skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A combination of things.

As a person, I always look for the most efficient and frictionless way to achieve something, the "path of least resistance", including not feeling like physical or psychological trash (read "instant gratification"). That's a character trait and a character flaw.

Trusting in the methodology and idea that "yes, this feels like shit right now, but countless millions of people get through this stage of withdrawal, and they go on to live great lives where they don't feel like crap anymore and instead feel better than when they smoked". When you're down in that ditch, not just quitting, but because your life is sub-par in various ways, and smoking is something you can rely on to make you feel better, it's hard to just leave it alone, and it's difficult to trust that others are right when you have a cynical outlook on the world and it feels like people frequently misguide you and others, so why would it be any different this time? That's a bad perspective. Apply logic and reasoning. Wrestle with it. Rationality.

People would invite me outside for a smoke over a pint, or after achieving something, or after a difficult conversation. I "rewarded" myself with a cancer stick for doing something on the project management system, all kinds of weird little things you do to justify a smoke "because I achieved x and I should be rewarded for x", but the reality is that you were rewarded for x anyway, and x was kind of fun, that's why you do it in the first place, but your worldview revolves around getting the next nicotine fix.

It isn't even just the nicotine. It's "you" time. It's a ritual. It's time to decompress mentally and not look at a screen, do something with your hands that isn't work-related, and "indulge".

But it's all bollocks. There's nothing positive or of substance in smoking. It's all in the head of the smoker. They're hooked.

Sometimes it has meant avoiding certain situations with some people, e.g., I don't go to the pub, or bars. In fact, I don't drink anymore either. Been sober ~7 years now.

After a year or so of saying "no, I won't fucking do that to myself and to my family", suddenly, you just don't want a drink, you just don't want a cigarette. That's not to say that sometimes in a stressful situation I don't reminisce and go "oh, a cigarette would make me feel so much better right now", of course, that happens, then the fantasy passes, and I'm still at my desk, I haven't given in.

To anyone wanting to quit and is serious; get rid of your lighters, including the neat-looking Zippo you like to fidget with, and all the other paraphernalia. Get rid of your ash trays. Get rid of your rolling papers, filters, rolling machine (if you own one). If you're going to quit, why will you need any of it?

Don't replace it with eating junk food. Don't replace it with a cheeky glass of wine. If you have struggled with one kind of addiction, you will struggle with another. The self-discipline is being honest with yourself and reigning the monkey on your shoulder in.

And don't justify "just one smoke" with because it's a holiday or you're on vacation.
Even something as simple as having a private chef prep all your meals - someone who can actually make healthy taste good.
when were they founded?
Bandwidth is unlimited. You can have 100 tb in traffic and it will cost zero.
Stoked for the independent Search API. Google and Bings are pricey. I anticipate it having a quicker adoption path compared to than the UI.
> Fly to Brazil, take a cab around Central Sao Paulo.

Better yet, don't.

source: Am Brazilian, would not recommend it.

To be fair, Central São Paulo isn't even what I would consider third world yet, if you really wanna see how good some of us have it go to the northeast of Brazil, or Venezuela (if you manage to get in somehow).
from their website
".... can now enjoy the milestone innovations of the 11 Alexandria Pro edition.."

which means that you cannot use "Client-Server" databases (Mysql, Postgres, etc.), only localhost access is supported.

you can use ZeosLib etc. but its just one more hurdle to take.
Man, 15 meters is a long way when you don't have a Home Depot. For short distances there are a lot more options. Everything from taking the cord off your dryer to scrapping transformers for the windings.

I kept thinking he might be better off figuring out how to move the transformer instead.
Where is the MECC for the 21st century? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MECC
The fact that Garland got no confirmation hearings or consideration at all, as well as the bipartisan nature of the confirmation vote Bork actually received that Garland did not, both seem more than sufficient to make these entirely unrelated.
DDG probably doesn't want to? On the time horizons they're thinking about, it's probably more expensive to develop competitive tech and keep it working than it is to pay for API access.
I thought about it, and settled on the compromise of referring to it up front, and then putting it at the end.

That's because there are many ways you could use a document like that. And the Terminology section is very overwhelming unless your goal is to understand how OAuth 2 REALLY works, and why it works that way.
Org Edna: Extensible Dependencies ’N’ Actions (EDNA) for Org Mode Tasks
How to Create Your Own Bitcoin Lightning Email Address
Purolator by the way is a subsidiary of Canada Post. 91% owned. [1]

So some would say that's just a roundabout way of praising checks notes Canada Post.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purolator_Inc.
I schedule my wifi to turn off when people should be asleep. That can help depending on the device.
> It would be fundamentally impossible to argue an ammendment to be unconstitutional.

You're not wrong. That said, it's the SC's job to interpret the wording and the intent of the constitution, including all its amendments. It's how one group of SC justices created the Roe vs. Wade decision, and another group of SC justices overturned it, both using the same constitution and precedent.
Why quote these lines?
A lease costs you more and makes more for the dealer (former car finance mgr here).

They're usually only advantageous for a business which can write off the monthly "rental" cost vs making a capital investment that's amortized over time.

With individuals, unscrupulous dealers use leases to shove people into more car they they can afford, since at the end of your payments with a lease you get nothing.
Uber is just as bad, for what it's worth
I learnt of the Pinkertons from the sherlock holmes stories, and being the young bookworm that I was, I imagined them as some premium american detective agency.

Only later did I realize they were real and had a rather nasty reputation.
Tesla

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/04/murderbot-is-watching-you-p...
Sometimes you want to conserve every bit of power so the SoC can boost hard when it really needs to. And you dont want the CPU/GPU running faster than they have to, otherwise you sap TDP the rest of the chip could use.

That being said, Intel IGPs arent (yet) fast enough to be throttling down in games :P
I'm wondering where the line is between acceptable and unacceptable logs. Obviously no one appreciates analytics used by marketing teams, but virtually every internet service has logs used by engineers (which seem to be what this post is about). A few factors that seem relevant:

- Is the service running locally?

- Do we trust/expect that the data is not used for marketing (i.e. would the user have complained if the domain was "error-reporting.dropbox.com")?

- Is the data anonymous (think twice, everyone who has IPs or user IDs in request logs)

- Did we agree to relevant ToS or privacy policies?

If we think carefully about this, I'd bet that most people here have used or even implemented some form of logging that has privacy problems.
It's so great watching literal decades of effort reducing a harm to literal children just evaporate because you can make it bubblegum flavored and nobody will stop you because you are rich.
Small Firms Beware: Big companies naturally step on small ones
See also Baudrillard.
> As somebody with a jacked up spine, chiropractic care has its place

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6016850/
And each provider you intend to support exponentially clutters up code in the frontend and your /authenticate endpoint in the backend. Imports for each one, IF/ELSE statements to handle each one.
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> because the goals of the DSA align with Apple’s goals to protect consumers from illegal content.

An interesting gambit. It sounds like they want to concede to the regulators while using "illegal content" as the new boogeyman stopping people from freely using their device.

The freedom-loving part of me wants the EU to push the DSA/DMA further, damning all the "content" boogeymen that exist. The realistic part of me knows that this is an amazing deal for the regulator, a literal Golden Apple if you will. Apple is signalling cooperation here, and attaching it to a "think of the children/terrorists" sentiment that most politicians will jump on. It's a damn good strategy, and would almost be impressive if it wasn't used in a desperate struggle to stop the user from installing F-Droid on iOS.
I was recently in northern Vietnam. You could spend an hour having a simple conversation via Google Translate.

Made me realize there are still big chunks of the world where you can't take basic literacy for granted in 2023, even of people in their 30s.
Now I'm even more pissed at whoever stole my box set. I learned of a bunch of great music from that show.
Read the announcement and it looks like there isn't an option to submit a site for crawling. If that's true, how do they discover new sites? My understanding of the 'the Web Discovery project' is that they're indexing your search and the results you click, anonymously but you won't see new sites in your search results which in turn means the new site won't be indexed by them
Yes, I currently have three numbers and I had to carry two iPhone with me. Already using Whatsapp and Whatsapp Business.

I wish Whatsapp Business actually allow Multiple Numbers with Subscriptions. Still dont understand why Meta dont monetise it. I have been send emails begging for them to charge me for certain business features.
Do you think there is no research into saturated fat and heart disease (A->C)? I beg you to google it instead of washing your hands of it because one guy on HN doesn't have the time to walk you through the literature.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturated_fat#Association_with...
But you're missing my point: why assume it's "stressing out"?
Of course, it's all Realpolitik.

The US system of governance at this point is such a failure for real democratic rule. It's devolved into a two-party system, and for some reason we grant whichever party happens to be in power the ability to appoint party apparatchiks to vacancies on the Supreme Court. These people then rule until death, when they are replaced in the same manner.

This being the framework, there is never any structural incentive to do anything but convince voters that your opponent is a monster, so you can retain power. Good governance is not rewarded, bad behavior is not punished - we may only rely on the questionable morality of the elected officials to "do the right thing," since they cannot be held accountable.
A tank would be safes car, statistically - its just deadly to wveryone else.
Asked it to summarize Elastic.co vs Amazon.

Answer was on topic, and completely wrong.

Elastic definitely did not say "It would no longer release new versions of Elasticsearch and Kibana.", and OpenSearch was a result of the conflict, not the cause of it. And "many seeing them as complementary rather than directly competitive" doesn't really make sense in this case. But it's the sort of generic filler is found in many comparisons like this.

The response:

"Here is a summary of the conflict between Elastic and Amazon:

Elastic, the company behind the popular Elasticsearch and Kibana open source software, announced changes to its licensing strategy in January 2021. It would no longer release new versions of Elasticsearch and Kibana. This upset many customers who relied on those tools for their services hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

AWS offered its own managed service called OpenSearch as an alternative, essentially forked from Elasticsearch. This angered Elastic, who saw it as AWS unfairly taking their open source software and rebranding it. Elastic argued AWS should not be allowed to make money from Elastic's open source innovations.

AWS countered that OpenSearch provided valuable managed services and enterprise features on top of the open source Elasticsearch. Customers benefited from having choices and alternatives.

The conflict highlighted philosophical differences over open source business models and the relationship between software creators and the companies that host their tools. There were also accusations of anti-competitive behavior on both sides.

However, the drama did not significantly disrupt users of either platform. Both Elasticsearch/Kibana and OpenSearch continue to operate, with many seeing them as complementary rather than directly competitive. But tensions likely remain between the companies.

That's a high-level summary of the key events and issues in the conflict between Elastic and Amazon over open source software and managed services. Please let me know if you need anything else."
AI #9: The Merge and the Million Tokens
The search index is relatively easy, the ad marketplace is hard. DDG is likely hooked on tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in Bing revenue which is a tough habit to kick.
Although it is true that "time traveling" queries are relatively rare for production needs, the basic architecture supports things that many applications really need:

- It is possible to make queries against the database PLUS additional data not yet added, that is, "what if" queries

- Having a stable database-as-value is really useful for paginating results; you don't have to worry about new values being inserted into your results during execution, the way you do with traditional databases no longer how long (minutes, hours, even days) you take to traverse the data

- Reified transactions makes it possible to store extra data with each transaction, trivially, such as who made the update and why

- Immutability is amazing for caching at all layers
- The accuser's story had a number of missing (and, IIRC, contradictory) details

- There were no corroborating witnesses

- Kavanaugh's own personal calendar from the year in question has no entries for the party at which the assault allegedly happened
Bork was voted on for starters.
Did you hear about the tractor salesman whose wife left him?

She left him a John Deere letter!
Indeed, it depends a lot on the domain. Datomic only has "technical" database time, and doesn't have any built-in way of modelling domain time. You can set the transaction timestamp manually when you write, but you can't set it to be earlier than the latest transaction that was committed. So, if you want your domain modelling to piggyback on Datomic time travelling, you can only do things like delaying writes for, say, an hour, and hope you have all the data by the time you commit to db.
It would be funny if voice controlled devices came into being and disappeared before I even bothered to try them.
Liberty is not the freedom to be obnoxious.
The vast majority of people in new disciplines were like that at the time. Rigor comes later.

I mean, didn’t most physicists in the 19th century believe the Earth was no more than 100 million years old? And everyone was afraid to challenge them until radioactivity was discovered. Bloodletting and leeches and phlogiston and humours and spontaneous generation - same thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle

How about today’s pioneers… Is Bem a charlatan? Is B J Fogg? Robert Cialdini? Erik von Markovik from Mystery Method? Jeremy Miner from NEPQ? LOL
How do you get Siri to actually work with Spotify?

When I try to use it I get consistently laughably bad results. `Play songs by Albert King on Spotify` yields something like "Playing songs by R Kelly on Spotify". No, thanks.

Even when I ask for songs, albums, or artists I have saved in my library, Siri invariably finds something else entirely unrelated to play.

What's really frustrating is that this used to work reasonably well for me.
By the time of IE 5 came to be there was little left from David, hence why IE 6 was hardly having any updates, and most of the team went on to work on WPF.
Public companies are trading far lower than 10x, they'll need to generate more revenue eventually.
Serbia you can pretty much smoke anywhere. The smoking table was next to the non smoking table, only difference was no ashtray.
Can you list top-3 fully-featured Dropbox alternatives of the plenty?
What else would they need power for? Heating and cooling are the only appliances I can think of that would be necessary for habitability.
Pull kernel source, apply patches, build kernel, run kernel.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/BuildYourOwnKernel
I never understood how this could be recommended seriously to folks. I've never met anyone who didn't wash their mouth out after brushing. It just seems uncomfortable to go straight to bed with toothpaste lingering all over your mouth.
This is Zac Henson. The business model is that the community subsidizes automotive repair through individual donations and institutional networks subsidize through grants and we are able to provide a service for dirt cheap. We do have a staff that receives small stipends, but we would like to grow to a point where we can have a full time paid staff. For profit businesses receive probably trillions a year in subdsidies, but mostly pocket the money. We use the money to serve the community.
It's been my default search for months. I go to Google for images and maps, but Brave search serves most of my needs quite well.

But throwing a monkey wrench into the whole thing is my increasing use of Bing Chat. It's not really a general purpose search replacement, but it does do a more efficient job of answering basic questions succinctly.
The problem with answering these questions is that they're always being circled by reflective vest wearing and clipboard toting vultures and you'll wind up fighting with them if you try and give a real answer.
Yeah I mean who else is going to extract all the data stored in customer drop boxes and feed it into a generative AI for drop boxes benefit? First you gotta fire everyone who sees a conflict of interest and a problem with invasively scraping all their customers private data entrusted with you.
Some Bluesky, Twitter and Mastodon predictions for 6 months time
We're going to end up with Marvin the Paranoid Android aren't we?
OMZee
Saxophonist Jimmy Giuffre Taught Me Organizational Theory
ChatGPT for Hardware Design
I landed in JFK a couple of nights ago after a vacation with my GF. I get Lyft priority for free because of some credit card thing. We both called Lyft cars at the same time. She got one faster than I did, and it arrived earlier, whereas I had to wait 5 minutes to find a driver and 5 more for them to arrive. It 100% had to have been because of our destinations - mine is less lucrative for a driver to hang around in (less activity).
I think you and parent are reading things into the comment that isn't there.

On one axis, there's volume and sophistication of arms.

On another axis, there's culpability, righteousness, and what comes after.

No requirement to intermingle the two. Examples of genocide aren't germane to the observation that heavier weapons increase the intensity of civil war conflicts. That's why UN arms embargoes have historically always been a first step.
In most industries there are scale and network effects that favor larger incumbents regardless of the wishes or long term interests of customers. That's why startups are nearly always started off the springboard of big social or technical changes, otherwise there's no room for them to get started. Incumbents work to tilt the field in their favor through expanded product features, lock-in via cross product integrations, exclusive distribution deals, heavy regulation, etc. Simple example: All current iPhones are much bigger than I want, but the switching cost of going to Android is very high due to lock in via Apple services and integration between devices so I don't leave. Paradoxically competitive markets require some regulation to fight customer lock-in.
> Pinecone has zero moat and quite a few free alternatives (Faiss, Weviate, pg-vector)

Faiss is a collection of algorithms for in-memory exact and approximate high-dimensional (e.g., > ~30 dimensional) dense vector k-nearest neighbor, it doesn't add or really consider persistence (beyond full index serialization to an in memory or on disk binary blob), fault tolerance, replication, domain-specific autotuning and the like. The "vector database" companies like Pinecone, Weviate, Zilliz and what not will add these other features to turn them into a complete service, they're not really the same. pgvector seems to be DB-backed IndexFlat and IndexIVFFlat (?) from the Faiss library at present but is of course not a complete service.

However which kind of approximate indexing you want to use very much depends upon the data you're indexing, and where in the tradeoff space between latency, throughput, encoding accuracy, NN recall and memory/disk consumption you want to be (these are the fundamental tradeoffs in the vector search domain), and whether you are performing batched queries or not. To access the full range of tradeoffs you'd need to use all of the options which are available in Faiss or similar low-level libraries which may be difficult to use or require knowledge of underlying algorithms.

(I'm the author of the GPU half of Faiss)
Brave search is surprisingly good. In the past I've often clicked the "fallback to Google Search" option but these days I rarely do that.

It could be that Brave is getting better, or Google search is getting worse, or both.
They bought the search engine when it went bankrupt.
Still quite a feat and its results are actually better than ddg and bing.
It's the difference between bissig, like a Berlinerweiss, and sauer, like a Lambic.
they will harvest your data with "AI" (everything is called AI today) and sell it to insurance companies.

combined with the biden depression, this makes it a good idea to fire employees and gain this new source of income.
I remember the (reasonably-priced) hardware store back home being full of these guys, and home depot with no help, selling plastic plumbing supplies.

I guess home depot has won, and the employees have enough faq experience to help now.

Now if home depot sold 80/20 supplies...
That was my experience last year (first time using Lyft; never used Uber). I was trying to get a ride from a Holiday Inn in Austin that sat next to the freeway. I had about 4 accept it and bail out five minutes later (even the person who accepted it the night before when I scheduled it). I had to wait around 20 minutes past my scheduled pick up time until someone decided to follow through. This was around 7am and was scheduled for surgery at 8am. I don't know if it's a perfect storm situation but I wasn't impressed. I didn't need any more anxiety, and I'll probably stick with the traditional taxi service next time.
This is all ridiculous and just there to push stock prices up. The asset owners getting richer on the back of the white collar worker (see META stock since all the layoffs).
> Yes, but they do report those transactions.

You mean they're supposed to report the trades within 45 days. Not all do, and not all have gotten in trouble for violating the STOCK Act.

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/22/1039287987/outside-ethics-gro...