skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> SDDs can be destroyed by EMP events, whereas HDDs are safe.

Really? Maybe the data on the disk platters will be fine, but an EMP which wipes SSDs could just as easily fry the HDD electronics and firmware flash memory. Your data may well be intact, but you are never seeing it again without some highly specialised data recovery equipment - and will that equipment survive the EMP apocalypse?
That's interesting. I was contacted by a personal money manager looking for clients and he explained his philosophy as sampling 30-50 stocks from the top end of the S&P 500. He had outperformed the market during a bull run, which I attributed to the increased risk of a smaller portfolio. I didn't invest because I figured his fund would underperform the index during the next bear run for that same reason, canceling out the gains and moreso with fees. Maybe there actually was something to his strategy; I haven't followed up on his performance.
Yep, somebody else mentioned programming on their graphics calculator. Yeah, the display sucks but it has a better keyboard than your phone, especially if the BASIC keywords are assigned keys or key combinations. Phones need you to watch the screen as you input which inherently slows everything down.
> iPod prototype

> Windows 11

These two things are ~20 years apart. I don't think Microsoft in 2000 could have made iPod, but Apple also these days commonly fault on software experience.

> the Microsoft Zune was definitely a dud

I'm not too sure. There's a directly line from the Microsoft Zune to Window's modern design language. I don't think that's too much of a dud.
Discussed at the time:

The FFmpeg/Libav situation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4183209 - June 2012 (51 comments)
> The first company to successfully commercialize open source software at scale

It depends on the definition of scale, or the company. Cygnus started in 1989 and was doing well, it merged with Red Hat around 1999.

> The company generates way more value than it captures and has a low rake out of necessity—none of the software it creates is proprietary.

There are expenses and revenues, and companies like Red Hat rake in revenues - which are more than expenses. So did MySQL and other companies.

> It’s under constant threat of being disrupted or undermined by other open source providers.

Back before cloud got big, I worked for companies that paid for HP/Dell service agreements and RHEL service agreements. If we were a smaller company we may have gone with CentOS or something, but we weren't.

The thing not mentioned is not only that people can and do use things like Debian instead, but that RHEL gained from Linux and Debian as well. So the benefits flow both ways.

> open core model...MongoDB...Elastic

This is another model which can be done. Three years ago, Red Hat sold for more than twice what MongoDB's current market cap is.

> The Red Hat model won’t be repeated.

It's worked for a number of companies in the past, some of whom were purchased by Red Hat. I don't see any reasons why it won't happen again, although it's not every day that a Red Hat is founded. No reasons are given why this will never happen again - all the reasons given were things Red Hat, MySQL, Cygnus etc. had to deal with.

> Support and services models don’t achieve hypergrowth

Red Hat sold for $34 billion. If that is not enough hypergrowth for some VC or founder, then they will go with another model.

> Support and services companies are uninvestable. Annual revenues are low and nonrecurring, and margins are tight. VCs are looking for 80%+ gross margins and hockey stick growth.

I don't know how revenues are nonrecurring - I worked for a number of companies that paid service contracts for RHEL and other Red Hat products alongside our HP/Dell service contracts.

Also - Intel, Netscape, Greylock and Benchmark did invest in Red Hat.

Also, companies like Red Hat and MySQL did have hockey stick-like growth.

For a company following the Red Hat model that needs to raise money from VCs, these thoughts might be applicable. But for companies following the Red Hat model that are not losing money, they don't really have to worry about what VCs think of this.
That is not at all believable: both the worry about EMPs and the claim that HDDs would be meaningfully more resilient than SSDs.
Poverty isn't a single state; it's a spectrum. If every company making maximally efficient decisions causes people to only have the option to take a wage that isn't enough to lift them from poverty or no wage at all, people will still take it.

I'm not saying that I think you're wrong or right compared to the parent comment that responded to you; I just don't think it's obvious that something being more efficient inherently implies that it should be legal. Maybe I'm incorrectly inferring that you're stating that "trying to make this illegal would make the economy less efficient than it could be" is implying that this means that it would be bad to make it illegal, but it definitely sounds like that to me.
There's a worldview that proritizes/heavily weighs cost, and there's another that prioritizes/heavily weights opportunity.

This continues to strike me as passing up on something amazing. Most issues with birdsite depend on where you tread. The forum itself is not exceptional but really people just make such mountains over little molehills. Just learn to unfollow & trust your own judgements. Focusing only on negatives is a "whether you believe you can or whether you believe you can't, you're right".
The public accusations against this person’s character? Are any other CEOs lambasting former employees online?
NO!

I will keep adding an /archive folder to every PC I own and copy the complete contents of my previous /home/ folder into it, including an endless amount of recursive /archive folders.

I will never look at any of those again. But Archeologists in the far future will find my data and it will revolutionize their understanding of our time.
I'm not familiar with Google dev process. But I have extensive experience working in large corporations.

In such environments, it is crucial to maintain a high level of isolation between development machines, personal computers, test farms, production servers, and source code repositories.

Also there are various types of development machines and environments to cater to different needs. Some are highly restricted, only allowing developers to interact with and modify the production source code. These environments provide minimal functionality beyond code editing and submitting changes to test farm. On the other hand, there are more flexible environments, akin to "scratch pads," where developers have greater freedom to experiment and explore.
What was conspirational in his comment?
The data shows otherwise.

PC gaming is predicted to grow by 1.2% a year

https://www.vantagemarketresearch.com/industry-report/pc-gam...

Currently, the console market share is dominated by Sony

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1044925/market-share-of-...
I’d love having an AI which writes like me. Not only would it be fun to chat with my AI doppelgänger, there are many great practical uses: I basically wouldn’t have to write anything ever again.

Letter to your boss? Text your girlfriend/boyfriend? Hacker News post? Let the AI do it
Then I think you should take a hard look at your dietary choices. ;-)
The test is to ask ask a full stack developer responsible for both sides what they would do! (And of course, accommodating the data needs of the UI is the answer.)
You don’t remember Zune then?
Disparities in Drinking Water in Manganese Concentrations in California
I always bring a couple of burritos. No problem.
Changi in Singapore is very much a common space, because the security is at the gate.
That’s just not true. Different people value themselves differently. Someone in a certain location might value their time more than someone doing the same job elsewhere. Why else do you think we have outsourced labor to places where people need less to live on today?
Thanks for being willing to reflect on that. The original claim I was responding to was that he was still traveling for FA attempts in his late 80s and 90s. I also recognize my initial understanding that he was no longer making FA attempts in his 80s at all was likely inaccurate.

And aside from that, my response about him not making any FAs in his 80s was based on initially misunderstanding your comment to be claiming otherwise, adding to a bit of miscommunication here.

You have a great weekend as well
The link above is to Graydon's comment, not mine. I am certainly not the creator of Rust. Graydon is. I joined Rust looong after it was created.
Expressive Text-to-Image Generation with Rich Text
I work with photos and videos and cannot comprehend downsizing to 2TB. Or even finding time to go through and selectively cull old footage. I shot a simple one-day drone-only vineyard job last week that generated 140GB, not including graded renders and photo edits afterwards.

On any given day, I will have 5-7 external drives connected, plus a NAS box. There are another 15+ drives (2-5TB) in the drawer beside me. SSDs as drives I actively work from and platter drives for backups or rendered footage.

I feel like the secret is to nailing the workflow at ingest/render because it’s painful trying to going through en masse and a year later.

Edit: I’ll add that I think one problem is that in shooting with a drone, there’s less to cull. Everything is in focus. A high percentage of the photos are usable in media libraries for the client and about 95% of all video shot is. My wife is a photographer and far fewer shots make the cut because of focus, or a facial expression, etc.
Cochrane is right wing funded now?
Not a dumb question at all! Essentially what can do Marqo, and this blog shows, is that there is alot of logic and work to do what you said (i.e. pass raw data into LLM, get embeddings, store in vector DB, then query both embeddings and original data).
Governments are going to be scammed out of trillions of dollars trying to instantiate digital currencies, and tax payers are going to have to foot the bill. I really hope sanity prevails before that happens.
I was also wondering about this. Or is there some automation in place...
We have deployed gpt4 in multiple layers of our stack at https://88stacks.com using it for tooling, marketing, and other places.
Purgatory With Perks: Facebook recruiters had nothing to do, then were laid off
https://archive.ph/CQMZ7
WOW it's almost like you're describing a union!
I can't help but think that, between entrusting data to a freshly manufactured HDD and tapes run through an affordable used LTO drive of unknown history and wear, that the HDD is the safer bet?
OpenShift and IBM Cloud.
> I don't think i exploit other humans for profit. What makes you think I do?

Unless you live in the forest, with no identity card and no social security, eating mushrooms and berries, you have transactional relationships with other humans, where you create a profit out of their work. More generally, most of the consumption goods you consume are made in sweatshops in poorer countries, where industries arbitrage health & working regulation to extract more values from workers.

If you live in the US, well you fund wars across the globe to fund your country's prosperity, tied to the hegemonic status of the dollar.

> again, you have no formation and are spewing nonsense. And adding "period" at the end. And you know it too, you're saying yourself that nutrition science is unscientific.

Can we please stop with the authority argument? Ten years ago every nutritionist were telling you that fat was bad. Now carbs are bad. Every specialist repeated like zombies that COVID-19 was going to be apocalyptic if we didn't lock the population and injected everyone with a poorly researched vaccine. It appeared that most of the people affected by those policies weren't at risk, and now we have a massive youth depression/poverty/delayed education problem, notwithstanding the after effects of the "vaccine-that-works-for-3-months-maybe-but-does-not-stop-transmission".

Please refute that meat > plants regarding protein profiles:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete_protein

> I'm unsure what you mean. Do animals have no moral value? When should we care about animals?

Domesticated animals are a product of the man's hands. I don't agree with USA-style factory farming, which is a case of hubris, bad for humans' health, the ecosystem, and creates unnecessary suffering. However, breeding animals for their produce, and killing them for their meat, is totally ok if done in good conditions.

I don't have a dog because I consider that dogs should primarily be used with the intent their breed was created for. Just like goats were bred to produce milk, Border Collies are made to lead herds. That's also when they're the happiest. :-)
This is me and my Downloads folder. Apps that will never run again. Fonts I outgrew.
Yes. And then the private AI will quickly lag behind as the open-source AI is continuously updated.

Even if the private AI owner made some unique discovery which gives them an advantage, its very likely to only be unique for a short while (see: some of the world’s major discoveries simultaneously found by different people. I’m sure there would be more if not for word-of-mouth)
Deservingly so for committing such an atrocity. Should also check your coronaries.

OP you are allowed to bring solid foods without restriction but are still limited to 100cc for liquid/salsa/sauce even if it's sandwiched. Practically it is not strictly enforced if your sandwich looks edible, I've never had my pulled pork sandwiches analyzed.
We Don’t Know Enough About the Pornhub Acquisition
A Community-Contributed Cellular Coverage Map
I'm torn on this, really. I think separate bike infra is great, when you have the space and funding for it, and we should push for this whenever we can. But it's not always feasible.

And beyond that, larger vehicles pollute more. Even larger EVs require larger batteries and more materials to construct. Sure, you can say that people who want them already pay a higher price in fuel (even if that fuel is electricity), but that doesn't seem to have been enough to disincentivize the proliferation of SUVs.
> They presented SBF, before it got exposed for the fraud he was, as an altruistic genius

Got a link for that?
"GPTCache employs embedding algorithms to convert queries into embeddings and uses a vector store for similarity search on these embeddings. This process allows GPTCache to identify and retrieve similar or related queries from the cache storage"

previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35547426

@fzliu: can you expand on the eviction policy - "lines"?
Discussed at the time:

How many floating-point numbers are in the interval [0,1]? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13759458 - Feb 2017 (153 comments)
Is it really counterfeit if the original is unlicensed as well?

It’s like Steve Jobs complaining Microsoft stole his ideas for a gui, and Bill Gates answering Steve stole it from Xerox and is angry Bill did as well.
> But hdd do not flip random bits to dissipation by merely sitting on the shelf unpowered,

Yeah, they do. Maybe not as often as a mostly worn-out SSD, but it's not unheard-of.

> They also don't lose/flip bits from being read many times but never rewritten,

Whoever told you about NAND read disturb errors must have done you a disservice by not communicating how hard they are to trigger and how easy they are to recover from. If you are letting this worry influence your purchasing decisions, you're wildly overestimating the scope of this issue. Unless you have some previously unheard-of real workload that is effectively Rowhammer for SSDs.
> On Alibaba, 50 cents.

> On Amazon, maybe 1.5 USD.

There's a decent chance neither of these pass the minimum safety requirements. It would be fairer to compare with a socket adapter from a supermarket.

e.g. Tesco, £4.50 for two, vs. Heathrow Airport £11 for two.
I'm sure many execs are much more open to their directs than to company wide channels, which likely plays into it.
If anyone needed to be convinced that LLMs are not accurate models of the human brain they need look no further than these numbers. The smallest model under discussion requires "more books than are in the Kindle store on Amazon U.S." Humans obviously acquire language proficiency with a lot less input than that.
Most people, like me, who end up needing to use vector DBs, are wanting to use LLMs on a specific, often private dataset/use case. Typically one starts with something like unstructured JSON data, then need to pick and manage LLMs to create embeddings, then store these and the original JSON data in a vectorDB. Then the application is some variety of CRUD operations + searching over both the original data and the embeddings.

Chroma, Pinecone, I guess FAISS/HNSWlib/etc only handle vector operations. Really what I'd want, which Marqo does, is handle everything end to end.
Indeed. But of course none of them are in airports.
Honestly I think the only reason it's anywhere as close this generation is because of the PS5 supply issues until very recently meant many people gave up and bought a Series X. I don't think it actually has that much to put it ahead of the PS5 other than availability, and the Xbox One generation was such a flop that it seriously dented their network effects
I am as pro-LGBTQ+ and pro- any minority and sexual identity. Live and let live is my motto.

But either yours is a subtle attempt at satire, or whatever you have listed here is not fearless self-expression and progressive thought, but just newspeak and dystopian conformism. Whatever this is, it is not freedom of thought and expression.

I will fight against any racist and any bigot. Whether they argue against anyone's right of self-expression and identity, or whether they impose their opinion and self-identity upon others.

I assume this to be a minority opinion, but since we're talking about hacker culture, let me argue in favour of the true hacker spirit: the one where only code and curiosity counts, not bloody politics and rules. That ain't no hacker culture, sorry. We used to bond through beautiful code and cheeky pseudonyms, not through flags and political affiliations. Hackers used to despise politics, code of conducts and hierarchy.

In true anti-conformist spirit let me say: fuck that shit. Get your politics and slogans out of my computer. I only wanna hear about your code.
In NZ, I heard it in the context of talking about the UK, and it was phrased. as "football is played by gentlemen and watched by thugs, rugby (union) is played by thugs and watched by gentlemen" as rugby union tends to be closely associated with public (that is, private) schools, who would often give rather large yet dumb students scholarships if they thought they'd help the First Fifteen beat their rival school.
I agree it wasn’t a dud, it was just way too late.

It was followed far too closely by iPhone / iPod touch. Gates was at the debut of the product though.

I had an original Zune in Brown and helped organize the first pre-release public zune ~fan demo (that I know of.)

It was held at my buddy’s tea shop on green lake.
The U.S. is 12th in countries ranked by debt-to-GDP. Only Venezuela, Japan, Sudan, Greece, Lebanon, Cabo Verde, Italy, Libya, Portugal, Singapore, and Bahrain. Not exactly the 11 healthiest economies I’ve ever seen. Being the reserve currency allows the US to borrow at much cheaper rates than would otherwise be possible, which allows it to take on more debt without affecting economic growth. The debt to GDP ratio doesn’t matter.
People generally use spring when it comes to java.

Spring is just a few annotations away from creating an endpoint.

https://start.spring.io/

Of course with spring, there’s a lot of stuff that isn’t java that you have to know.
They're positively dandies compared to rugby players.
> Not sure how are these nvme enclosures supposed to work.

Aren't there some with their own external power? If anyone has a brand/model to recommend I'm all ears.
The market desperately needs an alternative to CUDA, but I just don't see AMD doing it
I wish this post went further back and outlined Fabrice Bellards involvement in ffmpeg - his website says only "FFMPEG, the Open Source Multimedia System. I launched this project in year 2000 and led it for several years. " - I'd be curious to know more about that part of the history.
True but the machinery (is the brain) that enables humans to acquire/process/understand that knowledge is a lot more complex and went through years of environmental conditioning?
This is great. I'd love this with the same style radio chatter, but from a bot that watches my news sources, tweets, emails, and radios itself to discuss interesting things happening.

"An email just came in at 0743 AM from Steve.. over" ... "Yeah that looks like an interesting followup to the one from John last week. Someone should reply to this one. Over."
That's why you don't entrust your data to a storage device. You verify your backups, immediately after creation and periodically afterwards.
"open core is the best model" says company dedicated to pursuing open core...

There are dozens of "open source business models" and as this article shows the "red hat model" isn't even one thing.
The GOP may try to bluff about not raising the debt limit to try to get what they want but I believe the rich people who really run the country understand just how bad not raising the debt limit would be and won't let it happen.
Completely agree. Apple allows educational programming because it doesn’t seriously jeaopardize their revenue. If they let you compile and run arbitrary code (I bet they already have this capability for debugging internally) with full system access, without jumping through major hoops, they wouldn’t be able to tax that activity.
If you are doing it for a client (?) then you just need to back it up and charge them an appropriate fee. There is not much cognitive load as to whether it is worth keeping or not as the client decides.

With hobby stuff and especially family photos it becomes hard to decide whether to keep it all, spend time curating it, maybe down sizing it. If you can get all your memories in 2Tb or less it makes backup management way more easier in terms of disks and time taken to back it up etc.
Things that have changed in bearings: better materials science led to more understanding of how you can harden surfaces and this in turn led to better 'races' in bearings as well as balls and rollers that are harder leaving bearings that last longer in principle. But all that wouldn't matter one bit if the bearings weren't sealed properly and that's the second improvement that led to longer bearing life. Finally, the third factor, improved lubricants, better able to deal with thermal cycling and high heat.
People have been saying this for a VERY long time.
And now the ratio of ad time to game time is way out of whack. I can't stand to listen to radio broadcasts this season. It's a shame, but the ads just annoy me too much.
Easily one of the least surprising research findings I have ever read. This is completely normal in every firm. Places where everyone is paid the same despite their differences (eg public schools where the PE teacher is paid the same as the math teacher) are the exception.
Hey thanks for the kudos. Honestly I used the difficulty of inventing that timeline thing as an excuse to not start the project for over a decade. Turned out to be pretty straightforward.
Regardless, it has raised questions about conflicts of interest and impartiality. Its a broader problem than just the Bidens or democrats, we see this shit under every president. The whole US political system is steeped in this corruption and influence peddling.

If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, and is in a pond with a bunch of other ducks, do we really need a court case to prove its a duck?