skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heck yeah, thanks.

If the first 4 bytes of the string are the same, the strings are likely to be equal. Similarly, the first 4 bytes of the strings can be used to determine their relative order most of the time.

That's a fun heuristic.
Forty years of the Mac, the computer for the rest of us
Germany doesn't have a jury system either and I'm fairly sure there's no death sentence by missile in Germany
I would bet that at least some portion of these are genuine (failed) attempts at camraderie or playful banter. But much like the cashier-jokes ("no tag, must be free") I bet it becomes really grating after a while. It's probably a novelty to see someone unicycling, but it isn't novel for the rider.

I kind of associate these types of failed jokes with a particular type of awkward middle aged-to-older dude who accidentally puts people down when trying to be funny.
i do the same because i find the var keyword ugly
Happy to see this return and hope the latest generation of HN readers take the time to study this.
I'm familiar with node based development environments in other domains (VFX) and when done well (eg. Houdini) they can be much more efficient than solving creative problems with Python or C++. So I expected to like Max, but in practice found it pretty unintuitive. Complex devices I've written end up doing as much as possible in JS, but the bridges to Ableton are pretty rickety and while you usually can find a solution eventually, it's not a fun process. I prefer Reaktor, but that has it's own set of issues and isn't really evolving at any pace.

In the end I shifted to doing as much as possible in Eurorack which feels a much more creatively enabling and stable platform, relegating Ableton/Max to covering what's left.
It is, actually. Kant differentiates between "real predicates" and "logical predicates", and only states that existence doesn't belong to the first category, because it "doesn't enhance the concept". The whole distinction is quite unclear, and Kant's claims can be interpreted in multiple ways, as people do in some publications.

Actually this famous slogan that "existence is not a predicate" is closer to proposals of Russell and Quine.

Disclaimer: quoted phrases from Kant may not match exactly what you can find in English translations. I know Kant from Polish translations, so I improvised a bit.
A good way to approach this is to think like a military: there might be a staff, but there is only one commander in the unit. Their whole job is making the right decision as quickly as possible and assuming responsibility for it.

If the manager keeps avoiding making decisions and diluting responsibility, they aren't fit to be a manager.
For something this ostensibly awesome their landing page needs an interactive demo map, not a video (which incidentally takes too long to load) overlayed by popups and cookie dialogs.

Imagine if maps.google.com had brought you to a video when it first came out.
Land owners will vote for politicians who spend less.
Right, I picked a deliberately silly example. I just don't understand what these activists think Exxon is going to do. Do they think Exxon can dictate to the military how the military is allowed to use the fuel they buy? Because...uh...they can't. The military will buy fuel and do whatever it wants with it and Exxon can't do a thing about it.
The endpoints can also be smarter about it by using a buffer-aware congestion algorithm like BBR, which should avoid filling up the buffers to available capacity.
Maintainer of Rust crate 'dirs-sys' intentionally poisons dependents with MPL
They intentionally added a copyleft-licensed library (options-ext) written by himself to poison the supply chain via `dirs-sys`. (Commit: https://github.com/dirs-dev/dirs-sys-rs/commit/e169da7af901e...)

The dependency adds nothing of value and can trivially be removed. (https://github.com/dirs-dev/dirs-sys-rs/pull/22/files)

When asked about it, they claim to prefer MPL and that the current license was an accident they 'may or may not correct'.

Popular dependents include
- cross (https://crates.io/crates/cross)
- terminfo (https://crates.io/crates/terminfo)
Musl doesn't have anything like Rust backtraces so it's not a fair comparison. By the way, glibc does have one [1], and I would be surprised if adding a backtrace printer doesn't significantly increase the binary size.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Backtrace...
An Elementary Introduction to Kalman Filtering
TP Link Omada works surprisingly well too.
https://www.turris.com/en/products/omnia/
Could you make the key under the C act as a Cmd/Ctrl key like a Mac?
Can't shareholders fire those execs?
If you can realize that your opening statement was a 'backhanded-compliment' towards MAX, you would see that you both functionally said the same thing.

"It's great, but..." and "Is it great?" both convey the message that MAX gets a lot of praise/recognition that maybe isn't deserved or warranted, at least anymore. They're much more in agreement than disagreement when taken full context.
If I remember correctly, for dot product it uses BLAS libraries and for Cosine distance and L2 have very minimal SIMD support. In both cases SimSIMD should be faster for distance computations.

Multiply it by a more efficient HNSW implementation and you might be looking at a 100x performance difference on a scale of a billion vectors: https://www.unum.cloud/blog/2023-11-07-scaling-vector-search...
But in this case the activism is explicitly about hurting the company financially. 1) it is unlikely that you convince other shareholders to vote against their interest 2) the board and management have a fiduciary to their shareholders, including the ones who do not vote (which is often the majority of shareholders, how often did you show up at the general assembly of a stock you own in your portfolio, or a stock held in an ETF which typically do not vote). I suspect this is what the Exxon lawsuit will argue.
AirPods Max died after 2 years
I think everyone understands the necessity of oil & gas - but what's becoming clear is that some oil & gas companies are acting like tobacco companies have in the past - they're intentionally trying to discredit climate change research, minimise public awareness of their impacts, and other "bad" activities which are good for business, but bad for society.

There are oil & gas companies which are at least trying to change - Equinor in Norway, Engie in France. The common thread is that they're both at least partly state owned.
I love max, though I haven't used it since it got the upgrade from the old black and white UI. One thing I really liked about it is you can combine visual programming with procedural code, you can add boxes which process inputs using javascript code
The heuristic I use for distinguishing between statistical modelling, machine learning and AI is is through feature engineering and model specification:

- Statistical modelling: Manual feature engineering, manual model specification (y = ax + b)

- Machine learning: Manual feature engineering, automated model specification (y = ax + b or y = ax^2 + b, I don't care, the algorithm should figure it out).

- AI: Automated feature engineering (e.g. CNN), automated model specification
A hundredth the price and a quarter the quality means that this is here to stay. Might be a little early in the accuracy phase to start riding AI written briefs into court unchecked, but then I’ve never met a lawyer who didn’t try to make their billing efficient.

But logically, since all that is needed is improved accuracy it’s more likely that improved accuracy will be the answer rather than any change in human behavior.
Not yet, we focused on the architecture for this paper. I totally agree with you though - pixel space is generally less limiting than a latent space for diffusion, so we would expect good performance inpainting behavior and other editing tasks.
Getting corporations to do things that are your trivially obvious right usually require armies of lawyers.
A Camaro is not a small 2 seater by any means, it’s a rather big muscle car. If you want to experience what a small 2 seater feels like, try a Miata or a Cayman. Those 2 have outstanding visibility. Many sports car have bad visibility due to the mid engine blocking the rearview.
Hey, sounds like you'd love what we're building @ Ellipsus — https://ellipsus.com

We started off your same exact assumptions and built a text editor that combines the best of both worlds: you can collaborate in real-time on the same piece; or branch off of it, work on your own and then have it reviewed and merged back into the main branch. That and other features that should make writing together a pleasure.

Reach out if you want to give it a spin, we'd appreciate your feedback!
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Yeah, speaking for myself a mix of dense standard ports and a few swappable ones would be more attractive. I wouldn't even mind them being more difficult to swap out (requiring some disassembly) if it meant they were smaller or sturdier.
I don't really know what this means, I'm not American. I would say that all these people are more right of centre if liberal means left wing.
You could theoretically, with shareholder approval, take a company private, split the share classes, and then IPO again and resell the shares to the same people.

In the interim while private, some bank would be the 100% owner, with some contract saying they must re-IPO within 24 hours and resell shares for 1 cent to the original list of shareholders.

And I don't see any reason you couldn't do all this on one day - you just need approval of 51% of the shareholders and the board.
In some parts of the world, electricity prices are very high at the moment.
Last time I measured (IIRC) my NAS uses 70W with all drives running, 30W with the drives spun down (sleep mode) and 3W when "off" (really WOL).

At the moment, I SSH from my phone to a Raspberry Pi in order to WOL the NAS when required. It has the appropriate power settings to spin down and then switch off after a period of inactivity.

Coming to think of it, at some point I may have implemented a single button wake (like the article) by creating a JuiceSSH profile to run my WOL bash function then exit as a snippet, and then making an Android widget on the homescreen to connect with that profile. Probably deleted it because I kept accidentally pressing it :-/
My local BofA offers it, and then somehow needed to close the branch for a few years during the pandemic. Was really inconvenient to access the box in a locked, unstaffed branch.
This is gold!!
> Isn't that a contradiction in terms?

"The beatings will continue until morale improves"
Also that's kind of a dodgy silicon valley corporate structure, you don't typically find that in blue chip companies.
> a popular defunding of companies that can’t responsibly deliver products from the demand side, and “the system” doesn’t want you to know that’s how to change it

It seems much more logical to start driving electric, IMHO.
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Thanks for your help, let’s try
Montreal Subway Foot Traffic Data, 2023 Edition
You can save yourself the POO -> POM translation by using `clojure.core/bean`, which turns Java objects into maps, e.g.

(bean (java.util.Date.))
=> {:day 3,
:date 24,
:time 1706087564699,
:month 0,
:seconds 44,
:year 124,
:class java.util.Date,
:timezoneOffset -120,
:hours 11,
:minutes 12}
How's Immich these days? I see it still has a big don't-use-this-in-prod warning, so, should I?
> No Pay

From this job posting [0]

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Party in a Shared Google Doc (2020)
Their GitHub doesn’t have anything other than the linked page currently

https://github.com/lumiere-video

Nor did they claim it would. But I had to check anyway, and there wasn’t any link I could see to the GitHub profile. So here’s a link for anyone else that wants to check and don’t want to type the url of their profile manually from looking at the hosted website url.
I have lived, worked, and faced racism in 15 countries. Race is always an issue even in the most meritocratic multicultural societies (like Singapore).
People will always have a bias about your culture. Just ask any German how many people gave their best Hitler impression when traveling abroad.

What I think is new since about 2018 in the US is that perceived victimhood is rewarded. Not actual victimhood, but perceived victimhood.
Baltimore police is known to be corrupt, what’s BS about the police officers citing unreasonable demands for proof in an attempt to pocket the money?
It has always amazed me how many people in the US insist on categorizing other people into phenotypical races that we know cannot be justified by genetic research and are also incorrect for tracking ethnic origins and self-identity based conceptions. The explanation is that oppressed groups are often forced to take over inadequate and untenable conceptualizations to identify as a group and fight the oppression. However, at some point you would hope they also start revising those concepts. There was a short trend in this direction but it failed.
hey! thanks for pointing this out, checking this.
JPL lays off 100 contractors, citing budget uncertainty
> classification problem with a large number of labels, but only have a small amount of training data for some (or all) of them, it will probably never work

That is true. On the other hand i have seen someone once perform a trick which looked miraculous to me.

We had a classification problem with a small number of labels (~3). And one of the labels had unfortunately way less samples in our training set. Then someone trained a GAN to turn the images of the abundant labels into images of the rare labels. We added those syntetically generated images to the training set and it improved our classification performance as best as we could tell.

That one still feels a bit like black magic to me to be honest. Almost as if we got more out of less with a trick.
Perhaps their native languages were phoneme-rich and could map those to their L2?
These look like sensible defaults to me for release mode. What are the tradeoffs?
> I didn't know that when I buy something from a super market I pre-pay for the recycling - which made me feel stupid since we pay extra in admin-costs in our building for this

You're probably paying for trash collection, not the recycling itself, and you're paying for the disposal of the non-recyclable trash.
Why don't these people just do a buy-out at market price and then shut it down. Only burning their own money in process.
> Programming in this language is an adequate punishment for inventing it

I was already laughing hard by this final punchline. Bravo.
Like Indiana's legislation regarding the value of pi?

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_pi_bill]
"For the fifth year in a row, I've asked Société de Transport de Montréal, Montreal's transit agency, for the foot traffic data of Montreal's subway."

The issue is that you need to ask for a snapshot. As this is non-sensitive public sector data, it should be available real-time to taxpayers, in my opinion.
> “the system” doesn’t want you to know that’s how to change it

I think even your own quotation marks show that "the system" is a weak concept. You can't think of things as a "system" or "matrix" (if you're a right wing conspiracist) or "society" (if you're a left wing one) causing every ill.
that is a very cool tangential idea imo! thanks, i will consider this.
Huh, pretty interesting https://www.follow-this.org/how-it-works/

So you invest in oil companies so you can vote on their board?

But it’s still investing in oil companies and giving them more money. It’s probably legit, but it does feel like a scam.
It looks like sloped noses are about a decade old and are sold as hi vis for work. Given the obvious advantages, something must have changed for them to be so new? Now that ag tractors have slope noses, might Chelsea tractors eventually copy the look?
By reducing the amount that they produce and sell?
Day–to–day maintenance is never the manufacturer’s responsibility. They merely produces instructions on how to best maintain the aircraft, and then it’s up to the airlines to actually follow those instructions (or hire out to a maintenance company that can). I think that there is some scope for the airline maintenance organization to use alternate methods in many cases, unless the instructions specifically rule them out.

I’m thinking of a case where the manufacturer recommended using a particular type of crane when partially removing an engine so that they could accomplish a specific type of inspection. Some airlines used the crane, but it was slow and difficult to do. Others just used a forklift to hold the engine up, which was quicker. Everything seemed fine right up until an engine fell off (that’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point). The NTSB investigation revealed that if you used a forklift then you risked twisting the engine out of alignment and cracking the engine mount that holds it to the wing. As a result, using the crane is now mandatory.
Hah. Yeah.

Maybe 10y ago I was robbed. The investigator who took my case, a month later, asked me if I had anything to drink that night. I said, yeah, one beer about 7hr earlier. He said that because I drank that night that would close the investigation and that was that.
If 12 communication jurors vs 12 non communicating jurors make different decisions.
Out of curiosity, I looked at a basic hello world in C, and compiled it naively using gcc on Ubuntu, by default the executable produced was 15960 bytes, but when adding the -Os option (from the man page: "-Os Optimize for size") to enable many optimisation flags including code size, I was able to reduce it to 15968.

#include <stdio.h>
int main() { printf("Hello, World!"); return 0;}

Of course, If I had read more than 3 words in the man page, the answer was easy to understand: "Os Optimize for size. -Os enables all -O2 optimizations except those that often increase code size", so you can't really get lower size than the default using only the optimization system, there's also "-finline-functions" included in -Os, but it won't help you in a Hello World.
yep - a cleanup job running at a set frequency seems like a good idea! and no worries, i am taking all the feedback positively. thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts!
This is so well put-together. Awesome! Thanks for sharing.
Preferred stock, usually with reduced or no voting rights, is very much older than Silicon Valley.
A statically linked C hello world is just 5 KBytes though (with MUSL on Linux). Static linking doesn't mean that the entire library is included in the binary, only code that's actually used (details vary depending on how the library was created, and how the program was linked, but those 5 KB are with defaults).
Synthetic fuels are not an alternative to solar panels or wind turbines.

Synthetic fuels are the best method for long-term storage of the energy produced by solar panels or wind turbines and they will also always remain the best form of energy storage for the applications where the mass and volume are important, i.e. aircraft and spacecraft (as long as those do not use nuclear reactors).

The hydrogen for synthetic hydrocarbons will come from water, exactly like the hydrogen from all fossil fuels or from all living matter (even the hydrogen from volcanic gases or hydrothermal vents, which is used by bacteria, comes from water that has been reduced abiotically, mostly by the iron from magmatic rocks).

Unlike any other form of energy storage, the use of hydrocarbons for the long-term storage of the captured solar energy has already been demonstrated successfully for billions of years.

We can already have a better efficiency than the plants at the initial step of the capture of the solar energy. We must also attain an equal or better efficiency at carbon dioxide capture and at its conversion into hydrocarbons.
None of us have ever seen a marina or mooring place covered in litter and human waste, or been subjected to petty crime by the boaters.
I mean, "shit hits the fan" can be a personal tragedy or local one.

Like you have to leave your home in a rush to not be covered in lava, like on Iceland.
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> but, how do you count the carbon emissions.

for anything fuel-based (both fossil and "renewable" such as wood pellets and biogas), we know how much CO2 a given quantity of fuel emits. Place a tax on the importers and producers of the raw material, that's it.

Other processes that emit greenhouse gases - especially construction and agriculture such as cow farms - are a bit more difficult to calculate, but there's enough data available to make reasonable averages.
And also for using big guns to defend big oil.
Depends. German are, French are not bidirectional.
As a Japanese-American, we are well aware how utterly absurd we are:

* An absurdly absurd twenty aircraft carriers between (as of writing): 10 Nimitz-class carriers, 1 Ford-class carrier, 7 Wasp-class amphibious assault ships, and 2 America-class amphibious assault ships. Any one of the Strike Groups led by them can rival the military of an entire country and we field twenty of them, one for each carrier.

* The Coast Guard is geared to sail and operate right alongside the Navy, including blue waters. We effectively have two navies.

* Unparalleled air superiority between our F-15s and F-22s, complemented by F-16s, F/A-18E/Fs, and F-35s.

* Positively stupid air-to-ground firepower between the B-52, B-1, B-2, AC-135, A-10, and AH-64, along with the F-16, F/A-18E/F, and F-35.

* Ridiculous support fleet of tankers, AWACS, and more.

* The world's best tank, also known as the M-1 Abrams.

* Each US state has its own National Guard to complement and support the Army and Air Force.

* Special relationships with the United Kingdom and Japan, both militarily and overall.

* But wait! There's more!(tm)

Trust me, we know how 'Murica we are.
hahaha, thanks! i just like it better with "math" :)
> Because my data comes from a variety of unstructured, possibly dirty sources which need cleaning and transforming before they can be made sense of.

Seattle data guy had a great end of year top 10 memes post recently and one of them went like this

> oh cool you’ve hired a data scientist. so you have a collection of reliable and easy to query data sources, right?

> …

> you do have a collection of reliable and easy to query data sources, right?

—-

Like, most of the time in businesses… if the data can’t be queried with SQL then it’s not ready to be used by the rest of the business. Whether that’s for dashboards, monitoring, downstream analytics or reporting. Data engineers do the dirty data cleaning. Data scientists do the actual science.

That’s what I took from the parent at least.

YMMV obviously depending on your domain. ML being a good example where things like end to end speech-to-text operates on wav files directly.
> But it’s still investing in oil companies and giving them more money.

Buying shares on the market from third parties does not give the company more money.
Also, even in "the" C ABI provided by Rust out of the box there's a certain amount of "Well, this is probably what your C compiler does here, but there's no requirement" rather than an actual hard ABI document. A lot of the "We're ABI stable" claims in C and C++ are "We daren't change anything or stuff breaks" which isn't so much an ABI as it is paralysis and Rust is confident it doesn't want to do that.
It’s expensive to capture co2 though. And once you do that, it’s cheaper to sequester the co2 and burn nat gas.
How does the revamped Teletext work? NOS about the brand new, old system