skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like your claim is begging the question.

It's certainly not true in principle that most problems in P have a small exponent. There is no shortage of graph related algorithms in P that have absolutely absurd exponents, like on the order of 10^100. It is true that practical decision problems that are in P have small exponents but that's exactly the point being made, namely that problems in P with large exponents are not practical and hence don't get much attention.
Large HN discussion [0] (558 points, 21 days ago, 292 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39980268
Agree 100%. I only hope that they start requiring users input their mailing addresses and social security numbers in order to download the browser. Then it'd be a no-brainer.
I would gently suggest naming it filefs or something; ffs already means https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?ffs(7)

That said - good idea/approach; seems like an excellent way to cleanly extend the unix approach to structured file formats:)
SQLite has a paid version. One of the paid features is encryption.

They’re not going to make it easy.
You think most people in Canada grow weed?
The state killing people is always unjustified since you can't prove 99%+ really did the crime. In fact, we can show the states and feds have put to death many of their own innocent citizens.
"We" in the article refers to the collective of individual users, not search engine companies.

The spirit of the article is about how this can be achieved in a decentralized way without search engines, and instead with just your LLM and the embedding databases that it proposes that each website would publish.

A problem with this is that you still need to keep local copies of these databases that you get from crawling the web, and train your LLM to use it.
I downvoted you because while it may not have been successful at getting Americans to stop drinking, it was effective at reducing violent crimes caused by drinking, as well as the negative health effects such as liver cirrhosis. The anti drug control crowd has done a great job commandeering popular opinion on this topic. I found this (non-academic) article informative to this end.

https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/6/5/18518005/prohibit...

Edit: to the downvoters, I look forward to future academics and politicians being absolutely shocked when it turns out the absence of evidence is in fact not evidence of absence and there are a myriad of negative health and societal consequences from legalizing marijuana use
To avoid this you can squash H(9) and H(10) before pushing to a shared branch, this way only one tested commit will be added on top of existing commits.
"Probably shouldn't have used N95 though"... gee, ya think? :P I would like to think that it's clear to everybody that they absolutely should not have claimed that it's even "N95 Grade", which clearly indicates that it's an approved as N95, but is roughly similar.

The actual stats are that it reached, at maximum, with the fan running, 86.3% filtration. That's almost 3x the amount of crap getting through than an actual N95 certified mask (without needing a fan).
> It's such a neat way to remove cruft.

I don't disagree, the problem I have with it is, I have to pay for that up front and have to factor it into my design immediately. This also combines with the fact that the namespace is very flat with no heirarchy, so, choosing good public names is something I feel like I spend way too much time on.

Go is the only language that causes me to pull out a thesaurus when trying to name methods and struct members. It's kinda maddening. Although, after going through this exercise, I end up with code that reads like English. I just wish I could refactor my way into that state, rather than having to try to nail it up front.
I am not into cars. Most of the men I know are not into cars. A few of them are very into cars. But an overwhelming majority of the women that I was exposed to at a young age were interested in what kind of car a man drives.

Sometimes the simplest explanation of things is that people are acting rationally for their preferences in their situation. And I think most people have similar preferences on different time scales. Most awful things in the world seem to be related to poor capacity for long-term hypothetical thinking. Unfortunately excellent capacity for long-term thinking has a strong correlation with depression, which is obvious if you seriously ask yourself “then what?” enough times. The loud car guy is having a great time in his own little world.
'Remote Work Cities': A Proposal to Fight Rising Housing Costs
Locking Engineering Principles (2022)
My Experience with Techstars
> the huge difference in compensation for technology talent between the US and Europe

Poles and Czechs get paid relative peanuts compared to West Europeans, yet have fairly startup industries compared to France or Germany.

Same with further afield in India or China.
Enforcement is not a form of treatment, regardless we've been trying enforcement since the 70s and it's been a disaster. Why would you want to double down on that?
Hard disagree. Strict and heavy moderation is the only way to keep any discussion informative. It requires competent moderators, and there will be bad calls by the mods, but overall the alternatives are far worse.

The strictest moderation there is can be found in high quality academic publishing. You are allowed to publish only if what you say has high value, and is said in the proper way. Can't get your Flat Earth Quarterly published in Nature, and we're all better for it.
Bill comes due for money-losing tech companies that borrowed billions
>My MBA get toasty when I OCR a pdf

Apple silicon?
So many things here.

Lets talk pay, US tech workers, lets just say Sr SWE and up, and lets look at SF as the author uses this as a focal point. Salary is roughly $300-400k a year(in SF FANGish company), in Europe or England its about half of that, and maybe even less. I know as I have family I married into that points out this fact, the best workers all go over to the US and make large salaries over there at US tech giants.

Lets talk about taxes, especially in the northern European countries taxes are extremely high when you get into professional wage bands, ie. above 120-200K euros(50% tax rates in some countries compared to 37% top US tax rate) and capital gains which is a huge issue as some employees get a majority of their income through this - 30% cap gains tax rate and above for a decent amount of western/northern EU countries, compared to 20% top tax rates for US.

Lastly lets talk about employees, you hire someone and they don't work. In Europe you cannot just term them and give them a severance package of a few weeks. In France you are not allowed to even layoff employees unless you are close to bankruptcy(I think this was changed a few years back). But in general it is very hard to fire employees who are underperforming in the EU.

All of these facts really highlight why alot of top talent and founders from the EU come over to the US to make money and start companies. I am not saying one way is right or wrong but just want to pint out the points that both ICs/managers and founders have all told me(I am US based).
People wanna get high. There's a plausible hypothesis that we invented farming to have a more reliable way to make beer. We have 2 main options:

1. Attempt to ban it.

2. Accept that people are going to get high, and try to limit the harm.

The first has been a complete and utter disaster. The second -- e.g. applying the same rules about who can use it and where they can use it as alcohol -- is the only sane option.

Prohibition is about as effective as abstinence-only education and for many of the same reasons. We can either work with how we wish people would behave or how they're actually going to behave.
Not really. Proper OCR in the broadest sense (extracting text from arbitrary pdfs that intermingle tables, images, etc, or from hand written artistic posters) requires a full understanding of semantic intent.

You are perhaps imagining more constrained scenarios of straight lines of consistent text on a page with well-known artifacts of "noise" (smudges, print imperfections, and so on).
As a fellow European that started skimming the article halfway through as I was facepalming too hard: did he never look at the raw numbers?

If you target the US market the pie is basically 10x times what it would be if you targeted your country in Europe.

Realistically speaking, Europe ain't got a chance unless we abolish our countries entirely, creating a single market. And that's not gonna happen. Ever.
Sorta right, sorta wrong, premise is weak -- Weed is NOT PHYSICALLY ADDICTIVE. It can be psychologically.

Beer / hard liquor IS PHYSICALLY addictive. Cigarettes ARE. Caffeine IS.
Allowed but not required
Don't forget coffee...
Serious question: Do you feel just as strongly about alcohol, nicotine, gambling and sugar? Those all have an enormous societal costs as well.
Ok, only leafy greens and protein pills for you, plus 2 hours of exercise per day and a mandated 9:30 PM bedtime. It's for your own good.
There Is No Future in Stamps; the USPS Needs to Go Digital to Survive (2017)
Some ELRepo kmod packages will no longer be available for RHEL 8.10 and 9.4
The casing rules are quite explicit and enforced by the compiler. A build would have immediately failed on whatever mismatch you had. A few hours and you didn't even think to try compiling it?

I'm guessing you are talking about something else entirely, like, perhaps, decoding JSON into a struct using reflection and encountering a situation where the field names didn't match? Indeed, implicitness can bite you there. That's true in every language. But, then again, as you prefer explicitness why would you be using that approach in the first place?
Only the newest version of Powerwall (v3) is LFP.
I think worrying about a few dollars when the performance difference is 2x at minimum is dumb.
> Enforcement is not a form of treatment, regardless we've been trying enforcement since the 70s and it's been a disaster.

This is often said - but what do you actually mean by disaster? Hard drug usage is objectively lower in strict enforcement areas vs. non-enforcement areas like Portland was briefly.
> Stripped of anything else, neural networks are compositions of differentiable primitives

I’m a sucker for statements like this. It almost feels philosophical, and makes the whole subject so much more comprehensible in only a single sentence.

I think François Chollet says something similar in his book on deep learning: one shouldn’t fall into the trap of anthropomorphising and mysticising models based on the ‘neural’ name; deep learning is simply the application of sequences of operations that are nonlinear (and hence capable of encoding arbitrary complexity) but nonetheless differentiable and so efficiently optimisable.
> Crunchy Bridge for Analytics

what exactly is "Crunchy Bridge for Analytics"? It is some hosted cloud infra? I can't install it locally as extension?
Calendars is a part of why I've been wearing Casio digital watches for a long time.
Europeans live the way they do because of unbelievable amounts of wealth and innovation accumulated through centuries which is being spent. None of that is guaranteed in a failing , aging europe. It's not food-safe, nor energy-safe. Not thinking about a sustainable future is fatally myopic
Except that when only systemd does it, everybody still keeps the pretense and nobody works on security.

And the systemd protocol is made in a way completely unfit for using everywhere. (Not by systemd's fault.)
Well also, IIUC about 3% of americans died from covid so assuming each Zypher mask cost $100 then out of the ~10,000 customers 30 of them died.
What database would it RAG from? The long tail in the model's data is also the long tail of any data. There are no google searches that have the information it provided about my forum nor is the info neatly collated anywhere on my own forum.

Its knowledge about my forum isn't only obscure, it's also an itemization of obscure events over time to draw obscure conclusions that only a historian of my forum would know. That's what's so impressive.

Granted, my forum was once the largest forum of its genre though that was almost 15 years ago, so it's not some dead proboards forum.
Modern first world countries are incredibly safe, productive and prosperous by any historical measure. You have to have a completely skewed perspective not to see this.
As someone who has taken ketamine for medical purposes and marijuana for not, it is utterly off-the-charts bonkers that they are classified identically.

A large dose of ketamine literally disconnects yourself from reality. Weed makes you tired.
What about reclassification?
Because a plethora of languages, some of which you don't personally like using, being part of a large and healthy ecosystem, benefits all languages and programmers.

There is no "one true" answer, and time spent bullying people over it, is entirely wasted.
Of course not, those are normal. /s
Well, minus the whole organized crime thing, which is a pretty gigantic elephant in the room.
Every dispo in my area (Metro Detroit) has concrete pillars surrounding the building, usually every two feet or so.

One of the first to open a few years back got hit early and everyone seems to have learned the lesson.
No they don't. As a French person, I can assure you that the level of English of the average French person is completely abysmal.

On the other hand, as a foreigner, I have been to tiny villages in Sweden where even 70 year old grandmas know enough English to communicate.
The thing is: you get used to your own smell. But others don't. Specially those that shower regularly. So, while you may think that you're fine, others will catch on your smell before you do.
Arc is yet another version of Chrome(ium)
With some parts added and some parts removed.
Note that herd contains an ASL1 implementation. https://github.com/herd/herdtools7/tree/master/asllib
Intel hasn't done much that wasn't shitty for a long time.

It's par for the course at this point, all for a $500 3% boost in CPU throughput every 6-12 months that immediately gets wiped out with yet another unpatchable 0day that has to be blocked off in microcode.
A lot of them have wiggled around this problem by offering “atms” at the cash register. You pay with a debit card, but it’s not a normal transaction, it’s an ATM withdrawal! I don’t understand how the money is vended to the business, but it keeps it out of the store
The plugin for Firefox is on the way, but any community support is highly appreciated.
This was attempted in Canada by our local postal service and was wound down in 2022 for lack of use. And they started it in the 2000s too, so well before computers and email were as ubiquitous as today.
Curious about why your tax bill goes way up.

Do you have data to back this up?

Marginal tax rates are very similar between the US and France.

France taxes more than the US is a myth that needs to go away (at least for individuals, might be true for corps)
Rails is dead, long live rails
Pretty incredible that Rails World 2024 sold out in ~20min.

https://rubyonrails.org/world/2024
> I just hope this appeal cannot make it worse than it is.

Sadly, it will get worse. There will be more lawsuits like this opening up once this is over. They're already in a lawsuit from the music publishing industry which threatens to wipe out the Great 78 project and I'm sure the video game industry are prepping for one of their own as well:

[1] > They already have an unresolved pending lawsuit from the music publishing industry which threatens to wipe out the Great 78 project though this lawsuit, IMO, is much more dubious because so many of recordings digitized were originally published prior to 1928 and should in theory be public works. The publishers claim that because they still sell modern versions of those recordings, they are still actively covered under copyright but as long as the IA is sourcing from media pressed before 1928 I don't think that argument is valid but again this is a country ran by corporations, its entirely possible the IA gets shafted just to keep some corporate donors happy.

[2] > Now that the book publishers lawsuit is nearing finalization (I don't see this making it up to the Supreme Court, and even if it does the current supreme court is probably the most corporate friendly court in history) and there has been almost nothing in the way of meaningful public outcry (no, normal people do not care about random people/bots screaming on twitter from their moms basement) we are going to see more lawsuits from other industries which feel like they have been harmed in some way by the Internet Archive. One which I PROMISE is coming, and I am amazed it hasn't yet, is a lawsuit from the video game publishing industry. Archive.org has, over the last decade or so, become a hub for hosting ROMS for basically every video game platform ever made. The IA, at one time, was very good about quickly removing things like REDUMP romsets but has over the years seemingly embraced hosting them. I cannot fathom why they thought that was a good idea, or necessary. Retro gaming isn't a niche hobby anymore, its a billion dollar business they've put themselves firmly in the crosshairs of. Gaming corporations are some of the most litigious corporations on the face of the earth, and the kicker is these files are not in any danger at all. Literally any commercially released game for a commercially released video game platform has 10000 websites that are hosting those files, and those websites continue to exist because they get enough traffic to be profitable through ad revenue, and they are easy enough to quickly dismantle in the even of a cease and desist and then have spring back up 10 days later under a new name with a slightly different layout. The IA does not have that luxury.

[1] [2] https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1bswhdj/if_the...

Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39908676
however, the weed these days is much stronger, and not the one our grandfathers smoked.

if something could be done about the thc content -- that will be nice.

weed isn't exactly harmful -- but long term it will be interesting to see the consequences. now already a lot of people are paranoid due to weed use.
Wow, the pen is responsible for literacy.

It wasnt the printing press and then education that got those numbers up?

And that 90 percent literacy rate at the end of the article? Really?

90 percent of men, globally, 82 percent of women... Or 76 percent of adult Americans... Depending on where you look the stats are all over the map.

global data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_literacy_...

US data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_the_United_States
- OR -
US data: https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/post/literacy-s...

Maybe we should tell the national literacy institute that all they need to do is buy Americans more bic pens...
What SMB has the luxury of being notoriously unproductive? Economies of scale are very real and tend to make larger businesses more efficient, it's true, but you'll find that causes SMBs to be lean and mean to remain competitive.
It could be interesting if you could write a translator to use any Ansible module with this, and vice versa.
Couldn't Google (who after all does Android) simply declare that the 'official' RV64 is IMAFD (aka 'G') CJQTVPBHLNSUX ? (or whatever makes sense, given the android roadmap). https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/risc-v/standard_extensions

And if they did this, this would prove why Android's parent company is called Alphabet!
Bad execution undermines otherwise good policy.

Ideas don’t execute themselves and when someone doesn’t deliver the goods, it is human nature to question their decision making ability in the first place.

Being defensive or arguing nuance is fine in theory, but in practice bad outcomes tend to reinforce biases.

I would prefer fully baked ideas that are rigorous and practical rather than purely utopian and just hoping for the best. One does not roll out underfunded programs that play with safety and health.
Impact is in the eyes of the beholder, how much impact to you have on company direction or product decisions in a large org?

There is also a distinct lack of bureaucracy and politics in small orgs compared to large orgs
According to 5s on Google, the x86 has always been microcoded. I guess the argument is that “machine language” is the public API of the CPU, and “assembly language” is the higher level script used to, mostly, directly create machine language.

Is Intel microcode able to be changed by anyone? I understand that even CPUs get field updates nowadays.
That would quickly become intolerable but the video is funny
150mm -> 150 mm works.
You can read and grok the entire gospec in a week.
They do score ketamine higher than cannabis in "harm to user", but cannabis has a much higher "harm to others" score.
I wish that the article was edited down to size. But the second half about how broken The Intercept is internally was fascinating.
Couple of thoughts

> The combination of the ICCID and the IMSI basically tells the mobile network, “hey, this person paid for a plan.”

As far as I remember, the ICCID never actually appears in standard network messaging. It might be possible for the network to request it, but it's not part of a standard 2/3/4/5g attach.

The piece seemed to miss two major uses for the IMEI (or I missed it when reading), which were working around vendor bugs and allowing emergency calling.

Radio firmware and state machines have always had weird bugs, and even when it conforms to standards (some of which are extremely interpretable), does very weird things in the real world. Pre-smartphone, being able to update phone and radio firmware was extremely rare, so it was common for the networks instead to implement workarounds on a manufacturer or handset basis. Having a hardware ID that identified this was extremely useful.

GSM (and onward) actually supports a handset attaching to a network, even without a SIM card, for the sake of emergency calling. It needs some form of unique identifier for this to work. As much as it could (potentially, entirely redefining the stack) generated UUIDs, it makes some sense for these unique IDs to persist across roaming/sessions/reboots.
So, something is (or isn't) "reason" based on your judgement on what is reasonable or justified? What if you are wrong?

> The possibility that you might ask to call has no bearing on whether or not you should start with "Hello," because if you are going to ask to call, you would be better served by just asking to call

If they respond (within a minute, say), you might ask for a call. If they don't, you instead type out the question, and check back later. Hence the response (asking for call, vs question) depends on the answer to "Hi".

> if you are going to send the message to multiple people, you would be better served by sending your actual question

Why? If someone else is answering, I explicitly don't want another person to start working on the question. If anyone one responds while I've already asked the question, I can just tell them I no longer need help - they waste little to no time or focus working on finding an answer.

> Even if you get more than one answer, you can just thank the people for their responses

This seems like a much bigger waste of other peoples time.

> you are still better served by having them know why you wanted to talk, since they can better appreciate why you would have sent multiple messages

why am I "better served" by this? They don't need to know what I might have asked, it's a distraction for them.

> if you do need someone to be present, you would be better served by having them already know what you might need them to be present to discuss

If they aren't present, the discussion may not happen.
I bet a huge portion of the people here are physically addicted to caffeine, a powerful psychoactive stimulant.
I work at Microsoft. Next question :)
Hard pass. Ublock Origin is better across the board.