skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The campus will be entirely underground, dug by The Boring Company. The TAs will be teslabots. Ken Paxton will run the law school, and the business school, from prison. Which is kind of like tenure.
Just read this. Good story, crazily imaginative and original, and yet all the ideas are directly drawn from research. The book has (checks) 133 endnotes mostly from Science and Nature as well as academic texts. This could mean the story is forced, but it isn't.
What was the process for scraping 25M products ?

I have always used standard python tools like selenium, bs4 and the like. But I'm guessing none of these work at scale.

Could you talk about your process and key bottlenecks at that scale a little bit ? Also, how much did it cost ?

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A recommendation for how to improve search.

Your base captions will be pretty bad. You can use spot instances on a smaller GPU machine to run a dense captioning model (https://portal.vision.cognitive.azure.com/demo/dense-caption...) and generate captions for all your images.

Then for search, a simple vector store index would be a great retrieval solution here. It is better to do search using those as well.

Both are pretty cheap and can be done reliably within 20-30 lines of code each in python. 3rd party tools for these are pretty stable.
We install it from source[1] on our firewalls and use really long passwords stored in 1Password and I use the Homebrew 1Password CLI (`op`) to script the knocking when I start my day.

[1] https://www.cipherdyne.org/fwknop/download/
Silica is one of the most common minerals on earth. Any type of stone countertop has a potentially dangerous amount of inhaled. Just use a dust mask when cutting/grinding stone or when around people who are. If anything, synthetic countertops could (but currently is not) be made to have very low levels of silica, but people should still not be breathing them in.
What do you mean by "showing me as an active employee"?
>Qualys isn't going to find custom written malware using common utility as a C2 channel.

yeah, but crowdstike or whatever antivirus you use can. Again, no need for red team, just an operator for Security Tool X/Y/Z
You could sell a picture of it to someone in the US.
>his

... her.
I’m not a fan of cryptocurrencies and I think with regard to world coin there’s plenty to critique when it comes to the security of what they’re doing as well as the potential for corruption.

But identity is a Hard Problem that could use some attention. Imagining for a moment that it worldcoin works, the way they want, offering a secure, private way to prove you are you, to anyone. Wouldn’t that be a huge benefit? What am I missing?
Albanians are not even remotely 100% Muslim
> Unfortunately it never made it into the mainline kernel.

That is unfortunate, and a bit surprising given how positively both Linus Torvalds, and Jens Axboe, responded to the patch.
I think they’re not comparing to hypothetical performance of others, but comparing it to the threshold the FCC set originally, which SpaceX decided was achievable and so applied for subsidies based on their believed ability to hit the numbers.
I have a 1940s house with solid timber benchtops, yes they take a little more care (no hot pans) but from what I hear stone counters stain easily anyway. The nice thing about wood is you can just sand it back and refinish and it will look amazing again. Large slabs are pretty expensive these days so when installing a kitchen downstairs we went with finger jointed timber, was cheaper than stone and slightly more expensive than engineered stone.

Aesthetically they're ugly but stainless steel is probably the best in terms of cost, ease of maintenance and cleaning
I made an at home modification to our stone counter top when replacing the stove/oven. The new unit was 1/4" too wide. I did the whole tenting and wet cutting, but not nearly wet enough for the obvious reason. I was in full spaceman suit though, as I was sure the amount of water wasn't going to cut it.

I would NOT recommend this to anyone though. At the time, the turn time and expense of having the counter removed, altered at a proper shop, redelivered and installed was prohibitively expensive.
Granite countertops are cheaper, more durable and have better thermal resistance than artificial stone ones.
For bigger FOV you might want to look into the headsets that have eye tracking like the Quest Pro or the Apple whatever it's called.
Merriam Webster defines merit as "a praiseworthy quality".

Programming skills would qualify as merit but so would "social and communication skills". Hiring based on any of those skills would still be hiring on merit. Having an immutable characteristic like a specific gender or race is not a praiseworthy quality.
Actually, no. That's why there are laws against pyramid schemes, and false advertising.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/topics/truth-advertising

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/investor_protection_guide_py...
> No, engineers and software developers tend to be overly optimistic about the ability and speed to do

He's not one though. He's a business executive, so someone who in theory who would have the job to reconcile those lofty dreams with reality.

However, I'd bet quite a bit that the actual engineers and software developers were that optimistic and certainly didn't believe they could achieve FSD in 6 months (they'd be horrible incompetent engineers if they actually believed that).
looks like the appropriate time and place for a safety standard, strange decision
For all of Amazon's faults, the fact that they tolerate CCC does drive a lot of my online purchases there. CCC used to track other sites, and was eventually blocked on all of them. If more sites want my business, showing their pricing history (either from internal data, or by letting someone build the DB) would go a long way.
The performance difference was larger than I had expected. But this is good.

To fix a recent crash [1] that was happening due to a particular case of reentrancy, which only showed up when I implemented virtual tables and queried other tables to implement one (e.g.: Go calls sqlite3_step to execute a query, which calls Go because it's a query on virtual table, which calls sqlite3_step to scan another table) I introduced a performance regression.

The fix [2] was not to reuse some objects I was allocating once per connection. A mitigation for the regression was (very naive) caching [3].

TLDR: my caching is just not good enough. Simply caching more will go a long way (confirmed already by doubling cache size), but now that I have a good benchmark, I'll do better.

I expect to cut numbers for CPU bound tests in half due to this mishap.

So, thanks cvilsmeier!

[1]: https://github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/commit/a9e32fd3f0b9f39...
[2]: https://github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/commit/d862f47d95d522f...
[3]: https://github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/commit/9c562f5d8bf7436...
(A smaller later dup thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38606590)
They even have „sun glasses“. Definitely cool.
I think PPE is a must, when you work with abrasive tools.

If you ask yourself „should I wear safety equipment“ the answer is always yes.
Yeah I think part of that was Steve Jobs' extreme aversion to being wrong. And he of course shared a lot of personality traits with Musk (narcissism in particular) so that makes sense.

Even today Macs don't really have 2 mouse buttons, they just call a double-finger click a "gesture" even though it is simply a right-click.
> It's the same concept as paying for a meal at a sit down restaurant: they authorize your card for the check amount plus some extra, then you write in the tip on the receipt, then the restaurant captures the correct amount later (at least, that's historically how it works, many restaurants are shifting to payment terminals where it's all done at once).

You what? That's bizzare.
The thing about experience and hindsight are clearly stated within their names. You don't accumulate either without being time served.

You may have some times where you actually decided to "carpe diem" and when you look back on those days, you will realise you made the best of things. As you get older, hopefully those positive experiences gradually accumulate, rather than being drowned out by negative experiences, which sadly make themselves up.

Sadly, bits tend to fall off or sag as we get older. It is the way of things. However, with luck your mind stays reasonably sharp for longer than the rest of you!
Why Americans Work So Much–Some Overlooked Explanations
C89 is a requirement where I work still, so C89 libraries are useful here. We support vendor C toolchains that don't always have C99 features.
They are the backbone of the information economy
"Do Black Holes Have Singularities?" (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38501546 :

> SQS and SQG do purport to describe the interior topology of black holes.
We'd all like fair, subjective reporting from this region but with one side's track record of killing journalists, not only Al Jazeera's[1] but also Associated Press[2], Reuters[3], and many others[4] I guess we'll have to take what we can get.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shireen_Abu_Akleh

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_al-Jalaa_Buildi...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_of_Simone_Camilli_and_A...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issam_Abdallah

[4] https://cpj.org/reports/2023/05/deadly-pattern-20-journalist...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_dur...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_...
Perform your function step by step.
Yeah, I was surprised that I needed to hit back through an entire game history to get back to the HN discussion...

It would be more reasonable to map the 'undo' button to backspace and a visible button, and keep the browser back button semantics unsurprising. One can also have a string in the window with the current game state for sharing/linking.
> ChatGPT, for example, is objectively superhuman in many ways

But so is a car.

ChatGPT is mostly superhuman in its ability to draw upon enormous numbers of existing sources. It's not superhuman, or even human, in terms of logic, reasoning, or inventing something truly new.
"quartz" countertops.
I don't mean to suggest that humans have little cognition, what I mean is that something can be intelligent and conscious even if it behaves in a decidedly non-human way.

Animals have their own kinds of intelligence, and they are all conscious, albeit with different kinds of higher functions than humans. But all the possible colours and textures of cognition tend to get lost when we reflect about the nature of AI.

We tend to boil it down (incorrectly IMO) to some variation of "it's not intelligent/conscious because it doesn't do X the way humans do".
There is a huge amount of space between saying that "We're going to fail" and promising something will be done in "6 months".

> Musk is what plenty of entrepreneurs are...over-confident

The real world describing this is delusional. Which I don't think he is (or was at that point anyway).
I actually use my AirPods with my Switch all the time, and latency isn’t really noticeable. I’m really glad they added the feature.
Seems it might be looking at the referrer. Loading https://www.shopify.com/robots.txt from clicking the link shows the weird line while opening it in a private browser window shows the right one.
DRF is also great because it allows flexibility when you dont want the API to mirror the DB, which is a lot of the time.
He thought polls were awesome too but then he changed it to paid subscribers only because of “manipulation,” I think?

Dramatic changes will likely happen.
Computer Janitor is a more correct description that Security Engineer. Because at the end of the day we are cleaning up and tidying others' mess that they left. Whether it is random software dependencies, or glaring holes in firewall config, or missing OS patches/whatever.
She wasn’t elected, although if Goldschmidt’s crimes had been public knowledge she probably would have been.
Especially if that is true, maybe don't promise a solution before having it working?
Try sending them an invoice for what you should have been paid for the last 4.5 years and see how quickly they take you off the books.
Ahh, thanks for explaining this. At first I was like "what, WASM is already portable, why have a Linux specific thing" and then you answered my question.
FCC votes to ban termination fees for cable and satellite services
The only question is which two out of four commissioners voted against the measure, because they need to find new jobs…

The government is finally making headway in predatory junk fees and a lot of credit needs to be given to Jessica Rosenworcel (head of the FCC) for “getting it” and actually enforcing sensible policies around network neutrality and predatory junk fees.
The Red Line Project Could Transform Access for Baltimore's Transit Riders
I've just had two engineered stone counter tops installed. In both cases (different companies) the fitters came and made a template from thick card of the exact size for the top. the tops arrived and fit precisely. One had to have holes for cut in, but I didn't hang around to see if they fitter used PPE
I just copy-pasted a prompt I used in GPT-4 that would not be relevant at all to the suggested prompts in order to figure out what model and constraints they have.

The result was a bit worse than my result earlier and so I tried it in GPT-3.5 and then with a few other of their bots.

Seems like they are using user inputs to fine tune 3.5, which makes perfect sense and what I would probably build too.

I would be extremely interested for somebody to quantify the additional skill sets that are available in this corpus versus the broader corpus of whatever is going to be in the GPT4 and beyond data update

Sadly, my guess is that unless there’s some other draw beyond the individualized tone, then the massive general systems that get the most users will make these small efforts impossible to sustain.

A tangential thought does occur to me though:

If I was to ask my grandmother a question and she had a detailed answer for something that I know she had no experience in, I would question the validity.

So the fact that me asking one of these bots about something that is totally out of their wheelhouse, and they have a clear answer, is not something I would expect from a real person.
It's 2023, and I love this. There is no reason to criticize the mere fact that someone took the effort to make something that portable.

Even if you think they wasted their time, they didn't waste your time, and I value the existence of things like this, which means even if you don't, at least some others do.
The surface table became the dominant paradigm, just on much smaller devices. The sort of production version launched after the iPhone.
Really you are authorizing some amount above what you will need, but only getting charged what you pump. I guess they consider that anyone who is actually going to overrun their card limit isn't too worrisome to annoy.

Not so long ago it was common enough in some places to have to go inside, give them X cash, then pump, then come back inside to get change - they would set the pump to only dispense up to X. It's basically that system digitized.

If you go back far enough the only record was on the pump itself, so it was either full service, or trust people would come in a pay what they pumped. People did just drive off sometimes in that case, but at least in the full serve case, you still had their gas cap and plate number, which was a disincentive.
Why the rush? Given the growth in hard drive space, putting off making a home NAS for as long as possible seems more economically efficient. If I'd setup a home NAS with three drives for raid5 in 2012 when Google drive was first released, I'd have on the order of 8TB + 4TB parity, assuming I bought the biggest drives available then, which wouldn't have been cheap. Instead, by waiting until this announcement, that money didn't go to depreciating hardware that's ancient by this point and instead could go into an index fund or other investment. By waiting until this year (2023), the home NAS I bought drives for this year is comprised of 18 TB drives.
Does this Starship launch related stuff impact his plan to begin colonizing Mars by 2022?
He's got enough clout and awards for a soccer team already, his Marcel Grossmann Award has gravitas ...

He's on the cusp of 90 and getting salty still hearing about singularities on pop sci TV shows I guess.

From his conclusion:

The author’s opinion is that gravitational clumping leads inevitably to black holes in our universe, confirming what is observed, but this does not lead to singularities.

It is true that there are ”proofs” that the curvature of a non-rotating one is infinite at its central point.

These all assume that matter is classical and that it satisfies whatever nineteenth century equation of state the proponents require to prove whatever it is that they wish to prove.

Equations of state assume that all variables, such as pressure and volume, occur in the simplest algebraic fashion.

This may be true for the low density laboratory or engineering experiments but perhaps not at black hole densities.

The author has no doubt, and never did, that when Relativity and Quantum Mechanics are melded it will be shown that there are no singularities anywhere.

When theory predicts singularities, the theory is wrong!

A stellar example of Max Academic shade

* ”airquotes”

* "whatever nineteenth century"

* "low density" .. "engineering"
OP here. Yup, haven't launched the holding company yet but idea is to have an LLC for all my software projects. Still a work-in-progress in both thinking and execution. Agora specifically came from a personal need and is obviously still an MVP project.

Spun up a Merchant Page and Affiliate Program page in a few hours on Webflow using a template. There is a merchant dashboard built but the 'affiliate program' is a test.
I'm in the same area as you. What exactly are you using it for if you say it had worse apps and ecosystme?
https://nitter.net/pic/orig/media%2FGBMpV-zaYAAnnq9.jpg

Does anyone else get the vague impression that if this image were in 3d and it could spin it would form a zoetrope?
Only at restaurants where actual table service is bring rendered.

Handing me food across a counter or out a window doesn't count.
>"Risk = probability * impact" doesn't work when you throw security into the mix.

In my experience, that's primarily because cybersecurity people know neither the probability nor the impact of the things which they are calling risks, which moreover means they don't know how to order them from a prioritization perspective.
> Making IRS payments without a fee

This one is actually kinda convenient for credit card point churning. For one thing, if you overpay you know you'll get it back.
Would love to know your opinion on this then - is there any way onsite cutting could be eliminated, semi or fully automated with wet cutting? Or is the onus always on the contractor to use PPE?
I doubt it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Kerr
This exactly. If you're ever considering using a google product for something important, you would do well to read this classic blog post first.

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/dear-google-cloud-your-deprec...

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Dear RECIPIENT,

Fuck yooooouuuuuuuu. Fuck you, fuck you, Fuck You. Drop whatever you are doing because it’s not important. What is important is OUR time. It’s costing us time and money to support our shit, and we’re tired of it, so we’re not going to support it anymore. So drop your fucking plans and go start digging through our shitty documentation, begging for scraps on forums, and oh by the way, our new shit is COMPLETELY different from the old shit, because well, we fucked that design up pretty bad, heh, but hey, that’s YOUR problem, not our problem.

We remain committed as always to ensuring everything you write will be unusable within 1 year.

Please go fuck yourself,

Google Cloud Platform
Very editorial tone in "DeSantis Surrogate Embarrassed on TV"

> Dave Rubin, a washed-up podcaster who purchased both his children earlier this year, appeared on Bill Maher's show, where he was grilled for his support for DeSantis as president.
We're writing a step by step replacement guide with videos, but it is pretty straightforward. You let the system cool, remove the heatsink, take off the solidified liquid metal pad using a sticker, apply the new liquid metal pad that comes attached on an alignment film, and reassemble. There is then a burn-in process to ensure the pad melts into place.
> I’ll excoriate special snowflake security programs

If you think cybersec engineers think of themselves as special snowflakes, you should work with robotics engineers :)
> Hardware is a bottleneck. Better hardware can't be designed, manufactured and installed in minutes.

Yes you can. The Cloud.
It seems sort of questionable to use the list of things to not scrape as a starting point for scraping.... I mean, I get it's not actually enforced.
Weirdly enough, The article hints that the legislation won't ban natural stone.

What alternatives are there to engineered stone?
* Natural stone
Iirc the cable and telcos promised more, pocket more, and delivered practically nothing.

Starlink delivers a usable service that far exceeds hughesnet and other crappy alternatives.

Granted this is a five year old take and I haven't followed things, but as a rural in flyover country starlink is amazing.
Possibly the issue is more to do with the lower cost of the engineered material?

Like, when tobacco cost a megabuck per oz in Queen Elizabeth times people smoked a pipe once in a while and in the context of their high exposure to fireplace smoke it was no big deal. Fast forward to when cigarettes cost 10c/pack and the marketing guys are selling them to 8 year olds...now it's a huge health problem.
Yews as in Eew
> 02000 to 02005

I think this is the first time I've seen this five-digit notation used in the wild after reading about The Long Now Foundation using it years ago.
What I've said is completely factual. Surprisingly a lot of people like who won't actually prove that he said that. Because the fact is that he didn't.
For some reason, "view source" gets the right list. Maybe a referer issue like someone else said.
It's at least a different field though, and the world is full of endless amounts of overlapping acronyms. I was in a meeting the other day where people were talking about CFA forms, I found at least 6 different meanings across 6 different fields from finances to felines before I gave up.
Who exactly does that benefit? Humans or computers?
Like the Rapture and other concepts like that. How fascinating. Within a split second, in the time it takes someone to blink and hear a trumpet's blast, everything could change. Amazing! I can't wait!
These places are well known enough governments should be requiring every home to have a shelter (either a basement or one dug into the yard) while being built or before being sold.
25 years ago I needed an app that would transliterate my writing in English to my native language (Nepali), as I did not know how to type in my native language (which I still don't). So I made a 1 person use transliterater. The fonts used for my native language then were mostly ascii fonts with typefaces changed to characters of Nepali. When unicode became more common, then an app that would change from those ascii fonts to unicode.
Then I needed units converter as Nepal uses different units of measurement compared to metric as local levels. Hence unit converter for myself.
Few more applications on the way, but most have been replaced by Google.
In the last 4 years I have moved away from programming to being a full time farmer. Here I needed simple app that would take market data from past years to figure out when I would get the best price for a crop. Hence I made one for myself that would aid me make my crop calendar. Now working on a simple 1 person app for a crop calendar.
It will never stop being funny to me when NoSQL people need schemas for their schemaless database.