skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The deeper insight is that every definition of a word breaks down when you try to pin it precisely and in some absolute, universal-context sense to an exact meaning. That doesn’t mean they can’t be very, very useful.
Yeah that's pretty prohibitive for most people who couldn't spare $450 for a switch dev kit
But character Design is. Here's a good summary of just how close a lot of the characters are.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1749183059877085396.html
No mention in the article of whether or not the height increase is accomplished by adding a spire. Any idea what the max habitable floor height is?
Seems like there is at least a bit of interest [1] to convert lirc definitions [2], which is great, because there are so many of them. There even is a definition for my about 30 years old hifi! A really nice hack I saw is to send the code via something that reads lirc and capture it with a flipper in learning mode [3].

[1] https://forum.flipper.net/t/is-possible-to-convert-irplus-fi...

[2] https://lirc.sourceforge.net/remotes/

[3] https://github.com/Lucaslhm/Flipper-IRDB/pull/294
Postgresql is a great example.
They already knew what was the problem before and during those crashes.

But never admitted anything and deflected any problem until the very last second when it was already so obvious.
Copyright covers the specific work of art you created, not anything that looks like it. Birdman didn't violate Batman's copyright even being an international callback. Nor did every superhero movie that tried really hard to copy Nolan's style after his trilogy.

It was perfectly fine in 2023 to create a cartoon about a prankster mouse called Nicholas sailing a steamboat. What became legal in 2024, with the copyright expiration, was to give him those exact pants and ears and call him Mickey.

I'm not familiar with Pokémon, so I'm not sure if the PW cartoon monsters are literal copies of the originals or just drawn in the same style.
That doesn't alleviate the capacity issue. Even if it's a 1Gbit chip with an 8-bit interface, then a 256-bit bus would only add up to 4 GB of DRAM at most. The ratio of capacity to bandwidth is just not anywhere close to what makes sense for ordinary GPU usage.
I am a huge fan of a similar product in China - https://tophub.today/

Wish someone could have made a better version. https://techurls.com/ has better user interface but seems like some contents are not being updated.
The cycle seems: Invent a new static information format (XML/JSON/HTML/...), reduce verbosity, add GUI, variables, comments, expressions, control flow, validation, transformation, static typing, compilers, IDE support, dependency management, and maybe a non-backwards-compatible major version etc. And you end up with yet another Java/C# clone, just inferior because it was never meant to support all these things.
I'd say it's even worse: it's a collective hallucination that complex configs are not code.
This is exactly what it is - you see these kinds of proposals all the time and the real reason is to make some other proposal look reasonable and a compromise.
>straight up copied with the ears tweaked.

Do you have a specific example?
The open-source benchmarks show different results. Feel free to make a PR to improve. ;) https://qdrant.tech/benchmarks/
Life else where outside the solar system is all but certain, we just need proof, just like an extra star beyond what we can see, we can’t see it but we know is there
I started off with a regular desk and instead of throwing out my old desk, I just bought a standing desk converter and I really like it. I alternate between sitting and standing throughout the day and it has helped significantly with my back pain. Here's the standing desk converter that I bought[0]. In hindsight I wish I started off with a high quality adjustable desk but I don't regret my path at all.

[0]: https://www.vari.com/varidesk-converters/for-desktops/
Oh. Windows with no ability to install anything didn't even occur to me! I'm truly sorry.
Good article! Thanks. Unfortunately climate change will also decimate fish stocks. I hope the industry will find a less harmful chemical to use instead of 6PPD.
I was reading the description of Jsonnet and wondering why we don't just use JavaScript. Read a file, evaluate it, take the value of the last expression as the output, and blat it out as JSON.

The environment could be enriched with some handy functions for working with structures. They could just be normal JavaScript functions. For example, a version of Object.assign which understands that "key+" syntax in objects. Or a function which removes entries from arrays and objects if they have undefined values, making it easy to make entries conditional.

Those things are simple enough to write on demand that this might not even have to be a packaged tool. Just a thing you do with npm.
Data Is What Data Does:Regulating Based on Harm & Risk Instead of Sensitive data
Read in plaintext: https://trimread.org/articles/209/text
I don't know the specifics in the UK, but in the US this was a common belief among a certain political class in the 1960s and 70s. You had skilled blue collar laborers making the equivalent of $30/hr and politicians and some economists felt that was too high. Paul Volcker very famously carried around a card with US autoworker wages printed on it.
Sorry, fixed it. I meant Dragon's Quest.
"Darwinian evolution is not a sufficient theory of life (claremont.org)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20568692

I posted a comment there. They are using a very long protein instead of a short one. Nobody expect that the first functional protein is so long.

Also, they are generating the protein using a "random dice" instead of assuming a short crapppy version and using "branch and prune" to find a longer and more efficient one.
Ants make their own ant-ibiotic for infected wounds
I am not aware of any reports of aircraft struck by meteors.
However,there are planes which have been damaged or destroyed by debris on the runway [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_object_damage#Runway_d...
Yeah, some game companies will die, others will be (eventually) born, but in the meantime, we still suck at chess, never mind anything that's come out in the last 100 years.
seconding the paper filter. it perfectly fits my 3-cup pot.

it slows down the process a little, I found, which means the pot gets hotter and burns a little. I found that pouring out the coffee ASAP as it comes out -- like, let it run for a few seconds, pour, fill again, repeat until finished -- gets a better product.

but you don't get any particulate, and the flavor is much smoother. not sure if it's raising the pressure significantly enough to impact extraction, but wouldn't be surprised if it can bump it up +0.5 BAR or more.
The advantage to the RCA one is you can scan it at any angle, but I feel like that’s a small benefit in practice
Let's see what I have open on my Mac right now: Chrome, Firefox, VSCode, Slack, Teams, Outlook, Spotify, Activity Monitor, TextEdit, Preview, Cura, Docker Desktop.

Of these Apple is only responsible for 2 of them: textedit I could replace with vscode tbf and activity monitor is only open for when the Macbook plays up (constantly) and doesn't even offer remotely useful _aggregate_ stats like "what the fuck is actually consuming all of my memory".

I use Android so let's see what's open on my phone: Ebay, Telegram, Firefox. Hmmm nothing specifically Samsung/Google related. Just because you make a device with an OS doesn't mean you get to charge rent. Flat charge app developers for the minor admin involved in them submitting apps but charging a percentage is a ludicrous anti-consumer money grab. Doesn't matter if it's Apple, Google or anybody else.
the acceleration is fun for a while... but safety you can easily get somewhere else... never heard about Tesla's AWD performance, but of course most people won't notice it because most people drive like grandmas and dont go offroad.

What are the other reasons?
I think the individual parts will not be that large, but ESP-IDF is a fully features RTOS, not a dedicated microcontroller library. It provides socket APIs that integrate with both WiFi and ethernet, for instance.

If you're optimising for size, I bet you can do a lot better, but that's not really what ESP-IDF is doing. It's providing a network stack for TCP+UDP+IP+DHCP+ICMP+NDP+ARP+DNS with (close to) standard C APIs.

Microcontroller developers can probably download and use smaller libraries if they wanted to, but ESP-IDF provides a rather comfortable development experience compared to stringing together a whole bunch of libraries and talking to the hardware directly.
A little bit of Close Encounters of the Third Kind's vibe. However, I'm pretty sure that this organ will not work for long if the notes are switched so fast, just because of mechanical parts wear out
Pasta Water
This was an interesting read however it's clear the author is very far removed from conducting this "experiment" neutrally. For starters, it's not about "response to a sudden, unexpected exposure to a new phenomenon—unicycling" as the author suggest, but rather about exposure to the author on a unicycle. Can you imagine the responses were the same if we replaced the rider with a stunning female model? Would the men and boys still have challenging reactions? I bet not.
They don't put Boeing engineers in management or executive positions these days.

Heck, they fired the last CEO over the 737 crashes but he was literally only on the job for 3 years and had no involvement with the 737 design. The problem? He was an engineer and he was already stirring up shit inside. So they threw him under the bus and replaced with him another useless goon that spouts PR bullshit and has no technical experience other than milking companies dry.
> We are, truly, Of Nature, not Above Nature.

What gives humans the special designation of their byproducts being unnatural?
Why not? More people need smartphones than PCs, therefore there's a bigger market for them both legal and stolen.

PCs are more of a niche now.
I'm not taking a pro- or anti-EV stance here. It must be stressed and truly appreciated just how long ICE vehicles have been developed and continuously refined at the socioeconomic level. As one example, the gas station is key to our socioeconomic relationship to ICE vehicles.

You can say that owning and operating a gas stations isn't a glamorous job, and you'd be right to an extent, but also very wrong. Gas stations (and all the associated infrastructure which enable them to function) provide many, many jobs to society, and every single person who drives an ICE car will visit one. Not many things in society work that way.

Gas stations may also serve a social function. I'm aware of a group of individuals in a small Wisconsin town who meet up at the gas station, have some coffee, and share the news with each other. The town is not large enough to sustain a coffee shop or even a cafe. For them, the gas station is a meeting place. They'll not switch from ICE vehicles anytime soon, so that way of life is not under threat.

The gas station provides one crucial element: convenience. In the day-to-day, most people just like being able to go to a gas station, fill up in a couple minutes, and be on their way. On a road trip, they might also like being able to stop and have a meal. My understanding of EV pricing when you're traveling is that it's significantly more expensive than home charging. If you have a lot of money, paying for that electricity doesn't matter as much. However, lots of people (especially those with kids) take a road trip, paying time to save money. It seems a bit odd to assume that people with EVs will take a road trip to save money, when it's probably worth their time to just fly most/all of the way and get a rental car.
Thanks for the feedback! Point taken.

The intro video is really just scratching the surface, you're right. We'll post more in-depth videos soon.
like everything on arxiv
Engineers can't fail, it's always management's fault.
Very true. The biggest one is depreciation / resale value. For a 5-year analysis that may be the biggest cost, and the easiest to manipulate.
You don't need to ask whistleblower protection to be a whistleblower
There are a few more. Pinecone comes to mind.

And then there are traditional databases and search products that are integrating vector search capabilities as well: Postgres, Elasticsearch, Opensearch, Solr.

They each have their limitations of course but the 28M round suggests a moat that I'm not seeing that clearly in terms of tech. What's so special about qdrant relative to their competition?

At least they are Apache licensed for now. So, that's nice. But that also means e.g. Apache Lucene could borrow some code from them to beef up their vector search capabilities. Which would benefit Elasticsearch, Opensearch, and Solr which all depend on Lucene.

Which raises the question what the point is of QDrant long term and why investors are betting on this as opposed to other things.

It seems to me that the main challenge with vector search is inference cost (at index and query time), not storing the vectors. A secondary concern is the vector comparisons at query time. A good way to cut down on that is to reduce the overall result set using traditional search or query mechanisms. In other words, you need
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If you have the means to collect the data then this seems pretty tractable to me. Mostly because you don't need to deal with the raw optical data but rather just the derived trajectories. So data formats and volumes shouldn't be a distraction.

I'm assuming you've done some tutorials or courses on basics of DL and can program Python. At that point the easiest first step would be to just train an MLP to convert a single time step from inertial data to match the optical prediction (presumably they are in the same coordinate system and temporally close enough).

The crux of building something good would be in how you handle the temporal aspect I'd imagine. Clearly you want to use multiple samples over time from the inertial to get more accurate positional estimates. I'd imagine a fixed window of the past n inertial samples would be a good start. I wouldn't worry about more complicated temporal modeling, e.g. RNN or transformer, unless you can't get satisfactory results with the MLP.

My gut says there's probably a non-ML approach to this too, some sort of Kalman Filter etc. Always best to avoid ML if a simpler solution exists :)
From the blog:

> There are two key drawbacks to this otherwise interesting and useful decision. First, Go can't have exceptions. Second, Go does not have the ability to synchronize tasks in real (wall clock) time. Both of these drawbacks stem from Go's emphasis on coroutines.

1) Go can't have exceptions? What exactly are panics, if not a peculiar implementation of exceptions? They print stack trace of the panicking goroutine, just like exceptions print stack traces of the thread they are thrown in. What exactly is the difference?

2) For real-time workloads, you can pin goroutine to an OS thread and use a spinlock. How does this make it different than in any other language?

> Since goroutine stacks are thus made disparate -- goroutines do not "share" common "ancestor" stack frames like Scheme's continuations do -- they can unwind their own stacks. However, this also means that when a goroutine is spawned, it has no memory of its parent, nor the parent for the child. This has already been noticed by other thinkers as a bad thing.

Goroutines are made to resemble lightweight threads. Maybe the author considers threads bad, but that's just a subjective opinion. But-- at the end of the blog, there's a sentence:

> OS threads provide some very nice constructs for programmers, and are hardened, battle-tested tools.

Goroutines provide almost exactly the same semantics as OS threads, so I don't really get what they're trying to say.

> Consider something of a converse scenario: Goroutine a spawns a goroutine b, without using an anonymous function this time. No closure, just a simple function spawn. Coroutine a opens a database connection. Goroutine b panics, crashing the program. The database connection is then left open as a zombie TCP connection.

On any sane OS, when the program crashes, the kernel closes the TCP connection - there is no such thing as a "zombie" TCP connection.

With all due respect to whoever the author is, I think this blogpost is full of crap.
> DD Month YYYY

Is also the standard international format for aeronautical publications.
I've little experience with "[being sent] to work in tall buildings" besides staying in hotels in the non-penthouse suites and it seems to me that usually the view you get is of a street and a building across said street.

Obviously tall buildings make sense in places like New York where there are more people who want to live there than available dwelling units.
Maybe it’s an intentional “middle finger” to the other US cities. Why else would you choose OKC for the tallest skyscraper? Literal dick measuring contest.
Is there enough office space demand for a building this size in Oklahoma City? Seems like a strange time to be building giant buildings for office space. It seems like the smaller buildings will have some housing, but still strange.
Like many other things, Azure services can be deployed using JSON. Of course it’s not just json, it’s an entire language of deployment definitions and templating language hidden within json markup.

But next to that, Microsoft came out with bicep, which is a domain specific language for defining resources. It comes with a full language server and is honestly quite nice to use (if only azure services had some sort of reasonable logic to them)

I think k8 and friends need their own biceps.
Why does decision making in large corporate tend to be so bloated?
I've worked in large corporate for nearly a decade. Decision making has always a funny dual mode.

BAU decisions (ops, outstanding items) always go through a hierarchy of periodical decision forums / assemblies with representatives from a plethora of different BAs, especially compliance and oversight functions. These representatives never report to the chair, so their opinion is ensured to be independent and their hand can't be forced. Sounds very good in theory, but this comes at the cost of nothing ever getting decided apart from slam-dunk decisions that shouldn't even be submitted there. The most likely outcome of any decision making process is "we don't have enough information to decide" with the decision being pushed over onto the next round, with an ask to clarify, give more inputs, context etc. Very understandable since these decision makers are always hands-off managers with little understanding on what's presented to them unless they familiarize with the topic for months.

The-house-is-burning do-or-die type of decisions are always sorted out in shadow meetings where a handful of execs sit in and deliberate, based on gut feeling or some back-of-the-napkin calculation, in less than an hour, and the above fora hierarchy basically only ratifies because everyone is suddenly magically aligned on what to do.

Every org is aware that this is suboptimal. Every org constantly asks their employee if they are empowered enough to take decisions when they need. Answer: no, they don't if everything needs to go through forums bloated with compliance people who can say no to everything because the cost of their no is never factored in.

Yet, nothing ever changes. Can't it really be done any other way?

I'm thinking job security is very much related to this. If there's never a single head on the block, then when the shit hits the fan everyone's responsible (meaning nobody is responsible, and nobody can be fired). If you want to expedite decision making, then you need these fora to just act as counselors/advisors, but then execs have to shotcall. If they fuck it up, well... there's a resignation letter to write.

Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20155636
I've cracked a couple of french presses, though. Thin glass + cold + hot and back makes it brittle.

The solution was to not use metal spoons for stirring -- wooden or plastic chop sticks work pretty well -- but it's frustrating. By comparison the drip coffee machine or the moke pot haven't ever had a failure.
Nah there people as cursed as the commenter irl
You have an error on line one. Good luck
Is it worth getting a better desk? Better chair? Larger screen? On average sleep + work will take 2/3 of your day. Back problems are common and if not prevented early enough they really can take away from quality of your life. Having a comfortable bed and a comfortable work setup is an investment with a very high return in my opinion. Height adjustable desk are not only used as standing desks - they also allow you to get the setup just right for you.
I wrote a chintzy Preact app that pulls the source for a Pokemon Red hack from Github and makes Pokemon stats, moves, type matchups, etc. searchable [1] because enough has changed from the original that I wanted a quick reference for my current playthrough. I literally wrote in the TODOs in the README

Generate proper AST from asm source and ditch janky Regex parsing?

because I felt guilty about doing things like

const match = l.match(/\s*move\s*(\w+),\s*(\w+),\s*(\d+),\s*(\w+),\s*(\d+),\s*(\d+)\s*(.*)/)

Maybe I shouldn't be so hard on myself.

[1] https://github.com/alexjplant/rgbdex
Having grown up in Okla. City, I am surprised and proud that they're contemplating this structure. If it comes to be, it's a sign of a can-do attitude that this region has always boasted.

However, in recent years, earthquakes have become increasingly common in Oklahoma, probably because of oil and gas fracking projects in the eastern part of the state. Just the other day there were six earthquakes, including a 4.1 magnitude (one report stated 4.4 magnitude) quake in Oklahoma City. I assume modern skyscraper design can handle such events, for example designed to sway several feet in each direction, massive springs or other vibration suppressing mechanisms in the base as per Tokyo buildings, but it's still a bit worrisome.

Tornadoes are also frequent phenomena; every spring, TV shows would be interrupted for tornado alerts or warnings on almost a weekly basis. You get used to it. But when it comes to a high rise building, the damage to windows could be massive.[1]

Anyway, good luck to them and I hope the construction goes forward (and finds enough tenants to be worth it).

1. https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2023/12/18/proposed-okc...