skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s actually very easy if you are the government; you just say from 5 years from now, using lead fuel is banned. And then someone else has to do the work.
Yeah this is a design change that can only be fixed on the client application side because there will always be a reason created by an instance for why they don't want X content mirrored to their site.
For side projects or non-prod environments where a single instance is fine, I use sqlite + litestream and it works reasonably well. I've looked into the more complicated setups with LiteFS/Consul/RAFT and at that point I'm not sure you're saving yourself much headache over running your own DB.
It's "fucked up", but they used an arbitrary number of asterisks.
Complaining about high certification costs is nothing new - it's been a growing pain since the dawn of IT certifications.

If you can decode the author's stream of consciousness ramblings you'll come to the conclusion is that all training and testing should be free because the later investment into the platform will make up the difference. There's some validity to this, but the author is missing the point that the costs create a barrier to entry, resulting in fewer trained/certified. This is an exclusivity tactic (remember the MCSE?) used by companies to not only ensure that their users are well trained but also to ensure that there aren't too many certified thereby increasing the value of those that are certified.
Maybe for the same reason that you can remove greasy hair pomade (or other hard-to-wash-out hair products) from your hair by first applying a conditioner, then washing with shampoo. Supposedly the fats/oils in the conditioner bind to the grease and lets the soap get both.
SRE is not a byproduct of a bubble economy. I believe Google has had SREs since the very beginning. But still I think the rest of the point still stands. These days with devops the skill set needed for devs have indeed expanded to have significant overlap with SREs. I expect companies to downsize their SRE teams and distribute responsibilities to devs.

A second major reason is automation. If you read the linked site long enough you'll find that in the early days of Google, SREs did plenty of manual work like deployments while manually watching graphs. They were indispensable then simply because even Google didn't have enough automation in their systems! You can read the story of Sisyphus https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/conference/protec... to kind of understand how Google's initial failure of adopting standardized automation ensured job security for SREs.
Cities: Skylines II renders individual teeth with no LOD
Was it always like this or headed here? I'm curious if flat government funding for research against rising costs creates or amplifies counterproductive incentives.
For $35k, I would want an F150 lightning with 4wd and 4 doors. That would be a great value, and while not as capable as a non-electric truck, it would fit all of my needs.

For $60k, I'll just buy a real truck.
Wow! Thanks for sharing.
I would assume they already have ways to bounce through a dynamically linked system library since cosmopolitan works on macos, and even more so windows.
Nope, both are to be taken with a grain of salt.
then this is not "closest to GC languages", since GC langs usually provide memory management with respect to concurrency.
I guess now they have a team of software engineers, where part is focused on infra and part on backend. Sys Admins disappeared? They are DevOps/IT Engineers now. QA? SWE in Test, and so on.
The fourth line of the readme

> Code will come soon.
As someone who is not in academia, I'm curious how dysfunctional the incentive structures of these institutions really are? Is it more the case that aggrieved professors doing actually good research is just a rare situation bound to happen every once in a while?
Worse because while is it expensive legally, it is often unjustly low in compensation to the land owner. Kind of like class action lawsuits, the only ones that come out better off are the lawyers. Also, I've heard stories about some extended family that lost their farm by eminent domain for an airport. They never recovered.
> It would be really cool if someone developed a new aircraft engine suitable for replacing all the old models and able to run on a wide range of fuels

As a recent article here talked about, nobody is making new aircraft for general aviation. Or at least, nobody is making anything innovative for it.

But there exist plenty of engines that are good enough for planes and can run on a wide range of fuels. They are just not getting into GA planes.
Agree on the opinionated nature of the OS. I'm an Apple diehard since the Apple ][+ but as an adult these days, I'm also tired of the Puritan overlord that Apple is. Software wise, create better controls (ie let me lock down app screens, etc) so a kid can use my iPad and I can keep more adult stuff locked away.

Of course, my question is more hardware wise in that it looks to see if there is any major hardware "features" that would improve the device or for the most part, was the hardware mostly "perfect" in it's initial design (yes, no camera bump, etc would be nice).
I specifically mentioned urban centers - the places easily reached by mass transit. Even in dense cities, many neighborhoods are far enough away from mass transit lines that smaller vehicles are required. Taxis would be a better option than zillions of privately owned cars, and self-driving would make it economical.
For perspective, it would cost $20.4bn to provide every American with a Kagi starter account for a year [1].

[1] https://blog.kagi.com/unlimited-searches-for-10
> This is the equivalent of saying, we need strong protections on the Internet, because child pornography exists

It's not remotely like saying this, and going straight to child pornography in is like going straight to the Nazis - the sign of an unserious argument.

> It’s not an actual argument because it doesn’t have specific measurable distinctions between deaths related to driverless vehicles versus driver vehicles

You're just not understanding the definition of the word argument if you think this is true. Also, these things are being measured, so we're getting to this understanding. If your argument is that we shouldn't put robotaxis on the road because we don't know if they're safer means that we can't measure if robotaxis are safer and thus regardless of their relative safety, we must ban them because we don't have measurements yet.

> I suspect that is actually a much bigger problem than the theoretical reduction in fatalities on roads

But that's not an actual argument because it doesn't have specific, measurable distinctions, no?
Unblocked: A fine-tuned developer tool
Over the past year, we have built a number of fine-tuned models for developers, including classification, embedding, retrieval and summarization/generation for source, documents, discussion and tasks/issues.

Interested to learn what the HN community thinks, as well as the clients/features we built around them.
Sometimes they sell bundles that include some games you want and some you don't care for.
It’s sort of amusing to me that you think sentence-transformers is better at semantic similarity than just about any human. This is hardly an example of bias, but a perfect example of the limits of a design meeting real-world user testing. To quote the joke/meme:

A software tester walks into a bar.

Runs into a bar.

Crawls into a bar.

Dances into a bar.

Flies into a bar.

Jumps into a bar.

And orders:

a beer.

2 beers.

0 beers.

99999999 beers.

a lizard in a beer glass.

-1 beer.

"qwertyuiop" beers.

Testing complete.

A real customer walks into the bar and asks where the bathroom is.

The bar goes up in flames.
For drag racing, you only need enough battery life to last a few seconds. Hell, this might spur the development of high-energy supercapacitors!
While that may be true today, in the research sciences — there should be some kind of middle ground.

Thomas Edison may have been a giant of self promotion. But I would argue Nikola Tesla invented as much or more foundationally important technology we use today. I would argue Tesla like Kariko will never be a wiz at self promotion. But a domain expert should have spotted them early on. I mean isn’t that the job of people who dole out tax payer money for research?

UPDATE. I mixed up Edison and Tesla. Tesla was the champion self promoter.
Guess it's too much to ask for either basic proofreading, or basic knowledge of how the web works...
And in moving things around and re-aliging you have to re-learn the whole diagram. If the frobnitz was always in the upper right part of the diagram and suddenly it's moved to the center left because everything lines up better that way, well maybe it's helpful to someone who is looking at the diagram for the first time but if you've been working with it for six months suddenly it looks like a completely different thing.

It's like an ugly UI. It may be ugly but the people who use it, know it. When you "clean it up" you've now disrupted their mental models and they have to re-learn it all over again.
Why Google and not Bing?
Great comments on the subject here - pardon the gross over simplifications please. I'll add what I know. "Octane" can be thought of as "Resistance To Pre-ignition" where the higher the octane number, the more resistant the fuel mixture is to ignition/burning. Lower octane fuel can have a tendency to pre-ignite via cylinder compression (compression on the upstroke raises cylinder temperatures to the point of combustion) rather than ignite when the spark plug fires. This is whats called "knocking" as in the benign case it cause the engine to make a knocky-rattling sound ( not unlike a diesel which in fact relies on compression ignition as a feature of its design ). In the bad case, pre-ignition can cause catastrophic engine damage where engines "grenade" themselves.

More or less, if you want to build a light weight/high power engine you want a higher compression ratio. As the piston travels upward on the compression stroke higher pressures are achieved and this allows designers to take advantage of different crank/cylinder characteristics to make more power in a smaller, lighter package.

We used lead in car gas because engine timing technology and fuel delivery technology were analog/mechanical and really very limited in terms of tuning potential. The cheap hack was just to use a fuel that was more resistant to burning in the first place. Just add a hotter spark/ignition system and it was good to go design wise. Given the old tech running in most GA planes, this was a natural thing to do at the time and the problem was well understood. To point here, modern non-lead additives have been around for a long time and the problem can be adequately solved with a non-lead substitute.

If you wanna get deep with this, take your old normally aspirated car and bolt a turbo on it!
What does bypass startup time really do? Does it keep everything in memory or something?
This blog is great. Thanks for sharing.
Not a snowball's chance in hell. I am extremely skeptical of and avoid fintech in general, but am an order of magnitude more so when it comes to Twitter. I could see myself dipping my toe into fintech offerings if they were from the right company at the right moment in my life. Twitter, however, is a total nonstarter.
I'm honestly not sure what your point is. Are you saying that, if there was less cold quantitative analysis of the global CO2 potential from forest management, people would be planting more trees in their local neighborhoods?

Absolutely, trees can provide many benefits separate from CO2 absorption. I was simply responding to GravityLab's comment about CO2. However, it's also worth noting that planting the wrong trees or in the wrong place can backfire: displacing more appropriate vegetation; fire risk; etc.
The article mentions one Texas- based company but I don't see anything about Texas otherwise...
I always thought it was quite nice actually. Maybe I have bad taste :-D
> The Internet standards community historically differentiated between an internet, as a short-form of an internetwork, and the Internet: treating the latter as a proper noun with a capital letter, and the former as a common noun with a lower-case first letter. An internet is any set of interconnected Internet Protocol (IP) networks.

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalization_of_Internet

The Internet is the biggest internet, the biggest connected component in the graph of computer nodes.
A Proposal Fix for C/C++ Relaxed Atomics in Practice
Internet is a luxury compared to the survival essentials that are blocked in Gaza: food, water, electricity [1].

Since it is impossible to be concerned about Palestine without being viewed in a negative light, mandatory disclaimer: I am horrified of Hamas' actions and do not think they deserve any defense.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_2023_Israeli_blockad...
I'm just applying the same standard here, a non peer reviewed study has the same value as the opinion of a web designer.
> Again, personal vehicle ICE fuel burning is only a relatively small part of global emissions (about 9%)

And two of your examples — air travel, shipping industry — are 1.9 and 1.7%: https://ourworldindata.org/ghg-emissions-by-sector

And the correct reduction is 99.9%. Which means that everything except cars would be 8.9% too much, assuming your 9% is correct (seems a bit much given all road transport was 11.9%, but that graph is from 2016 so I can buy it).

> except nobody's talking about them

Oh, we are. Some of us even blame only the big companies for all the combined emissions of their customers.

And I've been watching people blame China for everything even when they were a smaller emitter than the USA.

> Rich western countries moving to EVs in 10 years will not alleviate this if countries like China, India and from Africa mine and burn even more fossil fuels as they industrialized further and lift even more people out of poverty.

Obviously.

Good thing the biggest market for EVs right now is… China: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_car_use_by_country#/m...

Also a good thing that the cheapest sources of energy now is renewables.

> it's been scientifically proven that the planet's climate cannot sustain the emissions from the mining and manufacturing efforts of transitioning all ICE cars on the road today to EVs.

False, and I still have no idea why you believe this.

Hint: All of those things can be electrified. When the electricity itself is carbon-friendly, they can also be carbon-friendly.

The mining can even be a carbon sink, thanks to how weathering works: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_weathering

> You can't have both with our current lifestyle and trajectory.

Not with that attitude you can't. Good thing we're still inventing new solutions that can feed and house people without climate damage.

> EVs alone won't save us from this.

"Alone" is not, and never has been, part of my claim.

"Help" is.
Your wife is on tenure-track and Kariko was on a lower track designed for postdocs, researchers, leading to research assistant/associate professor, etc. Kariko was treated badly on the track she was on——a track that doesn’t require stringent filtering. So your comment is not that relevant.
I could link a helper script to download the file later
Are you the kind that would've scoffed and made the same condescending remarks when scientists proposed to study what buddhist monks were doing?

I for one am happy people actually took the time to investigate their practices, including fascinating things like "tummo". See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tummo#Scientific_investigation

This extremely close-minded, arrogant, and disdainful attitude is utterly unscientific.
Dingdingding! So how do we make it happen? Is there anyone with "eco"-credibillity who is saying exactly this?
Likely not show any generative software till macOS (next ver) comes out, they don’t usually showcase stand alone features without a bigger strategy to include the OS
It might also partially be that the activity and movements of writing by hand put you in the zone better than using a keyboard. When you have a pen/pencil in hand, your body may feel "it's prose/whatever writing time" rather than when you have a keyboard in hand, when the multitude of activities (browsing HN for example or texting on IRC or whatever) dilutes a similar mental association between tool and activity.
I was always under the impression that the purpose of soap isn’t to kill bacteria/viruses as the article implies, but to wash those thing off of your hands.

Was my impression wrong?
The person who upheld the self-evidence of those truths also asserted his property rights over other humans, so I don't think we can draw meaningful conclusions as to whom he intended to apply his terminology.
Except notably Linux where the kernel ABI is the thing that’s stable.
As someone who regularly consumes large amounts of dark chocolate and has for decades, is there anything I can do to reduce the accumulated heavy metals, short of injecting chelating agents(assuming that would even work)? And I'm not suggesting chelation therapy, just mentioning it because I have heard it is the usual treatment for acute metal poisoning.
Most SAAS tools aren't really used on mobile devices. Laptop or desktop is the expected use case. You're still dealing with an edge case if you need to have a "complex" SAAS tool that is mobile friendly.
IMO, if your community has decided to build mass transit with state/federal dollars, you've also forgone any reasonable expectation that densification won't happen.

yes, owning a single family home near a major transit corridor is nice, but let's be realistic: that transit corridor is for everyone to enjoy.
Excited for the next 100 years for this AI-related equivalent of "you got the wrong result, because your query is slightly not exactly the way system expects it to be".

ChatGPT knows a good answer to the question even without embeddings. But this particular tool can't replicate it, and says e.g. "In summary, these verses highlight sexual ethics and various sins in general, but do not uniformly condemn or condone homosexuality specifically." (which is not wrong, it's just the wrong verses found). (It gives a different summary on different tries)

This is a common problem with embedding search. Obviously, the other traditional techniques would be even worse. But I'd love the systems to be better, and I propose a potential solution, and ask for other ones. I will not be content with your "put up with AI idiosyncrasies and weaknesses, as if they were the real actual conceptual limitation of knowledge" approach. AI has potential to create great UI, but your attitude won't help with that
The NPL Data Communications Network
I love KeePassXC! It not being open to a network, while still being super easy to share between devices is perfect.

Btw, they have a donate page if you want to contribute

https://keepassxc.org/donate/
The linked thread argues that if you don't keep or distribute an exact copy of the copyrighted work, then you're fine. So by this logic, if I pirate a movie, compress it with a lossy algorithm and send it to my friends, that is also fine, since they can't recover the original movie from what I sent them?
They need to embrace using virtual machines on ipad pro if they want to keep up with the capabilities of chromeos. The ipad is great for music production but not much besides that.
The example you give is a case where this makes sense, but most of the time NIMBYism is more like cartel behavior where existing home-owners work to restrict supply of housing in an entire area to boost their own property values.

"My home value will go up forever" can't be a built-in guaranteed expectation when purchasing a home. Property appreciation is not an entitlement.

If we want entitled money we should just implement basic income.
>> You can't predict the interactions of every possible combination of ingredients and processes no matter how much time and experience you have.

That's just the thing machines do better than humans. Not sure about LLM's though.
Gpt4 likely can give you code for this
That report is impressively vague about the cause and characteristic of these non-fatal injuries. The CPSC is obviously looking at this from a product safety lens, but that isn't necessarily the true picture from a holistic perspective. At least they're quite clear when it comes to the fatalities:

>Collisions with motor vehicles were the leading cause of death associated with e-bikes

>Motor vehicle accidents were the leading cause of death associated with e-scooters

So is the potentially unsafe product we should be concerned about e-bikes and scooters? Or is it actually motor vehicles?
Yeah that's what I meant by the fiber - they cut the density substantially and would fill you up super fast. And just juicing them gets you into palatability problems - try drinking a gallon of raw apple juice. (Vs drinking a 64oz large coke).
US Quietly Expands Secret Military Base in Israel
Nearly all of these tests were done in 2014. I wonder how different the results would be today. Probably not much, unfortunately.
I would buy a monitor that had a separate, physical dial, direct brightness control.
seems like there's a high potential for the AI to hallucinate and get confused with ingredient measurements... last I checked, LLMs struggle with numbers.
This is one of the few cases where I would recommend staying clear of SQLite, because the maintainers are very clear they running it on the network file system with multiple processes is accessing is a bad idea.
sorry to be bad about this, but why should „all americans“ be insightful, sufficient or relevant? that’s like a „libraries or congress“ scale.

btw: Kagi is perfect!
Oh cool. I suppose since they have locations too, it should be possible to profile aggregated mains power fingerprints from these for video time and location fingerprints. Though that said, there are probably a few ways to collect that info. If you know the frequencies to profile you could probably store the mains hum for all of them and have a good go at geo-locating video and audio content for many places.
You're never going to believe how many emergency room visits are caused by cars (including virtually all of the "e-bike injuries").
Depends.

Sdf shelters and win turbines?

Sure.

Facilities emitting unhealthy fumes or dumping pollution in the water?

That would set a dangerous precedent where society would validate the behavior as long as there is money in the mix.

It already does mind you. But at least is considered wrong at the moment.

What would have happened to the asbestos scandal is instead of cleaning the stuff, we just paid compensations? Carnage.
Except... certification is done: https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2022/september/...

> The FAA signed on September 1 supplemental type certificates that allow General Aviation Modifications Inc.’s 100-octane unleaded fuel (G100UL) to be used in every general aviation spark-ignition engine and every airframe powered by those engines.

All piston engines and aircraft are certified for G100UL.
As for the "hard to believe", consider this:

The guys who implemented this in the flawed way are probably at least twice as productive as the guys who'd thoroughly read the task and implement it correctly.
This is definitely helpful, but it's dismissive to say that this is _all_ that it comes down to. I have to keep my monitors on their lowest brightness, and use them in well-lit rooms. Even then, I start getting strain after a couple hours depending on the type of work I'm doing.

There's studies indicating the polarization of the light of different monitors can increase strain:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9010255/

There are other issues like astigmatism or chronic dry eye that can make people more susceptible to eye strain.

Just because lower brightness works for you, it doesn't mean it will work for everyone.