skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Always felt they're more like hashes/fingerprints for the RAG use cases.

Yes, I see where you’re coming from. Perceptual hashes[0] are pretty similar, the key is that similar documents should have similar embeddings (unlike cryptographic hashes, where a single bit flip should produce a completely different hash).

Nice embeddings encode information spatially, a classic example of embedding arithmetic is: king - man + woman = queen[1]. “Concept Sliders” is a cool application of this to image generation [2].

Personally I’ve not had _too_ much trouble with running out of RAM due to embeddings themselves, but I did spend a fair amount of time last week profiling memory usage to make sure I didn’t run out in prod, so it is on my mind!

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptual_hashing

[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/2015/09/17/166211/king-man-...

[2] https://github.com/rohitgandikota/sliders
There's quite a few interesting cameo's, including Robert Morris (Morris Worm) and Paul Graham himself.
Regarding starving, they are getting aid but Hamas steals it for their own us (fighters and black market), so it’s Hamas that starves the Palestinians, not Israel.

The previous poster said the Palestinian dead are collateral while targeting Hamas terrorists. Not from direct action of Israel trying to kill uninvolved.
He didn’t say there are no dead civilians. Any war has civilian casualties
For one, even if you make several statements which by themselves are true, but leave out the other half of the truth which describes the situation, then you are misleading people. Also, the statements themselves are only partially right too.

There are some severe shortcomings of the App Store at the moment. First of all, it isn't as secure as they make it. There are enough bad apps which are not detected in time and there are many apps which are on the store which basically scam the user. But Apple is happy to take 30% of the scammed money.
And the elephant in the room is the fact, that the App Store routinely rejects apps, that are absolutely no risk to the user, but rejected for non-security related reasons. Or just because of sloppy review. Just google for some random rejections. That all those internet giants try to handle customer contact in a non-personal way where your means of appeal are low or non-existing, makes the situation worse.
My moves? What do you even mean
It’s not quite that simple or all VCs would be in prison. The difference is that some funds to return real money and some companies do IPO and return real money to all the LPs in that fund. In Ponzi Schemes only some of the LPs in a fund make money and others loose all their money. So on a fund by fund by fund basis any individual fund can be Ponzi Scheme - but by definition these are high risk investments that only qualified investors are allowed to participate in. The type of analysis cited in the article is exactly the type of work sophisticated investors do. I suspect that work helped them identify the funds that were the best risk.

Now if you are making the case that Venture Investing as a whole is a Ponzi Scheme, you will have to look at all the public markets and international monetary policy as well. Is it all not a house of cards?
Check the picture in the post. I'm pretty sure it is to scale.

They are much larger, but the moon is much further away from Earth than you imagined.
I think it's extremely sad that the measured and helpful comment that you are replying to was flagged. It suggests that the preponderance of HN commentors skews heavily one way on this issue (whether that skew is correct or not is another matter). To respond to your comment specifically: I'm proud to count myself in the overwhelming minority.
This is s great point.
I was already a coding with things like Visual basic and Java long before the cloud was invented so I was familiar with the idea of text files, a compilation step, and then a runnable binary (or .jar).

Places like freecodecamp and cs50x where the lessons are done in the web app or in a cloud IDE abstract the steps of setting up a dev environment on your local machine.

Its the same kind of missing link that gen Z are lacking with apps and tablets vs file browsers and terminals.
Intelligence lies on a spectrum. So does skill generality. Ergo, AGI is already here. Online discussions conflate AGI with ASI -- artificial superhuman intelligence, i.e. sci-fi agents capable of utopian/dystopian world domination. When misused this way, AGI becomes a crude binary which hasn't arrived. With this unearned latitude, people subsequently make meaningless predictions about when silicon deities will manifest. Six months, five years, two decades, etc.

In reality, your gut reaction is correct. We have turned general intelligence into a commodity. Any aspect of any situation, process, system, domain, etc. which was formerly starved of intelligence may now be supplied with it. The value unlock here is unspeakable. The possibilities are so vast that many of us fill with anxiety at the thought.
Can't they be both? I'm a 6'4" Swedish guy and I feel like Donkey Kong in Mario Kart in a bath tub.
Weirdly, it's not seen as a problem at all in Europe while we have same or higher proportion of electricity from variable renewables, and lower from fossil fuels here.
Looks like there is another category called Einstein Visa. Melania Trump got it.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43256318
Peach – Blob Storage Reinvented
eSIMs are superficially about "making phones smaller" and waterproofing.

What eSIMs really are about: the industry fighting back against regulations restricting their anti-competitive SIM and carrier locking.

eSIMs are about is stripping owners of the control they have via pulling the physical SIM and putting it in another phone.
As others have mentioned there already is the ".home.arpa" TLD but I definitely think ".internal" is a step up in terms of clarity. That said, for my internal network I just put things under a subdomain of a domain I own so I can use HTTPS with a proper SSL cert
There was also much more low hanging fruit back then. Making significant contributions to a field only required scratching the surface.
Shrubbery Notation
I got bit by this when I bought a new iPhone recently, apparently the carrier "didn't allow" eSIM transfer so I had to go get another eSIM on my carrier's website.

How does Android protect against this? The carrier somehow disallowing it?
Oh, you're absolutely right about that. With the rise of slumlords, crypto bros, etc. in the last few years it's been a test. At times I think about the ways I could have 'made it' less than ethically.

At the end of the day we all end up in a pine box. And if I'd taken advantage of people for money, it'd probably keep me up at night feeling guilty. Heck I felt guilty accepting money back from people I'd loaned it to that needed it.

I like to think there's enough of 'us suckers' to keep society as a whole running functionally, and don't want to know if not :).
If it's just transferring the provisioning token over to the other phone (which is what it does sounds like), I wonder why the tool is needed and one couldn't just reuse the QR code used to install the eSIM initially.
Unfortunately the risk/reward is quite extreme. For reference:

Dosage: 100ug LSD on two close together ocassions

Set: No depression at that time, just some early childhood trauma as you mentioned

Setting: Both times in loving family environment in very safe environment

I don't have schizophrenia and bipolar, and I didn't have suicidal tendencies until I took LSD. Afterwards I did for about 4 or 5 years.
The ".local" domain specifically is a bad choice as many platforms use MDNS instead of DNS for looking up those names. Leading to issues resolving names on some client devices. It's also very common due to Microsoft suggesting it as best practise in the early days of AD.
I have many Russian friends and they told me similar things. This seems to be a good explanation.
So what do you think about the Apple rule that FORBIDS a developer to inform the user that there is a better deal on their website.

IMO the above is disgusting, illegal, anti-user crap, they prevent that you the user get informed about something that could benefit you but might make Apple lose some money.
I mostly use curl, much easier than such a painful app like a browser
For the most part, I believe most folks with solar in California don't have batteries. Those that do, don't have enough battery to last themselves through the night. The correct policy almost certainly seems like the one which incentivizes them to use their battery at night rather than the grid. As much as people hate it, NEM 3.0 provides those incentives. A policy which has folks exporting battery energy to the grid rather than using it themselves would simply be less efficient unless they have more solar+ battery than they need for themselves, which is really just rewarding rich folks who can over build. In particular rich neighbors will end up generating more power than they need, still destabilizing the grid.
"With about 8030 km or 4990 miles to spare"

So pluto could easily fit as well
“Needless bullshit” is a bad take.

What if I have a mission and I like it and it’s totally authentic? My customers like it too. Are you calling me full of it for achieving that difficult goal?

I think you’re right about a lot of inauthentic mission statements, but I think crass swearing is the real “needless bullshit”.
Conspiracy theory website.
I liked this idea at first, but the more I think about it the less I'm sure it works. Intra seems like a word which denotes physical boundaries to be within. It prefixes words like intramural, intramuscular, and intracellular. It's used for intranet as well, and while this usage of the prefix works, it has more broad use-cases than that. On the other hand, internal seems very clear and direct, and might suit a more digital, organizational context with less of a physical or spatial aspect to it.

Also, since intra is typically used as a prefix, it seems strange to use it bare. People familiar with intranets will probably make (or assume) the connection, but others might find it unclear while "internal" would likely not be.

Even so, I do prefer .intra for selfish reasons.
Nothing a quick regulation can't solve. If EU could make Apple use USB-C and enable non-Webkit browsers, I'm sure same could be done to fix eSIM.
Water and electricity were both resumed in oct. 15th.
In the U.S. system, no visa (including a green card==permanent residency) constitutes permission to enter the country. A visa only enables the holder to travel to a port of entry and request permission to enter the country. That permission may be granted or denied regardless of the specific visa category. Even if you have a gold-plated, von-Neumann-league visa... if the employee at the bottom of the CIS/CBP/* org chart who takes your passport is having a bad day, you'll be on the next outbound flight.

Only U.S. citizenship implies a right to enter the country.

EDIT fix typo
To add on to that, there wasn’t an immediate rehabilitation. Many, many terrible things happened after the war that are kinda buried in history. See for example: https://www.haaretz.com/2015-12-15/ty-article/.premium/movie...
It can be done but it's not that practical since you need a huge insulated tank and if you're also using the water you it's even less practical to store heat in it. One can use a pool as a heat sink during summer though. Water stores 1.16 kWh/m³K. The heat capacity could be increased with phase changing materials.
It is a law, but one for which there is a simple work around, thankfully.

There are several companies that sell 'heritage' seeds, and they exist as a seed swapping 'club'. A penny of your purchase is for club membership. Here is a rather fine example scroll to 'Our Seed Club'. Lovely company to deal with too

https://www.realseeds.co.uk/terms.html
> made up local TLDs like .internal or .local

.local actually exists. It is used for mDNS.
I should have worded the title better. I have covered what you've said later in the article:

> I must clarify that my complaint isn’t against having mission statements because some of them do make sense and describe the company’s culture and the products they ship.

>> Honest Tea: To create and promote great-tasting, healthy, organic beverages.

>> Patagonia: Build the best product, Cause no unnecessary harm, Use business to protect nature, Not bound by convention.

>> IKEA: To offer a wide range of well-designed, functional home furnishing products at prices so low that as many people as possible will be able to afford them
It's probably Mandela Effect from pondering this too long, but I could swear it was said by Al Swearengen on HBO's Deadwood, which would be pretty amusing if true (although likely not).
I look forward to this AI bubble popping or deflating so I don't have AI spam all over every news source and shoved in my face in developer tools. The only productivity impact so far -- not an improvement -- has come from trying to ignore the hype and grift.

That may all change when I have a dedicated copilot key on my keyboard
No. PWAs are not a thing on desktops, they still need the entire browser, and they are still just a browser page. That's a far cry from what JavaFX enabled.
What if my GPU is totally off most of the time and it turns on my secondary GPU for games which increases the heat of my laptop considerably even doing very little? Do they let me select which GPU is used or just the 'default' because that default is a really bad choice for a terminal.
Sorry, you're saying there were and are no forced expulsions of Palestinians?
Patching Pydantic Settings in Pytest
I recently bought a smartwatch. After a thorough search I ended up with two options: ticwatch pro 5 and pixel watch 2. I ended with the pixel, because of the size.

It's a shame, I really liked the ticwatch, but most watches are just too big for my wrist size. The pixel is not great software-side (it has a sort of wallet garden, without a pixel phone most features aren't available) but ergonomically it's perfect.

I don't know about fossil, but for me it seems like wear manufacturers haven't yet found what users want (except maybe for Apple, but that's probably because there is only one option)
I wish the CNC machines with a router instead of the laser became more standardised, and available to buy off of AMAZON and made in a “it just works” territory.

The choices are either DIY ones off aliexpress or the more expensive ones like Shapeoko.
You can't patent curly leaves, only the specific variety that has them. The problem in the article is how one might tell the patented variety from the free one, without expensive DNA testing. This scared a person away from working with it.
> The whole concept is pretty stupid, rooted in a silly assumption; that a grand, noble mission is essential to motivate employees.

I am motivated by an important mission, in fact, but I am more motivated by having ongoing impact on that mission (making a difference). I work in defence, so you'd think there's a lot of opportunity to keep people safe, help leaders make better decisions, etc. So far from my perspective, these companies are not very motivated or successful at solving the missions they boldly claim. As a result, I am motivated to leave these places, that lie or are incompetent at solving these missions.

For example, a defence company says they want to "serve our democracies", but they hardly have any users. Another defence company has been building product for 4 years, yet has 0 users over that time. Then there are other, defence companies with unicorn valuation with also very cool marketing, but very little impact in ongoing crisis. All the mentioned companies have very good publicity, it's not until you work for them you realise they have 0 impact. There is no reason to change their ways, because they can continue to sign more contracts with gov (tens of millions, hundreds of millions).

All you see publicly is cool tens/hundreds of million investment or contracts, cool movie like drone shots, "AI", cool drones, explosions, jets and good music. You don't get to see the 0 impact. Or worryingly, negative impact when these things don't work.

I've been working in defence-tech startups for more than 2 years.
I love basic income for this. It prevents needing to solve any kind of missuse since everyone is supposed to get it.
How do they know these "human votes" aren't rigged or ai bots?
> This is busywork. Countries that value efficiency shut down similar operations decades ago.

IMHO, those countries are stupid. IIRC, the CIA "valued efficiency" and switched to internet based communications, which are so easy to monitor that most of their agents in China and Iran got killed/captured.

Radio has the unique benefit that it's pretty much impossible to monitor reception.
https://www.npr.org/2023/11/07/1211133698/gaza-hospitals-air...
Mmm.page could make you enjoy the internet again
From the article:

> Although carrier support is still limited,

Nope. eSIM is crap on android too.
This feels more like a defense for some mid like a Plato than a Wittgenstein or Kripke.
Also see u/BuildTheRobots' helpful note to my similar comment the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39089364#39092697
I remember reading an excerpt of this book in Australian Personal Computer magazine when I was a kid, and then the book some years later. Was a great story.
Well, you certainly grabbed my attention. Gj with the aggro lol
Show me one, just one. I used to have two different Swiss carriers where SMS were free, and now I have the German WINsim, a cheap carrier, where I pay 10€/month and get 15gb, flat phone calls and flat sms. I haven't paid for sms in at least a decade.
Imagine trying to extend and justify every land conflict way further before the Roman Empire, hence the Italian can claim back their ruling over most of England, and the Moroccan over most of Spain.
The problem is that we don't have enough transport infrastructure to distribute it where it's needed, so what do you do with the excess capacity, smelt aluminium?
"A computer on every desk, running Microsoft software" - early Microsoft mission statement. Mission accomplished.

A good one from the 19th century: "We will build good ships. At a profit if we can, at a loss if we must. But always good ships." - Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company. That's on a big plaque at the front gate. It was removed for some years when Tenneco, an auto parts conglomerate, owned the place. It's back now.
they have to do that anyway, or did you forget all the non-iOS mobile users?
Depends on the carrier if the QR code can be re-used.
Another fun fact about .dev which I recently found out while working on a side project:

You NEED to use https when visiting any .dev domain. Google has put it on the HSTS preload list.

It took me a while to find out why my browser kept redirecting me to https when I wanted to use http (local development). Curl worked fine…
I’m just imagining going up to somebody in the c-suite and telling them what team I work for and what I do. I guarantee they would have no idea we exist. I once sat next to the manager who is three levels above me at a lunch meeting. She had zero idea who my team was or what we did.
I think looking at the competition is a good indicator.

On one side we have the hybrid computer market -> computer market, like Chromebooks and chromeOS devices, and Windows 11 in the same space.

On the other side android spans what we'd call phones up to 14" tablets, foldables brindging both ends.

iOS is clearly competing with android, and the iPad is way closer to android than Windows or even ChromeOS. The iOS/iPad split would relate to Apple's internal divisions more than a existing split of the market itself IMHO.
> We are not committing any genocide. The give away for Genocide is that there are mass graves, which in Gaza there are not.

How many Hamas terrorists have you killed compared to the now over 10 000 children?

The fact that there is no one to bury them doesn't mean it's not a genocide, come on..

> so we have no choice but to kill them too

When you fire at children playing in the streets, you had a choice. If you can't see that, you've lost all humanity..

> but we do not specifically target them

Hundreds of videoes proves otherwise. Where fleeing civilians are gunned down.

> Personally, as a commander, I would like to say that I have no ill feelings towards the Palestinian people

But your leaders have. And your peers, judging by videoes they posts about the cruelty they do.

> but we need to get as many of the hostages back as possible

You say that, but then you bomb every structure you find, and even shoot the fleeing hostages yourself. It doesn't really seem you care too much for them, they're merely a convenient excuse to do your horrors.

> Please support us and help rid the world of violent terrorism

You can start by laying down your weapon. What you're doing to Palestinian civilians is terrorism.
See you in 2035

Unfortunately we have to suffer for a long time before regulation follows, if ever.

Then regulation follows and we get cookie banners sometimes.
I am primarily interested in engraving metals, so I got a 18W fiber laser with a galvo head (laser is deflected by mirrors mounted on magnetic mounts like those on old analog multimeters, much faster than moving the laser head on a gantry).
Alternatively, this shows just how far the planets actually are from each other, relative to their diameters. Look for articles about "scale model of solar system" for some more interesting reading, e.g.:

https://www2.tntech.edu/leap/astr1010/sssm.html
I don't know if this is part of some enshittifying or not, but at first my Brother MFC inkjet (purchased 2021) just worked. But then sometime last year I stopped being able to print from iOS or Android mobile devices and also started having to remove the drivers and reinstall them over and over on both Linux and Windows (and even sometimes macOS). My printer has has a fixed IP from the beginning, and I don't know what is changing, but it is really peaving me. I also was never able to get it scan to a SMB server either. At this point I starting to think of going with an Epson ecotank inkjet as my understanding is those don't enforce getting Epson ink. In the old days a printer might have a part break or wear out, but I never used to run into weird seemingly software problems after the first 2 years of use like I did with this and the Samsung before it.
You're such a kidder.

Nobody would be that dastardly.
Yeah, either he is brain washed (likely if he really is a soldier), or this is the IDF propaganda machine working hard with fake profiles.
They support Hamas because they can't see any other potential path to prosperity.

If you want to quell extremism in a country, you have to give them a genuine alternative to extremism. If all of the moderate options get them nowhere, they will reject them.

This is a vital lesson we learned from WWII. Incentives matter.
They want to make sure you can afford the power bill and know what you are doing. The average household isn't structured around flexible pricing at all and your appliances are even less likely to support it.