skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can use the Wikipedia embedding's released by Cohere to build something pretty easily : https://huggingface.co/Cohere.

If you want a completely offline version you'd be running one of the open source LLMs locally. Otherwise put the embeddings in a VectorDB, query it for the context and send it to one of the completion APIs available (OpenAI, etc)
>Yea. It probably doesn't work if you are wanting to buy something as an investment that you are planning to cash out of. But if you buy to use (to live or to produce something) it is attractive to collectively buy to have larger bargaining power and better credit trustworthiness if the risk is shared.

I think you are missing the point. Im talking about real barriers that prefent people from cooperative agreements, even when they just want to use it.

In the real world, it is rarely attractive to collectively buy, because you are locked in. This is the challenge.

If you want to start a cooperative house, you basically need to be willing to live there forever or walk away from your down payment. The same is true for starting a coop business.

Im not interested in hearing the benefits of coops, Im already a fan of them. I was hoping for an intelegent conversation about how their major limitations can be overcome.
Resale of Ikea is close to zero unlike those 1k chairs. The only fool is the poor person unable to afford furniture that holds it's value. When you're ready for something new, you can actually sell the old gear for non-trivial amount.
Conductive Wood for High-Performance Structural EM Interference Shielding
If you shouldn't write code that way then it should be a compilation error (or at the very least a warning) to write code that way.
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Scala does that, with `_` being a "hole in the expression". I wouldn't call it currying though.

func(param1, _)

Every once in a while you have to make some change to that expression.

// you may want to write
func(param1, func2(_))
// but you need to write the full lambda
param2 => func(param1, func2(param2))
...or know what Ruth Ginsburg Bader has anything to do with it all.

The RGB color model and representation of images in it is already technical. Anyone who knows what it means also wouldn't need to be told the following quip:

>Also note that computers see things as multi-dimensional tables of data. They don't look at a "picture" - they see 3 spreadsheets of numbers representing the RGB values of the picture.

...which is the only time RGB is mentioned in the article.

That's before we get to the part that "multidimensional" here is extraneous, and doesn't even match the typical usage (where RGBA is stored as a single 32-bit value). Everything is a tape of 1's and 0's, "multidimensionality" comes from interpretation of data.

The dimension of image data is still 2: each pixel is a sample a 2D projection of a 3D world, and is related to other pixels in a way that's different than, say, those of letters in a line of text, or voxels (letters don't have a a well-defined "up" neighbor, voxels have more well-defined neighbors than pixels do).
Materials for 17th-century Work, a la Follansbee
We glued together content moderation to stop soccer pirates
I think that the magic comes from the antipode which makes things symmetric. The Ising model is somewhat similar.

Rereading the paper, quite a bit has changed in my understanding of all this. My conclusions still stand, but some of the reasoning needs to be explained better.
Things tend to stop working after a crash landing
> the rapacious pursuit of shareholder value extraction

It's always the fault of greedy corporatists here on HN -- honestly, that is just lazy thinking. Sure, they want to make money. But also, the average Joe wants stuff cheap. Made in China, lots of plastics replacing metal, lower-density materials, fewer fixable/replaceable parts, limited quality control. You can't really blame companies who build their products like this when it's shown over and over and over that cheap stuff is what sells.
Unbless it's oak, you don't particularly want to have solid wood furniture.

Solid wood is dimensionally unstable and my oak chest of drawers requires special oil treatments to keep cracks from appearing. Plywood or melamine boards are way better for furniture.
this was dan bernstein's project with 'boring c' and john regehr's with 'friendly c'; i think the answer is that most of it can be, but definitely not all, and possibly on some platforms it wouldn't be most existing c code

https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1287

basically it seems feasible but it's going to be a lot of effort

also of course any semantics change will introduce some new exploits, but doing that once seems preferable to doing it every year
Mrs Whitcher and the Renegade Numbers (2017)
This tool is a fun way to play with vowels sounds and mouth position. https://dood.al/pinktrombone/

And here is a mechanical vocal tract robot.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HmSYnOvEueo
Nix-melt – A ranger-like flake.lock viewer
How is it that Earth on the Moon's horizon looks smaller than the Moon on Earth's horizon? When the moon is on the horizon on earth, it looks enormous (ie https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*oiA6GCepn7GthCt...)
How much does ‘nothing’ weigh?
> NuGet is a decent/good package manager

I remember F# designed its own package manager (paket) because of NuGet's deficiencies. I haven't been on that ecosystem for a while now. Have things changed? (My memory is that paket added friction and I eventually dropped it for nuget on my personal projects).
I did something similar to this but got stuck that the code generated would sometimes work, sometimes not for identical prompts. I also found that as an expert in the topics it was easy to write a prompt that would generally build a reasonable data pipeline but I couldn't imagine if I just had some data, but not the expertise, I could do the same. How do you account for these issues?
Well there goes any somewhat reliable election forecasting for the US
I'm curious about this. What kind of secretarial work do you have in mind, for a typical tech company? What fraction of time do you estimate it takes? Meeting scheduling is automated today. What else?
Researchers use AI to discover new planet outside solar system
As an external observer of American news, I don’t find it surprising when race is increasingly stressed, occasionally in not directly relevant context. E.g. there was a cnn headline recently along the lines of “Black and Latino man got in the car of White policeman and disappeared” with the races capitalised from source. No matter if the intention is against racism, the capitalisation and emphasis on races does not help from my vantage (and admittedly remote) viewpoint. Now if the story was definitely a racist one it would make sense but I did not get that in the context of the article itself.

I think we all tend to victimise ourselves. The people in advantage will do so even more.
Sublime text too with the fsautocomplete LSP server.
It was 45 seconds early for me.
Seems the bigger news is that you can opt out from chat history and thereby have your data deleted after 30 days, without it being used to train the ai.

I find it worrying what kind of information people are sharing. Reminds me of the current state of Gmail. Even if you do everything to opt out from Google, they'll still have most of your emails due to other recipients.
I think I read a lengthy technical proposal about 15 years ago about turning the outskirts of Yellowstone into a massive network of geothermal energy plants. I tried finding it real quick but no luck. I did work at JPL pre-2016 so I might be conflating things... I remember talking about this very topic at JPL over coffee at least once.

Key points I recall from the technical report I read:

- could power much the US... of course, distribution of power from this remote location is a big problem by itself.

- most of the geothermal plants would be >95% underground and would pose little blight on the landscape. Many geothermal plants are largely subterranean anyhow. Of course, things would ugly AF during construction.

- power transfer network to connect the locus of small power plants together and to switching stations could use cryogenic high-temperature superconducting wire (YBCO or MgF2)... the power transfer needs and relatively short distances may make it the best solution economically.

- modern drilling technology make doing this a lot easier than it used to be.

- might help avert a super volcano disaster
ranger is

> a VIM-inspired filemanager for the console

https://github.com/ranger/ranger
Might as well divest FiveThirtyEight or shut it down if Nate Silver is leaving.

Nate Silver is 538.
Color me doubtful. The big money for OpenAI is going to come from B2B, the majority of which is likely US-based.

The data they gather is also important to them as GP pointed out. They're getting novel data to train on that their competitors can't.

On top of all that, they're in an arms race with competitors. They're winning right now, but they could end up losing out.

If I were OpenAI, I'd have a long hard think about whether to play hardball here or not. Right now, it looks like they may get to pick winners and losers. I can think of at least a couple of countries that would probably be willing to make up the difference in revenue for a degree of control over the product.
We've seen what optimizing for efficiency can do to the rest of our supply chain in recent years
This is horrible. Now how will I delude myself with forecasts about the Premier League? I'm going to need to wait for him to get a substack.
> "If I asked my customers what they wanted they would've said faster horses"

The thing about this saying is that it ignores what the customers actually said they wanted. People who have a need will generally have a solution in their head. Saying they want "faster horses" is saying two things: what they want (faster travel) and their stab at a solution (horses).

Ignoring what a customer says they want is a recipe for missing the mark. Accepting the solution they have in their mind at face value is also a recipe for missing the mark. What should be done is to listen to the customers and take them seriously, then work out a solution. That solution might, indeed, be "faster horses", or it might be something else entirely. But you won't get to a great solution by pretending people don't know what they want.
I'm hoping he was being sarcastic.
Got a pointer? Paper or code either works.
Rosalind Franklin wrote an obituary for the helix theory.[1] She thought her image debunked the helix theory, even though when you know the double helix structure of DNA you can very clearly see it in the X-ray image.

[1]: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/An-obituary-written-by-R...
uBlock origin says it blocked 16. Firefox may have blocked more before uBlock got to run?
comments like these strengthen my resolve to go down with the win10 ship then return to macOS when apple's chip line has matured
I tried to track him down a few years ago so I could register my (previously pirated) copy of terminate. I figured better late than never. But I couldn’t find him.

I recall that there were some shenanigans with the sale of the company. I think there’s some messages floating around on newsgroups and around the place about it. I found this https://paste.ee/p/Z0ywP
nothing really, that's effectively what's achieved by comptime.

it's funny to see it written as "basic" dependent typing, considering it's an extremely complex type system to implement.
That's not true. Wilkins had as much right to share that data as Franklin, and everyone seems to forget Raymond Gosling who actually generated the data.
If you don't mind being part of the "support staff" you can have the job!
I have a desk that's just a large Lack, and while it was too weak to hold up my monitor arm + 32" screen (yes, it was a dumb idea), it looks barely damaged after re-gluing the trim.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230423235053/https://www.scien...
What did you do to it?!?!?!

Lacks are notoriously sturdy for their "cardboardness". People literally turn their Lacks into server racks, they're that sturdy.
On top of this, execs typically have a lot of stock based compensation. So buybacks are way better than dividends for them
Yeah totally agree. Ok tbh firefox was slow and heavy a few years ago, but that has not been the case anytime recently.

Honestly, imo for a decade or so now (since the times of the old opera), most browsers are more or less the same utility-wise, with only minor differences between them. Most of them nowadays are chrome clones anyway. And if there is a feature in one and not the other, there will certainly be some extension that adds it. So I do not see why not at least go for the best privacy option.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35632682
I truly wish whoever downvoted me would give me an explanation of why. This has been my experience.

Do you disagree with my assessment? I can go take pictures of my individual bookshelves if you would like and show the gradual drop in quality if you would prefer.
Every gamedev's dream, to make their MMO, then they start to make an MMO and they realize it was a mistake.. :p
Yes, for many people. However I felt empowered by the positive, personalized gibberish. Not saying anyone else will, but it's a quite unique experience just to have a neural Text-To-Speech half-whisper your name and being all excited towards all my interests and me in general.
This seems false to me as well.

I’m not sure what city the author lives in, but, while Uber is pretty bad, Uber is still better than taxis. Better service, better fares, and better pay for drivers.

Taxis were like the biggest racket around with usually sleazy companies owning the car and paying immigrants and literal slaves from human trafficking poor wages to drive.

There’s this mythical owner/operator that I never encountered.

So I think that’s why Uber is tolerated because they are still better than the worlds shittiest industry, taxi. Maybe the only more hated industry would be debt collectors or hospital administrators or telemarketers.
When I buy furniture, I buy it for life despite the premium I pay.
What does the book say about Monero?
German national/public broadcasting service ARD reported the lunar lander has successfully landed while they watched a rendered animation[0] (from the perspective of the surface of the moon!!). Can't make this shit up.

0. https://pr0gramm.com/top/5662958 (German)
Isn't that the point of the new more cumbersome install method that the video is about? Most things seem to work out of the box and you can do security updates.
> I use a Siri shortcut to log to a text file with my ideas list, which is ~3k lines long right now.

If you don't mind, can you describe this system?
Cool project, when you add multiplayer to a simple game without any game engine and want to actually do it right (CSP, interpolation, lag compensation) it gets technical really fast

I spent months trying to make a CS like in Three.js, then I was wondering myself if it was actually worth it

I could just have used a random game engine that can export to WebGL with wasm even if the first loading was bigger, people wouldn't even notice nowadays

WebGPU is coming out if I'm correct, I wonder how good will web games run now
I'm surprised to learn that Disney owned FiveThirtyEight and also that they kept Nate Silver afloat for that long. Dude's credibility was shattered after 2016 - a master of proving that getting high on your own fumes makes you high.
My concern is that humans "on the surface" (really, in habitats) are going to live pretty miserable lives for a really long time.

Compare Mars to Antarctica. While there's a significant science-focused presence, no one lives there lives there. While various treaties complicate the issue, to the best of my knowledge, no one even speaks about wanting to spend their entire life there. Living permanently on Mars without extensive terraforming would mean generations of people living out their lives in caves and metal cans, never getting to go outside without putting on the equivalent of a SCUBA suit, at a minimum. It makes for great stories, but as a cradle-to-grave life is seems unethical to help create that situation.

Besides, I think gradual (or no) terraforming of Mars is doomed. Getting to orbit is increasingly cheap, and that makes getting to Mars easier, whether by the ITN [1], or more direct method. You can get to Mars with a Cubesat-type spacecraft design. [2] Somebody is going to leverage those possibility to start terraforming Mars, if they haven't done so already. Optimal terraforming probably requires adding atmosphere, presumably via comet impacts. That will take more than Cubesats, but the possibility was demonstrated by DART. Unless our civilization collapses, fast terraforming of Mars is only going to get easier, and probably sooner rather than later, someone will start the process.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Transport_Netwo...
2. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/cubesat-at...
It's a visual illusion dependent on the focal length of the lens being used and any foreground objects that are on the studio backlot.
How the heck do those makers find the time and energy to make such insane projects ??

I'm about wasted after a day of work and in/outdoor house chores.
> Also did my kitchen with them and they got rid of the finish I picked shortly after, which meant that I couldn't replace panels like I thought I might have been able to.

IKEA kitchens are actually one of the best things they sell. Their hardware lasts decades and finishes are very sturdy
> I believe that for some of the largest expenditures of my lifetime the US Congress voted literally without people having read the final text bills they were voting on.

Congress is similar to most other large organizations, such as large software companies. In a large company software company the upper level managers don't actually read all the code. They make their decisions based what managers below them report, and so on down the management chain.

Representatives and Senators are Congress' equivalent to those upper level managers.

The House has over 6000 staff members, ranging from staff working for individual representatives to staff employed by committees. The Senate has over 4000 staff members. Those are the people that deal with nitty gritty details of the bills.
> with their clean search result pages.

What clean result pages? You posting from 15 years ago?
Yes, sport fighting is not like survival fighting because anything that would cause permanent damage is against the rules. Against the rules doesn't get trained or practiced.
I'm in the US. My experience with IKEA furniture appears to be different from yours, though.
Cities have had to literally charge a tax to penalize investors who let their houses stay vacant. You think this would be happening if vacant investor homes was not a problem? [0]

> Many countries are in demographic decline, but overall we still have lots of net population growth for a long time.

Incredible strawman. Population has been growing in Africa and a handful of developing countries. That should have no bearing on valuations in western markets - these population growth centers are neither producers nor consumers of western capital goods/services.

> Productivity is not stalling, and is in fact skyrocketing all over the world.

In your own chart, labor productivty has been growing at a much slower pace since 2010 compared to the previous decades. This can be corroborated by other studies as well that show much more sluggish productivity growth in the last 20 years compared to the years before it.

This is a frustrating comment, filled with hand wavy platitudes about growth for centuries and booming population growth. It completely ignores the temporal component of market valuations.

0: https://vancouver.ca/home-property-development/empty-homes-t...
Incredibly smart of him to hold the rights to his models personally, and only license them to 538 (and hence ABC/Disney).
I see references to MacOS in the code, but it looks like m1/m2 support isn't there yet.

https://github.com/elkowar/eww/issues/353
The NFL theorem means nothing if all the learning tasks have a common underlying structure. In the real world, they do. The laws of physics and chemistry create emergent causal relationships. Any SSL learning algorithm that learns to exploit causal relationships will consistently perform well over a variety of real world tasks.
>And IKEA stuff costs a lot less than 1/3 of finished solid wood furniture.

To put things into perspective, I ordered a desk from a local company. I had a lot of customization options, but basically I wanted a 60 x 30" top. The legs I ordered actually have height adjustment ... with a CRANK. Because it'll never break. So you have 60-inch long boards, maybe about 4-inches wide each, pressed together into a single board. There's attempt to match up the pattern, so at a quick glance most people would think it's a solid piece. Also not much heavier, because there's less adhesives needed to produce the single board.

With the top you had choices not only in the type of wood, but how that wood was engineered (or if it was a single piece).

* If I went with a butcher block construction, which is heavier, that was $1200.

* I went with a face-grain engineered walnut top. That was $2000 for just the top. Looks great, too.

* If I went with a SINGLE solid board, there was not only a real lead time, but the top was $6500.

And that was just for American walnut. I could've picked far pricier woods. Could've picked some garbage pine or something too, but note the spread there. I think for a 60x30, the total spread of options was $500 to $11,000 depending on the construction and the wood chosen.

This is because nature is really bad at producing large perfect boards, especially for a total area past a few square feet. Turns out. A lot of stuff we use even in modern construction is not just engineered, but often uses petroleum products. Plywood uses a urea formaldehyde, but lo-and-behold we figured out how to produce that out of oil! OSB is no different. It's why when 5-over-1s under construction (before fire suppression equipment is installed) catch fire, they go up very fast, and usually burn hot enough where the radiant heat damages nearby buildings.

When you get into large single pieces, not only are they rare, but you want to let the moisture release, preferably naturally. So you have all these boards, being stored in large climate controlled warehouses for months if not years, before they are used in a piece of furniture. That massive opportunity cost of literally keeping boards around is part of why you pay.

I have some short "entertainment benches" I bought many years ago that were made by Ethnicraft in Vietnam, I believe for Crate & Barrel. Engineered face grain, walnut, on a nickel-plated steel parsons style base. Got them over a decade ago, still look perfect, and at a glance, people think they're one piece. They're not, but again at a quick glance they do. All in they were $4500 for the pair. I could've got some solid ones from a German company named E15. The pair would've been over $20,000 then, and over $30,000 today.

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Meanwhile, you can get a similarly sized desk from IKEA, with legs, for $370. It's particle board with a glued on outer surface to protect it.
That one is from a letter, but yeah, it is basically a brain dump of the thoughts that would eventually crystallize into "1984" three years later.

OTOH for "Animal Farm" he specifically wrote an essay[1] explaining why he wrote it, meant to be a preface to the book. Ironically, the preface was dropped from the book when it was originally published for the very same reasons discussed in the essay. And I feel that many of those reasons are still at play today.

[1] https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...
Credit Suisse Had a Great Awful Quarter