skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My guess would be that it's because spoken languages and programming languages are fundamentally different, so in trying to make one fit the other you might end up with a programming language that looks and reads a lot like English, but it's almost become self obfuscating because now your brain could automatically try parsing it using the rules for English and not the rules for the programming language, making things look like it should work even if it doesn't. The example the comment you're replying to works pretty well, we probably largely ignore punctuation at the end of sentences in terms of actually consciously seeing it as opposed to just inserting a pause in our mental cadence, so if they're suddenly important pieces of syntax in statements that look like English you could easily start messing up the use of it
I don’t think Ayn Rand gave up on humanity at all. Just the worthless nonsense and the people endlessly consume it.
> Do you think Hackernews would do better or worse if they introduced a paid tier that put your comment above others every time?

If a paid tier alone puts your comment above others, then the result is negative. However, I do not believe Twitter's algorithm simply ranks by the presence of a blue checkmark. It is a signal amongst other signals and not a sole criteria. My feed has improved after all the changes, which is why I could not share your observation.

Truth social exists because of a censorship. The idea of a social network with high censorship results in a state of content being a walled garden. While the intention behind censorship may be to create a safer and more controlled environment, it often comes at the cost of limiting diversity of thought, stifling creativity, and hindering the progress of society.

Censorship, when implemented excessively, can lead to a state where only certain viewpoints and information are allowed, effectively creating an echo chamber that reinforces existing beliefs and discourages critical thinking.

Twitter has the potential to become the next Truth Social. If Meta enforces excessive censorship in Threads, people might perceive it as a more "positive" social network, offering the illusion of a better alternative. With media support, people could gradually migrate towards Threads, leaving Twitter in decline. However, if Elon achieves his super-app goal, Twitter's current form will no longer exist, rendering these social media-related issues irrelevant. Consequently, Twitter and Threads would evolve into a completely distinct applications.
Technically, the number of transistors in dinosaurs has indeed doubled every two years
I don't know what Ayn Rand thing you're referring to, but I'd be a lot more concerned about the beginning of the ad where she's poking holes in a condom...
Life eh finds a way.
Of all the things to be proud to be ignorant of, Excel is probably near the top of the list.

I wish I didn’t know what excel was.
I do a similar thing with my desktop. When I'm travelling, I switch on Hamachi before I leave. That way, I can access it (and the various services I run on it) remotely.

The main downside is lack of remote controls. If it craps out, I can't remotely reset it.
Same is true for humans - a scientist inventing everything from their head would not achieve much, but if they can conduct experiments, and if they persevere, they eventually make discoveries. A pure LLM is like the first case, a LLM with tools or part of a larger system is the second.
Judge is very sus. Microsoft hardly kept their promises if we look at their past records.
No, the driver is the one pressing accelerator and brakes, and this is the computer in the car and algorithms in it.

Saying "driver is a corporate entity" makes as little sense as saying "driver of this regular bus is AC Transit".

It's like: imagine someone hates AC Transit, so they started approaching the busses and putting huge, obscuring stickers on the windshield. Would AC transit suffer from that? Sure. And so would the passengers and other vehicles on the road.
Can anyone please suggest a good stack for the following:

- calculating text embeddings using open-source/local methods (not OpenAI)

- storing them in a vector database. I'm confused by the myriad of options like Chromadb, Pinecone, etc.

- running vector similarity search using open-source/local methods.

Also, how granular should the text chunks be? Too short and we'll end up with a huge database, too long and we'll probably miss some relevant information in some chunks.

Has anyone been able to achieve reliable results from these? Preferably w/o using Langchain.
UI changes can be very polarizing. It was bold of them to make the change. I can understand why it would put you off if you don't like it.
even taking your contrived example, you have to store it in the stupidest way possible to get that level of storage - even assuming your 1K of text is incompressible, you only have 1K unique values. The most basic compression algorithms will make easy work out of compressing the crap out of it, leave alone the advanced compression algorithms used for any big data storage formats.
This is the main problem. I buy NUCs because I know I am going to get a machine that works and if there's anything wrong with the BIOS they will ship an update, and that update will be installable without Microsoft Windows. If I am left to a marketplace without Intel's excellent BIOS, I am going to be very sad.
Yeah I know they plan to vet them. $100 per member doesn't seem like enough. I think to vet them they would want a minimum $200 million investment.
I hope he pushes for a no-ad version of their site for subscribers that doesn’t track, but costs more.
okay my prior observation about coming out of an ice age so naturally it will likely be warmer fell flat with the downvote so how about some realism?

The Earth doesn’t care, and the Earth always wins.

Look around. How many insects do you see or clean off your windshield now? How about butterflies? Frogs? Birds? By various quantitative indicators we are in a mass extinction event, for whatever cause. Accelerating temperatures? Excessive chemical use? Ecosystem destruction and disruption? Who knows.

Although more likely … there’s just too many humans, and those humans are living an unsustainable lifestyle provided by our technology.

It isn’t capitalism vs socialism or communism.. as the USSR certainly wasn’t an eco-friendly economy… nor is it developed vs emerging economies as technology appears to prop up enormous unsustainable human populations in developing countries…

So the vast majority of humanity will disappear if not lead to our collective extinction. The Earth will be different than the one we knew, and the collective decisions of humanity world-wide chose this outcome.

The only thing you can do is what our ancestors over millions of years have done … adapt, move and focus on your own personal survival and reproductive success…

Or just enjoy the view and don’t worry so much.
I love this idea!!! So sad I missed the part where I could have drawn a frame myself.

I just wish that others didn't abuse the site. Unfortunately I saw a swastika in the playback.
Apparent Death
This is where external recruitment agents can be a good thing. You get to talk to an intermediary (a biased self-serving one for sure) and ask them about the interview process etc. They normally have more than one thing to send you to, so happy to discount X to send you to Y which might have a better process.

When using them I find you need to keep your wits about you. Some are sharks. Always confirm whether or not they are putting you forward for something being the main thing. I have been put forward for roles without knowing then got unstuck because 2 agents put me forward for the same role.
Likely we are in simulation with ppi resolution set to planck constant. Matrix isn't so far fetch. Now we have to wait for Neo.
While lines of code is not a good way to measure productivity, it is not useless. I’ve used it to uncover situations where people were struggling with work. It’s a heuristic which can be used to draw your attention to areas which could be problematic.

Ink coverage could be used the same way here.
It’s 2023. We should not be “optimizing” for any particular resolution, or for any form factor for that matter. I expect to be able to use Product X on a 5k wide screen iMac display without the content being a tiny 4cm column down the center of the screen. I expect to be able to use the same Product X on a low resolution entry level Android device running Firefox without having to zoom to see things. I expect to be able to use Product X while blind, with a screen reader. I expect to be able to use Product X via an API from a terminal running cURL.

We have let the visual designers run mad and it is killing software.
You can do whatever you want it’s all a question of your tolerance for risk and the complexity of the environment you want to maintain.

I do what you are describing for fun, but I would never recommend it for a business, even if it is reliable.

To get around the reliability problems, I have the on-prem laptop environment update cloudflare entries with keep-alive timestamp messages. .. I then have a Google script that monitors the keepalive and if too much time has passed, a “failover” is done and everything that was running on-prem is spun up in digital ocean. The failover script completes by updating DNS and pointing to DO

I don’t allow the system to fail-back, I always investigate every time there is a failover, but it rarely happens and is usually due to power outages.
Does it sound like something that would be true and provable for all hunter gatherers across the entire planet for some two million years?

( From first humans to present day hunter gatherers )

Is it true for present day hunter gatherers?

How could it be determined for (say) hunter gatherers in modern western Europe?

Would that be via skulls and bones from major outbreaks of conflict every so often or would it establish a pattern true for all generations, etc?

To be honest it sounds more like missionary type comment on uncivilised savages.
> but when there is even a suggestion that not-well-to-do are helped, it is immediately thrown out.

So the "not-well-to-do" people who would have lost their jobs due to government actions without the PPP loans aren't "not-well-to-do" people? Isn't that precisely one of the reasons why the PPP loans were done, to save the jobs of at least some "not-well-to-do" people?

> Remove some of the burden from students? Whoa whoa whoa.

You mean like putting loans on hold so interest is no longer accruing?
Safe harbor has nothing to do with net neutrality. Not complying with DMCA takedown notices would leave them open to legal liability, which I think is fair for them not to want to do.
Bot-to-bot wash trades as evidence of legitimacy, classic web3.
Probably because of the lower price and u can still exercise with it? U can treat a ebike just like a scooter, but you can't do the reverse. A cargo focused ebike is also very cheap. The size of the ebike is usually much more compact
It's not necessarily a matter of not wanting to share space. Some birds instinctively build nests on cliffs, but when their instincts drive them to nest on the side of skyscrapers, their young end up falling to their deaths since skyscrapers are taller and more vertical than the cliffs they evolved around. (Fledglings falling out of nests is normal, but in natural environments is rarely lethal.)

In cases like this, anti-bird architecture is really just an attempt to say "no really, this isn't a good place for a nest".
Apologies you are right. I just want a productivity tool that can be my entire office suite and work communication tool all in one. I know It doesn't exist but I wish it did.
im not though. I don't think you need to know measure theory and understand how to formalize probability in terms of sigma algebras to do professional stats.

But I would be very skeptical of a professional data scientist that doesn't understand things like derivative, integral, limit on an intuitive level. I don't know how you would understand distributions without that knowledge
That's good to rule out db differences, but that doesn't explain where in transit the 15 ms difference is between HTTP and WS for established connections.

I'm assuming the most likely difference is in Pg processing an HTTP request over processing raw bytes, but there are other explanations, too. (Older/slower code pathway for HTTP in proxy, different intermediate node behavior for HTTP vs TCP from proxy to db, etc. Much less likely, but not impossible.)
And the 2023 was a stripped down version only available in Europe as well, that + the track change is why I looked up the 2017 numbers to compare properly.
Ah yes... the all or nothing school of black and white thinking appears.

I'm not a climate scientist, activist or am particularly conscious about the environment, but even I know that these effects stack on each other. Had we even flattened emissions, rather than going up and to the right at a steep rate, we could have slowed the problem. As it is, we have drastically increased the amount of impact any meaningful solutions will need.

My understanding of the subject is basic, but the changes we are experiencing happen slowly, then quickly and unpredictably.
There is a difference in basically sponsoring the artistic abilities of a studio, versus buying one to shoulder out your competition, though. To pretend otherwise for Microsoft seems very disingenuous.

That is, for many of the studios that Sony has funded, it is easy to see a series of games that nobody else was willing to place bets on. For the ones that Microsoft is buying... Seems very very different.
Flapjax (2006)
Because they turn out to be just as precisely fiddly as any other programming language, but deceptively appear not to be.

If you treat them as English you'll get burned. You have to still treat them as very precise formal languages where apparently trivial/irrelevant details are significant, and minor hard-to-spot mistakes will break your program.

Having more explicitly formal/structured syntax makes it easier to distinguish the different parts of the language, make sense of the details, and figure out what is or isn't allowed.

The best description I have for languages like this, e.g. Applescript, is that they are "read only languages" (in the opposite direction old-style Perl has been called a "write only language"): That is, if you have an already written program in hand it will be easier for a complete novice to read (at least, single isolated lines of code will be). But writing new programs is a huge pain in the ass.
Ah, perhaps this why almost the only time I buy things on Amazon I have usually found the listing through Google…
> where you have to click again for more options to do advanced things like "paste",

You don't, there's a paste option in the very first row when there's something in the clipboard that can be pasted.
Robot Mounted Tracking Cam
> never a good market fit ... couldnt compete

They sold over 10 million of these things.
These are further than 1h away or bunk beds in Hostels (which I wouldn't consider Hotel rooms). Source: I desperately tried to find a hotel there for next weekend.
I'm on your side, but only after many years of being on the other side. I used to think they were "graceful" and "minimalist", and refused to acknowledge they can be the source of many surprises.

The Google C++ style guide has a very nice overview. There are only two pros listed, and large number of cons. And this document is old by Internet (dog) years -- at least 10 years.

Ref: https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html#Operator_O...
Would love to see an early version of it!
One can use the LLM to generate the label to distill a model to the desired precision, I used that approach and it worked quite well and the model runs locally, including creating the sentence embeddings, faster than the LLM, at a fraction of the cost.

Now certain problem space may be large enough to require models where the runtime makes it non economical to run it locally, but Ml is still a game of heuristics, see each problem requires some experimentation.
>The FTC identified not having CoD on multiple platforms as a large issue.

What perspective has been applied to this?
This is a rather audacious statement, there is DANE (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7671) and MTA-STS (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8461)
This shows a sad ignorance to how little leagues and the like actually work. The games may not be proprietary in the computer sense, but they are very much beholden to the major players for more than makes sense.
The difference is it's a van up by the river.
> If an individual trains a model on their own data to embody their own skills and behaviour, so that they can then sell/rent that model out to work on their behalf

No, because we already do not treat all work as copyrightable. A plumber doesn't get copyright on his piping job. It has to be original enough. So while your own skill might be original enough to warrant copyright, distilling it into a model might not.
I ended up thinking "I bet I can stick half the old UI in that "Styles" section on the new UI, turns out you can and still have plenty left over.

I put the remainder of the elements on top of their new counterparts.

https://imgur.com/a/N5H9QTH
> Having everything just be explicit JavaScript code

This is funny because it's exactly the reason I prefer react
> If I decide not to pay, it's on you to bear the cost. I don't have any obligation to you.

That is not how the actual world functions. This sort of anarcho-primitivism does not lead itself to large scale, widely available, systems. In society you pay taxes for services you perceive as (locally) free. On the internet you pay with ads (at least for now).

You are correct that you can exploit a free service. In some services, the taker to giver (leecher/seeder, whatever ratio you prefer) is high enough that service can maintain equilibrium. This is largely not true for all but the most used services. Even food banks shut down because the seeder to leecher ratio is unsustainable. Nothing is stopping you from driving these services into the ground. And you will.

I really hate how smug your post comes off. Do you know what this absurd smugness gets us? A centralized internet owned by 4 companies that can afford the seeder/leecher ratio. The 4 companies that will come to own the internet also hate net neutrality. Buckle up...because then we all pay. Even Stallman encourages people to contribute back to things they use. When your attitude is so smug that not even Stallman, the king of smug nonsense, agrees with you...that says something.
Fair critique. That's why INTERCAL was so much better.
I much prefer keeping everything XML-ish:

https://www.solidjs.com/docs/latest/api#switchmatch
Calculating the embeddings is probably going to be an application-specific thing. Either your application has reasonable pre-trained encoders or you train one off a mountain of matching pairs of data.

Once you have the embeddings in some space, for PoC I’ve mostly seen people shove them into faiss, which handles most of the rest very well for small/medium datasets:
https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss
The probably is that the amd apu is just better and more balanced now. You get lower tdp + better graphic cards. So ppl would just buy the amd counter part
https://pharo.org/ ?
Svelte is a major improvement on vuejs. It is a pleasure to work with. I can’t stand react / JSX. Highly recommend anyone who preferred vue over react to give svelte a try.
This is one of those weird books, like the "Codex Seraphinianus" that you read about as a kid in some magazine back in the 1980s, then when the internet (or WWW, really) finally came around, and you remember and search for them, and then you find out that they're some absurd price. (Used paperback "The Policeman's beard is half-constructed" listed for $157 on Amazon now.)
Yes. It directly conflicts with the large signs they have posted, touting the benefits of going the speed limit.
Even infamous telco billing is more palatable than microtransactions. France’s Minitel system let services bill based on time spent on a page. That’s easy to use compared with having to type in your Apple password once again to pay $0.99 or even approve a $0 app because some parents blamed their kid for buying thousands of dollars of virtual game currency.
A four year battle with birds

https://imgur.io/a/W4GPjdh
Show HN: I managed to run ChromaDB inside GPT-4 Code Interpreter
Infrastructure adapters are becoming table stakes for frontend frameworks.
Are you in Australia, if so you really shouldn't be in that position of requiring asthma medication but not having any available.

If you're not in Australia then the intent of Australian health care procedures doesn't apply.

Either way you might consider actively lobbying to change the behaviour of whatever health care sytem you have.
This forum is pretty good at avoiding political battles. There's plenty of political discourse, however, and it can definitely get pretty heated at times (but not nearly as bad as twitter).
Please don't take HN threads into nationalistic flamewar hell. Last thing we need here.
A moderator/review system that has no description other than “zero tolerance”

It reads to me like the first person to complain can boot the other person off the site.. hardly worth $100
Off-topic: happy 10k, 1k!
We ask Google (and now ChatGPT) if it's true. It goes round.
people always raid before they starve

I have heard that the Irish Potato Famine gets remembered because it was the last big famine, at least in the developed world. Before that, famine wasn't newsworthy.

People in the Irish Potato Famine mostly didn't die of starvation. They mostly died of disease, in part due to being in a weakened state.

One thing that contributed to disease: Desperate people would go to the beach and dig up clams or mussels or something and eat them raw because they didn't have the strength to also cut peat and wait for it to cook and raw seafood can be a source of germs.

There was an outmigration from Ireland and at least some of those people came to the US. Most European countries were hoarding food and Ireland was selling and that came back to bite them.

Irish land laws and land use patterns changed because of the famine. The smallest farms were the ones most heavily dependent on potatoes because it's an excellent staple. You can nearly live on potatoes alone, plus some B vitamins from somewhere like buttermilk.

So large, poor families with small farms grew only potatoes or mostly potatoes and those are the people who died or left for the most part. Land got consolidated in the aftermath. Those small farms stopped being a thing.

I personally think we need to promote stability by moving towards more local economic activity. We are too globalized and it's already hurting us with supply chain issues, among other things.
I told claude to output math pi for me and it's result really amazing. It output 9749 pi digitals, while gpt-4 only output 102 digitals! Also, I checked the top 40 and they were all correct!

Here is my claude prompt: "output math pi vaules until you don't know it"
I took one look at their API SDK and could not make heads or tails of it. Not to mention the liability of their service being down or slow one day, or somehow mocking them in our existing test suite. We let our juniors write our feature flag code in less than a day using very simple ORM/SQL and it's just worked.
rho(x) is the probability density function, and it better sum up to 1 for all possible values of x.
This is there in chromium based browsers too, though. Settings -> search engine -> site search and then the exact same mechanism.
This quoted lap time would be from the 2017 FK8; it was seriously impressive, especially in my books.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Civic_Type_R

I eventually ended up with an electric car instead (Tesla LR3), but spent hours looking at this - and the Subaru WRX.
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