skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Energy storage doesn't require going through electricity either; in fact, highest capacity storage systems are mechanical - flywheels, lifting heavy objects high, or pumping water up the hill.
Wanted to write about this somehow. Having grown up in a third world Eastern European country in the 80s and 90s, playing outside with so many other kids, being around all kind of animals and pets, not caring at all about a sterile environment (eating, playing), allergies were such a distant thing that you would only see in American movies. I never met or knew anyone that would have an allergy until I actually started traveling (I know some may say they were undiagnosed). And later on moving to another country and seeing how many people at work have allergies, is such a weird thing.
> The world can't just keep growing at this rate indefinitely. We should be ready for other possibilities: stagnation (growth slows or ends), explosion (growth accelerates even more, before hitting its limits), and collapse (some disaster levels the economy).

Sure, you could prepare for imagined eventualities, or you could do the actual work of improving efficiency, reducing waste and unnecessary middle-men, and removing centuries old bureaucracies that are now absurdly pointless in the face of the internet.

There is an underlying _desire_ for apocalypse encoded in this type of thinking.
pg_vector doesn't perform well compared to other methods, at least according to ANN-Benchmarks (https://ann-benchmarks.com/).

txtai is more than just a vector database. It also has a built-in graph component for topic modeling that utilizes the vector index to autogenerate relationships. It can store metadata in SQLite/DuckDB with support for other databases coming. It has support for running LLM prompts right with the data, similar to a stored procedure, through workflows. And it has built-in support for vectorizing data into vectors.

For vector databases that simply store vectors, I agree that it's nothing more than just a different index type.
Yes, I recall using Avidemux for this purpose roughly 20 years ago.
"Everyone that disagrees with me is a Russian bot!" Okay.

Not getting involved in irrelevant, needless wars isn't exactly a fringe take.

Anyways, your comment history shows that you're such an angry/bitter/dismissive person that I don't expect you to engage in any discussion in good faith. So that'll be all from my end. Have a good day.
Content marketing done right.
> "Why bother living if you're eventually going to die?"

> I'm sure you can now see the problem with your argument.

If using Twitter is equivalent to living in your analogy, then I'll choose death, thanks.

I think a more apt analogy would be:

"Why bother maintaining a relationship with an abusive lover if they're just going to tire of you and drop you to the curb?"

I'm sure you can now see the problem with your argument.
Ha, no I don’t think so.

This is how we experience the slope of technical change over a period of months:
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This is closer to the slope of technical change over that time period:

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QNAP forked from OpenZFS a long time ago, before the ZoL project was renamed the canonical OpenZFS project IIRC, and has been reimplementing whatever they wanted for some time.

So it's not just a check for check's sake, I would suspect in practice their send/recv is just completely incompatible at this point.
Infinity: an interactive exploration
You can't argue that last point and be taken seriously.
Beautiful pictures. I would have loved to have shot Kodachrome before Kodak stopped manufacturing it; the closest we can get today is Ektachrome (which has also been reformulated over the years).
ZFS does not, and fundamental is not going to ever get one without rewriting so much you'd cry.
Right, and I'm not arguing it's OK to be a prick at work. But constructing a New Yorker length article to decry behavior that would more reasonably be ignored or shrugged off seems pretty overwrought to me.
Does it count as abandonware if you can buy it on GOG today?

https://www.gog.com/en/game/jazz_jackrabbit_collection

https://www.gog.com/en/game/jazz_jackrabbit_2_collection

Maybe it was abandoned for a time until GOG picked it up.
> there aren't enough atoms in the galaxy to sustain this rate of growth for even another 10,000 years

Now I’m getting nervous

/s
Someone brought either the cabinet or the content of it to the collector. Most likely, they are the source of the number of cabinets.
This is very neat. I've explored similar approaches for merging code artifacts from an LLM, but my solution wasn't always 100% accurate. Most of the time a linter step was required after any merging due to missing or no longer needed dependencies.

Do you have a timeline for supporting Typescript? It'd be nice to abstract this functionality away from the rest of our LLM-handling code.
Finding clean air in Los Angeles? It's an almost unsolvable puzzle
I don't think that's true.

I don't use raidz for my personal pools because it has the wrong set of tradeoffs for my usage, but if I did, I'd absolutely use this.

Yes, your data has the old data:parity ratio for older data, but you now have more total storage available, which is the entire goal. Sure, it'd be more space-efficient to go rewrite your data, piecemeal or entirely, afterward, but you now have more storage to work with, rather than having to remake the pool or replace every disk in the vdev with a larger one.
Yes the saturation, detail and dynamic range is stunning. Digital is great in its own way, but never quite achieves the 'look' of slide.
Everything you need to know about Covid’s “Eris” Variant
"

We know everything we need to know about the symptoms – they are “generally mild” and “flu-like”, because Covid is nothing but re-branded endemic respiratory diseases.

"
That's cool... we should have that for everything.
I was told it happens if you use cloudflare for dns?
The article has a long section on using the windmill to directly drive the compressor of a heat pump using a gearbox. This is likely to be more efficient than converting to electricity and then using that to run an electric compressor.
DLSS directly leverages the tensor cores of particular NVidia cards.

Whether or not this is just a marketing gimmick is up to you and your own conclusions on the matter, but AMD doesn't seem to have an equivalent hardware tech for this yet. It seems to be taking steps in the right direction with the WMMA instruction for accelerating matrix multiplication in a similar fashion, but performance so far head-to-head seems lacking, and I haven't seen anything definitive out of AMD suggesting this for gaming purposes.
It’s a poor way of phrasing things, but think like this - there are certain physical inputs to the economy. Ores, power, water, stuff like that. That stuff is processed into stuff of greater value, and that adds value to the economy. We can also increase the value by extracting more raw inputs.

So let’s say the economy is growing exponentially, some percentage per year. Either we keep using more raw inputs, or we keep increasing the value of those inputs. That is where the 2% growth comes from.

If we don’t add new inputs, and exponential growth continues, the outputs will grow to such great value that the raw materials are relatively worthless. But that seems wrong to me - if the physical materials are worthless, someone could buy them all and corner the market and charge whatever they want. It can only happen if scarcity is completely eliminated.
Good point. Improving efficiency alone can bring increased consumption, not less. I think if we think of the world as regions it is easy to think of regional collapses while the world as a whole keeps growing. We, or at least me, have been lucky so far.
Given that ideal hasn't been successful achieved in any society or time period in recorded human history I question getting this spooled up over yet another example of out species missing its own flex goals.
You can Google a lot of the answers to your questions in this thread.

Housing ongoing drug users costs more per person. Services do not have the budget. You also don’t want active users around other vulnerable clients.

Usually specialist “Wet houses” are set up, following a harm reduction approach. It is a messy business and as a result politically difficult. That is not rational- as far as we know from research, the additional stability and access to harm reduction programs are effective in moderating clients’ patterns of using. Wet houses also cost less than leaving addicts on the streets.
This is very well written. I checked for a couple of common issues that arise in introductory presentations of quantum mechanics, and found that you navigated most of them correctly.

For example, in the entanglement section, you did discuss that entanglement is a basis independent property, which is a critical point to make - basis dependent "entanglement" exists in classical systems; it is just correlation.

However, I disagree with the inclusion of the paragraph starting "There is something strange about the EPR state." The emphasis on 'immediately' in conjunction with the large distance between Alice and Bob is particularly problematic. The setting of EPR experiments is necessarily in a relativistic world, and in that world time is only a local property. Saying things happen simultaneously (= immediately) implies the presence of a privileged frame of reference, which is exactly what we don't want to do. There are ways of saying these things correctly, but that requires a lot more setup.

I also have a minor nitpick in the sentence below" "We have complete certainty about the state of the composite system |\psi_-\rangle^{AB} , and complete uncertainty about the states of the individual subsystems controlled by Alice and Bob" Since, entanglement exists on a scale, it is better to delete the second "complete" in the sentence, as we can have only partial uncertainty (in the sense of some entanglement measure) about Alice and Bob's systems.
Not sure... It's probably contributing to my analysis paralysis on the matter actually. Very interesting to look at though!
Great idea and all, but I gotta admit: My first reaction on reading your post was, “Name sounds slightly pornographic.“
Anti-Twitter headlines aren't new, they existed well before Elon was strong-armed into following through with his purchase.

Additionally, whether the data is "wiped out" or inaccessible is irrelevant to the end user. It's the same result.
General purpose API helped us when we had several features to implement in a row on a tight schedule: when I was busy implementing feature N+1, our frontend dev was still polishing feature N (with changing UI/UX requirements), and she didn't need me (the backender) because the backend just exposed the model as is without knowing what the frontend looked like. She could make lots of changes to the UI without needing any changes to the backend. Yeah it translated to more API calls but it allowed us to decouple our work completely and deliver more features in parallel.
He wasn't describing only what other pilots have done, but what he has done. He flatly admits that he has a sick sense of humor which manifests as pranking people into believing they've seen UFOs.

The number of people ever convicted of perjury for lying to Congress is tiny, and in this case particularly it would be very easy for him to fall back on 'I believe I saw what I saw!' Saying it under oath to Congress confers zero credibility to me. It's no more meaningful than saying it to Joe Rogan.
This presumes falsely that you can come up with accurate numbers for those questions, or that the overhead involved in managing people is then quantifiable concretely.

...it also presumes that any of that is actually realistic; I wonder what TaskRabbit's ToS is like re: confidentiality, for example.

"Hey TaskRabbit, pls develop my marketing strategy for my stealth startup, thanks!"
Economic growth is strongly correlated with energy usage. Energy requires atoms.
It'd probably be worse than that.

I cannot stress how expensive and invasive that would be enough.
I guess we could make a distinction between tracking covid deaths, covid hospitalizations and covid infections.

It seems to have become a lot less practical to track infections, at any level. People substituted take-home tests for the more easily tracked lab tests, more people with immunity experience milder infections that go unreported, there are still asymptomatic infections, etc. People don't even bother with covid take home tests if they're just experiencing a sinus tickle or other cold symptoms.

The article mentioned changes at the CDC related to covid tracking, but didn't specify what changes. I'm under the impression they don't track all diseases all the time. Maybe covid is not enough of an actionable problem anymore for them to dedicate funding to tracking it the same way, especially now that it more difficult to track, and it's not as dangerous as it was. It's more of a known quantity now, like a lot of other endemic illnesses. Maybe they don't care about infections, if hospitalizations and deaths are within the expected range.
> IME Sid mostly causes issues if you try to cherry-pick programs or libraries from it

Instead of doing this, create a Debian Stable (or Testing, if that's what you're running) repository on OBS¹. Fork the packages you want from Debian Unstable into your repo, and let them build against your preferred Debian release. If some of them need newer deps, pull in their deps, too. Add your repository to your system and upgrade that way.

Or if you're not that attached to only using DEBs, just use Nix or Guix to install newer software.

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1: https://build.opensuse.org/
My master's thesis from 2008 [0] gives some insight into the early design and strategic considerations (from a Nokia perspective) behind eSIM technology, in case anyone's curious.

[0] http://www2.imm.dtu.dk/pubdb/edoc/imm6812.pdf
All of Physics in 1 Line:

1. All of physics
As somebody who lived in California, I also was startled how stupid some TV shows I enjoyed while living in LA became when I moved to another state. It's not some California magic though, but the lack of a different perspective. When I moved back to California I had no problem observing the general Californian madness with a little effort of telling myself "what would a normal person think about that?".
Yeah. It's all in the eye of the beholder, but I find Kodachrome/Ektachrome's saturated colors very aesthetically pleasing, while similarly saturated digital photographs come off as sterile and overly processed (the kind you'd see on a hotel's website).
You can use UTM with Apple's Virtualisation backend too, have been for a while and works fine for me https://docs.getutm.app/settings-apple/settings-apple/
What *Really* happens to used Electric Car Batteries? – (you might be surprised) [video]
It depends on how much lifting the word fundamentally is doing. On one side, we are born, maybe reproduce, then we die. Fundamentally the same. On the other extreme we have tik tok so the times are fundamentally different.
Show HN: Fake Hacker News – See what HN has to say before you post
Hi HN!

I’ve been lurking for a while, but out of fear of being steamrolled by HN readers or maybe just natural introversion, I’ve always been too scared to post or comment. Which is why

1. this is my first real Hacker News submission

2. my friend Michael and I built "Fake" Hacker News, a place to post and see what AI-generated HN comments might say.

Here’s a video of me using fakeHN to test this very submission:
https://www.loom.com/share/4b9f4f9d7c77489a86baeb92ec55a1ed?...

And an example of one of our generated posts:
https://www.fakehn.com/submission?id=tnYPX00BX827jWFPFkVJ

To try it, submit a title and text, and depending on traffic and the powers that be, after ~5 seconds, you’ll see some Fake HN comments and replies.

We don’t support url submissions yet, but we’re happy to build it if the community wants it!

Other features to knock out: deeply nested replies, streamed comments, and higher-fidelity comments mapping to real readers, since the generations now are still pretty shallow. Instead of the quick and dirty system in place now, we think it’d be really cool to see how more nuanced AI agents with the opinions and biases of real individual HN readers might respond.

I’d love to see what fakeHN posts you’ve tried and hear any feedback, whether you feel like it’s more of a nifty toy or could eventually solve real problems. If nothing else, it’s been funny to try random posts and see the results. :)

- Justin and Michael
Based on personal experience it seems like his sons would have a general idea of what was stored in the garage or attic. Considering he threw his brother under the bus to the city newspaper, I suspect he had been keeping an eye on those boxes for quite some time.
16-bit Serial Homebrew CPU
Or generate electricity to run a heat pump for 2 to 3 times more heat generated than what you get from frictional heating form a windmill.
Yes, played with Tart, forgot about it actually until you mentioned it again and not heard of the F/OSS one, so thanks for that :)
Ektachrome got a lot better over the years (starting with around the Lumiere era in the 90s) and, really, it was Kodachrome 25 that was special--which was obviously ridiculously slow by modern ISO standards.

Always like KC 25 a lot more than the colors of Fuji's Velvia which while nominally ISO 50 was really about the same effective speed.
It's procedural programming all the way down (why stop at lambdas?) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrY6xrWp3Gs
> [Growth is] faster than it can be for all that much longer (there aren't enough atoms in the galaxy to sustain this rate of growth for even another 10,000 years).

This assume that growth has to involve atoms.

If we figure out, say, how to make a room temperature superconductor, we don't necessarily need to use more stuff - in fact, we can now build two MRIs with the same amount of atoms that we needed earlier to build just one.

That is growth, without using more atoms.
We actually don't know and can't really know what simulates the universe.

But we can deduce from various cues that it is being "simulated".

The Double slit experiment is one, experience of deja-vu another, dreams that partly manifest in reality after some time, the apparent speed limit of light, out of body experiences, the fact we are the only local top intelligent lifeform in this part of galaxy, etc...

All signs of processes and memory "bugging out". Except the last one, that one seems to be by design.
It's explained better at this link: https://www.sfchronicle.com/vault/article/lost-1960s-photos-...

A different person found three, but only took one.

Follow-up: https://www.sfchronicle.com/vault/article/san-francisco-phot...
The adage I learned decades ago was "a billion Chinese can't be wrong".

If PP had used that, would it have been antagonistic? Racist?
It is kind of funny just how different Kodachrome and Ektachrome look though. To me Ektachrome seems cold while Kodachrome always looks like the 1970s in spite of the fact it was preferred by archivists because it remains stable in storage so well.

Velvia was another film stock that seemed to have an outsized personality.
Their point was that -- since there are a finite number of atoms in the universe-- it is a given that there exists some upper-bound on growth.

They are intentionally calling attention to that absurd extreme as a rhetoric device, not out of a belief that that's when we'll hit the wall. (It's a safe bet they believe will hit the wall much much much sooner.)
Judge who signed Kansas newspaper search warrant had 2 DUI arrests, reports say
What’s unique about gravity with what you’re talking about? The Coloumb force also applies between every pair of electrically charged particles, right? And with the same inverse-square function of distance?
Maybe there's something I'm missing, but I don't really understand the author's focus on monetary value here. The question I would be asking is: how is the capability of the individual changing? There is little point in comparing the value of a journey by horse four hundred years ago to the same journey by aeroplane today. To reduce each to a numerical value feels like a conflation that makes this argument deeply flawed at minimum.
For a time, so was bitcoin mining.

ML hardware sales are being driven by a 'Renaissance' of rapid model development and commercial offerings, primarily by the FAANG, but several others too. This is neat, but beyond the initial waves, OpenGPT isn't exactly the digital messiah many suggested it was, and running these models is expensive (both in HW and power for it). Time will tell, but I am skeptical this will be more than a craze for most applications (except digital art, which is awesome and has already been proven effective; just not maybe as marketable to the masses).
Well, anyone who has written in Forth kinda has, though it's interesting that few projects take it further (Factor).

Joy has a great set of pages explaing it's SKI basis
https://hypercubed.github.io/joy/html/forth-joy.html
And what happens when your system scales out to 2 hosts? Now you have 2 txt files - no big deal just query them both. Now what about when you scale to 16 hosts? 100 hosts? What about when your system is composed of dozens of services all managed by different teams with different logging philosophies? And hosts are created and destroyed dynamically, where should the txt files go?

Tools like New Relic are not designed for small products that can run on a single host with logs in a txt file. They provide value when systems scale.
You can have growth without using more material or more energy.
A raid on a Kansas newspaper likely broke the law, experts say. But which one?
One reason the author could be doing this is to reduce dependencies. Maybe they deploy to Windows or to some other environment not guaranteed to have those utilities. Also testing probably gets simplified.
surprisingly mobile wasn’t mentioned here. one of the biggest changes has been the shrinking of screen space along with higher resolutions.

old paradigms don’t factor that in and thus continue to remain only of academic importance.
I have building most of my modern sites with NextJS and could not have been happier as it gives me the flexibility of directly quering DB, I dont have to worry about the general purpose API. But if I wanted to I can just easily build it too.
> A number of countries have decoupled economic growth from energy use, even if we take offshored production into account

https://ourworldindata.org/energy-gdp-decoupling
There are loads of gaps which pretty much ruin the maze. The photos here have been very kind. It's really not worth a trip, I'm saying that as someone who lives 10 mins away and has kids. However, the tiny zoo there is a good visit.
One of the wildest things about New England is how a short distance gets you a totally different culture. I used to go to New Britain (CT) a lot, what a different world from the Windsor area.

I was really given a wake up call one day when I realized that the trip to the airport here in Missouri is longer than driving all the way across CT. Heck, I think to get to the nearest airport is about the same distance as driving to Portland Maine from the CT border (fourish hours)
I think there are a lot of people who still care about wisdom and try to work on it. Our popular culture and economic and political systems don't always do a good job of encouraging or valuing wisdom.

I think there are probably a lot of old men and women like Bernie out there, they just aren't very visible. What's unusual about Bernie is that he's managed to become famous and is in a position of power.
The SPARC cc compiler has (had) a -misalign flag. Maybe the GCC guys could support the same option?

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/805-4952/6j4mdcegh/inde...
Remember Elon was strong-armed into the purchase; he tried to back out.

That aside, in his shoes I would have slashed non-essential roles, but been a bit less heavy-handed among the engineers. I do feel that Twitter's popularity is orthogonal to the cost-cutting.