skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your brain was first trained by reading all of the Internet?

Anyway, the question of whether computers can think is as interesting as the question whether submarines can swim.
> It wasn't the EU that was desperate for Ukraine to join, it was the US. We wanted to use them as a strategic tool against Russia, whereas them actually joining the EU would cause nothing but problems for the EU because it'd result in a mass flooding of labor, cheap grain, and so on.

The US has no interest in bolstering one of their main economic competitors with millions of skilled workers, don't be silly. European industries drool at the prospect of getting access to a skilled metal worker for a few hundred euros per month.

In this paragraph, you unintentionally reveal why Ukraine saw mass protests when Yanukovych sabotaged closer relations with the EU after last-minute Russian pressure. Ukraine is one of the poorest countries in Europe, but opening up to the EU for movement of goods and labor would've meant sharp and massive rise in the living standard of Ukrainians - as has happened everywhere else in Eastern Europe.

Poland is roughly the same size as Ukraine in terms of population. Poland requested EU membership in 1994 and started implementing reforms required for membership soon thereafter. It joined the EU as a full member in 2004. Here's what the process did to the GDP: https://i.imgur.com/008Ynan.png

Ukraine was on the verge of similar explosion of economic development. Imagine your wage rising five to ten times in mere ten years.

And naturally, that massive rise in living standard would've alienated Ukraine from Russia and greatly reduced Russian influence on Ukraine because they have nothing comparable to offer. In the worst case scenario for Russia, seeing the prosperity in Ukraine could've mobilized their population to demand change and topple Putin.

Plain human greed and desire for "more stuff" was one of the key drivers behind USSR's collapse too. When Gorbachev loosened censorship in the late 1980s, people learned how Europeans and Americans lived, and wanted the same things for themselves and their children: nice clothes, Sony stereos and German washing machines. A very simple, natural instinct.
My mouse climbed a wall and now it doesn't work right
agreed! it takes a certain kind of person to find that fun, but the people who enjoy it really enjoy it.
Security and safety are always important.
these days could we use cameras, and solve drag issues at the same time?
Same goes for coding. You can go into a problem super well prepared and think you know what you need to do but often only through a lot of repetitive work of experiments and trying multiple times do you gain the knowledge to actually solve the problem smartly.
If they really need it, they'll fork it.
Stripe also has apple pay these days I believe.
I’m sorry to hear that.

It does not make sense at all. Python cython is a complex ecosystem. It is very difficult for new engineers to pick up speed.

Do you think there is some priority change? Like more focus on internal use case, instead of upstream contribution?
Approximately 0% of people have property in a trust instead of in their own name.
Strange to say that AI is "changing everything" and then not link to a single news story about AI changing anything.

On a blog with no other posts? And no author name? Submitted by a HN user created seven days ago?
North Texas residents impacted by Bitcoin mining sounds [video]
Does a computer have eyes? What a 10 year old taught me about computers
I feel this in my bones. We drove people to vote, worked the rallies, gave every spare penny we could to the point that we met the spending cap of what we could give, and this state is either rigged, or populated with an incredibly slim majority of people whose values are so far from what I consider moral it turns my stomach to look at them and wonder are you someone that supports this madness when I go grocery shopping. Either way, it's time to leave, I can't raise a family in a state that doesn't value education, or peoples bodily autonomy.
Show HN: I made a dataset for finetuning embedding models
I made a STSB alternatives, but with dialog/assistant samples.

I couldn't find anything similar online (!), so I built it.

The reason I did it was because I needed a very small model that would work well with my React component, and none of the existing 17M models performed adequately.

The one I created with this dataset does.

Embedding models, like other types of models, can be task-specific, and I didn't have any officially recognized task for my needs.

The closest is the "sentence similarity" task, but one of the most recognized benchmark for it is STSB and I find STSB to be quite strange.

Here is a 5 out of 5 scored example from STSB: "A person cuts an onion." and "A person is cutting an onion."

Here is a 1 out of 5 scored example from STSB: "A man is playing the flute" and "A man is playing the guitar".

STSB isn't what I need for my "real world" task. What I need is a way to find best paragraphs that are answers for the question the user asks. This is why I made that dataset and this is why I fine-tuned an embedding model. It was a fun experience and the model works really well! :)
That's not entirely fair.

The problem is that Google forces actual good cooks to make their recipes look like worthless blogspam, but a good original recipe is not actually worthless blogspam, even when disguised in the way Google requires.
I've used asdf for years, but recently switched to https://github.com/jdx/mise
It's a drop-in replacement for asdf, but I prefer some of the nice features it has to offer.

See: https://mise.jdx.dev/dev-tools/comparison-to-asdf.html
Why pay more though? You can always work less.

My point being is that people want to be rich and loneliness takes a backseat. The least lonely people I know are all working class and near the poverty level. In contrast, most of the well off people I know are a lot more lonely.
I know this is a late reply to your post, but your wording prompted a question. I will preface by saying this is not some sort of semantic flamebait, it is also not supposed to be a gatekeeping exercise. You state your domain is systems programming, but then talk about the event loop and scheduler for your program as ancillary details and say that your concentration is on business logic. I tend to view systems programming as development of things that have no business logic, because that is the domain of application programming. Also, I tend to think that a defining feature of systems programming is development that can not just accept a default solution to something as impactful as an event loop/scheduler/executer, but have to focus deeply on those aspects of a program that are the crux of its actual computational operation and interactions between those parts.

In the context of games, the systems programming is the renderer, audio engine, physics calculations, and things like a task system and dispatcher/scheduler, etc. As compared to the actual application specifics of levels, art, dialogue, interactions, UI, etc which to me are not systems programming.

With that said, how do you define systems programming? I’m really interested in how various devs tend to view the ‘cut-off’ between systems and application development. Sometimes I’m pretty sure I am on the extreme end of disjointness of the two and non-accepting of any ‘business logic’ type development qualifying as systems programming.

TL;DR - What is your definition of systems programming and do you include things like ‘business logic’ within that definition?
I must say: things from H&M hm have regularly been holding up longer than other way more expensive brands. Sometimes they don’t really fit right anymore, but no holes or stitches that come loose.
One way to interpret parent kubielid - he is referring to the infinite rat race for diminishing marginal returns.

> all of human history worked

And you are also correct. They probably had a tough life and for those humans, the reward was survival and more. I can only imagine waking up on a cold morning, no running water, stepping out on the fields, using average manual tools. They probably stuck around in groups.
How can humanity burn less fossil fuels?

How can we spread democracy to include more people?
Related:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/04/24/1091118/climax-f...
Hard to kill that which was never alive.
Have you tried feeding the output into another prompt that says something like "remove any mentions of the facts being interesting"?
RepoQA for Evaluating Long-Context Code Understanding
That is almost completely orthogonal to loneliness wtf?
Yes, the disqualification says more about the awarding body than the entry.
I, along with every other person with serious weight issues, have spent the vast majority of my life being told my weight management problems are exclusively a personal failing, and I’ve been told that by the vast majority of people around me, from parents to teachers to doctors and multiple governments.

Yes, there needs to be more compassion for everyone, but don’t think for even a second this very minimal and nascent sympathy from society is at all widespread.
What happens if you just change the site back after it's approved?
On which literacy test? The PISA 2022 reading scores for the US (504), Canada (507), UK (494) and OECD average (476) are not that far apart, and unlike what you said, the UK and most of Europe score slightly lower than the US. https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/53f23881-en/index.html?i...
Yeah, and the writing of the post is very ChatGPT. Paragraph after paragraph of right-sounding words that offer absolutely zero insight once you get to the end.
I dont think that there was ever free standard of care medicine in the USA, as a matter of history. Today is the most progressive and subsidized the US medical system has ever been.

I do think that the US policy has pretty bogus incentive on both sides. If you think it is just the lobbying, I think you are fooling yourself. Most Americans hate the idea of a fully social system, and both parties reject common sense hybrid options like in the best European systems. They are too radical for the right, and not radical enough for the left. As a result, we get the worst of all worlds. We spend more public funds on healthcare than most european countries, but dont have universal coverage, and we pay extreme private costs on top of that.

There are lots of better options the US could pick, but wont .
You should reread the post. He is saying it is basically impossible for to help certain people without sedating them. That means they WILL die. Instead they could sedate a person and they MAY die.

Your policy would result in more deaths.
You can check Igalia and their videos on YouTube to see their structure for remote IT worker coop that is flat and has over 100 employees.
I hope this does get covered in the suits, but im sceptical.

The targeting stuff was all verbal communication from Apple sales reps, i dont have a link.
I recently started using https://github.com/prefix-dev/pixi for Python projects. I really love it so far, but this tool looks a bit more mature, which makes sense considering pixi is relatively new.
Every junior I introduce to ESPs is at first afraid of soldering, green PCBs, cables going wild... Then they copy a project they like from a blog, and feel very proud when it comes to life, even if it's a very slightly modified clon. In no time they are tinkering on their own.
Congratulations on the launch!
Will give this a try!

We were looking for a solution that would help our team test out the LLMs & prompts for repeatability and identifying edge cases.

The UI looks interesting, like a playground on top of the RAG framework, allowing the team to test out various prompts / configurations to handle edge cases, without requiring a lot of tech bandwidth!
Neat!

There's a slightly more optimal way to encode SVGs as data URI: https://yoksel.github.io/url-encoder/
PC games have as many if not more issues than web games even when running on only one platform (Windows). Every major PC release has tons of issues.
I actually agree with most of that. But you're missing some important timelines. The breakaway regions did not breakaway in May, they broke away immediately after the coup in March. And yes at that point Russia began plying them with support. The only thing that happened in May was the Donbas referendum. And that referendum was indeed most almost certainly illegitimate. Consequently, it was officially recognized by nobody - including Russia, who instead simply opined, somewhat tongue in cheek, that they "respect the will of the population of the regions." [1] Russia even tried to encourage the leaders of the breakaway regions to hold the referendum later (probably knowing they could not legitimately obtain the support required for action), but they chose to move ahead with a sham referendum anyhow.

But the point here is that the civil war began in March. Could Ukraine have snuffed out the rebellious regions without Russian interference? Most likely, but countries feeding arms and support to rebellions that they support is pretty run of the mill geopolitics stuff (and was also 100% expected by the US per the diplomatic cables). Similarly, it's highly unlikely that the Ukrainian coup would have succeeded without US backing and direct involvement. In the 8 years that followed (until the invasion) Russia repeatedly tried to organize some sort of a cease fire and mutually agreeable solution for the breakaway regions - basically letting them have some sort of special administrative status while remaining part of Ukraine. This resulted in the Minsk accords. Those accords were then repeatedly violated, with both sides blaming the other, until the situation reached a climax in 2022.

[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/13/world/europe/ukraine.html
Hey dvt, saw your producthunt & pitch, wow. Traffic to my site before this post was like 10-15 per day, after this post yesterdat 179, today 302 and still going.... total crossed 1.1k

Only 10 registered users so far. One new user from this post I guess.

Would like to talk to you about this. My twitter : https://twitter.com/gjpx_
The Bloat Busters: pg_repack vs. pg_squeeze
Back when people were making (((handles))) on Twitter, I wondered if they ever thought about the possibility of what might happen if a right wing global finance conspiracy theorist bought the db, but of course at the time I'd figured that was just paranoia talking.
PWA Game Gallery
Why are people constantly posting these "I asked an LLM" or "I summarised this with an LLM" posts?

No one needs this. These are all things people can do themselves.
Maybe, like Schrodinger’s cat, we can all just avoid looking at Google Quantum AI and it will stay in a superposition of dead and alive.
It's even worse than that. Are you a decent chef, bartender, or barista? Good luck starting something small. That'll be $10k/mth overhead. Hope the conservative bank approves you.
It may be a little exaggerated, but not by much.

> With little exception, there is a heck of a lot of construction in Canada. Canada has among the highest construction per capita in the world.

Construction of what and where and what does highest mean? If we're talking residential, we're mostly talking about McMansion style new suburbs where there wasn't anything to complain except nesting waterfowl. Vancouver is only barely an exception, and I'm sure others do exist, but it's hardly characteristic of the nation
It's interesting to think about what people are thinking about AI. Or whether people can think "properly" about AI. The other day, an architect friend of mine told me he's worried that there is an AI app one of his clients started to use. I work in the AI field and have been for a long time. So I always knew I was in a bubble of sort. But anecdotally, it feels general public is thinking about it a lot more than I expected and I wonder what people are actually thinking.
Virtualizing the 6502 with 6o6
Start by altering the orbit of a minor asteroid using a normal gravitational tug/gravity tractor.

Use that to work your way up to larger and larger asteroids, until you slam Ceres into the Moon.
it's an adverts company, when i looked in the past 80% of the revenue came from the ads unit
I'm always shocked more people don't vote by just leaving crappy states with crappy human rights records.
I believe aussies have a love (Murdoch, Packer*, etc.)/hate relationship with people (even true blue fair dinkum people) throwing their weight around.

* good on him for the Packer Whackers!
I don't think you're ever expected to hit all 6 keys at once?
> your "from" .. was somebody else's "to"

That's beautifully put. Every city I've lived in, there were stories of the good old days. "You should have seen this place ten years ago." As I grew older and lived in more places, I would hear stories about a city where I was "from". How it's changed now with all the new people moving in, how it used to be in the glory days. And I was there, living those glory days that they're reminiscing about, a place in the past that no longer exists.

As I'm getting ready to move from yet another city, I reflect on how it's changed. She's no longer the city I used to know - and I'm no longer the person I was when I moved here. It's time to go find my next "to". Others will move in and make where I'm "from" theirs.

I loved your story and the pictures. The rebirth was satisfying to see, how the merchants were able to find a new home for their village.
Instant thought: forte and fortissimo increase velocity or maybe specific chords.
What exactly is "stalling the market" and why is it a bad thing? The point of housing is to give people access to shelter in a reasonable location near to their family and work.
The new unneeded content doesn't make the site more appealing to advertise on, instead it exists purely to satisfy arbitrary standards set by Adsense. I feel you've missed the point of the article
I've always thought one day we will know autonomous driving systems are working pretty well when a vehicle any normal person can drive can complete a lap of the ring faster with no humans inside than with.
This idea could be applied to HN as well. A naive way to 'ask a question' to HN would be to chunk and embed every comment, and use RAG. But then you would miss out ok comments that have something interesting to say, but don't mention enough context, because the rely on the reader knowing what they're talking about due to the parent or GP comment.

Treating HN stories (or perhaps top-level comments) as graphs might work better than just RAG?
Boringly written ChatGPT article trying to convince me why ChatGPT will cause "wealth inequality [to] get far worse before it maybe ever gets any better". The irony is very funny to me.
If this was made with Unity it would load a lot slower and perform worse. Unity is not a good fit for web. Godot might be better, I'm not sure. PlayCanvas is an option.
and I keep wearing my clothes despite the many holes they have, as long as no private bits poke out. I got laughed at by a female friend for it, so I pointed out her jeans have holes as a design choice. She did acknowledge the irony in that.
yeah even most sega games did not use Windows CE. I think that the exception may have been Sega Rally's port on the Dreamcast
If anything, I became more lonely when I made enough money to not have to work. I stopped interacting with society as much because it was no longer a requirement.
full-timers or contacting?
is it really Python though ?
> what happens when the moon inexplicably explodes (spoiler alert, it's not pretty).

Ah. Section 31 at it again, I see.

#StarsDontSuddenlyGoNova

#MoonsDontJustExplode

#JusticeForPraxisAndRomulus
I guess folks are realizing that Austin actually is in Texas after all.
Yeah, negative paycut
All of those answers are talking about the energy required to stop the moon dead in it's tracks.

What if we just wanted to slow it down 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000001% ? (which will alter it's orbit).

That seems totally doable.
People who need to move to places and will want to buy a house regardless, not merely wait until the price drops further. Being priced out by your logic also "stalls the market" but no one ever complains about that at least from that sort of argument.
Sure, everything I said likely goes out the window if we're talking on-prem. No idea how I/O works in that setting, and in fact I am completely unfamiliar with workloads which saturate 800 GB/s network, especially since that approaches the limit of main memory bandwidth. Really appreciate your response! And you're definitely right in noting that the situation I'm talking about is when we're not thoroughly I/O bound.
Excellent interview with Bob on this book that's worth a listen: https://corecursive.com/032-bob-nystrom-on-building-an-inter...
> house prices usually only go up. At worse the price just plateaus

From the article:

> Home prices have dropped 18% from the pandemic highs seen in May 2022, the most among the 50 largest US metro areas

If I lived in Austin, I would wait another year before buying a house even if I wanted to buy one soon. To the parent's point - it might get even cheaper.

Watching the "value" of your home drop 18% is emotionally hard for people, even people who don't intend to sell. It's risky if you just bought the house because it could put your loan underwater.
The article is a joke. But your "Pay people more, work them less" comment is tipping off people. You must be on to something lol.

> strategies such as joining clubs or pursuing hobbies

I have to go online to find the clubs?

In America, there's consolidation everywhere in search of greater efficiency and profits. From local tennis clubs merging into city-wide organizations managed through an app to monopolies emerging in corporate landscape.
Now I understand why every time I look up a recipe now I have to scroll through a heart warming mini novel about the author's childhood dinners.
You underestimate how much credit I give to rubber ducks ;)
TC diffs of 230k vs 350k is what i've seen, for a mid-career SRE
I realize it's allegorical in nature, but one of the conclusions made in the article is

> Reaching the absolute information is individual and simply any human being is able to achieve that.

Is that a reasonable conclusion? I'm curious how this jives with the 'on the shoulders of giants' concept that we've built a lot of our modern knowledge on.
That should be treason.
Austin has been through this before. If you've been around for a while, you know about the building frame that used to sit downtown for years that was supposed to be occupied by Dell.

I think you're right, though, that there's been a tipping point. Austin used to be the "Slacker" city, where you could afford to live there while waiting tables and playing in your middling indie band. But the last few times I've been there since moving away, that roughness seems to have disappeared, with a certain branded sameness everywhere. The Alamo Drafthouse is great for the city when it's unique, but when every business is trying to artificially mimic that kind of ironic detachment, it gets boring.
The people that have the most need to leave are the ones with the least capacity to do so, the ones with the most capacity to leave are generally (not entirely, but broadly) those with the least to fear from the problems.
The C language requires paying a 216 CHF by anyone that actually wants to understand how the language works, and not how their compiler deals with the source.

Plenty of times they aren't the same.

https://www.iso.org/standard/74528.html
I did the same. mise is brilliant! For reference it was previously called rtx

The main differences are better UX with simpler commands and it not using shims, which means much better performance