skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't that solved in PDF/A, which the GP was implying could also be done for EPUB?
a lot of people count their chickens before they hatch re the stock compensation. Instead of counting the price when the grant was made (but not vested), they're counting the already vested (or soon to be vested) stock, at the current price.

When stock prices are high, it looks like your compensation is high, because 3 years ago, you were granted stock compensation that only vested now.

Which is why i always want to know cash compensation and stock compensation separately. Otherwise, it's hard to make comparisons.
A series of more or less automatic appeals ends up at the desk of the President. It's a deliberate act of commission by the President of the time to actually order an execution. And overwhelmingly, they tend to commute.
Summary findings:

- Lack of Coordination: The DoD has not used a coordinated approach to address UAP, leading to varying processes across different components and a lack of a comprehensive strategy to understand and protect against potential threats from UAPs.

- Role of Combatant Commands: The report suggests that combatant commands, responsible for security threats against the U.S., should play a key role in detecting, reporting, and identifying UAP incidents.

- Insufficient Integration: Existing DoD components’ processes for UAP incidents largely exclude the role of geographic combatant commands.

- Varied Processes Among Services: In absence of comprehensive DoD guidance, different military services have developed their informal processes for UAP detection and reporting.

- Security Concerns: The lack of an overarching policy may pose a threat to military forces and national security.
isn't this idea about as trivial as it is useless? i can maybe see the appeal as a special edition for elderly homes or hospitals where people with brain injuries are treated but for a healthy person? learning a few rules? how about a simple cheat sheet squiggled on a piece of paper next to the board?
True sample size neglect for real
Phalanx's Twilight, Legion's Triumph, Part Ib: Subjects of the Successors
Being popular is not consent to have your likeness used in a way that you have not agreed to. It's that simple.
Other people would’ve maybe been able to manage and view your parents cameras too not so long ago.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/15/24002920/ubiquiti-fixed-...

Unfortunately there’s rarely a perfect solution. Purely local is great and comes with its own tradeoffs.
It is, in fact, an eerily accurate representation of that time and place. I, too, recommend it.
So, there have been gnaw plugins for elastic search for some time. Is there really a need for a new search platform?

If there is, what api differentiates it, and why can’t this be expressed in either elasticsearch or Postgres?
What are you actually asking for?
Yup—but the average Linux user does not give two shits about the average crapware that corps want to shovel onto consumers as they tend to be much more fussy over privacy and ethics.
The EU is "leading in regulation", which means often, regulation (especially in the area of customer protection) is first introduced in Europe, then other jurisdiction follow that are at least "inspired" (think: lazy copy and paste of at least parts) by it.

Example: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and-telecom-law/californi...

This can be a positive effect for the world overall, but it is also annoying that some EU politicians describe that as (and confuse it with) "innovation".

As a European citizen, I approve of things like killing of cellphone roaming fees and forcing adapter uniformity (I wish they also enforced power plug uniformity across the EU's 27 member states).
Those are all true statements but I'm confused what they have to do with my question. I was asking if people are getting lower stock refreshers than they expected.
Some Perspective on AlphaGeometry
That's what they say the goal is. But I suspect their main concern is to make sure it's not gruesome for those in attendance including the media. Guillotine would be the quickest way of conducting the execution but it would also quickly end executions.
Does that work without death penalty being on the table?
Name Was Changed at Ellis Island
Males not contracting HPV stymies the transmission to unvaccinated females, if cervical cancer is the only concern for some reason.
Load testing can be harder on the client side than the server side at high loads, which might be surprising, but consider how many servers need to handle large numbers of clients connecting and how few clients need to connect to large number of servers --- if you do it yourself, you're going to have to relearn all the techniques to make large number of connections possible.

If your desired load for testing is small, it's not a big deal, of course.
There is no mandatory government registration of non-profits in Sweden. You can get a like a tradename protection by registering like a company name. Suppose you would like to start a non-profit or any other organization. You need a yearly meeting to take the signed protocol to your local bank if you need an account.

If you like to have an organizationalnumber, you need to apply to the tax authority. If you do business activity and like a local name protection you need to apply to bolagsverket. Depending on the size of the app these steps might be helpful. I don't think our local chapter of FSF, has done any of the registrations just as an example. They run local conferences and other simular works.
IMO we are well past peak cosine-similarity-search as a service. Most people I talk to in the space don't bother using specialized vector DBs for that.

I think there's space for a much more interesting product that is longer-lived (since it's harder to implement than just cosine-similarity-search on vectors), which is:

1. Fine-tuning OSS embedding models on your real-world query patterns

2. Storing and recomputing embeddings for your data as you update the fine-tuned models.

MTEB averages are fine, but hardly anyone uses the average result: most use cases are specialized (i.e. classification vs clustering vs retrieval). The best models try to be decent at all of those, but I'd bet that finetuning on a specific use case would beat a general-purpose model, especially on your own dataset (your retrieval is probably meaningfully different than someone else's: code retrieval vs document Q&A, for example). And your queries are usually specialized! People using embeddings for RAG are generally not also trying to use the same embeddings for clustering or classification; and the reverse is true too (your recommendation system is likely different than your search system).

And if you're fine-tuning new models regularly, you need storage + management, since you'll need to recompute the embeddings every time you deploy a new model.

I would pay for a service that made (1) and (2) easy.
Here's some really insightful feedback on this idea from Baldur Bjarnason, who has spent significant time working with various W3C groups relevant to EPUB: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/111819472053623911

Example note: "EPUB originally didn't support remote resources and people put a lot of work into changing. Loading stuff over the network is HTML's killer feature. Blocking network assets is a setback for format adoption, not progress."
You can do client-side include with XSLT, which (surprisingly!) all major browsers support.
> Appeal to tradition isn’t a beneficial argument, which is why it’s considered a fallacy.

Appeal to tradition is a fallacy in logic, but laws are not made using pure logic. Laws are made when some group with sufficient political power wants them to be made, and such groups are often driven by tradition, what they perceive to be tradition.

> Or perhaps more importantly, what fuels the belief that they are at all in the position to do something about it?

The European Union is a government; it makes and enforces laws. In this case, it has made a law called the Digital Markets Act which addresses certain types of gatekeeping behavior by large tech companies including Apple. Some readings of this law I've seen forbid Apple from charging fees for distributing apps outside its store and from using any legal workarounds to circumvent that prohibition. It remains to be seen how EU regulators and courts will interpret it.

Your comment makes several references to "IP", but isn't clear about what IP is involved. Is it necessary to use inventions patented by Apple to write an app that runs on an iPhone? Is it necessary to know Apple's trade secrets (aside from things like signing keys that exist for the sole purpose of gatekeeping)? Does it require making copies of things Apple holds copyright to?
Ingenuity? Pah!

Couldn't it MacGyver a fix for the damaged blade, using materials at hand?

Seriously though, great job you plucky little 'copter.
What Happened to the Companies That Mark Cuban Called Out as Scams [video]
I'm having trouble distinguishing the differences between the bright end of the gradient. Maybe it should use a different color space. This site explains it well: https://joshdata.github.io/color-scales/

"Unfortunately math in “RGB space” isn’s perceptually valid. Dividing the green component in half doesn’t make a color half as green. Adding 50 to all of components makes the color brighter by uneven amounts depending on which color you start with. That’s because the sensitivity of human color perception is uneven across the gamut of colors we can see, and the definition of RGB used by computer monitors doesn’t follow human perceptual sensitivity."
I guess latex is still unbeatable for writing complex math expressions.
These days, when I don't need that, I'm happy with AsciiDoc.
Ah, ok, so you want a PDF-like single file but in HTML in a way that's more efficient/scalable than the built-in singlehtml builder. Ok fair enough.

For my use cases, the default multi-file HTML builds are ok, and I just pound out a latex-builder generated PDF for the archives.
Please don't. We don't need more closed ecosystems and app-only technology. I don't believe that you'll be able to actually secure it so in the end we'll just have more software that doesn't respect the users and not be any better off for it
I think you are confusing what I was saying with something else. It's general knowledge that the concept of a soul is a common the world over. There have been quite a few philosphers that have delved deeply into the topic, many of them foundational to philosphy and deeply impactful on science.

> You'd have an actual point if you were talking about real philosophy, but you aren't.

You mean like Kant or maybe Descartes?

I think you suspect I'm trying to argue for some religion or another or even just a general pro-religion stance. I'm not - I'm merely pointing out your statement showed ignorant dismissal of a concept that's pretty big and has an impact on most cultures. Asking the question "does an elephant have a soul?" does not imply a religious treatise - souls are conceptually what sets humans apart from animals (in many, many traditions) and asking the question "does $x have a soul?" is often asking (as in this case) "Are humans really that special?". Presumably the authors in this articl are expting their audience be any one of several billion people from places where that metaphor is a cultural trope that everyone knows.

> Words like "soul" and "creativity" are pointless anyhow -- human AI has stomped every one of those bounds, why not nature's AI?

Sounds like you might have some thoughts on "Are humans really that special?". If you want to be taken seriously, knowing about the multiple viewpoints, and being able to refute those actual points is helpful. If you want to come across as a buffoon and jerk, then just make sweeping statements against a strawman, and show ignorance of the concept you're discussing.

> Foreign religions deserve equally as much derision as domestic religions

I don't know what foreign or domestic religion is. An awful lot of religions are practiced in many countries, so I don't follow what you're saying there.

As for derision of religion... nah. Seems like a lot of futile effort. Why put everyone (on all sides) in a bad mood all the time by picking fights over it when no one's beliefs (or lack thereof) will change because some insults were hurled around?
The Irish DPA is well-known for it laxity. There is a reason why it is regularly overruled.
If it's sleep apnea, go to eBay and buy a CPAP for $100. It'll be the best $100 you spent.
The third party doctrine is eminently unfit for the modern era.
I write a fair amount of reports professionally and I use word.

Getting data from my Python analysis into the reports are tedious at best and updating numbers last minute is hair pulling frustrating.

But because of the good wysiwyg I can cheat on my adjustments when I need a graph to go “just there”, I can edit my paragraph wording such that I don’t get a almost completely blank page in between sections, etc, etc which is important to make a good looking report, imho.

How do you go about that with rst? I’d love to write a templates rst file that can be fed from my excel sheets and Python scripts, but how do I go about final layout adjustments?
I hate the idea of having restrictions on photographing things in outdoor public places.

I have been harassed by building security for taking photos from the sidewalk outside my cities tallest skyscraper.

An architect might own the rights to a buildings design, but they don't own the right to the cities skyline. City photography would become impossible if photographers have to acquire a license for every building in their photos.
My take is that Apple are doing the maximum possible to protest their disagreement with consumer protection laws interfering with their ability to do whatever they want. Their announcement has the tone of a spoilt child, with an air of punishment to be applied to EU users and particularly developers. It’s bad faith compliance.

Rather than protecting the interests of users, they are more interested in obstructing the DMA and its attempt to promote competition and protect consumers from monopolistic practices.
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39138042
Sphinx/reStructuredText supports math in LaTeX input format [1], so you can still go nuts with complex math expressions while still benefitting from the relative simplicity.

[1] https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/restructuredtext/...

Looks like AsciiDoc supports similar latex math blocks [2]. Are there reasons you can't stick with that when doing math?

[2] https://docs.asciidoctor.org/asciidoc/latest/stem/#block
Asciidoc has potential. Last time I dug into it the ecosystem was lacking, but there were glimmers of a reboot. I hope that pulls through because it’s a great format.

Edit: yeah it’s managed through the Eclipse Foundation now. They’re slowly working towards a formal spec, haven’t hit 1.0 yet.

Details here https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipse/asciidoc-lang/asciidoc-la...
These kind of posts always remind me of a quote from the movie “life is Beautiful”…

“There is nothing as necessary as the unnecessary…”
As discussed later in the article, she profits from her social media usage of the image / documenting her work on it.
Digital nomads, and "expats", do not exist.

They are but economic migrants, of varying... shades.
1k is not much. My first RAG had over 40K docs (all short, but still...)

The one I'm working on right now has 115K docs (some quite big - I'll likely have to prune the largest 10% just to fit in my RAM).

These are all "small" - for personal use on my local machine. I'm currently RAM limited, otherwise I can think of (personal) use cases that are an order of magnitude larger.

Of course, for all I know, your method may still be as fast on those as on a vector DB.
California Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) Reform: A Retrospective
Having suffered through many PDFs on my phone I’d take slow reflow and sometimes broken layouts over no reflow and guaranteed horizontal scrolling any time.
Exploratory testing has been a huge way for me to build user friendly products. But I guess when you work in a large project that you are not paid to do exploratory testing, therefore product usability can end up terrible with end users hating ever using the thing!
Worth reading given its focus on Fort McMurray, the key city in the oil sands: “Fire Weather - A True Story from a Hotter World” https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61966364
> a matrix operating on a vector always performs an affine transformation on that vector

A simple matrix multiplication only performs a linear transformation. To get a nonlinear affine transformation you need to augment the matrix and vector with extra dimensions containing carefully selected extra ones and zeros in addition to the translation. The end result is still a linear transformation of the supplied vector, but looks like an affine transformation if you ignore the final dimension.

But yes, I did not pick that up in linear algebra. It wasn't even mentioned there. All the fun stuff was taught in computer graphics.
Greedy lawyers and legitimate cases aren't mutually exclusive. Most litigation that moves the needle often requires a big pay day due to our broken legal system.
Right, the king and Queen could maybe have 4 or 8 pointy corners instead of just a V, but the other pieces 'mimic' their movement in a sense.
I was watching the Joe Rogan Experience episode yesterday with Diana Pasulka, and they discussed something intriguing towards the end. They delved into the war on drugs, drawing connections with the counterculture movement and political activism. It was suggested that the outlawing of various drugs, particularly hallucinogens, was an attempt to dampen the temperature of the activist movement, perceived as a threat to governing systems. According to Joe Rogan, this marked the beginning of the war on drugs at the end of the 70s.

Then came the 80s, a period Rogan described as a clumsy expression of perhaps the wrong values – a perspective that struck me significantly. This era represented a departure from the openness of the 70s, which I find highly valuable. My previous comment didn't fully capture the importance I place on the availability of hallucinogenic drugs and associated experiences (their connection with UAP and religion is explored in the podcast as well), which I believe can be experienced without societal decay or government collapse.

Rogan and Pasulka highlighted the contrast between the 70s and 80s. The 70s brought an expansion of experiences through fantastic drugs, while the 80s, post-war on drugs, ushered in a change not just in societal values but also in the drugs themselves. The shift towards substances like cocaine, seen as ego-driven, was emblematic of this change. It's fascinating and somewhat saddening to think that the energetic and valuable thread of the 70s was lost in the 80s.

Despite the positive energy of the 80s, I feel we need to recapture the 70s vibe. I highly recommend watching this podcast episode, especially for that insightful discussion, as I think it'll resonate with many.
Is anyone using this as an api behind a multi user web application? Or does it need to be fed off of a message queue or something to basically keep it single threaded?
The generations having fewer kids have more money than the generations that had more kids.

I hope this isn't surprising anyone considering how expensive children are.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/11/03/millennia...

> Both married and unmarried Americans have shifted toward childlessness in the millennial era. And levels of childlessness have actually accelerated among millennials as their homeownership rates have recently grown.

> Instead, just about every source we consulted pointed to the broader economic climate. Hammered by the Great Recession, soaring student debt, precarious gig employment, skyrocketing home prices and the covid-19 crisis, millennials probably faced more economic headwinds in their childbearing years than any other generation. And, as sociologist Karen Benjamin Guzzo, director of the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina, told us, it put them behind on everything you’re supposed to line up before you have kids.

> And, unlike previous generations, millennials had the means to delay pregnancy thanks to affordable, long-acting birth-control options, said Alison Gemmill, a demographer at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

> “Historically, one of the reasons why we think the U.S. has had such a high fertility rate compared to other countries was related to unintended and unwanted pregnancies that resulted in births,” Gemmill told us. Now that it’s easier to avoid accidental pregnancies, more women are having kids later, or not at all.
1flow.ai – use GPT-4 to generate surveys
1Flow.ai is in-app survey platform powered by AI. It uses AI to automatically generate fully customized survey questions and even multiple choices given a business / user research goal. Such as understanding funnel drop off reasons, or why users cancel their subscriptions.

Is AI coming to take our jobs? Or is it helping us becoming more efficient? What's your take.
I don't. That would require them to use it.
They made a perfume of it.

https://eaudespace.com/
Parabon NanoLabs ran the suspect’s DNA through its proprietary machine learning model

By judicious application of AI grift, basically.
This doesn't mention text-generation-inference, vllm, or Mistral which is raises eyebrows. I would like to see more importance given to privately deployed LLMs that are not consumed through third party APIs
yeah it’s managed through the Eclipse Foundation now. They’re slowly working towards a formal spec, haven’t hit 1.0 yet.

Details here https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipse/asciidoc-lang/asciidoc-la...
A gallon, you say? I can’t resist: https://youtu.be/tFUvmZWf4hI
I don't believe the photographer's case is seeking that, and I believe only Kat Von D is named in the lawsuit. A separate suit would have to be filed against the person carrying around their unlicensed IP.
A totally different but related example is pitch framing in baseball.

Basically catchers will try to catch a pitch using a motion that slightly tricks the umpires eyes into calling a marginal ball a strike.

It does have a statistically significant effect and since it has become widespread catchers are judged on how good they are at pitch framing since that is a small but significant part of the value to help the team win.

That whole concept goes out the window if MLB ever changes to just using cameras to call balls and strikes!
It’s “see what we can get away with” tactics in addition to stalling
It actually doesn't, they are operating in Europe so they have to do things that way.
Lots of companies are paying OpenAI, so someday is yesterday?

https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-annualized-revenue...
Sir, you're under arrest for looking like this Dalle generated picture of a murderer in the style of Post-Impressionism.
I hope the development of the MAV will bring us closer to building launch vehicles capable of getting humans off Mars. Seems like the MAV is preloaded with fuel and pretty small but should provide some good data for future missions.

https://mars.nasa.gov/msr/#Ascent-Vehicle