skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think that’s fair to Llama-Index. LI is much more focused, better documented and frankly way easier to use than LangChain, with much lower - or negligible - cognitive overhead. Plus, it plays nice with most everything else.

Even if you’re mostly working just with a provider SDK and other lightweight, low-dependency convenience wrappers for stuff you know you’ll almost always need (e.g. Instructor for structured output and retry), you can easily sprinkle LI in where you need it as a wrapper over common context retrieval patterns.

Unlike LangChain, which is a nightmare to pull out once you’ve started working with it - LI can be cleanly excised if you change your mind.
> We already know "aggressive law enforcement" reduces crime.

Sure at a greater expense to the taxpayer than every single alternative tactic to crime reduction. Smells like a jobs program to me.....
President Biden created a new program

What new program?

EDIT: found it: https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/biden-immigration-program-u...

Key information: “An immigrant who marries a U.S. citizen is generally eligible for a green card. But current federal law requires immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally to leave the country and re-enter legally to be eligible for a green card. Leaving the U.S. after living illegally in the country for certain periods of time can trigger a 10-year ban, leading many mixed-status families to not pursue this process.”
https://archive.ph/RFuAE
Anytime I go to east bay I go for BART. I’m not trying to sit in bay bridge traffic. BART gets a bad rap, like every other public transit in the US, but I’ve been using it pretty frequently recently (stopped around beginning of lockdowns) and it’s a great experience.
You could also loan the book to people. At which point -of course- what you're doing is called a library.

Libraries have historically not been considered communistic per se (rightly or wrongly). But they have not commonly been considered a failure.
Could you possibly conceive of other factors which might operate in the opposite direction?

Numerous of which are referenced directly in TFA.
Russian Federation exists for much less than that. The last one was Puerto Rico in 1898 AFAIK.
But isn't this goalpost shifting actually reasonable?

We discovered this nearly-magical technology. But now the novelty is wearing off, and the question is no longer "how awesome is this?". It's "what can I do with it for today?".

And frustratingly, the apparent list of uses is shrinking, mostly because many serious applications come with a footnote of "yeah, it can do that, but unreliably and with failure modes that are hard for most users to spot and correct".

So yes, adding "...but without making up dangerous nonsense" is moving the goalposts, but is it wrong?
Sounds like you want to hire a COO.
Interesting thing about firing the board. Doesn’t that trigger the severence Clause and allow them to jump the payout line when inevitably the company goes bankrupt. Seems like that’s exactly what you would do if your wife was on the board and the company was going down
I think cooperation is never a locally optimal strategy. Somebody allways gets to pick second at the prisoner's dilemma table, and locally optimal behavior is to eat the trusting idiot.

Takes a lot of luck to evolve cooperation multiple times at once, much more likely to happen in a situation where the selection pressure is lower, not higher.
> At some point the only lever left to pull is outright banning of foreigners.

That does not follow at all. If you look at the actual densities Barcelona is 1/3 as dense as the densest city in the world. There is plenty of room to accommodate more housing, they just need to build higher.
First time I’ve seen hackernews link to Lemmy.

Love to see it. That place needs more organic growth.
I mean it’s been like that in SF for a while now. Tons of people take Uber/Lyft still but I see dozens of Waymos everyday and I’ve been Waymo only for about a year now.
Thanks for reminding me of that. Honestly the battery life on the Boox Tab is great. I've never had it run out on me.
Astronauts stranded in space due to multiple issues with Boeing Starliner
10% slower on a 30-minute journey is 3 minutes. if i'm in the back of a taxi, i'm on my phone or reading a book or something. getting there 10% slower really just doesn't matter.

humans drive fast becuase when they're late it makes them feel like they're doing something to solve their problem, but the time savings are almost always inconsequential.
"The tech giant is planning to let go of 30000 employees from its ad sales unit after its recent advancements in artificial intelligence said president of the Americas and global partners Sean Downey last week. As per a news report, new innovations can automatically suggest and create ads for customers, requiring basically, no human intervention. This development renders the ad sales unit essentially redundant."

?????

>Fourth link is a startup ceo who is replacing 2 interns...

The question was whether there was job loss to AI.
Convert CSS classes to inline CSS for HTML emails
This is quite an old tool, but I found it very useful today when building a HTML email with Tailwind CSS.

You just paste your HTML in the input box, it reads your stylesheet(s) and then swaps all classes for inline css.

Saved me hours so I wanted to share!
Years back, I had the most fun I've had with creative UI when creating really expansive svgs and animating path with css. I will likely never do it again, but it was a great intro into splashy web development.
Not sure this argument works unless you are willing to give away the other property on death like houses, stocks, farms, etc. Maybe 60 years is too long, but that doesn't seem to be your argument.
Meh, I have a lot of trouble reading small print. I'm not dyslexic (I've been tested), but my brain just doesn't like small text, I have trouble parsing it and retaining stuff I'm reading. I might just be dumb, but sadly I cannot change my brain so thems the breaks.

Something I really like about ebooks and e-ink displays is that I can set the font as big as I want and it updates instantly. I read a lot better, and as a result I enjoy it a lot more. For me, the Kindle was kind of revelatory.

I borrow books from my library, which allows me to read the Kindle version, and I don't need to pay anything (outside of my taxes, I suppose).
That modem sequence is probably one of the most memorable pieces of a whole generation's childhood. If you ask me now, when it's been over two decades since I've heard it, I would easily be able to badly reproduce the whole 30 second soundbite with my voice from memory. With confidence I could probably nail every single beep and boop including the pauses between them and the odd static sound near the end of the whole process.
So the wife that supported the author can't profit off their assets? The author can't pass on this to children? Should we do the same thing for other property like land and money?
The problem is going to be getting those functional blocks in the first place.

The industry does not like sharing, and the openly available datasets are full of mistakes. As a junior EE you learn quite quickly to never trust third-party symbols and footprints - if you can find them at all. Even when they come directly from the manufacturer there's a decent chance they don't 100% agree with the datasheet PDF. And good luck if that datasheet is locked behind a NDA!

If we can't even get basic stuff like that done properly, I don't think we can reasonably expect manufacturers to provide ready-to-use "building blocks" any time soon. It would require the manufacturers to invest a lot of engineer-hours into manually writing those, for essentially zero gain to them. After all, the information is already available to customers via the datasheet...
I didn’t say it was a good idea , just elaborated that it is possible.

Even if it was easy and solved it all the things say GraphQL does it is still a bad idea .

Scaling app servers is relatively easy especially if stateless and follow some of the 12f principles, scaling SQL server horizontally is hard.

Multi master , partitioning, sharding even indexing very large tables , de-normalization is ripe with pitfalls and gotchas and many times what works for one app won’t work for the next , keeping the store simple and as less logic as possible saves a lot of pain
Many technologies enable some new cool things and in the process automate some stuff.

Here we are talking about paying extra pretty much solely to not have to deal with a human.
It's from 2017

https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/04/06/wikimedia-rest-api/
Pithy but, alas, meaningless.

First, define “progress.”

Second, innovation is a new idea, product, strategy, etc. Stagnation is lack of movement or lack of growth. There are alternatives to stagnation that are not innovation. Consider satisficing.

Third, the end result of stagnation may be other than death. It may be a steady state. Surviving, but not growing, is not death.
Violent agree on variance in value produced. Violent disagree on that junior, senior or other titles or roles have such strong correlations. For very simple reasons: we can’t measure value, and we absolutely can’t measure value within a performance review cycle.

The most devastating value destruction (aside from the rare intern deleting the prod db) that I’ve seen consistently is with senior/rockstars who introduce new tech, takes credit, moves on. There’s a reason for the term resume driven development. Think about what a negative force multiplier can do for an org.
>I think it’s pretty clear I am not saying “there outta be a way to give books away” which would be a very stupid thing for me to say.

Ehh.. by this thread and other comments I'm not sure it is very clear. It sounds like you are saying all books should be free.

> Engaging only with the stupid point I didn’t make is a waste of time honestly and is seriously missing the point.

I think you may be getting a little heated around some friendly discussion. You see books different than other goods–which is great–but not everyone does. We can all still converse and hopefully all grow and understand each other better. <3
I'm a better and safer driver than Waymo. I trust myself over software. I also trust human professional drivers over software.
Agreed re: mechanical HDDs being engineering marvels. The positioning performance at the price/manf volumes is really incredible.

As the poster below mentions, neighboring actuator coupling/disturbance rejection is very much a performance consideration (even between neighboring HDDs) and then to package all that additional complexity into the same form factor is really something.

It'll be interesting to see if this sticks around, or the added complexity makes it short lived.
Yes. (And they are already doing that.) You can also build a high voltage direct current undersea cable to some other bigger grid.
A republication of something in the public domain can be copyrighted.
Extremely grateful for IA indeed, and as you say they have more scans that for sure are super useful for research, LLM training, etc.

Like this:
https://archive.org/details/landau-and-lifshitz-physics-text...

Where LibGen only has the first volume in French and Portuguese only...
Discussion (55 points, 4 days ago, 32 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40706872

Related Weird Final Test (19 points, 2 days ago, 8 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40737883
You can't without de-DRMing. That's basically the point, right? Amazon has locked you in to their ecosystem.
TL;DR you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs?
Using curl in linux, I find it useful to delete \r. Makes it easier to use sed.

while [ "$url" ]; do
res=$(curl -i "$url" | tr -d '\r')
headers=$(echo "$res" | sed '/^$/q')
body=$(echo "$res" | sed '1,/^$/d')
echo "$body"
url=$(echo "$headers" | sed -n -E 's/link: <(.*)>; rel="next"/\1/pi')
done
When people start talking about other people's countries scornfully or aggressively or snarkily, that's when it becomes flamebait and a moderation issue.

Can you point to even a single instance where I have done this, please?

Meaning -- in reference to the country or its people per se (as opposed to the actions or ideology of the people who happen to be running it; or perhaps entirely reasonable references to what a measured portion of the population might say or think, as can be easily verified by numerous news reports)?

If not -- then why are you setting forth the implication that this is something I have done?

And lasties -- a lot of postings here (or excerpts from them) are plainly BS. Whether the poster is simply naive, or has less charitable motivations -- there's simply no mistaking it.

I totally get that labeling these cases as such continuously makes for bad reading; and of course one should never to so spuriously. But what is so wrong or uncivil (or even "snarky") about pointing out this simple fact, in egregious cases when there's just no ifs, buts or mitigating factors about it?

Or is just the fecal labeling? Would you prefer we stick to more G-rated terminology like "nonsense" and "balderdash"? I suppose I could live with that.
Are you aware of a form of library subject to US law that lends copyrighted digital assets without either a license from the copyright holder or legal trouble from the copyright holder?
Nice, long time lichess player including blitz arenas but had no idea they had articles.

Some interesting analysis here and how to approach the problem domain (pawn structure as a concern) but that first example, there is just no way to get that knight there in any reasonable way. Talking about unrealistic moves.
Totally get that - one does not simply just wake up one day and casually write a robust, feature complete geometry kernel by themselves, as alluded to in the above linked thread. It is a massive undertaking that requires a team of very smart people and probably years of work. I do wish there was some consortium pushing for a next-gen replacement of OCC though, I would absolutely donate towards that cause. I can't claim to know whether OCC is salvageable to the point that it is possible for it to become as good as some of the closed source ones, but other, more well versed people in the space seem to indicate that it has some pretty fundamental problems with it that are not easily addressed.
As long as you are OK with destructive methods, grinding/sanding the board down gives you all layers. "PCB delayering" is the search term.
You really don't need to be a lawyer to understand the extent to which Internet Archive really screwed up here. For starters they lost on Summary Judgment, which means they couldn't come up with a single issue of fact that the judge thought deserved a trial. Read the Order, the Judge obviously has it straight. Then check archive.org's Form 990s and see how little money they run on, how much they pissed away on legal fees so far, and also infer the amount they had to pay in damages, which was obviously very tiny.

You are welcome to argue it as a matter of culture (and I'm inclined to agree and cheer you on) but from a legal perspective, Brewster should be removed and they need to find competent people to put on the board because they really did put the entire organization at risk over an idiotic decision. And the ramifications continue.

Internet Archive's "we own a copy of a book, we scan it and loan out one digital copy" policy was already on shaky ground. When Covid hit and everyone lost their minds, letting homeless people sleep on the stairs of their building apparently wasn't enough so they just turned into The Pirate Bay and loaned out infinite copies of everything.

In discovery for the case, it turned out they weren't even tracking the "we own one copy" part to begin with correctly. None of this should be surprising to anyone who actually attempts to use the site. The whole thing is duct tape and string.

They have a tiny budget and the do amazing things with it, but it really deserves to be treated like a business and not be run like an art project. If they wanna stick your neck out and push for CDL reform, great. Just do it under a different LLC so you don't tank the 50 other important things you've got going on. And it's time for Brewster to move on. In any other non-profit he'd be gone by now.
Genuine question since I don’t know much about inheritance. Don’t things like houses, stocks, etc get taxed in certain places? Whereas I don’t think copyright does? In a way, that is similar to having to give property away upon death (can’t pay the tax, forced to get rid of it).
It seams like NASA should be able to get some money back.

Near the top of the article:

"The astronauts will now return home no sooner than June 26th, according to NASA."

Later on:
"Now, to give engineers time to troubleshoot the faults, NASA has announced it will push back the perilous return flight, extending the crew's stay on the space station to at least three weeks. "
Do people really spend the time building specifications with no implementation in mind? I find that kind of fascinating. Like the people actually building the implementation aren't around yet to figure everything out, what works, what doesn't etc through the process of implementing; seems like a classic case of "works great in theory."
>Can you point to the relevant statutes?

IANAL, but:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/107

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/108

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/117

What the Internet Archive did (loan many digital copies based on one physical copy) is illegal as the law stands today.
That's a lot of matches.
The copyright holders / holder can change or rescind the license, but not retroactively.
Income is taxed, obviously.

Copyright is taken away, originally after 14 years, now 70(?) years. After the death of the creator
What is amazing to me is just how fast those apps run even on W11. I have an older copy of Adobe Acrobat, and double-clicking a .pdf to full app launch and render is literally an eye blink. Compare to Reader DC, which is about 5 seconds of who knows what.
Felt similarly. Embraced NixOS. Not looked back.
Because he wants to.
C++ is used because 90% of all safety critical software is written in c++.
The Nobel prize for proving the existence of molecules was awarded in 1926. Less than 100 years ago. Our understanding of physical chemistry is extremely recent.
While most roads are indeed capped at 65, stretches of I-5 are set to 70 , there is a process for this I believe.
This kind of hectoring discourse is aggressive and rude. You can do better.

Authors that get paid can certainly leave the assets they received to their families. They could also transfer ownership of unpublished intangible assets. More than that sucks the general public into a quasi-contractual relationship with a posthumous person; I disclaim fiscal obligations of strangers toward ghosts.
Who's been jailed for singing Happy Birthday? How many people have been jailed for copyright violations at all?

If you're arguing that copyright length should be shortened, I strongly agree.

If you're arguing that we should eliminate copyright completely because we should only regulate things you would immediately throw people in jail for, I strongly disagree.

As a society we need to be able to regulate some behavior that is not severe enough for jail time on its own, or for most standard offenses, even if the state ultimately has the power of incarceration to punish non-compliance. Just because moderately speeding shouldn't land you in jail, it doesn't mean that we shouldn't have speed limits.
That’s the lesson we learned: implement the most simplistic thing first with just a bit of basic principles like separation of concerns. Humans are terrible at predicting where a system will expand in the future. Therefore just stay out of your own way by not over building!
There was actually an autonomous vehicle company focused specifically on retirement communities called voyage. They were acqui-hired by Cruise several years ago and the project shut down because there was no real viability.
Happy to be corrected. Zero chance it was implemented due to my feedback.
> Some open source tools, like Blender, like Linux, exist at the top of their respective foodchains. Proprietary tools are working to try to compete with them.

OBS is on this list, too.
So what you are effectively saying is that you want to hinder the development of AI consciousness by blocking access to data for it. It's a catch-22 that you introduce. With this, there is just no way for democratic AI to win.
P.S. it just occurred to me that if the aggregated links are less than 1mb of data or something like that you could try to bundle all data in a single JSON object and search in the frontend with a library like flexsearch [1]. That could be even less work than running a minimal rails backend.

--

1: https://github.com/nextapps-de/flexsearch
Rejection of neighboring HDD vibe disturbances is already an issue, so fascinating to see what their control approach is. In my limited experience, mechanical HDD control is near top of the game for electromechanical positioning.
China threatens death penalty for 'diehard' Taiwan separatists
I “collect” them to keep in the car when kids are motion sick. However, I strongly suspect they are made with a PFAS coating to waterproof them.
> It's hard to tell from the screenshots and I'm on my phone right now [...]

Btw, it works great on mobile. (Or at least on an iPad.)
About the first time there was some hidden Registry value jacking up my life, Windows made me feel like the product, instead of Microsoft's OS or application.

Open Source isn't challenge-free, but it's much closer to the chess experience that I seek than the poker experience of proprietary alternatives.
It's pretty sad, but with each iteration of Windows, it feels more and more impersonal and intrusive. There could be a mass migration to MacOS and Linux for many of us.
Arguably, professors are paid a salary to write those books.
The 3 min documentary listed in wiki is excellent…1500 mph and 57k ft capable is mind-blowing in and of itself—not to mention flying sans pilot!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noriLGVL7Qo
Yes, much like the shortcomings of Windows 95 that spawned a million Notepad clones in the form of IDEs, code-oriented editors, and Office (née Works?)-like suites.
The graphics are mostly 'functional', I wouldn't even go as far as calling them 'neat'.

There's basically only two kinds of graphics in the game: a world map and the icon for the items you can buy and sell. (Unless they changed the game, I haven't played in more than a year.)

It's a great game!

You might also like the spiritual sequel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overboard!_(2021_video_game)
I don't see myself moving away from Windows due to the software ecosystem that has been built upon it for decades, but if I was forced to use the "Home" version I would be long gone. That being said, when I can, I use Linux on various PCs and it's a refreshing experience.
Are these the ones that appear as two volumes? These have double the risk of failure, so you really have to run them in RAID1, halving the IOPS and storage. You get no benefit aside from lower power consumption and denser RAID boxes, but have to be careful because RAID on two volumes in the same shell is risky so you should RAID across shells.
> Wow, I didn’t know the consuls executive officers had this power

Without it, every single person turned down for a US visa would appeal (Why not? They have nothing to lose). The principle is based on two fundamental notions:

* Non-US citizens, not on US soil, do not have standing to use the US legal system.

* More generally, a country can reject entry by anyone for any reason.
Copyright is literally the opposite of property rights.

Just because people call it "property rights" does not make it true.

It's as false a term as calling the events of 1939-1945 "World Peace 2".