skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You gotta sneak it in a way that does not affect the day to day world of the normies. Thats how anything meaningful gets done.

At least in the US it is done one of three ways

1: For corrupt stealing of funds, stuff a contract into some other bill that marginally helps people. Example: The "Inflation Reduction Act" is 270+ pages. Its filled with giveaways here and there that wont be noticed by people directly, it will just eat away at them longterm in the form of higher taxes and inflation. They could totally enact small rule changes here and there to curb emissions in all of these bills and if you do it over an extended time period people wont notice the small changes.

2: Have the private sector solve it so that way people can "feel" like they can refuse. But what happens is that the market takes over and eventually this option is what people are stuck with since it becomes the cheapest. We are seeing this with EVs and hopefully we will reach a point where EVs get cheap enough and chargers become ubiquitous enough that the flywheel effect that keeps gas prices low will slow down and it enters a death spiral.

3: Have a national tragedy and use the opportunity to ram through a piece of legislation to affect massive change by forcing the opposition to have to take an unpopular side. Examples: LBJ pushing the Civil Rights Act after JFK's assassination, Patriot act after 9/11 etc.
I got a sleep study on insurance(yes $$$). I talked to a sleep doctor on my Cigna insurance and bought directly on cpap.com without going through insurance for $400.
They're close, but I believe they're not doing any 3nm manufacturing at the moment but I could be wrong about that.
Sure. Most parts of the world don't have the government run the entire healthcare system. It's an obviously bad idea everywhere
To everyone except Brits.
> 500ms is an acceptable latency for a search that runs offline without network calls.

Definitely disagree, having fast search makes a huge difference. Apple Photo's search is fast. Especially since CLIP embeddings aren't perfect, you may need to try a few different keywords.

> For 100,000 embeddings, writing took 6.2 seconds, reading 12.6 seconds and the disk space consumed dropped to 440 MB.

Something sounds so wrong here, I read/write a 100-500 GiBs of data from Python, and it's much faster than this.

In fact I'm seeing ~1.3s to write, and ~700ms to read from trivial Python:

import pickle
import sqlite3

import numpy as np

IMAGES = 100_000
EMBEDDING_DIMENSIONS = 1024

### write
db = sqlite3.connect("images.db")
db.execute("CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS image_embeddings (id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, embedding BLOB)")

# generate synthetic embeddings
embeddings = np.random.normal(size=(IMAGES, EMBEDDING_DIMENSIONS)) # 1.61 s

# serialize embeddings for storage
serialized_embeddings = [(pickle.dumps(embedding),) for embedding in embeddings] # 626 ms

# insert into db
db.executemany("INSERT INTO image_embeddings (embedding) VALUES (?)", serialized_embeddings) # 679 ms
db.commit() # 95.3 ms
db.close()

#### read
db = sqlite3.connect("images.db")
serialized_embeddings = db.execute("SELECT embedding FROM image_embeddings").fetchall() # 370 ms
embeddings = [pickle.loads(x[0]) for x in serialized_embeddings] # 322 ms
Unpoly too (very similar to htmx but the small difference makes it a lot more convenient I feel, I wonder why Unpoly isn't getting as much traction as htmx)
The open podcast ecosystem is what enabled me to easily build PodcastSaver[0].

Of course that, and the PodcastIndex[1] which saved me a TON of time not having to go find RSS feeds... But also gave me lots of podcasts that no one is necessarily looking for which I have to weed through at some point.

[0]: https://podcastsaver.com

[1]: https://podcastindex.org
Testing shows some bacteria could survive under Mars conditions
There would be an easy fix: pressure Tim Cook to increase the US-manufactured content of iPhones. Trump actually did a version of this with some success; it was the version of the Mac Pro nobody wanted, because Trump has the reverse Midas touch, but previous presidents could have done more here.
I’m out of the loop, why was building a factory in the US not feasible?
DTRM is offered with some Secured-Core machines that support Firmware Protection, is it not?
> [Unpaywalled] data should automatically have no copyright beyond authorship attribution.

Isn't that't the problem, no way to know exactly where it "learned" from? That is what they are fighting in the courts, I believe.
A major difficulty with 3D is heat dispersion. It will be interesting to see how this will evolve.
Microsoft 365 reaches 400M Paid Seats
It has happened. But generally, at least in tech, it is possible to filter this out with a good tech screen.
A thousand times this. Cutesy error messages make me feel like the developer doesn't take my use of the product seriously. It's wildly unprofessional.
I like it! Have you considered adding a little easing to the animation so that the changes are more gradual?
Heat pumps are hardly much more complicated than plenty of other household appliances, like washing machines, microwaves or fridges (which are heat pumps!). There’s plenty of scope for them to become a lot cheaper than they are today as they are manufactured in larger volumes.

Also, the largest heat pump in my house (I have a 6 kW and a 3 kW split system and a 5 kW air to water) also only uses about as much power as an electric kettle (~2 kW) most of the time here, I’m sure that could be powered off a small generator…
As long as you aren’t illegally discriminating, it’s more important that you avoid hiring shitty people than it is that you eliminate all bias.

You can’t single-handedly solve the systemic problem of unequal access to opportunity.
Sorry, what's 64-word about DNA?
Exactly. I felt intense revulsion reading GP’s comment. Collaborating in a team where there’s zero concern for people’s life circumstances is a no-go. It’s impossible to maintain work-life balance when life can’t even be acknowledged.
With the power of God and Schizophrenia on my side. https://templeos.org/
You don’t have to buy a new EVSE every time you buy a car. It’s a one time cost that’s subsidized in a lot of regions.
So I decided to take the really sophisticated step of doing a "link:www.milanomodaweekly.com" search on Google. It turned up this [1] page, and pretty much only that page. But that seems to explain what this probably is.

This looks like an amateur hour scam operation. Somebody sets up some sites that look vaguely passable (targeted at an audience who does not even speak the language on the site), auto-populates them with auto-translated Chinese newswire and blog stuff, local scraped stuff, etc. and then claims they're "major foreign media outlets", which they then sell access to for the riveting price of just 1.4 million won - about $1000. It looks like a modern take on something like a 419 scam, except I expect they probably do follow through on publishing whatever people submit!

Granted not as exciting a discovery as a shadowy influence operation with a super sexy nickname, but probably more accurate.

[1] - https://kmong.com/gig/497744
My youth was by no means exceptionally traumatic, but it was no fucking fun, and cumulatively amounted in me being a “from the wrong side of the tracks” figure in software, which was eminently doable when I was getting started and is still doable, but one works awfully fucking hard for the privilege as the ambient level of bad behavior well-concealed, cronyism, insularity, and utterly obliviousness about the public’s feelings hits 88mph.

I apologize to the author in advance if this assumption is off base, but the biopic at the beginning reads like the kind of life no one from my neighborhood had.

What I will say to the author is: be a lot more careful with the power over people’s lives afforded by your current privileged status, whether you earned it or not.
> Snow Crash in particular uses the metaverse mostly as an excuse to include sword fights and motorcycle/monorail chase scenes.

I don't think that's "most" of the usage of the metaverse in Snow Crash. The entire point of the metaverse in Snow Crash is to deal with the hubris of thinking that one protocol standard to rule them all could last and provide for the opportunity for a Tower of Babel-like fall of civilization as protocol wars break down an overly centralized metaverse. All of the cool stuff is just to show how high the Tower got built before it crumbled and fell.

I think any engineers using Snow Crash as an inspiration are probably missing the "Don't Build the Torment Nexus" message of the direct ending of the book.
> if you have a tech startup do you really care that you hired the son or daughter of a car dealership magnate from the other side of the country?

Of course! That's an incredible resource. Even if they don't specifically drive business your way, having the person's ear is something that can be leveraged to great effect. You don't exactly become a car dealership magnate without knowing a thing or two about business and they can teach your startup a lot. A magnate is more likely to chum with investors who might be interested in helping your business. The list goes on and on. Unfortunately, at least statistically, the poor parents will never be able to offer the same.

American individualism may be the American identity, but individualism doesn't get you far in business. America is not unique like you are trying to suggest.
These dodecahedrons with bumps could also be used for rope making of not for the absense of mechanical wear.
> The thing with low-experience, high-potentials is that they may be bit more insecure than seniors and therefore might think that such questions are normal which they are not.

It's not about being insecure, it's that they are likely to lack the experience and knowledge about if those questions are normal.

If you get those questions when you're going around on your first job interviews, and didn't get coaching on what should and shouldn't be asked/answered, you wouldn't know they were weird.
This is highly inappropriate for a job interview at least in my country. You can’t ask these type of personal questions. Who would feel comfortable sharing this with a complete stranger anyway?
That's not really the entire js of the plugin, but its schema; it's generated from the OpenAPI spec which you have to provide when writing actions/plugins. When I was looking through the requests for the available plugins the spec URL was visible and necessarily publicly accessible. I haven't checked for Actions with the new "GPTs" thing but I'd imagine it still is.
There is nothing secret to hide, what would be the purpose of blocking it?
Put the palm of your off-hand at the centre underneath the laptop, put your main hand on the trackpad.
Absolutely - anyone who focuses this much on personal life during an interview is almost assuredly clueless as to how to manage people.
Common food preservative has unexpected effects on the gut microbiome
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So the problem is with dart library sqlite_async.dart [1] and not with sqlite itself.

Kind of a misleading title, TBH.

[1] https://github.com/powersync-ja/sqlite_async.dart

Reference to an HN comment that clarifies this - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39290411
I fully agree about how hard it is to understand what the DSL features of elixir are doing. It was a major pain point for me and I wish that Elixir had a mode where it would expand all macros and output the resulting code so you can just see what your code looks like. I think that would help a lot.

On the flip side, most of these complaints feel like the author is fighting the language and wants it to behave more like a language that makes different tradeoffs. Maybe akin to complaining that Rust is annoying because "you need to use unsafe to code normally."

For example pairing with statements with specific atoms is specifically called out as an anti-pattern in the latest elixir docs[1] (this is an example of the elixir devs trying to talk more about how best to do things!). I don't mean say that the author "should have known not to do that" - I use it from time to time. I mean that the language is not setup to support this code structure well. The language wants you do use different structures for doing a series of things (the Ecto approach of returning a structure with the error embedded in it is an example).

I'm also sympathetic about the confusion around umbrella projects (and other such features) but I kind of feel like the current state is the optimal one? There's a tutorial showing you when you might want an umbrella project, but also showing you a similar structure that avoids using one[2]. On some level choosing which approach you want depends on a ton of details about "how elixir / erlang works"...but that seems pretty unavoidable? I think umbrella projects make very little sense until you grok the application system - but ultimately you can't save people from skimming over why they might use something and diving into learning it. I think this is just an inevitable drawback of languages that have fundamentally different tradeoffs than ones that generate native code with mutability.

[1] https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/main/code-anti-patterns.html#compl...

[2] https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/dependencies-and-umbrella-projects...
It isn't already?
I'd translate "move wafers" as run test batches. What I understand from that is that he can run more tests on his machines.

Honestly, I'm not sure anything of that is real. I can't believe other fabs don't run tests 24/7, and I can't believe they have people that rarely meet changing the same machines instead of only running tests without changing anything.
Yeah, the best thing those people have going for them is that they get old and die and turn to dust so they don't have to live with the effect that they have on other people. It's one reason why the ancients invented the idea of the afterlife, to put some fear into those people.
Yeah good point. I don't want write stalls because of subscription requests. For things like filesystem watching (for compilers), it'd be enough to have a form of snapshot checkpointing. (There were these FS events within 10ms [..]) / (Then the file contents was XXX) / ... (Then there were these FS events) / and so on.

Its possible you'd end up in situations where the OS would need to retain old file contents if there's both a pending read from a subscriber and subsequent writes. But in most cases, this is fine.

Going back to my original comment, this is the sort of reason I'd like to try this in my own OS kernel rather than try and solve all these problems immediately in linux. It'll give me a chance to try out a few different solutions and see if I can find something that works well.
I agree; everything he wrote post Diamond Age and everything he wrote pre Diamond Age are very different, with Diamand Age and Cryptonomicon being transitional. I read Cryptonomicon once with no plans to complete it. I didn't finish Anathem nor Quicksilver. Diamond Age was peak Stephenson for me, and I enjoyed all of his previous books (including The Big U).

[edit]

I didn't read anything Stephenson wrote post Quicksilver since everybody assured me that they were more of the "new" Stephenson than old. However, I see enough people in the comment threads panning README that I might give it a try.
"I don't really understand why so many people still use jQuery at all."

Because it has a beautifully designed API. I don't directly use jQuery usually anymore. But I use the API in a basic DOM wrapper I've written. https://gist.github.com/pseudosavant/b86eedd9960ade958d49447...
"Contrast that to the US and Europe who keep talking about these things, but don't actually execute(although the US at least tries to throw money at the problem)."

What other things should governments do other than "throw money at the problem"... crazy profitable ventures should have some help but they aren't giving those grants back etc.

I'd say total compensation packages in orgs are the root of why things might work in Japan and not in the US. The pay structure in Japan is very rigid, and by just one metric, top executive pay [1], Japan is 3.4x more efficient.

While a highly-paid CEO may not break the company, the skew in pay upward across an org will.

[1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/26592017#:~:text=After%20contro....
You can use absolutely any migration framework you like with PostGraphile, it’s completely unopinionated about that.
Novels are art and all art is subjective. Stephenson's earlier work I liked but I had to push myself thru Cryptonomicon. I don't force myself through something anymore, if a few chapters in I'm not compelled naturally to pick it up and read it, I move on.

As I've gotten older I just ignore some content based on topic, genre, etc. entirely since I'm either tired of it or have found I don't enjoy it. Anything super hero related is definitely in that bucket, so are all comics/cartoons, just don't enjoy them to spend my free time on them.
Oh I didn't know that! Thanks - I'll take a look.
The problem is stretching, and often exceeding, the protections of the system to achieve some "good".

They push things into civil court since you lack protections there, such as no right to an attorney and ex parte hearing. Can't prove a crime was committed - civil asset forfeiture. Can prove conspiracy or threats - red flag laws. TX abortion law, CA proposed gun law based on TX abortion law, etc. We'll see plenty more of this.
The title is not correct, it should be:

The first open source 3D atlas of human anatomy in Blender.

There have been a variety of open source human anatomy atlases, though few of the entire human body. Not to take away from the great work that has gone into Z-Anatomy or the underlying data from the BodyParts3D project in Japan. The BodyParts3D data is licensed Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.1.

Disclaimer: I am the PI for the Open Anatomy project (https://openanatomy.org), which is working to build open source anatomy atlases for worldwide use. We also have an anatomy term viewer https://ta2viewer.openanatomy.org that uses the same nomenclature that Z-Anatomy uses, and which is linked from many Wikipedia anatomy articles.

[Edited to add the bp3d license.]
Which sites don't work with Firefox? I'm a daily Firefox user for 15 years now and I can count on a few fingers the amount of sites that were "broken" in FF (and weren't a legacy IE issue).

This seems like hyperbole, frankly.
The last time I job searched in 2020, it took 7 months. For me, it was the adoption of the leetcode interview process, even at startups. I'm not especially good at leetcoding, and at some companies you need to solve 4-8 problems. So it's just a strange stochastic process where eventually you pass them all, but it takes many tries.
Which Came First: Supermassive Black Holes or Galaxies? Insights from JWST
Yes, although this might be a not too difficult fix. I'll look into it.
"Sorry, you filled out the form incorrectly"
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Any real revolution in living conditions (like being able to support 8 billion people on chemical fertilizers) always involved finding order in situations. Everything else is about as effective as pushing the deck chairs around on the Titanic.
Cryptonomicon was my introduction and none of his other works really compare, for me.. at least, it's the only one I've felt the desire to read again.
Nice catch, thank you!

I was playing around with the offsets incorrectly, while attempting to reduce the memory footprint on a low-end Android device.

I've updated the code[1] to read all embeddings in one shot, and I'm now measuring the time to read and the time to deserialize separately.

On an iPhone simulator running on an Apple M3 Pro, this is what it says:

```

[log] SqliteDB fetch all took: 1572 ms

[log] SqliteDB deserialization took: 4268 ms

...

[log] Isar: 100000 embeddings retrieved in 616 ms

```

[1]: https://github.com/ente-io/edge-db-benchmarks/commit/e02c3d3...
How much of the rest of the web are using third party dependencies in their code?

We’ve built sites for a very large social media company where everything had to be audited before production including third party plugins. WP VIP has a list of plugins they’ve vetted and/or applied their own patches to secure.
The problem with pomodoro is eventually you learn that its a trick just to get you started, so your brain eventually goes back to just wanted to never start again.

That's how it feels for me anyways though.
The comparison may be superficial, but this article really reminds me of the times when I wrote essays for college admissions (not in a good way).
In Pursuit of Quiet AI Features
Which one is which in this metaphor? Or is it just that they're different? My guess is that the wall is the startup, but I'm not quite sure.
Very good points, thanks. Will be looking into these.
My ADHD (in Darth Vader voice): "Your powers are weak, old man."
"Assigned a fiduciary" does a lot of work there. Who assigns the fiduciary? How do we find a good one? Why does this fiduciary do this job? God knows that financial professionals are not exactly immune to misconduct.

I think we should maybe admit that this is just kind of a difficult space, where there's in some rare cases a lot of money on the line and there's not necessarily anyone who's perfectly suited to handle it.
Edward Tufte advocates handouts over slides in presentations for just this reason. Your audience can refer back to the written and illustrated content of your presentation at their leisure.
Alright, well, in my country pretty much everybody has dental insurance. So I still think it’s very possible, given an entire country appears to be able to manage it
> Snow Crash in particular uses the metaverse mostly as an excuse to include sword fights and motorcycle/monorail chase scenes.

That's an interesting take. Personally, I thought those parts were the least interesting, and the larger social commentary was the most. As always, everyone takes something different from compelling fiction.

I've never viewed Snow Crash (or The Diamond Age) as predictions of the future though. They both seem to be commentary squarely about the present to me.
My immersion blender is handheld and doesn't fit in my pocket. My hair dryer is handheld and doesn't fit in my pocket. A tennis racquet is handheld and doesn't fit in my pocket. A baseball bat is handheld and doesn't fit in my pocket.

It seems strange to say something needs to be pocketable in order to be considered "handheld".
Just as an example, it would make it easier to craft adversarial attacks to generate undesired behavior.
Yeah, I think of Anathem as so far the only Reverse Stephenson book. Most of his books have killer starts and then end in a didactic "meh". Anathem starts with an incredibly didactic "meh" but then delivers a killer end.