skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, with these technologies, it is the effect revealed by direct experience to determine whether "you would use it or not".

Cpr. Mirasol, etc.
Not a tutorial, but TLDR vector DBs are specialized DBs that store embeddings. Embeddings are vector representations of data (E.g. text or images), which means you can compare them in a quantifiable way.

This enables use cases like semantic search and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) as mentioned in the article.

Semantic search is: I search for "royal" and I get results that mention "king" or "queen" because they are semantically similar.

RAG is: I make a query asking, "tell me about the English royal family", semantically similar information is fetched using semantic search and provided as context to an LLM to generate an answer.
It's a re-upload from 2017, just in case anyone else thinks they are going crazy like me.
Hard to get a sense of scale, but you can see them running across the ground in this video: https://youtu.be/Kw-enXeOnKE?t=101
That doesn’t work for everyone though.

I work for an employer because I don’t want to spend time running a business. It’s just not worth it for a lot of us. I don’t even ever want to be a manager.

I’d rather just put in my 40 hours as an individual contributor and then have the remainder of my time to do whatever I need/want.
"The closing is bad news not only for its employees and its customers, who generally used Yellow because it offered some of the cheapest rates in the trucking sector."

Perhaps they shouldn't have offered the cheapest rates in the trucking sector while failing their obligations.

Taxpayers ended up holding 30% of this company's stock and they still couldn't figure out how to become profitable after a $700 million infusion?

This race-to-the-bottom stuff is not the answer. The answer is to charge what it costs you to deliver plus a profit. If you can't compete directly on price make up for it in service and reputation.

People will blame unions because the company had to fund pensions and health insurance. It likely will come back as a private company with lower pay, worse benefits, and maybe if people are lucky a 401k.
It is not just you. Starbucks coffee tastes burned.

McD's coffee is also bad (acidic, weak flavor).
Booting on Radxa's Rock-5B without any media used
Part of that "resort fee" is typically Wifi, bottled water and a daily newspaper, or something with next to zero cost, something you don't really need and something you don't want.
Yes, government bailouts of private companies really need to stop. It just prolongs the problem and doesn't allow the market to properly respond to risks and rewards.
This looks slick. Because archive.org is getting a little problematic by not allowing more sites to be archived, decentralized archiving is becoming more important. I have been using archive box on my server. It does not have the collaboration features, but that is what my fediverse instances and other collaboration tools provide.
I don't personally see MacBooks as a viable platform either right now, but I would say that this looks like a steady decline for windows x86 laptops until Chrome laptops take over or an arm-based windows replacement takes hold. "Hey this isn't a surrender, it's a war of attrition for the next five years!!!"
Ask HN: How do you monitor your systemd services?
I am using systemd on my machine and try to configure most things through it. For example, I have a backup job that is triggered by a timer.
I want to know when that job fails so I can investigate and fix it. Over time, I've had multiple solutions for this:

Send a notifcation via notify-send

Add `systemctl --failed` to my shell startup script

Send myself emails

None of these are quite ideal. Notifications are disruptive of the current workflow and ephemeral, meaning I might forget about it if I don't deal with it immediately.
Similarly, reading `systemctl --failed` on every new terminal is also disruptive but at least it makes me not forget about it.
Both of these are also not really applicable to server systems.
Sending myself emails feels a bit wrong but has so far been the best solution.

How are other people solving this? I did some research and I am surprised that there isn't a more rounded solution. I'd expect that pretty much every Linux user must run into this problem.
And of course, Dan Olson's amazing "Line Goes Up."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g

https://eizebasa.baby/line-goes-up (Complete script)
I'm confused, how can NATs and SRV DNS labels replace a public IP address?
CEO was making close to $1M/yr for a few years.
I get a little tired of repeating this, but there are some good reasons why fridges (and most appliances) are the way they are now:

* Strong regulation on energy use by appliances (modern fridges are much, much more efficient than ones from 70 years ago)

* Extreme competition from companies all over the world

* Consumers who care more about convenience and cost above all else, and reliability basically not at all

These 3 are why modern appliances are not as reliable. It is not a conspiracy. It is not lazy manufacturers. It is pressure from consumers and government that made things this way.

Take HVAC, which is a great example. Regulations have required far greater efficiency. So what happens? You get things like variable-frequency drives. These can slow down the fans in low-load scenarios. However, they also add another failure point. And speaking of fans, many evaporators now use plastic fans instead of metal ones. And guess what? They crack a lot more than the metal ones ever did. But they're lighter and thus more efficient.

It's like that with everything. Just take a look at modern clothes washer agitators compared to the old ones.

The other problem is really with consumers. All (the vast majority of) consumers care about is convenience, cost, and looks. They want a fridge that has the ice maker and the water dispenser, stainless steel, french double door, etc. They don't care about the reputation of the brand - they just buy the cheapest one that fits those checkboxes. That leads manufacturers to cut cost as much as possible - especially since they now have to compete with companies all over the world with cheap labor, which 70 years ago was not nearly as true.
* why would you move those to a bucket of ice cubes losing 1/3rd the freezer space and congealing the cubes together? *

I use a portion of my freezer space for ice cubes. I make a batch of ice in the ice machine, and then freeze it until it gets low and/or used. My fridge doesn't have an ice machine and this uses less freezer space than ice cube trays.

I use the ice to make delicious alcoholic drinks, and would happily make more ice than I ever though I'd need just to avoid having to make it when inconvenient.
Hmm. Well I'm surprised to hear this actually. Figure I'll reply here. I work on a lot of open source projects and have done authorship analysis, and they do tend to follow a power distribution.

The thing is, I'm one of those authors that loves to make a bunch of changes. Fix this, fix that. I'll throw up a commit before I'll send an email about it. I love fixing things. I consider myself a programmer through and through. When I entered management, I don't get that "fix" at work, so I might code 9hr on a Saturday building something fun.

I've always viewed it as a good thing. An escape, a joy, cathartic, and pleasurable. Perhaps sometimes, it's gone too far. I left a birthday party last summer to go back and code. Though, you see, I'm also trying to build something, to do something.

So to see the full blown addiction behavior. It's like looking over the edge of a cliff. I don't think I would go that far, but for me the most important takeaway from the article was this too can be an addiction.
Maybe the cars made him do that. /s.
A thing's future longevity can sometimes be predicted by how long it's already been around.
My employer is getting closer: https://www.hpcwire.com/2023/06/28/mlperf-training-3-0-showc...
> scientific endeavors revise themselves when they learn that they are wrong

Exactly. And scripture is notably not revised when it is found to be wrong. I ask, which worldview should you trust more based on this observation?

I felt that the article is written is a style typical of conspiratorial literature, i.e.: presenting lots and lots of evidence for a false or straw-man claim.

The true message of the article seems to be buried in the subtext. they mention the cost of therapy (to the individual and to society) and they mention churches too.

To me it reads like this: I don't want to pay for your expensive psychotherapy through my insurance. Go to church instead (where, depending on the church, we might also get a chance to fill your mind with our regressive version of christian values.)
My device is as worthless as a brick, but only for the 2 or 3 seconds it takes for the tip of my finger to travel to this reset button over here... <Tongue in="cheek"/>
Block Protocol – an open standard for data-driven blocks
Currently there’s lockin due to most things calling upon cuda on nvidia gpus. There are alternatives to cuda but they’re up and coming: triton, tvm, openvino, improved rocm, etc.
Last year I almost needed to replace my 20-yo fridge because of temperature issues, condensation and short bulb life.

New equivalent fridges didn't even had a door for spreadable butter, so I didn't buy any without continuing searching bot the best one.

Then I realized the lamp never turns off when I close the door. The door sensor isn't easy to replace, I just removed the bulb and bought a rechargeable closet lamp with a movement sensor online. 12 euros. Problem solved.

Btw I read here I should check the power consumption, we have a rather easy way to do it in France.
Second hype cycle or second AI hype cycle? If the latter when was the first?
People who are just boiling water and simmering probably aren't buying the expensive stove, tho.
I would like to try that! But I can't find it with Google. Can you provide a link? Thanks.
I don't know about Alpine specifically, but many distributions put a lot of red tape around becoming a maintainer (for good reasons). I just don't want to get into it. AUR from Arch Linux has an interesting take on this — anyone can become a maintainer in a matter of minutes — and while that results in some low-quality packages and the expectation that you're supposed to review everything you install (which is easy though thanks to the excellent package format, which Alpine also uses with minor modifications), most of them are fine, and AUR gets a lot more maintainers than any other distribution.

You also don't put any obligations on yourself by becoming a maintainer on AUR — you can always orphan a package in less than a minute, no questions asked. Some users actually place new packages on AUR and orphan them right away. If it's of any use, it usually get a volunteer maintainer within a few days.
I gave Tailwind a shot but ultimately settled with Bootstrap. It wasn't because Tailwind was bad-- I thought it provided a lot of value. The issues that ultimately made me switch to Bootstrap were:

1. I don't need a build tool for JS/CSS, so introducing one _just_ for Tailwind was a pain.

2. In order to really take advantage of Tailwind and speed up development, you need the Tailwind vim plugin (which doesn't work in vanilla Vim, only Neovim from what I can tell.. I don't use Neovim).

3. The html gets bloated pretty bad and it does get hard to read.. especially without the extra tooling like the Tailwind plugin to sort class names, auto complete Tailwind class names, etc.
This is correct - the overwhelming majority of people did not get involved with crypto. Even for people and companies who did most put a fraction of their money into it.
"You glide silently out of the Tesla (TSLA.O) showroom in your sleek new electric Model 3, satisfied you're looking great and doing your bit for the planet. But keep going - you'll have to drive another 13,500 miles (21,725 km) before you're doing less harm to the environment than a gas-guzzling saloon."[0]

Appreciate this may be desperately off-message here, but here's the rub: what we change in Europe and North America isn't going to fix anything unless we take China, India, and all the rest of the world with us.

"Most of the electricity in China comes from coal, which accounted for 62% of the electricity generation mix in 2021"[1]

"China permits two new coal power plants per week in 2022"[2]

"China ramps up coal power despite carbon neutral pledges. Local governments approved more coal power in first three months of 2023 than all of 2021."[3]

If we really care about fixing the planet, China and India are where we should be looking. Teslas in California are an irrelevance.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/when-d...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_China
[2] https://energyandcleanair.org/publication/china-permits-two-...
[3] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/24/china-ramps-up...
The similarities are only superficial. A reactionless drive would violate the most fundamental physical laws.

Whereas room temperature/pressure superconductors are not believed to violate any physical law. If you asked “Will we find such a material this century?”, the answer would be a solid maybe. Which end of the century, who knows.

It’s more like proofs of the Riemann Hypothesis. Most mathematicians believe that RH is probably true, or at least hope so, but any claimed proof is viewed with extreme suspicion merely because of the sheer number of false ones.
Thanks! > $3 per day is pricier than I was expecting. Maybe I can find a used Hackintosh somewhere…
just trying to compliment the author on a useful blogpost, calm down.
If you're an alcoholic brit, hashing can also mean something else.

https://guildfordh3.org.uk/what-is-hashing/
What is it pinging? The README would ideally explain what it pings and also the brackets above.

I live in Australia. 100-300ms is normal for me unless the thing is also hosted in Australia. So that matters :)
Here in Boise I have two choices for internet, Sparklight or CenturyLink. CenturyLink will only deliver 80Mbps to my house and Sparklight does not support IPv6.
FreBSD jails predate containers, same idea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD_jail

The ONLY thing docker did was make a small amount of questionable UX around the low-level container primitives. They did not invent anything, definitely not containers. I could share VM images before Docker, nothing new there... the concepts all existed before containers.

You can literally run... anything... on a VM, why make a point about being able to run OCI images? This is like a no-op.
Congratulations for all those packages and best wishes for catching up that year of sleep.
I see the issue on 115.03 on Windows and MacOS.

https://i.imgur.com/XLfgy3K.png
I mean it is clickbait but it is also a thing that can easily work and there are already mining trucks that do this.

They work because they transport matter from a higher place to a lower place and therefore are much heavier downhill then uphill.
The prevailing opinion is that pedestrians should be thanking the person on the e-bike in that scenario for not driving a car.
This ignores that the reason that people started pushing their kids to college was that the odds are better with a degree than without, and that still broadly holds over a long career. There never have been any guarantees, but the odds in the USA do not favor folks with only a high school education.

For example, people talk about "landscaping or construction" and other trades but don't consider that working as e.g. an economist has a longer expected career longevity than working in construction.

Also remember that the point of college is to broadly educate the individual, not to be a jobs program. That said, there's no reason a college graduate can't start and grow a construction business. A person who makes $200k at a data science job is in some ways better positioned to start a construction business, because they have the ability to accumulate some capital.
Ah c'mon, this must be some kind of fallacy of which I'm unaware of.

I am in position where I would be able to pay that amount down (averaged over 10y) with the same QoL; however I do not have a degree and I live in Europe which pays significantly under what the US does.

People keep forgetting that we (and OP) got obscenely lucky in our industry. We are very well compensated compared to our contemporaries; but if anything it's proof that you don't need a degree, and that shouldn't be the litmus for getting a decently paid job.

A degree in of itself should not be held to such vocational standards, it has significant merit but has very little bearing on job performance- We should be working to make college/university affordable because a better educated population helps society.

However, it is far from a great indicator of earning potential.

The largest factors in earning potential remain to be: historical wealth and IQ; degrees, when controlled for familial wealth have shockingly low correlation to lifetime earning potential.
> the authors haven't given anyone a sample to inspect

Why not? It would help their case immensely, especially if replication is tricky.
Wait.. source? If argparse isn't getting more development, what's the current alternative?
Yup. A better example might be something like assigning all the letters a number value (a 1, b 2, ...) and then summing all of them. It's important that the analogy be simple to comprehend but it should still be, well, analogous to the real process.
Then it's not actually bricked.
They are incentivized because the NYC is designed around cars, not (e-)bikes.

If non-permit holding cars were banned from the city center and bikes given an equal share of space, the landscape would quickly change.
The BBC (or other orgs) can also implement ActivityPub directly into their existing content management systems.

Mastodon is great but you don't need to use it to participate in the federated ecosystem

edit: it's also news to me that the BBC has their own TLD. This opens up a lot of potential that others don't have the privilege of.
Has anyone tried to use ChatGTP 3,5/4 with a prompt like:
“You are the worlds best tutor for German language and I am the student in the world. Teach me German!”
Not a fan of government bailouts or funding any company at all nor an American, but this framing is weird.

Citizens don’t get dividends from government property. They get their tax benefits from government services, e.g, infrastructure, healthcare, police, etc.
Musk has no intention of eliminating hate, harassment, or misinformation on Twitter. His only solution is to sue.
IMHO the more reasonable reaction is to take an objective look at what you want to do with your life and a hard look at what the requirements are for achieving that.

Some fields require a post-secondary education. You can't get around that. If you want to be an engineer or a doctor, you need to go that route. In that case, I agree with you. Look for more affordable options and figure out how to meet the requirements without bankrupting yourself. Understand what you are getting involved in before you make any commitments.

Barring the above, I do tend to side with the OP that it is time for a cultural shift away from college / university for the sake of college / university. I know of a lot of people who really valued "the experience", and felt like they found themselves and made valuable networking connections etc. and value those things above the diploma itself. None of that is a bad thing, but ask yourself what kind of dollar amount you are willing to pay for that. Don't assume that you will be resigned to living under the poverty line if you don't pursue that.

I am undoubtedly biased because I have enjoyed a 25 year career in software engineering and this is a niche field where we see tons of self-taught engineers who, in many cases, have a higher work ethic and measurable productive output than their college educated peers. I don't pretend for a second that that can transfer to every other field.

But does that mean the idea transfers to zero other fields?

You don't have to disvalue higher education to question whether or not traditional formal institutions are providing the value that they promise, or to seek alternative ways of achieving that higher education.
Thank god, that guy was incredibly obnoxious.
I wonder if it would be worthwhile to water-cool the refrigerator's condenser coils, and use the heated water as input for a dishwasher or kitchen sink.
they're extracting the cargo from the earth at the top of the hill.
It doesn't seem like the "union demands" killed the company narrative tracks here, since the union demands were things like "You should actually make the contributions to our retirement accounts that you're obligated to make."
Hmm. My faith in the BBC's commitment to decentralisation and open standards has been damaged by the artificial month delay they added to their podcast feeds to try and drive traffic to their centralised Sounds app. I've been listening to the In Our Time podcast for 20 years and then they go and vandalise it as a growth hack. There is no way I am using multiple proprietary podcast apps so I end up listening to topical comedy a month out of date... which is just weird.
Given this is for a non-tech audience I think this is reasonable. It basically talks about it being a lossy encoding of things that represent the original. Also, if the words / chars were stored as an array or string already you wouldn’t need to read every byte.
Not strange at all. I remember having a couple of P4 laptops with just 128MB of RAM. Even one with only 64MB but that one might have been a P3.
I've been sunbathing consistently this season for 30-45 minutes 2-4 times a week as weather permits. Recently got my D level tested to see how it has been working and it came back at 51.6ng/mL - pretty happy with this result.
I think people are starting to realize that "AI" in the present context is just the new vehicle for people who were yelling, "NFT's and Cyrpto" just a year ago.
> Ignoring the “pen dropping” strawman

Saying that and then countering with your own.

Yeah, the pen dropping is a bit over the top, but as of now the claim is that this situation is planed for and will resolve itself. A report now wont tell us anything of significance. It will get interesting if the realignment fails.

> Oversight and accountability to the citizenry is a foundational principle in a functioning democracy.

I don't see micromanagement in that list.
Mnemonic hint: "his" doesn't have an apostrophe and "he's" does, and the parts of speech match.
It's comforting to see all the folders turned upright. Ever since Vista they've been sideways, spilling your documents all over the taskbar (this is why I moved my taskbar to the side).
Cloud world is really slow. Imagine writing about Zen3 Milan in Aug 2023 when AMD has already announced Zen4c Bergamo. Actually we were "ahead of the curve" since we got access to T2D before it was made publicly available in Tokyo region, and even then it took several months to get enough capacity in Tokyo to fully migrate our production Kubernetes cluster.

I really wish we could test out RISC-V SoCs from the likes of tenstorrent, but it's a long journey
It's a mine. The hill is the cargo.
Mountain forming is how all that cargo got to the top.
Yeah. The slip wasn’t the careless part, the protocol was. After those criticality accidents (there were 2 with the same core!) they finally decided to adopt reasonable precautions and switch to remote-operated testing of the cores.
Sounds like Schroedinger's shipment. If we don't know where it is, can it really be lost?
Release of Microplastics from Plastic Containers: Implications for Human Health
Wired article here: https://archive.is/wxYkJ