skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure why you got downvoted :-/.

I am always surprised by how people tend to completely ignore the scale of the universe. People get excited by claims to "go back to the Moon, then Mars, then who knows?", but the truth is that given our current understanding of the world, sending humans on another solar system is theoretically impossible. Just look at those distances: we just can't, period.

Of course, we may discover new fundamental physics that would change that. But that's a fundamental problem, not an engineering problem. Instead of wasting money and energy on the engineering required to send humans to Mars (which is an artistic performance at this point), we should pay fundamental physicists to attempt to revolutionize our understanding of the world (wishing them luck) and spend those resources into something that is actually important for life: preserving life on Earth.

Right now we as a civilization are failing to survive on Earth. It seems reasonable to consider that other civilizations may have the same problems.
I hear that all the time, but I don’t see how it’s true. Have you priced RDS vs. an EC2? It isn’t even close. You’re paying for the convenience. Not to mention the massive speed loss you take with the increased latency of EBS.
Hello to all.
I am the author, and I just saw this post and am happy to see this exciting discussion.
Let me try to show my respect for it and answer as well as possible.
If they’re selling to enterprise decision makers, aren’t they also B2B? In which case they have the same deficiency they started OpenAI has.
This was a very important missing piece for mixed/augmented and virtual reality.

The semantic understanding of the objects around you (without upload to a server).

A detailed set of actual meshes of the objects in your living and working spaces.

So much can be built on this key building block, to actually help people with their daily lives, low vision people are only one group that will see massive benefits.

I also think this technique could and should be extended generally into computer vision applications, understanding semantic meaning, volumes and masses via the often highly structured environments around us.

Starting from a principled position of meaning, volumes and meshes and then training to assign gaussian splats to those meshes seems like something clever people could solve a lot of problems with.
Three Body Problem is a lot of fun, but if you are that concerned by it you should seek out the broader Fermi Paradox dialogue which does not favor this solution, and not just because it's unwanted. Isaac Arthur's Fermi Paradox Compendium on youtube is probably a good place to start and I'm pretty sure his Dark Forest video covers the major points. In any case, I have them here too:

If the universe is teeming with alien life, why isn't it here? It looks like it will take millions of years to colonize the galaxy but the likely variation in emergence/evolutionary timelines is some decent fraction of billions of years (considerably more than 4 billion years, the starting gun is metallicity not the formation of Earth). In particular, if there is highly capable space-faring life at Alpha Centauri, why haven't they probed their neighboring star system in a billion years even though it was completely trivial to do so relative to subsequently displayed technological feats?

Also: it's really hard to configure the rules of a Dark Forest so that the optimal strategy is "hide" rather than "grow, grow, grow -- and hope you grow fast enough by the time it matters," and it's spectacularly hard to make that so universal across all aliens that none of them "wins" and colonizes the galaxy per the previous paragraph.

Finally, Cixin Liu had to break the speed of light to make his story work (and then carefully avoid the implications to #1 and #2 above, which both get worse if c is no longer a constraint). I am all for doing what it takes to tell the story, and even more delighted by his deeper exploration of this concept further down the line, but one must remember to adjust the likelihoods of it all according to the likelihood of the premise, which seems quite low according to our present understanding.
What number do you consider "not small", and do to promise to reconsider your priors when it's reached?

The doom slinging on this issue really is getting ridiculous. People picked their rhetoric based on an assumption of 8-9% a year ago (for baldly partisan reasons) and are refusing to reconsider when it turned out the doom didn't arrive.
> Both Unreal and Unity make heavy use of per-instance per-frame virtual functions. It's a paradigm that has clear value.

It's a paradigm that had (debatable) value in the late 1990's and early 2000's when Unreal Engine and Unity had been designed and OOP was all the rage ;)

In the meantime we realized that not everything should in fact be an (OOP) object and runtime polymorphism is usually not needed to build games, even if the whole "animal => mammal => dog" classification thing at first sounds like it would be a good match to model game objects.

With runtime polymorphism it's like with memory management. If memory management shows up in profiling at all, it's better to drastically reduce the frequency of allocations instead of looking for a faster general purpose allocator (and if it doesn't show up in profiling as it should be, integrating a faster allocator doesn't make much sense either because it won't make a difference).

Of course stuff like this is not easy to do late into a project because it would involve a complete redesign of the architecture and rewriting all code from scratch - and that's why dropping in a faster allocator sometimes makes sense as a compromise, but it's not a fix for the underlying problem, just a crutch).

Also, the more important problem with indirect function calls than the call overhead is usually that they present a hard optimization barrier for the compiler.
I'm pretty sure it's satire.
That would be an insane feat of engineering and probably unnecessary. Hope they don’t do that
> Redis is the original project and it continues

For many people, Redis is an open-source in-memory data store. Redict is closer both in spirit and in legal usability to the Redis people have been using for many years compared to whatever got the Redis trademark now.

If I do an `apt-get upgrade`, I don't expect to schedule calls with lawyers. I imagine most repos will switch to either this one or some other "renamed" projects, with the package name "redis" pointing to one of those.
HDR as in high dynamic range? That usually is talking about more bit depth in video. What are you talking about here?
I've been reading it over the past few days (picked it up after seeing it mentioned here). It's fantastic, much better than many similar attempts to make quantum field theory comprehensible to mathematicians.
Agreed, I wish that SQL was more concise and organized more left-to-right, like shell pipelines or the F# pipe operator. But what are the alternatives? The only one I know is PRQL, and that doesn't seem to be getting popular (correct me if I'm wrong).
I'm on the more pessimistic side of this argument. Lots of very smart people have thought about this, and really the only element that is able to form complex molecules besides carbon is silicon, and there are good arguments as to why it's a much worse basis for life. And if you have carbon-based life forms, you will have water and CO2.

In any case, it is just way more likely than any other form and makes absolutely the most sense to look for this first.

Sure, you can always say that we don't know what we don't know, but the periodic table of elements is finite and complete, and we are pretty sure that chemistry doesn't change across the universe. I realize I'm fighting an uphill battle in my position, because it's hard to prove the non-existence of things, so you will always be able to say "whatever, maybe you didn't think of everything", and it's true, but I have a hard time seeing how life can be anything but carbon-based. If you have more insight besides what resembles a god of the gaps, I'd be very interested.
The Stock Market is not the Economy (2022)
Would you consider it “pure Python” if it targeted a WASM runtime for the browser side component?
This is a nit pick and doesn't change your argument, but Alpha Centauri would not have been our neighboring star system for a billion years. Stars move relative to each other in our stellar neighborhood at about 30 km/s, or one light year every 10,000 years.
> Open Source is about user ownership of software. If we try to get around that with legal trickery to make a buck,

See: Enshittification. Totally agreeing with you, but this feels like just another data point to Cory's thesis.
There's an option to use Invidious as a proxy, though I don't know if public instances offer this (and you probably need an invidious account).
It is. S3 supports fetching arbitrary byte ranges from files.
Larry Summers and others say inflation isn't being calculated correctly:

Unemployment is low and inflation is falling, but consumer sentiment remains depressed. This has confounded economists, who historically rely on these two variables to gauge how consumers feel about the economy. We propose that borrowing costs, which have grown at rates they had not reached in decades, do much to explain this gap. The cost of money is not currently included in traditional price indexes, indicating a disconnect between the measures favored by economists and the effective costs borne by consumers. We show that the lows in US consumer sentiment that cannot be explained by unemployment and official inflation are strongly correlated with borrowing costs and consumer credit supply. Concerns over borrowing costs, which have historically tracked the cost of money, are at their highest levels since the Volcker-era. We then develop alternative measures of inflation that include borrowing costs and can account for almost three quarters of the gap in US consumer sentiment in 2023. Global evidence shows that consumer sentiment gaps across countries are also strongly correlated with changes in interest rates. Proposed U.S.-specific factors do not find much supportive evidence abroad.

https://www.nber.org/papers/w32163
Prions are concerning. We know very little about them and have no cures. There are forms for common animals that we eat, like cows. Our processing of these animals leads to 100s or 1000s of unique DNA being identified in a single package of ground beef. They do not test for BSE unless the cows are symptomatic, but it's unlikely they would be symptomatic when they have a typical market time of only 18 months. BSE is thought to be a potential cause of CFJ in humans.

In my opinion, our industrialization of the food supply will lead to mass prion distribution/infection at some point.
Nice ChatGPT
Isn't Cook going to make something like ~$65m this year? That's half of the Reddits CEO. And Tim Apple (kidding) is a logistics expert who has done an excellent job stewarding Apple. He's fairly impressive. I think Nadella's comp is similar.

Look, it's not my job on this planet to decide what people should make. But I do think the vast majority of CEO's lack vision, true leadership skills, etc. We can point to a few exceptions at the largest companies, but there are millions of CEOs.

Hell, Musk proves the point for us, supposedly CEO is is the hardest, most challenging and unforgiving job there is, yet somehow that clown is CEO/president/chief architect of 5 or 6 companies (and he spends more time on social media in a day than I do in a month, and I'm only running one very very small firm).
Some years back I spent a weekend and built a "good enough to prove to myself" version of this in Haskell that implemented the main relational operations of projection, selection and cartesian product.

The basic idea was based on the "stream fusion" papers. So the relation was a stream in the stream fusion sense so it was pretty trivial to implement the normal relational operators in that paradigm. Changing this type of system to work on "events" as input would be pretty trivial.

The one thing I never managed to get to work was the actual "fusion" compiler hint. I kept trying variants of what he did in the paper but ghc just refused to optimise my stream/unsteam unstream/stream pairs away because it had already done some rewriting to them. I couldn't figure out how to apply the optimisation early enough to be effective.

[1] Which are a fantastic read if you're into CS whatever you think of my idea https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/cs257/archive/duncan-coutts/str... and https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220802863_Rewriting...
Only money spent that turns into an asset is investment. I’m not sure how it is in US, but in Germany, for example, not even registering a patent is an investment and does not imply the creation of an asset — only buying the patent creates the asset.
Wonder if that can be avoided by modifying the training approach. Ideas offhand: group by topic, train a subset of weights per node; figure out which layers have the most divergence and reduce lr on those only.
> We have a few hundred million years to figure out how to colonize other planets or live in space before Earth becomes radically different and potentially unlivable.

Hmm... at the rate we are going, big parts of the Earth (a big slice around the Equator) may well become unlivable for human beings in a couple of decades.

I get the idea that it won't mean that the Earth will be unlivable for all organisms, but from what we know, a sufficiently advanced civilization only needs a couple hundred years to destroy itself.
What’s really so bad in the news?
- As far as I know, squashfs is a file system and not an archive format; the "FS" in the name shows the focus.

- It is read-only; Pack is not. Update and delete are not just public yet, as I wanted people to get the taste first.

- It is clearly focused on archiving, rather than Pack wanting to be a container option for people who want to pack some files/data and store or send them with no privacy dangers.

- Pack is designed to be user-friendly for most people; CLI is very simple to work with, and future OS integration will make working with it like a breeze. It is far different from a good file system focused on Linux.

- I did not compare to squashfs, but I will be happy to see any results from interested people.

My bet is on Pack, obviously, to be much faster.
It’s not theoretically impossible, it’s just really hard. If we go fast enough, we can even do it within the current lifespan of a human (from the perspective of that human).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Roundtriptimes.png
It’s fairly simple. In 2020 countries across the globe shutdown, and to keep economies “safe” governments printed money and handed it out more or less to people who were in economic danger - waitresses who could not work, though furlough schemes and the like.

USA printed basically 10 trillion (yes with a T). UK about 1 trillion. Germany, France, Spain, South Africa Japan and so on. Maybe 25 trillion? No one seems to have counted.

Under MMT (modern monetary theory) this is fine as long as government takes away the printed token (money) later on in form of tax

But they have not. The money has flowed from waitresses to landlords, to supermarket owners and their landlords and to share owners of supermarkets - basically it went from the poor to the middle class and then to the ultra wealthy.

The ultra wealthy now have an extra 25 trillion dollars. So they “invest”.

Real estate goes to stupid prices (see cost of a 4 bed house in London).

Stock market hits new highs.

But the rest of us have sold our nice middle class homes in suburbs for stupid amounts and moved … somewhere with less amenities.

Or are renting in cities at high rates and food prices going sky high.

The simplest answer is governments only did half the job - the next job is a uber wealth tax - holding of over say 20 million, 30 million, just get taxed, forcing sale of assets and return of assets to the flowing economy and then governments can afford things like welfare and investment again.

We should stop privileging the privileged.
Sorry for the long post, but I've got to vent about something...
Near my office, it's almost impossible to pay with a card for food within a 1km radius. It's either cash or nothing, even though there's no shortage of places to eat.
And when you do find a shop that accepts cards, they often want you to spend at least 5 to 10 euros. So, forget about using your card for just a waffle. Speaking of, I found out my favorite waffle spot operates on such tight margins (buy for .3, sell for .35 euros) that card fees would actually cause them to lose money.

Don't get me started on the times I've tried to pay by card and it just doesn't work, forcing me to always have cash on me if I don't want to skip lunch.
Banks aren't much help either, with their daily withdrawal limits that make it a chore to access your own money in full.
Here's what I think could help:

1. Make it mandatory for all transactions to accept card payments, no matter how small. If a card gets declined for no good reason, that meal or service should be free.

2. Banks should give 24/7 access to our money. Fail to provide that, and they should owe us big time, like 1 million euros big.

3. If authorities mistakenly place a distress or freeze on your assets without just cause, the compensation should be tenfold the standard rate—meaning 10 million euros. This ensures accountability and fairness in financial dealings.

3a. Any compensation due for mistakes, such as wrongful distress on assets, should be personally paid by the government employee responsible for the error, not sourced from government funds. This would promote diligence and personal accountability in official actions.

Maybe it sounds extreme, but something's got to give for a cashless society to work here.
>See also: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/T10Y2Y/ The grey areas are recessions

This chart shows (part of) the yield curve, not the Fed funds rate.

Did you mean to show this?

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS
I also doubt that Walter Mondale's grandchildren wrote the article.

Might you have evidence to the contrary?
Quickwit co-founder here...
I actually agree. For a few GBs, done right, columnar works fine AND is cost efficient.

After all, it does not matter much if a log search query answers in 300ms or 1s.
However, there are use cases where a few GB just does not cut it.

The tale saying that you can always prune your dataset using timestamp and tags is simply not always valid.
Consider that you also pay for Medicare and Medicaid, which combined costs as much per capita (not per user) as the UK NHS. US healthcare is extraordinarily expensive.
> some ancient strip cartoon

That would be The Wizard of Id

https://chicagoreader.com/blogs/johnny-hart/
One theory: "It’s Not the Economy. It’s the Pandemic."

> America is in a funk, and no one seems to know why. Unemployment rates are lower than they’ve been in half a century and the stock market is sky-high, but poll after poll shows that voters are disgruntled. President Joe Biden’s approval rating has been hovering in the high 30s. Americans’ satisfaction with their personal lives—a measure that usually dips in times of economic uncertainty—is at a near-record low, according to Gallup polling. And nearly half of Americans surveyed in January said they were worse off than three years prior.

> Experts have struggled to find a convincing explanation for this era of bad feelings. Maybe it’s the spate of inflation over the past couple of years, the immigration crisis at the border, or the brutal wars in Ukraine and Gaza. But even the people who claim to make sense of the political world acknowledge that these rational factors can’t fully account for America’s national malaise. We believe that’s because they’re overlooking a crucial factor.

> Four years ago, the country was brought to its knees by a world-historic disaster. COVID-19 hospitalized nearly 7 million Americans and killed more than a million; it’s still killing hundreds each week. It shut down schools and forced people into social isolation. Almost overnight, most of the country was thrown into a state of high anxiety—then, soon enough, grief and mourning. But the country has not come together to sufficiently acknowledge the tragedy it endured. As clinical psychiatrists, we see the effects of such emotional turmoil every day, and we know that when it’s not properly processed, it can result in a general sense of unhappiness and anger—exactly the negative emotional state that might lead a nation to misperceive its fortunes.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/03/covid-gri...
How Grain de Sail Chocolate Is Funding Sustainable Maritime Logistics
The Myth of the Sheltered Mind
You mean a civilization that can produce machines able to survive indefinitely in isolation, but that isn't capable of surviving itself?

Doesn't sound particularly obvious to me...
I was curious so I checked. According to MDN:

> Permitted parents: Any element that accepts flow content. Note that a <header> element must not be a descendant of an <address>, <footer> or another <header> element

I think you can use a header more or less anywhere, and it is a header for content contained by its parent.
Even if you haven’t implemented all of Matlab’s functionality and helper functions, it would really promote the broader use of Scilab if you would have more clear documentation on how to perform in Scilab the most popular Matlab tasks, using the functionality already available in Scilab.

In other words, it’s straight forward to do many Signal Processing tasks in Matlab, but it was really difficult (or almost impossible) how to figure out how to perform those same tasks in Scilab.

Suggestion: take popular course book(s) of Signal Processing with Matlab and reimplement all the solutions in Scilab.
Sidebar on Meta-Knowledge
"at a loss" can be very different depending on :
- is it pure marginal cost ?
- do you include a part of R&D cost ?
- do you factor large capex (factory, stamping press, and silicon fab in related industries )
- how do you compute depreciation ?

When you see the gap between accounting in the West and "accounting" in China, "at a loss" has no meaning at all.
How much do servers cost nowadays? According to the article, the cost would be $61,500 USD per server for specifications including 2TB RAM, 100Gbps, 16x 15TB drives, and 64 core CPU (assuming "We use high core-count CPUs").

Is this accurate? Could you provide me with a tip on how to acquire a server with those specifications for $60,000 USD?
But you're not poor. Wages have risen rapidly for low- and middle- earners. In the United States, unemployment is at or near all-time lows.
Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant
Whitfield Diffie, 2015 ACM Turing Award Recipient (2019) [video]
It's a well known phenomenon at this point that social media exacerbates scepticism and pessimism. Which makes sense - busy people with a lot going on spend less time online than loners and depressed people. So using the Internet to gauge the economy or public sentiment is going to be increasingly disjointed.

Thing are slowing down but the economy is still flush with cash: starting wages are at an all time high, median household income is increasing the fastest it has in 80 years even adjusting for inflation, consumer spending is breaking records.

There are obviously people being left out of this but beware that you are not in a pessimistic information bubble.
But it's not just the stock market: wages are rising (especially for low and middle income earners), in the USA unemployment is at or near historic lows.
Yeah that make sense, but still very much earthlike biology perspective. I mean almost everyone here also believes in digital intelligence at some point.

Are there elements that are more stable under high pressure or heat? Or opposite?