skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Omg. What timing. I feel your pain. We recently migrated to Cloudflare Pages and I was happy at the speed and everything and now this :(. Never had a downtime when I self hosted on my DigitalOcean droplet. damn. Re-considering going back to old school nginx static site hosting.
It's funny how different and polarizing individual experiences can be. My MIL loves SWA for much the same reasons, but they're one of the worst airlines in mine.
Curses ;)
> Ignore enough of the people you presumably represent, and that gets shown through elections.

I mean until the moment you're a minority which is something elected officials have continually had issues with, especially in the south, here in the US.

If an elected official is using a private channel as a means of 'public' information dissemination things get messy.
Show HN: Playground for comparing embedding models on Wikipedia+book retrieval
Introducing embeds.ai: an embedding playground to compare how embedding models work on a real world use case (retrieval augmented generation for Wikipedia articles + Elad Gil's High growth handbook)

A few weeks ago, Shreyan and I were looking for an embedding model to use for RAG. We eventually came across the MTEB leaderboard, but we struggled to understand the benchmark scores.

We wanted a tool to test various embedding models with example queries on real-world datasets. After unsuccessfully looking for such a “playground”, we decided to just build one ourselves!

We embedded HuggingFace’s Simple Wikipedia dataset using @OpenAI, @Cohere, and 2 open-source models via @Baseten. We then stored the embeddings in @Supabase using pgvector. Finally, we built a web app using NextJS and deployed it on @Vercel.

Now we’re hosting the playground for anyone to use for free, as well as open-sourcing our work so people can try evaluating other models, datasets, or indexes.

Learn more here in our full blog post here: https://shreyanjain.substack.com/p/announcing-embedding-batt...

And the repo is here: https://github.com/EGCap/playground

If you have other suggestions / pain points from working with embedding models, vector DBs, or RAG, or if you would like to collaborate on any of the above or unrelated projects, please reach out!
@shreyanj98 @davidtsong on Twitter
It’s only reasonable to be angry but do try to remember that the people fixing this are people like you who showed up at work to build something and are instead dealing with a fire. Ask their bosses about how they got in that situation but be nice to them, they’re having an even worse day than you are.
X says it is worth $19B, down from $44B last year
I wonder if there's a way to keep the SO2 localized to a geographic area? The best bang for the buck should be over the arctic to help with the ice loss and less reflectivity due to that.
Also interested in the answer, and I thought a bit about this and have a hypothesis that DNA does not encode everything, instead it depends on implicit assumptions about the environment.

To give an example, gravity is likely not encoded in the DNA, but instead, there are many encoded behaviors that would make sense only on an environment where gravity is present. The same for the presence of predators, wind, solar radiation, etc., i.e. many of the things that we take for granted.

That's how you would get more than 750MB of behavior on 750MB of DNA data [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_genome#Information_conte...
The curing process is exothermic so it's possible the insulated forms keep enough of that heat in to make the process work even in the cold.
I replaced a 16" i9 MacBook Pro with an M1 MacBook Air right after it was released. The Air was at least as fast as the MBP running full tilt with my workloads. The Air has no fan so it's completely silent and I've rarely experienced any thermal throttling on it. The i9 MBP's fans would spin up if you looked at it sideways and running full out sounded like a jet engine. The Air also lasts all day on the battery at a fraction of the weight and a fraction of the thickness of the MBP it replaced.

The M-series chips beat a lot of Intel and AMD offerings in some form factors. It's not that the greatest chip of all time and there's Intel and AMD offerings that beat them in single thread performance or offer more multi thread performance at some price points.

At the high end I think Intel and AMD (plus GPU) are more competitive with Apple's kit so long as the OEM makes nice hardware. At the low end the entry level M2s have ridiculous capability compared to x86 machines. Maybe Qualcomm will actually be in the running with the Snapdragon X if they can ditch the Windows millstone.
Most of the spam I get in gmail apparently comes from other gmail accounts. Presumably google already filtered out senders pretending to be gmail, so I am not sure what a big improvement this will be for the average user.
That's what I thought too. So crazy!
Can't speak for many other countries, but here in Norway FB still reigns supreme as far as one-stop-shop social media platforms go.

I think that is due to how many aspects of society here completely ditched their own channels some 10-12 years ago, and started using FB for everything. I mainly use FB for the following:

- Hobby groups and pages. These have pretty much replaced the traditional forums.

- Practical info and stuff related to where I live: Buy/sell groups, apartment and housing groups, news and updates, cultural events, and what have you.

- Historical groups, and similar niche stuff

A ton of practical stuff is just too ingrained into the FB platform.

Not to mention messenger. I know lots of people that are never active on FB, and only use it for messenger - simply because WhatsApp, Signal, etc. never got the same hold here.
Yes and no. I am increasingly coming to the opinion that no, if you use comedy to spred lies, then it is exactly what you are doing. The comedy part is then just cowardly shield to make it hard to argue against your claims while making it more likely your lies spread.

And that goes for Carlin and all the other comedians too.
I'm sorry to tell you this, but this is a complete fantasy that completely ignores the point that was made a couple of comments above. No one is undercutting Google. Period.and that is the point. They have a death grip on the user base.

Just look at Twitter, it completely spit in everyone's faces and even still people cannot get out of its grips on them.

The only platforms that have even remotely survived are platforms that also own an ad network, or some other secondary source of income (like Kick and their Crypto gambling site or Twitch with their ad stock) as a way to shovel users into that fire. The market cannot solve this and has no incentive to do so. Again, it's a complete fantasy that has not once proven true.
Ask HN: Is Oracle that much more evil than other big companies?
Every time I see that Oracle release a new product, even open source comments are full of hate for Oracle. But I don't see similar reactions to other big companies, such as Microsoft. So is Oracle really that much worse than the other big companies, or do the other companies just have better marketing targeting the developer?
Oh fun so basically no one will be able to setup their own email servers by themselves anymore. Antispam is killing the open internet now.
There are plenty of places to get a free checking account, at least in the US. I don’t really understand why people wouldn’t have one.
The only place that this makes sense over Intel/AMD on the Windows side is for laptops where ARM offers lower power draw, less heat, and longer battery life.

For a desktop, if you don't care about power and heat, then this will have inferior performance.

Nuvia had a core designed for server chips when Qualcomm bought them, and Qualcomm publishing benchmarks at an 80 watt TDP, tells me that their chip isn't going to be well positioned to compete on power draw, heat and battery life against next year's chips, especially without any sort of efficiency core at all.
This isn't as big of a change as it sounds.

There are three requirements. The first requirement - DKIM - is already a de facto must-have when sending emails to avoid getting marked as spam. The second is also a legal requirement in the US for all commercial email under the CAN-SPAM act[0]. And the third is more or less how email delivery has worked for the last 20 years or so anyway.

[0] The "one click" and "within two days" parts are a little stricter than the bare minimum CAN-SPAM requirements, but not much, and they are not difficult for any legitimate sender to implement.
Why the $9.99 start price? To me the value of a Meta service would be $4/month max. That's just me though.
Is there a non-live demo somewhere? I don't think huggingface's max of 4 users is going to be able to handle the HN crowd. Still curious as to what it looks like in action though.
Ok, somebody else explain why neurotypical people are content to obey arbitrary authority when they don't have to.

I surely shouldn't have included that bit of speculation because all the replies to my comment have nothing to do with the actual point of the comment.
I strongly believe that, at least for youtube, there are no forthcoming competitors to gain market share. Network effect is too strong, and if even an inkling of that happens the policies that lead to people leaving will be rolled back just enough.
>Note that some of that was as a Lean Six-Sigma Black Belt doing Enterprise projects (I hate every single bit of terminology in that entire godforsaken sentence),

brother!

>Beware of doing good things at work; the reward is rarely compensation and is usually more work for the same pay.

I got lucky and learned this in college working for the helpdesk. Privately I know the best value I really bring is experience in avoiding clusterfucks before they even happen, and I'll be johnny-on-the-spot during production things (during the workday, I'm not ops), and then slack off as much as I possibly can since the reward for high performance isn't more pay, it's just more work.
Not sure why there should be a legal distinction between the two. There are many possible ways to interact with stuff online (view it, "like" it, comment on it, save it, share it etc.), and if it is government-sponsored content then no one should be barred from doing any of this.
Major Hubspot Outage
True, but it’s clearly the future, at least for mass market devices.

There’s still a place for buggy whip makers. The remaining ones can charge an arm and a leg because the few remaining ones generally compete on quality. I bet that’s what we’ll see for HDDs soon.
"A change of perspective is worth 80 IQ points" - Alan Kay

He said that in a video "nornal considered harmful" that you can find on Youtube[1]. He talks about it at 34:29

[1] https://youtu.be/FvmTSpJU-Xc?si=gp3k_6-OrE8yLBnx
the new intel m100 nuc platform chip is probably where its at.

yes its double the price, but in terms of power usage its ~4 watts at the plug at 50% load, (vs 30) and more over a million times faster.
Show HN: Direct Indexing with Google Sheets and Alpaca
https://github.com/ProgramComputer/ReplicateETFSheets

An attempt to replicate ETFs without the middle-man.
Wow, what a fantastic website. Thank you! It's great that it has other languages, as I'm fairly decent in English, but given that it's real examplse, and it highlights the text... brilliant design choice
I believe its back up
My sites have started coming back up now. Their site has also just started working again (previously got a 500): https://pages.cloudflare.com/
Yep our current marketing site is NextJS hosted on Hetzner fronted by Cloudflare, fortunately that's still up and never has any problems.

We've moved to next-on-pages for our new marketing site and I've spent the whole day on finishing touches ready for switch over at 20:00 UTC, and now this :((
i still remember one Mozilla intern putting the names of two internship coordinators on a whiteboard, and having folks make a tally mark for which they'd prefer to...
"date".

(spoiler alert: i don't think they planned on taking either of them on a trip to the pinball museum followed by craft cocktails)

it hurt, since i was older than most of the interns, coming from precarity, and felt like the ideals that got me into the space were what caused me to boomerang back to my abusive PhD

This was ten years ago -- I was a closeted queer guy given an offer letter to work with someone who quit before I arrived, signed by someone who resigned or was fired prior to my arrival.

Not once since has someone offered to have a recruiter speak with me, no attempts at anything but... transparently using interns as temps.

To sit all summer, nearly suicidal with worry you'll be forced back to the midwest, having your boss take everyone but you out to lunch over and over and your coworkers angry you told them to not harass folks who are arguably their "boss" in the nontechnical capacity for the summer... it destroyed my trust in the company and sent me down a very dark path.

Silicon Valley is only inclusive when forced to, because someone is extremely technical -- and even then, it felt like you had to "know" someone, in a sense I'll avoid spelling out, to get a fair interview.

It was a summer I had high hopes for that broke my heart in so many ways... and it happened over ten years ago
Back up for me as of 16:20 ET
...and saving email at the same time. It's totally unusable without spam filters, and the open models/blacklists don't come anywhere close to Gmail's capabilities.
The real question ia whether it is detrimental to the children themselves.

Everyone and his brother goes "you should not have children when you can't afford them" when people who fell into poverty need assistance or when someone can not provide own room to each kid or have trouble to pay for something. Guess what, having kids so that you have cheap labor for otherwise ineffective business is even worst.

It is different when they help an hour a day after school or during weekends etc. But, that us not what we are talking about here.
Where does the word "pragma" come from?
> and a parent understands dangers of the world that their young child literally can't comprehend

As an adult I find that my perception of danger was actually much more correct as a child than the adults around me.

They were, and are, paranoid and driven by moral panics. For some reason they were unable to comprehend that me walking a mile across an upper middle class suburb at 12 years old was perfectly safe, but I was. They feared edge case dangers like pedophiles and school shootings while us children made jokes about them.

When there were a handful of shark attacks on the east coast and it made the news, the school banned students from swimming in the ocean on school trips. Driving for hours on the interstate was, of course, deemed safe as always.
So you think Meta makes more than $10 per user/month when showing ads?

Genuinely asking. I have no idea.
I would call that a micro-service architecture using a mono-repo.

I think a lot of people here are conflating mono-repo/poly-repo with a mono-deployment. You can easily add in extra entrypoint executables to a single mono-repo. That allows initiating parts of the system on different machines, allowing scaling for skewed API rates across your different request handlers.

Similarly, you can create a monolith application building from a poly-repo set of dependencies. This can be easier depending on you version control system, as I find git starts to perform really poorly when you enter multi-million SLOC.

At my job we have a custom build system for poly-repos that analyzes dependencies and rebuilds higher level leaf packages for lower level changes. Failing a dependency rebuild gets your version rejected, keeping the overall set of packages green.
I picked the wrong day to refactor an npm build.
That hasn't been my experience with Rust over the past 5+ years. Maybe I haven't been poking into obscure features. When the language is as old as Perl I imagine the pace of change will slow but already it's been very slow moving and stable. There's a huge emphasis on backwards compatibility (editions are such a great concept).
You should give yourself more credit than that.

Have you ever signed a purchase agreement for a house without performing an inspection first, and then try to back out of the deal, claiming problems with the house? If not, then there's no real analogy.
They literally interviewed a girl who was sent to a coco farm "to take care of the kids" when she was 12 or something. She has taken care of zero kids and instead has been chopping coco since then. Hasn't been home either.
Did we read a different article? DKIM is a simple DNS entry. One-click unsubscribe should be standard.
Not in my ecperience, although my many interactions with them were 10 years ago, so they might have gotten better. It still leaves a sour taste in my mouth.
I did that for a year or two, but it didn't work. Facebook always found new kinds of garbage to recommend. If anything, FB started showing more algorithmic content and fewer posts from my friends. I eventually stopped posting on Facebook, because it had become a wasteland almost devoid of people.
> "Gmail’s AI-powered defenses stop more than 99.9% of spam, phishing and malware from reaching inboxes and block nearly 15 billion unwanted emails every day."

This will be a pain for legit use cases but will net to a better place for the ecosystem.

Much like strong KYB/KYC for bulk text messaging.
Ask HN: How does your team decide who works oncall on Christmas?
If you're on a software team that maintains cloud services or other infrastructure that needs to keep running 24x7, how does your team decide who is going to work oncall for shifts like Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's, or other times when most people don't want to be oncall?
Is it just a top-down manual manager decision? Or do you have some kind of process/algorithm to help make it fair? Do new people get worse oncall shifts than people who have been on the team for longer?
It is shocking to me how bad to non-existent error handling is in most terraform providers. It leads to some remarkably arcane and esoteric error messages
Isn't that the same? I mean for a native English speaker. Both seem good aproximations (from a native Spanish speaker pov).
In the time I made this post and now it's come back. Really wish that would've returned an error and not an empty list, that almost caused a disaster in my automation.
>shitty text completion computer programs

There's a certain kind of psyche that finds it utterly impossible to extrapolate trends into the future. It renders them completely incapable of anticipating significant changes regardless of how clear the trends are.

No, no one is afraid of LLMs as they currently exist. The fear is about what comes next.
Cloudflare, hu? Great, I thought Cloudflare was meant to increase stability.
They're big on showing parallel benchmarks but nothing that would give a hint of what the actual single-core IPC is. This doesn't bode that well IMO.
If you need GPIO you can just get an USB GPIO interface like the one at https://www.adafruit.com/product/2264
There was no error message, that was the really unsettling part.
Yep, also finding the same issue Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 500 ()
Same issue.

Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 500 ()
I mean, that's an issue with administration turn-over in general.

With the PIF it looks like they get spread around to various agencies, so I don't think a fellow from one cohort is likely to be assigned to the same agency and project as a previous one.
Here are some instructions for anyone who wants to do this on their own hardware: https://takin.ai/learn/generate-images-with-hidden-text-usin...

Definitely a nice convenience feature to have someone pre-select the settings, but very doable for anyone with tech experience to set up by themselves.
I have learned to ignore the connectors on power supplies I buy and just expect to replace them with the ones I've standardized on in my lab.
Internet Access in Gaza Partially Restored After Blackout
Charles Schwab. Not only do their (at least checking) products have great benefits (like no ATM fees and free international transactions), but every time I've called they've been extremely helpful.

I once had my debit card canceled due to fraud while traveling internationally, and they shipped a replacement via both UPS and Fedex to ensure a replacement got to me as quickly as possible.

I have no doubt they've lost money on me as a customer in my lifetime, but I have nothing but amazing things to say about them and I suspect they'll make it up later in life when I have more assets to work with.
Looks to be back up now for my sites
> Oh fun so basically no one will be able to setup their own email servers by themselves anymore. Antispam is killing the open internet now.

It's been a long time since you've been able to set up your own email servers without DKIM and expect that your emails will get reliably delivered to Gmail users, especially for bulk mail.

The second requirement is more or less already a legal requirement in the US, and the third is literally how anti-spam has always worked - the only difference is that Google is now saying that they'll publish the threshold publicly, rather than keeping it a secret.

This is technically news, but it's hardly a major shift.
Loop vs Lu-peh. One has two syllables on the ending and the other has one. Surely that sounds noticeable different.

Not saying it's right or wrong, but the two are different.
Monoliths are so much easier to test and deploy!

Even if one service needs to be developed separately, it can still live in the monolith. For dev, it's easier to test. For production, deploy the same monolith but have it only handle a single service, depending on how it's deployed. You get all the benefits of a monolith while a little benefit of separate services.

Microservices are okay, but "kick up" a lot of issues that can be slow/awkward to solve. Testing being the big one. If the business decides it's worth the exponential complexity then that's fine.
Also:

> So today, we’re introducing new requirements for bulk senders — those who send more than 5,000 messages to Gmail addresses in one day

If you run an email server for personal use, you are quite unlikely to send more than 5k messages per day.
Start.ca, a regional Internet service provider in Ontario. Someone always picked up the phone, and it was always a knowledgeable in-house CSR, not some outsourced operation where the workers are afraid to lose their jobs if they don't follow the script.
> When in doubt take people at their word.

This is not mutually exclusive with it being either hubris or regulatory capture. People see the world colored by their own interests, emotions, background, and values. It's quite possible that the person making the statement sincerely believes there's a danger to humanity, but it's actually a danger to their monopoly that their self-image will not let them label as a such.

It's never regulatory capture when you're the one doing it. It's always "The public needs to be protected from the consequences that will happen if any non-expert could hang up a shingle." Oftentimes the dangers are real, but the incumbent is unable to also perceive the benefits of other people competing with them (if they could, competition wouldn't be dangerous, they'd just implement those benefits themselves).
This is a 500 server error, would that still be cloudflare, sounds more like a npmjs server issue
No one is forcing you to use youtube. I think the situation is more like the opposite, adblockers are trying to gain control of youtube servers in order to obtain the product without paying.
I'd be willing to bet already most people have no idea what OpenAI is, just like most people don't know what ByteDance is.