skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well said. I actually just wrote a comment to appreciate the non-drama of the article. But it's true - the same article could have been written about that guy that probably got crushed during construction or had an unlucky encounter on the highway.

I guess the "flash of blue light" carrying silent death is itself an unnecessary dramatization of a dull accident. :S
The software maybe backwards compatible, but the format is not backwards compatible as old software (expecting JSON) cannot parse the JSON5 format.
Oh that would be great! Sorry if my assumption is mistaken. I'd love this to be real! I'm not just thinking about this last week, though - if the LK group had these samples for multiple years, it seems like they would have been able to share & convince at least one PhD to support them publicly. The fact that they haven't just seems weird! Sure, they were preparing the papers, etc. etc but you do have to balance that against the life they would have if they just published asap - wealthy, famous, respected, free, as well as the benefits to the entire world of letting this be known.

Talk about a confusingly written tweet, though!
Answering my own question with a pull-quote from a post written and linked by @shreyans:

"Redis can be a simple store, either with the embedding as the entire value, or as a value in a hash along with other metadata, or their newer vector search functions. Overall this works, but is more work than necessary, and not ideal for this use case."

https://maven.com/blog/embeddings
(1) In the current environment things are moving so fast that the model of "get VC funding", "hire up a team", "talk to customers", "find product market fit" is just not fast enough.

Contrast that how quickly Adobe rolled out Generative Fill, a product that will keep people subscribed to Photoshop. (e.g. it changed my photography practice in that now I can quickly remove power lines, draw an extra row of bricks, etc. I don't do "AI art" but I now have a buddy that helps retouch photos while keeping it real)

If they went and screwed around with some startup they'd add six months to a project like that unless it was absolutely in the place where they needed to be.

(2) If you were like Pinecone and working on this stuff before it was cool you might be a somebody but if you just got into A.I. because it was hot, or if you pivoted from "blockchain" or if you've ever said both of those things in one sentence I am sorry but you are a nobody, you are somebody behind the curve not ahead of the curve.

(3) I've worked for startups and done business development in this area years before it was cool and I can say it is tough.
Machine Learning Games, a repository containing set of games and simulations designed to experiment with QLearning, Neuroevolution, and PoseNet.

Here are the games and simulations available in this repository:

* Ball_Q-Learning: A simulation of a ball learning how to reach a target with Q-Learning.

* Flappy_Bird_PoseNet: Flappy Bird controlled with PoseNet.

* Stickman_PoseNet: A sample jumping game with PoseNet.

* Drone_Q-Learning: A Unity simulation of a drone learning how to fly with Q-Learning.

* Wolf3d_PoseNet: Wolf3d controlled PoseNet and pose classification.

* Worm-Q-Learning: A simulation of a worm learning how to jump with Q-Learning.

* Worm_Neuroevolution: A simulation of a worm learning how to jump with Neuroevolution.
It happens all the time.

But usually it’s blocking mergers and acquisitions. Here’s an example: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/21/books/penguin-random-hous...

Waiting to break up a company for anti-trust is like waiting for your house to completely flood instead of fixing the pipe before it gets to that point.
That is true. But in cloud our hands our tied, we cannot really switch from one one generation to another so easily. GCP has so far never launched a new chip while keeping the price same or lower. We did same cost/perf analysis on newer generation chips like Ice Lake from Intel and even Milan from AMD in the form of N2D, but both are quiet expensive for the performance uplift they provide. The unique thing about T2D is that the price is competitive with 10 year old E2, which has been the case only for ARM based CPUs like Graviton and Ampere Altra (T2A from GCP)
I'll have to be be forced to implement PayPal and thankfully, while it's been asked for, I been able to say no in all my projects. My audience is domestic-only (US) and since you can put a card on file easily or use Apple/Google Pay I haven't heard from any customers asking for it (only organizers that pay for the software, and only off-hand). If anyone were to push I'd just quote an absurd number to implement it.

I know Stripe isn't perfect/flawless but I'll do everything in my power to avoid doing business with PayPal.
They all come as wheels, they just aren't precompiled.
Towards a social network made out of independent websites: PostOwl
Mate, why don't you "print" on an EPD tablet - an advanced "E-Reader"?

There are already plenty around. If you need to read a long document, transfer it to the tablet in its best format (PDF, markup etc). If you need to browse a lot of documents, create a VNC connection and use the tablet as a display.
One of the safety training stories at the lab I used to work at was about a chemist who set his lunchtime hamburger on the shelf in the fume hood while running reactions with a potent methylating agent. Slow painful death over the course of a week. Definitely put the fear of god in me.
Apple does a lot of that kind of thing on phone/tablet.

By “a lot” I mean they have a lot of devices dining so frequently; I imagine the workload is very carefully managed for battery/heat reasons.
What other hotel booking site shows you the price with all fees included? As far as I can tell, Airbnb is the only one that even gives you the option.
It's a hash. But that doesn't eliminate the serious privacy issues with it.
There's no incentive to use it when IPv4 is free. There are two main ways for network providers to move the needle, assuming that they actually offer IPv6 as an alternative:

(1) charge for IPv4

(2) move IPv4 behind CGNAT
In NYC and particularly in Manhattan and the built up areas of other boroughs, almost every crossing is signaled and timed. This isn’t a suburb where pedestrians walk out into a crosswalk and traffic stops outside of the normal light cycle.
No, I do not want to deploy on the edge, and I wish people would stop making noise over it because it’s getting really had to convice buzzword happy business people that there’s nothing wrong with running a monolith on a single big server.
If you want something with proper linage from UNIX, that was part of the whole UNIX System V vs BSD wars drama, the related AT&T lawsuit after they were allowed to charge for UNIX, 386BSD being reborn.

Or just a kernel that happens to have been inspired by UNIX and took its own path afterwards.
Prisma is great and I definitely recommend it to anyone who’s either starting out or on a more advanced level.
Also if you want to do hybrid retrieval with legacy system in place elasticsearch is a good option. I would like to see some comparison for the hybrid retrieval as well.
> I'd expect this kind of regulation to kill off many of the popular web apps once and for all

I wouldn't be so sure. This whole industry works on having defaults that most people just accept. It's quite easy to set up an ad blocker, and yet most people just don't.

> The would also be open questions like whether the API must be free to use, could have some legal freemium model, and how a "fair" price would be determined.

I phrased my proposal the way I did on purpose. There's no restrictions on what a company can charge for an account, just that "API access" is always included with it. If a company wants a freemium model, that's fine. If a company charges a subscription for all accounts, that's also fine. If a company bans an account for whatever reason, API access for that account goes away (the arbitrarity and capriciousness of bans is a separate topic though)

> large amount of extra cost to build, test, and maintain but they are also more open to issues from hacks and bots

This is the standard FUD about anything that's "different" or creates a modicum of requirements on companies. They're already publishing APIs for the proprietary apps to use. Nothing changes for "hacks" unless they're relying on the thinnest of obfuscation. And the whole point is that a user using a "bot" should be given the same consideration as a user using a proprietary front end - services should police user behavior rather than being lazy with method of access.

> It's be much easier to kill their web app and tell everyone to use a mobile app instead.

Except most "apps" are also just proprietary front ends to services hosted elsewhere, and thus run afoul of the same bundling.
It's a chicken-and-egg problem. ISPs have very little incentive to deploy IPv6 when not enough of their customers are demanding it. Meanwhile, people don't demand IPv6 when all of their services work just fine over IPv4.

A big drive for IPv6 adoption seems to be that some ISPs are genuinely running out of addresses. They are forced to re-engineer their network stack in order to switch to CGNAT anyways, so deploying IPv6 along with it isn't too much extra work. As long as the ISP has plenty of IPv4 space remaining, their engineers are going to have a hard time selling spending time on IPv6 to management.
Maybe, but I lean towards assuming not. Most (all?) of the characters in Watchmen were Charlton Comics characters with the serial numbers scratched off, and their backstories adjusted slightly to fit the setting. Dr. Manhattan specifically was based on Captain Atom, whose origin was originally that he was trapped in a rocket as it launched. The change from that to the "intrinsic field" experiment was probably just to make it more "weird" along with Ozymandias' actions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Atom

> The character's origin had Adam working as a technician in a special experimental rocket when it accidentally launched with him trapped inside. Adam was atomized when the rocket exploded while entering the upper atmosphere. However, he somehow gained superpowers that included the ability to reform his body safely on the ground
Right. Dostoevsky was perfect on the human element. Tolstoy on the writing.
MacBook Pros have HDMI ports and many USB-C ports. I also don't know any issue with MacBook keyboards except the 2016-2019 model years.

I work for a large financial services company and receive a MacBook Pro for my work.

My work laptop battery can handle all-day IntelliJ & web browsing without charging, I've never heard the fan and the laptop stays cool. It has a Geekbench multicore score of 13,649.

My personal laptop also lasts that long and stays cool, and doesn't even have a fan.
Only in a Newtonian world--but there wouldn't be lensing in a Newtonian world. Once you consider Heisenberg and quantum mechanics you find your signal swamped by noise for smaller objects.

Now, figuring out this limit is left as an exercise for the reader as it's way beyond my abilities.
https://qubes-os.org, a reasonably secure operating system.

Issue tracker: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues
Airbnb is arguably something that didn't have any real net benefit to society yes.

I am conflicted about uber though. Many, many people I know (mostly women) have had their life completely transformed post uber. It ushered in a mobility revolution that would likely only be smaller than the car or bicycle in terms of liberating some populations and increasing their freedom. It was all built on lies and masquerades though.

Perhaps that's not new however? All of history seems to have been built on ideas that robbed Paul to pay Peter anyways.
How would you describe hosting a static website in Singapore and in New York on AWS?
Excellent, thank you.

I did a quick search for something, and the AirBNB fee was slightly higher ($20) than the US website for the same listing (dates, people, etc.)
Yes. The company is not even paying basic bills like rent or severance; they are certainly not going to waste time and money on random lawsuits. Especially since any sane outside counsel would demand their retainer up front in cash.
Completely agree. A bunch of "facts" copied from the providers website. Funny they have a conclusion section. You could probably write something better with AI.
ARM has a lot more market share in people's minds than in actual numbers. One research firm says that ARM has 15% of the laptop market share in 2023, expected to increase to 25% by 2027. (Surprisingly, Apple only has 90% of the ARM laptop market.)

In the server market, just an estimated 8% of CPU shipments in 2023 were ARM.

https://www.counterpointresearch.com/arm-based-pcs-to-nearly...
https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20230217VL209/amd-arm-digiti...
You mustn't compare your low budget car with a Lamborghini?
Ha! Yes! Unfortunately I know this because of terrible reasons. Python is reference counted so copy-on-write doesn't work for this with Python objects (note: if your Python object is actually just a reference to a native object in a library all bets are off, may work or may not).

We had an issue with the service I mentioned above where VMs with ~6GB RAM weren't working, because at the point that gunicorn forked there was instantaneously >10GB RAM usage because everything got copied. We had to make sure that the data file was only loaded after the daemon fork, which unfortunately limits the benefits of that fork, part of the idea is that you do all your setup before forking so that you know you've started cleanly.
>ignoring everything named "quantum"

This heuristic is probably a good one for non-scientific stuff but I'm not sure how accurate it is when we're looking at a group researching quantum effects
We live in different worlds. All engineers I know have Macs and the ones that don’t have Linux. The one guy on my team who uses windows is a constant problem as he has to find work arounds for every process we have/service we build.
I remember an anti-nuclear talking about the Finnish project for long term storage.

He was depicting the project cost (4 billions) as ridicolously high and therefore unfeasible. Interesting that each plant (around 10 billions?) of Finland could use it for 100 years... seems like a no brainer to me!
In FreeBSD many services that I need work immediately after installation with very few changes in the default configuration.

In Linux I always have to work much more for a sane configuration.

There are also various specific details, e.g. I like much more the firewall programs that are available for FreeBSD than those that are available for Linux, so for any computer facing the public Internet I use FreeBSD. FreeBSD has better support for SCSI/SAS devices, so where I use such devices, e.g. tape drives, FreeBSD is also the only choice for me.

In FreeBSD I also normally use unattended upgrades and I almost never use more than an hour per year for maintenance, except for reading my e-mails where I receive statistics from the logs of the servers.
Nice, most of the Flash games I created are in there.

Proximity: https://flashmuseum.org/proximity/

Formation: https://flashmuseum.org/formation/

Save The Ring: https://flashmuseum.org/save-the-ring/

Clock Legends: https://flashmuseum.org/clock-legends/

Squarez: https://flashmuseum.org/squarez/

CC Fight Club: https://flashmuseum.org/cc-fight-club/

Proximity 2 (demo): https://flashmuseum.org/proximity-2/

Biggest game of mine that's missing is Clock Tournament: https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/332457

I never officially released the Flash version of Proximity 2, just posted it on a forum once to get feedback. I abandoned the Flash version of Proximity 2 and instead ported/refined it to iOS and Xbox 360 (released on Xbox Live Indie Games service). But I probably should have released the Flash version officially anyway, it was pretty far along.

I keep meaning to at least make executables of these and release a few of these on itch.io, maybe clean a few rough edges, although I keep putting it off. Maybe someday.
I guess you like those cookie warnings that pollute the Internet these days? Because this would be cookie warnings all over again. Any site that's reasonably popular uses a CDN to increase scalability, improve performance, and add reliability. Half the Internet would need a new pop-up warning that a CDN is in use. The last thing we need is yet another pop-up when a page loads....
Remind why everything "needs" a public ip address? NAT and SRV records solved all of these problems decades ago. Not sure why we're still living out an XKCD comic.
Precisely. If you want a high-end dinner and an open bar with a lay-down bed while you fly, well you pay for it, and if you fly Emirates, you can even have a shower thrown in.
Makes sense! I misinterpreted it
I honestly can't remember the last time I had to compile anything, and I am on Windows.
You mean like my landlord?
Thanks for the tip! That's a good idea.
I am Norwegian, our kroner are somewhat less sought after than the Danish krone.

As for the cost in 1950, I have no idea except what my grandmother told me - but the 7,000kr average annual pay I looked up at the bureau of statistics.

My paternal grandmother, though, upon hearing my maternal grandmother had a freezer already in 1950, was green with envy - they had not got one until the end of that decade.

I guess being an early adopter came at a price back then, too.
It’s called “old fridges eventually fail”.

Nothing statistically strange about that.

Luckily most were either “came with the place” ones or cheap 2nd hand ones. The point being: old fridges also fail, in fact they’re more likely to as they get older!
This is the resource I wish I had in 2018. Every grad school course had a Linear Algebra review lecture but never got into the Matrix Calculus I actually needed.
This is all moot now of course, after the XRP ruling, that secondary sales of assets don’t make them securities.

The underlying assets are also not securities.
The BBC on Mastodon
One example of the nicer experience, maybe as a by-product of the 1st class ZFS support, is that updating FreeBSD doesn't make me nervous like updating the Linux kernel does. On Linux, you're mostly limited to the kernel versions that have been explicitly tested against ZFS.
I think it might be because most airlines don't make almost any profit on tickets themselves, but now rely on selling frequent flyer miles to companies to turn profit [0].

In other words, ticket purchasers are not their costumers anymore.

[0] https://abroaden.substack.com/p/the-strange-way-airlines-are...
Medium clickbait
Seems to me the optimal strategy would be to put all legal efforts into delay, run a Presidential campaign based on portraying it as unjust persecution, and then pardoning himself.

I know that wouldn't work on the state level charges, but it may be possible to use Presidential authority to prevent arrest and get the Supreme Court to overrule it somehow.
I've started visiting my local university library for a few hours to get work done (I'm not a student).

The WiFi is fast and reliable, the environment is peaceful and conducive to heads-down work, and the parking meter costs around what I'd pay for coffee.
I wonder why you reference Onslaught Mode in Unreal. Does this game offer similar gameplay?
To those who don't play UT: it is a game mode where teams compete to connect a network of nodes from their base to the other team's base.
Investors already know that this is a race to zero. There are some companies in tech that are already at the finish line in this race, like Meta and can afford to release their AI model for free, undercutting cloud based AI models unless they also do the same.

They are also realizing that the many of these new 'AI startups' using ChatGPT or a similar AI service as their 'product' are a prompt away from being copied or duplicated.

The moat is quickly getting evaporated by $0 free AI models. All that needs to happen is for these models to be shrunken down and be better than the previous generation whilst still being available for free.

Whoever owns a model close to that is winning or has already won the race to zero.
Retrogram rtl-SDR – a radio spectrum analyzer for your terminal
That assumes you go shopping every couple of days.
Do you have to enable it every time you make a transaction?
> Too often, the markets disconnect from the underlying economic reality, sometimes with only mild effects (for example, that time petroleum prices went negative)

I may have misunderstood the situation at the time or am now misremembering it but I thought:

Some crude futures were about to become deliverable, meaning people who had been speculating on the price and have no fundamental use for unrefined petroleum were going to receive it. Normally they sell the soon-delivering futures for some later-delivering futures and lose or make relatively small amounts of money in the difference.

But there was no one to sell to, because COVID had reduced processing capacity and demand for gasoline. So all these traders who had no use for crude were about to be stuck with it. It's a noxious, volatile, dangerous chemical that requires special handling.

As the date approached it became important to find somewhere to _put _ the stuff, so much so that traders were paying people to take it off their hands. Which seems like a very elegant mechanism?

Like, I don't want crude oil at my house. I'm not gonna worry much about the price to get it taken away, probably.

And at that moment the market was paying for someone to take the crude, meaning anyone who could bring additional storage or processing capacity online very quickly was delivering something valuable.
I just checked the closest hotel to me and hotelstonight was $25 more than the hotel's website rate and hotels.com. May be a great way to find vacancies, but I'm not sure why you would book through them unless you find a one-night room at an extended stay place.
I was really puzzled by Duolingo for ages - I just found all the animations etc. painful and other apps seemed to much better for language learning. And then my kids (10 and 12) started using it and absolutely loved getting streaks, lingots and so on and were choosing to use it for fun. It doesn't really matter that it isn't the most efficient way to learn French if they enjoy it.

Any sort of LLM-based tutor is tricky with children as you can't guarantee that it won't come up with something inappropriate, even with the various guardrails in place. As a parent, I'm happy to take that risk especially if I am around to explain anything, but if I were a teacher for example then I probably wouldn't be and I imagine businesses are going to be in a similar situation.
> Based on what? I would never buy an Apple laptop and no one I know has one either

Yes because no one that you know buys an Apple laptop that must mean that Apple isn’t selling any…

> Same for my work laptop, again Windows/x86 and no one I know with a work laptop is supplied a Mac either.

I find the lack of self awareness…amusing.

Because no one you know uses a Mac laptop, that must mean no one uses one.

Well my anecdote from working at the second largest employer in the US that the vast majority of technical people prefer Macs even though they can choose Macs or Windows.