skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Your comment contains the unstated premise that market forces always produce efficient outcomes.

> That premise is false.

"Markets are efficient" is not a law of physics, it's a heuristic. Given the free choice between two alternatives, people will tend to prefer the one which is to their advantage.

There are cases where that isn't true. Market concentration, collusion, regulatory capture, information asymmetries etc. But if you're going to assert that one of these is the case, you should be ready to explain the failure mode and how your proposed solution is the best way to address it.

In particular, most of the failure modes have known solutions. In case of market concentration, break them up. In case of regulatory capture, remove the rules that benefit incumbents. In case of information asymmetry, labeling and consent requirements etc.

"Middlemen are required by law to participate in the transaction" bears a far closer resemblance to something that would cause market inefficiency than prevent it, so if you're going to respond with "markets aren't always efficient" in response to that, let's hear your reasoning for why that would increase efficiency in this case.
that was super cool of you. Before letting people make the incorrect assumption, you hit em off at the pass. good people right there
Back in the Internet Explorer days, there used to be an extension called "IE Tab" that let users open non-compliant websites by usinv the IE engine as a webview without leaving the browser.

This might not be completely feasible under the current form of webextensions, however I wonder what would it take to work around Google's bad faith behaviour, and make firefox truly first-class.
My version of that was wanting to kill some time and walking off the street into a theatre for this obviously terrible Movie (judging from the poster) called The Terminator. I was not expecting much but instead enjoyed the heck out of that film!

A great adventure for a teenager at the time. ;-)
You can fix this with either more model training or by changing the sampler to penalize repetition.
No need to screw with frequencies.

In Australia, we’re moving towards dynamic operating envelopes for solar and other “distributed energy resources”. That potentially includes EVs and ACs.

The idea is the solar inverter is sent a dynamic stream of operating constraints by the distribution business based on network conditions.

It’s already being piloted in places like South Australia, which has very high solar penetration. Regulations are also moving towards requiring smart meters at all households (already the case in Victoria) and all new inverters be network connected.
I saw The Matrix before the marketing campaign or anything. An almost-finished workprint was floating around on our campus residential network.

All I knew was that "matrix.avi" was the largest file I had ever seen, over 700 MB!!! I watched the first minute and figured out it was a movie, and promptly stopped it and called everyone I knew over to my dorm and had them bring popcorn.

We went into it 100% blind, and I still remember the seconds of silence after the movie ended. We were that blown away.
>One of the great sins of Docker is having normalized running software as root. Yes, Docker provides a degree of isolation, but from a perspective of defense in depth running anything with user exposure as root continues to be a poor practice.

>Perhaps one of the problems with Docker is that it's too easy to use

If you've ever had to make a nonroot docker image (or an image that runs properly with the `--read-only` flag), it's not as trivial and fast to get things going—if it was default, perhaps docker wouldn't have been so successful in getting engineers of all types and levels to adopt it?

It's rare to find tooling in the DevOps/SRE world that's easy to just get started with productively, so docker's low barrier to entry is an exception IMO. Yes, the downside is you get a lot of poorly-made `Dockerfiles` in the wild, but it's also easy to iterate and improve them, given that there's a common ground. It's a curse I suppose, but I'd rather have a well-understood curse than the alternative being an arbitrary amount of bespoke curses.
At Meta, Underage Users Were an 'Open Secret,' States Say
Makes me think of something totally different, which is how Urbit converts randomly generated numerical IDs into sorta memorable names.

For example, the number 5,702,400 becomes ~sorreg-namtyv. And 1,742,733,824 becomes ~master-morzod.

I enjoy the quirkiness of the names.
I don't doubt he's serious in what he believes. I respect Ilya greatly as a researcher. Do you have notes or a time-point for me to listen to in that podcast? I bemoan the trend toward podcasts-as-references - even a time-point reference (or even multiple!) to the transcript would be greatly desirable!
There's also been work on getting Windows NT 4.0 running on Wii. The dev is using Dolphin for testing

https://haqueers.com/@Rairii/111472418904748866
> addiction to food and shelter

Pretty funny way to put it, yet very sad that this is the reality.
The file LRR.DRI[AM,DBL] also contains what looks like a REPL log of starting & running it.
I just don't get why such premium pricing doesn't include ProMotion feature.

It means a lot for productivity use as well, like smooth cursor movement, smooth browser scrolling, app scrolling etc.
> in addition, you'd be 100% likely to be more successful and have some pull when you need some emergency (or necessary) time off.

One shouldn't need pull for necessary time off, much less emergency time off.
Yes, txtai is written in Python as others in that article are (such as Chroma). We don't know what closed source options behind an API service are written in.

I consider txtai to be a vector database and satisfy many of the vector database use cases.
From the Ashes of the World's First App Store
On desktop, you can use the 'Shift' key and select all the photos. You can do that and delete all at once. For download, the takeout is the best way.
>Consider Windows: the operating system's most alarming defect in the eyes of many "Linux people" is its lack of package management

Windows has WinGet.
Does scripting get the job done for you? You're at the point where everyone has different objectives and methods, so it's no surprise that you have to make your own solution.
The really funny part is running it as /bin/[ probably requires omitting the ].
NoML Open Letter
this is very interesting. do you know how amazon creates its order id ? they are all numeric
Hey honey, would you like to swive tonight?
Did the author say anything actually negative about Docker? All I saw was "Docker can be suboptimal" but nothing to suggest that it has been anything other than at least a partial improvement?
Well the car constantly checks if the driver is paying attention, that's not really giving the wrong impression, is it? It really reinforces that it's not meant to be completely independent.

I do agree that "AutoPilot" and "Full Self Driving" are false advertising and shouldn't be used. But the driver has a responsibility of knowing what their car can and can't do.

I'm pretty sure even those killed drivers were aware of the limitations but just chose to ignore them.
Well it was an 'Open Secret' outside of Meta as well, wasn't it?
99.9% of the problems you spoke to, which are very real. Could be solved if people building the software would just understand one thing. A container is not a mini VM. It is not in any way shape or form a virtual machine. If what you need is a lightweight virtual machine. Build that. Do not build a container because it's the latest and greatest buzzword. But instead I see large monolithic applications, shoved into a container, and then I hear a multitude of complaints about performance issues ETC. You may be able to drive a nail with a screwdriver but it's not a good idea.
There are other approaches that could work too. For example, txtai can use Postgres as a data store and combine that with a vector index like Faiss or Hnswlib.

In this case, you get the robustness of Postgres (which has been around a while) and Faiss (which is one of the most mature vector indexes).

https://neuml.hashnode.dev/external-database-integration
Fun with DNS TXT Records
In Tokyo it's simple for a foreigner, open Google Maps, enter your destination, the app gives you the number where you have to go, you take your train, and that's it.

No different than any other cities.
I am guessing it might not be the main transformer that is occasionally slower, but rather a secondary LLM that is used to censor stuffs which occasionally runs ?

So basically the unusual answer needs more additional processing to make sure it is "safe" to be streamed to the client.
I like having all my bookmarks synced, and I like having uBO on mobile.
Nice deck, Ryan! And thanks for the mentions. ;)
Chocolatey exists and supports Calibre.
> and David Zaslav.

this got a good chuckle out of me. what is it with hollywood and not being able to create products that people want to consume? and by extension cancelling projects that are in their final stages of development?
that's why chrome have that nice little picture of your google profile on there ui. you're always logged at google.
Although when considering the original theory, it should be noted that the US's global manufacturing leadership in cars collapsed. It moved form the States in 1950 to Asia - first Japan, then China.

If the US consumers having cheap cars was a goal (which, implicitly, is what those 3 dot points support) it would seem that US policies were ineffective. If anything, car prices depend on labour costs and the dealership structure is a sideshow.
>we demonstrated 50 milliwatts per square meter of nighttime electricity generation

That's compared to 200 watts you can get from a reasonable panel in that same area during a clear day.

Like solar roadways, or "gravity energy storage", a good sounding idea, but not practical.
The original numeric ID(s) can only be decoded if you know the original alphabet that was used for encoding.
Tragically true:( But you can still install https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/coreutils/ on FreeBSD if desired.
Docker containers and images have saved me a lot of shipping pain in web part.

I haven't come across them being used as package manager or distributors yet.
You built a raytracer in a weekend? That's kind of impressive :P
Mass surveillance silences minority opinions, according to study (2016)
Recent and related:

test, [, and [[ (2020) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38387464 - Nov 2023 (225 comments)
https://archive.is/IH17Q
and all that still didn't give you the creative web that flash allowed.
It means Target is not popular ? I went to other stores and they are lot of people.
Thanks for the specific recommendations for searches, as we don't know the analyst space too well, but it sounds like reporting or analytics at a small/medium established business may be exactly what she's looking for.
Right; the coreutils built in to Darwin are BSD-derived, I was referring to a user installing the GNU versions over top of the OS proper.
Actually fingerprinting is pretty reliable:

https://amiunique.org/fingerprint
The only complaint I have is the ever-increasing calling-home-analytics-surveillance game they too are playing. Please stop.
txtai can use Postgres as a data store and combine that with a vector index like Faiss or Hnswlib.

In this case, you get the robustness of Postgres (which has been around a while) and Faiss (which is one of the most mature vector indexes).

https://neuml.hashnode.dev/external-database-integration
I was there in 2014 and was struck by how gross the metro stations in Paris were. I was there again this month (got home yesterday) and was struck by how much cleaner and nicer the stations seemed. I assumed (with no information) that they’ve been cleaning them up in advance of the Olympics. In any case, my experience this time was quite good. Certainly way better than the NYC subway (still not as good as Tokyo).
Blogged Answers: My Experience Modernizing Packages to ESM
Yes, the focus on "ethics" and "privacy" seems to be largely theatre these days, IMO.
Most of those words exist also in a number of European languages. Not a good example for the mixed nature of English that makes it stand out; pointing to its combination of inherited Germanic lexicon and French loans would be better.

Indeed, beware any popular treatments of the history of English, which might give you pithy quotations like the one you cite above, but have so often been sloppily written by non-experts.
Yeah, remains to be seen. Too much money in it for the taxi cabal I think to give up.

But the fact that the locals don't even know what any of the bus routes mean is so hilarious to me
It would be better to submit the original paper than someone providing a summary that reads like GPT
It matters because a browser may be shared between different users and a persistent shopping cart is a leak of private information.
Somewhere there's a database for every bad word and every bad typo in every language and that one just got added.
I don’t know any stories of digital businesses but there was a case where someone went and counted customers at the door only to realize that the company was lying on the yearly reports.

So I guess that kinda harmed that fraudulent business strategy…
Unless they are doing master-master replication so are incrementing by something other than 1
Clearly we need another layer between the host and the docker-compose spaghetti. Some lightweight (true, no docker-in-docker bs) VM that exists to lock up & let whatever is in those yamls kick and scream around.

I wish I knew if I am being sarcastic here...
Archimedes wishes he had a crowbar that could do the heavy lifting that "freely" is doing in that sentence.
Publishers don't get access to chrome login info without explicit consent.
If you use the share button and not the url bar you get prettier and shorter urls.

Don’t know how common that is. Wouldn’t be surprised if no -techies don’t know how to copy from url-bar.
> An ambassador service can be thought of as an out-of-process proxy that is co-located with the client.

> This pattern can be useful for offloading common client connectivity tasks such as monitoring, logging, routing, security (such as TLS), and resiliency patterns in a language agnostic way. It is often used with legacy applications, or other applications that are difficult to modify, in order to extend their networking capabilities. It can also enable a specialized team to implement those features.

Not surprised this is a Microsoft page, given their legacy of long lifetime support for their software products.

It’s not for microservices, but rather for software maintenance of systems that other vendors would consider past EOL.
That’s a great game. Early versions were more like Sopwith. The game was called Biplanes and only one plane type was available, and you played multiplayer dogfights.
The point is self custody. Even if a trade were to fail (it’s more difficult than you might think) the funds stay in you custody before and after the trade. That’s different from a cex where you’re trusting someone to hold all your assets. Someone like SBF could not do a similar fraud, even if such a party existed within bisq.

Regarding code, there have been attempts by people to take over p2p protocols before. Most famous was Justin Suns takeover of Steem. Since all the code was open source, most of the community forked the code over to Hive successfully. If a malicious actor tried something similar with Bisq, the community would just fork an older version of the code.

More fundamentally, these protocols work because people are incentivized to make them work. It’s quite different than the vc crypto with the big marketing budgets that most people hear about; most of those are just traditional finance reskinning itself.
Oh hey, that's my post!

(yes I spend too much time refreshing HN :) )

FWIW I did end up with a packaging combination that seems to work sufficiently. I never did fix the "FalseCJS" issue that `are-the-types-wrong` is detecting. I played with double-emitting TS typedefs, and the `tsup` tool _does_ actually have support for that now (added by Andrew Branch from the TS team). So it might be more feasible now. But ultimately I decided I was tired of messing with packaging setup and that what I've got is good enough. (hopefully)

We're actually about to launch Redux Toolkit 2.0 and Redux 5.0 this week, assuming the last couple pieces come together. Here's the latest RCs - you can see the current `package.json` files in there:

- https://github.com/reduxjs/redux-toolkit/releases/tag/v2.0.0...

- https://github.com/reduxjs/redux/releases/tag/v5.0.0-rc.1
Ironically its default encoding is base 55. I figured if you're going to use emoji you should at least use the size of the space to maximize the numbers of bits per grapheme beyond what is possible with ASCII, but apparently not.

Which I guess is the part where senior (citizen) programmers like me get triggered as promised in the README.
https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules
https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-releases-open-sourc...
How’s this for a boomer rant. I never used Docker because in my day we didn’t use virtual machines. We FTP’ed files to the PHP server, on port 21. Somewhere along the way all these Gen-Z kids started writing GraphQL APIs in TypeScript transpiled Cofee’node and pushing the Docker VMs to the Nomad Kubernetes Azure. I didn’t read the article but the curse of Docker is that kids think they’re better than me. After all I’ve accomplished! I had to buy a 165hz monitor to keep up with them in Counter Strike: Go, and my cholesterol is at an all time max.
This is a problem for everyone on Bountysource, no? Some sort of class-action is easily warranted and would amortize the legal fees
> improving any little thing can be such an insane slog.

One of the possible improvements here is to make procedural changes that nobody in particular sees an obvious need to oppose, but that make good things easier.

For example, make it easier to repeal laws than pass them. Most legitimately good laws have broad public support and would survive. But controversial bullshit that only passed as a result of midnight shenanigans would be gone by the next open session and it would weaken the incentive for omnibus bills because the bad bits could be repealed piecemeal with less than the consensus necessary to pass the omnibus to begin with.

> At some point there was some hope for "lobbying as a service" - for example with EFF or ACLU - but that wave has mostly failed also.

The trouble here is that these organizations can move a certain number of votes, but not nearly as many as large media and tech companies through their control over content on their platforms. So when that's who's on the other side, you have problems.

Which is, in a sense, a technical problem. You could reduce their undue influence through legislation or government action, but that's chicken and egg. Whereas if you get people to stop using their platforms in favor of alternatives, they have less influence, and then they have less control.

There has been a meme for a decade or so that normal people don't care about things tech nerds care about and aren't going to make even minor sacrifices to gain an advantage over the institutions subjugating them. "There is no point in you doing it because you'll be alone." This meme is presumably promoted people who enjoy the status quo, because history is full of examples to the contrary, when people refuse to be indoctrinated into defeatism.
1 meal per day six times a week.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RuOvn4UqznU
In the US it is not as easy as that and the zoning requirements are so anti-white and anti-Christian home schooling, and anti-Black and anti-immigrant for home businesses to support unions and retirees.

It's not a radical proposal, but stroads aren't the problem, carefully targeted regulations aren't the problem, communities/villages may be a solution?
This reminds me of Spore a lot
It lived up to its name for sure!!
Seems like a company called the "The Blockchain Group" owns bountysource and they just started ghosting users. Safe to assume the money is lost.

Is the blockain group insolvent?
> These vector databases have to improve everything else

No they don't. Because they aren't trying to build general purpose databases.

And often trying to jam everything into one product just makes it worse not better.
In my understanding they used machine learning to extract the password requirements from site registration forms. They didn't use it for statistical analysis.
The only case I am aware of is that of the "Potsdam Giants" [1]. Prussian king Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia was so obsessed with tall men he created a regiment of them, and pushed these soldiers to marry tall women. It apparently worked in producing even taller offspring.

As for entrepreneurship, I don't think there's a gene that encodes that :). Although heredity isn't only genetic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potsdam_Giants
The curse of docker is that it allows devs to be lazy and rather then making sure their configuration and deployment are straightforward, they get to keep all their mess working (longer).

Ofcourse, if you have really complex setup docker is invaluable.
But if all you are using it is to make the depreciation warnings go away on your single executable app, that's just abuse of the tool for the wrong reasons
I was pleased to see a page with photos (and PDF documentation) of the Ceres systems which were used to develop the Oberon operating system.

http://cpu-ns32k.net/Ceres.html
my case is tens of billions of short docs, and default search is fine except index creation is single threaded, so it takes multiple days to build index, and github page says rum is even slower..
ES is a good parallel to a vector database.

run a search against ES => hydrate records from postgres

run a search against a vector database => hydrate LLM context from documents

Neither is a primary canonical datastore. Postgres is for ES and S3 is for documents.
Pair programming is an wonderful activity for me as well. Some of my best work, and memories, were made in that context.
Strangely enough, it is becoming rarer these days that I find a partner (it has been ~2 years now since my last pair programming)
I am not sure what one even has to do to get mugged in NYC. And I am saying that as someone who has walked across Manhattan through Times Square on multiple occasions after midnight, all while very properly inebriated.

However, there is imo no way to avoid seeing rats if you used NYC subway more than once and had your eyelids up.
Exactly. The 80's were a revival for the US. The 70's were stagflation, the president talking about the "great malaise", a humiliating defeat in Vietnam, and a general view that it was "the end of America".

Then comes along Reagan, defeats inflation (sure Carter started it, but Reagan didn't falter when the recession hit), then ushers in the biggest uninterrupted economic boom since the 60's and said "you should be proud to be American". He was elected with 51% of the vote in 1980 and remarkable 59% in 1984 (carried every state except MN).

Of course along with that came things the left finds abhorrent - belief in capitalism, minimal government, pride in being American (basically hate speech to the left), so Reagan became a punching bag for the left and despite 30+ years having passed, they still love to blame him for things that happen today.

But put into perspective, it shouldn't be surprising he was so popular at the time.
nope, but that would be as easy as trying it in the terminal to see that your guess is not correct at all