skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not sure the original intent of the national highway system can be chalked up to the interests of the 0.1%. It’s generally attributed to national security, which is a very public interest.
Opioids didn’t cause harm because they should have failed their clinical trials.
> Not sure if there's a name for that.

Hill climbing! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_climbing

Basically: Go in any direction that makes the number go up. Repeat.
Even if there was competition, banks, as an industry, are given a monopoly on a public service. Just like we shouldn't let the water company does whatever the f*k they want, but hold them to standards of service, the same is expected of banks.
I have similar UX desires and I typically have good luck looking up their manuals or just looking on reddit or whatever before I buy.

It's often some combination of holding down 1, 2, or 0 for a few seconds to change those modes.
Roundabouts have to have splitters and other features that traffic calming circles lack. Also, technically you can go whichever way you want around a traffic calming circle: counterclockwise is recommended, but many trucks physically cannot navigate them that way. And there are zero traffic laws distinguishing a traffic calming circle from an uncontrolled intersection.
"Want to use an async library? There’s a chance you can’t use it outside of a specific async runtime."

I complained about this here[1]. I'm told "Tokio won, it's not a problem anymore." Wrong. It's still a problem and it's a killer.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37892655
If all else fails, build your own Stingray.

https://www.hackers-arise.com/post/software-defined-radio-pa...
Not what I expected but thanks, we'll check it out!
What do they do exactly? Just operate on a variable power level, without cycling on and off?
Seattle roundabouts are absurd - they’re actually not roundabouts despite being shaped like them, but are traffic slow down artifacts. But people insist on treating them like roundabouts despite being too tight a radius for some cars and the city advising to not treat them as such.
And if not clear GraphQL is not "SQL on the web", so just because your DB schema changes, your GraphQL API doesn't have to change (basically like REST)
Yeah, any appliance store will. Not like a walmart, but also they probably will, at the very least you could buy it and return it, but just go to an appliance store or even lowes. They will have lots of floor models open and active and will help you set up to test anything else you want because the salesmen are paid on commission.
I find it’s difficult to cancel an apple one trial.

I have a 6mo Apple Music trial came with the device purchase, then “upgraded” into the Apple One trial which I just activated.

Finding out that’s a bad deal to me I wanted to cancel the Apple trial and it says the subscription will be ended immediately instead of the usual claim “until the end of current billing cycle”

But after I have determined to cancel this no matter what, the result is surprising:

Your subscription is expiring soon.
Your Apple One subscription expires on
November 20.

This is dark.
Depends on the Bluetooth device class.

Most devices are Class 2, with a maximum transmit power of only 2.5 mW; that's not a lot compared to Wi-Fi's ~20-30 mW.

AirPods are notably Class 1, which goes up to almost 20 mW! They accordingly have much better range as a result.

Bluetooth LE in newer version has new low-bitrate coding methods to allow for even greater ranges (called "Coded PHY"). Assuming Bluetooth LE classes are the same as for EDR (I don't know if they are!), this source [1] claims a 4 times greater range using coded PHY, which would be in the range of several hundred meters.

[1] https://www.bluetooth.com/blog/exploring-bluetooth-5-going-t...
thanks, we got the feedback & it's a valid point :)
Recently tried writing some async Rust to compare the error handling when nested async calls are made to how errors are handled in Go, and it seemed like the trivial example I was trying to write up simply couldn't be done without involving Tokio. That barrier simply doesn't exist in Go, or C#, or Typescript.

For instance, you apparently cannot `await` in the main function without a decorator you import from, you guessed it: Tokio.
Correct. Anyone that says roundabouts are less safe doesn't have science backing their claim. While, they do not reduce the number of accidents and in some cases can increase accidents, but they consistently reduce the severity of the accidents.

A three lane roundabout may be annoying when encounter as a tourist but the majority of locals going about their daily commutes quickly master them. For a three lane roundabout the inner lane is left turn only. The inner lane is left turn or straight and the right lane is right turns only.

The ones in my area have ample signage indicating which lane allows for each type of turn.
For heating use only, heat pumps are more expensive than natural gas in my area (MA, with ~$0.25/kWh electricity and $0.85/therm gas supply plus ~$1.13/therm delivery).

I tried to make a heat pump make sense for heating here. I couldn't make it economically pencil out. I hope I'm around and I hope the economics are different in 20 years when it comes time to replace the heat source in my house again.
Why doesn't it need a turntable?
Anyone got links to examples of text embedding?
I'm confused by this. Do you... not own a mouse? In my line of work, the actual editing of code is at most 10% of my time, and the remaining 90% is spent deliberately thinking through the actual algorithms and backend work.

Piping to CLI tools is easily done through Jetbrains macros.
I tried nextjs.

I had a route with console.log(request) and some db stuff.

I removed the console.log and it broke my build.

Because their magic compiler thinks if you don’t reference the request param then the code should execute at build time. So it tried to query the database from CI.

Insane.

Switched to remix which while still completely asinine and similar in many ways has slightly less magic footgunnery.

Next app will be built with something less dumb tbd.
Is there something like oobabooga to easily run this in a click-and-run way? Where I can load up a model, a text, and ask it questions?
thats what insulated vessels are for. Hotter coffee simply has more heat to lose in a crappy cup. caveat emptor but it sucks for all involved except the idiots that run dunkin crapcakes that thought coffee that hot was a good idea.

edit: and maybe im a coffee snob or value my taste buds but id rather stay in bed than drink that stuff
Green vote fades where import competition scares people, research suggests
8K is the context length. Their vector dimension size is actual much smaller, which is great for a number of use cases, though maybe not the ones you are thinking about.
APoSD is a relatively quick high-signal read, and not really a source of additional chaos. You can get through it in a weekend or less.

It mostly gives you vocabulary and labels and explanations for things that you may already intuitively understand, and teaches you to notice small things that matter. It will probably make it easier for you to discuss and dissect some of the chaos you're already dealing with.
I was looking at that too, but doesn't that usually imply using a directional antenna, rather than just measuring the received signal strength at different locations?
There is an endless supply of that, but it's not much lighter than cold air, so it doesn't have a great lifting power.
This reminds me of the kind of hack I came up with, almost 20 years back. I used to work in Bangalore, and now and then, we would have a power outage in the evening that lasts for a few hours. I was single and used to live alone. I did not want to go home from the office and find myself without power. So how do I find out there is power at home? During those days, there were no IOT devices so checking them is that's out of the question. But I did have a landline phone that was powered by electricity and had a replaceable battery as a backup. I used the phone only to connect to the internet. So I just removed the batteries and when the power goes out, my phone wouldn't 't work. So before leaving work, all I had to do was call my landline. If it rings, it means there is power.
Wait I thought only I could read the secret
> Why does HN always do this, comment up from their moral high horse?

i think a lot of us were introduced to tech as an extremely liberating thing. the dreams were obvious if you spent time building things as a kid: complete creative direction over your built environment, digital _and_ physical.

and then you reach working age and realize that very, very few people _employed_ in tech share those dreams. the people working to actually make tech liberating are largely the people _not_ being paid to do it (maybe a carveout for grant work there), and a large part of paid tech work is explicitly counter to those liberating ideas: taking a general purpose technology and restricting what the user can do with it (Apple), surveilling the user everywhere (Google, Facebook).

> Where does one work then? Is it that hard to fathom that people have different moral codes and care about different stuff.

not hard to fathom. at the same time, if i told you "my moral code leads me to discredit the idea that anyone can have a private property right to unused shelter" and lived out of your garage while you're out of town, would you really not take issue with that? is "we have different moral codes" really a get-out-of-jail free card? i see the future you're manifesting (via the work your comment suggests that you do) as one which makes my own future more difficult to realize. that puts us in conflict. my future would apparently be better without you in it, but maybe you're offsetting things elsewhere, and i'm not _that_ self-centered anyway. so what would you have me do? i think the most reasonable thing to do is to let it be known to you that this is the case.
> See: Pixel Pass being canceled right before it was supposed to pay off with a phone upgrade

Did you first try to understand what Pixel Pass was? No, it wasn't supposed to "pay off" with a phone upgrade. To get a new phone, users would have had to renew their Pixel Pass subscription. It wasn't - pay monthly for 2 years and get 2 phones: one at the start and end of the 2 years.
Does anyone know what they are using for this comparison and ranking? And where does instruct-xl stand in the mix?
We have a Phillips microwave built in 1987, still going strong. In this domain, older is WAAAAAAY better.
Salaries are dominant in early stage startups, and infrastructure costs becomes dominant as you scale (also probably a SaaS-centric oversimplification). You can get into trouble in the middle, where you have enough scale to be paying jaw dropping cloud bills, but you don't have the staff to move to a cheaper architecture and you may still need to focus on getting new features out to drive growth (or to attract investment).

In startups that chasm is generally filled with VC money paid to cloud vendors, but if you're bootstrapping or not looking to be a unicorn, you probably will want to drive down infrastructure costs much earlier.
Instant Pot died primarily due to private equity greed, not because of Instant Pot reliability.

In 2017, Cornell Capital bought the company for a total $500M of which $300M was financed by debt. Then 4 years later in 2021, it refinanced and added on debt, bringing the total debt to $535M. $245M was immediately paid out to shareholders as a dividend. Cornell Capital got paid back all the cash it invested in the company's acquisition, and then some. In 2023 due to high interest rates the company was no longer able to service its debt, costing the company ~$50M a year, and the company had to file Chapter 11.
You're skipping the most needed improvement of all: fixing the issue where scripts with unquoted variables will seem to work until they contain a space. Almost every single bash script of more than a dozen lines I've seen outside of large open-source projects fails if a user puts a space in a file path, because the programmer didn't understand the insanity of variable quoting rules! I don't know of any programming language with a more common major footgun.
Interesting, I have a Midea white labeled window air conditioner from Costco and that thing is SUPERB. Extremely quiet, cold, smart, all around just a fantastic device. I wonder why their microwaves are so bad
That's only possible for unencrypted networks/SSIDs, though.
Some relevant stats from the link:

8192 token input sequence length

768 embedding dimensions

0.27GB model (with 0.07GB model also available)

Tokeniser: BertTokenizer [1], 30528 token vocab [2]

Is an 8K sequence length directly comparable to text-embedding-ada-002 if the vocabulary is much smaller? I seem to remember its tokeniser has a larger vocabulary.

[1] https://huggingface.co/jinaai/jina-embeddings-v2-base-en/blo...

[2] https://huggingface.co/jinaai/jina-embeddings-v2-base-en/blo...
I also love this anecdote -- but the SO engineering team that made that possible is _not_ your average LOB engineering team in my experience. Those guys were like C#/SQL technomancers. SO is a great example of just how much is possible with a .NET monolith, but very few teams are going to be capable of driving the machines that hard.
Isn't that just delegating the problem? URL dependencies do not replace what crates.io does, and a modern language will still want something like it. You'd just end up with most every dependency being declared as crates.io/foo.
Reading the article, it seems the real use case (unmentioned) is on ballistic missile nuclear subs.

You want them to be well below the surface of the water, where the GPS signal does not penetrate so well. Thus having a way for them to know precisely where they are without relying on GPS would be very helpful.
The first paragraph of your closing remarks, beginning with "I think this was a bit tricky..." made sense. The first sentence was a bit of painful run-on, but I think the argument you're trying to make is that it's impossible to prove that "enshittification" doesn't destroy the product in it's entirety.

> Why don't we just normalize ex post facto law while we're at it?

This really puzzled me...I re-read it half a dozen times. I know what ex post facto law is. The connection to an excessively long-running television series (e.g.) defeats me.

Finally, you claim that a quote from earlier in this thread corroborates/provides evidence that "enshittification is inevitable and ultimately good" (which I think is your thesis?). But the quote you provide proves the exact opposite - that "more content cheapens the art/media you used to adore".

In only a handful of paragraphs, you flip-flopped positions entirely.
'Woodpecker': A groundbreaking solution to AI's hallucination problem
StreamDeck and Keyboard Maestro are a great pair. w
With KM’s ability to update the keys on StreamDeck I use it as dashboard for items in addition to actions.
A key displays next upcoming meeting and changes color as it gets close.
Another key shows the current VPN IP in case I need to target internal services back to my development instance.
For Teams, I have button that toggles the resolution of second Studio Display to share desktop with lower resolution.
Well, my instant pot is a piece of junk. I got it ca. 2019 to replace my worn out rice cooker, and within 2-3 years the control dial failed. Now I have to spin the dial at a wide range of speeds while various pushing on, pulling on, and whispering incantations to the stupid thing. Worth making extra waste to replace? No, but it sure makes me mad that I need 90 seconds to set the cook timer.
A friend of mine is gay and he uses this and a lot of other apps like it. I asked him what he thought of Blued and Gay dating apps in general, and he said that there are so many scammers that it makes it really hard to use them.

When I asked him why there are so many scammers, he says that it's because the apps allow people who pay for them to geolocate themselves anywhere, and appear local, making it easier to target people.

Is this a problem for straight people on dating apps?
Google making AppEngine in the first place always felt weird to me. It was great for some web developers, but outside that use case, really not so much. But it came with a great collection of side technologies, which got unbundled (Datastore, etc) because there were folks (like me) who wanted to use the side tech but not AE itself (for many, many years you couldn't "import numpy" but people would still say "see? We have a cloud, it's called AppEngine").

Once enough things were unbundled from AE, and containers became popular, it wasn't really clear what AE provided that wasn't better solved by more standard tech.

Often times, Google leadership simply didn't understand what its own engineers and product managers knew. People told me for years "we can't do cloud because the profit margins are too small", and now look: Google is a perenially third-place in Cloud but has committed itself so much they can't even shut it down if they want to.
Exactly, if the SSID and password match, it is the same network by definition.
I bought this one for the same reason , two simple knobs , no BS keypads and presets. It was expensive but I love it, more than I expected.
Yeah those are terrible responses.

Tokio monoculture is a serious problem.
Oh duh, it’s right in the post and instructor-xl is number 9. And so many new participants now!
No idea, it seems to cook things pretty evenly, but if I'm say pre-cooking potatoes for 6 minutes before frying them, I do manually turn every couple minutes to be sure. If you want a turntable this is not the one for you, but the ease of the turn-and-it's-on UX destroys any other concern here for me.
Obsidian. I started when I wound up with too much going on for paper notebooks.
> Less than, worse than?

Less than/worse than that person is doing now. (But I'm pretty sure you knew that.)
You could do that with blobs and client code...or use mjpeg movies...im not aware of multiple images as such though...itd be worth researching multipart mime types i think
For me it's a few things, I like LM studio because it's an app that's got lots of fine grained controls for tech-focused folks but is simple enough for people that just want to try LLMs to use.

The customisability is great - the ability to have all your configuration/settings in the right panel is really useful, prompt templates per model, the inbuilt model gallery / downloader and more recently the local inference server that exposes an API is really handy.

But... it's not open source and it's Electron...
Either way. I think in a negative direction (e.g. my friends don't use Threads so I will stop using it)
If we look at his past performance, it's pretty obvious that Google CEO Sundar Pichai doesn't understand just about anything, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that he doesn't understand this particular thing.

It's unfortunate that Google is saddled with such an ineffectual CEO, whose product vision could probably be summed up as "oh well this could maybe be interesting I guess".
> an employer wants to pay less

Your dark triad mentality is showing through:

An employer doesn’t have an inherent reason to pay less — they have an inherent reason to increase value of the company.

That people conflate the two goals of the company is purely a result of unchecked dark triad thinking in HR — and the preference of exploitation over growth.

This is a Day 2 failure mode because the substitution of your real goal (“make more money”) for a dark triad goal (“maximally exploit my workers”) leads to self-defeating behavior on the primary goal: you make less money by exploiting your workers.

However, as it satisfies the desire to abuse from unhealthy people, we tend towards that defective behavior when dark triad behavior isn’t regulated appropriately.
Don’t forget them cutting the 256-bit wide bus of the 3060ti to 128-bits in the 4060ti.

Oof.
Agree with most of what you say. To clarify, I think is a mistake that Fly.io already discovered that the TAM of multi-region and Edge container platforms is tiny compared to a regular 12factor PaaS which already implies easy but not necessarily cheap, look how Render started cheaper than Heroku and now it basically matches Heroku pricing or it could be even more expensive in some scenarios specially when you consider that Heroku apps feature soft-limit of 2TB of bandwidth vs 100GB in Render and Fly.io

And yes, is not an easy business these days.
What folks at google think and what they say publicly aren't the same thing. It's naive to think otherwise. Look to what actually makes sense for them to do and you'll have your answer.

Internal folks knew google would walk away in a few years if it didn't work. Stadia was largely a group of people out of the failed and left behind Daydream (VR) project.
There is surely something wonderful about the kind of C++ programmer who figures that, since their unusable broken garbage compiled it's probably correct.

Remember unlike most languages you'd be familiar with C++ has IFNDR, which has been jokingly referred to as "False positives for the question: Is this a C++ program?". A conforming C++ compiler is forbidden from telling you in some† unknown number of cases that it suspects what you've written is nonsense, it just has to press on and output... something. Is it a working executable? Could be. Or maybe it's exactly like a working executable except it explodes catastrophically on Fridays. No way to know.

† The ISO standard does identify these cases, but they're so vague that it's hard to pin down everything which is covered. My guess is that all or most non-trivial C++ software is actually IFNDR these days. Just say No to the entire language.
Can you help understand why somebody wouldn't use Tokio/why it didn't "win"?
Yeah I prefer to go to coffee shops that serve the coffee at drinkable temperatures rather than scalding. Voting with my wallet and all that.
I don't understand why that is dramatically better than cycling? Isn't the overall energy input into the food roughly similar over time?

It's not like microwaving gives great texture or browning to begin with?
Sure — and literally flies your planes into the ground.

Ask Boeing.
Separate your capture process from your categorisation/prioritisation process
This is speculation but i don't think this information (how it came to be) is actually irrelevant information for the LLM.

Your state, which transformer LLMs notably have no way of transferring is "just" the computation that preceded the prediction. I think LLMs use previous tokens to compute the likely state vector that preceded the tokens and make predictions that continue this computed state.

So the 2 board positions at time x may be identical but the state preceding it or "strategy" was not and so the next move is not identical. This way also, you can make a decision based on the perceived competence of your opponent.

These 2 papers kind of touch on what i've been thinking for a while now. They demonstrate task vectors and function vectors here for explicit in context learning tasks.

In the absence of explicit tasks, perhaps state vectors would be more appropriate.

In-Context Learning Creates Task Vectors - https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.15916

Function Vectors in Large Language Models - https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.15213
It isn't exactly unheard of for them to do that. They'll just wipe their hands of it afterwards if it turns out to be bad science by saying that their goal isn't to publish research that's guaranteed correct.
I think HN should come up with its own Internet Artifact Museum :)

I'm happy to collab if folks want to.
Health care workers report increase in burnout, harassment since Covid pandemic