skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sadly this is how we look at art thanks to AI. "It's just like a real person thought about it and made it intentionally -- but it's nearly free!". No one paying cares if it's just copied from other works and nearly randomly put together at the expense of those who can barely make a living doing it. Why don't we focus more on automating C-suite jobs? That's where a lot of corporate costs come from. Automating a logo design saves you 20k or likey (much) less. Automating a corporate merger saves you millions of dollars and years of time.
May I ask how much a normal 1br apartment costs in your area?
I think some of it is just the poor aesthetic combination of fedora with a t-shirt and jeans. The fedora feels like an attempt to be stylish without going the full effort to coordinate the look. It’s a lack of self-awareness that probably comes across as the wearer saying “I am now stylish because of this hat” where that clearly isn’t true to an observer.
Smartphones are much less optional now too. To log in to government webapps I need to use a mobile app (https://www.mygovid.gov.au/) which is (naturally) only available via App Store/Play Store, which implies I need an Apple or Android and have an account open and in good standing with either Apple or Google respectively. Then there's MFA - every week on this site you'll read how using anything less than app-based MFA is reckless.
This is honestly the first time I've ever heard anyone describe Tesla's "glue a giant iPad to a dashboard" approach to interface design as being elegant. I'm guessing the voice controls are the elegant part? Because that screen is my least favorite part of my Tesla, and my Tesla-owning friends feel the same.
Kahan floats are also commonly used in such cases, but I believe there is room for improvement without hitting those extremes. First of all, we should tune the epsilon here: https://github.com/ashvardanian/SimSIMD/blob/f8ff727dcddcd14...

As for the 64-bit version, its harder, as the higher-precision `rsqrt` approximations are only available with "AVX512ER". I'm not sure which CPUs support that, but its not available on Sapphire Rapids.
You know I have a lot of fun writing asyncio servers in Python for web applications or servers that are simultaneously connected to message queues, web sockets, and other things.

Whenever I talk about them people ask me "are you crazy man?" in that most teams struggle to maintain asyncio servers and if it was just a web server I might consider using Flask if I am planning to hand off the code to anybody but Jane Street. To absolutely avoid blocking the event loop any heavy computation has to be outsourced to something that is more or less a "microservice" which opens the question of are those services aio? are they even written in Python? I'd think of moving everything but the machine learning to the JVM.

That said, my take is that it is not difficult for a database driver or API client to support sync and async because the structure of almost all calls is the same (marshal parameters, make the network call, unmarshal results) so with a little bit of metaprogramming you can build out both implementations from the same source.
> When one editor started asking authors to add their raw data after they submitted a paper to his journal, half of them declined and retracted their submissions. This suggests, in the editor’s words, “a possibility that the raw data did not exist from the beginning.”

While fraud is certainly possible, it's far more likely that it's just academics following incentives.

Difficult to acquire data is a moat that others can't breach. There is no way in hell any scientist fighting inside the "publish-or-perish" paradigm is going to cough up one of their few advantages.
kingdoms were created by the aggregation of conquests of smaller regions

the biggest bastard in terms of local warfare got to be a warlord, and kingdoms were created when they fought and beat other nearby warlords

then to stay king you need to win battles against other kings who want your kingdom, and so on

if society collapses I'd be surprised if zuck survives his own security forces beyond the first hour
You never really said what you are trying to achieve. If you want to build a software company, yeah, you probably need a technical co founder. If you want to ship a consumer product, maybe you don't.
The article pulls together a lot of lovely material and links and ideas, but it starts with such a toxic & conservative outlook.

Sure, apple.com's source might not be as beautiful as their products but potato.cheap immediately turns around and says it's not apples fault, and trashes the web and says it needs sto be replaces by something else.

It just seems to be like the industrial world isn't going to improve without being lead there, but that there's so much leeway for the better awesome web to evince itself. The manifest possibilities are what so many people see as a bad and awful thing, but I think taste & discernment & internal structure are incredibly complicated & any kind of broad scale human hyper-engine of note is going to take more than a decade of effort for us to really suss out where to go & what looks & feels right. There isn't going to be the perfect system created out of nothing that makes everything great; it's power flexibility and possibility that we refine &harness onward to get to exceptional, and the web has ongoingly been an amazing host to that dialog in ways nothing else has been or from what I can see could be.

I'm so tired of those who most strongly clearly advocate for better online systems being so retrograde. I miss the hope & buoyancy of those excited for stuff! Web Components and webrtc and QUIC and moq, our new awesome css flexbox and grid and layers, css variables. I'm still as thirsty and in love & still a believer that we can keep honing new & great. To shock industry into not sucking we just need to lead towards better, towards protocols & interoperation & elegance personally. The virtue will come out, and will be aped, as we develop, if we dare be better.
I really don’t understand GR’s popularity. The community is toxic, and the app is almost unusable.
The graph is not a graph of interactions between solar wind particles and interstellar medium particles. It is a graph of solar wind particles detected by Voyager 1.
I love learning the intuition behind math concepts, but when it comes to practical things, often you have to deal with unruly and ugly equations in which intuition plays little role. For instance, as much as I enjoyed his Fourier transform videos, when it comes to actually calculating the Fourier transform for arbitrary functions, intuition is outta the window; it goes back to pure calculations again. That’s the part of math that I hated the most-not the beautiful intuitions.
> a few more years of employment

Many less years than if they learned the new tools that magnify productivity.
I would assume because RabbitMQ is not a great choice for very large scale, and another language stack, being not java.
> To play devil's advocate and look at it from the other side of the fence, how someone might reason- Russia + some prominent figureheads in the West have told us over the last two decades that a Western aligned Ukraine is a red line for them and not something they would tolerate lightly.

Devil's advocates tend to glance over the fact that these red lines were respected at the time and Ukraine nor Georgia were offered any closer integration with the EU and NATO. But instead of solidifying peace, bowing in to Russian demands only encouraged Russia to go further. They invaded Georgia the same year, and parts of Ukraine six years later, and attempted a full take-over of Ukraine in 2022, sparking the largest war in Europe since Hitler.

What lesson does it teach?
Certainly, there are out-sized payoffs at tech companies. But the typical dev at most companies still does a lot lot better relative to Taylor Swift's roadies.
I'd argue the Saturn Vue was it's better looking cousin and man that car was amazing. Not much to rust on it and had all the perks of the Aztec plus some.
>Declare Meta a monopoly and bust it up?

Sounds great! Let's unfuck the situation with Google/Apple having a chokehold on phones and app stores while we're at it.
What is an operating system at its core but an abstraction layer between software and the underlying hardware.

If your software speaks boolean logic and TRUMPET provides the layer between that and the underlying proteins then I'm happy to bless it with the title "Operating System".

In either case, some cool stuff. Can't wait to install Linux on the mold in my forgotten coffee cups!
3b1b is fantastic.

Another YouTuber I really like is Another Roof [1] -- the videos on Golay codes [2] using an icosahedron, and sporadic groups [3] are fantastic. There are some objects in mathematics that have pretty elementary definitions that a schoolchild can understand, but have secrets-of-the-universe level stuff behind them.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@AnotherRoof

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmx-v4FiP6I

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxRf3vHbuoA
> You might want to re-read that graph.

You might want to re-read the Wikipedia page. It explicitly says that Voyager 1 saw the density of plasma around it increase by a factor of 40 as it crossed the heliopause. (For Voyager 2, it was a factor of 20, as I have posted elsewhere in this discussion.) It also explicitly says that the solar wind is stopped at the heliopause due to the pressure of the interstellar medium, which, last I checked, means the interstellar medium is interacting with the solar wind.

> conservation of momentum means the particles leaving the sun don’t stop rotating when they leave the sun - the sun is rotating

Sure, with a period of about 27 days. Go do the math and compare the tangential velocity that equates to with the tangential velocity required to orbit the Sun just above the Sun's surface.
difference between giving the early employees a lamborghini vs a yacht
I always find talking about Ruby fascinating, because it's so divisive and for good reason.

It's one of those things where you either love it or hate it. The first moment I saw a question mark denoting a boolean, I fell in love with Ruby right then and there, but I also perfectly understand why people hate that. Same with stuff like `unless`, whenever I use a different language I'm always tempted to make a small utility class with all the Ruby niceties like `unless`, and that's another thing I can completely understand not liking.
Former Navy Admiral Backs Up UFO Whistleblower Claims
Yeah, and hence the pathetic state that West Bank is in under the Israeli occupation. It isn't worse or better than Gaza, but it is still an abomination from the perspective of the Palestinians.
> I can't tell if there's anything here I should be trying to learn. Best I can tell it's choosing obtuse naming for Static and Dynamic typing.

No not at all, both are static. Church style typing means all the terms are annotated with their types. In practice, languages like Haskell have some type inference, so the compiler figures out some of the annotations for you (or even all of them, in easy cases) instead of making you annotate everything, but inside the compiler every term is marked with a type (whether supplied by you or inferred by the compiler).

In Curry style typing, there are no annotations at all, and the type inference algorithm has to figure everything out itself. In the most general case, this problem is Turing-complete, i.e. undecideable. Part of the challenge in projects like Liquid Haskell is to automate as much inference as possible without running up against this barrier.
> Pretty Orwellian if you feel this is an acceptable approach to apply to innocent people en masse in response to a crime.

I don't, but there's a nuanced area between "this is fine" and "this is rape".

Is inserting a needle to take blood rape? What about people being seen at a nudist beach? Obviously they consent to "inspection", so I guess it's just sex then?

I suspect you're using an incorrect but emotive word to get your point across - and I definitely sit in the same camp in terms of it being right/wrong - but inaccurate all the same. If you misuse strongly emotive words, their meaning and impact fade.

> Maybe take a lock of hair for a DNA test against the newborn if you’re really that concerned yah?

I don't disagree, but time is a factor in one of the busiest airports in the world with 10+ planes grounded while they wait. In addition, the line for what's ethical, peoples bodily rights etc are different in Qatar - something anyone entering the country has a responsibility to know. You're projecting western values over them and demanding their culture bends to your view.
>Personally, I think technological progress offers us more optionality: you can now use CDs like in the 1990s but you can also stream. You can use terminals but you can also use GUIs.

>No one is forced to adopt technology they don't like.

And what if I prefer to keep using my old 2g Nokia brick or if I want to get crt monitors or plasma TVs? And if lynx is still my browser of choice, I'm probably going to have a hard time applying for jobs or renting an apartment.
Reviews of advance copies lose their value when the book is swamped with fake reviews that were written years before publication. How many of Goodreads’ reviews of The Winds of Winter do you think are “reasonable”?
Ho, that's really cool! Sounds a bit like digging your own grave as mathematician but it must be very challenging
I use gov.uk "heavily" and what I find interesting is that I never go to their homepage and try to navigate myself to where I need to go. I either receive the email with a link to a page or I google the pages I need. Never had issues finding anything.

I think this is important because it's not a standard e-commerce page, so it's not about skimming content and trying to sell/engage users as quickly as possible.

It's also not a SaaS like page that focuses on a few use cases and nails them. Gov.uk probably provides 100s (if not 1000s) of different flows, for everything from managing your driver's license to incorporating a company. Organising and navigating a large tree is harder than search imo.

But yes I agree, it could be improved it just wouldn't make a difference to me.
The article explains: People have bots that are taking real images, running them through img2img AI, and then posting those images.
If you were teleported back to the early 1990s then what, at that time, was the most progressive programming language available?

I note that both ML and Erlang were around at the time. I have no experience with or knowledge of Lisp in production to know if it’s a serious answer or not. For me, Lisp has always been there as a timeless alternative in the same way that visiting the countryside is always an option in between feverish daily life in whichever city I live in at the moment.
That's the most inspiring thing I've learned this year.
Is it possible o install this in a phone?
Apple design went downhill since Ive left. Cook failed on this one. With every year, everything looks more boring.

I really hope Ive sings up for building the OpenAI-phone, and eventually is bringing sexy back.
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As an alternative, I've been using an IODD 2541 for making virtual ISOs and USB sticks bootable. Put any SSD into the box, copy ISOs or other formats to the drive. Selection is from a small LCD panel on the front.

I'd say it's one of my most essential pieces of kit that I take with me.
To go one step deeper into the most significant policy decision in post-WWII American history, please see the plans laid out in 1997 by Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Perle, and Paul Wolfowitz - the geniuses at The Project for a New American Century. [0]

> In open letters to Clinton and GOP congressional leaders the next year, the group called for "the removal of Saddam Hussein's regime from power" and a shift toward a more assertive U.S. policy in the Middle East, including the use of force if necessary to unseat Saddam.

> And in a report just before the 2000 election that would bring Bush to power, the group predicted that the shift would come about slowly, unless there were "some catastrophic and catalyzing event, like a new Pearl Harbor."

> That event came on Sept. 11, 2001. By that time, Cheney was vice president, Rumsfeld was secretary of defense, and Wolfowitz his deputy at the Pentagon. [1]

This information seems to have left our collective consciousness. Please remember this history and pass it on. We owe this to the thousands of US service members and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who were killed due to the decisions made by these specific men.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_C...

[1] https://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=128491
This reminded me of one group that practices a rather rigorous form of techno-selectionism: the Amish.

While they may go further than most of us might like to in terms of rejection of certain technologies, they provide a model for the idea that the choice of whether and how to use particular technologies should be a societal decision.
All the images you create with Stable Diffusion include the generation data in the PNG by default.
Of course you can remove it.
I can't imagine I'd put the database on a separate host from postgREST - the overheads are so low as to not meaningfully exist.

I _might_ introduce a load balancer to support migrating between servers with only 1-2 seconds downtime, but probably only for the duration of the move.
> Your sentiment is a commonly expressed one, but not usually by people who have adopted Rust.

Perhaps because it’s currently not possible in Rust, so users don’t really see the advantages yet.

Multiple implementation are always a good thing. They bring in diversity of thought and allow for some competition in the implementation. Having multiple slightly different implementations also gives more clarity to a spec.

This isn’t the kind of stuff that users tend to think about until it’s already there.
Wow, as an author of the project I'm so sorry about you having to restart your computer. The memory management in Ollama needs a lot of improvement – will be working on this a bunch going forward. I also have a M1 32GB Mac and it's unfortunately just below the amount of memory Mixtral needs to run well (for now!)
Great article! Shame it left me curious to know how a further implementation using more pure Assembly would’ve performed vs using intrinsics. Anyone know or is it easy to just assume “faster”?
Tal Broda made several war glorifying posts and then removed them. Reports on the subject are being deleted left and right (including HN) as if they were fake news.
But they aren’t fake. Archives don’t lie.

Every one is entitled to their opinion.
But they also need to live with being called out for, and confronted with their opinions. And the opinion of Mr Tal Broda seems to be “give us more” when people at killed and “Palestine does not exist”.

There is a very similar opinion in other extremist circles. And we’d not buy products from such circles, and call them out. Is OpenAI a safe haven for racist zionists?
But is the cost any higher than reverse osmosis?
Gaining then losing 50m users is a net negative in a world where "line goes up and to the right" (ie. momentum) is the most basic heuristic for assessing the viability of a platform (and especially so for social platforms where the users create the content).

The only way that negative effect is muted is if the 50m users is only a small fraction of the platform's reach. Say, under 2%.
> There are real people running the shadow libraries, they probably can't be "hacked" as easily as you think.

There are real people running Reddit too (for instance), including mods. That's not an insurmountable barrier.

The shadow libraries have a particular vulnerability to spam, because AI-generated junk can overwhelm their capacity to moderate, but the natural response to the problem (block uploads) could ultimately kill the site. I imagine the main reason they can keep on top of things now is because there's not much interest in subverting their platform, but if it somehow becomes one of the "last good things" on the internet, I think that will change.
I don't keep up with things so this is an ignorant take, but when you need STEVE JOBS to keep you "grounded", I just don't know what to say.

I never was a fan of Ive's obsession with making the Mac so thin; I don't need to shave with it, and getting rid of actual function things (replaceable parts, ports, etc.) to do it just irritated me greatly. I don't use Macs as a fashion accessory.
Is the cost more or less than reverse osmosis, that is the real question.
> The MacBook Pros got thicker,

Thank goodness.
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This has happened in quite similar ways to most other Romance languages as well though. Almost all of them (with Romanian being a notable exception) have gotten rid of their case system and only the pronouns contain traces of it. Nowadays, they express the "cases" with prepositions too.
I wasn’t aware either, but it looks like it’s a thing for some potentially critical patents. The example in Wikipedia is the US govt threatening Bayer with compulsory licensing of their anthrax treatment if they refused to lower their price.
The max benefit for EBT in ND is $250-ish for a single person essentially making nothing.

The whole point of EBT is to keep people fed. If they are eating junk food and not maximizing their nutritional value to your satisfaction that’s fine because they’re still eating.

All prepared food is banned in ND for EBT. Meaning you can’t order Taco Bell through door dash.

If you’re really worried about your tax expenditures look at defense contracting and spending. EBT fraud is a rounding error for some of those program overruns. Also at tax policy when it comes to revenue offshoring, inheritance and millionaires to billionaire tax evasion.

The poors aren’t the ones screwing you.
Yes but I'd argue that this is a case that shows the construction "JavaScript library" to be non-intersective :)

My colleague James is tall and he's a basketball player. But, in one pretty straightforward sense at least, he's not a tall basketball player.

Edit: I thought of a better analogy. Compare Lodash and uBlock. Lodash is clearly a "JavaScript library", uBlock is clearly not. Why not, given that like Lodash it's just so much JavaScript? Because uBlocks' intended users don't use it as a JavaScript library. They use it to modify the default behavior of the chrome browser to something more to their liking, not as a tool for more easily expressing themselves when writing JavaScript code. I'd argue the relation of htmx to HTML is very much like that of a Chrome/VSCode extension to Chrome/VSCode: its purpose is to change the built-in behavior of some tool (HTML) used by the user, whereas a library at bottom serves an expressive purpose.
Many employees will say thanks and go on updating their resume: surely you don't expect more generosity in the future.
This sounds like another reason to no longer put SSH on the bare internet and layer security by only exposing wireguard and having sshd listen on the wireguard network.

This is not helpful for currently vulnerable setups but hopefully will be a good reminder to think about defense in depth :)
> Remember: great is just good, but repeatable.

Great advice. I wish it was listened to more in tech - there's a lot of effort spent trying to jump up to the next big level in commercial performance, at the cost of not just improving things continuously and benefiting from compounding returns.
PostgREST is an app that turns the db into an API. This takes the place of a traditional app server, but it's still an app server.
“Unsafe” disables borrow checking in Rust, which is part of the type system. C# also has a (different) “unsafe”.
In that case, hospitals would become the only profitable targets for criminals... not sure that leads where we'd like it to.