skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Umbra in ClickBench: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickBench/pull/161

The initial submission didn't reproduce successfully due to a segmentation fault in an attempt to restart it after data loading. But after some changes, it started to work and showed exceptionally good results.
This is 100% true!
Isn't it the ambiguity of the Diamond Problem? Suppose B and C are both children of A, and D is a child of both B and C.

If B and C both have methods foo(), which gets called when you do d.foo()?

Seems like a real footgun requiring extra effort to avoid.
A conclusion I reached while reading this article that I can't shake is Adolf Hitler was more forward-thinking, and compassionate, in a way, than Vladimir Putin.
That’s longnow’s whole deal. Getting people to think about the future far beyond a human lifespan.
Most people used to believe in Jesus Christ with values built on the Bible. That was true from lay people to Ivy League colleges to even folks in prison. His blessings with His accountability both made many good things happen and limited lots of damage we’d cause. America was prosperous as the Bible said it would be.

Over the decades, people turned away from God and those values to chase new ones: money first, pleasure first, self/ego first, atheism, subjectivism, Marxism. These by themselves, if increasing enough, guarantee massive amounts of suffering for people. Whereas, the fruit of the Spirit in Galatians only does good for people when you increase it. Society made their choice.

As in Romans 1, God handed us over to our depraved minds and sins to let us feel the full consequences of selfish, godless, subjective societies. Everything has gotten worse. The solution is to repent and turn back to what God gave that worked before. Then, gradually improve ourselves in any weak areas. Wr must bake righteous values back into our families, businesses, and government. Inward change creates positive, outward results.
They have a team :)
> Hell I'm more annoyed that I had to use giftcards to buy Minecraft for my kids back in the day, before Microsoft became their parent company, because of some weird financial law in my state.

I'm curious to know more about this. I'm not aware of any laws in any state (assuming the US) where it's illegal or forbidden from purchasing video games using a credit card, or even a debit card.
I think the implementation in C++ put it out of fashion, as later languages (e.g. Java) deliberately restricted it to avoid the complexity. The main criticism I saw was the potential for (variants of) the "diamond" where A is subclassed by B and C, then both of those are subclassed by D. Does D get two copies of A's state? It's hard to come up with an intuitive behaviour.

More recently, the move seems to be away from class based object orientation (including inheritance) entirely.

On the other side of things, I've never heard people talk about Python's multiple inheritance with the same tone used for C++ - but then there are cultural differences in the language communities too.
Are whistleblowers considered legal witnesses who qualify for protection
programs? A Streisand-effect website could aggregate the claims of all dead whistleblowers, regardless of cause of death. This could increase incentives for protecting whistleblowers until their legal cases have been resolved.
> DVD-R (gold metal layer) 50 to 100 years

These are the only DVDs listed with such a long life. I don't care about RW. Anyone know a brand/model of such DVDs I can still buy today?

(and, yup, I'm one of those still burning DVDs with important data on it and, no, I don't have that much important data and, no, I don't backup only on DVDs)

P.S: speaking of which it's a major PITA but most PC cases brand/models do not offer anymore a slot for a DVD reader/burner. I really dig my "Be Quiet!" tower (Pure Base 500 / military/beige color) but there's no 5"1/4 slot to put a DVD reader in there. It pisses me off so much I may re-assemble my modern PC in an old case : (
The most enlightening part of the article was in the comments where it was observed that given the length of time Postgres has been going, the number of talented developers who have worked on the project there are no easy enhancements or fixes left, just hard knotty problems. (paraphrasing).

It's almost a mark of success of the project. There is obviously a lot of dedication too.
Lessons Learned from Four Months of Working Solo
> - why is there a random 'grey.webp' loading from this michelmeyer.whatever domain?

This got me wondering, and the reason is that they embed a "card" for a link to a similar blog post on michaelmeyer.com (and grey.webp is the imagine in the card). There's a little irony there, I think.
This is a great idea, thank you! Will do, actually it can be more valuable than just idea generator. At least it can be helpful during brainstorming or as a starting point for customer development.
Many 3D content creation tools such as Blender [0] have SDF [1] (e.g. metaballs in Blender) and CSG [2] (e.g. boolean modifier in Blender) features. But these are rarely used as they can only define volumes, not surfaces. And we are usually interested in surfaces for assigning textures and materials. Thus, polygons / meshes and curves / splines dominate the industry.

[0]: https://www.blender.org/
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signed_distance_function
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive_solid_geometry
AI Code Converter
Neat demo. It seems like there may be a few things happening in tandem.

I uploaded a picture of a forest and it came back with visually similar images. So the first thing it might be doing is some kind of KNN, and if the pictures have location labels associated applying some sort of weighted average to determine GPS coordinates. This is pretty cool.

I also tried flipping the image horizontally, and it came back with the same images. So their embedding isn't based off of exact matches (good) and seems to be invariant to some basic translations (good). It also seems like it's directly extracting visual features from the image. This can be done with something like Blip[0].

Then I uploaded a screenshot from Magic School Bus. It still extracted information to guess the "location" of the cartoon (San Francisco, which is wrong). So that's probably how it works.

I also found the text output is similar in some ways with OpenGVLab InternViT [1]. So perhaps this or something like it is being used to extract features.

And of course there may be an LLM on top of these extracted features with some sort of prompt template. But I should add that the text explanation is the least useful part of the result, since it is unreliable and less informative than the "boring" similarity metrics above.

[0] https://huggingface.co/Salesforce/blip-image-captioning-larg...
[1] https://internvl.opengvlab.com/
The Long Now Foundation's mission is "Our work encourages imagination at the timescale of civilization — the next and last 10,000 years —
a timespan we call the long now."

The leading zero is a way to trigger people to think about the next 10,000 years.
Beyond the bad acoustics, I think the real issue may have ultimately been the conductor. Those movements are more confusing than helpful, and seemed out of sync with the song.

But like everyone else, I don't want to be mean to researchers moonlighting as musicians. She did the job in terms of depicting what they think the music basically sounded like, and it's not reasonable to study conduction techniques for 4 years just so your team can make a better YouTube video.
The authors had some weird blind spots, even for the time, when Practical Cryptography (now called Cryptography Engineering) was published --- curves and authenticated encryption seem like the two obvious examples.
Thanks for the feedback! I made a cutoff at stories with <50 points when ingesting content, and it looks like that cut off what you were looking for. Definitely not great.

I'm planning to fix that in short order, feel free to sign up at https://hackersearch.net/signup if you care to receive an update when that goes live!
The people I would expect to complain about this are landlords that buy water heaters while their renters pay the electricity bill to run it.

I lived in an old apartment once where I offered to buy a smart thermostat that would have paid for itself in less than a year. The landlord still refused. I think the mismatch in economic incentives for energy efficiency between landlords and renters is a huge problem that prevents a lot of no-brainer upgrades from being done.
All these "we will colonize mars" articles always conveniently seem to leave out the fact that Mars has no magnetic field which means any long term settlement there will need to find a way to deal with getting bombarded by radiation.
I suspect there's a lot of confusion that happens with anxiety[1] being an emotion, and anxiety disorders[2] being clinically diagnosable mental health conditions.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anxiety

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anxiety_disorder
Disclaimer, I'm not an expert in this field.

If you're hoping to commercialize and are a 1-man company, I hope you have a good USP/feature that's beyond "it's cheaper than the competition". If you do have that, I'd say just get an MVP out while keeping systems as platform agnostic as you can. Doesn't matter if you need an extra Jetson, if your product is good enough the extra cost shouldn't really deter customers.

Once you've started, hire/contract folks and streamline it out.

BTW Dev kits do exist for the snapdragon 8 gen 2/3 I think, but they're about $700 last I checked. If you're handy you could even try to reuse a rooted phone, if that's feasible for you.
One concern is the reliability of more complex water heaters. It's difficulty to tell ahead of time how long they will last.
The big downsides with horrible prison are that criminals will have a huge incentive to do anything to not get caught and convicted, including violently resisting arrest, shootouts, targeting witnesses and so on. It is mostly effective as a deterrent against financial/winning-relates crimes, but mostly ineffective against most other types of crimes. Plus, horrible prison is much less likely to actually reform the person in question.

Statistically, the Norwegian system with "holiday prisons" works well, with very low recidivism rates for most types of crime.
> until enough external political pressure was applied

This doesn't pass the sniff test. You have been able to purchase porn for decades in various mediums - why would a website suddenly invoke the ire of the "morality police"? Even more-so when porn is freely available in almost every case when it comes to the internet.

Really though, it has nothing to do with morality - it is straight up the risk profile of those websites. There's even a movie about the start of the online paid-porn industry and all the stuff they had to do to figure out how not to bleed money on chargebacks etc.
Thank you for this comment. Trying to sort through the mess of GUI frameworks for .NET and other languages is difficult.
The NYPD has had a system built by Microsoft for 15 years:

> Beginning in 2009, the NYPD, in partnership with Microsoft, built a powerful counterterrorism and policing tool called the Domain Awareness System (DAS). The DAS is a central platform used to aggregate data from internal and external closed-circuit television cameras (CCTV), license plate readers (LPRs), and environmental sensors, as well as 911 calls and other NYPD databases. The DAS uses an interactive dashboard interface to display real-time alerts whenever a 911 call is received or a sensor is triggered. The DAS also in- cludes mapping features that make it possible to survey and track targets. The DAS was originally built to support the Lower Manhattan Security Initiative (LMSI) – a public-private partnership – but has since expanded to cover the entire city, giving NYPD personnel direct access to thousands of cameras owned and operated by private orga- nizations. Until the development of the mobility platform and the mobile DAS system described below, the full capabilities of DAS have only been available to the Counterterrorism Bureau and a few other specially trained officers on desktop computers. As the NYPD upgrades its network, access to all DAS capabilities and resources will be expanded to all NYPD’s commands.

https://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/home/POA/pdf/Technology.p...
100% Tauri. It’s totally awesome and fast.
Indeed, and anecdata is weighted so heavily by our minds, even when we are aware of it and consciously look at the numbers. That's what evolution gives us though. The best brains at survival are the ones that learned from their observations, so we're battling our nature by trying to disregard that. I'll never buy another Seagate because of that one piece of shit I got :-D
SonicWall maintain their own content filter list for their products: https://www.sonicwall.com/support/knowledge-base/content-fil...

I was suggesting it had been incorrectly classified previously by a single vendor, presumably in response to a report (or a court order) for a single page. There's no nuance to the filtering, so the whole site gets blocked.

It happens regularly for Imgur: Someone posts CSAM, and the whole site gets added to Cleanfeed (the UK ISP level filter) for a couple of hours until the original image is removed.
Because ChatGPT still believes in you!
Apple sales fall less than expected
Apple sales fall less than expected, predicted to recover.
On one hand, USA send a lot of war material to the Soviet Union to help it.

On the other hand, I guess the change of perception is due to Hollywood.
In 2020 and 2021, there was endless online discussion of airborne pathogen distribution, measurement and defense.
Enterprise level of insights: Matomo

Self-hosted: Plausible

SaaS for SMBs: Wide Angle Analytics (my tool)

Matomo is great, has so many toggles and features. It exists for many years, so might feel dated, but is very robust.

With Plausible, go for self-hosted. Their terms and conditions are pretty restrictive, so are limited to very few metrics. They do not allow Personal Data processing, so even if you have consent, you can't use it for anything more advanced.

Wide Angle Analytics supports Cookieless, strictly privacy first by default, but also allows you to process Personal Data if you collect consent. So you can use Wide Angle on the edge, on the landing without consent, and then the same analytics for your logged-in users, once they accepted T&C. That way, you get more accurate session analytics. Heck, if you like, you can even enable cookies.
Frankly tame compared to the Wolf Tree case.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdga/pr/two-sentenced-their-rol...
You've replied with the same trivial urban myths that are endlessly repeated about private equity.

You've compared the incentives of private equity and a small business owner. Do you think that Red Lobster was previously a small business?

Why can't you answer the question on the different incentives that apply to different owners of large businesses? If a private equity fund can make a profit by buying a successful business, discouraging all its customers and then "selling the corpse", why can't other owners do the same thing?

Why does the company having a large amount of debt change the decision a restaurant chain's management makes between selling cheap and good food, or cheap and bad food, or expensive and bad food, or expensive and good food?

Literally everything that you've said about this has been handwaving and rumours. Explain the decisions based on where the money comes from and where it has to go to, if you can (you clearly can't).

You citing Nabisco as the best example of what you believe is comical since it's from 40 years ago (and famously fraudulent).
> M-Disc BD has the drawback of being Blu-ray, which seems to have gratuitously obnoxious things about it that I don't want to deal with on Linux.

I don't have one yet (still burning DVDs) but what'd be the obnoxious things to deal with when burning Blu-ray discs on Linux compared to burning DVDs?
how about a conversion path for regular legacy jpeg? and look at cloudinary, jpeg-xl is superior in quality to avif
> Generally, as far as I know, bone growth is triggered by impacts (think running etc), and is hard to stimulate with just muscle exercises.

Maybe they should do jumping while being pulled "down" by rubber bands.
The increased block size increases the amount of storage required to run a full node (and also the bandwidth required to sync nodes). Even at just 100 tx/sec, you need 14x the storage of a bitcoin node (so around 10TB vs 700GB for bitcoin). That puts it out of reach for many people to run and so making it more centralised.

To compete with a payment rails like Visa and Mastercard, you'd need to increase that to 10000+ tx/sec, making running a node complete unfeasible for most people to run.

There's simply no such thing as a decentralised blockchain network with unlimited block-size. At some point if you want to remain decentralised, you have to create layer 2+ networks that can handle the smaller, high-bandwidth transactions, and so you may as well commit to that model now and focus on making the base layer as robust as possible.

Ultimately for a money to attract the most value, it needs to optimise for the very largest transactions, and offer the most robustness (i.e. most decentralisation). This is precisely what bitcoin has done.
What's the risk of buying Amazon & running a SMART/crystaldisk test?
I bet you'll get a lot more adoption if you put info about using it with local self-hosted LLMs there. I'll never trust a cloud service with the documents I want to RAG.
Do you think private equity funds could have other end goals when buying a company?
I imagine the logistics of sourcing enough ingredients to supply a nationwide chain are much more complicated than a single local establishment, which pushes the nationwide chains towards more-consistent but lower-quality solutions like just buying from Sysco.
I've had so many Seagate drives fail that I won't buy Seagate again.

If a brand sells bad drives, they should be aware of the reputational damage it causes. Otherwise there is no downside to selling bad drives.
I kind of went down a rabbit hole last year after the Xerox Star emulator was posted here. It was really cool, but super slow, so I felt like emulating another old system. I ended up writing a GUI calculator for RISC OS in ARM assembly, neither of which I had exposure to before. It was a blast. Very interesting system, it's like visiting a country on the other side of the planet.

There's a pretty good emulator, they've got a bundle fully loaded with all kinds of RISC OS tools.

https://www.marutan.net/rpcemu/easystart.html
Modern Linux on the Desktop in 2023
From a purely scientific naming, there actually is a difference between shrimp and prawns. They're different sub-orders. Prawns are Dendrobranchiata, while shrimp are Pleocyemata. I'm not sure it makes much culinary difference to me though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrobranchiata

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleocyemata

"True Shrimp"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caridea
A friend died at 40 from lung cancer despite never smoking. It's rare but it happens. How many proven assassinations of corporate whistleblowers have happened in the US? I think it's zero in the last 100 years at least.
That's a great question. I'll start with a little context: most of the users of our existing hosted platform are no-code/low-code developers who choose us because we're the simplest solution for building what they want to build (primarily because we have end-to-end workflows like Chat built-in). The improved retrieval performance is a nice-to-have for this group, but usually not the primary reason they choose us.

For the larger companies and venture-backed startups we've talked to, they almost universally want to own their RAG stack in-house or build on open-source frameworks, rather than outsource it to an end-to-end solution provider. So open-sourcing our core retrieval tech is our bid to appeal to these developers.
I didnt say that. We were talking about "Professional Use". I imagine a Professional can install the nvidia drivers on Linux Mint.
Are you me? Hah. I identify with your situation quite a lot. From exhibiting ADHD type symptoms, to self-medicating, to entering tech, to being unable to hold a job.

Quitting weed didn't help me. I stopped for 2 months. I'm not off weed, but I don't rely on it nearly as much. When I smoked, I thought I could be my authentic self and care less about what others think of me. Weed helped with this 30% of the time. The other 70% of the time weed made me closed off, paranoid, and sometimes just weird. But I latched on to the good times to tell myself that it was helpful.

My only suggestion: find a good therapist and start this journey now (https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/). I thought I had ADHD. I thought I had an addiction to weed. I thought I was in the right career. After a very public firing, and going into my 30s, I knew something had to change. Your situation may be completely different - I have no idea, this is just my exp.

Now, I'm on a different path. I'm working towards a career pivot. I'm doing things that are completely different from my prev career. I enjoy it. I don't know where I'm going exactly, which is terrifying, but....... it's fine.

Consider this next chapter as a series of small experiments to tease out who you really are.

And for God's sakes, don't throw away your relationship with your Wife. Like you, I have no idea why my partner stuck with me. They has been my strongest support.
It gives me strong Amiga-vibes and it seems it's open-source now... I like it and will definitely try it out!
Umbra was recently spun out as CedarDB [1].

And Hyper is alive and well at Salesforce/Tableau! The team working on it is still in large parts the original Hyper team from TUM. You can actually download Hyper (as a binary with language bindings) and play around with it [2] for non-commercial use cases.

If you think Hyper/Umbra is cool, the TUM database group has lots of other very interesting projects going on at the moment. LingoDB [3] pushes the database-as-a-compiler idea to the extreme by implementing query optimization and compilation query compilation in MLIR. LingoDB is open-source. Also Viktor Leis, who stands behind (among many other things) Hyper's Morsel scheduling and ART indexes as well as Umbra's buffer management recently started a very interesting project [4] to heavily co-design the DBMS together with the OS in a unikernel approach. Really interesting stuff!

Disclaimer: I work on Hyper. Views are my own.

[1]: https://cedardb.com/
[2]: https://tableau.github.io/hyper-db/docs/
[3]: https://www.lingo-db.com/
[4]: https://www.cs.cit.tum.de/dis/research/cumulus/
Can anyone exhibit a search that works better here than on Algolia?
Interesting, thanks! I'd never heard of The Long Now Foundation before.
Hard to argue that game was not successful. It was merely expensive to produce.
A nice pattern from Common Lisp is to inherit the parts of an object from different superclasses. Method combination means one can write methods for those superclasses and then have them automatically combined in a subclass.

Example: if one has tree nodes with various slots that represent children and you want to write a tree traversal function, you put each slot in a superclass, inherit from those superclasses in the correct order, and then write a method for each superclass that calls the child at that slot. The methods are combined in the right order automatically in a PROGN method combination.
The characters for the demonstration at the bottom of the page:

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Why? They decided the same. Both miners and users favor the fork where the 1MB block limit is kept.

Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin Gold are used and mined very little.
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