skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is extremely disingenuous. You cannot drink anything more than a little bit of olive oil without serious gastric consequences, which is why most of history involves using a little bit of vegetable oil here and there for the other desirable properties. Nevermind the fact that nobody could afford large quantities of ANY food, and even after we brought the potato, a way more efficient means of growing calories, to europe, most people still couldn't afford more than sufficient quantities of calories. Even then, there are arguments to be made that such potato growing was an important element of significant population growth after it became popular.

Meanwhile, you average normal person nowadays CAN eat a bag of potato chips in one sitting, without gastric consequences. Then they can compensate for eating half a pound of salt by following it up with half a candy bar for something sweet. Or maybe they got a milkshake with their burger or something.
Lists kept me engaged with Twitter for a few years longer than I would have otherwise stuck around. Definitely a great feature.
I did handwave it a bit, yes :)

What concerns me more than anything with a process like LiteFS is the 'unknown unknowns' perspective of what can go wrong - whereas I think MySQL and Postgres have generally more understood failure modes.

I also think that a lot of people in middle sized projects where they're not big enough to have a dedicated database team, etc will end up using some kind of managed database solution - something like Amazon Aurora, or RDS, or even someone like DigitalOcean's managed database product? Those generally take care of sensible configuration, backup, and failover at least.

edit: FWIW, I've done both ways - self-managed MySQL & Postgres clusters and managed services. You're right - getting MySQL in particular set up to be crash-safe etc requires careful documentation reading, and it's very frustrating that default installs of MySQL don't come already configured like this. In my eyes, safe-but-slow is a much better default than fast-but-risky :/
I like this idea. I know properties can sell off their "air rights" (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/02/nyregion/jp-morgan-chase-...). Are there other examples of rights (air quality? noise? etc.) that can be sold off?
People speaking with ChatGPT for hours brings 2013's "Her" closer to reality
SQLite is the MSAccess of this generation. MSAccess was an absolutely wonderful database when you were hosting multiple small sites on a server and wanted quick deployment, easy setup and segregation. It connected easily with ODBC to a website and was robust and feature rich enough for hobby projects. They was no way I would want to bet the farm on it for a enterprise project.
Great article! I'd never considered the mathematical risks associated with this.

Now I'm curious what the numbers would look like if it were a cultural norm for everyone (who passed the screening exam) to donate their kidneys in this non-directed fashion. My incredibly unscientific gut-feeling, back-of-the-napkin math seems like it would be plausible to reduce kidney failures to zero in no time: most people have two functioning kidneys and there are significantly less than 50% of people that need donated kidneys. Of course that gut-feeling math doesn't factor in the increase in risk for the donors (the radiation during screening, botched surgeries, etc), but those risks seem low enough that I imagine we'd net positive on a large scale.
I’m pretty sure the heavy metals are introduced from the soils in certain regions, maybe most regions, where cacao is grown.

I think you may have applied a little unnecessary pedantry. In many languages there is only one word used to describe the tree and the finished product, and that’s most of the time enough to figure out what people are talking about in context.
But how would you solve this issue though? Once you decide that you will value and promote people who fit the characteristics of Kariko, a thousand impostors immediately pop up who will match all the outward appearances of that you wanted to promote.
Why the key to solving loneliness is not better policy, but a more equal society.
This....but a menu item that does it for you.
Columns that adapt to window height is a solved problem, if you for example check out epub.js [0] or the built in ebook reader in Yandex browser. I'd say this is a "just" problem with no particular difficulties to implement.

Continuing with scrolling as default instead of pagination after the switch to high-res wide screen monitors was a mistake by browser makers. The future of the web - I think - will be with browsers that are real user agents and open every web page in reader mode, with multi-media presented exactly as the user wants. No more letting web-sites control CSS.

As for web-apps, they are not the web, they are programs and should live as PWAs in the OS instead of as bookmarks in the browser.

Like you wrote, there is little reason for column view on phones. Their width is one column and no more. I agree with you that it's strange that we never see this, especially on blogs or newspaper websites, where column view should be used.

[0] https://futurepress.github.io/epubjs-reader/
Google paid $26.3B in 2021 to be the default search engine
It doesn't matter what the cook thinks.

Predictors don't just grok what is explicitly stated in a dataset but also what is implied by its structure.

In a language model trained on protein sequences alone and nothing else, you will find biological structure and function emerge in the inner layers.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2016239118

Language Models are predictors. If the text you give them is the shadow in Plato's cave, they don't try to draw shadows, they try to build walls. They are trying to reverse engineer the computation that must have led to that output. They will not stop at "surface level similarity" or "plausible" by choice. They will train until they have completely succeeded or until the architecture or data fail them.

With a capable enough architecture and sufficient data, there is no recipe a predictor couldn't divine with enough training.

For the perfect predictor of recipes, Is the architecture capable enough ? Is the data sufficient (both variance and quantity) ?

I'm not sure but this is not a question a cook can answer.

The OP claimed

>Actually generating a recipe is obviously much harder, and should be effectively impossible unless you include a humanoid robot that can cook and taste.

This is just false. And you don't need the hypothetical perfect predictor (just a capable one) to see it.
I'm glad my distro is vehemently against vendored libraries...
Better option: Apple's Notes.app which comes included, you can also make a note full screen and it looks almost the same. On top of being iCloud synced to all your devices for free.
Did CRTs cause more or less eye strain than LCDs?
> In making new kinds of gasoline, chemical engineers should really consider safety and ethics.

That's why unleaded fuel came about.
"Here’s why it’s soap is so effective"

Maybe with all that covid funding they could afford a better proofreader..
Verstappen is aa bad example. He races F1 to finance his sim passion.

Hamilton was very outspoken that he dislikes the sim that it doesn't really make you a better F1 driver.

F1 drivers are good at motorsport because they've been driving in motorsport since they were 5 years old so they built decades of muscle memory on the real deal learning to feel the car with their butts, not because they play the sim all day, otherwise every Gran Turismo fan would be driving in F1.
What about OSes that are not built around monolithic kernels and the syscall() paradigm?
Did you forget about search engines that enable you to do your own research rather than asking a human or an LLM?
Eye strain seems like the wrong thing to focus on here. I'm much more interested in the efficiency of this design.

Most of the energy drawn by an LCD goes into its backlight. If you are trying to use one outside, then you are fighting the brightness of the sun by matching its intensity with a backlight. Why not just use the sun as a backlight instead?

Of course, this is a very simple and clunky version of that. I do wonder how much could be optimized.
Looks pretty close to what iA Writer has been doing since its inception over a decade ago. Back then it was a very unique approach.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IA_Writer
Some food manufacturer that cocked up perhaps?
> For instance, they wrote “cocoa plant” but there’s no such

They’re both accepted names for the same plant
32GB M1 Max is taking 25 seconds on the exact same prompt as in the example.

Edit: it seems the "per second" requires the `--continuous` flag to bypass the initial startup time. With that, I'm now seeing the ~1 second per image time (if initial startup time is ignored).
Of course they are. But at a certain point, if you complain enough about how evil your neighbor Mary is, it becomes weird to go over to her house and have her serve you dinner.
Maybe this is a (failed?) supply chain attack of some kind? But it seems more likely that the domain registration expired and was quickly renewed but that existing DNS records got wiped.
This is a cool project. I have a few suggestions that would really make this into a powerful tool:

Add the verse numbers in the results and turn them into links so that the full passages can be read

Include other translations, especially the KJV and Greek interlinear, since those are still widely used and referenced. Different churches have particular reasons for using the versions that they've chosen, and cross-examining translations is highly important in Bible study

Include optional commentaries as search sources since those can lend a lot of insight into different passages, even serving as cross-references to other related passages
Agreed, not a peerage but I'd take it.
I think the current rumors are MBPs which would be odd to do the pros before the base models but I wouldn’t complain.
It wasn't mentioned in the blog, but you can set `copies=N` on ZFS filesystems and ZFS will keep N copies of user data. This provides redundancy that protects against bitrot or minor corruption, even if your zpool isn't mirrored. Of course, it provides no protection against complete drive failure.
You can bring it to its knees with MSFS2020.
That illustrates the social media paradigm:

Platforms where everybody wants to be heard, but nobody wants to listen.
Scientists call out rogue emissions from China at global ozone summit
Ask HN: Would You Change/Update the iPad
Theoretical discussion here, but ever since the iPad first came out, I've always viewed it as a sheet of glass driven by the software as far as functionality, etc.

Apple's upgrade cycles, as they've always been, are very iterative, in that one generation to the next doesn't necessarily prompt mass upgrades.

So, for a fun topic, hardware wise, what would be a great way for Apple (or any hardware manufacturer) to innovate on the iPad hardware for the next generation?
Well you tell us how you took the 6th booster after you knew several people who died right after getting the vaxx, but I am sure it was Something Else TM.
Cue the famous HN post saying dropbox could be replaced by ftp.
But it's even worse than that. Since universities are funded by the grant overhead (30-40% of the grant goes directly to the university, sometimes higher), there's an incentive for "expensive" research. Why fund a theorist who needs a pencil and paper and maybe a fancy computer when you can fund an expensive lab full of state of the art lasers and optics or any other type of expensive technology. Do you want to come up with a ground breaking theory or do you want to turn the crank and measure some value a little more precise? There is value in both, but the universities really bias towards the latter because it's more expensive and needs more and bigger grants to get done.
She fled the Israeli army as a young woman. Now in her 90s, she is running again
Noob question by a simple web dev.

Have been seeing Vector databases been thrown around, how is this different from normal search, or elastic / solr.

What do I input / output. Been reading into it shortly, but don;t get it yet.
FWIW your website is unusable on desktop: the font is unreadably huge. And while Firefox's reader mode does seem to mitigate the issue correctly, Safari's cuts off at the second paragraph.
> ...but it sounds like time for a revolution in how university research is managed.

Agreed...but it was probably time for a revolution 50 years ago. Suffice to say that those actively causing the problems are very widely, deeply, and skillfully entrenched. And willing to fight to the (metaphorical) death in defense of the current system.

Vs...could you tell me how numerous, skilled, and well-armed your hoped-for revolutionary army might be?
Part of it is that research grants are not used fully as a research funding source - a typical university administration will skim about a quarter of every grant for "administrative costs." It's not called out as corruption because it's the norm, but it does have the effect of reducing the amount of tax-funded R&D dollars that actually make it to R&D

As a result, the people in charge of hiring and firing have a self-preserving interest to value grant-earners

It'll never happen, but if funding agencies like the NSF or NIH put strings on the funding like "100% must go to the PI awarded this grant" with accounting requirements, it would help remove some of the financial incentive.

It would also help lower some of the pressure to publish or perish, since a lot of that comes from the need to chase grants.
One Year In: Elon Has Inspired New Approaches to Social Media. Just Not His Own
Texas has the highest renewable energy production out of the 50 states:

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09032023/inside-clean-ene...

With some controversy over the impacts to grid stability:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/energy/2023/07/25/wh...

They are also embarking on massive CO2 sequestration projects.

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/09/20/texas-carbon-capture...
Neither coal nor nuclear is part of the German automotive sector.
My wife was hired last year as a full time professor and leads her own lab. By far the largest pressure on new faculty is the ability to get money into her lab, and by extension the university since they take a very hefty cut (50-100%! btw this doubles the "cost" of the grant, it doesn't lessen the amount the professor gets). Getting approved for the money via the grant process means having published "interesting" research along avenues of inquiry that other folks find worth pursuing. Often times this means building on existing lines of research over pursuing new paths.

The hiring process is setup basically to filter for folks who they think are the most likely to publish lots of papers, collaborate to push existing lines of inquiry, write lots of hopefully approved grants, and grow a lab into what is effectively a "successful small business". Quality is an after thought taken care of by what passes for peer review.

The incentives for everyone involved is just a complete and total mess. I'm reading tea leaves here, but my guess as to why she was never hired is that she was deemed "unable to get grants". Had she been, then she would have found herself hired immediately somewhere because universities are incentivized to play a numbers game and get as many folks in writing grants as possible.
Reddit.com is a different website.
I live near a lake that sees a lot of floatplane takeoffs. I wonder how many IQ points were lost among the rich folks with lakefront properties.
Rerankers and Two-Stage Retrieval for Rag
It think it was the other way around. The success of the iPhone (and Android) was a large factor behind the BYD movement.
I like your idea about the color indicators. Have you tried searching a topic, e.g. "Kingdom of Heaven", rather than the default "What did Jesus say about .." prompt? Depending on the context, it may significantly improve the results.
Just remove the kernel from the base install already?
Writes and changes to the database itself are locked to a single process at a time, per your link.

If the load is very read heavy the write locks aren't an issue, but if you're tracking page views, comments or any other write-heavy feature, it'll be harder to get good performance.
It's also the simple fact that the average blue collar worker hasn't seen rising wages since the 80s. All the money accrued to the top, and the workers were left trying to make the same value of take home pay stretch farther and farther.

The reason most people think inflation sucks is because modern society would rather collapse than pay workers in line with historical norms.
While I see where you're coming from, I'm very conflicted on your approach to address this. I don't think throwing more money at the problem fixes the underlying issues, if anything, I would expect them to deepen. There was an article making the rounds some time ago on HN how something like three quarters of medical studies had either strong data analysis errors in them or had complete bogus data, to the point where it was impossible to tell whether the results had any grain of truth to them. That's an absurd ratio, and not something I would want to fund.
This is why I want neutral mode.

The solarized theme went halfway there twice.
Looks interesting, I wonder if this works for companies on AWS startup credits as well
A revolution will likely make things even worse. Once you decide on selecting a certain trait, a thousand imposters will pop up immediately, who superficially match all the criteria that you wanted to select for.
> go is uniquely american, doing the right thing after it has tried everything else.

That doesn't seem like anything common to an American way of doing things. What an odd statement.
>> "slowly moving mob with carts"

I was not exaggerating or embellishing about the bumper cart bit. People either come flying out of aisles without looking or they stand there blocking an aisle while ignoring you trying to get through. A slow-moving mob would be an improvement in every way.
At least it isn't death metal.
Have you ever known anyone to say “I think I’m going to go buy (and eat) a delicious, cold stick of butter now.”? And even if you have, they’re clearly the outlier. The point everyone else is making that you are missing is that even if calorie-rich foods were widely available in the past, the presence of calories alone doesn’t drive appetite – the food also needs to be palatable. Modern processed food is both calorie-dense and engineered to be highly palatable. This is new, and unlike what historical humans generally experienced and evolved around.
Study on Human Motion Energy Harvesting Devices: A Review
IIRC this is mostly a US/UK distinction (maybe even US/rest of world). I tend towards putting the punctuation outside the quote, especially if the original quote didn't have that punctuation.
Federated Systems: Interview with Peter Corless
It depends on the use case. For high-speed microscopes, I may get a request that says, "we need to support 4.2 Gigabytes/second of continuous ingest for an 18-hour imaging run." - In those situations, it's best to test with realistic data.

For general video and media workloads, it may be something like, "we have to accommodate 40 editors working over 10GbE (2 x 100GbE at the server) and minimize contention while ingesting from these other sources".

I work with iozone to establish a baseline. I also have a "frametest" utility that helps when mimicking some of the video characteristics.
> wiki-wiki

That's a reference I haven't seen in over a decade. Nice!
Yep. And Harvard is anything but alone in that respect.
Related Twitter thread: https://x.com/PeterCorless/status/1717942721187659949?s=20
I'm concerned about everyone. When you start getting lead into corn and wheat, it gets into flour and bread and pasta, and before long, everyone has eaten some.

Sure - some have eaten more, and others less. But everyone has been impacted. Half of the US population has blood lead levels above the CDC 'safe' level.
Yeah over my dead body. I very hesitantly gave them my mobile number.
The problem is, "legalizing" it is like 0.1% of the work. The hard part is all the testing/certification you have to do for every single aircraft and engine design.
That's probably because people don't chug olive oil. It's more of a food ingredient than a food itself.
$2000 for 32 core up to $3300 for 128. It's non-trivial to get hold of. The biggest hurdle Ampere has is distribution (at least if the plan is to move from dev kits to consumer hardware), they are obnoxiously enterprise.
This blog post delves into the concept of prompt injection, a method used to manipulate AI models like GPT-3.
You should see how much lead is in the average carrot.

Last I checked, baby carrots can have similar lead/lb as the chocolates they're talking about here.

And people chow down on carrots thinking they're "healthy".
In many professions including the business of startups and academia you need to be at least as good at selling something as you are at developing/discovering it.
> Their object geometry is massively bloated and inefficient.

This came out recently which looks like a leap forward in optimization: https://github.com/nv-tlabs/FlexiCubes
Among nutritionists and cooks, there is a big distinction. There’s cacao powder and there’s cocoa powder. There’s also a big difference between cocoa versus chocolate, which is really milk chocolate.

The real question is which soils contain the pollutants. Is there a statistical significance among cacao trees grown in the Amazon region versus African region, for example, and why.
Can someone explain the significance.
Would you consider elaborating upon this? I don't have a reason to doubt you, but I am also picturing the people who fly airplanes as being sympathetic to older machines.

And I'm in that camp of unscientific people who figure a 23 old truck (specifically using unleaded fuel) that doesn't need to be rebuilt anew is actually kinder to the earth than the alternative.
The hotkey to return to my window manager is pretty hard to hit by accident. As for the writing app, it's just a python script looping over lines read from stdin and writing them to disk. Not many opportunities to do anything else.
I was wondering why all of those papers have PDF downloads with the most useless, non-descriptive, names.

> Paper_high_res.pdf
Eminent domain is pretty expensive because it takes so many legal appeals, and some people won’t accept compensation. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holdout_(real_estate)
Neato! My main concern is reliability of this type of service. Given the boom/bust cycle of crypto I have my hesitations.

Anyway to download a file via curl? I wouldn't mind setting up a cronjob to periodically download a testfile to track the reliability over time.
Random thing that came to my mind related to that. Back in 2015-2017 when the tesla P85D came out and then the P100D, lots and lots of car "experts" had their money taken in drag races and rolling street races. It was just a simple google search away that it did a 10.5 1/4 mile yet slower cars that had no chance would legitimately bet hundreds on a quick race just to lose. Moral of the story, these people understood their street racing and drag racing worlds very well, but it took a few years to put their bias aside when breakthrough were being made every year.
Reminder that:

1) Ken Iverson who invented the APL programming language and went on to win the Turing Award in 1979, had already published 'that one little book' that was considered insufficient for tenure, but which formed the basis for the award.

2) tubes remained the main focus of MIT faculty for quite some years after the transistor was invented. It was Robert Noyce and the people he worked with at Grinnell College who knew more about transistors than MIT : https://web.stanford.edu/class/e145/2007_fall/materials/noyc...