skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but ultimately it's a matter of editorial control, not censorship.

So is all censorship.

No censor calls censorship "Censorship". An example from my country of birth:

Main Office of Control over the Press, Publications and Performances, since 1981 the Main Office of Control over Publications and Performances - the central office of state censorship in the Polish People's Republic. It was a censorship body (analogous institutions were present in all countries of the so-called Eastern Bloc) examining all forms of official information communication from the perspective of their compliance with the current state policy, and prohibiting the dissemination of unwanted information and content by the ruling communist party.

The name "The Censors" was only adopted after the collapse of communism.

I rub my eyes in amazement every time I read people on HN praising censorship and rejoicing that someone will decide for them what they can read and what they can't.

I am not able to understand how foolish one has to be to not realize that eventually the censorship organs will be used against you too.

Perhaps you think you will always hold the "correct" beliefs in which case I admire your lack of imagination.

I miss "hackers" from the 90s with some actual backbone.
The point is to be good at throwing darts and knowing what to throw darts at. One in 100 random companies doesn't become a unicorn. The whole point of being good at investing is to be able to create a positive feedback loop that allows you to both continue throwing darts (well) and pay yourself handsomely. Not to spray darts at fads and hoping you're barking up the right tree.
What’s a zip? (Aside from being a pretty hard thing to search for…)
Not sure what kind of fire there was there, but once those automatic sprinkler systems get going, they are very difficult to stop.

Someone in my freshman college dorm decided to use one as a clothes hanger hook and broke the thermometer in there. The sprinkler damaged the entire floor with water and the floor below had spotty rain as well.

The fire department came and was mainly concerned about evacuating everyone rather than shutting the water off.

The water is typically chemically treated and has been sitting there for years as well -- very nasty stuff.
So, if the originals are technically still available, then it's fine for the version that goes into the vast majority of people's minds to be altered as any rights-holder sees fit?

Er, what about our cultural heritage? Historical accuracy? Creative intent? The possibility for abuse?

Was 1984 just about a guy with a nice job "keeping things in print?" I mean, sure the guy made a lot of edits, with the express intent of manipulating people - but the originals were all around somewhere, so it's fine?
Nah, I'll have to disagree with you there. I don't know about Siri, but I am one of those people using the Google Assistant to set timers and reminders, and for me at least, this is reliable (enough), and definitely faster than by hand.

The obvious use case is setting a timer while cooking, when the phone is at the other end of the room and your hands may be dirty, but I'm using it even in non-cooking settings.

In fact, I just tried it and timed both approaches for setting a reminder. Results:

* Assistant: "Hey Google, set a reminder 10 days from now to file my taxes.": 4.5s to say it (I'm free to focus on other things after this point), 7.5s until reminder is created.

* Manual (pick up & unlock phone, open app drawer, open Calendar app, find the day 10 days from now, click on that day, click create a reminder, type in "file my taxes", save): 17s
> Clubhouse was a kinda cool social network that came out at exactly the right time during COVID.

Alternatively, is was a COVID-specific fad with a doomed user experience / network model that never expanded beyond the SV cultural bubble.
Safety and performance are elements of the cover story not drivers of the product strategy.
It's such a bizarre argument I'm not even sure how they logically got there. A bed and a house are physical things. A song is an idea. We literally call it "intellectual property".
Yes. I discovered this when playing with Forth's BASE word.
Indeed, but under trademark law, the context-of-use matters, and is what allows generic terms from one domain – like 'copilot', 'apple', 'slack', 'y combinator' – to become defensible trademarks in another commercial-offerings domain.

From this landing page's headline & 1st paragraph, I was still thinking they were talking about the broader-market, better-known Github Copilot – also a for-pay LLM-driven coding assistant! – in some way. In the 2nd paragraph, I saw they were just reusing the name of someone else's LLM coding assistant for something different that they independently trained.

Note also the current submission headline here is "ChatGPT for Hardware Design", not the page's "AI For Hardware Design with Copilot".

Did the submitter not use the usually-requested original page title, because they knew `Copilot` would be misunderstood? (They created another misunderstanding via their change: ChatGPT is only an analogy for what Flux.ai's product is doing, rather than a contributing part of the system.)
Maybe try reading the full comment before you respond.

Also, contraceptives have been widely known and used since antiquity, with nearly all cultures employing some form of family planning. Time to edit your myth.
I already said, I don't have an efficient algorithm. Once I will have, in my estimation, at best, it will be O(n^3) (n is number of variables), which still means a lot - to factor 16-bit integer, my (linear) 2XSAT reduction requires about 4000 variables, so the number of variables for a cryptographically-strong problem will be in millions. You need to have a very efficient parallel algorithm to deal with that, and that's very low on the list of priorities - first I need to understand how to actually make the algorithm efficient (so far I think I proved there is a polynomial bound - around O(n^8) or so, but I know for sure it's very inefficient, because I am doing it very naively).

There are other ways to improve the method, which (if indeed P=NP) are incredibly interesting - you can directly compose presolved general instances and specialize on them. Kinda like if you need to compute many solutions to linear equations, you only need to factor the matrix once.
PostgreSQL Concurrency with MVCC
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It depends! If you want to lazily walk data, you can read directly from the index (keep in mind, the index = the data = lives in your app), or use the index-pull API which is a bit more convenient.

However, if you want to paginate data that you need to sort first, and the data isn't sorted the way you want in the index, you have to read all of the data first, and then sort it. But this is also what a database server would need to do :)
>They're designing the products for maximum safety and performance

How do you know this. Do you work for Jon Deere? Since the code is closed source that's simply an assumption
You must be living in a perfect society with a caring government then.

Good for you.

Rest of the world needs blockchain.
If anything my expectations sunk massively between 2009 and the introduction of Kagi.

To be blunt: for me, mainstream search engines Google and Bing very much feel like the things they replaced, Altavista and Yahoo, just with some fancy bolt ons like maps etc.

I understand some people like to be able to write sentences to their search engines, but as long as the results have worse quality than they had 15 - 20 years ago, that "understanding" is just another fancy bolt on feature.

The only things that exist today that could threaten Google quality is Kagi which has gone all in on quality and ChatGPT (and other similar solutions) which finally have produced a working "answer machine" instead of breaking perfect or at least working search engines.
Correction, seems the China-India situation has already become similar with clashes in 2020, 2021, and 2022.
It's an interesting argument, treating the AI more like a commissioned artist than like a technical tool.

But in the end, this seems like the opinion of one mostly irrelevant government office? Copyright protection is automatic in the US since 45 years now, you don't need the involvement of the copyright office at all. For establishing that you created the work, a letter from the copyright office refusing you is as good as a letter accepting your work, and in most cases it's redundant anyways. The only relevant opinion is that of the court where you sue someone else for copyright infringement.
Yeah but Airbnb is one of the few profitable tech companies.
Is there any risk that these particles or maliciously programmed particles could go airborne or otherwise get into peoples lungs?
The problem is that each prefix gets a separate token, so the LLM has to learn from context that they refer to the same thing. In the semantic encoding, all of the words start with the same token, so the LLM can learn that the words are related with a lot
less data.
IANAL but probably they'd need to leave UK then.
In Defense of the “Idea Guy”
This is a fascinating read. I never thought about umm and uh as a "necessary" part of human communication. It strikes me as sort of a, ummm... "buffering" signal to other humans.
From experience:

Datomic Cloud is slow, expensive, resource intensive, designed in the baroque style of massively over-complicated CloudFormation astronautics. Hard to diagnose performance issues. Impossible to backup. Ran into one scenario where apparently we weren't quick enough to migrate to the latest version, AWS had dropped support for $runtime in Lambda, and it became impossible to upgrade the CloudFormation template. Had to write application code to export/reimport prod data from cluster to another—there was no other migration path (and yes, we were talking to their enterprise support).

We migrated to Postgres and are now using a 10th of the compute resources. Our p99 response times went from 1.3-1.5s to under 300ms once all the read traffic was cut over.

Mother Postgres can do no wrong.

Still, Datomic seems like a cool idea.
> Like someone who's 3/4 Greek and 1/4 Egyptian.

Yeah, but how should her nose look? Should she be beautiful or ugly? How old?
They might mean HPV. HSV consists of HSV-1 (oral herpes) and HSV-2 (“pubic area” herpes).

There isn’t really a consensus across studies for what percentage of the population has HSV-1, but all studies agree that it’s “very common”. The reason you don’t see more people with herpes sores around their mouths is because most people with HSV-1 never have an outbreak, and those that do only usually have an outbreak when they are under a lot of stress or ill (because the immune system is occupied with things other than the HS virus).

A few companies are working on vaccines and cures for HSV-2 and even HSV-1 that are based on the COVID 19 RNA vaccines and we might be able to get them in the next decade.
Or a big truck to bring some tarps
If there is on thing this demonstrates then it is that the combination of good documentation and clever engineering can go a long, long way.
And there's more: https://gizmodo.com/magic-the-gathering-leaks-wizards-wotc-p...
“the cloud” comes from old network diagrams that used cloud to mean “internet” or “unknown network”.

I think “unknown network” definitely accurately captures what hyperscalers are selling. :)
Speedtest CLI: Internet speed test for the command line
Democrat administration, independent DOJ. The House is Democrat majority, they can send articles of impeachment. They've had recent practice.

If this is bribery, just do it. Quit whining about it. Instead, they call an entirely different justice to testify, as if there's anything to say. Is that a fishing expedition, an attempt to embarrass the institution on public tv, or both?

No reform is needed here. All the tools you need are at your disposal. Go for it.
I want to know if it was their own, or if they're taking credit for their Oculus acquisition and subsequent enshittification.
But then by this logic photos shouldn’t have copyright either because a camera can’t hold copyright

I think prompting the AI is like taking a photo in that you set the parameters and subject and press the button to get an image
> The hope was that society progressed in those nearly 30 years between the two nominations.

Society yes, Congress no. Many of the same people are still in there.
us-east-1 is a great place to test your application resiliency :) it's like they threw in chaosmonkey for free!
Fixing genetics bugs on a wider scale would be a medical game-changer. A good many debilitating diseases could be cured.
IMO, roll your MVP with something like React Native, although it all depends how important the user experience is for your end users.

Snapchat built with some platform-independent UI toolkit would have felt kind of wrong, and the speed at which I've seen teenagers use it (this was years ago) shows that they would have been frustrated with anything that is slow-ish. I assume similar trends dominate for TikTok and Instagram today.

So unless you're attracting a very hip, fast-moving, perhaps even young-person's market, you probably just want an app that basically works and is available to folks on whichever phone they use. React Native, Flutter, Xamarin / .NET MAUI will all get you there.
Soooo Clubhouse has raised over $100m .

Is it unusually nice that such an early start-up is giving 4 months, acceleration, and more? Yea! A lot of A- and B-stage layoffs have paid far less.

But with so much funding, it’s very very hard to see this move as anything other than massive C-level incompetence. Good job trying to make it look like accountability though.
Yes, but the regulatory fee you pay annually is calculated by reference to the in-scope service(s)' userbase, so by slicing you reduce what you pay, and your rivals end up footing more of the cost (since it's a cost-share system). Well played, Apple.
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Billions of people... well I won't be one of them.
So is all censorship.

Sorry, but that's not what the word means. By definition, it refers to the interception of communications between others. That's now what's happening here.
The cleansheet new rocket engine design took off in 33x quantity from the production line and reached supersonic speed. That is SUCCESS the competing new rocket engine manufacturers haven't achieved, yet. Maybe they'll do one or two but not 33x. The highly expensive to ride SLS museum piece doesn't even register on this new SUCCESS scale.
Amazon mitigated bad speech transcription by providing a link to listen to the underlying audio.

Apple has never offered this and it has led to lots of head scratching at the grocery store as I work through my shopping list. It still beats trying to use the Alexa app while shopping, though.
If their employees all have macbooks that can be wiped remotely then yeah that isn't uncommon at this stage. My company allowed laid off folks to keep their laptops after the wipe. Probably just avoids a logistical headache getting the machines back from remote employees.
Does OAuth2 have a usability problem? (yes)
Those are some pricey dopamine hits.
Well, it's not so much that there's "no ID" as much as it is that we have hundreds of IDs.

Some carriers in the US have you set a PIN number for phone porting. Although, people still forget them.
I’m confused about what your point is. Coal powerplants aren’t immune from natural disasters and is quite literally putting all your eggs in a very small basket. Distributed systems such as wind/solar distribute the risk across a larger area which seems to be the exact thing you’re in favour of.
does Singer consider himself to be an Effective Altruist? as in, that same movement that SBF and others are into?

i would guess not, but he does say those words together:

https://www.ted.com/talks/peter_singer_the_why_and_how_of_ef...
zip, zilch, zero, nada, null, ngmi
Some of the regions are so critical for AWS that them going down will bring down most of the control plane :P
Feel free to email me (address in profile).

Nutritional arguments usually turn into epistemological inquisition: how do we know anything about anything, and what do we purport to be our standard of evidence? Do our beliefs actually entail from evidence that reaches that standard? And if evidence isn't what matters, what does matter and why?
You can definitely use Datomic in the way you describe, in at least a few different ways. I haven't often seen queries stored in the database itself. It's more common to have the queries as data in the application. Since queries are ordinary Clojure data structures, it's even more common to see functions that build queries from inputs or functions that transform queries (e.g., adding a tenant-id filter clause).

Datomic also support rules, including recursive rules. I wrote a library to do OWL-style inference about classes of entities using rules. You can see an example here (https://github.com/cognitect-labs/onto/blob/master/src/onto/...). This is a rule that infers all the classes that apply to an entity from an attribute that assigns it one class.

I would also say that building an "entity type definition" system as entities in Datomic is almost the first thing every dev tries after the tutorial. It works... but you almost never _need_ it later.
A typical breath is much less than full lung capacity, but even then I don't think it adds up.
I don't understand how that is artificial obsolescence. Micrsoft does not want to continue to pay for the programming talent to keep Win10 going. They have set a date to stop doing it. You are welcome to use those computers till they die, you can even use them with Win10. Your computers will just not be patched and secure.

Even more so, if you want them patched and secure, you can move to Linux. Nothing about Windows stops the hardware from working with another operating system.

Artificial obsolescence is when an Apple Device stops being patched and they put weird battery hacks in that confuse users into buying new devices.
Clubhouse should make a Twitter clone already, it'd be great justice.
> Not to mention, wouldn't the oral cancers still show up in women if the power dynamic was as you say?

It did. It's just a much lower prevalence than cervix cancer so it was framed around preventing cervix cancer, but as that's largely gone away the focus has shifted to preventing throat cancer.
Never used BS, but I assume it's like Twitter and free to use. It's probably better than Twitter now, since they are still getting users, so enjoy it while it lasts. Soon they'll start the monetization and it will slowly start to suck. This process is called enshittification and applies to all business models where the use is free, see https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/ for an amusing read.
Just use a reverse proxy. Envoy, Nginx, whatever.
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Mostly converged to the same cultural place, but unevenly. That's the trend ever since the French revolution—France removed its aristocracy (though it kept coming back.) England basically weakened theirs to the point of redundancy, but kept it in a form. Russia kept theirs all the way until 1918 and then upheaved it all at once. The World Wars mostly wiped out whatever was left of the old world order. Sort of seems like Europe built a stronger immune system against the smell of hierarchy than the U.S. did, so the U.S. keeps inventing new caste systems e.g. Jim Crow.
I know I said our pipeline abstraction was leaky but this is ridiculous
And the speed of light ensures that memory latencies won't get much better until CPUs are small cubes made of SRAM.
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Clojure uses objects for connections and things, but POJOs are harmful IMHO because it makes manipulation and collecting data a bespoke task every time. Every time you change the data, you have to change a class to represent the JSON and the ORM class and .... this is all just data
When I was in grad school (mid-20s) I was consulted not to get it.

NowI'm pretty sure any adult with insurance can get it through any pharmacy that does vaccines. I think the actuarial tables must have changed or the cost of the vaccine decreased.
I'm not saying we should slough it on to the user. I'm saying there is no true substitute for hand tailoring your app for each platform you choose to support.
It's absurd that you can't get the vaccine past age 45. I've read that the reasoning is that people beyond that age are "likely" to have already been exposed. Except there are many strains of HPV, and exposure to one may not protect from others. There are also plenty of people who've managed to avoid it by age 45, but who could still be exposed later in life. Especially because condoms for birth control purposes aren't necessary in late life. STD rates at some of these retirement villages are out of control.
> Mullein helps clear out your lungs

Maybe drinking it as an expectorant tea, but I can't imagine smoking it would be helpful overall.
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Yep, definitely meant HPV.
Now at 156% of my usual brightness! #Betelgeuse
I posted about Betelgeuse reaching 140% of its normal brightness a few days ago[0], but to my knowledge this is the brightest we've ever recorded it. As I mentioned in that older post, scientists believe Betelgeuse (which is about 642.5 light years away from Earth) could go supernova at any point within the next 100,000 years.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35692234
> Who is even paying?

The homepage offers a few clues: Shopify, Gong, Zapier, HubSpot, Expel, and several thousand others. That includes huge enterprises who tend not to want their names shown publicly.

Basically there are many companies with tens of millions, hundreds of millions, and even billions of embeddings. If they care about performance and reliability, and don't want to tie up an entire team of engineers to manage a self-hosted solution, then Pinecone makes a lot of sense for them.

In a way this also answers the many questions about "Pinecone vs [whatever]" ... If you're dealing with <1M embeddings the differences between your options will hardly matter — just pick whatever's easiest for you. If you're already using a managed DB that introduced something that's good enough for you... just use that. Though we still work hard to make Pinecone the easiest choice and have features that many basic solutions don't have, such as hybrid search (sparse + dense vector embeddings) for better search results.
yep, meant HPV
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I don't think there need to be any historical cultural context. It was just as wrong and bigoted then as now. It's not an excuse that most people agreed with him at the time.

If I accepted that agreeing with the majority makes everything okay, I couldn't criticize the many horridly immoral things the majority still agree with today.

I still use Brave sometimes, and I would probably still use it if he did the same thing today, but I will continue to think he is a bad person unless he at least donates the same amount (adjusted for inflation) to a charity that supports LGBTQ+ people.
That scene on the golf course with Tony making fun of Uncle Junior.