skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ditto as to living in "Dallas" proper.

Tweets from Delkus and the Fort Worth National Weather Service are the main way I pay attention to new developments. Typically stuff will get posted there before live TV coverage starts. There's almost always a graphic posted of what the window is they expect for storms to form which helps me understand what I need to pay attention to.

I have a relative in another state whose a meteorologist and he doesn't have nearly as much fun as Delkus's team does online.

As far as over-indexing on preparedness goes, there has been at least twice our kids school has dismissed early in light of a severe weather forecast, however they do this several hours ahead of time (parents can't react that fast anyways). Only for the storms to be your more normal strength T-storm by the time carline starts. I can certainly appreciate the intent, but it's almost never that certain what's going to happen unless the storms are already popping up.
> prey on the financial anxieties of Gen Z and other young adults

> cable television

????
I'm not sure what you mean. In the scenario GP is talking about, I read it as the wife already being serious about having children and not drinking is one way for husband to show he is also serious about it.
The problem is that large companies are made of lots of people, and some of those people might have awful opinions or say things that will get your business in trouble.

The larger you are and the more people that are communicating, the bigger the chance that someone says something terrible.

Particularly if you are a large public company and there may be legal requirements around specific parts of disclosure.

Besides, companies don't want their secret new feature announced before their competitors know about it, in a way that is poorly communicated and confuses customers, and then find that the person who announced it has a profile picture which is them at a far-right protest / far-left protest / made some sexist jokes / has a bio advertising their onlyfans account etc or a million other things that could be seen as against the corporate image.
This is a mouse study. Seems questionable as mice would not need to adapt to regular alcohol consumption anywhere near the level humans would have. The length of impact on humans would probably be different than mice.
The question is, is it still going to change?
I think you're entirely right that one can find supporting videos on YouTube for just about anything one can argue. But I was never arguing that my argument was valid because a YouTube video agreed with me, there's no appeal to authority here.

I was asked to provide a screenshot from Donkey Kong related media to support my point and I felt that a video showing multiple media from the Donkey Kong franchise with commentary from a gamer of colour would satisfy that requirement, while also helping inform the readers here of issues at play and, further, letting those issues be directly communicated by someone from the affected community.

Like you say, the narrator makes a good argument, and there is much good discussion about this on the wider web for anyone that wishes to look further into it. I wouldn't have shared a YouTube video to HackerNews if I didn't believe in its content.

I raise these issues when I can because I feel that many people here are working in industries at the forefront of what is shaping our culture and it sometimes saddens or even frightens me that these topics are seen as taboo in our community. If we can derail every other post with bikeshedding about CSS issues on the author's website, then it would be nice if we could sometimes take the time to look at the power of software to perpetuate racial inequality as well.
Not sure if you're being sarcastic, but it's called civil forfeiture.
Financially vulnerable young adults are a HUGE demographic. All companies should be targeting them, especially as an opportunity to "do good."
To get consistent semantic chunks for RAG, you can't just slice it into arbitrary 2k character chuncks after doing a PDF text extraction.

Most documents have implicit structural semantics not explicitly worded in the text. You need to surface and embed those into the chunks, and also furter enrich chunk candidades by flatten in references and other relations.

There is no general solution to this. While you can apply chunking and enrichment patterns, each document type is a bespoke effort to get it right.
Hm, this would probably be me today if I had been offered a position there. Weeks before Christmas! Those guys were pretty cool but from the very beginning I always felt Cruise was built to be acquired. That seemed to be the whole plan: build a dream team, redo what we did in the DARPA challenges except more impressive, get bought by some big company… profit. It all worked out but there was never a plan after that it seems, because the darpa approach was never going to solve autonomous driving, even with a mega corp backing R&D.
I bought it immediately. It's one of the only -- maybe the only? -- task managers that supports end-to-end encryption. Omni Group is far and away the most customer-respecting company I know of in this space.
Completely? No. But consider how much of a given square meter of sunlight on the ocean is photosynthesized by bacteria and algae, and how much becomes waste heat immediately.
I guessed it was them but only because they're the only 3 I know off-hand.
> A Waymo driverless cab has a roof rack full of equipment that might cost up to five figures to produce and install. It isn’t a consumer product. The whole reason consumer automakers like Tesla don’t want to bother with that equipment is that it isn’t something that will ever make financial sense.

Baloney. I, and many others (and as you point out, many Tesla owners already have) would pay considerably for true self driving that actually worked. That is, if I could get true self driving (meaning I could take a nap or read a book), I would easily pay for lidar and other advanced sensors.

The reason I'd never trust Tesla's FSD claims is that I believe (like many of their own engineers) that their (really Musk's) "camera only" approach is foolhardy and unsafe.
Would love to see the CPU that Mayor Adams’s NYC government would release.
You're right. Value is measured not just in cash.
The incompleteness of both relativity and quantum mechanics as a theory of everything is actually so obvious it can be hard to see: Relativity only has mass and gravity, and no electromagnetism, etc., and QM has no gravity. Therefore, it's quite obvious neither of them are the actual Theory of Everything. They also don't agree about the nature of the universe; relativity runs on classical space time on real numbers and QM says you can't just treat space as homogeneous on all scales. They can't both be right.

I'm not making some whacky fringe claim here; this is actually completely mainstream physics. It just isn't as well understood by the laymen as it ought to be. The previous paragraph is a summary and you can get into lots of nuances and details and such, but in the end the underlying fact remains that at the moment nobody knows how to put relativity and QM together. We have several theories, none proved and all with problems, and there was even a new entrant this very week.

Relativity and QM are two of the best theories we've ever had in the world, in terms of the number of digits of precision they are accurate to... and in some sense that is one of the biggest problems with them. We know they don't go together as written, but to know how to weave them into something that covers both domains correctly, we either need real-world phenomena that they do not correctly predict, or the ability to do experiments in the regime where they disagree (which is why black holes are so interesting to physicists), and we're basically empty handed for both those things.
Interesting this timeline of the NYT "losing its way" only begins at the point of allowing Trump to be elected - I seem to recall a lot of stuff written in that paper around 2001 which was obviously not consistent with the ethical and professional practice of journalism, to the degree that we as middle-schoolers learned the concept of "manufacturing consent" to describe what was happening in the news. And the timeline begins here for me just due to age; probably it goes back further
Qualcomm sell chips to more diverse uses than Intel do.

If Apple’s opened the gateway on them finally cracking into the desktop/laptop market by removing the stigma of their previous arm offerings, then I’d argue they’re very serious competition to Intel.

The only market I don’t see them tackling is consumer sales of just the chips, but that’s honestly such a small percent of sales to begin with for these companies.
Consider the title of another recent article from the same publication:

"10 alarming things Trump has promised to do in a second term"
Incredible essay. Really captures the notion that I’ve been thinking about lately, that when you’re young, the existing political, national structures seem so permanent and effectively eternal, yet they are just a snapshot of a constantly evolving arrangement.
> it's relatively hard to come up with Paperclip Maximizer LLC. Eventually individual morality will kick in and there will be a revolt against dismantling of the Earth.

Let me just say that the way the global climate crisis is being dealt with by our economic and political leadership suggests that you are wrong about this. Essentially every corporation, and every government, is Paperclip Maximizer LLC already. The most valid concern about AI is that it will do exactly what we're currently doing, more efficiently.
Taking Multi-Tenant Vector DBs to the Next Level in Weaviate 1.23
Weaviate 1.23 is a massive step forward for managing multi-tenancy with vector databases. For most RAG and Vector DB applications, you will have an uneven distribution in the # of vectors per user. Some users have 10k docs, others 10M+! Weaviate now offers a flat index with binary quantization to efficiently balance when you need an HNSW graph for the 10M doc users and when brute force is all you need for the 10k doc users!

Even further, this brute force index lives directly in the LSM store without needing any main memory! This is done through a continuous file read that Etienne explains better in the podcast better than I can in this post haha, really amazing engineering work!

Weaviate also comes with some other "self-driving database" features like lazy shard loading for faster startup times with multi-tenancy and automatic resource limiting with the GOMEMLIMIT and other details Etienne shares in the podcast!

I am also beyond excited to present our new integration with Anyscale (@anyscalecompute)! Anyscale has amazing pricing for serving and fine-tuning popular open-source LLMs. At the time of this release we are now integrating the Llama 70B/13B/7B, Mistral 7B, and Code Llama 34B into Weaviate -- but we expect much further development with adding support for fine-tuned models, the super cool new function calling models Anyscale announced yesterday. and other model such as Diffusion and multimodal models!

Here is a full list of new features:

- Lazy Shard Loading
- Flat Index + Binary Quantization
- Default Segments for PQ
- AutoPQ
- Auto Resource Limiting
- Node Endpoint Update
- Generative Anyscale

Check it out here!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e88O18_2wyo
I don't know why your tone is so combative in the second paragraph, and in your further reply to another user down below. No one said anything here to warrant it.

I think you point to a real conflict of interests though where some may feel less motivated to work on life-saving tech if they aren't compensated for it. Here in the UK, the government launched a scheme called "Eat Out to Help Out" to help support businesses like takeaways which had understandably had low revenue during COVID. I would have been happy to see a subsidy (and pay a tax towards it) for companies manufacturing life-saving tech if it was the only sustainable solution.
There is no possible way that USDT is backed one-to-one. It just isn't. If it were, it would have a simple audit trail that they would publish. They don't because it isn't. It's a scam that will at some point unravel, and everyone will lose their shirts because of "many good people" lol.
Self driving cars also imply you can have self driving buses. Imagine a couple small electric vans running from your cul-de-sac to a local transit center (with shopping). Since labor is the highest cost of a bus no sane transit system could do this, but a cheap self driving van means nobody on your street needs to own a car, and the local transit center lets you transfer to larger transit vehicles to other places. It might be slower than directly taking your car places, but it is a lot cheaper and better for the environment.
Also on r/Ubiquiti:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Ubiquiti/comments/18hgpw1/security_...

https://old.reddit.com/r/Ubiquiti/comments/18hs684/no_offici...
The US and EU already have declining fertility rates when you take immigration stats out of the equation.
Funny as the AnandTech article wrote "Despite today being the official launch of the Core Ultra series and Meteor Lake platform, you won’t find any reviews for the hardware. And we’re not sure you’ll be able to find much hardware, either" and this YouTube channel reviews two such devices in their video. Benchmark data in the video:

Cinebench R23: 13218

Cinebench 2024: 701

Geekbench 6.2: 12319

Fire Strike GPU: 9317

Time Spy: 3283

Geekbench 6.2 Compute: 30101

Battery life (summary): In their various tests (not many apparent details on exactly how it was done) very comparable with the M2 air/7840U devices.

Gaming FPS (1080P Medium, iGPU): Generally better than the 780M

Overwatch 2: 82 FPS

Apex Legends: 73 FPS

Diablo 4: 50 FPS

Starfield: 31 FPS

Counter-Strike 2: 67 FPS

Valorant: 137 FPS
This is literally done intentionally so that Ledger can update the library underneath dApp developers, without requiring them to release an upgrade to their apps. Was this a good choice? No. But it was done on purpose.
On the one hand, I agree there was a different vibe on the internet 20-30 years ago. It's what I grew up with and I'm nostalgic for that period.

On the other hand, I feel like nostalgia blinds us to the fact that tech has always had a commercial side. The only reason the internet became accessible to people outside government and academia in the early 90s was because commercial ISPs came onto the scene. The web became a lot more useful when for-profit companies like Google started indexing it. The computers we used to access the internet were only affordable because of decades of Moore's law driven by the semiconductor, home computing, and video games industries. I don't think the thing we're nostalgic for could have existed without the profit motive.

We also shouldn't take for granted the amount of creativity enabled by modern platforms. We might be nostalgic for hobbyists making their own websites and chatting on IRC. But today we have orders of magnitude more hobbyists creating videos on YouTube and collaborating on Discord. Platforms like Patreon make it possible for people to turn their hobby into a career by connecting directly with their audience. Every aspiring game developer can make a video game in Unity and publish it on Steam. I can choose any topic I want to learn about and watch free lectures from experts at MIT and Stanford, or find high quality videos made by the most interested and dedicated amateurs. None of this existed 20 years ago.
I'm not hard on a fictional 12 year old.

I'm explaining why someone in the early 1990s, knowledgeable about Unix, IRIX, and fsn, would mock the adults who created that scene about a fictional 12 year old.

If the makers of The Matrix gets credit for its realistic looking use of nmap and a fictional "sshnuke", then Jurassic Park should get jeers.

We don't credit Trinity for that scene, we credit the creators of that scene.
Very cool, I just got a MangoPi and I'm excited to get some stuff running on it.

I imagine RISC-V is the future. None wants to pay licensing fees to Arm
He was indeed, but he had a more complicated relation with it in the ‘20s, i.e. after fascism had actually come to power in Italy. The same could be said of many early fascist ideologues, such as Erich Suckert/Curzio Malaparte, who ended up joining the communists after WW2. Giuseppe Bottai was also a very interesting character, a (cultured) fascist through and through, but who joined the French Foreign Legion in ‘43 and actively fought against the Germans/Nazis.

All this to say that those were complicated times.
That's partially because of web security, though, if I'm not mistaken. I have an old Windows PC and an old Mac mini that I use as servers and, outside of local stuff that's bridged to the outside network (and heavily crippled), I can't do much on them because of the changes to the TLS protocol for SSL certs. That means that the browsers won't connect to most modern servers, any apps that hardcoded instances of TSL can't connect to the internet, and, if I managed to get something to connect, it would be a huge security risk for anything on those machines.

So, if the connection is being shut down on the server side, it's likely because of the TLS version mismatch. I thought it would be a simple solution just via updated software but was told (by peeps on Reddit, so it's likely to be total nonsense) that, although it can be updated, it won't run reliably on older hardware unless that hardware can also support newer OSs. Win7 and below (?) don't support it and MS won't provide updates with it and MacOS versions before Lion don't have it. I've heard you can also update OpenSSL by breaking the symlinks to the OS's install and get it working again but that's more hassle than I cared to put in.

Also, most of those old iPads are able to be jailbroken. You can update OpenSSL on them and probably get Spotify working again.
I always appreciate it when documentation does this. Is there a technical term for this implementation?
To complete the dance around the central message, there was once vigorous academic activity on this thesis in what are now Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus.
Coinbase may not be the best representative of crypto, but the philosophy and technology still has a lot of potential.

All it takes is one more breakthrough. We saw it with AI.

When the chatgpt of crypto comes around, it will sweep the world.
I think what's interesting is how many end-to-end trips, or at least meaningfully distinct segments (eg. the highway portion, the city portion, etc.) driven without any intervention. And how repeatable that is.

You could start me in goal for the Leafs and I bet I could clock many hours of scoreless game time in a season.
Since the CEO / founders have already "resigned", this feels like GM is moving towards winding down the company or at the very least strongly re-thinking their commitment to backing this long term.

Getting to FSD is probably moving a lot slower than they hoped and it's looking more and more like it will be another decade (or multiple) until a self driving company can turn a dime of profit. GM doesn't strike me as a particularly innovative company so the idea of a decades long moonshot probably isn't very appealing to them.

The dragging / lying to regulators incident was bad but axing the founders / CEO seems like it would have been enough if GM were excited about the company long term.
three windows tools for my surface book (only first is device specific):

https://gitlab.com/WRFpcT/surface-tools

filcker-fix (ahk): fix top line flicker bug of SB1 and SB2.

cursor-keys (ahk): maps right shift + cursor to home, end, pgup, pgdown

event-filter (java): get event logs in useful text format
The quality of the old Internet was higher on average. There is a lot of awesome content today, but they are hard to find amid an ocean of SEO, clickbait, social media and other random garbage content. The old Internet was a collection of passion projects, so you saw a lot of quality information exactly because people weren't being paid to produce it - they simply loved to do it.
I can't wait to sing my region's corporate anthem before sporting events just like Rollerball[1] foretold.

[1] Rollerball is kind of a hidden dystopian film. More people should watch it.
If you think drug abuse isn't a problem in Muslim countries I invite you to go to Pakistan and talk to all the heroin addicts who will tell you straight to your face that the Prophet only forbade alcohol. I don't know why people downvoted pokerface_86 (maybe the abusive language) but he had a good rejoinder.
If I wanted to be snarky I would have said Whole Foods, but Walmart is universal in the US.
I on the other hand am absolutely grateful for all the 'trivia' they throw in the manpages especially when trying to fix a problem withy system. It's the people that run into edge cases you want to help.
Can we please stop with the mental gymnastics? Taking something without permission that doesn't belong to you is stealing. It may be justified stealing but it's still stealing.
The packaging tech actually has to be less advanced to be economical.

"That was the first generation. Xilinx worked with TSMC on CoWoS. Their codename was CoWoS. It’s a funny name for TSMC’s silicon interposer. That was a first-generation advanced package technology... I talked to one of their VP. I talked to them many, many times, until one time, I had dinner with [a Qualcomm] VP, and he just very casually told me, he said, you know, “If you want to sell that to me, I would only pay one cent per millimeter square.” One cent per millimeter square. He said, “That’s the only cost I will pay for it.” I said, “How come you didn't tell me earlier?” He said, “You should know that. Why I should tell you? You should know that.” ...Our second generation called InFO meet that criteria and it was sell like a hotcake. So that one word saved my life and the InFO was why Apple was hooked by TSMC."

https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10279267...
plus all the other types of tracking and stalking they do
So the guy makes the initial post, within an hour UI team reaches out to him to gather more info and the next post is a criticism of their handling!

What’s wrong with people? I think 1 hour response to a forum post isn’t unreasonable or am I wrong?
Perhaps. Though I don’t think they need to. I don’t see what owning Arm would have done for them since they can already make arm processors, and could do custom cores.

Though perhaps the opposite direction is more interesting and what you were getting at: what if the off the shelf arm cores had NVIDIA’s engineering behind it.
Isn't that what every supernova does?
Seldon was a villain?
I'm not saying these were scams. I was just pointing out that customers in the US that feel like they were scammed can often get deadly violent.
I didnt know about the link to checkout. That's a slightly nicer user experience for sure. Still, its confusing for users who want to do more shopping at the same time. I had users who clicked on a number of items, clicked "add to cart" in each one (all different shops), and then couldn't figure out how to checkout on the main site afterwards! Obviously people were looking for a more complete one-stop-shopping experience than I was providing at the time.
If not Coinbase, then who?
I mean, via Starlink, Musk is working pretty hard on making Kessler Syndrome a today thing as fast as possible.
Their existing system is pretty strong evidence that it was in fact a model training problem -- do you mean to say that you think training will stall out before it gets to the point of being viable?
It's the nature of these types of allegations but:

>These seem like pretty concretely bad and racist things

Nothing about them seems concrete at all? Like, if there was any context and a quote, maybe?