skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the power lines around my house got upgraded last summer.

if we think that's somehow relevant here.
Totally agree, substance over style.
I have no idea what is vector database, I’ll look into it.

I like 1, already have some experience with it, but security is such a big field, I don’t know which direction would be the best.

Do you have any suggestion for 5? I know I am bad with people skills, but I’m kind of an introvert. How can I improve in this?
Great! Though I guess it's missing the typesetting capabilities of LaTeX
HRVTool: Open-Source Tools and Methods for Analyzing ECG Heart Rate Variability
His content is not good and thats why he not earning that much
Hm... Now that I think about it, regex tools on the command line haven't been a goto recently. I used sed, awk, perl -e, et. al. constantly from the late 90s until maybe 2015 but since then I'm more likely to pop open a ipython repl or whatever and avoid those weird inconsistencies altogether. Also, developing on the old scp->LAMP stack setup required more shell script glue than the more automated contemporary setups I've been using.

I'd probably suck at it. No matter how frequently I use regex in :ex commands, I always screw up the escapes, substitutions, etc.
Sounds yummy.
Minimalism for the sake of minimalism is just as bad as the concept described in the article. For example I find your blog very easy to read but very hard to navigate. I don't understand its structure, I can't find any menus and I don't know when I'm at the end of "something".
I bought a Fluke 8840A bench multimeter recently. Its manual has comprehensive electrical schematics of the internals! Not only that, a significant portion of the manual is taken up by explaining exactly how each portion of the circuit works. Mine didn't come with the AC option, but if I wanted to I could build one without having to reverse engineer the schematic. As someone who didn't grow up in that era (was born in the late nineties) that's pretty wild to me.
> What can we do?

Hmm, I don't know, how about flying less?
Meetup: How Does Conductor Power ML and Security Infrastructure
It has nothing to do with fragmentation, but with wasted space. When ext2 was originally developed in the 1990s, the typical block size employed was 1KB as storage was orders of magnitude smaller, so wasting half a block per file on a floppy disk or small HDD was a significant concern. Today most filesystems use 4KB blocks to match the page size of the most common CPUs as wasting a couple of kilobytes per file is noise.

The journaling layer (jbd) in ext3/ext4 was built on top of buffer_heads as buffer_heads were the way writes got tracked. Rewriting ext4 and jbd2 to use a new data structure to track writes to the journal and disk will be a lot of work. ext4 has a number of issues that make it a less desirable filesystem these days, so it's not clear the work will be worth it any time soon when filesystems like bcachefs, btrfs and xfs do so much better.
Yes. The linked article is a bad book report. The "reimagining" link is useful, but it's a bunch of people with their own agendas.

That shows a fundamental problem. Given a large number of people with different agendas, how does an action plan emerge? This is a problem with meetings in general. We all know what meetings that accomplish nothing are like.

Democracies needs something to vote on. There's a stage before voting which involves focusing and drafting. This tends to be dominated by lobbyists and others backed to promote narrow, self-serving agendas. That part of the system sucks.
Is there a way to always stay up to date with the latest and best performing models? Perhaps it's me but I find it difficult to navigate HuggingFace and find models sorted by benchmark.
What information about the user does the plugin get? Can you store authentication keys somehow? I want a plugin that just runs stuff in an EC2 instance.

I'd also like a plugin that could connect to my email provider and read or send out emails based on my requests. I'd ask it stuff like "summarize all my unpaid bills".
> which doesn’t scale well

It also has the problem of only being applicable to geographies with abundant water and the topography suited to create giant reservoirs.
That could end up in getting better and better special-purpose expert systems. How do you create better and better general-purpose AIs this way? What is more, when the AIs are more advanced, it might be challenging to create meaningful tests for them (outside of very specialized domains).
What I'm hearing is that you loved the Build engine and tooling surrounding it.

That's somewhat orthogonal to Duke3D the game played-as-shipped...

I did software-rendered graphics programming back in the VGA days and a lot of your muted color palette complaint stems from a necessary compromise to support dynamic lighting in 256-colors. A huge part of what made DOOM so amazing was the dark environment and atmospheric, dynamic lighting. That they managed this in 256-colors was unbelievable a the time. Quake supported a software rendering mode on VGA as well, IIRC, also with dynamic lighting.

I tried playing with dynamic lighting w/texture mapping hacks in 256-colors after playing DOOM showed it was possible, and it only really worked well with dark/goth-y muted textures because you have very little dynamic range. Try fitting an RGB color cube in 8 bits...

Unless my memory is flawed, Duke3D didn't even attempt any dynamic lighting in the 8bpp VGA modes of the era. It was bright and colorful, but so were Wolf3D and Commander Keen.
Wow this is so cool! Not sure it will fit my use-case, since I am still looking for something that can handle proper typesetting. But I bookmarked this - very handy!
As a regular, enthusiastic, urban cyclist, there is nothing I want more than widespread use of autonomous vehicles. With well-behaved (i.e. not human) drivers, every street becomes safer and less stressful than a dedicated bike lane.
In this case, history.
Install Podman Desktop for managing containers and learn how to use it for Java development. Use cases from Spring Boot, Quarkus, Testcontainers, and Cloud Native Buildpacks.
Ok but this is extremely new tech, all of that stuff will get better over time, and the AI will require less and less intervention.
There is pretty much no aspect of this grammar issue that I didn't already completely understand forty years ago (at which time I sided with the prescriptivists, my excuse having been age twelve).

It's perfectly clear why some people don't like "comprised of", and what their reasoning is. That reasoning is seriously flawed, though, on multiple accounts.

The first is that language changes. This particular ship sailed so long ago, that it literally could only have sailed; the age of steam power had not yet dawned. In that time we have seen changes like sensitivity taking the place of sensibility.

Secondly, "be comprised of" follows sound word-forming processes inherent in the English language. It's obeying certain rules, just not ones that are above the sophistication of internet grammar cops. There is no rule that the participial adjective "be comprised of" has to relate to the verb "comprise" in a specific way.
"Laugh or assume you're a robot" isn't quite right, though; skipping the "ne" is common in informal contexts.
Interesting take. I think it also matters how broad or small you define language or communication. Personally and in a philosophical way spoken and written language is the main differentiation between us and and animals. We can quickly and specifically make intent and meaning mediated between us. I also think we are hilariously bad at it in a modern context, the complexity of the current society makes communication (and by extend community!) unnecessarily (?) noisy.

Another interesting point is the idea of Logos, Word, Speech as the divine attribute par excellence in some religious and mythological contexts.

That said I am not sure what the author wants to optimize. I mean if AI can mediate meanings and intent, that sounds interesting. If it is to AI have their own chats, I doubt that is useful from a human context.
And WTF is wrong with Chinese Govt policy when they want to just have these ivory doo-dads so much that if their populace don't have access to ivory they eviscerate Clam population in the south china sea.
During WW2 the US built e.g over 300 destroyers in 6 years. Now they struggle to complete 2 per year. It might not be impossible but something has fundamentally changed.
you seem to be the first result with "Nagelindiewandschlageisen" in Google (and i guess i'll now be second)
> ... find replacements for foreign words, and strengthen the nationalistic awareness with all its perks.

> They created their own "purified" dictionary ...

So, the "Erhaltung" effort was not to preserve existing usage, but to create a new vocabulary aligned with the group's ethno-nationalist agenda. Seems very different from TFA's agenda.
Three months from now: Discord raises 500 million dollars to make the next generation social media company.

Also this is a terrible decision IMO.

The discriminator allows people to have their own name of choice.

If people aren’t accepting friend requests have they ever thought that maybe.. nor everyone responds to friend requests?

I just checked my discord and I’ve got 82 friend requests. I don’t add anyone except people I actually want to.
That post came off as a bit hyperbolic to me, but I fundamentally agree with the premise that this will have an impact much like social media, with all its unforeseen consequences. It’s not about AGI taking over the world in some mechanistic fashion, it’s about all the trouble that we as humans get into interacting with these systems.
There was a fascinating article in the Economist many years ago about the worldwide predominance of English. (This was pre ubiquitous internet.)

The reasons given were 1) British colonialism 2) Post WWII American hegemony 3) No one cares if you speak it poorly.
>> The organization predates George Orwell by around 20 years... so I guess nope ;D

I do not understand - OP was mentioning that the organization worked through second world war and was event at Nurimberg trials. An Orwell written 1984 in 1949. What do you mean that this organization predates Orwell ?

I was just insinuating that Orwell might have known about this history (and probably about similar like this) and use this as inspiration for how dictatorships can use purification of lanuguage for their purposes (in case of Orwell it was more about controling "thought crimes" then abount simple national identification).
> The reality is that terminology is a treadmill - terms get “used up” as they’re laden with connotations and baggage, forcing us to find new terms, ad infinitum.

Perhaps for those lacking courage.

There are plenty of real world examples that demonstrate people, including sizeable organized groups, are capable of doing otherwise, at least for a few hundred years.

e.g. Vatican hardliners sticking to their canon.
Do you reckon he uses the built-in microphone, or an external?

This channel is amazing. I learn best by simply watching others do, and this will surely help me advance my culinary art!
I'm talking about 100 years ago when cars were invented. We didn't stop and wait for the infrastructure to be ready. We built it, got it out there. Everything else will come when and as we need it.
Semi-related, it always bothered me that we use the term "wireless" for something that still has wires (just not between the endpoints). Though I don't object, or have a better alternative, and I get the logic of calling it wireless.
> Planes are held to a standard that we don't hold buses and trains to.

Or highway/pedestrian/cyclist safety, for that matter?
> It's absurd that English speakers are so tolerant of incorrect usage.

Or, one can just as easily say it's absurd that certain pedants are so intolerant of evolving usage.

Language does not proceed by logical deduction. It is shared convention, no more and no less. If a majority of people think a new usage is right, then that's just what the usage is.

When you say "incorrect usage", incorrect according to whom? You? A minority? Why should anyone else take that seriously when they're already communicating just fine?
Show HN: K(v)aas. Key-Value as a Service. Simple API to Persist short-lived Data
Hey HN!

I built K(V)AAS last night, after having to deal with some programmable banking API that couldn't persist data across sessions.

I didn't want to create a new db or backend for such a simple task, but also couldn't find an existing service that simply accomplishes this.

I'm keen to hear what you all think! Current usage is entirely free. If there is a need, I'll build it out a bit more.
I do this all the time as a walker too! But I try to step away from the curb and signal clear dis-intent. That's bc when I'm driving the neccesary bias is to assume that all pedestrians could be erratic and go into the street at anytime. It's neccesary because even if it's only 10% you can't accept any errors.

In other words, I'm trying to politely set the groundwork to say I think you are wrong if we assume having pedestrians signal clear dis-intent to cross is a reasonable requirement. Of course, the drivers are also wrong to be exasperated with you so I do think in a sense both parties are wrong :D.)
Yep. Definitely a case of one side half-heartedly participating and the other side playing for keeps.

At some point, the toxicity will generate a wakeup call among normal people and they will have to face facts that a really rotten contingent of loudmouth pushy sorts are squatting in the culture, acting as if they own it.
I always use unity builds for all my projects now.
That combined with using tcc as compiler (for C code) makes builds really fast.
Another nice feature of unity builds is that I don't need to declare functions twice and keep the declarations synced.
It's also nice to only have one place to find information about a function; people often put comments in header files that you can miss if you go to the definition.

All of those things combined make C programming more enjoyable.
I'll add a few first:

- Weather integrations. Questions such as "Where is a good place to travel to this weekend?". "What day this week should I go hiking". "Where is the cheapest place to fly to business class that has weather above 70 degrees and a beach" (if kayak plugin ever works)

- Sports and fantasy data. "Who should I start next week?"

- CI/CD integrations. Possibly ask about failures and why the failed. Why the test failed. Could it come up with a fix?
The biggest risk I see (in the short term) is people being forced to accept outcomes where "AI" plays, in one form or another a defining role that materially affects human lives.

Thus people accepting implicitly (without awareness) or explicitly (as a precondition for receiving important services and without any alternatives on offer) algorithmic regulation of human affairs that is controlled by specific economic actors. Essentially a bifurcation of society into puppets and puppeteers.

Algorithms encroaching into decision making have been an ongoing process for decades and in some sense it is an inescapable development. Yet the manner in which this can be done spans a vast range of possibilities and there is plenty of precedence: Various regulatory frameworks and checks and balances are in place e.g., in the sectors of medicine, insurance, finance etc. where algorithms are used to support important decision making, not replace it.

The novelty of the situation rests on two factors that do not merely replicate past circumstances:

* the rapid pace of algorithmic improvement which creates a pretext for suppressing societal push-back

* the lack of regulation that rather uniquely characterized the tech sector, which allowed creating de-facto oligopolies, lock-ins and lack of alternatives

The long term risk from AI depends entirely on how we handle the short term risks. I don't really believe we'll see AGI or any such thing in the foreseeable future (20 years), entirely on the basis of how the current AI mathematics looks and feels. Risks from other - existential level - flaws of human society feel far greater, with biological warfare maybe the highest risk of them all.

But the road to AGI becomes dystopic long before it reaches the destination. We are actually already in a dystopia as the social media landscape testifies to anybody who wants to see. A society that is algorithmically controlled and manipulated at scale is a new thing. Pandora's box is open.
> It's possible the lidar approach only really works with up to date high resolution maps and without that you end up in a local max you can't really escape with that approach.

Sorry, but you’re just repeating Elon Musk’s buzzwords like “local maximum”. It doesn’t make sense. There’s no such thing as “lidar approach”. All sensor inputs are fused (early/late fusion) and run through perception algorithms. Lidar is used for localization with maps, but that’s not even its primary use (that’s object detection). And it does not require maps to be up to date either.
Handle the state on the application side...

It is like complaining that HTTP is limiting because it is stateless. Build state on top of it.
This is exactly the kind of thing I was looking for, thanks!
You give lots of good advice.

I would add that it helps tremendously if you have some hospitality to offer, or can build up to that.
I'd love to see a decent package that includes Proton... I'm using a proton launcher written in Rust for a few Windows apps that seems to do okay, but I had to set my proton version in Steam to the one the launcher expects. I would think that it would be easy enough for someone more familiar with Wine and Proton to work through... not sure why the launcher doesn't have a more baked in dependency on Proton that it automagically loads on first use.

IIRC, there have been distros with a better WINE integration, though they haven't been particularly interesting to me. Given the popularity of MINT for starting users, that would probably be a good place to start from. But I don't know where their core team stands as far as the distro's direction.
The advertisement of your service seems like the best part of Upwork though. If you already have clients, there's no point in using it.
Why does it have to be a grid? There are plenty of electronic devices that don’t get power from the grid, some at dwelling scale. What prevents power from being delivered by truck, just like fuel is today? (Density is definitely an issue, but technology evolves)
I agree so much with the observation that we are still using, basically, archaic systems.

We have so much more knowledge now, so many more capabilities, but people still argue over socialism or capitalism, for example.

There are numerous better possible systems, but instead of people putting their heads together and really coming up with a better system, at least for our modern day needs, people just stick to arguing what they learned, what gets inherited.

I think we definitely need something new. Capitalism unchecked and without heavy regulation is unsustainable, if nothing else it will lead to revolts and uprising. Socialism has a naive view of human nature IMO.

Hybrid systems like the Nordic countries use are pretty great, but still much room for improvement.

On top of all of that, democracy can't work when, like in the US, almost half the population is severely uneducated and ends up voting out of spite and/or based on belief.
... and being antisocial. What's the point of doing things with the sole motivation of annoying people?
They load faster, too.

I'm presently grocery-shopping in another tab, and I am continually amazed at what a terrible UX I put up with. Compare any grocery website to McMaster-Carr and it's not even 10x, it's like 100x worse. But I give them my business because the competition is actually even worse.
Whether a language has a governing body is irrelevant to whether you should attempt to use clear, easily-understood language. The concerns apply equally in French and English.
That sounds very Chaebol-y
The piano is not the canonical model of a scale - it’s just a bit more visual than some other instruments. I went to music school and primarily play guitar and violin but can sort of play some keys. I could definitely figure out pretty much any scale on a piano but couldn’t just sit down and immediately play most of them.
The guys with the medals on their chests using unrestricted AI while the public gets the toothless one. Not too different from the enduring idea that common folk will be eating bugs while they eat steaks.
I don't enjoy my time online, I just dread change more than I dread living a dull life
I understand the HN mods changing titles of sensationalist clickbait, but can we agree that maybe titles of articles in scholarly journals should not be changed?
“Fact” related words have always had a divergence. Latin factum verb means to do. Various words fall on the objective aspect of action (fact, factual) while others fall on the more subjective “artificial” aspect (factitious, factoid)

The family of the word “act” has similar divergence from similar Latin word actus
A few of us manage it. It's flawed, but has its uses. It'll probably never be better at being a couple of decent monitors than a couple of decent monitors but the trick is to find other uses.

See also:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33486756

- Working from Orbit. Significant article about coding in a Quest 2. From a bit of a fanatic admittedly.
He’s solving the transmission problem. A portable battery does not need to be charged from the grid.

Edit to add: I have about 1.2kW of storage that can be charged by solar in a few hours that takes up about the space of a 5 gallon NATO jerry can. It can be charged thousands of time for the initial price paid. That’s with 2020 tech. Certainly density and efficiency will improve as market pressures increase.
caring about grammar is a mug's game, always has been and always will be.
Do you have any insight into comparing
SurrealDB (https://surrealdb.com/docs/introduction/start) to DuckDB (https://shell.duckdb.org/)? I haven't done that comparison yet, I might now based on your recommendation. I saw DuckDB at Data Day Texas 2023 and their demo was intriguing. That's even for our use case which was not very SQL-y.
I don't know if it's that simple, and in the case of "comprised of" I think there's good reason to attempt to make a correction. It's not that to comprise is some super common, popular verb that pops up naturally in our day-to-day language. It's relatively rare. My personal opinion is that people believe what they'd probably say normally ("x is made up of y", or "x contains ys" or whatever) sounds too simple in some contexts, so they reach for the the verb they heard some other people use that they presume is more correct and then use it incorrectly. People are conflict-averse and don't often correct their friends/colleagues/clients/whatever so it sticks around. So if the intent is to use a more correct word, surely people would want to know the actually correct way it's used?

And I'm all for "language evolves" - but there's always going to be a time when you correct people. If you have a kid who calls the ambulance the "ambliance" (common one for kids where I'm from) you don't just shrug and say "language evolves", you try to teach them the correct way to speak, spell and write.

I don't know where the line is - what should be corrected and what should be absorbed in to English - but I feel like "comprised of" should be corrected.
I think windmills are rather beautiful. Subjective, obviously.
And for that, you can just "google it"
You're welcome to tend your own garden, but until we figure out how to have fair elections I would invite all self-appointed language stewards to leave other people's plots alone.

Languages belong to their speakers, and the only way we have to vote at the moment is with our idiolect.
AI Mentions on Hacker News
Thought to do some quick and dirty analysis of how often AI has appeared on the front page.