skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I'm trying to separate the ideas here. She uses the term "capitalist imperative of growth". I would say that is a culture that has formed withing our economic system not a required or desirable part of it. Free markets however are something different. They are simply the freedom to transact. That freedom is something good. An example of the beauty of that freedom is the Authors ability to live the life she wants while others get to live the lives they want working like crazy people.

Once you separate the ideas there is no implication of hypocrisy.
It makes sense if you a) earn a decent amount of money b) want to live in Manhattan for all the entertainment options etc. c) only need space for a bed because you only ever eat out and don't spend much time at home.
A divorce lawyer in New Jersey told me that 1/3 of the prenups she sees end up making any difference.
Is #2 based on #1's technology? If so, then you can use it as a test/demo app for #1.
Here’s a link to a more full capture hi resolution image looks like tires to me.

https://twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1699168108148089169?s=20
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This is just so fantastic, I have been looking for something like this for the open-source edtech app builder Flow (https://github.com/opencurriculum/flow) for the past year! Talked to the WebStudio guy and did so much research, but nothing was just right. This feels JUST. RIGHT.

Thank you for all the hardwork!
Hey @rvrs, I work on Weaviate and we are doing some improvements around increasing write throughput:

1. gRPC. Using gRPC to write vectors has had a really nice performance boost. It is released in Weaviate core but here is still some work on do on the clients. Feel free to get in contact if you would like to try it out.

2. Parameter tuning. lowering `efConstruction` can speed up imports.

3. We are also working on async indexing https://github.com/weaviate/weaviate/issues/3463 which will further speed things up.

In comparison with pgvector, Weaviate has more flexible query options such as hybrid search and quantization to save memory on larger datasets.
The rotation requirement is possibly misguided but does solve the problem where the passwords were leaked months ago. If everybody affected had rotated passwords three months later, this problem wouldn't even exist today.

Old leaks often show up a long time later. A lot of people had yahoo? email accounts hacked because they used the same linkedin? password, but the leak was from years prior. If yahoo had required rotation, the password list would have been useless by the time it circulated.
Why not just use a mobile app for that?
Okta customers hit by campaign that gave attackers super admin control
>> For these people, driving to a grocery store and parking in parking lots are just things they put up with in order to get what they really want.

> Your point here would carry more weight, if it was legal in the U.S. to build anything except huge empty suburbs, with soulless car park shops miles away.

This is completely and utterly false. Any laws governing what can and cannot be built are entirely _local_. There are no laws that govern construction on a national scale, or even a state–wide scale.

And you are the one that judges a suburb to be “empty”, and the parking lots to be “soulless”. That is just your opinion; not everyone shares it. The majority of people in America prefer suburbs precisely because it maximizes the type of neighborhood that they want and choose to live in.
As it happens I dug into this question in some detail a couple of weeks ago when analysing the dataset, including carefully reading the wikipedia page which the question comes from. AFAICT both D and E are kinda correct, but E isn't quite right because MOND doesn't entirely "eliminate the observed missing baryonic mass", but rather just reduces it from a factor of 10 to 2.

Is that not correct? (Of course I fully accept your expertise in this matter and this is just my curiosity, not trying to tell you you're wrong!)
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The future headwinds for social media
But it is the same argument just at different points on the curve. Using the curve to argue against a tax raise just implies you are on the optimal point [for raising revenue] or somewhere to the right and arguing for a tax cut implies you are somewhere to the right. Notice both arguments have similar assumptions and the only difference is the unlikely possibility you are at the optimal point. Of course one of those arguments is stronger because it does include this unlikely possibility but not much stronger. I think the main argument is whether you are to the left or the right of the curve not whether you are at the optimal point.

Also, I’m assuming it’s unlikely the government has set the tax rate at the optimal rate to maximise revenue. But this assumption is probably dubious because even without explicit knowledge of the curve governments are probably pushed towards the optimal rate.
They are not being trained only on 1 epoch. They are trained on multiple epochs for high quality data. Also Meta team with llama show that simply training more, more tokens, continues to reduce loss.
> So finish it and then I will merge your PR ;) What's the use of putting it in master if it's not finished?

Because of the thing I said in the sentence before the one you quoted.

> If they're taking too long and have to rebase and re-work their code to integrate, that's on them.

No, in the organisations I build, we work as a team and if someone is taking too long it's because we don't have the systems in place to help them work faster. There is very clear research on the benefits of working in small batches and integrating continuously. If that research has passed you by then I strongly suggest you go back and take a look.
Btw, a very easy big win for you would be to port the side styles/interactions panel of WebStudio into this. And by port I mean extracting the code to make a common open-source library with the correct license and putting it in Puck.
Kudos to this strong man. Got a law degree, practices, and operates a computer with just his mouth.
Yes, a lot of recent research uses LLM outputs as training data, and it's been an extremely successful line of work.
But you can't get great furniture pre-assembled from plywood (which a lot of mid-century furniture was). I don't know if the furniture still around from them is just survivorship bias or what, but I've seen many such pieces today.
Today’s acceptable key is tomorrows weak key.

Access controls to the vault do place a high burden on the service operator, but without it, I believe users with semi-weak passwords would get picked off left and right.
If a HW company is shutting down due to financial difficulties, the fact they previously paid to get a "license" to make smart devices won't be any incentive for them to continue operating. How does this help the situation other than to further raise the barrier of starting HW companies?
After the Newton was shut down, 1998, according to this:

https://www.cpushack.com/2010/10/26/how-the-newton-and-arm-s...
if your principles on FOSS change when someone uses your software in a way you don't like, you never had any principles in the first place
So how do you do this if you're documenting something that you'd get in trouble for exposing and don't want publicly traceable back to you?
Where’d you store that key securely, though? It’s passwords all the way down (unless you use smartcards or tokens).
NYC attempted to grant voting rights to noncitizens who had been residents for over 30 days. Auspicious timing.
Past discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26493588
> I would be a happy nerd if I could do all of my web dev in OCaml.

You don't like Bonsai? Or do you just want something that doesn't "transpile" to JS at all?
Long time ago (probably around 2010 or something) I had a similar idea [1] and concluded that it is infeasible due to the LZ77 window but... wow, I never thought that starting a speculative parsing at every possible position can be good enough! Great job!

Just in case, my own idea was that, due to the fact that there is exactly one end-of-block symbol per block and the longest codes in dynamic Huffman trees should be lexicographically last due to the canonical encoding. So if you have a long row of 1 bits there is a good chance that this codes the EOB symbol (because it should be the rarest symbol and any reasonable compressor will assign the longest code) and a new block follows. I don't know if this is better than the current brute-force approach.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29586865
You'd hope not, but it could be backed on something like a tape drive: too much effort to retrieve and then access.
Does your weather station connect to the internet? (the discussion is about IoT devices)

If so, plenty of IoT devices have been used in botnets, as point of entry into local networks (hello printer, home assistant, file share...), or simply killed off with a DoS attack.
Let's see. The two big codes I worked with- BLAST and AMBER- have competitors. For BLAST there have been a long history of codes that attempted to do better than it, and I don't think anybody really succeeded until that except possibly HMMER2. Both BLAST and HMMER2 had decades of effort poured into them. BLAST was rewritten a few times by its supporting agency (NCBI) and the author(s) of HMMER rewrote it to be HMMER2. I worked with the guy who wrote the leading competitor to HMMER, he was an independently wealthy computer programmer (with a physics background). In the case of AMBER, there are several competitors- gromacs, NAMD, and a few others are all used frequently. AMBER has been continuously developed for decades (I first used it in '95 and already it was... venerable).

All the major players in these fields read each other's code and papers and steal ideas

In other areas there are no competitors, there's just "write the minimal code to get your idea that contributes 0.01% more to scientific knowledge, publish, and then declare code bankruptcy". And a long tail of low to high quality stuff that lasts forever and turns out to be load-bearing but also completely inscrutable and unmodifiable.

After typing that out I realize I just recapitulated what you said in your first paragraph. My knowledge of finance is limited beyond knowing "jane street capital has been talking about FP for ages" and most of the people I've talked to say their work in finance (HPC mostly) is C++ or hardware-based.
Show HN: Use this tiny library to move async methods out to their own files
Larger cloud providers set pricing based on what their competitors are charging and what the market will bear, not based on their costs. Smaller providers don't benefit as much from economies of scale. "Large scale profit taking" is an accurate description.
How would you enforce mandatory password rotation for wallet seed phrases, though? That kind of defeats the purpose of a cold wallet.
Oh yeah for sure, I can only imagine Adobe in its early days was just as exceptional as Microsoft or Apple back then.

I would have thought another Google would come along in the last 25 years, but weirdly/arguably it was Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft that out-competed them! (in mobile, e-commerce, and cloud)

Those companies are all older than Google!

And there's definitely a timing issue play. The market in the early 80's was "ripe" for the PC boom and Apple, and the market was ripe for desktop publishing and Adobe.

The Internet was likewise "ripe" in the early 2000's.

It feels like the last 10 years have been full of grasping at straws for the next big thing:

- google glass was definitely a "jump the shark" moment

- VR / metaverse seems to be "forced"

- there was a bunch of hype around 3D printing for consumers, rather than for industrial use

- In 2023, self-driving cars have achieved 1% or less of what people thought they would in 2013 or 2016

- crypto and NFTs also feel "forced". Bitcoin is 15 years old now. Whatever you think of it, it's not like the PC era or the Internet era. 15 years in, those were way more impactful.

- I mentioned generative AI above -- it's interesting, but it also has big question marks in terms of BOTH the product and business. Google had neither of those. It's also 11 years in to deep learning.

Of course, this could be just an old guy talking ... and probably missing a lot of what's useful and new. But it does seem like Google was singular -- both the right thing, and the right time. I'm sad to see how bad the products have gotten and how disappointed people are in the brand
First time I'm hearing about the View Transitions API

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/View_Transi...
Recent and related:

The dream of polio eradication might need a rethink - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35519473 - April 2023 (50 comments)
Less durable tho
If you want to make the retailer uncomfortable, ask how much they would buy it back for.

Retailers don't even own their inventory, it's on loan and they only pay the diamond cartel when they sell a diamond.
I nursed my Lightwave dongle through my early career as an animator. I've lost so many pairs of glasses, several wallets, a couple of phones, but I know exactly which drawer that usb stick is sitting in now. Not that I reckon I'll ever touch LW again.
> It it goes wrong, you cannot buy a new one or hire repairperson at a sane price. If it has a software side, it will probably need maintainence.

It's not clear to me that the alternative provides these either. Just thinking about some of the appliance-type things I've had issues with lately: my oven would've made more sense to replace than hire a repair person, and my ISP-provided router is running their latest firmware which is horribly out of date...
I opted out of the entire motor vehicle industry for far less.
Sure, it is entirely possible to get screwed over with no recourse. That said, my lived experience is that most of the time people in high growth orgs think they're being unfairly screwed they're really grappling with their revealed preference to stay in their comfort zone rather than obtain career growth.
"Just use a database table" solves for the simplest cases - a single monolithic app. It works incredibly well in this case. It falls apart when I need to turn features on across multiple apps together.
I want keyboard pants as well. I saw one company having them in the pipeline recently (forgot which) but indeed not wireless which is not great as for things like Vr/ar plugging in will need an extra hub.
> The problem is that many of those who hold such beliefs want everyone else to use 'gender identity' in lieu of sex, and lobby for law and policy to be changed so this is enforced.

You objection is that that individual is defining how the collective treats the individual. You would rather than individual must play by the rules of the collective.
Cool project!

I maintain a somewhat related repo here: https://github.com/eliben/wasm-wat-samples/
Thanks for reaching out to the community.

Instead of mandatory updates, there are lower hanging fruits you can win, and will have just as much, if not more positive security impact.

1. No default password, one must be set at initial configuration

2. Devices must function without public internet connection (unless it is one of the device's primary function to transmit out)

3. Devices must function without centralized host

4. Explicit disclosure of all "phone home" destination hosts, and ability to change or disable this

5. Explicit disclosure what information is transmitted out, and ability to disable this

I think the above five can be implemented relatively easily, requires no continued maintenance from the manufacturers, and improves the CIA triad of IoTs.
If that feature were to be implemented truthfully, it would have to report “go and change all of these; we were compromised and your master password was probably not secure enough” (i.e. based on the master password’s strength in addition to that of stored passwords).
COBOL runs on mainframes, which need clean power, air conditioner, filtered air, and on-call support engineers. Those things will disappear first under any sort of collapse.

If any sort of collapse hits, the popular programming jobs would be either old PCs (of which there are tons around, and which have tons of replacement parts); or repurposing old cellphones into something else (again, sheer number of things); or something super simple like 6502.
That's some remarkably-poor googling skill. It took me a single search query to figure out what he was talking about.

And no, I'm not going to tell you what I found. It's fun watching the topic get dodged.
TIL there's an industry around feature flags. I can see how it can be useful, but imo if you're doing the modern approach with k8s, gitops, etc. deployments are too easy to bother with this.
I don't know exactly who is the "first" but Svelte just announced this a few days ago:

https://svelte.dev/blog/view-transitions
I think it’s not wrong, just incomplete. Doing a good job on an important problem will be rewarded, in time. Once a persons impact and reliability is trusted, opportunities come to them.
Have you experienced any of the current driverless taxi services?

Personally i see the current limits to rollout as ones of hardware cost, but this is steadily declining.
> What, specifically, is odd about it? I think the stranger position is the one that allows people to inform policy that affects future generations when they themselves are intentionally not making themselves a part of that future.

It's arbitrary and dogmatic to require having kids in order to have a say in the future, for starters?

> why do you think politicians always advertise the fact that they have a family when they're running for office (or hide the fact that they don't)?

That's not true in Western Europe and increasingly untrue in the US too.

> Because it, at a subconscious level, makes people feel comfortable. "This person's progeny have to live with these policies." It's a trust signal.

As an example I can think of many US politicians who had kids that supported the 2017 tax cuts and opposed measures to decarbonize the US economy. Kids or no kids, they don't care about the future.
The question of stability is an interesting one.

There's a long-standing observation that countries in which stable political, economic, and technological cultures have emerged have tended to have natural defences. The British Isles and Japanese archipelago in particular both avoided successful foreign invasion or even significant attack for nearly 1,000 years, until the 20th century.

Contemporary stability has more to do with Superpower alliances than geography, though geography still matters. The grand central-European plain had been the parade ground of invading armies since before the Mongol invaders, but today is largely peaceful, so long as one looks underneath the NATO umbrella. Ukraine suffers not only flat geography, ready river and sea access, railway infrastructure, and a long and unrespected border with Russia, but status as an unalligned state, whose prior security treaties with Russia have been abrogated.

The first four factors are common to numerous other states, it's the last which has proved critical to its history since 2014.

And such alliances don't require especially robust economic capability. Among the 31 members of Nato are wealthy states in absolute (Germany) and per-capita (Liechtenstein) terms, but also some of the poorest, notably Montenegro at 75th worldwide per capita and ranked 46 of 50 among European states in overall GDP (2023). Albania, Croatia, Estonia, Iceland, Latvia, Romania, and Slovakia are other states with low overall or per-capita GDP:

State GDP EU rank GDP/capita (WW)
----- ----------- ---------------
Albania: 40 101
Belgium: 12 18
Bulgaria: 26 73
Canada: n/a n/a
Croatia: 29 54
Czechia: 19 37
Denmark: 16 9
Estonia: 35 38
Finland: 18 15
France: 3 21
Germany: 1 16
Greece: 22 39
Hungary: 24 51
Iceland: 37 6
Italy: 4 25
Latvia: 34 50
Lithuania: 30 44
Luxembourg: 27 1
Montenegro: 46 75
the Netherlands: 7 12
North Macedonia: 42 92
Norway: 13 3
Poland: 10 49
Romania: 17 55
Slovakia: 25 45
Slovenia: 31 34
Spain: 6 29
Turkey: 8 53
United Kingdom: 2 22
United States: n/a n/a

Notes:

- I've listed the North American members, but omitted their GDP as these are not European states.)

- EU rank is 1--50 inclusive.

- GDP/capita rank is 1--134 within Europe, based on global IMF rankings of 192 states worldwide.

Sources:

- GDP overall: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_in_Eu...>

- GDP/capita: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_in_Eu...>

Takeaway: Alliances trump GDP or per-capita income.
Generally agree, but: the idea for FP in scientific computing would be for the FP-optimizing compiler to elide any computation that doesn't contribute to the final result.

The analogy I think of is is tree traversal. A smart person can write an optimal tree traversal algorithm and make their program finish quickly, whether or not the user requested that part of the algorithm's results, but FP can realize the program doesn't output the tree, so traversing it can be skipped. OK, that's not a great analogy but the point is that in principle, FP optimization could find a cheaper way to produce the same exact values as a simulation written in a non-functional language.
It’s really hard to undo people’s impression of what things are “supposed” to cost after decades of outsourcing manufacturing to low-wage countries. People who aren’t looking for artisan work really aren’t interested in paying inflation-adjusted prices from 30+ years ago, which is an interesting pairing to the not uncommon complaints that things don’t last as long.
There are large companies out there (example: Orbia) who explicitly recommend ONLY using LastPass as a password manager to their employees "for security".
I bought Klack and enjoying it so far. Wish there were more switches though. My concern is how do I know this is not a keylogger that I just knowingly paid to install into my system? :-)
Use a credit card, take it to be tested, and do a charge back for fraud if it doesn’t meet specifications.
> I pushed Lastpass to my company in 2017, made everyone use 24 char.

Do people actually memorize that?! If so, I strongly suspect that these pass phrases have much less entropy than 24 truly random characters would allow.
Finally had a chance to test it, and you're right. It's not a property that can be set via "setprop", unfortunately.
Life is very cheap in India. Things like bus crashes, people falling off trains due to overcrowding don't even make the local news because they is always something worse and 'sensational' that grabs headlines more: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/raped-rajast...
I'm cheered by ongoing progress in adoption of WebAssembly. While Microsoft is often given minimal notice here, I urge anyone interested in WASM to experiment with Blazor WebAssembly. It's an incredibly powerful framework that lets you use C# and most .NET libraries (including NuGet packages) as compiled WASM in the browser.
Do you use any of the add-on modules?
I think what you want to be saying is that GDP is measured in constant monetary units, e.g., "1980 dollars" or "2010 euros".

That monetary equivalence equates to real purchasing power over goods and services. Nominal changes in currency values (whether foreign-exchange or inflation/deflation) are pencilled out in this way.

And the GDP growth that is measured is as a percentage in terms of those constant currency units. Which, again, reflect actual capacity to purchase material goods or the product of energetic effort.