skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's take a second to recognize the ironic branding of Yellow corporation. It's orange. Nothing yellow about it.

Some person or group of people made that decision.
Looks like a simple case of an overzealous rich text editor adding smart quotes. All the quote characters should be straight double quotes (").
Wow which school is that? Is that typical for a 4-year degree nowadays?!
The sad part about all this is that Ipv6 was already standardized in the 90s and supported by most network interfaces in the early 2000s.
Lol, no that doesn't follow. Maybe if you mean like how people who experience abuse actually being somewhat more likely to perpetuate it (although contrary to popular opinion it's still quite unlikely to be passed on).

I say this because I'm walking on paths far away from vehicles. We don't really tend to care the background of people who do bad things. If someone is treating you like garbage, you should be more respectful to others, not stoop to their level, and take it out on someone completely unrelated to the person you're mad at.
> Single thread performance blow my mind with scores like 4000.

What exactly is this number 4000? What does it mean? Where can I read more about this scoring system?
> Automatic sliding doors is the way to go, or if you have swing doors then they should be very large and well-hung.

There’s a joke here. Someone run with it, I can’t suss it out.
There also was a Stargate SG-1 episode about it (Meridian)
Use a fan on your drying rack if you aren't hanging outdoors. This has had a major impact on the musty smellingness of my synthetic shirts.

I don't have to use bleach/vinegar anymore as a result to keep the shirts from stinking.
BBC starts trial with the Fediverse, running its own Mastodon instance
My journey away from the JAMstack
I can also add one more data-point in favor of Elastic / OpenSearch. They benefit from a long history of providing search-specific features. Including the ability to write custom re-ranking functions to combine the benefits of traditional TF/IDF style search with the modern benefit of vector search techniques. And you can easily use OpenSearch with state of the art open embedding models like SGPT that use 2048-dimensional vectors. Plus, it is designed to be highly scalable and distributed.

Given how well OpenSearch works and scales, I would find it hard to justify a specialized vector-specific database unless it brought A LOT of new benefits to the table. And I am not currently aware how any of them would actually do that.

Also, OpenSearch provides all of that out-of-the-box. You just configure a vector field mapping and start inserting your data. No need for an add-on plugin/extension. It just works.
A key element to Apple and ARM and why you are right outside the us is this:

1. Apple's chips are so far beyond everything else that it makes obvious sense for Apple only. Snapdragon is at least 30% slower single core while having worse Performance per watt.

2. Apple wasn't playing fair with their translation layer. The Rosetta layer cheats a little because apple also made the chip. The secret sauce is that the M1 has a hardware compatibility mode (That technically breaks ARM spec) for x86 memory order that basically gives near 1:1 performance.

3. Microsoft heavily botched their ARM rollout (again. Hello, Windows RT). The translation layer on W10/11 is just bad, not because of bad coding but just the technical limits of what they were trying to do.

4. Google is in a great place with ARM compatibility in Chrome OS as the only consumer-facing apps are either built-in or on the play store...which was designed for ARM in the first place. Problem is that nobody will give them a good chip for ChromeOS and the focus is on low end, so Mediatek is just cruising.

ARM is a great arch...but right now it is Apple VS x86, not ARM.
> It has finally nullified any socio-economic advantage it once held

No, it hasn’t, as evidenced by the research on pay differentials.

> Instead, orient them toward entrepreneurism. A business as simple as landscaping or construction can be just as financially rewarding as being a corporate desk jockey ... and even more so in some cases.

Entrepreneurship requires capital, and also has a high failure rate; a business of those types can also lead to failure, a worse than starting position, and being back to being a worker in those industries.
This is an abnormal amount of debt, I think this gets headlines and people riled up. 140k for 4 years of school is not normal. The average school debt is 40k. Maybe school is expensive, this is excessive and bad decision making. Maybe you could say that there is a subset that needs help avoiding this but most do. Public schools and community colleges are doable and affordable and with a little work you can get scholarships. I did 6 years of undergrad because I was a bad student and only ended up with around 40k in the end.
The Frigade (YC W23) Vanilla JavaScript SDK
Written on Mac? It tends to do that.
I would guess overhead lines and catenaries for some portion of the route rather than dragging cables around.
It's slowly getting to Europe though. Every second car being sold in Germany nowadays is an SUV, there is barely anything affordable below the 15k EUR mark - most of them are probably on a lease. I'm just wondering, what's going to be next... Tanks again?

Best example I guess is Ford who discontinued its Ford Ka and Fiesta because "they wanted to focus on EVs" - on the other hand they introduced the F150 to Germany. Not the most honest move.

I'd argue 80% of customers are sheeple following whatever is advertised on TV / parked in the neighbours driveway. I used to enjoy cars but with the climate crisis and just by how automotive attempts to innovate these days, I cancelled this entire industry.

Gonna get a Bullitt Cargobike soon
That's pretty good, congratulations.

I don't mean to suggest you did the wrong thing, but I want to share a perspective from one of my friends. She has a similar amount of debt, and is simply choosing to make minimum payments for the rest of her life, maybe even default at some point. She says that spending her money on herself while she is young enough to enjoy it is more important than living frugally for decades to end up old without any money anyway. But she has also considered marrying, then being a stay at home mom or working under the table jobs so that she can default without getting her wages garnished. I'm not burdened by debt, but I would definitely be thinking of something similar in a case like that. Also reminds me of the credit-maxing meme. While I generally like market incentives, I think student loans are becoming extremely high risk investments. I'm lucky enough to have a well paying job, but I'm still worried about what paying for my child's education will be like. Should I make them take on hundreds of thousands in loans, or should I delay my retirement for a decade? The future seems bleak if we don't get the cost of education under control.
In Japan, sure. Outside of Japan an Otaku is someone who likes anime.
At worst, trade unions are a symptom of a ridiculously inefficient capitalist system.

The rise of unions in 20th century America was a compromise by the capitalists, who feared an actual "Bolshevik" revolution.
I would find it very easy to believe that they produced something that is superconducting but following their directions didn't work. An unknown factor could very easily be involved. But proof that their sample is even "interesting" (it doesn't need to be "superconducting" in the strictest sense of the term to still be "interesting") would be enough to say "Hey, let's keep looking over here, we know there's something to find!"

Sometimes just knowing there's something to find at all is 90% of the battle. Many historical examples, in both science and non-science fields.
Twitterfiles, various publications on government access to Facebook takedown portal.

Including on this platform...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33418284
1955 with the advent of the field with some very hopeful mathematicians, but the research never produced anything.

1980 after the foundations of neural networks, but it was too computationally intensive to be useful

2009 with Watson

https://www.hiig.de/en/a-brief-history-of-ai-ai-in-the-hype-...
Should just be able to send the debt back to the institute if the product they sold you doesn't result in enough income to foot the bill within X years.

The current system doesn't encourage the institutes to do anything other than spiral costs, burn money and zero responsibility to provide a product focused on making sure that loan is ever paid back.

Say this as someone who managed to pay theirs off, just think "forgiveness" and other ideas are temporary solutions we'll end up having to repeat over and over. Let's just have a permanent solution with accountability for what they are providing for the cost.
This mirrors my experience. Not once did I have a Yellow LTL shipment arrive on time, and typical delays ranged from 2 days to 2 weeks or longer. Shipments would get lost in a terminal, down to staff insisting it never arrived on the trailer, and then spontaneously reappear after a loss claim was filed.

I would've loved to avoid them but vendors would often choose them due to their cost.
Hey, I'm from Pinecone. What we've found in the past two years is people need a lot more from a vector database than raw speed on a single-node index.

In practice, as long as search latency meets requirements (like, say, 100ms p95), the deciding factors tend to be things like cost for a given scale, amount of engineering overhead required or saved, reliability, features that affect search quality such as filtering and hybrid search, and so on.

Everyone has different workloads and different need. For example, I wouldn't recommend Pinecone to someone who just needs a pure ANN index like Faiss or HNSW on a single machine. Try out a few options and see what works for you... We make Pinecone easy + free to try for exactly this purpose, so you don't have to rely on a barebones "comparison" table from a third party.
Metal [1] is another one on my radar. Their API looks super simple.

Disclosures: None

[1] https://getmetal.io
You can take a look here: https://github.com/zilliztech/VectorDBBench

It lets you run you run the benchmarks using your own API keys. Although it is made by Zilliz (maintainers of Milvus), you can take a look and see what is going on and judge if its fair.
> "What makes your AI special that can't be replicated by a dozen competitors?"

As you can see with all the responses here, they have failed to realize that this is a trick question.

The real answer is that none are special and can be replicated by tons of competitors.
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does social media serve any purpose whatsoever besides marketing and PR, virtue signalling and self promotion?

honestly, what genuine use does something like twitter, mastodon, instagram etc have? No one even reads the shit other people post, they just use it to hook into their own material.

fucking weird world we live in now, where 90% of the population appears to be a narcissist.
I used it in a situation where replacing Python code with a C-implemented module was not efficient because there were too many small objects being marshaled in and out of PyObjects. PyPy let everything stay in Python-land and still run quickly.
> Instead, orient them toward entrepreneurism.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36934135

Yesterday this was posted with a lot of commenters agreeing that management wasn't for them. With that in mind, I think presenting "entrepreneurism" as a lucrative and rewarding career is misleading. Many people wouldn't enjoy it, many people wouldn't be good at it, many people will not be successful at it - particularly long term. Entrepreneurs will not have easy access to 401ks and ( in the US ) health insurance.

> landscaping or construction

It is interesting to me how many promoters of blues collar careers overlook these industries historic hostility to female collogues. Women have been doing better in college lately than men, so maybe the assumption is that men will forgo college in droves for these sort of trade careers leaving all the white collar jobs to women. It's a plausible outcome.
I've also seen AAA used, but standing for Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting. The Wikipedia page [1] is short, but it refers to the context I've seen that in.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAA_(computer_security)
When I was at about 20, the comptroller at my employer told me that you can make mistakes on big important things and people may not notice, but errors in petty cash will always be noticed.
And although there hasn't been any evidence of top-level fraud, a Coinbase product manager was sentenced to two years in prison for an insider trading scam: https://fortune.com/crypto/2023/05/09/former-coinbase-employ...
GPT-3 can reason about as well as a college student: report
https://archive.ph/t1huX
Disney+ drops ‘Loki’ Season 2 teaser trailer
Coinbase is dressed up nicely, but you say basically that all actors and therefore coin creators/owners are criminal, then CB facilitates criminal and is criminal implicitly by turning a blind eye to facilitation at a minimum assumption of involvement. It's been called a casino.
Also it doesn't seem super wise, period, to advise your kid to go into some low skill/low capital business, then expect them to magically make a successful small business out of it.

Any less wise than sending them to some diploma mill and expecting them to make a successful career out of it once they are saddled with debt?

Student loan debt is approaching $2 trillion with over 22 million borrowers. Everybody and his brother has bought a degree which makes one not all that special in the current economy.

Degree or not, success in today's environment is highly dependent on personal initiative. I personally know plumbers and landscapers and roofers and delivery drivers who are *very* successful --- mainly because they multiple their skills by hiring others. I also know plenty of college grads who work low skilled service jobs.
I think talking to people is more effective.

1. Most people can do the job. Even programming isn't that bad, I've met very few complete incompetents.

2. Their personality and interest in the topic are better correlates for their success in the team and generally.
Total comp was over $2m/yr for the past several years, and the C-suite execs were each earning $1m-$6m the past several years, even the CTO. It’s another case of public losses, private profits.
But you did understood my original comment? I described exactly in what way it "bricked". I used the term in the first place, because this was my first assoziation, when I learned about the situation. That "uppps" feeling when you did something wrong and there is no going back.. (poor guy) "bricking" describes these vibes for me and "Command Loss" does not.
> Getting a degree is no guarantee you will be able to obtain a job that will allow you to pay off the loan while maintaining a quality of life somewhere near "basic needs met."

With recent changes to the income-based repayment terms on federal loans, and if, like the vast majority of loan-dependent students those are your only loans, its pretty close (and, at worst, if yo can’t the repayment won’t cost anything.)
True, this was a designated resource during my studies (2020/2022), but they were post-2018.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regenerative_braking#History

Regenerative braking has been in extensive use on railways for many decades. The Baku-Tbilisi-Batumi railway (Transcaucasus Railway or Georgian railway) started utilizing regenerative braking in the early 1930s. This was especially effective on the steep and dangerous Surami Pass. In Scandinavia the Kiruna to Narvik electrified railway, known as Malmbanan on the Swedish side and Ofoten Line on the Norwegian, carries iron ore on the steeply-graded route from the mines in Kiruna, in the north of Sweden, down to the port of Narvik in Norway to this day. The rail cars are full of thousands of tons of iron ore on the way down to Narvik, and these trains generate large amounts of electricity by regenerative braking, with a maximum recuperative braking force of 750 kN. From Riksgränsen on the national border to the Port of Narvik, the trains use only a fifth of the power they regenerate. The regenerated energy is sufficient to power the empty trains back up to the national border. Any excess energy from the railway is pumped into the power grid to supply homes and businesses in the region, and the railway is a net generator of electricity.
Nuclear Power Breakthrough Makes 'Limitless Energy Possible
It's a reference to Hamilton. Definitely reads like nonsense without the context, though...
I wouldn't say 65k per year is doable for _most people_. It's easy to forget how privileged we are with developer salaries. Most people end school with student loan amounts roughly to one year's salary. Assuming you pay 25% of your income towards the loans, that's still a 3-5 year payoff assuming raises and low inflation.

Congratulations on your achievement though! Being debt free is not normal anymore and it comes with a surprising amount benefits in other areas of your life.
This is a loose thread, but your post reminded me of this article: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/silicon-val...

It's an interesting read and really made about think about how big of a game they are all playing.
It’s not perpetual motion, it’s
just moving things downhill with extra steps.

The extra steps are useful for sure. Storing the generated energy in batteries works on a route where the net cargo movement is downhill even if there are some uphill sections along the way.
No, I do not, FF on Win10: https://i.imgur.com/KfSAp57.png

I should add that on Safari, the content part of the page does take a long time to load or render.
I disagree. I don't like to have to write to disk. Sometimes I even can't.

Environment variables are nice for this. Locally scoped and reasonably secure.
That’s quite an astute comment and I thank you.
That's true, but you can run the first block of commands on a brand new Ubuntu installation because regular CPython is installed by default. Whereas you would need to do the whole second block when starting on a fresh machine.
> It can produce plenty of insights, but insights almost never lead to change.

Insights by themselves can't won't lead to change, but they can be a starting point.

Look at it this way, say I am overweight and want to get in shape. The insight that I need to eat less and exercise by itself of course won't make me immediately fit.

But that insight combined with work and support might.

Also therapy, to me isn't about self improvement, it's about feeling better in one's skin. Often it not that the presenting problem even goes away, but that the way you relate to it changes.
Every order you open the oven up twice or so. Insulation probably doesn't matter if the door is open 20% of the time.
There's an "open core" VC fund I've seen blog posts from on here, I'd be interested to hear their take. I agree that open source is in trouble as it's basically shifted to branding, as a way, like the author says to extract maximal value from the "community" while giving nothing back. It's like moving into one of the sub-optimal prisoners dilemma quadrants where somebody rats.

That said, I don't agree with the dig at LLMs, it seems tacked on and more just an ideological complain, which is odd in the context of open source.
The chart is weird/misleading: https://benjaminlabaschin.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/gar...

Drawing $17xx bar and slapping $1494,97 onto it... whereas other bars match the label with the height.

I just couldn't parse how $1,4xx - $1,4yy would end up $408,56. And then in the text there is a number not charted: $1902 to just add to confusion, but OK, that's not what you get on hand.

And then "$1106.42 per month, my public loans $387.02. Altogether, I would owe $1493.22" - the sum is actually .44

Author should fix something.
They're gaining energy by taking bits of the hill down the hill.
Oh, then I stand corrected :)
A bit meta. It seems like it would be nice to have no-action tickets for open source projects.

Quite often you would want to just thank somebody, or say that you would prefer it that way and don't understand why is it this way or it would be cool to have this or that, but of course opening ticket on github feels like wasting time of the maintainer and especially when you have some feedback like e.g. what would you like to see or what you do and don't like it feels entitled because well you can do it yourself, you can fork etc.

It would need to be low friction for both sides. Preferably with no way to respond so that there's zero pressure and little time waste for maintainers.

Mail feels like you want something, it works for thank you but still feels bad on receiving end when you just ignore them.
... Why do you think this is going to be special to the US?

Do you think other cultures don't have consumerism? (they do). Or maybe other countries have old stuff more often?

I like cheap, used furniture. But I also understand that furniture wears out. I've had legs break, arms split, cushions lose comfort. Beds get lumpy. Finishes wear off. Drawers come apart and dovetail joints break. Some of it becomes unreliable or unsuited for daily use. Fine, keep your linens in that old dresser, but using it daily will hasten its end - that one drawer is barely together, after all.

Not to mention that some of these things are just not usable in modern society. An old desk might be pretty, but it wasn't designed with a computer in mind. Good luck fitting your great-grandmother's dining room table in your small dining room. It was made for 8, and you have a family of three. Beds with a metal boxspring built into the frame aren't as comfortable to sleep on as you might imagine and can be quite squeaky. Some old furniture just won't fit in your abode either - and boy, oh boy is some of it absolutely filthy.

Sometimes you can fix this stuff, if you have the time and space and equipment to do so. Many folks don't.

And of course lots of folks replace cars. In most places in the US, you can't survive without a vehicle. A vehicle that breaks down is a vehicle that can get you fired. It is much easier to keep up with an older car if you don't have to rely on it. And again, you still have issues with having to be able to have the time, space, and tools to work on it - and you might need to have enough strength.

And so on.
Hi js2! I do it in the immediate next section, "Improving the algorithm" (take all the letters and assign a number value). Do you think there's a way I can improve that part or say that better?

I try to ramp it up from a loose anology to slowly model the actual working (although I'm no expert on that!)
I recently wrote a tutorial on making a vector driven semantic search app using all open source tools (pgvector, Instructor, and Flask) that might be helpful: https://revelry.co/insights/open-source-semantic-vector-sear...
My go-to tool for ping & packet loss check is https://packetlosstest.com/
"The cost of higher education has been increasing at 3-4x inflation for decades."

Well, the CS degree I got in the UK in the 1980s cost me literally nothing - no fees and a full grant for living expenses (which I added to by working in the summer breaks).

Given the amount of tax I've paid, that was an excellent investment by the UK taxpayer!
I would like to, but aren't there issues using it with NumPy and SciPy?
Yeah, I think both the "why would anyone put vegetables in a fridge" stance and the "how could anyone not put vegetables in a fridge" stance are probably mostly based on lifestyle factors. I walk past two supermarkets plus a greengrocers on my way home from work, so I don't think I've ever put a vegetable in my fridge. But I know people who live in rural areas and go to a supermarket once a week or less frequently.