skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I completely agree. I switched to neomutt three or four years ago and there are a few things with text-based emails that really accelerate my workflow.

1. Fewer distractions.
2. Scripting keyboard shortcuts through emails - creating a to-do from an email with just tapping a function key, for example, or adding a company to a CRM with another function key tap.
3. Being able to delete emails with a Regex filter, which is really important for mailing lists.
4. Much faster latency which Though it seems to be trivial Google's research has shown is important to great user experiences
5. Ability to use neovim within the email client.
6. Local search using not much which again much lower latency than Google even for very large mailboxes.
Do you have even a guess what the intended meaning is? If you don't, the definitions are available in my previous footnote. Happy to hear your thoughts after you read them.
The most upvoted answer doesn't say that it's a Swedish designed ball, rather that it is a Chinese knockoff where they moved things around and replaced some of the symbols with ones from books/toys for Swedish kids.

Hence why the ones that match the 'official' ball make sense in English but the ones that don't make more sense in Swedish.
Wasn't yew wood used for wooden handles in the past? It kind of looks like a yew-handled axe. Surprised that nobody mentioned that option.

Fun fact: Ötzi the iceman had a staff and axe made of yew -- https://www.iceman.it/en/equipment/
Imagine being paid $1-$2m a year but not liking the how the culture of a company you'd been at for decades was changing. Would you quit? When?
Unpopular opinion: I dislike obsidian. I came to the realization that any reasonably large collection of notes requires structure, which goes by the definition of types (for people, places, organizations, ...). Obsidian is very rudimentary in this regard: it offers properties, folders and templates. Those are workable at first but fall apart soon enough: you can derive many instances of a type from a certain template, but obsidian will happily let you change the template later on without offering the means to propagate the changes to existing instances, leaving your notes in an inconsistent state with no way to tell. Anytype, SiYuan, LogSeq have the same problem. Notion is a bit better considering its "databases" help finding and patching such discrepancies, but is also limited in that it doesn't let you extend types (polymorphism). None of them support cardinality (should there be one or multiple references) nor defining forward and backwards relationships when the property is relational.

As I was about to give up, I found out about Trilium which checks all the good marks when it comes to data modeling and consistency, in a super simple and straightforward manner. And on top of that, it's opensource, local first, self hostable, syncable, has a web UI so you don't have to install anything if you can't, and lends itself to emacs levels of hackability. IMO, anyone claiming to be managing a large collection of notes should give it a serious look.
If you'd like an alternate approach, txtai can store content in Postgres. This approach stores metadata/fields in the database and builds a Faiss/HNSW index alongside. The idea is to lean on two mature projects vs having to rewrite a full vector index implementation.

https://neuml.hashnode.dev/external-database-integration

https://github.com/neuml/txtai

Disclaimer: I'm the primary author of txtai
Ah, yes, all the economic think tanks funded by people and organizations of a certain economic background promoting policy that coincidentally serves the purposes of those same parties are more trustworthy because they try to obfuscate their bias.

What? This argument is certifiably nuts! The biggest players can launder their size into the appearance of impartial organic consensus, yes, but observing this in action isn't a reason to trust them!
Step one: dry your tears while counting your giant pile of money...
You're skirting on the fact that what I've stated isn't an ad hominem because I'm not directly refuting any specific argument.

I'm applying a heuristic.
> You have everything you need to modify the models to your own liking.

What if I wanted to train it using only half of its training set? If the inputs that were used to generate the set of released weights are not available I can’t do that. I have a set of weights and the model structure but without the training dataset I have no way of doing that.

To riff on the parent post, I have:

Source + Compiler => Binaries

For the vast majority of open source models I have:

[unavailable inputs] + Model Structure => Weights

They’re not exactly the same as the source code/binary scenario because I can still do this (which isn’t generally possible with binaries):

Model Structure + Weights + [my own training data] => New Weights

Another way to look at it is that with source code I can modify the code and recompile it from scratch. Maybe I think the model author should have used a deeper CNN layer in the middle of the model. Without the inputs I can’t do a comparison.
What does "money growing all by itself" mean?
Let me guess, France? If Russians had come to "liberate" your village from the Germans, half of the population would have been deported to Siberia. You could argue that it's a better fate than getting shot, but nobody here is arguing for a nazi occupation either.
They vouch that a person has attended the university and passed the required exams with the listed results.
I try not to let the intrusive thoughts win, but this is exactly what I think almost every time there's an article on the supposed supriority of emacs or markdown (i.e., plain text).
I wholeheartedly agree as well. The only nitpick I'd have on this incredible dissertation is on the "U" association with "U-boat" - this is an anglicized form of the German word "Unterseeboot" (undersea boat) which was itself shortened to "U-boot" (presumably the etymology of the Swedish "ubåt"). The first known use of the term "U-boat" is 1914, while the Germans and Swedish armed forces were commissioning submarines around a decade prior (in 1906 and 1904 respectively).
I'm not sure I agree with that last part. He drew the BSD logo. I don't need to audit his failings and indiscretions to note that that's an interesting factoid.
The idea that massed infantry accomplishes much of anything is presently on vivid display for the failure of thinking that it is in Ukraine.
What if you want to start with a subset of the original data? Like you've trained a model, and then later said "You know, this new data we're adding is great, but maybe pulling all those comments from 4chan earlier was a mistake," wouldn't that require starting fresh with access to the actual data?
Meet moot met mitten

So it’s probably yitten.
I don't know about you, but I wouldn't want humanity to be wiped out by a pedant. How you punctuate your prompt will affect its response
You've erected and demolished a strawman, this is an actual logical fallacy, unlike the attempt below.
You're spot on. It's frustrating, but we're currently stuck on a waiting list because AWS is dragging its feet on upgrading our SES usage plan to production. Oddly enough, our dev environment, which mirrors the same use case, got the green light within a few hours. However, for some reason, they keep rejecting the production upgrade. It's a bit of a head-scratcher.

If you want to try it out we are happy to create your account manually.
that's creative, and now I see it this way too. if only the "tube" was oriented so the "paint" was more lined up with the mouth. that would make for an awkward yaxe though
A bucket of yellow paint would be "B"
He's said so in a Lex Fridman interview
is there a way to disable the sign into google popup?
Unless you want to try modifying the model structure, in which case the weights aren’t necessarily valid anymore and will need to be retrained.
I follow the advice about structuring a work log outlined in this post:

https://plaintextproject.online/articles/2018/07/04/worklog....

The four bullet points in that section pretty much encapsulate everything that I need from a work log.
It's a great book, my daughter loves it. I was pretty chuffed when she figured out the AND gate needs both buttons pressed at once. I'm not entirely sure she's sussed XOR yet though.
Not all protocols have to have a handshake to negotiate how they will communicate. Sometimes you just need to have both sides configured the same way. E.g. PTP clocks being in the same domain, having the same delay request mechanism etc.
Hello HN,

I just created an app called Kasper.

Kasper (https://apps.apple.com/app/kasper-ai-interview-practice/id64...) is an app that allows you to practice your interview by talking to AI.

I got this idea because I always get extra nervous during interview no matter how much I prepared myself and this affect my ability to communicate effectively. I tried to find a solution that would help me and didn't find any.

At best there is a website that gives a list of questions interviewer might ask but this does not help as I would still stutter when I get nervous especially since English is not my first language.

So I built Kasper to replicate how and interview would feel like. The idea is by talking to an AI in an "Interview" environment, user would be more prepared mentally.
Two talks given by Ben Collins-Sussman absolutely changed my career path from being a hot headed programmer to thinking like a professional engineer.

The Myth of the Genius Programmer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SARbwvhupQ

The Art of Organizational Manipulation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTCuYzAw31Y

I rewatch these every few years, or before an interview. Puts me back in the right headspace.

If you're reading this Ben, thank you.
It's only a matter of time before there a no remaining don't-be-evil googlers. Not particularly looking forward to that.
So, you essentially took my project ( https://github.com/rubberduck-ai/rubberduck-vscode ), and instead of contributing to it or forking it, you recommitted all the code under your own name, with a few small tweaks.

To be fair, I saw that you give credit, but it's kind of disappointing still given that prob 98% of the project is the work of the Rubberduck contributors. I know Rubberduck is not that active any more, but it's still disappointing.
Augmenting LLMs with Knowledge: A survey on hallucination prevention
It's clearly not properly designed to be for swedish, this is noted in the reply, apart from some letters being off, it lacks åäö. But it's still not clear why they would use "u-boat" for u. While apparently correct english (never heard it), it being Swedish ubåt seems higher likelihood to me.

I'm wondering if they might have combined mixed two designs, as a lot of the letters works in both. Maybe they looked at two pictures and didn't realise one was for another language? It seems possible to me that they'd design the ball based on product pictures, and those are often not showing all angles of a product.

Don't think it's easy to say one answer or
That you did not perform significant work for it, and did not take a significant risk.
Let's see... do I want to have my stuff scanned by an attendant who's lightning fast with the scanner? Or do I want to do it myself, slowly, while GLaDOS critiques my technique and seems to look for excuses to make me do it over for her own perverse amusement?

I mean, for me it's not a hard decision.

Self-checkout is enshittification. It diminishes the shopping experience so the company can save a few bucks by not employing cashiers.
But whyyy. Is it mainly institutional trading? I can't believe individuals will go in with so big volumes.

10bn is a figure - pause
Right, which is why you should treat it as a person legally, but emotionally and ethically - who cares? It doesn't have feelings! People and corporations are allowed to do all sorts of shitty things to each other by the laws of the U.S, and you shouldn't do them to other people because that's not what being a good person is about, but when it comes to a corporation - its feelings are not going to get hurt.
> Any history lessons for why 72 characters is the line length limit?

I believe it was punched cards (80 columns total, but 8 of those generally used as sequence number).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card
> Context: When I was laid off from Google, I knew I'd be deluged with questions. I wrote this FAQ to share with friends and family, to prevent repeated explanation.

This is quite sweet in its stereotypical techie approach to life - your friends and family are asking questions about your situation because they care about and want to bond with you, not because they particularly care about the actual information you're conveying :-)
> Another comment suggests the free version simply doesn't accept 10 bit input files.

It definitely does, at least for certain platforms and formats. https://documents.blackmagicdesign.com/SupportNotes/DaVinci_...: "For macOS and Windows, DaVinci Resolve will also read most formats natively supported by the operating system."

I'm not aware of a Resolve compatibility matrix that encompasses every possible platform, host OS, and format, but it doesn't take long to just try the free version. If the Sony source doesn't work directly, I'd recommend using ffmpeg to convert a test file to ProRes before giving up.

Worst case, the $300 one-time cost is one of the best deals in commercial/professional software.
> "It is sad to think that a person would ignore evidence that their business kills people to protect profit."

Saudi Arabia has pledged to bring down their fossil fuel emissions, publicly launching the "Saudi Green Initiative" in 2022, signing the Paris Climate agreement, endorsing the UN's climate goals.

They've also seen that there's a "risk" of reduced oil demand around the world and quietly setup the "Oil-demand Sustainability Program" to "artificially stimulate demand in some key markets", (promote combustion engine cars and aircraft travel in Africa and South East Asia) and their energy minister wants them to be "the last man standing, and every molecule of hydrocarbon will come out".

They have a 46 point plan to promote oil, spanning 17 government entities, including things like investing in roads and airports, making sure ICE (gas/diesel) engines are low-cost and competitive potentially a JV with a car OEM to make a low-cost ICE car, supporting low-cost airlines, restarting development of supersonic aircraft because they use so much fuel, establishing local ICE car part manufacturing facilities which will have an oil uplift, accelerate deployment of last-mile delivery and ride-hailing apps in underserved markets and "ensure the deployment of an ICE-fleet", "support the deployment of bus transportation across developing countries to capture the increasing diesel demand", support research to make marine Heavy Fuel Oil (HFO) scrubbers cheaper than switching to LNG or biofuels and promote regulations that allow continued use of HFO, etc. etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT0r_yJafmg
Equally relevant: the subject of that logo—the devil—is also a very bad person. Makes you wonder, did he draw that devil because he's such a bad person? Was he planning it all along?
So significant work and/or significant risk are required to justify returns.

What if these things are offloaded to a secondary party, in exchange for a portion of the returns?
I think there's a difference between being sad/unhappy, and having a problem which causes unhappiness.

Other than mental health issues, 99% of the problems that might cause unhappiness can be solved with money (though money not be the only factor).

Problem: Your mother requires an expensive medical treatment to prevent her from dying.

Solution: $$$

Your mother being dead may cause sadness, but that's not from a problem because there is no solution to someone being dead. That type of sadness is a normal, human emotion. It's entirely different to feel sad because of unchangeable realities than because you don't have enough money to fix the thing that's making you sad.

Enough money can buy the health (up to a point) of yourself, your family, your friends, and even your acquaintances. It can give you the breathing room to develop meaningful connections, to go to therapy, to exercise.

You might not be happy with money, but it has the potential to solve all the problems that affect you directly, and affect everyone you know directly.
So in this case, the weights are the source code and the training material + compute time is like the software development process that went into creating the source code.

It would probably take well over a million dollars in engineering hours to recreate the postgres source code from scratch, just as it would take millions in compute to rebuild the weights.
That's a decades newer engine design, in a smaller vehicle, and a much smaller engine. I'm not sure if everyone here realizes this is a late 70s or early 80s Volvo.

The late 70s/ early 80s Volvo diesel uses a 6 cylinder version of the VW 4 cylinder engine used in the old Golf/Jetta, and is a historical precursor to the more efficient engine in your TDI. It was incredibly advanced and efficient for its time- it's competition, the Mercedes 300TD wagon, only got 22mpg at the time, and gasoline station wagons of that size would be lucky to get 15mpg.
Test Web Bluetooth with Puppeteer
This is exciting. Seems like searching for scientific papers would be a good long context task.
Tried Obsidian for a while, loved a lot about it, but....mmm.

Obsidian out of the box is a bit limited; plugins are great and add tons of features, but then you start hitting issues with plugin maintainers abandoning plugins you rely on, or needing to make a decision between three different plugins that all do the same thing slightly different. Depending on your use case and expectations that may not be a big deal, but I really missed not having what I personally saw as core features not being officially supported.

(Also, FWIW, the sync service is a bit pricy for what it is. I get that it's how they're trying to monetise it, but...I would have preferred another pricing model, even if the total cost was just as high.)

I've personally switched to Trilium Notes which I'm finding nicer. One element I particularly like is that it has first class suport for notes being able to exist at multiple places in a tree simultaneously. I know it's a very personal thing, but for me personally being able to file notes in multiple locations "clicks" in a way that tags didn't.

Trilium Notes: https://github.com/zadam/trilium

And here's a nice writeup on ways to use Trilium (although much of it applies to Obsidian too): https://github.com/zadam/trilium/wiki/Patterns-of-personal-k...
It's not that ironic; it's a web page that contains far more information that one might expect in any but the largest of emails.

The web is where the eyeballs are and nobody's going to convince anyone of a new idea by wrapping whole-page content in a <pre> tag, no matter the idealological purity this would reveal. To reduce friction (already created by telling someone to potentially change email clients) with readers the author needs to speak the visual language of the medium.
Putin was lied to about the capabilities of his forces. Now we’re seeing the same thing with Xi, except heads are rolling _before_ the invasion gets underway.
Curious, did you use chatgpt to fix the bug? Or did you ask it what could be wrong? Or did you do it yourself
> Why not debate what they say?

Because it's not worth debating to us and the vast majority of us aren't policymakers when it comes to matter of global-economics.

...I suspect the link was to posted here to HN on the off-chance a CTO or tech-savvy CEO of an influential SV company sees it and decides to bring it up at Davos this week - just like how other NGOs take-out ads in The Economist around this time of year. So it's pretty flattering to the HN crowd to imagine that we all virtually rub-shoulders with the world's elite.
is it?

self-substainable colonizing Mars seems to be difficult to a point, where it currently looks that even with larger science improvements it won't be a thing for a long time (as a side note with self-substainable I here meant also growable, expandable, doing science maybe trying to colonies other people etc. i.e. close-loop isn't cutting it at all).

and I have seen people argue that when worse come to worse we still could try to colonies mars and similar

generally I have seen the ease of colonizing mars and the amount this will increase surivability of the human species mid term hugely estimate quite frequently
> It's like saying why don't schools teach problem solving

Don't they do that at the lower grades ? (around 7~10 years old ?)

Or in general I would see our math classes as lessons on how to approach complex problems ("prove that X"), hand what strategies are available to match what we know with what we don't know.

> why don't schools teach intelligence.

Define intelligence first.

Otherwise, I went to an university that thought both science and engineering, and indeed we had sessions sitting in front of an editor, looking at core dumps and asking the assistant professor for advice. Like any other skills, there's ways to teach debugging.
That's the difference - the API; as much as you can store a lot of data in either, SQL is not much like Posix. The lower level "distributed" APIs are like OS implementations of the Posix API.
I think this portends a larger culture shift in Silicon Valley tech that, in my opinion, cannot come quickly enough.

Here you've got a guy, 18 years at Google, probably earning somewhere between 500k-1mil per year, probably $5-10 million in his Schwab account without breaking a sweat. With a little blurb at the top of his blog about "How to Leader", feeling the need to explain whether any of this is "fair" or why it's ok that "Google did this to you".

Honestly, as an industry--we need to grow the fuck up. Using the wrong part of speech or talking about what is or isn't "fair" are things I do with my three-year old when she's throwing a tantrum. Not something I expect from an emotionally mature professional in his 40s or 50s who's likely earning a million/year or more. Google is a trillion-dollar, global multinational with shareholders, and a board, and a stock price. If you don't deliver, you will be cut, period.

It's not that I even blame this author--I think this post shows a lot of maturity and self-awareness. It's the broader culture of unseemly whining by some of the most mature, intelligent, and professionally successful individuals that needs to die in a fire.
Counterpoint: If you have to guarantee delivery, I don't see how you can choose something other than plaintext unless you can make assurances about the environment recipients are using to read the message.

Case in point: Last I heard, The College Board still sends critical test information - admission tickets and the like - in plaintext.
Another organization ran by college educated burnouts claiming to be advocating in favor of the "working class". Blue collar manual laborers hate this shit.
I've used Dvorak for 10 years, and I'm here to tell you it's not all that (2019)
Protip: you can link directly to a specific timepoint in a YouTube video with the &t= (or #t=) parameter, measured in seconds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=2060s
Very cool, also be careful with handling raw binary data chatgpt
I think google maps send you down weird routes to do traffic/police/accident reporting

I use gps all the time and go the same way all the time but it often wants me to take some side road when there is no accident or construction
Yeah for sure. Concessions also don’t work when they’re perceived as a weakness which tends to culturally be true in the Middle East.

The only thing I’ll note is that groups can have multiple goals. While destruction of Jews/Israel may be a rallying call and was a founding principle, Houthis can want other things and do have other enemies (Saudia Arabia is disliked by Houthis independently of Iran’s conflict with them).