skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Always find it funny that people think unsafe {} means that rust ignores everything in the block, it just enables 4-5 additional abilities that are well documented, it's still doing most of its safety checks.
Critical thinking isn't just realizing that Marxism has problems, it's also realizing whatever you've bought into whole hog has problems that will lead to the collapse if not remediated.
Sure, but all the drawbacks you enumerate are also advantages for gaining critical mass. A free-for-all package repository is attractive to early adopters because they can become the ones to plug the obvious holes in the standard library. Having N developers each trying to make THE datetime/logging/webframework/parsing library for Rust is good for gaining traction. You end up with a lot of bad packages with good names though.
And even for raw pointers you can use NonNull<T>.
I am about to go through this so happy to give feedback
There's a huge difference between migrating off something because there's something objectively better (oil is cleaner and cheaper compared to whale oil), and migrating off something for environmental reasons. The former doesn't require any sacrifices and will happen voluntarily. The same can't be said for the latter.
This. The question of whether VR/AR finds profitable markets is a separate one from whether it becomes a mass consumer phenomenon on the scale of social media.
I feel there's some thread that links the USPTO, Treasury, and FTC on guaranteeing the integrity of the dollar and commerce. We don't have a gold standard and the OPEC cartel is a weak substitute. It is some basis for the dollar that in the year 2020 an Intant Pot costs $150 and is designed and manufactured to certain specs and quality. If you look across the economy at all examples of this perhaps it's possible to create a new peg for the USD. Maybe that could even be accomplished without "blockhain" or "AI" :) and just USPS mail-in satisfaction surveys/warranties of some sort tied to corporate lending/insurance.
It feels like most of the hatred for rust async is for people that try to act like Tokio isn't async rust and that for some reason you should try to randomly avoid tokio for some reason.
OAuth 2.0 Scopes enforcement on APIs
What is the use case for an 8k token embedding? My (somewhat limited) experience with long context models is they aren't great for RAG. I get the impression they are optimized for something else, like writing 8k+ tokens rather than synthesizing responses.

Isn't the normal way of using embedding to find relevant text snippets for a RAG prompt? Where is it better to have coarser retrieval?
Do Republicans start a lot of tech companies?

There is no shortage of Republican billionaires having their way with American politics for personal gain and anyone who is paying attention is repulsed by it.

Look at Harold Hamm of Continental Resources oil company. He was asked to be Trump's energy secretary but he didn't want to leave the company he started which made him worth $25 billion.

Instead he has a superpac that funds Republican candidates and causes, and he flies his jet to Washington to schmooze politicians into supporting the oil industry through policy making.

He busses employees to the capital and hands them signs to protest bills which would raise taxes on the oil industry.

He emailed employees encouraging them to vote against medical marijuana because it's corrupting society.

I wanted politics out of boardrooms a long time ago!
Perhaps from a technology standpoint (debateable).

But from the perspective of a CEO, we want

1. Talent hiring should be easy, so we can plan growth

2. There should be a good self service support for developers

3. Need good sales support in architecture and tech selection (when needed)

4. Need to be able to get through to support engineer in 5 mins or less (we use aws premium support)

5. Need single vendor (as much as possible).

We consume a lot if what aws has to offer - we use their workspaces, mac cloud, device farm, code commit etc

We did a proper shoot out. While aws has its idiosyncrasies- it’s light years ahead of Google and Microsoft

Ps. We use Gsuite (for the last decade) - teaching a live human used to a challenge - now it’s a major pain.

If we find a better alternative to Gmail, Gdocs (etc). I’d switch in a heartbeat.
Ada is one of the (if not the) worst model offered by OpenAI, though ...
well you hired them, why didn't you ask them why they never wanted to actually deploy their code and prove that it works on more than just localhost?
Since obviously people can't trust these businesses to provide a quality product in a safe manner, it would be better if people kept expecting them to.
While I appreciate you've disclosed your affiliations in your profile, can you claim complete objectivity on this topic?

Would your stake in VMware and AWS not be {threatened,weakened}, perhaps severely, should Google succeed in Cloud?
This is as realistic as peace in the Middle East by getting both sides to sit on a beach and sing kumbya
I dunno if it's just me but coming from typescript and c# background it honestly wasn't that hard to grasp things, Maybe it's just me but it seems so much easier to grasp than C.
The Battle for Your Brain: The Right to Think Freely in Age of Neurotechnology
Because Elon doesn't realize his childish douchebaggery has that much of an impact on how some people view what are otherwise his very legitimate accomplishments as a businessman.

Twitter/X most certainly not among those accomplishments.
It will be moving to its own URL soon: apcacontrast.com

That URL works now, as a redirect, but will become the host soon.
https://archive.ph/OfyLs
Well, it's correlated, but generally household income is considered to be more causal for both reduced mortality and reduced fertility.
> 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.

Words that aren't in the vocabulary can still be represented by multiple tokens. Some models can input and output valid UTF-8 at the byte level (rather than needing a unique token for each codepoint). For example RWKV-World.
I think the lesson is that must accept the inevitable - worldwide energy usage will continue to increase, especially as the third world modernizes, and the only way to manage this increase in a low carbon manner is to accept that nuclear along with renewables will play an integral part in this green transition.
When I was first exposed to the OSI model in the late 80s, it wasn't very good then either.
Find a tutor or mentor. It can make a huge difference.
I manually signup users.
They leave their email on the website, I then go and create user in Auth0 and send them invitation.

Planning to change this flow now before going public.
I would encourage you to file tickets whenever you encounter deficiencies in the tooling, including bad diagnostics. We take them seriously. As for whether our efforts are accomplishing anything, trying out older releases can be eye opening at how much has changed.
It's a double-edged sword. Give your own cells too much of a free pass, and you'll have runaway cancer all the time.
There's also a curated linktree of key resources.

https://linktr.ee/Myndex
This has nothing to do with what the parent and grandparent comment was talking about, which is that carbon emissions can somehow be made without sacrificing lifestyle quality. Your comment implicitly admit that sacrifices have to be made.
Color me surprised! it looks like its actually open source (Apache 2.0) and not the usual false advertising by some two-faced company or institution. Links here:

* https://huggingface.co/jinaai/jina-embeddings-v2-base-en
* https://huggingface.co/jinaai/jina-embeddings-v2-small-en
During the pivot to Caviar (www.trycaviar.com), we were very cash-strapped and had to do most of the deliveries, customer service, and restaurant ops ourselves. We did this growing from 50 orders a month to over 150+ orders a day, non-stop.

If there was a mess-up, to save the cash bleed, I or one of the co-founders would hand-deliver the follow-up delivery ourselves, and apologize in-person. I would like to think our customers thought we literally went the extra-mile to ensure their satisfaction.

And because a lot of restaurants were set in their ways, if we had to send them a fax for a $1,000 order or call them by hand and manually speak to them the order item-by-item, we would. There are many delivery companies, but only a handful of institutional, famous restaurateurs.
I can't get Amazon to deliver mail to my address because of a diacritic, but it's my own fault, not Amazon's.
You are 200% correct. But - what are you going to do about it?

Communicating it was step 1

Now what do you expect to happen?

You can wait for others to step up, and help you make your vision happen, but the call is this - have a goal, fight for it, but make no mistake - you will always be chosing between your family, and your goal, and yourself - this is the true conflict of every moment.

RALEMOI - Read - and loved every moment of it!

Point being, you are living your OWN life, and in the end, you will want to be satisfied with what you did, and to a much lesser extent, who you feel you are now.

I'd say kudos, god speed, etc, but I personally believe, God bless, and I thank you for your work!
Tokio isn't the fastest conceivable runtime. Tokio isn't the smallest conceivable runtime. Tokio isn't the simpilist conceivable runtime. Tokio does not port to all conceivable environments. Tokio isn't the async-std runtime.

And so, for some or all of these reasons, right or wrong, various Rust libraries wed themselves to runtimes other than Tokio.

You can thunk around these things, but it's miserable, yielding subtle, inscrutable code that you will not understand in six months when you have to maintain it. And the real fun begins when you need to handle Err, and all the abstraction leaks around Send and threads ruin your day; more thunking, Boxing errors (omfg) and even subtler and more inscrutable code.
AWS just KILLED EC2!!! Well, EC2-classic. And they did so with two years of notice and support to transition all customers. Really a class act of migration. I'm not sure Google won't just send out an email on a Friday before a long weekend and then kill the servers the following Monday.

https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2023/09/farewell-ec2-cl...
Ask HN: What's up with Bitcoin these days?
Anything interesting happen while everyone was focused on AI?
>unless you really are being abusive

That doesn't put my mind at ease. Under who's definition? Do I even get told what I did wrong? You try to draw a distinction between the free and paid products but that doesn't address the perception people have of the company in general. If I was a small startup I wouldn't want to risk it.
My dad had a huge old Country Squire station wagon. Fake wood paneling all over it. There were 4 kids in the family.
The author of this post seems to really hate the Fish and Wildlife Service, and also is apparently unaware that interagency beaurocracy is just generally kind of slow.
>I’ve learnt to save battery by switching my phone’s wifi off whenever I go into the woods or mountain

I feel like this is not true.

Walking in a city it'd be even worse since there would be 100's networks to check to see if it can connect too. Which I don't think matters much.

Bad cellular reception which you'll hit if you are coming and going out of coverage would matter.

Similarly a wifi you can connect to will drain the battery with background apps and if reception sucks also bad.

But zero wifi you can connect to, I can't see mattering.
I think the history parts need a serious rewrite. Still lots of people alive who lived through this.
This itself is a childish and naive take. Elon, in my opinion, is an egotistical asshole who still does have humanity's best interests at heart . . . as he sees them. What your statement reveals is that you can't differentiate between humanity's best interests and humanity's best interests as you see them.

For the sake of argument, you may be entirely right and, he may be entirely wrong. But your mode of argument still betrays an inability to understand that your view of humanity's best interests is not necessarily universalizable. Especially the fetish for mass transit. It has a use case, but is not a panacea for several reasons, many of which people who obsess over everyone living in cities choose to ignore.
So my question is: In what predictable way will QUIC fall flat on its face when people who AREN'T google's ad revenue team get involved?
Running the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" Compiler
you need a second rule: "Don't go in any direction that makes the number go down." That way, when you're on top of it, you know to stop.
So difficult to orchestrate that it's unfeasible, so there's effectively 0% risk involved.

Yet another scary nickname and domain name for it says unprofessional and untrustworthy to me.
A large vocabulary means less tokens are needed to represent the same information
Former postdoc in 30s here - I only had to postdoc to 31 (am now on the tenure-track, woohoo) and I still felt like the impermanence was unsettling and stressful. It made it nigh-impossible to plan out life pathways, and just like the many they interviewed for this report, I and my wife also held off on big decisions like kids and home purchases.

Overall, I do think the academic pathway needs to be overhauled. Probably this would need to be a function of academic finance reform. When post-docs exist on "grant-funded" positions, then the position naturally expires at the end of the grant. I would love it if we had different mechanisms for funding.
Ask HN: Which remote desktop software works well for both Windows and Mac?
I use a Windows computer for work and also have a MacBook. Is there any good remote desktop software I can use to connect and use both my work and personal computers at any time? I've tried TeamViewer and AnyDesk, but they seem a little expensive. Are there any alternative suggestions?
D'oh, I meant Chrome
Humans dreamt of flying of millennial, but until the 19th century the first sentence of your answer applied as well.
Pretty sure to do any of those things or improve on any of them they need to be allowed to actually launch the frigging rocket
Really? I've got associates at less than that (10-20k/mo) that have access to real people. One associate just crossed the $1k/mo mark and their human contact-ability improved. My GCP spend is <$500/mo - I don't get shit.
It's also useful to build a query string with where clauses appearing conditionally.

where_clause = "where 1=1"
if video.nsfw:
where_clause += " and age > 18"
if whatever:
where_clause += " and whatever"

query = "select * from user {where_clause}"
Ask HN: I got the .com for my surname, best way to share this with family?
I have a relatively uncommon surname, and I was eventually able to get the surname.com

At this time, I have the most basic G Suite account using the domain name, so I can have myfirst@lastname.com, although I am not tied down to this. I just did it because after playing with proton, fastmail, and others, gmail was the most reliable email.

If I want to share the opportunity to have firstname@lastname.com with my family members, with whom I am not close at all, what is the best way to accomplish this?

^ That is the main question, don't get distracted by the rest of my post below.

I could manually accomplish this a few different ways, but is there anything out there which would enable this with the least amount of legal and customer support liability?

I don't want to host email. I was thinking just incoming forwards would be easiest, but would love to hear any other thoughts on the matter. Ideally, incoming and outgoing would be supported, though I know Send As is up to the email host.

Something like https://home.omg.lol/ but only for email aliases? I would manually approve each application, but the mechanics would be automated. Is there FOSS anywhere close to this?

Sorry if this question is a mess. Thanks in advance for any advice.
You're thinking of the old "ada" GPT-3 model - the one that was a companion to "davinci" and "babbage".

I believe "text-embedding-ada-002" is entirely unrelated to those old GPT-3 models. It's a recent embedding model (released in December 2022 - https://openai.com/blog/new-and-improved-embedding-model ) which OpenAI claim is their best current best available embedding model.

I understand your confusion: OpenAI are notoriously bad at naming things!
some databases such as Oracle do not support boolean literals or boolean at all as a user accessible type
Made me think of touch typing. I can touch type at a decent speed (~100 wpm). However, if I let myself think about where the various letters are on the keyboard, I stumble and start having trouble typing. I need to clear my mind to start touch typing again.
A working LLM implemented in Excel
> You believe

Not just me, this is the mainstream business-as-usual expectation. Collapse of breadbasket regions tends to be a Very Bad Thing.

What did you think "unsustainable" meant anyway?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/only-60-years-of-...

https://theconversation.com/farmers-are-depleting-the-ogalla...

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adh2458

> will lead to society's destruction

Technically by "self-destruct" I mean that the agriculture system destroys itself, by somehow undermining its own mechanisms of support. How much of 'society' gets pulled down with it? That's up to us to decide.
Can you please elaborate on this? What's an example of a seemingly single threaded simple task where you would turn to async?

Does "use async rust everywhere now" imply "use tokio everywhere now?" Honest question.
Mine was actually fine. GT3 race cars get straightened on the same rigs after crashes so it apparent works ok for a harder use case than daily driving. The computerized rigs are better than the old days.

In my case I did have a couple trim pieces that didn’t completely match.
Do you think the text you’ve read was what Judas would have been exposed too?
Yes traffic lights can be far better in heavy traffic - at least everyone gets a turn. In some roundabouts I've driven through, where there is a "main" way the cars coming from the other directions often get locked out as people queue through it. It works out if people have some courtesy and take turns but that's not always a good basis for traffic planning.
It is still a feature in Vivaldi, Opera's spiritual successor.
That seems entirely opposite to my Rust experience.

Rust is quite transparent in what it does, and is very conservative with compiler magic. The language doesn’t do heap allocations, doesn’t do reference counting, it doesn’t even have implicit numeric type conversion. It won’t implicitly copy types that did not ask to be implicitly copyable, and even that is only legal for types that can be copied with a simple shallow memcpy.

Rust uses zero-cost abstractions all over the place, which means it’s predictable what code they will compile to, and that will be typically something simple. Std types have well-known basic layout, so you know that e.g. iteration over a Vec is going to be a loop incrementing a pointer, and there’s no implicit parallelism.

Describing borrowing as “compiler knowing better than the programmer” is a weird way of looking at it. Borrowing is like type checking. You declare a type to be temporary, and try to use it as long-lived, you get an error. It’s the same as if you declare function to return struct Foo, but returned struct Bar instead. Yes, compiler “knows better than you”, because you just wrote a bug.

Borrowing still compiles to direct pointer usage without a GC (it’s literally guaranteed to be identical to a C pointer in C ABI structs and functions), and you can override lifetimes with unsafe if you think know better than the compiler.
If one tyranny has namespaces and the other doesn't, I'll prefer the former.
Could I use this to visit a website with a painful form, and paste in values from the columns of a CSV file, row by row?
> maximize exploitable/monetizable authority and jurisdictional area

You're implying corruption for monetary gain, that is an extraordinary claim that requires extraordinary evidence.
Forget the 10x engineer–it's about building a 10x culture
You know, just because something is obvious to you, it’s not obvious to everyone.

You don’t have to respond to everything that is obvious saying that it is.
Oh, thanks for clarifying!

Edit: looking at the press release, the improvement over old Ada is ... marginal? And Ada-01 is/was a poor performing model, tbh. I guess I'll have to run some tests, but at first sight it doesn't seem that wow-ey.
Yes exactly, sure... if we ignore the fact that the launch on 4/17 was scrubbed and the 4/20 date just happened to be the next window and he made a joke about it.

As for the not adequate launch site infrastructure that had 0 to do with the date, they built the pad long before launch, expecting the fondag to handle the heat/pressure and it didn't work, they didn't suddenly build a pad throw it together and say we're launching cause 4/20 because LOL.
I don't think that this is necessarily what you are asking, but I use MacOS and Windows on my desk at the same time, and Barrier is like a super power.

https://github.com/debauchee/barrier
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I've also got one, although mine is the larger NN-SN946W model.

It has had one odd behavior that has me quite puzzled.

I was regularly having for breakfast a microwaved frozen breakfast sandwich and a couple hash browns cooked in a toaster. The hash browns took 10 minutes, and the breakfast sandwich 1 minute.

I'd program the microwave for a 9 minute timer stage, followed by a 1 minute cooking stage, and then start the microwave and drop the hash browns in the toaster.

I could then go do other stuff and when I heard the microwave beep I'd know it was time to go take the hash browns out of the toaster.

This worked great for weeks, then one morning the microwave would not start.

Some experimenting showed that it would still start as long as the first stage was not a timer stage of a multi-stage program was not a timer stage. E.g., cook stage + timer stage was fine. Cook + timer + cook was also fine, so it wasn't that timer stages could not precede cook stages. Timer only was fine, too.

This is not an internet-connected device, so it wasn't some sort of stealth firmware update. Reset didn't help, and neither did unplugging it overnight.

It was this way for a couple days (as a work around I'd do 1 second cook + 9 minute timer + 1 minute cook)...and then it started working normally again and has continued working normally ever since (about two years since the glitch).

I can't even come up with a reasonably hypothesis to explain this.
Right; down nearly 8% on the day.
Same i didn't mind him before he went completely nutters, but i can love SpaceX, Tesla and the companies without loving him, it seems other people have decided everyone at tesla and spacex are evil because an idiot owns the company.
> But NL is also a huge bike country. And at most roundabouts, bikes have right of way.

The fact that it's on a case-by-case basis an not actually a consistent traffic law is really awful. To add insult to injury, the only signage is usually a yield sign painted on the road that is invisible as soon as it's dark and the road is wet. And this is of course further combined with the absolute scandalous amount of cyclists who don't have lights at night and are dressed in fully dark clothes.

Roundabouts are already a traffic situation that require heightened attention as a driver, so in the interest of safety I believe crossing cyclists should yield to cars at the exit. It's too many things to worry about otherwise. But at the very least, make it the same everywhere so it's always absolutely clear to both drivers and cyclists who has the priority.