skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If people are interested in fast, scalable HNSW implementations which have solid rust bindings then I’d highly recommend checking out usearch https://github.com/unum-cloud/usearch
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Thanks. So there are two concepts where isolation is mentioned, the --pure and the --container options. But still the documentation is very light on details and doesn't really answer what kind of (if any) security boundary or sandbox is provided by the container feature.

How might it compare to eg using nsjail[1] or firecracker [2] or flatpak's sandbox[3]? These could be also good benchmarks for the documentation.

[1] https://github.com/google/nsjail

[2] https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker-container...

[3] https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/sandbox-permissions-refer...
Sanders Introduces Legislation to Enact a 32-Hour Workweek with No Loss in Pay
Management has taken so many anti-user actions that even most of the people still using it are quite down on Reddit-the-corporation.
GCP products have a much better track record than Google consumer products when it comes to support since there are usually enterprise customers with multi-year contracts worth tens, if not hundreds, of millions of dollars using them.
That was my highlight of the test: live video of the biggest rocket booster hitting the ocean at 1000km/h.
> You can see plenty of other skyscapers, some looking similar height or nearly as tall. Just not any on the side of the river the Squamish are planning on building.

That's kind of the entire point of Vancouver NIMBYism, at least around Kits/Point Grey. The "backyard" for them is basically "anywhere except the downtown peninsula" (the other side of the inlet in the picture).

They won't care too much if someone builds a 20-40 story building on the West End/peninsula. Do the same thing on the west side ([1], off the peninsula) and they'll throw an absolute fit.

[1] The West End neighbourhood and the colloquial west side are a solid 10-20 minutes apart from each other, driving time. Geographically - West End is on the peninsula, and the west side is basically the various neighbourhoods across the inlet (False Creek) from it.
> If you rank major social media websites by click fraud, reddit is typically in the 1st or 2nd spot in any given month.

What do you mean by this? (Thanks in advance - I get click fraud in general, I'm just not clear on who is clicking on what is this case.)
Parkinson’s Law is about how things change.
what languages are used in those series

is it mainly c/c++
Strange that you're saying this because that's exactly how I understood it: people were extremely mindful of what they're saying but even with that you had "agents" in disguise who really stretched the definition of "treason", many times over, just to be able to do a few arrests daily. In the books it was also shown that the mere fact of singing along a song that praised their emperor was also grounds for being arrested (which was quite absurd because praising that guy was a requirement anyway).
"Standards will almost certainly decrease, especially for people in top 60%."

Arguably, private insurance will still exist for the upper class. So the top 10% or so will likely be unaffected. It would just further increase any inequality that currently exists. (The current proposals are Medicare for all and not a state run facilities)
> Thing is if you’ve been around the block and have a decent understanding of fundamentals…it just doesn’t matter what the fad of the week is.

You say that, but…

I find I have huge problems with VIPER, and while I can't tell if it's me or the design pattern, I do notice that some developers seem to swear by it (others, including me, swear at it).

I have that clip of Principal Skinner asking himself "Am I out of touch? No, it's the children who are wrong." playing inside my own mind.

I don't want to wake up one day and find I'm Skinner.
A perfectly good UI exists. It's called old.reddit.com.
ICLR, ICML, KDD, ICCV, ECCV and NeurIPS are all major "AI" conferences and none of them has AI in the name. NeurIPS comes closest. "AI" has historically not been a useful distinction for anyone in the field.

I actually think this is changing given the current rapid ascent of multimodal models.
Alvin High School in Alvin, Texas.

Small town of only 30k people, but the school district kept absorbing other districts. Some kids (me included) had 2-3 hour bus rides to school. Some days if I missed the bus, I would have to walk, but the walk was only 30-45 minutes depending on if I stopped at a friends house or not.
A more serious case of this took place in Turkey two decades ago, and involved the jailing of a significant fraction of the military leadership. So it amounted to a judicial coup against the military. The son-in-law of one of the generals (Cetin Dogan) analyzed a piece of the evidence, a Word document ostensibly dated 2003, and proved that it contained anachronisms dating it to at least 2007.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sledgehammer_(alleged_coup_pla...
The Latest TikTok Bill
Just piggybacking here, but this is a great suggestion. It makes the cost a one-time expense, and you get something material (source code) in return.
Have you looked into the Jelly Phone? I used mine for over a year until I destroyed the battery. Was definitely small and got used to it pretty quick
We found this out the hard way in a small startup. The per query and I/O expense was through the roof.
Yes, great. So then every email leaves a digital financial footprint to trace! Which also, (in the U.S.) means you need a bank account. That bank, requires KYC. You've just removed the houseless and poor from the emailing public.
Being "done with it" is not the objective of the Two Minutes Hate.
You mean like how California bans installation of used catalytic converters? And how that law was passed explicitly to cut down on converter theft?

You will never guess what California requires to be inscribed on every converter sold in the state.
Boeing 777 makes emergency landing at LAX due to 'mechanical problem'
Good observation. A few of my previous employers simply stopped hiring in house developers. They feel more comfortable relying on either outside vendors or off the shelf software. One reason is the lack of available talent to come in and support legacy in-house software. Maybe that trend will reverse or slow a bit. So much of the off the shelf software is overpriced and inflexible.
> once they are programming a robot, I feel they become roboticists

Yes! I am not a roboticist (or at least a good one in any sense) but I was having a similar discussion regarding enabling non-technical users do data analysis. Once they start doing anything more complicated than `SELECT COUNT(*) FROM blah WHERE foo=otherblah` it's going to get real real quick. You can't just give them some cheap point and click stuff because their questions will immediately overrun the extent of what's practicable. Asking interesting questions of data is roughly as difficult as phrasing the questions in SQL (or any other formal query language) and anyone who can do the first can do the latter easily enough.

(or the point and click stuff _is_ really powerful but it's some proprietary non-googleable voodoo that requires a month long training course that costs $5K/week to get a certificate and become middlingly powerful)
It sounds like they actually did something like this. Their shard key selection could be customer, project, folder or something in their data model at a reasonably high logical level in their hierarchy.
> NoSQL databases are another common scalable-by-default solution that companies adopt as they grow. However, we have a very complex relational data model built on top of our current Postgres architecture and NoSQL APIs don’t offer this kind of versatility.

As I understand it, NoSQL is for people who need a backend that ingests just about any unstructured data, for teams that may not have a complex relational model worked out/stabilized. Postgres has this in its native jsonb datatype, but they wouldn't need to use that much since it sounds like they already have a good data model. What am I missing here?
Building more homes in Vancouver will not result in lower prices because this is not a supply problem it is the financial assetization of home equity that drives higher and higher prices. Blue collar workers turned multi-millionaires rely on the continued rise of home prices to purchase cheap credit which they use to speculate on more homes. When they couldn't find anymore locals they turned to the international market to sell their bags. Now these 20k homes ppl are celebrating are NOT going to be sold under market prices no matter how much reddit and hn crowd wants it to be true. It will only stabilize the prices at current inflated levels.

Be careful what you wish for. The only type of housing they are building is not white picket fenced backyard with a shed that is being converted to homes but high/low rise apartments primarily for rental, a hotbed for crime.

Since David Eby overrode the strata no-rental rules, while not responsible it resulted in huge increase in cases of squatters, petty theft, drug labs and brothels. This does not include what a retired VPD officer describes as an "Amazon of drug labs and brothels" which is familiar to vancouver high rise but now its even easier for criminals. Vice reporters were even reporting on it years ago but now these cases are accelerating since Eby stepped in a populist spirit.

I'm all for alleviating housing situation but we need to stop and ask if those people who are demanding/feel entitled to it really have the necessary income to justify it. Often I see people making 60k CAD/year lamenting how they can't find a home to live in. You can't afford anything in developed urban centres except in emerging economies.

So I think rather than building more housing we need to ask who really has merit to be here and the biggest determining factor is income not how long you lived in Vancouver like certain demographic of locals are suggesting which is basically dogwhistling to say the market forces should not apply to them because of their skin colour.

Simply blaming this on local housing policy failure like reddit does when housing prices has been appreciating all over the world, not just Vancouver, is myopic. There are cities that are far more dense than vancouver and has even more ridiculous real estate prices. They love Vancouver and the blue collar Canadian workers that bought their homes after 6 month of work in the 70s, 80s are not desperate to sell as they have nowhere else to go.

Lot of people are being setup for major disappointments if they think vancouver home prices are coming back down to 2012 prices. There is simply no way to force homeowners to sell when they have no urgency or financial stress to do so. over 50% of homeowners in Vancouver do not have mortgages.
Maybe don't encourage the person that says people smell tasty to do that
> Coinbase had 108 million users in 2022, up from 56 million people in 2021
Reddit goes hand in hand to me with Facebook Groups. I dont think either will follow the path of Digg to be honest, the adoption is just far too wide. Some people on this website might be in an echo chamber of old school geeky subreddits.

But I recently found /r/NYCbitcheswithtaste/ to be surprisingly active. a bunch of teen and 20something females in NYC asking for recommended lip injections. Its a natural expansion from the many skincare subreddits that have been popular for years, but I admit I didn't think the userbase has expanded that much
I like that idea and the way it was implemented. It reduces a font to its design and then executes the design, an excellent compression technique. I think there are plenty more applications to that idea. For example, in stead of transferring bitmaps showing pictures pixel by pixel, describe the picture using vector graphics (coordinates) or even a more basic description of those vectors.
Have you been to a US doctor for anything more than a check up? Ten minute appointments, most of which gets spent on mechanical questions and memorized explanations is not decent care. Being pushed out through gradual ramping up of social pressure after your "allowed" one or two questions, so the doctor can move onto the next semantic billing event, is not decent care. Continually hearing, in every single setting, that everything is someone else's responsibility is not decent care. If decent healthcare gets provided in the US, it's in spite of the system, and those individual doctors/nurses/etc going above and beyond inevitably end up burning out. Lather, rinse, repeat.

I'm not a proponent of single payer because I don't think it addresses the root problem of the absolutely broken anti-patient incentives of a system that has long ago been destroyed by bureaucracy. But I'm not an opponent of single payer either - I just don't think it's the panacea people think it is.
Spanish Flu was 100 years ago, so one can be forgiven for tending to forget about them. it may be many decades before there is a repeat of anything as bad as covid
One of the Best Practices for maintaining software that you expect to support for decades involves archiving the development tools used.

Of course, finding a platform to run it on could be a problem. Also, the License Server that so many proprietary tools need before they'll run.
The best Reddit is the Reddit with no ads or selling of data or manipulating users into more clicks. The only way they can grow the business from here is to make the product worse, which I fear will lead to its self-destruction.

Reddit ideally should be a non-profit org funded with a generous endowment, like with Signal.
Canada reviewing TikTok's expansion plan for national security risks
Seems like grandstanding. Why go nationwide? Why not try it at the state level (like Sanders’ home of Vermont), and see how it goes?
As soon as the car door gets (partly) underwater (i.e. not too many seconds), even a sliding door could be incredibly difficult to open if it also had to be pushed outward first. Breaking the glass (or somehow still managing to slide the window) could be more realistic options, barring lucky cases of sinking unusually slowly.
Imo a huge problem with the business culture in the bay was that it seemed like, for years, VCs were encouraging some very irresponsible business practices in the name of growth at all costs. The low cost of lending in this environment allowed these businesses to survive by raising money whenever they needed it, which I think had a really negative effect on the software market. When the unprofitable companies can out compete the profitable ones, you essentially move to a regime where VCs are subsidizing the end user, which is unsustainable. When interest rates rose, the car suddenly decelerated and some folks went splat. A lot of user good will got burned by a sudden pivot to profitability (see the discussion on enshittification), and a lot of people's careers have been damaged. I can't help but wonder if things might have been better if we had grown sustainably, or if the current hangover was worth it for the period of blitz scaling we got.
Consider hiring remote if possible from South American countries like Argentina; just don't go super cheap on the salary, $100-150k/yo still is a lot to us and I'm sure you can get some really good engineers, PhDs, whatever with that salary. You can go lower if you don't need expert-level.

I'll not apply because I doubt I'm qualified but if you have a link with the job posting I'd be glad to share with my circle.
I love all of these ideas!!

1. You can set a "max steps" limit when you run it locally
https://github.com/Skyvern-AI/skyvern/blob/d0935755963b017ed...

We also spit out the cost for each step within the visualizer. Click on any task > Steps > there's a column that's dedicated to how much things cost to run

https://github.com/Skyvern-AI/skyvern/issues/70

2. We have a roadmap item to "cache" or "memorize" specific tasks, so you pay the cost once, and then just run it over and over again. We're going to get to it soon!!
There is at least one family that has three generations of B52 pilot (grandfather, father, son) [0]. Imagine being a coder who maintained code written by your grandfather and father...

[0] https://www.minot.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/264580...
Thank you for the perspective, I admit I never thought of that.

My life and career being the disaster that they were/are, I never stopped to think about specializing for more than a minute, 5-10 times maximum. Always seemed extremely risky because I also have zero network. Even if I found a very lucrative job and stayed there for 2-3 years the change inevitably comes at one point (especially post COVID) and then if I lose the job I'll be out of luck and severely f_cked.

Hence I always tried to cast a wide net. I started regretting that decision in the last few years though; being treated as an interchangeable cog even if you are the best programmer in the team left a lot of marks on my mental health and I wish the world became a little bit more kind but alas.
https://github.com/Skyvern-AI/Skyvern/?tab=readme-ov-file#fe...
Yep. The entire article is the low-code fallacy applied to robot programing.

It will be the same in any branch of programing you look.
the problem with old.reddit.com is that it actually is a terrible UI. If you make a site that pixel-perfect mirrors old.reddit.com, the only users you'll attract are the vocal fans of that UI. i've been a reddit user since digg died, and i remember when we could all agree that reddit's UI was the worst. the fact that the newer redesigns are somehow even worse than the old UI doesn't make the old UI good.

a social site populated entirely by contrarians who think old.reddit.com is peak web design is not a site that anybody will want to visit.
Becoming a influencer/content creator developer it seems.
Their cushion quality can be hit or miss, but I'll say they're pretty receptive to exchanges.

Also, never pay full price. They offer 25-35% off many times per year, usually around holidays.
This is the sixth such incident in 10 days.
That's the "genius" of the implicit marketing: label some "facts" as unfortunately inaccurate and whatever remains are perceived as accurate "facts."
Thanks for that. 65% is more than I'd have expected. 48% get it through employer, so the number paying for it on the exchanges is around 17%. I would have guessed the employer number were higher than the out-of-pocket payers lower.
The only status I've seen people use is linking to that no hello site.
Hey man, I love it! Even the little things like the fact that you picked such a gorgeous little orange for that radio; those are the little touches that only people who actually have ADHD would think of.

Sight design is great too; perfect amount of info, great layout, colour that guides rather than distracts, love it.
As far as I can tell the HDC-402 wasn't even the Viking computer that got reused on Voyager anyway - it was something NASA developed in-house from the orbiter side of the Viking mission and that presumably has even less documentation available.
Ask HN: What are people using to automatically catalog images/video today?
his teammates said he was a great teammate and they have advocated for him for years.
As with so many goods these days, I find that buying stuff made at least a couple of decades ago works best. It's much easier to tell the garbage from the treasure if you aren't buying stuff made recently.
They're only a new level of degeneracy if you pretend that sex workers aren't physically displaying themselves in windows or selling themselves on the street.
lol. oh yeah. from baseball to neuroscience. I got it all man
I unironically agree with both of you. William Randolf hearst was a thing, and the Catholic church definitely saw Martin Luther as a vile propagandist

Also cocaine and cigarettes definitely squelch your appetite and have historically been medically prescribed for such... It's just that we don't today
Also, as a Vancouverite... 5-6 stories, cheaper to live there, AND more comfortable? Dunno about that.

I've got doubts about cheaper, and 5-6 story buildings in Vancouver always seem less comfortable than a skyscraper (for whatever reason - maybe just that the 5-6 story buildings are mostly old?)
I said 60%, not 10% - which is a tougher problem to solve.

Medicare as it currently exists is not “free at point of service”, or even “affordable at point of service.” There’s the Medicare gap, etc.

Medicare isn’t really set up to be a universal program. It assumes that providers have non-Medicare patients, and regularly uses that fact to calibrate the program.
Thank you! I hadn't yet thought of that because I'm new to building stuff like this by myself, but I will put it on the list of things to research/add.

One of my next steps was to add an email newsletter opt-in. May I ask whether that would fulfil the same function or do you think RSS would be better?

If the latter, I'd appreciate if you could share your thinking :)
For anyone else reading, It's only about 36% or so that are covered by socialized health care. E.g. 85M in medicaid, 65M in medicare, 10M in tricare.

So we have a pretty good basis to figure what it would look like to make that number 100%.
Or something like Kagi. Nobody will pay for it now because of what spez has done during his most recent tenure, but there was a point in time where I truly think turning it into a paid service was viable.

I've been on the site since 2005 and turned down the ability to buy the stock early, and intend on throwing a couple thousand dollars at shorting it. I don't trust the c-suite, admins, or devs at all anymore. Spez directly edited a user's comment in the database. Admins directly manipulated the /r/place database.

I'm still there because...the fediverse sucks, and I can still use my hacked up Reddit is Fun client and old.reddit.com, but if that set of circumstances changes, I don't anticipate sticking around.
This might be a US-centric experience so I'm prefacing...

Basic cost of living is : rent, food, utilities. Those three have gone up astronomically, especially in the past 3-years.

A graduate stipend is probably $22K/year, maybe more for a PhD student. 20-years ago that was reasonable, if rent is $1700/mo you're already underwater given you have to pay taxes on that meager $22K.

In my graduate experience, I didn't see most grad students walking around with the latest cell phones, laptops or luxury goods, they struggled with the basics.

A number of graduate students at various universities are going on strike and forming unions and honestly more power to them:

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-01-02/uc-strik...
There's situations where it makes sense to raise $X million. And then there's situations where it makes sense to take nothing, bootstrap and become self sufficient.

How do you compete against YouTube, Big Banks, Twitter if you generate $1 in "FU money" profit? A VC approach may make sense if that's your goal.

But if you're creating a REST API client, selling it B2B, why are you raising $250 million at a $5 billion valuation [1], when you can just start selling it through organic dev network effects and growth?

Context matters.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39702610
Saw the launch yesteday. Love all of the excitement in the space!

LaVague is all about generating selenium code to interact with a specific page, and do it step-by-step

Skyvern is all about taking a simple instruction and converting it to a series of LLM-driven actions. It's meant to be more autonomous ("tell Skyvern what to do")
Not sure how reddit exists without ads either though. Running huge websites with user video hosting is a non trivial expense that's hard to entice enough users to cough up money for to make viable.
Yes, but that wasn't available when they did this migration