skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Man reddit loves surface level BS. And then the AI bots repost it to look like legit accounts, and it generates a middlebrow BS consensus that has no basis in fuckin anything.

if it weren't for the fact that google and or discord are worse I'd have abandoned reddit ages ago
Self-contained and constrained on purpose; if you go with e.g. Unreal or some other big engine, there's a real risk of making something too big, whereas pico-8 limits you in how big a game can be.
How large is the SQLite database you're syncing?

Is it even "worth" using SQLite at this point? What about a configuration file, and straight-up code that works with in-memory data structures?
> Several comments mention the data immutability of Datomic as a plus and I just wanted to say you can totally make a plain-old-RDBMS table append-only and get those benefits. I'm sure this is commonly done.

Absolutely, you can also store an append-only log to a txt file on disk and have your API backend recreate the "current" data from that append-only log.

I guess people mentioning as a plus as it's out-of-the-box default behavior for temporal databases like Datomic or XTDB, where they are optimized for these type of queries with years of work done on it.

Just as a fun aside and only slightly related: I discovered the other day that MariaDB supports (bi)temporal tables out-of-the-box too! Probably the only (FOSS) SQL database that does so? https://mariadb.com/kb/en/temporal-tables/
I found a free charger that was super slow. But nothing else was really in range. Luckily it was by a beach. But I literally had to hang out on this beach for five hours. Weird experience. Forced leisure?
Mexico's datacentre industry is booming – as are droughts and blackouts
Agreed. The lounge word in my post is doing a lot of heavy lifting. See below.
The removal of Chevron deference isn't the harbinger of doom everyone thinks it is: this standard is only 40 years old.
The lost language extensions of MetaWare's High C compiler (2023)
Is the demand there? Affluent customers probably have chargers at home, so unless it's a 200+ mile round trip to visit the business, probably don't have much need to charge.
After clicking on four screen sizes.

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I don't want to give you my email. Why are you forcing me to?
So far it would seem that the U. S. is tackling that competition with tariffs. OTOH, I’m not sure what it would take to get a (for example) BYD to pass crash testing, and if it would still be price-competitive.
Yes, but here we are on hn, i don't expect the average joe to realize immediately that any llm could spew lies without even realizing what it's saying might not be true
Infinity embedding engine added to KubeAI
Just merged and released the [Infinity support PR](https://github.com/substratusai/kubeai/pull/197) in KubeAI, adding Infinity as an embedding engine. So you can get embeddings on your local Kubernetes clusters with an OpenAI compatible API.

Infinity is a high performance and low latency embeddings engine: https://github.com/michaelfeil/infinity
KubeAI is a Kubernetes Operator for running OSS ML serving engines: https://github.com/substratusai/kubeai

How to use this?

Deploy on any K8s cluster by running:
```
helm repo add kubeai https://www.kubeai.org
helm install kubeai kubeai/kubeai --wait --timeout 10m
cat > model-values.yaml << EOF
catalog:
bge-embed-text-cpu:
enabled: true
features: ["TextEmbedding"]
owner: baai
url: "hf://BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5"
engine: Infinity
resourceProfile: cpu:1
minReplicas: 1
EOF
helm install kubeai-models kubeai/models -f ./model-values.yaml
```

Forward kubeai service to local host:
```
kubectl port-forward svc/kubeai 8000:80
```

Afterwards you could use the OpenAI Python client to get embeddings:
```
from openai import OpenAI
# Assumes port-forward of kubeai service to localhost:8000.
client = OpenAI(api_key="ignored", base_url="http://localhost:8000/openai/v1")
response = client.embeddings.create(
input="Your text goes here.",
model="bge-embed-text-cpu"
)
print(response)
```

What’s next?
- Support for autoscaling based on Infinity reported metrics.
I think the change is just going to be the courts utterly tied up with regulation challenges. The FDA, FCC, FAA et.al. can still write regulations on Congress' behalf, but they no longer have the final say, and the courts don't have to abide by their expertise.

And so I see the courts filling up with these exact lawsuits that will take years to resolve.

This was the status quo - well not quite, a separate decision effectively undid the 5 year limitation on challenging old regulations - but I think that companies are going to be a lot more litigious now than they were (and there's a lot more of them).

WRT this specific case, we'll have to see whether the courts issue an injunction to prevent the unlocking regulation to stop taking effect.
Shared iPad Overview
Great overview on how to approach improving code performance, without going down the usual route of rewriting into something else.
If UBI is revenue neutral, whether by increasing taxes or cutting other programs or some combination of both, then it would not increase inflation. You should brush up on your macroeconomics.
What's the hardware needed to make it run reasonably fast?
> money is in the store / lounge

Is this demonstrated?

Visiting the gas station is an across-the-income-strata chore with recurring economics. Wealthy EV owners, on the other hand, charge at home--"the economic burden of installing home chargers" being unfeasiable "for many living in multi-family housing or renting" [1]. It's unclear whether electric trucks will charge en route, and if so, whether they'll have many people on board for long hauls. So you’re stuck, as a base case, with road trippers. An intermittent, lower-volume and presumably pro-cyclical market.

Put simply, the economics of gas stations don't map cleanly to EV charging.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S13640...
>reduce the risk of developing cardiometabolic multimorbidity in individuals without any cardiometabolic disease,

Get funding for a study, run multiple regression against a large set of interviewees, find an outcome which satisfies the proponent, spin the results: people who drink coffee and do not have heart disease or diabetes get fewer heart disease or diabetes later, ergo, caffeine reduces the risk. People, this is not a double-blind study. It was biased from the start.
Mamba 2.0.0
hah, sorry - i was trying to find out what build of EX you were on, not Android :D

That said, from these symptoms, it really sounds like you are on an older build of the app - and probably using the old sliding sync proxy rather than native sync implementation which has now landed in Synapse. The new builds also fetch in the background (whenever you get a push).

Please upgrade, try again, and failing that, file bugs on github.com/element-hq/element-x-android!
It seems like so many people feel that $5 billion just evaporates after the government spends it. The government spent it, it's gone. Poof.

No. That $5B paid lots of people directly in their salaries, which then got spent in their local economies which then in turn went to construction workers building houses for those employees, the grocers selling the food those people eat, etc. It also went to go buy lots of actual raw materials, which once again employed lots of people and spurred those industries and all the secondary and tertiary spending that happens and what not.

So in a way, that government spending on science is investing in those towns. And ultimately does lead towards more people being able to afford a home, put groceries on the table, etc.

Growing up surrounded by NASA in Clear Lake it was quite obvious to me how important government spending was to the local economy, and how negatively it would affect people if the government decided it wouldn't be worth it to fund it anymore.

How many blue-collar construction workers will do better when NASA gets funding to upgrade their 1960's facilities? Won't it help them afford housing? Won't it help ensure their kids don't go hungry?
I worked in real estate for about 8 years as a software developer for a tech-forward brokerage.

There's a ton of money and data flowing through this industry. There are plenty of dilettante agents who are far overpaid. There've been a number of startups trying to tackle this (ZipRealty, Zillow, Compass OpenDoor).

My cynical take is that these startups begin with consumers, but end up serving agents and brokers, because that's where the money is.

So I don't think displacing the agent relationship is going to be a winning strategy, because buying a house is a rare large purchase of a non-fungible asset which can positively or negatively affect your life. (Not talking about investors.) Just like folks hire lawyers for divorces, accountants to review ISOs, or business sellers hire brokers, there is value in hiring an expert for high-stakes, rare purchases.

This is a great book about the value of middlemen: https://www.amazon.com/Middleman-Economy-Brokers-Everyday-Ma...

However, there is plenty of room to improve the user experience and make things simpler, and this seems like a good start.
> I get that GCC and Clang does all sorts of optimizations, but doesn't unoptimized C map closely to 1:1?

Nope. There's actually a number of "optimizations" that get applied to "unoptimized C" code. For example, gcc decides to apply even/odd mathematical function laws to the math library functions even with -O0, and both gcc and clang are very happy to throw "unused" code at -O0 that prevented me from doing jump table shenanigans.

C fundamentally has no idea of the distinction between registers and memory, and this is probably the most important distinction in modern assembly languages. It's especially obvious when you get to exotic architectures that have thousands of registers and a relatively thin memory pipe. Making a C compiler get out the assembler that you expected is a lot trickier than you might expect, and when you need exactly some assembly, you'll find that most compiler engineers will tell you "the compiler won't guarantee that, please use assembly" while the people trying to do so often end up spiraling into a rant about how compiler writers are idiots who can't write working compilers because it won't give them the assembly they need.

> I thought the thing that was making it not map 1:1 was actually all of the extra features in Rust, like the ADTs and async and all of that. Is that not actually the case?

People use a variety of different definitions of "map 1:1" that makes it hard to really answer your question for certain. What you seem to be getting at is the notion that C's ABI is predictable. But there are plenty of C features whose mapping to assembly is as unpredictable as Rust's ADT or async features are: C's bitfields are the most notorious example, but I'd throw in variable arguments, atomics, and the new _BitInt into the mix. Which is to say, if you're an engineer for whom this stuff matters, you'll know how the compiler is going to handle these constructions for your targets of interest, but that's not the same as saying that those constructions will always work the same way on all targets.
Whoops! That was only meant to stay in there for an unrelated feature. Removed :)
Usually using game engines for app development isn't a great idea given the things they were never designed for in first place.
Greatly put, thank you so much. We should put this up somewhere as the Mac-assed manifesto.

But I would actually add, on a more fundamental level:

0) Does it actually run on my metal? I.e. not in a VM, not any sort of "thin client", and CERTAINLY not Electron… but rather an actual solid piece of software compiled for the computer it's running on?

You say "native is not a binary" but actually, in my opinion yes, it is also very much the binary!
Well for a start to run an even passable market making operation and to get into the jobs Sam did you have to be atleast fairly good at the mathematics behind probability. He's definitely more able to reason about probabilities than the average person. But sure, "I'm gonna go steal all these guys deposits to go gambling" wasn't an aggressive but understandable bet, it was the act of a degenerate gambler.
Right, I have seen the Dell screen before. But it is currently an extremely niche product which means it is wildly outside my price range. And the VG3281 is still not available in my country even though it was released in 2023.
I am not sure what else to tell you. Companies switch insurance providers for cost all the time. I've benefitted from it several times and seen first-hand how competitive the selection/sales process can be. If an insurer thought they could coast on high prices, losing accounts would change their behavior quickly, like in any company.

As an industry, insurers all benefit from aggregate rising medical costs because of the percentage rule you mentioned, but that's not the same as what an individual insurer will do.

If you're arguing as a proxy for wanting public health to be allowed to enter the industry as a price negotiator, I'm in complete agreement.
> Electric looks awesome, but their stern warning of “we are building this for ourselves, and if you get value that’s great” gave me pause.

Clojure (the core language) is developed in exactly the same way, Rich Hickey is pretty forthcoming with the approach they take. So if a framework with that approach gives you pause, probably Clojure the language should do the same. Relevant: https://gist.github.com/richhickey/1563cddea1002958f96e7ba95...
Really great article and I really appreciate seeing this "flavour" of "distributed" sqlite, think it can be useful in many no/low-write scenarios.

But about the formatting of the data, is it completely inherent to the rest of the system / unchangeable? Spontaneously I would have guessed that for example a bitfield in redis would have performed better. Did you test any other formattings?
What you are talking about here (and you articulated it well), reminds me of The Master and His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist. If you haven't read it, I think it would connect a lot of dots for you and I think you would find it very interesting and very relevant to your experience.
I just started my own with literally no code.

1. Obsidian to compose markdown
2. Git extension to commit and push changes to github
3. Github Pages
4. Cloudflare for image hosting

Literally write markdown, push 3 buttons, its live within 2 min.

My first post was actually about figuring it all out. Sorry if its poorly written.

https://tmunayyer.com/Projects/making-this-blog.html
Reconductoring: Boosting U.S. Grid Capacity Efficiently
Thanks. Very useful app.
Leaning into the Future for Fun (and Profit?)
The ont should not be on their network.

The normal state of affairs is

demarcation point
isp network | your network
---[fiber]---(ont)===[copper]===(router)===(wifi ap)

Now having laid out that nice neat little diagram, this is the real world
Things are messy, there is a real desire to consolidate boxes. If your network looks like below, My condolences, it sucks when you don't know where the demarcation point is. And I agree, In those cases it should probably be demarcated at the fiber line coming in.

Demarcation point
? ? ?
---[fiber]---(ont/router/ap)***[2.4GHz]***
I used to subscribe to this belief long before LLMs started confabulating, but I'm now starting to feel forced to concede that what will happen is that management will fire two marketing drones, the remaining three will use AI to write stuff, but then spend 5 drones worth of effort fixing the gish gallop. the overall quality will go down, the 3 drones will burn out, and the AI will be used to replace them entirely. the overall slop will be entirely useless.
> There was no legal basis for this

I pointed this out in a separate comment, but there is absolutely a legal basis for this. The CDC is the Center for Disease Control (emphasis on control), and so it's absolutely in their mandate to make regulations that prevent the spread of infectious diseases.

> you can't run a country on what we feel is best at the time

I hate to say it, but this is exactly how the country is run. "What is the best course of action?" "Put us on that course of action." Whether done with laws, orders, regulations, court mandates, etc that's exactly what we do.
They aren't really fighting it, because they never picked a winnable battle.

Rather, they overextended themselves massively in a blunder akin to just throwing themselves on their enemy's sword. They decided to go all-or-nothing on uncontrolled digital lending when there wasn't a snowball's chance in hell that the current laws would give them any wiggle room. And unsurprisingly, it will give them a mortal wound.
> Outright research fraud is probably very rare

Not sure what rare means in this context. The more important research is, the more likely there is fraud involved. So in terms of size of impact, it's probably very common.

And then if you combine this with poorly done, non repeatable, or inconclusive research being parroted as a discovery...You end up with quite a bit of BS research.
> The lockdowns and quarantine started under Trump for instance

There were states like SD that were done with lockdowns in July of 2020, if I recall correctly. And, their outcomes were better. I never mentioned Trump, he was always a states' rights guy, but you're right he was the guy in charge, so he needs to be held to account on covid.

My state's voters are hopeless. I will never understand the shallow emotional appeals here that unfailingly win the day.

> More fires in the western US that burn longer and cause more damage.

We do have a lot of fires! You attribute that to climate? In my opinion, a lot of those fires are intentionally set and for a lot of reasons.

> You are going to have to explain this statement because I don't see how abortion is a racket. Unless you mean saber rattling over abortion.

You think there's no money in abortion? Check it out, use your imagination. I'm saying the earlier fetuses can come to term outside the womb and the better tech like ultrasound gets, the more the fetus becomes humanized and will be accorded human rights. If the population crashes, the whole life discussion will flip. The clock is ticking on this topic, and it's ultimately going to be seen as barbaric.

> However, I've read all of Agenda 47 and the GOP 2024 platform and I'll pass on it thanks.

It's reactionary. If the D's and RINO's could show a little restraint, maybe the pendulum wouldn't have to swing so hard.

How about not just giving your vote away for cheap/free purely over Blumph hatred this time and demand some actual reforms and accountability from your side? How much faff is in your platform?
Could monkeys predict the U.S. election? – Science – AAAS
Another one to try is GameSalad. It’s paid but has a forum, knowledge base, support, and generally aims at the younger developers with visual coding.
The service seems to believe there are multiple charging sites in the middle of the North Sea - which seems slightly unlikely...
“And new mRNA jabs may be needed "at scale" if the virus starts spreading in humans.”

Couple more jabs why not.
This is what I used when I was 11. Been 15 years since I last used it, so no idea how much it's changed. The thing that was nice about Game Maker for young me, was that it had a drag and drop and programming language interface and you could switch between the two pretty seamlessly. This really helped me learn how to code early on.
Sent a brief, polite message asking for Daniel's input. Thank you
I remember talking with a dev and they had posted a tutorial or how to on a thing on twitter.

It was nearly impossible to find. Search didn't work. No good direct link or easy way to find it.

I ultimately spent 2 hours scrolling past (thanks infinite scroll nightmare) to several years ago to find it.

There was no good way to jump to a given year
Thanks! Let me know if you have any feedback :)
> actually go into depth on why its implementation isn't sufficiently private.

What depth is required? PPA means that my browser is doing the spying instead of a third party directly. That's certainly a privacy improvement, but I don't consider it sufficient.

"Sufficiently private" is a subjective call. I don't want to be spied on. Whether or not there are technological "privacy preserving" features baked into it doesn't alter that fundamental fact.

All that said, this isn't a bad enough move to get me to stop using Firefox, as long as I can keep it disabled. It does mean that I have to view Firefox with suspicion, though. I can't consider the browser to be my "user agent" anymore.
I find this post a bit misleading. It seems like he didn't build a blog. He built a website with real requirements, then added a blog to it.

The title* feels a bit rage baity to be honest.
Kaspersky automatically installs UltraAV, deletes itself on US machines
Here is part of the Act that gives the FDA power to mandate food safety:
>IV. Food
There is a distinction in food adulteration between those that are added and those that are naturally present. Substances that are added are held to a stricter "may render (it) injurious to health" standard, whereas substances that are naturally present need only be at a level that "does not ordinarily render it injurious to health

Broadly, the FCC is mandated to:
>make available so far as possible, to all the people of the United States, without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex, rapid, efficient, nationwide, and world-wide wire and radio communication services with adequate facilities at reasonable charges.

But I don't see anything in there that say they have the ability to mandate unlocking. You can argue that it falls under the "adequate facilities at reasonable charges" portion.

I certainly want the ability to unlock my device but is the FCC mandate legal or not?
Indeed — we also had the fan-made Star Trek Continues, which was essentially perfect as a modernisation with the same set-dressing yet higher production values; and Kirk appearing in Strange New Worlds in ways that make perfect (to the limit TV ever does) sense, telling new and old stories without needing to break or reject the old world building (time travel is a wonderful narrative aid for that) or characterisation.
EDIT: yeah, the domain expired and got snapped up:

http://ww12.omni.media/

Still available for purchase at Amazon, though:

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=omni+magazine

=-=-=-=

TFA is just rambling on about the origins of the magazine, but the archive is supposed to be here:

https://omni.media/channel/omni-archive

But on my end it appears that the domain is down.
In the long run, we won't need any maps to find chargers. If you park, you can charge, not DC fast charging, but 240V charging. Cars are parked 22 - 23 hours/day, no need to build expensive DC Fast charging.

I wish there was a federal rule requiring all parking to have 240V. Every building spends millions of dollars on adding handicapped parking and making the building accessible -- these features are rarely ever used, but EV parking spots will be used every day and forever.