skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The economy is not the highest good.

The fastest way to speed up new construction is to drop all safety protocols whatsoever—that's how you get rapid build up in developing countries, but that's also how you lose thousands of people to an earthquake or to a citywide fire. One of the characteristics of a developed nation is that we place a higher priority on not losing the development we already have than we do on developing further. Stability over growth. The rewards are lower, but so is the risk of a disaster.
> If Y>X then the best thing to do is liquidate the company.

Only if you use a particular definition of "best thing."

Consider a nonprofit. It raises funds and buys meals for people who are food insecure. No money is created for its investors. It has a brand that people like and feel good about. Now imagine the board of this nonprofit decides that making $0 is not their favorite thing so they halt all of their programs and sell their brand to Kraft, who uses the brand on some of their products to capitalize on the popular brand without giving any food to the poor.

Kraft's stock goes up because they are selling more stuff.

Is the world really more valuable now?

Or an even simpler example. Consider a pharma company that sells some lifesaving medication. They charge $X for it. They do some math and determine that if they charge $10X for it, that half of their customers will no longer be able to afford the product and half will continue purchasing it to stay alive. Their revenue increases by 5X. Stacks on stacks for their investors.

Is the world really more valuable now? This company has more money but only half as many people are protected from their life threatening disease.
There are many tools for doing keyframe animation and have been for many many years.

The difficult part of keyframe animation is not tools.

The difficult part of is keyframe animation is the time and effort it takes to select keyframes, the transitions, and their durations. Making animations is time consuming.

Confluent is a public company. Someone made the animation as part of their job because the time expense of animating had some business rationale.

Anyway the best tool is "I don't care how long it takes to learn from making it." Or not. YMMV. Good luck.
Yeah, I think this is right, and well put.
Electroweak theory was confirmed when we had large enough particle accelerators. I remember reading at some point that grand-unified theories that combine electroweak with strong force can be tested by a sufficiently high-energy accelerator, but the estimated size of such an accelerators would be around the orbit of Pluto.
It wouldn't be needed today on x86_64. The underlying idea - priming the processor with hints about what and when - is now standard practice. There are explicit instructions for manipulating the cache and marking data as needed-soon. E.g. PREFETCH, available as __builtin_prefetch in GCC. Added to the Pentium III, I think.
Fair enough, I suppose! Thanks for the the correction.
It's about digging in intermittently wet streambeds (where the water is likely very close to the surface for a long time after the stream dries), not the middle of the desert.
I'm not sure about how the longevity of this business model. It seems to me that the quality of generative models will continuously improve over time (in part by incorporating similar kinds of "bad output filters"), making this kind of service less and less useful.
You can already do this with uBlock Origin: Just go into the (uBlock Origin) settings and enable the AdGuard and EasyList stuff under "Annoyances".

"AdGuard – Cookie Notices" and "EasyList – Cookie Notices"
You are comparing a very purpose-built chip in the original watch to a general purpose microprocessor in this design. The original won't have a single extra transistor than it needs, and it won't be operating one Hz faster than it needs to. Not a surprise to me.

And in reality, the real-life battery life of the Sensor Watch will drop further if you actually attach actual sensors to it or (I'd expect) start running your own code on it.
Come on, that answer is so vague as to be meaningless.
Since you're so tied up with not believing something:

> Put beans roasted in butter next to beans not roasted in butter.

Spoiler: they look very different
It’s hard for me to see what the future is for this “commercially supported open source” business model, particularly for infrastructure components like this.

I start with the assumption that most companies want to use managed services for their infrastructure. This makes sense, because the marginal cost for (eg) AWS to provide the managed service is basically nothing over the cost of the underlying infrastructure (because at that scale you have to automate the management and can’t have a human in a loop for anything routine). But for the company using that service, the cost is non-zero since they likely don’t have that automation in place and have to have expensive humans do that work. So in a reasonably efficient market, managed infrastructure should be the correct financial decision (and I tend to think that the popularity of it implies that things are generally working that way).

So if you want to use a managed service, it’s fine if you’re dealing with something that is (eg) MIT licensed because you can expect a healthy competitive market for running it as a managed service. But now you look at something like elasticsearch, and at this point what benefit do I have from using it over Amazon’s OpenSearch fork? I’m just as locked in if I use elastic since their license precludes anyone else from providing it as a managed service which is a fundamental requirement of my usage of the tool.

Idk, I could be wrong! But I really don’t know what the path forward is for this model.
Also, been reading your blog for years. Great stuff, and thanks for all the content!
May even consider his blogs are also to be read out loud because he himself writes out loud.
Awesome project! It would be interesting to see performance tests. I know that a scientific experiment is very difficult, so approximate numbers are enough. Anyway, thanks for your work :)
This is really a fantastic resource for someone who wants the basics, with illustrations, without having to fully dive into the field.

I might also add that you can basically find researched best practices on any UX/UI thing by adding "NN" or "Nielsen Norman" to a search. They're a UX research group. Like "modal nn" or "internationalization nn" etc. Those articles tend to be more detailed than this book, and can often be a valuable followup resource.
I am not sure about that. Observing astronomical events like black hole collisions, for example, which perhaps amplify quantum mechanics effects to phenomena we may be able to observe one day, even from light-years away... may be one way around this...

Or creative ways of using large masses, like planets and even stars, to make measurements of tiny things - similar to how Earth-size telescopes can be approximated by much smaller ones, spread over a large area.
https://www.thermoworks.com/timestack/
I do. I want my hardware to do exactly what it gets told to do, and nothing else. A pity that that's basically impossible these days.
That's not really what "puddle deep knowledge of anything that isn't iPhone firmware" implies.
I agree with you in principle, but nowadays, every newspaper seems to try hard to cram as many puns as possible in every article and it gets boring fast.
Fyi, I'm pretty sure you're talking to kiwi's main dev :)
This opinion might differ from others but my main complaint is with their useless and sometimes hostile UI changes rather than the occasional ad for other Mozilla services. For example recently the change to tabs floating disconnected from the pages, which I had to use userchrome to override. Next problem I am trying to tackle right now is favicon being hidden when the audio playing icon is on a tab that seems to have been done in a recent update.
Personal opinion - it can never be measured accurately because it's perceptional.

Pain and pleasure can be the same thing, it's hard to quantify because it exists at different points of the same spectrum, and cell damage isn't necessarily an indicator either (papercut painful but same cut during gardening not noticed).

Environmental and third party factors also conflate results, air pressure on tooth ache, acupuncture or different pain to relieve pain elsewhere, distractions, and endorphin hits from it being long running pain (you get used to it).

So yes electrical activity may be similar, but the way in which it's finally perceived is what you want to actually measure.

To do that I believe the only way to measure it is the 1 to 10 happy face scale, a child's maximum 10 actually being a 5 for an adult if you were to compare the injury, but normalising that to 5 would be wrong because it suggests the child could tolerate more (when in fact they would probably pass out).

This basically highlights a single measurable scale only applies to electrical activity, not to perception, which arguably is what you really want to compare.
You support heavy handed and intrusive violation of the privacy of all people who work in the financial sector. You support big brother. Sugar coat it all you want, but you're the one who is cheering on the NSA to de-network encrypted platforms that depend on network effects for our protection
Just my impression but the single biggest use of crypto has to be speculation --- hoping that a bigger fool will pay more than you did.

In every crypto use case I have examined, the overall total cost of crypto transactions fees actually exceeds that of fiat. If this doesn't appear to be true, it is usually because the final fees required for the recipient to convert a crypto payment into practical real world currency are being ignored.
A recent drive though FL revealed the following.

Within indexical semiosis:
The left lane = the fast lane

Ergo driver can identify as driving fast without regard to the actual speed limit or whether or not they are passing other vehicles. Ask people within FL what the left lane of the highway is called and you will seldom hear “the passing lane.”
The strangest part of modern physics to me is how inaccessible the concepts are. The terminology and ontology are extremely complex and it seems no one has a grasp of the fundamentals like what actually is a photon and what medium is present in a vacuum that allows things like gravity to propagate?
i am on a 2 year long rabbit hole to solve many i18n problems that devs face https://github.com/inlang/inlang

we are in our third (major) refactor because the problem is so complex and new requirements emerge regularly :/
I know most HN commentators are thinking about Terraform, but I think this change was done with Consul and Vault in mind.

Plenty of companies (including my employer) have been building fully monetized software using Consul and Vault under the hood and not paying them a dime. We're a company that's valued/market capped in the Billions btw and I know plenty of other large software companies doing the same thing.
Interesting, in school, when we learned about this principle, it was taught that fish were excluded because their meat wasn't bloody. Meaning, fish wasn't meat, because land animal meat would influence aggressivness while translucent meat wouldn't. Could be wrong, just sharing.
Of course, there's always going to be some items not available at the local warehouse, but that's the same thing with Amazon.
Processor Tradeoffs for AI Workloads
Ted's booklist/review websites have been my go-to for "I need something to read" for years now. He appears to not be maintaining them and some of the domains have expired, but here's "The New Canon" (fiction since 1985):

https://www.thenewcanon.com

And here's an archive snapshot of the Conceptual Fiction (sci fi) one, which is now dead:

https://web.archive.org/web/20160305124258/http://conceptual...

The top comment here is about him giving the impression of being "massively up his own arse." Maybe -- but I think his attempts to create something useful for others, which I have found genuinely useful, outweighs that. What does it say that he's letting those attempts link-rot and writing on substack instead now?

I don't know. I just know he has good taste in literature.
It feels dissatisfying because most of those theories are overfitting of models with tons of free parameters to all available experimental data, and when new experimental data appears a new free parameter is introduced to the model. The actually useful theories, that reduce the number of free parameters are yet to be discovered.
// @ts-check works until you need to do an assertion, a cast, a predicate, pass an explicit type to a generic method, etc., then it gets very annoying. I only ever use it if I’m writing a single self-contained and relatively short script and can’t be bothered with a build step.
The dissatisfying part comes probably from the fact that our technology will be limited to more or less what we already have, if there are no experimental breakthroughs that prove theories as inadequate.
Large Language Models have no understanding or reasoning capability. They only generate patterns based on what they were trained on in response to an input. While they can produce very sophisticated outputs, it is still pattern matching and predictive generation, not reasoning.

Other AI systems based on other methods (provers and related-logic systems) can derive facts or "reason" based on their inputs and rules. Their "truth-telling" capacity is only as good as their inputs and derivation rules.

Better questions would be:

"What are the capabilities and limitations of this AI system?"

"Who created this AI and for what purpose?"

"How was this AI created and how does it work? (what inputs was it given / trained on and how does it use those inputs to generate outputs?)"
>That's people wanting the "wrong" things. That won't change under any other system...

Do you know what the FOMC is/does?
Yeah, that would be the case if the theories taken together made sense, and if the Universe wasn't full of unexplained things that should fit what we observe at the experiments.
Shining Light on the Tomato Hornworm
See https://big-ann-benchmarks.com/neurips21.html

They're not OpenAI embeddings, but they are realistic, and much larger (number of vectors).

I think many production embeddings at non-OpenAI companies will use lower-dimensional vectors than 1536, so it makes sense to focus on non-OpenAI embeddings as well in your benchmarking.
Its scary how many products and people are connected to megacorps that don't seem related at first glance. This reminds me of that conversation at the beginning of Deus Ex:

“Corporations are so big, you don’t even know who you’re working for. That’s terror, terror built into the system”- Deus Ex, NSF.
Yeah I've heard a lot of mixed things about their software support but I did a lot of research and people seem to say it's gotten a lot better over the past couple years. I certainly wouldn't say any of it feels like a beta, it's currently been up since I bought it two weeks ago with no issues.
Is that not what college is about? Reading the textbook written by the professor teaching the subject?

Am I missing something here?
Vouched. This is the point of the thing - the typechecking benefits come from running `tsc` on your code (or VSCode will do it for you in the background and show you linter errors if you have typescript installed somewhere it knows about).

Incidentally I've been doing my JS projects this way for 2-3 years and I really dig it.
I definitely feel GPL has its own merits. It's time people recognize that.
This is pretty awesome. Are any languages other than English supported?
It's less about the speed and more about which domains are accessible by Feynman-diagram perturbative techniques. You can't use they kinds of methods Feynman used for QED on a lot of problems in physics related to the strong force. You have to use lattice techniques.
I love them as well, ever since I read about the feral donkeys on the Big Island of Hawaii and couldn’t stop laughing to myself about the “trouble” they were getting into, braying all night and annoying the humans. Do you want a friendly animal who will also guard your flock of sheep? Get a “guard donkey,” the only downside being they hate dogs and will stomp them given the chance.

My son and I are watching YouTube videos about donkeys right now. Lovable creatures. If you start and incubator that also has Donkeys please look me up.
Probably Grady from Practical Engineering: https://practical.engineering/about

YouTube creator with civil engineering videos (I only do software, so learning about the physical world is super interesting).

His new book about engineering in plain sight (engineered things you see but may not think about in day to day life) is fantastic too.
Free news is junk news.

As the Last Psychiatrist said

"if you're reading it, it's for you".
archive, https://archive.ph/Y1un4
Thanks for the response. I wonder whether HNSW will still perform well if it needs to page neighbor-lists to/from disk. Do you plan to benchmark the setting where the dataset is too large to fit in-memory?
The third one isn't something they're doing, it's the winner they selected in a "responsible AI challenge" competition.
I've found, as a Lisper, that the secret to being effective and valuable to a company such that you're both irreplaceable and not too much of a drag on the rest of the organization is to pick secret weapons that have slightly more overlap with the normal world than Lisp.

Clojure, Nim, Elixir, and more faintly flirt with the true unbridled power of a CL environment, but primarily provide useful abstractions and some familiarity, compatibility, and/or killer features that can't be turned down as easily as a true CL environment. It works out, when the company is small enough that you're driving your own project. Just be sure do document what you did.
Once again I ask:

1) are all these vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild today?

2) since everyone is running mitigations, no one is spending much time to exploit them, so why shouldn't I turn them off myself?

Every time there's a new vulnerability out, I ask the same question and I still don't have a valid reason why I should keep them on. Herd immunity does not only apply to viruses.

In fact, the slower our CPUs get because of these fiascos, the more performance I might squeeze out of something no one is exploiting in the wild, unless I have proof of the contrary.

Of course, this works only if I disregard anyone's opinion and do it. If everybody turns off mitigations, then I'm unprotected.
Unclear how that would work in practice to me without some shitty half followed standards
Firefox on iOS also has tabs
I’d be incredibly surprised if this smug attitude would last someone til their deathbed. I truly don’t understand how when faced with your own mortality you wouldn’t suddenly see through your own BS and realised you’ve dedicated this much time to manicuring your public image in an attempt to impress other over-educated faux-intellectuals.

It’s a great example of there being These Sorts Of People in all communities, classes, cultures, etc. it’s why I’ve gotta roll my eyes when someone implies that people that write software for a living are somehow impartial, infallible, logical, gods amongst men. We’ve got all this same shit going on in our professional community, just like everyone else. Remember Kenneth Reitz? How about the hoards of self-professed YouTube educators? Or those few greybeard hackers that rose to and maintain their notoriety pretty much entirely because they were in Berkeley in the ‘80s or whatever. We just fall for it when people dress down and wear glasses or whatever.
My bet is on something created by matter anti matter annihilation and very hard to measure. Like you annihilate two parucles a c and gravity wobble for a splotsecond..
Muon Mystery Deepens with Latest Measurements
> If someone wants to buy a company and liquidate it, that's up to them.

Maybe it shouldn't be.
> Car companies do this by making bigger cars, so passenger safety and pedestrian safety are, to some degree, a zero sum game.

Nit: passenger safety and pedestrian safety aren't at odds with each other because in the event of a collision, no pedestrian is heavy enough to pose a risk to driver safety even in tiny 50s-era cars. What's actually happening is that there's a Red Queen's race between car manufacturers: if your car is heavier than your competitors' then your customers will be safer, so every generation of cars gets bigger than the last.
I can think of like four Firefox forks. In no particular order: Pulse browser, Waterfox, LibreWolf, Pale Moon.

Which of those are you currently donating to?
Check out this news post from 5 days ago about Mozilla's finances:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37015592
There really aren't any software engineering resources taken up with writing those blog entries. Would it help if they posted a weekly blog entry entitled "Yes, we're still working on Firefox"?

I don't understand why everyone keeps talking about this as if it's an either/or.
It seems to me if you wanted to deliver on "economic benefits", save lives, reduce emissions, etc there is an obvious already existing option: subways/LRT. For inter-city travel build high speed rail. I just don't see driverless cars as the panacea that other people do, even if it worked— which it doesn't seem to.
If you're referring to Feynman diagrams, sure in the modern treatment they don't mean what people usually think they mean, but it's also not accurate to state that particles don't pop in/out. It's a simplification for sure, but you really do need to enumerate all the field configurations and there is really no difference from a first principles point of view between your "physical" particles and the "off-shell" excitations. You can argue about the reality of the contributing terms but it sure looks like they're needed or you won't get the right results.
> I hope they bring back about:config next.

I've never had to use about:config on mobile before, but I just checked and it works fine for me.
"There is an entire fundamental force that we didn't take into account" is as close to declaring every physics model broken as you can get.

That tittle implies a very surprising result.
I used diff2html, it's really nice!

https://github.com/rtfpessoa/diff2html-cli
From my prelimary search, Bicep does utilize a state file, but it is completely hidden from the end users. Seems to be managed in Azure directly and automagically.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manag...
It's satisfying to (continue to) verify existing theory. If we perform an experiment which may shed light on the gaps and flaws in our current models and it simply confirms them, it's unsatisfying. We know our current models in physics are incomplete. But we are struggling mightily to bridge models in different domains (relativity/quantum mechanics) and to fill in gaps within domains (as here, in quantum mechanics). And if we can't make progress, i.e., if our experiments aren't helping us fix the gaps, it's disappointing.
> society has tended to see 'meat' and 'fish' as two separate categories.

This is the first that I've heard this asserted as a widespread societal thing. That isn't at all my experience in my part of the US. I don't know a single person who would say that fish isn't meat. There are oddball religious stances, but even the Catholics I know don't really consider fish as not being meat.

I'm not saying that nobody at all thinks fish isn't meat, but if you were to assert that publicly, the reaction from the vast majority of people around here would be laughter.
As soon as getpass was mentioned, I knew.
It’s worth reminding people that in these matters, print on paper is a weapon, know when to use it.
Yes - this is full list.
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