skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know why this is getting downvoted. This is exactly how the system works.

Every productivity gain is only meant to make workers faster which earns profits faster for the executives and shareholders.

With the prospect of faster work, execs and shareholders are salivating at the thought of grinding workers more in the same 40 hours/week but earn more profits for the same amount of hours.

If we want our children to live a better life than us, we need massive changes in laws (healthcare, exempt workers etc.).
>Because that’s not what is happening.

It was an example, but I think my point still stands: there is no confusion other than the one created by changing the names of things in-flight.

>All of this seems pretty academic.

Agreed :/
Not sure how that is a counterpoint, GP doesn't even specify they are talking about a nuclear family. Presumably other family structures have a similar dynamic where they want the youth to succeed.
In the USA, it depends on the state. Washington state is based on a budget system: so property valuations are used to figure out your share of a fixed budget. If your valuation changes in lock step of other valuations, your share of the budget remains the same. Of course, the budget increases every year (but so do the number of houses), and your share is bound to go up at least via inflation. New levies are taxed as a percent of valuation for a couple of years, and then they are fixed to a budget afterwards.

We changed how we computed valuation to charge for land more and what is built on the land less, so my property taxes have actually been going down for the last few years (since I have a town house built on a small plot of land...so my share of the budget is shrinking).
> The Amazon products are (possibly) counterfeit. I think this is less likely at Target or WalMart (as long as you avoid the third-party sellers on WalMart's site -- not sure if Target has those).

Do you have any data on the number of counterfeit items? I've been an Amazon customer for 20 years now. I've never had an incident, and we order pretty much every week for basic home goods.

You're saying that people are selling counterfeit probiotics and lotion on the site now?

I've seen this counterfeit claim repeatedly on this site. While I understand Amazon intermingling inventory from different sources makes it a possibility, I've yet to see any data that it's a significant issue. Not to the extent that it warrants you telling people their lotion, which is lower priced, is counterfeit and not for numerous other reasons.
What happens if we go back too far in the forums and the AI starts suggesting the use of leeches and the letting of blood?
I would'nt touch nvidia "goodies" with a barge pole. Perfectly good 5-year GPU deprecated upon upgrade to ubuntu 22.04 because of cuda/drivers. The lock-in trap of the century.
It is known that LLMs are possible, so there is no stoping it. It's too late to think about if we like it. All ideas and skills are fair game now, but LLMs lack in depth in all of them. No LLM system is better than a domain expert.

Maybe with better training data we will have better models. There are some models trained only on public domain and synthetic (generated) data. So probably LLMs won't learn directly from our works. They need better data than internet stuff, human text is not good enough. See the Microsoft model Phi-1.5 [1], trained on diverse synthetic text of high quality.

[1] https://youtu.be/0lF3g4JtY9k?t=531
Hi all, I'm one of the maintainers of MatX. I didn't expect it to hit HN this soon, but happy to answer any questions.
No they didn't, as stated in the article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Chicago

"Chicago has an estimated population of over 100,000 active gang members from nearly 60 factions. Gang warfare and retaliation is common in Chicago. Gangs were responsible for 61% of the homicides in Chicago in 2011."

Former Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy blames Chicago's gang culture for its high rates of homicide and other violent crime, stating "It's very frustrating to know that it's like 7% of the population causes 80% of the violent crime..."

Again, some data science mumbojumbo is preventing actual, logical solutions. El Salvador put gang members, in totality, in jail. Now it has the LOWEST homicide rate in Latin America - it had the HIGHEST before.

So yeah, the anti-carceration movement in the US has caused the deaths of more people, African-Americans in particular, than any terrorist organization.
Or, hear me out... I could buy phones which use the universal standard we have had for audio connections for 40 years. I have neither the skills nor the inclination to replace my car stereo, and I can only guess you've never used an FM transmitter if you are seriously suggesting that as an option. They suck, full stop. Meanwhile, I stick to phones which aren't designed by people so short-sighted as to think that everyone has Bluetooth available.

I genuinely have no idea how you can call Bluetooth a universal standard with a straight face. It's not even close. A 3.5mm isn't truly universal (little or nothing is), but it's as close as you can get. Ditching the latter in favor of the former is absolutely asinine.

Seriously man, 10 years ago is not that long in real world terms. It's a long time in the tech industry, but the rest of the world simply does not move on at that pace. As an industry, we need to pull our heads from our asses and realize that most people aren't techies living in a major city for whom anything invented more than 5 years ago is old, and anything invented more than 10 years ago is positively ancient. That simply is not how the world works.
Thanks, this is super helpful, especially the civilian and clique game theory scenarios. Will use search terms to find related material.

There may be attempts to use WiFi 7 sensing/radar in 2024 Meteor Lake laptops and 2025 routers to make claims about the presence of specific humans (e.g. gait, breathing, typing signatures), https://www.lumenci.com/post/wi-fi-sensing-applications-and-.... Some of the techniques you've outlined above could be appplied to through-wall WiFi Sensing devices.
Forr postgres, how does the schema diffing aspect compare to migra?

https://github.com/djrobstep/migra

I'm asking because, although migra is excellent and there are multiple migrations tools based on it (at least https://github.com/bikeshedder/tusker and https://github.com/blainehansen/postgres_migrator), issues are piling up but development seem to be slowing down
I don't think they broke up, just that Dave Brockie / Oderus Urungus kicked the bucket.

I remember really missing the cultural impact of GWAR in 2016.

Edit to add: they're currently on tour! There are no more members left from the original lineup, but the original Jizmak da Gusha, the current Balsac the Jaws of Death, and the current Beefcake the Mighty have held such considerable tenure that they establish a strong persistent core.
The Sphere feels a little like the Ghost in the Shell future we were pitched in the 80s.

Not sure if it's good or bad but it definitely feels future-y.
The .proto files are the documentation everyone is looking for.
Even when you do it to develop a commercial product?
I don't think they're arguing that an LLM is better at translation that an actual translator, just that they are pretty good at it. DeepL and Google Translate definitely also make things up though, so I don't think that's a good comparison...
As someone who owns a coworking space with similar prices, I'd say you really can't do it for cheaper than that, and we barely break even each month.

I'd say don't open one unless you want to work hard to save pennies over dollars.
As long as we're clear that your concern involves spy movie shit, and not mathematics or computer science, I'm pretty comfortable with where we've landed.
Bernstein is often right, despite the controversy around the Gimli permutation.

In this particular case it's worth noting that neither BSI (Germany) nor NLNCSA (The Netherlands) recommend Kyber.

Unfortunately, alternative algorithms are more difficult to work with due to their large key sizes among other factors, but it's a price worth paying. At Backbone we've opted not to go down the easy route.
How are the propellers of wind turbines "renewable"? How are the solar panels "renewable"? How is the storage of this energy "renewable"? There's nothing renewable! With everybody being focused on "renewable" energy, we stopped the development of renewable nuclear technologies! Technologies like Radiant [0] get almost no attention!

Not to mention the visual pollution and the waste of farmland with the "renewable" energy sources!

[0]: https://www.radiantnuclear.com/
>I think the only thing that can tell us whether or not every database can be a vector database is time.

I can help you put right now. You don't even need a database to have a "vector database". FAISS is an in-memory "vector database" that runs on the data that you happen to have. So: if you data is stored in a .txt file, load it into memory, index it with FAISS... bam a vector database from a data file.

Can we take X arbitrary "real" database and implement KNN search on top of 1000 indexed columns, I'm sure it is possible - but I'm also pretty sure most databases will die under the pressure (source: I've asked some of my favorite DBAs if I could do this and they said "no")
>GPL. I hope they have a more forgiving licence.

Sad state of the modern developer.
What could be cheaper than broadcasting content that other people produced, at zero cost to you? Problem is, just showing videos back to back like a radio station doesn't equal ratings, and no ratings means no advertising revenue.
It would be a fun test to run. But I'm not encouraged by the fact that the existing brotli dictionary already contains a bunch of javascript specific stuff:

https://gist.github.com/klauspost/2900d5ba6f9b65d69c8e

brotli literally already has a tokens for function/return/throw/indexOf(/.match/.length/etc.

Also verify after decompress is not without tradeoffs. On one hand we have folks like github who can't change the version of zlib because people rely on identical .tar.gz. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34586917

On the other hand we have a whole lot of iffy stuff you can do to make programs decompressing content use large amounts of resources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_bomb which makes "decompress this potentially untrusted file so that I can validate it's safe to use" hard.
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These SDKs are world-class: you get an idiomatic wrapper with autocomplete, types, etc. (I built a version of this at Stripe for their SDKs, and am now building a better version for everyone.)

Next, we want to make it easy to build amazing REST APIs. REST is simple and ubiquitous, but right now it’s also messy, chaotic, and hard to get right. We’re going to build great open-source standards and tooling that bring the benefits of GraphQL (types, field selection/expansion, standards) and gRPC (types, speed, versioning) to REST.

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Currently we support both CUDA and CPU to some extent. CPU is done through standard C++ (and soon stdpar). Obviously standard C++ is problematic since it doesn't include everything we support (FFTs, matrix multiplies, etc). One option is to use open-source libraries that do these, but then it ends up being a lot of dependencies that are hard to manage. We have plans to improve CPU support soon, so stay tuned.
If you use Slack, occasionally take a look at the channel list sorted by "most recently created".
I'm a big fan of his book The Wreck of the River of Stars, and think a lot of people here would like it.

The River of Stars is an interplanetary craft, originally driven by solar sail, with snazzy new fusion drives recently added. The crew combines new fusion people and sail traditionalists, and they don't like each other. The story is part engineering, part psychology; everybody does what they think is best for the ship, but they don't communicate well and unfortunate things happen.
100%. We already have some of those more-automated features, e.g. giving you context about recent changes that might be related to an alert, like deployments that might be related, feature flags, etc. But def interesting to do more around triage.
Are you using anything today for triage or is it all manual?
i'm still working on understanding lattices better

but i can imagine, based on my own ignorance, creativity, and lack of correct understanding, would be some kind of factorization.

as I think while trying to better know what's a lattice, I imagine a lattice like a coordinate pair, but instead of each coordinate existing on a line, they exist on a binary tree (or some other directed graph explored from a root outwards without cycles)

which means you have two such binary-trees (not necessarily binary, but it's just easier to work with them seemingly)

and then you combine these into ONE lattice. so then, to de-lattice means to recover the binary trees.

but when I say binary tree I'm thinking about rational numbers (because stern broccott trees)
The GLIBC_TUNABLES can be used to "choose" between different versions of e.g. memcpy at runtime. This can be really useful for debugging, if you want to allow/disallow AVX extensions, for example (even if your CPU supports them). This is what I use on x86_64 to make life easier for my "static" version of qemu usermode:

GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.hwcaps=
-AVX
-AVX2
-AVX_Usable
-AVX2_Usable
-AVX512F_Usable
-SSE4_1
-SSE4_2
-SSSE3
-Fast_Unaligned_Load
-ERMS
-AVX_Fast_Unaligned_Load
Hi, MatX currently has partial support for CPUs too. Please see this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37758635
Note that the article uses http://traefik.me/, one of those sites that resolves all subdomains to localhost (like lvh.me, http://readme.localtest.me/, or http://local.gd/), so you don't need any "localhost subdomain resolution".
In fact, `echo "This is my seed" | openssl sha -sha256` is not really a CSPRNG. Hash functions are the bases of many PRNGs. But I think you're abusing an ambiguity with the word "random" here. At any rate: we should be clear now on the point being made about the P-curve seeds.
"I think this is a consequence of variables being sent to a channel effectively having their address taken, disabling register allocation for them."

Looks like the Go code generator and optimizer is absolutely terrible, since any reasonable optimizer has standard optimizations that prevent this.

Apparently they wrote their own rather than using something established like LLVM, and this is the result.
How would one take an existing forum and transform it into a model that could be used?
Yes, that is the exclusive deficit of people who want to work from home and no other person, policy, or structural fact about your job. Your management hasn't already had the idea and, if they have, the only reason they haven't pulled the trigger is because they really like seeing your face.
I bought a second hand Dell XPS 13" (fairly new) and installed Fedora on it. I installed GCompris[0] and setup bookmarks for a few sites that they use in school as well. Seems to work well.

[0]https://www.gcompris.net/
You're making an assumption that the NSA cares about the efficacy of cryptography for other people. Why would they care about that?
In blind test, readers prefer ChatGPT output over Wikipedia articles
This is almost exactly how I did a similar migration, also in Timescale. I used PL/pgSQL and sqitch, did you use a migration tool?
They built something which is repairable but not upgradeable. The modular parts are the ones most likely to fail, not the ones most likely to become obsolete. But that doesn't seem to have increased the cost by any significant degree, so why doesn't everybody else do at least that?

Meanwhile many PC laptops do make the upgradeable parts modular. Laptops with modular memory, CPU, wireless etc. are available for less than a Macbook or iPhone. So where is the exponential cost?

> the software support promises are reliant on third parties

This is a "current vendors are crap" problem rather than any kind of technological barrier.

And that can't be the reason that Apple can't do it.
“Renewable” energy is commonly understood to refer to the fuel source
MeetUp introduced a price change (increase) in mid/late-2019 which most of my local groups protested as not feasible... just in time for the pandemic. During the pandemic, it seems most groups in my locale went virtual with FB pages or Discord groups with some Reddit/Twitter presence for announcements, and stayed there.

MeetUp didn't make any moves to exploit post-pandemic opportunities. imo it's dead at this point, there's so many zombie communities with stale recurring events that discovery is poor, and I've seen a high flake-rate for any events organized there (presumably too many low-engagement old accounts).
An alternate approach is to focus on building credibility, and prestige will naturally follow. And you‘ll seem less artful and more authentic about it as well.
I once had a disagreement with a lead dev for an in-house tool that was a glorified DAM. their forms were not kept up to date, and so users were forced to enter bad data which skewed query results. when pressed about why the fields were forced to choose from an outdated pre-populated enum, i was told "bad data is better than no data".

maybe the AI researchers are from the same school of thought. having bad/unvetted medical data/advice on psychedelics would be better than no data at all, right? /s
No, but you're proving my point. Look at the stats behind the various closures of retail stores across the US to learn about the impact of "petty crime".

Here is an example of what small store owners have to endure:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY1L62dKnU8
"El Sobrante store clerk set on fire during confrontation with shoplifter"

The absolute ignorance and distaste towards retail workers and small shop owners in the ruling class in the US is shocking.
GWAR is still around they released a studio album last year and they're still doing live shows.
Eastern Ukraine was fertile agricultural land, likely why it's the subject of takeover (in addition to mineral mining). Wonder how much of it will be reusable as such, and how much of it will be used but will be basically toxic output.
There are also a lot of virtual groups now. The Chicago Clojure group was never super active even before the pandemic, but there is a London Clojure group that puts all of their videos online.
Sprinklers are not overkill and I really doubt they add that much to the overall cost.

What is overkill is parking. When I was looking at buying apartments, each car park cost $80,000 AUD.
They as in law enforcement. If law enforcement improves the worst area then it will no longer be the worst area.
Replacing binaries for specific targets certainly happens more than one would like. This has even happened specifically with TC and VC files in the past. A mitigating circumstance though with Veracrypt is that the binaries also have detached GPG signatures that one can check against IDRIX's public key to verify that it is in fact what Idrassi has released on the website. It's still possible for actors to tamper with the binaries in other ways even if signed, so it's best to pull from source and periodically check the diffs.
>musl (used by default on Alpine and Chimera Linux) and the BSD libc’s on the other hand are much more minimal and conservative.

Read: slower and with less comprehensive standards compliance (even if some of those standards are a bit nutty).
Those numbers are surprising. Do you have a source for them?
You're getting downvoted for this, but you're right. I used to believe that recreational use of hard drugs was victimless, but I don't anymore. If you take opiates, meth, or crack-cocaine, there is some probability that you will become addicted, and once addicted, there is some probability that you will impose a cost on your community.

Hard drugs are really, really bad for you, and really bad for society. It really is the drug that is the problem - some substances simply cannot be used safely for recreation. If you choose to take them, you're rolling the dice on where you'll end up, and that makes it a crime with society as the victim.
To elaborate a little more:

Board thicknesses are measured in the "quarter system" - 4/4 (pronounced "4 quarter", that is 4 quarters of an inch) is a 1" thick rough-rough sawn board; 8/4 (8 quarter) is a 2" thick rough board.
As this is rough sawn (super rough and unsightly finish), you usually lose at least 1/8" while finishing the board, so a 4/4 rough board gives you something around 3/4" finished product.

This leads to 5/4 being another fairly common dimension, as you can get a 1" finished board out of it. 6/4 and 12/4 are somewhat common as well.

It might seem like an "ugly dimension" compared to something like m^3, but its really built around speed. Watching someone skilled price out an enormous stack of mismatched lumber (width, thickness, and length) in seconds with a lumber rule is always a fascinating process to watch (https://www.popularwoodworking.com/techniques/the-lumber-rul...).

Usually the $/board foot increases slightly at higher dimensions as thicker lumber is harder to produce. I got some 4/4 black walnut for $12.80/bdft last week; 8/4 was closer to $16.

Edit:
This is also why 2x4s are actually 1.5"x3.5" - historically they were 2x4 rough sawn lumber, but .5" is lost in both dimension when producing finished boards you purchase in the store.
And yet we are not given nukes. Going to be interesting where the lines end up in this new world.
His children won't need to work. He's not looking at the rest of us.
If you want to learn about the lumber industry and how the supply chain works I recommend this podcast: https://www.lumberupdate.com/
Well, that's just it - I use Google Translate all the time to translate historical texts, and for whatever reason, GPT-4 and Claude both work better. Since I deal with texts that feature archaic orthography like the long s (ſ) the main advantage over Google Translate is that LLMs can make educated guesses about what a word should be. But even in terms of pure translation ability — assuming all orthographic issues have been corrected — the LLMs do a better job in the languages I've tested and which I can read (early modern Portuguese, Spanish and French, plus Latin).

The post by David Bell which I linked to gets into this for French - I agree with him that ChatGPT (I guess he was using GPT 3.5) has a tendency to "overtranslate." But it is super impressive as a translator overall IMO: https://davidabell.substack.com/p/playing-around-with-machin...
Comical in the sense that offsetting the cost of cooling several additional degrees doesn’t anywhere near approach $20/mo, orrrr?
This is insane! 11 hours or not, I didn't expect SD could ever run on hardware like Pi Zero.
Wait until population growth peaks and property has to be valued entirely on its current utility with no expected capital gains.