skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dont think this is an either or situation. People still need tools in their toolbox if they dont want to be be on a biologic for the rest of their lives.

Fasting is just one such tool.
Lol I think they were just having a laugh
If I’m someone who does not super high intensity photo and video work, is a usb 3.2 gen 2 aka ~1 GB/s speeds fine in a hard drive?
> much like other "chemical imbalances" such as ADHD or depression

Interesting that the examples you bring up are also things that turned out to be misunderstood and were not actually chemical imbalances.

> you appear to assume

Where do I appear to assume this?
Maybe requiring payment could've worked out instead of shutting down?
> Federated networks like Mastodon and Lemmy are going to get people well-acquainted with websites shutting down. It's hard work (time, money, etc.) to run these things for people, and people start to really lean on them.

Mastodon is filled with such utterly basic UX issues. You move instances because the old one announces a shutdown? No old posts visible, no import possible. You want to see the history of an old account on another instance? The oldest toot you'll see is the first one that your instance picked up from that account. You have to switch to their instance to see old toots - there's a helpful link at the end of the feed, but it's still annoying. "Trending" topics only carry stuff happening on your server, and most of it is days old garbage. Search is horribly broken and inconsistent.
Ask HN: Why do top CS degrees have lots of math but few theoretical CS courses?
For example, isn't an undergraduate course on approximation algorithms that provide provable performance guarantees more useful than one on group theory?
In theory AT proto doesn't seem like a bad design. I've read a fair bit of the docs, although mostly skimming. (I've been meaning to read the paper on Merkle Search Trees so I can figure out what exactly is going on with PDSes.)

On the other hand, in practice it seems like the AT proto infrastructure is still very centralized for now. DIDs are excellent in theory, but everyone is using PLC DIDs, which depends on the centralized plc.directory. You can run your own PDSes, but there's only one relay for now (that I am aware of.) I also don't think there is more than one instance of the Bluesky AppView, and the official instance is locked into the Bluesky Moderation Service, which seems to limit the usefulness of some of the censorship resistance of the protocol.

I'm not sure how much of that is social problems rather than technical, but I worry that since Bluesky and AT proto are gaining massive popularity with this status quo (millions of users!) it'll have a problem akin to Matrix.org, where in practice almost everyone is using the same infrastructure anyways.

It's still relatively early days, but millions of people is definitely enough to where you start to hit problems with having everyone under one roof. I really hope we get to see how things play out when more of the network is operated independently.
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Holla, swear to my kasamas
When I grow up I wanna be just like Yuri Kochiyama.
You said nothing about price in your initial comment, and the cards I listed are some of the most popular GPUs of the last several years.
this honestly sounds like you're describing the most successful software on the market. I can't think of many social media sites slower than facebook or instagram, or chat slower than slack or email clients slower than gmail.
I credit my past interest in cryptocurrencies for educating me about the essence of the stock market in its purest form. And in fact there are painful parallels with the AI bubble.
Russia is getting Nvidia AI chips from an Indian pharma company
The technical term for this is “zone of possible agreement”. If your opening is outside the counterparty’s ZOPA, then they’re likely to disengage/exit.
Where are you pulling these numbers from? This is an entirely content-free, flame-bait comment.
Have a look at the TSMC executives: https://www.tsmc.com/english/aboutTSMC/executives

There’s a 68% chance that Altman met with someone who got their degree in the US (if only one executive attended, otherwise chances are higher).

And the others probably also have little difficulty communicating in English or calculating the cost of 36 fabs in any currency, since that’s their business.
Google has two billion lines of proprietary code, conformant to their style guides and proprietary requirements. I can't imagine they'd poison their model with non-conformant third party source.
> Mastodon allows you to be the operator, if you so choose.

... and if you forget a critical update or you see it too late, you'll get hacked.

Self-hosting anything comes with serious challenges that most people only realize in hindsight.
I think your concept of ‘what the AI wrote’ is too large. There is zero chance my one line copilot or three line cursor tab completions are going to have an effect on the overall quality of my codebase.

What it is useful for is doing exactly the things I already know need to happen, but don’t want to spend the effort to write out (at least, not having to do it is great).

Since my brain and focus aren’t killed by writing crud, I get to spend that on more useful stuff. If it doesn’t make me more effective, at least it makes my job more enjoyable.
I recently acquired a 43" 4K monitor for programming - a very boring Philips monitor, used at 100% scale. I hated it at first, but after a month I loved it.

2160p actual 'workspace' resolution at this distance (2 feet?) and size (43") seems close to a practical limit for typical use I thought, requiring with this measly 43" still a little bit of occasional head movement to see the top right corner. I noticed a tendency to sit slightly to the left of centre on this monitor, to avoid distortion and maintain clarity with what I'm focusing on (e.g. code/windows, not reference materials). Because of this I suspect at this distance a 43" with a slight curve would be optimal, at least for me.

What I wanted to ask you:

- What is your 'workspace' resolution? Is it something like 6K? I'm guessing your scaling is either 125% or 150%? Your PPI should be around 135, mine 102.

- Are you actually sat perfectly centre? I was wondering this because I keep noticing I tend to gradually shift my keyboard to the left over a day. Maybe this is years of 1440p + side portrait monitor use, I'm not sure, but eventually I accepted that I prefer slightly to the left (odd because my side portrait was on the left...)

- Do you think a curved monitor at this size/distance would improve the ergonomics? I imagine you must get a bit of a neck workout.

After getting this monitor, I'm pretty much sold on single screens again - but I had to switch my window management from keyboard-based tiling shortcuts to 'hold CTRL and move mouse' window management (BetterTouchTool on MacOS), with a tendency to stack up windows messily. I tried custom resize snap zones with BetterSnapTool - but I don't use them. I think that was the biggest challenge to switch from multi monitor to large format. It's a huge benefit to have everything in your context on one screen, but had to rethink how windows get moved around. Now I'm used to it, I want CTRL/SHIFT + mousemove modifiers on every system to deal with windows.

Also related, I bought a 4K tv last weekend for another system to use as a monitor, but found that the gaps between the pixels were unexpectedly large, creating a strange optical effect at close distance, making it unusable (but so close). There might be something different about the screen outer layer (on most TVs?) that polarizes light in a way better suited for distance viewing, but clearly not all TVs have this issue.
What status quo is being preserved?
System Profiler labels those in my CalDigit TS4 as hubs, but it's entirely possible that's not accurate.
I once jogged to my car and drove somewhere close forgetting to turn Strava off getting all the PBs and split records
I would love to find out

where programmers are learning this idea:

that writing code fast is ideal.

If it takes 30 years to write one loc, it takes 30 years.

Ideally, it takes 30 years to write zero lines of code.
Cool.

But even if you have a working stellarator that's a very long way from an economically viable energy source. You've still got to a) figure out how to cheaply convert the released energy into electricity (and the baseline way of doing that in D-T fusion is...a steam turbine), and b) figure out materials that can survive the radiation bombardment for a sufficiently long time.

In sunny places (and I fully acknowledge that's not all of the world) it's still going to be hard to beat sticking bits of special glass out in a field and connecting wires to it.

But we should sure as heck keep tinkering away at it!
I bought a portable AC battery for my Mac mini for $65. Hard agree though that it would be a lot cooler if the conversion was in the cable so I could just do dc in.

The thing is, M chips run so efficiently that even with the power loss from conversion, it’s still pulling less power than a lot of PCs.

But yeah it running on a sleek dc battery would be a lot cooler
> Talk, coach, put hard fixes in like linting and review approvals.

And sometimes, when all that doesn’t work? Just do it yourself :)
I'm not so sure this "race to the bottom" is a characteristic I want to avoid. The most competitive markets in the world are always in first world countries or in countries quickly turning into a first world country. Take south korea for example. They had sweatshops maybe 70 years ago and now they arguably have the best healthcare in system in the world.

I'll take a fast food job for 40 hours any day of the week over most of the options in poor countries. Sure, nothing but the best, fulfilling jobs for everyone is ideal, but until I see that exist I'm not informed enough to know whether it's possible outside of someones political ideals.
Well, I can understand it. It is an amazing (in the literal sense) technology, and yet after playing with it you come to realise it doesn't really deliver what it promises and is more of a demonstration of the power of enormous amounts of data than it is some kind of breakthrough in artificial intelligence. Also, it's probably mostly a backlash to the constant hype and outrageous claims of impending doom or utopia rampant on Twitter and Reddit; HN seemed to be nothing but AI/LLM talk for pretty much the whole of 2023.

What does ChatGPT do for you?
This sounds right until you realise how much market share Windows captured, held and now even solidifies from the Ballmer era.

I don't agree with you, and I believe the Ballmer era did wonders for Windows and was a turbulent period. The new era of MS now is quite stable because of this.
Is that better liquidity, etc., actually needed?

If we consider the function of a market to be to arrive at prices that lead to the optimal allocation of the goods sold on that market, intuitively it would seem that there should be a limit on how fast trades need to propagate to achieve that, and the limit would be tied to how fast new information relevant to the producers and consumers of those goods comes out.

I don't think I'm expressing this well but the idea is that prices of goods should be tied to things that actually affect those goods. That's generally going to be real world news.

If you turn up trading speed much past the speed necessary to deal with that I'd expect that you could end up with the market reacting to itself. Kind of like when you turn an amplifier up to much and start getting distortion and even feedback.
I've been using a 34" 1440p curved ultrawide monitor (21:9) since 2020 and it's been amazing. Earlier this year I decided to try using a 42" LG OLED TV as my monitor and lasted about a day before deciding to go back. I 100% agree with you RE: viewing the corners of the flat screen. I'll never go back to a flat monitor/TV for my primary PC again. I think my ideal monitor is ultrawide, curved, 1440p, OLED, and 38" or so.
To be fair, almost no one should be out driving in freezing rain. No amount of
being a "good driver" can make tires hold on to slick ice.

Waymo was doing winter testing in Buffalo, NY in February of this year: https://www.wkbw.com/news/local-news/inside-the-self-driving...
https://vaticancatholic.com/what-really-happened-after-vatic...
crazy how cheap these got, I paid ~$1500 USD in 2020
That's a really good point!

That might work if you have a single VM but it's a little more complicated when you have an app on multiple instances.

pipe is a multicast pubsub which means you can have many subscribers.
Can you learn to be funny? (2019)
> every action requires a multi second request

This is doing a lot of heavy lifting. Just because an app is slow doesn't mean Rust would've made it faster. It may just be slow because of a bad query or otherwise poor architecture, especially in web development. The commenter is asking what projects you've seen fail because the language itself hit a performance limit that couldn't be worked around.
Waymo is doing rides with employees (not yet the public) in AZ now. https://waymo.com/blog/2024/01/from-surface-streets-to-freew...
https://archive.is/otETn
The cynicism and nihilism is impressive.
> How do tests account for cases where I'm looking at a 100 line function that could have easily been written in 20 lines with just as much, if not more, clarity?

That’s not a failure of the AI writing that 100 line monstrosity, it’s a failure of you deciding to actually use the thing.

If you know what 20 lines are necessary and the AI doesn’t output that, why would you use it?
He’s exactly the person I wouldn’t give a pass to, because of his track record. I wouldn’t give a penny to a cryptocurrency scammer.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/richardnieva/worldcoin-...

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/06/1048981/worldcoi...

Especially not one whose business plan is “let’s invent fairytale technology then ask it how to make money”.

https://x.com/geepytee/status/1778859803735113950

If all of that sounds good to you, I know of a bridge you may be interested in purchasing.
A good chunk of Central America is like this. One person I know maintaining maps of historic Maya settlements was tracking thousands of known names, most of which were positionally located by rough distance estimates from some other coarsely located feature. Many didn't even have that, just a name in some historic document.
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Its the ocean plates that slide down when they hit the more buoyant continents. When continents hit they make the Himalayas.
It seems like F# is more like a type safety tool from arbitrary untyped data for developers rather than what I'm talking about though?

But even TypeScript can infer types in many cases?
And how many people in operations center at what salaries?
This is the first _published_ version: https://docs.omnigres.org/omni_txn/linearize/
> No one should be obligated to publish something they want to keep private, for whatever reason.

That logic works fine for a single author. Totally agree.

But it breaks down when a team of 200 people create a work, and 199 of them want to release it, but the last 1 person does not (which is the case most often seen today)
I’m curious on how you came up with the name? In my language it means companion.
Exactly the same problems as with shipping container homes.
> Centralization works and is highly preferable for many users.

I don't think users care about that at all, and if they have it explained to them, hate it. I think the real problem is that we haven't decentralized ownership and decisionmaking, instead we shattered big dictatorships into little fiefdoms, often run by local gangs (as one would expect.) Arguing that federation should automatically solve our problems with social media is like the US argument for "state's rights." You had one problem, now you have 50.

This is also exacerbated by the fact that people can't migrate. That would seem like it should be a developer priority to enable competition between instances, but instead people get irritated when asked about it at all. Every post locks you in farther to a particular instance. If people can leave on a whim, bad instances would starve. Instead of people being able to vote with their feet, the politics of mastodon all revolve around punishing other instances for various examples wrongthink by defederating. So now it's little fiefdoms at war with each other, you have to be in the in-crowd of your likely randomly chosen instance to have a say about it, and if you leave you lose everything.
If this turns into some sort of hiring metric, I’m gong to be pissed.

> What’s your Kasama score?
In which book? Sounds interesting.
You fill the orders proportional to the order quantity for everyone
I wonder how much of that is endemic to ActivityPub or how much is about the software stack itself

I don’t mean to be glib, just wondering if things can be “done better”
Are you sure? Is my one PHP server running with 50% more electricity gonna outweigh the 12 developers with beefed rigs just to get Rust compile times somewhere reasonable? Or how much longer they will be using their computers because it will take longer to write the code itself? Especially when I have 1000 monthly users and a $6 VPS is more than enough anyway?

This has always been a poor argument.
The same restaurant that was featured in the tv series The Bear right?
What is dark budget look like these days.
Given how grievance artists community has been for these AI, it is very easy to understand. The tech is amazing, sure. But I think you are just not seeing the cost.

If I just took on 1 million USD in debt without a clear plan how to repay it. I would not feel optimistic and imaginative about how I can spend this money. I would go into risk averse mindset.
How are you on HN with this kind of attitude? I get that AI is overhyped for a lot of applications but I just shipped an LLM powered feature at $dayjob that saves around 4-8 hrs per use. Our previous version based on NLP had been scrapped for years because it performed so terribly. We just paid humans to do it. The difference between the old
and the new is scoring <5% correct to consistently hitting 95%. It's that bird xkcd.
Post co-author here. The point is a little nuanced, so let me explain:

You are correct in saying that that you can store embeddings and source data together in many vectordbs. We actually point this out in the post. The main point is that they are not linked but merely stored alongside each other. If one changes, the other one does not automatically change, making the relationship between the two stale.

The idea behind Pgai Vectorizer is that it actually links embeddings with underlying source data so that changes in source data are automatically reflected in embeddings. This is a better abstraction and it removes the burden of the engineer to ensure embeddings are in sync as their data changes.
> the impact of buying a new one is more than the impact of actually running the thing unless you run it 24/7/365

This is wrong for basically everything we ever use - from a house, to an electric car. And especially for small items like electronics
Website is being hugged:

https://archive.ph/6Krrp
I somewhat regret not specialising in RF/comms in my EE degree - this side of HFT sounds like a fascinating line of work (Trading at the Speed of Light was a great read).
I'm guessing the syncing process between instances is really brutal on resources. Imagine constantly syncing external databases for your service to function properly.
Yes. I haven't had to do this myself, but I just read someones account of doing just that (because of delay, not mess).
Have you ever worked one of these jobs? I have. The average woman is not able to carry two 70 pound boxes of cable up four flights of stairs, multiple times and all day long, for ~$18 an hour.
As always, it depends. I'm on a mastodon instance centered around a fairly specific topic, whose members donate (more than) enough to cover the costs of running the instance.

Of course, it still relies on the benevolence of the guy who runs and maintains the instance. He actually takes a fee out of the donations each month to pay for his time, but it's a token amount.
You hit on the other problem: lack of moral underpinnings to guide or limit science. I was collecting videos on Scientism yesterday when I ran into an overview of C.S. Lewis’ take on it.

https://youtu.be/FPeyJvXU68k?feature=shared

He correctly predicted the harms that would come from science without morals. Additionally, he observed Scientism is much like magic from older times. He makes comparisons. The end result is a tool of authoritarianism.
Safe to say that if you're using off-the-shelf character-based chunking, your AI app is not past PoC.
Anchoring bias probably works with numbers outside of the realm of reality as well. But I doubt it's very useful in these cases (or even any stronger than asking for say 300B), otherwise everyone would always start a funding round by asking for a 7T investment, right.
If anyone else is wondering, TIL the spelling “Hallowe’en” on a number of these postcards is a contraction of “All Hallows’ Even," and that "even" was a common term for "evening" in Old and Middle English.
I thought AP was push-based though? Might be wrong of course, and I think stuff like media is its own thing
Shameless plug if anyone is interested - I'm working on a $600-ish open-source, reasonably capable, but small and somewhat "tidy" hobby CNC machine with BOM cost around $600 that requires some DIYing.

It's meant to be an alternative to the Desktop CNCs like Nomad, Carvera, Bantam, ... moreso than a PCNC or other proper entry-level CNC.

The ultimate goal is to make it hobbyist-friendly, capable of easily cutting alumin(i)um and not taking up a lot space, not being messy or loud enough to require a dedicated workshop. Unfortunately, cutting metal is inherently loud so you probably would not be able to run it in an apartment as I'd hoped.

I've made a couple decisions around being friendly for people coming from the 3DP space around probing, using roborock CPAP as chipvac, running it mostly dry, fully enclosed. I'm also starting to work on computer-vision-based probing and the idea is to later enable a host of more user-friendly and safety-focused features and maybe integration with Kiri:Moto's CNC mode for "guided" CAM and so on - basically a beginner-friendly CNC that guides newbies using an integrated web-interface.

More info on Github: https://github.com/thingsapart/mini_nc

GH is a little outdated but I've been using the little machine to cut alu for a while (mostly parts for itself) and it's working quite well. There's more videos and such on the Discord linked in the GH readme - feel free to ask questions on the Discord, I try to respond as quickly as I can. The full model with all its components is completely open in Onshape (I know it's not ideal but how I learned CAD - link also on GH).
Scientists Discover 'Deep Brain' Genes Linked to Parkinson's and ADHD
Ahhh yes and your google account deleted for using hate speech while riding?

Or will you ever be able to reach support once car takes you to wrong location?
fwiw roughly 50% of Matrix is on the matrix.org instance currently. we consider this a bug, but also prioritise ease of onboarding over decentralisation purity ideology.
The (mostly useless boilerplate “I’m basically just testing my mocks”) tests are being written by AI too these days.

Which is mildly annoying as a lot of those tests are basically just noise rather than useful tools. Humans have the same problem, but current models are especially prone to it from what I’ve observed

And not enough devs are babysitting the AI to make sure the test cases are useful, even if they’re doing so for the original code it produced
https://testing.googleblog.com/2015/01/testing-on-toilet-cha...

"speaks volumes" lol