skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Headline writers are incapable of simply presenting facts anymore. Stocks don't go up or down a couple of percentage points, the "rocket" or "tumble." Judges don't issue rulings, they "excoriate" one side with a "blistering opinion." Movies don't underperform they're "huge, embarrassing bombs."

This is just one more area where social media and a click-based economy have made things demonstrably worse.
Self=driving cars could be important, if we used them in ways that didn't play to the traditional car narratives. An always-connected vehicle could start to deliver some of the "system intelligence" we see in more controlled public-transit platforms.

Self-driving cars should be smart enough to say "You specified a destination downtown. I will wait 4 minutes 23 seconds before departure because we'll have a peak cohort of people driving downtown, and can maximize fuel economy by drafting and traveling as a convoy." Potentially we even get to the point where the cars couple together and form transient "trains" to to spread the wear on the drive systems.

We could even have controls like "A parade/diplomatic mission/emergency vehicle is travelling down XYZ Street; to ensure their security, a two-block radius around it been flagged as no-go for any autonomous vehicles."
That is possibly intended as a useful signal to other researchers that the team has a lot of hard won technical knowledge working with the API which may not necessarily be elaborated upon within the paper.
I have worked with a very similar setup to prototype devices for a customer. One of the peripherals controlled was also a pump and interestingly, our interface looked almost exactly like what is being proposed here.

In terms of hardware, I can highly recommend Tinkerforge [1]. They support a wide range of sensors and actuators and can be controlled either via USB from a computer (all major platforms and many programming languages supported) or, for standalone devices, with an ESP32-based base-board called ESP32 Brick or ESP32 Ethernet Brick.

Since their products are open source (code AND schematics!) a design can be easily transferred to a custom PCB once the design is working.

Add either a web interface (native on the ESP32 or on your host computer if using a USB brick) or slap on a DearImgui frontend, and you have very powerful prototyping platform at your hands.

[1] https://www.tinkerforge.com/en/
> Is it possible to file a FOIA to get the domains and build a uncensored version?

Google isn't a governmental agency.
Sled theoretical performance guide (with executive summary)
That assumes your time costs zero.

But if you assume as I do that your time is the most valuable thing you have, then there’s no way to generate profits when all you sell is your time.

You can generate cash, sure. But profits as in selling something for more than it cost you, never. You can never get that time back, and it’s worth more than anything.

I would guess many will disagree with this perspective.
From my perspective, it already has. Some of my favorite long form creators have switched to shorts for the money. As a result I just no longer bother going to YouTube anymore and just stick with podcasts.
That might mean something if he was principled and competent rather than simply narcissistic and stabbing in the dark with generational wealth.
it's sounds more like suicide by FSD and not FSD tried to kill
I’ve been editing my Markdown files with it and wrote about it here: https://andyatkinson.com/blog/2023/05/26/better-writing-vale
Strange. I tried it with my blog and it said there was no feed https://kevincox.ca. I definitely have a alternate link tag set up.
Why all the hate for Shorts?

I think they serve a purpose i.e. when I don't have time to watch a full video, I can just watch a Short.

Basically when I'm on my computer, I don't watch Shorts. When I'm on my phone, and I have a few minutes to kill, but still want to learn something I'm interested in, I'll watch a Short.
Then please enlighten us how politicians are rewarded for making decisions. Is there an award "most decisions made"? Do people vote based on number of decisions made?

I'd rather think people vote based on what it was that a politician decided, and whether that is in line with their beliefs. Beliefs that may or may not come from scientific consensus
The point is that Lucene can be embedded in applications.

So you don't have another component that you need to cost, integrate, provision, manage, secure, backup etc.
I think programmers can actually misjudge when their bugs are negatively impacting people's lives, especially when they are in the mindset to justify not fixing a bug or improving on a broken design.

I've had some experiences working on some popular software, and have definitely seen people trivialize the impact of a bug in ways that do not appreciate that end users are putting the software in the middle of their life, and hence not understanding what it means to the end user when stuff is broken.

So a programmer saying "dude relax, it's just a website" doesn't really hold weight to me. To you, a programmer who doesn't want responsibility or hasn't prioritized a bug, it's just a website. To the end user, maybe they are using it in a way you don't expect, they want it to work, and it actually is meaningfully harmful to them when it fails in some way. You can say it's on them for "misusing" your app but ... Again, that's blaming the user for your bugs.

A real world example I recall was a colleague who trivialized data loss and reasoned that nobody stores important stuff on that app. The customer complaint was that the "trivial" data that was lost was a recording of his deceased father, or something of the sort.
I think I am convinced that Lucene works well for embeddings + retrieval tasks from this preprint. I hope the paper provides direct comparison against Pinecone, Chroma, etc.. With enough budget you can probably do a user study too.

Finer points:

1. I remember FAISS is very accelerated for GPUs. How does Lucene compare there?

2. "we’re not convinced that enterprises will make the (single, large) leap
from an existing solution to a fully managed service" --> Fair point but not everyone uses Lucene? I feel it is weird that this "existing solution" (Lucene) is assumed to be already adopted.
Quora's ChatGPT answers are, as far as I can tell, more often confidently wrong than they are right. For example, for the question "Which monarch in history had the highest regnal number?" it generates

> The monarch with the highest regnal number in history is Sobhuza II of Swaziland, who reigned for 82 years and 254 days

which is clearly incorrect (2 is not a very big number), and yet gets its own nice answer highlight at the top of Google (where the AI generated nature of the answer is not noted at all).
Let it crash!
Yandex is incredible for things that Google and Bing serves up useless spam for.

If you search “watch $MOVIE free” on google you’re going to get netflix, Hulu, prime, Disney etc as the first results regardless of whether those sites even have it in their library. The remaining links are SEO spam that also don’t have it but pretend they do, because the sites that actually do have all been struck or filtered.

Yandex on the other hand… the first result is generally exactly what you wanted in 720 or 1080 with no BS.

I do miss when google had a little footer that said “click here to view URLs that were removed due to copyright takedown requests”.

Edit: And I do pay for all of those streaming services and more, but in Canada if a franchise has 5 movies it’s not unheard of to have #1 on Netflix, #2 on Paramount, #3 on no service available here, and #4 and #5 on Disney or Crave. It’s the same with seasons of TV series: exhausting.
I'd say there is a difference - even though they get paid millions for kicking a ball, they do what you would expect then to do.

Writers/actors/directors are kind of different - I would expect them to take a source material and create a show that is true (as much as possible given the media format) to the original source. Ideally without showing contempt for said original material. Either that or create something original - something that has new and fresh ideas. And blindly replacing one sex for another or one color of person for another is not my idea of "new" or "fresh".

To me it seems like they decided that these things don't matter anymore. So I don't mind if they go belly up.
No, Mercedes, BMW, Renault all do a way, way better job than Tesla, and they started much later.
Ads are a necessary outcome of users rejecting to pay for digital content 99.9% of the time
Having trouble finding a charitable way to interpret your point here. I don't think anyone should die as a result of drunk driving.
Sounds like you're happy in a cocoon of "Nobody knows".

Personally I think it's insane to increase CO2 levels by that amount in just a few decades and expect there to be no bad consequences.
See now you're getting to the point but the point is that public transport is broken so we're patching it with cars. Perhaps we should be fixing that instead?
> And there is a large amount of advocacy for the USPS to take over consumer banking. No thanks.

Where are you hearing this? Only thing I've heard in the last few years is that the USPS used to handle simple banking for people, and that it would benefit rural and underserved folks. I've not heard anything about the USPS "taking over consumer banking".

> One thing about the government is that you can't sue them for their mistakes.

Right, because for-profit banks have treated us so well in recent years...
The menu descriptions in the study were quite thorough/complete. No trickery involved.
So we agree that you were an order of magnitude off, or are you just ignoring that?

I'm not sure what conversation we're having if you start a new topic without replying to the old, but sure I'll humor you on those points as well

> The climate is millions of years old.

At best, it's a few thousand years old. The climate was quite different 20k years ago during the last glacial period.

> We have at best 200 years of data.

Why are you're ignoring ice cores and other things we've drilled up and measured?

> Putin wins big time

Okay. I really don't care that one human, who will be long dead by then, turns out to have been right that climate change is a hoax, though I'm not aware that he made any statements on the matter. I'd be really happy if we're all wrong and the last dozen summers were just coincidentally hot and everything goes back to normal of its own accord. Better that and a rich Russia than the world being too warm for most of today's animals and sad Russians to boot!
I feel like between solr and elastic the reach is pretty deep.
Problems without solutions are predicaments to be suffered.
The incident being discussed here is the blocking of an ambulance. The root cause for the ambulance being dispatched is immaterial to the argument.

The position you have outlined creates a second argument, and its being called out as a distraction. Its akin to "Children eat less fruit when the cupboard is full of sugar" and then someone countering "I don't like pasta, why aren't we discussing that?".

They seem related because they are about food preferences, but they are not because the original study was discussing the presence of sugary foods and children bearing on health, not your personal preferences as an adult. In this case the discussion is about an automatic vehicle failing to move aside for an ambulance, and it is not about why that ambulance was attending a job, or about what that job is. Changing the topic does a disservice to the issue.
I hear you. The system on the Kia Forte 2022 is very fragile as well.

I just stopped using it.
“but things like this to me are a much more pressing issue”

That’s what we’ve been saying for almost half a century.

Guess what, we can do both.
It would be hilarious if Lucene did pull in an entire database as a transitive dependency. But sadly that's not the case:

https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Aapache%2Flucene%20pinecon...
Linux has this impression because most people use it as an aftermarket OS.

If you buy a device that's designed to run Linux from the start from say, the good people over at System76.com, you'll get a much smoother experience.
umm, how is it going to scale? how do you handle millions of vector per client and multiple clients? vector stores, like and DB is to simplify managing large scale data.
That hasn't generally been my experience, unless you qualify researchers as 'university students'.
Don't forget the defensive strategic play against other similar products. If that's where the audience goes, and you are not there, your competitors now get ad revenue that could have gone to you.
Ford beat Tesla to the truck market with the F-150 Lightning.
The root cause of both climate change and stuff like this is the same: corporate incentives, greed, and deregulation.
Question: a friend is a great designer and has coding chops. He just got a project with a large company fixing their e-commerce site. The deeper he digs the more farcical the whole thing has become. Nothing works, no one seems able to do anything and the past “agency” appears to be someone who hires developers in a developing market but has no real idea what they are doing. My friend has fixed huge amounts of broken stuff and delivered on time and under budget stuff they just could not get done. But big boss will not give him the big project for coming year because “he is just one guy” . Any suggestions on how to address this? Big boss is looking for security more than performance. But my friend can’t afford to hire 10 people to be an “agency”. Any suggestions on how to crack this?
Huh?

How about some site for sore eyes like

https://www.reddit.com/

?

I use ctrl + and ctrl - to adjust this site for viewing conditions. I will grant that I hit the flag button by accident sometimes with my tablet but i am scrupulous about fixing my mistakes.

It's a breath of fresh area for an industry that wants to devote 80% of a 640x480 screen by superfluous whitespace and huge letters where I have to drag, drag, drag, drag, drag to read anything...
Knot Theory [video]
The issue is that these "advisors" have to get paid. And if you are paying for mass-produced advice, the margins are guaranteed to be small. This is the kind of advice that you can easily get if you research it, but might still be work intensive or error-prone to implement. The happy medium is robo-advisors, that get paid slightly less and implement the strategies for you.
Classic Amen

https://invidious.lunar.icu/watch?v=1lHlxKgwLSE
This is similar to the FAANG salary phenomenon: for every individual contractor pulling $1MM in annual revenue, there are thousands who might barely be making minimum wage when expenses are factored in. Very few independent contractors end up earning enough to equal full-time employment doing similar work.
> The technology is not at all questionable thermodynamically, because it has been working for billions of years in the form used by plants.

The energy comes from sunlight. If you actually use plants, that's biofuels.

> The conversion of CO2 into hydrocarbons is precisely the only solution to the CO2 problem that cannot be questioned in any way, because it is the only solution about which it is known with certainty that it works, as anyone can see by just opening a window and looking outside.

Anyone can also see that you can charge an electric car with solar panels and operate the entire country of France on nuclear, hydro and renewables without ever burning anything.

> Normally any carbon capture installation must be powered by solar or wind energy, simultaneously solving the problem of the energy storage.

Then you've made the economics even worse because your facility can only operate during periods of surplus generation, which everyone else will be trying to minimize by spinning down peaker plants, charging their electric cars and otherwise using competing storage technologies with lower costs.

And the fossil fuel plants are the ones you'd want to shut down during those times, which implies you'd also have to store the CO2 for later use, which requires tanks and compressors and more energy -- energy that comes out of the inefficient side of the system because you have to do that during the times you don't have surplus generation.

It's not really that surprising that this isn't currently cost effective and it's not obvious that it's the most cost effective area of research either.
Just because vegans and vegetarians were able to find the food eventually doesn't mean they weren't negatively impacted. It's a huge pain in the ass to find the 2 items I can eat on your 30 item menu without labels. Maybe a separate menu would be appropriate if we want to move away from labeling.
I have an expensive omega. I don't normally need to worry about it, because its not a famous watch, its not one that most people would recognise.

If I had a massive rolex/richard mile or some other painfully obvious watch, then yes, I would be much more reticent.

I got it because its a pioneer watch: https://www.omegamegaquartz.com/ it was the first watch that was stonkingly accurate. There are some citizens and seikos that are probably now more accurate (some of the seikos look damn good too.) But none of them look like this massive lump of 70s engineering.

Yes I am very fortunate to be temporarily rich.
The CIA will be thrilled, now they can outsource hacking targets' cars to Lord Xoldemort and keep their own hands clean!
I checked the form, and you in fact have to add plenty of personal information to submit a takedown request. So in this case the submitter obviously didn't supply their real name. A youtuber on the other hand can't submit a false name on their counter filing (for the obvious reasons) and their personal information is sent to the takedown submitter automatically if I understood it correctly.
A 4 year old can walk 5 miles. You don't need cell service- if you can read a map, or just look for landmarks, you will be fine. Moon is still bright. Walking though mud is annoying but easier than deep snow. Getting your stuff back might be annoying, but there's no reason most of these people couldn't walk out of they had to. I've been stranded by a natural disaster-waited a few days and hitchhiked out after fording a river that took out the only bridge. This is just sensationalist stuff; a few tech bros will miss work on Tuesday, but that's the major effect
Reach out to me on twitter. Links in profile
Tesla is slashing the prices of their cars because of Chinese competition. The market is functioning quite nicely- at least until Musk can convince Washington to put BYD on a sanctions list.
In his essay On Fairy Stories, Tolkien argued the point of fantasy was the “good catastrophe” or happy ending. Tolkien viewed fantasy as therapeutic as counter to the ugliness of modern industrial life. It assures that there is a cosmic justice.

https://coolcalvary.files.wordpress.com/2018/10/on-fairy-sto...
Interesting article, they list applied use of the theory on mainstream tools, things I never see on my readings. https://plv.mpi-sws.org/rustbelt/popl18/ for instance. Very cool
I helped some people locate the grave sites of ancestors, not all is as documented as you would like it to be and there are quite a few mix-ups in names and DOB and so on (there shouldn't be, but that's the reality). This meant we visited multiple such sites in a very short period of time, and after the first couple it starts to really get to you: I could do this all day, every day of the year and never visit the same place twice.

In NL alone there are 3900 sites dedicated to WWII graves, ranging from single individuals, airplane crews (of planes that have never been dug up) all the way to grave sites so large that you can't see one end from the other. It is more than just a little impressive to see row after row with the names of people that came thousands of kilometers to die defending a country that they had otherwise probably never visited or would have never visited. In France and Belgium there are fewer such sites but they tend to be (much) larger, Lorraine in particular is impressive in the same way that a visit to a former concentration camp is.

It strikes me as that those poor guys that came here to liberate these countries would each and every one of them be absolutely horrified to see the state of affairs today, the degree to which we have betrayed them is something that we will never be able to wash off. The fact that the ultra-right is now exactly the thing they fought against and that it is the children of the beneficiaries of their sacrifice that are bringing this evil back into the world is what I find most horrifying. Really, I never really got the 'history repeats itself' thing at the gut level until I made that connection.

WWI is similarly impressive, but I don't have any family members that had that in living memory who are alive any more. But my grandmother lived through both of these, WWI did not impact as much here as WWII so I know far more of the first hand stories about WWII. But that doesn't mean that I'm unmoved by the history and seeing the remains of it (the grave sites and the 'no go' sites that are still too dangerous today) is formative. The 'Zone Rouges' are expected to be around for at least several more centuries...

Ukraine is headed there.
"Large scale, historically grown systems" get like that because there wasn't sufficient accountability in the first place. Things like this don't happen in the aviation industry because there are regulatory bodies holding people accountable, something almost entirely missing from the software industry. That was the original point made in this thread.
Sounds as dumb as buying a fully electric car as your one and only driving vehicle and you do frequent road trips in remote and non-remote areas!

Also, the time it take to charge your EV compared to filling your gas car is silly after spending $50k to $200k!.
Please convince me not to start this.

OK I'll bite. The project has scope that is too ambitious and is in the domain you have poor understanding of. The odds of failure are overwhelming.

On the other hand, checking your hubris the hard way is a decently reliable method to grow professionally, so…
If I see something labelled vegan I immediately think it's going to taste worse. I don't think that about vegetarian food necessarily. But when I see it labelled that way on a menu it does go through my head that this food is on the menu for reasons other than its flavor.
Nobody is relying on apples for the majority of our calories.
It was blocked by a self-driving vehicle and an empty cop car.
And I bet some veteran staff thinks that shorts should be all there is.

People have opinons, what's this nothing burger?
Why do US companies pay out every week instead of every month? Is there some sort of benefit to it? I would think the overhead is higher and makes things more complex especially if you have an outage.
Until you, mschuster91, figure out how to get rid of food waste and fossil fuels, id rather half the world not starve.
I'm not sure shorts make much in the way of money vs regular videos.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/H6st2yl6jNE

As they said, I think it might be good for discovery. My personal habits back that up, I'm aware of some channels I wouldn't otherwise be without shorts.
In that context, what's the difference between a Short and a regular video, only shorter?
Google Turns 25
For decades, banks, insurance companies, airlines, multinationals and generally the entire world ran their entire IT operations on databases less powerful than a single SQLite running on a modern PC. Makes sense that it's all you need for many problems.
I can't read the source without an account, but 55% + 30% = 85%. Is the last 15% Chromebooks? (I guess there's also traditional desktop Linux but I can't imagine that's more than 2% at most.)