skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Never seems to work for me, unfortunately. Also the context window is too short so it chokes on giving me large outputs. And if doing it piecemeal, it would (partially) forget what it gave me in previous prompts.

I feel like maybe my expectations are too high, but then as mentioned earlier, it’s much more productive for me to go find relevant example(s) on GitHub that have already been tested by a human.
A Gentle Introduction to Vector Databases
Actually no -- that post shows they are not performing measurements and comparisons correctly.

These are not serious people.
Ask HN: Where to find board game artists?
I'm looking for an artist for a board game I've made. Has anyone had good luck finding/working/contracting with someone online?
If you released a monthly snapshot it'd be ~10TB, which is still a lot but definitely feasible.

If it gets packaged as a series of daily tar archives the IOPS won't be a significant issue. Hard disks perform well in sequential reads.
We need multiple large companies, not a few huge ones.

Google's "internet DRM" web integrity API is honestly frightening stuff. The Internet as we know it would change.
Will there be a video stream?
This is funny to me because off the shore of Southern California (some of the most expensive land in the country), the horizon is dotted with oil rigs and cargo ships.
not yet, but we will add this. As of now, the project is just a poc to show that the approach of using libg_query to parse the source works. Most of the work is still ahead.
> I think this is about on par with expectations with a bigger brand.

No, this is wildly beyond expectations. They sold 2.5M copies of BG3 in Early Access (>500k in July alone) which is already amazing, but one might have expected it to eat into their launch day numbers as most of the fans already bought in during EA. Instead it it looks like they probably sold ~10M more copies just in the 3 days after launch.
Where did you hear that? Most Orthodontists do not have MDs...

Did you mean an oral surgeon?
Caveat here being that the full game has yet to release on Mac. The release date for the full Mac game is TBD.
Amsterdam Awakened a Serene Journey Along the Canals – Part #2 [video]
I think fear of China is a convenient excuse used by monopolists to justify letting them continue to abuse the rest of us. The right call is to regulate our tech companies and also restrict foreign companies who violate the rules.
> What if the developer published the data to a torrent on a monthly or other periodic basis? While not completely legal, it would enable their legacy to live on indefinitely and ensure future access to a lot of information

No, it isn't a solution in my opinion, torrents need to be seeded, (at least) initially by Archive.Today, seeding a shit load of multi terabyte torrents is a lot of bandwidth which will probably up costs

Torrents die, and I would especially expect massive torrents like that to die out fast, there's not a lot of people who can spare that much storage and/or bandwidth, it's not just "go buy a few drives, put in and seed", especially not for that duration of time.
The only nice thing I can say about Vegas is that I never had trouble walking up to a business from the sidewalk, asking for a cup of water and getting it for free. I think they didn't want me dropping dead from the heat right in front of them, that'd probably be bad for business.

Granted, that was 15 years ago and things may have changed. If I were made to go back, I'd bring one, maybe two, reusable water bottles and count on filling it myself in my hotel room.
I was around for all this. Things were different back then - in my opinion, considerably worse.

Gates wanted a locked market (for himself/Microsoft, of course) on ALL personal computing. Back then MS-DOS', then Windows', market share was practically 100% (or at least 80+%).

The next step was to dominate the apps, which led to effectively proprietary file types for the documents, spreadsheets, etc in Microsoft Office applications. This prevented competitors from opening and/or editing MS file types in their own products, stifling any new approaches to these standard business applications.

At this point, things were very rosy for Microsoft, and it was generating huge profits from these locked-in markets.

Then came the rise of the consumer internet, threatening MS' cozy applications world. Distributed client-server applications over the internet would be a nightmare (i.e. threat to the profit machine) if Gates' MS couldn't gain a handle on them. So Gates made sure there was his Internet Explorer included on every machine he controlled so that he could build in proprietary handles and functions that other browsers couldn't emulate.

I suppose the rest of the story is a little more apparent to us.
Logo would be the most obvious one.
I get very bad headaches from eating seaweed snacks. I absolutely love them, mind you, but it's like clockwork. I've had this postulated to be as the result of MSG, but that doesn't track with me. There's MSG in all sorts of things, and no other food comes to mind as specifically giving me a headache.
The Flatpak wrapper for Zoom is not made or endorsed by Zoom, Inc. as indicated in its description [1].

I am definitely not a fan of Zoom either and had my own issues with the Linux client, but if the problems you describe are unique to the Flatpak and not in the official Linux distribution, you can't blame Zoom for that.

[1] https://flathub.org/apps/us.zoom.Zoom
BLDC drivers are readily available for a variety of applications and current levels. You need only a 3.3 or 5v signals to get them to run.

The RaspberryPi is not a real time computer, it uses a conventional OS that is inherently not real time. Regardless, you don’t need anything RealTime(tm) because the throttle produces a signal to the BLDC controller, and the MCU only turns on/enables its use.

The benefits from certification are minimal of using an off the shelf product, as you are still required to have the custom stuff l certified, too. They are likely using a cellular module that carry’s its own cert which is the biggest hurdle anyway.

My point is that using a hobby-grade Linux system designed for a much different use-case shows clear deficiency in the skillset of the team, management, or hiring, this is very obviously not the right tool for the job. What makes this upsetting is the fact that the market this was made for (and still is exerting demand pressure) cannot get their hands on it because of the pressures in the industry that values something that just works over correctness. If they would have used the Rpi compute modules, it would have given them a lot of flexibility in what they chose to include while reducing costs all around. This whole thing is a masterclass in gross incompetence characterized by waste and poor engineering.
This is something I wish could come back. Ultima was a great series, and I even liked the trash heaps that were Ultima 8 and 9.

Unfortunately, EA still holds the rights. The new mmo-ish game that Garriet made is one I have not really dived into yet
It’s funny how every generation of modern medicine acts like this time they know 100% what the correct answers are while we all scoff at how wrong they got it just a few decades ago.

Every generation the advice on which way to put your kid to sleep flip flops.

It would be shamefully foolish to disregard all the incredible advances and technologies that modern medicine offers. It would be equally shamefully foolish to think it’s not still deeply flawed.
The issue in California is the water gets very deep very fast.
Haven't we read here on HN that there are studies that coffe might help with dementia (or Alzheimer?), so they should level up.
it’s on the roadmap! once the parser is stable and an advanced and scalable data model is implemented, features like this will hopefully be quite straightforward to implement.
These are things that can lead to stagnation, not really collapse. Even in the worst case of real estate bubble pop + massive unwind. Real estate loans and ownership are almost entirely domestic, and ccp has a lot of power to reshuffle however is advantageous to them.
Our SaaS product helps companies understand one of their most hidden costs - meetings. By integrating employees' calendars into our platform, company administrators can see how many meetings are happening, how much they cost, and how much time is being wasted in meetings.
The same is true for healthcare generally in my experience. Very bad advice is often given.

I can't really common about the US, but here in the UK the quality of healthcare is shocking bad. Although we may have the opposite problem, where instead of doing unnecessary procedures to increase costs, the NHS generally tries to avoid doing anything unless you're dying.

I had some pain in my abdomen a few years back and had persistently elevated liver enzymes. My doctor told continuously told me not worry about it and would say the pain was probably because I was sitting funny and other nonsense. In their opinion I was too young to have liver problems so there was no point in doing any further tests.

Fed up, I decided to do my own research and pay for my own tests. From this I found out that I have a fairly rare generic condition which makes me highly predisposed to liver disease and NAFLD. Certainly not the end of the world, but it pissed me off a bit because the disease could have progressed had I taken their advice and simply ignored it.

Around this time I also had a family friend who was the same age as me. She went to the doctors repeatedly over the course of a year describing several symptoms she was experiencing just to be dismissed. Turns out she actually had cervical cancer, but they never ran any tests and kept telling her it was probably nothing to worry about. By the time she found out she had cancer it was stage four and she died a few weeks later. She was 28 and had two kids.

Like you I believe in listening to experts. Most experts know what they're talking about and generally give good advice, but it's important to keep in mind the conditions experts operate in. Here in the UK the NHS has neither the time or money to give you high quality healthcare. It doesn't really matter if you see the best doctor in the world, if they can't spent the time and money running the tests you need you're not going to get a good diagnosis.
The paradox is that remote townhalls are probably so much more productive since everybody can just put it in the background and actually get things done.
The sugary foods advice is true if you're talking about refined sugars, but I recall a study showing that raisins, e.g., are much better than refined flour in terms of damage to teeth. Despite having much higher sugar content.

Here's an article about the study: https://nutritionfacts.org/blog/raisins-and-dental-health/
Chances is that if you used your magic wand, over time you wouldn't be able to find the best employees (as many people are refusing WFO and hybrid) and your team would suffer anyway.

I think a best use of your magic wand would be for you to acquire the skills to manage a highly productive remote team.
Q2 2023 Summary from Chrome Security
If you know nothing of those games, you might want to stop with the gaming critique.
> I’m not a conspiracy nut

where would be the conspiracy in your experience anyway?

> But that experience shook me and forever changed my trust in the dental industry.

don't trust any industry. industry is always about making money and keeping a comfortable status quo. sometimes this is achieved through conspiracies.
Well I'm not a manager so it is naive but I've been working at these companies for close to a decade now and they produce nothing and there is rampant waste everywhere.

So the current management philosophy just sucks.

Also I'm very good at what I do (developing software), the common thing among the people that produce actual value to companies is that they are high output. Whether it's code or designs or whatever. And I'm talking about quality output obviously.
Maybe? I don't know what is actually feasible at scale in this theoretical scenario. If these things were being performed at the behest of the intelligence community then costs could be offset by generic named grants.
I definitely don’t understand.

But I’m fairly certain that having 50-100% of the first page of search results be ads isn’t good for the internet. And it’s made worse by google search recommending chrome and chrome recommending google search.
Divergefs file system for Plan 9
When looking at my employer - they’re enforcing a 3/2 hybrid model during the last 6 months. Before that more or less everybody worked from home 100%.

During the WFH period we had more deployments & less incidents than ever. In addition we had less sick leaves (due to tolerance being higher when WFH). Yet - the leadership is ignoring this and enforcing the hybrid model.
AVL trees are binary trees so they can only have 2 children.
Toyota must do something to prevent bad actors from using their vehicles, like only selling them to people with a driving license.

Government must issue driving licenses and restrict who gets to drive vehicles.
And some already are.

https://plantbasednews.org/culture/ethics/transfarmation-ani...

A ‘Transfarmation’: Meet The Woman Helping Animal Farms Turn Vegan

Heiligtag has helped 125 farms in Switzerland, Austria, and Germany move away from animals. She calls this process a “transfarmation.” Animals will either be moved to sanctuaries, or remain and allowed to live out their natural lives in peace.

The new farms will always be entirely vegan.

Farmers mostly get in contact after experiencing the guilt that sometimes comes with their line of work. “They suffer because of what they have to do to animals,” she says. “It can be that they have been suffering for years and years and years and didn’t see a way out, but it can also happen that they look into one animal’s eyes and suddenly realize there’s someone behind these eyes.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOGfMScPL8k

5 Times Dairy Farmers Went Vegan
You can make your point more generously than this
If you only want one entity having your data, you're better off being abused by Apple. Google invites all his friends over to run a train on you.
OG Wasteland had that feature, along with a pretty decent macro system. Worth a look.
Looking at the provided after-before pair, https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_fit,f_au... , this seems like an incredibly reasonable use of AI tools, scarcely even worthy of the title's description of 'AI generated art', unless you count Photoshop features going back decades as also 'AI generated art'. If this is now mobworthy...
I've been using Linux for decades, and I'd regularly attempt to play games every few years.

The most recent time, I was shocked how good it was (with Steam & Proton). The only games I found that didn't work were due to DRM and anti-cheating software.
The vehicle is called the Tesla Semi, and it's an electric vehicle.
Apple has over 75% of 18-24 year olds with their phone in their pocket.
Python 3.12 RC1 Available for Testing Better Performance Linux Perf Integration
I tried really hard but didn't connect with the game at all. It had all the hallmarks of a game if like on paper but it just didn't click...
Diagnostic from 2 dentists for me: 3 crowns vs no cavities. Just like every profession, doctors and dentists can be criminally immoral or incompetent.
Sometimes I get sad on early delivery - I want it to arrive on a particular date for reasons. I know why it’s nearly impossible to guarantee, though.
That's not a fair characterization. There are patterns that emerge in complexity given certain basic things hold true. It doesn't matter whether it's neurons or code, if the system has those property, it will also have those dynamics. This is a lot easier to understand in the abstract, whereas a neuroscientist might ask "why does the brain do XYZ" because they don't understand system dynamics.
> My doctoral thesis project used roughly 1/2 million dollars of gear,

Wow I envy you. My doctoral thesis project spent like... USD2.5k directly for gears (half of it just to buy lego bricks to build our own instrument exactly because we can't afford to buy commercial one lol)
ClamAV 1.2 Adding Support for UDF Partitions, New Systemd Timer
Does anybody know of a tool that can produce HTML & CSS from a hand-drawn mock-up as input? I would totally use that.
The parent clearly noted they do not use Google services voluntarily, but are required to by their employer and various websites. Which is exactly the reason for antitrust.
a typical individual alaskan, has ready access to more defensive force and a higher degree of training, than any invading infantry could hope to carry.
Google removed NukeRedditHistory from their App Store. And lots of others.

There’s a system of how gmail decides what is spam and what isn’t. And there’s a large percentage of non-spam that gets blocked or sent to spam [0].

[0] https://www.inboxally.com/blog/why-is-gmail-blocking-my-emai...
You missed the nuance of the code output just being one of many signals. But I have to say, if you are hired to produce software and you are doing things like "coordinating stakeholders" then there is already systemic rot in the company.
Cool! I never heard of this, so I had to look it up:

Heat recovery ventilation, also known as HRV or mechanical ventilation heat recovery (MVHR), is a system that works by transferring heat from outgoing exhaust air to incoming fresh air. Here's a simple step-by-step process:

1. Stale air from the inside of a building is expelled through the system.
2. As the stale, warm air leaves, it passes over a heat exchanger.
3. Fresh, cool air from the outside is drawn into the system, passing over the same heat exchanger.
4. The heat from the outgoing air is transferred to the incoming air without the two air streams mixing.
5. The pre-warmed fresh air is then distributed throughout the building.

This process ensures a constant, controlled supply of fresh air, maintains indoor air quality, and conserves energy that would otherwise be lost in the ventilation process.
I'm guessing this can't happen for institutional reasons, but given that dentists are using x-rays + cameras, and apparently even sending people home with copies of images, is there room for a standardized ML-based "check" which could help catch cases where individual dentists are recommending something well outside some consensus/standards of care? If everyone could easily check their images against the same bot, and pool information, one could identify dentists who regularly recommend unnecessary work. Or we could normalize the idea of getting the exam done by dentist A, and getting the work done by some other undisclosed dentist B, so they're not incentivized to give bogus recommendations?
Old Hebrew word for sun is Shamash. Tablets of Shamash give a hint.
They are a pain. I'm 9 hours in and at 1/17GB in Steam Cloud. I've been going between my Mac and an ROG Ally and syncing saves takes upward of 3-4 minutes and sometimes just fails silently (loudly if you launch the game, but still fails). Steam is definitely not built for that, considering that piece of the user interface barely gives any feedback.
I don't believe that no one predicted the overwhelming success of a long-anticipated sequel to one of the most legendary and deeply-loved games of all time.

Maybe I've played BG2 too many times, but for me this was a no-brainer. You could read the steam reviews from early access as well, and the prediction should have been pretty easy. People were already impressed with the early campaign.

Personally I'm putting off buying BG3 because I know how addictive it'll be.
>It's estimated the quantity of data under management is 1 petabyte. Given they've been going for around 8-10 years, we can extrapolate this is only 100-150 terabytes per year.

You're assuming the volume has been flat for the past decade. Not exponential or even linear growth. That doesn't pass the sniff test.
How do you guarantee that file is ascii? I would think it rapidly would become non-ascii for most users, even for English speakers. You can’t write café in ascii, for example, use curly quotes, or write a pound, euro, or yen sign
I believe it might be just because it is really easy to incorporate an association in Finland and an association that is a non-profit organization founded for public benefit will be considered tax exempt by default. Many of these services have been run by the incorporated associations as opposed to just a loose group of individuals or a single person.

The FUNET though is the Finnish university research network and thus I believe the Funet FTP server has always resided on a server funded by the government but still mostly maintained by volunteers.
Same thing. I am always good with flossing twice a day, brushing teeth twice a day (in fact, I spend ~10 mins brushing teeth gently and carefully every day). But the dentist in SF I visited 10 years ago "saw" 4 cavities and he showed me the X-rays, which I didn't know better I should have looked at carefully. But I got 4 fillings. Credit to him, those fillings never had any issue for the last 10+ years.

But I went to a new dentist in FL a few months ago, and that guy told me to refill them because according to him, they are starting to crack (not sure how he saw them in grainy X-rays; he tried to show me one, but I couldn't see it) :D Anyway, I agreed to have them refilled since it's been a while and the cost was reasonable. Now one of the fillings he redid in my molar makes me feel uncomfortable when I chew things with it.

I wrote up a more detailed experience about this in another comment in this post. I hope people see it and learn from it to not trust their dentists easily (esp. the ones you are visiting for the first time).
>> Banks don't generally lend out deposits.

I think this is one of those "technically true" things, but it works out very similarly.

You deposit $1 with the bank. The bank now has a liability to you of $1, and deposits the $1 with the bank's bank (often the central bank).

hand waving

Separately, the bank is able to negotiate for loans from the central bank. This is on the basis of its demonstrated capital controls, liabilities, deposits (with the central bank, including your $1), business plan, etc.

When the bank receives a loan from the central bank, there isn't necessarily any cash moving around. It's literally just numbers in a ledger, and a system of governance where eventually guys with guns will liquidate the bank's property if they don't handle things properly.

The central bank wants a cut of the action in terms of the prime rate. Whether the local bank can lend directly from deposits depends on how much control the central bank wants to exert, since this is an end-run around the monetary policy and oversight.
I’ve played Dead Space the original and the remake and agree completely. Most of the time, if the sound design is spot on, the team behind the game knows what they’re doing and has passion for designing games and what makes them great.
This is true, but not exclusive to China and the Chinese people. I've immigrated to the US from Europe about 13 years ago and it was a very legally and financially painful process. I've since acquired a B.S.,M.S.,and a Ph.D. in a highly desirable specialization and haven't been able to find a job in the US. This country has left me poor, in debt and hopeless. My wife and I are packing our bags and moving back to Europe. I don't see any opportunity for myself or my children in this declining, chaotic, money hungry country.
For some seeing a trivially defeated security mechanism like a luggage lock is an invitation to defeat it. Doubly so if it's attached to expensive luggage...