skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vet costs vary wildly across different regions.

I just took my cat in for an emergency (little idiot ate plastic and we had to see if she had a block in her when she was continuing to vomit blood) and got her examined, a shot of anti-nausea medication, imaging of her gi tract, and some bland food to take home (which had to be special as she's allergic to chicken protein) for $215. I thought that was pretty damn reasonable honestly.
Upgraded the game with a cat – epic move! Plus, learned a bunch about Web3, which is awesome.
save you a google: ¥2,000 is US$13 per month.
Yup. And the move from a camera to a cinema camera incorporating cinematography trickery represents a marked change in what a personal camera is and does.
Fruit is sweet.
Yes. The move rename operation is atomic in any reasonable file system. With the default behavior Emacs can always keep the previously known good data in place even under power failure, disk failures, etc. if the new file is corrupt you go back to the exact old data (no bits moved in the disk.)
Moving files to backup instead of copying is better. First, the file modification dates remain meaningful. When a backup is made, the backup file has a last modified date of when it was last changed and the new copy has the current time. It is also reversible if creating the new file fails for some reason. The backup file can moved back to the original location with a single file system operation and retains the right modification date.

It's also more robust in case of errors. Emacs can write new data to a temp file, confirm it succeeded then rename working to backup and new to working. You never have a situation where the working or backup file ends up half written.
> When one of the best, friendliest, and most transparent C programmers of our time is writing these posts, we need to pay attention.

Given that said programmer wrote,

> Such development is however currently happening in a near glacial speed and shows with painful clarity the challenges involved. curl will remain written in C for the foreseeable future.

I'm curious what conclusion you'd like us to draw.
The absolute amount of money is irrelevant, it matters what percentage of a person's disposable income it is.

$10k is nothing if you making half a million dollars a year and have $200k in credit with no balance, because your disposable income is probably $400-450k/yr.

$200 is a ruinous amount of money if you make minimum wage and take the bus to work because your disposable income is very likely negative.
Sorry I didn't realize this appears to be a re-broadcast of the NASA TV stream

https://www.youtube.com/embed/nA9UZF-SZoQ

This is the press release

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-to-host-asteroid-samp...
So instead of using parking, they will use road space while cruising around. That is worse, parking space is valuable, but road lanes are even more valuable. Unless you are suggesting taking parking for road, which is worse for pedestrians. Self-driving cars don’t help if everybody is stuck in traffic caused by empty cars.
Medical doctors have a higher suicide rate
This seems like an unambiguous improvement. There's lots of fair criticism that the replacement system isn't perfect, but killing cookies without creating some alternative is not an option that is legally available to Google: https://www.gov.uk/cma-cases/investigation-into-googles-priv...
It all just looks like ordinary black on white to me. Somebody else was was complaining of blurry text, also not obviously in evidence on my PC (Firefox, Windows) or iPad, so perhaps browser-dependent.
How does that work, though? Is there a constellation of dog-seeking people hovering around veterinary offices that only want dogs that cost $10k and have recently had major surgery? People who are willing to donate $10k to save a dog's life but consider it very important that the current owner no longer have the dog anymore for some reason?
Speaking of understanding:

> command that already has a key for it is just stupid

backspace is one of the most inconvenient keys, so there is nothing stupid about replacing it with a much more convenient alternative (though the Ctrl default of Emacs is another bad default)

And he's changing the font size, not font

> Putting all backups in the same directory will be inconvenient for files named in the same way.

if only it were somehow possible to create subfolders or slighly change the names and store links in the backup...
Yes, the world did not respond neatly to a shortage of toilet paper. In the event of a shortage of animal-based protein, I would expect the response would be worse than the toilet paper wars.
I don't think it's really changed. There have always been introverts. So: "churches, cafes, clubs, public libraries, gyms, bookstores, stoops and parks", to name just a few. The difference is that there's a new third place called the internet that has replaced those for a lot of people, with many negative consequences and a few positive ones.
In reply to your other comment that was flagged:

Well, the reason why the Holy Grail killer rabbit is funny is precisely because a rabbit could never jump onto a man's neck and nibble his head off. If killer rabbits were actually a serious yet somehow obscure danger, maybe you'd find it initially funny, but you'd find it much less funny once you've found out many people are losing loved one to the buck-toothed menace. If you hear two people in white robes talking about how they lost a patient to cancer earlier today and how devastated the family was, and you laugh when you find out they're talking about a cat, what does that make you?
Really interesting, pixel is my favourite thing!
> But as an adult / teen my arm is now a foot or more longer.

It was a lifetime of tiny adjustments. We'd be lost in our adult bodies if it were a sudden transition.

As a teen, I was observably clumsier than I was as a small kid.
Update on this: I actually forgot it on and it was still indexing stuff on that same localdev folder for over 4 hours. :(
Until they die, relatively soon. 100 years from now Dropbox will be a distant memory, but locally mounted FTP directories under version control will be alive and well.
AlphaFold and other AI tools could help us prepare for the next pandemic
corporations weaponinzing the government to hold back progress. nothing new here.
Couple prototypes from what I gather. No contamination because it's a sealed system, and they're flowing molten salt through the working end to melt the rock in front of the machine as it pushes through.
Idra, the supplier of Tesla’s casting machines, is also building similar casting machines for Ford, Hyundai and an unnamed premium European carmaker.

Here’s a picture of the Ford casting machine under construction/testing at Idra:

https://twitter.com/lucagrecoita/status/1712112497673568738
Surrenders their pet to someone who can pay
Mostly because we can't drink there.
Didn’t the Romans build walkable cities? What happened to make them less walkable?
There's noticeable video ghosting and digital artifacts on this livestream. Why is NASA never able to transmit clear video? It's been this way since NASA TV launched in the 90s.

https://www.nasa.gov/nasatv/
the absurdity is, there would be enough nitrogen in waste water, but bacteria in the sewage plants release it into air
Should you pick Novavax's Covid-19 shot over mRNA options?
"Limited data and lack of head-to-head studies make comparisons tricky"
more money is being printed than ever before.. some people literally have to find something to do with it.. the waste in AI marketing is one result.

AI in the digital age is uniquely disruptive however, since it connects directly to the way we communicate.. so there is some reason to be wound-up by this, whatever role you are in
But "autocomplete", "voice control" and "internet search" as we know them are terms that appeared relatively recently for capabilities that people even 30 years ago would have said are in the realm of sci-fi. It sounds to me like just moving-the-goalposts such that when something is proven to work well enough to have a name, it becomes "plain old tech" rather than AI. Is there any computer capability that when widely released you'd be ok with calling AI?
My city is less than half of that size. It's impossible to find a parking spot and parking is only free on Sundays.

To make more parking, they'd have to tear down buildings or take away roads. Combined with a poor bus system, it ends up being a bad experience.

I'd much rather have a better public transportation system in my city, it'd be much easier than having to tear things down. More people in the city are pushing for this, so hopefully it'll get better.
Show HN: VectorAdmin – An open-source vector database management system
Hey HN,

At Mintplex Labs are building developer tools for AI applications. One area we encountered frustration was the use of Vector Databases like Pinecone, Chroma, QDrant, or Weaviate to "unlock" long-term memory and contextual answers. It is nearly impossible to manage this data when in use for production.

The craziest thing was how you cannot atomically CRUD any vectors in most of these vector databases. Let alone easily copy, clone, or migrate data or entire indexes without paying for re-embedding - among other things.

With VectorAdmin you get a database level UI with the ability to easily search for embeddings and atomically manage them on top of being a general tool suite for those using vector databases with LLMs.

Some things we have unlocked with Vector Admin:
- Upload data directly into the vector db via a text doc or PDF
- One click sync of entire existing vector databases
- Migrating entire db's to another provider to escape vendor lock in
- Ability to duplicate collections/namespaces to create dev-environments off production data at no cost
- Be able to finally reset a vector database (provider agnostic)

and soon, be able to detect "drift" in semantic search results and catch it early before your production system starts providing wild context snippets.

VectorAdmin is open-source or hosted and has a 3-day trial. We really want HN's feedback on the issues or problem you are having wrangling the actual data in a vector database while building any LLM application.
select [select] from [from] where [where] = [equals]

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I think the biggest difference is that impersonators are using humanly creative acting skills, whereas this tool's model is built mechanically from the original artist's recordings.
I looked into pet insurance. The best cover I could find would have cost me £250/year, and would only cover up to £7500.

It cost me £7000 for my cat to spend 2 days in "ICU", nothing surgical, though they did do a _cat scan_ and put him on oxygen.

I found the cost of insurance ludicrous given how expensive the vet was and how little the insurance would cover. Granted ICU is expensive, I would still expect there to be an option which would wouldn't cap out at such a low figure.

For such a measly cover, I would prefer to self-insure.
Private equity companies frequently purchase struggling businesses, not prosperous ones
I asked ChatGPT for a list of words that Brits and Americans pronounce very differently, combined them into some silly sentences ("my aunt gave vitamins and herbs to the zebra in the bathroom"), and tested them in the app with my native British accent. It consistently told me that my accent was 80%+ U.S..

This app is, as we say in Britain, complete rubbish.
dawn is the WebGPU backend in chromium, while wgpu is the WebGPU backend for firefox written in Rust. wgpu is seeing a lot of use in non-browser uses; there are some examples on their website.

https://wgpu.rs/
Just wait until their beloved talent's voice is shot from years of singing, drinking, smoking, etc. and they want a new album. Maybe they'll want to revisit their stance on this and use the tech to keep pumping out those hits that they need to survive on as a leech.
Isn't that a different problem entirely?
The original is that the host reveals a door without the prize.

Aren't you modeling an entirely different problem as opposed to modeling the same problem with a different model, since the problem states the parameters and you are changing those?
The short answer is to write ANSI 92 SQL and understand the variances between different RDBMS based on which ones you encounter.

The longer answer is that some RBDMS adhere closer to the standard than others. Generally the more open source and more long lived a platform is, the closer to the standard it can be. However, even an RDBMS like MSSqlServer isn't that far off from it, and while it may have things it supports that are outside of that standard, it will still support ANSI SQL (i.e. `ISNULL` vs `COALESCE`)

If you're looking for learning SQL that you can likely use in a wide number of places, I'd steer away from Oracle and DB2. Both are fairly proprietary, in my experience, and feel like writing in a different language that looks like SQL, but has a different set of rules and constraints.
Whose politics, or which politics? According to Wikipedia, Trump took 57% of the vote in Lancaster County in 2020.
A quick look into a successful case of using Rust in production
My partner and I have a number of animals and volunteered at a shelter for many years pre-pandemic. We worked with vets and vet techs and are roughly aware of the associated costs.

$10,000 feels high at first glance but consider the size of the skewer compared to a small animal. There is likely damage done to other areas including major internal hemorrhaging which is not super straight-forward to track down completely (even in humans). If the skewer was single-use bamboo (which I suspect given how much wood will retain food smell and how puppies love destroying garbage cans), the puppy would have likely chewed on it a bit causing splintered mess internally.

This would result in a multi-hour procedure with at least 2 surgical staff (surgeon and tech) and anesthesiologist (due to the complicated nature of this, we can’t have the animal regurgitating as well as active life support monitoring). In addition to the standard tools, they would be using X-rays, dyes, internal (dissolvable) sutures, etc. Internal organs would be mended, stomach fluid would need to be removed from the abdominal cavity, and there would be at least 12 hours of monitoring post op.

Expensive, yes, but I don’t think it’s that unreasonable unfortunately.
Setting backup-directory-alist to ((".*" . ".emacs.bak")) keeps the files local to the actually files, without the cognitive overload of being adjacent to the
edited files.
This was a core part of Starbuck's strategy. They wanted to be the defacto 3rd place, and were making great progress. Before Starbucks most coffee in the US was diners or togo drip in a styro cup.

https://www.fastcompany.com/887990/starbucks-third-place-and...

Unfortunately, Kevin Johnson pushed hard to maximize profits and cut costs to the direct detriment of the original "3rd place" vision. His focus was on pushing toward smaller to go / drive thru locations. The logic is pretty obvious. Smaller places that sell more units are more profitable. Large comfy coffee shops where people sit sipping 1 coffee for hours aren't.

Laxman Narasimhan took over this year and it is unclear how that will impact things, but I doubt "being the 3rd place" is even a goal of Starbucks anymore.
RankVicuna: Open Source Zero-Shot Listwise Document Reranking
Exactly. I don't get why people (non AI researchers) discount MoE like they are cheating or fake parameters.

Even if each inference pass only runs part of the network, there's still a trillion learnable parameters there lol.
I spent a week touring Rome and didn't see a single public bathroom.

Every society makes its choices and some of those seem weird when you look on the other side of the fence. The US is unique, sure, but so are other countries.
> why is the font blurry? My poor eyes

They have basically no css on that site. You should be seeing the default font of your browser. However, if you are browsing in dark mode you should see these colors and a text-shadow:

@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {body, a, a:visited {
color: #feec7c; background-color: #1e0708;
text-shadow: 0 0 3px #fde02d, 0 0 12px #b74312;}}

Maybe that shadow is the blurriness you are experiencing. Unfortunately I can't check, I don't even know how to switch my browser to dark mode.
this is cool research, and we appreciate the "human who's not an expert on these things but smart" style summary, but we wish there was an actual dot PDF available, not a weird page that gives an animation while asking for cookies then seems to beachball if you use privacy software[1] if you're going to front that you're open access.

no cookies, no masters -- just the links kind sir

we understand bandwidth is an issue, but we assure you if we had our druthers, we'd plug that bad boy into the wayback so we're not leaching your precious bandwidth

gatekeeping an open access publication such ways in unethical, especially when it's pure science with zero dual use.

(but also: congrats to the authors -- great way to leverage an existing a sensor in a way that doesn't involve locking people up for growing plants.)

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[1] Geophysical Research Letters
Volume 50, Issue 19, 16th October 2023
Non-Lightning-Generated Whistler Waves in Near-Venus Space
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/202...
SQLite isn't a bad one to know at all. It's pretty close to PostgreSQL and PostgreSQL prides itself as caring about the SQL standard.

I do think that, as general learning experience, working with PostgreSQL is a good starting place because of the good degree of SQL standard compliance. Get those basics down and the less standards compliant vendors become more accessible.

After that it depends what kinda of companies you'd want to work for. Enterprises deal much in MSSQL and Oracle. Start-uppy kinds of companies you're looking at PostgreSQL or MySQL... Or something not RDBMS at all. There are many generalizations that can be made but these are a few hand-wavy examples I would make.
That is not the alternative being discussed here. 80% of the US population is urban. We could not undo that without a huge degradation is quality of life. Cities are incredible engines for wealth creation. The alternative more or less imposed by law is suburbs that don't have access to communal space or nature.
You're well below average if that's true. AAA reports the average annual cost to own a car is around $10,000 - that's all inclusive - purchase, financing, insurance, maintenance, parking, etc.

In my area, an Uber trip from my house to the grocer, my office, or the local school is $10-$15.
There are several apps on Android that do this already. Since 2021 at least. https://youtu.be/UEedYitrSiw?si=Ufj0HXW_07PfXIxg
The article doesn't make clear why it should be considered a sixth taste, as opposed to simply sour:

> They found that ammonium chloride triggers a specific proton channel called OTOP1 in sour taste receptor cells. This sates a key requirement for a flavor to qualify as a primary taste.

That makes it sound like it's part of sour, not something new. And that seems kind of confirmed, by the report of it being "sharp and sour", before salmiak's other flavors also kicked in:

> “The first time I sampled salmiak… I spit it out on a Copenhagen street corner. It wasn’t that this powerful little pastille was bad. It’s just that my taste buds had never quite been lit up that way: smacked with a layer of sharp and sour salt dust, then soothed by something bitter and caramel-sweet. It felt simultaneously fascinating and… abusive? Or at least odd, like a knocked funny bone.”
It becomes more and more clear that he's just a sociopathic idiot, sort of like Miles Bron from The Glass Onion. I wonder how off his rocker he is from drug use.
Roads still exists, but they're only used in emergencies or by people with special permits (e.g. disabled). Walkable communities are more dense and with less traffic, so emergency vehicles can reach destination faster in most cases.
A great example of this is the size of parking lots for sports stadiums.

There's also several stories (I believe SimCity might be one?) of video game developers attempting to make representations of places in their game - and then removing all the parking lots as they realized it would make a boring experience.
For increased complexity, SQL actually has two kinds of keywords, reserved and non-reserved, non-reserved is what some grammars call contextual or lexical keywords: they are only keywords in specific contexts, but are generally usable as unquoted identifiers.

And obviously this is only for maximally portable SQL, postgres has a comparative table, which demonstrates that many of SQL's reserved keywords are non-reserved in postgres-sql: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-keywords-appendi...
> but locally mounted FTP directories under version control will be alive and well. [1] [2]

This might matter to you, but it does not matter to me. In the meantime, my life will have been better and my time saved between now and death (certainly less than 100 years from now). That's what the money is for. Time is non renewable. If you have more time and ideology than money, I admit your solution is a better fit for your life and use case(s). Self host if you want, I have better things to do personally vs cobbling together technology that I can buy polished for the cost of two coffees a month. There's a product lesson in this subthread. No business lasts forever, the benefit is the value delivered during its lifecycle. Provide value, and I will happily let you ding my credit card monthly or annually (please support annual plans B2C!) forever. "Build something people want" or something like that [3].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 ("My YC app: Dropbox - Throw away your USB drive ")

[3] https://www.ycombinator.com/library/4D-yc-s-essential-startu...

(sharing perspective as an educational exercise, nothing more, nothing less)
>Longer term you get different crops and even a return to things like crop rotation.

Farmers never stopped doing crop rotation.
Sweet is “the harmful, unhealthy food like candies” in modern times but it’s not like taste receptors only developed 100 years ago based on candy and other modern foods.
It works really really well for chatbots and roleplay applications (at least for me). The fine-tune on the instruct version is rather meh however, and I recommend https://huggingface.co/Open-Orca/Mistral-7B-OpenOrca/ if you plan on using it out-of-the-box. Take note of the prompt template, you'll get really undesired results otherwise (basically just garbage). I've been running it on my pet projects with llama.cpp and the inference is blazing fast even with my mediocre 2080 Super
An additional issue is that a good fraction of 'organic nitrogen fertilizer' comes in the form of fish meal. This isn't a very environmentally friendly or sustainable approach, however - e.g. at peak extraction, 2/3 of sardine fishery production on the US west coast was being converted into crop fertilizer (mid 20th century).

Note however that modern industrial agriculture uses fertilizer fairly inefficiently, and a large fraction just runs off the fields into waterways. Here is where the AI robots could make a big difference, by crawling up and down farm fields and selectively applying fertilizer to individual plants as needed (while also removing weeds and treating pest infestations). Of course, this doesn't make agrichemical producers all that happy as it could greatly reduce demand.
I don't work a ton in SQL, but my experience with SQLite tends to carry me thru anything that requires some SQL without having to commit to fully learning another dialect. I just pick up what I need when they differ. Some sort of IDE works great if it understands the dialects and will red-squiggle anything that's off. (DataGrip works great for me)