skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Glad to see you're still fighting the good fight on this one, lproven. If anyone finds this interesting, Liam has three great fosdem lectures out introducing this topic from the perspective of business software dev, hardware tech, and open source. I found the first after reading The Unix-Haters Handbook, and as much as I like its style Proven's videos are broader and up-to-date, so much better for learning:

The Circuit Less Traveled: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16309195

Generation Gaps; a heretical history of computing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22265615

Starting Over; a FOSS propisal for a new type of OS for a new type of computer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26066762

I also coincidentally found what might be the only good video about the Apple Newton on the internet today (although with the state of google search it's impossible to know outside of youtube). It makes a great supplement to the discussion of breaking the mold of OS conventions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kxRi34PqWo

The channel also has full interviews used in the dicumentary. I haven't seen the newest one, but it's two hours with a Mac and Newton architect so it's probably great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsaGx0loR3M
When you observe Santa, you get entangled with that Santa, and others get gifts in the rest of the multiverse. So don't worry, and have a Merry Everettian Christmas!
I did tech support for a database conference at the Adams Mark around 2000.

That was the biggest fluster cluck I've ever seen.

The hotel sabotaged the DSL line that provides Internet access until thousands of dollars in previously undisclosed fees were paid.
If using OpenSSH, you can roll your own solution by setting AuthorizedKeysCommand to curl a secure internal auth server.
I completely agree with your positive outlook on the possibilities. Too many people are adopting a zero-sum mindset on the subject.
There is an interesting theory about the Pleiades star cluster [1]. The Pleiades are somewhat unique in that they are a prominent feature of the sky and close to the celestial equator. Because of that, they are visible to every population on Earth, and every culture has developed a story around them.

Around 2/3 of cultures have a story in which there are seven things (seven sisters, seven boys, seven chickens, and so forth.). The other 1/3 of cultures have a story in which there are six things. And a surprising number of them have a story in which there were originally seven, but one got lost (like in the Greek myth of Electra).

The interesting thing is that two of the stars in the cluster are quite close together and can't be distinguished by eye. A pair of astronomers looked at the proper motions of the stars in the cluster and figured out that tens of thousands of years ago these two stars were far enough apart that they could have been distinguished by eye. So it seems that early humans recognized the Pleiades as having seven stars and this persisted in the myths of most cultures for tens of thousands of years, even when the seventh star was no longer visible.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.09170
> Just adding the words "on a computer" to a common activity does not make it patentable.

Someone should tell the patent office
I used to use qiqqa for exactly what you describe but I think zotero has won this space
I'd originally replied without really knowing anything about the topic, just noticed that you were avoiding responding to a specific point. Now that you're using dishonest framing like volume rather than mentioning cost. I looked up the cost, nuclear waste costs massively eclipse all other energy subsidies, the OP was right, and I think you know this based on your failure to respond honestly twice.
WindowsX ;)
That all windows can best linux at is consumption?

There's a lot of production software that maybe runs under wine/proton/etc with a lot of work. How does that prove your point? This stuff doesn't have really viable alternatives, that people who use it as a day job really would consider an alternative.
"In our pursuit of advanced technologies, we must remain deeply aware of the interconnected nature of all things and the importance of being fully present and mindful in our interactions with these technologies." Paraphrased from Alan Watts, by GPT4.
What percentage of people could you fool if you told them it was AI and replayed standard search results but with the "karaoke-like" prompt that highlights each word (as if we're 2nd graders in Special Ed learning how to string more than 2 sentences together)
If you're constantly having this problem, it sounds like you're the problem.

You're gate keeping the end-users so the engineers can't become domain experts, albeit maybe inadvertently.

Good engineers will become domain experts naturally from talking to clients, usually experts far beyond the actual business users. That is, unless someone's interposing themselves between the engineers and the users.

It sounds like you are the person interposing, and you are the reason the engineers are not becoming domain experts.

That or you've always worked with bad engineers.
Wood isn't an element?
> > If you think

Consumers pay money in order not to think. The thinking has to be done by the organization who takes their money.

In Tesla's case particularly given that there is some Stockholm sydrome, Heaven's Gate type thing going on between Tesla and their customers.
I'm glad he at least mentions success criteria other than personal wealth, though it's pretty clear that ranks high for him.
Yes, thanks for that comment. As a relative layperson, I would describe all of this as dangerous territory.
Not really relevant if they can't figure out why wifi isn't connecting again. Answers like 'you just need to open the terminal and run....' don't work.
The first one to not fail. All extant US automakers have been in business for over a century.
So e.g. Hacker News has no value? Or Linux? Or sex without prostitution?
I just read a hypothesis from an anthropologist suggesting that the reason California’s indigenous tribes did not practice agriculture like eastern tribes, was due to the abundance of food they could forage year around. Oaks providing a significant part of their diet (which are plentiful in Mendocino) but also other nuts, berries, and tubers found throughout California.

So relative to our modern diet, maybe your point holds, but the California Floristic Province has plenty of plants to sustain humans. IIRC, the indigenous population density was some of the highest in the world.
I found something very annoying while looking for technical data ( a service manual for an ancient medical device - build around 2001).

The same term was the name of the device + something about the power source.

The result from the client network - my phone/client computer nothing related to the search for 4-5 pages.

Same search from work - second result was what I was looking.

So it seems there is a relation with your search history, but somehow connected with the related search history from the same ip/network.
There is a "Greater Israel" movement worth taking seriously, not because they have as much popular support as "From the River to the Sea" on the streets or in the campuses, but more because of the people who believe in this notion in the halls of power.

People have called for the seizure of "Greater Israel" since Israel's founding[1]. The "Movement for Greater Israel"[2] was one of the parties that merged together to form the ruling Likud Party, and the president of Israel pulled out a map showing "The New Middle East" only having Israel and no longer having Palestine [3]. You know, the one who just invaded "Greater Israel".

My square deal, is if "From the River to the Sea" gets banned as hate speech, Netanyahu's map also gets banned as hate speech. Nobody is allowed to promote the idea that Israel takes over Palestine, or Palestine takes over Israel. It's not fair if we ban things in one direction and not the other. Allow both or neither.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Israel#During_British_...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movement_for_Greater_Israel
[3] https://i.redd.it/x68dg51jb0qb1.jpg
> You directly pay Brave, who then distributes funds to some participating websites.

This isn't worse than the way ads work anyway, so that seems fine.

> Additionally, they take a 30% cut of the value

I also don't see the problem here. They develop the browser, the infra, etc. What is the problem?

What is it that you people want?
You act like this recommendation is fixed and unchnagable, rather than merely a product of current grid conditions, namely cheap power at night.

In reality, the low price is the recommendation. When day time power becomes cheap, that's when people will charge.
Fair number of apps out there running on a skeleton crew after a successful acquisition.
Not necessary, but definitely the path of least resistance for developing Windows games, and AFAIK MSVC is required for developing Xbox games. Commercial closed source middleware is sometimes distributed as compiled C++ static link libraries plus headers without being able to recompile yourself.
I have something like 50 lights from them and only one has ever given me trouble
For my interdental spaces, an interdental brush does not work, my dental hygienist also tried and agrees. I used floss before, but a few years ago I switched to an italian-made oral irrigator that does not require batteries and is connected to the faucet: https://www.sowash.it/

I was skeptical about it at first, but it does the job just fine because the jet is more powerful than any of the electric oral irrigators.

While I'm not doing it anymore, a ketogenic diet also had a huge effect on the buildup of plaque.
It’s just that people who don’t have money don’t spend it. If you have a ton of senior citizens getting lifeline phones, it doesn’t tell you much about the spending habits of Android users who aren’t on fixed incomes.
Then the issue might be in your wireless access point, maybe one of these:

- there is a max speed limit rule added to your access point to limit download/upload speed on one of your laptop. Remove them if you have access to the access point control panel, or use another access point

- the access point is overloaded, too many clients connected and its cpu can't keep up. Use another access point

- you are using 2.4Ghz band and it has a lot of interference in your area, try switching to 5Ghz or 6Ghz band if possible

- use adhoc transfer, directly connect to the other machine without using an access point: https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/net-wireless-...
what is ruby debug not able to do that you want it to do?

https://github.com/ruby/debug

a nice ide integrated experience:

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/ruby#_debugging...

https://github.com/ruby/vscode-rdbg

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/debugging

heavy metaprogramming in any language is going to be a pain to debug so i'm not sure what you're expecting but there are tools to help. you can also call source_location on some method to figure out where things exist.
> > Easy to decide you disagree but it is working for them.

Corporations wins are customers losses.

In Tesla case even more considering they are literally re-inventing the wheel for political purposes so the whole effort is even more ridiculous.
That is true, yes, but still comparing e.g. Rust vs. Ruby I'd think Rust spends anywhere from 10ns to 100ns (outside of waiting on DB) and Ruby no less than 10 ms. Still pretty significant and can add up during times of big load.

Also I remember Rails' ActiveRecord having some pretty egregious performance footprint (we're talking 10ms to 100ms on top of DB waiting) but I hear that was fixed a while ago.
I have usually seen people recommend to chunk by sentences or paragraphs or some fixed length of characters. IMO, all these are suggested because they are easy to write code for, but in reality, length of a meaningful chunk depends entirely on the data. The way we chunk an FAQ document vs a PRD is different.

Based on this assumption, I have a couple of questions:

1. Is chunking the most significant factor in RAG quality?

2. If there are no limitations, would humans that are experts in that dataset, be the best people to create chunks?
No, if you use a custom model (trained with your data), you'll pay around $20 per hour, minimum. That equates to ~$15,000.

You can reduce a lot by committing to a 6-month contract, but it won't get cheaper than about ~$5,000/mo.

That's prohibitively expensive for small projects.

Fine tuning GPT 3.5 is much cheaper.
Except that in the process, Mach absorbed BSD and became a weird hybrid of the two. I worked on Mach as an undergrad at CMU when the BSD server was intended as a temporary expedient to port the Unix userland tools quickly. Instead, it made its way into the kernel.
FYI Apple bought the company that made the kinect sensors. The Face ID module on iPhones is a mini kinect.
Nah. One rust based server can power the same number of connections as 10-100 ruby based servers.

This is not just “pretend database IO” problem. This is actual cost that no business should accept on the basis of “but but but database IO (that I’ve never actually measured, but it’s an easy cop out because I read it on medium once).
Why does that matter?

You’re likely in one of two situations as a businesss:

* You’re a struggling startup. Development velocity trumps literally everything. Your server costs are trivial, just turn them up.

* You’re a successful business (maybe in part because you moved fast with Ruby), you can pay down the debt on that absurdly large response. Chunk it, paginate it, remove unnecessary attributes.
I disagree.

1. Advertising is a net negative on the human psyche, it steals attention that could be spent on productive work or entertainment. Proliferation of ad blockers affirms this.

2. Advertising is a zero sum game which benefits corporations with the largest advertising budget and hurts small businesses

3. Ads have expected return on investment or they wouldn't be run => In aggregate we're actually paying for that content with hard cash, so it's not "free content with ads", but "content with obscure, deferred payment"

4. Ads incentivize high volume, low quality, clickbait content. This makes it difficult to find high quality information because the only metric being optimized is the number of eyeballs that land on your website.

By eliminating ads as a funding model, we could eliminate this source of stress (1), even the playing field for small businesses (2), make it clear to users that they're, in fact, paying for the content (3). There's no free lunch, just a blue pill illusion of one.

What we need for web that actually serves its users are not ads, but easy, ubiquitous, private micropayments without middlemen who charge a hefty fee. I'll pay 20 cents to read this article, no I won't subscribe for $20 a month.
They already have a good-enough Rosetta-like x64 -> ARM translation layer. You can run any x64 windows program on ARM windows. They can optimize the performance more, but that’s not a whole-company effort, a small dedicated team can make the optimization happen. If Qualcomm or Nvidia start shipping M3-comparable chips I can see it going pretty smooth without large changes at MSFT.
> Even when it runs nominally, it prompts you every 20 seconds or so to apply turning force to the wheel (counterintuitively, as you want to go straight in the lane)

This is a huge issue with Tesla's system, they were too cheap to actually detect hands on the wheel and instead train you to exert undue force on the wheel which can lead to steering incorrectly. The timing for the system is haphazard at best and often dings you for not having hands on the wheel when you do, but you were too busy driving to pay attention to the prompts.
Show HN: I made an API to manage the cloud storage
I have freelance projects involves the creation and administration of Google Cloud buckets. However, managing access permissions can be a bit challenging at times. To streamline this process, I've decided to develop an API to manage all my buckets, each associated with its unique API key.

I've created a demo to showcase the capabilities of this solution
Meta programming is my largest complaint with Ruby. It creates huge surprises that are very difficult to inspect and debug.
L2 is unstable, so you need some amount of active thrust to stay in the orbit. The point is relatively close to the moon, and changes enough to not collect natural bodies. Same with L1 and L3. Once the James Webb runs out of fuel it will leave the point quickly, probably within 30 days.

L4 and L5 are way out from the Earth Moon system and are very stable. They collect natural satellites, and once parked there you would remain indefinitely.

The actual math is pretty complex, and has to do with mass ratios of bodies involved, but all the major bodies in our solar system have their own Lagrange points.
> Who says it isn't?

Me. And, I believe, the vast majority of other humans who have given it any thought.

> They don't? Why not?

If you feel that way, you must also believe I have the right to display whatever I want on your devices. Which you naturally agree I do, right? I hope you like very early morning disco...

> it seems obvious that they can say "in exchange for sending you this video you must watch the ads".

People can say whatever they like. Like, I can say "for reading these words, the person behind the insanitybit account owes me $20."

Tell me, just how obligated do you feel to pay that?
As an autistic person, it unfortunately does not work like that. Every single neurodiverse person has their own unique needs. There is no one size fits all technique, not even close. The best you can do is teach some general strategies and an awareness of the fact that these people have unique needs. And generally we do teach these things.

It unfortunately is up to the individual to work with their practitioner to come up with an individualized plan of care. It really can't be any other way. Any attempt you make to come up with a universal standard of care for neurodiverse patients will necessarily exclude and likely harm people on other parts of the spectrum.

Over-generalizing these things sounds like a good idea up front, but it ends up causing more harm overall. We get stuck with narrow and rigid standards of care that just don't work for more than a small subset of people. This has been a real problem with autism in particular: until very recently the diagnosis and treatments were only concerned with young white boys. There's a very serious problem with women, adults, and all other groups being drastically under-diagnosed and left untreated. More generally, there are very few resources for autistic adults because of this. It's very slowly changing though
I didn't realize that - will have to try in the future
I wish someone was doing similar tracking for M-DISC Blu Ray discs but perhaps they are too new to really test yet (other than accelerated aging).
> The citation is a verbatim copy.

Anyone can go look at what the author wrote, and contrast it with the comment that kicked this thread off ("As the author claims on his website, if the price is affordable then it is counterfeit"), and decide whether you've represented the author accurately. I guess if they made it this far into the comment thread without doing that, I'd encourage them to do that.

In addition to being dishonest, your use of logic is pretty bad. That the author indicates a counterfeit of his book might be identified prior to purchase by a price that is "too low to be creditable" is not an admission by the author that he believes his book to be overpriced or unaffordable.

> Also, the refusal to sign such affordable edition of the book is another *ss move from the author.

Yeah, well, you know, that's just like, your opinion, man.

https://artofelectronics.net/lebowski/

But that "affordable edition" of the book was a counterfeit that didn't earn the author or his publisher any money - the money went to a counterfeiter. Increasing the value of the book by signing it wouldn't be most authors' first impulse.
They did. But that didn't automatically invalidate all the old patents.
Specifically, the money going to one set of middlemen would be going to their middlemen instead.
Not German, but I do wonder if it's common to schedule your oil change and other maintenance just before your state inspection. I would certainly do that; get the dealer to fix all pending issues and get the car into tip-top shape just before a mandatory inspection. If this is the case, you would expect more problems with Tesla, as there isn't a dealer mechanic minimizing issues just before inspection.
Certainly, in the same way that several generations of C-sections have led to an unnaturally large headed population.
I'm just here for the chaos & disorder.
Keep in mind that nano's name is derived from the fact it's a clone of pico, and things might start to make more sense. GNU nano's name is a play on words, not a statement about its size.
They want to have their chocolate and eat it, too.
Not public but internally I wrote a tool to help us respond to RFPs. You pass in a question from a new RFP and it outputs surprisingly great answers most of the time. Is writing 75%+ of our RFP responses now (naturally we review and adjust sometimes and as needed). And best of all it was very quickly hacked together and it’s actually useful. Copied questions/answers from all previous ones into a doc, and am using OpenAI embeddings api + FAISS vector db + GPT-4 to load the chunks + store the embeddings + process the resulting chunks.
I was paying for YouTube Premium, but then I realized I still saw all of the sponsorship segments within videos.
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Who cares? This is both my initial reaction and, on reflection, something I’m genuinely curious about. If one can’t tell the difference without deep investigation, the consumer likely doesn’t care (I don’t). Hopefully / presumably it would still go through whatever editorial controls are in place. So who does care?

If this is rooted in fears of our jobs being taken, the train has left the station and we need to deal with this reality sooner rather than later. If anything, we’re incredibly fortunate ai is taking white collar jobs first (like mine). Hopefully these people have enough social and political capital to ensure laws change in healthy ways (ubi at some point?).
Same.

The only thing I’d say in contrast is that while getting worse to manage, a lot of stuff works more often than it used to do.

Now, I’ll expand and add a fourth point. Do not have so much hubris as to think that you can achieve in one year what took 40 years to build, and certainly do not think that just because you have better tooling you will be able to reimplement something better than what has already been done. The reality is that the new implementation will likely suck in comparison to the old one for many years, and it will require ceaseless and thankless effort. Prime example: Wayland (which is now really awesome btw) that took a decade or so. If, otoh, something sucks and has done for a long time, go for it. Prime example: Linux audio (OSS, Alsa, Pulse, Jack) where pipewire is a godsend.
Google et al are fooling themselves if they think this is the end of the game.
How exactly does AI prevent open sharing of ideas?
Never heard about them but happy to see alternatives to SV model...
Could you link these prosecutions for the sending of phishing text messages. My googlefu is coming up short. Thanks!
I recently opened YouTube in incognito mode without an ad blocker, the very first video on the home page was a crypto scam video, followed by a Mr. Beast scam when I tried it again a few hours later. Those videos were still up the next day.

Advertisers can cry crocodile tears all they want, they're directly facilitating crime that hurts real people.