skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, higher inflation in certain sectors. e.g. "free" money resulted in housing prices growing at a much faster pace than goods and services for an extended period of time (something similar also applies to education in the US for instance)

> short selling system so that speculators can pop 'bubbles'.

Like in real estate? I mean technically, yeah it's not even really bubble in most places (obviously not China for instance). But I'm pretty sure you understand what I'm trying to say (or should, anyway)
I joined the Bun.sh Discord a couple days ago to ask a question, and it got drowned out a flood of other questions or simply people hanging out making jokes. I think this is what you're talking about.

Same thing happened to the Ripcord Discord (it's basically a stream of memes now).
I think personally I can compress $1b into 0 within a week, but $1tr would be a real challenge. Another thing I should point out that I don't support compressing people (for now).
Yeah what you mentioned might be true. Currently our understanding on how LLMs really work behind the screens is limited. For example, there was a recent research[1] where LLM's accuracy is better if the context is added at the beginning when compared to the end of the prompt. So it's mostly by trial & error to figure out what works out best for you. You can use FAISS or similar to have the embeddings in-memory instead of a full fledged vector DB. But pg vector is convenient plugin if you already have postgres instance running

[1]- https://towardsdatascience.com/in-context-learning-approache...
Forgive me, my grok ability is low right now. I read the section about detecting TTY traffic, and in my mind, TTY traffic would be an example of a legit normal connection. Engineer accessing the system, etc.
And every release they break my Split-view workflow. It is just random thing, every time something different. The latest thing - when the current file is split vertically, new split has viewport moved to something like 20 lines below. And yes, every time it takes years to actually fix those.
I really love the crazy-people energy of this.

There's no hesitation or equivocation, just THE ANSWER.

Does it matter if it's a joke / hoax or not? I don't think so, I think it's beautiful either way.
> You're making up your "obvious" reality there.

There has never been even a hint of a popular federal movement in any of the countries which you mentioned, so I don't think I am.

> EU federalism was born in France and remains strong in the other three countries I mentioned - it might not be a clear majority at the moment, but it's definitely a popular idea among large swaths of the population.

That's a bold claim that I'm sure you'll be able to back up?

Honestly, I think you've allowed your own preferences and wishful thinking to cloud your judgement here.
Afaik they don't use Starlink terminals - traditional HF or UHF band radio.
On the flat surface of a sea you don't have problems with maintaining LOS.
Clearly, my choice to program in Free Pascal/Lazarus, using the old GUI toolkits is vindicated! ;-)

In the world of machining, 1940s-1960s American cast iron machine tools (Mills, Lathes, etc) are the best available. Grind / Scrape the bearing surfaces true, update the control systems, and they'll be good to go for at least 2 more generations.
Very cool! NIR is often used to measure protein, fat, water and fiber contents i corn, animal feedstuff. I used to make calibrations for that in the 90's. I wonder if this would be able to do that?
The headline of the article makes what I assume to be a deliberate error as they claim that the CEO said unemployment needs to rise to 50%, where as he said by 50%.

The article headline as written is stating that the CEO wants unemployment to increase to 50% where as the actual statement says it should go from the existing 3.6% to 5.4%.

Not that I agree with him though, but I just think the article is being ridiculous.

But yes in general low unemployment favours the workers while high unemployment favours the employers.
I think unless you need a vector db definitely don't use it.

A vector storage could help in reduce the time it takes to retrieve the most similar hit. I used faiss as a local vector store quite a bit to retrieve vectors fast. Though I had 1.5 million vectors to work through.
Honestly, if you want to do this, just study and use the Library of Congress cataloging system: https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/ui/en_US/htdocs/help/numbers.h...

The energy in creating your own catalog system to this extent while one already exists seems pretty ridiculous.

Why not Dewey Decimal? Well... I mean... I guess you could. But most libraries have converted to LOC since it is fully supported and still receives attention and updates to categorizations.
I agree that at most 50% of people who technically can work should work. However all should have their basic living expenses, healthcare and education covered regardless of their work status. There's really no reason for preventing people from enjoying all the economic value that the last 50 years or more of development brought to the rich.
No, you don't need a vector database. You can get OK results by prompting "give me ten search terms that are relevant to this question", then running those searches against a regular full-text search engine and pasting those results back into the LLM as context along with the original question.

You're likely to get better results from vector-based semantic search though, just because it takes you beyond needing exact matches on search terms.
He’s just saying the quiet part out loud.
Agree here. I long for an open source combat flight sim, and Bevy, with ECS, rust, wasm capabilities, thread safety, etc sounds quite apt.
Hello Tero! Do you have project example using Nue (however small)?
That power supply is really something. I'd be tempted to replace it with something modern, but it's so crazy and massive it's really a major part of the machine's aesthetic when you open it up.
> There's hardly any other API with that kind of backwards compatibility.

X11/Xlib, though obviously you have to do the GUI bits yourself (but then you mentioned VT100 terminal codes so i guess that is acceptable).

Also AFAIK Motif is backwards compatible going back to the 90s.
Yup or sometimes even you click another filter while it's loading and the other filter click just gets turned off again after the reload.

Very bad UX
outsourcing the responsibility that is.
With a lot of weather data you end up with these large gridded files like grib, netcdf, hdf, etc. Does anyone know if theres a way to get this kind of data into a database or something where you can query it quickly? I've been wondering how people handle this kind of data for awhile.

The only idea I came up with was contouring the data into shapes and then storing those shapes in a db that can do spatial queries.
By your logic, the sign language which mostly communicates via symbols and its mostly 1-2 symbols per word, no spaces, will be the best compression.
I don't understand most of this decisions.
Labour shortages outside of regulated industries are the easiest free markets problem to solve that exists: pay people more and treat them better.
GrapheneOS is way too good. I imported a Pixel just to run it. Wish more phones had the security hardware it requires.

The creator used to post a lot about it here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=strcat
I guess that's what one gets for reading just the headline? TFA talks about the downsides called out in this thread explicitly.

tbf, the idea isn't as novel. Data warehouses, for instance, provide SQL as a direct API atop it.
Not only a millionaire CEO, one that runs a luxury properties developer. The same one who said that millenials can't afford housing because they spend money on "avocado toast".
Wayland proper is a protocol specification. By it itself, it's completely inert and it's all up to an implementation.

The protocol uses shared memory buffers and file descriptors, so it can't be just transported through TCP as-is. You need something like waypipe, which parses part of the protocol, extracts things like file descriptors that won't make sense on the other end, and then reconstructs things on the destination.

waypipe turns out not to be that complicated, it's just 15K lines of code.
Interesting. I thought anything >1million would need a vector db to scale on production. What was your machine config for running faiss? Also did you plan for redundancy or was it just faiss as a service VM?
Why stop bots though. Price comparison sites are amazingly useful.
Yep.

GNOME makes often changes without long term strategy or asking their actual users. The removal of Type-Ahead-Find in Nautilus or background-transparency in GNOME-Terminal where mistakes. On the other hand new applications like Documents or Console required resources but provide no benefit over it counterparts. That said - Nautilus improved a lot in recent years and there are even patches available for Type-Ahead-Find (or Navigation). Same for background-transparency in the GNOME-Terminal. The separated top-bar-menus were also a problem (decoupling menus from application-windows was copied from Apple) but now reverted, they learn.

If the design team is aware of the usage and has a plan things fit well! The overview is great for keyboard and mouse users, the dash make simple things simple, they got rid of the useless desktop-metapher (copied from Win95) and also the system-tray (another thing from Win95). The keyboard focused use of GNOME is use core-feature, fast for experienced users and a relieve for novice users. The GNOME-Shell provided a good UI and removed many questionable ideas of the past.

Wishlist?

Decouple the release cycle of most applications from GNOME, excepting Nautilus and Settings. There is no need to couple Epiphany, Terminal, Maps, Calendar and so. Evolution already skips every second release. And feature-removal should require a good reasoning and not just „I don’t need that myself“. Many options are bewildering, many forks without merges are worse (lost developers and lost users).
The key implementation to save the cost is this:

> Next comes the detector. How are we gonna detect light from a range of angles with only a single 'pixel' of photodiode? We mount the photodiode on a motor and scan it across! To do this, I purchased a stepper-driven linear stage from Amazon for $50. This little stage is quite well-built and allows a resolution-per-step of 5 um, more than enough for our resolution.

So instead of using an expensive array of InGaAs sensors, he uses a single sensor ("pixel") and use a motor to physically scan across space.

For my previous work, I used industrial and scientific IR spectrometers costing above 100k USD. While the sensitivity of the physical machines is important (especially for basic scientific research), it's often the software that makes or breaks the usage case. Modern spectrometer software contains advanced signal processing and machine learning.
Only GNOME supports clipboard sharing with guests, because GNOME unifies X11 and Wayland clipboards in the compositor. None of the other Wayland DEs are supporting it since it requires special handling in their respective compositors.
I guess that’ll be your last Samsung then, considering they too dropped the headphone jack after mocking Apple for doing so.
Interestingly he did share an anecdote. Startups fail quietly and obscurely?

https://twitter.com/lennysan/status/1687138482152783873
You tell me. My biggest pain with XFCE is multi-monitor support. Like having the menu bar also on the second display and not have two of them when you switch back to single-monitor.
Great hypothetical, now I’m wondering what your real life experience is like.
For KSP1 alone I made about 30 installs due to modding alone. Different versions and different modsets.
Hey! You can clone and play with this: https://github.com/nuejs/create-nue — it showcases Nue JS, which is currently the only thing completed from the Nue Ecosystem. The only real Nue project atm is the nuejs.org website.
IMO this kind of misses the point because now you have a fancy system to handle your documents, but the rest of the company is using a million variations of just about every system you can think of including having folders named "temp" and "data2" and Karen will not use your system no matter what you will say. I mention this, because the author mentioned "corporate system" and not "personal system". For personal management this is fine of course.

Given the "systems" I have seen in the wild I think literally anything that sort of standardizes information generation and retrieval is a massive improvement over random word documents on various NAS'es, local files, powerpoints, emails and of course various sharepoint and custom CMS pages.

I think many businesses can noticebly improve by dumping everything they have into .txt files instead of all the bs formats MS and friends came up with and just have a good search function. It looks like ass, but do you care about information or what.

I'm sort of joking, of course, but not really..
Notion is better in most things it's doing, while obsidian is better in the things Notion is not offering or where it's weak. So it depends on your priorities and abilities. And on the long run, the gap will become smaller and smaller, in favor of obsidian I would say.
Sorry about this. You can join the help/help-chat in Bun’s discord to get help and that is more organized
You may find the book "Structure of Scientific Revolutions" interesting if you have not read it. The author posits that it isn't people entrenched in the field that will offer breakthrough advancements, but it is instead outsiders looking in.

More often than not, they are aggressively rebutted, which leads to the belief that science progresses one funeral at a time. Perhaps it is you who needs to guard against hubris?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_Re...
If you already know Python, the advice in this article is certainly a lot easier and more actionable than "just learn Go or Rust or Zig instead".
What if AI treats humans the way we treat animals?
The US Sanctions weren't meant to stop sub-14nm processes despite what Redditors said. The main point was to keep a 3-5 year lead on Process R&D.

That said, I've found the policymaking around the whole Semicondutor space very infuriating. There's a lot of blowhard bullshit going on, and in an actual shooting war we'd be seeing larger sized chipsets used (eg. 14nm, 28nm, etc).

You don't need computational performance for a precision missle - it's anyhow going to crash itself.

And any attempts as slowing Chinese simulation/Exascale compute would have anyhow failed as

1. The sanctions only target military, not educational and private sector players despite China's robust MIC

2. Parallelism can make up for any raw compute losses.

I have some additional thoughts about this having worked with some of the people writing these policies but ehn
Glucose charges the brain, yeah. Take yo lunch breaks. Don't overdose on it though; you'll get a sugar crash later.

Fruit and veggies are good for this. Sprite Zero may be useless or negative. Be wary of white bread, instant noodles, pasta, potato, chocolate, sweets, any fast sugar (surprisingly sugar itself may be okay).

Isomaltulose was invented to be a good form of this but it's similar in impact to fruits.
Maybe GitHub issues are bad as a support forum, but the point that OP was trying to make (that Discord is even worse as a support forum) is still valid. On GitHub issues, you at least have a chance to find the solution for an issue yourself, on Discord you basically have to ask and hope that someone is nice (and competent) enough to answer your question.
It's popular because it's familiar, but also people because are so impatient they want real-time and fast responses to their questions. But then you get a flooded channel of questions being drowned out by memes.

So then you use the Discord forum feature to solve that problem. But then you may as well have used Discourse.
Presumably those positions are competitive also, given the unique experience. So, knowing if she was wait-listed, for how long, or if she found some way around that, etc...would have been interesting.
Linux Hardening Guide – Madaidan's Insecurities
"Wouldn’t the first step be to settle the science then?"

That was actually my suggestion.

The amateur radio service is defined as an experimental service so by its nature it involves all radio amateurs if they're interested—they'd pay for any equipment that was needed, not the government.

Earthquakes are unpredictable and it'd be very difficult to guarantee there would be enough AR stations equipped with monitoring equipment sufficient to accurately triangulate the location of the electromagnetic disturbance. It's a voluntary service so to be effective you'd involve as many as possible (and do so everywhere).

The fact that the science is still unresolved is partially because there isn't enough scientific monitoring equipment in the right place at the right time. The whole purpose of my proposal was to try and overcome that limitation.

ELF transmissions are a big deal when one is trying to communicate with submarines where the seawater adds hugely to the path-loss. Any such monitoring service would likely only use several Hz bandwidth so one should be able achieve a reasonable signal-to-noise ratio with limited power (like Voyager does now to communicate with earth).

BTW, there's already an amateur band a 2200 metres (135.7 - 137.8 kHz). which is well below the AM broadcast band. Whether it's low enough in frequency needs investigation. In fact, it would be necessary to select the 'ideal' band before any service could commence (that would be part of the scientific investigation).
A Serial Notebooker
> they've been transmitting all my data - including messages apparently - to Facebook. I found this in the FB privacy console

Got a screenshot to share? That's extraordinary
Ah yes, So being against wars means you're a Putin supporter and we should all be supporting more escalation even if it turns into a third world war. Got it.

> The "war is Ukraine's and/or the west's fault, somehow" narrative is a Russian propaganda talking point.

The west always needs to be involved in more pointless proxy wars just like the ones they have created in the past and continuing to waste billions in weapons rather than aid since there's needs to be a profit made in minting millions off of fuelling and trading weapons for these wars.

All of that perfectly worked well in previous wars didn't it with money well spent. /s The celebrating of more forever wars.
Mine indexes every time I boot it up, per project, so sometimes several times per week, fortunately not every day.

No, no bad faith, it's simply my number one pain point.

Imagine there are people who work on different repos/projects. Just quickly opening another up during a call? Maybe wait 5 minutes. This is decent hardware on an SSD. We're not talking about 10 year old 2m LOC mammoths, but also not "I expect it to start up in 3s like an editor and not an IDE".
Lots of libraries were missing or broken for Python 3 for many years. If anything, it was far less usable than Wayland.
Xfce is really the best. Minimalistic, good looking.

I only miss 3 column tiling on my ultra wide screen.
> Now I noticed a couple of popular shops I interact with replaced it with "chat with us" things

> I hate it when I have to talk to crappy LLM for 5 minutes to convince it I need a human

The lovely self-indulged and intimidating in voice so-called artificial intelligence Max assistant ham-fisted on Orange help line, right next to the "would you like to authorize yourself with your voice in future- it's totally SAFE" message. How I despise that thing. They even trained it to avoid "connect me with human" line as much is possible.

Whenever I need help from that ISP and I'm facing a perspective dealing with this thing, it feels like I should just shut the hell up, leave the money, sign newest service contract without any word because the rest doesn't matter for them at all.

I do understand this assistant (and similar ones) probably does the perfect job dealing with this kind of customer who calls them with trivial issues. But that puts those people whose issues are more complex and who do really need to talk with human consultant ASAP on a hell-hole loop fencing with an algorithm.
I decided to almost only use websites with adblocker and never install apps, for that reason.
LLMs can write a plan, and they can write about their reasoning. The question is, are they good enough?

We may need another generation of LLMs that are more competent.
I didn't make this, and don't expect you to buy this. It's just funny to me that a serial notebooker exists.
You don't have to log in or even have a GitHub account to search through issues. Hell, in many cases you don't even need to be searching on GitHub to find the relevant issue since they're indexed by search engines. Neither of these are an option with Discord.
Looks interesting although personally I don't see those as compelling use cases although I may very well be missing something.

> 1. Internal tooling: you're able to manage the contract better since you have control of the source & destination applications.

This has not been my experience in anything but tiny companies or companies with very strict mono-repo processes. One big point of separate teams is to minimize the communication overhead as your organization grows (otherwise it scales as N factorial). That means you do not want a lots of inter-department dependencies due to the internal tooling and APIs they leverage.

> 2. Reporting & analytics: these tend to need a lot of query flexibility & they tend to use a lot of resources. Offloading the query computation to the client makes it easier on the source application.

Depends on the resources the client has versus the server to devote to a single query. The resources are also high because of how much data is analyzed and 8gb seems tiny to me (ie: the whole thing can be kept in some DBs memory).
Google Apps generally have all permissions. GrapheneOS actually offers a sandboxed version of them that works like normal apps, and you can see how many permissions it is requesting.
Surviving the Germans' extreme online privacy (2022)
I tried Plasma many times (just briefly installed a distro like Kubuntu), and while very complete, I find it "lifeless". Is purely a graphical sensation. Is like it has no life, compared to Mint with either Cinnamon or Gnome. I don't know how to better explain it.
"TBH that just sounds like bad design"... It's not bad design, it's deliberate design.

https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/Android_privacy_report.pd...
> If this was any other company they would be lambasted.

I’m sorry, are we still talking about Apple here?

The very same Apple that gets lambasted no matter what they do because it makes for great clickbait and fuel for fandroids?

They very same Apple that got lambasted for being the first to fully embrace USB-C on their 12” MacBook back in 2015 and now is being lambasted for being the last to adopt USB-C on their phone lineup.

I shudder to think what other companies go through if your definition’s threshold for being “lambasted” is so high.
Mysteries in ancient Egyptian paintings observed by in-situ XRF mapping
Properties are not really new, it's just a more dedicated name for frontmatter, which already exists since the beginning, and where tags are saved. But it also comes with a nice interface and integrated support for fields outside of tags, which until now was an area where you were depending on plugins like dataview. It seems on the long run, they plan to shift Obsidian more into the direction of Notion Databases, and delivering an improved version of dataview out-of-the-box.