skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Prove “fun” isn’t just an emotional equivocation to burn resources living in one’s nostalgia only to quickly abandon it like numerous attempts at amiga and commodore style OS clones being built for fun in the 00s

If it’s not for modern computer users and lacks a meaningful ecosystem of software and purpose its first worlders avoiding contributing to real work they externalize on others

There’s enough academic wank in the world. Better to focus on pushing computing forward for the aggregate than serve personal ego
I have no knowledge of this field, but my naive question would be, wouldn't building such advanced products involve so much more automation relative to number of human workers, that the salary of workers doesn't affect the cost that much?
As an aside ‘You-Know-Who’ is an immediate Harry Potter reference for me.
How does Planned Parenthood relate to hair loss treatment?
I am the rare Anathem reader who enjoyed the slow first part more than the active later parts. The initial world immersion was fascinating. The Big Event and subsequent faster paced developments were a lot less memorable. But I also enjoyed the instructional sections about whaling in Moby Dick.
Beautiful Public Data: A curated selection of visually interesting datasets
ADHD is also very strongly linked to cigarette smoking, by the way. What I mean is that nicotine is a form of self-medication
The automated railway announcements in the UK say "I'm sorry".

Rubs me up the wrong way, because there would be no way to identify who the individual apologising is.

However, I think error messages should apologise in the rare situation that there is no constructive, helpful, language-neutral way to convey an actionable response in an error.
I like this as a starting point, gonna recommend it from now on!

Although the benefit of using a static site generator like Hugo is the ability to short codes to reuse code snippets (like embedding videos or images). But that can wait - getting five posts out first is important!
That's not a simple law. To start, it violates the first amendment. Then, after you decide that somehow commerce overrules the first amendment in this situation, you are stuck with the job of setting up a government process that will judge, with legal force, whether an advertisement is sufficiently related to the surrounding content. This institution will have to grapple with, among many questions, "Is an ad for replacing your gutters ever related to its surrounding content?" or "What does it mean for an advertisement to be related to a work of fiction?"

Also, do you think Saturday morning cartoons should somehow relate to breakfast cereals? The reason that there haven't been Saturday morning cartoons in a couple of decades is because of a law saying the opposite.
I don't think we'll see much of a change in how we're approaching an asymptote for the foreseeable future. In order to do something like that, you would need a significant innovation that disrupts the whole trillions of dollars industry and it's unusual for a maturing industry to see that kind of change. If any one of these innovations were significant enough, I think it would have been prioritized above the other innovations that have been done instead which only get us smaller incremental gains.

I imagine we'll still see gains of 10-15% a generation with whatever improvements come over the next few decades but I don't see us going back to the gains of the 80s and 90s where performance for the end user was doubling regularly, if that's what you're hoping for.

Edit: Also I think the price for the performance will continue to rise. If we're looking at performance per dollar, I think gains will only be in the 5-10% range
> electricity record profits should not be a thing

Unless the electricity consumption is falling faster than inflation, I'd expect the regulated-profit electric utility to be having record profits essentially all the time.
> - granted, I'm sure when the preservatives were created and start to be used,

Ignorance doesn’t excuse “us”. So much of the modern world is just a giant experiment—exposing ourselves to an environment which is completely novel wrt. existing data, generational experience, and science. Just winging it! It’s a travesty, really.
Wow, that looks great!

The restore interface is really clean, I like it a lot. I'll admit I wasn't super interested when I first clicked(I was just checking to see how it compares to other tools), but the screencast sells the interface extremely well.

Full tip of the hat for the documentation in general; the intro and screencast are great, and the more thorough documentation below the fold is fantastic too!
>but for a software engineer, writing a OS is the closest thing we have to the exhilarating feeling of seeing your code affect real hardware.

Unless you want to muck about with toy robotics or home automation.
Security and performance come to mind.

If they just served podcasts directly from third parties, third parties would be able at least in theory to push potentially malicious data to the Spotify app (and Spotify users' devices).

As for performance, if the third party has an outage, then it would make Spotify look broken. And who knows if the third party site can serve the traffic well enough for a good experience.
"Tell me about/diagram a system you understand well." Ask follow up probing questions. How well people understand systems and how the pieces fit together is how you'll find untapped potential. It really doesn't matter what the system is.
I have been incredibly out of shape and overweight most of my life. In the last year I've managed to lose a lot of weight and I started weight training about 8~ months ago. I saw my VO2 go from 33 to 39 (which is still quite low) at a very steady rate and then all of a sudden just plateau at 39. Was absolutely annoying because I thought I had only a month or two left before I hit that 50%/Absolute Average point for my age :(

Sadly (for me), I think this means I actually have to start doing cardio.
I learned about the project from the co-recursive podcast episode. Fascinating story. https://corecursive.com/serenity-os-with-andreas-kling/
Sidenote: how does substack get my email address? I don't have an account with this site but they autofilled the "subscribe" field with my email address.
I prefer to think of art as anything made by man. Using this definition I can cherish a poorly crafted thing made by a friend, a child's scribble, a well crafted gear or an antique bronze from thousands of years ago as art. And that means we all are artists. All artistic categories are just groupings around an idea. Imagine a taxonomy tree where each branch has proponents screaming 'here is where art starts'
> Except for when your data is in it.

Replacing the DB before it gets any actual data inserted into it solves this problem. You just switch to Postgres before you go anywhere beyond staging, at the latest - in practice, you need Postgres-exclusive functionality sooner than that in many cases, anyway. Even when that happens, you might still prefer having SQLite around as an in-memory DB in unit tests. The Postgres-specific methods are pretty rare, and you can mock them out, enjoying 100x faster setup and teardown in tests that don't need those methods (with big test suites, this quickly becomes important).

Unless you really want to use Postgres for everything like the Gist here suggests, the DB is just a normal component, and some degree of flexibility in which kind of component you use for specific purposes is convenient.
User Mode Concurrency Groups – Faster Than Futexes
Show HN: Automated Vector Search on Postgres
pg_vectorize is a Postgres extension and provides a high level API which condenses the operations of vector search with pgvector into two function calls; one to initialize table, the other to search the table. We run a container next to Postgres that hosts many transformer models available in Hugging Face, but there is also an integration with OpenAI.

The readme contains some examples and how to run this locally using docker compose.
It only works with Bitlocker which relies only on external/discrete (dTPM) key material and no configured PIN or password, so there is nothing to input. It’s just sniffing key material off of the external TPM bus after the bootloader asks for it. This is an ancient attack and not very technically interesting, but it comes up every few years because Microsoft still don’t switch to using TPM encrypted sessions.
Do modern browsers support JPEG XL?
Chat gpt write some explanatory filler around a discovery.
Our process runs mostly through email until the last challenge, which is interactive (for every role in the company we simulate some kind of design or problem solving exercise on Slack with an random member of our team, which is then rated based on a rubric by a panel that reviews the transcript; it differs from an interview in a variety of ways, most notably that the team member delivering the exercise doesn't ever interrogate the candidate).

Most of our work sample stuff is design/architecture based. I'm not worried about how LLMs impact it.

This is the sole way we've hired engineers at Fly.io since 2020 and we have never once brought someone on who turned out to be 3 raccoons in a trenchcoat. Raising the bar further on ourselves: we hire globally, at SF scale salary worldwide.
Secrecy is a lie. Privacy is a crime. Not sharing is withholding potential evidence. This is where we are headed...unless we demand the same of governments and corporations, and the powerful.
I thought it was too slow as well, but apparently it's not - plenty of people are using it now, and I myself use it way more than I thought I would.
Yes, it'll generally lead to overfitting. This will look a lot like memorization btw. And just an fyi, you can still not diverge on the train/test split (as is common) and still overfit. That's an obvious signal but there are many ways to have a model overfit. As far as I'm aware, all giant LLMs and image generators show signs of overfitting. But note that sometimes this can be helpful. Obviously these tools are useful still so it is more about where they break than anything.
Checkout Linux 0.01. The kernel is just a handful of files.

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/0.01/source
You are giving an explanation on my feeling on why the "year of the Linux desktop" won't come.

Linux is maintained by power users that want to give the same power to every users but nowadays, the vast majority of users don't need and don't want those powers.

I guess you never had to deal with the flow of complaints whenever an update was installed and the icon for the app changed. Many users couldn't start "the application".

It was even customary in some organizations to create their own shortcut with their own icon to start iexplore or excel.

I know that whenever a site "can't be found", it's been blocked by my pihole.
But to anyone else connected on my network, it's "the internet is down".
That's interesting, I never noticed that subtlety. I think the docs for `for` kind of get at that:

> Generators can also be used to filter as it removes any value that doesn't
match the pattern on the left side of <-
A useful reminder to the AI crowd: it is an inherently human experience. You can gin up all the picassos you want on your LLM, but it'll never achieve the impact or emotion of Guernica.
Ford EV Drivers Will Get Free Tesla Supercharger Adapters
I think you nailed it:

> quick and dirty WYSIWYG editor for their website

But, as we all know, quick and dirty never gets deleted.
China was forcing HK to accept China laws and HK didn’t want it. They protested.

Don’t try and and make it sound like HK were just randomly protesting nothing.
Because the Japanese government bet big on hydrogen and heavily subsidized the industry. Also, is there any evidence that hydrogen vehicles have short lifespan or require expensive maintenance? I don't disagree about how undesirable they are based on fuel cost but its hard to suss out how much of that is just based on extremely low production.
In my understanding, the preset data only makes implementing this easier, but has this issue where if you use it wrong, bad things can happen. We prefer to use tools that make using them incorrectly difficult, especially in such a sensitive context.
Japan is one of the most armed countries in the world and one of the most defensible. I highly doubt that Japan is less safe than most of the EU in practical terms.
The first time I used a meditation app I could not stop laughing hysterically at the thought that the guy soothingly giving directions from the app might suddenly go BAAAAUAAARGH! just for the fun of it.
That firmly establishes that killing is very bad and faster. What it doesn't do is make an argument it is moral to emit large amounts of carbon that will also hurt people (but more slowly) just because other people are doing it too.
Looking at the rest of your code, it looks like you are doing a lot of unnecessary processing on these embeddings.

They even seem to be doubly json encoded at some point:

https://github.com/ente-io/clip-ggml/blob/main/lib/clip_ggml...

In my opinion, they should probably just be a memory buffer representing the raw floats all the way down: from the output of the model to the database. They should never be encoded, neither in json, nor as a dart List<double>.
I find this argument weird. I'm not saying you can trust the open evals, I'm just saying you can know their limits. Closed evals you're a lot more blind.
It's kinda foggy, "Found" can be an adjective, like "Found art".
how do you get an ICBM? (Inter-Continental-Ballistic-Missile)
If Japan ended its defense treaty and began pursing goals counter to US interests, you are mistaken if you think it would lead to a conflict.
My question is why base a wrapper around a wrapper, a111 is by its definition a wrapper around a bunch of other things, and even then why not just write a wrapper around a more ... easily interfaced with system ... like comfy's api?
Do y’all have any blog posts on this? Would be curious to know more about the work sample tests, and about the process in general.
I just looked at the planned parenthood site and it has a New Relic RUM, and a AB testing beacon. There are no ad/data beacons on the site.
Nope, the Model Y was the best selling vehicle in 2023, regardless of powertrain.

https://insideevs.com/news/706169/tesla-model-y-best-selling...
I'd say it might be very similar to Pulumi or Chef.

From my own musings about making such a tool :)
Understood. Yeah, I do not know.
> pulsation is too fast (for me)

Was it my imagination or did the rate change? It seemed to slow down a bit at the end.

If it doesn't, that might be a good feature; a progressive slowdown and perhaps a config to change overall rate.
> the brain is nothing else but its physical makeup

> physical stuff can never explain consciousness

These statements seem contradictory to me, can you elaborate? Also, you don't provide your reasoning for the second statement. Why do you believe that physical stuff can't cause consciousness? What is your definition of "physical"?
I really wouldn't recommend an EV yet if you can't charge at home. Unless you have a compelling reason to get one, or maybe a Tesla with a great charging network. One of the main advantages of having an EV is not having to stop to fuel it up at all most of the time.

> Yes, this is bad regardless. But fast-charging normal lithium batteries reduces the lifespan of those batteries even if you never charge them fully. My question is really whether or not EVs use a different technology that mitigates this.

The electronics used to regulate charging in an EV might be a bit more developed than say...a cheap fast phone charger. But there are plenty of articles you can google about it, since it is a commonly asked question; e.g.

https://www.power-sonic.com/blog/fast-charging-battery-life/

They don't find anything, although there are a lot of different kinds of EVs out there.
Israel is not an existential threat to the existence of Iran. What world do you live in?
Should or should not is besides the point. If you're interacting with the US financial system in any way, it's a requirement from that government. I can believe anything I want about how cannabis should be legal, my personal beliefs about that don't change the fact that I could be arrested for having some.
Forhers is an online telehealth platform with a reproductive healthcare component.

https://www.forhers.com/sexual-health

https://www.forhers.com/birth-control

Planned Parenthood also offers birth control ordering through the mail. adrr says no tracking/retargeting, so could be a coincidence.
https://fly.io/docs/hiring/
Arlington's first guaranteed income pilot boosted QoL for poorest residents
Ah, I see your idea, but codons aren't DNA- they are a higher level construct (only used in the context of transcribed and translated genes that code for proteins).

Also, several of those codons aren't mapped to amino acides (stop codons) and the codons are re-used to code for the same amino acids, so it's really redundant compared to that.

DNA is a 2-bit code, with 4 symbols.
This is not really a mitigating factor in emissions, esp since US per capita emissions are vastly bigger than EU. And if you get into the per capita game, the other parts of the world would like a word...
From some further testing:
1. With a batch size of 10k, there is a negligible difference in write performance on my machine (with SQLite taking around 10% longer).
2. Reads are still slower, with the majority of the time spent in decoding. There are probably faster ways to convert List<double> into a Uint8List - probably using the typed_data library. I haven't tested this yet.

With larger batch sizes, memory usage becomes a problem with the current sqlite_async batch implementation. There can probably be improved in the library, but a workaround is to split the writes into smaller batches.

Overall, you should be able to get very similar performance between Isar and SQLite, but there is something to say for Isar providing better performance for the default/obvious way of doing things in this case.
I’ll take this bet and see you in 50 years. The US has surged ahead of the rest of the world in recent years and it’s only just starting to put itself first again.
You're looking at far too small a window. The population in New Orleans peaked decades ago. https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/23082/new-orleans/populat...

> This is baseless nonsense, armchair psychology at its worst.

I presume you consider your method of "take a million climate models, extrapolate them out decades beyond what we have any knowledge of, discard all the ones that aren't alarming, be alarmed at the remainder" is based armchair climatology?
Maybe if they're Canadian? Though I can't fathom, say, Theo de Raadt ever adding apologies to OpenBSD error messages.

You know what's cyberpunk to me? Cyberpunk isn't about having robotic body parts and netrunning in cyberspace through your brain implants in a chrome-and-neon-encrusted arcology. Cyberpunk is owning a Taiwanese bargain-basement PC and booting Linux on it in 1995. Because like real punk rock, Linux was DIY and it showed -- it was messy. When you booted it up, there was no sugarcoating -- no warm and friendly bootup sound, no happy Mac smiling back at you. The various bits and bobs that made up a working Linux system started chattering to you -- all at once: first the drivers and kernel subsystems, then the init scripts, then some of the user-space daemons, all telling you unbidden how their day is going. Every component of the system told you what was going on with it, for good or ill. It would've been quite alarming to a normie; 1995 was far from the year of the Linux desktop. But I appreciated it.

And I resent error messages that try to mollycoddle me as a user. Apologies, "Something went wrong :(", and so forth. Just tell me, in the most rigid machine-like way, what happened. A stack trace would be helpful if the failed bit is open source.
I have actually built a tool very similar, slack <-> openai interface.

Except it does things like augment the input prompts, and can perform additional action based on the outputs.

So no, I don't have a need for something as simple as a ChatGPT pass through.

You might get a better reaction if you weren't so defensive over a sub 500 LOC project.
LOL just read that article yesterday about how optimizations on binaries for rust can go from 40mb down to 10mb with a few compiler flags, people here worrying about that kinda optimization and googles just shipping entire python installs inside of their cli install lol
That is a very uncharitable interpretation of that comment. Nowhere did they state that seeing colors makes them feel like a baby. Nor did they say everything should be monochrome.

Is it so surprising that people expect tools they use for business to look and act professionally?
The don't-bother-unless-it-hyperscales majority attitude of tech company funding and growth heavily limits the variety of new things that the tech world at large can offer. There are simply not that many types of tech business models that are capable of scaling fast and quickly without massive infusions of cash, but it turns out that data brokering, large dataset analysis, and profile building are a few of those things, and so the market success of these business looms large in the technology space.

I had hoped that rising interest rates and a tighter consumer market would change that dynamic somewhat but unfortunately for now it seems to be an incredibly well entrenched status quo that doesn't appear to have a clear path away from
It’s heartening to read the article, pause at that section and then see this comment here.

Is some random interviewer going to be able to make deep psychological assessment of future performance based on the response? Even actual psychologists don’t do that well at predicting an individual’s future course.
Tried it and love it. Super simple. Does what it says on the tin and nothing else. Thanks for making it!
> At this point if someone is unwilling to accept growth, they will get left behind or boxed in.

This really is a big crux of capitalism, there is simply no room for society to take a breather and enjoy life unless one is lucky enough to make it to retirement, and even more lucky to make it there in health. No room to reflect on new technology and inventions and decide whether we are on the right track, as a society. But chaos is inherent to big groups, so I'm not saying there is a different way forward on a planet with 8 billion people.
To sort of echo and expand on what you're saying here, there's a fair argument that if you do go through capital-A abuse, and don't think it effects you, you might just have made yourself blind to the damage as a coping mechanism.

The most famous example that I can think of is Henry Kissinger, who fled Nazi Germany with his family, at age 15, to escape persecution as a Jew. He claimed, to his dying day, that he was not heavily impacted by the experience. Maybe he wasn't. But I wonder if any of the genocides laid at his feet were in part caused by his refusal to accept any impact his teenage experiences might have had on him.

Demanding that people tell an interesting/engaging story about why they have C/PTSD, just to get a job, totally tracks for the late-stage-capitalism narrative though.
That depends on the outside air temp (OAT)*. At OATs below 30°F, the heat pump is capable to heat the home, but the coefficient of performance might be 2.0 or less.

For a fossil fuel plant that might convert fuel to electricity with ~35-40% efficiency, a heat pump with a CoP of 2.0 will be less efficient overall than a 90% gas furnace.

* More precisely, on the spread between the OAT and the indoor temp, but since the latter is basically a fixed figure...