skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason why I stopped buying digital media; I buy physical books, vinyls etc. (mostly second-hand). That said I do have an Apple One subscription that includes Music, for the convenience of having access to a large catalog of music from any of our devices (mostly my kids use it, in the car, etc.). But if it's something I care enough about to actually own or listen to in the future, I get a physical copy. Also, the authors/artists get more that way too.
(Edit: As for video, I only do streaming, and that's because I rarely if ever watch a movie or TV show a second time, so I don't care about owning it.)
The lede suggests that it is mainly for dark matter detection, but later on they say it is for interdisciplinary research including life sciences. Is this just due to the "ultra clean" capabilities, or are there other reasons why you would want to do life sciences research 7K feet underground?
In fact it even had a Wikipedia article a number of years before them: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Room_641A&oldid=6...
I know it might look that way.

But we're just trying to reduce the surface area for mistakes. In the end, one can rest knowing that they didn't at least write vulnerable code, the most common one!
Maybe the regulations will be Mistral shaped.
The internet is (a little) boring
"I think there seems to be a weird phenomenon going on right now, where a new online subculture is popping up, full of people who are burnt out on today's Internet and looking for ways to purge themselves of their online accounts, myself included. 2005-2015 is when I would argue were the best years for this subculture. You had cool new social networks popping up like Youtube and Facebook, really addictive games like Runescape, World of Warcraft, Club Penguin, Neopets, and meme culture came in full force with Lolcats and Rage Comics. People online were still more outcast-ish, and it wasn't necsesarily cool to be "terminally online," which is a phrase that you'll hear often today. Being online and part of these communities was new and fun, and there was this feeling of belonging to an "in crowd." It was less formulaic and everything you saw felt new and original."
We've been working on a data version control system called "oxen" optimized for large unstructured datasets that we are seeing more and more with the advent of many of the generative AI techniques.

Many of these datasets have many many images, videos, audio files, text as well as structured tabular datasets that git or git-lfs just falls flat on.

Would love anyone to kick the tires on it and let us know what you think:

https://github.com/Oxen-AI/oxen-release

The commands are mirrored after git so it is easy to learn, but optimized under the hood for larger datasets.
Presumably adults normally went after prey large enough to satisfy their appetite, but push come to shove would have eaten smaller prey too, just as a modern lion prefers a decent meal like a zebra but will still eat anything from a rodent on up if it's hungry or an easy chance presents itself.

The "can't see adults going after these" seems a sloppy throw-away comment, not based on any evidence, and ignoring common sense!
At least there’ll be lots of shareholder value so it wasn’t for nothing. /s
That's not how nearly all election systems work.

Who wins is often not determined on election day, but in coalition making after the election. If you have 5 - 10 parties, it's often not immediately apparent on election night who can gather a majority behind them.
Beyond some point, mastering "fundamentals" tends to look a bit like a barbershop pole. Engineering and computer science principles are in competition with each other. Within each tech stack, the balance of forces is different. It takes years of experience within a particular tech stack for an organization to find elegant and harmonious balance in techniques.
It's free and only 2MB. You're looking at the fan merchandise. https://romero.com/sigil

Direct download link: https://romero.com/s/SIGIL_II_V1_0.zip
I think the issue is ignoring that a big part of the criticism of Israel is not actually a criticism of Israel, but criticisms of post Sharon government (or post Rabin for true leftists). We know who propped up, armed and supported Hamas in Gaza.

Also, yes, actual urls of people throwing insults like this are more than welcome. Hopefully if they're down voted enough they'll be banned.
> You must sell [some of] your assets to feed hugry monster called government [which runs the courts, police, and military which all exist to protect the rest of your assets].
I fondly remember playing Doom with my brother. Our dad had made a serial cable for us. One of us was playing on the PC and the other one on a laptop with a grey scale display and terrible ghosting. We had so much fun and it felt like magic indeed :)
LLM space is so cringe so much excitement from supply side and no excitement/cringe from supposed demand side
The chat window literally just went from “sign up for the waitlist” to fully functional. I think I got an email too.
This has to be the best HN comment in a long time.
Early versions of Trianglify supported noise addition using feTurbulence but I ultimately removed it because of some of the rendering inconsistencies mentioned in this thread, alongside performance issues on certain platforms (you would think that generating 2d monochrome noise would be pretty cheap in this day and age, but it must be part of the SVG stack that never saw much optimization because it would absolutely lock up rendering for several hundred milliseconds when applied to even moderately sized viewports).

Of course, this was all back in ~2015 so the landscape has definitely improved, but not quite to the point where I would consider adding support back in.
I skimmed through the article, still I don’t get it what makes it so fast that it can beat other KV Stores.

Does it use a B Tree / LSM / Bitcask? Or something else entirely?

How does your storage engine compare with sled?

The storage section also mentioned that most data stays in RAM and it is planned to change. Is it still the same? The benchmarks were ran on the in-memory version or disk one (if that is changed)

Also, can you share against which all KV Stores the benchmark was done?

The project looks very exciting and I’d love to know more details
the jews or the qataris
I'd like to add https://growth.design/psychology to an already great list that's building here.
there's nothing in the new AI regulations hindering Mistral's work. Open Source foundation models are in no way impacted.

https://x.com/ylecun/status/1733481002234679685?s=20
Stating that some mammals and maybe some humans will survive the mass extinction is not encouraging to my mind.
Speaking as someone from there. The judical system is actually very bad and very slow. We have 40 judges per 100K people, Ireland has 3. So if you have to litigate something good luck with that as it will take many years. If going after public service, there are very slim chances you'll succeed. There was a famous malpractice case where it was revealed that a hospital which the claimant was suing didn't have a malpractice logged in 20 years. So whatever happened it was a "complication". The guy did get some satisfaction after a lenghty trial, but after that there were very few malpractice cases that I know of. A now deceased neigbour of mine ended up in wheelchair after a routine hip replacement surgery and had 2 strokes. Sued them, and 10 years later lost because the court's medical expert is friends with the surgeon.

The corruption for a normal citizen is pretty invisible though (not the effects!). It happens on higher levels. And higher you go the bigger the corruption. So lets say you need a permit for something. You cannot walk into some office and offer money for them to get it done faster. Everyone is very suspicious of unfamiliar faces so you have to build a relation with a employee (or their boss), and then you can do it which of course takes time. But the N+1 time you do it its much easier... I think the general concensus is that the corruption actually got worse after the Yu breakup. In media you'll find egregious examples of government corruption but this very rarely gets prosecuted, even rarer someone has to go to prison for it. So for lot of politicians and public servants crime does pay off. Another problem is that a lot of corruption is legalized so you don't have much to look forward to.

Schooling is just not very good. I wouldn't say that I saw much bullying, not that it was unheard, but it was very rare. Curriculum on the other hand is based on rote memorization, anti-creativity, anti-leadership and obedience. If your kid is a genius it will actually have a good time because schools (and especially universities) over here want only those kind of students, everyone else can go dig ditches as they say.
Is this downloadable from the built in mod manager thing that’s built into the modern releases?
Avoiding this kind of thing is part of why you're paying 30% to Apple / Google / Steam, etc.
This is why it is important to gain very good knowledge about the basics and "axioms" of whatever one works with. That way one can very quickly grasp "new" things, once it is needed. Without a solid grasp on the basics, one is bound to keep chasing the hype.
> "Back in my day..."

I agree with the overall premise, but I would pull it back by 1 - 2 decades.
> Continuity with past institutions.

The EU was formed in 1993, with precursor organisations going back to 1948, and the European Parliament has been elected in continuity since 1979. On the European continent, there can be basically almost no continuity going back farther than after WW2 because of how the war completely reshaped the continent. In that sense, the EU has more continuity than many Eastern European nations.

> Shared values and norms.

This sounds very vague. Every political entity of a nontrivial size has massive diversity of thought, that's true of small Switzerland just as much as of the EU or the US. That said, I do think that on average, Europe tend to value certain things (e.g. walkable cities) more than some other areas in the world.
Sorry but I will never accept any idea which leads to the conclusion that noodle-arm purple-people was an inevitable and organic cultural development.
If there's no way back, then why bother with painful mitigation efforts?

But seriously, this sort of "it's over, there's only doom ahead" is, IMO, counterproductive and hurts the efforts to help the environment more than it helps.
Oil industry profits are the tail, not the dog. In the last decade, the entire global oil industry’s profits were about as much as Apple and Microsoft combined. That’s a lot of money, but not world-moving power. In terms of profit margin, the oil industry is less than half of Big Tech.

The real power is that citizens want cheap energy. Cheap energy drives economic growth. And gas prices are strongly correlated to presidential approval rating: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/25/upshot/gas-prices-biden-m...

Anyone who doubled the price of gas in America would be thrown out of office in the next election in a landslide.
Also most all cocoa is grown with child labor and often slavery.
Real-World Match/Case
I don’t know what you’re talking about. I use chatGPT extensively. Probably more than 50 times a day. I am extremely excited for anything that can top the already amazing thing we have now. They have a massive paying customer base.
Having all 8 billion survive was not part of my calculation.
Ability to and ethicality of doing so are two different things.
Agreed that third parties are possible, though it is still worth noting that a third party win would almost certainly result in an existing party being replaced for a different two party system.

The parties in the US have changed around something like 5 or 6 times. In the last 2 or 3 changes the party names didn't change but the parties did fundamentally change. After each shakeup, we've ended up with a two party system that's structurally unworkable for independents to win at the highest level.
good time to seed it again, seeds could be viable
I think this is where things get muddy. On one hand, I think that there is still a function call going on under the hood, even if the syntax hides that. On the other, if you need some preprocessing before assigning the values to your struct's fields, you can still define a special member function that does whatever you need to figure out what the correct values are. In my view, what Rust is actually missing is the default constructor, because it will not initialize variables to some default value for you.
So that justifies it?
I know what JVM does, I was talking about other “native-allocator” stacks like C and C++, which are used in many very popular long-running services.
Skytable is currently primarily in-memory (which is to change soon; approximately Q1 next year). The storage engine actually uses various drivers and most of them are AOF-style custom implementations.

Real-time/background compaction and more will be implemented shortly before GA is shipped (this is currently a beta).
It doesn't matter how much you "pack the cells very tight", there's a geometrical limit here.[1]

And in practice, you'll have modules of sections of the battery for repairing which drops the efficiency to below 90%.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_packing#Densest_packing
PHP and Symfony Apps as Standalone Binaries
> we stepped over a landline

I believe you made a typo here. Shouldn't it be "landmine" instead of "landline"?
And that’s assuming borders have any meaning at all when it comes to the problems we’re facing. We’re all on this planet together and if land becomes uninhabitable those people need to go and live somewhere. Whether that somewhere is beyond a border is irrelevant. People will just go where they don’t starve, die or be persecuted etc and that’s their right to do so. The borders we have were made in the context that won’t exist 50 years from now. Everyone will have to adapt. No one will be untouched from climate change just because of their winning ticket at the lottery of birth.
(This is not China-bashing, as I assume lots of other nations do this for the same reasons.)

It's a lot harder to have unwanted intruders, and satellite surveillance is less likely. This lab will 100% have a military research purpose.
Regardless of where a company is headquartered, it has to comply with local regulations.
Snowboard: Fast Rust HTTP(s) Servers
I've decided to make my own "web framework" thingy in rust to learn. What do you think about it? What can I improve?
Natural preservatives protective against bacterial pathogens in meat products
I got that feeling in Europe in general. I had no idea how these countries were paying for all the nice things they have. I just assumed it was some long tail consequence of colonialism that keeps bringing in revenue somehow or “money makes money” from the massive wealth transfer during the colonial period. On the flip side, healthcare can bankrupt you with one semi serious illness in the US and there is no work life balance.
Too many superlatives and groundbreaking miracles reported. Probably written by AI.
> I truly believe that if some companies (or people) could point a gun to our heads they would,

Just look at the industrialization of healthcare in the U.S. - and especially at the prices of some life saving medications. A gun to the head is the business model.
> More than 800,000 vehicles have Autopilot

While this is technically true, since Autopilot is a standard feature isn’t it more accurate to say that every Tesla ( almost 5,000,000 vehicles) has Autopilot?
Microsoft Cloud AI revenue went $90M, $900M, $2.7B in three quarters. How much more hard dollar demand growth could there possibly be at this point?
> They broke their users' trust.

And now the drama is dialed to 11. I see no point in responding to such hyperbole.
> wouldn't ground effect allow for a lower stall-speed?

Slightly lower, yes, but since, as the GP pointed out, the stall warning sounded just before touchdown, it looks like their calculations already took that into account.
https://archive.ph/yQwmR
A competitor to OpenAI in like, benchmarks?
I think the meaning of the sentence you're replying to is that GitHub's features are a superset of Git's features which seems true?

"Github isn't all git [some features of GitHub are not in Git], but all git is Github [but all features of Git are in GitHub]."

Maybe my interpretation is incorrect?
This is yet another example of the fallacy of assuming that The Almighty Market will perfectly set all costs.

Most employees do not have the luxury and privilege to be able to demand a raise any time they feel like they deserve one, and actually get it—either directly, from their current employer, or indirectly, by changing jobs.

Yes, this includes tech employees. Remember, we don't all work within the Silicon Valley bubble.
Gitea have worked like a wonder for my purposes, even when running it on a Raspberry PI (although the raspberry server was for a small group of 3 developers at most). It was still very responsive and didn't feel heavy at all.
Japan's deepest economic contraction since pandemic clouds path for BOJ
What is worse about native C FFI and structs-as-messages socket protocols as compared to the malebolge of Windows APIs?
it's shovels all the way down
Mistral has a lot of potential, but there's the obvious risk that without proper monetization strategies it might not achieve sustainable profitability in the long term.
Open source has everything to do with interoperability of software.
What the hell is "mumbo jumbo"?

I hate it when people use words I don't understand and why should I have to lookup words I don't understand when people could just stop using those words?! I swear the world is against me.
There has got to be some comparison to ostriches, giant moas and Phorusracids, where the pectoral appendages are absent or vestigial. They're all theropods as well.
this is inevitable. at some point companies like this will be too big to fail like air bus. maybe it’s already there
shovelling what in your opinion?
Or it’s just a giant house of cards?
Not with floats it isn't.
I’d recommend looking up temperatures (min and max), day/night periods, atmosphere etc on the planets you’re considering here. Doesn’t sound appealing to me but that’s just me, I have this thing where I enjoy living in between -15C and +35C with a pretty particular ratio of oxygen in the air and days and nights so I don’t go crazy. But again, that might just be me.

Edit: I forgot about radiation, silly me. I also enjoy having that blocked by earth’s atmosphere and magnetic field, again, some people might actually enjoy that and find that to be a business opportunity or whatever.
To be fair, the UN itself is revealing its own theatrical aspects. What would the ceasefire have done at the end of the day? Would the UN kick Israel out if they continue the war despite a UNSC vote? Would the UN somehow force Israel to stop fighting? Would countries go to war with Israel specifically to uphold the UNSC vote?

When push comes to shove the UN has very little power here and is at risk of going the way of the League of Nations if it pushes too hard without having any meaningful enforcement mechanisms.
And, appropriately, that font is not used for an application's interface but for a display title.

Legibility sometimes needs to be traded off for impact or other variable that matters more depending on the purpose.

He could have used Inter, like every other landing page on the internet these days, but then it wouldn't stand out.

These are the kinds of things that have more to do with graphic design and that incorporate other considerations than typical UI stuff.
We can't expect humans to live on Mars & the moon yet. At least I've never seen anything that leads me to believe humans can sustain themselves there without heavy ongoing (and expensive) support from earth. Antarctica is an outright friendly environment by comparison, & there is no self-sustaining human colony there.

You might be correct that we won't change the climate on earth so much we couldn't adapt somehow, there's some reason to believe that. But attainable extraterrestrial colonization isn't one of them and probably won't be in our lifetimes.

Also, it's far from guaranteed that we won't change the climate on earth so much it disrupts processes we rely on and possibly decimates the current population from production/supply issues.
> I was teaching a blow-off class… only about half of my students were really paying attention at a time, which is pretty bad if you want them to actually learn anything.

I think most teachers would consider half the students paying attention to be a roaring success.
I mean sure.. but imagine if this were open sourced as is. This is new tech that has barely had time to mature. The possibilities for abuse are endless. I for one am happy that this model isn't being open sourced. This is an excellent way for people to generate all kinds of disturbing and fake audio clips.
Fully agreed. On top of that, no right click “Look Up” menu (standard on macOS) and no vertical tabs*

* The TreeStyleTab extension (I think was the name) is pretty bad. For example, it doesn’t restore the tab hierarchy on restart.
Nothing stops them from launching a chat app.
I can’t think of any software/service that’s grown more in terms of demand over a single year than ChatGPT (in all its incarnations, like the MS Azure one).
That last guy is gonna be so wealthy, he'll literally be able to afford anything.
For what purpose do you want to ignore splits?
The lower energy density is a real factor, yes!

But personally it just seems so worth it. LFP has far greater cycle count than Li-ion. That the battery is going to last 4x longer or more is a huge factor for me. The net-energy (across the usable battery lifetime)/$ is so much vastly better that I'm happy in most applications dealing with the weight.
GitHub pages static sites with authentication
Everything is setup with free plans and almost everything is automated via GitHub Actions.

Also, it recognises you as an owner and allows you modify the site.
Meh, fine-tune a LLM on dang's comments and call it a day. Ship early and ship often, adjustments can be made as we discover it doing the wrong thing.
So software is my son's Bad Piggies flying monstrosity! You only left out the crates of TNT.
Another part is the reach for hardware was harder/impossible. At a far far later time I recall waiting for 1 year to upgrade my pc to 4mbs of ram so I could play Mortal Combat 1. I kept the MKI floppies more precious than Gollum's. If I am not mistaken it was a 386dx or 486.
Curious to see how this will impact Aleph Alpha
Yeah I think it's likely that we have been (and are being) over-optimistic about many things and under-optimistic about many others. But the outcome is very sensitive to exactly which things are which, and which feedback loops they contribute to in which direction. It's just genuinely hard to know where things are headed. The only thing for it is to gather and analyze as much information as possible, constantly, and adapt to it wisely as it comes in.

But this isn't all that satisfying a conclusion for either the doom and gloom crowd or the optimistic crowd :)
Very good summary. I think both Gitlab CI and Github Actions are very good, but I think gitlab ci is more practical because of how easy it is to build custom advanced pipelines vs the great re-use of github actions.
someone else pointed out that “Rohan” was a noble house of Celtic Brittany, were horse lords, and traced ancestry to a “Meriadoc.”
Yes, Apple bought all TSMC N3 for some time. Other customers will start to use it in 2024.
Year ago he said this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33692845
At least a competitor to Llama, for now.

https://medium.com/@datadrifters/mistral-7b-beats-llama-v2-1...
I usually go to it before google now if I’m looking for an answer to a specific question.

I know it can be wrong, but usually when it is, it’s obviously wrong