skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nah, no rebuttal here - you're pretty much bang on the money.

As a fellow Australian it's not the Murdoch press I hate so much as the mind boggling absence of a sea of alternatives .. small scale media waging war with each other to to the betterment of reporting for us all is a loss.

The Australian in print and Sky News on air taking cheap swipes at climate science does nothing to advance understanding or the debate about action to take, it's not that they're doing puffed up chest dismissals of the blindingly obvious that grates so much as an absence of any real counterpoint and jeering catcalls that Murdoch has no clothes.
https://archive.md/vXFcC
This sounds like helpful critique, but you might want to edit out the part about horses.
It’s also worth noting that in the UK it’s explicitly not called “road tax”.

It’s the snappily titled Vehicle Excise Duty, VED.

That was changed in 1937 to stop drivers assuming it gave them more right to use the road than anyone else.

The roads here were not built for cars, cars just use them.
We did with apple screentime. It actually worked really well most of the time. On a sidenote, giving youtube / tablet time to a three your old unsupervised is not a good thing. Television or a netflix kids account is somewhat safer but even then.....
Dresden is already a major microelectronics hub in Europe (and has been for over 50 years), and Germany traditionally has a good vocational training system. Of course - as everywhere - the German industry always cries about not finding enough skilled workers, but what they actually mean is they don't find enough skilled workers at the wages they want to pay, but "the market will take care of that" ;)
> assuming the 'model' here is actually a model and not a literal restatement of physical laws.

I'm not sure there is a difference. Imhu, what we call "physical laws" are always models. Like, Newton's theory of gravity, which predicts that gravity is inverse to the square of the distance. Then Einstein came along and made a better model with relativity theory. Which cannot be the end of the story, because it is incompatible with quantum mechanics...
hi folks,
when will you have pgvector as a destination ? we (https://github.com/arakoodev/edgechains) work with a lot of enterprises and they would not move away from using redis or pgvector even as their vector store. Is there a way where we can leverage that ?

Second, for a LOT of enterprises, they want to use non-openai embedding models (minilm, GTE, BGE), will you support that. For e.g. in Edgechains we natively support BGE and minilm. Would you be able to support that ?
Lightning has existed for over a decade, since 2012.
Seems like it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29285988
The objective outlined at https://git.sr.ht/~plan/plunder is certainly compelling:

Plunder is a new programming model where programs run forever.

Hardware restarts are invisible to the software, as is moving a running program from one physical machine to another.

Because of this, programs don't need to save their state into an external database, they can simply keep everything "in memory", and that state will be synchronized to disk transparently.
So very funny, congrats XD
I tried to Google about this, but found nothing. Can you share a study? I am interested to learn more.
Nice project, but this is a bit of a misrepresentation of Gumroad.

The reason you “give up” so much money to them is because they handle VAT, which this service doesn’t seem to do at all.

Stripe by default will not collect and remit VAT.
You might find it interesting that basically the definition of a linux distribution is a package manager + a repository.
> Did processor companies ever advertise that processors guaranteed certain security properties

It's not the guaranteed security as much as the advertised speed that's the issue. If they put out a chip which could only be used at half the advertised speed or else it would catch on fire, nobody would argue that they should be let off the hook because they didn't guarantee that the chips were fireproof in their ads.

If the chips can't perform at advertised speeds safely during typical use they're not delivering what was advertised.
Sadly no, it doesn't just logically follow that because we find life everyehere on Earth that we must find it somewhere else too.

It is still entirely possible that there is something (or some things) unique about Earth that are exceedingly rare in the Universe as a whole
They have been "forced" by EU (yay, fxck non standard connectors) but in the article seems like Apple made this choice to "upgrade" the functionalities of their products...
I won’t use a service like this if it’s free. Without a pricing or business plan I’m worried it will shutdown any moment or doesn’t get maintained anymore. Where do I go if I need support? This doesn’t sound like a long term sustainable business.
Show HN: Llama2 Embeddings FastAPI Service
I just wanted a quick and easy way to easily submit strings to a REST API and get back the embedding vectors in JSON using Llama2 and other similar LLMs, so I put this together over the past couple days. It's very quick and easy to set up and totally self-contained and self-hosted. You can easily add new models to it by simply adding the HuggingFace URL to the GGML format model weights. Two models are included by default, and these are automatically downloaded the first time it's run.

It lets you not only submit text strings and get back the embeddings, but also to compare two strings and get back their similarity score (i.e., the cosine similarity of their embedding vectors). You can also upload a plaintext file or PDF and get back all the embeddings for every sentence in the file as a zipped JSON file (and you can specify the layout of this JSON file).

Each time an embedding is computed for a given string with a given LLM, that vector is stored in the SQlite database and can be returned immediately. You can also search across all stored vectors easily using a query string; this uses FAISS which is integrated.

There are lots of nice performance enhancements, including parallel inference, db write queue, fully async everything, and even a RAM Disk feature to speed up model loading.

I personally find it annoying when a simple program is split into dozens of tiny files, so everything is in one ~1,000 line .py file for your reading convenience!

I'd love to get some feedback and maybe a few PRs. There is obviously a lot that can be added on to this foundation, like exposing more functionality from Langchain, but I think it's probably better for it to stay focused on embeddings since there are already a lot of more general LLM APIs out there.
You've really succinctly captured why I don't enjoy a lot of modern tech content online these days. It's too self-referential, too steeped in itself. The people involved are motivated by a reaction to other online content and want to produce new online content. Then there's the online beefs.

> Without real life stuff to talk about it's pretty terrible. Video games were the main interesting internet native subject, aside from tech itself in the pure sense, but gaming culture has become almost a 4chan offshoot, less interesting to everyone else, while the games themselves are full of DLC.

I think this is the exception. Most gamers I know find some social connection in it, even if connecting with other gamers about the game they're playing. The programmers just tilt at ever simplifying windmills pursuing their platonic digital ideal.
My bad - not a black box in this case. Just a regular box. Sorry for the confusion.
For me the issue is a browser shouldn’t be making the information on the topics of sites I visit available to anyone who asks
GCP's on-boarding process, especially setting up local entertainment, used to be a little complex¹. Maybe having the whole IDE in the cloud would simplify it. It would be cool to have ”Bard” create a role based on my code or refresh an expired token.

1. A bunch of really smart folks asked me for help with it on a few different projects. I tried GCP's VSCode extension but it wasn't particularly easy to use.
Damn, for some reason when I saw "Try mCaptcha" I was hoping it will show me the captcha right away and I can really try it in action. The saddest part is that on the login screen that follows, entering the wrong passwords for accounts doesn't trigger the captcha! And only then do you find out that there are credentials for some demo account that lets you into the dashboard. Do you think you can finally see the captcha then and try solving it yourself before putting it in front of your users? Not at all.

The idea is great though and I hope they will be able to push back some of the reCaptcha dominance. A lot of good work is needed still of course. My advice for the team: show it better guys. Everybody knows how reCaptcha looks, but not your new mCaptcha, so you must present it in all its glory! And better show it right away.
Technically it's a Z-drug (like Zolpidem/Ambien) which are non-benzodiazapine positive allosteric modulators of GABA_A

However, since it's a neurosteroid most will probably not think of it as such. (It's name does begin with Z though... And end in -one like a steroid).

Anyways, it's licensed for 2 weeks only, side effects are drowsiness, sleepiness and cognitive impairment. You mustn't drive within 12 hours of a dose.

It's best effects are where the depression is associated with insomnia and anxiety.

It was compared to placebo not Alprazolam (Xanax) which has some antidepressant activity.
if the amount of money you are talking of is not "world-shaking" for you:

just get over it!!

it makes no sense to go to court / take legal actions - its just not worth your money and time.

write it off as "premium of apprenticeship" or whatever it is called in english - in german we say "lehrgeld" -, if you lose money due to your own mistakes but got an opportunity to learn something.

idk ... write them a formal letter, announcing you are deleting their accounts / accesses / data in 2 or 3 months if they do not pay until n days in the future and move on!!

in the end: large companies have more money, can afford them better lawyers than you - if they are for example a financial-institution, maybe they even have their own business-unit filled with lawyers, who don't have anything else to do than to fight your claims and they are already on the companies payroll...

just my 0.02€
Why is personal income tax progressive but not corporate income tax?

Of course progression needs to be based not only of the profits of a given corporation but also all of the subsidiaries down the chain of ownership.
A great example of why you shouldn't manually number lists:

> The second-longest-lasting light bulb is ... and was installed ... on September 21, 1908

> Another working light bulb dating from 1908 ...

And in the next section:

> The third longest lasting light bulb began operation in 1929-30

Clearly the text from the third section onward all contain an off-by-one error, assuming there aren't any more yet-to-be-listed entries.
Indeed. Apple used the 30-pin dock connector for ~10 years and followed it up with Lightning for another ~10 years. USB-C came after lightning, and as I understand it Apple staff participated in the design and standardization process, being concerned with things like making the connector symmetric (like lightning) and being firm enough to not fall out but weak enough to yank out without sending your laptop crashing to the floor, and supporting high data rates/thunderbolt as well as high-power/fast charging.

My personal pet peeve with lightning is that the power pins seem to burn out after a while.
I don't think anybody is saying that there are no people without friends, or people that have weird cable/battery obsessions. They're just a small minority so it doesn't make sense to make laws cater to just them.
I cannot claim to have tested every ZWJ character on every terminal emulator but if you find any ZWJ related bugs in murex shell https://GitHub.com/lmorg/murex then it will be treated as a serious bug because Murex does have international users so aims for greater compatibility with other language writing systems (albeit the documentation is presently only available in English).
If you decided to make a fork of linux, and wrote an article explaining why, would you expect it to be easily comprehensible to someone who's never used linux?
Llama from scratch, or how to implement a paper without crying
The second one is more work and it's what you want. Because it gets stuff into the main archive that everybody benefits from in the future. Otherwise your project is a series of hacks that create an unmaintainable mess.
Happy Birthday OpenStreetMap
OSM is 19 years old: we're launching an online fundraising campaign to support its future
Marginalized people? What are you talking about? The first cases of AIDS was identified in homosexuals. That's a fact.

My position is not that there have been no breakthroughs in the treatment of HIV at all. My argument is that HIV does not cause AIDS.

When you don't have empirical evidence to support your fake claim that HIV causes aids then yeah, you need to go authoritarian. Hence endless government and para-government agencies dictating truth through biased and hopelessly flawed studies.

When your argument is built on BS you need to argue at the upper levels and never look at the foundation.
Personal experience, I don't know if it's backed by studies. We think that there are a bunch of factors you can control that help reduce the risk, you probably know them:

* sleep deprivation: take turns taking care of the baby and let the mom sleep whenever she can, naps during the day, when the baby is napping, when the baby is with you, etc; getting as much sleep is <<super important>> for the mom

* moral support: no matter how much things suck, you're in this together; talk to the mom and ideally, make fun of the literally shitty situation :-)

* as mentioned by others, get more help if you can; no shame in doing it, you said you were a military man, wouldn't you want to greatly outnumber "the enemy" (the baby)? :-p

* take the longest leave possible, don't save PTO; you're probably not going anywhere interesting this year, use that time to offer support during this super stressful period.

FYI, statistically the pressure goes down at about 3 months old and again at 6 months old.
Just some unsolicited advice for you: your comments read as antagonistic and arrogant, and are neither going to get you useful information nor make you any friends. If you're genuinely curious about how this is possible, why not ask good-faith questions about their experience, and then make a judgment quietly to yourself? Instead, you're invalidating them from a position of ignorance. Even in other cases where you might be right, you still look childish and insufferable.
A Critical Problem (2017)
Hey, you know what causes suicide more than anything else? Depression. Especially untreated depression. And no, cannabis is not a mental health panacea now matter how many times you claim it is. In fact it generally seems to worsen depression. Never have I been more depressed than when smoking daily. It's nothing but a crutch.
And this is why optimizing Python code is really hard. When at runtime you can change almost any aspect of the language it's virtually impossible to give a semantics for Python code beyond "run it and find out".
The Haskell one is not that spectacular if you understand that operators are just functions in that language:

λ> let 2+2=5 in 2+2
5

This simply defines a new local function that happens to be called "+". It's no different than something like this in JavaScript:

let Math = { sqrt: (x) => 42 };
console.log(Math.sqrt(16));
Replies? Are they flagged?
I had a failed startup where we warned our customers they were using suppliers without sufficient qualifications, insurance, etc. Nobody wanted the product, even for free. At a system level, they chose to use cowboy tradespeople and cover the risk with "plausible deniability", because the market wouldn't pay them to only use quality.

It's like a Gresham's law - eventually the lowest quality dominates the market, because that's what maximises profit.
I'm sorry, but I stopped believing that this could ever happen a long long time ago. This is a belief that you can fill the world with people like yourself, heck I'll even venture that these are my 'ideal' people too. Where every conversation is something productive positive and curious and all of our fellow humans energies are directed away from petty rivalries over social status and access to mating partners , and toward minimizing suffering and maximizing whatever it is that makes humanity distinct from the rest of the flying molecular clouds of entropy that make up the universe.

And then, you see what people actually do with the little free time, the precious little free time they actually have. An astonishingly large group spends hours a week in a ritual that involves sticking prosthetic bristles the size of paint brushes to their eyelids because it looks "hot." another group spends an equal amount of time fitting obnoxious light bars to their oversized pretend work vehicles to blind other drivers and pedestrians because its "cool."

A still greater group, which encapsulates these two examples as well as many others like rhem, is chiefly interested in acquiring toys to show off to one another; a behavior that remarkably doesn't seem to ever get curbed no matter how wealthy and maximally free to do whatever they want, (like the aforementioned research and artistic pursuits) people become. As having access to essentially limitless energy and resources is comparable to winning the lottery, just for an entire civilization instead of a handful of people, as a sample ask yourself what is the fraction of today's lottery jackpot winners you suppose have taken their sudden windfall and with it the freedom and flexibility to do anything they want, and turned it toward personal pursuit of any of these noble interests such as you describe?

I don't mean throwing some money at it for bragging rights and to feel like they've made some contribution to the world, I mean personal interest where they themselves engage in a focused program of skill development to a degree of expertise beyond what can be purchased off the shelf.
I would wager that it's as close to zero as makes no difference, and this does not bode well for a future in which everyone is given a comparable access to leisure and resources to spend as they choose.
Just don't update to 4.20 until https://github.com/moq/moq/pull/1373 resolved
> there aren winners/losers in a financial sense

That sounds like zero-sum thinking.

I believe that if you think of the world using zero-sum thinking (that winners are balanced by losers), you will end up with a very skewed view.
> Obviously, but that doesn't change my mind here.

> If you're in the 1% of top performers, you have the cognitive ability to learn new things.

I had to stop and admire the subtle self-deprecating humour on display between those two statements. Well played!
I have four USB C ports on my 2016 MacBook Pro, which also charges via USB C.

Hasn't the iPad Pro also used USB C since 2018? I think the iPhone and a few accessories like keyboards and trackpads are the last gasp of Lightning (which admittedly was a pretty effective replacement for the 30-pin dock connector that Apple used from 2003-2012.)

Though personally I'm surprised that Apple didn't decide to dodge the EU ruling by welding a USB C dongle to every EU iPhone. ;-)
> None of the above are even important in launching a product, much less an MVP.

Hence an MVP is a MINIMUM viable product

> Startups have raised hundreds of millions and get millions of users without any of those

A very narrow definition of what makes a good product or long term enduring company. Unless all we should care about is VCs and founder exit sales
I'm glad to hear you're feeling great having received treatment and that you're hopefully now getting to enjoy time with your healthy son.

On a personal and professional level I'm greatly appreciative of your decision to share your experience and contribute to the destigmatization and increased awareness of male mental health despite anticipating attacks.
I'll get back to you once I've figured out how to stop the ongoing deterioriation of American democracy. Right after getting off the phone with the nobel committee.
Someone used the passphrase "how much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood" to store 250 BTC. I personally drained it by mistake, then tracked down the owner, via the pool he'd mined it from.

I'm a co-author of that paper, we later got funding to do a larger cracking run and found more wallets, and even some that still had balances. See slide 18:

https://rya.nc/files/measuring_the_use_and_abuse_of_brain_wa...

Feeding a massive corpus reddit comments and six years of IRC logs into the cracking tool was particularly interesting.

> And no, anyone with 400,000 ETH who claims they used a brain wallet, and oppsie .. someone stole it. Is having a boating accident, if you know what I mean.

It was about 40,000. The password was "guybrush", and I spoke to the guy who made it. He didn't understand how the tool worked when he made an address. Much later, the Ethereum foundation sent him the ETH. It was gone by the time he went to spend it. Dude put out a press release offering to let whoever did it keep half if they gave back the other half. The ETH hasn't moved since the day it was stolen, almost eight years ago.

I assure you, the guy made a genuine fucky wucky.

If I'd gone blackhat with this research, I could be retired to a volcano lair on a private island by now.

WTF is your angle here?
Yeah, I’m the western US which is very sparsely populated by comparison to the eastern half of the US[0] or Europe in general. Waaaay too much of off grid information is focused on preppers and I’ve even been accused of being one. Can’t someone just want a cabin to visit for leisure?

I never appreciated how easy it is for me to find very remote wilderness until I started traveling to other places both in and outside the US. I can take a major US highway over Donner pass, a place that 175 years ago, people were eating each other because they got stuck without food. Now, CalTrans has a fleet of equipment and staff that work 24/7 to keep the road clear 99.9% of the time.

[0]: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/images/711010main1_...
> Creating robust dashboards, alerting and documenting the work in an externally digestible and internally debuggable format is very time consuming and difficult work that pays dividends

This is why having a solid BI and Data science org is underrated. To assign these to eng teams is disparaging for every org.
So this is literally the same thing as AMD's Zenbleed vulnerability? Ridiculous how these companies make so much money and are completely incompetent at handling security.

Theoretically, this can be mitigated permanently by disabling hyper-threading?
The compartmentilzation of intelligence
If you've finished 99%, and your product isn't successful, the last 1% wouldn't matter.

Actually, I would even go with the 20-30% threshold.

Many great products got traction from the start. Think Twitter, Stripe, Facebook, Craiglist, and etc.

Even the first version of iPhone was far from done.
It's effects are likely best in short term depression related to anxiety and insomnia. PPD is just usually that type.

The biggest factor is that this stuff is basically a Z-drug like Zolpidem/Ambien and so treatment is time limited.

That makes it harder to use with MDD.

At the same time it did not conduct comparative studies to TCA, SSRI or other modern antidepressants.

"Treatment as usual" would likely be a short course of Z-drug.

If a man went to the doctor and said I've lost my dad and I'm low, anxious and can't sleep one would imagine this would work. We don't know if it would work better than an antidepressant, or sedative because no comparison was done.