skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since both have gravitational acceleration below one thousandth of a g, I guess that counts as microgravity? Visiting those would be very interesting as an experience of gravity. I wonder if it would even be properly perceived as gravity, you'd have trouble orienting yourself and standing "up".
I feel like there's a whole suite of tools that we need to be used with netflix to make our lives easier.
> Everyone seems fine with LTE.

Do they have a choice otherwise though?
Careful, this is only one step removed from fascistly suggesting that regulations which work in downtown SF don't work in rural areas.
Every web search result in Brave Search is now served by our own index
This perfectly illustrates why 5G is a disappointment for consumers—increasing the number of devices each tower can support is a carrier problem, not a customer problem.

I've never in my life heard somebody on 4G LTE say, "Eugh, my connection is too slow!". It's always "fast enough" to browse the web at reasonable speeds, watch videos, or have an OK-quality FaceTime call.
Why not? Desktop CPUs and other components do it all the time. Why waste energy?
Okta Personal
I take your point, and even agree with it. However, publication count is by far the most important metric considered by hiring committees and is thus critical to advancing your career. We can argue all day about whether it should be the case, but it certainly is the case.
There's a video of how the robotic system works here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Na6NF11iPc
it seems you're right, but it also says the following, so i'm confused on whether it's a hard requirement?

"If, for some reason (for example, license issue or it's a Scala project), you can not provide -sources.jar or -javadoc.jar , please make fake -sources.jar or -javadoc.jar with simple README inside to pass the checking. We do not want to disable the rules because some people tend to skip it if they have an option and we want to keep the quality of the user experience as high as possible."
True market competition doesn't exist in capitalism
IMO it's naive to think there is going to be some large public space where reasonable and thoughtful free speech occurs. In my experience running public forums on an e-commerce site, you can have this for small groups of people, but as it gets larger, there are inevitably a few troublemakers that will turn it into a cesspool. You can't moderate them without violating their "free speech" rights, and once they are there, the reasonable, thoughtful people will leave.

I think it's a much better idea for individuals to have their own blogs, with comments enabled if they choose, and let them moderate these as they see fit.
I haven't heard of them before, but those prices are almost _suspiciously_ good. Have you found them to be reliable?

Edit: they're using the older unity logo for their "disk" column. That doesn't inspire confidence in their legitimacy.
Call for Testers: Spatial Shell
Respectfully if you don’t know what a vector is, you probably don’t need a vector DB.

When they say “vector-search” they mean semantic search. I.e. “which document is the most semantically similar to the query text”.

So how do we establish semantic similarity?

In a database like Elasticsearch, you store text and the DB indexes the text so you can search.

In a vector DB you don’t just store the raw text, you store a vectorized version of the text.

A vector can be thought of as an array of numbers. To get a vector representation we need some way to take a string and map it to an array while also capturing the notion of semantics.

This is hard, but machine learning models save the day! The first popular model used for this was called “word2vec” while a more modern model is BERT.

These take an input like “fish” and output a vector like [ 3.12 … 4.092 ] (with over a thousand more elements).

So let’s say we have a sentence that we vectorized and we want to compare some user input to see how similar it is to that sentence. How?

If we call our sentence A and the input vector B, we can compute a number between zero and one that tells us how similar they are.

This is called cosine similarity and is computed by taking the dot product of the two vectors and dividing by both of their magnitudes.

When you load a bunch of vectors in a vector DB, the principal operation you will perform is “give me the top K documents that are similar to the input”. The databases indexing process computes k nearest neighbors algorithm on all vectors in the DB and stores this for use at query time.

Without the indexing process there is no real difference between a vector db and key value store.
Show HN: Restate – Build understandable backends with state machines
The crux of the web’s accessibility performance problem (minor in general, but major once you try to add accessibility to a canvas) is that it requires that everything be materialised at once and ahead of time, regardless of whether it’s being used. By contrast, the browser itself is able to lazily and (on most or all platforms, I believe) partially construct the accessibility tree. (mwcampbell can correct me if I’ve misunderstood how various platforms work.)

Browsers seem to have resisted adding fundamental alternatives of construct-on-query accessibility trees, or some kind of “I need AT stuff” switch so you can skip setting ARIA attributes or materialising other DOM if it’s not going to be used.

The end result is that the web doesn’t properly support accessible virtualised scrolling (where you have a hundred thousand emails in a mailbox, but only render the ones on screen, still providing a meaningful scrollbar) or infinite scrolling. There’s role=feed which improves matters in most screen reader configurations, but it’s still making some compromises. But then, virtualised scrolling is imperfect even for non-AT use—things like browser find-in-page won’t work properly. Still more of the “if you want it to work properly, it has to exist in the DOM all the time” stuff.
I was there doing early testing, way prior to the filecoin offering.

The justification for a computer key (which is a base56 sha) was to make every machine a unique node on the network. Note that IPFS also purports to be a multi-network system that can be on top of ip4/6/tor/etc, so they wanted a backwards compat ID.

Now if my computer asks the dHT for hash X, I get a response back from all the computers with that hash. And it's similar to BitTorrent in that fashion. And the content hash is like Git.

There's also IPNS, which makes a connection from DNS to IPFS. You need unique machine identifiers for this.

With the sharing of every network interface, prior to 0.3 the idea was that ALL content loaded with IPFS could be shared. And 'nearness' ala STP could be used to provide local data to local machines. However, due to garbage copyright law, was not turned on by default.

The root problem is that basic security was never considered, as in the 'bad things someone can do with these identifiers'. Ideas like "one person loads a viral video and every device on the local network gets it from them" are amazing ideas, but preclude the bad side like 'who to DoS and doxx' and all these bad side of internet issues.

It sucks, cause I really think IPFS should have absolutely taken off. I could see this as solar system worthy networking for satellite to satellite. But there's inherent problems that I think would be better in the crucible of the IETF and not a commercial entity.
Woof, I'm not going to engage fully with this post. It is too loaded. I am not sure I can fully parse this post, but I am going to state some assertions that I believe respond to the statements made.

I am going to agree (?) that gender is a construct. I assert that it is a social construct. It does not exist inside our cells, only in our minds (individually and collectively).

I am going to disagree that sex is determined by our skeletons. I assert that skeletal structure and other phenotypical features are symptoms of sex, which is determined by genes. This is a scientific consensus as far as I can tell.

I believe I am disagreeing with you when I say that there are more than two possible outcomes of genetic sex determination. This is obvious, because there are multiple sex-determination systems in animals, not just XY. There is X0, there is ZW, and there are others.

Even within XY, there are variations. An individual can be born with XXY chromosomes. Or they can be born male with XX chromosomes, or female with XY chromosomes.

Or, a human can be born female with XX chromosomes, no outward differences from typical female phenotype, and feel they are a man. This is because, as stated above, gender is a social construct. Not actually sure if we agree or disagree on that.

There is no berating happening here or anything else that should make a person feel victimized. Just science. A little more advanced than grade school science, but still science.
> The large majority of the HN audience wouldn't participate in social media?

For the spreading meme 'joke comics' portion, yes.

I highly doubt even a quarter of the reader-base would participate in this.
No mention of the conspiracy nonsense. Is that normal for Wikipedia? It's okay, but it might feed the nutcase narrative.
face ID scan, click to confirm more power...! very good idea that i think would do very well considering the psychology of how people spend money
That geolocation messaging sounds brilliant. I guess Pokemon Go stole your idea.
Kind of weird pricing. Full lifetime is 3x the yearly price, which seems like a high yearly cost for sure. The full-lifetime pricing feels reasonable I think? Comparable-ish to one might pay for a gas-engine upgrade.

I'm kind of ok with the $90/mo price. If I want to spend the spring months driving around (yeah would that I have that option these days) & doing trips, like, sure, $180 for some appreciably snappier driving performance could be a fun & reasonable splurge. That said, I've almost never driven a car with >150 hp, only been driven around fast 5 times in my life, so like, I don't actually understand the value proposition of fast cars very much & this might all be nonsense, but there's some sense to me here, & I'm kind of ok with feeding the meter for some extra turbo sometimes. Buying the base unit & having free upgrades sadly makes some sense to me.

It's wild that I'm saying this. Part of me definitely looks at this new emerging trend with absolute horror. Intel has a like 8 dimensional matrix of pricing options you can unlock as either (depending on your hardware vendor) "activation" or "consumption" (usage based) "On Demand" server/Xeon chip services. The list of features: Software Guard Extensions/SGX (at 3 price points), Quick Assist Technology/QAT encryption/compression, Dynamic Load Balancer/DLB for telecomm, In Memory Analytics/IMA for data compression again, Data Streaming Accelerator(DSA) for some new direct-memory-access/DMA engine acceleration. Variety of boxes to subscribe to here.

Part of me gets it, don't pay for what you don't need, hopefully create some more accessible price points. But also, if you want your chips to win, I just feel like you should be getting the tech out so the world can play with it & figure out it's best uses, and gating a bunch of new features just means a regression from this Democratic software philosophy to authoritarianist & closed, where very few have all the decision making, get to learn & advance the thing/feature and that's that. https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/22/intel_reveals_paid_xe...

Also notably with Intel's new "On Demand" system, not a one of the things you can software enable is - to my knowledge - more clocks/turbo. Yet.

Also worth pointing out, we've been here before. Here's Intel doing it in 2010. Software updates that did unlock more cache and HyperThreading for consumer PCs. https://www.engadget.com/2010-09-18-intel-wants-to-charge-50... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5819750

On the other end of the spectrum, we are creating more general programmable matter that hopefully people are permitted to find creative use for, real soon. FPGAs were in total doledrums for a while going on where, but there's been a spate of improvements (particularly coming out of Lattice) and there's reason for some hope AMD+Xilinx CPU+FPGAs could legitimately create really fast software reconfigurable accelerators, with whatever the use case demands.
Then let's agree to limit it to 10 years. That's a tolerable amount of time. More than enough for these corporations to turn a profit many times over.
“This is what I found on the web for XYZ”… all the time!

At this point, they should just pipe the #1 search result into ChatGPT for a nice summary and have Siri read that out loud. It would be so much better.
The main difference between event sourcing and datomic are the indexes and the "schema", which provides full SQL-like relational query powers out of the box, as well as point-in-time snapshots for every "event" (transactions of facts).

So, "events" in Datomic are structured and Datomic uses them to give you query powers, they're not opaque blobs of data.
It really depends. If you have an unbounded loop that looks like it runs in polynomial time, you're in highly questionable territory. If you have a 5-deep nest of for-loops, that's what I call "obviously polynomial time" -- if such an algorithm solves every problem you throw at it, you have hope.
Trying to understand why is the impact so high ? Why does forcing data separation reduce ad revenue?
> Why couldn't this have been done through market competition?

There are a ton of problems that can't be solved through market competition.
How well does 5G work wrt distance from the tower? So far, the good old 2G (GSM/GPRS/EDGE) is best in this regard, at least in my own experience. No matter how far from civilization you are, you're more likely to get 2G than no service at all. You can call, sure, but data works so terribly it could as well be unavailable. Does 5G solve that?
It's for Intel's integrated graphics, which are most prevalent on laptops.
Uh, what kind of graph network? That sounds pretty interesting.
They didn’t open source the DB, just the binaries.
There are a few things you need to do:

- reread/rewatch/relisten (not necessarily the whole thing, just parts (and at varying intervals))

- talk about and/or explain it to and with others

- read negative takes on what you just read/saw/heard (not just positive ones)

- actually do whatever it is you think you've learned
Yup. There are so many reasons why BPE is an issue:

1. It really hurts the ability to generate creative writing/poetry (e.g. impossible for even ChatGPT-4 to fully understand syllable counts, leading to incorrect haikus and even poor rhyming), see https://gwern.net/gpt-3 and https://paperswithcode.com/paper/most-language-models-can-be...

2. It means that silly stuff like "Glitch Tokens" are a huge issue. i.e. whole tokens dedicated to weird usernames caused by people counting on a counting subreddit so much that their names got their own token. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO2X3oZEJOA

3. BPE has a lot of terrible vocabulary choices independent of Glitch Tokens. Lots of massive punctuation, garbage sequences, etc.
Whereby "companies", what you really mean is American companies.

I'm not sure why you think the alternative to shitty US companies is "terminal decline". Europe is more than capable of coming up with its own tech companies, and the prospect of trashfires like Facebook being driven out and replaced with more responsibly managed alternatives is firmly in the "feature" column.
I'm going to add a contrarian take here: this preprint is not a research paper. While it's nice to see that there is an improvement here on their one task, this is not "semantically" driven tokenization. It's morphologically driven. To be semantically driven, it would be reasonable to expect that synonyms would have similar representations. I got really excited from the title, and the content is a let-down.

The line of research here has been going on for 30+ years, from Michael Brent's work, to Linguistica, to Morfessor, and now several approaches to incorporate morphology into tokenizers. The stand-out example is [0]. This paper doesn't seem to acknowledge any of that intellectual legacy. It's not a _research_ paper.

I'm getting a bit tired of people putting their class projects or quick engineering projects on arXiv. I don't know why they're surfacing so high on HN either.

[0]: https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-long.279/
You’re wrong here, even the first iPhone did not have a GPS.
Showing the original film means showing things the director thought would be out of frame.

In the 90s, film directors would often consider both the cinema and TV ratios, but TV directors? I kind of doubt it; changing the framing might be interesting, but it's not a good way to show it, IHMO. Debates over overscan are fine, but if it wasn't part of the original broadcast, and wasn't part of the directors' intent to be shown, it shouldn't be part of any distribution.
You can attach any license text to anything, but most open-source license make little sense when applied to binaries. Like in this case, the Apache 2 license doesn't make distinction between the source and binary, referring to both as "the Work":

> You may reproduce and distribute copies of the Work or Derivative Works thereof in any medium, with or without modifications, and in Source or Object form, provided that (...)

Applying this only to their binaries directly contradicts what the license says.
I’d say someone passionately screaming they don’t like milk is absolutely not the target. Ads are for the neutral or ambivalent.
On the broader point though, there certainly are some companies that have access to unique datasets that they can take advantage of. Meta and Google come to mind as obvious ones, probably Microsoft too. Apple I'm less sure given their privacy stance. Any others?
The real solution seems to be jamming network signals or removing the transceivers from vehicles. Some manufacturers make this easy (Ford with the transceiver under a seat), and some make it hard (Toyota where you have to pull it from behind the dashboard).

I've seem people replace the antennas with resistors so the device thinks it's still working, since Toyota routes part of the speakers through it, so disabling entirely would render some of the sound in your vehicle disabled too.
How's this one going?
What in the world are you talking about?

Taking a brief look at Airalo, it looks like it'd cost me $4-5 per gigabyte to buy an eSIM. I literally see no unlimited options on Amazon.

Randomly navigating to telekom.de, I see a front page offer of €34.95 monthly for a five gigabyte plan with a 24 month contract term.

orange.fr seems to do a little better with a €16.99 plan for 100 GB but it seems to be a promo rate and also requires an activation fee and a bank account statement, making it useless for tourists. Still, $5 is a lot cheaper than €16.99 even if you could get that rate. For €5 prepaid you get, I shit you not, 20 megabytes of data from Orange. https://boutique.orange.fr/vitrine/rechargements-mobile/mobi...
I thought the Batman absolutely justified its runtime, and for me did not feel like a slog whatsoever. I wished it would go on longer when it ended.
Perhaps it was a rhetorical question, but I think the answer is you can't; that only parent posts can be flagged. User replies can only be downvoted.
Yeah I would imagine so. Meat/muscle seems relatively undifferentiated compared to hide/skin, which has layers and would need gradients to form properly.
What can we do about this kind of stuff happening from a legal perspective? Supreme court justices are appointed for life and basically have no real "checks"
This looks like the worst of all worlds.

You get TCP on both sides of the connection and QUIC in the middle, which will be acting as a single stream protocol, not getting to use all of its advantages.
Hey Siri, “add 2 minutes to the timer”. It can’t even do something so basic as that.
Hotspot performance engineering fails
Same experience. I use it for the same purposes and it’s great for hands-free, screen-free interaction of these simple tasks.
Yup the new ones are trash unfortunately, all screens and piano black plastic interior
Hopefully they skip that step but it is weird how often a recruiting process goes from having a recruiter cold contact you with platitudes singing your praises and how valuable you would be to their company and then the next step is to have a group of interviewers demanding to know why you're worthy of being in their presence while expecting you operate like a broken clone of Google and also recite CS theory that has never been even slightly applicable to the open position. But at least the 'inside-out condom' brain teaser has finally gone out of favor.
Yes, in addition to the limits set by atomic radius, you also have the issue of electrons tunneling through the tiny energy barriers that exist when the the transistors are so close together.
How is network adapter connected to GPU? They just seat on the same bus?

It looks like in TPU v4 cluster each pod with 2 or 4 (?) TPUs has 6 optical interfaces, which directly connect to next pods. I have no idea how they route though this configuration, but my guess most messages are weight updates, which are essentially broadcasts, so it should work out fine with some basic forwarding.
Yeah.. but do you think most ultra-rich elite are pushing against entropy or contributing more to it or at best staying neutral while further growing their wealth?
Well that's what you get for building something no one wanted...
Rewrite the C standard library in Rust? I'm not sure I understand how that even makes sense. Are there problems this would solve?
When I was an undergrad I worked with a prestigious professor whom I respected greatly.

One day, I stumbled into lab, apparently looking fairly love-struck (i'm a man, and was seeing a new girlfriend), and he said: "dekhn, if you want to be successful in science, you can't have a wife or a girlfriend or kids. They are a distraction and to be successful, you have to dedicate your whole life to science. Nights, evenings, everything. A wife and kids will just waste your time".

I'm glad I ignored his advice and got married to that new girlfriend (and had kids, after establishing my career). He later narrowly missed out on the Nobel Prize and married his postdoc. But he was right: to be truly successful in science today, unless you're a charismatic genius, requires an extraordinary level of dedication- and a lot of family support.

That said I'm surrounded, in my job, with successful women scientists who came from academia and have kids. This sometimes leads to weekend meetings where both of us end up saying "Oh, I have to go now to take my kid to soccer"...

[edit: I realized I left out an important bit. Both my wife and I got phds and have professional jobs. But I optimized for high salary and status, while she optimized for "freedom"- the freedom to drive kids around to activities, etc. Which in some sense, I guess, is just another anecdote supporting the paper.
Speaking as a past kid trying to play video games on school laptops, I'm really grateful for the experience.

Some of my first experience with reverse engineering/pentesting methodologies came from extracting flash games from websites so they could run without getting net-nannied, or learning that you could use google translate to run a makeshift web proxy.

Honestly helped kickstart a lot of my learning about computers.
> Minimal work to max profit is what we're all trying to optimize.

That attitude is why John Deere and similar have the anticustomer policies that they do.
they haven't open sourced the database though?
It's useless beyond manipulating iDevices, navigation tasks and simple questions. Even then, if you don't ask in the exact right way it often doesn't work.