skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've learned information retrieval in university before ever using any full text search engine and I was honestly kinda surprised that most engines are literal textbook implementations. IR was one of those courses where I definitely expected the SotA to be further out than the third slide deck.
Yes there is. Don’t look at the content unless the law requires it.

That’s neutral. You host sites, regardless of their content.
In case of the Danish levy, the money does actually flow back to whomever holds the rights to the music. I purposely do not write artists, as there is no guarantee that they are holding the rights.

The reasoning behind the levy is to compensate artists (mentioned as artists in the law) when people make “private copies” (I.e. backups, copying media from yiur PC to your smartphone, etc, not to be confused with pirate copies).

Allegedly artists are missing out when you purchase a song from some service, and then copy that song to a media player somewhere.

Considering that a lot of people stream music today, and rights holders are compensated per play, this makes it even more absurd that you need to pay a tax for every device capable of streaming media.

I don’t have any hard numbers for the streaming vs purchased music, but judging from the number of record stores now and when I was a kid, as well as the size of said stores, hard copies of music doesn’t look like it’s a thriving business,

Of course you can buy music digitally on iTunes/Youtube/Google/Amazon/whatever, and I’ve personally done just that for a couple of decades, but even I had to eventually give in when the kids wanted to listen to music. I still purchase “classics” that I know I will listen to over and over again, and I have a respectable music library that I own (DRM free), but for everyday listening it’s just streaming, and with a family subscription it’s also cheaper than when I was a teenager and was buying albums weekly (we did have better music back then though :-D )
Back when it was introduced as a replacement for Transfer Service 15 years ago or so, the mention of the Latin etymology was always accompanied by a wink...
"agent" is a buzzword. All it is, is a bunch of LLM calls in a while loop.

- 'rag' is meaningless as a concept. imagine calling a web app 'database augmented programming'. [1]

- 'agent' probably just means 'run an llm in a loop' [1]

[1] https://x.com/atroyn/status/1819396701217870102
What purpose did the lower-right Enter key serve on original Mac 128k keyboard?
This works great. Thanks!
If you're getting into that kind of paranoia, you might as well just buy burner laptops that use burner 5G SIMs, and go fully stateless.

Considering you, as a person, are stateful, the strategy will inevitably fail and you'll be caught.

This is how people seeking privacy after doing bad things got found out. People were tracing patterns of behaviour long before there was an internet that produced access logs.
Simple example of XGBoost with nested cross validation, in Python
Musk has openly said many times he wants X to be an "everything app" and sees huge growth in its future. What makes you think he ever intended to put it in "maintenance mode"?
> For the kids themselves, cities are wonderful and suburbs are often a kind of prison

I grew up in a mega city and I agree that cities are wonderful for kids, at least they were wonderful for me and my friends. I'd venture to guess that kids don't care. Cities or not, the world is just so much fun and exciting.

I don't know if suburbs are prisons for kids, though. My kids love suburbs, and they also love cities when they spend days and nights there.

It's not that parents falsely think that cities are bad for kids (it may be a factor for some people, of course), but that parents themselves do not want to live in a busy city. For instance, I have zero interest in bars or clubs. In fact, they are way noisy for my social needs. Instead, I just want to have walking distance to woods and shaded trails. And I want to have access to those large club houses that have full gyms and swimming pools and cozy libraries and all kinds of activity rooms, instead of those smallish ones in SF (probably because I'm not wealthy enough, but that's also my point). Or take Asian supermarket for another example. There are really not that many choices in SF or NYC. Even for the available ones, let's say H Mart in NYC, I really don't like the cramped space. I want to have those spacious walkways and shelving and big food court and etc.
Some people will go out of their way to live a life without principles. They will go so far as to discount any success as the result of luck or privilege or some other externality such that the only reasonable response must be that there is no point to doing anything but live a random life, day-by-day. To such individuals, no amount of planning or reflection can get you out of your situation or lead to a better life. If you have resources, you will have more. If you have none, you are doomed to fail. Or you can get lucky.
LOL, this comment got me pretty good because I thought something very similar when I read the title but couldn't put my finger on it.
I interviewed there around then, I remeber getting off at civic center bart station on my way in wondering to my self if I really want to do this commute everyday and what kind if effect it would have on me. Then I got the offer and was like, I'll figure it out hah. Sketchy mornings watching all the drug dealing happening hoping I wouldn't accidently look at the wrong person the wrong way or something.
Has Twitter/Xhitter ever not been full of divisive content? I've always considered it to be basically this sketch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpAvcGcEc0k
Please also consider that suburbs are often much cheaper to rent a 1800 sqft of living space (say a decent 3 BR 2 Bath) vs the city.
I'm not the one enforcing laws, I'm a rando. Why aren't the cops doing their jobs?

Nationally, clearance rates are abysmally low. Everyone knows calling the cops for personal theft is useless. Why aren't they doing their job?

And don't point to those cops in California claiming that it was a lax DA, as that doesn't explain the abysmal clearance rates in the rest of the nation, including in states with DAs who enthusiastically do their job, to a fault. The DA in California does not explain why the cops in my state are utterly incompetent.

Cops don't want to do their jobs
Love your site! It was a great source of inspiration with the amount of data you collect.

I did the same and made https://grocerygoose.ca/

Published the API endpoints that I “discovered” to make the app
https://github.com/snacsnoc/grocery-app (see HACKING.md)

It’s an unfortunate state of affairs when devs like us have to go to such great lengths to track the price of a commodity (food).
From reading the code it looks like it's just taking a screenshot (.jpg) and sending it once a second. Does doing it that way actually save on bandwidth compared to modern video compression (that re-use information from previous frames)?

I recorded a one minute video clip of me editing some code in VS Code (1440p 10fps, using AV1 encoding) and it was about half the size of 60 JPEG screenshots of the same screen. I would be curious to see your numbers if you've done any tests.
Do you by chance mean the beta bios that enables USB4 functionality?
They do! A lot, it turns out.
Where can I find technical performance comparison?

What models does Groq run at 500tok/sec? In what mode (e.g. batch size)?

UPD. found the model, it is Mixtral 8x7B-32k. AFAIK 8xH100 will do 100+tok/sec with batch size 1.

But that does not look too impressive for batch sizes higher than 1: https://www.baseten.co/blog/faster-mixtral-inference-with-te...
Signs of life have not been found on Mars. More correctly, signals that are not incompatible with life as we know it have been found and these signals are stronger than previous signals.
The film, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zlsCLukG9A
pretty much the entire currency black market here in argentina used to run on cryptocurrencies, which is more significant than it sounds given how large a fraction of argentina's employment is illegal (something like a third, last i heard). i think us banks have taken some of that business away from cryptocurrencies in recent years, but every illegal moneychanger still accepts them even if most of their business runs over zelle

as for how countries might do better, while it is interesting to discuss what policies policymakers ought to adopt, argentine (and turkish, venezuelan, etc.) policymakers do not want to adopt the policies they ought to adopt; they want to adopt the policies that serve their political interests. the rest of us are left to figure out how to cope with their terrible policies. and that's the sense in which bitcoin matters; it makes it possible for argentines and venezuelans to do things like save money, leave the country, and send money to their families back home when they're working abroad

on a financial macro perspective, there's currently about 1.1 trillion dollars stored in bitcoin, which is a few days of global gdp. other cryptocurrencies together are something like half a trillion. it's entirely plausible that 80%, 90%, 95%, or 99% of bitcoin's number is owned by keys that were lost in disk drive failures back in the cpu mining epoch, but that's less likely for the other cryptocurrencies. so i don't know that i'd agree that they don't exist on a financial macro perspective. certainly they aren't anywhere near the importance of asset classes like real estate, commercial paper, forex, commodities futures, or stocks, and it's questionable how much real liquidity exists in the market—if satoshi were to start selling off his coins now, how much would it tank the market before he was done?
I think it's reasonable to measure crime in terms of crimes per area, rather than crimes per capita, especially when comparing suburban to urban.
But if you are pirating, you’re still committing a crime and will be fined the full amount.
As opposed to letting advertisers be our mental jailors by chilling the discourse as they pressure the hubs where communication takes place to collapse down to the lowest common denominator of anodyne politically correct corporate approved goodthink like they have over the last 10 years. Cry me a river. I'm morally outraged all the way back into my cage, Mr. PepsiCo!
We did some user studies and found that people found it less intuitive.
That's because it got flagged enough to become [dead], which means it's only visible to users who turn on the 'showdead' setting in their profile. If you turn that on, you'll be able to read the text.

All: if you turn 'showdead' on, please don't forget that you did so, because we sometimes get emails from people asking "how can you possibly condone $horrible-comment appearing on HN?" when in reality the account has been banned for years. (Not talking about this case, but it happens sometimes.)

p.s. and thanks for the kind reply, I appreciate it.
They way this story usually goes: hosts are legally required to respond to dmca takedown requests as quickly as possible, please spare me the outrage.

In this case: cloudflare claims they never received any counter-notices from the parody guy (he sent two), and sent a weak "we would've helped you" after he moved the site off their services and they started getting negative attention. They screwed up royally.
I call chicken. Let them make all their products paid.

Hint: they won't, it would kill their company. The hype around OpenAI is based on people using it for free, at least at the start.

Heck, even drug dealers know this trick!
The Santana Row office is miserable to get to via Caltrain. You're going to want to bike or scooter and even then it's a trip on Stevens Creek/San Carlos, which is exceptionally busy at all times of day due to the two malls next to it and also it drops bike lanes for some portion of the road.
I was looking for something like this today because we’re remote monitoring a physical test event and having an open google meet with recording is a mess - however we would still want to be able to have text chat for the interface

Seems like this is a really good minimal interface - if I’m feeling wonky I might extend it with chat persistence somehow

I am assuming any additional synchronized text or voice is done elsewhere like calling someone on the phone or clarification via text on slack right?
I really don’t see that. If you say this about Proton I guess you can basically say it about any company. You are really going to need to get some proof at this point.
For senior engineers, I'd say opportunities weigh more than the difference in salary or even in overall package, unless the package correlates with the opportunities. I may complain about commute, but I'd still be happy to join an exciting startup in the city.
I've been happily off Google Search for several years now and have enjoyed Duck Duck Go (Bing) ever since. Recently, the lack of Reddit posts in search results is disappointing, but not the end of the world. Wish I could move off GMail, but it's a bigger task. I've also been on Firefox for over 10 years now and don't miss Chrome at all. Google does some good things, but they lost my trust a long time ago.
Being only $40 I’m highly suspect that I’m the product, not the customer.
We shouldn’t have demonized Oxy in the first place.

The relatively easy access to Oxy had been preventing so many deaths all these years but once Oxy became hard to get people ended up getting tainted supply from the streets instead.

There’s significant evidence that outside of a small group of people, drugs themselves don’t lead to addiction but people’s lives and circumstances do. Getting rid of the Oxy didn’t solve the addiction crisis and Oxy didn’t create the addiction crisis (although it may have exacerbated it slightly). It just led to a lot of unnecessary deaths.
It kind of is now if you count deep-learning based solutions to an information need haha
Interesting, why? Is there no theoretical way to have stable models? Or some kind of executive decision?
This is the part that somewhat blows my mind. Feels like they turned the volume up to 11 in the hopes that nobody can hear over the noise. You would think it was going on some very sophisticated effort. But so much of it is so cookie cutter that it is mind boggling it is as bad as it is.
Extremely pedantic, but is "non-deterministic" really the right language? The same input will always produce the same output, provided you haven't intentionally configured the system to use the model non-deterministically. It seems like the right way to describe it is as a chaotic deterministic system. The same input will always produce the same output, but small shifts in the input or weights can result in dramatic and difficult to predict changes in outputs.
honestly agree. When I first started working with agents I didnt fully understand what it really was either but I eventually fell on a definition of an LLM call that performs a unique function proactively ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
It’s market inefficiency for sure. Besides price, there’s also just a failure to provide a service that people want. This is what happened to games and prime time television. Gamers wanted to be able to download games instead of dealing with physical DRM-riddled fragile media. People wanted to watch TV without ads. Barriers to entry in distribution are very high, and there are lots of exclusivity rights, so it was a virtual monopoly. But monopolies arent stable and the market will still find a way around them, legal or not.
The offender was a Christian born and raised in the UK. Social media amplified a false narrative of them being a Muslim illegal immigrant.

So now rioters are attacking innocent Muslims and their places of worship.
European Union Transparency Register
Yet there were multiple instances of rioters checking whether car passengers were white or non-white with the threat of violence [0], mobs attempting to pull foreign origin drivers out of their car [1], and multiple attempts to burn down hotels that housed asylum seekers [2][3].

In most these cases, they were aimed at Brown/"Muslim looking" people, with the slur "Paki" heavily utilized.

All of those are felonies that would be tried as attempted murder in the US (and absolutely will be in the UK as well).

[0] - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/far-right-ra...

[1] - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj622z0w7n0o

[2] - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjjww791xnlo

[3] - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/aug/04/riot...
Reminds me of the "Microsoft Re-Designs the iPod Packaging" video[1] from nearly 2 decades ago (wow, I feel old). It was funny because all of Microsoft's brand looked exactly like that back in those days, and you could really picture them screwing the product marketing up that badly.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUXnJraKM3k
One person, a British national born in Britain, not muslim.

The riots were driven by rumours conflicting with these facts rapidly spreading on social media.
I used to think that about all freelance sites but I've been able to find clients willing to pay reasonable rates.
I'm pretty sure Elon Musk runs around San Francisco late at night shitting on sidewalks himself, just so he has something to complain about.
None of the pros or cons of Threads matter to me. If its adjacent to Meta and Zuck I'm not touching it.
I’ve successfully used wireguard from network manager in the past.
Google has offices in San Francisco but it also has offices in South San Francisco, San Bruno, Redwood City, Palo Alto, Mountain View, Sunnyvale, and San Jose. And probably some other cities I forgot. The "reason" Google has an office anywhere has to do more with "why not" rather than anything else.
Looking for Gopher Clients?
> Further, the brand has been tainted

The brand was never not tainted. Twitter has long been known as one of the cesspools of the Internet, actively contributing to the degradation of the social fabric. It would be a great blessing if Elon did actually kill it the way his detractors predicted. Twitter delenda est.
> is basically culturally retarded

What does cultural aptitude even mean?

> he fundamentally understands the value of twitter

So what would having someone "he can listen to by his side" actually add?
No. You are wrong, either confused or lying. These deals are a revenue share for ad engagement on search results. Stop the lying.
You're describing a philosophy called Free Speech Absolutism. It's a perfectly reasonable stance and I get where you're coming from, but it is not objectively more correct than any other approach. And it's definitely a choice with political implications.
They are caught by the filters; it's just that the filters don't filter anymore. Twitter needs to demonstrate volume to retain the few advertisers it has left, and allowing for fake content amplification is a cheap way to demonstrate volume (until all of the advertisers catch on).
Arango is sweet! We've actually talked to many people who switched from Postgres to Arango because of its better FTS. This was one of the reasons for creating ParadeDB in the first place. Many of the users who made this switch wished they could have stayed in Postgres without compromising on FTS.
> That was smart of them to take you up on your offer!

It really was. I think the reason they did and the others didn't was that they understood that I wasn't being serious, but the others thought I was. They laughed when I made the offer and said "sounds great!".

But, to your point, once they agreed I wasn't really in a position to say "no, never mind" without losing a bit of face.
Amazing. I could never imagine any person or corporation getting me to root for the ad industry.
I expect Google will release their implementation when the Windows feature gets into stable. Implementing something 9 years after Windows 10 is released doesn't show "respecting the EU" to me.
Yes, it's somewhat similar in spirit to VTK, though VTK is obviously much more mature and feature-rich (it was created in 1993).

VTK offers more advanced capabilities (computational geometry algorithms, image processing, advanced volume rendering...) and can be seen as a comprehensive all-in-one toolbox for 3D scientific visualization.

Datoviz, on the other hand, is much more lightweight, focusing solely on rendering. A significant effort in Datoviz has gone into delivering high-quality, high-performance 2D visualization, whereas VTK's strength lies in 3D rendering.

Datoviz also delegates nearly all computational tasks to other libraries. There are a few exceptions: for instance, Datoviz will likely soon include basic computational geometry algorithms, such as polygon triangulation (using ear clipping, for example), necessary for the upcoming polygon visual. However, these will be limited to the most essential types of visual elements.

Here are a few reference points for a rough comparison:

- VTK: millions of lines of C/C++ code, with compilation potentially taking tens of minutes (?).

- Datoviz: 35,000 lines of C/C++ code, with fresh compilation taking only 15 seconds on a recent MacBook Air.
Ctrl-F for "Some motivations are as follows" under the "String view with short string optimizations" section here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12aZi8Inez9L_JCtZ6gi2XDbQ...

Copying here:

> Having the 4-byte prefix directly accessible (without indirection through an offset into a separate data buffer) can substantially improve the performance of comparisons returning false. This prefix can be encoded with multi-column hash keys to accelerate aggregations, joins. Sorts would likely also be significantly faster with this representation (experiments would tell for certain)

> Certain algorithms (for example “prefix of string” or “suffix of string” — e.g. PREFIX(“foobar”, 3) -> “bar”) can execute by manipulating StringView values only and not requiring any memory copying of large strings.

This document was an early proposal for adding what is now called the StringView (and ByteView) types to the Arrow format itself.
Devs are forced to do something by the manager to please the skip manager. Teams do things the hard way to make it look as if they're actually doing things. Organizations hide from leadership what users really like lest the org got disassembled because they were creating literal crap. And leadership went to marketing team to cover this all up from the investors. Traders would buy in these stocks just because these big companies have good marketing to pretend they were making the right decisions.

Most if not all big companies without tasteful people would eventually turn into monstrosities like this. Everyone were telling 'stories' around 'stories' that fold into a tangled web of everyone else, but sooner or later one day the bubble's going to pop, and down the stocks be gone.

People with bad tastes aren't the worst to deal with. They have taste, it's just that it's different from others'. Tasteless people will do anything in their power to keep the wheels turning, and that means to let tasteful people surrounding them surrender their tastes, so everyone can and will become tasteless people who would do anything to keep the wheels turning.
Hmmm I get what you mean...I think it's hard to sell a solution around this idea, but I think it will become something more like a common practice/performance improvement method. James Huckle on Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7214295...) mentioned that agent communication would be something more like a hyperparameter to tune which I agree with.
He's no saint, but it's a publicly traded company, which maybe gives it a few more guardrails than something private, I think. Not a lot, but something?

Compared to Twitter, Blue Sky and Mastodon it seems like the best thing going right now for my needs but that could change in the future and other people might have different preferences.
On brand for "do things that don't scale"
Yes, but surely those people are not moving to the South Bay (which is just as expensive).