skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course each emergency is one too much, but I wonder what are the sample sizes? Are the counts statistically significantly different from each other? Another thing to consider: Emergencies are rare events and so a small difference in circumstances can make the outcomes vary substantially. Is a well oiled manufacturing pipeline like a Audi factory comparable to a new factory that has not rounded all sharp corners yet?
Show HN: Launching a new home-grown embedding LLM for RAG
Hi HN!

Vectara is a "batteries included" retrieval augmented generation platform. You can upload your rich text documents like PDFs, HTML pages, word docs, etc, or semi-structured JSON and Vectara handles the text and metadata extraction, segmentation, vector embedding, and vector storage, and keyword storage. You can ask a question or perform a search in the UI or via our APIs and Vectara will automatically handle the vectorization, structured metadata filtering, vector+keyword retrieval, hybrid blending, and generative summarization of the results. We're focusing on building and operationalizing the complex infrastructure for vector storage, hybrid retrieval, and generative summarization so you can use fairly high-level APIs and focus on building your own applications.

We know that retrieval accuracy is incredibly important for RAG: garbage in, garbage out. We've seen a lot of projects not spend enough time on really getting the retrieval model right and wasting a lot of time/money with poor outcomes. We've spent about the past 6 months working on a new embedding model named Boomerang and just released it on the Vectara platform. We've run it through standard evaluations like BEIR (though we know many models over-fit against BEIR) as well as multi-domain evaluations. We've published the details of our tests for those that really want to dive in, but the TL;DR is that Boomerang beats most/all publicly available models in many/most situations and is particularly strong at cross-lingual and multi-domain tests.

We'd love any and all feedback!
Is Xiaomi Redmi Note 13 an environmental friendly phone built by well paid human beings?
Epic Games is laying off 16% of its staff
The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you’ve gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you’ve gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.

Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him?
Whenever these discussions come up, a large contingent of commenters talks about how much headcount a company or product “needs”. But that’s not how growing tech companies are resourced. They hire based on what they can afford, in order to maximize growth. This leads to decreasing efficiency, especially if they don’t have the right technology leadership that knows how scale tech teams, but gives them optionality to chase many new growth directions. As long as the growth continues though, no one is too concerned about efficiency at this stage. It’s only later when the growth slows, that the questions come about how many heads are really needed (and what to do about the unmaintainable state of the systems)
I don't disagree that we could use other useful perspectives.

I strongly emphatize he doesn't bring them.
But it also won't change if we just continue on like that. I mean it's just bullshit to get kids, then give them into kindergarten/childcare as soon as they are 6month old or something, this whole concept sucks.
Teenager arrested: https://news.sky.com/story/sycamore-gap-iconic-tree-at-hadri...
Do you have any evidence for this, or just vibes?
If you don't want to be seeing ChatGPT generated content here, you should downvote it to discourage the poster from doing so. This is a perfect use of a downvote IMHO.

If you don't mind or care enough, obviously don't downvote, and if you love it, upvote it. That's how we get our community to develop some shared standards of communication.

FWIW, if someone wants ChatGPT content, they can just go to ChatGPT too.
Wow, people seem to like my EDA submissions :)

Another aspect, at least what I have experienced, is that these tools are built on top of themselves and layered over older versions of themselves, making the code base fragile and hard to work on. For example, Xilinx's Vitis HLS is based on AutoESL, an academic work that underwent commercialization and transitioned into a Xilinx product. You can tell in Vitis HLS that there are many layers on top of simple tool actions that go through custom TCL functions and then down to the most likely Java/C++ software, which also calls out to outdated versions of LLVM tools. I would imagine this is not a pleasant code base to work on and add new features to.

Also, making changes to an EDA tool has large implications for downstream customers who depend on your FPGA chips and are maximizing the utilization on the chips, making them super sensitive to any changes in the EDA algorithms used. This also makes the software development process for these commercials a little sticky. This makes it hard to even plug into and build on top of these tools as an academic.

However, this is no excuse for bad software engineering. I agree that a big investment in software engineering for EDA could be a slam dunk. I think Synopsys and Cadence realize this payoff for their use cases (mostly ASIC), while maybe the payoff is not as big for FPGA companies? Who knows what they are thinking.

On the technical side, more open-source EDA tools help even if they are not fully practical in a commercial setting. Even the C++ codebase for VPR is readable and mostly easy to follow. As a thought experiment, a Rust-based port of that would be interesting from an API and program architecture perspective. There are also some DARPA programs that are pushing for better open-source tools for EDA flows as well as better EDA algorithms for large-scale, 3D, and heterogeneous semiconductor design, so I think they see the technical problems we are behind on.
As long as you use the sea water to cool the steam, this is not really an issue. The more energy you extract from the steam, the less additional energy you need to evaporate the water.
Whether you lease or buy, don't settle for anything less than a full complement of planets, dwarf planets, asteroids, meteors, and comets. You should also have it inspected first. You want to be sure it will last and won't get sucked into a supermassive blackhole.
Have most HN people gone over to Mastadon? Personally I think Twitter/X has improved and become more interesting though the monetisation schema feels like it's pushing it towards it being a bit more LinkedIn'y (people are chasing impressions more than they used to because an actual carrot exists).
Would it have worked to add something like a single GPS module connected to an ESP8266 that sends a pulse every minute to all the Pis' GPIOs so they can sync?
Do You Need a Visit to the Confident Man Ranch?
Visually would look kind of like K, yes; but K (obviously) isn't a stack language, and more importantly, K has operators that consist of multiple characters, and circumfix operators like {}, etc. So it really has none of the qualities that a bytecode has. Whereas Uiua/ASCII would have all of the qualities that a bytecode has.
Not to be that guy but RTFA.
It's still being updated and included in the "Additional Tools for Xcode 15"[0] and is the only way to disable vsync/"Beam Sync" at the os level using Apple tooling, afaik.

Beamoff[1]/beamsync.py[2] are good 3rd part solutions, though.

I use my m1 mbp in clamshell mode connected to a 75hz 1920x1080 ips all day every day, so until I can buy a monitor that supports adaptive sync, the reduction in latency that disabling vsync brings is worth it to me.

[0]: https://developer.apple.com/download/all/?q=Additional%20Too...
[1]: https://github.com/JasF/beamoff
[2]: https://gist.github.com/pudquick/2ab183707545413ae9c6#file-b...
Interesting, it’s the opposite for my feed. For 10 years I came to twitter for the exchange of ideas, learned so much about tech and business, developed friendships and connections that changed my life.

Now every time I open my feed it reminds me of trash tv. Ads for weed gummies every 8th tweet, crazy rhetoric and political content from extremist politicians I’ve often never even heard of, Elon musk himself - who I don’t follow - pushed into my face, forcing me to see his angry tweets, first, every time I load the app.

Beyond the drama, I used to get a lot of value in reading threads and now the comments are all garbage? Finding anything useful requires me scrolling past a long list of reply guys and often what just seems like spam.

It genuinely makes me sad to lose such a useful product :(.
Sure, let other people suffer for my moral ideals and profits. Hell, we really didn't learn a single bit from the industrial revolution, did we?

I guess Musk could walk down Holiwood Boulevard and kill someone without loosing a single fan at this point...
I've reached the age where I see a pop-cultural reference that's immediately obvious to me, but I wonder how many others get it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cone_of_Silence_(Get_Smart)
A number of vendors seem to only be showing 4GB and 8GB units for $60 and $80, but https://vilros.com/collections/raspberry-pi-5/products/raspb... has 1GB and 2GB variants for $40 and $50 respectively.

https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-5/ says "LPDDR4X-4267 SDRAM (4GB and 8GB SKUs available at launch)" so maybe the cheaper ones will be coming at a later date?

Unrelated to that, the addition of a power button seems like a significant improvement over previous models.
I guess it makes sense. Don't leave room for people to interpret if an accident is worth reporting or not.
IBM will assume the legal risk of businesses that use its A.I. systems
Fingerprinting. Every w3c specification that adds features to the platform adds more unique data that can be used to identify you. They try to add security to the sandbox to make sure the user has to give permission to the website to use these APIs but it's always a cat-and-mouse game to make sure that there are no ways to break out of the sandbox and to educate users about what all these modals and features mean.

Websites are getting obnoxious these days. Most tracking software on them will trigger all kinds of authorization modals for various APIs. And you can bet there will be a bunch it will try to use without authorization if there's a work-around.

It's all fingerprinting to sell data.
> If you believe it, it's not a lie!

Is this supposed to be some kind of “gotcha?”

Of course saying something you believe is true is not a lie. Of course. Why would you even bring up the possibility of it being a lie?

Nevermind a prediction cannot be a lie. Misleading perhaps, but not a lie.
If you run game fullscreen then maybe no as i think kde disables compositing and does direct drm flip for the game in that scenario
Accelerating the adoption of electric cars is not necessarily a good thing, for the planet or its people.
As I wrote before; I don't think that arbitrage and gatekeeping are the same as creating value. It's capturing the differences in the perceptions of value of two parties. But it's not creating said value.

Let's once again go back to the Microsoft/IBM deal; what value exactly would have Bill Gates able to "create" for IBM, if not for the exiting work of 86-DOS?

Nothing. Because in this case there was no value created by him. He would have had to write he required software to actually deliver the value instead.

And that's the case in many of such dealings. You could get rid of all the gatekeepers and arbitrage-takers and there would still be value to be sold. But get rid of the value-creators and the gatekeepers and arbitrage-takers don't have anything to work with.

Gatekeeping and leveraging of existing value is just another form of market failure.

Free markets operate under the assumption that all the market participants have total knowledge about the various offers at hand. If they don't know the various offers, then they cannot make an informed decision; the market fails. Gatekeepers and arbitrage benefit from this market failure.

We can of course to agree to disagree.
If you weren't around at the time, it's hard to describe just how absolutely pervasive the ridicule of this woman was. It was a daily thing for quite a long time. Looking back at it makes me sick.
It’s not things that are being broken, but people.
move fast and break limbs!
> That suggests we could have

"Could have" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. Assuming spherical cows, 12 is an upper limit, okay. What you could actually do is neither remotely close to that nor is that itself remotely close to what the world needs, was the point.
The AMA, a professional guild (and convicted monopolists), set the residency cap in the USA, not the government.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/02/technology/twitter-hate-s...

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decodeurs/article/2022/12/19/c...

https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-technology-donald-trump...
If FPV drones are that ubiquitous, you'd expect some sort of drone mitigation to emerge as well.

I guess communication between drone and drone operator are the weakest link. So signal detection, radio scrambling, interference are probably areas of active R&D.

My two cents are: the battle field will look yet different in a year or two.
Famous German safety video:

Forklift Driver Klaus – The First Day on the Job

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forklift_Driver_Klaus_%E2%80%9...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-lc70Mjp-U

Gore and funny !
Open Source Photo Blog with Admin Panel
Ask HN: Why does Apple want macOS to look like iOS?
macOS Sonoma was released a few days ago. Sure enough, as with every release since Big Sur, macOS now looks more and more like iOS (cf. https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/12/23792490/macos-sonoma-public-beta-preview, for instance)

I just don't get it. I hate this move, and I know I'm not the only one who doesn't want his computer to become a toy. Many people around me alo use a Mac, and I can't name a single one who'd want their computer to look more like the iPhone.

Am I a niche market for Apple? Also, what do you think is the real reason for this move?
Many ovens are made of a special high temperature ceramic fire-brick.

It's great at resisting heat, and is a decent insulator, but isn't very strong.

If you build an oven roof out of it, I could completely imagining some uninformed employee standing on the roof and having a foot fall through.

The fix is to redesign the oven to have a stronger roof, or to paint "NO STEP, NO STEP" all over the roof of the oven.
The starter kits which include all that stuff have been about 150% of the price of the bare board for older models.
Not happen to me for past month+ of beta testing (only problems I got was Xcode beta crashing few times with trying to debug metal stuff). (m1 ultra)
God damn, keyboard warrior... why don't you go to work where a 50kg box may fall onto your head any time?

Also you pay for a blue tick on Twitter. Yuck.
Damn, you are really ok with an elevated injury rate for the sake of, “progress”? I guess I’m solidly a Luddite then.
One time could be a fluke, sure.

But if a guy meets with engineers all day in rocket companies, robot factories, car factories, biotech research labs, and software teams, tells them what to do, fires people who don't do it... and largely succeeds in all of the above and remains years ahead of competition, then the burden of proof that he's "not smart" or "a grifter" is on the accuser.

I don't use or own any Musk products, other than X, so I don't have a horse in this race.

But I do have eyes.
> Tesla’s workplace safety stats and their rate of progress are inextricably linked.

Why do you believe its impossible they could achieve just as much with fewer accidents?

Is it possible that God Emperor Musk has permitted some degree of negligence in his operation?
Banning Python would also be huge for reducing our carbon emissions.
> Is a well oiled manufacturing pipeline like a Audi factory comparable to a new factory that has not rounded all sharp corners yet?

I wonder about this as well. It would make sense that a brand new factory that is rapidly growing would experience more safety issues. No idea if this is a reasonable increase though.
Anyone have a suggestion for an alternative to YAML that's easier to write by hand than JSON and also supports nested declarations? ("XML with a fancy text editor" doesn't count)

I have a project where I'm using YAML just for that: nested tree-like (data) declarations and reasonably succinct and relaxed syntax. I have run into some of YAML's parsing weirdness occasionally, but overall it hasn't been that bad to deal with when it happens.
Please check the link. It's total global energy consumption, of which cars are a very small part of the mix, of which electric are most useful at displacing pollution from cities to production facilities, not reducing it. Just stop driving so much. Replacing use of car A for car B doesn't address the underlying problem of needing a car, it's like hitting 'favourite' on Facebook for a feel good cause and believing you've made a difference.
The Online Maze of Job Applications
Read the article kids. Or at least dont be completely wrong.
The original reply stated “reported injuries could be bruised thumbs”

This supports the idea that not just reported injuries were high but so were injuries which required ambulance calls.

If you have data to suggest those were all for bruised thumbs you should add that yourself.
Incredibly dishonest to take a quote about his advice to his children/family in this context.

It's completely fair in that context. If you drill into your children "safety is the number 1 rule at all times", they are going to be socially and developmentally stunted.
What a caste discrimination ban means for Americans
Is it literally 10% or is that figurative?
> Supt Kevin Waring described the tree as "a world-renowned landmark"

This makes me think of David Foster Wallace, whom the world learned was a famous writer only after he died.
> That's exactly what you get under "objective" morality though. Everyone agrees "murder" is bad. Not everyone agrees on what "murder" means exactly.

I don’t see how it is exactly what you get. It doesn’t matter what everyone agrees or disagrees on. The point of moral objectivism is that doesn’t matter what people think morality is in general just like it doesn’t matter what you think about the laws of physics—they are still out there.

To oversimplify it:

Moral objectivism: laws of morality ~ laws of physics: something that exists regardless of what you think about it

Moral relativism: laws of morality ~ rules of football: it is good or bad to do something only by nature of social conventions and views

Using lots of water to grow cannabis instead of crops during a drought is bad because it could be allocated more efficiently to feed the poor — moral objectivism

Using lots of water to grow cannabis instead of crops during a drought may be good or bad depending on whether people around you care about the poor — moral relativism
For anyone that plays CS for more than 20 hours this is a well known fact. There's tons of youtube videos teaching how to master the mechanic. Many of the lowest ranked players know about it and try to compensate. Every single pro practices it. An advance usage of this technique is called spray transfer where a single automatic fire sequence will start on one enemy with compensation movement (spray control) and after the enemy is killed the player will quickly snap to the next enemy while continously firing and continue the spray pattern where it left off. This can be very difficult because the spray pattern gets increasingly erratic.

I realize the point was to inform others that don't know but wanted people to realize it's a core game mechanic.

There are other skill based mechanics in CS that trade off realism to let the game have a higher skill ceiling and it's one of the reasons why CS is so popular.
Media has to plant a narrative, or why write the article?
One thing about yaml that I think conflicts with 'human readable' is the idents mattering. On long files, even with a small number idents, it can be tough to tell whether something is in one section or another. For whatever reason, lining up braces/brackets/parentheses makes it easier for me to tell
Well... yeah, kind of.

I guess some parts that are missing are having a schema for the CMD part, and being able to easily generate APIs for various languages from that schema
Is the Fairphone 5 also going to be offered with /e/OS?
Most customers won't sue you. They'll terminate their business with you and go elsewhere.

You have to decide, as a business, if trustworthy vendors are available and select the right one. You can also decide that it's important enough to your value proposition that you want to "own" it.

The real reason companies hire vendors is that you don't need some mythical "FTE" that can do all the things. For the "price of a single FTE", a vendor can provide you access to a range of FTEs that are knowledgeable and capable in different domains, and you can flex between them. Thinking about RedHat, as an example, if you pay RedHat the equivalent of a single FTE, let's say $300k/yr, is that just one FTE working on maintaining Apache? A kernel contributor? GCC?

This is about fractionalization and labor specialization, not some direct 1:1 tradeoff between hiring some mythical person with commit bits in hundreds or thousands of OSS trees.
Preemptive Strike:

First normal form - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_normal_form

Second normal form - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_normal_form

<call stack recursion...>

Fourth normal form - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_normal_form

Fifth normal form - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_normal_form

Sixth normal form - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixth_normal_form
I think it's been around a long time. Maybe you notice it in sports commentary not because it's coming into style, but because it has gone out of style?

Another factor might be that it fits in with how the present tense used to narrate replays. "Jones fakes the post route, gets separation, and the pass goes right over his finger tips. He catches that ball, he's gone!"
something like JSON maybe idk
I suppose it is slightly misleading, but it still could be true for many intents and purposes. For instance, a fire marshal once explained that kerosene had a much higher temperature of evaporation than gasoline. You could put a cigarette out in the first but not the second. That can make a big difference even though kero will start on fire pretty quickly in other circumstances.
Because Tesla had 3x the accident rate. This are the numbers we have. Well, that, and decades worth of experience working in German industry. Especially automotive plants are incredibly safe.
Similarly out of date.

A good starting point for more modern techniques would be something like this:

https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~alanmi/publications/2006/t...
I thought it was pretty funny. An American goes abroad, abuses the system without the slightest hint of remorse, then complains how America's system is much worse.

I wonder if there's some correlation between that kind of attitude and how the system works...
I guess I'm not the only one watching For All Mankind this week.

This kind of nuclear research is obviously way less popular these days, but I do wonder if these engines could be made more practically with today's technology. Surely a lot of the dangerous testing could be replaced with simulation.

edit: Looks like there is some research being done, https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2023-07-26
Key questions here are:

- would they even dare to start these projects with code

- does that additional cost really bump expenses despite being 3-10x more, given that a project may have already brought money or investor attention

Due to selection bias, you may have seen poor whelps who otherwise might have remain unborn at all.