skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried this with mixed results. I’d spend so much time prompting, rerunning it, proofreading, and making minor changes that I wasn’t really coming up with a more efficient workflow. Rewriting the text myself a couple times produces more concise results after.

Playing with ChatGPT certainly felt like more fun at first. It feels like you’re making more progress until you look at the clock and realize you’ve spent 10 minutes messing around in ChatGPT where another 60 seconds of rewriting would have worked fine.
> Ultimately I think your objection to the portfolio is because you think it’s advantageous to take on more risk. For a young investor with high risk tolerance I agree with you,

I agree with everything you write except this bit deserves an expansion.

There is a growth-optimal balance between assets and it depends only on the joint probabilities of future returns, which means it's unknowable -- but it also means it depends not at all on the age of the investor. (Which makes sense, if you think about it -- why would the optimal growth rate depend on the age of the person owning the money?)

However, the optimal growth rate is only guaranteed asymptotically, and aiming for it could result in some wild swings up and down before getting there, so for people without infinite time on their hands it makes sense to keep a higher proportion of wealth in low-risk assets.
> No, when people talk about the “walkability” of an area, they are almost always talking about the sheer density of businesses in the area not about safety. How they can walk to the grocery store, and their dentist, and their favorite bar, and also three different art galleries. How everything they need is never more than a 15–minute walk away. How each parking lot represents a wasted opportunity, because there are no services there, and nobody lives there either.

I guess I’m confused why people wouldn’t want this. Walking through empty car parks is unpleasant, and discouraging people from doing it, and it’s obviously not benefiting drivers either. I’m lucky enough to live in place where I can walk to shops, parks, cafes, transport etc etc within 15-20mins, and do so under cover of trees, surrounded by green, and without crossing roads due to well designed pedestrian facilities. This is all in a medium built area, and leads to wonderful quality of life. Why wouldn’t people want to live like this?

Visiting the U.S. I’m honestly bamboozled that people seem to want live surrounded by car parks, having to drive from place to place, because walking is almost impossible. Not just due to car parks, but also because the boundaries between car parks and businesses seemed to be designed to prevent foot traffic. The U.S. strange belief that good walkability is something that can’t happen in the U.S. for reasons, is right up there with the U.S. belief that effective gun control can’t be implemented in U.S. for reasons, or trains and public transport can’t be implemented in the U.S. for reasons either.

All off strikes me as weird given how much evidence that these thing can work in a country like the U.S., with plenty of that evidence existing in the U.S. own past! There’s an old quote attributed to Churchill that I think summarises my views very succinctly “You can depend upon the Americans to do the right thing. But only after they have exhausted every other possibility.”. I look forward to the day the U.S. has exhausted every other possibility, no doubt they’ll learn plenty of valuable lessons for everyone else along the way.
I don't think this is unreasonable since the target audience is other researchers. When you try and reproduce this paper you won't think "wow there's a lot of API errors I must be doing something wrong".
The “third part” of the post starts with “I’ve benchmarked cola against 3 other CRDTs implemented in Rust: diamond-types, automerge and yrs.” This cola library appears to perform favorably in operation speed.

I’d be curious to know about memory usage, too.
I'm so excited that camera manufacturers would go out on a limb with a niche product like this. I typically shoot in black and white and am lusting after this. Like Fuji's X-100 series fixed lens cameras, it's an exciting time to escape the treadmill of incremental feature upgrades to produce a camera with a dramatically different photographer experience. Love live Pentax!
Has anyone informed the original programmer, Nino Sarmiento?
From my perspective they're mostly low effort noise.
How is youtube more reliable for reporting issues and giving feedback?

IN what way is twitter unreliable for those tasks?
I love history but I'm just a layman.

I get quite angry when people get reductionist about history, usually because of story or narrative (pre-templated story patterns re-applied over and over again)

The beauty of history is that the same event can have multiple, conflicting, powerful narratives associated with it. Looking at these narratives challenges our understanding of our own humanity. If we're smart, we end up realizing as Solzhenitsyn did, that "...If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?..."

And then we _really_ begin our study of history, humanity, wisdom, and the rest of it.

It's far too powerful to buy into a story and get blinders on. I think it's probably a great thing when beginning your journey, but you should never stay there. And if you're a historian stuck in a version of a story I'd argue you don't know your own profession.
> I'd say Postgres + pgvector is even simpler

For development, perhaps. For production, absolutely not.

I wish HN had some bot that would just delete any comment from people recommending installing databases. Because 99.9% of the time it's from those who have no experience in running one in a Production environment. Keeping it secure and ensuring backup/restore cycle works is seriously non-trivial.
1. The Public needs to know if they are permitted to be at a place or not. Or even if they can claim it. Homesteading in the US (claiming public land as private land) only ended in 1986.

2. Because police need to know who belongs at a place, and who to exclude.

3. The government wants to know who to tax for the land.

4. Generally, we think the government's information should be publicly available, not hidden.
This is still old, and the product line doesn’t seem to be updated?
There's also pgvector (trivial) examples for different languages, see e.g.
github.com/pgvector/pgvector-python
Exactly! or the quartz controlled timex oscillators: https://electric-watches.co.uk/movement-types/quartz-control...

or the quartz tuningfork: https://electric-watches.co.uk/movement-types/quartz-control...

or indeed the new generation of accutrons with the electrostatic drive
> I’m not sure if the translation is ‘a liquid swelling in the lung’ or ‘liquid swelling in the lung’ both of which are technically incorrect, one more than the other.

I'm not really sure of the difference between these two, but I'm not a doctor so any liquid in the lungs sounds bad to me! But I probably also translated it wrongly, as Chinese grammar is kind of different to English anyway. In Chinese, there's no real difference between "a something", "the something" and just "something", although you could say "one something" if you particularly want to indicate a single item.

The actual characters are 肺水肿, where 肺 (fei4) is a noun that means lung, 水 (shui3) is a noun that usually means water, but also often just liquid generally, and 肿 (zhong3) which could be a noun meaning a swelling or bump, or a verb meaning to swell. According to my dictionary, 水肿 together means oedema or "having an excess of watery fluid", but like I say I've only heard this word in English and never really knew what it was, because I've never needed to know, so that was really the point - that the Chinese word is naturally more descriptive. In general, the way this word is formed, the 肺 (lung) at the start as a noun followed by another noun, generally means that the first noun provides the context, and the second noun provides more detail, which is why I translated it as "in the lung". It's not really the correct translation as literally "swelling in the lung" would be more precisely "肺里的水肿" where 里 means "inside" and 的 is kind of like 's. A guess the more natural understanding of 肺水肿 would be "pertaining to the lung, excess of fluid".

But, I don't think this kind of explicitness is unique to this, for instance "pneumonia" is 肺炎, which is the same 肺 (fei4) lung and 炎 (yan2) which means inflammation or flame as a noun or hot as an adjective. As an aside, while I've seen both meanings of the word before, I've only just realised that it's kind of odd that inflammation (which I associate more as swelling and not heat) and flame is actually common to both meanings in English as well. Looking up other words with 炎, gives me 肾炎 which is 肾 (shen4) meaning kidney and 炎 (yan2) meaning inflammation. Again, I've never once heard "nephritis" in English, and would have no idea how to guess at its meaning, but it's kind of obvious from the Chinese meaning. Similarly "gastritis" (at least I know this one!) is 胃炎 where 胃 (wei4) means stomach and "dermatitis" is 皮炎 where 皮 (pi2) is skin. There's a bunch more similar ones, but I think the pattern is obvious.

I'm sure Chinese probably does have some random and non-obvious medical words that I haven't come across, but most of the ones I have learned aren't necessarily obvious until you know them, but are easy to remember afterwards, e.g. "having a fever" is 发烧 where 发 (fa1) means to send out and 烧 (shao1) means to burn.

Oh, and yeah 5000 words is a lot of extra vocabulary! I'm still only around 4000 words in Chinese and I can survive most conversations and usually explain what word I mean even if I don't know what the word is!
Pesticides are cool. You're talking about bioaccumulation. Carnivorous species have a disadvantage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioaccumulation

https://www.poisoningchildren.com/blog/2014/02/05/bioaccumul...

"... because of the toxins dolphins accumulate in the oceans we have polluted, their uterine environment and breast milk are so toxic that it kills their first-borns. Later-born offspring have a better chance ..."

"Children who breastfed were much more likely to get leukemia before the age of two when their mothers had been exposed to pesticides. And in turn, breastfeeding is one of the few measures that may provide women protection from breast cancer, possibly because the toxicants pass out of the breast fat with the milk"
Hit nested reply limit. Reach out to me on twitter I'll give you deets. Links in my bio
What could be a exercise in improving and vetting an international brand of "healthy" Scottish farmed salmon instead becomes a class in "how to make people stop eating farmed salmon at all". Pathetic levels of short sightedness.
No, GP is right. Without Proof of Work blockchains have no leader - think about Git repo with multiple branches: which one is main? Nothing in blockchain itself determines this, only we, humans chose to name one of them "main" (formerly "master").
I see most internet forums as discussion groups where posts start out as invitations to conversation. However, I see HN more like a physical bulletin board in a workplace break room where people post whatever, whenever, and others passively view, interact with, or discuss it as they see fit.
There’s likely huge political interest in keeping this R&D domestic.
The reason those labels are there is to facilitate us being able to find what we can eat. I don't want to look over 30 menu items before I can find the 3 things I can eat. Same reason they mark "gluten free", "nut free", "low carb", etc.
Quick question how much different is what they did is in this blog post : https://medium.com/swlh/fun-with-apache-lucene-and-bert-embe... ?
Neoliberal Censorship [video]
Useful Idiots explores the current functioning of censorship with interviews of two recently "de-monetized" journalists.
A junior at AWS in Poland makes more than the 45k listed above.
Plants are well known to be far less efficient than are solar panels, even given their millions of years of evolution which usually gives biology an edge. The explanation is as given in the GP: its take a lot more energy thermodynamically to collect carbon out of the air and turn it into fuel than the energy you get from the resulting fuel. If there is an application where we absolutely need fuel as an intermediary, than by all means, but anywhere else we are shooting ourselves in the foot by not using the energy directly.
Bugs, they will be supplied with your pod. Your pod likely won’t have a table.

You will eat the bugs and live in the pods.
vsauce only uploads shorts these days, it makes me sad.
Archived copy: https://archive.ph/wip/v0TLw

Live page (in case it still returns a 404; I'm unable to edit web address field in submission):
https://www.dw.com/en/pope-francis-calls-us-catholic-church-...
I actually like this, also in cases where users sometimes post a submission that relates to some previous discussion, but does not require the context of said discussion but are interesting on their own
Reminder: it takes as long to get from 100 to 1,000 as it takes from 10 to 100 -- it is really important to avoid big drawdowns, which 2× leverage is almost sure to produce.

If anything, optimal growth requires fractional leverage, i.e. keeping wealth out of the markets.
I would only recommend shrooms for the beginner.

LSD is way too intense for the casual and DMT imo is scary even if it is short.
Lack of skin in the game is evident, especially with institutions. Whether it's Tesla or the government, responsibility is diffused.

True accountability should hone in on the “natural person”. This needs to change.
OpenAI's APIs error out a lot. You get a lot of 502 and other similar errors. This would probably affect someone trying to reproduce the paper. I think that's what they meant.
There are three sentences in this post and two of them make some pretty wild claims without any evidence. I've never even heard of this "postal bank takeover" idea before, so I'd really appreciate some links where I can learn more.

And of course you can sue the government; people do it all the time. If you're harmed by a federal official in the execution of their duty, you can sue. You'll have to prove damages and negligence/malice, of course. Both the federal government and the state governments have explicit tort law laying out the circumstances within which a private citizen may sue the government.
I actually like this, also in cases where users sometimes post a submission that relates to some previous discussion, but does not require the context of said discussion to be interesting.
I agree with you here 99% of the time.

But this one is too on the nose. This might qualify as the 1%.
They keep pushing them too, even if you keep disabling them.
Detail of the Giant Cerebras Wafer-Scale Cluster
Government could easily do something about this.

You could just make a law that farms will be ranked by some biodiversity metric - for example, how many unique species of plant and animal were found by an inspector on an annual inspection. Any farm in the bottom 50% of rankings would need to pay perhaps 1% of revenue as an extra fee/fine for being insufficiently wildlife friendly.

Clearly people will game this metric, but most ways to fake having hundreds of species of animal on your farm are good for wild animals too.
Music Modes: What they are and how to use them
It’s not, almost every developing country has figured out how to make charcoal.
Also CRT monitors were ubiquitous. consumer LCD monitors didn't start appearing until the late 1990s.

It was magical watching a Timex DataLink watch receive data (at a really slow data rate though) - short moment in time before USB and WiFi appeared.
My lord, that was dumb. Another of those, "If you're so radical, how come you live in a capitalist country?" type of hit pieces. It's shocking that there are so many libertarians on HN. You'd think tech workers would be smarter than that, but no. Maybe their salaries depend on them not getting it. Baffling.
> You’re speculating when: You select individual stocks, mutual funds, or stock market sectors you believe will do better than the market as a whole.

So no individual stocks and funds - got it. What am I supposed to buy to be an investor? A financial advisor?
More like 13 to 95...
> - I can change the brightness of the screen in CoolReader by sliding a finger on the left of the screen. I must use a menu in Koreader and that makes brightness control almost useless.

Strange, because Koreader has this functionality. On my kindle paperwhite I can slide up and down on the left side of screen to change intensity, on my oasis I can additionally slide up and down on the right side to change color temperature.

Which platform isn't it working on?
You have to admit it’s a good one though. Haha. I don’t want this place to become a cesspool like Reddit but once in a blue moon I do need a good laugh
How are large vlsi projects' src code organised at big companies?
"Shorts, may eat away at its long-form content, which has for almost two decades been its primary bread and butter"

Long form content which is artificially long, because of what platform rewards. Those videos cold easily be 2min long or less, but how would they justify placing a 30s ads before it? Also - majority of streaming takes place on mobile.

Short format is straight to the point and what Internet needs. No one has time to go through 10min of clickbaity spam chopped by sh*y YouTube ads.
Yes some models excel, have better this or that. Absolutely 0 have everything in one package at a competing price (while retaining margin!)
My guess is that it’s about drawing contrast with the crystal-blue seas near the Greek shore.

The difference between the Mediterranean as experienced along the shoals of a beach vs. out among the waves is night and day.

Not unlike the difference between a glass of water and a glass of (surely murky in the era) wine.
2036: Virtual Reality Social Distancing becomes a thing, where people attend virtual parties by sending holographic avatars, ensuring they’re “virtually” present without the need to physically mingle. Emoji dance-offs are all the rage!

2037: The “Mind-Meets-Code” era begins, allowing developers to write code directly with their thoughts. Unfortunately, this leads to a surge in “accidental” code commits when programmers have random thoughts about pizza while coding.

2040: The “Everything-as-a-Service” (EaaS) model reaches its peak, where even physical activities like jogging or cooking are offered as subscription services. People realize they miss the old days of doing things for free and embark on a global “DIY Renaissance.”
This should work (unfortunately can't edit web page address field of submission):
https://www.dw.com/en/pope-francis-calls-us-catholic-church-...
They sponsored it
I've seen an argument that while that's true, people pay less attention to the ads, which are also shorter.

YouTube Shorts is an obvious TikTok knockoff, a platform heavily optimized for mindless consumption. Problem is, it is so mindless that people forget the ads. There is so much stuff happening so fast that nothing sticks, neither content nor ads. And advertisers are starting to realize that their return on investment is not that great despite the high number of views.
I got a multi-thousand dollar domain name for a few hundred dollars, I just kept up a regular dialog with them and made it clear what I was willing to pay. They kept negotiating, I kept to my number. Eventually we came to a reasonable compromise and it's mine. It wasn't something others would be interested in so it was clear after a couple of years years I was their only buyer.
Plus there are plenty of things that contain meat products without it being obvious, rennet in pesto for example.
John Henry: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_(folklore)>
They're horrible.

Luckily you can use ublock origin and letsblockit, or other browser plugins, to completely erase them from YouTube.

https://letsblock.it
I don't feel the need to fight the "new and shiny" war, because yesteryear's problems are far from gone. Windows' dominance affects end users, people like me who had no hand in creating it and now have to deal with a near-monopoly. Companies tied to Azure are where they are due to their own business decisions, and I feel no need to bail them out. If my competitors waste money, let them, it makes me more likely to succeed. They could change everything if they cared anyway. Users, actual people screwed over by proprietary vendors, can't.
Hackernews told me it's because the Greeks couldn't see the color blue -- and neither could anyone else until we invented a word for it.
>> but with $100m investments in vector databases

I also do not understand why VCs are investing in this space. The base case is that they are almost completely interchangeable c/o langchain and other intermediaries.

I do understand that some vector databases have strengths over others w/r/t scaling OUT, however, they do not have stickiness and time erodes the scaling advantages via both competitors catching up and via machines getting cheaper allow for scaling UP

The history of commercial DBs was usually supported by a variety of use cases, proprietary hooks to keep customers, choices on the CAP theorem, etc. Almost none of that applies here given the minimal interaction modes we have with vector DBs.

Could anyone speak to the case to invest in vector DBs?

(and to address the parent take, "elastic/redis/opensearch/vespa or with postgres/mongodb/oracle/mysql" - this is one of the most crowded spaces in the marketplace and i have no idea why customers would choose an upstart for the sake of consolidation rather than clear winners in a best of breed solution.
I did this for my elderly dad, and told him to contact me if anything was amiss. He had some hardware issue with a cheap USB mouse and told my mom about it. My mom promptly took the whole thing to some box office store tech support place. They told her they couldn’t install the drivers for the new mouse she bought, and their proposed remedy was to charge her to wipe the laptop with Windows. She did so “as to not trouble me.”
YouTube? To report issues?

What's wrong with email or some GitHub bug tracker?
It offers two external SATA ports for storage, and external PCIe x4 slot. It can be a cheap ZFS receive box for backups. It could actually run TrueNAS, with 3.5” HDDs (although we will have to check if it could power them up too, through a Y cable).
This “we” you speak of is non-existent. It’s about individuals taking actions to fix the injustices and errors they see in the system. For all his faults Elon Musk does not sit on the sidelines. What you see as a transgression by him is nonetheless action, and it will not be fixed until you, or some other individual brings it upon themselves to fix it.
Wow this was amazingly interesting. Thank you for sharing your personal experience.

It’s a whole new world out there…
I see someone’s going for the Ig Nobel Prize.
Did they literally write Vegan or Vegetarian, perhaps as the first word on the menu item? Or did they put a little green V or VG at the end of the item? I can't tell based on the abstract.

Edit: looked into it further. It appears they did write "vegan" in parentheses at the end. I wonder if they had been more subtle about it if the results would be as pronounced.
Exactly; almost no skin in the game here.

What are lawsuits and fines to someone who buys 40B companies out of boredom / like we comment on HN.

Responsibility and repercussions must become much clearer and more sharply felt to any so called “leadership”.

This is one, if not the main malaise of our times.