skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The differences in 2.x and 3.x are quite significant. The 3.0 database was a ground up rewrite in a new language (v1 and v2 were in Go, v3 is in Rust).

InfluxDB v2 was all about the Flux language and a much broader set of API capabilities along with an integrated UI.

For 3.0 we focused on the core database technology. We were able to bring the 1.x APIs forward, which means 3.0 supports both InfluxQL and SQL natively. We were only able to add Flux support through a separate process and a lower level gRPC API that the two use to communicate.

The underlying database architecture is also completely different. v1 and v2 are essentially an inverted index paired with a time series store. v3 organizes data into larger Parquet files and pairs that with a columnar query engine (Apache DataFusion) to execute fast queries against it.

Me or someone on our team should probably write a detailed post about the underlying database architecture to highlight the differences between the versions.

We built 3.0 mainly to accomplish some things that we were unable to deliver in v1 or v2:
* Unlimited cardinality
* Tiered data storage
* Fast analytic queries
* SQL compatability
* Bulk data import and export (coming soon to v3)

Then there are the systems architecture changes we made highlighted in this blog post. v1 InfluxDB was a monolithic database that had all these components in one. The v3 design allows us to scale ingest, query, and compaction separately, which is something that kept coming up in larger scale use cases.
To be sure, regular bullets can still pretty if you aren't actually fighting werewolves.
Would companies prefer to have their PR departments talking about positive things the company is doing or refreshing and giving voice to an accusation of odometer rollbacks? I read nothing into FedEx’s silence on the topic, other than they are being run by adults taking competent advice.
what is rule 14
Not even a noscript/basic (x)html portal. Still have to go thru nitter.
ACH transactions happen every day

Yes and they happen very s-l-o-w-ly.

Sometimes they can take up to 3 business days (not counting weekends and holidays). And they only work during "bankers hours" --- between 10am and 3pm each day.

In other words, ACH is the horse and buggy way to process financial transactions with lots of manual work required along the way.

It shouldn't be this way and most everyone knows it. The new and improved and long overdue way is called FedNow and will operate 24/7/365 and will offer almost immediate results --- so you can do amazing, wonderful, high tech things like electronically pay a friend your part of the dinner check while still sitting at the table.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/othe...
Sure, it's the same general personality motif - lack of risk-aversion and perhaps lack of respect for authority.

Or are you making the more subtle point that, currently, any use of psychedelics outside of an approved study makes one "a criminal"?
Ok so a mixture of useful and useless information merged into an overwhelming output?
what is the answer to rule 14
Librem 5 smartphone runs an FSF-endorsed OS (PureOS).
Let's welcome Meta, not block them
This is such an awful argument. Because a company captures 50% of sales in an area does not mean that it has a monopoly and that there is only 1 grocer in the area. Your source is also not very reliable. List one area where Walmart has a monopoly and the only grocer in town.
This is not what I want. I want prompt engineering to go away. Just fine-tune on me personally
> you can still read K&R in one day and keep most of the language in your head

Does this include all 193 cases of undefined behavior?
If you want comfortable, look at recumbent trikes.

Regarding e-waste, subsidize non-electric bike and trikes as well.

Most of the electric motorbikes are limited to 25 mph so insurance and license are not required, but there are some that can do 35 mph and faster.
Sources tell me that meditation helps to stop thinking. Just sit still and watch it go by and sometimes it will run out of things to say and STFU.

I am getting better at not thinking, but I'm also getting better at thinking thoughts of value:

How awesome it would be if we spent more time in the present moment. It's a real moment in which we can make changes.

How awesome right now would be if we all live in safety and freedom. It's not impossible.

How awesome various moments would be if others could enjoy the $ART in my head. Not for my ego. Just so they can say WOW!

Don't give up! It's right in front of you all the time!
s/GNU/Freedesktop/
Yeah, very fair point, thanks for bringing that up, made me think about it differently.
My definition would AGI as an AI embodied in a human robot that can do all the physical and cognitive tasks a regular human can, for example I would assume 90% of humans can be an Uber driver, and so the AGI system should be capable of being an Uber Driver. While perhaps only 5% can be a theoretical physicist or a professional tennis player, so I wouldn’t expect my AGI to be capable of that
I am somewhat pessimistic because LLVM is significantly behind GCC in debug information quality (for example, see https://robert.ocallahan.org/2018/11/comparing-quality-of-de...) and there is limit to what Rust can do about it short of fixing LLVM.
Looks like it is against french law to serve alcohol in stadiums - the article doesn't say outright, but they mention that catering can offer alcohol as part of their duties so it appears the reason VIPs can drink is due to being at a catered event.

Yeah, that is a bit shit, but the problem appears to be that the law carves a loophole out that only the wealthy execute on. I don't know though, I live far away and I have only heard about sports hooliganism, maybe it just genuinely makes sense. I'm having a hard time imagining a catered event getting overly rowdy
> Under Evin's Law, which has been in place since 1991, alcohol is banned from sale to the general public inside stadiums in France, and Games organisers had not sought an exemption, a Paris 2024 spokesperson told Reuters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loi_%C3%89vin

Edit: in USA we usually name a law against someone who died, but in this case it's named after the man who proposed it.
What's your salary?
> I am not talking about the frequency of new information being encountered

Neither am I. I'm saying that instantaneous adjustment to ones beliefs is possible, and should be a regular occurrence, while developing ones world view.

> accept a lot of superficially trustworthy information

No. Sometimes you can see things with your own eyes, or have a person that is trustworthy say or demonstrate them to you. Sometimes occurrences can prove a belief immediately true or false. A great example is a child realizing, for the first time, that an adult can be wrong about something. Or, a young adult who voted for the first time, realizing that politicians lie to get elected. Or someone taking drugs for the first time, to realize that perception is fundamentally fragile. There are many many examples. Again, it should be a regular occurrence, when young.

> confrontational

I didn't mean to. I consider "bollocks" to show, somewhat silly, disagreement/defiance. I don't consider defiance or disagreement of an opinion to be confrontational.
The romans did the literal killing because Judea was a roman province, and therefore it was up to the Roman garrison to carry out the punishment.

The people who *called* for the punishment were largely the Jewish Sanhedrin and people of the crowds.

So if we’re going to be pedantic, a more accurate statement would be “The Jewish people petitioned their Roman overlords to kill Jesus on their behalf”.
Yes, with the wireguard implementation being very deeply intertwined with the rest of the VPN implementation, resulting in sometimes higher speeds than in-kernel wireguard implementation.
I had albania which was easy -- there was a nearby poster with some writing on, and a short ddg led to albanian sites.
"Commentary" is extra-biblical and doesn't mean it is true or correct.
> Have a shiny hammer that looks great for hitting screws?

> I know there’s React-based command line builders… And it’s like, okay, if you like components, cool. That makes sense. But why is React building your command-line app? I just don’t understand.

> When I extemporaneously said “I just don’t understand”, I meant that the choice confounds me. But I do understand why people might make it.

The rhetorical error here is the hammer and screw thing. Think of it more like: you need a table. If you're good at woodworking, make the legs out of wood. If you're a welder, make it out of pipe. If you're a mason, make it out of stone.

Is one of those materials better than others? Depends on which variable you value - cost, aesthetics, weight, resale, etc. But ultimately, if you just need a table and you need to build it, use what you know to make it.

(Ink is cool. I already knew React and was familiar with yoga so it was perfect for what I needed to do with it.)
I think iOS now has per-app permissions/notifications around clipboard reads.
I would think that undoing the decree would involve inducing Spanish (or those desiring to emigrate to Spain) Catholics to convert to Judaism.

Which would be odd public policy; but OTOH would make a fine premise for a very funny Adam Sandler/Sacha Baron-Cohen movie.
It's not better then me.

But I use it when I'm lazy, tired or at times drinking.

And then it's really nice. At times it costs me too much time solving it's mistakes. But then it nails something perfectly and I'm impressed again.
Same for me. Never looked at "wordle" once.
TavernAI and SillyTavern both have pretty detailed guides on setting one up by downloading the models from HuggingFace and loading htem into their software.
Proton now has mandatory binding arbitration
Yep. Default Win for Red Hat, Suse and Canonical!

And after some (hard) years of actual competition benefits of compatibility will lead to lower prices and more choices.
If we took bikes off the roads and gave them their own separated driving lane, they would be a lot safer.

To achieve this, take one lane from roads and streets with any number of lanes and dedicate it to bikes with a buffer between it and the car lanes. Two lane roads and streets would become one way.
> We've had a lot of tools that were orders of magnitude faster than previous approaches to programming. Visual Basic/VBA/Delphi/Hypercard et al, made it possible for domain experts to get usable applications built, with little to no programmer involvement. That was a HUGE improvement in our productivity.

Until it needs to maintained and scaled.

My first job out of college was to rewrite a data entry system for a state government used to enter crime statistics. They used Microsoft Access.
There's tons of positive stuff you can inherit from your parents. All of that is similarly "original sin in reverse". I don't see any problem with that as an overall concept.

You don't have to take anything from anyone to give citizenship to people that should have had citizenship.
> Not at all. If you, for whatever reason, need to sell right now, putting in a market order in an illiquid market can cost you a lot.

Are high frequency traders trading in illiquid markets?

That would be surprising to me, it's not high frequency if it's not high volume, and you open yourself up to larger bid/ask spreads.
It would have likely screwed up your previous answers -- roman numerals etc.
What are the advantages of Paxos (in particular of the variant implemented by omnipaxos) w.r.t raft?
This is not an answer. What do you define as personality? I don't have any experiences in my daily life that mirror even the positives of ChatGPT.

I.e a person who has a wide depth and breadth of knowledge that can be called upon at a whim.

When I refer to personality I mean that ChatGPT makes my life worse since it doesn't understand me or my experiences. I want real-time fine-tuning where ChatGPT actually evolves to fit me personally and I want this for every user
To open a new finder window in the current directory in a terminal:

alias finder='open .'
> How is it surprising, then, that startup hotspots have higher use of psychedelics

Well, some people think programming is a profession dominated by 'geeks' and that 'geeks' are uptight squares who don't much like to party. Or to the extent they do party, it's conservative stuff like playing video games until 2am while drinking beer.

In college, the people putting on rager parties with open drug use, noise complaints and people jumping over a spontaneously started bonfire? All organised by people studying things like film.
Neat! Thanks for the details!
> ...passages like this set the tone: “In these men there lived an element that underscored the savagery of war while also spiritualizing it: the matter-of-fact joy in danger, the chivalrous urge to fight. Over the course of four years the fire forged an ever purer, ever bolder warriorhood.” Such dire blather proliferated through the German right after the defeat of 1918.

The article's author might regard this as "dire blather", and it is indeed true that such sentiments were amplified throughout the interwar German right, but it's still a pretty good description of what regular exposure to shared hardship and danger will do to men grouped together in infantry units.
BSD is used in a lot more than you think due to solid engineering and a non-viral commercial friendly license.
Didn't know there was a standalone logind. Reminded me of how they broke vnc sessions. Still kind of annoyed at that one.
Yeah I feel like people have turned the definition of AGI into what we previously called omnipotence.
Is there any already resolved question in which metaculus forecasters made a surprisingly accurate prediction about an AI advance?
Then your install instructions start with "first install Flatpak".
This is unacceptable for an end user program.

If you use the "Snap Store", you're imprisoned in a walled garden and subject to arbitrary decisions by Canonical, Inc.[1] They also take a cut if you charge for an app.

[1] https://ubuntu.com/legal/developer-terms-and-conditions
Oh, what is Alpine planning to move to?
Loved OpenRC when I was still a Gentoo daily driver.

These days on I'm systemd like almost everyone else but I will never forget how advanced it felt for it's time.

It predated Upstart and systemd by several years but was already fully event-based with parallel execution etc BUT it didn't sacrifice the best parts of sysv to get there. At the end of the day you still had a bunch of relatively easily to debug shell scripts. Running Gentoo with OpenRC meant booting in a fraction of time of other distros out of the box.

I appreciate the format of systemd unit files but they result in much of the complexity, corner cases etc being baked into systemd itself reducing debugability. systemd has it's own killer features ofc like systemd-nspawn and friends.
Apple also does this. Extremely infuriating.
Access to financial data is stupidly expensive. Making a budgeting app that serves 100 power users isn't possible to bootstrap. I wish it wasn't this way, would enable way more applications to be built
I added a test[1] to OpenAI Evals that showed that GPT-4 doesn't have an awful lot of understanding of most component datasheets in the training set. It only got ~16% of my questions correct - and all questions could be answered by a domain expert with access to the datasheet.

Example question: You are to answer each given question with a single number, with no extra characters or units. Round every answer to one significant figure. A IRF540N transistor has an R_DS(ON) of what, in Ohms, at V_GS=10v?

Answer: 0.04

[1]: https://github.com/Hello1024/evals/blob/4e9bbce1390ce427acb1...
Wouldn't stars close to the peak of stellar formation 4Gyr after big bang lack heavy elements necessary to life? IIRC, those need a couple star generations to get enriched in the interstellar medium.
The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance
The book is US$250

But the kindle version is FREE!!!
I only got to the captcha because I was on mobile and couldn't be arsed to make precise edits, but I am very impressed by how slick and funny they made a password modal
It must be from slam dancing, moshing, ect. Sometimes it can get down right violent but most people are respectful but I can see how it can be set off and ignored as bodies are being slammed around.
It's called Markix. There's currently no public website, because it's invite only, but if you're interested you can mail me at tas@markix.com.
I thought the film Ecstasy Rising covered that bit of history in a pretty fair and even handed manner for the time it came out. Most TV news coverage of mdma around that era was baseless fear mongering.
That says 4 companies control 65% of the retail market. That is not a monopoly and there are many other grocers that consumers can shop at, like Amazon, Whole Foods, Safeway. Trader Joe's or the many other regional specialty ones.
Emacs4CL: A DIY kit to set up vanilla Emacs for Common Lisp programming
I've noticed that chatgpt regularly uses "In conclusion" in the final paragraph of a summary. Yet, most human writers don't.
Maybe put the search bar at the top of the front page instead of the bottom to help people realize it is available and to encourage people to use it.
Oh wow, I totally missed that. Thanks for clearing it up.
This makes sense, but then again my question is motivated by the astronomical example, which still seems mysterious.

Naively the various arguments and theorems about thermal equilibrium (at least macroscopic equilibrium as you point out) would seem to apply to the situation of 10^24 bodies bouncing around and interacting gravitationally (with some feedback mechanisms into other modes)… basically like a box of billiard balls interacting mostly electromagnetically.

Yet there is no “gravitational temperature” that allows one to predict the expected speed of a rock of a certain mass floating in the solar system. (Whereas knowing the temperature of a gas in a box gives good statistical information about the speed of a molecule of a certain mass in the box.)

Incidentally I’ve put some version of this question to four different physicists and gotten four different replies! (“Chaos” being one of these :) )
Isn't Copilot a protected name in this context?
Love the project. Curious: is (or could be) the focus on the kernel/NT base system only - with the Win32 subsystem/apps being shared with Wine?
Supposedly 1-2 million people speak Arakan, so I doubt it's very difficult to find enough moderators. It's likely not worth the effort to do so unless regulation forces you to do it, however.
Interesting. Says 'OS 10" on my Ventura 13.4 macbook.
Same systemd often hang at shutdown and I cannot be bothered to understand why.

My biggest issue with systemd is the log system. It is so stupidly slow, that I don't think it is possible to make it that slow without purpose. It literally takes minutes to grep though logs on any of my machines with journalctl.

In fact it is so slow. It is faster to first eat the few minutes to extract the logs into a text file. Which I can then grep through in milliseconds.

Oh and the raw text file takes less space than the systemd log database!
The main systemd guy, Lennart Poettering, recently left Red Hat to go work for Microsoft. Hmm...
say --rate=500 "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?"
"Color" in this case just means signature. Of course you can't mix signatures - why would you want to? You might as well argue that Rust shouldn't have had any more than a single integer argument to every function. Async in rust essentially desugars to a return trait impl.
Logic level converters are HARD. You basically need to rebuild internal structure of GPIO external to the MCU. It needs to support high speed, high current, input or output, open-drain/open-collector, customizable resistor pull-up/down.... All external to the MCU.
I don't use adblockers.

I want to experience web as it is.

If it's unusable I don't use it.

So I can see how ads changed over time. Used practices seem more desperate nowadays, sometimes it's like year 2K again. Even google is using interstitials with misleading controls.

After all, I'm paid with advertising money like most people in the big tech...
> I imagine it's already happening.

Not quite, that I know of, but some of us are working on it :)

I have a feeling that while the glorious future you describe can probably be realized using LLMs as a foundational technology, the software engineering effort needed to get there is on par with other AI moonshot projects e.g. autonomous vehicles.

If you or others reading this are interested in this topic, see this post for some interesting discussion and links to projects in development (and in the comments there's a link to a Discord server that was set up for further discussion): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36422730
Why do Peloton bikes ask you to software update before riding?
Oh I didn't realize that. Maybe similar teeth, different dragon. I'm cautious about Microsoft, but recently I'd have to say they've been a reasonable Linux community member - though if there are fewer larger balancing orgs - who knows.
The speed difference with ray tracing is substantial based on demos I've seen. At least with RTX.
Support is a funny term anymore. Who is supporting it?

I have a pair of ASUS VivoBooks that BSOD on Windows every third or so boot with the NVMe they shipped with. That is the supported, manufacturer shipped OS.

On any Linux distro I've installed they run without issues. They also pass any diagnostic I have tried.

Battery life wise, some laptops I have get better battery life on a Windows install, and some get better battery life on a Linux install. Very hit and miss here.
Show HN: AI audio embeddings - Discover 100M+ iTunes songs with language models
We’re a group of electronic music artists and PhD researchers working in AI music.

We've been working on a project to help us discover new music in a more objective way. It's called Speak Music:

https://speakmusic.sonophase.com/

We’ve trained an AI model to understand the correspondence between music and language. The model combines a machine listening and audio signal processing with transformers for text embeddings. Once trained, we index a huge catalogue of unseen audio, ensuring that the search system can efficiently scale to millions of tracks.

At the moment, our model is optimised for our preferred music; electronic, techno, ambient, dub and relaxing etc. We’re currently fine-tuning to handle all kinds of genres and moods.

Our model enables two types of discovery: (a) natural language search and (b) similarity search.

(a) Speak: search for music using freeform natural language prompts. Describe the mood, aesthetic, texture, setting and context of a track.

(b) Music: discover tracks that are acoustically similar to ANY reference track from Apple Music.

We recently presented at Sonar+D in Barcelona.

We hope you like it. Let us know what you think!
This chip is for other chip designers - basically when doing chip design you want to make a product that works first time (or explain to your boss why he should spend hi 6 figures on a spin) - so you test test test ... what this is for is that a chip team will take their verilog design, compile it into luts and load it up here, it will likely run at ~10% of your designed speed - the alternative is compiling your verilog to code and have it run at 0.1% - 100x more testing
The article notes this is the first large offshore wind farm outside Europe, but 800MW is big even by European standards. There are currently only 4 operational wind farms larger than 800MW - all in the UK - and only a couple more likely to come online before this one.
It's a short-term optimisation which severely discounts future reputational and legal costs and consequences.

Though, yes, reality tends to be messier than economist's idealised models.