skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Fourth Crusade was preceded by:

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

which was a reaction to the empire becoming near completely dominated by westerns both economically and (to a lesser degree) politically.

The last coup attempt/civil war (which was also a near permanent issue in the empire) before the massacre was between a French Princess ruling the empire as a regent for her underage son and her stepdaughter who was married to a Frankish nobleman from the Outremer (he was -the second highest ranking official in the empire and seemingly the heir apparent together with his wife). Had they succeeded the Empire would probably have had its first Latin Emperor (or at least co-Emperor) without even being directly conquered. Of course instead it ended with late emperor's cousin* murdering (he forced the 12 year old emperor to sign her mothers death warrant and before having him assassinated soon after).
mothers everyone and taking the throne for himself after he masterfully utilized the widespread public hatred towards the Latins amongst the general population..

*Andronikos Komnenos, who was in his middle 60s at the time and while being quite a terrible person had a very interesting life. Amongst other things (while in exile due all kinds of scheming) he seduced the former queen of Jerusalem (who happened to be his niece..) and up having two children with her after they ran away to the Turkish Sultanate of Damascus.
Eventually she was captured by the emperor who used her to lure Andronikos into Constantinople and then (unfortunately for the emperor's son) decided pardon him and exile him to a remote province instead of executing him.
> here could be for me as an average end user I don't care that

What you don't care about doesn't change the fact that it's a real distinction. Being used to being locked to one choice because Microsoft says so doesn't mean that someone's ignorance about what an operating system is, and what its graphical interface is, makes them the same thing.

I'm not moving the goalpost, I asked you a question, and you can't seem to give an answer, probably because you know that to perform such a simple task, I'd need to modify registry keys.

My OS lets me work, get entertainment, and does not have telemetry or ads. And my eyesight is not damaged by the god awful imposed visual choices that microsoft makes.
This is what panic looks like.
> Except SpaceX’s failure rates are similar with every other successful launch system.

Falcon 9 has the record for most consecutive successful orbital launches. Their last failure was AMOS-6 in September of 2016. Since then they've had 189 successful launches in a row.[1] In that same time Soyuz has had 113 launches with 3 failures. Soyuz's longest success streak was 100 launches from 1983 to 1986.[2] The US's Delta II had 100 consecutive successes from 1997 to 2018, though it has since been retired. A total of 155 Delta IIs were launched with 2 failures.

Falcon 9's current successful landing streak of 110 missions exceeds the competition's best launch streak. By any metric one can measure, SpaceX has the most reliable rocket.

1. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_and_Falcon_He... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_and_Falcon_He... for the list of launches and outcomes.

2. https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/02/spacexs-falcon-9-roc...
Yeah, the message seems be "Wait, we're still here! Don't forget about us and we promise we'll catch up!"

> Announcing Google DeepMind... launched DeepMind back in 2010 ...
True; what I was thinking of was not GRUB or LILO, but the fact that setting the init process from a kernel command line is less useful for hacks like these if the initial root file system is only an initramfs images from /boot, and does not contain Emacs.
"before people start wondering if they're not the sharpest bulb in the box?"

Sharpness is relative.
this misses multiple points - lots of block access happens via internal caches (hyperclock/lru/etc) and filesystem isn't in the critical path as much as you'd think.

files are mapped out in relatively large chunks, especially compaction outputs - there's prealloaction, and usually you will just have a flat file->block conversion without huge trees or anything.

based on performance profiles filesystem doesn't do any heavy lifting, there's not that much fragmentation (and you usually keep some free space for flash GC anyway),

compaction output write is one logical operation on filesystem for tens of megabytes of data.

> filesystems are the unsung heroes underlying some LSM tree databases

meh
Agreed. It's incredible to me how good Musk can be at running SpaceX and simultaneously how bad he can be at running Twitter — strengths and weaknesses, I suppose...
Exciting time for AI. A little competition from OpenAI is finally forcing google AI researchers to actually focus on real world applications instead of just publishing papers and patting themselves on the back.
That makes sense, but on mars? Full payload, very little atmospheric drag, little atmosphere to keep the blastolith from scrubbing the bottom of the vehicle. I am talking generically since presumably the first stage won't be landing on mars.
You are just not able to comprehend, the difference in USD and INR.
I will give you a simple example for you to comprehend.
The cost of Unlimited 5G internet in India with 2GB allowance per day billed at 1 YEAR is 43 USD.
It's 80 USD at minimum in US per MONTH.
The cost of groceries for a 4 person family per month is 243 USD.
The mortgage payment on a decent 3BHK house I pay is 182 USD per month.
The cost of living and expenses in India is way cheaper.
I'm not sure what you are trying to achieve by emphasising 9$/hr coders. It's less in US, it's a lot in India, you are not even in the middle class at that point.
They hired some competent coders if they paid that rate in India. Comparing competency of a coder paid in USD vs INR is plain foolish.

The successful Indian Space Research Organization is probably paying $15/hr to it's engineers if you are to question their competency next, I'm not sure if you even understand anything.

I mean that's the reason they outsource, it's cheaper because they have to pay way less in USD, but can hire the same level of talent, if needed. Since in INR it's a lot.

And why should they convert to USD, that's completely foolish, they live in India LOL.

Why do you think a lot of people come to US, even if it means working low income jobs. They send their money to India where it's a lot. And hoard a lot of wealth there.
>pushing resources into DeepMind

is this a influx of resources, or consolidation and cutbacks? i read it as google used to have two different ai research teams, and now they have one fewer than they used to.

they've shut down at least one deepmind office recently: https://betakit.com/alphabet-company-deepmind-shutters-edmon...
It's not a product, it's a research organization.
Yes. It slows them down.
I remember reading all about it in my dad's issues of Spectrum.
I'm not aware of any experiments, formal or informal that tries to seek if negative content is promoted more. The article states one experiment with bots saw how quickly the feed would become saturated with majority negative content. But what about the opposite? How quickly does positive content fill the feed if a bot were to engage with inspiring or educational videos? I suspect it'll be slower, though maybe not because of the algorithm itself but because video makers have less incentives to make positive videos, and so there's simply less "good" content to recommend.
It could be said that free markets are bad for journalism. Markets optimize for cost, so if you can create a product that looks like journalism but is less expensive to produce, it is likely to be the winner in a market system.

This is why it is fascinating to watch what happens to experiments like NPR, although even in that case it was only a partial success.
Yep, I somehow internalized that there were 100,000 words (on reflection, I couldn't name a tenth of that in one sitting), but also halved the result, and the error canceled out a bit. Terrible.
You can't make it costly enough to the corporation without incurring undue collateral damage to a whole lot of people that had nothing to do with it. The point of is to focus the cost onto the actual decision makers responsible for the poor decision making; corporation would continue to survive, without collateral damage to employees and marketplace.
The answer is always a portfolio.
There are also mistakes versus the unknown, you can only know the true value if its a mistake after measurement.

The key is to measure the value at the earliest possible time to reduce the amount of sunk costs.

And simulation doesn't buy you anything here either. Simulation will many times cost more than an actual test article and still may not simulate reality accurately.
Allowing it on your platform, (and it applies to Everyone not just tiktok) Isn't right.

Negligently letting it be pushed onto people is much worse.

Imagine if facebook were doing the same thing now, there would me massive uproar.
Well if they have ISP flow logs, that'll be trickier because it will enable very granular inspection of the traffic and the timings of that traffic.

However if they are trying to cast a wide net and inquire Google and other service providers for it, that will lead to a lot of collusions and they won't be able to tell it is from country A because it is from the VPN.
It wasn't very long ago that we were reading articles saying that Deepmind wanted more independence from Google (https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-unit-deepmind-triedand-f...).

Feels a bit like China absorbing Hong Kong.
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Ahem. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19965058/
Bitcoin is the linux of those phone calls where they say they've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty.
Just wanted to add a tangent on how beautifully expressive and complex the Chinese language and script is.
>How heritable is height?

Very, somewhere in the 80% range: "The estimated heritability was 0.79 (SE 0.09) for height and 0.40 (SE 0.09) for BMI, consistent with pedigree estimates." [0][1]

>For bonus points: why has the heritability of height changed over time

It hasn't.

>and varied by country?

It hasn't.

Love it when the bonus questions are easier than the main questions.

[0] https://www.science.org/content/article/landmark-study-resol...

[1] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/588020v1
It's definitely all the batman searches that got him tthere /s
"Sundar is announcing"... not "we are announcing"... speaks volumes as to the fact that this was a unilateral decision.
Dear Mr. Bezos: thanks for the black widow spider with my order
An amusing letter to Bezos written by a woman who does interesting work on "open source seeds" which seems really cool.
By most economists accounts, Americas sanctions hurt America's economy more than it helped it. The sanctions may have helped certain industries and areas of America by kneecapping Chinese high-tech, but it takes more than that for Republicans to start a round of sanctions and the Democrats to continue them.

There is a very blatant military interest in keeping China behind in terms of technology. People have had a very clear picture of what technology can do for a military in a conventional war since the Gulf War where the Iraqi Republican Guard, the 4th largest military in the world, was obliterated from a distance by high-tech computerised weaponry and military systems and totally demoralised.

There can be multiple motives. If both high-tech and the military want something, that makes it that much more of a political winner.
The fact that there is no recourse or viable competition, strikes me as an injustice. Maybe the biggest injustice on the web currently.

Maybe it's time to not let it stand anymore? I know, we're just a bunch of ragtag hackers who just want to be able to have time to tinker and make/play video games. But we're the ones who could truly disrupt online advertising and get the web back to how it used to work 20 years ago, where the average person could earn residual income online with a few clicks. Get back to building a positive, thriving future together, instead of whatever all this is.

Of course I have absolutely no idea how to do that. Or how to protect people from exploitation. There's a website that pays you tips for your traffic, it's a synonym for gratuity but for the life of me I can't remember it at the moment. Google and even DuckDuckGo are so SEO'd that I can't find it. Imagine a nonprofit Adwords that paid out near 100% of proceeds in an egalitarian way, instead of using a winner-take-all algorithm that dumps more money than God on people who are already rich. I guess that's just not possible?
> Rear-Wheel-Drive Cars Are Back

That said tere are still manufacturers, like BMW, producing 50% of their as rear-wheel drive (and 33% as AWD).
A glaring problem is: Non-determinism of LLMs, creating different answers to the same prompt. I appreciate your blogging and analysis in this space, so I am I am interested in your responses. The non-determinism implies that prompt engineering is brittle, difficult, and prone to no formal evaluation techniques for correctness.
It's not that different from browsing HN on mobile.
many networks will not approve your website with shady content

so then you're running ads for porn, sketchy software and VPNs or wtv
The number of artificial biospheres that have every successfully supported human life is zero.
Funnily your comment made me wonder who owns "ai.com" - So I tried it out, and got redirected to "https://chat.openai.com/".
CEO serves on the boards of multiple companies: A-OK

Engineer divides his day up so he can work multiple full-time jobs: Huge problem
Nice, I think you've just invented the first cellular sheaf db that I'm aware of
I was under the impression that there's no hold-down or clamping of the booster for this vehicle. The clamps are disengaged around T-10 (maybe T-15?).
I'm a Googler in the Research PA (Health AI), and as far as I can tell this will have ~0 impact on my life.

Jeff Dean gave himself a promotion and doesn't want to run an org any more; aside from that, :shrug:?
Many cases the police don’t let you watch, they make you wait outside. Reason to have cameras in your place (pros and cons)
Show HN: Automatic highlight reels of meetings with GPT-4
Using GPT-4 as an API, and asking it to answer like an API ("please answer in the following JSON format...") we automatically create highlight reels of meetings, with the most relevant meeting template.

Users can even ask questions on meetings and GPT-4 gives the answer + the most relevant video clips. They can also create and apply their own meeting templates.

Let us know what you think, we're also live on Product Hunt today :)

https://spoke.app
I feel like this is a bad sign. What this announcement reads like is "Hey! I won this internal political struggle!". Ok, sure, not sure why anyone outside the company should take this as good news. This announcement either means the AI outside of Demis' team has been neutered, or they're lining Demis up to be the scape goat for missing AI. Remember - what this announcement means is that Demis now has a load of people reporting to him who previously were rooting for his failure. Trying to synthesize those two separate teams (half of which wanted you to fail) into one productive and world-leading team is a hell of an ask.
It works the same as always for me on Linux with SSH port forwards.
The recovery teams goal was to sink the booster even if it touched down safely. Their plan was to quite literally shoot it with small-arms until it took on enough water to sink. This is a documented best-case outcome for the launch. There were no plans to recover anything other than data
Lol. Makes sense. Any idea why they're queuing this up for a multiple announcement PR stunt? Seems a bit out of character for Google to tease out announcements like this.

My guess is they have a bigger announcement coming next week. Otherwise, it seems like a bad PR move... it positions Google as playing catchup in AI... which is accurate, but strange PR.
[*] poor spider
> For instance you could write a FSM that transitions from "paid" to "delivered"... or you could have two columns, paid_at and delivered_at, and consider those two columns orthogonal.

The first seems to imply that delivery cannot occur until the state 'paid' has been reached, while the second contains no such implication. Either might be correct, depending on how the business operates, and modeling the states and the allowable transitions between them is an excellent way to find out what questions need to be answered before you can produce a correct implementation - better in every way than implementing what seems right intuitively, and then seeing what happens.
I've run into this as well, but for what it's worth, this is a problem every VPN provider struggles with. The most colorful example I have is receiving an email from my bank telling me they've blocked access to online banking because someone tried to log into my account from a suspicious IP — yes, it was me. Luckily I use a fairly small local bank who cuts through issues like this swiftly with a short phone call.
Regardless, 'Motivational speeches' shows he was trying to help himself and I find that horrific.

(didn't downvote you though, I understand your point)
Journalism is largely partisan on all sides. Where partisans claim otherwise, they cite sources which adhere to their own biases.
something doesn't make sense here - MySQL/InnoDB does put tables into files, but partitions get separate file.

MyRocks has a collection of files per each column family, and when you drop data it can quickly expunge files that don't contain data for other tables/partitions - and trigger compaction on neighbors, if needed.
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Ask HN: Criteria for top startups in a macro downturn
I was having a conversation with a friend going through a job search who was looking for a role at a startup – and I struggled a bit to given them guidance on what a "top tier" private company looks like these days.

I feel like 5+ years ago it was implicitly obvious which companies were growing like gangbusters and doing well - less so today.

Question to y'all: What criteria would you use to measure which startups are most likely to be successful today? Are there any specific non-public tech companies you'd call out (and why)
>How many here are actual engineers by profession?

Almost none, because "software engineers" aren't _actual_ Engineers! (ducks for cover)

But really, this was a huge step in the right direction on the cutting edge of propulsion science and spaceflight.

SpaceX will iterate and in a few months/years everyone here will be telling you how "they always knew it would work" and "starship succeeding was obvious"
I've spent plenty of time with TSDBs, but until recently have had no OLAP use case for my work. Now that I'm obligated, I'm reading and looking around for as much solid info as I can find. This is a good comparison that I'm finding useful. I appreciate that the authors give an honest assessment of their company's weaknesses and not just highlighting their strengths vs competitors.
Not quite as active in the search as I would like to be, but seeing about 1/30th the traffic I had seen just 6 months ago.

I've got a week left on my Contract that didn't get picked up. It's been relatively rough and really giving me 2001 (.com bubble bursting everywhere) vibes. I've been looking for a few weeks now, since I found out. Been looking at roughly a 10-20% pay drop to broaden the available jobs as literally only 3 have been at the pay I am currently at.
Yes re treating interactions as RLHF. Could imagine them developing a flow to automatically catalog interactions as successful and unsuccessful, then cluster those by domain + interaction flow. If someone has a successful interaction in a cluster that is normally unsuccessful, treat that as a 'wild-type' prompt engineering innovation that needs to be domesticated into the model.

I think you're right that blindly training on chats would bring back the olden days of google bombing ('santorum')

And also that any company with 'improve' in their TOS isn't committing to perfect privacy
Yeah. DeepMind has sought more independence than they had, but now they have lost it completely. It seems there was an internal power struggle and Google won.
internet archive runs webseeded torrents.

It's effectively a large-scale legal torrent site for anyone to use.
Forgive me, my comment was ambiguous. Just to be clear: yes, it is.
> Nobody gives a shit about most hunting weapons

And here's the issue then. What anti-gun advocates argue are weapons not good for hunting is misguided. Additionally, it doesn't matter if a gun was designed to hunt or not - the gun is an inanimate object.

People like to discuss banning AR-15's all day, failing to realize just how many similar-but-not-AR-15's model rifles exist out there, most of which fire the same cartridge too. No, but that one particular model is the problem because it says "AR-15" on the side (most don't even say that btw).

California already tried this and failed. California banned certain model rifles by name. Famously it banned "Colt AR-15" rifles... well guess what, people just bought S&W AR-15's instead. Ban the word "AR-15" and people will just buy "AR-16"s, or "NOT-15"s, or whatever. It's an impossible thing to ban.

It apparently doesn't matter than handguns kill the most people... those scary black AR-15's we see on movies are clearly the problem. After all, the bullet explodes and ruins the meat!

The anti-gun debate is not grounded in facts or reality - which is why anti-gun proponents make no headway (thankfully).

> And how is it false that we have more random gun violence than bombing?

People rarely seek to indiscriminately kill or maim large numbers of people - which is what a bomb does. Your mass shootings are super rare events.

Not long ago, bombs were going off with a near cadence all across the US, mostly from political extremists. Why did the bombing stop? Was it because we made bombs illegal? Of course not, blowing people and buildings up was already illegal.

You should research Weather Underground[1]...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground
Ah. Maybe this is just PR cover to ease external fears that DeepMind team will leave Google.
Jeff never really wanted to run orgs anyway, so that's not any different either!
OpenAI’s flagship products are literally named after work done by Google researchers.
Yes, thanks, really a fun read.

I liked the reported reasoning about file J-15 (Chinese_SourceIP_HEX.txt):

> It contains, according to Mr. Zeidman, only IP addresses and numbers ranking the addresses from high to low. He notes that it is not packet data because it has no packets and no data.
Use databases without putting domain logic in them
Has no one at Imgur heard of Tumblr and what happened when they tried this? Why do they think this will turn out differently for them?
Reorganizing two teams that did their own thing will not reap immediate benefits. It will take time.

Sounds like a PR move.
stay hopeful friend -- the universe always has a way of surprising us
Curious why you're looking to switch from KeeWeb. Been using KeeWeb for several years and have been really happy with it for my desktop.
Yeah, I'm not denying the existence or need for a TEE, I just mean that either the TEE is secured against custom OSs and therefore signing in beforehand is unnecessary, or the sign-in information could be erased by a custom OS.

So requiring a login to unlock the bootloader doesn't really disincentivise any theft in either case, as I understand it.