skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would argue that this is not really true. You can't really understand the ramifications of theoretical political systems with thought experiments in a book or movie for because political systems are complex and ramifications thereof are harder to predict than the stock market.

A lot of sci-fi instead seems to recontextualize common human issues into an environment where existing political pre-conceptions can be avoided. Obvious examples are things like the half black/half white episode[1] of Star Trek TOS or "Measure of a Man"[2] from Star Trek TNG. These are pretty highly regarded episodes and neither really has anything to do with the Federation of Planets or its political system (in fact there are very few episodes that deal with these topics). Instead they're explorations of racism and what it means to be human/sentient.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Measure_of_a_Man_(Star_Tre...
So its running on a computer in their restaurant, and someone shuts it off when they leave. : - )
This is the AI boom/busy cycle as foretold and played out over and over again since time immemoria.
Modern speedometers are digital. A magnet or metal disk with cutouts rotating with the transmission produces pulses in a magnetic field sensor, the pulses are counted by a microchip. The data is sent to the dashboard over a packet-based computer network.

I for one find a "71" in large digits much easier to read than trying to figure out where between the lines a little needle is pointing. If the opposite were really true, we'd draw little pictures of gauges to communicate numbers.
If November is the reason, well, this isn't the last November with that concern...
The treats and risks from "corporations" described can be true, but if you are a small site using the self hosted version, this isn't good news. The product will not be fully featured as the managed version, and the feature gap may be bigger and bigger on the long term. CE is like a "free basic plan" that you host, they now have a better reason to up-sell the users of the self hosted product to the managed "premium" version.
So the board consists of (former) U.S. Treasury, Gates Foundation, NSA, Sony, Quora, Instacart and Salesforce.

Confidence inspiring indeed. All your data will be totally safe.
Declaring victory based on a reductive, speculative, subjective opinion. This is hard to compete with when the judging is rigged!
You could read it that way, but she said "with sadness and devastation".

You are taking some extreme liberties with your interpretation of what she's saying. The sentiment she's sharing is clearly quite negative. I don't think she's happily wrapping up her mission, I think she's going out of business and has no ability to continue her mission as she would like to.
Some airplanes just aren't certified for high temps too.
> The US isn't really interested in the secrets of some Malaysian or Brazilian TV satellite.

Once again, compliance with US regulations, including export control, dual-use goods and tax regulations, can be weaponized, and has been in the past.

Maybe the TV satellite manufacturer has also supplied a weather satellite to Brazil that contains technologies covered by export control, bingo. Your satellite and your assets in the USA are frozen until the manufacturer provide all the information needed to decide whether or not it was a spy satellite.

The godamn Mars rover is covered by 14 export control technologies.
https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/documents/pdfs/1008-satell...

It's a minefield and it was designed to be one. I know of several non-defense companies whose first question on the phone is "are you a US person as defined by FATCA and FISA ?".
Maybe too many people were overloading the system by opening too many tabs, making it worse. Sounds like this application needs basic fine tuning (I bet there's 0 indexing on the database, and who knows what else).
I actually started at DevRel and quickly understood that if you swap writing blog posts for writing whitepapers and website copy, you can easily make significantly more money.

Also, better and more understood KPIs - if I made this really good solution diagram and slapped it on a one-pager that I templated, and then the AE sent it to a customer and it made a sale move 1.2x faster, that's tangible results.

And the numbers don't even have to be insane; I remember building a dashboard as a head of DevRel that was made entirely out of vanity metrics. Today, I don't even make dashboards anymore - the results of my sales collateral are simply evident by the pipeline moving forward.

Also, I'm sorry to say, but so many DevRels are primadonnas - they won't go on sales calls, but they'll go to conferences. If they don't go to a conference every month, then they're not "getting what they came here for". Demand generation is beneath them, since "I don't look at leads, I'm building a community". Bleh.

Much better to work with people - as cutthroat as they may be - who push me to create better content that drives results.

Also led me to creating my first productized service - https://syntaxcinema.dev - and that's been going very well for me recently.
Or you could align yourself with the US. If the US ever loses air superiority then the world is already on fire and Singapore is probably screwed anyhow.
That's because their woman advocacy is really a not-so-hidden lobby to have woman making more money under the pretense of equal representation in all jobs.
Based on the child thread about zap vs slog I think I might not have been clear in my phrasing. The issue isn’t the specific functions used to print to the screen, it’s that library code is doing it at all. As the user of a library, I don’t want that library printing things to the screen if I don’t explicitly tell it to; decisions on logging/printing text to the screen are the responsibility of the person writing the end-user application code, not the library author. If the library author feels really strongly about printing stuff on the screen, they should make that behavior opt in, either with a configuration option or by providing some other mechanism that gives the user as much control over that behavior as possible (hence my example of throwing printing behavior into a user-supplied io.Writer)
Post author here. Feel free to ask me any questions about the piece of software that I most regret having had to write.
Awesome, congrats on launching!

I really like that clicking on a hyperlink inlines that message while preserving conversational context. A way to backtrack or edit prior messages would be nice.

One of Perplexity's strengths is the citations it provides, any plans to add that?

How do you plan to sustain this app?
"This is brilliant! The way all websites should be"

- Sincerely, the Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, John Wiley & Sons and Penguin Random House
FWIW remote work has opened the door to many women who would have left the field otherwise, so they might be less visible.

It's still not great in my opinion, but I think there's more senior engineers and managers and an overall better situation than a few decades ago.
this deserves to be much higher than a sub-sub-sub-sub comment

the fact one DEI organization failed doesn't mean DEI failed. They could be mis managed just like any other non profit
I have a bridge I'm selling....
Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2024, Part Two
(1) Numeric embeddings have been around a real long time. I worked on a highly successful search engine for patents that used them about ten years ago. That used an embedding that was still bag-of-words based and had no ability to tease out the meaning of words based on the context. Most of the time embeddings sucked back then. What's different now is that you can just download an embedding that's smarter than the one we trained for patents.

(2) If you post nothing but posts from your own blog, HN will automatically flag your posts. Post from a variety of sources and then HN has no problem with a little self-promotion.
The official government website for accessing information about property ownership information in Slovenia only works during working hours -- mon-fri 8h-20h.
It would be pretty cool to see the reverse of this too, where you get handed code and the evil scheduler is some AI actively trying to break your code, so you need to fix it (with limited tools, likely something block-based). Obviously that's a lot harder to develop, but it could be a very interesting challenge.
Poro (reindeer in finnish) is specifically developed to be used in Finnish. GPT etc. general models struggle with less used languages. Unfortunately this sale likely means this development will cease.
This seems pretty reasonable!!
Plausibly better idea - a phones-allowed written entrance exam, which requires students to regularly look up interesting stuff online. And which is designed to wash out applicants who can't quickly do that, then set their phones back down to focus on the next (off-line) bit of the exam.
Yes, what if this "AI" boom cycle turns out to be nothing more than a next gen spellcheck/text generator?

I hope to make generational wealth in shorting Nvidia at just the right time, when everyone realizes all at once, "Wait a minute, this AI chatbot thing kinda sucks..."
Old Pfizer Headquarters to Be NYC's Largest Office-to-Residential Conversion
This is good news, I set this up once and then realized it was a 30-day self-hosted trial and abandoned it as it was for a tiny site with no budget for SaaS
Copenhagen rewards tourists for climate friendly actions
What is that abominable diffusion output doing at the top of an otherwise interesting article?
Coming from maths, I am confused by use of the term "idempotent" here. Unless we are talking about bootstrapping a compiler and I do not see how it applicable here. Am I missing something?
There are plenty of use cases where validation is easy.
> even revive a mouse

Actually, this has been done. Although that size seems to be about the limit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tdiKTSdE9Y
I’m getting multiple emails a week for web and mobile roles all over the country. Seems to me hiring is back at least for mid-senior level.
I made the fastest Email Parser on the market
The article alludes to two technical problems. One is density altitude; hot air is remarkably less dense than normal air. Redding is at 500', when it's 120°F out that's like 4400'. Not impossible for an ordinary helicopter but as the pilot says, you can't lift as much. The other problem is the electronics overheat.

Both seem like fixable problems: bigger engines and more heat-resistant electronics (possibly with active cooling). But you have to build for that. It's only going to keep getting worse.

(There may be a third problem with engine performance, I don't know about that.)
Has anything changed with the structure of NASA today to prevent these same perverse incentives from emerging on future missions?
Our artist is on vacation, and some fool gave the CEO access to Midjourney.
Why would rising interest rates affect what is considered politically correct?
I like that we're not beating around the bush and admitting that businesses only donate money to causes they think will financially benefit them. That there are no altruistic actions by a business entity, everything is either an operational expense or an investment.

This is 100% true in practice, so you're absolutely correct here. I just hope that we're in agreement that this is a bad state of affairs if businesses have completely written off doing the right thing in favor of profit 100% of the time.

As a community of entrepreneurs, we should aim higher. If this is the only reason that tech companies invest in gender equality, then we need to find better advocates, or at least come prepared to counter the exploitation the current advocates have in mind.
yeah definitely testing would be nightmare. especially if conversations could influence the wider game.

You'd have someone on youtube cheesing games by running scamming npcs.
it might help if the dumb dumbs at the bank would stop trying to make me say "my voice is my password". I've been careful to only say "no fcuk off you fcuking numpty who came up with this idea after voice cloning hit the mainstream".
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https://x.com/D_R_Farrell/status/1795940373883220429
I did say the index, not the embeddings themselves. The index is a more compact representation of your embeddings collection, and that's what you need in memory. One approach for indexing is to calculate centroids of your embeddings.

You have multiple parameters to tweak, that affect retrieval performance as well as the memory footprint of your indexes. Here's a rundown on that:
https://tembo.io/blog/vector-indexes-in-pgvector
Where? The experience of being the only woman in your math/cs class doesn't seem to have changed among the women we interview. Is it the non-uni "bootcamp" path? We don't get very many of them for whatever reason around here. I imagine because our in-state college is both good and affordable but obviously can't prove that.
Cutting farm nitrous oxide emissions helps climate and ozone layer
They should fix the situation. They try to do too many things at once.

But it's hard to give engineers leeway to just work on things and at the same time make sure the combination of data collected can't be added in a way that is "bad" on some dimension. If you think about the combination of hundreds of groups doing things... it's just a hard problem.

If you imagine running just maps and email and youtube, and you try to improve those products by instrumenting them in a pretty vanilla way... you just end up with a lot of data on people. Consider person X watches videos about lung cancer treatment options. Person X also drives from location a to b with some frequency. Location a is a residential address and location b is a hospital. You track both these things so you can recommend videos they might like amongst the bajillion videos available, and so they can get in their car and immediately choose location b without having to enter the address.Person X has their name in their email account so it displays their name when they send an email. Person X's name is John Smith. Put it all together - John Smith, who lives at 12 Main Street, Chicago, has lung cancer. And when he stops driving that route and stops looking at cancer videos but is still active... he's been cured.
It's a little bizarre to me that they are annoyed at being dependent on the signal but want to avoid Google Wallet because ... privacy? What privacy do they have so far? I can understand keeping your credit cards off of it, because Google is obviously getting a list of all your purchases. But there's nothing really private about having a ticket to a concert through Ticketmaster. They "take your privacy seriously" and sell your information to commercial partners and send you offers of things they think you're interested in.
You must be kidding, ALL algorithmic trading uses ML models, the VAST MAJORITY of money being made and traded is on the back of ML right now. Are there really people in tech today that don't understand how much ML has taken over?

Lol, you might be talking about chatgpt specifically, which is kinda dumb.
I mean they are considered to be in Northern England, unless you don't consider Yorkshire and the Humber area not to be northern. The area borders North West England and is more northern at its southern most point than North West England's southern most point.
Came here to point this out. Silo never had to invest huge amounts on GPUs. A shrewd move by the founders.
A "workaround" for this is to just try to create a new account, xyz@example.com.

This bypasses what you've mentioned.
I had this same exact idea for an application of AI in the early ChatGPT days. Kudos to you for following through with it!

I think procedural generated mysteries have an incredible amount of potential if done well. Not sure what was your inspiration, but I've always been fond of the board game Sherlock and Betray at the House on the Hill.
Also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39705936 for a few links on this that I put here last time I saw this happening.
Show HN: Streaming Illustrated Primer in 150 LOC
Interesting that weapons manufacturing is prohibited, despite the Bible having no prohibitions against weapons, in fact much the opposite. David, a man after God's own heart, was armed from a young age and used his sling in one-on-one combat despite not being a soldier.

And in the words of Jesus in Luke 22:36 - Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.

This seems more like a license to govern what this person thinks the Bible says, rather than what it does say.
I imagine you could "solve" this (for a painful and pointless value of "solve") by 1. only allowing the Service Worker to do constant-time versions of operations (like the constant-time primitives that cryptographic code uses), and 2. not allowing this special Service Worker the ability to ever... execute a loop.

But at that point, you've gone so far to neutering the page-controlled Service Worker, that having a page-controlled Service Worker would be a bit pointless. If the Service Worker can only do exactly one WebGL API call for each metric timeseries datapoint it receives, then the particular call it's going to be making is something you could predict perfectly in advance given the datapoint. So at that point, why have the page specify it? Just let the browser figure out how to render the chart.

So I revised the design to do exactly that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40929284
Looks really interesting! Is it open-source? I’d probably prefer to spin up my own bot instance, if it is possible
This looks potentially neat, but I'm having a ton of trouble figuring out what this actually _is_ from your website.
> They are not being sued as far as I can tell.

They are, in fact, being sued.

The reporter named in the article is Anna Wolfe, the editor is Adam Ganucheau, the CEO is Mary Margaret White; the named defendants in Bryant's lawsuit [0] are Deep South Today d/b/a Mississippi Today, Mary Margaret White, Adam Ganucheau & Anna Wolfe.

[0] PDF: https://www.mississippifreepress.org/wp-content/uploads/2024...
Is Kenya the new Poland for offshore IT?
I own a small consultancy that specializes in technical product marketing[0] - I hire engineers to research topics, and write sales collateral and other fun stuff for companies based on the research.

While I was interviewing, I was super impressed by Polish talent - many, many, many smart individuals who are not set in their programming ways and are looking to explore other avenues of using their skills. Hired one, he's legit amazing, and I keep wanting to bring more as the business grows.

I also talked to another consultant friend who had the exact same experience, but with a man from Kenya. He said that the combination of great schools and terrific English (I'll admit it caught me by surprise), high tenacity, and what appears to be a very big appetite for learning technology created this huge population of very technical folks that are not finding work in-country.

Was that anyone's else experience too? It filled my heart with joy to learn that a kid from Kenya can now make a (high)five-figure salary (in USD, where the average salary is like $400) as an engineer for a company in the states, working completely remotely.

What a world.

[0] https://granot.io - leads to my LinkedIn page, if anyone wants to connect and talk further. I'd love to meet engineers considering the move to marketing / sales - it's a less-beaten path, but a very good one (from personal experience).

EDIT to clarify, now that I realize what I wrote: not for hiring, just to shoot the shit and tell my tale.
Challenger did not explode because of a "seal failure." That tragedy was entirely preventable. At least one of the engineers raised the alarm, saying that because of the recent cold weather, they couldn't guarantee that the O-ring would perform properly. But, the big wigs disregarded that warning, and seven people paid for that mistake with their lives.

No, it most certainly was not a seal that failed. It was an organization that failed. Unfortunately, it's harder to fix an organization than it is to design an O-ring that won't become brittle from sitting out a few hours on a cold night.
That's like saying, it's not the fall that kills you but the landing.

If you crash with higher speed you inflect more damage.
Brush: A New Tcl-like Language (2012) [pdf]
Ransomware crews investing in custom data stealing malware
Discussion (26 points, 34 minutes ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40927981
Second release since our public launch – we've been around in private beta for a bit and have had different versions of conditional support for a while!
The aftermath of the Supreme Court's NetChoice ruling
Fancy statistics is nothing new.
I have hard this from many developers. Are there any good solutions or best practices I should look into?
So AMD wants to know how they did it, understand.
and yes they did. aside from the keihin touhoku line that's already running in parallel with yamanote line, JR East added a new track called ueno-tokyo line about 10 years ago. And the trains on the new lines are mostly 15-cars (with 2 double decker cars!). Note that for passengers travelling north-south they can also take the west route (going through shinjuku instead of tokyo), and there're also 3 parallel lines on the west. JR runs on narrow gauge which takes less space, and is cheaper to construct. Maybe this is one reason to make these expansion project fesible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ueno%E2%80%93Tokyo_Line
I feel that "deterministic" is probably a better word here than "idempotent".
Psychopharmacology of REM Sleep and Dreams (2011)
I agree, there are some that appear more competent and others that seem less so. Granted, all are capable of panicking and needing assistance, but prioritizing does look like an effective strategy.
Before selecting an approach we would first have to agree on the goal. What would success look like in a few decades?
These would make cool museum pieces a few centuries later. "Back on Earth, ancient peoples determined status based on how big their number was in a spreadsheet. Some big number people thought they could achieve immortality through refrigeration, like mummies skiing into the afterlife. Historians believe this was likely a religious adaptation caused by widespread climate changes of the era."