skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool, I thought I was the only one who has uttered Endeca and Algolia in the same sentence.

I wrote up some tips/impressions on configuring Algolia for ecomm:

https://www.avikaminetzky.dev/posts/algolia-ecommerce-nextjs
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Same whims brought starlink to Ukraine in the first place
yes, the language you use to describe something completely wrong is baffling.

you have been tricked into being mad at something that literally doesn't matter.
At this point I can run the ultimate test of new programming languages.

I can test the claims in the article in 5 years.

I have a 90% chance that V will no longer be active, i.e. no active development happening.

I'd love to be proven wrong though, but I'll only find out in 2028.
I’ve been seeing that also more and more with archive links. Nothing really out of the ordinary on my setup, ublock and Firefox. I’ll get dozens of captchas before i give up.
I wouldn't really say “we persisted” in the case of cars, as much as the auto industry threw boatloads of money at lobbying to make people shift the blame from cars to their victims. Cars didn't get safer (for the people outside them), we just started blaming the people they killed instead.
If your food is good enough, people will drive to your restaurant and pay money for it even if they don't work there. I don't know about Minneapolis, but in Atlanta the downtown food courts that cater to all the business people are absolutely abysmal in quality. All the best food is outside the city center where the rent is cheaper and there are more immigrant populations.
Places like the Tap o' Noth look like the the ruins of any mysterious hill top fortress that we have quite a lot of in Scotland - its only when you look closer do you realise that the rubble is actually all stuck together by melted rock. The fort (or inner bastion as there was a large outer settlement) is 100m by 30m and the walls roughly 5m by 8m - which is a lot of rock!
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I still don't understand how some people think it's reasonable that car malfunctions are hand waved away as "it's a beta." We're not talking about an Early Access game on Steam here. We're talking about death machines that weight thousands of pounds.

Beta software shouldn't be on the road where other people can be impacted by it. Want to run into the back of a fire truck? Fine by me. Just do it on a track (and record it). I'll laugh from my computer chair rather than being potentially exposed to it on the road.
One thing I realize while reading this is that, having recently signed up for a local gym, I'll lose that "alone time in the home gym", where I would often listen to podcasts and watch videos while I lift. Sure, I can get some headphones and lug my phone around at the local gym, but it's certainly not as conducive to learning as having a screen set up that I can walk around and view as I work out.
It’s also perfectly reasonable for a Tesla to be held accountable for mistakes their AI makes.

A big part of a valuation of the company is that Tesla can continue to flout any rules and do whatever they want, while blaming anyone and anything in the way. Their valuation assumes that services like self driving will drive P&L.

If the company is held accountable, you have to factor in the cost of that. Not good for a stock as highly valued.
in my opinion, a lot of folks won't take climate change seriously until it adversely affects their way of life in such a dramatic way that they cannot deny it any longer.

A wet bulb event, occuring over multiple hours, would be that signal. Piles of dead bodies from folks who either were misinformed or weren't able to move to safety would be quite the wake up call.
> And that this is a test version of the software isn't irrelevant, it makes a huge difference—I am much less opposed to internal company testers who know what they're doing than I am to a public beta in the hands of people who believe Tesla's (really egregious) marketing.

There is absolutely no reason you should assume "testers" know what they are doing. I have met plenty of people with decades of experience in "testing" barely know what they are doing. Even in the case they know what they are doing, they shouldn't be testing a *deadly* vehicle with potentially broken software on heavily populated *public* roads.
Eh, that’s two over about the last decade. I’ll manage :)
The alternative is, you know, the school actually teaching well enough that they understand it without your help
What did you use the PogoPlug for?
> The capsule was found in 2023 when the monument's base was removed from the site.

This is a reminder of how quickly things are forgotten. In this case, the presence of the time capsule was forgotten within the span of less than 200 years. I suppose those who placed the capsule could have done so under complete secrecy. More likely a few people knew about it, but that knowledge just disappeared with those who knew it.
I’m in the same boat in that I’m losing my vision very slowly from an inherited retinal disorder. One thing I’ll add is I’ve started going to the gym as much as I can while I can, I figure I’ll be much more confident once blind if I have good core strength, and it’s probably much easier to learn good gym habits while sighted.
Looks like the Fosertite church in Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange land.
Yes, it's kingfisher [0].

[0]: https://interestingengineering.com/ie-originals/engineers-mu...
And that guy is usually me.

Just remember when you leave a pool of shit behind, one of the victims might be making a hiring decision about you at some point in the future.
They probably have less power than you think. If they actually shut down all aviation and didn’t have a very convincing PR strategy, they’d find an infuriated public (you can’t go to your daughter’s wedding, your grandpa’s funeral, etc.), which the airlines (and the government, which has a serious interest in seeing air commerce working smoothly) would absolutely use to their advantage.

Don’t forget that when ATCs actually followed your logic, Reagan responded by firing them all, and even though in more recent years this has been cast as the horrible beginning-of-the-end for American unions, at the time he had broad public support, because people were incensed that one profession could shut down air travel.

All this is to say that I think pilots’ unions do have a good sense of how hard to push and not push. They don’t have infinite leverage.
Best way to preserve your families legacy
I was hesitant about buying a Chevy Bolt EV for similar reasons, but honestly, zero complaints. Well made, pleasure to drive. They did have a battery recall but that was due to defects introduced at an LG factory in Korea IIRC
I don't want to say something too controversial but I know some people seem to have gotten their eyesight better after switching to a carnivore diet. Eyesight is linked to vitamin A, I'd at least try giving her a multivitamin that is correctly dosed in vit A
Example: https://www.reddit.com/r/carnivore/comments/f41hww/eyesight_...

Eyesight can be improved by tailored exercises: https://zhealtheducation.com/product/the-vision-gym/
I've seen these ones recommended by a personal trainer, I haven't tried myself

Hope it helps!
Stoplights are always red colored circles of LEDs. It's by far the easiest thing SDCs need to be able to do.

Any version of SDC software that has a stoplight bug is proof that the QC process of that software is broken and that the makers don't care about safety.
The main claim, about V doing something in 1s, is about V compiling itself from source, on a modestly modern machine.

That is mainly because of how it is organized. tcc also compiles itself fast, because of how it works, and how it is organised.

That other compilers, like rustc, gcc or clang can not do it, because they have other priorities/tradeoffs, is their problem.
I like this train of thought but at the same time, my understanding is that technology has always tended toward more complex and harder to repair. Like a modern smartphone for example has way more technology jammed into it than a 1920s factory floor does.

True right to repair must put some downward pressure on technological advancement, and of course even “reparability” is a very loose term that can point to any location along the spectrum of “can open the enclosure” to “can modify the CPU directly.”

Curious if you have any good model for how to think about the trade offs here?
Are you suggesting Musk already exhausted testing and safety development opportunities to the point that the only alternative is a logically impossible simulation
Because they had to at least give a sort of alternative even if bad or people would actually start using bing, but have you actually used Bard? it's very poor, I could even go as far (obviously my own belief) to say that its by design, make people use the chatbot, have a bad experience and not bother with it again, they even call it an "experiment", because they plan to take it away.

If I didn't know Bing had a chatbot with internet access I would have stopped using them, I know plenty of people, even software developers who do not know that bing has a chatbot and that it has internet access, they don't use chatgpt (3.5) because it doesn't have internet access.
It would be 4 byte more per array for metadata, plus the sizes. It would actually require less memory than ragged arrays, which have to record the size in each subarray.

API complexity could be handled by a polymorphism mechanism to make it possible to write code that is generic regarding row/column access order.
Are you the exception or the rule?

I'm not "blaming" self-taught engineers, I actually support self-taught (instead of blowing $100K on a traditional school).

But I'm wondering a few things:

a) is this universally known for all self taught engineers? Like, are bootcamps explicitly telling people: "Look, we're just giving the operational basics, there's a lot you have to cover on your own".

b) Is it easy for self-taught engineers to find the correct resources to bridge these gaps? In traditional software university, you have a career path and courses and books "pushed" onto you. So there's no way around that. I HAD to learn Prolog and the Logic paradigm cause otherwise I'd not pass. How do self-taught engineers manage to learn these things today?

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Also, I'm not implying this is only an issue with self-taught people. Maybe our field is becoming more complex and even universities are "ditching" the theoretical concepts in favor of more "practical skills".
The mental health limitations around flight are how you get malaysian air flight 370. Don't say anything, treat anything, work through anything involving mental health because you'll lose your license immediately. Therefore the folks with milder mental illnesses will never solo pilot a plane, and folks with serious psychopathic mental illness, especially if it appears after they begin working, will kill everyone on board.
We don’t need all of what Twitter did, but we need some of it.

The biggest thing Twitter did that nothing else could match was getting extremely specific or local news quickly.

Is some web service down? Twitter is faster for info than both isup.me and the official status page.

See smoke in the distance? Twitter can tell you all about the fire way before the local news.
It is mine, and that's the most natural reading IMO, it's poorly written.

I would have said:

> [...] base of the monument by cadets in 1828, 26 years after the academy's founding.
The problem with conglomerates is they tend to be inefficient over the long term. They use winning businesses to subsidize losing legacy businesses that management has an attachment too. This eliminates the pressure they would normally have to fix the underperforming business and investors lose some of the benefit of the well performing business that is siphoned off.

Even tech isn’t immune to this, Amazon would be way more valuable if it split into separate retail and cloud businesses.
All the cars produced have the same “FSD” hardware regardless of options selected.

They are selling a software packaged called “Full Self Driving” that includes some current features, some “beta” features, and promises of additional functionality.

Yes, Tesla has not yet released any non-beta feature that is really “Full Self Driving” but the marketing can be pretty muddled on what the car does today vs what it may do in the future.
There were no impossible claims.
it's not a misdirection, that's a direct C++ committee members who routinely attends conferences where female speakers have been forced to step down if they don't want to be in the room of a sex predator
That doesn't sound a huge distance away from how Community Notes works.
Unlike Wikipedia, Twitter, in its current usage, is not a list of author-less posts. They are attributed directly to the author.

Having someone else make edits in their behalf seems to only make the experience worse, not better.
No I rather like that you are required to give some of your income back to the whole of society, it's a good practice to not be so closed and isolated.
Actually as a Tolkien obsessed teenager growing up in the area I was convinced that the Tap o' Noth was Tolkien's Weathertop:

"Away in the distance eastward they could now see a line of hills. The highest of them was at the right of the line and a little separated from the others. It had a conical top, slightly flattened at the summit."

Of course, the geography doesn't line up what with Rivendell being in Switzerland ;-)
The understanding should happen in school. Homework should be only for things that have already been learned.
> I have one friend who has one with Autopilot and uses it on his ~35 minute highway commute to work. He reads his email on his laptop next to him and doesn't look up at the road until his car gets off the highway.

Your friend is pretty reckless.
Unfortunately, the uneducated and uninformed tend to hold the strongest opinions.
That's the age old question of a tree falling in a forest.

I'm not disputing the claim that the universe exists even if there is no observer. What I'm saying is that the perception of that universe depends entirely on our senses. After all, to a blind person, the universe appears much differently. In that same vein, altering our senses by taking various substances expands our perception of the universe in a way a person who doesn't will never experience. My point is that choosing to do so or not is fine, and neither is better than the other. So my objection is to your claim that the people who do make that choice are deluding themselves, or not experiencing "true" reality.
Love ‘em or hate em, Kids suck up ALL of your time
Possibly, as we get older and find the established medical experts are not delivering on the promise of good health in old age, people start questioning why.
Yes, I think we should expect people to act with integrity. When they don't we should call them out. I'm all for social programs to help people in need, but I end up opposing most of the proposed social programs. Why is this? Because people game them. If people acted with integrity, and only people that truly needed assistance utilized social programs, then I think you'd find far less people oppose them.
I didn't know the Nexus 7 had issues I had mine for almost 10y and just gave it away to someone it is still working and the battery too (albeit not really long anymore).
I’m not sure how “gaming” it is possible when the VA either performs (or contracts out) medical exams for a veteran’s specific claim and determines whether the veteran is eligible or not. It’s not like they just take a veteran’s word for it.
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I think one of the biggest things missing from this point of view is mixture of experts.

GPT-$VER does very well across a wide range of tasks because of the mixture of experts approach.

A "small" (relatively) startup implementing/deploying AI in the space targeting a specific use case (as one example) is often just finetuning a model on their dataset (in itself a moat). Given the amount of data and scale of compute for this task (relative to MAGMA) it can be done on VRAM limited cards or as we've seen from open source finetunes something like a cloud A100x8 for a few hours at a time.

Many a startup has been successful targeting niches the juggernauts just don't care about (or understand) - what's insignificant and just not worth it to them is massive for anyone else.

Sure these probably won't end up as unicorns (there's a reason they're called that) but many of us are perfectly happy with valuations in the seven-nine figure range or running a real business that is actually profitable - which is most successful startups.

Or, for internal org use you can do something like "finetune Codellama on our entire codebase", or "finetune Llama on all of our data" which few would be willing to do with an OpenAI/Google finetune as it requires sending your entire codebase to them. An agreement or promise they won't use it isn't comforting enough to many of these orgs, especially in niches with significant regulatory issues.
Gift Article link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/24/magazine/avi-loeb-alien-h...
> The promise of autonomous driving is worth trillions of dollars for all of the opportunity it will unlock. And as macabre as it may be, there will continue to be deaths along that development path.

“We should kill people because it will unlock market opportunity”, is why we need to start charging the people in charge of these companies with murder when they inevitably do just that. I don’t care about Tesla stock, I care about not being killed by one of Musk’s “hype” projects.
> To quote the HN mod: the language is fine, and there's no need in these flame wars

Really? In trying to counter claims about V misrepresenting things, you ... misrepresent what dang said?

Hint: "I'm sure your language is fine" in no way implies that dang said "the language is fine".
Yes you have that right, you can even go live in the middle of the woods if you are so inclined.
Wikipedia being a non-profit, and Jimmy Wales being a respected leader, is key to Wikipedia's success.

Why should I contribute to the curation of a for-profit company? Especially if Twitter will simply be sold off to the highest-bidder, such as a rich narcissist with a chip on his shoulder?

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This past year, we've seen the collapse of trust in three community driven websites:

1. Twitter

2. Reddit

3. StackOverflow

It turns out that for-profit companies seem to have good morals when there's plenty of money floating around. But the moment venture capitalism dries up, we get this year. All three making user-hostile and anti-moderator choices.

Curation of communities takes _work_. Work that people have been demotivated to do in various forms. Wikipedia has kept its moderators / editor base motivated... and I think the non-profit status is part of the key here.

Or at very least, the advertising approach that Twitter, Reddit, and kinda-sorta StackOverflow, has is probably unable to make a long-lasting trustful community.

Twitter and Reddit will continue existing of course. But I don't think we're going to have the communities of yesteryear anymore.
The broker dealers were robbing their customers blind. 12 cent spreads, high trade fees, rooms full of people using hand signs that in case of a dispute couldn't be reviewed. Decimalization was great.
No you wouldn't. The average human driver is vastly safer than Autopilot. I will agree that autopilot is better than the worst 10% of drivers and maybe on par with the worst 20%. That group causes most accidents and almost all severe accidents. The average human driver drives something like 200,000 miles without any accidents.

edit: Upon looking up some stats I might have misremembered, in any case the median human drivers is definitely vastly safer than Autopilot.
I have similar issues occasionally with my older Honda. Usually the combo of incline, curve, sun and oncoming traffic trigger it.
You can test them today, those are simple checker bugs that were fixed right away.

We're not going anywhere :)

You can check the number of commits over the last 4 years.
Authority.
My grandfather was killed by agent orange. He wound up with some extremely rare lung condition, but according to the VA, it wasn't the right lung condition so they denied his claim. He didn't die in his 80s, he died in his early 60s.

The VA also claimed he was never exposed because he wasn't in one of the units they claim were exposed, that's the other game they play. He was in a mobile unit that was sent to various places in theater, so the government doesn't have the documentation of where they actually were, but claims they know he wasn't exposed. He told me first hand he woke up one morning and the jungle outside the base was completely gone.

We don't know what agent orange did to people. Agent orange wasn't even the only defoliant used. How much of it was stored improperly? How much of it was contaminated during manufacturing with other compounds?

Fortunately, we still use 2,4-D, half the mix of agent orange, so we all get to find out first hand.
The paper linked to in the article doesn't go into detail on that, but does say "Six months after surgery (3 months after ceasing dexamethasone) [...] Neuropsychiatric symptoms had improved but persisted"

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/29/9/23-0351_article
They seem to be serious about attentiveness monitoring and strikes.

No more weights: https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/zv5xp9/a_warni...

How strikes work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otknSUQ4ICY
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Probably contractual stuff. multi-year contracts. no way you'd enter into a long term finance offering without guarantees it'll still be a thing in 5 years.

Either the contracts expired or they reached a situation where they could break it.

ninja edit: looks like further down someone made the point that the Russians were using Binanace to move cash with BTC, which violated sanctions. Mastercard is at risk of violating those sanctions and it sounds like they just tapped out rather then risking staying in crypto.
Do the descriptions interfere with the dialog? Are they recorded human voices or computer generated?
The negative PR from wrongfully denying a vet benefits is so bad, and the system is completely un-incentivized to be cost-effective, that there are basically 0 real eligibility tests.

Any politician (or bureaucrat) who says "you know, maybe we should be denying disability to 20% of these veterans" is going to be strung up and quartered. So, nobody tries.
Interesting, hadn't seen that the CEO stepped down. Rebranding after acquisition to distance themselves a bit from him is a reasonable move. The guy was shady as fuck. Though, the company has a reputation for being a sweatshop in the engineering and video editing departments. I don't thing a rebrand or private equity is going fix that any time soon.
I had been keeping an eye on this project before, and upon checking it out recently, I've noticed many minor improvements. It's not just that one operator now supports multiple engines, but the feature experiences of several engines have also gradually become more well-rounded.
That's absolutely part of the equation.

Back when we used horses for everything, people used to walk aimlessly in streets and children used to play in them. We advocate against that now.

Society chose a new mandate. It wasn't just the auto companies - it was all of us.
Have you heard of gas stoves? Or grid electricity?

Either occasionally sets something ablaze unprovoked.

(As much as I hate this as a city dweller, the compromise solution may be simply to ban work on certain types of batteries in multi-tenant buildings and dense residential areas - making it so you effectively need to own a home outside of the city, with a plot of land, to do this. Or perhaps just enforce existing rules better, because I bet that the potentially dangerous activities are already not legal to perform in a regular flat.)