skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The story is well spun, no doubt! I first encountered it in the 1990s — some reposted USENET content (iirc), in one form or another, while I was at university.

Then, and now, I thought an interesting retelling could involve the protagonists discovering a civilization (Type II+) that had learned to tap the energy of their star and (eventually) inadvertently triggered a supernova, though that fate took some time to unfold and so various laments were left behind on their planet's surface.

Upon realization of the above, the principal protagonist (Jesuit priest) recollects about his crews' wonderment that one civilization's end could, across light years, so precisely signal monumental changes in another. Unanswered questions are raised as to Redemption and Doom. The story ends with the principal protagonist having made a 30-year Ignatian retreat and marveling that, among all the myriad unanswered questions, Earth wheat and grapes were immediately cultivable in the alien soil, such that the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass was able to be offered uninterruptedly from the day they arrived to the present.
It's the epitome of mobile Tetris. No 7-bag, zero input delay, and of course, color. It's easy to cheese because of infinite lock delay resets (and wall climbing).

I also enjoyed Tetris DS because of its extremely addictive Push mode in multiplayer. I may have had to retake CS301 because of that game.
Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night.
I hope not. I still subscribe to several print magazines, and the quality of the content is leaps and bounds better than any of the junk available to read online.
Long before I could afford a computer of my own, I bought computer magazines… probably a few hundred after it was all said and done.

Before the internet, before BBSes and before floppy disks, magazines were the way programs were distributed in the late 70s and early 80s. You would type in the BASIC source code printed in magazines to give yourself something new to run.

Just browsing the archive.org's collection brought back so many memories… like this one when the Steve Jobs launched NeXT [1].

[1]: https://archive.org/embed/NeXTWORLDVol.1No.1JanuaryFebruary1...
Facebook Files: Facebook's manual on credible threats of violence
When I think of wired I think of articles written by andrew hultkrans. I have a video of him I tried to get a discussion on, but even in 1993 he was already mentioning smart cards and tvs.
So why don't they mention stationary energy storage? In a fixed installation, you can have all the tankage you want. Is the round-trip efficiency low?
Would you mind telling me if you're also finding it slow when the vault contains a lot of files? I do have some community plugins installed (the usual stack, I'd say), so it might be that they're the cause, but I'm not sure. And, I'd say the machine is reasonably fast for this type of task (random hexa-core laptop). It will take a second to switch notes, and opening up the graph view is also super-slow. I'm wondering if Obsidian has become bloatware.
Figma. It's just easier to keep it all there.

You can import or build component libraries inside it too, to build up UIs from widgets.
i feel like maybe you told me about this particular routine but i failed to bookmark it, or maybe tag the bookmark appropriately; do you have a link?
It’s also a GPT to capture email addresses …

/sarcasm
Why especially?
To be more specified, our codes follows the license of Apache 2.0 and the model weights follows the license of Llama 1 since our model is initialized from Llama1
Google May Replace Some Human Employees with AI
Happy Christmas, everyone!
"Merry Christmas, I don't want to fight tonight." -The Ramones
Merriest possible Christmas!!!
wow.. in its current settled down state Covid is still performing at around the worse that the flu has ever done in the last 5 years.

Its a nasty piece of work
German police takes down Kingdom Market cybercrime marketplace
What's a gold master source code CD? Source code wouldn't be in the gold master... The gold master is the final version intended to be pressed to retail disks.

Also:

"The disc in question allegedly contains the source code to the original StarCraft game that GameSpot reported as being lost back in 2000 -- it forced Blizzard to start from scratch on its massively popular real-time strategy game."

What does this mean? StarCraft came out in 1998. Also losing one copy doesn't mean you lose all the other copies. And I can't find this supposed article from 2000. I have so many questions...
>>So many shorts have already been wrecked

>being giddy about Telsa competition getting “wrecked”

Except that's not what they said.

If you're a capital allocator and you allocate capital badly, you're going to have a bad time. You had one job...

I have slightly more sympathy for the automakers, but ultimately they're also sleeping in a bed of their own making. They dragged their feet (and/or actively fought electrification, a highly immoral choice given the impending climate chaos) for literally decades, and this is the entirely predictable outcome.

On second thought, I changed my mind. I have zero sympathy for the (as historical experience has now revealed) lying lazy legacy automakers. Time for that "creative destruction" we're always hearing about.
Agreed. I think this is a great insight. Android is a great operating system. It's just as good, if not better than, a 2002 Nissan Sentra.
TIL!

It looks like the feature is only available if you “add on” the audible version when you’re making your ebook purchase? And, for limited titles.

If I just bought a book in audible, there should be a “buy ebook” button in that app! And if I have the book in kindle, it should give me the option to add on the audio book after purchase. Seems like a missed opportunity— there must be a reason for it being so clunky.

Edit: I have not been able to find a single whispersync title. Looks like it’s not enabled at all in Canada? And the US books that have the feature don’t even follow the setup (eg icon) as described on the website (https://www.audible.com/ep/wfs)
Always thought of a “tech” company as one whose bread and butter directly depend on shipping software and/or hardware. By this definition, all of the “magnificent seven” mega-cap tech-centric companies qualify, though admittedly old media morphing into streaming companies muddies things a bit.

Maybe a useful qualifier would be whether the business could exist without computers. So while the everything store of Amazon, for example, was in fact preceded by Sears’ mail-order catalog, its AWS division could have no reasonable analog analogue, putting AMZN solidly in the tech category.
Merry Christmas to the HN community!
Is there a limit? Could I create a knowledge base with 10,000 documents? 100k? 1M?
What I said is true, and what the op said is false and the stats you posted show this. What is actually misleading is saying something outright false like the OP. The homicide rate is higher than it has been since the mid 90s. People are worked up about crime increases because they have lived through the past 4 years and feel the tension.
Won’t work if your ID is a UUID. Also, this is more generally applicable to any date, not just created.
The other day I was wondering whatever happened to coconut monkey
This tech is in its infancy
Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!
Photo of Swansea police arresting drunk man likened to Renaissance art
Heavy nostalgia for me too. I grew up in a small town that didn't even have a library back at the time. The monthly magazine was my only source of information and I still keep every single issue in my attic - that's how precious they were to my.
Forget the costs, there's unnecessary suffering inflicted on patients with some forms end-of-life care. Overwhelmingly doctors - who have witnessed such care - firsthand, sign DNRs to avoid going through that[1].

[1] https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2013/03/how-doctors-die/
They've updated the question to clarify that RAG counts, and as many have noted, properly "training" on a set of documents isn't really a thing.
That chart shows exactly what I said, we have the highest rates since the mid 90s and there is a clear upward trend since 2014 (ten years ago now). Thats not "playing games"---its a lot more true than what the OP said.
lots of binaries are in there. it's ~16GB decompressed
Not in any comparable way or to any comparable extent.
But some day there will be no one to save me from this knowledge, kind sir! Will I be ready then?
The first thing I install on a new system is a window manager because I absolutely cannot function without one. It's muscle memory at this point. I had used XMonad in the past, but I decided to write my own using the Penrose library (it's not as hard as it sounds), mostly because I find Rust easier to understand than Haskell.

I use alacritty as my terminal. I use Firefox as my browser, and I could go on indefinitely about the different tools I use on the web, but I won't.

For writing code I use VS Code. The Remote SSH extension is a must. Then, I'll have language-specific extensions installed and a theme extension.

I'll add that I use Obsidian as my knowledge base.
Are you saying this behavior is common and acceptable? Your remark strikes me as rhetorical in support of his actions but I’m not sure if I’m reading it right.
Bonkers it is yet it’s true. The house prices are a joke right now here. I don’t know what drives such prices, 95% of Romanians will never be able to afford a €200k house with 50sqm of paved courtyard in front. Supply and demand my ass…

Believe me, I’m so sick of “calling for details” because everyone hides most useful details in the house ad, then asking if it has paperwork ready which most don’t and expect you to buy the house based on how the house looked 20 years ago before heavy renovations with the cheapest materials possible, then spending numbing hours on trains to get to see that house in real life only to see how many lies were said on the phone and how that house would never be evaluated at more than half its price…

That above is extremely common, I’ve been going through this for the past 4 years and I’m So. Sick. Of. It.
It probably means “version of the source code used to build the gold master”.

Some places have (or had) a business process of escrowing both the release and the source used to build it. Escrowing just the source used to build the release can require significantly less storage than escrowing the whole version control system. It also avoids the problem “we have the entire revision history, but we aren’t sure which commit was used to build these binaries”

If you lose everything-a colleague told me the story of a company whose offices were in WTC, luckily all the staff got out alive on 9/11, but they forgot to make offsite backups of the source code-the source code to the release(s) shipped to customers is most important, because you need it to make patches. The rest of the revision history, while valuable, is less essential.
It's a convolution of a Hopf algebra.
What are you trying to do more specifically? You can use https://docalysis.com/ for most document RAG tasks.
literally the first words ... "All rights reserved; not to be reprinted without permission of the author" and "copyright Arthur C Clarke" - so why share it here?
Reminds me of something something we've discussed here many times.
vscode,
datagrip,
dash for offline docs,
tmux,
docker,
spotify,
aldente for better battery management,
hey for http perf testing,
k9s,
terraform,
go, rust, dotnet, node, bun, python and some tools around each runtime,
drawio,
pkgx,
raycast,
obsidian,
synology drive for backups to my nas
Merry Christmas everyone! Haveagoodun.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/quotas....
as you know, a lot of day-to-day use of assembly nowadays is writing compilers and debugging compiled programs, though i also got surprisingly good performance in httpdito from a fork-per-client web server http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/httpdito-readme

dan bernstein makes the argument that, as computers get faster, we use them on bigger problems, which means that computer performance is increasingly dominated by small inner loops, which is precisely the situation where it becomes more rational to put effort into hand-optimizing your small inner loops than to hack on the compiler to hopefully speed up all parts of the program, just as it was in the 01960s for different reasons

a different way to attack that problem in many cases is to write a domain-specific compiler from a domain-specific language to machine code, as thompson's regexp engine did, and as verilog compilers do. but i'm not sure how you speed up a media codec that way

bernstein has also written a fair bit of assembly to eliminate timing side-channel leaks from cryptographic code
Maybe this copy is put out with a permission?
In English, it doesn't. The names of those continents are North America and South America.

It feels weird to them because they're used to calling the Americas "America", the US "Estados Unidos" and Americans "estadounidenses". Well, it seems weird to me as a (United States of) American that they use those names. Our cultures are just different.
Seems like the University of Northern Iowa's concern, no?
Mind sharing that comment?
I’m sorry, I don’t understand those limits. It uses a lot of unfamiliar terms like “batch inference” and “modality”. I just want a nice UI that I can give my hard-drive to and then ask it questions.
Gimme five bees for a quarter, they’d say.
And by a different author, but a similar theme: https://unsongbook.com
Thank you for your work; Dan, Scott, Paul, anyone who reads, or contributes, or detracts.
What if it's not the revenue (i.e.rent) that's the problem but the cost, due to the artificial scarcity of space that can be filled with housing? San Francisco is infamous for its restrictive constraints on what can be built. If it were possible to build denser and presumably cheaper forms of housing, I posit that people could develop profitably, without rent needing to go up indefinitely.
Just to emphasize, indeed "look at the numbers". The gap between 2014 and 2022 is about 2/100,000--that is over 6000 people. This isnt some statistical anomaly---it is a real increase. Crime is going up.
> they are paid twice as used fluid must also be stored, transported, and processed

Isn’t this true of the discharged electrolyte in conventional batteries?
General data compression/decompression can also benefit from asm level tuning, including generic compression such as Huffman/zlib and more specific compression like animation compression. MSVC is also a lot worse at vectorization than GCC or Clang and can more easily be beaten with asm.

I would agree that direct asm is very rare these days in game engines outside of third-party libraries. There can be significant gains with tuned asm but some combination of intrinsics and ISPC is usually good enough. But it is far more useful to be able to _read_ assembly, for debugging in an optimized build or analyzing release crashes.
this is a very interesting feature:

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If adding a value to a type where the result exceeds the type's maximum capacity in either the positive or negative direction, the type must remain at its previous value.

Note

This means that if you add 1 to an int at value 2^31, it will stay at 2^31. This is also called "saturating" a value.
bah humbug! /s :)
Sure slavery and racism is a huge part of it, but don't forget it's called 'the confederacy'. You can't claim this is constructed afterwards when it's plainly in the name
Shipping sure, but also simply the fact that a good part of the worlds population were part of the British empire. Wikipedia has 23% of the world population at 1913.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire
As it happens, I'm an officer of a family business that has a number of real estate investments (some residential, some commercial, some industrial). We've had the properties over a timeframe of decades -- in some cases like 10-20 years, in other cases 30-40. We're now selling them.

Some of them have been basically good investments. Others have been iffy. You do of course accrue rents from them, but there are also costs. There is no law of nature that they outperform other investments.
The documents are encoded as vectors and stored in a database, so I suspect it would be effectively unlimited. You would just pay for storage and compute.

AWS OpenSearch has fairly good integration so you could look up costs for that. It’s not the cheapest AWS service to run and not exactly serverless as you pay by the hour.
Agreed. I'd also argue that for most intents and purposes, Moore's Law died in 2005 with Dennard Scaling.
Interesting project :).

> First, let's write a standard that's as polished as it can be. Then, once the standard is ready, we can start making it real.

I've learned on several occasions that things don't actually work that way. Writing the actual code and running/testing it is the only way to ensure that your ideas will indeed work and that you didn't miss corner cases. Except of course if the problem at hand is trivial, but that's clearly not the case here, and I feel like trial and error will be much necessary.

Note that this isn't only true for code. It's about writing in general, even when doing theoretical science that doesn't translate to code in the end.

There is a PhD Comics, I think, where a character says something like "remember kids, the only difference between fooling around and doing science is writing it down". Exactly.

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From the todo list:

> procedural, functional, imperative?

Authors should probably also look into reactive programming and dataflow languages such as Lustre, Esterel, ReactiveML, etc. Probably some good inspiration there for this kind of tasks :).
> what do I do with my other, already well-developed side project that uses Mantine and Next pages router? I can continue to use the pages router, but for how long?

I honestly think css-in-js solutions that inject styles into the document head at runtime like Styled Components and Emotion were never really sustainable or performant, and server components just revealed the inadequacy of these techniques. Generating actual stylesheets at build time is obviously more performant (using Linaria, PandaCSS, Tailwind, CSS Modules, etc).

Even one of Emotion's maintainers proclaimed he was "breaking up with css-in-js" over a year ago [1]. He had this to say (before the app router was even announced): "With CSS-in-JS, there's a lot more that can go wrong, especially when using SSR and/or component libraries. In the Emotion GitHub repository, we receive tons of issues that go like this: I'm using Emotion with server-side rendering and MUI/Mantine/(another Emotion-powered component library) and it's not working because...".

Granted, even if css-in-js solutions are less than ideal, I still think Next should continue to support them for compatibility reasons. Neither of us can predict the future, but I would bet that Vercel will continue to support the pages router given that they have customers to answer to. Money is a powerful motivator.

> At the end of the day, IMO the main difference is attitude.

> I realize its hard to make a convincing statement about frequency/magnitude/probability/attitude though.

Like you said the problem is that it's hard to make a convincing statement about community attitude. All we can do is go back and forth with anecdotal evidence.

You'll speculate about whether or not Vercel will continue to support its pages router, and I'll provide my own anecdotes like the example I gave of InfluxDB (a Go time series database) deprecating its entire database query language on two different occasions, which fundamentally broke the entire product.

> What kind of data would convince you that the situation in the JS ecosystem is bad enough that it warrants a priority shift in the community?

The only data either of us have is anecdata, which is why we're kind of at a standstill here.

[1] https://dev.to/srmagura/why-were-breaking-up-wiht-css-in-js-...
The original commercial in America was the greatest commercial I’d seen around age 12 or so that wasn’t a Super Bowl ad. It would only be matched in awe for young me by GTA 3’s montage ad backed by “O mio babbino caro”
I'm from the Northeast and once in a while I'll use "y'all" as an informal plural. It tends to bring a smile to the people being addressed. Perhaps it is understood as a reference to its use in the movies.
Easiest is OpenAI assistants api. Use the playground and it’s a no code experience.
"Too much concrete is being used".
The King of Silent Animation made me immediately think that Lotte Reiniger[1] must be its Queen. Now, the King in the article is not a creator but a contemporary collector but you might enjoy the Lotte Reiniger piece as well.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20231122122746/https://www.nytim...
I’m curious why you’re interpreting it as transmission was stopped entirely. Clearly that’s not what was meant given that the weekly deaths still were above zero.
> can't do it at home safely with about 5 seconds of effort, you will never beat conventionally charged batteries

As the article points out, conventional batteries are a logistical nightmare on a battlefield.
Very interesting. Really curious to hear how this wants to distinguish itself from both sclang and pd. My intuition/hope though is that this could be the kind of thing you could write ugens/extensions with for those higher level languages.
Yes, that was the last straw
I'm not hypothesizing about the behavior of others, I'm speaking only for myself.
367-page cc-by-nc-sa textbook; though the license permits modification, no source format seems to be provided, just a pdf. it covers mostly introductory userland programming, though there's a chapter on interrupt handling. on skimming the table of contents i don't see anything about page tables, tlbs, atomics, the amd64 memory consistency model, running before sdram is enabled, iommus, mtrrs, or simd. none of those things are necessary to write a compiler or debug most compiled code, except maybe simd

this book also looks like it could be a very solid base for a course that did cover one or more of those additional topics; the course would also include some supplementary material

it probably teaches more than everything i know about amd64 assembly, except the most important thing, which is that arm assembly is much better
"Son of a submariner" was similarly surprising yet a perfect match for the situation and it stuck with me since.
You want grammars to restrict the output, search for "gbnf grammar". That and combined with a good prompt with an example, also check out outlines.dev
Looks like June 2002 for Pixel 8
Disney, Reliance sign non-binding agreement for India media operations merger
The OpenAI assistants API is an implementation of a RAG pipeline. It performs both RAG on any documents you upload, and on any conversation you have with it that exceeds the context.
Flow batteries are probably only interesting for grid scale stationary storage.
It's besides the point, but a slight correction: you wouldn't assume someone's preferred pronouns from details about their genitals (it'd be offensive to ask or try to check!), but from how they present them self - through gendered appearance or perhaps by just stating it.
State of Postgres (2023)
Yeah I more or less agree. The whole value/interest in Moore's Law was that it roughly reflected performance, but that stopped in 2005 with Dennard Scaling and when they redefined what the word CPU meant.
"If you see yourself as God and then you come back from this state and somebody says, "Hey, Sam, empty the garbage!" it catches you back into the model of "I'm Sam who empties the garbage." You can't maintain these new kinds of structures. It takes a while to realize that God can empty garbage."

- Ram Dass
Do Tattoos Function Like Amulets? [pdf]
In ex USSR we celebrate New Year. So the first several years of remote work with Western folks, I was always surprised to see no colleagues some day in December. Only later in the evening, I would remember they had Christmas that day. :)

Merry Christmas!