skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a page on the architecture of a distributed vector database (Milvus) for anybody interested: https://milvus.io/docs/architecture_overview.md
Other than source-less reputation bashing / gossip, are instances of poor behavior?

Also consider TdR of OpenBSD and OpenSSH has been polarizing but impactful.
“Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.” -- Hal Abelson
My local airport only has 8 gates for american airlines. They are constantly landing without a gate. Sometimes you get to file your gate early, sometimes you don't. Not having a gate doesn't prevent you from filing an IFR flight plan and getting to your destination. It just means you might sit on the tarmack because you are not flying into a hub for your airline
I don't know how complete the digitization of old texts is, but if you go to worldwide.espacenet.com, search for "airship" and reverse sort by date you get documents from the 1880s.

In fact I'm downloading a whole batch of patent texts right now because I wanted to experiment with semantic search on patent texts.

Anyone here have any pointers on what the state of the art method for semantic search through a large corpus would be? I've just started researching and BERT and friends seems like it was popular about 2 years ago but things move so fast I wouldn't know what I should do now.

What about a medium sized corpus of text, say 100.000 pages of text?
I think the track records are tellingly comparable.
> MMT was delt a massive blow by the current inflation issue....

MMT literally argues that the monetary/fiscal division is artificial, and that the only constraint on fiscal policy is the monetary impact of net spending in the context of whatever traditional “monetary” policy is pursued, when you operate in your own fiat.

There being a monetary impact of either net spending or traditional monetary policy is not a blow to MMT.
Proving any given AI architecture can't do something doesn't prove all AI architectures forever will never be able to do something. Neural networks aren't all AI, they're not even "neural networks" since the terms wraps up a huge amount of architectural and design choices and algorithms.

Unless you believe in the soul, then the human brain is just a very complicated learning architecture with a specific structure (which we freely know doesn't operate like existing systems...sort of, of course we also don't know that it's not just a convoluted biological path to emulating them for specific subsystems either).

But even your original argument is focused on just playing with words to remove meaning: calling something data doesn't meaningfully make your point, because mathematical symbols are just "data" as well.

Mathematics has no requirement to follow any laws you think it does - 1 + 1 can mean whatever we want, and its a topic of discussion as to why mathematics describes the physical world at all - which is to say, it's valid to say we designed mathematics to follow observed physics.
The worst thing about HN (and it does reflect badly on YC as a whole, at least for me) is how they enable people to act in seemingly passive aggressive ways. Instead of stating disagreements, they downvote, and you'll never know why. Just pure crappy behavior. In this case, someone explained below that they downvoted because they don't agree that the article is propaganda and that it calls for less backdoors or something like that as if everything isn't backdoored already, one way or another.

Then you have stuff like BIP39 protecting people's money (cryptocurrency) that can be cracked for $350/hr on GPU rigs. Someone even wrote a how-to.

Current security makes it harder, but not sufficiently harder, to break into systems. I mean... HN crowd is probably high schoolers and non-tech people just out here to argue.
> sysadmin work for hire

you'd be shocked to know how many people believe that this exactly what the "cloud" is. these are the people making the support requests.
How does this solve traveling salesman exactly?
That’s interesting. Thanks.
You missed a few "damn Millennials" in those comments.

Anecdotally, your comments do not line up with my experience at all. Not only is our Sr SysAdmin providing sage wisdom and networking guidance to our DevOps team, but several of our Jr guys are taking the time to learn networking specifically (certs and all). In fact, we'll have a few new Juniper specialists in 6 months or so.
This has been solved in the last year or so. Look up "LLM chain of thought".
Pretty much all laptops are getting firmware updates delivered through Windows Update (or a vendor-specific automatic tool), and usually for several components rather than just the motherboard UEFI firmware. And they definitely need those fixes, because the annual cadence of product refreshes means they're shipping from the factory half-baked
https://archive.is/T3i5M
They were able to rebuild… because the US funded it.

The Marshall Plan, also known as the European Recovery Program, was a U.S. program providing aid to Western Europe following the devastation of World War II. It was enacted in 1948 and provided more than $15 billion to help finance rebuilding efforts on the continent.

That’s about $187B in 2022 dollars. In addition to technology and trade.

… followed shortly after Breton Woods, which secured trade for the rest of the world in exchange for not joining up with the Soviets.
Sure but sometimes those could be about another country. Like a US news site that talks about something that happens in Germany.
> I'm not aware of any set of games that let you transfer items among them using a blockchain

Illuvium already released a suite of separate games with interoperable assets verifiable on a public blockchain; granted, they are all made by the same parent studio. But it demonstrates the principle.

> Ideally, you would like everyone to agree on a single format

The in-game representation could afford some creative licence by each studio. Having said that, there are efforts to define common standards for 3D assets specifically (even sprite animations for avatars); hard to say how realistic it is.

> if you were allowed to tranfer automatic rifles from Call of Duty to a RPG game where you are supposed to fight using a sword

Nobody expects that all types of assets would be universally transferable between every game imaginable. Simply verifying on the blockchain some proxy for experience points between Call of Duty and Apex Legends, in order to skip some of the initial grind, would be desirable and meaningful.

> you could use a blockchain, but do you really need it?

Blockchains have additional upsides: data persistence, decoupled from the longevity of any individual studio; resistance to censorship (a game could ban an asset, but it wouldn’t be deleted from other games); immediate compatibility with a broader financial system (e.g automatic lending protocols that enable you to get a currency loan against your NFT, without requiring permission from the game).
"Now many devices have enough system flash on board to hold the complete stack, firmware now includes complete operating systems and has come to mean that software at the heart of your technology that controls its behavior and which you can't just load in as an app.

So why lock it down?"

Unclear with respect to intent. However a practical effect is IMHO to deny the computer owner control over their own computer. Whatever control the owner had through the user-facing operating system is now superceded by a non-user-facing operating system. Whomever controls that operating system controls the computer.
https://archive.ph/ryGVd
Yes, at least the base versions of the drugs were.

We use teeny tiny variations of the drugs which are supposedly more effective but are also much more expensive.

Most other countries report significantly better healthcare outcomes with generic drugs.
> There is going to be some competition there from now on.

there already is competition- it’s called Android based phones. This is more akin the government telling Walmart they have to freely give shelf space away to anyone and everyone to sell anything they want.
FYI we're building a service to make this process even simpler and faster:

dreamlook.ai

Upload your pictures, we train the model in a few minutes, then you can download your trained checkpoint. $1/model, first one for free.

For app builders, we provide a solid API that scales to 1000s of runs per day without breaking a sweat.
Not my experience at all - I was a small account. I was paying for support. They went way outside support scope and seemed to think nothing of it, they should tell customers to pound sand more often probably, but it seemed like they are willing to troubleshoot customer issues pretty thoroughly.

Did have some complaints about some things (classic flat network going away if you started with that had some bumps).
Nope. Just look at Google search.

They took a fully functional and useful product for universal search and refined it to an interactive advertisement that might answer a question as long as it's generic.
I'm turning 65 in a couple of months, been making a living doing this stuff for money since I was in college - started programming 53 years ago (using cards) - in '84 I moved to the US I think most of the people I worked with then are working now
I'm making a puzzle game and some philosophising
Soon, the EU will pass a law that forces any AI company to provide you with a printout of the entire model upon request.
> The average lifespan of a house in Japan is 20-30 years [0]

This is a myth that I've seen many times. It's true for taxable value, but people just live there longer, like 30-50 years. House quality is improving since 80s (in -80s, they built crappy houses massively after houses were gone by the war) so lifespan will be expanded in the future. You can find older houses by using Google street view at random street. https://www.google.com/maps/@38.0624007,139.9893573,3a,75y,1...
True. I think perhaps the model of IETF design-by-committee, with giant industry players who wish to sink specifications under the weight of risky and unnecessary features, is much like the "too many cooks" problem. It's better to have smaller groups of renowned experts create minimal protocols rather than force another ASN.1 or IPsec on the world.
What's the technology that enforces something like "apps are not allowed to degrade the user for denying permissions, except for features that actually use that permission". Or however Apple wrote the exact rule that prevents apps like FB from saying "give us access to all your contacts or we won't work at all".

As one example.
You can transfer money from your bank that is used to pay your CC bill (I just confirmed this with a $10 transfer, it takes "1-3 business days").

I think the 0.25% extra interest they are offering is reduced marketing expense (general advertising but also things like getting an extra 1% for referring/being referred).
It's probably economically difficult to rationalize building a GPT5. They're already having a hard time getting everyone GPT4. Better to spend the resources optimizing to get everyone onto a cheap(er) GPT4-comparable model than build a marginally better model that is even more expensive to scale. Like most tech there is a sigmoid curve where you start to see diminishing returns.
I suspect you are right. We may be stuck at the gpt4 sizes for a bit just because of hardware costs though. As they get bigger it costs too much to run them until our hardware becomes more optimal for these large models at 4 bits or so.

I think the YouTube videos is going to be the next big training set. A transformer trained on all text and all of YouTube will be killer amazing at so much. I bet it can understand locomotion and balance and body control from YouTube.

I wonder if TPUs, like Google's Tensor chip, will beat out GPUs when it comes to image/video based training?
>theo blew up

Those rash of OpenSSH and OpenSSL vulnerabilities back in the late 90s seemed like it was targeted at Theo just because he acted like a jerk and he knew it. The never compromised tagline of OpenBSD was flushed down the toilet and at the time it really seemed like it was a deliberate attack
It's even simpler if you look at parallel resistors by their conductance (more paths), and series resistors by their resistance (steeper path). As usual, more symmetrical math makes the engineering less mysterious.
This reminds me of the Shannon switching game ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon_switching_game )

> Two players take turns coloring the edges of an arbitrary graph. One player has the goal of connecting two distinguished vertices by a path of edges of their color. The other player aims to prevent this by using their color instead (or, equivalently, by erasing edges). The game is commonly played on a rectangular grid; this special case of the game was independently invented by American mathematician David Gale in the late 1950s and is known as Gale or Bridg-It.

That game, if modeled as an electrical circuit of resistors has the property that the best play is the one with the most voltage across it.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/123102/bird-cage

> The game's original incarnation was as a machine built by the game's designer, noted engineer Claude Shannon. The machine would choose its' move by measuring electrical resistance between its' sides of the square and would reportedly win "almost always" when making the first move.
Not sure about never been done in real life - some of the Provos and Unionists in Northern Ireland pivoted their cell structures from terrorism to profitable crime when peace broke out.
What companies have been trying to get us to accept for ages now is making consumers scan items using their personal devices to get a price that will be tailored to them individually based on their income level, their purchase history, their personal/political views, their "customer loyalty", etc. I'm guessing that assuming anonymizing payment solutions aren't outlawed they'll be a lot less effective when they're collecting your personal information just to see a price or view product information.
We will see. Current strategy is demand is a function of price. Not marketing. They will change price continually to meet the production output of the factory.

Between no marketing, no dealers, and making their own batteries - it’s very hard to compete.

CyberTruck looks cold, angry, mean - there’s more than enough truck drivers with the matching personality to meet the supply.
You are thinking of supervised learning, in which a model is trained to generate labels for inputs.

In self-supervised learning, the training target is a modified version of the input.

Transformers are trained in a self supervised manner. The problem they solve is "given a sequence of N tokens, what is the next most likely token?"

No labels required :)
Tesla's 2023 marketing pitch should be "Hey, look! We can make vehicles without government subsidies!"
What have you done? Now we need to rewrite them all! "The right bird in the hand of worth more than 2 right ones in the bush"
Ask HN: Thoughts on creating packages and breaking them for profit?
I've come across 2 PPAs today which are or have been broken in hopes of making money. In one case, some dependencies have been set as private to break the main packages (like ffmpeg5). This is causing some open source project builds to fail (when these relied on these PPAs) and it makes a bunch of documentation useless.

2 examples:

- https://launchpad.net/~savoury1 - currently broken packages

- https://web.archive.org/web/20191216131452/https://launchpad.net/~jonathonf - packages have been broken in the past - then made available again

I'm all-in for donating to package maintainers, but this bait and switch strategy feels a bit evil.

Thought on this?
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The Cybertruck has to be released before it can fail in the market-place.
That's correct. Nupur Sharma's comments on the Times Now news channel were incendiary enough that Times Now decided to delete the video of the debate she was featured in and also issue a statement:

> Views expressed by BJP Spokesperson on Newshour@9 last night are her personal views. TIMES NOW does not endorse views of participants. We urge participants on our debates to maintain restraint and not indulge in unparliamentary language against fellow panelists.

It's not someone else's fault that Sharma decided to make those comments on live television in the first place.

https://www.jantakareporter.com/entertainment/times-now-dele...

https://twitter.com/timesnow/status/1530137204999475201
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I'm not arguing against billionaires. I'm arguing that billionaires make most of their money through investments and those investments are taxed at a lower rate than labor, where most of the middle class makes money through labor. If the wealthy can keep a few percent more of their income year after year then you end up with the inequality I'm pointing out. We can have billionaires and fair tax policy. Trickle-down does not work.
Wasn't it even rumored for a while that PKK shot the prime minister Olof Palme in retaliation?

That being said I think Sweden has been a bit weak on Kurdish terrorist supporters recently. Most (at least Scandinavian) left wing parties have a soft spot for leftish terrorists. I can see why, they are usually oppressed underdogs.
Speak for yourself. 1080p is noticeably worse if I'm paying attention; 720p is noticeably worse at a glance; and 480p (which is effectively T-Mobile's limit by default, even though they advertise my plan as supporting "4K streaming") looks like hot garbage.
His mention of Google also links to DDG, so I think it's all intentional. Possibly because the modern word for searching the internet is "to google".
Peace broke out?
Nothing stops them from coming out with a more traditional truck later except that it clearly takes them many years to ship a new model, and all the while customers who want a truck now or don't want a cybertruck are going to competitors.

Of course at this point they are committed to release. But I agree with others that releasing a more traditional truck would have been more savvy.
I reserved one because it looks different from anything else.
You don’t need a warrant to enter a home or similar property to effect an arrest when you are in hot pursuit of a subject who you have probable cause (in a situation not requiring a warrant) to arrest because, in that context, the entry is not a search.

I don’t see how that helps here, because the whole point of putting a GPS tracker on a car is to allow abandoning hot pursuit in favor of (what has been determined to be) a search.
It’s less to do with rdbms specifics and more to do with things like globally available replication and super low latency.

As for features I mean you could use Postgres and some extensions and you’re good to go. If you want a document db you can just use jsonb type.

You need to know your access patterns and what queries you will be running beforehand when working with something like dynamo. You can also do relational modeling with dynamo following single table design and basically pre join.
UUID to the rescue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier

It:

- is a standard

- adoption is widespread in computing platforms

- addresses the birthday problem (in v4, chances of a collision in a 103 trillion set is 1 in a billion)
GitHub is paying $3-4 million per month. There are EC2 images dating back to 2011 wheeee
Entirely depends on use case. If you "just" need a lot - a lot of storage, bandwidth, CPU power - going on prem is way cheaper when you get up to "few racks of servers".

If you complicated your architecture enough - and the cloud makes it oh so easy to make rube goldberg architecture - keeping many different services running or even developing in-house can take a lot.

And it's not like cloud costs you zero in ops work either, just need different set of skills.

But it is not like on-prem stagnated - there is plenty automation in that space too. Our team of 3 manages 7 racks of servers and few dozen projects on them (anything from "very legacy" to 30+ node k8s cluster and ceph storage with it) and the hardware management still isn't majority of our work
A human memorizing a book is legal; a human reciting that book aloud for an audience is not (performances of plays require licenses to the performing rights of a work, for example).

Distribution is when the issue arises - not consumption and construction of a mental model.

I acknowledge the parallels are imperfect and this all needs to be worked out in court. But it’s possible that at the pace LLMs are developing, by the time courts start addressing these questions we’ll already be questioning whether the distinction between machines and people is as big as we thought.
Whatever you or Viker decide the doge will abide :)
The demo, based on an older version: https://atrosinenko.github.io/qemujs-demo/

Two articles about the project in Russian (Google Translate is helpful):

https://habr.com/en/articles/315770/

https://habr.com/en/articles/451306/
Nah, I meant the first one, like the peers to this comment noted.
> Consider Tesla did not copy existing manufacturers.

I own a Model 3 and was considering a BMW 3-series (non-EV) briefly before I bought the Tesla. While shopping I was surprised to notice how closely the price of Model 3 option packages tracked the BMW equivalent packages, almost within a few dollars (although the Tesla had fewer packages.) It seemed obvious to me that Tesla had done this on purpose, in an effort to carefully market the Model 3 towards an existing successful market. Similarly, the crossover they came out with next was named the “Model Y” and seemed almost perfectly tuned to compete with some of BMW’s popular X-line of crossover SUVs, again an existing market that could easily be optimized against. So while I would not use the word “copy”: it sure seemed like Tesla was carefully targeting existing markets, with slightly more flashy vehicles and similar price points — all with enormous success! The Cybertruck, on the other hand, throws this successful and cautious strategy into the garbage and then backs over it.
And at the end of the month, Elon's got to sell another chunk to fund the Twitter debt payment. But I'm sure he's playing 11th dimension chess and knows what he's doing. I'm sure when he doesn't have cheap debt to do a stock buy-back TSLA will go up instead of down.
This article is from February, such price drops haven't materialised and if anything the prices have bottomed out and is going back up.

Can't we get a break anywhere on the internet from these asinine house price prediction articles?
Groovy! Took a bit of finagling¹ to get it to build under Zig master², and it looks like my machine doesn't like playing some of the "presets" with sample rates below 4000Hz, but it's certainly a fun little gadget.

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¹: https://github.com/orhun/linuxwave/pull/8

²: I could've just did an "asdf install zig 0.10" and plopped in a corresponding ".tool-versions", or just used the Dockerfile, but what's the fun in that?
Good journalism is a demand side problem:

Nobody, outside of niche academic circles, actually wants it.

More people will be reliant on automated aggregators. But this close to what we have today, except that the today's aggregators are made of meat.