skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
T-Mobile is cost effective in rural areas. They’ve done huge investment into rural 5G infrastructure in places like Ohio, which means homes which only get like 6mbps max from Century Link now have a real option for internet. The only competition is StarLink, which is way more expensive.
I never understand this kind of moralistic thinking about pricing. If you get more storage than you need for a price you're willing to pay you should be happy. You get the storage you need and then some.

I pay for Netflix and I watch less than 2 movies a month. Am I angry because I'm paying for the right to watch multiple movies/shows every day which I will never have time for? No. I get what I want for a price I'm willing to pay.

Every time you buy a piece of software or hardware you get features you don't care about. Do I get angry that these features are included? Of course not. I just don't use them.

But somehow when it comes to quotas people feel like the price should somehow correspond to the cost of delivering the service. But it doesn't. It's just price segmentation, and as long as the pricing tiers are clearly advertised I don't think you have any right to be mad.
I think the argument is that the universe he created is amazing and rightly beloved, but his movie-making skills were troublesome. I also love the SW universe, but mostly for things that did not come directly from Lucas...
It's _really_ hard to come up with a coherent theory of European telecom pricing; it is just all over the place. For instance, Ireland is more expensive than the UK thing... So it's a density thing, right? Not so fast; Germany (denser than Ireland) is also more expensive than Ireland... There are some general _trends_, but big exceptions to all of them.
I imagine that leveraging AI to answer questions about documents, or helping with documentation composition, could be an expected feature by DropBox customers.
Having an efficient algorithm for SAT (or any NP complete problem) immediately gives you an efficient algorithm for ALL problems in NP, including ECDLP.
> Happened with the dot-com bubble, web3, metaverse, cryptocurrencies, "BigData", ...

CIOs love this one weird trick to boost shareholder value!
> we investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing

Did they? I thought the issue is the Chief Justice hasn’t bothered to investigate. Instead, it’s the Clarence Thomas show.
Douglas Adams or Terry Pratchett?
How kids talk to each other is way way worse now than when I grew up in my experience. Calling each other 'whores' or different combinations of 'fuck'.

Having a state-ish approved nomenclature that is way off their everyday one has to be phsycois inducing.
A number of apps in the GNOME ecosystem use the Rust GTK bindings (e.g, Fractal).
Slides: https://msrndcdn360.blob.core.windows.net/bluehat/bluehatil/...
It’s hard to imagine a more mature industry than farming capital. It’s not exactly going to be easy to even compete on quality, let alone disrupt.
Eh it’s and ethnoreligious group.
I see the album on Apple Music listed as Witchcraft
Nitpicky, but shouldn't that be "Mr. Galilei"?
"AI" (or whatever you want to call it) is real. I'm still on the fence around whether LLMs are as transformative--at least over the next few years--as some people think they are. But they're useful even in their current state.

I also had a batch of photos to process from an event and updated my Lightroom. The new Denoise did a really nice job with these relatively noisy/highish ISO pics. And the Adaptive preset to punch up the subject (speakers at an event) was pretty nice too.

Not game changing IMO but a nice workflow addition.

NFTs on the other hand always felt like beanie babies. Blockchain in the enterprise distributed ledger sense felt like it had some potential use cases although I was always pretty skeptical which seems to have been justified.
Is most marketing good? I don't think so.
Who said anything about censors?

I specifically asked for this person’s opinion and checked it against my own sources and knowledge. We talked for several hours about identity. We compared and contrasted each other perspectives. In the end, I realized I didn’t know enough about body-dysphoria.

So I did more research and revised my story.

In the original story, my character decided to not transition and still have sexual relationships in a female body. In the revised story… that didn’t change. What changed was his feelings and reasons for doing so.

My story got better, not worse with my reader’s feedback. The story was more interesting because the was explanation deeper and more accurate.

My character isn’t trans, he’s a character who happens to be trans. But that fact profoundly affects everything about him. And you get to learn what his experience is. And because it’s his experience, I don’t have to get everything “right”. I just needed to not miss a very important aspect of body-dysphoria.

That’s how this is supposed to work. You want to see what you’re missing and make an informed decision.
If you believe many of the studies - just swapping male-sounding and female-sounding applicant names on resumes and papers submitted for publication would do a great deal of good. The Max-Planck approach does not actually work WRT human sexism.

(Yes, know that awareness-raising events are only useful for wasting staff's time while covering management's *ss.)
1. Multiple times. Idiots love to do meaningless things, so they disable IPv6 without understanding the consequences. I turn it back on and things start to work again.
According to this article [0], you're right:

> This property of the strong nuclear force is known as asymptotic freedom, and the particles that mediate this force are known as gluons. Somehow, the energy binding the proton together, the other 99.8% of the proton's mass, comes from these gluons.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2016/08/03/wher...
Chicken coop auto-door opener so I don't have to get up at 4AM in the summer. It was just a basic Arduino system but I learned that large canning jars make excellent enclosures: waterproof, reusable, easily modified and replacable lid.
I honestly hope they use it to improve their documentation. I consider myself and pretty adept developer but without much background in AI and was looking for a solution for building out a recommendation engine and ended up at Pinecone.

Maybe I'm not the target audience but after spending some time poking around I couldn't honestly couldn't even figure out how to use it.

Even a simple Goole Search for "What is a Vector Database" ends up with this page.

https://www.pinecone.io/learn/vector-database/#what-is-a-vec...

Pinecone is a vector database that makes it easy for developers to add vector-search features to their applications

Um okay... what's "vector-search"? For that sake what the eff is a "Vector" to begin with? Finally after getting about a third down the page we start defining what a vector is....

Maybe I'm not their target audience but I ended up poking around for about an hour or two before just throwing up my hands and thinking it wasn't for me.

Ended up just sticking with Algolia, since we had them in place for Search anyway...
I checked here [0] and you are correct. There is one match for "n-- Jim", however the n-word is used as an adjective, not as part of a proper noun, similar to "your coworker Bob". Searching for just the n-word brings up over 200 usages, however.

[0]: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/32325/32325-h/32325-h.htm
> I can't recall seeing a single car that used a potentiometer for the volume control, and I've had cars from the early 90's all the way to today. They've all used encoders.

That's because the switch happened earlier than that. Go back earlier than the "DIN size" head units of the '80s and '90s to the "shaft" style radios with two large knobs flanking a center section with an analog frequency display and maybe some preset buttons if you're lucky.
The researchers should have asked whether their metric, publication count, is all that great for assessing a professor's actual academic productivity:

> "If the productivity gap between men and women is entirely caused by gendered parenthood effects, then the productivity trends of men and women without children should be indistinguishable. To investigate this hypothesis, we examined each professor’s publication history and calculated their cumulative productivity over the 5 years before and 10 years after beginning their first assistant professor position."

First, publication inflation is a common tactic in academia, in which a study that really could be published in one or two papers is broken up into two or three times as many in order to pad the professor's CV. Some academics have taken this practice to fairly ridiculous extremes, and that is going to skew the results.

Second, there are multiple other plausible productivity metrics, such as the number of graduate students the professor has successfully mentored through a Master's or PhD program, the amount of grant dollars brought in, and the number and/or quality of courses taught at the undergraduate level (all adjusted to time spent as a professor).

All these measures are also value judgments of some kind - the university administration may have its eyes on the grant dollars above all else, but in the larger societal context, well-trained young engineers, doctors, scientists etc. might be the more valuable academic product.
>when you've sunk this many billions into something, you can't wait that long before needing to make that money back.

The last 15 years of tech says otherwise. Tesla is the most obvious counterpoint to this example. I don't think the Metaverse is useful, but my issue with Facebook isn't that he poured 30B into what was essentially R&D.
ASML's EUV tech also came in part from the US's EUV LLC (public/private partnership from the 90s), and that's one reason we were able to control their exports to China.
Doesn't Authy require a phone number? I don't know why you'd use Authy over something open source.
there are reasons for government, and things like this are one of them. left alone, companies will always prioritize short-term goals over long-term goals.

budgets in the short-term are negatively impacted by this decision for all/most tractor makers, which is why they resisted this change. no one can accurately predict market forces that far out, so short-term concerns, being much easier to predict, win out.
The Starlink modems pull about 100 watts. As far as I know, the cell uplink service being discussed in this article does not use the Swarm network, and the phones utilizing this new service will not be running at 100w. This is a new satellite based low-power 4g/5g service that slots in somewhere between Starlink internet and Swarm's offering, and it seems to be integrated into the Starlink network. It is cheap enough to lump into cell plans, is compatible with sub $100 phones, and seems to have the capacity for much higher bandwidths.
Title ("Censorship is a product of extreme ideology") is editorialized. Censorship is never mentioned.

The actual posts are pretty good & about how ideogy contorts people's thinking & causes them to make wildly articulate arguments to make them into something they're not. In violation of Occam's Razer.

Amusingly that's what we have here with the submission title

Edit: fun post topic, hopefully we can find a way to bring it back without it getting flagged!
Oracle DB has quite a few free alternatives. Yet Larry Ellison is the world's 4th wealthiest person.
> Only someone who was confident in his faction's ability to control Congress forever would hamstring the Supreme Court.

I don't quite understand what you're saying here. Especially in light that it takes a supermajority of the Senate to remove someone from the court, not just control of the Senate.

> that one pays to make certain that there are some speed bumps in the way of the House and Senate if they ever got too far out of whack.

Direct election of members of congress is the better speedbump.
It is interesting that it seems studies generally consider "academic productivity" == "number of publications".
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When was the last time you were in school? Drug use is endemic inside schools. It’s swept under the rug better in suburbia.

With everyone having a phone, internet access can happen everywhere.
It really isn’t.

The time macOS changed my default to having all my files in the cloud rather than local was a truely scarring experience.

The price is high and ‘family sharing’ is a minefield.
I disagree. Judaism is not an ethnic group, it's many absolutely different and disjunct ethnic groups, that only have religion in common. A Jew from Yemen has nothing else in common with a Jew from Poland. Different language, different food,. different music, different physical resemblance, different interpretation of the Torah, etc.

I recommend reading The Invention of the Jewish People, by Shlomo Sand.

As a practical example. When my father (Ashkenazi) married my mother (Sephardic), my father's grandma was devastated, because he was marrying a non-jew.
> You will not get an interesting conversation on these topics on an American discussion board. These topics are a minefield.

That's the point. Create a chilling effect to stifle discussion. Make it easy to draw sides and rally a demographic. Force opposition to take increasingly wild, extreme positions, then use those as a way to force your side to get even more extreme. Now you have 20-305 of the population who are rabid about issue X, and any real discussion about it is dead.

Makes it real easy to sidestep other discussions, like how broken housing or minimum wages are.

Nor is this a new thing, by a long shot; was an explicit tactic of the Soviet Union, and has been adopted by plenty of others, notably the US Right-wing.
No, GP was just saying we should give Dropbox the benefit of the doubt, because Dropbox understands the product strategy more than any of us do. Including GP.
If the physics is to be believed then it should be roughly the same as being punched in the arm by a strong guy. So long as you aren't suffering from osteoporosis you should be able to take the hit. The trick with bulletproof materials is to spread the energy out, the fabric would need to be like a super oobleck where it becomes completely rigid when hit by a bullet and then return to being flexible afterward. If it is bulletproof but still acts like fabric then the bullet will just pull it along as it pierces through your body.
I didn't pick the analogy here friend.

lathe : gun :: _____ : oil drilling platform, you put your own words in there if you want.

Regardless I'm within my own rights to tell you that what you admire is bad and your admiration of it is obscene.
This reminds me of the first 25 seconds of this clip from The Matrix: https://youtu.be/Smwrw4sNCxE
An upside of this approach over the counting strips is a possibility for less vandalism.

As remarkable as it sounds, people are so anti-bike in my city there were instances of people literally cutting the strips put on bike lanes to count use.
Very probably they understood that having a property database makes hiring and onboarding more difficult than necessary.

Open sourcing the database helps on that.
The future of generative AI is niche, not generalized
> allowing "two numbers" instead of just one would already be plenty for 99.999% of people

I expect they already have a solution that is plenty for 99.999% of people.
One of the main benefits of right to repair is to keep tractors in service for longer. Your solution is for farmers to throw away their tractors and buy new ones?

What’s to stop the new manufacturer from implementing a similar policy once the farmers are locked in with an expensive purchase?
It's about control of speech, and it has always been the Left that has a greater interest to control language because the Left needs to appeal to (or manipulate, convince) a lot of people on their side. The Right more often uses money as a means of control. That's why socialist states were such pioneers in propaganda. Not all extreme ideologies produce censorship, but extreme power does.
Comcast isn't the real competitor. Lots of folks are stuck on shitty ADSL because the hassle of getting cables in and run—especially as a renter—are too high. I've even heard of folks who can't get a decent enough signal from Comcast switching because the time and energy to replace the coax to their condo was too much.
A webbapp that helps me remember names by showing them in a graph network. Super simple, use it constantly

A webapp for sharing files/text between two devices no matter the platform. Use this all the time. No more sending emails, Facebook message, dropbox link to yourself.
The performance point in your linked post is worth highlighting: I see a lot of developers complaining "if the web had an accessibility API for this, then it wouldn't be a problem."

The web does have an accessibility API. It's called the DOM.

What developers are upset about is that they have to make their apps performant in that accessibility layer. The DOM restricts you from developing a fast app for sighted users and a much laggier less-featured app for users using the accessibility API, because it forces you to always have the accessibility API turned on. It forces you to treat the accessibility API as your default rendering target (and allows you to occasionally make something inaccessible by embedding a canvas element inside of that UI for one or two parts of your app.

And if you can't develop a fast app using the accessibility API, then having a toggle to turn that layer off is not really a solution for that problem. I'm very glad AccessKit exists, it's better than nothing, but that doesn't mean the apps that are using it should be proud of themselves.
Maybe. I haven't looked too hard. Just got pissed off by scenes being so much harder to follow.
The fact that all 9 justices pretty much agreed that this is a non-issue speaks volumes. Justices are above the law and play by different rules.

A regular govt worker receiving a $25 gift card has to report it or could be fired, but once you get to Supreme Court, you can do whatever you want.
I use the term Anglosphere. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglosphere).
The National Public Health Laboratory in Khartoum has polio, cholera, and measles pathogens. There's a large pic from inside the facility here, posted in 2020. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/25/more-foreigners-fle... Looks like a wall or window air conditioning unit, so it can't be BSL-4 and probably isn't even BSL-3 ... I hope.
Most demos shared by people can use numpy arrays similar to this https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1647374645316968449
Yep, I agree. In some cases (especially whitelist/blacklist), the newspeak names are actually better/more descriptive, and shorter (which I view as a win). Regardless of how you feel about the motivations behind it, I would hope that highly technical people can appreciate better clarity and brevity.
Russian Aviation Museam (1996)
Toothpaste also provides grit, substance for scrubbing teeth
It’s runs on a JVM, right? Presumably it could be decompiled and cleaned up (might be a massive task - but possible), and the reconstructed source would fall under the Apache license.

What a weird choice to make.
Ok interesting. Ye I guess much of these thing happen at random really.
If I may ask - is there demand for bedrooms & kitchens with no windows? I'm looking at this apartment:

https://victorstl.com/apartments/?spaces_sort=bd_asc&detail=...

I understand why it is like that, I just want to know if customers are interested in this kind of floor plan.
For the record, I'm in the EU and customers demand natural light (and ventilation) for every room, including bathrooms. Major PITA if I may say so.
Hoping the industry at large realizes it will be a much more difficult task than it seems to automate things completely. Sure, you can do 80% of it with AI automation, but how does the automation account for the new version of a programming language? How does the automation account for a new processor architecture? The AI is trained on vast amounts of data from real humans' I. If those humans go away, then there's nothing to train it on.

Even more importantly as AI takes over more jobs--and there's a full Ted Talk on this somewhere--humans must ensure that we don't break the chain of passing knowledge down to the next generation that has existed for millions of years, otherwise we may end up as a civilization of adult babies.
> It's open source cosplay.

I am stilling that phrase. It's perfect.
We were comparing nuclear and solar, not coal and solar.

164 megawatts (328 / 2, to account for the fact that solar plants are offline a minimum of half the time) is not anywhere in the same league as nuclear power plant, which are typically in the 2-3 gigawatt range, with modern large-scale plants producing 6-8 gigawatts.

The Mount Signal 3 plant also used up 2,000 acres (800 hectares of Imperial Valley farm land.
I feel this could be misleading. Are the demands more transparent and being tracked better than before? During the "olden times" under Dorsey it seems the demands were less transparent. Some of this was brought to light in the hearing like banning people for no specific reason and spying on their personal conversations.
> Why does it rub me wrong?

Because "your" car is betraying you and obeying a different master. Once you cross the bright line of "items should be loyal only to their owner", things get dystopian very quickly - subscription seat warmers, DVD players that won't let you skip commercials, TVs that embed ads and spy on you, printers that secretly embed tracking dots on your documents...

It all adds up, until you find yourself living in a cage, with little control over your environment. And trying to take back that control is not only technically difficult, but thanks to anti-circumvention legislation, often outright illegal.
I assumed “the others” was a funny take on “us vs them”, for the sole purpose being something to fight in a game.
anybody got an invite link? "ai hub" is not the easiest thing to search for.
I’ve wanted to ask this question but I don’t know who to ask.

Can someone explain what the use case is for vector DBs like pinecone, milvus etc. vs a fully featured search engine like Vespa, ElasticSearch etc. which also support vector search features?

Is there something about running this type of index operationally that is particularly difficult?
It probably would happen, it'd just take more time. The best minds of my generation are trying to become famous on tiktok, resting and vesting at Big Tech, or writing day trading algorithms. Minimal work to max profit is what we're all trying to optimize.
I really really miss those brief brilliant years a decade ago when we started making 17, 18 inch tablets.

Its sad we gave up so quickly, but also, we were much worse at building devices then & the performance wasn't really there. Now that we can easily pump the pixels, now that we can make great well structured chassis, I hope we see this come back.

I think the laptop is indeed on the way out. I have been using a tablet form factor (x86) pc as my main personal dev machine since 2017, but with a solid ergo arm & bluetooth keyboard. Keeping the screen & keyboard attached is such a huge disadvantage.
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Is the risk assessment part unclear for you ?
Maybe it does - but does that balance out the sleeplessness, tiredness, extra stress, less free time and mindspace etc of parenting?

I'd be confident the extra leverage on parents is a larger factor.
There is a number N for each employee where considering the top N employees, they are the worst.

So I wouldn't feel bad about having a "low" rank in deliberately selective sample of humanity.