skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not quite. Going back to the bottling example, a bottle has to be filled, capped, then labeled. At time 1, 1 bottle is filling up, pipeline is advanced. At time 2, bottle 2 is filling up, bottle 1 is being capped, pipeline is advanced. At time 3, bottle 3 is filling up, bottle 2 is being capped, and bottle 1 is being labeled. At time 4, bottle 1 is done. Each bottle has to go through the pipeline in sequence, and it takes three units of time for a bottle to go through the pipeline. Yes, once the pipeline is filled up, you have the three operations going on at the same time, but it's still a sequence of steps that need to be performed in order for any given bottle.

To make it faster, you either have to decrease the time for a step (but you will always be capped with the slowest step), or go for parallelism---a separate pipeline (or pipelines). For example, with one pipeline, each step taking 1 unit of time, once the pipeline is filled, will take six units of time to make a six-pack (the first will take longer due to the latency in filling the pipeline). You can make five other pipelines, and then get a six-pack per unit of time (again, after filling all the pipelines).

A single pipeline just makes the output have a predictable latency and time; multiple pipelines give you parallelism.
Aha good point, my bad.
I don't think you're alone, and to be honest, I'm as suprised as anyone that it turned out to be better. We built a lot of different implementations on the way here, and all of the initial versions started with code and plain text as the interface. But it's very hard (I think impossible) to change the user experience when you do that, because the data gets locked up in code - there isn't a good way to "see" what the real world is like, or what your proposed changes would do.

But you're not alone in thinking this, and I completely understand why you would. The history of things that look like this in this space is.. not great. :)
It might already be there hitching a ride on a rock. Saturn and Jupiter have so much gravity the center of mass of the solar system can be outside of the sun when their orbits align. Who knows where the debris of the K-T event ended up.
Nicely done and keep up the practice. I recall during my Masters needing to translate facial landmark points from a Cartesian coordinate system into points that could would appear on their respective images. It wasn't for anything major, I just wanted a visual representation of my work. Its these little "neat" projects that help build larger breakthroughs.
Yup, SBCL is quite amazing!
I guess my fundamental question is why arent these jobs accessible? They dont reqire any degree at all, so it seems like they should be open to both the 4 year art graduate and a high school graduate.

I live in a high cost of living area, but these are typical prices here. Call 10 autoshops and thats the typical rate. Even people on yelp operating out of their house arent much cheaper. Heck, residential plumbers charge $150-200/hr.

So what is the bottleneck? Is it regulatory barriers to opening businesses? Is it a lack of knowledge? Is it poor discovery in the information age? Unions?

It seems like there are lots of people making great money doing these things, and lots of people looking for work.
I think the "Molmo-7B-O" and "MolmoE-1B" models are using Olmo, judging by the fact its LLM backbone is the only one listed as having open data.

EDIT: From the post "For the LLM, we have trained models on a variety of choices at different scales and degrees of openness including: the fully open-weight and data OLMo-7B-1024 (using the October, 2024 pre-released weights, which will be public at a later date), the efficient fully open-weight and data OLMoE-1B-7B-0924, open-weight Qwen2 7B, open-weight Qwen2 72B, open-weight Mistral 7B, open-weight Gemma2 9B, and Phi 3 Medium). Today we are releasing 4 samples from this family."
The problem is that the libertarian ,free society is loudly advocating against itself. Every scammer, every unhoused mad vagabund on the street, every druggie parking the fallout in other lifes,every hacker subverting order for personal gain from the suckers, every rights but ni duties hands out leaflets against life and let life.
Still no excuse to vote Nazi though.

The sad truth is we bribed humanity with surplus and destroyed habitat. And now we start shrinking to adapt to a persistent shape, we found out what humanity is made of in times of crisis. And its mostly ugly tribalism and shizoid paranoid stories. No poor hippy utopias, sorry. Has been like that always and forever if you are willing to abandon the idea of progress. Its now the social prothesisbuilders vs our worser nature. The panopticon of cellphones/ social networks vs powerabuse and mobrule as prevalent wherever things run out.
Also, there are plenty of scams in that same industry.

Timeshares: not even once.
Show HN: Generating an Azure SAS Token, Reading from Service Bus, Using Ruby
I recently needed to interact with a Service Bus queue in Azure using a Ruby on Rails application. However, Azure has completely ceased any maintenance on their old Ruby SDK, so all the API calls and SAS token construction had to be done manually.

I figured my pain might benefit others.
Jabref uses bibtex as internal format, which is fairly standard. There are some apps on the play store if you search for "bibtex", though i personally haven't tried them.

I guess the main difficulty might be in regards to how you store the file links and associated files.
I agree, but this also means "investing in smaller chunks." We're stacking missions up to be so complicated that they're really expensive and the first try really has to succeed. We need to figure out how to get smaller chunks so that individual ones can fail.
> Kyoto Cabinet

Now, that's a name I've not heard in a long time.

Are people still using Kyoto Cabinet in new projects? Are people still using DBM-style storage generally? I thought that whole branch of the evolutionary tree had sort of died out.
Thank you for your comments! For sure, the CNN is expressive for learning the characteristics of images. However, in this development, I tried to not use deep-learning because I believe that it is important to provide fast, consistent results without the need for training data. If you are particularly interested in this app, I would be glad if you could create a pull request to extend the algorithm.
You bag groceries and spend your time looking to break through in the industry your degree is in. You are infinitely more likely to be successful finding a real job than wasting your time and energy hoping to win the influencer lottery. If you wanted to be a content creator what the hell did you get a degree for?
i’m liking htmx.org since that puts the cognitive focus back on HTML and CSS
> the rental locations were all on air bnb but cheaper and with none of the extra fees that they would have charged forever

Exactly! Came here to echo this. I have family that got roped into this arrangement and the annual maintenance fees (and other misc fees at every turn) coupled with the up-front cost is absolutely ridiculous when compared to just booking an AirBnB/VRBO/etc for a couple weeks.

Also agree on sitting through one with zero intention to sign, once. It's a unique experience, and I feel like most people not already doing sales/marketing professionally might learn something from it.
> use anchors to link to other pages and not an onClick

That's beyond bizarre.
All Proton Drive apps are now open source
if you utilise OpenAI API, you are considered an AI startup?
Surely someone with a college degree that wants to be a plumber can simply not disclose their degree?
Netlify Celebrates 5M Developers
The argument is that Teams is so legitimately terrible that it's dominance is proof that market forces aren't working and that Microsoft is using its dominance in one area to enter other areas.
I don't think scam is the right word. Timeshare sales may be predatory, but they're not fraudulent.
Thank you for creating this! Impressed by multi-devices at once. Looking forward to seeing how this evolves!
Ha, yes, obviously I was referring to the free mbtiles download. Maptiler is currently showing "2020 OpenStreetMap Vectors only"
Ok but XTDB has a lot in common with Datomic and is open source but still hardly widely used. I think this is partly because most people don't consider 'temporality' as a feature a database should offer; rather, they believe temporal problems should be solved via proper schema design and application logic. Additionally, using datalog (or any esoteric query language that isn't SQL) locks you out of many battle-tested tools that enterprises rely on.

The XTDB team has pivoted towards a SQL-first approach (though still supports datalog) and now 'only' has the 'But why not just use Postgres' problem to solve.

Having personally moved from trying to use Postgres for everything (including lots of timeseries data with Timescale) to a dedicated and relatively unknown DB built purely for the purpose I want it for (QuestDB), I am all for more people trying to build databases that do specific things better than Postgres. However, it will be very difficult to create something that does literally everything Postgres can do but better, which probably makes Postgres the sensible choice for the majority of applications.
Sounds like the 1980 NASA/ASEE Summer Study at the University of Santa Clara, with the proceedings edited by the prolific Robert Freitas: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19830007077/downloads/19...
No, you don’t. You put your bank account numbers (or theirs) and a dollar amount into some application that uses ACH in the backend.
Thanks @Dev_Olly! Feel free to leave a comment if you run into any issues!
When you say "to supposedly help", do you mean they actually help, or this industry is also scammers?

Asking because someone in my extended family owns a timeshare and got scammed with an exit offer. It sounded similar to the timeshare pitch itself.
Just for fun context, E. coli cell membrane potential is interestingly dynamic. Some waste is charged, so rather than forcing it out against gradient, the whole-membrane gradient is dropped briefly for a dump. With a florescent probe for electrostatics, you see E. coli cells flickering like (inverse) fireflies, with little swirls of charged waste during the flick-offs.

And the difficulty of finding video of this to share with you, seems a not-small part of why science education content remains so dreadful.
im one of them :)
And so… it’s over ?
And it's not really new. Being a YouTuber or TikToker was obviously not possible before those platforms existed, but people were musicians, actors, or other sorts of performers, or wrote stuff that they tried to get published, it's all the same drive. Some wanted to do it to become a star and get paid, others did it for the love of the craft.

The internet is a new avenue for this, that's all.
There are a lot of syntactic sugar improvements the committee could make that they simply refuse to. Named parameters and function pointer syntax are compile-time fixes that would have zero runtime costs, yet it's 2024 and we've hardly budged from ANSI C.
There was also a $10,000 reward for information which easily could have incentivized them to provide false testimony
A hash table makes sense in memory. If it's loaded just right for fast access, it has holes - empty entries. That makes little sense if you are building a file that will be transferred to many places over the internet. Bandwith waste would be significant.

So it might seem that simply enumerating the data (sorted or not) would be a better option for a file. (After all, the receiver will read everything anyway.) I guess frequent updates make this inefficient, so a tree helps.
Interesting factoid about Google Workspace: if you send me a google docs link, I, with any Google account (even Federated identity account) can use and modify that document as a regular user.

That's not true for Microsoft, and I was forced to buy some Office software for our business because an external company used Microsoft products. Quite infectious.

Yet they could use our tools free of charge, they just refused.
Yes, please don't misunderstand, I agree with you on both points, with regard to both outsourcing and full-time employees.

And everyone on this thread is basically saying the same thing.

My point about the way most dev shops currently do business is that there's a grey area where there's not a bright clear line. As a manager who hired these dev shops, and as someone with a boss who wanted me to hire these dev shops, I was forced to deal with this issue every time.
vvrinter is coming
>21st century equivalent of becoming a pop star or being a TV personality

Which were always lottery professions at best. Being influencers/YouTube stars/etc. may seem more accessible these days but it's probably mostly an illusion. There are (mostly) plenty of jobs but most of them are probably pretty unglamorous.
> The issue is that by definition, an LLM can't distinguish between instructions and data.

Yep, and it gets marginally worse: It doesn't distinguish between different "data" channels, including its own past output. This enables strategies of "tell yourself to tell yourself to do X."

> As long as you allow anything untrusted into your LLM, you are vulnerable to this.

It's funny, I used to caution that LLMs should be imagined as if they were "client side" code running on the computer of whomever is interacting with them, since they can't reliably keep secrets and a determined user can eventually trick them into any output.

However with poisoning/exfiltration attacks, even that feels over-optimistic.
Repudiating Nazis is one of the easiest things for a reasonable person to do in any reasonable circumstance. Even the term "Nazi" is basically synonymous with malevolent evil at this point in history. It's a major moral failing when any individual fails this test.

[RIYL: This is so easy to get right, it's very telling if you get it wrong.]
love2d is quite interesting. also, modding games can be a good start. i started getting interested in how games worked through modding half life 1. it was a game i loved and hence and easy thing for me to imagine stuff in. from basic levels and learning its entity system and vertex editing functions soon the itch came for custom textures and code. theres likely more mod friendly games nowadays (not having to code in C for example :'))
That arXiv paper seems to imply that a false positive rate of 14% is "a reliable record of scientific progress". Even if we take their claim at face value, 14% of medical papers making false claims seems way too high.

I'm personally very skeptical it's that low. What I found during COVID is that entire literatures exist in this sort of weird space where you can't even say if they're true or false because the basic methodologies of the field don't even get you that far. Computational epidemiology never seemed to test its predictions against reality to begin with, so the whole concept of doing P-value analysis on such papers would be meaningless. Based on personal experience I'd feel like Ioannidis is directionally correct.
Weird, the exact inverse of my perspective.
imagine feeding cancer anti mitochondria
if you count subpixels to achieve color, a monochrome 128x32 display is a lot less: https://www.kotaku.com.au/2020/09/doom-kinda-running-on-a-pr... (as other comment pointed out, this is just a shell of a pregnancy test being used)
Sure, Japan is probably one of the largest exceptions in all of Asia. I wasn't making a absolute statement, more relative. So in general directional terms, I guess I was thinking more so of China/India (that are individually over 10x Japan's population) and have a middle class consumer for only a couple decades now. Many other countries are closer to mirroring China than Japan and some don't even apply here because they don't have a significant middle class yet. I thought it would be obvious that China/India is most of Asia.
not really as the math has no reference to time or space anyway so of course any geometry derived will be outside time and space in the first place...

to go even deeper if Universe formed out of a phase transition from many possible universes...it just means at the phase transition many possible geometries on top of many possible universes..
Starting today, you'll need a Samsung account to use the Galaxy Store
Besides GDI regions and CoreWrite, there isn't much public info.

They dumped Rust bindings to DDK, but it is more a over the fence kind of thing.

WinDev is culturally against anything not C++, see .NET adoption for key Windows features versus what happens on Apple/Google OS land.

I am quite curious on how WinDev will proceed with Rust and .NET versus C++, given the new security mandate tied to job evaluation.
When a customer interrupts you while you are aiding another customer, merely acknowledge their presence and tell them "Yes, ma'am, I'll help you after I've helped this customer. Thank you!"

I say this b/c not acknowledging someone, even someone who is rude, is also rude.

Manners (etiquette) are the key to civility. Really! They work but few even have heard, much less spoken of, manners or etiquette.
Raspberry Pi profits surge thanks to new single-board computer
I don't think it was unreasonable at the time ANSI did the standardization originally. As with Common Lisp, they had to consider the numerous already-existing implementations and code written with them in mind.
According to my understanding, RFC 6265, and MDN, removing the leading dot from the cookie's domain shouldn't have changed whether or not it was sent to subdomains (it should have been sent in either case). What am I missing?

Edit: Maybe I'm misreading. I thought the domain was changed from "breakthroughjuniorchallenge.org" to ".breakthroughjuniorchallenge.org" but maybe it was changed from nothing (which might display as "breakthroughjuniorchallenge.org" in browser debug tools but really is a host-without-subdomains cookie) to ".breakthroughjuniorchallenge.org", which should be the same as changing it from nothing to "breakthroughjuniorchallenge.org" too, I think.
Reverse proxy is the OG sidecar. You get N number of useful functionalities that doesn't need to live in your primary app, for example: TLS cert handling.
Get scammed by signing up for a timeshare contract. Then get scammed by “timeshare exit” companies. Then conned again by drug cartels.

These time share companies need to get bent. These platforms perpetuate the worst types of scams on our most vulnerable populations (elderly).

I went to one of these timeshare pitches because they were giving away free stays at an associated hotel — got a “free” 4 day/night accommodation. The catch here was I had to attend a 1-2 hour sales pitch for their “club” (timeshare).

Read the fine print before accepting the 4 day/night accommodation to make sure I did not have to accept a timeshare contract. Only obligation was the sales pitch and stay for the entire pitch.

Scheduled the pitch for later in the week of the vacation. Set a timer on my watch/phone as soon as I checked in for 1.5 hrs. Listened passively to their pitch. I feigned interest but ultimately declined each contract and each attempt to pull my credit report (do not give these people your SSN).

Each decline was met with:

- “I can go back to my manager and get a better deal. I’m making no profit”. Person comes back with a contract that throws in a bunch of “perks” (more “points” or something like that).

- high pressure sales tactics like: “this deal expires today”. “I’m basically giving this away for free”.

- Lies such as: “vacation anywhere you want in the world and any time”. But clearly contract and terms state otherwise and need to purchase additional “points” at certain locations. Doesn’t include holidays.

- more lies such as “after it’s paid off, you ‘own’ the time share”. Again, it’s bullshit. the “monthly maintenance fees” are in perpetuity (forever) and go up at any time at the discretion of club. You don’t “own” jack shit. The contract is worthless.

There were several other people as well in doing the sales pitch and made sure to call out the absurdities and lies so everyone could hear.

As soon as my watch/phone timer alerted. Got up, shake hands with sales person and manager, and I just left. I fulfilled my obligation.
My parents bought into Worldmark by Wyndham and they or us kids used it a ton, and the facilities were all pretty nice, so there are some that work out well.
It makes perfect sense to use the word content where it’s a convenient abstraction. But humans don’t watch/read/play or fall in love with abstractions. The specifics matter.
Ask HN: Postgres Primer for Programmers Recommendations?
I've avoided DB's for the most part for years. I get the basic SQL statement, but nothing advanced. I'm playing with some modeling using TimescaleDB and I think it's clear I'm going to need to understand this stuff a lot better.

I'm curious what literature other programmers would suggest for really getting your head around SQL. I'm less interested in the "learn by example" approach where you see a SELECT followed by a FILTER followed by an ORDER example. I want to understand better what's really going on under the hood. I'm trying to put together some MATERIALIZED VIEWS for run detection and GPT just really isn't working well for me on this kind of effort.
This is gonna destroy sooooooooooo many engineering school GPAs.
> And yet, it is still the best we got for also producing highly reliable and correct information.

It's not. Markets are good at that. They're actually competitive. Academia is good at producing enormous volumes of documents that claim to be information, and may or may not be if you test them. It's "competitive" in a weird way where people don't compete over what's actually true but over who can convince central planning committees to give them money, which is very different.
Tinygrad is great, but still in early stages I believe.

JAX has matured a lot over last 6 years and XLA has been around for lot longer. We believe we can extract good perf from AMD with JAX + XLA kernels.
This brings up an amusing memory: My high school biology textbook still had the Haeckel's embryos images in it.

It also occurs to me that my grasp of history is definitely influenced by the age of empires games.
wow that's pretty next level
Yes, if you make it legal to commit crimes like murder, the murder rate will hugely go down.
> you can (usually) rent it out.

Only if you're lucky enough to own it in a place that hasn't outlawed AirBNB rentals yet.

You didn't hear it from me but the scheme is: an individual or group of investors will buy several properties to AirBNB in a moderately-popular vacation spot. Typically someplace fairly rural and off the beaten path. But desirable enough for photos that might trend briefly on pinterest. Then they (rather covertly) drum up local support for banning AirBNBs, while being careful to make sure their existing rentals are grandfathered in. Now their investments have a moat and they can charge whatever they want for them, especially if there are no hotels or resorts anywhere nearby.
High end standalone VR is dead as Apple very publicly proved to everyone