skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
we (cloudflare) have a great example of a vector database build on workers + kv here: https://ai.cloudflare.com/demos/vector-store/

(plan to talk about how we built it soon)

edit: clarify i work at cloudflare
https://archive.ph/DjOBu
Nothing wrong with that at all. Could be a viable solution for specific use-cases. But for know, most researchers will focus on innately improving those abilities. Right now that would mostly be by increasing scale (data or parameter size), highly curated data for the specific deficiency or work on making transformers scale more efficiently. after all, GPT-4 is much better at logical reasoning than 3.5 and we still haven't hit a functional limit on scaling transformers.
The reality is to keep up with all this is a waste of time for most small and medium businesses.

Unfortunately there are more customers who aren't handicapped.
I appreciated his tl;dr in the comments:

> ONE TIME I GOT RADON ON MY BUTT
The OpenAI APIs are pretty easily accessible over HTTP. Not sure what an iOS SDK would bring to the table.
Is there a precedent of app stores needing to enforce app restrictions on a state-by-state basis?

What if Apple protests and just disables their store in MT? It would only impact at _most_ 500k people (population 1mm at 50% market share, not accounting for demographics)

A huge number of angry Montanians who might vote their representatives out, but a rounding error for Apple.
Yeah this is highly excessive and irregular use of haptics. I expect they will turn that off by default within a week.

I turned off haptics immediately in settings, but most people will be complaining before they figure that out.

It is annoying enough the way that ChatGPT drips out results, but now it acts as a low-quality hand massager and battery drain too?

Not ideal, but the product is still very good and people will happily use it, regardless of these "extra features"
Yes, I oversimplified the significant poverty-related benefits part.

Also, when I said “significant”, I meant “not insubstantial”. I don’t mean benefits for those severely affected by poverty. And “poverty-related” to my mind includes “poverty-reducing”.

Probably it could have been phrased better seeing that it wasn’t clear what I wanted to say.
Anyone else still observing the pattern of BTC falling as Nasdaq rising
A strategy that shorts 50% BTC and goes long 50% of the remaining capital with QQQ at 6:30 AM PST and closes at 1:00 PM PST would have made about 50% returns over past year.

You can see it happening again today. Bitcoin dropped $500 since the open as QQQ is green. This has been going on for months now. Has anyone observed this or have an explanation for it. I think it could be related to either hedge funds selling or US govt. selling its positions.

There have been some headlines about Silk Road asset forfeiture sales. The US govt. is sitting on a shit-load of Silk Road coins and is trying to sell them . It's possible they are being sold on Coinbase during market hours.
Only someone at Intel could tell us for sure, but my understanding is that MKL is a C/C++ interface to a rather bog-standard BLAS/LAPACK library written in Fortran, but with various inner loops replaced or rewritten at runtime with a selection of assembly-optimized x86 SIMD codes chosen based on the capabilities of the CPU.
Would you be making that much outside of CA?
Elephants are smart. Bury a dead body is a smart move, at least sanitary-wise. No room for spirituality here (even if they are spiritual). Case closed.
Is this really necessary? Competing on merit no longer works?

I see platforms burning money left and right and can't really understand how is this "the new norm". Especially with something simple like a blog platform.
Dev-GPT – your personal Junior Developer
You just describe what it should do and it starts implementing it for you.
There's also the silver lining that eavesdropping on the call would be complicated by ad audio.
Design breakdown for transpirational steel plate under SpaceX Starship launchpad
For the same reason you cannot use ab iPad as your Mac Mini display easily and out of the box
Yeah, I remember in the mid-late 90's when companies would actually disable cookies altogether. Most non-technical people just don't understand the what/how/why cookies work, or were really needed in the browsers.

In the end, it's definitely been used in excessive and somewhat intrusive ways. I also wish that browsers had better controls over second and third party cookies and tracking (similar for nested iframe) in order to bubble some of it closer to the surface. In the end, pihole, ublock origin and privacy badger goes a long way to limiting this.
Thanks for the nice exchange. ;)
Happens almost everywhere where basements exist.
PlanetScale Scaled Their MySQL for Developers Course with Written Content
Appreciate the reply, but your justification doesn't really sit right. When you start a project with the intent to make it open source, you architect it that way from the outset. Using proprietary tools like Firebase as a crutch to expedite your initial dev load seems like a short-sighted decision at best that inevitably leads to the kind of predicament you're facing now.

The intention to "remove all non-open source services" sounds like lots retrofitting and will likely introduce unnecessary instability and tech debt. It's almost like building a house, then deciding to replace the foundation while still expecting people to live in it.

Your statement about wanting your code to "be audited by everyone and evolve around community feedback" feels like a euphemism for offloading QA responsibility to your users. An open-source community is not your unpaid labor force.

All in all your justification doesn't exactly inspire confidence.

Besides, seeing these overtly positive and eerily similar comments popping up around your post is a bit too convenient. It's almost as if you've rallied a small army of supporters ready to sing your praises. But even if that were true, I'd like to remind you that astroturfing isn't a sustainable growth strategy, nor is it a decent substitute for genuine community engagement and a quality product.

But then again, if you're already comfortable with retroactively stripping non-open-source services out of your product, who's to say you wouldn't resort to a bit of artificial comment cultivation to make the grass look greener? It kind of feels like your project is less about 'open source' and more about 'being open to whatever tactics necessary to look successful.'

In the end, remember this: Even a thousand echoes can't make a single voice sound any more convincing. The value of your product will be judged by its actual usefulness to users, not by the number of friends you can enlist to say nice things about it.

Just food for thought.
And if you served them to a guest, right after preparing for yourself, it will be before it’s cooled down enough to drink. That doesn’t make it your fault if they spill it on themselves and fuse their labia.

And it doesn’t make the grossness of the accident into prima facia evidence of the culpability of any one party up the line, as it’s always presented in these discussions.
Florida is about to build some test roads using phosphogypsum, a radioactive waste product of the fertilizer industry that has been piling up and they want to unload.

It contains high quantities of radium which decays into radon, this should end well.

> "Phosphogypsum contains appreciable quantities of uranium and its decay products, such as radium-226," according to the EPA. And because the fertilizer production process concentrates waste material, "phosphogypsum is more radioactive than the original phosphate rock," the agency notes.

> "The radium is of particular concern because it decays to form radon, a cancer-causing, radioactive gas," the EPA adds.

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/09/1174789570/florida-roads-radi...
No, YouTube DOESN’T provide a complete solution to ads. Once I pay for premium, I still have to sit through 2 -4 sponsor reads per video for many channels I follow. I know that’s not entirely on YouTube, but that doesn’t matter to me as a consumer. I pay, and ads are still there. That’s a no go for me.
Order your Pizza at Weltpolizei weltpolizei.de
Honest attempt, food from Weltpolizei. See https://twitter.com/Weltpolizei/status/1659254835672227846 and https://twitter.com/weltpolizei
> you really think 95% of routers are part of a botnet? Or that they're even accessible from the internet?

It's probably not 95%, but it's certainly significant. And yes, most consumer routers are obviously accessible from the internet, that's how they work (they're generally not behind a firewall, they are a firewall, and can have vulnerabilities). You might want to read up on it [1, key quotes below], and I know I certainly wouldn't be willing to wager my consumer router wasn't infected, because how would I ever have any idea?

> Out of the box, most routers suck when it comes to security. Vulnerable firmware is an easy target. Backdoors have been discovered in just about every brand of router... It's possible you will never even know your device is infected...

> When we're talking about routers, these aren't the enterprise-level gear made by the likes of Cisco, Sonicwall, or Palo Alto... We're talking about what you would get off the shelf at Wal-Mart or Best Buy — the D-Links, Netgears, and Linksyses of the world.

> The problems start with the cheap, antiquated MIPS architecture used by a lot of these devices' processors... One substantial problem comes from a security flaw that goes back to 2001. Per one deep yet fascinating paper, the chips lack basic defensive abilities against malicious code execution. Combine this with manufactures commonly implementing out-of-date, vulnerable Linux kernels in their devices, and then putting this device on the edge of your network completely exposed to the internet.

But to sum up -- not updating your router's firmware is a terrible idea. It's not something to be proud of.

[1] https://www.cbtnuggets.com/blog/certifications/security/your...
They are, the US is just insanely strict with skilled migration.
broccoli in socal hovers around 1-2 dollars a pound. that's just an outlier
And I've updated my post to point out the mountain of US post-tax healthcare spending, that in the UK, largely comes out of pre-tax pounds.

At the end of the day, Americans still pay, and pay more. 26% in taxes, and then another ~11% in non-government-covered (non-Medicare/Medicaid) healthcare spending.
https://github.com/babashka/babashka comes to mind
do updates work if i switch back to my original account?
Turned off in 30 seconds, boy is that annoying..
Open-Source LLM with a 65k context window
> while Apple allowed these copycats into the App Store without really considering the customer experience.

And what is Apple supposed to do in this case? Block independent devs from submitting valid apps? Then they’d be blamed for supporting big corp and monopolistic practices. Damned if they do and damned if they don’t.
Most of the cost is the installation of equipment in the existing home. In areas of the country that have a lot of radon, it's not uncommon to install the equipment during construction of the house foundation, which then only adds a few hundred dollars to the total cost.

> Radon-resistant new construction (RRNC) typically costs a builder between $250 and $750. RRNC could cost less than $250 if the builder already uses some of the same techniques for moisture control.

https://www.epa.gov/radon/radon-resistant-new-construction-h...
Yeah I agree, accountable is a much better word.
"The evil westerners are keeping us poor and our people are emigrating"

vs

"East europe is increasingly more relevant"

You appear to have some cognitive dissonance.
what exercises should we be doing?
The Increasingly Absurd Illogic of Workplace Drug Tests
Same. I described my dizziness and pointed me to BPPV and 4 others that were quickly filtered out. I also asked how to further diagnose the issue and pointed me to some maneuvers. I then searched them on YouTube and I was fine 3 days later (this stuff can stick around for months)

Diagnosis is probably going to be one of the most impactful uses. Even if then you have to head to an actual doctor to confirm, it's good to have a possible lead.

We've been using Google for the same purpose for a decade but with much worse results, this is a step up.
Okay, what's BasedCon? Their about page says they're a sci-fi conference but with this angle:

> How is BasedCon different from other conventions?

> Sci-fi cons used to be a lot of fun. They were places where people of all colors and creeds could get together to talk and learn about science fiction and fantasy books, games, movies, and TV shows. Then, starting a few years ago, things changed. Cons became increasingly dominated by a small clique of authoritarian jerks who made them into venues for pushing social justice dogma and, in the name of “inclusiveness,” shut down any opinions that didn’t align with progressive orthodoxy. You may remember the Sad Puppies saga, which culminated in WorldCon voters selecting “No Award” in several categories of the Hugo Awards rather than reward people outside their tribe. Maybe you’re familiar with the Gamergate debacle. You probably heard about Gina Carano being fired from The Mandalorian because she voiced thoughts outside the acceptable range of opinion. Undoubtedly you’ve heard about the push to get Critical Race Theory and other social justice garbage into schools.

And John Carmack likes the sci Fi bits. Okay cool. I'm content now. The name is sort of a clue but honestly I think I like John Carmack and I don't care much for culture war stuff so I'm going to skip this controversy.

Summarized here only so you can jump forward without having to search. Btw, Bing AI was great to find the answers to "what's going on with BasedCon and John Carmack"
This type of data is actually better than independent human text (specifically for training the LLM that originally produced the output)

GPT4 is trained with PPO+RLHF. The web text that is produced by the LLM then fed back in will be more proximal to the original token distribution.

In other words, by selectively publishing LLM output you’re effectively performing the same action as clicking the thumbs up/thumbs down button on the chatgpt webui.

I agree with openai that this will not be a problem at all, since you would need a process to gauge the quality of the data anyways, even for human text.
I think minority stance was incorrect in this case. Transformation - perhaps a touch, but definitely not major transformation. I'd rather see the court do this kind of case for really transformative art.
FPS drops throw people off. Just like TV that drops signal, car that sometimes doesn't accelerate, or maybe a website that sometimes loads 10s. It's perfectly fine to care about it.
I've seen Cody (of CodysLab fame/infamy) use a GMC-320 Plus,[0] which runs about $130.

You can get the GMC-300E a bit cheaper, but with no temperature compensation sensor[1] it won't be quite as accurate.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/codyslab/comments/hk3jru/more_fun_w...

[1] https://www.gqelectronicsllc.com/support/GMC_Selection_Guide...
> That rising inequality is leading to poverty is a failure of government, not corporations or capitalism. Why introduce a layer of indirection by blaming the rich or corporations, when the rules are made by government? Blame the government directly.

This implies that capitalism is not capable of self-regulation and therefore requires government intervention. It follows that this is a joint failure of capitalism and governments to reduce negative externalities that lead to high wealth inequality.

> Let reddit handle the economic ignorance.

Please don't include implicit ad hominem jabs at other posters. You could have omitted your first sentence with no loss to your argument.
> People don't like to be treated as second class citizens.

Don't come to me, an European in Brexit Britain, hailing from a country with one of the largest and most-enduring economic diasporas in the world, to talk about the condition of migrants or second-class "feelings".

The stuff you mention is largely bullshit and jokes. There has been no discrimination of Southern Italians since the late '80s, when African migrants became the (easier) target for that sort of treatment. Whereas I'm now on a fucking register and I can lose all my rights with the stroke of a pen by some populist asshole. I swear, EU27 folks don't know how good they have it.

> Is it equally disproportionate, more, or less?

The Marshall Plan lasted 3 years, Italy got around a billion USD. Over 20 years, Eastern Europe likely got several multiples of that - Poland alone received 11bn per year not long ago, so even adjusting for inflation the Eastern bloc is probably way ahead by now.

> What kind of solidarity are you thinking of receiving?

Help with migratory flows and refugees resettlement, to balance demographic pressures. Help with stemming tax evasion (I'm looking at you, Slovenia). Help that costs little and would benefit everyone in the long run.
> Youtube could be re-done in a peer-to-peer format a la torrents

This is my dream, it's not going to happen though because what Youtube cares even more than server costs is controlling videos
Let's assume the update is bad and (soft)bricks routers like yesterday's update.
Is it better to be part of the auto-update pool of users (who definitely got their routers bricked), or be a manual updater?

Normal case: You lose some features / quality of life / stability improvements for a day / week / month (whenever you get around to updating it).

Best case is that you aren't in general population of bricked routers like everyone else today.

Worst case scenario is that you're late to a zero-day exploit. Although, the tech news cycle tends to report those stories pretty well, so you'd be aware of it.

The pros definitely outweight the cons in my opinion, especially on something critical like my internet access.
I am working toward that goal of integrating text diffing or CRDT diffing into a database.

I wanted extremely high performance multimaster scalability of writes with linear scalability and semiautomatic text diffing and merging. I think this calls for an eventually consistent architecture.

The idea is to implement the GUI so that diffs are exposed to the user if there is a conflict but otherwise use the Myers algorithm.

I implemented a simple MVCC in Java.
https://github.com/samsquire/multiversion-concurrency-contro...

And I implemented a 3 way text diff with myers algorithm based on https://blog.jcoglan.com/2017/02/12/the-myers-diff-algorithm...

https://github.com/samsquire/text-diff

I implemented an eventually consistent mesh protocol that uses timestamps to provide last write wins
https://github.com/samsquire/eventually-consistent-mesh

I implemented an barebones toy SQL and Graph cypher and document storage database
https://github.com/samsquire/hash-db

I need to combine the ideas in each of these projects into a cohesive solution.

I did some incomplete work on trying to implement the YATA algorithm.
Real estate photos are notoriously awful for understanding relative size and layout of everything. I do wonder if that's intentional so you reach out to a Realtor® to view the property?

Garages tend to be the box storage location for things that aren't used for staging, which is probably why they aren't in photos.

Matterport offers 3d virtual tours which I've found to be awesome when searching for property. More than once it saved us driving across town because it was easy to tell the layout wasn't what we'd want. One regional For Sale by Owner group has the 3d tour as part of their basic package, which always made me lean towards viewing those when looking online, though I've never seen a garage.
Languages are subject Metcalfe's Law. In the long run - let's say a thousand years - it's likely that the majority of humans will speak a single language. And that language will most likely be derived from English.

The only thing that kept languages separate, historically, was isolation. The internet has fixed that. If you want to publish content to the widest audience, you publish in English. If you want to consume that knowledge, you'd better understand English. The network effect is powerful and English has a substantial lead.

Maybe it's the seed planted by British empire. Maybe it's the fact that English fits into 7-bit ascii. Maybe it's the fact that English is already a hodge-podge of germanic and romance languages. Maybe it has something to do with English readily adopting neologisms from other languages. Whatever the historical reasons, if right this second you put a random group of people from different non-English-speaking countries together, they're probably going to talk to each other in English.

So yeah, this problem - if you think it's a problem - is going to get worse over time. But there's nothing you can do about it in the long run.
Yes, RDR2 is closer to a simulation than a game, and fidelity matters.

Rockstar knows their community. They spent around $1 in marketing for every $1 spent on the development of the game itself, totalling around $500mil, and the game paid for itself opening weekend with over $700mil in sales.

The studio has managed to master this sort of high-fidelity development while fully recuperating all costs, and fostering an incredibly loyal fan base. (Personal data point; replayed every single Rockstar title last year)

You cannot criticize such a company for delivering high-fidelity projects and pushing the edge. (You can criticize their working environment, however)

And without such companies blazing ahead, we wouldn't be currently undergoing a revolutionary phase in tech history as we explore the power of massively-parallel, computationally-intensive AI algorithms.
I think it's only in the US at the moment
AI used to replicate and replace specific worker tasks is much different than steam or electricity.

A better comparison is the telephone switch operator industry, whose jobs (peak in 1950) were replaced directly by technology.

It is allowed to feel fear about losing a job-- there is no safety net, and rebounding is difficult.
> At the end of the day, Americans still pay, and pay more

They pay less in taxes, by a wide margin.

They also get less for them, by a wide margin, particularly (but not exclusively) in healthcare.
Exactly. How could you have known it would be used for what's it's used for now. That's the entire point of the conversation someone from the future could tell you. Why is that unclear? Maybe you're assuming a negative conversation? There are many decisions in my life that if a future me or someone else could show me exactly how things will play out in ways not foreseen by me at the time, I'd be less hostile than you apparently are at the idea.
I felt the same, but with GTK.
There is a famous app for cars on Android called Torque. I accidentally told an average apple user to download it to head his OBD2 codes.
4 fake app downloads later he gave up and said "this is why I stick to apple apps"
Lol what
> wants to talk about the Golang GC just because you have a Golang shirt on?

If I see someone wearing a political t-shirt, they're clearly virtue signaling. If I ask them about it, I might expect political slogans, but often they won't even be able to manage those slogans, much less explanation of a party platform.

If I see someone wearing a branded beer shirt, they're likely to be able to represent for their shirt-beer. Most of the time I'd only expect advertising slogans, but once in a while maybe they'll have something interesting to say. They're going to be generally more informed than the political shirt crew.

A programming language t-shirt is much more niche and advertises that the wearer has an interest in that language and wants the world to know about it. This goes far beyond the virtue signaling of the political shirt crowd. If all they can do is repeat slogans (like most of the beer-shirt-wearers), I'd be disappointed, too.
That's an industry standard as well