skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much have they optimized the software here? Is it tinygrad level optimization?

Also does this lower total cost depend on SRAM being available for DRAM prices?

What makes SRAM so much more expensive than DRAM?
I liked calculus because it was hard things that you could prove.
here's a github repo i've maintained to teach each step: https://vectorsearch.dev/
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Can you dig up that comment? I'd like to read it.
Where in Africa? People just use Uber or alternatives, and it works fine pretty much everywhere I've been (I'm Kenyan. I've lived in South Africa for extended periods, and travelled extensively in Namibia and Tanzania). I've never once heard of anyone using WhatsApp for cab hailing. It gets pretty exhausting finding people talking about a whole continent on HN in broad strokes as though it's some small town they once went to on holiday, and can now offer their expert opinion on.
I suppose I wouldn't mind it either, so to speak. But I think you should just get assigned an ID number at birth. Ideally it would encode the place and time of your birth, parents' ID numbers and sibling count, what the weather was like when you were born and what was forecast, ...
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You might want to give Haystack a try (disclaimer: I work at deepset, the company behind Haystack).

Haystack allows you to pre-process your documents into smaller chunks, calculate embeddings and index them into a document store. You can wrap all of that in a modular pipeline if you want.

Next, you can query your documents using a retrieval pipeline.

Regarding document store selection: Replacing your document store is easy, so I would start with the most simple one, probably an InMemoryDocumentStore. When you want to move from experimentation to production, you‘ll want to tailor your selection to your use case. Here‘s a few things that I‘ve observed.

You don’t want to manage anything and are fine with SaaS -> Pinecone

You have a very large dataset (500M+ vectors) and you want something that you can run locally -> maybe Qdrant

You have meta data that you want to incorporate into your retrieval or you want to do hybrid search -> Opensearch/Elasticsearch

Regarding model selection:

We‘ve seen https://huggingface.co/sentence-transformers/multi-qa-distil... work well for a good semantic search baseline with fast indexing times. If you feel like the performance is lacking, you could look at the E5 models. What also works fairly well for us is a multi-step retrieval process where we retrieve ~100 documents with BM25 first and then use a cross-encoder to rank these by semantic relevance. Very fast indexing times are a benefit and you also don’t need a beefy vector db to store your documents. Latency at query time will be slightly higher though and you might need a GPU machine to run your query pipeline.

Retrieval in Haystack: https://docs.haystack.deepset.ai/docs/retriever

Cross-Encoder approach: https://docs.haystack.deepset.ai/docs/ranker

Blog Post with an end-to-end retrieval example: https://haystack.deepset.ai/blog/how-to-build-a-semantic-sea...
Magpies make a hell of a racket first thing in the morning, especially if they think you might give them snacks to shut up (they love nuts, in case you're wondering). I quite like listening to the chatter but it's not what you want after a late night.
> and more peripheral ports, eliminating the need to also carry dongles.

My notebook has three USB ports. In the last years the only thing I needed (but in the end didn't) was an Ethernet adapter for the POTP (Plain Old Twisted Pair, lol) cable.

> e.g. when commuting between home and office

Quite weird take. Sure, it's small, but...

> So you can always take a NUC with you wherever you need

Well, I prefer to be able to work on my PC, not seeking a power outlets and a place for a monitor.
and at unsecure communication. Their chats aren't e2ee by default, making it worse than Whatsapp. Also, videocalls in telegram are much worse compared to said messenger
"The question is never asked about any other school subject"

Huh? People around me asked that all the time in high school & beyond.
No thanks way to complicated. I like to use my computer not configure my OS. For OS geeks though it's probably neat.
This movie and "Grave of the fireflies" are the two movies which shook me the most emotionally. Masterpieces in their own right. Both put the horrors of war into proper perspective.

Interesting how as a teenager I would spend hours playing Mortal Combat, ripping peoples spines out, or Carmageddon and splattering peoples intestines all over the windshield. None of this prepared me for these two movies. I guess even at a younger age we're just good at separating fact from fiction.
I want friends with a diverse set of viewpoints and values, within a pretty broad window.
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Reminded me of this map of france

https://i0.wp.com/www.isoul.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/s...
Every time I log in, I unfollow everyone on my feed. LinkedIn is great if you don't follow anyone. I've done the same thing with other social media.
same for me, but thinking of moving them to signal due to privacy concerns and ads
But, funny that the reason was they were 'cheaper', not that you can't buy human neurons if you wanted to.
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I guess that could be, I only know one person using it, though, a US American who also uses WA. Everyone else is Signal/WhatsApp, and maybe Threema.
The github readme shows how to use the compiler.
https://github.com/ValeLang/Vale#building-a-vale-program
> I guess their lawyers ignore the GDPR because they are not a business doing business with europeans.

That's not how the GDPR works. The GDPR does not kick in when there is a commercial transaction, it kicks in when you're talking about data, specifically data provided by EU subjects.
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Most laptops end up in the trash because of the case, keyboards, etc. If you keep it headless why not.
If true it will be the last time I use it. Hardly seems sustainable for them, it's going to destroy interest. Web scale businesses do they best to select for customers they can treat like shit, but this goes too far I suspect. Or maybe they're just trying to get out of the consumer chat business?
I use the File Explorer Pro App on iPhones and iPads to occasionaly backup all the albums to a NAS. It also has many other useful features i use from time to time.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fe-file-explorer-pro/id4994701...
Isn't vale basically still in the R&D phase? That's how it has felt, certainly. I would expect specific commits on specific branches to work and that's it - no that they have a compiler that arbitrary people can use to start building things.

Then again, their README doesn't really indiciate this and does say "Try Vale" so idk. But it seems very R&D/POC at this point.
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"By raising the bar for reaching you some people no longer cared to be your acquaintances, and others remained connected but talked to you less frequently. And so you lose some of the contact that you had with other people because of your own actions, no one else's."

This is completely ass-backwards thinking. We don't have apps growing out of us and we are not doing things to ourselves "because of our own actions".

Leaving a bad app is a bit like leaving a country where a dangerous tyrannical dictator has set up shop. You didn't decide to rape murder and pillage your neighbors, the corrupt leader did. Getting the hell out of dodge is an extremely reasonable thing to do, and you are not cutting yourself off from your acquaintances, the evil dictator is.

Besides, app messaging is completely backwards anyways, we invented protocols because they are the best way to reliably communicate.
You pay for signal? Which bit of Europe are you being ripped off in?
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Same idea but applied to the whole program and with compiler optimizations to avoid redundant generation checks.
> Over time, Twitter ceased to be interesting as it turned into people affirming their positions on things they usually didn’t understand very well

I don't have a Twitter account; but I have found Twitter quite interesting to learn opinions of several people on the state of web development, which I used to regularly check out. Some of them have since migrated to Mastodon; others haven't; some of those who had migrated, went back, because, it seems, they were after the audience after all. When Twitter stopped anonymous readers from accessing its user feeds, that was a big disappointment.
As I read it, your argument boils down to:

> When a student who likes literature does poorly in mathematics, it is because he is not clever enough.

> When a student who likes mathematics does poorly in literature, it is because it is boring.

If you truly believe this I have nothing more to say to you.

I will not respond to your comments on philosophy, though I think they are wrongheaded, because I think your position to discuss such things is made untenable by the obvious contempt in which you hold the humanities.
Whataboutism is constantly employed by individuals more concerned about their "side" winning than concerns about actually solving problems. It is rarely a question asked in good faith, but rather a thinly veiled accusation of hypocrisy (as per your comment). That the question might have a legitimate answer is never considered.

Getting to the original point: What about the previous generation of tech billionaire? I think Zuck is an awful person and I will not sign up for Threads. I also think that Musk is an awful person and I will not sign up for Twitter. Where is the hypocrisy in this stance?
You’re welcome! It’s nice to read that others can relate, because I often felt there were very few suffering from something similar.
> I see no reason why it should have to justify itself in any way

If you cannot justify to children why you force them to sit in school for hours every day you shouldn't be surprised by the consequences. Though weirdly schools tend to be very surprised in my experience. And yes, this question is absolutely asked in other subjects too, but less often as they're not as abstract and usually related to things people encounter every day.

> Justifying mathematics is easy

And thus left as exercise to the reader?
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What does the last line do? O_o
You’re free to use whatever you want, this discussion is about whether you can ban others from doing the same.
I don't really agree.... many censor things they shouldn't out of scaremongering for "safety" and "brand integrity" and "protecting the users"
Basic humanity and humanitarian help.
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Seriously, it's not like they are trying to win an Oscar. If someone puts a random penis in the middle - great, it makes the work all that more interesting. That is what crowdsourced art is all about.
Embrace the cynicism. Things become so much clearer. Just be sure to find the humor in it all or you'll be miserable.
I would personally go for configurable. I use the keys that are equivalent to QWERTY’s ESDF keys so that I never have to move my hands from home row for movement in a game. When moving through text I prefer vim keybinds.
i use whatsapp to call my grandma and my aunt among other people, because that's what they use. Actually, my parents too, now that i think about it, they fall back to whatsapp all the time. How in tf is that an "algorithmic people-meeting system"??? did it pick a grandma for me according to some algorithm?
By my honestly shallow understanding of cancer it's not that simple.

For the cancer to not get killed immediately several things have to get broken, not just the replication inhibitor. Once they get to that state is not far fetched to think that they can have or get in the future different mutations, not specifically required to get cancer in the first place.

The comments below us talk about the folate receptor mutation that not all cancers have.
Can you recommend a specific one?
No, you’ve made your program “verbose” (by a handful of characters) for the sake of clarity—there is no longer ambiguity about what code runs (of course, this assumes you aren’t similarly overloading named functions, which should also be disallowed).
Ok. that's fair. thanks for taking the time to respond. appreciate it.
Every site analog has `ads`, `ads`, `ads` at the top. Then, when you waste a few minutes watching a banal video, full of unoriginal cliches, and bored to distraction, you're asked to buy merch. It's hard to tell the difference here between parody, idiocy, and the commercialism that I assume is the target of the parody.
True.

But even with the best teachers for every field, math or sport will filter out people way more harshly, and sooner, than any other field.

You can smooth things out with quality teaching, but there is a human hardware limit, and you reach it sooner with those two.

Many people don't like to hear it because their ego is bruised or because it goes against the idea that "everybody can do anything".

This is wrong. Birds fly, fishes swim. There is nothing bad about either.
That can work if groups of contacts are still grouped by app, like friends and family using different apps and you don't need to talk to both at once. But in the example given by the OP, if one friend wants to use a different app than other friends, it would be really awkward. You'd have to copy every message to your friends twice -- once on the app with the other friends and once in the app for the contrarian friend. In practice, that friend would be left out of many social events.
For anyone interested in this subject / genre I recommend "The War Game" by Peter Watkins [1]

Also by Peter Watkins, "The Journey" (aka "Resan") [2]. Quite long, that one.

Threads is one of relatively few films I have ever been inclined to re-watch. In fact, I watched it soon after the first covid lockdown started, followed by bingeing on "I Shouldn't be Alive". Quite curious about the psychology behind those viewing choices!!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_Game

[2] http://pwatkins.mnsi.net/journey.htm (NOTE: not SSL!)

[3[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Shouldn%27t_Be_Alive
I've never taught mathematics but I think it's much harder to teach the intuition, and I also think that more people are capable of learning the mechanics than the intuition. So from the point of view of someone designing a methodology and curriculum - you have to design for scale.

I have the same thing with learning languages: I despise focusing on the rules of conjugation and word order and rote memorizing rules, exceptions to them and exceptions to exceptions. I much prefer to bootstrap with some vocab and then acquire by immersion, even if that means I get the conjugations wrong in the beginning. But I also find myself in the minority by far, to the extent that pretty much all language teachers I ever had (except my high school French teacher - she was awesome letting me translate MC Solaar lyrics for grades) didn't even really seem to believe that there are other ways of learning other than studying rules.
As an Australian I sympathise, it's not all HN'rs [1] but there's certainly a strong core of proud ignorance confident in their assertaions about other cultures, countries, political systems, etc.

[1] https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/850:_World_Accord...

PS: I met a guy in Mali once, d'ya know them? [2] /s

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOValSt7YOY
I don’t think those people use the video function of whatapps really often.
In many places the default app to text is whatapps.

But fair; if in the same country you can call. ( and if not, you can go thought a service allowing you to call abroad. Like the now senile Skype )
Yup Apollo shutting down broke my Reddit habit finally. I’m not downloading another client. My screen time is down 25% already and I’m doing things with that time that I’d meant to do for a while.
so straightforward that it makes you realize how comically bad some people here in the comment section are at understanding even broad strokes kinda implications about their and others actions.
My take is that thefreemovie.buzz movie could be in a permanent exhibition at MoMa with the title: "Collective Conscience"
That's not 100% true though. For instance in the UK (EU days) you'd definitely be getting less than minimum wage and that would be means tested. Any payout from the company would only be there if you were a permanent employee, which is difficult for a lot of IT workers in affluent EU countries as companies prefer contractors or outsource providers to limit their liability.
How many of you have _never_ used any of these central-platform Social Media sites?

My purpose is not to virtue signal or brag about how I've never owned a TV etc, but I'm genuinely curious about how many people who are reading this never once signed up for or spent more than a minute on any of these garbage platforms?

Let's leave LinkedIn aside, for various reasons. I'm thinking here of Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc.
They haven't "realized the error of their ways" if they still pour money into projects no one wants or asked for.

"Cutting spending" usually means removing funding from actual good movies and ideas, and doubling down on money-makers, no matter how dumb, stupid, or creatively bankrupt those money makers become.
Yeah, I should go research it and see if I can just replace the HDMI board on my 7.1 because it is a sweet machine.

My take is that the more expensive your hardware is the faster HDMI ports burn out. I've had some cheap TVs gifted to me (one reason I haven't upgraded) that had 2 HDMI ports and never had trouble w/ the ports (1) had excellent value engineering and built in speakers better than many soundbars and eventually had the backlight, (2) is a Samsung that just sucks.

I think a high end Sony TV has 8 HDMI ports though you can have 7 ports burn out and still watch TV. My guess is that ports can have various levels of isolation to noxious electrical influences, USB ports are notoriously strong but I think many HDMI ports are under-engineered.

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The other trouble w/ Atmos is it makes no sense at all with smart speakers, headphones, etc. I have screwed around with HRTF tech and for me it works poorly. My Hololens 1 can localize sounds in the space around me very clearly but the fact that it creates matching visual cues must help. I've tried headphone surround in gaming and find it is an absolute joke: I can learn that "the sound must be above me because it sounds like I have a head cold" but it is not realistic at in most cases.

I just can't believe an Atmos mix rendered to headphones is going to approach the quality of a good stereo mix.
Anyone from UK/NZ/Oz remember the late 90s teen drama The Tribe?
There was a mini-series called Jericho, which was about a coup in the USA. It began with a series of nuclear attacks on cities, and portrayed the resulting descent into inter-communal violence, gangsterism, shortages and hardship.

It wasn't anything like as scouring as Threads was. If anything it was more like a soap; they made rather light of nuclear winter and fallout.

I liked it, except the weak ending of the truncated second series.
"Needing" money to eat just means you don't have the skills necessary to hunt or farm your own food (I am certainly in this camp). But fair point on hypocrisy not necessarily being wrong.
Maybe it is a clever way to make you to think about these subjects and make money in the process?
Nah, there’s no spooky action at a distance when you don’t overload. You know concretely what code is running.
It's the same basic shape as this paste icon in the Word 97 screenshot this article is talking about. A clipboard and glue stamp.
There's an excellent book called Gemba Kaizen that's all about kaizen and the Toyota manufacturing process that inspired a lot of the thoughts in the post. Lots of interesting parallels between manufacturing and software development (e.g. "factory management should lots of time working on the factory floor if they want efficiency wins").
Think parent is referring to US-based VC's that have EU offices.
Yes, overloading is bad (operator overloading is a kind of overloading).
Unless they block web browsers too, ain't gonna work (and even then, still probably wouldn't work). Any app can simulate a regular web browser.
Thanks for the reasoning.

My disagreement would be that you're comparing an installment with a franchise. The whole of the Elder Scrolls is bigger than Skyrim, although Skyrim was the biggest standalone seller. Elder Scrolls online has I think about 750k MAUs, at $10-$15/mo.

And, I suppose more fundamentally, why would MS turn down a good chunk of $3.6b for the dev costs of making a Playstation version of Starfield?
The application is trash, doesn't display proper formatting standards, and is inferior to even the most basic of third party apps. If ending support and not improving your awful application isn't hostility, what is?

Also if you try to avoid it with the browser on mobile, it runs like trash still has issues and the UI for new reddit is trash as well so you use old reddit but that will likely die eventually knowing their pisspoor management.
From "Systemd service sandboxing and security hardening" (2022) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29995566 :

> Which distro has the best out-of-the-box output for:?

systemd-analyze security

And e.g. this in systemd units:

SystemCallFilter=@basic-io
SystemCallLog=~@basic-io
An official EU website popping up a cookie banner is some delicious irony.
This drove me nuts when I was a student. No one gave me a solid reason, even though it was right there.

Math is a language that is required to describe how the world works. It's the official language of certain spheres of society that seriously impact your life. If you don't speak it, other people will make decisions for you that you can't understand.

It's also really useful if you deal with finance, engineering, computers, statistics etc. If you don't speak math, these doors are closed to you.

This would be a lot more evident if they had us solve real world problems with math.
Anyone know how the compression features of bcachefs work? At what level is the compression happening?
Dont forget writing time with a h separator. We met at 15h45.
But the ads on the site tell me that Capitalism is Stealing.

And stealing is bad.
I don't think any solution here we've mentioned is simple. I don't think you should be characterising only the ones I'm mentioning as being not simple.
Zero. In the first few years, they would likely trade grain and oil for hard money (gold, silver). Once that played out, much of the effected world would likely have economies similar to the late 19th century--materials extraction, textiles, agriculture. The result would be a generation or two of poverty, but not a total collapse.

Also, the "nuclear wasteland" business is pure sci fi.
They made us watch 'The Day After' in high school. There is value in imprinting on kids the true horror and the ever present threat nuclear weapons pose. It's not a fantasy, it is real and it is the world they will inherit. It only has to happen once, there are no second chances if we get it wrong.
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It doesn’t matter, you can look it up easily because without overloading, you know exactly which implementation will run.