skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I consider the launch a pure unadulterated success. They ran simulations, took the precautions, this was NOT the Apollo I. N it's the nature of the business, fuck, same as the best chemists have lost fingers n accepted the nobel prize with the remaining fingers.

It's j the media hates Elon Musk now even more than ever.
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If you want to keep pedestrians and cyclists safe all you have to do is make it illegal to be on the phone in any form while driving a car or truck.

No talking, no browsing, no sms, do not touch the damn phone while moving.

Make that law, enforce that law with real penalties and tada, you've immediately solved 90% of safety problems.

Dedicated, protected, bicycle lanes would be a real plus but either cities just don't want to be bothered or people just drive in the bicycle lane while they talk/browse on the phone.
Oh, got own by trolling again.

I still make this mistake after all those years.
Yes, this is an option (that you definitely should turn on).

I think Google shipped another underbaked product here. They have E2EE implemented for Chrome sync data already. They should have just used that rather than going with whatever system they decided. Adding Google Authenticator to the Chrome Password Manager is probably much more useful than having it as a standalone app.
Who else would they rely on, against those who menace & threaten them? Where else would they get intelligence?

An island is surrounded by a military force. Who else is there in the world for them to talk to.

I got flagged for saying this in about the same terms, with a tad more emotional more slant. But this is just the straight facts. This is the situation. This is what's being done to this island, to this place that considers themselves & has ruled themselves as a reasonable decent Republic for a long time now.

And it raises the neoconservative dilemna (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism), the question of how interventionalist should America be & whether the world has an obligation to try to help suffering people & whether anyone should do anything or not.

I'm a hacker. So I love to ask: what other framings do folks see? I obviously have a stance here, but I think I've done an ok job laying out the basics of the situation, shown the tensions that exist. What other framings are there? What else sounds right to you? Let's test the metal here; isn't that exchange of viewpoints the very Hacker spirit itself?
if you only want bacteria, maybe. but even insects or spider still need more and more time to evolve closely new species. we even don't need to talk how many time for evolving a new mammal species. plants will extinct, too.
The lock screen issue is really funny. Because I have the same experience where I will come home and say hey, Siri lock screen to close the navigation. However, now it doesn’t seem to work anymore and I have tried some of your prompts and some combination does work.
unsurprising. the experience with Lyft is terrible. the last three times I attempted to call one I had to give up waiting for a driver after nearly 40 minutes.

drivers will accept the ride, and then just never show up. I watched them on the map---I think they are driving Uber routes for other customers while simultaneously "accepting" my ride
Why? Some studies have shown benefits with moderate wine consumption for example
I imagine NUCs/tiny-form-factor desktops and business computers in general also make a significant fraction of the install base
Which specific "US accounting rules" are you referring to? I'm not aware of anything in GAAP to justify your claim.

There may be covenants in certain mortgage agreements related to lease rates and occupancy levels, but those are terms negotiated individually with lenders rather than being dictated by accounting rules.
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I worked for several years in IoT and as a consequence avoid smart home stuff like the plague, so this hasn't been a problem for me.
is v11 still 32 bit?
There is in face public evidence that they take good care of data, even when building an in house OCR engine, https://dropbox.tech/machine-learning/creating-a-modern-ocr-... :

> We began by collecting a representative set of donated document images that match what users might upload, such as receipts, invoices, letters, etc. To gather this set, we asked a small percentage of users whether they would donate some of their image files for us to improve our algorithms. At Dropbox, we take user privacy very seriously and thus made it clear that this was completely optional, and if donated, the files would be kept private and secure. We use a wide variety of safety precautions with such user-donated data, including never keeping donated data on local machines in permanent storage, maintaining extensive auditing, requiring strong authentication to access any of it, and more.
I did pick my own words. "Feats of engineering". You are well withing your rights to tell me whatever you want sure, I'm also within mine to tell you what your saying doesn't make sense.

Appreciating the field of engineering isn't "bad" or "obscene" just because some instances of engineering lead to real negative consequences. That's a descent into the exact "society has parts that are bad, yet you participate" logic you were originally clowning on.
And if not, and if the demand was so strong, why wouldn't a new company have sprung up to compete on that basis?

You don't have to prove the reason why to observe that it didn't happen. No company sprung up.
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> It isn't designed for steel but some kind of protection must be done at connections or arcing will be a major risk.

Not so much arcing but resistance between the terminal and the wire will increase as a coating of oxide builds up between the two. Eventually the resistance is high enough that dangerous amounts of heat will build up and ignite wire insulation or other flammable materials. What usually happens, is the conductor was nicked by the electrician during stripping and that becomes a mechanical weak point that becomes a fuse link and the wire sometimes just melts off at that point rapidly without starting a fire and goes open circuit.

> melt some lead and dip the exposed part of the wire in that to coat it.

Plain molten lead isn't going to "wet" the steel wire without some sort of flux. Rosin flux is made from tree sap of a conifer tree so go find a pine tree and harvest some sap.
I built some groundbreaking technology to make it easier to browse torrents on the RARBG website.

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/36751-rarbg
I've been scammed once too often by traditional taxicabs. And even when not, the service has often left a bad taste in my mouth.

As a result now, I'd rather wait 30 minutes for an Uber/Lyft than take the cab sitting right there.
I actually want a central server, because the main thing I'm worried about is a fire or flood taking out both my computers at once, in which case the sync to a central server works as a backup.

(I don't have proper backups beyond Dropbox, because I'm pretty happy for stuff I've actually deleted to stay deleted. Just, in case of a hard drive failure or something similar, I can sync back from Dropbox. That's all I feel I need. Maybe there's something better?)
Until your kid learns how to boot linux and run aircrack-ng to get into the neighbor's wifi because you're restricting the internet access...

Ask me how I know
> Secondly, there is a massive latent demand for cycling infrastructure

A claim like that needs some evidence. I don't believe you at all that many people are eager to get rid of more convenient transportation (cars) for less convenient (bikes)

> The dangerous, unpleasant, and inconvenient scattered bike lanes that we have in most American cities are acceptable to < 1% of potential cyclists, which is why the bicycle mode share in most American cities is << 1%

These numbers suggest that if we had perfect cycling infrastructure that netted 100% of potential cyclists, we would still be seeing actual "bicycle mode share" usage of about 1-2% of commuters?

Seems like a poor use of infrastructure to me to cater to such a small demographic of cyclists.
Honestly there are just to many SWE then. FAANG just paid moonsalarys and lot of bad SWE joined the space who ofcourse never get to FAANG or only for 1 axed project but still are in the space not needed at all with I worked FAANG on cv. We can't all be SWE. The skilled will survive it no doubt.
It's both easy to forget why Uber/Lyft was revolutionary and easy to remember why.
Respectfully if you don’t know what a vector is, you probably don’t need a vector DB.

I wasn't looking for one ;-) I was looking for a recommendation engine, similarly most often I'm looking for various ways to use ML and AI to improve various features and workflows.

Which I guess is my point, I don't know who Pinecone's target market is but from following this thread it seems like all the folks who know how to do what they do have alternatives that suit them better. If they are targeting folks like me they're not doing it well.

Pinecone's examples[1] (hat tip to Jurrasic in this thread - I've seen these) all show potential use cases that I might want to leverage, but when you dive into them (for example the Movie Recommender[2] - my use case) I end up with this:

The user_model and movie_model are trained using Tensorflow Keras. The user_model transforms a given user_id into a 32-dimensional embedding in the same vector space as the movies, representing the user’s movie preference. The movie recommendations are then fetched based on proximity to the user’s location in the multi-dimensional space.

It took me another 5 minutes of googling stuff to parse that sentence. And while I could easily get the examples to run I was still running back and forth to Google to figure out what it was doing in the examples - again the documentation is poor here. I'm not a Python dev but I could follow it but I still had to google tqdm to figure out it was a progress bar library?

Also, and this is not unique to Pinecone, I've found generally that while some things are fairly well documented on "Here's how to build a Movie Recommender based on these datasets) frequently in this space there's very little data on how to build a model using your own datasets ie how to take this example and do it with your own data.

[1] https://docs.pinecone.io/docs/examples

[2] https://docs.pinecone.io/docs/movie-recommender
This. How can we get this to 100%?
Isn't this normal throughout history? Laws do not apply to the ruling class themselves.
Hated it. I was apparently not alone; it did poorly at the box office. I'm also generally not a fan of religious films.

Also hated (and could not finish) the utterly turgid THE IRISHMAN. WOLF OF WALL STREET had its moments, but I'm honestly not sure why the film existed -- I mean, it's the same sort of story as GOODFELLAS.

SHUTTER ISLAND was crap. THE DEPARTED was maybe ok. The last one I loved was THE AVIATOR.

Given how awful THE IRISHMAN was, and the trendline I see with his work, I have no plans to see the adaptation of KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON.
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Knowing how much home renovations cost, why would a megadonor stop at “tens of thousands of dollars”? Can you really buy a vote for that little?
> Lead should be readily available in a war zone?

Goddamn, son.
realistic in the sense that, it's not superpowers/futuristic/comic-hero.
Whenever I get the urge to respond to a question with "You don't want to do that, you want to do this instead..." I'm going to prefix the question in my head with "As I am currently in a war zone" and try answering it.
Indeed. People do individual things.
Governments implement policy (or at least should) to make sure these individual things are within the overall goals and policy objectives they have been elected on, and for the good of the whole of the country.

Hence you have trade agreements and tariffs, tax, environmental regulations etc.

And trade isn't always good. If you are exporting then you are using your own resources (human, minerals, environment) etc to do work for others. This may work for you at an individual level, but it may not work for the country.

Four examples from the UK

1) Welsh Lamb. It is produced at great cost to the hill environment, including habitats and the knock on effects of flooding downstream. It was exported to the EU, while we were importing lamb from New Zealand to eat.

2) Fishing. Many of the fish caught in UK waters were exported because we were not used to eating them, while we were importing fish that we were used to eating. Individual fishermen probably did 'ok' out of this system, the companies above them doing much better. But coastal communities were not thriving, they were categorised as some of the poorest areas in the EU. Fishing didn't contribute to a sustainable environment for coastal communities. Then there is the environment, fishing stocks, discarded fishing gear etc.

3) Cars. This is a bit more difficult to solve, but we seem to spend endless resources in the EU and UK producing as many cars as possible. Despite them barely being used (a car sits idle 97% of the time) other than to financially cripple the owners. A car is very inefficient way to travel in the most populated places in the UK. Yet we have built our services around it, and continue to over produce millions of the things every year. Who is benefiting from this approach, rather than proper investment in a first class public transport system and associated planning system?

4) The drug trade. This is a trade full of highly skilled and resourceful people, it generates billions in complex imports and exports and logistics. This is good trade? No of course not.
You are taking crazy pills if you think you can find a majority in the House to impeach a conservative supreme court justice when there is a democrat in the White House. Holding onto power is all that matters, optics be dammed. These are the same people who refused to give Merrick Garland a vote because it was "too close to the election" 8 months away, then a mere 4 years later rammed through Amy Coney Barrett a week before the election.
Most of the article documents that the earth is warming but at a slower pace than it says models predict. That's not "climate change denial".
It probably takes more time to run the analysis locally on a phone chip.
While we probably can’t completely fix it, shouldn’t we still try?
Stack Exchange doesn't require login to post. It just requires an email address (and you can provide a fake one, if you don't have one for whatever reason).
"Drug use is endemic inside schools."

Some schools, maybe. It wasn't that long ago since I went to one. I also know teachers, resource officers, etc who currently work there. We also weren't allowed to use phones in class. If kids were caught, they would be disciplined. We also had periodic random drug screenings and search dogs.
My understanding is that those were later refuted. (And that light wine drinking correlates with socio-economic status, which also correlates with health)
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Apparently yes. It's always surprising how cheaply our politicians have been bought.
Could be a coincidence, but my experience has been that Lyft have generally been faster and cheaper than Uber. However the quality of both the driver and the car has generally been higher with Uber.

I'd still call Lyft over taking a traditional cab though.
Because it’s not a real argument, it’s marketing fluff. “Oh, look how futuristic it is! If you (the government) approve all our demands for reduced regulation and subsidize our installation costs, you’ll get re-elected by your people who now live like the Jetsons!”

They’ve been saying the same exact thing since cellular data was starting to be deployed 30 years ago. Search for the AT&T “you will” campaign from the 90s to see.
Good move imo. Twitter is a data treasure for many sectors. They probably saw an increase of bot crawling after the APi changes and this was soon to follow.

If monetization is his primary goal which it is these moves make good sense.
At least my Corolla doesn't persist the screen--and it's instantly dismissed if I go into reverse and the backup camera activates. The driver assist stuff is fairly mild which is good because it's prone to errors. It routinely gets confused about what constitutes a lane, beeping about my not following something that isn't actually a lane. Usually something on the road but I've been scolded for not respecting the shadow of an electric wire. It also thinks I'm not holding the wheel when I'm in a very gentle high speed turn--there's a spot where the expressway gently curves that's very prone to triggering it.

The adaptive cruise is pretty good, it's been fooled once by two cars moving in front of me at the same time and it appears to have no understanding of cars with huge speed differences. (Bozos that enter the road at half the speed limit.) It also refuses to operate below 28 mph which I dislike because cruise control is good for using the engine to hold your speed down on hills--and there's a certain 25 mph mountain road I sometimes drive. Yeah, maybe the adaptive stuff can't work but at least give me basic control so I don't need to use my brakes!
Here in Pueblo there are a lot of "closet" Hatch chili people ;-)

Seriously though, I think Polis has done a good job and he's the rare politician who can understand the implications of the right-to-repair law.

When I was teaching Comp Sci at the high school level and we got a bunch of refurbished computers from his foundation ( http://www.jaredpolisfoundation.org/ ).

The desktops came with bare-bone Windows and a bunch of open source applications. Of course we put Linux on all of them anyway, but most people back then would have NOT known how to use a Linux box, so the setup they came with was understandable.
I use Siri to turn on/off voice control which lets me control my iPhone without touching it (it's a disability feature).

When I no longer need voice control I use Siri to turn it off (I have my voice control set to label all actionable buttons on the screen so I like to turn it off when using my phone via touch.)

I'm not visually impaired however I find voice control super useful when I want control of my phone and rather not use touch or in a situation where touch is impractical.

Whilst Siri is good for certain tasks it lacks the ability to control every aspect of the phone whereas voice control is literally a replacement for touch control.

By combining Siri and voice control I get fine grained complete control of every app when I need it, all enabled/disabled via my voice. Such a brilliant combination.

Apple's attention to this disability feature is incredible. I only learnt about it after a visually impaired friend showed me how it works.

I learnt that voice control/voice over is the reason most visually impaired people use iPhone due to Apple's dedication to building world leading accessibility features.
Comedian Dara O'Brien wanted to name one of his shows something like "Good craic", but was told he couldn't because the British would colossally misunderstand.
related to a bigger risk I see for the US. if the US gets into a war with China its going to hurt us massively. We're heavily dependent on them now during peace time as it is -- and all those two-way flows can stop in war. and they have much greater ship building capacity.
I mean, every time I call tmobile I am my wife, because only she can make changes on the account.

PROVE IM NOT HER OVER A PHONE
you think so? I mean, i basically stopped drinking a year or so ago because it just gave me headaches and I'm aware of the negative health affects, but I find myself in an extremely small category of people who don't drink simply because they don't want to. at least for my peers in their 30s.
Latest Huberman postcast episodes tend to discuss the opposite.
In the US, milk is usually seen as a beverage for children. Adults will consume it with breakfast cereal, but an adult ordering a glass of plain milk to drink would be seen as a bit silly.

It stems from the early 20th century nutrition efforts, where children were thought to need to be convinced to eat enough. (Sounds bizarre here in the 21st century. I believe it has to do with failure of some children to thrive, often due to things like gluten intolerance or other disorders.) Milk was portrayed (by its producers) as absolutely critical to children's health, leading us to subsidize its production.

I can't speak to other countries; I don't know how much milk is consumed in Europe or elsewhere. But Americans grow up drinking milk, and don't think of anything wrong with that. Adults tend to consume it with something else (coffee, cereal), but it's still seen as a major source of calcium, especially for women.

(It's not necessary; plenty of cultures survive without it. But it's good for you, despite obnoxious propaganda to the contrary. I'm a supporter of veganism and think we should all consume less animal products, but I think that's made harder by PETA telling outright lies.)
Maybe in the US. Americans seem to be getting quite puritanical about these things. I’m not seeing the same in Europe.
My gas stove has both: Control knobs for burners, and non-tactile buttons on a display.

The control knobs are extremely easy to clean: I just pull them off and throw them in the dishwasher.

The display is never clean. It has grease on it and I can't ever scrub it hard or use caustics for fear of damaging it.
Easy, no devices in their hands after bedtime. Your child isn't some busy tech professional that needs to be on call for work emails. They can live without having their iPad and iphone in their room. When I got caught as a kid playing my Gameboy when I should have been asleep, I lost my free access to it and could only use it when homework and chores were completed. Once play time was over, they took it back because I was a dumb kid who wasn't responsible enough to manage my own screentime.
But something like 50% of studies don't replicate?
A switch with two positions is still a stateful UI unless it is a momentary push button without LED as the position of the switch represents the state of the system.

But gotcha, this depends on your definition of "stateful UI"
I have memories from being a kid sitting in hospital lobbies with people around me smoking.

Honestly how did that ever even work? Ostensibly you had situations like people smoking while patients were wheeled around with oxygen? Of course back then the insulation was asbestos so maybe nobody worried about fires!
Here's the frontend of this repo: www.usagebased.org
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It's a wonder they survived for so long considering how many good alternatives there are and how many issues they've had with security.
> Its not wasted, Starbucks still gets the money

That counts as "wasted" to me.
I would gladly report all the bugs myself manually, with all the details, specifics and reproduction steps. The only problem is 85% of bugs I ever reported either got "won't fix" status (mostly in free software) or just been silently forgotten (mostly at work) or got a "pay first, then ask for fixes" response (when it was about shareware). So I lost enthusiasm. Free software bug reporting also often has a problem of requiring registration in a separate BugZilla for every project but this problem has mostly been resolved by the majority moving to GitHub.

By the way, although I don't want to participate in involuntary and non-transparent automatic error reporting, I find your response logically beautiful. "One step away" - a perfect and reasonable description for this.
Why do you use pgvector instead of pgANN? My understanding is pgANN is built with FAISS. When I compared pgvector with FAISS, pgvector was 3-5x slower.

https://github.com/netrasys/pgANN