skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you, I will take a look at this if I ever need to go back.
> Even countries with robust natalist subsidy policies cannot materially lift the TFR.

So we are told, but this reeks of pretend-helplessness, an excuse not to even try. The Czech Republic raised its fertility rate from 1.1 in 1999, to 1.8 in 2021 [1,2], so it is empirically possible.

[1] https://stoppopulationdecline.org/re-familisation-czech-repu...

[2] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?location...
Used this on a 14 hour flight recently. It turned it from a wasted day to an insanely productive one. No distractions, and the docs were there to answer the occasional question.

It’s so good even if you just want to unplug.
Who said show me the incentives and I’ll show you the outcome?
Oh, so this was why Sam Altman was fired?
I'll definitely try it out tomorrow! Could fix a lot of problems with my current project.
> 10 percent increase in home prices leads to a 1 percent decrease in births among non-homeowners in an average metropolitan area

How many average metropolitan areas experienced 10% increases in home prices? That’s a lot to decrease births by just 1%
Sure I am still sharing my flat, but doing so since 20 years with no end in sight. Living in a metro area in Europe, barely any holiday travel, saving to buy a little flat someday. And my income is above average.
Earth; Mars
If anything, life and human life will do better a few degrees warmer
> Using open source development tools is fine

Yea but the article is claiming that Unity is including LGPL libraries in apps built with Unity, not just the editor itself.
:%s/\([0-9]\+\))/\=submatch(1)-1.')' " vim

perl -pe 's/([0-9]+)\)/$1-1 .")"/e'

ruby -pe 'sub(/([0-9]+)\)/){"#{$1.to_i-1})"}'
Isn't the payload pretty inconsequential in comparison with the total weight of fuel at launch?
I like how Google doesn't list discernible benefit for keeping accounts linked
Here's the data you mention.

https://www.pewresearch.org/ft_18-01-12_sharedliving_feature...
The "Do you need a Dedicated Vector Database?" slide is quite interesting, but doesn't really answer its own question! This is something I've been wondering myself, if anyone has any guidelines or rules of thumb I would appreciate it.

I've recently been using Simon Willison's (hi simonw) excellent `llm` tool that can help with embeddings, and it takes the simplest approach possible: just store embeddings in SQLite with a few UDFs for calculating distance etc.

The simplicity of that approach is very appealing, but presumably at some level of traffic+data an application will outgrow it and need a more specialized database. Does anyone have a good intuition for where that cutoff might be?
I went to an alumni gathering in Palo Alto in 2007 and talked with a middle-aged dad about this. He was very clear-eyed: kids who grow up here do not have a right of return. The people who can pay for property here — largely due to jobs at fast-growing companies — will be the ones who live here in the future.

There is some level of parental wealth that will allow children to live here, even in the absence of a job that can pay the mortgage. This tends to be Atherton- or Woodside-level wealth.
Reminds me, I haven't seen a video of a dog greeting a returning soldier in ages. I was convinced that it was neverending.
One problem is that many industry companies (almost anyone doing engines, vehicles, airplanes) is likely to at least do some military products, too. It may be as simple, for example, as wanting to have an LLM assistant in a CAD tool for developing an engine that may get used in a ship, some of which may be military. And the infrastructure and software is often shared or at least developed in order to be applied across the company.

I think this is where this is coming from.

It would be useful to clarify the rules and ban direct automatic control of weapons or indirect control as part of a feedback loop on any system involving weapons from commercial AI products.
FreeBSD Journal 2023/11-12 Issue
In the past, Google has been criticized for being anticompetitive by integrating too much with itself.

Here is an article with complaints about Google travel. https://skift.com/2020/10/20/u-s-antitrust-lawsuit-faults-go...
Well, my point is that nobody should drink that sugary mess that isn't good for you. But we do.
I've worked at a few companies who prohibited deployments or releases on Fridays or the days before holidays for just this reason. You need the team on the clock in the days following to cover you for those times when it all goes south.
Would you bet on political will and a supportive electorate? Any other similar outcomes to the Czech Republic? Or are they an outlier perhaps unable to be reproduced?

40%-50% of global pregnancies are unintended annually. When contraceptives are readily available and women are empowered, the fertility rate falls. Is there enough fiat to change that? There is a light cone based on aggregate productive labor participation, and it shrinks as the population shrinks.

https://www.unfpa.org/press/nearly-half-all-pregnancies-are-...

https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate#what-explains-the-...
working link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjCdGqgD9Bs
Do you feel that collective responsibility whenever you do taxable work or make taxable purchases in the US that funds our entire military? It should be orders of magnitude less responsibility than that.
I dunno, haven’t most populations sometimes gone through boom-bust cycles on the order of a few years/decades? It feels a little absurd to consider only a single ecological factor.
How about you remove the popup prompt to turn on Google Assistant EVERY TIME I connect my Bluetooth earphones? It's turned off for a reason.
The original ESP32 also has 512KB of RAM but some is reserved for instruction and flash cache. So on both the OG and the S3 you end up with about 350KB usable. Wifi is manageable but bluetooth will use most of it.

That said both the original ESP32 and the S3 support external PSRAM (4MB* for the og, 32MB for the S3).

You can buy modules with such RAM already (which you would likely do for most deployment), but if you really need a single chip solution they also sell the ESP32 chips with that "external" RAM embedded in it (albeit in smaller qty, like 2MB).

* The OG actually supports 8MB but only the first 4MB is directly addressable, you have to handle bankswitching yourself to access more.
Totally agree. This is especially true with the ongoing growth of online schools.
This one deserves an archival. At this point I'm kind of hoping this is some massive trolling campaign.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240112192751/https://www.amazo...
US Air Force created super computer using 1,700 Playstation 3 consoles
I have met a few people I still stay in touch with through misdials, answering obviously wrongly directed texts and even an email doppelganger (same realname@email.org)! I strongly feel that 'random' unstructured encounters are missing in our day to day social lives.
Young people today eh? A refrain as old as time.
Coding experience?
Wordpress is PHP based.
When I did many small PHP projects, I came across CraftCMS.
I've found that, at least on the mobile app, results are filtered by "Featured" which fills the results with irrelevant sponsored products. So each time I search for an item, I then have to go under Filters and select Best Rating, Highest Selling, etc. It's a bit tedious but seems to be a shortcut through all of the BS results they show you by default.
There's also Zeal (https://zealdocs.org/) which is basically the same as Dash but open source and runs on non-Mac devices.
no, what happens with small companies is they go bust without notice, or their showing signs theyll go bust, or the owners signal it might go bust for whatever reason...so no, it never feels safe working in a small company
I'm trying it again but I've already had two crashes in the first day of use.
> The second step, is Airdrop requesting a device to accept a connection.

> At that point, you see who is sending you the send request, and you can accept/deny.

Revealing the identity hash must happen earlier than that, since the entire point of the "only contacts" feature is that you can't even see non-contacts on your AirDrop share sheet.

And since Apple (correctly, in my view) didn't want receiving devices to publicly broadcast their identities (or even worse the set of acceptable senders), it's on the sender to initially broadcast their identity to all devices within range.

The candidate devices (i.e. those that have the sender in their contacts) then respond and get populated in the share sheet target list.

What's potentially surprising is that this must happen even before selecting AirDrop as a share target, since (at least on my device) I can already see nearby AirDrop contacts in the "frequently contacted" part of the general share sheet...
Sam Altman did pretty much predict that

>(there are incredibly useful GPTs in the store, but probably 'everything is waifus' runs away with it...)

https://twitter.com/sama/status/1745135062746869844
Dynamic linking will result in a program in memory at runtime that is under the copyleft terms.

The separate pieces on disk are of course as you say.
> Still fun to learn about Hough transforms, canny edge detection, and all that 1990s computer vision though!

In my domain of metrology, this part isn't acceptable:

> you will get a model that can predict the exact edges of every input image.

Prediction is a nice way to limit the space I have to consider for a proper edge detection, but usually it's better to just go straight to something more deterministic.
Small towns have fundamental economic problems that make living there a hard compromise. Third tier cities away from hot spot destinations can be comfortable places to live with much more affordable housing.
AI for war an profit, who would have thought?
I'm skeptical of the idea that housing costs are the primary reason young adults live at home longer. First of all, the trend was present before interest rates started rising, and before that housing costs as a percent of income were not higher than previous generations. And Gen Z are growing up slower than previous generations in other ways as well:

> "While the majority of 8th grade Gen Xers in the 1990s had dated, tried alcohol, and worked for pay, only about one in four 8th grade Gen Zers had done the same in 2021. The number who had had sex by the spring of 9th grade went from nearly 40% in the Gen X era to less than 15% among Gen Z".

That is not related to housing costs. Previous generations seemed to grow up quicker, Gen X certainly did.
I'd call the former a vector extension. A database is a store with bells and whistles.
Home prices tend to decrease when interest rates go up so that monthly payments aren't that different. Unfortunately, there's a lag between rates increasing and sellers realizing their potential buyers can afford less.
Is the vote button an agree button?
Why is there a flood of accounts coming here to sling ad hominem against the author? Can we discuss the article, please?
Also every time they get caught they claim it’s an honest mistake.

Just a few weeks ago they had to pay fines for siphoning data from PRIVATE chrome windows.
The ideal size of any company is not infinite, especially in a tight labour market.
Assuming we're talking about IoT applications: Lower power (better battery life), less congestion on Wi-Fi channels, no fussing over IPv4/subnets/etc., smaller attack surface (it isn't a trojan horse to your LAN), simpler setup/enrollment procedure than dealing with WiFi authentication. Most of these things are true with Zigbee/Z-Wave/Thread too, with the exception of being able to use a smartphone to directly connect and manage devices.
I honestly never thought of that design aesthetic as "macho". I've always thought of it as "angry" and/or "mean".
I don't think most kids leave because they are being kicked out. They leave because the want to assert their independence from their parents and enjoy the freedoms that come from living on their own.
> it was very common for 20somethings to live in shared housing with 2-3 roommates.

In my experience this is still the norm in high CoL west-coast cities. Single people living alone are the exception rather than the norm. Couples tend to rent a 1- or 2-bedroom.

Interestingly this seems to still be true for many highly-paid young people who could easily afford their own place but end up with roommates to save up money. No idea how representative my sample is.
Wouldn't stop much. Human UUIDs would be sold on the black market to spammers and blackhats.

"Need $500? Rent out your UUID for marketing!"
The paper was very careful to describe the mass increase of Cuban immigrants as "immigration shock", not just immigration. I don't think the conclusions of this paper can say any one thing about the effects of our (I'm assuming you're American as well) standard levels of immigration. Also..

These results suggest that immigration shocks do have implications for the fertility decisions and outcomes of natives, though these tend only to be temporary and short-lived. There therefore appear to be little long-term or sustained consequences for the fertility of natives from governments pursuing labour augmenting strategies through more open immigration policies.

From the conclusion. I only really skimmed the abstract and the conclusion, please tell me if I'm missing something.
Of all 3, I'd say Alexa is the most practical for using at home, google one is kinda the smartest one but also is the most frustrating one - what worked yesterday will not work today or will work occasionally (exact same prompt's wording). Siri will not always respond but overall works fine within its somewhat limited scope, as compared to others (like number of integrations supported), but then again - ecosystem..

My biggest issue with Siri is intercom: at home we mostly speak other language than english, and when using intercom Siri often tries to parse what's being recorded, instead of just recording audio sample and send it verbatim.

Something like:

Me - Hey Siri, Intercom

Siri - intercom chime (not 'Aha?' of responding to just Hey Siri)

Me - *bjlkabdgkjhqwruo;fghnasd.mkfnlkjashfjkasdngjkasbdg* (doesn't matter, different language)

Siri (thinking she recognized some word) - Here are the results for what you asked..
I also hate how the seller's pages are basically useless as well. I want to buy something from a specific brand and going to that page I can't find more than half of their product list on their own seller page.
I tried using it to generate some sprites for a game I've been thinking about. Kept telling me it couldn't show me the image because it wasn't safe (I asked for robot pirates). Couldn't see a way to turn off the nsfw protection. Uninstalled it :(
Hm, just as a thought experiment... if your shitposts included any form of implicit racism that affected the AI in a drone's decision of "is the civilian casualty worth acceptable or should I not fire"... then yes?

I don't have a full answer to my own question to be honest.

In the above example though, you'd never be able to prove that it was or wasn't your contribution so it's easy to say you bear no collective responsibility. But would it be true?

I'm not sure, but I can't say definitively you would bear no responsibility.
Yup it happens outside of the system — but there are a number of perks to being able to store that data in a db — including easily adding metadata, updating entries, etc.

I think in 10y we will see retail systems heavily utilizing vector dbs and many embedding as a service products that take into account things like conversion. In this model you can add metadata about products to the vector db and direct program flow instead of querying back out to one or more databases to retrieve relevant metadata.

They’ll also start to enable things like search via image for features like “show us your favorite outfit” pulling up a customized wardrobe based on individual items extracted from the photo and run through the embedder.

Just one of many ways these products will exist outside of RAG. I think we’ll actually see a lot of the opposite — GAR.
My wife is a biologist, and I am a software engineer. We live in the midwest.

We could afford a house, but the more we look at it, the worse a financial decision it seems. The homes are way more expensive then they are worth. The mortgage would be more than double our rent.

The issue, as far as I can tell, is that people treat their homes like investments and want investment-like returns.
> Aren’t a standard

You mean like an IETF standard? That is true, although the specification is quite simple to implement. It is certainly a de-facto standard, even if it hasn’t been standardized by the IETF or IEEE or ANSI or ECMA.

> inherently limits anything built on top of them to not be a standard either

I’m not sure that strictly follows. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9232 for example directly references the protobuf spec at https://protobuf.dev/ and includes protobufs as a valid encoding.

> depending on the environment

I’ve had several projects that ran on wimpy Cortex M0 processors and printf() has generally taken more code space in flash than NanoPB. This is generally with the same device doing both encoding and decoding.

If you’re only encoding, the amount of code required to encode a given structure into a PB is very close to trivial. If I recall it can also be done in a streaming fashion so you don’t even need a RAM buffer necessarily to handle the encoded output.

Do I love protobufs? Not really. There’s often some issue with protoc when running it in a new environment. The APIs sometimes bother me, especially the callback structure in NanoPB. But it’s been a workhorse for probably 15 years now and as a straightforward TLV encoding it works pretty darned well.
> My contention is that a license can't be invalidated by a 3rd party not giving you the technical means of exercising a right that you are granted. Similarly to how the GPLv2 couldn't stop TiVo from not allowing you to run their proprietary software if you modified the version of Linux they gave you, even if RMS intended it to.

What a way to twist things around. Apple (or the app developer, who chooses Apple to distribute their software) doesn't have the right to distribute the code without abiding by the terms of the license. Copyright applies by default unless those terms are met.

TiVo's code wasn't subject to the GPL, so obviously they can have it do whatever they want, it's not remotely analogous to distributing copyrighted works outside the terms of the license that is the only thing allowing you to distribute them at all.

Cryptographic controls might be an end-run around this (as they are being abused for many other anti-consumer purposes today). The license tries to account for this, but it looks like it only applies if the code is included with the device. Unfortunately. The law really needs to catch up with this, it's clearly a hack and not respecting the intent of this or other areas of law such as first-sale doctrine.
> If it is not about the use of an API but about the use of the implementation, then that would mean that the end-user that is running the application which dynamically links to a proprietary library on the end-users pc the one violating the license terms, not the developer that distributed their code without distributing the proprietary library itself.

yes

> And if the developer has the rights to distribute the library, because it is under GPL, then they could do so, and would not violate the license terms, because they are not doing the dynamic linking and using of the implementation, that would happen only when the end-user starts the application.

If they distribute it together though then it becomes an aggregate work
YouTube pays creators for making them sufficient ad revenue. It depends on number of subscribers and views and such things. It is not like YouTube goes around looking for great content and asks people whether YouTube can pay them to make videos for their platform.
But aside from that, some creators manage to get funded by people, who simply like their content. This is a more natural way of creating value. I would rather like to see creators being crowdfunded, than artificially pushed creations for the sake of ad revenue. Currently creators are often afraid of getting videos demonetized, for saying anything critical.
thunderbolt 4 is 32 gigabit, basically 4 pcie 3.0 lanes
Please f*cking do it
> in my 20s (20 years ago), it was very common for 20somethings to live in shared housing with 2-3 roommates. They would share kitchens, fridges, everything. And these houses weren't even that great to begin with.

That's how people live in their 30s now. People in their 20s aren't developed enough in their careers to afford that sort of living.
> Nissim Amon is an Israeli Zen master and meditation teacher. He served in the Israeli Defense Forces under the Nahal Brigade and fought in the Lebanon War. [...] In 2023, during the 2023 Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip in response to the 7 October Hamas attack, he published a video teaching Israeli troops how to shoot with an emphasis on breathing and relaxing while being "cool, without compassion or mercy".

( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissim_Amon & translation of the original message from Amon: https://sites.google.com/view/nissimamontranslation )
Pretty sure the meat industry is
If you're anauralic, what happens when you're reading and you hit a foreign word, or a word you don't know? Do you have to say it out loud, or can you "hear" the pronunciation in your mind by essentially speaking it sublingually? For me, I think my "inner voice" really is just sublingual speech wherein I don't move my lips, tongue or vocal chords. Although I can also "hear" the voices of other people I know if I think about them talking. (This would seem to be a requisite skill if you want to do impressions of people).

[edit: Maybe "sublingual" isn't the correct term for what I'm describing. I remember reading about some MRI experiments where they asked people to "talk" without making any sound, and this activated the speech parts of the brain as if they were using motor function to speak. But I can't recall the term used for doing this.]
Capitalism might be eating itself, it has become impossible to shop online in the past few years.

Speaking from Brazil:

- Google shopping shows very few local stores, most of the listings I get are from overseas stores, many don't even ship to Brazil, and prices don't reflect shipping and import fees

- Google Ads are useless, as they're often unrelated to the query, tailored simply to whoever company pays more for words

- Amazon, besides the fake and bad listings, now has ads on itself, so it's not only hard to find what you need, now you need to scroll past the unwanted ads, too, just like in Google

- Most previously nice online shops have copied Amazon and turned into marketplaces, and suffer from the exact same issues, with shitloads of fake listings, drop-shipping scams, bot-reviews, etc.

- Local giants like Mercado Libre have their own issues, like absent categorization or indexing of listings, so you're left with randomly writing queries that might or not match what you need, so you never know if you can't find an item because it's not available or because you just didn't guess correctly how it's listed

- Chinese giants like Shopee and AliExpress suffer from the usual issues of long delivery times, bad customer service, low quality ripoff, etc.

So contrary to my own previous beliefs and predictions, I find myself doing MORE brick-and-mortar shopping, not less.
Because he is lazy :)

I use CLI a lot.. Im lazy too. But pretty much 90% of my tools implement --help because some tools are used not that often.

If I ever try to use tool that does not have nice and clean --help output I curse :)
That doesn't make sense. SurrealDB doesn't even tout itself as having good performance. If you don't want a custom vector database, you might as well use postgres.