skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no good geometry to be exploited, and the query vectors might be (and are usually) distributed quite differently than the indexed vectors.

For Euclidean (L2) distance indexes where the vectors are partitioned based on geometry (e.g., pretty much every indexing type, including cell-probe like IVF, most forms of LSH, or graph based indices), query vectors can be naturally associated geometrically with candidate nearest neighbor vectors, so the distribution of queries doesn't matter as much.

For inner product, it's hard to do much better than spherical clustering (what one would usually do for cosine similarity, which is to project all vectors to the surface of a unit hypersphere, and searching for nearest neighbors via cosine similarity is exactly equivalent to L2 search). But, in general the maximum inner product in the indexed set may lie nowhere near to the projection of the query vector onto the surface of the hypersphere.

The maximum inner product for a query vector might be almost nearly perpendicular to the query vector (e.g., a very, very far out and almost perpendicular) versus a vector that is parallel to the query vector but with tiny norm. In two dimensions, an example could be (1, 0) as a query vector, but (1, 10^6) as a database vector (or vice versa). The inner product is 1 but the two vectors are very far apart in Euclidean distance. If you project the vectors to the unit 1-sphere, the query vector is still (1, 0) but the database vector now becomes (1 / sqrt(10^12 + 1), 10^6 / sqrt(10^12 + 1)) ~= (0.000000999..., 0.99999...) (apologies if there's an error here) which would also be in a very different cell if one were using a graph-based or IVF partitioning.

Neural search techniques do show some promise here though (say, using a neural net to predict which vector buckets to look at).
Peace is usually a product of avoiding "whataboutism". Humans of all shades and beliefs and origins have proven time and time again how barbaric we can be. True "justice" can probably only happen with the extinction of our species; to avoid that, someone has to say "enough" even if there are those who believe it isn't.
Yeah, each package/lib is stored in a unified directory by it's hash https://zero-to-nix.com/concepts/nix-store. Different variation different hash.
> It's just as frustrating as it was, compared to GPT-4. It's simply off the question and unable to realize it's off.

If this aint anecdotal evidence, I dont know what is.
You need to assume a whole lot to draw these conclusions from prompt output comparison.

Heck, just compare a couple outcomes from ChatGPT and you should conclude the same thing, assuming rationality of course.
It was an apple arcade trial.
A free trial, otherwise it would be more than dishonest.

But the dishonesty comes from allowing users to take risk-free advantage of free trials from third parties (which is good for consumers and business in general), but subjecting the same users to potentially unwanted renewals when it comes to an Apple product.

Rules for thee, not for me, says Apple to devs and users.
Isn't there a rule about modifying inflamatory titles? The article title "Top UN court orders Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza but stops short of ordering cease-fire" is less inflamatory, and will help prevent comments from going sideways.

Or you can switch to https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-braces-worl... if you want the title to match the HTML title.
Recruiting is so, so important. I generally agree with the idea that the most important attribute for startup founders is to be great at hiring/recruiting.

Sadly, this is not something that the big tech cos focus on these days. Employees are viewed more as cattle than pets these days.
Yes, if someone actually did dependency management in Linux properly then I agree - dynamic linking would be fine. It works pretty well in Nixos as I understand it. But it’s called dependency hell for a reason. And the reason is almost no operating systems handle C dependencies well. There’s always weird, complex, distribution specific systems involving 18 different versions of every library. Do you want llvm18 or llvm18-dev or llvm-18-full-dev or something else entirely? Oh, you’re on gentoo? Better enable some USE flags. Redhat? It’s different again.

If Linux dependency management worked well, there would be no need or appetite for docker. But it works badly. So people just use docker and flatpak and whatnot instead, while my hard drive gently weeps. I don’t know about you, but I’m happy to declare bankruptcy on this project. I’d take a 2mb statically linked binary over a 300mb Linux docker image any day of the week.
There are already companies in this space that specialize in archival tools for old messages - Smarsh or Global Relay.

Matt Levine has written about this a lot - back in the day when these rules were made, the only writing that were meant to be preserved were handwritten letters and memos. Today, regulators have a treasure trove of communication on which to build a case - their only limitation is the ability to process it.

It's funny to me how many of these cases end up getting built on an email that turns up in a search where someone says "gee - I really think we are doing a crime here! Are we doing a crime? I really hope we aren't doing a crime."

Like, the person might have had the most innocent intentions, but they end up manifesting the charges they are complicit in. Meanwhile, companies who do some real evil stuff get off scot-free because no one had the moral thought to have their doubts in writing.
When the UN told the US not to go to war with Irak, they just ignored it.

Those bodies have zero power and countries that want to massacre will kill no matter what.
Typically benchmarks have limited aspects they are measuring. I can imagine another suite of benchmarks with longer contexts, but in that case, it might be more difficult to do it in a blind comparison form. At the least, it would be quite costly to run such benchmarks.
Good point, posted this to get discussion rolling as I don’t agree with entire thread. No doubt this trend will also go through hype cycle but it’s early.
Furthermore they don't seem to do any sort of checks to make sure the same entry isn't added multiple times. Didn't take me long to spot three entries for the same phrase: https://untranslatable.co/pages/explore/?q%5Btitle_or_langua...
I thought in the martian they just looped the earth to go back, and then there was the supply rocket problem. They didn't do anything silly like just use the rocket to turn around and go straight back iirc.
I read the entire article, and I think this case boils down to

Genshin needs a twitter account's identity so a judge can rule on the case.

Twitter says they need a judge to rule on the case before they hand over the details.

How is this a contentious issue? Surely there's a standard protocol here. I feel like I must be missing something.
I'm not sure that solves the issue so much as funnels the direction of manipulation. Supposing a bad actor is trying to generate wealth but under such constraints, all they need to do is write policy in favor of the companies that already dominate. Such as favoring Apple, Microsoft, Google, and even Nvidia. Could even be done if one flattens the distribution of funds one would typically find in an index fund. See VOO for example, and play the imaginary game where you are a bad actor who wants to maximize your wealth but all your investments are locked up in VOO. It's important to play this game (run that simulation).
So basically, OOP is still the best for big iterative projects?
Huh? How would you accomplish this? Why wouldn’t the terrorists hide amongst the non-terrorists? Where would you take the non-terrorists? What about people who are terrorist-supporting non-terrorists, aren’t they a source of potential issues?
Bard is far less moderated than GPT-4 eg far fewer requests feel restricted. That alone makes it far better than GPT-4.
> I know what you're thinking, "Slack is our project archive." If that's actually true, .gov investigations are the LEAST of your problems.

I'm thinking Slack is my conversation archive.
WASI Co-chair here. Nothing in WASI is "somehow blocked by Google", or indeed blocked by anyone at all. Graphics support in WASI hasn't been developed simply because nobody has put energy into developing graphics support in WASI.

At the end of 2023 we counted around 40 contributors who have been working on WASI specifications and implementations: https://github.com/WebAssembly/meetings/blob/main/wasi/2023/... . That is a great growth for our project from a few years ago when that issue was filed, but as you can see from what people are working on, its all much more foundational pieces than a graphics interface. Also, if you look at who is employing those contributors, its largely vendors who are interested in WASI in the context of serverless. That doesn't mean WASI is limited to only serverless, but that has been the focus from contributors so far.

By rolling out WASI on top of the WASM Component Model we have built a sound foundation for creating WASI proposals that support more problem domains, such as embedded systems (@mc_woods and his colleagues are helping with this), or graphics if someone is interested in putting in the work. Our guide to how to create proposals is found here: https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/blob/main/Contributing.m... .
Synthetic Turing Experience Technologies (STXT) develops AI tools for content creators to grow their businesses by creating new ways to generate revenue and manage operations. STXT is a groundbreaking platform in the field of AI-driven adult entertainment, offering fans an unparalleled experience to engage with AI versions of their favorite adult stars.
Not JP Morgan because of Jamie Dimon. 'Don't invest money in idiots' seems to be one of Warren's basic rules.
Natural? Artificial? It's all just atoms and the distinction is only in our minds. Discarded snail shells are also pollution. You may say that they break down and plastic doesn't but bacteria are evolving that eat plastic. Coal only exists because when trees first evolved there was initially no life that could break down dead wood.
Our case took around 14 months for the EB-1 from the first call to lawyer to the green card in our mailbox.
Diagnostic accuracy high in emergency departments
Ask HN: How to get into quantitative trading?
I used to be a dev at a quantitative trading shop a few years ago but I lost touch with the trading and programming world for a few years.
I'm trying to get back into this and would like to create a system to automate my trading for my personal account. I'd also like to have a backtesting platform.
Are there are any resources for this?
Reducing dependency on petroleum is a good idea yes. If not for the environment, then for national and economic interests.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_crisis

List also leaves off things like: WW2 Japan being totally immobilized from lack of oil, Allies not pushing a faster end to Nazi Germany due to fuel limitations, US eastern fleet being threatened by the '73 embargo.

The prosperity and security of the nations of the world should not be beholden to a handful of often unstable oil states.
I've fallen out of like with exercism, but I'm curious what your reason was? I still recommend it for people wanting to sample a new language but I found the exercises in all the tracks were a bit too generic and didn't appropriately demonstrate the unique aspects of each language. Particularly with languages like Erlang and Elixir, they had few exercises which really demonstrated concurrency and message passing as baked-in language facilities. (I pulled it back up, I only found two exercises that promoted using concurrency for Erlang.)
Python + SQL, a match made in heaven!

You can run `docker compose up` to get everything up running within few minutes. Or check this public demo server at http://hn.demo.timeplus.com/d/d299c092-7bda-4a37-ba1d-5f484f...
Tesla Cybertruck Owner Gets 'Coming Soon' Message When Trying to Lock Diff
> This is the discussion. As I understand "climate change deniers" aren't denying things like the increase global temperatures or the rising of sea level.

This is the [slight majority] discussion [now]. 5-10 years ago was an atrocious level of "no climate change" is happening that you will still find among half of Republicans in the US.
Messages older than 90 days are only hidden in the free plan, not deleted: https://slack.com/help/articles/7050776459923-Pricing-change...

As soon as you start/resume paying, you can access them again.
I think the root of it is.. the driving part is irrelevant. So many people have lost the ability to NOT be staring at a screen at any given time. If they are not maximally stimulated... phone is out. Driving just so HAPPENS to be a boring activity for many.
Said terrorists will just melt into the general population and walk out with them, and then return with them and repeat the next cycle.
But... this makes no sense.

First, one of the videos is all pink. But if you're a bird, and have a bird's brain, it won't look "unusual" to you one bit.

So showing humans a video with weird pink overhue isn't sensible. Instead, colours shoild be collapsed, or mapped, or something. But not have a weird feeling.

And birds often have a wider view, so that should be visible, but again not seem weird.

It's not like an animal is all "woha, everything is pink!"
From all free LLMs I find bard to be most useful. Chatgpt 3.5 is not even close and it lazy.
Last time the Palestinians in Gaza got a vote, they voted Hamas, which has a charter based on eradication of the Jews. Are you sure you want them voting in the same state as you?
Yeah, most surprising is that as an investor, you pay Buffett some percent (I don’t know how much exactly, 2%?) for putting 50% of it on Apple. It’s crazy.
Yes, but there are things that aren't so obsolete about using a computer that many young people don't know anymore and which are really still needed. I'm not the only person who has noticed that teaching the current generation of undergraduates that many of them don't understand the idea of a hierarchical file system, whether using the graphical folder analogy or as directories. They have trouble understanding that programs on computers save things in locations that you need to navigate to when trying to find it again. It isn't that these young people are stupid, it's that many of them are just used to phones where this idea either doesn't exist or is hidden from user access.
NSA doing NSA things. All legal and kosher due to the Third Party Doctrine[0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine

> Netflow data can be used to track network activity traffic through VPNs

Does this mean so called non-logging VPNs are handing over data? That seems unlikely depending on the provider. Mullvad seems pretty solid and seems like they don't sell 'Netflow' data. But I could be wrong?
Also true! But I argue employees are cattle in all cases. With founders, “you will help make me rich!” With BigCos, “you will help me build head count to build my empire!” Like poker, if you don’t know who the sucker at the table is, it’s you. Importantly, be self aware as the cattle and ruthlessly self optimize.
Yup, the longer you do it, the more manageable it becomes. Also, I got a running stroller and would take my daughter running in the park on weekends; that's a bit of help, too.
Boeing tried to sell the last private 747-8 for a decade before scrapping it (N458BJ), and that one was originally built for a billionaire, had logged almost no flight time, and was already empty and ready to have the interior customized and fitted.

A380... the only attempt at making a private jet version fizzled out as being infeasible, despite Airbus's help. This one isn't getting converted to be a billionaire's plaything either.
Article about the death of the mouse has an odd section slagging on gaming mice. Sure.
True in theory.

In practice, I’ve never seen a “more-correct” system actually replace the value of long-lived chat channels and a culture of discussing things out in the open on those channels.

Long-lived chats don’t replace documentation and project management, but I’ve yet to see those replace the value of long-lived chats.

Now, it probably could be replaced by companies putting project management in a non-hellish tool that’s close to the code and has a pleasant chatting-about-issues experience and low structure so you don’t feel like you’re knocking over some PM’s sand castle if you mess with it (so NOT jira, asana, et c) but I’ve never experienced a company that does that. Communicating in the PM tools is always terrible.
To be brutally honest: Job is (was?) right.

To this day I see most people do not understand right-clicking, and why should they? Context menus are not in-your-face obvious, let alone right-click dragging and other esoteric maneuvers.

I see something similar with touchscreens too: Most people don't know much beyond pinch to zoom. Any gestures or input involving 3 fingers or more is literal pig latin.

Simplifying the mouse down to one button is an engineering decision that aligns with human psychology, even if it's one that rustles the jimmies of many nerds and beards.
Hamas should not exist that is not the point. It is the civilians. They will also not exist if it goes on like this.
I’ve been told stories of the German occupation of my grandparent’s village. My grandfather has been a slave worker on the German farm.

The thing is, I personally can’t relate to any of that. It’s just like reading a book or watching a movie. It’s just so far removed from my reality. I think you greatly overestimate the impact of the holocaust on modern day Jews.
At my last job, subsidiary of a pretty large corporation, it was not only against company policy to use a phone while driving on-the-clock , it was forbidden to text or even call someone if you knew they were driving. Not very enforceable, but at least it established the intent.
vaep
Thanks for sharing, your notes look interesting. I’m unable to download the pdf on my phone.
> Flying on a commercial airplane is demonstrably safer than driving

Can you give me some stats on this? I was under the impression that it's maybe a little bit safer in terms of distance traveled.

But the people who think their driving is 50% safer than the average person's don't care about this. And this is probably near 100% of people who drive.
Incredibly, though that tactic has been used for years now, there's no word for the tactic or the people using it.
What constitutes usage? Is this a mandatory feature of phones, mandatory MITM root CAs, clipper chip style key escrow for device encryption? What's to stop the police from bumping into a suspect in a parking lot to do parallel construction?
It is dramatically more constrained.
F-Droid does a better job than either of them for my purposes and it's just like one guy.
There is another player. China is interested in resolving the Gaza conflict.[1]
China's position is that, since the existing world order, the International Court of Justice and the United States, can't resolve this, China should become involved. Chinese container shipping lines COSCO and OOCL have suspended trade with Israel. China has already provided some aid to Gaza.[2]

Gaza has a sizable coastline, and China has a large number of amphibious assault ships available. They can defend themselves against Israel air attacks. If China decides to send humanitarian relief to Gaza, China can do it, and Israel can't stop them.[3] China would look like the good guys. Which their leadership knows.

[1] https://www.foreignaffairs.com/china/chinas-game-gaza

[2] https://edition.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-wa...

[3] https://www.newsweek.com/china-amphibious-assault-ship-type-...
Not sure what you mean by "strangled", Jenkins seems quite to open to me, in fact I'm paid to take care of its OSS infrastructure and its community and only that, by the main company behind it, and they don't ask anything more, I feel quite free in my job.

Disclosure: this main company is CloudBees
There are some pretty smart investor type people on HN, but my impression (could be wrong) is that the overton window of serious HN investing discussion (i.e. omitting crypto) is skewed towards passive strategies.

There's not a big incentive for thoughtful investors to jump in to conversations centered around "investing = gambling", "why bother because efficient market hypothesis", etc.

It's a fun question to speculate about why that is. My guess is that most of the hacker type people who've grown wealthy (and therefore had disposable income to invest with) in the last 20 years were generally conservative people (i.e. people working at BigTech for 6+ years).

It's perhaps ironic that the source of their outsized wealth was effectively a concentrated bet against the efficient market hypothesis and passive investing strategies.
Important to remember that although getting a run in takes time, it pays for itself with more energy and focus throughout the day (and better sleep quality).
> Meanwhile, companies who do some real evil stuff get off scot-free because no one had the moral thought to have their doubts in writing.

No, belief or doubts has absolutely nothing to do with whether you committed a crime or not.

It has to do with whether it was with malice/intention.
Something about a dog liking to watch someone whose last name is Barker makes this a great story!
To add to this, OP if you want to learn more about why Israel is so callous to Palestinian life you need to learn about the Israeli right wing and how it came to power. I mean, this whole thing goes back further than that but for understanding today it really helps to understand the movement of ultra nationalism in Israel from the fringe into the majority.

Fascism does not "just stop". You can already hear the far right wingers claiming that Israel also has a right to expand into Lebanon and the Transjordan. Ironically looking at how Germany was radicalized is really useful for understanding how Fascism has taken hold in Israel.
> Other thoughts: iron bearing silicates often contain gold. New gold rush?

Could a significant amount of gold be extracted from the water that way? It would likely be a much more environmentally friendly way to mine gold given that there would be no digging required.
Amazon S3 Tools: Command Line S3 Client and S3 Backup
Freelancers defend economic liberty from vague DOL rule
Yes, if you have a point to make you should spell it out. Google manufactures phones, has an open source OS and has a bunch of proprietary stuff that they do not release, see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)

"However, most devices run on the proprietary Android version developed by Google, which ships with additional proprietary closed-source software pre-installed, most notably Google Mobile Services (GMS) which includes core apps such as Google Chrome, the digital distribution platform Google Play, and the associated Google Play Services development platform. Firebase Cloud Messaging is used for push notifications. "
Form Energy has made a huge amount of marketing before they had proven anything and claimed to have a product very fast. They have not build a single large better ever. Maybe not exactly the best example.

Most of the non Li-Battery grid cell systems have not yet proven much. Many of the first generation of such system went bust. And many of the others have taken a long time and are still not deployed.

So far the successful grid battery companies are mostly repackaging other cells.
That would just result in earlier resignations so that both players could get back to a more interesting game.
Follow up -- the benchmarks on that PR look poor, but the benchmarks don't actually quite measure what they're expected to measure -- they're not black-boxing inputs, so the compiler has an opportunity to constant-fold in some cases.

I raised a PR to fix the benchmarks: https://github.com/seanmonstar/httparse/pull/151