skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It'll set up a proper algorithm, step through it and trip over digits."

Or it is just pretending to do so. And since it pretends, of course it trips over all small things as it does not understand them.
> At one time people still had the common sense not to run code they wasn't vetted and that they trusted.

At one time? When? People have been executing arbitrary and malicious code since the moment they could share it between two computers.
slightly less offensive version horse racing, with much the same profile

With one major difference - the horses could read their own odds.
Pros and cons of vector search in elastic?
I'm comparing Elastic vs other pure vector databases vs Mongodb/redis offerings. Is anything wrong or supplemental? Thank you!

Pros:
- It's an Elastic product, meaning high SLA and needless to buy other products when doing business with Elastic.
- Have built-in Embedding models: ELSER.
- Hybrid search with text+vector
- Security

Cons:
- [Doesn't support quantization](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-the-dense-vector-compression/319398), which may be too exhaustive when storing vast numbers of vectors.
- [Performance seems poor](https://ann-benchmarks.com/)
- Does not support CUDA/GPU, versus milvus support Nvidia RAPIDS
Bookwyrm – A federated social network for reading books
I think you missed the part where the parent post said (emphasis mine):

”Yes I'm talking about Fox News and a big part of the GOP since Trump, they're not the sole culprits of that, but definitely the worse because they are the most mainsteam”
My current company has no concept of “levels” within software engineering. Coming from a big company, where criteria for promotions and a whole process and ceremony around them existed, this was a huge shock to me. I’ve now been there about a year and the culture is not at all competitive. Nobody is competing for an (artificially limited) pool of promotions. Nobody is competing for status. We are all trying to do our best work to the furtherance of our company’s objectives.

It is a much more relaxing way to work. I don’t have to worry about if I am checking all the boxes to get a promotion. I don’t have to fight with my manager about why I didn’t get one but <other person> did. I don’t have to worry about if I’m on the most high-profile project. I can breathe, and I can focus on my work.
Why don't you mean Matrix? This is precisely what Element is, built on Matrix: https://element.io
Would a knowledgeable person be able to explain the following to a rookie: if the quantum physics equation describe a reality (or "phenomenons") which cannot be comprehended in the non-quantic reality (ie. classical physics), how can there be common patterns in both realities where equations from one realm would somehow still match patterns in the other realm ?
Good products are not required to make money.
> This leads to false information and scams.

That's a very very minor issue, compared to the amount of true data on Google Maps. Computers in general, as well as the printing press or pen and paper, have the same problem. Should those technologies be limited?

From what I see, Apple launched their Business Connect this year, just about 10 years too late. And it's a very dysfunctional platform to boot.

We have to be honest and admit that Google Maps is superior. I wish Apple or anybody could compete, but they can't.
"Logical server not found" happened 132 times while out of town for two days. I also use an Ubuntu LTS pretty recently reinstalled with minimal network customization, so I guess that other person was very lucky. This happens on two different Ubuntu computers with different graphics cards and CPU vendors so I don't think I'm imagining things.

If I enable the kill switch, it can convince itself there is no network connection (for itself) because of its own kill switch. I turn the kill switch off and back on and it's fine. That's ridiculous.

They only support udp and tcp in their Linux app. The Android app literally has more features and stability.

On the other hand, now that I've switched to mullvad everything is at least apparently fine. I've been submitting error logs to proton for years, I was one of their first customers and really really wanted them to be good. Instead they just ask me to switch between tcp and udp over and over to provide new logs despite not installing a new version. It's pathetic.

And no, I don't buy the Linux market share thing when it's a VPN! Lol, it's not a video game. Their competitors seem to work great and value the Linux market. Years is enough patience, they redesigned their logo, released drive, and released this without fixing the basic issues with their existing products.

I'm done trying, it's wasting so much time trying to deal with their support now that they clearly just don't care about it. So I'm done.
Teams made me realize no one cares about security until it's too late.
I assume you agree with the worry about the first part (fake pretending to be real). For the second part, I left out the word, and was more thinking about 'wondering', but I agree the sentence structure suggests 'worry'.

I agree it is not a worry, at least not of the same kind. I do worry a bit though about assuming something and reasoning/discussing with that premise, which is nullified if the premise was wrong.
I don't think it is just a marketing problem. Lots of evidence to conclude that as a policy initiative it is flawed and detrimental to the communities that adopt that approach.
My former employer (not tech) was notorious for “under titling” roles compared to other companies.

What they called a senior manager would be a Director in another company.

I checked LinkedIn and they retitled everyone.

Now Directors are Senior Executive Directors and so on.

But otherwise the org chart was the same.

Ridiculous.
Counterpoint: definitely bill “learning on the job”.

That learning leans on your knowledge and expertise that you have accumulated over the years. That is worth paying for. No consultant ever had all knowledge beforehand and any client claiming they should are not worth your time.
That analysis sounds correct but I think it's missing a key part.

If we are on scenario 2, what do we do?

A lot of people think that the answer is "make the government as small as possible, because governments are always incompetent". There's an implicit assumption there about the free market and corporations taking some of the government's previous duties.

To me (an European) that is a bonkers way of looking at the issue. I have seen what decent government (not perfect, not even "good" government) can accomplish. But I understand how someone who has only experienced shitty governments (or has been convinced that their government has always been shitty) can think that way.

The other approach is "let's change things so that the government improves". I understand that this is a difficult, undefined, and risky endeavor. It might take generations. I understand how others can think that it is idealistic / impractical ("if that was on the table, why do we have a shitty government to begin with? people before us would have changed it for the better already. And I want improvements now, not in 20 years"). It still does sound like a better bet to me than "let corporations do what they want, the invisible hand will save us". That can turn bad in a single legislature.
They "returned" $735M, but they never "took" $735M, did they? Seems like you're digging in on the spin. Surely you agree that the distinction is relevant to the headline, right?
Nuance is not something that exists in most of the conservative universe.
The White House has a lot of security: its non-credible that no one saw the source.
Yet many implementations don’t do it and still do nat, and stateful network firewalls pretty much mean it’s meaningless anyway.
Why Is Everyone Wondering If Apple Will Buy Disney?
Same as other zombie social networks. It might even be worth hundreds of millions to, for example, Yahoo, once it settles into the afterlife.
There was a time when there were options and they died out because they weren’t as popular. VBScript and JScript to name a couple. Java is still around but I haven’t seen an applet in probably over a decade. Flash was a thing.
> Apple, which exclusively produces for their own lineup, and has inarguably the best-performing chips by far in raw performance and power efficiency to a tune they're outperforming Intel

Also limited in terms of running Linux on it, since the poster you replied to asked about that.
I'm old enough to remember when it happened to AOL!
This is 95% of why we use it.

We have <20 employees and managing an extra vendor for a chat application is a non-negligible % of our time.

Our new hires can log with their work account using a shrink-wrapped machine from Best Buy and will have all of their needed applications ready to go & signed-in without going to random vendor sites or file shares.
The quote “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds” is reason enough!

They could have had Thanos say it as he wipes out half the universe and it’d still wouldn’t sound as cool.
Everybody kills JavaScript on their first trip.
Indeed and so basically, a good manager or director will be someone who can self promote himself and his company. Basically, a great marketer... Which seems fine for managers and directors working in Marketing but what about those working in Tech for example? It seems that a brilliant tech manager will have less chance than an average tech manager who is brilliant in marketing ...
> now there is a MVP syntax and everything has just slowed down a lot.

Sadly this is spot on. Seems like after async was delivered there was only one big push from tokio 0.1 to 0.2 to 1.0 and that was it, the ecosystem and/or language maintainers seem to have lost interest in making it better to read and use.
Running Pikmin on Windows without an emulator
Solidarity is important. Charity isn't. We're all working, it's not charity to be treated right.

Look at that dumbass alphabet worker's union for example. They offered nothing to workers for joining, all their goals were social justice culture war stuff.

How are they doing? If they called for a strike, would anyone notice?
Bojo the clown and Brexit being the two main examples. Liz and Rishi are just the dregs of the barrel.
Linux Mint Cinnamon is here as well. It’s more seamless than Windows. Unless you need to specifically run windows-only software. Still I’ll take dual booting or having separate machines rather than using windows as mu daily driver every day of the week.
Trust in institutions depends on two factors:

1. They need to be honest.

2. They need to be fair/treat everyone equally.

I'm not sure myself if this is still the case (for all institutions?), but with scandals as well as fake news making the headlines again and again, trust declines. It's natural, but don't know what we could do to stop this trend.
A Decade of Rust, and Announcing Ferrocene
sounds good, but ill wait for c-interop so my moneys on valjective-c
50 years before were the era of Jim crow, Vietnam war, separate but equal segregation.

Can you point out what changed in 50 years? The only thing I can figure out is the constant news cycle that has made everyone paranoid and makes them see boogeyman everywhere.
> - Government intentionally lies about pandemic policies its putting in place about masks and their effectiveness.

Can you elaborate on this point? I'm not sure what it's referring to.
That's not my point. My point is that Zappos is not a company anymore and hasn't been for almost 15 years. If it had survived during that time and grown to 5k+ employees then it would be a good example. People keep bringing up hypotheticals but not a single large company with a good culture and good business metrics.
My employer is now struggling to outsource our jobs to Europe because the prices are too high. I try not to think about it too much, but a move to Ireland looks enticing.
Even in Washington, DC, which isn't New England, I can get away with bumping around the house in shorts and tee shirt only until about the end of September.

Of course, the TV shows were largely filmed around LA, so maybe the cast got hardship pay for the costumes.
I think part of it was because around the same time that Chromium (which Electron is based on, thusly inherited by Slack) added baked-in support for capturing the user's screen and individual application windows - so Slack had no incentive to spend money to build their own native screen-capture and sharing code when they could simply wait and do nothing and then get it for free.

...but that still doesn't explain why Slack otherwise seems frozen-in-time: none of the significant end-user usability and quality-of-life issues I've had with Slack since I started using it in 2016 have been addressed (e.g. we can't right-click a message to get its context-menu: you still have to hunt for that awkwardly-placed "..." menu button).

See https://slack.com/release-notes/windows - this is their changelist for their Windows release and most of the releases since 2020 are described as "tweaks", was "tinkered with", or is "tuned-up" which, or "minor security updates" - which, as any npm user will tell you just means they ran `npm update` and not much else (well, besides the bare minimum of automated testing).
Why is runtime needed for a syntactic feature like that? All you need is an async wrapper for system calls, and every sync function could, in principle, be compiled down to a coroutine and ran on an executor of your choice.

Just because Go has a runtime and has a go keyword, doesn't in itself mean that runtime is necessary for the go keyword to exist.
If this is exciting for you then you'll love this podcast with Brendan Eich. Brendan Eich is the creator of JavaScript and co-founder of Mozilla and Brave.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krB0enBeSiE
Have you seen the dinosaur version? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quetzalcoatlus
Check https://openobserve.ai . It already has logs, metrics and traces and there is more on the horizon.
Imagine the amount of GWh saved if JS had been static-typed with inference..

For decades billions of processors have been burning watts to dereference JSValue *val, then switch() on the union tag (or something like that).
Based on my understanding after skimming through the paper (and assistance with Claude), the AI did not directly generate any full video content for a South Park episode. It seems like this was how the AI was used:

- Custom diffusion models were trained on South Park character and background image datasets. These models could then generate new South Park-style characters and backgrounds.

- GPT-4 was used to generate dialogue for scenes, based on prompts about the overall episode premise and plot points.

- An "AI camera system" was mentioned for scene setup, but details were not provided on how much of the camera work it handled.
Voice cloning was used to generate audio clips of the dialogue.

Note: this is just a skim of the paper, entirely possible I and Claude may have have missed something.
It's a long story, but basically search on Mastodon is broken on purpose. Moderation is time consuming and extremely difficult with varying laws around the world, allowing proper search would make that even more obvious.
Varies by cost as they have a range from cheap to premium. Their cheap is a higher quality than Lenovo’s cheap, if that’s any benchmark.
There's always pros and cons. In retrospect, it's easier to be critical than when you actually have to deal with the crisis.
90% of people just care that google.com works. 90% of the rest want their office vpn to work.

The number of people asking for an ipv6 address on the average ISP can be approximated to zero.
I’ve seen an interesting approach for a lightweight, Open Source server side scripting language by a Danish programmer. It’s called PHP/FI and has been created specifically to make handling forms and dynamically generated Web pages easier. It might even evolve to be an alternative to buying WebObjects.
I didn’t use Lync back in the day, but I used Skype.

Skype didn’t have half of the functionality Teams provides. Teams, like Slack, aims at bundling the whole workplace experience in a single app, with actual groups and bidirectional integrations.

And of course, Teams defaults to Microsoft products for every single integration that can communicate with one.

I would say that regulators didn’t care enough, or were aware of, the potential risks of Skype being bundled with Office because it wasn’t that popular to begin with. On the other hand, this may be a preventive move to avoid another Outlook crapfest from happening.
But isn't Beppe an Italian nickname for Giuseppe?
Let's say the US government is 90% competent and effective, and 10% incompetent and corrupt. And let's say that you're right, that Americans are the most informed they've ever been. That means they see more of that 10% than ever before, even if the 10% hasn't increased. And they can tell that they see more corruption and incompetence than they did before. So it feels like the country's falling apart, even if it's just like it always was.

Then you add in that the news is mostly about the failures. "Things working like they should" doesn't draw many eyeballs.

Then you add in CNN on one side and Fox on the other, each trying very hard to find things to criticize in administrations and politicians that it doesn't like. (We had way-out-there politicians who said really weird stuff before, but we didn't have major networks triumphantly making their craziest statements headline news.)

Then you add in the bungled response to Covid (bungled repeatedly, by two administrations, in ways that set fire to much of the credibility of health care institutions). And then you add in media on both sides, shining a spotlight on the other side's mistakes.

Then you add in the amplification effects of social media.

Then you add in a side helping of Russian agitprop campaigns (and, to a lesser extent, Chinese and Iranian).

Everyone is far more aware of mistakes and incompetence in government. Or at least, they are far more aware of a subset of mistakes and incompetence - the subset that makes the other side look bad.

There were a number of areas where Trump ran a decent, effective administration. There are a number of areas where Biden is running a decent, effective administration. You don't hear much about either one.

> The proper answer is to reduce the power of government so the corruption doesn't spread as far.

Absolutely. But that isn't one of the places where competence shows up. The government is very bad at decreasing the power and scope of government.
There are two different issues here. Long term change and short term better. Both are very important. There is no reason you cannot work on both at the same time and many reasons you should. My mom trying to get into shop class was part of both, and if she could have switched schools to one that allowed it (see the other reply) that would have done even more as it would prove women are not too [weak, stupid...] to do so.
I remember extremely old advice to use java.util.Date from JS, thought I was going crazy but this article from 1996 mentions it: https://www.infoworld.com/article/2077267/new-javascript-fea...
Just a side note the Microsoft Teams installer is really annoying.

Install Office 2021lts and Teams gets installed and set to autostart for all users. This has the feeling of desperation and crap ware IMO … I will launch Teams if I want to use it.

To remove you will find the Microsoft Teams store app and regular app in the add remove programs… scroll down and you will find another Microsoft Teams system wide installer listed… why?

Teams works okay and no need for the program to come at users this way.. it’s just another annoying hook to use a “Microsoft account”
There are multiple levels of crew at schools that take it even halfway seriously. I imagine I could have gotten on freshman/JV crew undergrad had I wanted to in spite of not having rowed before. (I was interested in high school but my school never got it organized.)

And I played club rugby undergrad without having done it before. Lots of people play various non-intramural club sports without prior experience.
Element X is already out on iOS (as an early release which isn't feature complete yet): https://element.io/blog/element-x-experience-the-future-of-e.... We explicitly used Telegram as the UX yardstick to be at least as good at in terms of quality and performance (sync speed, smoothness of scrolling, proper native UI, etc)... while also being E2EE throughout (unlike Telegram).

Agreed that the classic Element iOS app was very buggy, which is why with Element X we completely rewrote it on top of matrix-rust-sdk, using SwiftUI for best-practice idiomatic native UI on top.
Yet, it's not an original quote at any rate - it's a reference to Bhagavad Gita
Microsoft isn't FAANG.

The fundamentals being that they had the most significant bull run in history on top of the lowest interest rates in history on top of the two largest communication-technology transformations in history (Internet then mobile) which happened to produce a near-zero cost distribution channel for a product format (internet-connected software) which has near-zero opex and which has natural network effects.

A very small set of companies were going to win this regardless of anyone's management practices. I think 99.999% of reasonable-sounding conclusions you can draw from their success will be wrong, including "the management style is really really good" or "logos should have blue in them."

> it sounds like silly post-hoc reasoning to claim that these companies didn't work to get to where they are

I am not sure where I made that claim
> I for one would like more government interference.

You do realize that every law is backed by violence, right? How many steps does it take to go from you choosing to no longer pay your property taxes to officers forcibly removing you from your home.

We know what can happen if you resist.

Our interactions on internet have done a great job in getting us to think that every thing needs to scale to the world. If you really care about the issue, solve the social problem locally and share the results and how you got there. If someone doesn't like it, they can always fork it, rinse and repeat.

Everything we allow the government to put its hands in inevitably becomes a disaster. See Social Security, Section 8 Housing, Education (Execution and Funding), Marriage, Divorce, Agriculture, Child Protection Services, etc. I can go on and on, but I think you get the point.

People and societies uplift themselves when they're forced to take responsibility.
I imagine this would be brutally hard for guitar - so often, my fingers are "touching" the correct strings, but not pushing down hard enough to trigger the note. Piano might be more feasible because you can watch the motion of the keys themselves.

Question - what is your root goal? Are you convinced video processing is the best way to achieve this?
Only Intel is support officially - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208544 - Unclear why.
This and your other comments really helped getting an intuition for why daily/weekly billing is preferable over hourly - thanks for patiently reiterating this.

Especially your point „daily billing means I don’t work on other projects that day“ seems like a framing that could work well for me.
They won’t and they can’t. Apple’s largest acquisition to date is Beats for $3B. Disney would cost Apple at least $200B (premium over current market cap).

But the biggest reason is that it won’t get approved by governments around the world. Heck, the UK made Facebook undo its $300m transaction for Gyphy. There’s no way governments would let Apple buy a $200B company.

In my opinion, it actually does make some sense for Apple to buy Disney. Their brands match. Apple has services such as Apple TV+ that synergizes well with Disney. And of course Apple would get a treasure trove of IPs to make content from. Lastly, Apple is one company big enough to outright buy Disney.