skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most Wikipedia visitors use an ad-supported search engine to find articles.

Because Google spends billions of dollars contorting and manipulating the entire internet ecosystem to only work with Google's model of the internet.

There are really simple solutions how the internet can be ad free and function much better than it does today in terms of serving information people. The internet is far, far worse due to the financial incentives involved
This is functional and uninteresting.
What you express is so perfectly reasonable that the downvotes are likely just an emotional reaction, not something people would be able to articulate clearly as a logical argument.
Don't confuse "trial by media" with "trial by private platform". Yes, there are some similarities, but social media platforms are a fundamentally NEW thing that didn't have an analogue before. And anyway, you're just doing an appeal to history here. Something can be bad even if it has existed for a long time.
Life is more precious and fragile than this author assumes.
I definitely believe Clojure needs a rails. Not only will it help beginners get started, if it can help people get started faster and build fast like Django and rails do, I think it'll help more with adoption.

Biff and fulcro seems like they have a shot at this

Biff- https://github.com/jacobobryant/biff

Fulcro - https://github.com/fulcrologic/fulcro
>then that should be written into the policy.

Please feel free to take them to civil court and get the mto change it.

Now, I'm not one for this entire "corporations are people too" thing we have going on in the US, but trying to call Google out for this in particular when the courts have sided with businesses freedom of association until it becomes a civil rights violation in the vast majority of cases. You can point out it as much as you like, but it's mostly a waste of your time until you start championing for 'consumer rights'.
Every few years this story resurfaces and always makes me smile.
It does produce useful mutations though. The output is stochastic and humans are actively deciding what content to consume. Hence the model will continue to produce novel content and accommodate human preference.

Humanity isn’t much different. Countless creative works are derivative.
Not a doctor, but blood pressure is not just a proxy measure, it can be a dangerous condition in its own right that needs to be reduced. It puts stress on the circulatory system and raises the likelihood of strokes, for example.
Stephen King on cocaine in the 80s was very real.
Who is buying these AI generated books?
> If you do not have a license to modify the site that is copyright infringement.

Do I infringe copyright if I rip out the ads in a magazine and throw them in the trash?
then on top of that you can run werc a web framework written entirely in rc, save for a few of the filters which i think are awk files (like the markdown2html converter)
I struggled a lot with this exact problem during my trip to India last year, so I am your perfect NRI customer. I don't have an Indian phone number, so GPay and PayTM were out of reach. So I had to use my parents' phone everywhere. This app is great for my next visit.

However, in-person-branch-verification is a big non-starter for me. It needs to be more convenient than visiting a branch. If I have to visit a branch, I might as well open an NRE account; there's an ICICI on every street. I checked your list and I don't see any Tier 2 cities. There's nothing all over Tamil Nadu and Kerala except Chennai.

So, in the absence of a 24/7 kiosk or manned counter in every major international airport (3-4 in each state), you need to have an option for pre-verification online/FaceTime/webcam or via document upload. Otherwise, the inconvenience of a branch visit negates any usefulness.

Also, why restrict the app to work only in India? I should be able to load money and withdraw money wherever. Just disable the payment part.
> I'm not sure what you are trying to argue.

I'm not arguing anything, I'm asking you a simple question. I'm not sure why you are trying to avoid answering. Here is that question again, I highlighted it below:

Suppose we have 2 different IP owners. 1 has their IP ignored by China and copied, and the other has their IP "considered a different standard/not recognized" by China and copied.

---> _What differences do the two IP owners experience?_ <---

You are trying to argue that "not recognizing" IP and thus ignoring it, or "having different standards for IP" that lets you ignore it, is somehow different from just ignoring it. You have not explained how that makes a difference in outcome. Why should business owners care what excuse is given for ignoring IP? If it wasn't one excuse, it would be another, and ignored is ignored.
It's crazy that some of the most valuable items on earth are made in huge quantities, whenever the plate tectonics feel like it. Makes you realize how limited our power over the earth is (except for the slow, plodding, yet disastrous pollution of the environment).
That sounds like a Douglas Adams line to me.
Stealth Extraterrestrial AI Probes: Reconsidering the UAP Mystery
While pulsar on paper seems a superior solution, in my experience it is very still very immature and very buggy. I really want to use it over kafka but I would not bet my business on it.

I am not a fan of Kafka, it's kinda old, and the code is a bit messy, a lot of the once only semantic problems 100% solved by Pulser are sorta kinda in Kfaka these days. All the newer stuff like built in RAFT makes it competitive with anything.

But, anyone who has used Kafka at scale has to say it 100% does what it says on the box. Many people are used to it's idiosyncrasies at scale and can get it to scale.

Now RabbitMQ. I have been burnt so badly by it breaking at scale I'll never be touching it again. Maybe my fault, maybe not, but replacing it with Kafka solved all my flakey issues and I never looked at it again.
Had never heard of Peplink till now - their modular stuff looks useful.
Yes, but you can host & run your own controller from anywhere.
Brandon Sanderson must be fuming.
If I had the means, and will - I could easily see myself building an AI that trains future generations better/faster than the last, does this weekly, and also manages a silicon factory that recycles old ai machines into new ones, or old gpu's into new ones, or other chips and continually explores new/better hardware options.

All self-contained with very little human oversight, similar to how humans can reproduce, pass on genes, and then do it all over again until we evolve new traits, AI systems could do the very same thing.

I can see this scenario where language models are evolving weekly or even doubling in abilities, is possible this decade.

Running out of materials? AI drones can setup bases on the moon (less gravity issues) to go out and mine asteroids, bring it back to the moon to build more processing power. The entire moon could be turned into one mega structure super computer that could house an ai that helps manage all the things humanity needs it for. Traversing into scifi territory, but I thought where we are now was nearly impossible by now. LLM's and Stable Diffusion, and coming multi-modal modals are going to affect every aspect of life, one way or another whether it gets to full-super-intelligence doesn't matter, it will still change everything.
I know Microsoft Office was a big deal in 1998, but I don't think in 2023 as many people are clamoring for it anymore as you think they are.
FEMA struggling to spend the money to get back on top from Hurricane Ian. If I was Boricuas I'd feel very "are we 2nd class citizens again?" about this.
Microsoft projects two new areas of growth for gaming: Mobile and ads
For 10k usd id give it all away similar to the lady in this except with more emphasis on immediate impact on saving lives as our maker has taught us paraphrasing “saving one life is as if we’re saving all of humanity and taking one is as if we’ve done the opposite.” That and I understand its more significant to others than myself. Prior to reading what she said i had already come to a similar conclusion that if you were in control of any portion of the worlds wealth & you lacked the ability to redistribute it all on your own you should seek redistribution by analysing peoples spending habits & % on worldly selfless acts. The more lives saved the > the amount you assign them, that & think of each person as a thread to catalyse that distribution. Also don’t see lives saved as 1 dimensional.
More discussion over here yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37561668
For some reason Apple puts the most basic stuff behind an accessibility option. For example, tab to next button in a system dialog is disabled by default.
There are still tons of fake apple stores in China. They're also in prominent places that you'd expect Apple to open, not in small side streets etc.
At least one community I manage gets flooded with people spamming them posing as recommendations.
Whatever. Let those spammy ad-funded web sites die. Nothing of value will be lost. It won't kill the web, it will fix it. Everyone should do their part to fix the web by driving advertising profits to zero.

The web was supposed to have real web sites made by real humans who actually have something to say. Not all this worthless ad impression maximizing clickbait spam. Remember, people used to pay for servers just to make their texts available over the internet. No one paid them for it.
Thanks for the feedback. For Llama 2, need to figure out the hosting / ownership flow.
It was too early; Valve could have bought them for the Steam deck but they'd have to have survived much longer.
Pretty cool that this is a recreation of expert systems, which was a dominant approach to building AIs for decades :)
Definitely fraud. Won’t USPS Office of Investigations look into it?
My friend wrote a children’s book using AI. Even without AI, it may be possible to make a few children’s books with the same characters in a single day. I’m curious though, who are the authors who have published 3 long form books per month?
This has never been the standard for businesses. "Innocent until proven guilty" is only applicable in criminal court.

OJ didn't keep his endorsements after he murdered Nicole and Goldman, he lost them well ahead of the trial, and the businesses shouldn't have been forced to continue them because he was a toxic asset even after he was found not guilty.
So you looked at a bunch of titles, didn't watch the videos, and then decided what the videos were about?

Is this how you go about understanding the world around you?
http://hyperrealm.github.io/libconfig/ ?
If you care so deeply about memory access that you want control over stack allocation, you probably care enough that you don't want a GC. What's your use case where the GC doesn't murder you, but you care about better cache locality?
I started building my MP3 music collection again recently and have been very happy with the decision.

Not only do I have a collection of music that will be there forever, but I can play it on any device I want (and with any software), and I feel a sense of pride in building up a collection that is unique to me.

I gladly pay Apple $1.29 for my music. I give them major kudos for maintaining a mainstream DRM-free store with a range of high quality music—also for not increasing prices over the past decade or more.
somehow I have different experience, anything unlike some simple select few fields from t where k = ? usually causes all kinds of errors and stability issues on good size of data.
Oh I see your point. If I had a car with a horrible climate control precision controlled via a touch display - I would be furious. In my mind I am comparing Tesla's automatic climate control (in my view - excellent) to traditional cars where I had to twist these X/Y joystick-like plastic sticks to turn the fan in the right direction. For me personally - no comparison, Tesla beats that hands down.
This is one of the grossest things I've ever read on HN and that's an accomplishment
Since the application for Dittofeed is similar to Mailchimp, which would be newsletters mostly and not transactional email, is that compatible with your primary business case at Resend? From what I can tell, Resend is mostly focused on transactional email and not on mass email messages such as newsletters, which is what I see as what Dittofeed is sharing with their Mailchimp alternative. If you're open to newsletters, let me know, and I'll give it a switch from Sendgrid!
Oh I agree that if headsets see any success in the next 5 years (I have my doubts after having owned and used many myself) then Apple will always be the "walled garden" alternative and capture a certain percentage of the market. But I think the "log into your laptop" feature they are pushing is not going to be a good experience, and is likely a feature they will never promote and will not invest any development effort into, after the initial launch.
It also appears to be about music production, or concerts, or something.

Maybe this is an AI-generated website.
Disclaimer: No where close to an expert.

My understanding of the more popular superconducting types is that a bit of superconductor is connected up to a junction that allows quantum tunneling of electron pairs. The number of electron pairs that tunnel through the junction determines the state and the state is read out by an exotic electrometer.

As for how the chip itself is made, as far as I know it's a relative standard lithography process except with added superconducting layers.
How does this compare to a traditional ORM? I looked through the slides and the paper and this seems to largely provide the same kind of functionality as a regular ORM but with the caveat that you can only do key/value transactions.
For some uses it might be reasonable to restrict the size input to compile-time constants, which can be verified at compile time. Or you could have a newtype with a checked safe constructor and an unchecked unsafe constructor, which allows bypassing the overhead when you know the sizes are reasonable. On 64-bit systems, it is reasonable in many domains to restrict allocation size to u32. There are lots of possible ways to approach this without falling back to "tolerate any usize input."
Both Russia and who?
The lore for HOMM 3 is absolutely insane if you find some of the developer documents; everything is robots and aliens and spaceships and such.

That got mostly cut during development and they never went further down that route. Horn of the Abyss is attempting to bring that faction back to life with Forge.
I may be sufficient. SimulaVR has put in work early on to improve the experience. One example is font smoothing you can see in their demos.
It fully solves the overflow problem. You don't need page-aligned data in a bump allocator.
> JOINs are a non-trivial problem with data in the terabyte-to-petabyte range.

but that benchmark is 250G, plus all established players I think support joins well, I work with BQ closely and it works very well.

> So just because you can do query-time JOINs doesn't mean you should if you haven't thought about it ahead of time.

prebuilding denormalized table can significantly increase your datasize, so it is tradeoff and depends on your data structure and cardinality.
And dictating to a device that can provide accurate transcription such as an AI-enabled virtual assistant is just another way to get to the end product of a searchable, indexable digital text. I'd count this as keeping a written journal. Sure, the price of entry is higher than a pencil and a pad of newsprint paper, but it's written text.
The headline is dismal. Now writers can’t even be bothered to write what the improvement is? 40% of ______? “…Just trust us, 40% of something is ‘shaved’ …it’s good we promise.”
We're definitely open to newsletters :)
Agreed. EVs and solar are generally considered "lefty" (unfortunately), and I can't think of anything he espoused outside of that which could be considered "liberal".
[dupe]

More discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37563335
I think that Stadia had a lot of headwinds, some of them self-inflicted. My analysis of Google as an org is that it has a superiority complex, and they easily fool themselves into believing that all challenges will evaporate before them, and that any prior attempts failed because they weren't done by Google. This complex also leads them to believe that they are fundamentally better at doing things than other companies, and so they didn't partner with Xbox or Sony (or did they?), they simply announced that they were doing game streaming and expected everyone to rejoice. Also they overvalue the Google brand. Google getting into random verticals (remember fiber? Or their health-tech branch? Or the self-driving cars?) has a spotty past, but I'm sure that within Google they still see themselves as the golden child of the internet age. And even the name "Stadia" was terrible. Is it an artificial sweetener? Zero self-awareness, at the organizational level, IMO.
Braverman and Facebook clash over private message plans
Don’t you mean they are managing their Brand? ducks
It's a really easy solution to describe.

Actually implementing it across the academic world seems much harder.
I have run all 3 at big scale. Kafka is still great as long as everyone using it understands it's a stream, not a queue and using it like a queue is going to get them burnt. I don't touch RabbitMQ with a 30ft pole anymore, too many lost days or nights to split brains and other chaos.

Pulsar has mostly replaced Kafka for me because I don't need to worry about people coming along and changing requirements after the fact and saying, actually yeah we do need queue semantics. Or actually yeah we need data larger than the ~48hrs we want to store in Kafka and we don't want to teach our application to read from the archive.

Pulsar is definitely greener than Kafka in a lot of ways but the underlying stuff is very solid, BookKeeper in particular is tough so you aren't really at risk of data loss but you might run into bugs that make brokers do silly things and that can be annoying. Generally speaking though if you validate both the paths you are using and new releases it's been fairly OK to me.

The big thing was being able to directly connect external clients into Pulsar using the Websocket listener on the proxy and plugging in my own authz/authn logic. The eliminated a layer that would otherwise need to be implemented separately.

So far I have been happy with Pulsar, if you haven't tried it for a while you should give it another go. It will only get mature if people use it. :)
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No, just restrict the domain of the alignment input to like, u8. Maybe u16. Either way, it is easy to ensure your bump allocation space is far enough away from SIZE_MAX.
You could run a portable browser in a portable sandbox stored on a VeraCrypt volume, so none of your browsing data is on disk at all.
No, it's a real GitHub project: https://github.com/permazen - they just used a random website template.
The US doesn't have a traditional empire but it does spend a lot of money on international military bases as well as protecting strategic infrastructure and resources across the globe.

It's difficult, if not impossible, to maintain that kind of global influence and service stratospherically high debts simultaneously. In that scenario, spending money to resolve internal problems always ends up taking precedent over global influence and other countries with rising bank balances step in to fill the void.
Sounds like they don’t want Russell damaging their Brand…
That's an interesting case. I honestly don't know what is more accurate here: to show more recent photos after the transition or ignore that and mostly show the older photos that reflect the name (but not the person) more accurately.
A unhappy Bill Gates, and Apple’s happy iPhone 1 customers, felt differently.

Price was high, but low enough for what it did that Apple couldn’t make enough.

Low enough that a tiny computer/MP3 player company remade what a phone was and left huge phone manufacturers spinning.

Record sales growth, customer satisfaction & retention year after year after year.

They quickly vacuumed up the majority of profits and revenue for the entire industry long before they had significant marketshare.

That day is why Apple is flirting with $3T.

Samsung was the only competitor I can think of that was nimble enough not to get promptly hammered.

An iconic example of good fit.
That's great news. Someone else's computer is increasingly becoming...not cheap and AWS et al are turning up the cranks on their products for lock in.
Given that UFO “hotness” is always in the past correlated with military misdirection, I see no reason why this is different.

If swarms of potential enemy drones were actually surrounding naval vessels in coastal waters, we’d never hear about it.
Awwwwk such a cute web server :)
Standard behavior of a narcissist.
Expert systems except it's like 400 times more expensive to run.
> XetHub has the world’s first natively cross-platform, user-mode filesystem implementation, allowing you to mount arbitrarily large datasets on your machine.

Not really world's first. CERN has developed EOS (https://eos-web.web.cern.ch/) for many years, and even though it's not available natively on Windows, it is available on Linux and macOS. EOS uses FUSE, though, not NFS.

> This enables you to, in just a few seconds, locally mount ~660 GB of Llama 2 models or write DuckDB queries to analyze large parquet files and scan just the data you need.

If you mount all instances of EOS at CERN on your machine with the FUSE client, that in principle mounts hundreds of PB of data from LHC experiments, although much of this data requires special permissions to be accessed. However, there's also a lot of open data. See https://opendata.cern.ch/.
Theres also the Cloud Native Computing Foundating (CNCF) which k8s & co are under.
It's just as certain to say that if you're an egotistical narcissist jugggling drug and sex addiction for a decade+ under a celebrity spotlight and on record as having had sex with five different women a day between appearences then a handful of those encounters were very probably the kind that were forced under the presumption of consent while drug addled.
> They're growing rapidly and they're one of only four countries to put a vehicle on the Moon. If the world was at war there would be a lot of money to be made and they're one of the only countries that would be well positioned to take advantage of it.

India is probably about where China was I would say 25 years ago (having visited China in 1999 and comparing it against what I saw in India in 2013 or so). There is a lot of documentation about visiting the moon, and while an accomplishment, and probably something that should be done along the way to development (especially if you want to launch like ICBMs, which was the main product of America's moon program), its a bonus. But it isn't as great as figuring out how to do it from zero. Keep in mind that even China lags on jet turbine and semiconductor production (they can get either good perf or good costs, but not both at the same time), that just means India has another 30-40 years before it catches up with the US (assuming the US stagnates, which is probably a good bet).
Are you serious? If you don't like a certain ethnic minority it's legal to refuse them service?
Social media censorship != governments' censorship requests

Free speech allows for a diversity of voices, some of which may express views not aligned with the government's perspective, whereas its absence leads to fewer government takedown requests.
Depends on your definition of what a book is. If you step outside of novels you have books that are mainly tables of facts, or get updated monthly, etc.
The more powerful these platforms become, the more this is a problem..
Theres lots of fake 'work books' being uploaded to come up first in search results.
Amazon has some major issues with AI books flooding the initial results.