolvers are well-behaved and respect TTLs [0].

[0] https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/dns-client-ttl.html
> Meanwhile the company was focusing on DEI vs skill, and thoughtfulness over delivery

That has nothing to do with any of this. Google's doom was due to their total lack of empathy for their end users and customers. They launched stuff, then when those things did not immediately produce gigantic profits like the search ads, they just shut them down on the users' face. One can do it once, twice, the third time people wont even bother to use that company's products. Such is the case with Google.

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/dear-google-cloud-your-deprec...

The level of distrust in public can be gauged from how the executives of Gcloud are trying to win customer trust by giving all sort of guarantees. And yet failing to do so.
Why are you changing the topic? We were talking about features, not outages.
David Sacks, not Chamath.
I had this exact experience at past companies. Company was locked into Jira, everyone hated it but had to use it. Switching to something else would have been a 2 year+ project... so not going to happen.

That's why a colleague of mine and I decided to build https://www.hurdle.dev/.

Syncs to a Jira project, so other stakeholders can continue looking at everything there, but the devs can work in a faster, less cluttered, more focused workspace.

Would be happy to show a demo if you'd like!
Julia has agents.jl* with which you can do fun stuff like this: https://juliadynamics.github.io/AgentsExampleZoo.jl/dev/exam...

* https://github.com/JuliaDynamics/Agents.jl

Might be interesting.
I found fun again in two easy steps:

(1) Unlearn the "large team workflow mindset" and embrace the "single developer mindset" again. You don't need a plan, a Kanban board or a bug database, just an idea in your head. Get rid of "big languages" which are good for team work, but just a hinderance when working alone. In my case this meant: dropping C++ and embracing C (today that would be: Zig). Focus on getting shit done like when you started out with programming instead of agonising over design decisions. It's better to throw away something that doesn't work than wasting too much time upfront with planning (and then it still won't work). At least you still learned something valuable. Try to do the 'planning' part passively in the back of your head out in nature while taking a walk or some other outdoor activity.

(2) Pick a challenging problem where you have no idea yet how it works, but which you would like to know. In my case this was "home computer emulators".

...well 3 steps, step 3 would be: don't set yourself any deadlines for this sort of "fun stuff".
That would be on brand.
r/confidentlyincorrect
I know all the excitement is around air source pumps, but I'd love to see ground source get cheaper to install. It's nearly impervious to weather conditions. If you live some place that actually gets cold enough to stymie an air pump, then maybe investing in ground source is worth it.
Any searches that aren't looking for an immediate answer. When I'm searching, I don't want the search engine to find an answer for me. I want the search engine to provide me with a list of websites that touch on the topic I'm looking for, so I can get a "big picture" of what's out there, review them, and put together the information I'm looking for from the mosaic that I have been presented.

I don't want the search engine narrow my view to a tiny selection of websites or, worse, try to summarize the contents of the websites. That's not useful to me in terms of what I use search engines for.

Stateful search is really only useful for narrowing things down. That's not what I want the machine to do except in terms of paying attention to the keywords I want (and the keywords I actively don't want).

I totally understand there are use cases where what I actively don't want may be exactly what is desired. That's just not my use case. That's why I'm not saying there shouldn't be such search engines. I'm just saying that I hope my use case will also be possible, or web searching loses a whole lot of usefulness to me.
Religion is the Trump card in those countries
There's a subtle but important distinction between "a browser misbehaves and incorrectly renders my compliant site, and I refuse to make my site wrong to satisfy it" and "a browser doesn't render my malformed site the way I want it to and I refuse to fix it because other browser (incorrectly) renders my site how I want".
Energy is energy. Regardless of what the source is, or how long the source runs, etc etc the amount of energy needed to heat the home is constant. So what matters when comparing options is the cost of a unit of heat energy ($/kwh).

OP showed the cost of heat energy from gas to be $0.009/kWh . No heat pump can produce a kwh of heat for less than $0.009. Even a magical heatpump that is 400% efficient will need electricity costs to be 3.5 cents or less per kwh to be cheaper to run.
Does Mozilla still work on modern browsers anymore? Or do they just update the ui of their aging one and write long winded papers with fancy stats about how many average users know how to install chrome.
Glad to know that's what it's called! For avoidance of any doubt I'm not trying to claim I 'discovered' any of this - just wanted to share some useful learnings :D
Maybe it's context dependent? Some specific lingo for a field of research. More (culture)anthropological, symbolic, than our common use for a medication.

However, I've read that three times and didn't get it.

But interesting nonetheless, the rest of it, I mean.
Pico8
Of course not. But these are long term concerns that are very real. Too much convenience can very easily take away the frictions that allow a governing authority to act. These are uninintended consequences involved in displacing a legacy system.
>Seems like scalable systems tend to fail with this problem.

Yes, and the solution is curation, but nobody wants to hear that because it likely means paying people to curate vs. coding an algorithm that makes a founder rich.
It is unfortunate that the design encourages new posts on existing topics, compared to forums where bumping brings a state topic to fresh.

Maybe the answer is for each link or topic or submission to have multiple comment pages, and make it significantly more likely for people to find themselves back in old conversations. The way reddit locks discussion after a time frame makes this all but impossible though.
Blackberry Storm was released in November 2008, which is a year after the iPhone, not 2 years. The first Android phone came out just a month before in October. I was in NYC for job interviews then I saw billboards for both everywhere.
Ah yes, this model treats this purely as image captioning. The model isn't open source yet.
They are less common but available, I have just recently been looking at options that will do combined hydronic heat and hot water for the taps. The hardware isn't too expensive but the labor for that kind of install can be a lot (highest number I got estimated was $60k).
I do a better job of disambiguating than Google can do, especially if Google is paying attention to my internet or search history to do it.

If I'm searching for something, it's very likely to be something a bit unusual for me to search for. If it's in line with what I need regularly, I don't search -- I go to my bookmark library.
How is this when TOR is used. The traffic still can be recorded, but wouldn't make any sense, right?

What about VPN use? If some wants to round the possibility of prosecution for DCMA related to zero, usually a VPN provider in a country that hasn't ratified DCMA is used. But that would mean, all the traffic will be recorded, right? So, by-pass data (= not DCMA) will be recorded too?

That thing called Internet may be the biggest-ever-in-all-time invention for humanity, but it's also the mightiest tool to slowly destroy the world.
We need internet law and internet courts, so the whole surveillance could be prosecuted, no matter if it's RF with it's surveillance program, or US ( thx Snowden!)or Europe (who want to crack up encryption so the whatsapps and other messengers can be subject to surveillance) or all the other countries.

It's not about doing illegal things and get cought, it's just about free speech, free and uninfluenced building of opinions and knowledge - and just about "private speech".

The Russian program is the status quo among the other players. No one wants to stick to democratic law & order.
> Part of why I find the whole typesense comparison page disingenuous is that you're making the ability to swap to disk sound like an anti-feature.

Didn’t intend it that way. In fact, we recommend that users configure swap space even in Typesense as a safety mechanism.

May I know which part of the comparison table makes it sound like that?

The one under Index location says: “Disk with Memory Mapped files” for Meilisearch, which I updated based on the Meilisearch team’s feedback…

Edit: To your first point, I meant to link to the parent comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34708352

I’ve also seen similar RAM recommendations from the Meilisearch team on GitHub to other users reporting similar performance issues.
The medium article you posted does analysis on OpenAI's old embeddings. OpenAI has a single new embedding model [0] that replaces all the old models and it's also super cheap ($0.0004 / 1K tokens).

0. https://openai.com/blog/new-and-improved-embedding-model/
Blatantly.
How do you even do that? I make an effort when I have a choice but so often it seems like there is no other choice.
Google’s dominance is because of network effects; the largest search engine collects more data about what people are searching for and has the largest ad inventory, making it hard to compete with.

ChatGPT has similar network effects with feedback. If Google is displaced, it will likely be in favor of another single dominant solution, not a commoditized industry with lots of players.

It’s possible that niche domains like medical advice or creative writing assistance will spawn small, highly-optimized companies, but general purpose AI responders will probably coalesce into whatever the next Google is, if it’s not just Google.
The present border is more like 80 year old, it was adjusted by the USSR (favouring Russia) after the Baltics were annexed in 1940.

However, it generally follows the pre-1917 borders of the Governorates of Estland and Livonia.
Yeah they launched around 2021. But the project seems to have gone a bit quiet - https://www.heimdalccu.com/press
> IMHO if you want to collect any information, it should never be anything but opt-in, a conscious decision.

Serious (general) question: How do you do that given a non-technical user population? Debian’s opt-in popcon kind of manages to get a little bit of data from a fairly technical one, but nowhere near enough to estimate a low usage frequency, and it’s the only opt-in program I’m aware of that gets anything usable at all. Given that I’m unwilling to implement an opt-out system, I don’t really see a workable approach here at all.
Relativity of superluminal observers in 1 + 3 spacetime
Perplexity https://www.perplexity.ai/ does it well in my opinion.

It builds a paragraph answering your query but it has a lot of footnotes that link directly to websites.

Ex:

"geopolitical reason for palm oil being banned and why it's bad for health"

The EU has banned palm oil in biofuels due to its negative impacts on health[1] and its geopolitical implications, such as favoring alternative crops grown in Europe[2]. Palm plantations are also a major factor of deforestation[3], leading to the loss of habitat for endangered species[4]. Indonesia's President Joko Widodo recently announced a ban on the export of palm oil, which could backfire due to its importance in the global market[5].

1nih.gov 2weforum.org 3theconversation.com
4triplepundit.com 5carnegieendowment.org
You can't be serious. "Don't use std::vector" is the modern C++ recommendation now?

If it is, it should throw a warning that it's deprecated and have a replacement for it.
> they control them with CIA agents [1*], so it is easier for them to do profiling rather than blocking it

I don't understand what you're suggesting CIA agents are controlling. What is "them" in "they control them"?

The article you link to involves surveillance (rather than control) by the FBI (rather than CIA).
I'd be very interested in this, but it seems hard to determine the extent to which a product was manufactured in China. Do you have any resources that help with this?
Clojure is my favorite language that I've never used in production. It truly is a joy to use. I just get nervous when thinking about building a real application in it because of: lack of static typing and my temptation to be clever when writing it (this is inversely correlated with long-term maintenance).

But I'd agree that if you want to find joy in programming again, Clojure might do that for you. It's a lot of fun.
I'd suggest you try on 10k examples or more (variety is key ofc) and see how you get on!
> Seems similar enough to me.

That's a bad criteria if you don't know exactly what you are talking about.
That's up to you. Many don't want to open an account and pay in order to explore what's possible. There are LLMs available on the HF Hub, such as google/flan-t5-xl.
Also https://floating-point-gui.de/
This is great!

There was a post on /r/softwaregore recently where someone showed a progress bar on Steam that said "57/100 achievements! Game 56% complete" or something like that. I snarkily commented something about naively using floor() on floating point and then moved on.

But then I thought that that may not have been the problem, fired up emacs and wrote a C program basically just saying

printf("%f\n", 57.0 / 100.0 * 100.0);

To my surprise this correctly gave 57.000000, but in python,

57 / 100 * 100

Gave 56.999... anybody know what was up here? Different algorithms for printing fp?
Pure n=1 anecdata. Last winter I was on vacation and saw via Nest app that my boiler died. We have a heat pump that 99% of the time is used for AC, and sometimes for supplemental heat. We only have them in the main rooms, so things like bathrooms and such receive no benefit from them. The unit outside is a Mitsubishi Hyperheat. I logged in and turned the units on just to keep the house from freezing.

BUT during that trip a giant blizzard struck the area. I forget the air temps and they definitely weren't double digit negative but it was quite cold with high winds and a lot of snow to boot. They held the house together well enough in our absence.
We are in southern NH and have a single LG LMU480HHV for our house. Our house was built in 1973 and is ~1600 sq ft. The heat pump kept the house right at 64-65F when set to 66F through the night even when we hit -15F. Now I have backup heat strips but due to some config issue they are not currently working so that was all heat pump.
My opinion is the same as yours, plus recently I've installed some Flash games becasue I'm nostalgic, one way to do it and play games in deck mode is this link [1], but you can also just run "flashplayer.exe --some-options game.swf" with Proton and it'll work too. I love good flash games like Sonny 2 and I know Flash has security issues and had to be killed, but I'll never let it go, I'll always have to run it somewhere for retrogaming.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/ytgisk/guide_fla...
How is the startup time?

Would be nice if you could check a query and then start the instance with an appropriate memory configuration.
Yes I'm curious to sign up but don't have an Etsy store either. Are you looking to build a more of a competitive intel product for existing Etsy store owners or something more for end users of Etsy like a weekly curation email newsletter?
so you say there is no benefit for me to switch from qbit to transmission for ocassional torrent download? I seed only during download or very shortly after and at max I download 10-15 torrents
Training is not the issue. Each company already has a trained model that is useful for a wide range of tasks. Inference is the problem. Nobody has the infrastructure to run these models at scale. Until they do, they have to pick and choose the most valuable places to deploy them.
When it comes down to it, it is the distros (including Android) that decide which kernel versions they are going to use and for how long. Upstream doesn't always know this in advance, and only have limited influence in nudging distros to use certain kernels, since the big distros do their own patching and backporting anyway. There is no point for upstream to continue to support a kernel for 10 years if no one is actually using it 3 years later. So instead they give an initial support window, and extend it if the kernel becomes popular and no serious maintenance issues are discovered.
I'm ready to buy more puts soon. I don't think the true cost of this mistake will sink in with investors until later this year, though.

I've been pretty good at eventual sentiment prediction, but never been great at timing it.
I am, honestly, really upset at this. I understand there was no guarantee that it would be up for any length of time, but it was a really convenient solution to a problem we had. I guess we have to find a different place for our passwords database that can be accessed over unauthenticated HTTP, but still very easily updated/accessed from any of our computers (without requiring manual uploads/transfers like with FTP).

-Emily
Are there any performance tests for a Steam Deck plugged into a hi res external monitor?
Do you think it will actually harm Erdogan's support though, anger over blocking twitter?
Since it's Node.js and 2023 out there, it would nice to publish performance testing results for a single EC2/VPS instance.
> Except we don't force countries to enter commonwealth,

They don't force anyone

> Putin is scared of old soviet union nations joining Europe

I don't think Russia is scared

They are worried Europe became an american military base with long range weaponry

https://www.thesoldiersproject.org/how-many-us-military-base...

> They're free to do so.

Nobody said the opposite
Further the users were really only paid if they put Google's ads up on their website to further monetize it or if they had a paywall which meant that their information was much less likely to show up in Google. So Google has only for a short time really paid people back when ads were actually relatively lucrative. Or if you were essentially selling something you could instantly monetize through that sale that Google pointed people too but for people just producing content it's never been that great of a way to reward them for them aggregating their information and selling it to other people.
Agreed. A better question- how can we build a government which we can trust with unprecedented levels of centralized information?

The centralization of information is going to happen one way or another (the powers that be wouldn't have it any other way), and we've already been on this trajectory. So how can we build a system that actually respects privacy and upholds the common good?
Build Local Multiplayer Experiences with Shared Spatial Anchors on Meta Quest
Satya Nadella talking about taking on Google search with ChatGPT Verge Interview
If all of your records are traditional static records, DNS redundancy is pretty simple. DNS includes AXFR for secondary servers to pull the zone data from the primary. You can set up your own primary and use commercial services as secondary, or use one service as primary and another as secondary, etc. If the primary is ddosed, you might not be able to make updates if the secondaries can't connect for axfr, but often that happens on different ips than the public service ips, so there's a chance it still works.

But, it gets a lot trickier if you use any sort of DNS based load balancing or other trickery. Then you've got to set up both services as close to the same as you can and cross your fingers; there's tools out there for that, I think terraform can do it, but there's more focused tools as well. This is a good practice, but it's hard, so it's usually not done.

Top tier DNS services rarely get (succesfully) DDoSed or have other service outages, but it does happen.
It’s hard to argue that pg isn’t one of the most influential tech writers of all time. YC’s original batches came largely from people who read his essays and joined YC.

I’d agree with you that his writing doesn’t have much personality; it’s designed not to have any. But you’re saying that you can get “quite far” by going in the other direction. By what metric? You can go quite far by jumping off a cliff, at least till you hit the ground.
Check out https://max0x7ba.github.io/atomic_queue/html/benchmarks.html I'd be interested to see how the benchmarks there compare on your hardware - queues can be very performant
I think what you're describing is basically dependent types [0], where types can depend on values.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependent_type
Given the amount of investment and progress made so far, I suspect it will pass by the end of the decade. That doesn't mean we would have a sentient AI or AGI. If we did, that would be a truly revolutionary moment. Like the discovery of fire or the wheel.
There is a very big catch---many if not most mathematical functions won't be exact anyway, so you have to round at some decimal places. Python does this with its `decimal` module: the number of fractional digits is literally a part of the global state [1]. While this allows for more concrete control over rounding, assuming that there was no such control, it turns out that the choice of radixes doesn't matter that much.

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/decimal.html#context-objec...
I agree with funding cuts to the CCP, but there's an argument to be made that de-globalisation is a sure fire way to global conflict..

Mutual interests tend to keep things civilised
Yup. I’m (trying) to do the same.
Every little mindless purchase I used to make to fix some minor inconvenience slowly adds up to real harm for someone else at the hands of the CCP.

Please stop buying from China.

In fact, in recent times Lithuania has been a force for good against China, I’d suggest seeking out their goods if applicable to your needs.
"The short answer is that 0.1 + 0.2 lies exactly between 2 floating point numbers, 0.3 and 0.30000000000000004, the answer is 0.30000000000000004 because its significand is even."
Ah yep, I'd definitely go for the highest end model. But I'd love it if I get the latest batch with better fans and such.
But never with floating point. I think that's the context of the whole article, and should really be the main take-home (which I'm not sure the article gets across clearly enough).