skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is bowling not already ruined? Private equity trying to turning bowling alleys into expensive bars is one thing, but it seems that the current model of bowling alleys has already failed... nearly all the bowling alleys I've visited in the past decade are the most dismal poorly-maintained decrepit places around.

In my experience private equity is a symptom, not the cause, they're the vultures picking the corpse...
Is this true? I googled and couldn't find it. I'd really like to read about this.
They said repeatedly in the video anything going over the wire is optional and user controllable.
(10) I have been trying to get more details from Squarespace. They are still not telling me what URL was reported for abuse which makes me think it was a false report. They have confirmed, however, that if your account is suspended you will not be notified and will only see a message if attempting to log into your Squarespace account.
Innocent man in prison 37 years helps reveal alleged serial killers
And Android Pay, I forgot my wallet one day, decide to use Android Pay but was block with : "Android Pay is replace by Google Pay, you need to update...". The shame of not been able to pay loose ma confident to use Google for this.
It tries to fetch a sitemap for in case there's some missing link. But it starts from the root and crawls internal links. There's a new mode added this morning for spa with the option `--spa` that will write the original HTML instead of the generated/rendered one. That way some apps _will_ work better.
The other NATO interventions:

* Intervention in the violent breakup of Yugoslavia, invited to do so by the UN in response to the genocide going on there.

* Invasion of Afghanistan, following the invocation of Article 5 after an attack on a NATO country (i.e., 9/11).
Yep initiatives like these have a nasty habit of being underfunded and deprioritized.
Wouldn't the e/acc analysis here be that if people, or our entire species, has to die in the name of progress then that's a cost we should be willing to bear?
I've heard so many stories of people sending money by P2P in Venmo and having pretty much zero recourse. There's fraud protection for merchant accounts but sending cash P2P between normal user accounts there's pretty much no protections.

Read up all the stories of people sending money to the wrong Venmo user and support not being any help about it.
Actually, there is a law in the United States that says the lender is responsible and the loan is essentially invalid if the underlying purchase is based on fraud. Any protection you receive from a debit card transaction is essentially at the mercy of whatever the bank chooses to do and some banks claim you are protected and most don't, but it doesn't have the force of federal law the way it does with a credit card.
https://archive.ph/PueKj
do they mention how big the models are? Last I saw was 3gb - I just bought a 8gb m4 iPad and keep thinking I should have gone for the 16gb one
I think they finally changed this recently to allow you to paste in- I've resorted to the same workaround in the past though.
'Becoming a totalitarian state': UK judge on why he quit Hong Kong court
I'm not going to do your thinking for you. If you don't understand that after a certain age, cars are no more a threat to children than they are to adults – then I don't expect you to understand why and how criminals are a threat to people around them.
If you don't have a smart thermostat, check whoever your utility is for discounts. I got a 50% discount buying it through them.
Starts at 12:10
It might happen! There's a fair bit of active research into repurposing batteries from cars into such a purpose or similar.

This both extends the usefulness of the manufactured good (the battery) while also hopefully lowering the upfront costs of new electric cars.
What a shitshow that was! I’m pretty sure they’ve deprecated that part of the login process now, though. It’s much smoother, in a relative sense.
That's the point the article makes, you are _not_ legally required to hand over the password.

> Officers routinely ask travellers to provide their passcode or password to devices so they can be examined, but they do not have the power to compel passengers to hand over their passcodes,
One UI element every presentation should have
I don't know if this article is true but many assertions are untrue. The bowlero stock is pretty level and up from when it went public. It never made it past $17 from the $10 opening (SPAC probably?). So I have no idea what this author is talking about when he says it's been a wild ride.
wow, that sounds bad, sorry. i just get stuck if i write that stuff in a notebook. this forums level and kind of interaction helps keep the chain of thought going at the same temperature and in the intended hue.

i shouldn't do this again, though. apologies, if I annoyed someone or got them into a bad mood.
OpenUSD is probably the closest thing in terms of scene description? You have both Python Api and human-readable ascii format
That's a very loose definition of "easy"
As an product designer / inventor, I know that feeling well... that point when so many prototypes have failed, but you feel you are so close. You feel you've run out of time and that it will be too expensive to test another one, so you convince yourself to go into production with what *should* work, it has to right?!?... (well it almost never does, and it's 100% not worth the stress).

But to put your own life and others at risk making that move... whoooooooweeeeee, that's fully into batshit crazy land.
I would argue that “shut up and calculate” is correct specifically because QM is a model. What hubris it would take to believe that we’ve discovered how the universe actually works (and there’s the issue of inconsistency with GR).

And since it’s just a model, it doesn’t matter what “interpretation” you pick, since all models are wrong anyway.
Python libraries to make beautiful maps
> The driver was an asshole for not finding somewhere else to put it.

In the former soviet block, you don't "find somewhere else" to park your car. You grab the first spot where you fit because you don't know if there is another free anywhere else.

Incidentally, that's why i like 4 meter cars. On streets with parallel parking, they fit in more places than the 4.5 m or more.

> Well...

Okay he could have been an asshole for other reasons, including for importing the F-150 here.

But the parking spots were at 45 degree angle and while it was narrow enough to fit in two if parked at 45, it was too long and it would have blocked the access lane with the tip. So it was parallel parked on 3 which was the only way to not block anyone.
The difference is who controls it. I've run a tool on my machine that recorded every key press because I was researching how to optimize keyboard layouts. If someone else did that, it would be a keylogger and it would be very much not okay. But since I did it intentionally, it was a useful tool - though, granted, short lived because it made me nervous having that data around even in encrypted form. There's something there about tradeoffs and informed consent.
Design for things to be easily failable. It should be trivial to have failed messages to go to a DLQ and then reprocess them later on, say after a bug fix.

Only make additive changes, don't change existing fields. For enums it's up to the consumer to ensure they don't fail when a new case is added.

Be very careful with including data (especially time/expiry stuff) in the message too. If you need to reprocess the event several hours later then it may no longer work or be stale. Rather than include the data in the message itself, we would include the database ID and then have the consumer query for that entry.
I loved that deep scratchy bass, modern hard drives are so quiet... I miss sleeping to my computer defragging all night long :(
Just make sure you use it for a few days before hand so it doesn't appear to be a burner phone, lest you be considered suspicious and remanded for additional interrogation.
How does the saying go? If you want to kill someone and get away with it, kill them with your car.
My family is from pretty close to there (on the modern Ukrainian side not Romanian, but Hungarian and Eastern Yiddish speaking), so I’ve always seen it spelled “Szatmar.”

But yeah, looks like “Satmar” is much more common in English and there’s no ז in the Yiddish spellings either.
The few US banks that offer "free" outgoing wires usually have other restrictions such as a large minimum account balance.
It's Jacobin. Capitalism has shaky underpinnings and is only to the detriment of society at that publication.

Their mention of Bowlmor Lanes was casual and dismissive. In the early 90s when Shannon bought the place it was a completely dilapidated mess you wouldn't want to go into and he turned it into the most profitable/successful bowling center in the entire US. I lived through the transition and it was significant.
> though a Mac and Android is a strange combination.

Probably so, but there is one demographic well represented here that does this routinely: Developers. Macs are the default and often mandatory computers issued to developers at tech companies (I strongly disagree with this approach and think employees should get the platform they are most comfortable on, but Macs only is the current state of things in most places).

So many use Macs because of work, but have Android phones due to reasons I won't articulate here, mostly due to time but also with the audience on this article I expect it would melt down into an argument about which flavor of ice cream is better (metaphorically, not literally). Suffice it to say, Android users would agree with the reasons, Apple users will say you shouldn't be doing those things anyway, and we'll have to agree to disagree.
I see your comments I just think it’s a bullshit (like half of wiki articles around political and ideological topics today).

I base it on some facts I know about big companies from inside - while some of them sometimes had bad intentions and do bad unethical things,

vast majority is just genuinely trying to do business and bring value to customers or consumers. While wasting ton of money and people-hours to meaningless work around another dumb regulation promoted by dumb bureaucrats.

And btw, define “ethical” before you ignorantly label the whole industry sector as unethical. Can you?
Show HN: Applying Maths in the Chemical and Biomolecular Sciences
This online book is a much updated and corrected version of ‘Applying Maths in the Chemical and Biomolecular Sciences, an example based approach’ published by OUP 2009. The book is aimed at final year undergraduates and starting graduate students. The aim is to provide examples of the each of the topics that a student would need by giving worked examples with the potential for live computer code if needed.

Source code can be found at:
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Thanks very much, it helps a lot!
Dopamine burnout. They are so excited every couple of months that they literally cannot be more excited anymore.
Well it’s still not E2EE so it should he green in my opinion. Green means “this is being logged by the phone company like it’s 1999 and can be subpoenaed at any time”.

Sounds like that still true of RCS since it still works with the phone company. Why in the hell are they needed when every modern messaging app just worked using, you know, The Internet?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_Fortwo

They are perfectly legal to sell. There's just little demand and most manufacturers have discontinued sales.

I own a not-quite-that small car and the manufacturer discontinued US sales for the same reason - the lack thereof. That's why the Smart Fortwo discontinued sales in the US in 2019. The US market for good or for bad just does not want small cars. Many manufacturers are even dropping their sedans for sales reasons; e.g., Ford dropped the Fusion and Focus.
1) Jacobin is a rag, not a real news source and greatly exaggerates almost every topic they cover.

This whole "PE ruins [x]" assumes that x was doing well before PE invested, which in most cases, is a complete fairtytale. Bowling has been dying rapidly over the past 2 decades. Every "local" bowling alley is dark, dingy, non-updated/maintained, etc etc.

If customers actually wanted true, simple bowling and not "upscale entertainment", there would be businesses to fill the void. Unfortunately for people who really like bowling, the demand just doesn't exist.
> They left because there is no THERE, there..

They left because they lost the power struggle.
I wouldn’t say it’s philosophy so much as a split in what you think the goal of physics is. Is the goal to create the most accurate models or to understand how the universe actually works?
Even worse: the first full size thing had a large-scale delamination that made it obvious that it would be unsafe to use it again, then they ordered a second carbon fibre hull from a different manufacturer, used a different manufacturing process (several curing phases instead of only one), and reused the end domes and connecting rings from the first thing that had been pretty inseparably glued to the failed cylinder, then tested that insufficiently, and eventually it failed.
How has private equity become such a strong force today? They are eating the world it seems. Blamed for strangling stable chain-restaurants[1], shuttering toy stores[2], and now ruining bowling!

Of course, these were not the best performing stores, and perhaps large chains are out of fashion in the contemporary era. Is private equity simply the scavenger, feeding off the walking-corpses of these businesses, encouraging new growth? I would be more OK with that if it didn't end with shadowy rich finance bros owning everything. The kind of disruption that these PE firms accomplish feels a lot more like corruption to me.

1: https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/private-equity-rol...
2: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/toys-r-...
"Slop" is a general term, you can create slop as a human, for example YouTubers who upload daily talking about the latest Twitter drama they are usually referred to as making slop, especially if they have a main channel where they upload high quality content. It's not a new term and it has little to do with AI by itself.
Stoke Space ignites its ambitious main engine
I don't know if you realize how much the built enviornment has been changed in 40 years.

Some of those roads you biked on have probably been widened. Cars have gotten faster, larger, and heavier. Speed limits have increased.

I'm not saying it's guaranteed to be dramatically different but I think there probably is some kind of difference.

Just look at the pedestrian deaths chart for the past 5-10 years or so.
I thought it started with the google algorithm rewarding more body text and high linger-time. Sites that just present info concisely are down ranked (then google extracts the concise info from long time-wasting sites and puts it directly on their search page—a whole thriving ecosystem of bullshit jobs, but at least now we can automate every part of that!)
Had to do a double take. There’s an epic mom and pop bowling alley in town called Bowlero that’s completely unrelated to this. Just noticed their website explicitly states this in the footer.

https://bowlerodetroit.com/
Tried by Statistics
When Doing Wrong Feels So Right: Normalization of Deviance
When the article calls the Record Industry the Music Industry I cringe.

The Record Industry in the US is mostly dead. It's rather alive in other countries.

The Record Industry got replaced, Live Nation took its place. Lots of the same players, different segment of the business.
Related: https://www.lobaro.com/en/using-the-armv8-m-trustzone-with-g...
tldr: "slop" is defined as unwanted AI content
> anywhere I'm logged into Chrome plus native Android apps anywhere I'm logged into Google Play is super convenient though

Android's autofill framework is open to everyone to use, and every third-party password manager has a Chrome plugin. I use Bitwarden with exactly this experience, but across Firefox and Chrome and Android.
> This is where it's actually interesting, it's not prototype -> live and boom.

> It's the fifth mission or something, and worked for two years.

Interesting how? I'm reminded of a quote from a famous failure analysis:

> We have also found that certification criteria used in [Mission] Readiness Reviews often develop a gradually decreasing strictness. The argument that the same risk was [deployed] before without failure is often accepted as an argument for the safety of accepting it again. Because of this, obvious weaknesses are accepted again and again, sometimes without a sufficiently serious attempt to remedy them, or to delay a [mission] because of their continued presence.
There are Forth like languages, such as Kitten, that have variables and more.

https://kittenlang.org/
Very much this. I know Steve Jobs was a showman, but at least he was charming in a way.

Like, I know you're twisting me around your little finger, but I'll let you do it, because it's kind of fun.

Whereas now, it feels more like car salesmen (and saleswomen of course) trying to sell me a new car even though my "old" car is still perfectly fine. And they know it and I know it.
AI Agent is approaching to production-ready
Pgvectorscale: A complement to pgvector for high performance
Late to the party, but I think my summary is (L is context length, C is hidden dimension, H is headsize, C = H * nh):

3.1 Optimised attention: Instead of using a learned W_V to project from C to H, slice V into H sized vectors. (V is just the input tokens X). This is because the matrix multiply is to a lower dimension anyway, so why not just slice. Slicing is just reshaping (L, C) -> (L, nh, H)

3.2 Efficient attention: I think this opens with a typo, "In the last section, we discussed how and why we can remove W_O..." should be W_V not W_O I think. Anyways, same as above, just for the keys this time. Reshape K (which is just X) from (L, C) -> (L, nh, H)

3.3 Super attention: Introduce an (L, L) W_A (lower triangular for masked) that transforms V on the left (X again) from (L, C) -> (L, C) (whereas standard attention has W_V (C, C) that transforms (L, C) -> (L, C) from the right). And they share W_A between heads.More efficient when C > L, so for long context models, probably not more efficient.

I think the first two modifications are equivalent to just setting W_V and W_K to the constant identity matrices right? So that makes me think what would happen if you instead restrict W_V (and/or W_K, W_Q) to be block diagonal (though non square) such that each head has in effect an (H, H) matrix which transforms the slice of X it receives. This is different than standard attention right? Because there the W_V acts over the full C dimension. Almost surely someone has thought of this so I will try to find out

Still learning so all this could be wrong
> Electric cars mostly don't have the circuitry to do this yet

Electric cars do have the circuitry to do this. It's built into the CCS protocol which nearly every EV speaks (US and EU).

And it's not hard to imagine how this would work. Two big connectors on EVs can ultimately be hooked pretty much directly to the battery. When you plug in, you'll hear a giant "cachunck" which is the relay switching to DC charging.

If you want to turn that into a vehicle providing power, the action is exactly the same, "cachunk" the relay which completes the circuit and have the charging station convert that DC power to AC.

That's where the actual equipment gap exists. AFAIK, it's basically only ford that's producing a V2H charger. Enphase has one announced since last year, but I've not really seen anything about it since the announcement.
Has it been edited? I don't see anything in the article about a volatile stock or a "wild ride".
I think an important difference between Youtubers putting out low-quality videos is that it still takes them at least as much time to generate the video as the video's run-time - same with pointless self-promo blogposts, unhinged LinkedIn posts, etc.

With generative A.I., this kind of slop can be pumped out at an industrial scale.

It'd be like equating your neighbor dumping a bag of garbage on the roadside, with the industrial plant down the road pouring out thousands of gallons of toxic waste per minute into a river.
Unlike slop, SEO content can't be totally off-base, or search engines will rank it low. The ecosystem keeps it annoying but consistent with the facts, at least.
> In the world of exploring extremely harsh environments, some heavy risk is inevitable even if you do everything you know of right. In such contexts, something could go catastrophically wrong just as easily as it could all end successfully and a narrative will be constructed for why either was the case even if either outcome was interchangeably plausible..

That implies that what they were doing was somehow pioneering. It wasn’t. Deepsea explorers and the oil and gas industry have used submersibles at those depths for decades and their safety profile is very well understood. There are facilities to test them and procedures to make sure they’re safe before anyone risks their life. All Rush did was make a poorly designed, poorly tested submersible with the wrong materials where he cut corners left and right. TFA is just a laundry list of criminal negligence.

The Titan passengers make up the bulk of the fatalities from civilian submersibles this century. Save for military submarines and the occasional industrial accident, they’ve been extremely safe.
Musk threatens to ban Apple devices
Samsung: Hold my beer, I have a nice phone to you.
That's interesting. Yesterdays keynote was actually the first time when I felt like Tim is getting old.
Social Media News Headlines and Their Influence on Well-Being
It's seems Google Pay was written in flutter [0]. Wondering what went so wrong and if it's another canary that they might be winding down flutter after reducing the team and all founders left the boat.

[0] https://flutter.dev/showcase/google-pay
PE Rollups is a plague that has been spreading for decades.

Dental Offices, Urgent Care Clinics, Nursing Homes, Animal Hospitals, Utilities...

Personally, I believe that the Mars group aggressive acquisition of veterinary clinics is partly to blame for the spike in suicide for Veterinarians. [0]

But I also don't see this behaviour of the market to ever stop on its own.

It's too profitable.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10421543/
IBMulator v0.18
With the information in your example... I created a parquet file with 50 million rows, random data, same data types. Parquet file is 391 MB on disk (NTFS)

Query will complete, but in aprox 3,5 to 4 min, you will need up to 14 GB of memory. (4 Core, Win10, 32GB RAM).

You can see below, memory usage in MB, throughout the query, sampled at 15 sec interval.

duckdb 321.01 -> Start Query
duckdb 6302.12
duckdb 13918.04
duckdb 10963.74
duckdb 8586.76
duckdb 7613.86
duckdb 6749.53
duckdb 5990.96
duckdb 5293.35
duckdb 4205.53
duckdb 3153.59
duckdb 1482.86
duckdb 386.29 -> End Query

So yes, there are some opportunities for optimization here :-)
> Hopefully there is some sort of fallback if something extreme like a house fire manages to destroy all of your personal devices at once.

This is already addressed and has been since Apple first launched support for passkeys. See the “Recovery security” section of the “About the security of passkeys” support document here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102195