skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure - but a vector db is helping you keep your prompts to under size X. It isn't adding state and there are various mechanisms to keep your prompt to under size X - like summarization, providing a table of contents etc. It seems to me that vector db and semantic search are one trick in a pile of tricks to keep prompt sizes down until we can get the input sizes up (although gpt4 already takes 32,000 tokens).

Using semantic search to find relevant chunks seems misguided but practical in the short term. One of the key benefits of LLMs is they can take into account a lot of context.
It’s a real bummer to see this happen. I hope some day there’s some sort of canonical image host that can be maintained through donations of money and hosting.

Also, I very much pity whoever is in charge of trying to turn a profit by setting fire to such a big chunk of the internet’s history.
No. This is a mischaracterization of both the purpose of corporations and the responsibility corporations have to their shareholders.

The purpose of a corporation is not "profit above all else". Corporations are also supposed to operate in a manner that benefits society. We used to actually strip corporations of their charters when they failed their social responsibility.

The responsibility to shareholders depends a lot on the charter, but in general, it's to run the company in a profitable and sustainable manner. Again, it's not "make the most money possible no matter what". If that were the case, then there would be no corporations engaging in anything but the highest-margin sorts of business. So there'd be no low-margin stuff like toilet paper.
No matter how incredible and forward your endeavors are, it's fascinating how many haters there will be. Unfortunately most of this hate is precipitated by for profit news.
It's heterodox but it probably leans left numerically speaking, which reflects the industry and the regions where the industry is concentrated.
Yep.

You need to be thinking about performance from the very beginning, if you're ever going to be fast.

Because, like the article said, "overall architecture trumps everything". You (probably) can't go back and fix that without doing a rewrite.

(Though it can be OK to have particular small parts where say "we'll do this in a slow way and it's clear how we'll swap it out into a faster way later if it matters".)

But if your approach is just "don't even worry about performance, that's premature optimization", you'll be in for a world of pain when you want to make it fast.
> The ones arrogant enough to think they are not insecure

To be fair, I think the OpenBSD people have demonstrated they're pretty capable at writing decently secure software in C.
there's no long-running JS so nothing invisible really accounts for it either. is the background's SVG noise having difficulty rendering on your machine?
Funny how some things change with time: https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/7/8568473/windows-10-last-ve...
in Europe we call it HCI. In America, they put humans second, so they call it CHI.
They really are. A few articles examining the "Death of the mid budget movie" have touched on it. I miss solid, theatrically released comedies.

I recently watched Game Night (2018) which was hilarious, before that I'm reaching back to Tropic Thunder and Forgetting Sarah Marshall (both 2008 IIRC). I'm sure there are more, but it feels as if they've really fallen off.
Clubhouse Layoffs: Chat App Is Scaling Back Employees by More Than Half
This is also my experience trying to make genetic programming code do anything non-trivial. Very tricky. Not great when you have limited spare time.
Downtown São Paulo, or the central zone is a decadent part of the city (think Bronx in 70s). It is overrun with Cracolândia (big gathering of crack addict homeless people).
Most foreign people or even Brazilians that go to São Paulo stay only at the nice zones.
> You're the one who dismissed gathering evidence about real usage of streets

One study from 2009 is not enough evidence to base a discussion on. We're both arguing entirely off our preconceived notions here.

> your preferred solution is NOT politically workable.

I'm not sure what solution you're referring to here. Increasing housing density? We both argued for that.

> electrification of cars is proceeding faster than electrification of bus fleets. So even though there are more of them, electrifying cars is actually proving to be politically easier.

That's fine, but it's actually not fine because this does nothing to solve any of the negative externalities of cars except for CO2 emissions. They are still dangerous, loud, extremely wasteful of resources, extremely wasteful of space, and expensive and difficult for individuals to maintain. Plus they still pollute the local environment with burned rubber tires (worn down faster due to greater weight).

> If buses can't be made to work for a particular metro area, then nothing else is likely to work either.

I disagree with this assertion and I don't see any evidence that it's true. Besides, you've switched from "politics matter more than logistics" to "logistics matter more than politics" with this argument. Buses are less popular than trains.

> And fourth, the big problem with buses in America is population density

I know! That's why I said we need to fix density!

> we're not inclined to congregate in a small area for convenience.

Again, no evidence for this. Mixed-used, walkable developments tend to be extremely popular and prohibitively expensive. If it wasn't illegal to build more, we would probably be building more.
> some of us have 0 hesitance bucketing others on a scale of competence

Yeah, people like that exist... That has a strong and reverse correlation with competence.
Just preference honestly, we have a lot of apple devices, and it's nice to be able to keep things consistent. If we both had Android Phones we would've probably used Google assistant.
I think S3 of Discovery is when it finally figures out what it wants to be when it grows up. The time jump at the end of S2 and how it plays out in S3 were great ideas and really helped Discovery solve a bunch of lingering problems from S1 and S2. I loved S3 and S4 had a lot of good stuff including its ending few episodes was some of the best of Star Trek and I'm looking forward to S5 and a little sad that S5 is known to be its last, because I think that's the most interesting part of the Star Trek timeline right now and they've been cagey about whatever shows may next be in that part of the timeline.
Yeah I don’t think it’s common knowledge in the west that our governments are doing the color revolution dance in Sudan.
Intel reports largest quarterly loss in company history
I loved watching the iterative development of the Starship upper stage, and it felt like they were doing it the right way.

The full-stack superheavy feels like a different situation. Seeing how little control they have over the enormous blast from that rocket is shocking. It feels irresponsible.

One youtube channel [1] showed that a piece of concrete the size of a bus was thrown 50 meters in the air straight upwards during ignition. It almost hit the side of the rocket. This stuff is insane.

[1] https://youtu.be/omouxjzI17U?t=3111
I've been using Macs and iPhones since around 2009 and the last few months have been the first time I've started seriously contemplating about moving away from the ecosystem. I'm going to go travelling soon, and I want the most minimal setup possible, and Apple are starting to look really far behind. I'm toying with getting a Steam Deck and combining that with some NReal air glasses, a Magic Trackpad and either a custom 36 key split keyboard or the upcoming Tap XR. I really don't want to carry a MacBook, plus another mouse and trackpad and stand to make it ergonomic plus an iPad for when I want to read books or write notes.

This obsession with keeping iPad separate from MacOS is really starting to piss me off. People have been crying out for this for a while now and they're just tone deaf to it. I'm waiting til WWDC before I make any major decisions because that's when they're supposedly releasing their AR glasses but if they're shit or ridiculously priced then I could seriously see myself moving to Linux and Android within the next 12 months which is something I thought I'd never do.
This seems dumb. If she hadn’t told them how she created it, it would have been copyright? Is the copyright office going to start asking artists how they create their work now? This is just a bad decision on their part.
Their idea of GUI building is just too bad and backward.
You define the GUI by dragging things on a Canvas and some things that are specified in text. What you never want is going through thousands of widgets in a sidebar and a bit here and a bit there.

It suffers from we don't think about UI but only about technology. GUI Builder the old way stink (only XCode stinks like a perfume). There is also a reason why Microsoft does not offer a GUI Builder for their new WinUI 3
Googler, opinions are my own.

I think you misunderstand Google's infrastructure. I'm guessing that each GCP zone is actually a Borg Cell (see: https://storage.googleapis.com/pub-tools-public-publication-... ). Borg cells tend to be isolated from eachother in many ways in the physical layer (networking and management being a big one, not sure about power). So networking or machine management for an entire zone could go down and not affect other cells. Changes also tend to get pushed on a per-cell basis when they are Google wide rollouts.

I believe GCP recommends to replicate data cross regions (https://cloud.google.com/architecture/framework/reliability/...).

Also see: https://cloud.google.com/architecture/disaster-recovery#regi...
Up 5% today and a further 8% after hours. Combined with Google, Microsoft and Meta results, it seems like big tech is roaring back.
Do you mean UI as in X forwarding? I thought this wasn't possible, which kept me from using mosh so far.
I'd be curious, is this at the expense of coal? Or has demand just grown because of cheaper electricity due to more supply being available.
There was no existential reason for SpaceX to launch before they had the infrastructure to support it. They knew they would blow stuff up, had already started engineering a solution to the problem, and still went ahead with the launch anyway. The environmental consequences are enormous. I am a fan of space, but I also want it to be done responsibly.
Come again?

Modern servers seem to have about 100ns latency to main memory. The speed of light (actually electrical signals) delay is maybe 1-2ns.
You're completely delusional if you consider HN to be "left leaning", this place is the text-book definition of conservative libertarian echo chamber
Judge slams Tesla for claiming Musk quotes captured on video may be deepfakes
A catch in Knuth's famous quote is how to define "premature". I am not old enough to see how programmers in his time thought about "premature", but my impression is quite a few modern programmers think all optimizations are premature.
> The Community Edition license applies solely if Licensee cumulative annual revenue (of the for-profit organization, the government entity or the individual developer) or any donations (of the non-profit organization) does not exceed USD $5,000.00 (or the equivalent in other currencies) (the "Threshold"). If Licensee is an individual developer, the revenue of all contract work performed by developer in one calendar year may not exceed the Threshold (whether or not the Community Edition is used for all projects). For example, a developer who receives payment of $5,000.00 for a single project (or more than $5,000.00 for multiple projects) even if such engagements do not anticipate the use of the Community Edition, is not allowed to use the Community Edition. In addition, a developer building solely an app store application would not be allowed to use the Community Edition once the app store revenue reaches a revenue of $5,000.00 or more in a year.

How generous.
Cars damage the environment. We should prevent recreational use and limit use to the purchase of food, shelter and clothing.

Also, cars hit animals and insects. We should lower car speed limits to 5mph.
A morpheme is the smallest *meaningful* unit in a language though.
> Pair programming? You don’t have to keep repeating the tech stack and project description

Dear god, I can't believe how many times I've had to shout this from the rooftops on HN:

DO NOT SEND YOUR CODE TO OPENAI OR ANYONE ELSE.

Anyone working on their employer's code could (and should) be fired for uploading their code to an untrusted cloud, especially one that explicitly tells you not to send it secrets.
> But I'd rather not die before I get old, myself.

I suggest we call the people on the other side of this divide "Daltreys" and prohibit them from designing any UIs.
Partners extend ISS through 2030
Due to the constrained context window this is indeed a problem. But I would say solving it by just increasing context window will be really brute forcing the issue. I hope we can come up with something better. I'm betting on embeddings for these kind of things in my personal projects. But that too seems like a jackhammer for a nail kind of thing for single web pages.
> search.marginalia.nu consisted of 1 Swedish engineer and 1 server last I heard and still managed to outclass DDG in a number of query types relevant to me.

Still just 1 dinky lil' consumer hardware server in my living room. I think what is limiting the project the most is the hardware. Like I can definitely squeeze more out of it, but I could probably do 100 times more if I had any sort of operational budget.

But at least the development is funded for the moment. We'll see where I am when the NLnet money runs out...
100%

And change your oil (engine and transmission) often - it's much cheaper than an engine.

A decent 2017 CRV should be around 17k, and if you are just a touch careful, you shouldn't need to do anything expensive to it for a solid 250 000km. Same with an Accord or a Civic!
> If the price was $30 per year, I bet you could attract at least 400,000 casual subscribers (in an area of 24M people) and earn the same $12M per year. The more casual users would put less strain on the system too.

How would having more casual users put less strain on the system?

Lowering the price to $30/year isn't going to cause the people who now pay $200+/year to stop using it, so all those new casual users would be in addition to those already using it.
Tell HN: Nokia G22 Beware
So I bought a Nokia G22 to replace my old Galaxy, and it has not gone well. I did enjoy hearing the Nokia chime for the first time in nearly 2 decades though, haha.

Deal breaker first and foremost: Nokia/HMD Global Oy has apparently decided not to license any MicroSD storage filesystem, and declares ext4 as a non-portable filesystem and rejects it too. This means that the ONLY filesystem format it will deal with on a MicroSD is FAT32. So my 256GB space shows up correctly as "250GB" but I can't for example store my Signal backup on it because it is >4GB. The device itself's camera is readily capable of storing files larger than 4GB but you can't store that on your own MicroSD either.

Second thing that nearly was a deal-breaker: For reasons unknown, Signal doesn't end up correctly whitelisted for the Android deviceidle feature regardless of all UI-based battery settings/disabling/etc. This means Signal notifications arrive every 10 minutes, and for most people I know including non-technical family, this is unacceptable. The fix requires developer tools and adb:
adb shell dumpsys deviceidle disable
It is interesting that "org.thoughtcrime.securesms" is indeed in the whitelist, it just doesn't work.

So since this phone was only just released here in Australia, I reached out to their AU support and asked for a refund due to the fact that their MicroSD is basically useless to me. This was their reply:
Hi Jeff,

Thank you for your email and for bringing this to our attention.

We shall pass on your comments to our product design team.

Unfortunately as the Nokia G22 is not faulty and works as designed we cannot issue a replacement or refund.

Kind regards,

Nokia Care Team Australia
I agree with your solution, and that densification is the most important piece of the puzzle. However, it is a chicken and egg problem. The second you build new housing in an area that requires a car, the person sinks in the cost of a spare car. That very second, public transport stops being a competitive because it becomes an added cost. Additionally, the spare cars demand lanes and storage that destroy any dream of densification. Densification has to start with low-occupancy buses.

Most of the US has low occupancy buses because there are just few enough buses that no one wants to ever ride them. Buses suffer a self-fulfilling prophecy of occupancy rates. Bus occupancy in Europe is consistently high [1] and there is nothing to indicate that the same cannot be achieved in US cities of similar density given enough time. It is fair to use these numbers.

[1] https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/indicators/occupancy...
I agree with the sibling that you are reading things into OP's comment that aren't there.

OP isn't saying anything about the validity or wisdom of supplying arms to Ukraine. They're talking about Sudan, and how no one is interested/non-busy enough to supply their warring parties with weapons -- coincidentally, because of the war in Ukraine.

(FWIW, I absolutely agree with your points: while the Western supply of arms to Ukraine has certainly intensified the conflict, the alternative is that Ukraine would have been fully occupied by Russia a long time ago. But I don't believe OP was taking a stance on that at all.)
Fast.com down? Or does not resolve via 1.1.1.1?
Anybody else having weird problems either not resolving fast.com via 1.1.1.1 or actually resolving via 8.8.4.4

curl -H "Host: fast.com"
https://23.210.113.168:443 also does not work

Vodafone Germany
Correct, ReVanced is the new incarnation of Vanced, be sure to download the manager app and patch your own YouTube APK so that you trust it. Typically I download the recommended APK from APKMirror rather than patching the most recently updated version from the Play Store since it usually will not work with the Revanced manager app.

Regarding multiple apps, some Android distributions have that feature, I believe in Samsung it's called Parallel Apps.
>> This is a huge win for rural people, open source, and ag-tech. Hats off to Colorado for understanding what's at stake and the brass to fix it.

> Hardly. This never should have been necessary to begin with. It's pathetic that it took so long to reverse.

Are you kidding me? We have been lambasting corrupt politicians who are too greedy to stand against lobbyists and wishing for the right to repair for years and now that it's happened, all you can say is "no big deal, this isn't a win, harrumph harrumph?" Bollocks to you, good sir.

Of course it should have been a given in the first place! However, while I can't speak for you, I myself live in an imperfect world where we must do the best we can with what we have. So if, for a change, elected officials act in the best interests of their constituents to overturn something that you and I both readily agree is a disgusting perversion of the law, YES it's a win, and GOOD FOR THEM. Shame on you.
It changed the last part a bit.
You're not far off: the batteries are (probably) made of lithium.

Also, why batteries in a datacenter? When you implement a flush() command at the lowest level you're faced with two choices: 1) actually write to disk, then return from the call, 2) write to some cache/RAM and have just enough battery locally to ensure that you can write it to disk even if all power goes out.

Then there's the other problem of surviving long enough between a power interruption and diesel generators starting up. But this is a smaller problem, rebooting all instances in a datacenter is less bad than losing some data that was correctly flush()ed by software. Bad flush() behaviour can result in errors that cannot be recovered from without a complicated manual intervention (for example if it causes corrupted and unreadable database files).
> A cluster represents a distinct physical infrastructure that is housed in a data center.

> Google designs zones to minimize the risk of correlated failures caused by physical infrastructure outages

And they have stated that the flood "caused a multi-cluster failure".

> Zones should be considered a single failure domain within a region.

(—GCP's documentation.)
> The population doesn't want to be under Russia's boot

More importantly, the population doesn't enjoy genocide and torture that comes with "being under Russia's boot". The specific goals and ways with which Russia wages this conquest makes them unequivocally "bad guys" and Americans who help Ukrainians "good guys", even if this simplicity offends your cynical tastes.
What was the step?

In this specific explosion?
I had my mind blown by the same functionality in Android. Being able to select text from an app in the app-switching context is amazing.

I will definitely use this.
In this case, though, a lot of this is because SpaceX didn't take some pretty basic precautions, and because they were evidently lazy as shit at estimating the effects of the launch (they tore up their own pad, because they got the forces and effects involved way wrong—that's why they blasted chunks of concrete everywhere), and because they decided they just had to launch before getting a metal plate put in on the pad to mitigate some of this. I wanna say they also violated some of the rules around their flight plan, resulting in more damage and debris on the shore.

This isn't "the cost of progress", this is misconduct.
What does "plurality" mean in this context?
Not a big deal when knowing that there was just one major version upgrade during this time. And Qt also did not improve any of their tradional GUI parts during Qt5 development, but just added stuff for their embedded customers.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/493797/estimated-leveliz... - Estimated unsubsidized levelized costs of energy generation in the United States in 2021, by technology (in U.S. dollars per megawatt hour)

The thing is, wind/solar costs have been decreasing and also have a predictable ongoing cost. Fossil fuel prices are volatile.
Marginally better than discord, substantially inferior to older forum software. Still a pain to get going.

Thank god someone else like Linen is trying their shot at it, before Discourse kills forums by being terrible.

Genuinely don’t know how you prefer it to anything, the only thing it has over Discord is being searchable, the rest is obnoxious. The giant avatar bubbles, the random large numbers thrown everywhere, hiding easy to navigate features from forums in favor of endless scrolling, list goes on.
nope... works here in Europe (Dublin, specifically).

; <<>> DiG 9.16.37-Debian <<>> fast.com @1.1.1.1
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 40925
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;fast.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
fast.com. 20 IN A 104.102.33.108

;; Query time: 60 msec
;; SERVER: 1.1.1.1#53(1.1.1.1)
;; WHEN: Thu Apr 27 21:54:32 IST 2023
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 53
your typical non-technical user is totally unaware of any spyware and probably likes the ads, assuming they point to games, weather apps, and celebrity news sites
> We're one killer global war / pandemic / etc away from extinction

No, we're not. And whatever we end up doing to the Earth, it's still going to be vastly more suitable for human life than anywhere else in the solar system.

If you care about preventing extinction, stop looking at the stars, and start digging bunkers. Or building undersea cities, or whatever.