skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would never live near an Air Force base. There's a really good chance that the ground water around there is completely toxic. For example Aerojet in lil 'ol Rancho Cordova destroyed the ground water for neighboring communities and it was dubbed a superfund cleanup site:

https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/SiteProfiles/index.cfm?fus...
Would that make a difference for a text editor since it likely already has filesytem access?

Snap/Flatpak (can) do sandboxing
We’ve found things like double quotes, emoji’s and other edge cases are a struggle when trying to get data back.
rclone allows you to mount remote fs via ssh, it has some quirks but overall I'm able to maintain my self host setup with this. also I'm sure there are plenty of similar plugins, maybe even officially vendored, for all the shiny IDEs
15 billion as a stabilized population of the Earth is actually a very high estimate. Some estimate the curve will flatten at 10.5bn. But it is all a prediction, so who knows.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_grow...
Doesn’t appear to be clearly true. https://www.autonews.com/mobility-report/mercedes-drive-pilo...

And taking legal liability in very narrow (essentially useless) circumstances is exactly why it’s a marketing thing. It’s to make it seem like they have an advanced system when there is no evidence of them having it or having any realistic path forward.
Sounds like 90%+ of the no-revenue startups out there hustling for VC / angel / seed capital. Sell the promise, deliver the hope.
2.1 is the replacement rate for well-developed countries. It does not apply universally to all countries.

For example, the US had a fertility rate of 7.0(!) in 1800 and saw no significant population growth due to births because most of those kids died well before reaching the age of reproduction.

Historically, fertility rates have always dropped once basic standards of living have managed to get rid of excess child mortality.
Getting started with LLMs and structured data
TL;DR for blog: If you are using RAG across structured data, make sure you consider the role of metadata as it is likely that not all the fields within your data carry semantic meaning and might lead to bad embeddings. Leverage hybrid search with the metadata added to improve the search quality. (SelfQueryRetriever from Langchain helps simplify this.)

Recently, I have heard a lot of chatter about using LLMs on top of structured data. At Neum AI, we have been dealing with our fair share of this and wanted to create a small blog outlining some of our thinking and best practices. Also show developers that might be new to the space what are some of the basics on how to get started. Most of the blog focuses on the intersection of structured data and retrieval augmented generation as that is the area where we have seen most questions. I do acknowledge that there are other places where LLMs can intersect with structured data like using LLMs to help write queries, but I am sure at this point we have all seen at least one or two services that do that.

As part of the blog, I included a small code sample showcasing how to build a simple app that consumes CSV files and using Langchain + Chroma can be queried for information.
It’s telling that despite IndexedDB being around forever people would still rather download an entire SQLite runtime than use it. A deeply unsatisfying API.
SoFi to underwrite first big IPO after securing Instacart listing
The Shia LaBeouf “He Will Not Divide Us” 4chan geo-location is my favorite. Never underestimate bored autistic shitposters lol.
Why do we need to measure productivity? No one seems to ask that question. To me it seems that trying to measure the individual (people) parts of a system in some quasi-reproducable and transitive way does more harm to the total output of the system than good.

Do we measure trust (upon which all business is based)? If we relinquish individual productivity from our “measure all the things so we can improve them” obsession to the soft realm of the immeasurable, we might magically stop wasting so much time on stupid shit and accomplish a lot more meaningful work.
You disagree that keyle wants feedback?

That's literally all they said.

How can you disagree about what one individual says they themselves want?
Sorry, I mean that the biodiversity loss is a mass extinction. We have lost 2/3 of trees, 2/3 of mammals and 2/3 of insects, that's a fact. It will continue (because we are not changing anything) and that is not a consequence of climate change. Climate change will just make it worse.

It is a consequence of how we live, including habitat loss, pollution, etc. Nuclear fusion (which almost surely won't happen in a useful timeline) is not a solution to our biodiversity problem, only to our climate problem. But if we could today do nuclear fusion in our smartphones, we would still be in a mass extinction. So we need to change more than just CO2 emissions (unless we don't care about biodiversity, but I do).
Ancient rome also used lead for everything including pots, pans, pipes and wine, possibly lead poisoned themselves out of existence, so they might not be the best examples to follow.
WASM is very useful for things outside the web.

Consider that a WASM build can be run server side on multiple OS and arch. The same build. The API can be controlled and locked down (think security).

The web is not the most interesting place for WASM.
I suppose I'm just old, and people doing stupid things isn't going to make my blood boil any more. I've accepted it by now as human nature. If you want to actually annoy me, you need to do something purely evil, like harming innocent people just to advance some stupid agenda of your own. Russians firing missiles at apartment buildings in Ukraine is a current example.
It's a bit absurd the idea that humans living on earth are going to produce more energy than the Sun.

Maybe I'm naive and simple minded. But that just seems insane.

If I'm doing the math right, at 2.3% growth = we produce more energy than the Sun in 4500 years.

It doesn't matter how many years it is. It's never happening.

Just look at how damn hot and inhospitable the sun is. We're not producing more energy here!

It'd be infinitely more plausible to build a Dyson sphere around the Sun, and call me naive on that, too, but I'm skeptical that's ever gonna happen either.
Yes but some objects make much better weapons than others. We don't let the public own frag grenades.
I think it makes sense to list the nutrition per TicTac though; it's a logical unit and people can multiple from there. But zero times anything is of course always zero. I don't really know what a realistic life-size serving is.

I mostly just wanted to contextualize these numbers a bit: what does 0.49g or 4.9g sugar actually mean?
Agreed, I enjoy his YouTube videos, but find other YouTubers who are make as-good or better content, but his articles on Serious Eats were in a league of their own.

There are gems in his videos, but it's a few tidbits here and there compared to the content in his written articles.
Ah the good ole days when comcast was easy to deal with and would correct their errors.
The problem is that for a lot of places, globalisation seems to mean, paying money to US companies and harming the local tax base.

If the money is shipped overseas, how to you pay for the socialised losses?
Remote work is harder to come by as companies push for return to office
Flights:

- Bring a VR headset and a nice pair of headphones (airpod max work well) then download Big Screen VR and a few movies.

- Bring a Nintendo switch for some gaming

- Bring an M1 iPad Air with movies downloaded.

- Bring a nicely sized battery pack for all these gadgets.

- Get some cardio in the day before, or morning of, your flight. You're much more likely to enjoy sitting for hours if you're physically exhausted.

- Bring an eye cover and (if you're like me) a strap to keep your jaw shut when sleeping. For some reason when I fall asleep, my mouth wants to open (gross).
Water on the Moon and the Civilizations of the Future
I mentioned in a sibling comment that NA beers are actually harder to produce than regular beers. That would explain the pricing of NA beers, if the production cost of beer was at all related to the actual price of beer. In many jurisdictions, it very much is not.

I think your comment is valuable in pointing out that the taxation scheme and law of beer often encompasses NA beer as well, when it shouldn’t, and in the end that very often hurts the adoption of and distribution possibilities of NA beer.

In other words, if NA beer was treated like a soda it would have a lot less pain in its GTM segment. NA beer can have some low amount of alcohol, but then again so can kombucha. Where I live (Austin, TX), kombucha is regulated like a soda, but NA beer is not. They are fundamentally quite similar (very low ABV fermented beverages) but regulated quite differently. They shouldn’t be - from the perspective of the governing body, NA beers should be treated as bioactive sodas, exactly how kombucha is currently treated. There is no justifiable reason to treat them otherwise
Part of the reason you call a lawyer early is so they can help steer things away from the point where you need a lawyer to mount a criminal defense. Cheaper that way, too.
Where I see this as a huge deal is for plug-in development. For finl, I was looking at the possibility of incorporating an interpreter for JavaScript or Python or Lua. Instead, I can create bindings for WASM and get a sandboxed environment for people to write their own extensions. There will be some packaging tools that I’ll want to provide (the idea being that a user specifies something like

\LoadExtension{yoyodyne:csv-reader:1.0}

to bring in an extension and if there isn’t a local copy of the extension, it will fetch it from a repository, and I’ll want to bundle a bunch of stuff into a standard ZIP file layout (so that documentation, etc. will be easily fetched).

The list of languages that can compile to WASM increases on a regular basis and it seems by far the best route for plugin handling in a greenfield project.
After they had a prototype they wanted to move forward with, they could have made an injection mold for $5k and each subsequent part would take 3 seconds and 6 cents to make, it’s shocking how tightly people will cling to 3D printing.
Interesting. There are a lot of old faith Russian communities in Alaska. I'm from a small town and we'd often have "locals vs Russians" teenage feuds through the summers. They're good fishermen.
Measuring productivity is silly. Measure results.

Here's my desired review:

Entire team goes around and answers the question: who do you want to leave?
Two strikes get another chance.
Three strikes and they're gone.

Same with the boss.

Keep their job or replace em? More than three say replace the level up does a panel with the three.

During our last layoff the question for the managers was "if you could drop any headcount who would it be?"

We lost about 8% from that. Everyone I talked to said they were happy that the layoff got rid of the bad apples they knew.
I wonder why this UX hasn't remained more common --- it seems very physically intuitive and accessible.
It's not like Nord Stream 2s destruction was the single largest act of industrial sabotage in human history, alongside the single largest carbon emission in human history.
Being complicit in one pipeline being bombed could undermine decades of progress in a single moment.
Try Kate. Its great!
Hypothesis: most service providers were previously operating on an interruptible work stack (LIFO), because persistently-annoying people could "jump the queue." Now with work-from-home they're doing strict FIFO (as they should!); and it turns out their queue is long.
Yep, broken here
This is just the hypothetical situation where ransomware is a static binary that doesn't care about any data exfiltration - it just encrypts files in-place with a pre-defined public key. So no exfiltration, physical or over the internet, is required.
Then why aren't people in countries with plenty of resources breeding like rabbits and are we actually seeing a decrease in fertility once people get access to proper healthcare and sufficient food?

It is almost like humans are not mindless animals who solely reproduce because of biological urges or something.
You can watch him livestream some incredible shit. He's absolutely the real deal. Yes, he's big on social media, but every niche hobby like this has a standout who's great on media (Hikaru comes to mind for chess) that does great things for promoting the community.
How is any of that a "big deal" though? We've been compiling arbitrary code to Javascript for years now.

I'm all for WASM but it seems more on the level of a new processor generation or faster RAM than something revolutionary. I'm sure it took a lot of hard work by smart people, but for most of us it's an implementation detail.
The title of the article doesn’t really line up with what you probably think it contains. It’s more about learning a highly specific regulatory framework or bureaucratic process. Here’s an example:

The specifics of congressional appropriations, federal funding, and procurement: what sorts of things does the government purchase, how does this relate to biotech or AI (software)? Related to this, becoming an expert on the Strategic National Stockpile and understanding the mechanisms of how a vendor managed inventory could work.

I guess it depends on the context, but I think if your goal is to “make the world a better place” (which is ostensibly what EA is aiming at) this is probably bad advice. The attitude here is a very technocratic one, in which the solution to problems is to understand them abstractly and then manipulate societal machinery to solve them. I don’t think this actually works in reality, as many EA examples have shown.

Instead, if you interpret the title to be a little more straightforward, I do think it’s actually good advice. Just make that “something” be something useful in-itself. Become an expert at building computers from scratch, or hydroponics, or repairing diesel engines, or installing solar panels. A world full of people that know how to do stuff is almost certainly better than one full of “experts” that have only abstract knowledge, especially when it comes to things like 3D printing or the security of voting machines. (Mentioned as examples in the article.)
"want" is probably a misleading term here
you can upgrade simple runtime checks to compile time verification

These aren't the same though. Runtime checks can check every access, static analysis isn't going to deal with every scenario like access based on inputs. Lumping them together is pretending there is something happening that isn't.
Sublime pissed a lot of people off when they started nagging v3 user to upgrade to v4, then when you do, they nag you to pay again.

I also got tired of how the package manager worked. Whenever I was setting up a new install, I could never remember what combination of packages I needed to install to get everything to work how it used to.
Ok, I'm racking my brain (and tried a couple of searches) ... but, I don't know that space almost at all, and I just can't come up with a way to "un-Mad Lib" "ship of theseus".

Unless you're being more metaphorical ...?
I confess, I haven't been watching as much lately, I'll check them out.
Tclets were fully open source and Java applets were mostly open source. It doesn't seem to have helped.
> "Well, how hard can that be?”

Very hard?

I worked on a tool that generated PDFs based on API responses. The tool added charts from the api data.

Those PDFs were reports with some hardcoded text.

Yesh what a fun ride that was.
The llama1 team did not have a validation set. I don’t know what the Llama2 team did - I left before seeing any of the details.

My guess is Llama2 upsamples Wikipedia a good bit, but given they didn’t report any information about training data, it’s hard to say.
> I think it makes sense to list the nutrition per TicTac though...

Would you similarly list nutrition facts per grain of rice, or per french fry?

It's deliberately misleading, and a serving is supposed to reflect real-life portion sizes that'd typically be consumed. Eat the box, and you've consumed nearly as much sugar as an 8oz bottle of Coke.
The locals may have left him alone, but let's say 1% of the US population read the book and 1% of them decided to go have a look at him. That's still a person a day for 100 years.
This comment is deeply inappropriate. Engaging in ideological flamewar is against HN guidelines and is just plain rude to all of the HN folks who actually work in the field you're being casually dismissive of.
It is a reasonable big deal in the niche of computation intensive applications.

It would be an huge deal or revolution if it could perform faster on plain DOM manipulation. By now, plain Javascript is faster than WASM [0].

That's because all WASM's DOM manipulation must go through the Javascript engine and many browsers do JIT compilation on Javascript.

Edit: be aware that the article has a more interesting discussion on WASM on the server side, as a replacement of technologies such as Docker/containers, Java Virtual Machine and .Net.

[0] https://krausest.github.io/js-framework-benchmark/2023/table...
Hey Oxidome,

I like the idea (validate the idea and get some emails/feedback before actually working on something).

But your UI is a bit dated and doesn't grab customer attention very well.

Here's another site doing something similar: https://www.mixo.io/ their UX is much more modern (though they're paid only).
Blacksmithing is alive and well in Kentucky
Oh this will be interesting, a topic HN loves (lisp) coupled with this forum's favorite punching bag (distributed ledgers).
Competing with the Microsoft Bundle
The point, I think, is not how widely used it is, the point is that you become beholden to a single, often corporate vendor.

I'm not actually sure what made the transition from VB classic to the DotNET version so disruptive, and so damaging to VB in terms of popularity and mindshare ( possibly that C# was better while still sharing enough of the benefits? )

But from everything I saw it was. VB mindshare just fell off a cliff from everything I could see.

I mean, you could say similar things about the damage and disruption about perl->raku and python 2->3, which are both effectively single implementation ( ok, less true of python ), but the end result seems very different.

Perl5 is still nearly standard in linux/unix, especially anything not embedded or real-time, while raku is niche, although perl5 is more and more niche despite that, with many, many haters..

Python 3 is probably as popular or more so than 2 was

VB is an also ran in DotNET languages.

So, I dunno, I think there might be more to it that just "single implementation is risky". "Single corporate owner" might be a better one, idk?
https://archive.ph/A3B5a
"3D Collision Detection" (section 4.5)

In hindsight, I really had no idea what I was talking about (especially regarding performance with large amounts of polygons) but the math did end up seeming to be good; I actually went back a couple years ago and took parts of it for some other 3D projection / line-plane intersection thing I made and it still worked. Super cool experience either way being given an opportunity so young and seeing it come to life!

I had another idea for a Gems 2 article that never made it in time (using grayscale UV texture maps on a 3D model to distribute a fixed amount of weight across model vertices for use in a physics simulation -- ex. a hammer weighs X but the metal part is much heavier than the wooden handle) but again was literally just making things up out of thin air to have something to contribute LOL
Your link says that they tested and found no difference between salted vs non salted oil and that while reusing it, a stir-fry would not leave oil enough to reuse.

I still don't know how salting the oil would improve anything though. Maybe it's a salting just before cooking vs later and not related to the oil?
> The scientific fraud doesn't mean the scientists are bad.

Scientific fraud means only one thing: R&D are getting excessively funded there.
But ... he didn't need a lawyer. He needed to threaten litigation but you don't need an attorney to do that for you.
Very curious to follow your journey through embedding search.

If I want 100 close matches that match a filter, is it better to filter first then find vector similarity within that, or find 1000 similar vectors and then filter that subset?
Some economists have been relying on bogus population data
its much more that theft of service is generally treated as an actual crime, and the franchise situations especially due to the costs led to them pushing for laws with real teeth instead of civil penalties that are pointless on poor people.
Great! That means if I’m a high performing person I can remote work? Oh, wait. Not that free?
Not even through extensions? https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=EXCEEDSY...
I think that one is actually "malicious prosecution", as described in the article.
The reek of desperation.
That’s insightful, thank you
Packing less stuff. It's been a long time coming, but I've finally picked apart enough of my insecurities around my s--t/stuff/possessions/belongings that I can pack for vacation almost as fast as my spouse, who doesn't seem to have much trouble packing.

An ereader continues to be a wonderful way to bring a pile of books, and now that I'm unhooked from videogames I don't bring a laptop anymore, which saves a lot of physical and mental space.

I pack a sewing kit, and have used it on trips.

Sunglasses and half a towel (I like the scratchy brown ones from Basic Training, and to save on laundry I cut the towels in half and sewed up the cut edges vs unraveling), per The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Being okay with asking strangers for help/advice/guidance (listen to your internal alarms and bs detectors, obv).

Auxiliary cable so you can listen to music on the rental car speakers without giving up a bunch of data over Bluetooth.
no, he ran a crypto exchange and behind the scenes his companies trading desk used it's own coin as leverage, nothing to do with ea
OnlyFans Owner Got $338M Dividend as 2022 Profit Soared
Interessting family history. If you have the name and time, the VC citations should be available from the DoD.
Figma is built using WASM, sees significant benefit from it, and is pretty popular.

But absolutely there are a lot of of less demanding web applications out there that don’t need this. And in the case of Figma, it’s the core of the application that uses WASM, with the more webby UI bits outside of it for all the devex reasons you’d expect.

In truth it’s a medium deal in the sense that it enables use cases that simply aren’t feasible without it, but is arguably irrelevant for most “conventional” web dev problems.

In that vein I’d argue it is more relevant for use cases that currently aren’t on the web at all versus as an improvement for those that are.
Genuinely trying to understand your point of view. How is this potentially offensive to anyone other than the lawmaker who decides that cable theft should carry such a harsh sentence?

I don't understand how this could be construed as derogatory toward, for example, people who work at a cable company.
The only thing good that came from Chia was the number of Plex servers it ultimately created.
How is 'deficit' measured, and what source are you using?
https://archive.is/93ZLX
Is it time for the Revenge of the Normies?
Ineffectual and counterproductive to operational readiness. The only thing that can protect aircraft completely would be hardened bunkers, but even a simple hangar might be better than what is likely an arbitrary order from a Russian officer. They just helped Ukraine by tying up their bombers on the ground and covering them in what is essentially solid rocket fuel. Light one tire, and nothing will be able to stop the inferno. All Ukrainian forces have to do now is deliver incendiary payloads such as white phosphorus, magnesium, or thermite.