skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember buying a ram upgrade to take my internet connected computer to a massive 16MB
> a free market cannot exist in the absence of regulation

As you are using the term "regulation" (see below), this is false. A free market is in fact exactly what you do get in the absence of government regulation: all transactions are voluntary. Only governments can force people to engage in market transactions they don't want to engage in, or prevent them from engaging in market transactions they do want to engage in.

> regulation is a form of government

Not necessarily. A true free market is regulated by the voluntary choices of all of its participants. No government is required. Government regulation replaces or overrides regulation by voluntary choices of market participants.
Except when you use a “non retina” display.
If their plan is to get online via the second location, it's likely that said location has a much beefier upstream or built-in filtering, allowing them to absorb these amounts of traffic without being null-routed.

More likely, though, they're restoring the service to a fresh IP range and put the servers behind some kind of DDOS-protection or, alternatively, they simply choose to do the switch now as they need to do a full restore anyway and it's not related to the DDOS mitigation.
Historically yes. This is most definitely not true since processors had SSE3 (~2004), using the FISTTP instruction, or I think you can also use the packed float to integer instructions like CVTTPS2PI as far back as SSE (1999).
I only learned about the significance of dam removal when I started fly fishing in WA. This is great news. Very hard to get this kind of unnecessary damage to the ecosystem reversed. The rivers and streams are the vascular system of our environment!
If you are an engg in a big company you could just email the relevant mailing list / slack channel. And somebody highly knowledgeable will tell you a lot of what you need to know .
No, major celebrities are very careful about their brand and usually demand extra compensation to use it. I have seen some VC investments that require written approval of any use of the investor’s name or likeness.
I don't think it's just the internet. Covid was a very (ahem) masks-off moment for people realizing just how shitty things are and deciding they don't want to put up with /anything/. I think culturally, we're experiencing burnout, and at least in the US, stuff has gotten a lot rougher economically. People have less emotional bandwidth, and that translates to less self-filtering. Over that same span of time, it's gotten more dangerous to drive where I am, more drive-by shootings, more robberies...

Individuals are /angry/. Societies are /angry/. Our entire species is pissed right now.
Getting a tiring physical job that you can't "take home with you" will help with your quality of sleep as well as your mental stress. It probably won't solve either entirely, but it would be a big step in the right direction.

There's good paying work for general contractors in large metros. It will never pay as much as tech. Nonetheless, it will get you enough to support your family.
I looked into it pre-covid and was basically told that it's for the upper level executives. We went with an au pair for our 2 kids, and it cost less than having one kid in GCC.
Buddy, there's just no other way to explain it. There's just no other way other than antisemitism to explain the vitriol Israel gets compared to worse actions of others. If you were on the receiving end of this new wave of masks-off antisemitism you would understand, but you're not. Your on the giving end.
That is a link to the top 1%. Add the 39.2% from the rest of the top 10%: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WFRBSN09149
HN doesn't amplify drama as a business practice, as best I can tell. Arguments happen, but they don't seem to blow up much here.
Airplane manufacturers--which means Boeing--not airlines.
You are comparing one of the highest end RAM and graphics card to average M2. Don't you think it's bit disingenuous?
I don’t think this is realtime reconstruction, meaning that changes in the scene will not be represented in the reconstructed map immediately.
> Then AirDrop got a new feature called NameDrop, on by default, where phones near each other play an animation and display a button to send your Contact Card to the other (single press, no confirmation). There’s no documentation of what info is shared this way, and it’s not delineated on the Contact Card in the Contacts app.

You really shouldn’t get your information from Facebook posts. The post you linked even correctly describes the process: the phones need to be VERY “near each other” (almost touching) and – contra “no documentation” – you select which fields are shared and can view or change the fields before hitting the button to share them.
For myself I can learn a written word without having any idea of how it is pronounced. Growing up there were multiple occasions when I was speaking and mid way through a sentence realize I don't know the pronunciation of the next word I was going to say.

Also I can read text and completely miss rhymes unless the formatting draws attention to it like how poetry is often written with lines split. (More likely to miss rhymes like half and graph where the word endings visually are different.)
As a Brit, when I bark "Alexa, set a timer for 5 minutes" and Alexa prefixes her reply with "Good evening <pause>", TO ME that sounds like a bitter correction-by-example to my abruptness. It's the sarcastic opposite of a pleasantry.
I did my thesis in flaky tests, it's such
a neglected area in ci/cd. Good too see people are doing something against it.
Decimation was very very rare as far as we can tell. It was the kind of thing that would happen like, once every century or more.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/4v1ftx/how_w...
VIM is well designed and stable, so you can learn the interface and be confident that it will work for you next time you use it. It's an amazing tool.

Today's voice assistants are the opposite. They are unreliable and completely unstable. They don't have a clear list of commands they understand, let alone some sort of menu system - the documented commands on the manufacturer's websites often don't work. They also randomly change what they can do: stuff stops working for no obviously reason.

For example - yesterday, my son's Nest Audio suddenly refused to set a music alarm, claiming "this device doesn't support that feature yet" (it's literally a speaker for music...). It worked the day before.
Old Julius once had one of his regiments decimated.

As in, soldiers draw lots, one in ten get the short straw, and the ”lucky” nine-tenths beat the unlucky one-tenth of the regiment to death by hand.

Not a great time in our history.
Poetry handles all of this properly.
That's fundamentally a humanist argument. What about all the other intricate little forms of life we snuff out thoughtlessly? And I don't mean the ones we directly eradicate either due to killing them off or eating them all, but the hundreds, thousands, maybe millions of species that choke to death on our waste products, are crushed under the wheels of the economy, or are fried/frozen out of their niches, or have their food supplies evaporate because of the same. We're committing ecocide at a massive scale that has no upside except more consumption for more humans to hate and rue their lives.

I find myself unable to identify with humanism anymore, because humanism has become equated with this crazy, unsustainable economic system with an absolutely enormous footprint on this planet. If it were some reason level of human population that reached some kind of equilibrium with nature, I could be a humanist again. But I don't see that happening in my lifetime, so I am pretty down most of the time, TBH.
I was about to say that both my M2 Macs (laptop and mini) run fine with 8gb. Haven't noticed any problems. I don't play high-end games, though.
> Since when are emoji professional?

If you're asking whether we use emoji in professional setting to convey important information, yes, we do, in spades.

Imagine you see an alert in slack about a critical system. You can type a full sentence to explain you've seen it and will investigate what's happening, or you can stick an :eyes: reaction on it and actually focus on investigating.

Same if you want someone to wait a bit because you're thinking etc.

You can always type full sentences to convey the same information, but in a professional setting conciseness and efficiency are also valuable, right ?
I still don't understand why cosine similarity is used (other than maybe being cheap to compute). I've read a bunch of hand-wavey articles but none of them add up for me.

If all your vectors have the same 2-norm, the cosine similarity of two vectors is a monotonic function of their euclidean distance (i.e. the minimum in one measure will be the minimum in the other).

If all your vectors don't have the same norm, where's the sense in projecting them onto the unit sphere and measuring the angle between them? You're throwing away important information about the embedding.

Could anyone explain?
Data-warehousing becomes ubiquitous and open-source with Iceberg. Powerful open-source RTA (real-time-analytics) engines like ClickHouse are designed for crunching numbers as fast as possible. How can you use Iceberg and ClickHouse together to burn the rubber over glacially slow storage?
I tried it and generally liked it. It learned to mostly send me articles about food and new restaurants, which made me happy. Unfortunately, I forgot about it and stopped checking it months ago, so I suppose that I was part of the problem. Sad to see it go.
> 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.

If I had to speculate I'd say a lot of people have the experience of both this and the inner voice, depending on context.

It doe make me wonder: are people who can't spontaneously "surf" sentences in realtime and instead rely wholly on an inner voice? :)

Edit: I've noticed that reflecting on this kind of stuff can wreak havoc on young musicians. I remember a colleague who learned the Grieg concerto but was having a small number of wrong notes (say, 5% or so) creep into various sections of the piece, seemingly at random. The teacher started to drill down on each section, having the student write down which finger plays what, subdivide tricky rhythms, and so forth.

What was wild was that each time the teacher asked the student to notate the chord at the point where a mistake occurred, this would generate a cascade of more mistakes. She'd essentially been playing mostly by feel without thinking about the harmony at all. The added anxiety about harmony increased her error rate for relying on feel; pretty soon she wasn't able to make it through the piece. They then went back methodically through the entire thing, having her notate each and every harmony and describe how each one relates to the next, which were primary vs. ancillary, and so forth. Only then could she play the entire piece with precision.

So sometimes to get from 95% to 100% you have to go back down to zero!
Vlad from Kagi here.

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The intermittent disruption of service lasted for seven and a half hours, our longest disruption to date.

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Post-mortem coming in the release notes on Tuesday.

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The most influential change has been the increase in competition for resources in academia, especially via grants and similar competitive funding (to both researchers/research teams and to universities themselves) [1]. The idea that competition breeds efficiency is a core tenet of (neo)liberalism.

There has been a concurrent shift towards bibliometric assesment of researchers and institutions, to a large part to have metrics for the competition.

In general this is largely an application of the (neoliberal) New Public Management [2] model applied to academia and science.

Before this shift funding was based mostly on budgets akin to how e.g. schools or (public) healthcare and police are funded. Academics were mostly just hired to a (permanent contract) job when there was an opening. Anecdotally, my supervising professor was tenured almost straight after he got his PhD in the 1970s. And he didn't really have to apply for competitive funding until 2000's or so. And this was more or less the norm back then.

In angloamerican countries the neoliberal turn started already in the 1970s. Although there was also a contemporary explosion in funding of science much due to the role of scientific and technological progress in the Cold War.

The degree inflation likely plays a role too, and in research this shows as more PhD students who have to churn out papers to get their degrees (which is beneficial to the universities as they are assessed on how many affiliated publications they output). There's of course plenty of quality PhD-level research but it's also quite obvious that the quality is also affected by the students still essentially learning the ropes.

Academia's, science's and higher education's societial position and "clout" was quite different and smaller in the era of classical liberalism (roughly until WW1), and public funding had a lot smaller role.

It's of course totally arguable that competition leads to more efficiency. However, the academic world doesn't really have a natural market and establishing comparative value of different lines of research, academic institutions or individual researchers is very difficult. And due to this the resource allocation is done largely based on quantity of scholarly outputs (papers and PhD degrees) and salesmanship. These of course are very easy to play, and those who don't engage in the play tend to not survive. And it adds huge overheads.

[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10734-008-9169-6
[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Public_Management
That way of looking at it feels like it focuses on the one error while ignoring that, in all likelihood, the same action that caused the error, probably improved 1000 other listings.

I guess I'm a glass half full kinda person, this shows me that someone is working on improving things. And I bet they're quite flush from all the attention cause by their oversight in a big spreadsheet. I bet they won't miss the next one. :)
I’m not sure on the legality of recording a meeting like this and sharing it publicly, but I think she handles herself well.
This is a nicer way to approach something I've seen lately, but haven't had a good area to mention - for fear of being part of the problem.

We like to think of HN as a place for wonder and decent conversation. Yet, I see a lot of policing of comments.

Someone posts something trolling, someone replies 'you should post something useful'... while contributing to the noise. Perhaps I'm pessimistic seeing it as for nothing. Maybe the 1/N times this works is worth it.

Long way to say: if you see something like this, just vote/move along
IC5 is not the fifth generation of intercity trains.
It just has 5 carriages in a train set.

IC3 was the first generation of this kind of trains, having 3 carriages in a train set: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSB_Class_MF

Both IC4 and IC2 came after IC3.
Just drives home that HR people are soulless twats.

And Cloudflare... fuck. I mean, they won't even own up to the real reason they want to shed headcount. Tried to pass it off as being the employee's fault. So damn shady.

I liked Cloudflare but y'know... any chance I get to use something else, I'm going to take it. Way to tank their reputation with a 5-minute video.

All they had to do was say, "Yeah, we over-hired. Thanks for playing."

Instead... man... 0 respect for Cloudflare watching this.
I would start by wanting to know about the impact and benefit relative to other activities which we already do. Like how's it compare to various flavors of farming?
This is for Cortex A8, which was the chip in the Nexus One. I wrote the original version of sound synthesis directly in ARM assembler[1]. It was very highly optimized, I remember using a cycle counting app that flagged any dependency chain that would cause the processor to stall, and ultimately utilization was in the 90%+ range. Back in those days, processors were simple enough you could do this kind of optimization by hand. By the time of Cortex A15 (Nexus 10 etc), instruction issue was out-of-order and much harder to reason about.

The best current info I could find for the latency advice is [2]. Quoting, "Moving data from NEON to ARM registers is Cortex-A8 is expensive." Looking at [3] partially reveals the reason why: the NEON pipeline is entirely after the integer pipeline, so moves from integer to NEON are cheap, but the reverse direction is potentially a large pipeline stall. This is an unusual design decision that as far as I know is not true for any other CPUs. Edit: I found [4], which is a more authoritative source.

[1]: https://github.com/google/music-synthesizer-for-android/blob...

[2]: https://community.arm.com/support-forums/f/armds-forum/757/n...

[3]: https://www.design-reuse.com/articles/11580/architecture-and...

[4]: https://developer.arm.com/documentation/den0018/a/Optimizing...
> Is it an unfixed exploit when Apple knowingly left it as is for whatever reason?

Danger Will Robinson ö

“AirDrop uses iCloud services to help users authenticate. When a user signs in to iCloud, a 2048-bit RSA identity is stored on the device, and when the user turns on AirDrop, an AirDrop short identity hash is created based on the email addresses and phone numbers associated with the user’s Apple ID.”

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/security/sec2261183f4/...
That doesn't doesn't have much to do with your comments many of which violate the guidelines egregiously and repeatedly.
I read somewhere that she is in a "one-party consent" state, so no problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_call_recording_laws
Early findings from the largest UBI study
This is also just eliding the work that humans still have to do.

I give you an audio file (let's say just regular old PCM wav format). You cannot do anything with this without making some decisions about what happens next to the data. For audio, you're very minimally faced with the question of whether to do a transform into the frequency domain. If you don't do that, there's a ton of feature classification that can never be done. No audio to vector model can make that sort of decision for itself - humans have to make the possible.

Raw inputs are suitable for some things, but essentially E5 is just one that has already had a large number of assumptions built into it that happen to give pretty good results. Nevertheless, were you interested for some weird reason in a very strange metric of text similarity, nothing prebuilt, even E5, is going to give that to you. Let's look at what E5 does:

> The primary purpose of embedding models is to convert discrete symbols, such as words, into continuous-valued vectors. These vectors are designed in such a way that similar words or entities have vectors that are close to each other in the vector space, reflecting their semantic similarity.

This is great, but useful for only a particular type of textual similarity consideration.

And oh, what's this:

> However, the innovation doesn’t stop there. To further elevate the model’s performance, supervised fine-tuning was introduced. This involved training the E5 embeddings with labeled data, effectively incorporating human knowledge into the learning process. The outcome was a consistent improvement in performance, making E5 a promising approach for advancing the field of embeddings and natural language understanding.

Hmmm ....

Anyway, my point still stands: choosing how to transform raw data into "features" is a human activity, even if the actual transformation itself is automated.
Ya, I'll have a website eventually...

What do you have against .org websites?
"8GB should be enough for anybody"
What does spillways have to do with this thread of discussion?

They're not generally capable of discharging water down to the original river's level, as they're intended for flood conditions where the reservoir behind the dam is too high. It's the opposite role of what we're talking about.

i.e. not a single spillway here[0] is capable of achieving the equivalent of destroying the dam...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spillway
I think the issue is that the ergonomics of protobuf kinda suck and the ergonomics of gRPC really suck and having to interface with a gRPC API is likely everyone's introduction to protobufs.

Protobufs are a really great idea that's hampered by heinously subpar tooling for everything but Go.
I read her novel “The Blazing World” early last year as part of a Elle Griffin’s project to read Utopian novels. It was startlingly modern, funny, and enjoyable. I’ve read other things from that period they can be difficult or dull. I would have guessed she was a contemporary of Verne or Wells (or Poe) rather than Newton and Pepys. I liked it better than Utopia (it’s funnier).
pic says thousand words

emoji says about ten

still an improvement
a thoughtful gesture! suitable for any occasion! Do you think this description was GPT'd also?
So being temporary offline is not supported? That's pretty limiting.
That was compellingly argued. I'd like to see the braking distances fully loaded too.
Why do you suggest that?

What do you think the seller's goal was in employing an LLM? Was it to improve quality, or to drive down costs?
Sounds like you want a refurbished older thinkpad. x230 with the classic 7 row keyboard. Max out the ram. Maybe replace the screen with a newer 13" panel?

There's a whole subculture of thinkpad-modders out there. If you're looking for a small formfactor, excellent keyboard, plenty of ports, not too pricy (inc mods), that might be your best option. YMMV.
A living fossil: introduction to the s390x architecture [video]
> You can just take a glance at it and see any issues. With grpc/pbuf ... nope. not happening.

Sure, but on the other hand, the number of times I’ve needed to do this, compared to JSON/string/untyped/etc systems is precisely zero. There’s just a whole lot of failure that are just non-issues with typed setups like protobufs. Protobuf still has plenty of flaws and annoying-google-isms, but not being human readable isn’t one of them IMO.
Why is this data so spikey[1]?

Are the spikes in IP6 usage driven by work, home or mobile?

[1] https://files.littlebird.com.au/Shared-Image-2024-01-13-12-0...
Just a friendly reminder, anyone can turn their xbox into a dev box[0] and create homebrew software! You do not need an xbox live account to build services using the xbox services api[1].

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/xbox-apps/devk...

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/gaming/gdk/_content/gc/liv...
You don’t open a battery while it’s in your pocket. Not sure about their banana…
Canada may not have a singular written document called "constitution", but it has the Constitution Act, the Canada Act, and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, so I'd argue that it's still mostly written.
Is this an example of GPT-4 generated text?
Voice Coding/Control on Mac
Sernade is discontinued, Dragon is discontinued leaving Mac dictation and Talon.

What’s the best approach to coding voice only and controlling the Mac currently?

Also what about IDEs? VSCODE has cursorless, is it good? IntelliJ only has a talon plug-in that has bad reviews.

So any coding plugins for IntelliJ and Neovim as well?
This bums me out. Artifact was actually enjoyable to use, and the social commenting on news often had very sane and normal commentary to it.

Anyone know any good alternatives? I tried Ground News at launch and found it far too chaotic though I like the novelty of the unbiased model