skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like no matter how many times a bill gets shut down, it can just be re-introduced until it passes. I guess pretty soon the mode of operation of Congress will be the "we need to pass it to find out what’s in it" and not even bother with public opinion.
Trump as president had one distinctive advantage, there was a functioning opposition. Now many oppressive or foolish propositions have bipartisan support:

When EARN IT was first introduced in 2020, there was immense public opposition to the draft law:

"This terrible legislation is a Trojan horse to give Attorney General Barr and [President] Donald Trump the power to control online speech and require government access to every aspect of Americans' lives," Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said.
Russian oil floods global markets via major Asian intermediaries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQddtTdmG_8
>So each state has a small enough scale to solve its issues

The problem is that states are choosing to address this problem by bussing homeless to other states.

This is the primary issue with federalized states, solutions are crafted in the interest of each state, negative externalities be damned.

The federal government doesn't have the ability under the constitution to address this problem in any real way. Until it can, it'll be cheaper and more politically expedient for those in charge to maintain the status quo than to actually work towards a solution.
I forgot to mention, verifiable identifiers can optionally be salted before hashing but this introduces a dependency on the creator of the domain verification record to share the salt.
I’m using a very limited subset no doubt

This is one problem. I've been programming C++ on and off (mostly off) for about 15 years, and I keep running into things in code bases that I've never seen before and have no idea how to deal with. The potential difference in coding styles between two C++ developers is far larger than probably any other language I know. If I get to write C++ the way I want, using only the features I know, then it's fine. Once you start getting more developers involved you are going to need a very strong lead to keep everyone in line and consistent.

C++ is also complex and interacts with other complex things in sometimes unexpected ways. It will also let you shoot yourself in the foot in very complex and unexpected. By far the hardest bugs I've ever had to deal with in my career have all been C++ bugs.

Finally building and linking a non-trivial C++ project always ends up being a janky pain that eats up more time and sanity than it should.

The being said, I don't mind C++ and use it quite a bit. Although these days most of the C++ code I write is libraries callable from python with pybind, rather than 'pure' C++ applications.
It may be cold, but not that cold if there is water and underground volcanic activity.
This: https://ig.ft.com/quantum-computing
I never saw the pitch of crystal compared to Ruby with RBS.
You are perhaps exaggerating the "astronomical" delta-V required. Space stations are generally in a low ~400km prograde circular orbit, at an inclination efficient for an northern hemisphere launch.

For example, you could push the last stable Mir into the orbit of the ISS using only a few hundred m/s delta-v, regardless if it was a good idea or not. Of course, you could construct other scenarios where docking is not possible with current available thrust options.
I haven't used it for a while, but there is a website called 'staticice' that appears to still be an e-commerce price/product search engine. I'm not sure how it works, maybe the sites sign up, or provide prices, or staticice scrapes. It's mostly for gadgets and computer parts but has worked well enough a few times.

Similar to pcpartpicker but much less 'utility', just pure search for model w/ price.

I wonder how one would discover websites like this currently though -- it's certainly not in google's interest to make the top result infobox something like "Didn't find what you are looking for? Try searching using this other site: goodcommercesearch.net" !
I can't suffer Go. C, Rust, C++, Ruby Python, Java, C#, VB.Net are all fine, F# looks cool too but I never used it.

I started to use Crystal in a small commercial project, as a web backend, and it was very fun and promising.

But the project got cancelled for completely unrelated reasons.

I long for an excuse to use Crystal again. Hard typing combined with Ruby carefree style and EXEs without runtime... really cool stuff.

I think Crystal will crack the Win32 nut eventually.
I'm not a data scientist or anything, but as far as my understanding goes, you can think of it as a list of numbers (floats, integers, whatever), each number representing a feature of the thing you're trying to represent as a vector (an image, a video, whatever).
LLM part is currently under load. I am currently doing a full rewrite for it, which will improve its speed and reliability.
I'm sure that demise has nothing to do with the change from unions literally fighting armed strike breakers on the streets to unions being heavily regulated bureaucratic entities that are on first name terms with the corporate owners that used to hire the armed strike breakers.

By legalizing narrow avenues for union conduct, we have also heavily disincentivized any behavior outside those avenues. The "fat cat" union reps that live off your dues without contributing anything meaningful to your rights are ultimately an intentional creation of this de-radicalization. Incidentally the Red Scare helped quite a bit by making unions scared of seeming "too leftist" when the existence of unions itself is born out of a leftist understanding of class conflict (not "class" as in how much money you have but "class" as in whether you have to work for a living or people pay you for what you already own).
Ahh, that'd be the Vector Database Broker then? ;)
A mechanical analogy of electric circuits
TruffleRuby & JRuby targets the JVM aswell.
Revealing someone's secrets, is illegal in religion, yet legal in law.

While secularism have rationalized certain religious rules in their own interests like "your right to throw your arms ends just where the other man’s nose begin", they definitely did not originate with them. And though they have not rationalized everything, individuals sourcing laws from religion does not violate freedom of religion principles.
Why Roger Lee Started Layoffs.fyi
Wow, that is shocking.
Most of these items are paid for by the company, and most people would not consider the separate salary of the janitorial or HR staff to be part of their own salary.
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Lol seems like you have never tried to do it in real life, easy to say impossible to do.
This is a complex problem that has many stakeholders who want to maintain status quo. Don't forget all the tax evasion and money laundering it supports.No one is asking questions till the market goes up.
Only way for a serious change if prices dropped overnight by 30-50% and people realize a house is just a place to live and make memories in, not a money machine.
Why distroless containers aren't the security solution you think they are (2021)
Empire: A PaaS Built on Top of Amazon EC2 Container Service
Waiting for someone to post a 4-symbol APL version (which makes use of a language feature added by an eccentric hedge fund millionaire in 2002 and removed in 2017, to ensure nobody ever runs it).
An embedding is a numerical representation of a complex object.

In an image, each pixel is a dimension but it does not have any meaning in itself - you need to look at the rest of the image to understand that the pixel is part of a cat. Embeddings is a way to represent this meaning. Think about it as a “summary” of a image / document.
People did this back in the day. If you had the name "Xbox sign out" and people called you out in voice chat then Xbox signed them out of their system https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWZLa4AnN5k
huge privilege to have you on our platform, thank you qdrant team! hope more rustaceans find this useful :)
This is what I hate in guest language communities (a subset of them), they literally spit in the ecosystem that makes their beloved language possible in first place.

Granted, not everyone is like that and there are many nice folks, but those vocal ones, oh boy.
Researchers discover a potential cause of Parkinson’s disease
Sounds like maybe your experience is with places that do this backwards? Velocity is a backwards looking measure. It doesn't commit your team to grind until that's done.

We get as much done as we get done. We take a guess about how much work that will be at sprint start, based on previous average, and make sure that much work is well understood and prioritized. But tasks turn out to be easier or harder than expected, people get sick, shit happens and you end up accomplishing more or less than what you expected. At sprint end you measure what you actually accomplished, to help predict the long run timeline of the project and maybe to get a better guess at how much work to prep for next time.

There should be no time or "amount done" pressure on the engineers. We measure the actual throughput and use that to inform management how long the work as defined will probably take. If management doesn't like that assessment, they can manage the situation by adding engineers or reducing complexity/scope. If you really like playing with fire you could let them ask to lower quality standards, too.
Whether you want all data the government has to be public depends heavily on whether you want private security forces to have all the same power as a police force.
> Yes, we pay to defend Europe from Russia, and we do it for free.

If 'we' is the USA, then I'd suggest the USA pays to maintain a very lucrative industry, and as far as anyone can tell, they pay way over the going rate, and have very poor book-keeping.

The idea that some older equipment, rather than being retired or disposed of, is being sent to Ukraine, as somehow being exclusively a defence of a distant place, and 'for free' feels asymmetrical to reality.

The USA has some serious risk / concerns coming out of this conflict - not so much petroleum products, but certainly iron ore, argon, neon, cobalt, etc. That's the practical resource based risks, and then there's the whole regional stability, opportunity to assist in the downfall of an enemy empire, etc etc.

> We should stop doing that, and invest more in domestic needs.

If 'we' is the USA, then I suggest you won't stop doing the former, and you won't start doing the latter.

In the past twelve months the USA's sent US$30B (list price) of equipment to Ukraine.

That's out of an annual budget of around 1,900B (or 845B) depending if you're looking at resources or obligations, but either way, 30 is a small component of that.

For context, the most recent US DoD audit identified at least 220B worth of equipment that they simply can't determine the whereabouts of.

So, yeah, I reckon the USA could look after its own interests by sending some equipment to Ukraine and address homelessness within its own borders, if it really wanted to.
Crystal won't take off because it's an "amateur" language, to have a good and properly supported language you need a lot of poeple and money, which Crystal has not.

I would not rely my business on a language where there is just one full time dev working on it and relying on donations.
That's a palindrome, not an anagram. If you'd like to see the director's cut of that palindrome, it's available here:

http://www.fun-with-words.com/palin_panama.html

I've always been partial to pangrams: sentences that use every letter in the alphabet at least once, typically shooting for a short sentence.

My favorite is "Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs". Not minimal, but delightful and uses only words that most mortals know.
> I would say that the experiment on that is over, and the technology is not yet good enough that people can be full remote forever, particularly on startups.

Back-to-office also helps management sleep better at night. Less risk of an employee getting paid for more work than they did. Or leaving value on the table because of a missed water cooler convo. Probably. It sounds good, at least. To management.

If a company is seeing poor results with WFH, it makes you wonder if there might not be a management problem.
Apple definitely does this. The homepod is pretty great at picking up a voice with loud music playing. But then it goes to Siri...
Actually it did start with religion. Though that matter goes into prehistory. And many modern religions source their history to way back when.
Blocking modes of communication will not affect citizens of india and is Democratic?

Please Explain.
As of right now, the Grasp Network builder won't consider outgoing links from UGC (User-generated content) websites such as Reddit, Twitter, etc. as it would bring in junk, as you mentioned. I am maintaining a full list of UGC sites.
Ambient 0.2: multiplayer UI, sound, clientside WASM, and more
G'day, HN!

We're happy to announce Ambient 0.2. For those joining us for the first time, Ambient is an open-source runtime for building high-performance multiplayer games and 3D applications powered by WebAssembly, Rust and WebGPU. Projects consist of assets and logic built around the currently Rust-only Ambient API, and these projects can be loaded by any compatible runtime running on any platform.

This release adds a few major features we're really excited about:

- We now have basic support for playing sounds.

- WASM can now be run on the client, in addition to the server.

- Servers are automatically proxied by the Ambient Proxy, allowing anyone with the URL to connect.

- Finally, our UI framework, Ambient UI, can now be used from guest code. Combined with our networking and ECS, this unlocks an exciting new capability: multiplayer UI!

In the blog post, we walk through the creation of a basic multiplayer beat sequencer using these features. We're excited to see what else the community can cook up :)

Download: https://github.com/AmbientRun/Ambient/releases/tag/v0.2.0

GitHub: https://github.com/AmbientRun/Ambient
x86 is indeed toxic, the harm that wintel caused and still causes is measured in trillions of dollars. They just gatekeep every program ever and get free money from everyone on the world, for no reasons except that they can do it, and we let them.

I agree GP, everything against intel-amd should be supported.
Perfect for our next zero shot model. We'll give it a spin!

Thanks for building this.
audited for what? what is this signal fanboyism online when there are competing products doing the same thing? if whatsapp is using signal protocol then by effect isn't it as secure as signal? if whatsapp is introducing attack vectors, then they are not as secure as signal.

But all that is a moot point. Indian government wants a representative in india for all the apps which they can throw in the jail or fine or arrest or beat up if their app is used to disseminate information the ruling party finds unpalatable. There is no terrorism threat. If whatsapp is e2ee, why aren't criminals using it? one would argue that it is being monitored and anyone doing any terrorist activity gets auto reported so where is e2ee in this? what happened to that?

the government wants element/threema/telegram/whatsapp/signal to have a rep who will give them backdoor access and dance to their tune or they will cut off their money supply viz a viz, ban from the huge indian market. Telegram and whatsapp have bowed down to the supreme clown so they are after the rest of the apps now.

reproducibility is nothing if the government can't push down on someone's neck. They want a totalitarian state where any dissent is seen as a criminal offense and people are today in jails for doing that.

public channels is nonsense argument. the boogeyman terrorists wont use public channels will they?

second thing, there is no requirement of using a mobile number with matrix. That is an amazing tool with the indian government. They just need the account holders' mobile which whatsapp and telegram are happy to share to save their asses and it takes a matter of seconds to find the person. They then employ the "xkcd $5 wrench attack" and the game is over.

These apps don't mandate the use of a mobile number so that is what they are after.
>Honestly it doesn’t feel too different to javascript.

...that would be because Javascript was developed by people who wrote C/C++ :)

Netscape was written mostly in C++ back in the 90s because it was the Language of Choice™

So the devs that worked on Javascript borrowed a lot from C++ in terms of syntax, structure, etc

Likewise, Java looks a lot like C++ because the folks at Sun were writing in C and C++ for the SunOS/Solaris operating system, and all the Unix utilities that supported it

And C++ looks a lot like C because Bjourne Stroustrop started with C, and added-on

And C looks a lot like B because they started with B and made something new/better

PHP looks a lot like C/C++ (and perl), too ... because they started with those as inspirations

"New" languages tend to "look like" the languages the designers/developers already use :)
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In order to avoid the effort of pairing socks, I once had the genius idea of buying them all the same colors. Then all hell broke loose as the color may be the same, but they were from different pairs still and so became more difficult to pair: you will lose an individual sock but not a pair.

I stopped losing socks as I began buying them in bright colors so pairs where trivial to spot in all the sock journey during laundry.
Tl;dr - About 50%.
I sincerely hope this doesn't become a trend, it's dangerous and hurts the academic world a lot.
You are welcome

Also

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35368176

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35757802

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35767789

https://www.parand.com/a-completely-non-technical-explanatio...

https://ai.stackexchange.com/a/39121
>Karpathy (OpenAI, ex. Tesla) recently tweeted about KISS and just using np.array instead of a vector database

The context was a very underwhelming side project of his: A movie search engine but you had to use the exact titles of the movies to get results. It only revealed that he doesn't appreciate what similarity search actually is.

It feels almost blasphemous to call a Karpathy side project underwhelming. He is a genius and it really felt unlike him to write that "just use np.array" tweet.
> ELEVEN PLUS TWO = TWELVE PLUS ONE

Goedel's incompleteness theorem fans would be drooling all over this
Is current C++ still upwards-compatible with current C?

I know that was a major selling point 30 years ago ... but is it still?
„All the main platform features for Windows are finished“ (10 days ago)

https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/issues/5430
There’s a lot of old tooling that still has its charm. Last week I was deeply impressed by Awk…
seems like he's thinking in the same space as Andreas Wagner, who writes about these ideas in his book, "arrival of the fittest".

Wagner also talks about the "probability space" of organic molecules being too high for life to emerge through true randomness.

For even the simplest components of life, like the citric acid cycle, to come into existence is something like everybody in the world hitting the lottery number every day for a billion years. or something.

I don't remember how he brings his theory down to earth because I didn't finish the book, but a cool thing to think about.
I understood it more like "if wink#1234 from 2019 and wink#9876 from 2022 both want to change their name, the 2019 account can get it earlier" but maybe you are tight :(
Google Cloud still doesn't support this plugin, big shame
I really hope for their success, but as usual their announcement is delivered with no substance. Promises of entering a completely new market with few projects in negotiation and already announcing mass production in less than two years...

I could understand they are just fishing for another round of investments to catch up to some masterplan. Extreme expansion and growth without significant results can only result in an explosive burst.
Chromium based?
But isn't the lack of destination a part of the problem, or maybe the whole problem?

It has been proven, scientifically, that making a distinction between soft- and harddrugs help in fighting drug abuse, death and misery. It's, for example, what the Dutch policy is based on.

By making a clear distinction, and decriminalizing it, you can educate people on it. You can say "this is very bad, that is dangerous and that there is merely unhealthy".

I'm sure a lesson can be drawn tlfor porn there too. By criminalizing, or forbidding it all, blanket, you loose all opportunity to teach about what is normal and what isn't. You just get one big pile, where disturbing and terrible stuff is just as (in) accessible as the stuff that's fun, pleasant or even educational.
Jeffrey Epstein's Calendar: Bill Gates, Leon Black, Thomas Pritzker in One Day
The article is confused but the theory (and it is a theory, albeit an early one) is a useful restatement of a lot of intuitive understanding in a way that allows it to co-articulate with evolution in particular.

The introduction to one of the linked papers is far more informative and frankly readable than the article:

> Biological systems have access to a lot of information—genetically, epigenetically, morphologically, and metabolically—and the acquisition of that information occurs via evolutionary selection over successive cycles of replication and propagation [7]. One way to look at such systems is by comparing the self-dissimilarity between different classes of a complex system, allowing a model-free comparison [8]. However, it has also been suggested that much of this information is effectively encrypted, with the heritable information being encoded with random keys from the environment [9]. As such, these random keys are recorded as frozen accidents and increase the operative information content, as well as help direct the system during the process of evolution, producing objects that can construct other objects [10].

https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/24/7/884
did not know about those - I did know about Jython, however :)

But (and correct me if I'm wrong, please), isn't Ruby a "scripting" language? Ie one not 'meant' to be compiled?
My (also anecdotal) experience has been the complete opposite. Any time I've rented from a large company (or have spoken about this to people who do) I have dealt with frequent rent increases, lack of responsiveness to issues, and many other problems.

> if there is something damaged, the maintenance department takes care of it.

In 3 weeks. At 11:15 AM. On a workday that you have an important meeting at 11:30 AM and cannot miss. Oh, you need a different date? Well, how about in 2 months at 11pm on a Sunday? Of course, we won't be able to actually do any of the work that late because of noise issues, so you'll need to schedule a follow-up maintenance appointment. (I'm only roughly paraphrasing what happened to a friend when their dishwasher broke.)

On the other hand, renting from a private landlord who's renting out their old home or similar has been much more fruitful for me. Perhaps it's because I spent the time to vet the landlord a little bit as well.

There are good management companies, and there are bad ones. There are good private landlords, and there are bad ones. Companies, and more specifically the people at those companies, also take things personally.
I also think that these companies are realizing that at some stage, if AI keeps becoming more powerful, it may actually jeopardize their business, it's quite a conundrum for everyone.

Just as employees are feeling afraid for their jobs, I'm sure some of these companies, probably even Open AI themselves feel similar.

Like it's fun to release these models and keep the secret sauce secret, but at some stage, Open AI will probably be breached or someone will leak information about the architecture and weights, or both, and then it's kind of game over from there.