skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>so far. I'm not sure if you are suggesting there is?

No i wasn't. I guess i wasn't very clear in my first reply.

I was mainly getting at this,

>and, consequently, its' a very bad idea to try and make machines that "think like humans", because that way we'll only make machines with none of the advantages of machines and all the disadvantages of computers.

No one is scaling up and pouring millions of compute into LLMs for general intelligence because they thought it was an excellent idea before the fact(virtually no one did, even some of the most verbal proponents).

They're doing it because it's seems to be working in a way logic failed to. and logic had the headstart, both in research and public consciousness. Nearly all of fictional ai is an envisioning of the hard symbolic logic general intelligence system that dominated early ai research. Logic was not the underdog here.

The point i was really driving at is that you say "because that way we'll only make machines with none of the advantages of machines and all the disadvantages of computers." almost like it's a choice, like Logic and GPT are both on the field and people are going for the worse player. Logic is not even in consideration because ot couldn't make the cut.
Yeah, no shit. I don't think that there's anyone who can't figure that out. The problem isn't "I can't figure out how to use my phone", it's that always having to use the phone with two hands is annoying as hell. Phones shine when you can use them one handed. They suck when you have to regularly use them two handed because they are so big.
I've been wanting a bot that would scrape discord conversations into a database and then render them as HTML to be served statically, bash.org-style.
Their continuous rent-seeking, anti-competitive behavior.

Anything they touch basically seems aimed at the goal of extracting as much money as possible. All their designs basically force companies to use all their products instead of using competitor products (notice how designs with Qualcomm SoCs also have Qualcomm power, audio, and numerous other QC chips). They're a blight on the industry.
Yeah +1 for VERY competitive. The vector capabilities of Vespa are incredible and the Text/ranking features are amazing. I don´t think any other product have those two sides so developed as them.
I dunno, one crime was ~200MM the other ~10MMM, so an order of magnitude and a half larger crime. Both are associated with political figures in their respective countries.
Why are they doing this? To make money on service fees and the next vehicle?
Sqinn author here. Nothing against CGO, but I develop/deploy on Win/Linux, and cross-compiling CGO is very painful. Regarding performance: To my own surprise, Sqinn out-performs mattn (and others) for normal workloads, see https://github.com/cvilsmeier/sqinn-go-bench
I hear what you're saying, but I feel this release is less boring than other recent smart phones. It seems that they are really at an inflection point where they are able to start really utilizing their AI chips for deeper integration. From a hardware perspective, I agree this release might be boring. I don't think the Tensor3 is a far faster chip than the Tensor2 (for general purpose CPU tasks), but the AI processing capacity of this chip seem like the focus of this model. The new display seems pretty great, but I have been pleased with my Pixel 7 display.
I was at Yahoo almost a decade ago, when vector search within Vespa was first being rolled out in production use cases. It was already serving similarity search requests for Flickr back then.

Even though I'm with Zilliz/Milvus now, I wholeheartedly support and recommend folks check out and try Vespa. Congrats to the Vespa team!

EDIT: For folks on Twitter, you should follow Jo (https://twitter.com/jobergum) from Vespa if you aren't already. Great combo of technical content, hot takes, and vector database memes!
Fidonet -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet
your time is definitely non renewable if your username is 'toomuchtodo'.

(btw hackernews is a waste of all our time)
I like how the parent puts Denmark next to Hungary and Cyprus, as if their salaries could be comparable in any way.

This is like comparing Silicon Valley salaries with Chinese
Luckily, you don't have to trade off between them, and neither replaces the other.
>The fact that the product exists $1 cheaper on another site does not make it not the best recommendation for the customer’s need. If I search “tablet” are you saying I should be recommended a cheap off brand tablet promoted to me because Amazon has the cheapest price or an iPad even though I can buy an iPad on apple.com for $10 cheaper?

I think you are misunderstanding the issue. Amazon is selectively determining to show the "buy box" on a specific product page based on whether the prices for that SKU on Amazon are competitive with prices for the same SKU on other websites.

In your example, Amazon might not have a buy box for a given iPad model if the same model was available on apple.com for less. The presence of cheaper non-iPad tablets would not impact the iPad buy box.
This is probably accurate. Everything seems about the individual nowadays. Lot's of people aren't even having children anymore, preferring instead "travel" and "fun". Why would they give a shit about what will happen in 100 years?
There are inherent limitations to any technology that bias what routes it can find/how it completes a task.

A GPS needs to be augmented with additional data to deal with topology it can't directly sense.
> if they cheat they are only cheating themselves anyways.

If a class is graded on a bell curve then kids who cheat are cheating their classmates who don't.
Part of the problem here is that we have/had the option to have a world pretty much like the existing one, except that it was one in which oil and coal companies went out of business or lost trillions of dollars, and got replaced with renewable and nuclear power generation and electric vehicles etc.

But those trillion dollar industries fought against their own destruction, and continue to do so, and all of the other alternatives are worse.

The best time to fossilize the fossil fuel industries was 30 years ago. The second best time is right now.
Be wealthy doesn't have to mean "be a multi-millionaire". It can mean trying to save enough to be able to take a large blow. Everyone is going to be knocked down a peg by climate change, so try your damndest to make sure you aren't a bottom peg.
To be fair, the limit is part of the API's semantics. If the limit is undocumented, the API is at least partly undocumented. It's as if a car had a headlights button that the manual had this to say about it: The headlights button turns on the headlights and the headlights indicator light on the dashboard. However, nothing in the manual states that the headlights indicator shares a circuit with a valve that drains the fuel tank, so in effect when you turn the headlights on, you're causing the fuel to leak. I would say the button is not properly documented in that case.
I don't know if I've just been excessively lucky, but I've never put a case on any smartphone I've owned since 2010, and I've only cracked the screen on two of them. These days (probably for the past 4 years) I do put the thin-film screen protectors on as well, and replace them if they get damaged.

I've always been of the feeling that I'm buying this lovely, well-designed piece of hardware, why would I want to cover it up in an ugly plastic case?
I've seen similar drive-through-only places (though not 4-lane) off the freeway; I think in the Chicago area.
Because you are now encoding parameter choices in function names instead of making them parameters.

I mean it's not terrible design.

But having to do a `use base64::prelude::{Engine, BASE64_STANDARD}` is also not terrible design.

Nor is `use base64::engine::{Engine, general_purpose::STANDARD as BASE64}`, through it's less nice.

So given that there is already and equally good design there anyway, there is no reason to add additional code, especially if that code would make it easier to make a mistake when using it.

I guess if this would be designed now from scratch it would have something like a `decode(data, standard)` function, but `decode` is already in used (even through deprecated) so we can't have that.
How did you come to that estimation? The strength of the RFI on the waterfall suggests received signal strength comparable to someone transmitting on a 5w HT within, say, 5-10 miles (aka not in the immediate neighbourhood, but pretty nearby). Someone transmitting 3w at 1000km distance will not register even the slightest on any amateur receiver, even with RF gain absolutely cranked to the max and with a massive antenna.
No, no, not controversial. I intended to make it easier to understand the point by demonstrating for the more literal-minded that using moral language sets up two halves of a dichotomy, one preferred to the other, so that such prejudices needn't be personal but rather merely moral. The difference is of course that which side of a moral dichotomy is a choice that can be reversed (e.g. making an effort to open the mind) while personal matters are immutable in those people.
This brings another question, if I watch an old replay, does it mean it has to have the versioned game engine stored in the computer? Does it mean with every update it gets increasingly bigger? Or is there a number of supported versions you could replay? I only started playing like 3 years ago...
I'm not sure about an official name, I also just call it "bitpacked".
Reminds me a little of TACA Flight 110. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TACA_Flight_110
Plus the best finance page.
Pull the strings on Charles Manson, see what they unravel!
Artosis alt account?! :P
That was my experience as well, and totally ruined my first year at university. The lecturers expected I'd been taught application and derivation of proofs, but in reality I'd only been taught the proofs required to pass the high school exams.
> VoIP dropped the price to practically nothing. Now we have videoconferencing all over the world.

Cool example you chose there. 99% of VoIP is actually closed source, proprietary solutions.

WhatsApp, Facetime, Skype, Telegram, Google Whatever, Slack, Teams, ...
Still one of the top website
You don't need an ID for levomethamphetamine.
Five years ? Why would someone want to experience hardware advances in large steps instead of continuously ?
AI has driven 44 million miles so far.

Americans drove 3.2 million million miles (aka trillion).

Comparing things that have managed in total barely 1/100,000th of a years usage means anecdotes don't matter.

Because there is at minimum one unavoidable aspect here: we don't know what accidents an AI could prevent and way way more importantly we don't have enough data on what accidents an AI would cause at highway speeds.

Insufficient data is available for how effective AI is at preventing accidents.

The Arizona one I gave for instance, the company was found not liable since a person might have done the same but could they have slammed on the breaks turning a fatality into an injury? We will never know and can never no.

The best we can do is measure real world performance and pay close attention.
That study dates from 2014 and was discussed here:

A Large-Scale Study of Programming Languages and Code Quality in GitHub (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15378800 - Oct 2017 (66 comments)

It's also discussed prominently in Dan Luu's survey, linked to here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37770719
Maybe the plan is to eventually have the phone include every possible sensor and do everything.

https://xkcd.com/2212/
"But ransomware gangs are overwhelmingly Russian, and overwhelmingly use crypto as their payment channel"

Would it not be a little bit strange for Russian ransomware to provide an IBAN or a Money Wire to a bank? And Russian ransomware actors are, in contrast to North Korean and as far as I know, not state actors. (Russian Troll factories are not ransom ware)
Ultrafast transfer of low-mass payloads to Mars using aerographite solar sails
I had no idea -- thanks for sharing that with me!
I use an image my buddy took of his clubcard barcode with his phone. Sadly, the app prevents you from screenshotting on android. I think most people here just do a google image search.

Handy enough. I get to avoid jacked-up prices, and he gets reward points.
None of the phpBB-like forums that I am aware of (phpBB, SMF, vbulletin) require login to search.
It's possible that in terms of volume of precipitation, urban areas get as much or more (https://www.udel.edu/udaily/2020/december/mather-lecture-mar....) but the point is the negative impact of human, preventing "good" soft rain, because those precipitation are more intense and rare, so it's causing erosion and the result is just like less precipitation for plants/trees
Technology is massively overrated.

We build the same things cheaper, more generically and long, long after they were first discovered.

Electric cars were conceived in the 20s, Fusion in the late 1800s, face recognition in the 20s, ML in the 80s, ect.

Cars used to be a variety of iconic shapes and designs, now they are one homogenized platform.

Houses used to have a variety of rich architectural styles. Now all new builds have the same rendered concrete, flat walled, sharp edges, soviet style.

The internet has automated away our consciousness and conscience, people forgo long term memory of skills for rapid-response look-ups of trivial facts and submit to an endless cycle of similar concepts regurgitated.

Truly educational literature has been replaced with an ocean of devouring forms to fill out. Finding literature and written (let's be honest, typed up or generated) content that gives not takes, to the reader is getting rarer statisticaly.

Cinema is being replaced with lesser quality home theatres.

Dating has been replaced with a 'meat market' app.

Duty, heirarchy, order, meaning have all been drained out and people are wasting time on devices designed to mirror their consumption.

Computing and software has been subtly manipulated to force users to think as the software provider does, and to waste their time brutally, if they do not.

Agent Smith is more relatable everyday. It really became the machines' society when they did the thinking for us.

It is deeply sad to watch people waste conceptual power, like a dog returning to it's sick.
Very nice aesthetic.
Breaking squelch on a scanning radio in the general vicinity is pretty bad. It shouldn't be generating such strong RFI on VHF frequencies. I use 2m (VHF) handheld radios at my desk at home with like 5 computers around me, countless chargers (including a wireless charger just like in the article). There is never a time that my radios are stopping on RFI generated within my office.
It's a power thing. Authorities make arbitrary changes just because they can, and exercising their power feels good. They ignore the reason people object to those changes and interpret the objections as challenges to their power and direct personal insults.

Basicly, "I'm in charge" outweighs "this is dangerous".
With known characteristics of the linear motors this can be accounted for with software.
I think it's a somewhat unfair (though who cares if it's unfair) comparison because you aren't using the database/sql interface and mattn does.

If you drop that interface, you get much better performance.

See: https://github.com/eatonphil/gosqlite for example.

Edit: Nevermind, you did include crawshaw (which doesn't use database/sql) in your benchmark!
There are HP EliteBooks with a Ryzen Pro 7940hs that have SODIMM slots, so I think they should support ECC?
It's not like ICE vehicles never suffered from stuck open throttles for myriad reasons either.

From footwell carpets sliding forward and catching on the physical pedal keeping it "to the metal", or plain binding at the actual butterfly plates, I've had more than my fair share of "run away" gas vehicles. It's just I've also always had a clutch pedal at my disposal to immediately decouple the max-revving engine from the drivetrain in such circumstances.

EVs tend to lack any physical cutoffs between the "on" button and tires. They're always physically coupled in the drivetrain department, and you're generally operating a soft switch asking a computer somewhere to shut off. It's far beyond any sort of fly-by-wire ICE implementation I've encountered, where you'd generally still have the ability to just kill the ignition switch, forcibly shift to neutral, or push in a clutch pedal.
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Yep, I expect most of these to make it to older pixels but probably not for a few months. There are some that probably require the newer Tensor G3 chip though, which can't be backported.
All my life I've felt like I'm taking crazy pills talking to these people. The basics of the carbon dioxide greenhouse effect are almost trivial science - first written about (as far as is now known) by an American woman citizen scientist before the Civil War. To say that humans can dump an unlimited amount of that gas into the atmosphere (and it's a terribly awesome accomplishment that the very air we breathe now contains one third more carbon than it did when my parents were children) with zero consequence always struck me as bonkers.
> But you often can’t own two cars, a house, and a cabin in the mountains, and raise 3+ kids with a single income. like you use to be able to do.

This doesn't sound believable to me. This sounds like a luxurious lifestyle for America at any point.

As an example, the Dodge Coronet was $2k in 1950, and median annual income was $3300, so that's 60%. A 2023 Honda Civic is $23k, and median annual income is $57k, so that's 40%. So that's actually better today, especially because the Civic is a far better car than the Coronet.

I think this is lifestyle inflation.
at university level that's not really going to work. you have lectures and assignments and maybe meetings to discuss assignments or present work. there are no more classes like in school. at least there weren't in my university.

you are also missing one important aspect: work is usually 40 hours a week.
full time study should be 40 hours too. but at least where i come from, you generally have less than 20 hours of lectures and TA meetings, etc. so you are absolutely expected to spend the other 20 hours in your room or in the library working on assignments. that is not encroaching on your time.

there is only a problem if you spend more time on assignments causing you to work/study more than 40 hours in a week
>When was the last time you changed your mail id?

I get this sentiment, but I don't know anyone in my age group (late 20s/early 30s) that use yahoo mail either. My dad did use yahoo mail, but i'm guessing it has about 20 years left.
> Where is everyone?

Get used to it. The emerging model is a virtual vending machine - if what you want isn't there, tough. If the machine breaks, well, sorry about your dollar, maybe it'll work next week.

If you want to talk to a human, start by getting rich. That costs extra.
Child comment is now dead (and rightly so, but this was my reply).

> Yep. Have you read the headline of this post?

Yes, I did, as well as the post itself, in fact this sort of comment is against the guidelines but since you're a new account maybe you want to give them a read? Link at the bottom of every page.

> Good luck with that. Trust me, we tried.

I've had several dealings with lawyers in Estonia and no reason for a complaint so far. But I didn't get them from some other website, I asked around in Estonia with business contacts there.

> Again, if financial institutions are involved I am not sure you are right. This are is heavy regulated from AML to KYC to whatever.

That doesn't matter.

> Crypto scammers plague Estonia’s e-residency program

Yes, they do. Unfortunately. They also plague Twitter, Facebook, HN at times, the United States and the start-up scene in general. That's nothing to do with Estonia per-se but more a reflection of how easy it is to set up a business somewhere.

> This comes only three months after the crypto-friendly nation became the epicenter of a $220 billion money laundering scandal.

Latvia had a similar issue a few years ago, they US basically pulled the plug on that and since then it's a lot better. But countries with underpowered regulatory entities will always be at risk of these things. But that does not make it 'the businessmodel of the country' any more than that the drug trade is the business model of the Netherlands or the United States. It's a clear reflection of facts of geography, ability to regulate and oversee, ability to police, experience and so on. The Baltics are attractive because (1) they don't have a whole lot of experience fighting this stuff (2) are proximate to some very large sources of illicit funds (3) lack manpower and funds themselves (see your quote about 'how big is their GDP' -> that's not proof this is their business model but an excellent reason why they can't do as much about it as they should).

As far as I'm concerned Estonia (and Latvia and Lithuania) can pull the plug on all crypto companies in their respective company registries. And let's not get started about Slovakia, Serbia and Macedonia who all have their own problems to work through.
I was surprised to see my Pixel 4 is worth $250 for trade-in.

I've never actually traded in any of my old phones, on the fear that the new one might break at some point and I'd need a backup. Granted I've only once had to take advantage of this in the 13 years I've had smartphones.

I didn't click all the way through, but I'm hoping you don't have to turn in the old phone immediately... I'd like to hang onto it for at least a couple weeks just in case I find the backup/restore process hasn't completely done its job.
This entire article assumes that the surplus created by technological productivity is wasted.

After working as a bartender at a high end dockside restaurant during my younger years, I believe that the upper class and leisure class is larger than ever before. That automation spare time has been converted into massive wealth that will keep the political and business elite rich for generations to come.
My memory is a leaking bucket. My typing however, is very fast.

Take for example the substring function. I wouldn't know which one it is for JavaScript, Haxe, ActionScript3, C#, Java, Python, C, C++, PHP. I know I used it at one point for all of them.

For languages like JavaScript, Java and C#, it's probably a method, so you can start typing. Might be substring(), might also be substr() or something like that.

For Haxe, I thought it was not a method so I think it's either part of Std or StringTools.

If I use autocomplete, I have it in a few seconds, and I can also see the documentation on the parameters. Is the second parameter an index or a length? To be honest I have no idea. And the good part is, thanks to autocomplete I don't need to know.

Also, if you work in a big codebase, you can't know every class. Needing to dig through code seems such a waste of time.
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> It's extraordinary that we're only 15ish years from the first smartphone release and we've already reached the "boring" incremental improvement phase for these tiny pocket supercomputers.

I think people are not yet ready to accept the exact same thing is about to happen to cars. Some company will have a perfectly usable electric self-driving vehicle and will produce tens of millions of them a year. They will be an appliance, like your toaster, and nobody will care anymore.

I'm sure it will happen to other things in our lives too.
In the iPhone 15 release they wrote "huge leap" 6 times. It felt like something to anchor the perception and to trick journalists to include it in a sentence. But when they say it so much, it kinda shines through that it's mostly just desperate words. "any man who must say I'm the king is no true king" vibes.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/09/apple-debuts-iphone-1...
Not really true for the Samsung Flip phones out there. I don't know many people who use a case on them.