skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does this proverb sound familiar?

"Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me."

Maybe MongoDB is great now. That doesn't change the fact that many people have been burned by MongoDB.

But, perhaps we can let maybe we can let bygones be bygones if we can determine that MongoDB is solid and dependable now. How do we make that determination?

If we decide that MongoDB is now robust based on present popularity and general satisfaction, that's fallacious reasoning:

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/bandwagon

After all, there was tons of stoke about MongoDB early on, only for people to realize later that their data was being silently nuked, which is why there is such a grudge against MongoDB in the first place. If an appeal to popular belief is proof, then we have a paradox.

Not everyone has the time and skill to thoroughly analyze MongoDB like Kyle Kingsbury / Jepsen:

https://jepsen.io/analyses/mongodb-4.2.6

And even then, there are so many other databases that have a better track record, so it would be hard to argue that the effort would be worthwhile.

I don't see how you're struggling with the notion of reputation here.

Maybe bias in favor of MongoDB is too strong? If that's the case, one last ditch effort:

If your friend's dog has gruesomely bit you 10 out of the last 10 times you've visited him, but he swears the dog is now rehabilitated, do you just shrug off being bit over and over again, and visit your friend without even the slightest apprehension? Or do you, at the very least, remain hypervigilant, given you're history with the dog?

Now replace "dog" with "MongoDB", and replace "bite" with "invaluable production data being absolutely eviscerated, resulting in your customer's lost trust and also immeasurable financial harm being done to you and your family".
I built Stripe's DocsAI feature for any SaaS company to plug and use
I hate reading API docs and I noticed Stripe had used GPT-4 to build an AI bot that could help me navigate the docs and it made integrating it 100x easier esp since I was using stripe for the first time. I think this would be cool for every Saas company with a public API to have so I built a system for anyone to plug and play the exact same feature and it takes like 5 mins to setup.
Tesla's 'race to the bottom' might make its $141B loss worse
There's nothing in the press release to suggest that his specific mission was intended to demonstrate a working, economic delivery of power to earth.
The article is clear about this, and the title is accurate.

Whether it makes any sense to continue this line of research is an open question; they seem to be very far from having something that would produce useful power, with a long line of technical challenges facing them.
I read the article. It's glaringly obvious that the goal is space solar power to earth.

>"Solar power beamed from space at commercial rates, lighting the globe, is still a future prospect. But this critical mission demonstrated that it should be an achievable future," says Caltech President Thomas F. Rosenbaum, the Sonja and William Davidow Presidential Chair and professor of physics.

This mission did nothing to show that was achievable. The hard part isn't the vacuum. It's the distance which requires, because of physics, a large coherent emitting aperture. And the larger your aperture the harder it is to point. If they really wanted to make progress towards this they'd be building a km-scale coherent phased array for power transmission here on earth.

The EISCAT scattering radars in the artic circle are much closer to proving feasibility for space based solar power than this is.
Just reminded me to re-up my Super Male Vitality supply. I just hope I have enough patriot points...
I've worked in this area (in Europe) and that is nonsense. There is no requirement, other thans on the software itself. Bachelor-ish people are generally recruited, but not for their degree, but their skills (and low cost).
[dupe]

More discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39014642
You've made tons of edits, so it is perhaps more challenging to respond than it might be. Everyone uses a thresholding approach for their consumption of media. I read the author's uncritical acceptance of a loaded quote as an indication that she is an ideologue, and it made me distrust her opinion. You don't like that, and that's fine, but I have a right to my opinion and a right to express that as an assessment around the quality of the piece. It's cool that HN is having an interesting discussion; they probably thought we covered the racial element here.
Strategists.

Normal humans are cognitively incapable of the consistency necessary to kept technology reliable.

Trained specialists will "always" be necessary to translate (at some layer) between human requirements and their technology.

This line may move and change with time, yet for as long as there are human stakeholders, there will be human technology specialists who ensure the proper articulation of needs are implemented and maintained. These shall be called "programmers."

I think programmers in 2029 will be doing pretty much the same as today, only LLM will replace junior programmers, and then intermediates, and finally seniors, only leaving the specialists behind.

There will no doubt be a great culling, yet those who know it is for them shall survive.
It’s actually just a manifest to publish and voila, you don’t need to use all apis to get all the pwa goodness
Rubik – An Experiment in Geometry
> Presidents are grifters

This really doesn't need to be expressed in plural. We have one notable example of someone who entered the race as a grift and was arguably surprised to have won. We've had plenty of candidates in it for the grift before, but only one such victor. Maybe it was only a matter of time, though.
The issue is that wealthy people in your comment aren’t choosing the aesthetic reflective of their geography and heritage. They’re choosing an aesthetic prescribed and circumscribed by what they see on social media.

For example, I live in a tropical country with hot summers and monsoons. Historically, dwellings here have had tall ceilings, narrow windows, little glass. Still, of late, builders have embraced larger windows with tinted glass, lower ceilings, commode style toilets instead of Orissa pan toilets, and other such stylistic choices.

I’m sure no one told them to adopt this style. They simply converged on this through some combination of their own exposure to Instagram and pricy designers showing them catalogs of what dwellings in other parts of the world look like.

This break from local rootedness to global interconnectedness is what the article is about.
We disagree sharply about these things are at likely at diminishing returns for conversation, one indication of that being that you didn't really respond to the point I raised, but rather reasserted your original claim as if I hadn't raised it at all. That's fine; some discussions are just hard to have on HN, and we shouldn't force it.
They want mandatory macrobugs (aka smartphones, the bug not payed and carefully placed by those who want to spy, but the one payed and babysitted by the spy target) for anyone, so if you use a desktop you are a threat and you need to be not in comfort...
A nice thing about PWAs is you don’t notice it, you probably don’t know a lot of websites you browse are PWAs
The $141B is AUD, not USD. The loss in USD is $94B. And another thing, this is market valuation loss, not profit loss. Just want to make this clear before there is any confusion.
Scrum came from a world where product folks and developers never directly talked to each other. Everything was a formal written request with some requirements and there were SLAs for how long developers could look at it before providing questions and estimates back. After one (two if you're lucky) round(s) of questions a deadline is established, and work begins.

In that world, creating a single product owner that had the full complete say of this is what will happen that met with developers on a daily basis is a huge improvement of individuals and interactions. This is the single biggest win of Scrum, getting people to just talk to each other regularly, by having mandatory meetings all the time. If an organization has good communication or a product is too large for a single person to manage, Scrum ceases to be as useful option.
If data is a product, just like any product, it has a supply chain. Once you get deep into the world of B2B data, you start to realize that there are suppliers of suppliers. And they're is no 100% source of truth for what accuracy is.
I was underwhelmed when using it for code generation of things like tests.
Some more later discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39014642
Now I’ve got to copy and paste out of the ChatGPT window too. That’s two extra steps.
Well if you call your band just a string of characters that search engines don't like, such as punctuation, math symbols etc. I think Aphex Twin did some of this. Maybe Royksopp? And I think there is band called Various Artists.
>layout only has shift on one side

Do people use right shift? Earnest question
Yeah, the idea of building a train layout, and then being...stuck with it for 20 years doesn't appeal to me at all.
We should also ask ourselves if affiliate links are really that bad. Someone could be making honest complete reviews and monetizing those with affiliate links, does that inherently mean that the search results are lower quality?

That approach also misses all the copied-a-github-issue low-effort content that seem to crop up on Google.
More here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39014642
We seem to perceive time indirectly. Examples of how include our feelings, seeing changes in environment with temporal associations, and even counting the seconds that we generate. We are perceiving the passage of time in these cases as observed change in the perceptible state of the universe.

If time itself is change, then we are directly observing it. If time is something else, and it causes change, then we can’t observe it but can observe the effects. We’ll probably perceive it similarly either way.
This is the goal. It may not lead to much or any longevity, but it leads to huge quality of life increases.
it is y combinator
Pop! Done!
This is a great example of the difference between theory and practice.

In theory, you're correct and type errors could be hiding out in a dynamically-typed codebase after a language version upgrade, lying in wait to take your system down.

In practice, nothing like what you're describing has ever happened to me when working in large (1M+ LOC) Ruby and Python codebases.

In my experience the difference maker is testing, not type checking. I've worked in poorly tested Java codebases where upgrading a dependency still allowed the application to compile and deploy successfully, but then at runtime things started blowing up randomly. Meanwhile with well-tested dynamically-typed code I've never had any such issues.
Listen to the Moment the Guns Fell Silent, Ending World War I
Hey fellow not only tech savy friends. Those guys have something amazing going on and need some tiny help.

This place is perfect to really connect with people and basically recharge our huma batteries and they need a bit of help to make this place even better. I personally love when people try something alternative and they are so passionate to achive this.
I am sick of these Brian Johnson posts…
UK Post Office paid out bonuses for every conviction under Horizon scandal
What are the advantages of Figma over Illustrator?

- Team oriented
I think you do memorize them, albeit not consciously. The results of operations on small numbers are "cached" in your head while operations on large numbers are subdivided into more operations on smaller numbers, and so on.

I guess OP meant that for a base-60 system we would have to do a lot of caching.
For this blog post we are using Chrome for the testing environment which has WebGPU turned on by default now and other common browsers should hopefully follow suit, but given we are using Chrome here we know WebGPU will be available if the WebAI is using that (which many people are turning to for diffusion models and LLMs as its so much faster to run those types of models).

But yes, I am all for better support on all the things too, we have many WASM users too, and when anything new comes out there, this set of instructions can still be used to leverage testing that too as its just Chrome running on Linux essentially with the right flags set.
https://codatocoda.bandcamp.com/album/iwm-ww1-armistice-inte...
Hopefully there's an API to access the back camera on phones instead? The front really doesn't have the resolution necessary for many barcodes.
I take that back. The photos do get considerably deteriorated as I scroll down the article. Well, at least he's fitter than most 70 year olds.
> 6 points by PaulHoule 1 hour ago

Current time: Tuesday, January 16, 2024 10:07 PM UTC

Why is this showing up on the front page? Serious question.

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=thedrive.com
This has the article being posted by PaulHoule 2 days ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=PaulHoule&next=390...
As of this time, it's 59th of the posts by "PaulHoule 2 days ago"

I think this begs the question, who is this and why are they posting so frequently?
Many modern earth imaging satellites use something called "synthetic aperture radar" where the movement of the satellite is used to increase the aperture for the radar larger than the satellite's own dimensions.

Could a similar mechanism be used as well for space to earth energy transfer, or is that unrealistic at the orbital speeds of LEO?
You're telling them that your convenience is worth more to the company than plugging a security hole.

The company can live with your loss of productivity because it is living with the loss of everyone's productivity. The company cannot live without security.

On top of that, if you are the only one making noise about slow computers and complaining about stuff and things then you eventually end up being the problem. I mean, why is that lone employee complaining so hard about wanting to remove security assurances from his machine?
Looks like it. I used to work with it some years ago. I will never use it again or any other actor model based platform with remoting and magic schedulers.
x86 in some modes (PSE but not PAE) has 4MB superpages, whereas in PAE mode or in x86_64 they're 2MB (first level). That's the only one I remember off-hand.
I kind of hope dang does this just once, maybe on April 1, just deploys the site exactly as is - same layout, same design, same font, no extra features, just as a PWA.

People would lose their minds, but they couldn't post the typical complaint because that would mean running javascript. They would just have to sit there staring at a blank page, malding.
For what it's worth, there's a stark difference between the phrases, "I read the author's uncritical acceptance of a loaded quote as an indication that she is an ideologue," and the way you phrased your first post. One comes off more reasonable, the other comes off, well... here we are lol. Just my $.02. But you're probably tired of hearing from me (and I oughta stop flogging a dead horse) so I'll fuck off. Have a good one!

Edit: And sorry about all the edits - bad habit!
I would also assume they're largely not competitive with each other. Adwords ads are mostly valuable when they've got intent. I.E. I search "5g home internet" and it passes me off to Verizon or AT&T.

Searches that end you up on AdSense (or pages that could have AdSense) probably are much less likely to have intent. So instead they pass you off to something you will read so they can hit you with retargeted ads from the last time you searched with the intent of buying you something.

I am sure there's overlap, but probably not a lot.
It's not that you're unable to hear the difference, you have to pay closer attention to what you're really hearing. I'm a native french speaker and when first learning english, I was made to carefully notice the subtle difference in certain vowels, intonations, silent consonants, etc. Like in sit and seat. The former vowel doesn't exist in french, so most french speakers learning english would pronounce it like the latter, as in "seat down". English vowels are very different from french, but there are some similarities and if you don't care to notice, you'll use approximations. E.g. imagine a french person saying "book", with the "ooh" sound and a noticeable exhalation after the k. Small little things like that can be brought to attention and corrected.

It also doesn't help that we much rely on the written word to learn. Which reinforces the reliance on existing symbol-pronunciation associations, instead of creating new ones.
You also might be able to get a 'compression' sample of space in the same manner, by running an auto-encoder in training mode. Rather than trying to do some kind of hack directly, it collects the same data you mentioned, but rather, is just training on the data in an auto-encoding compression framework. Then it can 'hand off' the compressed models weights, which hypothetically, can be queried or used to simulate the environment. Obviously, there is a lot more to this, but its an interesting idea.
What I do is when I receive a QR code to set up TOTP while creating a new account is to take a screenshot of that code and save an encrypted copy of that screenshot. Then it is just part of my ordinary data backed up as part of my normal backups.

If I ever want to set up a TOTP app on a new device it is not hard to decrypt all my saved QR codes, open them all at the same time in Preview on my Mac, select the option to show one page at a time, and then get into a nice rhythm using one hand to scan on the new device and the other to hit "page down" on the Mac keyboard.

If the site also gives a text form of the shared secret from the QR code I save that too. Having the text form around is handy in case I need to login but for some reason don't have the devices where I have the TOTP apps. Given the text form of the code, this command, from the oathtool package, will give the current login code:

$ oathtool --totp -b "secret"

That's if the secret is encoded in base32, which they commonly are. If it is in hex leave off the -b.

If the site doesn't give a text form of the shared secret I read the QR code to get it. If you do that be careful. Some QR code reader apps do the processing server side which you probably don't want...and they don't necessarily make that clear in the description. I had to try a couple of apps from the Mac app store before finding one that did it client side. (Then I found out that Mathematica's BarcodeRecognize function can do it, and deleted the QR code reader app. Now I just open Mathematica, type BarcodeRecognize[], drag and drop an image file that has the QR code between the brackets, and hit shift-return).
Synthetic apertures are not applicable to power transmission. That's just information processing. The velocity at which you're traveling doesn't matter. It can be done from plane. Or balloon. Or a walking human. You just have to transmit and receive from spots some distance apart multiple times (in a smaller timescale than your target is moving).
The word "digit" is defined as 0-9, and specifically refers to base-10. This meaning of the word comes from one of its other definitions, referring to fingers and thumbs. We have 10 of those (usually), hence its use as as a reference to the symbols used in base-10 numbers.

("Binary digit" and "hexadecimal digit" are weird terms that abuse the language a bit.)
> In Chicago, for instance, we’ve gotten a foretaste of the new breed of foundation-hatched black communitarian voices; one of them, a smooth Harvard lawyer with impeccable do-good credentials and vacuous-to-repressive neoliberal politics, has won a state senate seat on a base mainly in the liberal foundation and development worlds. His fundamentally bootstrap line was softened by a patina of the rhetoric of authentic community, talk about meeting in kitchens, small-scale solutions to social problems, and the predictable elevation of process over program — the point where identity politics converges with old-fashioned middle-class reform in favoring form over substance. I suspect that his ilk is the wave of the future in U.S. black politics, as in Haiti and wherever else the International Monetary Fund has sway.

https://solidarity-us.org/pdfs/cadreschool/reed3.pdf
This famous "granddaddy of them all" story about knowing where to make a chalk mark was validated in a 1965 letter to the editor of Life magazine. Although most Internet sources act as though this story is apocryphal, it has some real (if not conclusive) provenance, and definitely fits the known personality quirks of both Henry Ford and Charles Steinmetz...
US judge blocks JetBlue from acquiring Spirit Airlines
It's a huge problem if you're in your theoretical 10%. Ask me how my chronic pain suffering spouse fairs. Six years without even an inkling of a diagnosis. They've had things cut out, things put in, bones fused. The medical system has crippled them more than we ever imagined (not an exaggeration) and we get a lot of "that's interesting" and "my part looks fine, tell me which new doctor I should forward this to." They've also had many comments that they're very complicated and then doctors seems to just fade away because the don't want to mess up their record.
Reading this, one concept just keeps ringing in my ears: learned helplessness[1]. As it happens you really do have a fair bit of control over your life. How you choose to live it, what you buy and what you don't, and whether you submit to the persuasion trickery that calls itself news and entertainment—that's all up to you. Your choices really do matter. I can't promise you that they'll drive the kind of macro change you might like to see, but I can assure you beyond all doubt that waiting for companies, governments, and established propagandists to do it for you certainly won't.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness
Lets not mutilate kids genitals at all. Once they're adults they can decide what to cut off.
UC is for MMIO.
And I suppose if someone really wanted to test out the beer-yeast theory, they could pasteurize the suspect beer and see if it causes the same issues.
That is fantastic. I'm building a small macOS SwiftUI client with llama cpp built in, no server-client model, and it's already so useful with models like openhermes chat 7B, and fast.

If this opens it to smaller laptops, wow!

We truly live in crazy time. The rate of improvement in this field is off the walls.
Could you please stop breaking the site guidelines? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly—for example with the flamebait in your last sentence here. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
I find the field of TinyML very interesting. It's one thing to be able to throw money and compute resources at a problem to get better results. But creating solutions that have those constraints I feel will really leave an impact
Overuse of antifungal skin meds could be driving drug-resistant disease
Capatalism has really done a number on the human psyche, WE WANT OUR LABOR STOLEN. That's the whole point, so we don't have to labor anymore.

Boggles my mind how warped peoples thinking is.
So if this is in LEO... It orbits the whole earth... And most of the time is over oceans where there is nobody to use any beamed power or in darkness where it cant generate power.

Given that, can it ever hope to work out cheaper than just putting solar panels on the ground?
Point is, discussion over there. Don't need ten threads.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38999987

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39001686
That’s.. a whole lot of posting. Pretty much all day every day.