skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Prior to Longhorn, Microsoft had previously attempted "database as a file system replacement" as part of Cairo.

> Cairo was the codename for a project at Microsoft from 1991 to 1996. Its charter was to build technologies for a next-generation operating system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_(operating_system)
Abbe was amazing. He worked with Zeiss and a couple other glass manufacturers to systematize optics. One of his greatest accomplishments, beyond levelling up glass quality, was developing an actual "theory of optics" which explained optical phenomena in terms of diffraction. He defined diffraction limited imaging, which meant that people were able to resolve details as fine as opticals can possibly allow (this has only recently been surpassed using Nobel-prize-winning technology). Abbe illumination, which is a way to set up your microscope's light paths to get optimal quality.

He is also known for introducing the eight hour workday(!) and all sorts of employee/company innovations.

My friend from grad school shows how to set up abbe illumination and talks/shows a bit about how to set up optical fourier transforms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8Tqoo0S6gc

If you want to draw a straight line of technology development that led to industrialization and an incredible increase in life quality, it goes right through Abbe (and Newton, Pasteur, Maudsley, and Rutherford). All of these people were absolute giants who saw far past the limitations of their day and continue to inspire new generations of geniuses who can take advantage of the amazing resources we have available today (thorlabs.com is a good example).
Lovehate OneNote; the easy paste and type and draw, all WSYWIG, is great. But it feels like a place to lose notes and never find them again. "OneNote for Windows 10" gives a weird hierarchy view of notebooks on the left, which slides into folders and pages; "OneNote" shows the same data as a dropdown list of notebooks at the top, tabs along the top for folders and tabs down the right for pages; why so different?

And it's obsessed with slurping your data up to Microsoft. If you want to stick with an older (unsupported) classic Desktop OneNote, you get a modal dialog box every. single. time. you. open. it. saying "Get more out of OneNote. A newer version of OneNote is now available for free. Go to www.onenote.com to download."

On the plus side, if you do use Microsoft Cloud storage then you can query and work with the OneNote data through the MS Graph REST API: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/integrate-with-oneno...

So you can programatically add and update content in pages in a shared team notebook, for example. And because it "runs" in MS cloud it supports things like asking the cloud services to "screenshot this webpage for me and add it as a note" and "extract content from this website and add it".
Oh, no! Anyway
> AIMD was built to combat spam.

Generally, the full AI generation of articles with minimal human intervention that your startup promotes is considered spam, even if it's more "honest" spam. Your one-pager has the line "Finally, AIMD takes over the writing process, crafting the article for you."

That alone may not affect people on HN upvoting an article on vector similarity but it could get it flagged if people started looking deeper.
the problem with the english equivalent is that while "present" does originate ultimately from latin, it came there through a very tortuous path so it lost a lot of meanings along the way.
My wife has a similar problem with the iMac supplied wireless mouse. She'll go to click-drag something and catch the power switch, which is on the underside of the mouse, on the mousepad turning off the mouse. This has happened maybe four times in the two years we've had it, but everytime it's been "The computer crashed!" and gets power-cycled, losing work. Of course it's still "crashed" when it comes back up because the mouse is turned off. This post makes me feel like I should put a sticky note on there to check the mouse next time.
Think of this as an auto-CDPATH. With CDPATH you have to explicitly add the directories. And even with CDPATH, it won't work if you need to go deep down.

As an example, say I have ~/Programs/Firefox/Profiles/kdskdj/Cache.

Most people would put just ~/Programs or ~/Programs/Firefox into CDPATH. If you want to get to the Cache directory, you still need to know "Profiles/kdskdj/Cache". With z, if you're lucky, you'll just do "z Cache". Worst case, "z Fire Cache"
OK, I probably should have left that part out then because at a quick look it seems like they still have comparable winter temps to chicago, and chicago's recent weather would be extreme in those places as well. Norway has much milder weather than I had assumed!
Because YouTube is a poor little company that definitely doesn’t deserve to die.
I think it's also a good litmus test for the MBA program itself. Several won't even let you apply without experience, and to me that shows a focus more on business concepts and knowledge, versus, "this is a networking program".
[video] Fully Open Source Guitar Pedal Similar to Chase Bliss / Meris / Strymon
A video about a fully open source guitar pedal with features similar to commercial high end digital effects. Discusses the project and demos various effects.
For entity extraction you can look at SpanMarker: https://tomaarsen.github.io/SpanMarkerNER/. I'm sure other tools exists and others can hopefully point at more.
I want to create AGI, or ASI if possible. I doing that in non-academic and non-enterprice way. I want this because I afraid that one days Mathematics will be too hard for humans but I want no second without any progress in this field. I believe the computers are decent successor for Math culture. Everything else is less important by far.

Of course, my goals are incompatible with OpenAI.
> "funding" is a combination of faculty salary and grants, which typically come from both federal organizations and foundations like Mellon, ACLS, etc.

This can also be a form of money laundering, though. You can easily end up completely government funded, but only through indirect means.
I don't get the 75. How does it work? What is a half fourth time?
they both contribute a lot, although rereading my post i realized i dedicated more discussion to review burnout. i think it's a question of whether you feel more of an obligation to your users or to other people in the project, i've noticed you and i differ there.

for me particularly, reviews were bad because there was a time component, if i waited too long people would get frustrated and give up.
CouchDB implements a DB per user approach. Personally, I've found it much easier to use than an SQL DB for web apps I've made, but I've heard others who've always used SQL say they were frustrated with it.
My coop has the worst of all worlds. There used to be four self checkouts, but they removed two during covid, and another one after it developed a fault. So you have one self checkout, with a member of staff that has to juggle baby sitting it and manning a basket checkout. It would be much quicker if they just removed the last self checkout and had the staff member man the checkout full time.
So what would a bit pattern be in this case? I ask because I’m probably being too simple, but from a certain point of view, it’s all bits.
That was a key point in the books though.
Seems like calendars are all the rage, again.[0]

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[0]:https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/01/09/hey-calendar-no...
This is a surprisingly balanced article, which I no longer expect to come out of Microsoft.

I suspect that companies focusing on augmentation instead of replacement will be much more successful in the long run. Good to see that GitHub at least seems to get that.
for ppl downvoting me here is the data https://x.com/valen10francois/status/1747606444382233015?s=6...
The difference would be that a function, order non-withstanding, is (a) callable (site). "Higher order", merely means one that takes/returns other functions, but they are still fundamentally, functions (callable sites).

A protocol has the property that it is implementation independent, but that it has a defined interface (i.e. it is immediately usable).

This is neither (not a defined interface, implementation dependent). If it doesn't share either property with a protocol, then you can't claim that it is truly a protocol, "higher order" or otherwise.

This confused verbiage is what should be cause for concern - note that I can claim a "higher order" protocol with JSON or gRPC - its all the basic building blocks for a protocol, just both sides need to implement the same stuff!

Except, neither JSON nor gRPC are crazy enough to claim to be a "higher order" protocol, which to me puts this in the rubbish bin of over-complicated technologies looking for a problem, like SOAP, JavaBeans, OSGi - all of these could also be claimed to be "higher order" protocols as well.

The term is meaningless, and so I assume, is this project.
I've tried to use Obsidian three different times, and I always end up going back to Standard Notes. I love Markdown, I love note-taking with Markdown, but I really just want something that's clean, simple, and fairly basic. I'm very fluent in Markdown and am not trying to do something crazy to munge into a Markdown representation, and I also don't want to deal with a complex plugin architecture to get things done.

Before I used Standard Notes, I was mostly satisfied with a private Github repo, containing Markdown files and NeoVim.
> AIMD was built to combat spam

I don't believe that.

Especially considering

> Anti-AI Detection: Avoids detection by AI content detection tools.
Just saying that allowing some dude's AI to game the field is not an option. The dude's goals might be opposite to your ones.
'Don't call me an arsonist, I'm a black-hat climate researcher.'
> There isn't any deletion occuring; rather a disabling

Well yeah, the OS is stored on a read-only partition. Even if it was remounted read-only to be deleted it wouldn't free up any usable space. This would also make future differential updates more difficult to apply.

Disabling is strictly better for the user in this case. The app can't run, but it can be re-enabled if you change your mind.

I understand why people have a negative gut reaction to there being no completely remove option for OS-provided apps but really it isn't being user-hostile. It is just the best behaviour.
> If you research Coleman Young's failures with detroit. NYC is basically following lockstep with how he failed detroit and caused the city of detroit's decline.

Could you explain how Coleman Young caused Detroit's decline? My understanding - but maybe I am wrong - was that the decline was caused by the auto industry gradually moving production out of Detroit and into suburbs in the 1950s, causing massive unemployment among low-mobility black workers in Detroit proper in the 1960s, causing the 1967 riot, causing white and wealthy black families to flee the city, and by the time Coleman Young was elected in 1973, the city was doomed to spiral into economic and social failure.
I'm also using the dynamic code-loading to get free JIT in other projects and quite a few features of .NET relies on that, there are limitations (and for something as dynamic as an emulator I'm not at all surprised that they hit a brick wall at some point).

Another benefit of C# is that they continually add features to make the language less susceptible to GC stalls. Compared to Java you have Value types, real generics, ref and out arguments, Span<T> types, stackalloc allocations, unsafe blocks and so on. You can get quite far without allocating anything on the heap and the ergonomics won't be that much worse than even C++ when doing so.
> By contrast Playstation 4 emulation is barely at the proof-of-concept stage a decade after launch, and years into the lifecycle of its successor.

This is unrelated to being jailbroken. PS4 was jailbroken in october 2015.

https://old.reddit.com/r/ps4homebrew/wiki/scene_history
This is a defense of the current system? That a paywall is what stands between our precious research and our “sworn enemies”?

So, other countries and entities can fund weapons, armies, spies, but a paywall is a bridge too far to cross? That’s an extremely weak argument.
> There's no clear notion of status, remaining concerns, priority, etc. in an email thread.

Which, for drive-by contributions, does not really matter. It is a problem for long term contributions and project managements in general, true, but there often is some tracking system present (patchwork, debbugs, ...).
Show HN: Shadeup – A language that makes WebGPU easier
Grep, locate, find… aren’t these all query tools for file systems?
In my practical experience, the majority computer graphics and vision frameworks (e.g. point cloud processing in Point Cloud Library, feature matching in colmap) all use FLANN (https://www.cs.ubc.ca/research/flann/) which employs a variety of NN algorithms that specialize in high dimensional spaces (e.g. 128 dimensional SIFT descriptors).
I've been waiting for and nvAlt/Resophnotes with image file support for 10 years.
This is interesting and serves as a potential "hook" for getting people interested in coding. I understand the BASIC appeal!

In something like python, an analogous thing is turtle graphics. Is there something more similar (but still very basic) in python for something like this? A mini graphical language?
Dive into SQL indexes.
>Could it be that it’s not about productivity or even “culture”, but actually all about control and/or trying to justify the org’s sunk costs in office space purchases/leases?

It could be for those reasons, or it could be for a variety of other reasons. One thing that we know that humans are really good at rationalizing irrational choices.

Anecdotally, my experience seems to show that there are many relatively low-productivity people who are fooled into thinking they are being productive by scheduling meetings, having face time, overanalyzing problems without necessarily addressing them, etc. Those people also seem to be the ones who favor RTO policies. My suspicion is that RTO helps them enable those meetings, which makes them "feel" productive.
It depends on the layer, some of the layers might be able to take advantage of how the data is persisted. For example, if you use avro/protobuf, the decoder will handle it for you. If that's not the case, you would have to implement the migration by yourself. There is a paper[1] on this subject called "Online, asynchronous schema change in F1", which explains how to implement it.

1: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.14778/2536222.2536230
Maybe it's one of those things that is easy to explain but hard to understand if you don't have experiential context.

Some people find activities and experiences fulfilling in a non fungible way. That makes them feel alive, more themselves, and more fulfilled than without them.

Loving ones job is a powerful source of happiness that's hard to replace, once you've had a taste of it. I can make you smile when you get up in the morning excited to start the day, and then you have the pleasure of doing it as long as you can. It can be a way to live life, not an alternative to it
24 miles because the vehicle is less efficient and the heater is in use. Charging with a 120V 12A charger is when cold is a different question. Attached garage? Probably not a big deal. Outside? You might use all the power available to heat the battery for charging, fail to meet the minimum temperature, and then not charge at all. You REALLY want more power for charging than that. Even just 240V 12A prevents the 0 charge even after 12 hours due to cold problem afaik.
What percentage of Americans live in a community with 600 or fewer people?

There are very few policy decisions that will be universally good for everyone. That doesn't automatically make them bad policies.
There was a study about 10 years ago which concluded that Fish Oil supplements were no more effective than their "control" substance.

When I found out that the "control" substance was Olive Oil I became very suspicious of the study.

I also feel suspicious when someone tells me "to stop wasting money" on something that is so inexpensive in relative terms.
Haha, yes, this is very true. I was the guy who gave a lunchtime lightning presentation on why to use Vim (TL;DR: automating repetitive actions using the . key, macros, :global, :normal etc etc) :)

I use jk to get out of Insert mode on my local machine, and ctrl-C on remote machines where I don't have my .vimrc.
Progressives? Karl Marx 'owned the libs' more and better than any person in history. The degree to which he despised liberals really cannot be exaggerated. He despised liberalism even more than capitalism. In fact, he was quite fond of capitalism.
I think direct manipulation never went away, but the abstractions that were provided for general use were too useful to pass up for most workloads.

Some kinds of storage like cloud-scale object storage use custom HDD firmwares and custom on-disk formats instead of filesystems (±2005-era tech), we also have much newer solutions that do direct work on disks like HMR (not to be confused with HAMR or HAMMER2) where the host manages the recording of data on the disk. There are some generally available systems for that, but we also have articles like this: https://blog.westerndigital.com/host-managed-smr-dropbox/ (Which mostly focuses on SMR but this works on CMR too).

As for the record size in the DB vs. Disk attributes, that's probably not used like that anymore, but I do know that filesystem chunks/extents/blocks are calculated and grouped to profit from optimal LBA access. If you run ZFS and have it auto-detect or manually set the ashift size to make it match the actual on-disk sector size. This was especially relevant when 512e and 4Kn (and the various manufactures 'real' and 'soft' implementations) weren't reliable indicators of the best sector access size strategies.
There was an opportunity of comical irony here...
I never understood why these platforms, which clearly run on a server, were marketed as "serverless". They seem more akin to a distributed operating system, to me
I’ve got very bad news for you.. what do you think happens when Ford solicits bids for headlamps?
Sure “you” don’t pay something to Ford. But Ford absolutely gets its cut
FWIW, there's a path to downgrade PS4 to the previous firmware, see https://wololo.net/2022/12/06/it-is-apparently-possible-to-r...
You know I hear this argument a lot, but had a revelation recently. Everything people are saying about apps and the app store could apply equally well to web browsers and webpages. After all there are plenty of malicious webpages out there that can do bad things, but we decided that it is fine, that's a risk we as society are willing to take. The alternative is to allow large organizations like the state and corporations to tell us what we can and can't do with devices we own and what we can or can't look at.

In conclusion "Information wants to be free."
Funny Reasons People Have Returned Gear
> It's easy to think people are being obtuse and sticking their heads in the sand

It's easy because it is the case. You don't believe in facts: you either recognize them or choose to ignore them.
Who even uses is-odd and is-even?
Yes, banning the sale of brand new non-EVs in a decade's time is often presented by people with an agenda as if everyone needs to switch to EVs overnight.

This is frankly silly though. In reality the EV sales will ramp over time and then ICEs age out of the fleet over multiple decades. And that's the timeline that is being attacked as insanely rushed.
DiskANN seems to be a recent & effective approach:
https://github.com/microsoft/DiskANN
No, they have far less bandwidth. However, I am not sure if getting Apple CPUs would be a good idea. You can get some toy projects running with them, but a pay-as-you-go cloud solution would have been cheaper and faster. I don't find my M1 Max to be particularly competitive.
Agree with you, but also, I feel like my imagination is lacking here. What kinds of "emergencies" even exist that require a child to resolve them? In all my K-12 education I feel like I think my parents only needed to contact me in class without prior arrangement maybe... once? Or twice? Zero times? Honestly I can't think of a single instance, I'm just assuming there must've been one I've forgotten about, certainly not an "emergency". Even other students being called from class seemed incredibly rare, and even in those cases I would have just assumed things were prearranged and they merely got a notification that the parent had come to pick them up, or something.
There's nothing about the academic publishing system preventing "sworn enemies of the US" from getting access to journals. If you're conducting research on something that the US federal government deems a matter of national security, it means you've received a security clearance. You're not publishing anything in a journal unless you fancy a long prison sentence.
Consider, for a moment, that maybe he was spreading those theories for attention and didn't believe them, because he literally knew better? What else could this stranger possibly do to lose your trust?
Because the case shows that the law needs to be updated, not that the app store isnt a monopoly.
Searching it is timing out for me, but if this works it would be much more effective to know what actually leaked.
In the book Trust Me I'm Lying he has anecdotes like that all of the time. He would buy billboards for American Apparel just to vandalize them. Or promote Tucker Max's book by organizing their own protests during their book tour.

More recently, Sony was caught deleting negative criticisms of the females Ghostbusters movie, except the ones that were blatantly sexist so they could paint all criticism as sexist.

Humans are hard wired to respond to calls of war.
thanks. I'm considering a better paid plan
> Basically people make terrible decisions all the time in service of their obsession

Everyone loves a stupid criminal. As an American, I'm just shocked that police were able to overcome their apathy of doing their jobs and were able to catch a stupid criminal at all.
Michael Lewis on Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX
Disproving old papers is done by people attempting replication, not by peer reviewers. Peer review doesn't typically entail replication attempts, it's just a sniff test for obvious errors that would embarrass the journal if let through.
"accountable" for what? is the twitter mob going after every professor? Or just the ones whose spouses they don't like?
Protocols are useful, and as such the costs are high to using a bad one. Confused verbiage does not instill confidence that the authors know what they are doing, or that there is real benefit.

So, perhaps it is strong language, but I think it is a reasonable reaction.
>Public access to publicly-funded research is long overdue.

RIP Aaron Schwarz... he wasn't wrong [in his attempts to share publicly-funded research], just early.
> Sure, games that run on 4.51 or lower are cracked. New ones? Uncrackable, until a new jailbreak is found.

The PS4 scene is full of downgrade patches. Many games targeting 10.x for example didnt make use of newer syscalls and it was discovered how to patch the game for 9.0 (the 9.0 firmware has a jailbreak).
Who do you mean by "... those countries ..."? If we are talking state level, will a paywall really make any difference? Could it be that enemy spies already have their finger on the pulse for interesting research, unless it is very secret? And indeed the most secret stuff is often the primary target... Or is the target only scientists and students?
I guess it's harder to spell people's names correctly.
Raspberry Pi Television Pattern Generator
Curiously, I wondered why many onigiri we see are triangular in shape,
I found https://onlinemuseum.net/cuisine/onigiri/onigiri and others which seems to claim that this is because they're formed in the shape of mountains to drive off spirits.
But if you ask me, this is either true or is simply another one of those things,
where it happened so long ago that nobody really knows the answer for sure.