skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US President has pledged unwavering support for Israel, a state currently engaged in genocide, and has vetoed efforts by other countries to call for a humanitarian ceasefire, thus helping the genocide continue unabated, and is sending billions of dollars in weapons to Israel so they don't run out of the means by which to commit further genocide.

While he did not literally stand at a podium and utter the phrase "I, Joe Biden, President of the United States, hereby call for genocide," one must be able to read the room.
If you have a touchpad, you can alternate between two fingers and effectively double your click speed. 12 clicks per second isn't too hard.
I made this comment purely from my impressions of the team's major sponsors and the ones that I've noticed. Realising that I'm rather advertising blind these days (like all of us, I figure), I thought I should actually dig up a list and have more of a think about this idea.

https://formularapida.net/f1-2023-list-of-partners-sponsors-...

Safe to say, my comment above is hyperbole. Still, I wonder how many of the companies in the linked list will be considered "bad" in 10+ years.
USearch author here :)

Not sure if it's fair to compare USearch and pgvector. One is an efficient indexing structure, the other is more like a pure database plugin. Not that they can't be used in a similar fashion.

If you are looking for pure indexing benchmarks, you might be interested in USearch vs FAISS HNSW implementation [1]. We run them ourselves (and a couple of other tech companies), so take them with a grain of salt. They might be biased.

As for Lantern vs pgvector, impressed by the result! A lot of people would benefit from having fast vector-search compatible with Postgres! The way to go!

It's wasn't a trivial integration by any means, and the Lantern team was very active - suggesting patches into the upstream version to ease integrations with other databases. Some of those are tricky and have yet to be merged [2]. So stay tuned for the USearch v3. Lots of new features coming :)

[1]: https://www.unum.cloud/blog/2023-11-07-scaling-vector-search...
[2]: https://github.com/unum-cloud/usearch/pull/171/files
It's C#, F# and the .NET ecosystem. Haven't gotten this many downvotes in a long time.
AI boom isn't coming from content generation, it's coming from new forms of automation and the newfound accessibility from it.
Sure, already got plenty of downvotes, it's C#, F# and the .NET ecosystem.
>The survey still isn't about what actions any of the schools have taken or whether the schools' policies allow for free speech. That makes it completely irrelevant in a discussion about whether the President of the school was committed to free speech. The survey asks students their opinions.

In cases like this though, perception is probably closer to reality than actual activity. For instance, I think it's pretty fair to say that society is pretty against robberies. If you did a survey asking how comfortable people are with robbing people[1], I think most people would answer "Very uncomfortable". However, if you look at FBI crime statistics[2], you see that majority of robberies don't result in arrests. If we were applying your logic, we'd conclude that clearly society/the police don't have a policy of catching robbers.

[1] For the purposes of this argument, we can further presume we're robbing a Bad Person (eg. anti-abortion protesters if you're a liberal) to get past any ethical considerations

[2] https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
Honestly, all upgrades and additional functions in a fridge/freezer are fundamentally flawed. Large partitioned box that gets cold, compressor system to make that so, some seals and a defrost circuit. That's all a fridge should be. No ice maker, no water dispenser, no french doors, no drawers.
> By now we all know that Perplexity AI, ChatGPT and all the other LLMs are able to answer your questions just like Google does (oftentimes even better, without the unnecessary clutter).

nope they haven't been able to, the responses are slower, worse quality, incorrect, outdated and gives me a long-winded answer instead of giving me a short and direct answer

> You made an effort to say “please” and “thank you”.

nope i havent

> Probably you have also thought about how to prompt your chatbot in a way that “it” didn’t feel stressed out in anticipation of a superior result (“imagine yourself in a calm and focused state”). Or maybe you have even looked up the best ways to prompt your LLM to get the best result (very meta…).

nope i havent
Same here. My solution was to use the Brave browser and setup custom filters to block the doomscrolling part of the website. I did it with Reddit and youtube, so now no video is shown in the homepage of Youtube, and no list of posts shown in Reddit.

Still, I can use the search bar of youtube, and I can access single Reddit post (from a google search for example).
Aside from being carriers of disease, mosquitoes have been identified as fulfilling an insignificant biological niche. My knee jerk suspicion is that snakes are more important to an ecosystem.
Friendly reminder to follow advice from a number of papers, not just a single one.
> Can't folks decide that the price is too high?

If you look at drug addicts as a group, the answer is often a direct and emphatic “no, they can’t” - the drug alters the way they perform that price calculus such that many of them will spend their last dollar, go deeply in debt, and do terrible things to continually chase a high. Drug policy has had many failures in the US, but there does seem to be a correct nugget of recognition that “some drugs seem to be fundamentally destructive to those that get addicted, and to the broader society that has to deal with the consequences of those who are addicted”.

Gambling in many people seems to have the same effect on altering price calculus in a way similar to addictive drugs, which at leasts motivates a reasonable discussion whether benefits of allowing it exceed the harms it causes those individuals and society.
I’m currently teaching myself piano and saw this video a few weeks ago. I can barely read music (only 3 weeks in!) and this video still didn’t provide a compelling alternative!

Tabs make sense for guitars but the treble + bass staffs are easier to read for piano.
https://archive.is/p2Xi7
The little old lady at church is basically GG Allin
Doesn't 1 second of database downtime just mean that a ticket that is scanned during that 1 second window will take 1.5-2 seconds to scan instead of, say, 500ms? Why would that result in 10 minutes of troubleshooting?
I had a 486 dx4/100 there was a checkbox in winamp options you needed to tick in order to be able to play mp3's, I've long since forgotten what it was labelled but when you checked the tickbox it worked and audio played correctly but basically pegged the entire cpu - forget about skipping or being able to seek within the track. Just moving mouse cursor etc. was massively delayed the whole computer was unusable until the track finished playing.

My next computer after the dx4 was a Pentium 166 MHZ - it could play mp3's and Quake simultaneously.
Do you mean debezium? It’s relatively easy to set that up, what is not trivial is translating data types between various databases.
This is super awesome!

The trouble I ran into was after eating the ghost, the spawn point of the new ghost was too close to my current position and simply sped over me.

With this and all the considerations you've noted above, I'd probably throw an ML solution at it - imagine it takes less coding time.
I like to fix things rather than throwing them out and am glad I was able to restring a couple of blinds that didn't work in our new house. This site is where I buy.

If only there were similar sites for other home products. Currently on my list is the soap dispenser for the dishwasher which is nearly impossible to tell which part to order (and I don't want to replace a $500 appliance for what should be a $20 piece of plastic).
Of course! that's why I put it in italics .
> in terms of Westboro, they very clearly advocate actual direct violence.

They did? When I learned about them in law school, we only covered their unsavory protesting at military funerals, which did not involve advocating violence. What did they do that advocated direct violence?
> The relationship trend was observed in the WHO regions except in SEARO
The author is simply wrong in this case. To make sure I was giving him the benefit of the doubt, I just went to store.app and added Microsoft Loop to my Home Screen in about 5 seconds. It was easier and faster than installing a native app!
FYI your resume docs link seems to be broken.
Speaking the need of OCRs, I found a comment relevant and quite funny

> we already have a common, portable data format for social media. It's screenshots of tweets

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38841569
It's not exactly Flatland or everything you describe, but there is an old arcade game named Pac-Mania where Pac can jump over the ghosts in 3D but they only move in 2D.
When I hear the word shibboleth for some reason I think of Cthulu. Like, if Yog Sothoth and Shib-Nuggarath had a baby, they'd name it shibboleth.
Occam’s Razor says the reason McDonalds doesn’t is because the app /makes them more money/.
"Chrultrabooks" are neat projects if you have a Chromebook kicking around, e.g., one that may be past its OS end-of-life date and you want to squeeze some more use out of it. If you're just looking for "a laptop to run Linux on", scoring a used or refurbished ThinkPad is going to be the most straightforward way to get that. You will probably get more CPU oomph and memory out of the ThinkPad than all but the most high-end of Chromebooks (which will cost significantly more).
YugabyteDB is a distributed Postgres and their storage layer is called DocDB, a slightly modified RocksDB.
It's not really irrelevant that only China wants this. The people of Taiwan don't want their freedoms taken away. I've been there and the fear is pretty strong. Especially after seeing what came of Hong Kong's promises of "One Country, Two Systems". I think that it goes against the wishes of the population is a big point against calling it a reunification.

The only reason they don't want to declare independence is that they're afraid it will provoke the CCP into a military response. This is where the wishy-washy stance comes from. Not from uncertainty of what they want.

But if it happens it will be against the wishes of the Taiwanese people. If the mainland would become a democracy I could see this happen, though trust would have to be built up over decades.

> The Democratic Republic of Germany was never under the control of the Federal Republic of Germany before the reunification, this is irrelevant.

No but because of this the west had no legitimate claim to the east. The people of the east wanted to be included. This is why it happened, as it should. There was a clear mutual benefit and wish to do it. In the case of Taiwan it's just about the CCP wishing to take its ancient enemy out of the game, even though it no longer poses any threat at all.
But I'm asking why in some markets there are known relatively trustable sites, but not in others. What causes that? I also assume it varies dramatically by culture, language, region, population, period in history. Why? If you deny it varies, what maintains that? There either is a conservation principle (which must have some mechanism for maintenance) or there isn't (in which case variation probably relates to other aspects of reality, and what are they?)
this one really hit me at just the right time as a book I've really been enjoying, Thanks for the Feedback, has been lying unread on my shelf as I increasingly had decided the need to jot down everything that might be important as a read

previously, i devoured, and loved, difficult conversations by the same authors and found quite a lot of things that resonated with me personally and professionally. some of these i've continued to use and integrate into my daily job as an assistant principal with staff, students, and parents, with great effect

the long and short of it is that i gleaned quite a lot from simply reading through one book while stalling out on the second in an attempt to get everything out of it that i can. it is clear to me that simply reading through the first one was not only an experience enjoyable for it's own sake but also helpful in my day to day

i'd say this hits on a few things that have come about to me recently

- embracing finitude, ala four thousand weeks by oliver burke, that we can't and won't be able to learn or know everything while simultaneously embracing the fact that it is okay to simply do something for the sake of enjoyment, feeling awe, etc.

- people tend to change in fits and spurts and massive changes are relatively uncommon in a short time span. think of oneself as a growing plant as opposed to a suddenly exploding fire

- i've long felt that we think and understand the world around us in metaphors. read this in 'metaphors with live by' in college and since then the connections have tended to be endless. i'd say i am moving towards a different metaphor for people, not sure exactly how i'd word it, but it is moving away from humans as a machine or time is money and more towards humans a plant needing care and cultivation and..i don't have one for time yet
The entire point of quicksort is that it doesn't allocate and its inner loop is very tight (especially if you don't use Lomuto partitioning -- they teach Lomuto partitioning in school because the proof of correctness is easier).

Writing it in the naive functional-like style is fun and instructive, but it doesn't quite strike at the heart of what quicksort is about.

It's an example of an instance where the functional setting makes it harder to reason about the program.
I really need to write up my wishlist for PG into a blog post. There is so much to love about it, but it could be so much more. Would love to see some other table formats like column stores, better hash indexes, and tons of SQL improvements - plus something done about connections so we could have so many more without them being resource hogs or taking a long time to connect. Serverless talking to a database sucks.
It's like a modern cannonball. They say a 20kg "solid sphere" traveling at 4x the speed of sound could disable a tank by exerting forces on bolts that connect the pieces together, but otherwise leaving the tank with the appearance of being mostly unharmed.
Yes, I thought these notes sometimes omit important bits as well. As a native Ghanaian, this was my comment on his notes on Ghana, which I posted before on HN:

> I'd say the article omitted the animus towards Nkrumah from the UGCC (his former party). This opposition was manifested in their attempts to derail his rule from independence to his overthrow (there is some evidence they were in cahoots with the CIA et. al). Thus, the popular reactions to Nkrumah's policies were not only based on their merits. Most Ghanaians actually think pretty well of Nkrumah's development trajectory.

This opposition, which forms the basis of one of Ghana’s main political lineages, called the UP tradition, is partly tribal in motivation. The Akans (the main ethnic group, who mostly support the UP tradition) see themselves as the central core of the nation, but their allegiance is mostly to the King. They have this sense of needing to take back control of the country, similar to the way white Americans might feel threatened by a supposed loss of control to minorities. But while the Akans have a can-do attitude, they are usually not good administrators and planners.

So I'd say this rivalry, based on resentment of the initial success of Nkrumah’s tradition in particular, and resentment of uppity minority ethnic groups in general, is a major factor in Ghana's perennial inability to realize its full potential.

This factor in Ghana's politics continues down to this day. Rawlings’ was a Ewe, as the article notes, and his (P)NDC was the third major political lineage in Ghana (after the UP and Nkrumah’s CPP). The UP tradition was again a thorn in their flesh, even before multi-party democracy was restored. The current president (from this same political lineage) is hated by many for taking the country back to a period of massive corruption and economic malaise. I'm not too political, but I tend to agree; he gives off the air of a 70s era politician, radically unprepared to lead a 21st century country, very corrupt, intolerant of criticism, not in control of things, and afraid of a coup. Many Ghanaians would claim that he was elected primarily based on support emanating from this conflict, and not because of demonstrating any competence.
It's true. And the creator has made many hundreds of games with this philosophy. All good!
Well, people also call SF "The City" but having grown up around NYC, it's a little hard to take that seriously.
They're also common in Germany, particularly on the ground floor of apartments.
Their "The Feed" is a feed of the newsletters which is interesting. I guess what I am thinking is more along the lines of if those were in a more condensed feed with a TL;DR type summary above it. I am also thinking of a UI that is more of a passive quiet updating feed that isn't distracting.
In the mid-90s, a local dial-up ISP sent their support calls to me. I once put a local retiree couple online and went on my way. About 6 months later I came back to fix their connection which he promptly tested at a gambling site.

I also did service calls at their friends and neighbors. They said that since getting online he'd gambled away their retirement, maxed out their credit cards, got new cards & maxed those, took out a 2nd mortgage and gambled that off. That they'd lose the house was a certainty. The wife may not have known yet just how bad off they were.

I don't have a more depressing tech story.
Web applications are only ever capable of being "as good" as native apps could be a handful of years ago. It's a moving target.
That simplification seems counterproductive. There is obviously a spectrum of rationality that gets compromised by addiction. Be it heroin, alcohol, sugar or gambling.

There was a social engineering talk a while back that i cant find anyone where some sysadmin explained that just informing users they wanted to do something stupid was far more beneficial then just blocking their attempts.

Most of these addiction industries are profitable through addicts, the amount of cheap hard liquor bought by non-addicts is neglect able. Maybe just communicating with these people is far more sensible then banning something that people can also consume reasonably. Maybe somebody that spend his last 3 months rent on gambling wants to talk about how to not do that. While the notice on every visit is quite annoying.

Even if you cant let go of the demand for judicial intrusion altogether, maybe start with something like a one week detox after x months of behavior typical for an addict that lost control. It would likely get a lot of people over the diet hump they have been battling for years and sobering up long enough to reevaluate your life choices might not be the worst thing to do.
I'm not saying our democracies are perfect but I hella prefer living in Europe over living in China.
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“On a population aggregate level”

This isn’t a study that tracked individuals, they looked at population level aggregate statistics.

They attempted to predict average life expectancy using linear regression with just a seven, yes only seven, population level statistics. Wow I’m so surprised they found average meat consumption was predictive… not. I just wasted my time skimming that.
regulation is impotent when it targets industry specifics rather than regulating adversarial psychology elements and the behaviors themselves.

it's a nice feel-good political ticket for would-be politicians, but all it does is create an arms race whack-a-mole condition for every single new industry that pops up and requires new regulation.

considering gambling : in the U.S. we outlaw new forms of gambling all day, but never dare to touch concepts that empower the gambling like addictive behavior psychology, short-term high-interest legal loan-sharking, whatever. We just ban the specific sports-bet-whatever and wait for the next one to sprout up, it's largely ineffective, that's why we're still talking about it.
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Fascinating:

The accident became a watershed for global aviation regulations, which were changed in the aftermath of the accident to make aircraft safer. New requirements to install smoke detectors in lavatories, strip lights marking paths to exit doors, and increased firefighting training and equipment for crew became standard across the industry, while regulations regarding evacuation were also updated. Since the accident, it has become mandatory for aircraft manufacturers to prove their aircraft could be evacuated within 90 seconds of the commencement of an evacuation, and passengers seated in overwing exits are now instructed to assist in an emergency situation.
The best answer is to get at least some months of live classes with a local teacher.

He can teach you the basics and correct bad early habits in a way no distance learning method can.

She will also be able to keep you motivated during the initial step learning curve.

After you get the basics you can complement it with an app.

For that you would need a digital piano that can connect to a computer or tablet with an usb cable, or Bluetooth.

Accoustic pianos also work, but the app will be capturing the sound and not receiving MIDI electrical inputs, which is more error prone and can offer a worse experience when playing multiple notes together.

The best app is called Piano Marvel, but you can easily google other options too.
I'm not sure how those other browsers are in terms of memory requirements, but Dillo runs fine with low memory (assuming you load normally sized pages). Here is an example where Dillo opened the single page HTML5 spec, which is 12.9 MiB of HTML, and google.com (sizes in KiB):

% ps vp $(pgrep dillo)
PID TTY STAT TIME MAJFL TRS DRS RSS %MEM COMMAND
919059 pts/1 S+ 0:01 0 458 59425 46884 0.2 dillo https://html.spec.whatwg.org/
919584 pts/6 S+ 0:00 0 458 28589 17360 0.1 dillo https://google.com