skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The on-the-ground reality is that concern for and protection of the natural environment are relatively recent practices ...

What do you call "relatively recent"?
I'm unclear what you are asking. What does "it" refer to here?

The postcards went in with the merch and that package was sent to the person who bought the merch.
It's almost insulting when they owe $billions in taxes.
Chrome will deprecate and remove support for the Theora video codec
After the last incident (with a week of downtime) I learned that they have a paid support, which you have to sign up in advance so it didn't work for us at that moment.

Now we signed up for it, though I still not sure how it works and how I supposed to contact them in case of an emergency. All I see they charge us something for that support agreement, hope I will never need it.
Agreed - 1gbps is a surprising amount of bandwidth, you could easily host a fairly popular mobile app, saas, etc with plenty of breathing room. And in a lot of cases, you can just move your static file hosting behind Cloudflare, or onto something like s3, and give yourself even more room to grow.
Getting Things Done Together
Show HN: Polyfire – Javascript SDK to build AI apps without a backend
Victor, Lancelot and Kevin here - we are building Polyfire, it allows you to build AI apps in your frontend without having to worry about deploying any backend or infrastructure, it’s a Firebase style product but for AI apps.

Right now, it’s a bit like Vercel AI + LangChain + Pinecone in one Javascript SDK.

The repo is https://github.com/polyfire-ai/polyfire-js, our home page is https://polyfire.com.

Last June we were working on AI-generated docs but we didn’t quite understand how to make it work. So in July, we decided to open-source everything and focus on the underlying infrastructure.

Before this startup, I built at least 20 different apps with Firebase. So I thought it could be really cool to build something like Firebase but to make AI apps.

Therefore, Polyfire’s goal is to be simple. Setup takes a couple of lines of code, and then you can call text and image models from your Javascript frontend. It also includes a vector store so you can easily add semantic context to your calls with embeddings.

We have more things in the SDK Library like a Chat abstraction with automatic long term memory, DataLoader (e.g. to load text or audio files) and a system to turn prompt in environment variables. We tried to detail as much as possible in our docs: https://docs.polyfire.com.

We want to add many more things, your feature requests are welcomed!

Our goal right now is to make the best tool to build projects during hackathons: making it super easy to build and experiment with LLMs by adding more integrations, models, and features so hackers have many options. We think we can make something great if we can integrate in one experience the top 10-15 tools people need building AI apps.

Give it a look: https://github.com/polyfire-ai/polyfire-js. Let us know what you think!
Additionally, if the company starts to grow you can hire other people who are familiar with the cloud provider (and it has extensive documentation). The last company I worked at that had stuff running on a rack in the office just had a "Keep Calm and Sudo On" printout taped to the cage and the guy who'd set it all up had quit.
Cars or self-driving cars ?
I can follow what you are saying because of what I learned in the book Immune by Philipp Dettmer, which I highly recommend for a popular-level introduction to the complexities of the immune system. The whole bit about the "presentation windows" that cells use to communicate if they are infected, and how some viruses try to fight that by not presenting anything, and how the immune system tries to fight _that_ by deleting cells that don't present anything... fascinating stuff!
I also strongly prefer the dictionary comprehension and find it much more readable - for whatever my 2c is worth.
Stop saying nonsense. There is a pathway back:

"The DMV has provided Cruise with the steps needed to apply to reinstate its suspended permits, which the DMV will not approve until the company has fulfilled the requirements to the department’s satisfaction."
but... but... it's settled science.
Yeah, that was a bit odd - the main part Boeing - seemingly! - provided was the connection to the markets and to the regulatory environment. The rocket was Ukrainian, with Russian engine and a booster stage, and the launch platform was of Norway origin. But the company was still based in USA.
> A1111 indeed has tons of tools built into the UI through extensions, but they are mostly focused on SD 1.5.

IME, most of them are agnostic, because most of them wrap around rather than hooking into the inference process.
Can I ask why, out of curiosity? Does that remain true if it's built using the web version and electron (which this is)?
> Why is the being downvoted?

I would think because of “but not the 99% of US consumers”.

Vehicles such as this one can be used for a significant fraction of trips that currently are done with heavy cars.

Yes, US consumers will have to change, but IMO, and I think I’m far from alone in that, that’s needed to solve the climate crisis, at least in the short term.
Hard to follow all the units, but, just for grinding, using these numbers:

grinding: ~14 kWh/tonne olivine

absorption: 1.25 tonne of CO2 per tonne of olivine

emissions: 0.855 lbs CO2 / kWh

emissions: 5.4 kg CO2 per 1.25 tonne CO2 (1250 kg) absorbed
It’d be cool to have a Jellyfin client that’s a libretro “core”.
I had that thought too! I double checked the URL. I remember my friends trying desperately to convince me to go to the .com and I refused because they were so obviously suspicious.
It's also prohibitively expensive and takes over a year to get the experience and skills necessary to safely do.
If I had to guess, you're being dinged because this is your only contribution to the conversation about doing things that don't scale is: "We sign up users manually, one at a time."
> Perhaps I'd say that "you're crazy if you keep all your IT on it, as you scale".

And by scale, I think companies should be at least in the double digit millions spent in cloud infrastructure before they start building out their own. Everybody is used to the cloud APIs and going back to the old days of managing things in a static datacenter are not coming back for these companies.
> unironically, having three browser engines is three times the attack surface, what's the problem with that claim?

If only one third of the users run a vulnerable browser, the other 2/3 would be safe. Security through compartmentalization.
If you tokenize using character n-grams, this isn't totally wrong.
Of course He did, it's recorded in 3 of the 4 gospels the He exorcised demons quite frequently, and He even empowered others to exorcise demons. Indeed people exorcise demons in His name to this day. Just because the gospel of John doesn't mention Him exorcising demons doesn't mean there's any sort of discrepancy - he simply didn't feel a need to include it because he was more focused on the nature of Jesus than His specific actions.

As far as I am aware there are no contradictions on the Bible. People often point to the sorts of cases claiming a contradiction, when really it is two authors describing different aspects of a thing that are all simultaneously true.

More apropos would be the accounting of Judas's death: Matthew describes him as hanging himself, whereas Acts says he burst open in a field. However this isn't a contradiction either: it may simply be the case that he hung himself in a field, then over time grew bloated and burst open.
Anti-missile defences don't really sound like a bad thing to have though?
Have been digging into Playwright a bit - can you say more about the trace viewing to step through a script execution? Very curious!
Off the top of my head:

- He has turned into a pro-Putin, right wing troll, regularly spewing out falsehoods on Twitter/X.

- How he has (mis?)managed Twitter so far.

- All the lying and broken promises regarding FSD and other shenanigans with Tesla stock (the “taking it private” debacle, the bitcoin pump and dump, etc).

- All the COVID conspiracy idiocy and non-sense.

I’m sure there’s plenty more I’m forgetting.
I use snippets all the time. When I'm ready to make a bookmarklet, I just add javascript: to the front and then drag them to my toolbar.
It's a rich world perspective to buy new cars every couple years, including electric cars which massively frontload the emissions borne of those cars, or to go home every night and stream 1080p video into your living room for hours on end while serving up gigs of photos and video to your phone through Instagram and TikTok. Datacenters are something like 20% of all energy consumption.

In many parts of the world, even places you've heard of, people walk or bike everywhere they need to go and spend their free time sitting around chatting with neighbors.

No one's arguing to delete fossil fuels, but it makes sense to minimize usage to freight and public transit.
You cannot reject a predicate just because it doesn't refer to a table. SELECT * FROM t1 WHERE 2+2=4 is a completely valid query and should be allowed.
I'd say for a lot of companies the Fed wake up call has happened that they have been doing a lot on reducing cloud costs. They did not necessarily move away from cloud but instead sign long term contracts and remove dead or undead services.
Semantic Data Management in Data Lakes
Spoken like someone who doesn’t need or care to cooperate with others on the same piece of code, doesn’t work with junior developers, and/or works on small code bases or scientific code exclusively.

Mathematicians seem to miss the difference between math and code quite often. The former provides the solution to a well-understood problem in a straightforward manner.
The latter transports an abstract concept, a plan, a state of thought to the reader. A neat side effect is making computers go beep. In that context, being as clear as possible is really important.
That's not correct. Cloud costs have steadily declined since ~ever. This is due both to the inevitable march of performance, and inflation. It used to be 1 Ivy Bridge vCPU cost $71/month, in 2014 dollars, or $90 today. But today you can get a machine of the same size class, with a dramatically faster CPU, at $30/month.
That roughly matches my experience trying to use Swift outside Mac and iOS development. I really like the language but the tooling and library ecosystem just aren't there. Go or Rust are not as nice to write in different ways but much more easy to get work done with. On the Rust side the language is more fiddly than Rust but with the help of Copilot the gap is not that big.
Dropbox has the pay, clout, and pipeline to have zero problems with recruiting talent.

Can the same be said of all F500 companies that may want to basically engineer their own cloud? Because the dev team is almost certainly used to all the convenience of the cloud, so you'll need a good infra team.
Check out this badboy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irpe3biuBIU
At 5 horsepower, towing and cargo is going to be fairly limited. I would normally suggest a trailer, but… not for this one.
what do you mean by "for lack of enthusiasm" out of curiosity?
Lol what? You can't just drop a bomb `Europe relying on Apple's surveillance` without any details
I know a lot of people whose parents set a good example by working hard and moving up, and were also very present to them. It’s pretty normal in my peer group for this to have been the case.

The fact that your tiny view of humanity doesn’t include those people doesn’t mean they don’t exist.
> We have an installer in town who made the into to that customer

Excuse me? Could you please rewrite that one?
I thought northern MI was full of trolls (people that live under the bridge to the yoopers)
Yes I'm aware. My point is that

1. The level of variance displayed here is very atypical for a language model unless you're making significant changes to how the information is presented. This alone is cause for more elaboration.

2. With this big a variance already showing, it's hard to say for sure that they hit the top end.
Maybe it seems strange but most LLM evaluation papers still don't actually bother to tie in even some extremely well known/basic "output boosters" like chain of thought and so on. But at least in these instances, we know how they presented it.

a "this is how we presented the task, this is how it performed" would have been very nice.
The abolition of slavery was almost entirely a Christian effort. So yes civilization my right be "more advanced" without Christianity, but it wouldn't be a civilization I'd want to be in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_abolition_of_slave...
It provides a rare but obvious criticism which these people are sorely lacking. You can tell this is true by how many of them replied to it telling me that the placebo effect made them feel a lot better about this new editor. And of course it's on to the next thing once the honeymoon period wears off and some new shiny set of keys is dangled in front of them.
And if you make a function with with a volatility level of stable it does a One-Time Filter. So you will either get 0 or 1000000

create function random2() returns float as $$
begin
return random();
end;
$$ language plpgsql stable;

select count(*) from one_thousand join one_thousand b on random2() > 0.5;

Query Plan

Aggregate (cost=97615.13..97615.14 rows=1 width=8) (actual time=0.028..0.029 rows=1 loops=1)
-> Result (cost=0.25..81358.88 rows=6502500 width=0) (actual time=0.026..0.027 rows=0 loops=1)
One-Time Filter: (random3() > '0.5'::double precision)
-> Nested Loop (cost=0.25..81358.88 rows=6502500 width=0) (never executed)
-> Seq Scan on one_thousand (cost=0.00..35.50 rows=2550 width=0) (never executed)
-> Materialize (cost=0.00..48.25 rows=2550 width=0) (never executed)
-> Seq Scan on one_thousand b (cost=0.00..35.50 rows=2550 width=0) (never executed)
* less consumption of manufactured goods
* less travel, both of humans and freight
* high density housing instead of SFHs

That can significantly reduce CO2 in the short term. Sure you won't be able to buy as many widgets on Amazon - but we won't be on hackernews discussing silly carbon capture methods to make marginal gains that will never feasibly happen on a global scale.
helix is the only editor that gets this right. shipping pre-compiled grammars should be the default for any editor leveraging tree-sitter, from a user experience perspective and for stability.

the fact that more popular editors expect you to check them out yourself and compile from master and then wire everything up yourself and "hopefully there's no incompatibility today!" is insane. we should really have higher standards than that.
If someone buys a piece of land, how does it benefit them if that land is then made unusable? If it's for public benefit, and restrictions for public benefit, then it should be owned by the public. Taking what cost a mans life savings doesn't seem the right way to go to make that happen.
Have to say that I don't have many regrets. I try to live for today and look to tomorrow. Looking back does no good; since I don't have a time machine or a way of communicating with the past, having regrets won't change anything.
Predicting dementia using AI from MRI scans
Back in 2007ish the CEO of Parallels/SWSoft (the company behind Virtuozzo a very popular hypervisor used back in the day) stood on the stage of the keynote of HostingCon and said that the Cloud (AWS) was going to eat the WebHosting Industry's lunch. His entire keynote was very doom and gloom. Fast forward to 2015ish it totally it did. The days of VPS and Dedicated hosting being the only options for deploying your stuff for the Internet to consume were killed by the big three cloud providers.

In one hand I am very thankful that this caused a boom of innovation and tooling to make engineering operations easier and more accessible to our industry as a whole. If I had the tools I have now, managing 50+ racks in my old datacenter would have been so much easier.

But in the other hand, the promises the Cloud providers have shoved down our throats have been used against our Industry with raised prices, reduce freedoms on what providers you can choose, and consolidation of duties on Engineering staff. The average developer has to do more work, across many different domains to get paid well. The war waged to kill off Systems Administration as a core job responsibility and using the DevOps movement to kill FTE count for specialized work on bare metal or datacenter infra keep us locked into using Cloud APIs to do our jobs. I think this really sucks.

I do think this article hits home on some points I have been seeing over the past few years. The costs are too high for the goods provided in comparison to getting a couple of racks in few datacenters and DIY which can for sure work for the right kinds of companies at the right stage of growth. I also think Hybrid deployments of Cloud + Bare Metal in a datacenter is so much more of a viable option for less mature companies. The pendulum is starting to slowly swing back to doing things on Bare Metal.

I am excited for the next 10 years of progress and I hope the Cloud still remains a powerful tool in our toolbox, but it isn't used for everything. The cost savings are too real as this article points out when you don't use the cloud and you'd be surprised how much easier it is these days to get some bare metal deployments going in your eng org.
"Technical interoperability: Considering the variety of today’s data landscape, one has to point out that the majority of methods for semantic labeling and modeling are based on tabular data. The field is yet far away from covering all NoSQL data models uniformly."
Micro tips for remarkably better typography
Yes, the biggest privacy invader on the planet effectively purchased a monopoly on Apple devices.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

The Cost of Cloud, a Trillion Dollar Paradox - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32832433 - Sept 2022 (15 comments)

The Cost of Cloud, a Trillion Dollar Paradox - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32672553 - Sept 2022 (1 comment)

The cost of cloud, a trillion dollar paradox - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27401081 - June 2021 (2 comments)

The cost of cloud, a trillion dollar paradox - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27306742 - May 2021 (207 comments)
> But for everything else, there's a well managed on-prem.

That’s begging a number of questions, however - the number of places who can approach a cloud service portfolio at all, much less with a cost savings or security parity, has to be at least an order of magnitude smaller than the number of places who incorrectly thought they could.
No there isn’t. There’s sometimes a correlation, but only people without knowledge of sales think that’s causal. If you want meaningful sales you have to approach it fundamentally differently than you seem to think. Your universal law of sales only applies to commoditized products, and if you’re selling those you’ve already lost.
Side note: That typography hurts my brain/eyes when I try read it, might be the line height.
Does the Twitter algorithm penalise tweets with links?
Erm? Preaching to the choir there. The Linux VM was only used because I wasn't allowed to wipe Windows from my work machine. It was the best alternative for the situation.
Yes? Obviously yes? Idk why everyone is assuming we’re going to keep dragging our feet on something that, at this point, is merely a matter of buying a few batteries and setting up a few more solar panels. Provinces have done it; heck, entire countries have done it. Switch to renewables already.
> at the same time many of those were basically forced from their previous homes, which i don't think fits with the "colonist" metaphor as that usually implies more choice

AIUI colonists usually tend to be at least partly fleeing bad situations at home - occasionally nothing more than a lack of opportunity, but often debts, criminal records and the like.
Being able to pay 10 million per year to a software vendor is absolutely a sign of being a well established company.
You just invented block cave mining
https://www.e-education.psu.edu/geog000/node/911

It's been in use for a long time and is great for fragmenting large rocks and boulders. It does still need grind after the main fragmentation is done.

SAG Mills use the same concept to grind rock to a finer level. Most of the abrasion is rock-on-rock inside the mill.
I message myself in teams, mainly to store articles, draft messages, and memes for future use. I also email myself draft emails to pick up the next morning.

I have workflow in Alfred that copies the selected text into a ‘notes’ list in Reminders, which is linked to a keyboard shortcut, which is assigned to a spare button on my mouse. At the end of some research task I’ll consolidate it all, and add tags etc.

I spend way too much time stuffing around with similar hacks in obsidian.
The person you're replying to posted a link which mentions in the "materials and methods" section that the particles in the study were all smaller than 2mm (and 99.6% smaller than 1mm).

To compare with your pebble, which wikipedia says is

> A pebble is a clast of rock with a particle size of 4-64 mm
It has plenty of flaws and would be net destabilizing. "Iron dome in Space" doesn't work when it comes to nuclear weapons. Heck even Iron Dome can't protect against large barrage of small rockets from Gaza. It would just make first-use of nukes more likely.

https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/space-based-missile-defense...
I installed the cat shield when it came out. Turns out there are 6 versions now, mine was version 1... Converter was stolen from my Prius in my front yard right around the cat shield.

Based on the video it did nothing to slow them down.
I wish everyone would go to platform-specific or interest-based forums. I think the Internet was a better place when you just banned the occasional crazy from your forums, whereas mass social media seems to promote their craziness and create an echo chamber of negative reinforcement for them.
They looked at the other sites, as a requirement of the EIS and PEA. There are none better. The only other places already have people or are also basically protected reserves or whatever. You know of any prime beach real estate that DOESNT have people? SpaceX would gladly develop that instead! There are none. And the Florida launch site (already reaching capacity and not a suitable site for prototype testing) is, of course, also a wildlife refuge.
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Don’t have the time to read the full article, but I’m baffled that Thoracic Outlet Syndrome is not mentioned once.

A significant amount of Dystonia’s in musicians end up being thoracic outlet syndrome (typically the neurogenic subtype, but a lot of violinists seem to be getting the vascular subtype as well from positioning). Often both (dystonia & TOS, not the subtypes mentioned).

Source: My Harvard medical professor/chief of vascular surgery surgeon that’s written books on this.
As one of the Midjourney volunteer moderators and a long time Discord user, it's been pretty cool to see how Discord has grown and changed to support Midjourney.

It seemed like the relationship was not great at the start, especially as things kept breaking with the growth, but then that changed and the relationship has felt really good with Discord listening to our feedback and helping fix issues we've noticed or implementing features for us to use.