skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
`insert_all` seems to be an example of what I mean about how the framework encourages you to do the wrong thing. Here there is a lower-level hatch to do a bulk insert, but it says it doesn't run your callbacks/validations. So if you're using "good" design (or using libraries that work by hooking into that functionality), you can't use it. Laravel was the same way.

The new queue you linked is database backed, but the whole point is that you want to just run a job without needing to serialize anything outside of your process. It should just schedule it onto the thread pool and give you a promise for when it's done.

The Kafka thing also seems to be an example of what I mean: in Scala I'd just make a `new Queue` with a thread safe library, and have a worker pull off and do an insert every hundred rows or so, or after e.g. 5 ms have passed, whichever is first. No extra infrastructure needed, minimal RAM used, your queueing delay is in the single digit ms, and you get the scaling benefits. Takes maybe 10-20 lines of code.

You can then take that and abstract it into a repository pattern so that you could have an ORM that does batching for you with single item interfaces (for non-transactional workflows), but none of them seem to do this.
I doubt the debris field would be 1km in size. Assume you throw a high-speed small piece of propeller tip debris at the optimal angle at 240 m/s or about 800 fps. I'm sure it goes farther in lower Martian gravity and atmosphere but a spinning lead air rifle pellet at that speed and the optimal high-arc trajectory could barely make it half that far on Earth. None of the ballistics tables have columns for Martian atmosphere or gravity. (Yet! I hope I live to see a day when we could use this information, but not quite as much as I hope that we never have to use this in anger.)

But even in the worst case, you're scattering a 1.8 kilogram robot (more accurately, a few grams of the rotor blades) over an area of pi square kilometers. The chance that a large chunk hits Perseverance just wrong is negligible.
My understanding is that the leading hypothesis is that:

1. The “Old World” had a much more extensive animal husbandry. A lot of the nastiest diseases human beings pick up come from animal reservoirs. With humans living in closer quarters to animals for a much longer period of time in Eurasia/Africa than the Americas, more diseases crossed over and became endemic among the population.

2. A great amount of the Eurasian continent is along an East-West axis, whereas the Americas are primarily North-South. This means that seasons and climates and climates tended to be more closely aligned, which leads to easier spread of agriculture and domesticated animals, which leads to faster population growth and disease spread.
PCA doesn’t work at all for embeddings. Maybe in some rare cases, but it’s throwing away knowledge and the loss in accuracy is usually quite drastic.
Interesting to see how some people keep defending Apple as if it was their own company...

But if Unity tries to do the same then they revolt.
My friends weren't taking RAWs from their iPhones, so that part didn't really make any difference. (I actually don't think I've encountered anyone who does that!) I don't have an iPhone, but when I've tried RAWs on some other smartphones, they weren't nearly as good as from DSLRs. In fact I sometimes found it hard to even get the quality of their own JPEGs from the RAWs.

(Lenses can of course add another factor, but everything I mentioned is with stock lenses.)
>The difference between FOSS and OSS.

It doesn't fit either of the definitions
yes, the labor, permitting, and safety costs are insane. Raw panels are very cheap, and even cheaper in China (<$0.20 per Watt).

If everyone could have a 10KW system for $2,000, they would.
I used Ollama docker image to integrate with Gait Analyzer[1], a self-hosted gait analysis tool; all I had to do was to set up the docker compose file,

I was able to get the setup done with a single script for the end user and I used langchain to interact with Ollama.

[1] https://github.com/abishekmuthian/gaitanalyzer
I’m not convinced that it’s a “trick.” Do you genuinely believe that iPhone customer satisfaction will not go down if sideloading and/or third party app stores are supported? For me, it’s impossible to imagine that this is the case.
> Can someone explain a couple use cases for something like this?

At this point, it would be more useful if someone explained a couple of use cases for dynamic linking.
I love the author’s “if you want to leave a comment email me”. I saw this somewhere else and it motivated me to make an automated system that works like that: https://r3ply.com
Let's see tomorrow. Too ez today.
Would this work for someone outside the US using a VPN?
Cable Giants: Making Cancellations Easier Violates Their First Amendment Rights
> make the calendar available via rss.

I've thought a lot about ICS/RSS combinations[0], and my current stance is that while they achieve similar things in some cases, RSS is meant for things that happened in the past (items in the future may or may not show in your client), and calendars are meant for future events. This incompatibility makes it hard to do RSS feeds for events, unless you use event-publication-date, which has its own issues.

I've instead been working on custom calendars for sites I care about.[1] is one such attempt from someone else, but I've been focusing on simpler options[2]

There's also the problem that both Android and Windows are horrible with webcal (iOS/MacOS/Linux work decently well), making "subscribable web calendars" out of reach of most Android users, unless the understand the terrible UX that these platforms offer.

[0]: https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge/issues/1351

[1]: https://github.com/simon816/ical-bridge

[2]: https://captnemo.in/blr-habba/
One of the commenters on the post was struggling with the same thing, and found a battery bank that advertises seamless switchover between charging and power -- the ZMI QB826/QB826G 25000mAh. Amazon it's around $160, Aliexpress is around $100.
> it's just so hard for me to imagine that those tiny, tiny apertures we have on our phones can replace a well designed lens.

I don’t think they can, but they usually don’t need to. If you manage to extract a modern phone lens and stick it in front of the film of a 35mm camera or a ten-year-old digital camera, you will get utterly terrible pictures :)

Nice old lenses had nice flat focal planes. For a camera phone, who cares? The depth of field is so big that you probably can’t tell whether the focal plane is flat.

Nice old lenses tried hard to avoid distortion. Your camera probably corrects distortion in software.

Nice old lenses collected lots of light and integrated that light using the world’s most boring algorithm: just adding it all up. Your phone has a much more sensitive sensor and cleverly takes multiple frames for you so it can infer a decent picture even in poor lighting using fancy algorithms.

Really nice old lenses might have been close to diffraction limited resolution, and maybe users managed to get extremely sharp photographs with them, but they usually didn’t. Your phone camera has a much much worse diffraction limit, but it has fancy sharpening algorithms that work sort of okay, and people mostly view the photos in small formats anyway.

Nice old lenses, with the aperture wide open, had shallow depths of field. Your phone camera doesn’t, and it will try to fake it for you in “portrait mode”. It looks pretty bad, but a surprisingly large number of users don’t care :) (I personally find the way hair looks to be quite annoying, and I’m surprised that I haven’t seen a nice AI-enhanced version that can fake hair over a distant background better.)
RCE in Nvidia Triton Inference Server
Stripe charges 2.9% + 30¢, or almost exactly 1/3rd.
Pixel owners report problems after installing January 2024 Google Play update
We go through the process of making an API integration with the use of Autonomous Agents on our new platform.
The thing to know about Mongo is, every database involves design choices that balance ergonomics, performance, and reliability. Every one, except Mongo which, according to their sales team, is the best at everything and has no faults, unless your technical choices are incorrect. In fact I just learned (in a lunch and learn with their team) that when you de-normalize data, inconsistency issues aren't really a problem, and joins are so unusably slow in ALL use cases anyways. Went ahead and just threw my DDIA book in the trash, as they nodded approvingly.
It's strange not to mention the OpenSSL situation pre-Heartbleed in this article. It would make a very strong case for funding critical "infrastructure" - I think the fallout from that was estimated at half a billion dollars or something?
What were the system specs?
Ruffle is a good example too. It brought most of the old flash content back to the web in a safe sandboxed way. To the point I could see people using the old adobe tools to make new content, if they haven't already.
Not on consumer stuff. It is just too expensive per GB, even if you already have the interposer for something else.

LPDDR5X on a wide bus (and a healthy LLC) is fine, it just needs implementations beyond Apple.
I'm on the same page. I convert all my ePubs to PDF because I want to keep my handwritten annotations in-place alongside the text I'm annotating, including things like circled words. Recent Kobos (Elipsa and Sage) take a decent stab at solving this problem while retaining the ePub format and reformattability, but it breaks too easily.
> Co-founder, out of the blue, suddenly says that he wants to quit

He's known for a long time that he wants to quit, it's just now that he's worked up the nerve to tell you. If you're honest with yourself, I bet you've known it for a long time too.

> I argued that he still has an employee mindset. Founders don't get to quit randomly; we have a responsibility towards investors and employees who stuck with us through all this

...and this is the exact point that you blew it. Why do you think you get to tell him what to do with his life? And why should he put the interests of your empoyees and investors ahead of his own?

He's just not that into (working for) you. He's gone. Let him go and try to salvage what you can.
Oh, yes of course, there is almost no market for discrete low performance GPU.
I think it's an alright analogy. Beer isn't normally free of charge, and typically has age restrictions.

Freedom of speech per the US constitution, with special exceptions, congress shall make no law... abridging... I.. it cannot be regulated; it's yours and the government can't dictate the terms.
At the risk of feeding the troll... Damn it, I can't resist.

> You seem to neither know what a gish gallop is nor what an ad hominem is.

Actually applies directly to you. With the exception you definitely don't know, or are so stuck up your own arse you can't identify them in your responses.

> Perhaps it’s best if next time you focus more on crafting solid arguments that can stand on their own and less so with being concerned about trying to predict who I am or what I espouse.

Again directly applies to you. Further I'm predicting nothing, I'm confident in all my assessments of you, and your character, none of which impresses me. You do, however, have an impressive lack of self awareness; you should work on that.
Lorn !
It's end stage legacy biology.

The future is asexual transhuman clones grown in pods.
You are probably too early, but looks like a good investment.
I'm not sure where this serious trouble is.

- Model Y was the bestseller 2023

- they keep ramping up production and fabs

- they are sitting on a pile of money

- quality has been steadily and consistently improving

- they have the SC network that everyone is adapting to

- they managed to slash prices, reduce per-car costs, while still getting the average auto industry margin - there is no EV competitor that can do this without selling at a loss, at the moment (if they do, everything becomes an optional and you get back to 50k$)

- finally a Non-US-sized vehicle is going to be released in 2025 - definitely 2y too late due to the CyberFuckup (seriously, the only market capable of buying this is the US)

Everyone keeps comparing to BYD, but I just read today that the software quality and compat for charging are simply not there yet. The other manufacturers are even more behind.

What I see/think:

- Wall Street pseudo-science of EPS has been flawed since forever: the same analysts expect Tesla to keep growing >50% YoY, and call for doom if it misses 600mln out of 25bn, or 0.03$ out of 0.71$ (I see this all the time also with other stocks, esp. in the last ~4y)

- Tesla's valuation is heavily reflecting the expected future developments, and has been inflated for some time; this is not necessarily a bad thing, but a market correction was to be expected and long overdue

- Musk's cult and news outlets created this alternate reality where having a Tesla product expresses approval of the CEO: I don't buy it, and I don't care; I own a M3 and plan to get a Powerwall because they're the best products in the price range

- Musk's behavior is concerning, I'd rather see him out at some point, but I fear Tesla would lose its most powerful asset: the constant, enormous push to innovate and break boundaries; if Tesla were to become the regular car company, it would probably disappear in less than 5y

- I hear all the time on Reddit that Service Centers are a hit and miss (esp. in US), this will need to be addressed ASAP not to break user trust (along with repair costs); my experience has been flawless luckily

- their products are way superior to competition for the price range, other car companies cannot get even close to the efficiency and reliability of Tesla vehicles, not to mention the UX/software updates (not FSD)

- FSD 12.1 video released a couple days ago is impressive, I finally get the feeling we're getting close to something usable (I don't have it and will very likely never buy it)

- CyberFuckup should have been canceled before prototype phase, and deposits refunded; it was and still is a massive resource distraction on the way of bringing EVs to the masses

- a 25k$ vehicle should have come sooner, it's coming, and will sell like crazy when available, esp. outside the US

- I hope storage and solar won't be forgotten, all other solutions I've seen so far are not so well integrated with the house, or as easy to control via a phone app
The difference between free as in freedom, and free as in beer.
Are you able to point to legislation from the current Alberta government that does the following - one - accept that climate change is happening and worsening, and two - that the Alberta oil sands are making the problem worse?
They did. But how do you think I got interested in software in the first place? How do you think I practiced my skills ? How do you think I created my toolbox, met my peers, solved problems beyond my reach, and eventually created a company, while feeling good about it?
Adjust the boiler so that the output flow temperature is 55°C (or 130°F) or lower. See if your house remains comfortable on the coldest day you expect to have.

Note that if you have a boiler not designed to operate with condensing flue gases, this test will eventually damage the boiler [over the course of months, not hours]. If you have a plastic exhaust pipe on your current boiler, you're totally fine to do this.

More writeup here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39144329
> he always sought to produce the final version from the outset

This is definitely a learnable skill. However, it might be a lost art with younger generations. I had a year of high school english that taught this. Most of us kids did fine.

The assignments worked as follows:

- Write an multipage essay on this topic; you have a week. (first quarter, repeat 2-3 times)

- Here is your exam question. You can bring one 3x5" notecard with you tomorrow, but you'll need to write the actual multipage essay in 55 minutes. (second quarter; repeat 2-3 times)

- You will be given a question about the book we read, and will have 55 minutes to write a multipage essay answering the question. No supplementary materials allowed (except the book). (last quarter; repeat 2-3 times)

Grading for things like the overall structure of the essay and sentence flow got stricter as the course progressed. So did grading on reading comprehension.
Apple is using its market power to prevent third parties from doing business with you by selling you software to install on hardware you bought. At first it was explicit, now that they can't due to EU regulation, they're attempting to circumvent it by charging a fee to third party distribution that doesn't apply to distribution through their own app store.

That is what's unreasonable; I would be glad consumer rights are being protected by the power of the state in this case. It is hard to believe that there are so many people who prioritize the rights of the corporation to prevent competition over the rights of individual to do business with whoever they want, regardless of what hardware they own or operating system they use.
Yes, that is correct for 10 million installs of a 1 euro app.

(10M-1M).5 + 10M.17 = 6.2M

If you make 10M for a 10 euro app (1M installs), the Apple cut is:

(1M-1M).5 + 10M.17 = 1.7M

The upshot is, if you are selling a 1 euro app, stay on the App Store. If you make it a €1/year subscription, it drops to 15% in the second year.

Everything is in Euros since dollars don't really apply to the discussion, yet...
Defffffffinitely did not just hurt my ears playing really loud 16,220 Hz sine waves to prove someone on the Internet wrong.
Other discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39143043
I've never measured my thinking speed before. This measurement is intriguing. I feel that speed of thinking will be inversely proportional to the quality of content we write. Also, even if I can think fast and write quickly, I might have to go back and make amendments which can reduce my average thinking speed.
For folks looking to learn more, the Component Model documentation is pretty good! I like this excerpt for explaining the core vs component split:

> components interact only through the Canonical ABI. Specifically, unlike core modules, components may not export Wasm memory. This not only reinforces sandboxing, but enables interoperation between languages that make different assumptions about memory - for example, allowing a component that relies on Wasm GC (garbage collected) memory to collaborate with one that uses conventional linear memory.

Link: https://component-model.bytecodealliance.org/design/why-comp...
Actually I think he's on flying lotus's label, which ninja tune distributes or something like that, which may be the case with some of these others too. The alt-electronic/jazz/hip-hop/fusion label situation right now is way beyond my ability to comprehend. But I still see the ninja tune logo on a lot of vinyl that I like.
Hill I am willing to die on:

Peak "$XXXXXXXX" database is when your particular flavor of DB is completely consumed into traditional RDBMSes.

Vector databases (and all other incremental or transformational improvements) are just features of regular plain traditional RDBMSes that have not been implemented in traditional RDBMSes yet.

I have seen every new DB tech subsumed by traditional databases over time as compute capability improved.

No exceptions.

The list is endless:

- object databases (e.g. blobs, JSON)

- OLAP

- in DB programming ( XX-SQL eg PL/SQL, T-SQL, ANSI-SQL)

- column-oriented data stores

- key-value

- graph databases

- No SQL

- Cloud, distributed, whatever

- statistical analysis databases

- document databases

All these used to be standalone, very expensive, specialty products but are now just one more checkbox on the Oracles/SQL-Servers/DB2s of this world.

All these have been swallowed by the borg of commercial databases without so much as a burp.

There is no winning the commercial market long term for these products. Big business buys traditional RDBMSes because they are the kitchen sink. They do EVERYTHING and they will eventually do this new hot thing, the business will just have to pay big dollars for it. Which is not a problem for big business.

There is a reason that cartoon about the Oracle org hierarchy was made (bottom right): all the company does is make product (Engineering) and protect that product. And it is very good at making good product.

https://i0.wp.com/stratechery.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07...
> - Firefox, Thunderbird and other applications use completely different file dialogs

See https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Firefox#XDG_Desktop_Portal_... for Firefox, you have to both install the relevant portal (e.g. xdg-desktop-portal-kde) and enable its use in Firefox (as the wiki page explains). While these instructions are for Arch, I assume something similar exists in Debian.

> I started caring because it had tiny scrool bars.

Does it have tiny scrollbars on Windows? I agree that they suck, though I've learned to live with it by now...

> I looked what I needed to compile a browser, not sure if it was Firefox or Chromium, 500 GB required. Firefox also needs Rust now.

Probably Chromium? I've compiled Firefox in the past and don't recall needing 500GB, though Rust was indeed required.
Is there something here about the terms being sloppy and unscientific, making the answer somewhat useless? Whatever "swimming" or "thinking" might be, it's not something clearly defined.
Why does the federal government seem devoted to keeping the border open?
The PDF documents allow reliable search and copy/paste, but unfortunately only when the author of the document has taken care to ensure this. Nevertheless, this usually happens automatically when the PDF has been created by exporting a document created with some Office suite, unless the author has changed the default options to forbid these features.

Even many of the PDFs created by scanning printed documents allow reasonably reliable search/copy/paste, if they had been processed by an OCR.
Yeah GPUs really need a new form factor for desktop. Maybe just the mezzanine cards they already use for server GPUs.
For Both 1 and 2, read https://medium.com/thirdai-blog/rag-challenge-dataset-i-can-...
Looks like Pandoc can generate tables of contents for HTML, though I don't see anything about indexes. Roff and friends, and Texinfo, can do both, though with their own tradeoffs.

https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html
A pretty valid point
If people want to use this for self promotion I don't mind that - finding new content is one of the things that makes this this interesting
Disturbing or spam content is the main issue, at the moment I have some basic filters set up to silently ignore repeat searches and anything that doesn't pass a profanity filter which seem to be working well, I might have to explore something more sophisticated if I do run into any issues
I think the end goal here is to push stuff like BIMI so big tech can start charging another large annual fee to all businesses that want their email delivered.