skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apache arrow and parquet all work this way. Even HDF5 in column mode isn't completely bad.

TTree is succeeded by RNTuple, which is basically CERN's take on Apache Arrow, they're incredibly similar
It says “no comics available at the moment”

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Shodan is first degree in Japanese martial arts or the go board game. Other stuff too like tea ceremony or calligraphy.
> One thing on my wishlist is that I end up with a way to instantly transcribe my notes.

Many of the implementations are clunky in my opinion, but this exists as a feature in many note taking tablet apps.
napster asked me if I wanted to work on his project, and I told him I saw no future because it would inevitably just get shut down. From my perspective looking back, Napster was the start of the trend of startup companies based around brazenly flouting the law directly as a middleman, then when finally called out just bargaining with the incumbents to arbitrage their user base and associated hipness for a payout.

I still don't think the dream of techno-liberation is dead. Rather the naive bits were thinking the sea change would happen so quickly, and thinking that the same old type of vectoralist hucksters wouldn't seek to corrupt our new systems. In actuality our systems need to be designed with the perspective of all possible gatekeepers as attackers. For example take the End to End principle - it's not sufficient to merely tell the network to not meddle with your communications, those communications must be cryptographically protected to avoid any temptation. Otherwise as you commit an increasing amount of value to your use of the network, it merely becomes a question of when the network operators will eventually try to take advantage of you to extract some of that value.

The big issue these days is there is so much capital funding "startups" that are essentially centralized crud apps running that same pump-and-dump arbitrage playbook. They buy lots of advertising and other mindshare (cf "It is difficult to get a man to understand something...") and generally use up most of the air in the room.
>> if you add more parking spots downtown, more people will drive downtown

But that's good if you wan't more people to drive downtown, isn't it? What am I missing here?
I've been working on an AI app for 18 months and almost replied to tell you no, AI cant do that.

And, doh, took a minute, and realized I'm a dunce.* And now there's at least 3 I can think of off the top of my head, not to mention local.

Training a handwriting recognition AI is universally accessible. What a time to be alive.

* If you're dense like me: they're not saying "any AI" as "any handwriting recognition machine learning model you build from that dataset". They're saying as AI as any multimodal LLM, it'll do in context learning on what you upload.
Author is a right wing propagandist. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hanania

A web of potentially interesting data is presented, but no rigorous reasoning is involved. A lot of words to assert confirmation bias of “Asians are conformist”.
> Eventually people will just stop participating in the housing game

What game? Not being homeless?

People will always want a place to live.
Around that time Oppenheimer became the director of the Institute of Advanced Studies where this took place. His idea was to invite there various talented people, giving them grants to work on whatever they wish. Most of them were in science, but he also managed to get T. S. Eliot.
:-) The Dead Parrot Sketch, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Parrot_sketch
The one remaining clock I have took a hard fall, and no longer syncs.
This is a flawed analogy and I think there is a false dichotomy by framing skepticism around building more highways as inherently anti-car. I'm going to go out on a limb and say most drivers do not enjoy traffic and most residents near busy roadways do not enjoy the effects of traffic on their neighborhood. The question is what is the best policy approach that manages all people's concerns. For me, the question is how can we get people to live and work in areas where it isn't necessary to inefficiently, and very expensively, move people to and from work.

Since the 1950s, we have optimized for essentially the least efficient form of transit available. It seems completely bonkers to me that in the bay and other high density areas, you have many, many workers, particularly at the low end of the income scale, driving over an hour each way to work. It is an understandable and rational decision for the driver, but crazy to me for society.
Soulseek is absolutely awesome at this. Why don't the record labels shut it down? Have they just given up on P2P?
You can have a consistent reputation for success without having real magical powers.

Being lucky is an option. ("I shall cause it to rain" and it just so happens to rain.)

Outsmarting your client is another option. ("I shall cause it to rain... tomorrow" - meanwhile, you have used meteorology to predict that it will rain tomorrow.

Lies and rumors are a third option. ("That magician can make it rain! I saw it with my own eyes!" meanwhile it's actually just a baseless rumor which has circulated around town for a while.)
You can do multi shot workflows pretty easy, I like to have the model produce markdown, then add code blocks (```json/yaml```) to extract the interim results. You can lay out multiple "phases" in your prompt and have it perform each one in turn, and have each one reference prior phases. Then at the end you just pull out the code blocks for each phase and you have your structured result.
I'm having PTSD flashbacks since I had a startup based on it when VMWare owned it where we M&A'ed small mail hosting businesses and migrated them to our ZNE instances. Our license costs totaled maybe $15k USD for a dozen instances and we had access to VMware staff on Sand Hill.
My immediate reaction is that this is as much a semantic mistake as “this message does not exist.”

Maybe I’m wrong, but … well, there it is.
Thanks, I'll read those more fully.

But "knowledge injection" is still pretty narrow to me. Here's an example of a very simple but extremely valuable usecase - taking a model that was trained on language+code and finetuning it on a text-to-DSL task, where the DSL is a custom one you created (and thus isn't in the training data). I would consider that close to infeasible if your only tool is a RAG hammer, but it's a very powerful way to leverage LLMs.
There's a story that when Bohr came to pick up Einstein at Copenhagen Central station, they took the tram (line 1) to Bohr's institute in Østerbro, but they became so engrossed in their conversation that they went all the way to the end in Hellerup and back again.

Line 1 was later replaced by a bus, and until the metro opened a few years ago (when most of the busses were changed), you could still go the same route from the central station to the Niels Bohr institute. Or Hellerup, if you had someone interesting to talk to.
C still has fields in structures; you just have to pass a structure as the argument to a function. As long as you're okay with syntax like "self->field" or "self.field" (given a parameter called "self"), you can still kind of do OOP, just that no fields are private.
> like Chairman Mao Zedong, who seemed to equate Chinese modernization with the Romanization of Chinese script

One of Mao's better ideas
Yes, minimizing clutter was a priority, and still is. I've tried to avoid those arrows for a long time, but the pawn movements wasn't clear enough without them. And I agree it's not the optimal display.

Displaying them on some tiles only is something I have not thought of. My first reaction is that it may feel harder to read, as tiles with an arrow may look like they would act differently than those without? We may induce the idea that it has a different purpose. So for now, I'd prefer a solution that would look the same on all tiles, I think that's much easier to parse. But then I should probably give this a try before rejecting it.

You do have a good point regarding the wood texture, I've tried other textures, but couldn't find a better one yet. But I'm sure that's possible. Nevertheless for now, you can also display different skins: https://imgur.com/a/zitKlpz

And thanks a lot for mentioning the four colour theorem. I'm looking at its wikipedia page now. I'm sure I came across it many times before, but I did not think about it when tackling this part of the problem. My implementation is here is anyone can spot my mistake: https://github.com/polygonjs/polygonjs/blob/master/src/engin...
I love your replay, your answer is the near perfect summing up of the issue! My view is some here in America are starting to get too lenient towards Russia and other authoritarian states. Do we not understand that these states want complete control and don't care how they get it? Information and educational purges are two of many ways this is done. After that, it gets dirty.

Rule of thumb, if the Constitution says it stinks, it does. If we don't like something in it, work for a change. In China and Russia they don't have that right.
I know. I read that. I didn't say it was about twitter. I'm saying that many commenters, and the article itself, seem to think people will confuse it with twitter, but I confused it with X11.
I really really don't want to do type annotations. I just want to know about:

variable = 1
print(varaible)

It's been a while since I did Lua, but there's been a few cases where this caused massive confusion.

Last I checked I couldn't really find a good way to do that; but like I said: it's been a while.
yeah I look forward to writing my own monad analogy!
The presence of these affordances (allowing easy access to a Linux desktop, the ability to install Windows) is there to placate people like you. The vast majority of Steam Deck users will never use a Switch form factor and think let me pop into the desktop to install command line utilities.

And finally, Valve is conservative with many things, and fickle in many others. They have completely reversed their policy with regards to what adult game is or isn’t allowed on their store twice. Allowing AI-made content on their store is a question of policy.
in the case I mentioned, the episode "smarter and smarterer" just went down the memory hole, it's like it was never there.
> What am I missing here?

That downtown is now a concrete hellscape instead of a pleasant place to be. Your solution ensures that always happens, overall people prefer less infrastructure built for cars, but if it is there of course they will use it.
Thanks for adding more context and nuance. In the scenario you seem to be describing, I‘d consider leaving too - my situation isn’t that bad. I think a last resort could be to request a 1on1 and speak Tacheles, and maybe find a better basis on which to communicate. If that doesn’t work out, I think leaving is an option to definitely look at, life‘s too short for bad relationships (if they can be avoided).
Uh oh. Okta seems to be having technical problems over the last few days too (ie automatically logging out the account admin a few seconds after logging in), and the support ticket we've filed about it hasn't even been looked at. :(
I don’t think this analogy is quite correct. Driving on a particular route is not a driver’s objective like reading a particular book is a reader’s objective. The driver’s objective is arriving at a destination. The objective in driving is not a finite resource, but the multiple route options to the objective can be, which differs substantially from a library queue.
Sorry. Forgot the </sarcasm>.

The point was it is not logical, 'human logic' is fallacious. It only appears logical if it justifies what you want.
Browse your phone? Everyone does that in public transit, drivers don't do that in cars. You could read HN and post messages for example.
Like I said I think it tries to masquerade it’s low level by including them when they’re not really pointers. I see no reason why they didn’t go the route of other GC’d languages which don’t include faux-pointers.
Hey very useful app, I'll be watching this. I once wanted to set up backend apps during automated CI jobs in order to facilitate e2e tests and ended up making an utility kind of similar - but yours truly goes beyond.

https://dhuan.github.io/mock/

With mock you can set up backend APIs completely from configuration files or even from command-line parameters - such as

$ mock serve --port 3000
--route 'say_hi/{name}'
--method GET
--response 'Hello world! My name is ${name}.'
--route "what_time_is_it"
--method GET
--exec 'printf "Now it is %s" $(date +"%H:%M") > $MOCK_RESPONSE_BODY'
> Treating errors as opaque and passing them up the stack in the general case...

...is directly contradictory to one of the most fundamental assertions of the language, which is that errors are values -- https://go.dev/blog/errors-are-values -- and therefore "can [and should] be programmed".
Thanks!

It's been fun. It's not too dissimilar to iOS - a lot of spatial capabilities are linked very closely with RealityKit, it's worth looking at the API if you're interested. I was thinking we'd use Metal for rendering, but as I think there are privacy issues with accessing the raw camera data, it's only supported for 'full' spaces, so not the mixed / camera feed + overlay.
From your link:

>Richard Hanania is an American political science researcher and right-wing political commentator

Being a partisan "commentator" automatically makes you a "propagandist" now?
I searched everywhere for any other leaks of it and found nothing.
Indeed. Also: since when does LLVM translate C code?
This seems the most straightforward of explanations. I know that a planet tends to loose its heat (and visibility in infrared) quickly after formation -- and might be hard to spot as a rogue planet.

But, the Zwart explanation seems to suggest that the pairs are still potentially drawing stuff in, and might not be the final form that the planet-pairs will take once they exist (or consume) the nebulae. Nothing seems to be stopping these pairs from evolving into stars themselves (aren't binaries far more common than solitary suns, like our own?).
There are those little black and white arrows on each tile, which indicate which way is forward for a specific player. Does that help? Or maybe you saw them and you mean something else?

Interestingly, someone here mentioned that those arrows add a lot of clutter, and someone else on twitter said they only noticed them after I pointed them out. It's interesting how people perceive things like that so differently.
Get harassed by homeless? Or just men in general, if you’re a remotely attractive female (using the broadest term available as it certianly isn’t restricted to what we’d appropriately call “women”).
Anthropic is too new to have built that functionality I guess. Only found out because they were mad that my key was abusing their ToS and they notified the organization owner.
^ probably one of the top 5 unsubstantial things fellow countrymen say to eachother on HN
Fine tuning has been on the way out for a while. It's hard to do right and costly. LoRAs are better for influencing output style as they don't dumb down the model, and they're easier to create. This is on top of RAG just being better for new facts like the other reply mentioned.
Books are not a finite resource? Obviously there is a finite number of trees but there are enough for it not to be a bottleneck. Land on the hand is a finite resource, especially in large, urban cities. There is no way to design a highway or other car infrastructure that will meet the demands of any reasonably sized city without dedicating an unreasonable amount of land to cars. Anyway, Ray explains it better than I could and he agrees that the term is bad: https://youtu.be/za56H2BGamQ
Is the choppy movement of the cloth because of the limitations of the device or something else?

Can’t believe this is what $4-5K piece of tech looks like. Wild.
> What is a cobbler going to do with a bunch of shoes that will cost him more to make than it would cost to buy. What good would it do him to be able to consume his own products - are we still talking about a cobbler or have you somehow mixed in the notion of a nation state? Are you suggesting the cobblers consumption needs are met by his own production?

If the cobbler is the only person with this "problem", what are you worried about?

> Is he to eat his shoes?

> Even if he was, he would still be better off buying them than making them.

Please think about whether what you imagine is logically possible. What is this cobbler going to use to buy imported shoes?
Traffic fatalities in Thailand are the highest in SE Asia and 73% of them are on motorcycles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_i...
The New ChatGPT Offers a Lesson in A.I. Hype
Apparently not enough to actually understand OOP type theory.
Currently working in a Microsoft-enabled corp with a very aggressive document retention (i.e. deletion) policy. This message doesn't surprise me at all. Stuff just...disappears. All the time.
if you can work in a fast language, why not?

comments here have already mentioned couple horror stories of people accidentally/by inexperience doing a lot of work above the framework - if you can save that by not being slow, why not?
A sufficiently smart minifier should rewrite that back into `"hello ".times(8)` =)
Yes, you've repeated yourself twice now, but haven't explained yourself. What is low level about Go's pointers that would suggest that might suggest it is a low level language? There is nothing low level about them.
If there were layoffs coming 100% these women could have been chosen as retaliatory action as part of a wider campaign of discrimination. A big part of doing layoffs is finding non-discriminatory reasons to lay off people you don’t like. And sometimes it means engineers you like and think are competent will catch strays because you just need to get rid of the incompetents so bad.

I am not saying that these women have or have not been discriminated against. Just that the laying off of other workers doesn’t mean they haven’t.
Welp, I said before I would wait and see instead of directly dismiss the feature, and now I have my answer. That will be another of these feature to hard disable after windows install…
Yeah, the story is a bit incomplete. The full chain was application->transaction master -> 20 or so slave databases. It was a weekly batch dispatching data to the 20 slaves, starting with a full delete of each slave.

Someone decided to literally pull the plug and replace the master database server node from the rack, while the batch was still running. He assumed the other server nodes would pick up where this one left off. So the batch log of the application first complained about the master disappearing, then about the rollback failing on another master node because it wasn't the coordinator and had no idea of this transaction.

It also means the decision about the commit/rollback was irrelevant, as next week's batch run had deleted the records in question. Presumably, some ephemeral records were hanging around, deciding if they were deleted either in week X or week X+1.
Because they got smaller at the same time as they got faster.

We pretty much locked in a latency pattern (eg, acceptable upper bound for user path completion speed) such that we’re happy with the speed you can go. Much faster and it feels weird.

We just want to continue to shrink it down.
You can see about half of trips are by car in for example Germany:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1309333/germany-modal-sp...

Public transit isn't all, just being denser so that biking and walking is more viable is also a big part to why European cities aren't concrete wastelands full of parking and roads. The normal way to go and buy groceries is to walk not drive.
I thought github let you turn off PRs on a repo -- the author may wanna do that.
Wow, this is really cool and clever. Well done!
Why AI Is Tech's Latest Hoax [video]
0.12 is meant to be the version that you can probably stop tracking master.

It isn’t stable, but it is.
One side effect of this I remember was that, for a little while, there was a blackmarket of buying MP3s on CD at car boots and flea markets. My dad came home once with a CD with all the Beatles songs. He had paid something like £15 and thought he'd got a deal of his life.

I also wonder which year it stopped being an acceptable Christmas present to give someone a burned CD.
You sir get an F in history and the industry does too.

Does no one remember why expert systems fell apart? Because you have to keep paying experts to feed the beast. Because they are bound to the whims and limitations of experts. Making up data isnt going to get us there, we already failed with this method ONCE.

Open AI's bet with MS and the resignation of all the safety people says everything you need to know. MS gets everthin up to AGI... IF you thought you were close, if you thought that you were going to get there with a bigger model and more data then you MIGHT want MS's money. And MS had its own ML folks publish papers with "hints of AGI", The google engineer saying "it's AGI" before getting laughed at...

I suspect that everyone at OpenAI was high on their own supply. That they thought AGI would emerge, or sapience, or sentience if they shoved enough data at it. I think the safety minding folks leaving points to the fact that they found the practical limitations.

Show me the paper that has progress on hallucination. Show me the paper that doubles effectiveness and halves the size. These are where we need progress for this to become more than grift, than NFT's.
Tool to locally mount K8s PVs using SSHFS
That’s an interesting analogy and makes a lot of sense.

But in the long run, wouldn’t it make sense to have one or more layers of obfuscation. Rather than everyone typing prompts, have libraries of functions for specialized purposes. Then different models can be plugged in and out of those functions.

Just like I can program without knowing assembly.

Maybe this already exists. I don’t know.
Exa - Neural search engine
Confirmation bias is a thing. If you believe that magical powers are real you will find a way to explain away when it does not work while celebrating loudly when it does. For example if your wizard cannot cause rain it's because the curse is too powerful etc. Additionally growing up with something, such as when everyone around you believes something, makes it somewhat unlikely that you will question it. Finally, if everyone around you believes something there is strong pressure to do the same thing to fit in.

I have a theory that a lot of mental biases could be explained by energy minimization - changing beliefs requires brain reconfiguration which is expensive, so we tend not to do it... unless it's imperative to survival.
My wife recently got into kintsugi. She's learning the traditional method described here. I'm reading these comments with great interest and will be passing this onto her!

Most of the methods taught in the US are "gold relief" methods, which is basically glue with golden pigment mixed in. It doesn't look great but is modern and quick. "Gold flush" methods take a bit more time and are more authentic, but still don't use the traditional materials shown in this article.

Does anyone know where to get these traditional materials for use in classroom settings (i.e. in bulk, preferably discounted)? Not massive scale, just enough for a few classes. The kits have such a tiny amount and are so expensive, even a bulk discount of ~10-20% would be ideal.
Sketch-style UI isn't supposed to make people comment more freely, it's supposed to help stop them from focusing on the polish and instead look at the functionality. The last thing you want is "X and Y aren't aligned" or "Would color Z be better?" when the questions are still more like "Does this work?" and "Are these numbers correct?"