skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly just loading all vectors in-memory (and stuff like sqlite, pgvector) is totally fine when you're dealing with O(100k) vectors, but beyond that all the workable options like pinecone get gnarly, slow, and ridiculously expensive.

The best option by far I know of is turbopuffer.com , which is like 100x cheaper than pinecone and seems to actually scale.

Since it's not listed in the suggested vector dbs section of the slides, wanted to lob it in as a solid suggestion :)
Hope Dang pins your comment.

The only way to get a consistent response from Unity is paying support.

Their store review queue takes months, now with the layoffs it will only get worse.

They are hurting themselves by not having your plugin. Feels like they are building their own solution but I bet it will take years to release and will be broken.

Unless you are selling the plugin, you shouldn't care. You can host it anywhere and the community will find it.
It's not even a big loss in clean energy. Oregon solar has been on a roll, their total solar capacity graph[1] shows a very hockey stick-shaped line for the past few years with no sign of letting up. I would wager the state will add more solar generation capacity than it lost from this dam in a matter of months if the trend (the graph ends in 2021) has held up. The eastern half the state is high desert and has plenty of sun.

[1] https://www.oregon.gov/energy/energy-oregon/Pages/Oregon-Sol...
Ahh ok we aren't talking specifics but more of a "general feeling about dams" from the layperson perspective.
> Explain how they don't.

Simple, because the intersection of all the interfaces of these different "file" types is nothing other than close(). At that point the abstraction has lost all ability to describe anything common better than just OS managed object. When a noun is used as an abstraction, this is often a good benchmark of utility, better than just your arbitrary preference.

File in computing may have always been an abstraction, but it started out in relation to some sort of data storage and an appropriate interface, usually also addressable by some index (a filesystem). If you have a object with open/close/read/write/seek, you at least have something. Then we drop seek, and add ioctl. Now the cracks have formed, but there is still something there, there is still data involved and things still have a common source: the file system.

But at this point these other fds, the only thing common is close().

You can try to go the a different (plan 9) route, but that requires something to tie these together, a filesystem. And that is not something the systems in question have.

> But in the end, words are allowed to have more than one meaning

But once an abstraction has lost its usefulness people do not have to go along with the stupidity. I don't even have much care about this. Call them files. But where it is a bit irritating people still go on to say "everything is a file" when describing useful attributes of modern UNIX likes as if this illustrates some deep insight of this abstraction. This "everything" involves one operation: throwing the thing a way. It's stupid.

We should retcon file as a shorthand for "roundfile".
Yes, of course, I completely agree and I plan to come to live in your home with you. I'll bring all my relatives also with me, so please plan your expenses accordingly.
Whether it be the thermal battery of the house, or something else, some form of storage or buffering is going to be needed. Therefore, not perfect correspondence.
Thanks. As a married cofounder myself living in California, if I were to early exercise my own stock options and file the election through Carta, my election could be invalidated by the IRS since my wife did not also sign it. This could lead to very unfavorable tax treatment on my personally held stock.

To mitigate these risks, it appears I should advise our general counsel and HR director about this issue with Carta immediately.
Could you rate the documentation generators based on how easy they are to consume?

I'd like to know how Sphinx, Docsy, MkDocs, Docbook, etc. compare in terms of being easy to semantically extract.
This is a more interesting article than I expected from the title. It goes into the history of how the US ended up on the imperial system instead of metric, including pirates in the Caribbean.
That's a terrible plot. I have no idea what the x-axis or the circle areas mean.
Honestly, a right-click option for "copy naked/root/plain domain" instead of copying the entire address with protocol would make sense for almost browser; they all ship with developer tools pre-installed.

Control click, shift+ctrl+c would work, there are many ways to do this.
80% of the orders haven't been cancelled.
It's actually because of ClearType that I hate screwing with layout.

This doesn't really effect the iPhone, but a lot of apps completely ignore your intended subpixel layout. Windows or X/Wayland can be set correctly, and many apps do handle that correctly, but many don't.

Many enable subpixel hinting when it is clearly disabled by the user. Want greyscale because your monitor fringes hard? Too bad. Want aliased because it is a low resolution display or you hate fuzzy fonts? Too bad.

Also, many apps do detect correctly, but only detect your primary monitor, not the monitor the window is on. Doesn't effect you if you're single monitor.

And to further shit on broken apps: there are apps that are already using DirectWrite on Windows, and are force overriding the correct (default) settings. Why?!?! You were so close!

And to shit on the Internet as a whole: people screenshotting text for their websites that have Vista-era Cleartype tuning clearly in it. Isn't so bad on RGB monitors, but almost unreadable on BGR or any V orientation.

And one last insult: DirectWrite and Freetype only support RGB, BGR, VRGB, and VBGR. There are many other weird ass configurations, such as LG C2s having RGBW (which causes extreme haloing on text), and another OLED panel (forgetting which monitor) has RBG (why?!).

So screw it. I won't use non-RGB monitors until we live in a world we're doing 300% DPI equivalent (ie, 5760x3240 in a 24"; best I can get in a commodity is 4k in 24", or 200%), and I can't see the subpixels anymore no matter how much I squint.
Microsoft can sell and host GPT with their own terms , so this was just PR from day one .

More likely they are anticipating public news about military usage sooner than later and removing this to Mitigate the pr damage .
Why most consulting is bullshit
The algorithm hype cycle keeps on turning. Voice assistants, self driving cars, and now LLMs. Each one represents an advancement, but nothing to justify the hopes and dreams people expect them to solve any minute now.

Every major company has been working on an AI assistant for the past year. Have any of them launched something useful?
So it does not provide good development experience as with Python, as said in that comment. Seems consistent to me? Nobody's comparing Fortran with C here.
Right. New kids will deliver you 50k LOC React frontend app with additional 1GB of `node_modules`, where you may actually feel good with PHP website sprinkled with jQuery.
Ah, totally fair, I was thinking more about hardware than the OS stuff. On my side, I prefered the rear fingerprint sensor and plastic (lighter, less slippery) on some earlier pixels. Nexus 5 was my favorite, I think I'd be happy with new guts in that phone (although waterproofing is nice).

On the OS side of things, when switching between activities, very rarely my last activity is to the right in the carousel rather than to the left. Because I can't predict when it happens, I can't mindlessly switch to my previous activity, which is surprisingly annoying.
Is there a difference between memorization + stochastic parroting if it is indistinguishable from human understanding?

If a hunk of metal looks like a car, sounds like a car, and drives like a car is it a car?
The Federalist Papers themselves point out that Constitution is not meant to be a perfect document, but merely the best that everyone could agree on.

"I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man. The result of the deliberations of all collective bodies must necessarily be a compound, as well of the errors and prejudices, as of the good sense and wisdom, of the individuals of whom they are composed. The compacts which are to embrace thirteen distinct States in a common bond of amity and union, must as necessarily be a compromise of as many dissimilar interests and inclinations. How can perfection spring from such materials?"
> I remember being a kid looking at DOS and wondering “what do I even do?”

The DOS we had came with a few-hundred page manual. The same for any major programs that ran on it. These must have been exhaustive, as I don't remember being stuck at any point, honestly.
why a hyper deflationary monetary system

Bitcoin is inflationary until 2044
https://archive.ph/XORiv
* https://devices.esphome.io/board/esp32
We had a whole mindset that basically rolled out the red carpet for dictators disguised as peace ment with apps. Including praise for turning oneself into an anti democratic psyOPs zombie. A correction of this nonsense was overdue. And in the moment of weakness, it was also revealed how alone the West really was with its values. The idealists are out there in the trenches, getting shot in the street, because peaceful cowards are willing to sacrifice everything and everyone for indefensible nimbyism.
> The terminal offers no help at all to a casual user (the funniest case of this is watching a new user trying to quit vim [0]).

I think that's because casual users did not learn how to look at a terminal. If you start `vim`, it shows you a few lines that say "type :help for help". The help starts with "how to move around" and "how to quit". But people ignore that.

One could say "people don't ignore it, it's just not intuitive". But I have seen many casual users struggle with GUIs, too. The difference, IMO, is just that they learned the basics of GUIs, and never had to learn the basics of CLI. I don't really believe in something fundamentally harder with CLIs.
Golly comes with lots of example patterns and also uses 'hashlife' (as long as you leave it enabled!) so can go very fast and really huge:

https://golly.sourceforge.io/

And if you're into that I'd definitely recommend 'Ready' which is a similar project (originally a fork of the Golly code) but for Reaction-Diffusion simulations using OpenCL instead:

https://github.com/GollyGang/ready

I've contributed some fun experiments to Ready, they're in Patterns/Experiments/DanWills. There are visual examples on my youtube as well. If anyone wants to help out with the Houdini importer I'm working on, please send me an email.
That's okay, I can stop dualbooting once win10 is out of support and the hassle will be gone!

Though I've been refunding games that don't run on proton sometimes as well, because dual booting does indeed get annoying! Perhaps, if missing out on the Deck userbase isn't a motivator enough, we can add some more lost revenue to the motivators convincing devs to use cross-platform or ideally linux-native environments.

Or I'll just stop gaming. Parasite publishers have ruined most of the fun I get from video games the past decade or so, and their product certainly isn't good enough to convince me to go through 5+ ads every time I boot windows for the experience.
Great book. If you like fiction, also check out The Monkey Wrench Gang.
Wasting any effort on fake decentralization is objectively inferior because it adds to the cost with no benefit.

Do you feel similarly about democracy?
Correction: most PhDs in scientific fields don't know what unit tests are. Nobody ever taught/told them to write unit tests, and they have never heard of them, have never seen one, let alone written one.

(Someone with a PhD degree here.)
As things are going "computer is going to turn us to goo without indication" will be the more realistic scenario... Even be it at behest of its human masters.
Selling a commercial version of community projects usually doesn't go well.

i.e. those paying for the storage and bandwidth tend to notice the asymmetry rather quickly.

Everyone must get fed at the table in business (lifeboat politics) =)
Silicon, silicone is fake boob plastic.

And that’s a blatant lie from Apple, if anything, the GPU shares memory with the CPU therefore Apple Silicon needs MORE memory, not less.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MBA/comments/15m5vqz/anyone_here_wh...
Not sure if it applies to me, i do have an inner voice, but it's way too slow for my thoughts. Never know how to explain it, but even though i am quick with finding the right words, it's so much slower than my thoughts. But i guess that's normal, so then, most people that have an inner voice, still don't use it for their thinking. It comes afterwards, at least that's how it seems to me.
Sounds plausible but do you have any evidence?
There’s also real trade offs:

I had fiber to my condo a decade ago in Thailand, but still don’t reliably in the US.

Regulations and government monopolies on poles and conduits slow development at the same time they reduce fires and clutter on the poles. (Whoa are there some real tangles in Thailand.)

There’s a reasonable debate on where and how much we should regulate things.
My non apple linux desktop has a sweet 196 gb of ram 5200 mt/s. Love it.
US High Power Rocketry people have been fly these (NO and plastic) since the late 90s - this certainly isn't the first of its type
Wow, is it possible that algorithmically it has decided that you are not a morning person?
> The principal problem of any sufficiently advanced CLI tool is the combinatorial explosion of options.

Which is actually also a problem with GUIs. Many times, with a few CLI commands you can do a ton of stuff that you just cannot represent in UI without having tons of buttons...
Thanks! I've literally had this tab pinned for years. It is awesome.
I watched the video. He's trolling his hypothesized pearl clutchers. I'm sure I share the same critics. Actually most of the talk is open source intelligence basics and utilization of DNS for nonpublic purposes.

Good sell regarding hotel networks as adversaries. :-p

It's time. Start the long walk. We are migrating to meet the skexies, you're welcome to join us.

"Toy server" with 6 million queries and the talk is not about keeping the server up. We're done here; you can find the mike somewhere on the floor.

He has a fondness for finger.

That's my kindness.
Sure, that's not the people I'm referring to.
Hearing this a second time, I think there is a difference.

Going without gpt4 can put you at a disadvantage for some work.

Not paying taxes affects your life much more negatively.

Given the different costs, logically it seems that paying taxes would be something you have less collective responsibility for.
Use APs that are designed for group deployment.

Deploying Ubiquiti's APs in managed (as opposed to standalone) mode makes this easy; even iPhones will transparently be passed from one AP to the next. I agree, though, the OSX/iOS roaming preference tuning is a bit batshit; they also refuse to drop your house's Wifi as you're driving away and want to switch to LTE ASAP.

Commodity/consumer APs aren't designed for handoff.
Just like the business model - what a nugget in the otherwise giant pile of shit.
Does that mean they’re gonna open up the dropcams they’re dropping support for this spring so they can be used by a local server? Or really any of the products they’ve dropped support for recently? That’s part of right to repair too.
mostly referring to pdfs to fill out and "e signature", my assistant sends them to me all the time.
How are the conflicts resolved?

Machine A is online and sets "x" to 1.

Machine B is offline and sets "x" to 2.

Machine B goes online.

What the resulting state on A and on B?

What if initially A was offline and B was online?
This made me spill my drink laughing.
All big companies are rusty and covered with cruft. Twitter showed that you may lay off 75% of the workforce and still run your business at scale relatively smoothly. It is a great temptation to follow the suite.
emacs integration: https://github.com/astoff/devdocs.el
proclaims that my benefit / enjoyment of something is invalid

I did no such thing.
I'm pretty convinced this is because the app switcher can recognize _whether_ a part of an app's UI is a native text field and not just an image, but it's not smart enough to pull the text out. I've seen it make number 0 -> letter O and other such mistakes before, so I'm convinced it's using OCR. Which is probably harder for Chinese.

It's crazy to me that it can't just use the accessibility APIs.
While there is certain truth in it, I believe that a man needs certain belonging, certain responsibility. I have witnessed a (state wide) culture without it, it resulted in careless exploitation of natural resources and wide scale pollution and contamination of nature.
Agreed. I find it utterly exhausting to talk to most humans, at least when my goal is purely transactional or functional. Human conversation takes work. Let's save it for what matters.

People hate call centers. I don't want to have a conversation with some human or human-parity AI at my airline, I want to change my flight in 3 clicks. In retail and fast food, self-checkout and online or kiosk ordering is popular for a reason.

I've found myself feeling those same feelings when being forced to have conversations with a chatbot. Chatting with ChatGPT just for fun can be fun, but it can be just as painful as a call center if you need to get something specific done. In order to cancel a hotel reservation, I was having to chat with some bot. It made it into a whole conversation, with brief pauses. It should have been 3 clicks.
Agreed on 2, and I would even go further: While I think there is definitely something odd to the behavior on display here, dramatizing that as a cult is perhaps too far (though I don't know for sure how I would put it myself).

Good thoughts on 1. It does make you wonder how different things would be if apps were priced more similarly to desktop software from the beginning (maybe smartphones would never have caught on?). We're in so deep with 99 cent apps that it's easy to overlook that or take it as a given even though it didn't have to be this way.
Because China leapfrogged over the early internet era. In the West traditional publishers have strong brands and independent digital presences, mentally everything is a 'website' not a 'app'. It's also why traditional search is much more popular in the West than in China. In the West the internet is an open protocol where independent institutions publish their own information still. Things are indexable, locatable, and so on.

Chinese users grew up on everything being app content, traditional media is just an input like any other that agglomerators consume and then present algorithmically to users, everything is completely mixed between user generated content and news stories and there's no particular notion of news or journalism as a distinct entity.
You ask good questions mate - best of luck, i suspect these topics will get less and less traction more and more rapidly.

(TBH i also forgot about warrant canaries for a good while. I just threw the question out to myself "what if Altman actually doesn't WANT to be a badguy, what might he have done to signal his Borgification?")
i see you and i have at least similar experiences with vim :) stuff happens and my main problem is usually "how do I get out of this?"
This is a false analogy. Should states have borders like countries? Cities? Towns? Individuals streets? Reducing the argument down to 'we have to split the world into cells somehow' doesn't really progress the discussion of whether immigrants should have any less rights than natives.
> The app used an AI-driven approach to suggest news that users might like to read, but it seems it didn’t catch on with enough people for the Artifact team to continue making the app.

Unless you’re doing your own journalism, you can only curate and paraphrase other news sources, right? Social media takes care of that, at least if you find and follow good curators, but this app’s recommendation system is unlikely to be better than social media’s.

I’d you are doing your own journalism, good for you. But unfortunately that’s
very hard especially if it’s not local (and if it is local, good for you again. Boston Globe is somewhat an example of this, perhaps unsurprisingly it’s very expensive for news).
it is indistinguishable on some trivial results, but not scalable for next level of complexity.
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A large fraction doesn’t view the government as fit for purpose either — as they allowed widespread, coordinated arson attacks across major cities totaling $2B+ in damages and then sent the FBI after peaceful demonstrators, based on which political faction people belonged to.

That’s some real fascism.
Yes, to live is the key, and there would no supply in absence of it.
Well maybe that was the problem.
It keeps a lot of highly productive workers from entering the US.
Well, yes in that case of course. But that doesn't mean laughing is one of those times.
You know, I've never really thought about it. Yeah, I guess I do just remember the feeling and know that it's a step that I've completed. And when I recall the steps that need to be done, it's not really a cohesive spoken thought. It's like impulses of sensations? My brain is just like "Order's important. Red red, black black." without the words.

For really difficult mental tasks, I'll actually talk to myself or write things down so that they are less chaotic since the feelings/impulses in my brain may not line up. Kind of like a buffer filling up.

Now what really bothers my wife is when we talk about how we have conversations with others. I don't necessarily think about what I'm going to say verbatim when I'm talking to someone. It's impulses like I mention above where things kind of "flash" into my brain the moment before I say it. The best way that I can think of it is that it's similar to playing a sport where you have moments to change your trajectory and movement to accomplish what you want. I know thematically what I want to say, but I don't actually build the sentence in my brain.

Hope that helps!
I don't think anyone being fired for bullshit reasons is going to be in the mood to try to butter up some corporate drones delivering the news.
How do you solve the problem?
Bloat is the new svelte.
So is basically any point of sale system. Realllllly not an excuse.
Keep in mind just because you can't "see" the network doesn't mean it isn't causing low level interference.

Plus also 5GHz is more resilient than that. Even in a solid concrete new apartment building in London I'd see absolutely endless 5GHz networks.
They handle memory management quite differently and the usage patterns on those devices is significantly different. You can get higher memory Apple kit if you need it…
> aws-lc-rs is a cryptographic library using AWS-LC for its cryptographic operations.

Why should I use AWS-LC over the myriad cryptography libraries out there already?
Ugh, still no 5GHz. I was just complaining about this in a blog post. ESP32's greatest strength continues to be its price.
That's not always the case either. Some illegal immigrants are literally locked in cages (or in some cases shipping containers https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/slavery-towers-feds-sa...)

Just because people are here illegally it doesn't make it acceptable to beat, rape, or steal from them and the companies who do should be punished the same as if they'd treated an American worker that way. The right thing to do would be to make sure that no company can hire someone who can't legally work in the US and to severely punish any company that does.