skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neither here or there, but I saw an election poster for a single issue party a while ago that asked "Where do you want to live in 800 years?"
(The single issue being lifespan extension through medicine.)
Nothing makes life harder on yourself than making your parents hate you. It is also extremely hard to do, no your parents disagreeing with you isn't a good reason to never see them again.
Comprehensive. I didn't know compressed air systems were deployed for black start. It was also useful to see the mechanical "ontologies" of components of systems. A smaller footprint and build cost than PHES but I believe demonstrably worse efficiency. This isn't fatal, and it's important not to obsess about energy loss in a storage system if the input energy is not going to be used anyway.

I think that a similar document for hot rocks and thermal storage would be interesting.
From personal experience it's amazing how much more productive I am on solo projects vs working with other people. When you're solo you can just go, but in a team everything needs to be discussed or at least communicated.
Appreciate a proper response to my throw away comment :)

> incremental builds (i.e. building on top of a cache from previous arbitrary builds) would be non-deterministic and give you non-reproducible builds

Isn’t this exactly what Bazel solves?
> RINSABLE PAINT

Is there a source for/further information about this? I can't find it mentioned anywhere (including on the Declare Emergency website), and it seems difficult to square it with the gallery's claim that it cost $4,000 to repair the damage.
I have tried to use chatgpt to identify novels and songs from descriptions and it is poor at it. This is despite, I assume , ingesting reviews and descriptions of popular novels and even ingesting the novels themselves. Perhaps the training itself isn't enough for the model to be able to identify what work it is being trained on?
And just to confirm C++ isn't going away in our lifetimes, C++ Builder and Delphi had new releases last month.
Indeed- RAID used to stand for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks. The point was to throw a bunch of disks together and with redundancy it didn't matter how unreliable they were. Using blingy drives w/ RAID feels counter-intuitive- at least as a hobbyist.
E.g. make it distributed and live.
How did that boulevard end up planted with edible wheat?
Many companies have their fiscal year offset from the calendar year.
The example of McDonald's acquiring value through real estate, funded by the business, is pretty poingnant, considering the PE firm here did the exact opposite: sold all the valuable real estate and rented it back from the buyer under crippling rent payments, funded by the business.

Why did the PE firm do that when McDonald's didn't?
It seems like having a more robust testing framework might help, akin to what SQLite uses?

Obviously easier said than done, but the way he presents things it seems kind of like a push and pray environment.
No one can force you to give a deposition during a miscarriage.

I’ve been through a few depositions and anyone can leave for medical reasons. It’s not like there are bailiffs there forcing you to attend. Even with the most basic of cases, I can just walk out and tell my attorney to reschedule. I may have to pay other counsel’s fees, but I expect with the reason “I’m having a miscarriage” no judge is going to uphold their claim.
There used to be a much more distinct camera—and all rhe ancillary gear and consumables than there used to be. Though B&H still sells a ton of lighting and audio gear as well as printers and consumables for same.

They sell other stuff too but they’re still pretty photo and video-centric, laptops notwithstanding.
Thanks; don't know how I missed that.

Trying the examples now, semantic search usually works better. But if I trim extra phrasing (e.g. how do diffusion models work -> diffusion models) they're about the same (but Algolia is much faster).
It seems to be a mistake. From the original article which Wikipedia is citing:

> "[...]Others, such as the Washington D.C. Metro
Police, the Singapore Police Force, and the Brazilian
National Police have purchased the DAS software from
Microsoft, our software developer, and have used it
to secure high-profile governmental and cultural sites,
the 2014 World Cup, and the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Microsoft has agreed to give New York City 30 percent of the revenue it derives from selling the software
to other jurisdictions (Parascandola and Moore 2012);"

But "Parascandola and Moore 2012" refers to another article that doesn't say anything about existing uses outside of NYC. (Using Archive because the site has a Geoblock).

https://web.archive.org/web/20210812131624/https://www.nydai...

EDIT: Just removed the paragraph from Wikipedia.
> people who simply aren't into drugs

...are we still having to go over this?

There are no such people. Everybody does drugs, unless you adopt a definition of "drug" which is designed specifically to accommodate this assertion, rather than apply in some useful way to reality. It's difficult to even create a definition of 'drug' which convincingly excludes survival necessities like water and oxygen, but remains otherwise consistent.

There are some drugs which are, for reasons varying from racism to capriciousness to an intemperant desire for greater cartel income, prohibited to varying degrees in various jurisdictions.

You can go to Singapore and consume sugar, coffee, nicotine, alcohol, and many other drugs while enjoying the tacit endorsement of your behavior by the local state apparatus. You can also consume cocaine, opioids, and plenty of other drugs so long as you pay black market rates and do so shielded by privilege so as not to run afoul of an investigation. You can even consume cannabis, though of course it is very difficult to smuggle, so you pay a higher premium.
memcached type API with RocksDB backing store is pretty good. Honestly, at this point hasn't every one written some in memory DB with various methods to persist and various consistency models as a result? At this point the magic is in client routing to the appropriate shard without having to redeploy to change the shard configuration and to allow multi-remote callers to access the data and still get access without disk load or mutex/locking around the data.

I have a thing where the shards each have sub-shards in process and 1 go-routine per sub shard; communication to/from the remote callers is via channels to a per-request go-routine (or whatever it is gRPC does) and the main subs hard go-routine has no locking on itself. Just a big hash map and a DLL to implement an LRU so I have a hard cap on memory usage, and no allocations for lookups or mutations (just creations).
lol, as a kid the “date night” restaurants were Chilis, Olive Garden, Applebees, and random mom-n-pop places. I think places like outback, Texas Roadhouse, and red lobster were reserved for “you got a promotion”-esque events. I bet that’s pretty normal for low-middle-class Midwest folks
I believe that was indeed their point. People used to dismiss mass surveillance of the US on its people as a crackpot conspiracy theory, until the full extent of it was revealed by Snowden.

Some conspiracy theories turn out to be true. Just a handful though.
Dentists too.
A daemon is a service, and there is more to it than just being a process.
It’s great to hear that fomenting wars abroad at the cost of other people’s life is good for your economy. I hope this helps you raise your income so you can buy those new tires for your truck.
My parrots (Green Cheek and a Budgie) can't stand hearing other bird calls. Freaks them out (even the ones in the console/pc version of WingSpan[0]). A majority of bird calls in the wild are territorial and it seems to freak them out the most in the Spring when their hormones are at their highest, so it's likely related.

I haven't thought too far into it, but I imagine they freak out more when it's a hawk/falcon call than a songbird.

[0] https://stonemaiergames.com/games/wingspan/
The degree to which the housing crisis is a global phenomenon is generally understated.

Instead articles focus on individual countries and lay the blame on their particular circumstances and policies, not the bigger picture.
So, I played with it some more. I think that this is a good starting point. You can tune various parameters for what you have indexed and it will get better. I am sure it will evolve in interesting directions from here.

> e.g. more explicitly searching for technical opinions...

Yes, please! I would love to be able to search for strongly held opinions by folks who _know_ what they are talking about.

> recommending stories to you based on your interests...

I am curious how, in principle, you would you do that? Where do you think the signal that indicates my "interest" lies?
Being able to borrow that amount might be a bubble, but depending on the fund I don't think it would damage friendships at all. If you had access to the internal Renaissance fund for example I think your friends would be happy to get in on that.
Spot on. I'll explore whether this nit is worth picking:

> "Responsible" AI is more profitable than standard AI - regardless of the nebulous nature of what "responsible" means.

/s/regardless of/in part owing to
Well if you were being sardonic it was completely lost.
tangent:

i remember when chat roulette went viral in ~2010 and it introduced the general public to the 'video chat with random strangers' app concept. It was everywhere. My grandparents knew about it.

but now whenever people talk about 'video chat with random strangers' they always use omegle as the reference point. I don't recall it ever breaking into the public consciousness.

did everybody forget chatroulette? what happened?
There's still real-time ray-tracing.

Cosmetic physics can eat up more, but as a gameplay mechanic, user interaction with realistic physics are too unpredictable (beyond a gimmick). Of course, we could then get actual computer sports.
Nice work! Love seeing RAG work get developed!

What about using the embeddings for nearest-neighbor search for similar articles? I.E., for any given article, can you use the embeddings of an article to run a search, rather than encoding my query? That would let me find similar / related articles much more easily.
That UI looks like something out of the late 80s / early 90s. I can smell the VCR head cleaner and scratch-n-sniff stickers and hear the dial-up internet bee-bee-bee-bee-gurglegugrle-dong-ding-dong-ding-whooooooooosh-wheeeeeeeesh-bling! bling whooooo.

Can we at least upgrade the fonts, colors, and negative space to make it look more 2020s?
Studies show that the severity of the punishment has little impact crime rates -- the odds of getting caught & punished are much more significant.
JavaScript Console: Debugging Websites in Chrome for iOS (2019)
TL; DR: testing is hard, and developers aren't very good at it.

It also sounds like internal documentation may be lacking, which isn't surprising.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240502200255/https://longnow.o...

https://archive.ph/lmdjF
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It's very much flamebait to go looking for some random shit someone did and then paste it into a thread context-free, which is what the commenter self-admittedly did. Going on about downvotes and how everybody else is a censorious sheep is definitely against the site guidelines so there's nothing particularly odd about that part.
Uptime for the last 3 years has been >99%.
1. Keep spares (esp. fans and drives). Hot swap if needed.
2. Dual ISP (1Gbit/s primary, auto switch to Starlink if primary link fails).
3. Keep a separate server for testing. Actually I lied, I test things in prod, sue me.

The monthly AWS bill is roughly 5 USD and consists of Route53 only!
Than in the past? That seems untrue at face, do you have a source? Firms like JS recruit a lot of people that wouldn't have ever considered a traditional finance institution in any event.
Scaling software development has been THE vexing problem since day one. There's no doubt that the most efficient system fits in the head of a single person; the challenge is then what?
did everybody forget chatroulette?

After the first couple of penis shots, I'm sure ChatRoulette users have done everything they can to forget ChatRoulette.

Having never used it, did Omegle somehow avoid this fate? If so, how?
I'd guess this: https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2046415-upgrade-button
It sure sounds like you're coming at this with your mind already set that (a) there is some meaningful number of people that are entirely anti-vaccines and (b) that they are absolutely wrong.

If a vaccine is rolled out and kills thousands, the example you gave, why shouldn't some people take notice of that and be concerned? Is there no level of risk that would also make you consider not taking a new and untested, or under tested, vaccine?
In quality, yes, but they're only feasible for stuff like batch processing because they're so huge and slow. You can't use them for stuff like scaling an <img> in a browser.

Incidentally, the way I always thought it would work is the huge and slow AI would be used to discover a tiny algorithm that just so happens to be an amazing image rescaler. Instead we just ship the whole AI.

Anybody know of any work on the former strategy?
EDIT aha, the program already supports exporting to a mesh via marching cubes; see the youtube video on the site. I hadn't realized that (:

----

Be aware that since it fundamentally works with SDFs, it is a somewhat different modeling experience (and stores different data) than traditional meshes with triangles, verts, etc.

Transforming it from SDFs into meshes could be done with marching cubes or similar, but you'd likely need to "clean up" such data afterwards in a Blender-style app anyway.

SDFs are great though, if your renderer is SDF-based, too (most are not).

[sorry if you knew this already, wasn't sure]
Rising metal prices could mean more expensive laptops, PC parts in near future
Dunno. I just have little motivation to put hours and hours into a challenging project that I probably won't complete. When I was working, I never had any side projects.

It's not like I'm sitting around on my ass all day. I walk the dogs, bicycle, rock climb indoors, and travel. I'm starting Tai Chi and just bought an e-drum kit. After I retired I spent a year renovating one house and have spent a lot of time this winter on another. Also lived off-grid in a forest for three summers and am doing it again this year. Off-grid ain't easy. Can't just turn on the faucet and presto hot water.
If they get to be treated as humans, then the far more important issue is how we immediately imprison all of these company executives for the crime of slavery.
You can't do TCP and UDP.
Masks are a radical transformation? Please. It's a minor inconvenience. Keeping kids home from school was a radical transformation.
> The nuremberg trials targetted only the very highest level Nazis

The initial ones did, but there were subsequent ones targeting entire organizations--one of which was the SS, to which Von Braun belonged.
firewalls are used to lock-down machines. this is intended to lock-down people.
There’s nothing incoherent here. Whether talking about a human, a dog, or a Kalman filter, the only mechanism by which I can infer (not fully determine) whether it’s conscious is by observing its behavior. Some things behave in ways that look more conscious than other things. Motor control, goal-seeking behavior, and doing things that imply self-awareness all point in the “probably conscious” direction, but none is dispositive. Other humans certainly give the appearance of being conscious while Kalman filters don’t appear that way. But you can imagine a totally believable robot (a la Westworld) that behaves outwardly identical to a conscious human but is not conscious. We don’t know enough about consciousness to determine whether it actually is or actually isn’t, which also applies to the Kalman filter question: it doesn’t appear to be conscious (unlike the robot) but we don’t have a way to determine whether it is (like the robot).

I’ve said multiple times what a point of view is, I think you’re just too caught up in argumentation to read the text in front of you.

You agree that you have experiences, correct? Your ability to experience experiences is what it means to have a POV. The name of that characteristic is “consciousness.”

It is probably the case that some objects experience experiences (like you presumably do and I definitely do), and other objects do not.
I didn't realise the cores in the Pi 5 were 4 years old already. Surely if some vendor like qualcomm or mediatek released a sbc with decent software and recent cores, they could sweep the floor.
> sieverts of novelty

Yikes!

Is this clever metaphor original with you?
Intel's Foundry Business Lost $7B in 2023
I can somewhat relate as I’ve suffered a brain injury. It was similar in that I couldn’t continue to go full tilt everyday. In my mind all my success was based on that: working all the time. Turns out I was wrong; I still make a living but am much more prudent about what I spend time on.

Anyway. After reading all the philosophical quotes etc I felt bad when you ended with this:

>> Despite my injury, I still try to maintain a bulletproof growth mindset. I constantly ask myself why I shouldn't make more money every month.

My friend, even if there is anything to Carol Dweck (severe criticism is warranted there), this is the servant mindset that you just wrote about. Make more money for what? You can’t take it with you when you die and it will not make you happy in ill health.

Oh and you’re right about there not being any moral epiphany or reward in ill health. It just sucks. Feeling good is the opposite: it’s just good. There is nothing else.
AI that optimizes prices for more revenue
Thank you!

To learn your interests we'd at a minimum need to know what HN stories you tend to click or comment on, e.g. by a different reader view or using a browser extension. Presumably your comments and submissions could provide useful signal as well :)
Sounds like you're a victim of WD selling Reds with Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR). Quite a scandal a few years ago.

SMR takes advantage of the fact read heads are often smaller than write heads, so it "shingles" the tracks to get better density. However, if you need to rewrite in between tracks that are full, you need to shuffle the data around so it can re-shingle the tracks. This means as your array gets full or even just fragmented, your drives can start to need to shuffle data all over the place to rewrite a random sector. This does hell to drives in an array, which a lot of controllers have no knowledge of this shingling behavior.

Shingled drives are OK when you're just constantly writing a stream of data and not going to do a lot of rewriting of data in betweeen. Think security cameras and database backups and what not. They're complete hell if you're doing lots of random files that get a lot of modifications.

https://www.servethehome.com/wd-red-smr-vs-cmr-tested-avoid-...
Kinda. SDL_renderer is a level on top of the raw GPU API, which is what WebGPU is targeted at. Feel free to use Canvas2DRenderingContext or any other rendering libraries (e.g. Phaser, Pixi.js) to achieve a similar line count to what you're seeing with SDL_renderer.

Also, you might struggle to implement glTF and PBR materials with the same line count with SDL_renderer.
The economists mistaken one plus with minus in their models, and so the wealth is being vaccumed up instead of trickling down. Either way it boils down to these students not waking up early enough, not working hard enough, and picking wrong parents.
Omegle had text chat, too, which I would guess had a lot more users than the video chat (= more name recognition overall). Plus it's easier to say and type :P
What's missing in this post is a deep analysis of what the bugs are and what was causing them, in a 5 times why sense. Especially if they all seem dumb stuff at first.

There are some deep lessons about programming in this Factorio Friday Facts:

https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-366

and I wonder if postgres doesn't look like fig.1 from this blog post, before the refactoring.
People should stop and do some very serious investigation about a company that has 32 whistleblowers just in the last 3 years....
Interesting. I wonder how much of it has to do with entrepreneurs being more likely to have access to and ability to afford psychiatric care and thus diagnose the issue precisely in the first place instead of just being generally considered crazy by onlookers.
Used it for a couple of internal applications for a former client, zero cost.
They thought they were joining an accelerator – instead they lost their startups
Thanks!

Yup, totally feasible. I might add that!
Stratasys? I’m not sure about pricing, and the website won’t say.

However, a bunch of places rent out time on those machines. Draw up your rocket, and get a quote. Price is generally cc^2 volume

Metal is not cheap. Make a few out of plastic to verify dimensions.
Right here in the thread so everyone knows that I offer discounts, clearly! :)
Single data point: Pretty much every FIRE that I met regreted bitterly leaving the workforce and went back working (most often to do something different that they found more fulfilling like starting their own company burning all their saving, buying a farm, restaurants..).
how about Stochastic Parrot?
Everyone has preferences, many people will prefer fake emotions over condescendence or elitism

People should have a choice
Microsoft cramming more and more ads in their OS could be the push we need to finally achieve the year of the Linux desktop
Well as the article states the bigger ones would tear themselves apart if they spun too fast so that is one reason. In the end they are just big rocks and thus not very good at tensile loads...
Nintendo puts an 2014 ARM chip + Tegra X1 in their Switch.
What are Sysco alternatives for sourcing?
Tiled scrollable window manager for macOS
The consequence of their actions is that they receive high social status from people with similar politics and Google makes zero changes to their contracts with Israel. And that was obviously going to be the result of these actions.

If you want to attribute their actions to a genuine desire to help the Palestinians, that is fine.
I will never understand how people on HN laud Apple's privacy efforts while keeping a constant blind-eye towards the blatant sale of user data, limitation of freedom, advertisement and gambling/gacha revenue.

At this point we should just accept that Apple is really not ideologically different from a normal, money-hungry business.