skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still pay for Kagi for its search but this has kind of been the problem from the beginning with their org.

- Search has been a breath of fresh air, I wish they dedicated more time to it.

- Orion...is ok? I use it off and on and it is fine but would rather have better search. The premise of the browser is nice but it feels like this could probably be a whole separate company or a purely open source endeavor. It has always been kind of clunky and not something I want to pay for.

- AI tools, I get the multiple pivots and I do believe that more recent advancements in ML/AI will make search a better experience but I do wish they had a little more focus.

- The t-shirts are weird and made me lose a lot of faith in their org. The way I look at it is instead of making their products better, they flushed a bunch of money down the drain for t-shirts and its offensive to paying customers who are paying because they enjoy the product and want it to become better, they don't want a t-shirt.

- I don't care about email, I don't care about other tools, make a great search experience first. Release all of the AI enhancements that you think will make sense, focus, focus, focus.

Edit: As I was adding my comment this post flagged and marked dead. Sometimes HN is weird.
Hello everyone! We are a group of bored developers writing k-inv, a totally opensource chaos engineering tool for kubernetes. We would like to implement Ollama (https://ollama.com/) support to include some LLM side features. The project is 100% opensource. Find a demo here https://kubeinvaders.platformengineering.it/ and the source code here https://github.com/lucky-sideburn/kubeinvaders

Any contribution is welcome, even on the front-end side or for proposals for new features.

The technologies we used: OpenResty, Nginx, JS, Lua, Python.
Why can’t a university do that too?
Show HN: Blaze - Search >30k tech blogs, news and ArXiv
Hey HN! I've been developing blaze.email for a while, and would love any feedback. blaze is a search engine over content gathered from a long list of blog / news / arxiv RSS feeds. it uses embedding similarity for ranking, so it does have some rough edges(!)

I know there're quite a few sites out there like this, but I haven't found many that scratched my itch for finding interesting tech articles. noteable shoutout to kagi.com which I discovered recent which does a great job, and more besides.

The original idea with blaze was to provide a newsletter service that scours the last week's blogs for relevent niche content for different types of tech users. that's still the plan, and you can sign-up for newsletters on GenAI, machine learning & tech startups. There's more to come on that side of things, but I'm increasingly thinking that the search engine angle is at least as useful.

I'd love to hear any comments / criticisms, or general views on what (if anything) seems useful. Thanks :) Alastair
and it’s equally as possible insufferable directors make it worse far more often than they make it better.

there is no shortage of absolutely elite tier directors who exhibit exceptional abilities to work well with others.

in fact. on the spectrum where most coworkers “would _love_ to work with them again” to “nope, not a chance they were awful humans” i’d make a confident bet there are far more elite tier who lean towards the former.
Depending on the content that’s a terrible deal. Low ball is it takes an hour to produce a single minute of video. You’re being paid 3 bucks an hour. If it’s animation it could take a day to animate a single minute, in which case you’re being screwed even harder.

Suckers who don’t properly value their time is why BigCo generally wins.
Ask HN: Will Drawing Become a Mainstream Method in User Interfaces?
Recently I started experimenting with GPT4-Vision, and found that often drawing my thoughts is easier than describing them using text. For example, I often need to do ad-hoc visualizations of data. Instead of describing what kind of diagram I want, I can just sketch it. And this works really well in many cases. The main reason I don't use drawing more often, is because it is sometimes clumsy without a digital pen or large touchscreen. But still I wonder whether we will be using sketches much more in future as part of our interfaces? How would input devices and applications look like that support this way of working? Do you think sketching in interfaces might be a thing in future or is this just some niche topic that will not have broad adoption?
> However, how do I get better feedback than "everything you do and feel is ok as long as it's not criminal," and "improve your diet, sleep, exercise and consult with a professional" for everything else?

Knowing and trusting people who care about you.
Building a support system.
Asking them.
Going to a support group (online or not)

Not by detaching yourself from reality and asking self help questions to a statistical number generator probably made by some of the largest tech companies around. (With a consistent track record of causing and profiting off mental health problems and addictive dark UX patterns)
It depends on where you are. In many places worldwide, extreme cold is also generally quite clear from clouds unless you're literally in a storm, in which case, the high winds are just as likely to cause problems. Rooftop solar should be more than enough to offset your own usage.
The border check is different from the airline check. Border checks are imposed by the states. Gate checks are imposed by airlines also to prevent for examples people buying tickets in advance and reselling them at higher prices to other persons (airlines prefer to do that themselves).
Heh, brought back memories of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Desktop
AI editing tools are coming to all Google Photos users
(1) I helped somebody start a hobby shop years ago, he was having trouble getting the bank loans to start it and I asked him if he’d consider raising equity, the next day he asked if I was serious, I told him I would put something in if he found some other investors and that was what happened.

He was successful about building a community around the store but not successful at the paperwork so it turned out we had not paid the sales tax for a few years which led the state to put up signs in front of the store, thankfully he was able to scrape up the money. Boy it was a near death experience.

(2) If you are working on search in 2024 and you are serious you’re going to be using A.I.
Google Chrome

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It seems that if the numbers are put in ascending order as min-max, then there would have to be at least two gaps in the sequence to make meaningful progress?
Well thats when it actually got done. But in most cases it remains incomplete.
Not sure if including or excluding 4chan in the training set moves the needle in LLM quality. Reddit for sure but 4chan is questionable
I applaud their approach, since it's obviously in line with traditional concepts such as fucking paying someone for their time and work.
That's totally reasonable, though I assume that means you also accept, and don't complain about, environmental damage, global warming, or any of the health conditions related to environmental contaminants from plastics and their manufacturing.

I'd also assume that you don't see EVs as a practical solution, or any non-petroleum engine, since plastics can't be made without oil and it'd be crazy to drill enough oil to keep our post-industrial lives without using the refined gas and diesel that we'd be creating anyway.
I wonder if the t-shirts were basically a way to siphon some investor money directly into their own pockets. Or if someone just thought they can do it cheaper and then ran into sunk cost fallacy.
it's funny actually, i've been binging their videos the past few weeks, since i'm looking into buying a home in need of renovation, and was happy to see their logos as part of one of the default columns.

they claim also to be mainly motivated by the climate crisis and are even, now, developing an open source water heater, which... you don't often hear about in industries such as home appliances or heating:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFBbArwAXS8

i'd love to install an air-to-water heatpump myself, but i'm untrained and i guess i'm feeling a bit of the dunning–kruger effect while learning from the heat geek videos.
pizza pasta nation
"Unnecessary" was the word in the blog post. That word implies it can be just straight up fixed.
USB-C explained: How to get the most from it (and why it keeps getting better)
Kickbacks, my guy!
This is both funny and scary. A quick look through some of them reveals (no links on purpose):

- Some UI in Swedish to control the heating system (+warm water) of two houses
- A host where the username and password are written in clear text with a gentle message of "use sudo to gain root access"
- somebody's browser logged onto something that looks like a crypto mining sys.
- an homeassistant prompt, ready for control..

As usual the IoT dominates and many open systems seem to be related to some visualisation or control.
So basically you have no experience what it's like to be answering questions? Most answers come from a fairly dedicated group of people who check the site most days, not from the occasional strays.

I'm not saying that people answering questions are always right or always have the final say, but it's easy to have strong opinions on what's "better for the community" if you're not the one doing the legwork or have to deal with the fallout from that.

I certainly would never be saying that sort of stuff unless I had put in the work. My balls just aren't big enough I guess.
I’ve noticed a fair few comments here and elsewhere starting with “In Europe…” and then extrapolating from the commenter’s experience living in a single EU country.

Maybe that’s a testament to how successful harmonisation of national rules has been across the EU. But it doesn’t seem to apply to ID checks.
Even without seeing Vlads comments it was already disheartening to see them investing in AI features of questionable utility rather than focusing on the core search product. Trying to make a new search engine is already a difficult enough task without spreading themselves even thinner, and diluting the value of the subscription for those who just want search because they only offer unlimited searches in conjunction with unlimited access to the AI tools.
> I don’t actually consider the Python ecosystem and its tooling to be "hot garbage".

And in the same breath proceeds to describe Python ecosystem as hot garbage, no quotation marks needed.

Comeon, why do all these mental gymnastics trying to convince yourself your tools don't suck, when you already have all the evidence that they do?

As for Rye itself: yeah, no. pyproject.toml was supposed to do that... Of course it didn't work. And so did plenty of other "solutions" (Pipenv? Poetry?) that try to work around the defective basic components instead of building from scratch.

To fix this problem for real, the first stage needs to be the one where the people working on the fix understand the problem. As long as these people aren't willing to be honest with themselves and won't admit how bad their work has been so far, it's not going to get better. It will be more of the same band-aid.
Did they say they’re buying only high quality videos? What if it’s just a video of me talking through my coding sessions? It would be rather low effort and sounds like “free money” to me
OpenStack improves support for AI workloads
No cosmic rays ;)
Regardless, not every blue check was acquired through fraud.
Honestly, the Linux foundation donations and red hat gave you Linux as it is today.

The usable, rock solid, trustworthy OS is not the initial version that Linus released.
Your 2019 MBP is running Intel chips, not at all comparable to the 2020-onwards M processors. I also had a 2019 MBP kitted out as a work computer before and it barely lasted 3h on a normal workday (meetings, compiling code, running Docker, many, many tabs open on browsers, etc.); my work M1 Max lasts anywhere between 8-12h on a heavier workload than what I worked with in 2019 including all I mentioned in the parenthesis.

So yes, software is the culprit but the M-series are much better at managing the same software (and even heavier ones) that I run, for the same job.
UK laser weapon could be sent to Ukraine war zone
I demand adobe buy ALL copyrighted material at $3/minute.

Disney, WB,etc etc

That'll show them
There are a fair few nix based dev environment systems (devenv, devshell, devbox) and I've tried out a few, but devenv is the one I've stuck with. I don't typically have complicated dev environments, I just use it for installing packages and adding convenience scripts which will automatically be activated and deactivated with direnv.
This is why open models trained with disregard for IP are important.

It’s going to happen anyway, the tech can either be free to everyone so we all benefit or behind a paywall. Those are your two options there isn’t a 3rd if we’re talking reality not fantasy.
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And finally, after some more tests it turned out that some videos have almost 2x bigger .webm variants than .mp4 so I had to extend my yt-dlp config like so (only showing the prioritization options here, my previous full config is still there upthread):

--format 'vcodec=av01/bestvideo*+bestaudio/best'
--format-sort 'quality,res,fps,hdr:12,vcodec:av01,channels,acodec,abr,asr,proto,ext,hasaud,source,id'
--prefer-free-formats

This:

1. Prioritizes AV1 (because it's gaining more and more hardware support, is very efficient and is not license-encumbered)

2. Prefers the free formats

3. ...but still uses a non-free format if it's smaller.

Or at least that's what I believed in after testing on 7 videos that have obvious winners either way.
> than having a heavier heatpump for the rest of the year that can not modulate back as much as a smaller heatpump.

Aren't basically all modern heatpump variable speed, and thus can modulate back?

That said, I totally agree with your overall point about right-sizing your heat pump, but it is more about saving money on the unit rather than worrying about cycle times.
VPN by Google One is shutting down
Why I’m not surprised?
doh! thanks, I'd meant to do that, I have changed in the title
No, not at all. In a Towers of Hanoi model, this is a completely trivial game.

You'd reverse [7, 5, 3] by picking four discs off the first peg and putting them back down on the third peg.

The rules here only allow you to move stuff a single peg away from its origin.
That's a lot of lines going to the outdoor unit.

Is there two per indoor head?
Exactly what I was thinking. I guess sometimes you have to prove something at wide range tower level before you ask to put blinky boxes in every ceiling throughout a whole country.
as a technical feat this is really cool! though as others mention i hope you don't get into too much hot water legally

seems anything that remotely lets "consumer" cards canibalize anything with the higher end H/A-series cards Nvidia would not be fond of and they've the laywers to throw at such a thing
To me the Orion endeavor was much more concerning. I don't understand how you can sustain a company of a handful of people and work on search, ai, ai+search, orion and making tshirts.
Thanks! I just set up my RSS feed here: https://matheusportela.com/atom.xml

Let me know if it doesn't work for you!
The Artists it was trained on already signed rights away to Adobe when they put their work for sale on Adobe Stock so they’ll get what they’re given really.
Yes and some airport/approaches have a high enough risk that there is a warning. Düsseldorf for example has a box with something like "Don't confuse Essen airport X miles north-east when approaching runway 23" drawn on their approach as a caution. Because you're flying right over the top of that other airport, with the same runway direction.
Aaand, trying to delete your account you get:

Error: Server Error
The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request.

Please try again in 30 seconds.
The demand comes at the coldest part of the day, which is typically overnight, which is far off peek demand times.
It's called enclosing the commons and the answer is a resounding "yes!"
JWST finds no r-process signature at brightest ever gamma ray burst source
Would it though? If they train your video, produced future videos based off that video, charged for the next.

That then takes away your next video. So you got paid a low ball amount only to be ripped off.
Maybe it's because it is a [Hutch]ison product...
"Who the fuck put this fence here?"
What does P2P mean in this context? I Googled it and it sounds like it means "peer to peer", but what does that mean in the context of a graphics card?
That is fair. But I was talking in general, mostly about material that was not sold on Adobe Stock...
Have you tried to sell in China, to Chinese consumers as a foreign business?

"China’s hypocrisy on trade" - https://www.ft.com/content/7aa2928c-6bf7-47be-85f1-34c1b8e94...
We're talking about adultery here; unless there's an adultery bar where married people can hook up, there's nothing analagous to gay bars.

> People are free to believe that gay bars, adultery, eating pork, etc. are immoral behavior. But there’s no justification for criminalization.

Once again, I point out that the consequences of adultery are objective harm on children. That was my entire point - that adultery is not a victimless crime.

Now look, I'm not making a judgement call on whether infidelity is immoral or not, I'm just pointing out that it frequently does result in measurable harm to any children involved.

In fact, in my first post I literally said that if there's no children, then I don't see a problem. You are presenting exceedingly unlikely scenarios[1] in support of ... what, exactly?

That any children involved aren't harmed by adultery?

After all, whether it is moral or not is irrelevant to the argument, so I see no point in discussing that aspect.

[1] For example, an adulter being punished by law while simultaneously managing to keep their family in the dark. Granted, it can happen, but that's really not likely at all.
Is there going to be a new term called "Data Laundering"?

You create the synthetic data, move it through 10s of entities and then buy it back cheaply from an entity.
To bring this discussion back to earth, the Go code in question is: https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/easyproto/blob/master/rea...

I don't see why did you label Aliaksandr Valialkin, the author, an "expert". I mean, he's no dummy but what exactly makes him an expert on optimizing Go code?

As someone who also writes Go, I don't see any "hyper optimizations" in the code. It just decodes the bytes of Protocol Buffer using straightforward code that I would expect a competent developer to write.

It really is just: read bytes from memory ([]byte) and interpret them according to PB spec.

There's only one trick there: unsafeBytesToString() that does no-allocation conversion of []byte to string. This is unsafe in general but safe in their specific case. And I've seen this trick before so it's not some secret, expert-only knowledge.

Most comments here are like bad LLMs: hallucinating opinions without bothering to spent even few minutes acquiring the data to base those opinions on.
Serious question… is the stock market collusion? Sellers looking at each others work, agreeing on a price?

There’s a very healthy, active and open market for apartment rents in most cities. If you are posting from somewhere with heavy rent controls, government market manipulation, or extreme demand, blame those instead! it’s still a market.

I’m not excusing bad actors, but real page is not a scapegoat
Review of 'Is College Worth It?'
I've been using devenv + flake parts and so far it's done it's job perfectly. I build a rust and a node application in the ci. Both local and ci build every time. It will only fail from time to time when i make an update, otherwise no errors at all
Rust-protobuf is much slower than quick-protobuf or prost.
I don't think this conclusion follows. It is true that variability is a challenge for grids, but it is not clear that it is better to trade more total energy usage (per useful unit of work) for less variability. Variability is certainly a challenge, but not an insurmountable one, and also one that must be faced regardless nearly everywhere, as solar power has become too cost-effective to be ignored.
IANAL, but even UUIDs and hashes of user names can fall under the EU, when there is a future possibility of linking it to a user (e.g. through behavior). See e.g. https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/86570/in-gdpr-terms-...

To determine whether a natural person is identifiable, account should be taken of all the means reasonably likely to be used, such as singling out, either by the controller or by another person to identify the natural person directly or indirectly.

https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-26/
It’s not called fraud and abuse because “immigrants are taking our jobs”. It’s called fraud and abuse because it’s fraud and abuse. It’s been prevalent in the H1B process for years.

Personally, I’m all for America bringing in talented foreign nationals. But the H1B process is bad for foreigners looking to work in the US who get way underpaid and don’t have easy options to work at a different firm. And bad for American workers who have to compete against underpaid wages.

Given that the point of the program is to bring in talent unavailable, it’s become a farce. I think companies hiring H1B’s at below market wages probably think they’re getting a bargain. But I doubt that most of them - maybe other than FAANG - are getting good talent at lowball wages.

It’s a bad program all around.
Well I'm definitely not advocating for a totalitarian state, I was specifically talking about consumer markets driving change if we collectively care enough.

I'm advocating for the fact that consumers could make many of the changes we often hear about happen if we actually cared. We have a habit if many people, even majorities of people, yelling about problems like climate change, deforestation, chemical contamination, etc. But we all still choose to use products that contribute to those exact problems.

We have no idea what the exact outcomes would be if, for example, consumers stopped buying any products that use PFAS and forced the industry to go away. There would certainly be ripple effects, but I'd argue that those effects will always be better handled when consumers decide to enact change rather than waiting for governments to force it on us all at once or for the environmental damages cause to grow so large that we run into real, devastating outcomes.

If we know we're supporting products and companies that are making things worse, we're choosing to kick the can down the road and hope its long enough that its the next person's problem when the pile of damage has gotten too big.
Asbestos is super inert, which made it a very nice material for many applications. However, mechanical interactions of small particles with cellular matter can still cause health issues if I understand correctly. And this is, what the whole fuzz of micro plastics is about, not? Even without biological/chemical reaction, if particle size is small enough, ...
It's important to note that it's not a crystal of free electrons in vacuum.

They are electrons traped inside graphene (or two slides of graphene?) So they "atract" each other when they are far away, but repel when they are too close, so you get a nice crystal made "only" of electrons (if you ignore the sorrounding graphene).
Sounds like Vlad did a pretty sane, human thing reaching out and offering to discuss.

The authors replies seem pretty rude (or at least somewhat aggressive / dismissive). Kagi is Vlads baby and I could imagine he would care and try to explain when he thinks someone has the wrong idea. However to the author - it’s just another service he doesn’t use anymore.