skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NIST Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures[0]

Is there a specific subject area(s) of application? aka big data analytics[a] / data mining and web analytics[b] / streaming applications[c] / other

Random picks with mix of tutorials/examples/explainations/resouces from search engine term "probabilistic data structures": [1][2][3][4], probabilistic DS vs. postgresql[4]

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[0] : https://xlinux.nist.gov/dads/

[1] : https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/introduction-to-the-probabilis...

[2] : https://iq.opengenus.org/applications-of-different-data-stru...

[3] : https://dzone.com/articles/introduction-probabilistic-0

[4] : https://blog.devgenius.io/probabilistic-data-structures-1-de...

[5] : https://www.postgresql.eu/events/fosdem2020/sessions/session...

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[a] big data : https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335418069_Probabili...

[b] data mining / web analytics : https://highlyscalable.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/probabilisti...

[c] streaming : https://www.usaclouds.org/blog/streaming-with-probabilistic-...
Good point, although it would feel odd to spend what would amount to about $3500 after tax in CAD on a 3 y.o laptop, albeit a new 3 y.o laptop. For now I'll just stick it out with my Intel thing, since that $3500 is a more expensive $3500 than ever anyway, until my requirements get more demanding.
I trained an LLM to teach me to code better
The term "low-code" is in itself a compromise based on the very issue the author is identifying. The old term was "no-code", but too many people needed custom functionality.

Aside: The contrast on this website is really borderline. Extremely light gray, low font weight, white background. I thought we were past that particular trend in web design.
Oh looks like adobe sells one. But I’m not a fan of their software so I wonder if there are any other comparable options?
It sounds like you deal with some extreme circumstances! I wonder how common this sort of reaction is to disagreements between parents and kids. Growing up, all of my friends had parents who didn't let them to various things, including some who weren't allowed to have video games. But none of them (or any of my college or adult friends, so far as I knew) ever considered cutting off all contact with their parents, or even got all that upset about any of their parents rules (some did break rules from time to time).

I appreciate your sharing these stories, but I wonder if your perspective on likely outcomes is skewed by virtue of your chosen (and very noble) volunteer work. But regardless, thanks for sharing. I will be sure to not let things go off the rails in the way that you describe.
Yep, you misread it again.

“Full size” now =
“Compact” in the 80s

(Going by size)
CF is actually pretty good for server-side rendering. However, when mixing with JS it does get a bit convoluted.

I used it back in 2010-2014, and made some pretty nifty webapps to manage a tournament with brackets and live scores. I thought whoever designed it was bonkers, and the ones who bought into it, even more bonkers. But Ben Nadel showed me the way, bringing some sanity to the language.
Yes, there is Lucee; I never used it, but when I was briefly asked to take on some Coldfusion work almost two jobs ago, I remember that I found it looked to be a vibrant and actively developed community, far different than what we were seeing of CF upstream that appeared to be on life support. I did not get into it, I'm afraid my manager thought I might like it too much and I was asked to work on something else about when it started heating up :( too bad for me.

I also remember coming across something called Railo that appears to have come before Lucee.
The issue with traditional search engines is that keyword-first algorithms are extremely gameable.

Try https://search.metaphor.systems - it's fully neural embeddings-based search. No keywords, only an embedding of what the actual content of a webpage is.

So in the mentioned example of searching for Youtube downloaders, with Metaphor you'll get only Youtube downloaders (https://search.metaphor.systems/search?q=This%20is%20the%20b...)

Full disclosure - I work there :p
These reports are not full audits, although Tether would certainly like us to think they are! If you click into one of the reports, the auditors list the steps they took, and they're focused almost entirely on verifying the existence of Tether's self-reported assets on the report date. They would not, for example, have uncovered an FTX-style "hidden, poorly internally labeled fiat@ account" by following these procedures.

You'll also note that they're following the "International Standard on Assurance Engagements 300 (Revised) ~ Assurance Engagements Other than Audits or Reviews of Historical Financial Information", which heavily suggests that this is not an audit and they did not review historical financial information.
Wouldn't it be a good idea to pack a small battery into these mini servers? Even if it holds up for less than 30-mins, it would save all sorts of fluctuations, short breakages, and what not -- which will spare enough time to fix problems.
> By what measure? Most of the world is African and Asian, and those cultures are not individualistic.

They're certainly not at all anti-individualistic in the way Japan is.

> The Japanese system produces tremendous benefits: an orderly society where everyone behaves according to rules.

That's not something unique to Japan and the cost is too high. Japan also has numerous problems as a society.

> Individualism just makes it harder to build a nice society in spite of them.

That's honestly complete nonsense, as evidenced by every other nice society that isn't antagonistic towards individualism.

> Most western countries aren't as individualistic as America.

They're a hell of a lot closer to the US than Japan.

> given that the world is becoming more religious

It's really not. More and more people are questioning the faith they are born into and atheism is on the rise.

> Christianity was the glue holding American society together, and now that's breaking down we are seeing the consequences.

It's a fairy tale without evidence behind it, it would never survive long in an information age.
Maersk ship hit by missile in the Red Sea
ECS feels flat. I like flat. I would use ECS even if it was slower.
And Google search doesn't "generate" new content that potentially puts out of business the very same entities it learned from.
Elsewhere in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38816222
While I've made huge improvements to the algo recently, I do think Marginalia Search got a bit lucky with the sample queries, as it is still IMO far more hit and miss than many alternatives, but that also speaks for how hard evaluating search quality is.

Its efficacy is also strongly dependent on understanding that it's a keyword search engine with no semantic understanding.
The question was how is the value of the labor of an author different from the value of the labor of a plumber. There is a difference, and part of the difference is that if someone wants another sink installed tomorrow, they have to hire the plumber again to do another days work, while the authors work can be copied for free and, if allowed, a company will happily pay the author $50 one time, and then resell that same work 500 million times over for $50 each.

The point was not to defend the current copyright system and certainly not some of the more notable abusers. You asked a question, and that that is one part of the answer. Writing a book or doing any form of creative information-product work is different from doing physical-product or service work.
I like them a lot because they inject a little bit of empirical or heuristic thinking into problems. For this particular problem I immediately reached for graphviz to get an idea of what the circuit looks like and it made it obvious what the solution was.

It's much closer to how real world engineering problems work where you have to do a little bit of investigation and maybe find some creative way to constrain your problem that nobody explicitly tells you about. Much prefer it to the 'here are the exact five keywords so you know what CS class algorithm you need to use' kind of thing.
I understand what you're saying now, my comment was pretty flippant in retrospect. I didn't mean to devalue the NYT's work, my suggestion was hypothetically intended to liberate the free moat OpenAI got from the fruit's of NYT's labor. In retrospect it's obvious that putting GPT's model in the public domain is also putting NYT's work in the public domain, but that hadn't occurred to me. Thanks for the food for thought. Now I kind of like the idea of destroying the existing models if a royalty system can't be figured out, sort of a "reset" to force them to do it properly.
I feel like you could reboot yahoo directory and have more utility that most searches.
It's blatantly illegal under federal law to sell used items as new, full stop, end of story. But Bezos gets invites to the white house pretty regularly so it seems federal regulators get the message that enforcement against Amazon is a no-go.
For those unfamiliar with Android dev, .dex files are Dalvik Executables, which are used to hold a set of class definitions and their associated adjunct data.

https://source.android.com/docs/core/runtime/dex-format
Do you know what % of users use GMail vs Outlook? I am genuinely curious as I am also targeting GMail users to start with based on a hunch.
Yep. It’s been running my large-ish website for over a decade. Performance, reliability etc are all off the charts compared to any other ecosystem I’ve used.
This is wrong. General Relativity tells us exactly how mass (or rather energy) affects spacetime. This has nothing to do with relative distances. The issue with wormholes and warp drives in general relativity is that they require weird forms of energy that we know exist in quantum mechanics, but may not work on macroscopic scales.
I've been ordering stuff online for two decades and "badly packed stuff" is nothing new, I assure you.
Agree with all of this.
Apps are so much better on iOS. I have been on Android since the G1, but switched to iPhone with the 14 Pro Max.

Here were the apps I switched to using when moving over to iOS. I consider every switch superior on iOS vs what I was using on Android.

JuiceSSH: ShellFish
OneTracker: Parcel
Smart AudioBook Player: Prologue
Plex client: Infuse is superior to Plex and direct-plays everything
MX Player: Infuse replaces MX Player for local playback too
Plex Dash: Varys (Plex Dash is also available on iOS, but Varys is superior)
Embiggen: Big
Markor: 1Writer
RealCalc: RPN 30
Overdrop: Apple Weather
Shredder Chess: Hiarcs & Shredder Chess.
SwiftScan: ScanPro (I use this to scan work receipts)
Todo app - Things (and Superlist)
In the 90's I saw a poster calling for ColdFusion developers to apply, in one of those backlit poster stands, in the mall. That's how crazy the job market was.
I use serpapi for my hot RAG and the results are fine.

Brave search API is obscenely overpriced. I hope someone is working on Search because Google has become a singularly garbage company. Propping up DEI is sinful enough but just failing to compete is lame. /shrug
Which, to be fair, is really the correct thing to teach since in the vast majority of cases that's where the fault is!

On the other hand, I find a lot of bugs. Not in things as refined as compilers, usually, but if I had a dollar for every time I've heard, "Well, nobody else has reported this before," I could probably buy a tank of gas. And that's saying something today.

Latest example: Amazon's Web site rejects all phone numbers entered on an Apple Silicon Mac. I was setting up a new address, and it said "remove invalid characters from phone number field:" https://i.imgur.com/mjwiCqc.png

This happened in both Safari and Firefox. Amazon support couldn't figure it out in 1.5 hours of chat. I went to an Intel Mac and entered the exact same number, no problem.
I ran both multiple times, alternating (and making sure to clean out the indexes in between). Results were reasonably consistent across runs.
Do search engines censor political topics these days? If you search "truthsocial" on ddg, the truthsocial.com website is the first hit. But if you search "trump truthsocial", it doesn't give you trump's truthsocial page, and doesn't even give you truthsocial.com within the first few pages of search results.

Since ddg uses bing, does anyone know what is happening here at bing? It looks like google results are similar.
I noticed that the author uses ChatGPT3.5 rather than 4, which is a rather large difference. I don't have the knowledge to rerank all questions the author asked, but I will say that a test of ChatGPT 4 leads me directly to youtube-dl, which is better than every other search engine listed.
Ask HN: Do we love Wasabi Object Store?
Hey community,
I am new to HN. Thanks for having me. Happy holidays!

I am evaluating options to replace Cloudflare R2 storage. Honestly I don't need features, just a S3 API compatible storage and zero egress fee's.

To me, object storage seems crazy expensive for getting started. And yes, there are tons of arguments in the enterprise world pro AWS S3 etc.

Anyone experience, used alternative object stores at TB scale without spending extra dimes on AWS, Cloudflare etc. Wasabi seems legit and fairly priced.
To me it is only due to the ads, google and bing return nothing but ads on the first page. Plus for me to have the joy of seeing these ads, I need to got through a CAPTHA that I need to try multiple times.

But all in all, a very good article
>it's fully neural embeddings-based search. No keywords, only an embedding of what the actual content of a webpage is.

What prevents websites from gaming their embedding? Switching to a similarity search doesn't prevent the results from being gamed.
How is that different from keywords? Embeddings aren't magic, they're just page content. Content is trivial to game since it's controlled by the website owner.

edit: The results are also from my quick QA not that great. Searching for "what is the best mouse to buy" leads to links to buy random mice versus review summaries or online discussions on mice. One of the recommended queries of "Here is a great fun concert in San Francisco" leads to some really bizarre results in non-English languages that have nothing to do with either SF or concerts.

edit2: Also, Google has been using LLMs part of their search since at least 2018 so definitely not just keyword matching there.
Question for those who've done both web and game dev: am I right in thinking that jQuery's like ECS, and React is more like (what the article calls) "parent, parent, parent"?

Context: I'm an aged web dev with very little game dev experience, and I did less frontend after React appeared. In my limited experiences with React, it's much more about declaring React components (not ECS components) in terms of other components, so it's structure based rather than attribute based. Whereas jQuery feels more like ECS, since code mostly spends its time querying across the DOM and attaching behaviours to objects (nodes) based on attributes.

Obviously I'm massively generalising here, and web apps tend to behave very differently to games. But it does explain a little about why jQuery feels more adaptable as a web app grows.
I'm working my way through the HandsOnRust book that guides you through creating a simple roguelike using Rust and Legion ECS. It's a really enjoyable experience so far, and I'm looking towards trying out Bevy ECS afterwards to compare the two.

https://github.com/thebracket/HandsOnRust
You can ban flash photography (which does cause fading) but any attempt to ban regular photography depends on superstition, not science.
I installed this, and nothing happened. no start menu entry, no taskbar icon, nothing. According to powershell, it put stuff in %userprofile%\.config, but that's it.

Where did everything else go? This ran and disappeared like a miner.

the localhost:22120 didn't load anything.
Yeah, I'm not sure how I concluded you could go from volume to area.
I am not the person you asked the question to, but my recommendation would be;

1) Discovering Modern C++: An Intensive Course for Scientists, Engineers, and Programmers by Peter Gottschling - Not too thick and focuses on how to program in the language.

2) Software Architecture with C++: Design modern systems using effective architecture concepts, design patterns, and techniques with C++20 by Adrian Ostrowski et al. - Shows how to use C++ in the modern way/ecosystems i.e. with CI/CD, Microservices etc.

Optional but highly recommended;

a) Scientific and Engineering C++: An Introduction with Advanced Techniques and Examples by Barton & Nackman - Old pre-Modern C++ book which pioneered many of the techniques which have now become common. One of the best for learning C++ design.
The !bang directory for Kagi is honestly pretty good, found some cool sites there:
https://duckduckgo.com/bangs
Show HN: Orb-Ag – An "Observe and Report" Buddy (SRE Tooling)
I'm a big fan of the non commercial site search engines because of the gaming aspect. If you're not generating revenue from the clicks the game mostly goes away.

I'm not saying people aren't entitled to make some money, but it clearly incentivizes user hostile behavior.

Maybe make it an option because legitimate sites like journalism also use this model.
Pretty sure that started with Sputnik
I love wordle games and this seems like a fun addition! On mobile (Android, Firefox/Chrome), I can't figure out how to spin words longer than 2 letters long, it just flashes red or spins the letters immediately after I tap the second letter
I have recently started using kagi after seeing a recommendation here.

From what I understand, it aggregates results from multiple sources rather than having their own indexer.

The results aren’t really any better, but the lack of ads and videos in the results makes for a cleaner experience.

I also haven’t yet taken advantage of the extra features to block certain websites from results.

Personally, I pay the $5 mostly in an attempt to support another competitor in the space.
> Not that I'd encourage anyone to do this at all

Why so?
A possible problem would be the refresh lasting longer than the access and remaining unexpired, instead of expiring at the same time - but tbh it's unclear to me whether it is the problem as described.
> The main reason there isn't is because e-ink tech is controlled by a company with a strict and expensive licensing arrangement

When? Where? How? Is this based on your direct experience? Please share some evidence so that your claims can be verified.
The return of something like Yahoo Directory would be most welcome. There is great utility in having more than one approach into a data space. That we have been stuck with essentially one way in for over a decade means that there is a great deal out there which would be great to access but which has been rendered invisible.
Interestingly there is no paradox for convex shapes, like measuring tape forms.
Yeah. Search isn't the issue. Even inbox zero people archive all their emails anyway. They don't delete them.

Inbox 20,000 makes sense for a lot of people btw. Depends on your work and how important being organised with your email is to you.

Many people just declare email bankruptcy and don't care.

If you are on a very high number of emails, you can just archive the last 19,800 and go from there.
And then unsubscribe from a lot of your key email offenders.
Definitely more profitable not to. Especially as Google is an ad company, not a search company.

I’d rather see a world with numerous paid/subscription search engines, that are motivated to do nothing but return search results well. I expect you would see some of the SEO crap getting solved.
> ”Note the subtle shift”

It’s not subtle. It’s overt & being externally communicated.

Wall Street this past year began crushing non-profitable companies.

The pendulum has swung back from the years where growth was all that mattered.

It’s now back to focus on profitability.

The pendulum will swing back again at some point as well.

It’s cyclical.
I've was never willing to riot over Napster - this is different.

This is one of the substantial jumps, I refuse to be cut out of this innovation.

Seriously, use Bing, try your free Photos built in generation system, they are rolling out GPT built into Word. Microsoft is easily the advanced tech company right now, as far what services can be provided to a consumer at scale. This is still like the alpha phase of all this. Apparently I talk to Copilot soon - that levels that up so much and it's already the best assistant I've ever had.

This is equivalent to trying to keep us all off smartphones and stuck on dumb phones I guess - I think you get what mean.

The NYT decided for all of us, the new smartphone equivalent thing is bad and we can't have it... that is something I'll riot over.
I don't know. But easily 50%+ of people I've spoken to / surveyed use Gmail.
The Twenty Fiver Year Journey of Magic: The Gathering
Interesting, similar to these evolutionary swarm models
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3iRTIWrJn8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEobkdbCrvQ
Sure - it will take on different form
You can also use fzf with ripgrep to great effect:

[1]: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/blob/master/ADVANCED.md#usin...
You can also see when we deploy each time on GitHub: https://github.com/elie222/inbox-zero/deployments
The report gives a very bad explanation of quantum teleporting. It's imposible to send the the info from B to A, if you only send something from A to B.

In particular, the nice graphic showing how the fingerprint is send from the client to the bank has no arrow in the client->bank direction in the PR, but in the research paper it has one (Fig 1). I've seen it before, so I guess sciencealert copy&pasted a bad PR.

This is wrong:

> However, it wasn't teleportation in the standard sense. While the information itself wasn't transferred (like it would be over an internet connection for example), the careful measurement of a specific feature on one of the entangled particles immediately affects the related feature on the other, effectively transmitting its quantum state.

This is correct:

> By then transferring actual details of the original measured particle the old-fashioned non-teleporting way, it's possible to lock that state in place, while the original state is destroyed. While it might not be a faster way to send information, it does create a handy quantum watermark for any information you don't want anybody else to see.
Yeah developers sometimes overrate precision when in reality being precise is not as good as getting the job done
Power Automate Cloud already has an AI builder, you type in "At 4pm every day check my Outlook inbox for an email from Suzie Snowflake, and if it says Critical, then check Sharepoint for a file from Integration Services and if its contents contain the string "Blorb" then send an email to Escalation"

the result is often slightly wrong, but if someone in MS management is paying attention and could get it to ChatGPT-python level of accuracy, it would take over an enormous amount of stuff.
Based on what reasoning...?

You sound really confident so I'm assuming there is some substance here.
An omnidirectional treadmill does not seem like a pleasant experience. If you actually wanted to be able to move around it would need to be very big so that it could get away with moving slowly, it would be noisy, it would be expensive, you would need to have good balance as the floor moves out from underneath you.
Depends on gravity of the body and its atmospheric pressure and related variables (wind speed, temperature, composition - lead bullet could meld on Venus, etc.).

Low gravity & no atmosphere- bullet reaches escape velocity and wanders off to space.

Very high atmosphere & fired high up above ground (if any - eq. gas giant) and bullet might take quite a while to fall.