skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>by time you pop in somewhere to use the bathroom and grab a coffee or snacks you're pretty much good to go.

I really think these comments are just EV driver rationalization. You really spend 30-45 minutes at a rest stop on road trips? When we take road trips we spend almost no time stopped. Even if we're eating, it's in the car. I can't even imagine stopping multiple times for 30-45 minutes to recharge, that is not the same as "going to the bathroom and grabbing a snack". That takes like 5 mins tops, the rest is just wasting time you could be on the road.
> I'm little surprised Java beat .NET. Is that typical these days?

Not at all, this is just a bad benchmark, it measure from the CLI run, with no specific flags which is just terrible for cold starts.
It's arguably the difference between being a utility (the phone company passes all calls through; if someone makes a death threat through it that's not their problem) and a publisher (if the NYT publishes an editorial calling for the murder of some random person, that's very much the NYT's problem). Definite fuzziness around the edges, tho.

EDIT: Though now I think of it, even with this analogy, blocking phone numbers when directed to by the government wouldn't normally threaten a phone company's status...
> The US Navy ship has every right to be there under international law, and its reason for being there is to repel attacks on civilian shipping that also has every right to be there.

Every right to go to another countries waters and kill it's solders who are imposing a blockade ordered by their government? - A blockade that has killed 0 people I would add.

I mean the US can't possibly give in to these terrorists demands right - to stop bombardment of civilians and let in humanitarian aid....

For clarification, do you believe preventing aid from entering gaza under the threat of violence is self defense, but preventing ships from going through the red sea trade route is terrorism? - I mean these ships are informed that they are breaking a blockade and chose to continue anyway, and still no civilians have been hurt.
Sounds like they need a systems that actually gets remembered and referenced if they want to stick to 1 year expiries.
Yeah, you seem to be right :)
Does one actually manage to avoid such outages for 10 years by making the problem recur every month? 'cause I feel like stuff would still break even if you test and run them regularly.
I remember this being shown last year already...

Found the link: https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/sars-co...

AFAIK they even attributed the organ failures to the failures in mitocondrial energy production.
I have a VN that I have wanted to complete for years. Having built and deployed using RenPY, the problem is something I wonder if Rosebud can support:

1) I'm a programmer not an artist. If I give a description of a character can the AI create a 2D version of it that will be consistent?

2) I'm a programmer not an artist, if I give a description of a scene/background can the AI create a 2D version of it that will have proper perspective for the character, and that will look similar later in the game when they return there?

3) I'd like to add flexibility to routes. Can I start a route out and then let the AI and the player interact to take it beyond the starting point?
> I really wish Vim would add Neovim's Lua API

If by that you want Vim to become compatible with Neovim Lua plugins, Vim will have to add and maintain compatibility with the whole Neovim non-Lua API as well (new functions, options etc). This will never happen.
Glad you enjoyed it! This is an implementation from one of our users. Anyone can publish games at any time, so some of them might still be works in progress. This could be a great time to clone that project and try to add the changes you mentioned!
If i had a nickle for every time Goldman Sachs has been wrong I would never have to work again
I'm not exactly a Trump fan, but this isn't necessarily any sort of smoking gun. Trump's business empire has a lot if properties, and foreign officials stayed at some of them. Did they do so more than before he was President? If not, then there is no impropriety.

Rather like Congress and their stock trading: one really needs to demand that federal officials put their investments and businesses into a blind trust while they are in office.
This kind of thing just reeks of shortsightedness.

Having one lucky prick who sure maybe worked a little hard maybe not decide what to do for humanity with his money that he won through predatory means is dumb. Garbage in garbage out, anyone who is focused on mind fucking the worlds population in order to get a little richer is not going to give away anything in an effective manner.

When we stop having zuckerbergs, gates buffets and so on we probably will see improvement.
https://www.pasteur.fr/en/press-area/press-documents/covid-1...

there is also the small matter of... viral persistence
There is an interesting nuance to this point! Definitely agree with you that we should add more safeguards to the system, but this messaging implementation actually belongs to the user that created the game. Technically, in this case, we are the user that made that game (we provided some examples for new users) so we can fix it - but otherwise the users are free to implement functionality however they want in these games.

This kind of "do whatever you want" system is what we're hoping will open an exciting design space over time, but it definitely adds a lot of complexity and opportunity for things to go wrong :joy:
> How did the monarchs of europe stay in power?

By being the centre of a network of long-term two-way relationships with 'nobles' who had delegated authority to control the wider population (and who in turn delegated power downwards). Ultimately the base provided food and other essentials, and in turn the monarch maintained / enforced the necessary social constructs, by violence if necessary. If the monarchs lost the support of their immediate subordinates, they were toast. The wider population had very little power at an individual level, and lacked the means to sustain widespread uprisings.

None of these monarchs were oligarchs in a bunker.

[Edit]. Control of vast tracts of land was essential: your ability to maintain a powerbase depended a lot on how well you could marshal the necessary natural resources (primarily food). It was common for the nobles to be rewarded with large tracts of land from which luxuries could be skimmed off, and armies raised if necessary. Again, this is nothing like a bunker. The rulers (and their subordinates) had to maintain a continuous strong presence across their land to ensure the continual flow of raw material and manpower, which they couldn't do while hiding.
... as a tech demo, with a single satellite in orbit, and it was actually less than a year ago. They haven't yet launched any more satellites and neither has anyone else. A commercial service will require dozens up to thousands of satellites. SpaceX just multiplied the number of satellites capable of this in orbit by 7.

Why is everyone trying so hard to shit on this? It's going to be awesome when we have truly global commercial cellular coverage that works with unmodified existing phones. SpaceX is almost certainly going to be the first to get there, but I hope many competitors get there soon after.
Not that simple: Most of these Chinese fishing boats are classified as Chinese Merchant Marines, a devision of the Chinese Military, so sinking them is an act of war. This is a real headache for managing illegal Chinese Fishing of Vietnam waters and other countries within the 9 and 11 dashed lines.
If you don't think discarding the fastest is acceptable then why are you in favor of discarding the slowest?
> > Are you saying SpaceX isn't innovating?

Innovation serves as a means to an end, like for example mRNA vaccines solved a big problem like COVID.

SpaceX doesn't solve any problem, 90% of the global population lives in urban areas, they connect to the internet using cell towers propagating 3/4/5G and good old fiber or fiber+copper

The remaining 10% is too poor so they cannot afford it, and they are also unskilled so if they want a shot a decent life they'd have to move to cities too where they can start as manual laborers and slowly climb the social ladder, they'd have to do it either independently or thanks to help from NGOs, UNICEF, UN, Doctors without borders etc. To put it bluntly fast internet is the last of their necessities.

SpaceX is textbook SV self dealing and wealth isolation where a bunch of assholes (led by the Chief Asshole of SV) who want to play with rockets and get paid for it , so they try to retroactively find a pitch to sell to VCs and asset managers to finance their play time and they do so by pitching them stuff like:

"Internet on your 10M sailboat" or

"Internet on your 2M Luxury RV"

And of course they get billions because VCs are also loaded and so they painted themselves so much in the corner with their wealth that the only thing that makes them enthusiastic is thin marginal improvement to trophy assets like a 10M sailboat or a 2M luxury RV, stuff that is totally uncorrelated with what regular consumers want or what the economy at large needs.
I’m not a pen guy. I mainly use pencils. The kuratoga is the best mechanism and the twist-erase is the best eraser.

I hacked together some prototypes of the two together using a pipe cutter and a 3d printer.

https://ruby.social/@Schneems/111115448981873661
Also, in fountain pen terms, Safaris are so reasonably priced that you can dedicate one to a specific ink. I mention using Baystate Blue. I might not put that in the same pen where I'd later use, say, yellow ink, but I don't have to.
Std: Linalg: Linear Algebra Coming to Standard C++ – Mark Hoemmen – CppCon 2023 [video]
The entire office found a rooftop to watch it fly over for its final. Simply amazing to see.
I was expecting the linked study to support your hypothesis that fear of covid-19 causes long-covid, but unfortunately it was just a writeup of 1 person's opinion of something that might have happened nearly a century ago, with literally 0 experimental methodology (because it appears to be an op-ed rather than an experiment?)

Your hypothesis doesn't seem super likely, though I'd entertain the theory if there were a study showing a linkage here. But as for your literal question, I don't think anyone supposes you specifically must do anything. After all, what's 1 person out of billions?
I remember getting a Bic 4-color pen as a kid - it was very exciting.
I really like this! Have been working on a tangential project which aims to get Nvim running in a multitude of different places (like inside Docker containers) and the lighter the Nvim distro the better. Great work!
If you think it's painful, why not write with your right hand instead? Just because you are a lefty that doesn't mean you have to artificially limit yourself into doing things a painful way.
A lot o today's journalistic content should more properly be tagged as covert advertising. To facilitate this, media editors have hired science beat reporters with apparently very little science background - and their job is to repeat what the designated experts - the ones the editors have assigned them to interview - more or less verbatim. They don't want reporters asking the experts probing questions of any kind, that's not in the job description, and the reporters don't even know what kinds of questions to ask.

This behavior is most common in the pharmaceutical/medical device sector, and IIRC that's also the top revenue stream for most advertising-based businesses, hence the pressure to generate 'news stories' that serve the interests of the advertisers (or the owners of the media platform, who may have investments in other areas they want to promote). A good recent example is the hype effort surround the weight-loss drug Ozempic, but it's been a pattern of behavior for some decades now, although I imagine social media platforms are currently getting a large fraction of the outlay:

https://www.statnews.com/2015/12/11/untold-story-tvs-first-p...

> "The industry had won. Spending on all direct-to-consumer advertising ballooned from $360 million in 1995 to $1.3 billion in 1998. By 2006, it hit $5 billion, and most of that was on television commercials."
There are studies that are supposedly showing that people with multiple reinfections suffer more long covid:

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/75-006-x/2023001/article...

But that study itself notes:

> People that had their first infection early in the pandemic, though, were also more likely to report multiple COVID-19 infections. For example, in this study the average date of first infection for those with three or more infections was May 2021, compared to September 2021 for those with two infections, and May 2022 for those with one infection. Those infected earlier in the pandemic, before vaccination and the emergence of the Omicron variant were more likely to develop long-term symptoms, but also had more time since their first infection to become infected with COVID-19 again.

This is also all self-reported surveys. That means that they're selecting for people who will self-report questionnaires, which is incredibly highly biased.

Immunologically it doesn't make a lot of sense to me and there's no theoretical foundations for how this could be happening. If its linked to people with susceptible genetics/biology (something like MHC subtype) then long COVID should stabilize affecting only that population. If it is due to autoimmunity then people who have formed healthy immune responses to COVID shouldn't increasingly be susceptible after the initial immune response is formed. Give it a few more years, and I strongly suspect that better studies come out finding that long COVID risks decrease over time (although they probably never go to zero, but it starts to look more like flu/cold risk of ME/CFS and that antibodies to vaccination/prior infection are actually protective, like one would logically expect).
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-44432-3
Products like [1] an oscilloscope probe with ±60,000V isolation.

[1] https://www.tek.com/en/products/oscilloscopes/oscilloscope-p...
That's fascinating. I'd imagine there are actually two equilibria/stable states possible under this rule: a small codebase with only the most effective optimization passes, or a large codebase that incorporates pretty much any optimization pass.

A marginally useful optimization pass would not pull its weight when added to the first code base, but could in the second code base because it would optimize the run time spent on all the other marginal optimizations.

Though the compiler would start out closer to the small equilibrium in its initial version, and there might not be a way to incrementally move towards the large equilibrium from there under Wirth's rule.
Show HN: RAGatouille, a simple lib to use&train top retrieval models in RAG apps
Hey HN!

If you’re at all interested in LLMs/LLM-apps, you’ve probably heard of RAG: Retrieval-Assisted Generation, i.e. retrieving relevant documents to give to your LLM as context to answer user queries.

Today, I’m releasing RAGatouille v0.0.1, whose aim is to make it as easy as can be to improve your RAG pipelines by leveraging state-of-the-art Information Retrieval research.

As of right now, there’s quite a big gap between common everyday practice and the IR literature, and a lot of the gap is because there just aren’t good ways to quickly try out and leverage SotA IR techniques. RAGatouille aims to contribute to that problem! We do have a bit of a roadmap to support more IR papers, like UDAPDR [1], but for now, we focus on integrating ColBERT[2]/ColBERTv2[3], super strong retrieval methods, who are particularly good at generalising to new data (i.e.e your dataset!)

RAGatouille can train&fine-tune ColBERt models, index documents and search those indexes, in just a few lines of code. We also include an example in the repo on how to use GPT-4 to create fine-tuning data when you don’t have any annotated user queries, which works really well in practice.

Feel free to also check out the thread and discussion on Twitter/X[4] if you're interested!

I hope some of you find this useful, and please feel free to reach out and report any bugs, this is essentially a beta release and any feedback would be much appreciated.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.00807
[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.12832
[3] https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.01488
[4] https://twitter.com/bclavie/status/1742950315278672040
What are you even talking about? EV's require far less ongoing maintenance than ICE cars and if you have charging at home, you're not stopping for gas all the time in the middle of errands etc. There are almost never "bugs" and if there are, most are taken care of by over-the-air updates whereas any problem in an ICE car requires you to go to a dealership.

My experience has been that 99% of EV owners I've talked to say they'll never buy another ICE vehicle.
> CAP theorem

the "eventual consistency" thing is what really threw me.

Weak Consistency may actually be a good thing? go figure...
You wouldn't, the Safari is too light and plasticky feeling. But the Pilot Metropolitan has a metal body that gives it a comparable heft to more expensive pens, and writes beautifully.

You might look at TWSBI fountain pens. They're still cheaper than your normal range, but very good quality, and offer some of the more fun mechanisms, like the pump pistons that fill the body itself with ink--in a clear body, it looks cool.
Longer Background/Explanation:

I’ve been working on RAG problems for quite a while now, and it’s very apparent that solving real-life problems with it is very, very different from the basic tutorials around.

There are a million moving parts, but a huge one is obviously the model you use to retrieve the data. The most common approach rely on just using dense embeddings (like OpenAI’s embedding models), and getting the documents that have the embedding vectors closest to the query’s own embedding.

The problem is that in practice, it’s a bit of a Sisyphean task: you’re asking a model to compress a document into a tiny vector. And then, it must also be able to encode a very differently worded query into another tiny vector, that must look similar to the previous vector. And it must do so in a way that can represent any specific aspect of the document that could be requested.

The result is that dense embeddings require tons of data to be trained (billions+ pertaining examples), are relatively hard to fine-tune (must find a hard-to-strike balance), and have been shown many times in the Information Retrieval (IR) literature to generalise worse outside of known benchmarks. This doesn’t mean they’re not a very useful tool, but there might be more suitable tools for retrieving your data.

In the IR literature again, late-interaction models, or “sparse embedding” approaches like ColBERT or SparseEmbed are clear winners. They train quickly, need less data, fine-tune relatively easily, and generalise very-well (their zero-shot performance is never far behind fine-tuned performance!)

This is because these models don’t encode full documents: they create bags-of-embeddings! It’s a twist on the old-timey keyword-based retrieval, except instead of hardcoded keywords, we now use contextualised semantic keywords. The models capture the meaning of all the “small units of content” within their context.

From there, a document’s represented as the sum of its parts. At retrieval time, “all you need to” is to match your query’s “semantic keywords” to the ones in your documents. It’s much easier for the model to learn representation for these tiny units, and much easier to match them.
So what’s the catch? Why is this not everywhere? Because IR is not quite NLP — it hasn’t gone fully mainstream, and a lot of the IR frameworks are, quite frankly, a bit of a pain to work with in-production. Some solid efforts to bridge the gap like Vespa [1] are gathering steam, but it’s not quite there.

[1] https://vespa.ai
It ain't easy, but it's not as absolutely impossible as you make it sound.

And thanks to multiple factors, it's becoming easier by the day.

https://old.reddit.com/r/avoidchineseproducts/
Is there a way to create this file without having java ?

This is for use on a BSD where Java may not work too well.

Thanks
This looks great!

I'd also like to know some more details. Is this akin to archive.org, or more akin to archive.today? Those have different use cases. I'd like more information than is present in the FAQ, for example, will this archive block users of cloudflare DNS?

I'd love to use an archive like archive.today, which is more dependable and less idiosyncratic in what users it allows, so this looks promising.
> you'll never be the star of the show.

This is far too kind. If you work eg for a hardware manufacturer, not only won’t you be the star, but good luck getting any respect. You are a cost. One they wish they didn’t have to pay. Delivering on time and under budget doesn’t put you on their radar, it takes you off.
That's a matter of perspective. Are you comparing to copper or to other electrically isolated power transmission tech?

A typical LED is 40% efficient and a typical solar panel is ~20% efficient. A typical Qi charger is ~50% efficient. I stopped using cables for portable devices a few years ago and use magsafe instead which is supposedly has 75% efficiency due to perfect alignment of the coils, but that's still nowhere close to the ~100% you get from copper cables.
The problem here is the retail price on things does not really drop.

using a Laptop as an example, prices of Laptops go UP every year, their price / performance ratio may improve...

So in this example if your 300 Mile range battery costs $15,000 today you may be able to get a 600 mile range battery for $15,000 in the future but you will unlikely be able to buy a 300 mile range battery for $8,000
Sit.
Happy New Year everyone. Now, please share with a friend who needs to sit the fuck down or enjoy the experience yourself.

Why I built it: https://sonnet.io/posts/sit/ and https://untested.sonnet.io/Projects+and+apps+I+built+for+my+...
https://www.consumerreports.org/media-room/press-releases/20...

I guess I'm just not buying that current EVs are more reliable than ICEs.
> We had smooth scrolling on the VT-100. I hated it. I found it far too slow, even on low baud rates.

It's a feature you can configure

> Personal taste, to each their own, but I hated it.

I have trouble understanding how someone can hate an optional feature. What you might hate is the default configuration.

I've heard people complain about desktop switching effects on hyprland, saying they are too slow. I've found they're helpful visual hints, but we all have different preferences for "speed"

By making the desktop switching effect happen within a smaller time budget, they are not intrusive at all. It's less "buttery smooth" but it feels better than the lack of animation, or the slowness of perfect buttery smooth: it's as if the visual system of the brain could use this extra information to better interpolate and keep a visual map.

If you want smooth scrolling in the terminal, yet want to scroll text very fast (like when looking for patterns inside binaries), maybe drawing the pixel lines by packets of 5 will achieve the speed you feel comfortable with, while still providing hints to your visual system.
Nice!

Although, some sections still say “this blog post” and it feels like a bunch of them stuck together with a need for some review maybe?
I've asked this before but why is this legally allowed or enforced? How is a hash of something equal to being the thing? Do copyright laws have specific sub-laws when it comes to digital media?

DMCA seems more like a hammer abused by corporations. It seems like laws are written solely for corporations.