skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of this seems to happen due to something like:

1. Something goes wrong

2. "We need more procedure to ensure this never-ever happens again!"

Repeat over many years, and now everything is regulated to the microscopic detail, and no one really has the authority to do anything.

It's basically a special case of the "Politician's fallacy" – "this is terrible, we need to do something!", "this is something", "therefore, we need to do this".

In some cases all of that is of course the correct response, but in many others it's a little but more dubious, and in some it's outright misguided.

I think everyone would be better off if we'd be a bit more relaxed about "stuff goes wrong sometimes, and that's not always a big deal as long as we correct it". All the preventive measures come with a cost of their own.

All of this seems very deeply embedded. Politicians from all sorts of parties have been promising to "cut red tape" for as long as I remember, but it never really happens under any party. I think most politicians are genuine in their intent, but it's not easy to change the mentality of a society.
Is this a bit like saying I'll need another 11 years to get older than my brother who is ten years older than me ??
Why are the existing systems inadequate?
This argument doesn't make any sense - those lists don't shy away from including other higher priced options.

Said Dell display is $2,479.99 before any discount.

The XDR is included on every one of those lists, with the same resolution/size, but $4999 (more than double the price) without a stand of any kind.

The Apple Studio display is $1999 (just $500 cheaper) if you want the height adjustable stand.
You shall expose the structs as anonymous types behind a pointer, and expose functions that act on that pointer.
Since we're going there...Graham Hancock's a philistine but I'd take his word over somebody like Flint Dibble. Dibble lied and pushed off bad information to win a debate and he did a disservice to himself and his peers. Many of whom work thankless jobs out on remote sites with no health insurance and for pitiful wages. They shouldn't be represented by a smug arrogant conman that passes off irrelevant studies on metallurgy, outright lies about ship wrecks and has to name drop and smear the civilians at any chance (I'd like to see that 15th century drawing of an island orthorectified like it's an image captured from a multispectural sensor Mr. Rogan)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1de_GHm63k
I had never heard this, but yeah, that's a thing. Thank you.
MacOS also has ctrl+left/right for switching virtual desktops. The gesture can get a bit tedious if you're jumping across multiple desktops in one go. I don't think it's particularly ergonomic either.
"I live in fear of an AI scraper figuring out how to scrape all of these files and bankrupting me overnight."

What is the best way around this for a hobby project similar to botsin.space.
I don't mind the service going down in case of a DOS attack. I want to handle TLS myself though (so no free Cloudflare).

Most important thing is my good sleep at night, so no fine print that allows the provider to pass on the cost to me in case something goes wrong. (If that means higher fixed cost, that's how it is, I'm not asking for a dream house, just reliable cost control).
Don’t forget using GPS to get the time and tell you if you’ve crossed time zones
Isn't there a nonprofit association aimed for making the managing/finance-side of such small projects easy? I mean, there are all kinds of orgs for free software and other hobbies. Having a dedicated organization for collecting small money or donation and handling taxes worldwide for small projects, might be something useful, I guess.
Only a few thousand days away. /s
I didn't miss that detail, I just don't think chunking alone is where the complexity lies and that the pgai feature set isn't really differentiated at all from other offerings in that context. My commentary about full documents was responding directly to your comment here in this thread more so than I was the article (you claimed chroma can only insert chunks, which isn't accurate, and I expanded from there).
I like this and haven't used it before. Thanks for sharing.
“Why do adults demand respect from children when they don’t earn it?” - the author’s teen.

This is the crux of the conflict current society has with children. Children are used as political pawns (but think of the children!) rather than being a focus of society. Even here on HN you see some posters assume a 12 year old can’t understand right or wrong (12 year olds absolutely know when to lie, thus implying they think they know when some things are wrong).

If society respected children for who they are I think we could get a lot further. Thankfully it seems we are going that direction with the addition of more “free range” laws and general acceptance that children are people, with vastly more agency than society currently assumes they have.[1]

1 - source: has kids
Does it matter how smart someone is when they make things up?

We see this in AI talk all the time "Dude is really good at coding and math, he's smart. We should totally listen to him when he makes things up like a 12 year old who just watched Terminator."
> You're right. Looking at my actual code, instead I stored the accept to be yielded next time you call accept and only cancel an accept call if you drop the entire listener object mid-accept.

This is still a suboptimal solution as you've accepted a connection, informing the client side of this, and then killed it rather than never accepting it in the first place. (Worth noting that linux (presumably as an optimisation) accepts connections before you call accept anyway so maybe this entire point is moot and we just have to live with this weird behaviour.)

Now it's true that "never accepting it in the first place" might not be possible with io_uring in some cases but rather than hiding that under drop the code, it should be up front about it and prevent dropping (not currently possible in rust) in a situation where there might be uncompleted in-flight requests before you've explicitly made a decision between "oh okay then, let's handle this one last request" and "I don't care, just hang up".
These two comments are worlds apart.

My comment is feedback to better pitch the project with the goal of attracting more users.

The Dropbox comment, in contrast, is a mean-spirited criticism that just lists alternatives.
> Buyers do not exist in a vacuum

Unlike Voyagers 1 and 2
Everyone is stupid sometimes. I am not stupid sometimes.
Do they have to? Twitter does and that's noble, but can't the server, say, per-user logrotate, sign that with webserver cert, and send via email or force download or push to HTML localStorage thing when user is on desktop and then forget about it?
I'm a math professor. In my opinion, no. This would be possible, but I don't believe it would be a good idea.

I firmly believe that, if you want to learn any math subject, whether elementary or research-level or anywhere in between, you have to do a bunch of computations. Trying to skip this would be like trying to master chess by reading books and learning theory, without ever playing against live opponents.

I think it's very plausible that we could do with much less symbolic computation by hand, and more use of computers and calculators. Doing integrals and derivatives by hand is often overemphasized, because that's the easiest thing to test for. But I believe that even in an ideal world, this should have a prominent place in the curriculum.
Nah, you can totally drink a big glass of that.
I assume the amount of monitoring effort is less than the amount of effort that would be required to replicate the AI generated code by humans, but do you have numbers on what that ROI looks like? Is it more like 10% or 200%?
Also reminds me of Covid times and terms needed back then... Sometimes I wonder if all that attempt of thought control is really needed...
Discussion about differences SQL-89 vs SQL-91?

In 2024.

Really?
I still use all the protocols so I do not miss them. The majority of consumer services do revolve around HTTP but in my opinion that has not deprecated anything. It just means HTTP is more popular but as you say all the other protocols are still there. HTTP(s) has reduced friction for the majority and simplified coding.

I actually like that the other protocols are less favored as I can share something over one of them and know that my servers will not be overloaded. People today won't bother using less popular protocols unless they absolutely really want access. That weeds out bots and low effort clients. Sometimes I want a level of friction to be a great filter so to speak. Sometimes I will use FTPS or SFTP or native Rsync and someone has to be really interested to bother. This is especially useful if my target audience are highly technical people or non-cellphones. There are phone apps that speak all off the protocols but most people will not install and configure them on a whim. An example would be: I share a set of files on a chat server. The chat server has bots that can crawl HTTP(s) but they know not how to speak SFTP. Only the real human will bother.

That's probably a long winded way of indirectly answering your question. My favorite protocols are anything that raise the bar to access. In some regard it brings back the old internet for me and weeds out some of the riffraff. This probably sounds elitist but that is not my intention.
Fregus point is that otikik seems to suggest that the darkest shadow will be the combination of all 6 shadows; thats obviously wrong, any shadow blocked from both lights will be as dark as any other shadow blocked from both lights, no matter the amount of "overlapping" shadows. You then respond to Fregus by unnecesarily just explaining shadows again, hence the reading comprehension comment.
Traveling would be so much more disorienting. Forgetting what the local daytime range is and checking the position of the sun to guess whether you're closer to the front or back half of the day. Having to consult a table to figure out exactly how much you're going to inconvenience the person giving you a ride from the airport. Accidentally running into rush hour because you forgot that 1100 is 5:00 here. LOL.
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That was true in the 70s. I think anything built in europe since the 80s can do load following and France does that every day. I think by regulation new plants must be able to adapt their production by something like 5% per 10min (or something of that order of magnitude), well within the range you need to meet intra day variations.

Now whether it is optimal economically is another question. If you have some sources of energy in your grid that cost per usage (eg fossil fuels), you should rather switch those off than nuclear which costs the same whether you use it or not. But if your grid is almost all nuclear (eg France), you do load following.
Probably because land has pretty much fuck-all to do with anything nowadays.
Voyagers were built by JPL and not contracted out so align to a degree with the spacex model. In part this was because budget got cut badly.

“In order to reduce costs and overheads, NASA decided to leave design and construction of the Mariner Jupiter-Saturn spacecraft to JPL, rather than to Boeing, General Electric, Hughes, Martin Marietta, and North American Rockwell, all of which had some level of preparation for a Grand Tour proposal. The largest aerospace firms lobbied NASA Headquarters and Congress for the contracts. In order for expensive projects to pass congressional scrutiny as part of the NASA budget, they often had to include an intention to contract out much of the work” voyager - Andrew J. Butrica

I think they also did build a test spacecraft ?

Anyways the approach (smaller focused team) contrasts with the big SLS type projects that are contracted out for political reasons.
Link to that study? Cant seem to find it in the article
May I recommend you read this article titled "So You Want To Abolish Time Zones"?

https://qntm.org/abolish
Except Blade is part of the MCu now since Deadpool 3

But I think the analogy may be being stretched
Run LLM predictions against a data frame in Python or R
I just can't comprehend anyone being ok with government mandated injections, particularly when tied to your ID. How many governments in history would they trust with such powers.
> already installed on a large fraction of machines

So far you've presented no evidence of this though, just that it's used by a new desktop-focused package.

All linux desktops over the last 30 years is not even a "large fraction" of total Linux installs, much less the ones that have already migrated to this new audio system.

> adding the interpreter is not a big cost

It's nothing to do with cost. It's about "how do I know this will absolutely 100% run on any POSIX machine I throw it on without any extra steps".

Remember the argument here is about something that is claimed to be "objectively better" than Shell. The ubiquitous nature of POSIX shell is a huge barrier for any possible competitor, and saying "well you just need to install it" just defeats the purpose. You might as well write it in fucking java and say "well you just need to install a JVM".

Edit to Add:
a good number of systems I manage do have liblua installed... because HAProxy requires it, and those systems have HAProxy installed. Not because it was installed as part of the base OS or even a default group of packages.

Incidentally, HAProxy and thus liblua were installed on those systems by infrastructure management that's implemented as shell script. So what kind of chicken and egg argument do we need to have here about how exactly I can run a Lua script to install Lua?
It's not exactly the surprise of the century that running your own services, let alone a security platform, requires maintenance.

What was it specifically that made it a "maint burden of the first order?"
I spent $27k to try and run an event, which was an interesting experience. I hope y'all can learn something from this, and maybe have better odds of succeeding where I failed!
Okay, looks like withoutboats gave the answer to this in another thread [1], and that seems like the right answer. The accept() future being dropped must not result in any cancellation of any kind, unless the listener itself is also dropped.

This is an implementation issue with monoio that just needs more polishing. And given how hard io_uring is to get right, monoio should be given that time before being chosen to be used in production for anything.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41994308
Looking into the Nintendo Alarmo
Thanks for the insight. I think you're correct... My area is very gravy oriented in general.
Yes, I think it should be possible without any technological hurdles. It's just some work to set it up.

(DL models are trained with one type of camera and used with another type of camera all the time, and that's sort of similar; plus renderers as used in blender3d are pretty good and they should work well with LEGO bricks which are relatively simple objects; if despite all this it doesn't work you could degrade both the real and the generated images e.g. by quantization, with the aim of bringing them closer together.)
Continuing process after cancellation failure is a challenge I face in my actual work, and I agree that "halt-safety" lacks definition and context. I have also learned and been inspired a lot from your blogs, I appreciate it.
Of course there's something lost. If I see my colleague's local time will be 9:00PM, I know not to schedule a meeting then. It's a method for translating familiar associations of hours across space.

Also, and more importantly, "it's 5:00 somewhere!" would cease to be true.
What are the changes? I still have my childhood copy of What Do People Do All Day and my daughter loves it, might get her some of the other Busytown books.
Nice! would have needed something like this last year.
Because the input is a 2D picture not a 3D scene with all the coordinates and geometry information.
GPLv3, nice. Is this a Newpipe fork or totally new codebase?
This happened back in August, the real press release is here:

https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-issues-emergency-order-...
Gopher and finger.
> NYC you’d get to work at 13:00 and go home at 21:00

And if you plan to meet your colleagues after dinner, would you say "see you tomorrow?".
I actually looked at this in detail about a year ago for some automated driving compute work at my previous job, and I found that the detailed info you'd want from Nvidia was just 100% unavailable. There's pretty good proxies in some of the data you can get out of Nvidia tools, and there's some extra info you can glean from some of the function call stack in the open source Nvidia driver shim layer (because the actual main components are still binary blob, even with the "open source" driver), but over all you still can't get much useful info out.

Now that Brendan works for Intel, he can get a lot of this info from the much more open source Intel GPU driver, but that's only so useful since everyone is either Nvidia or AMD still. The more hopeful sign is that a lot of the major customers of Nvidia are going to start demanding this sort of access and there's a real chance that AMD's more accessible driver starts documenting what to actually look at, which will create the market competition to fill this space. In the meantime, take a look at the flamegraph capabilities in PyTorch and similar frameworks, up an abstraction level and eek what performance you can.
I like to believe (it may not be true though), that the AI has learned what code actually exists in the wild, and is doing what all of us end up doing when trying to refactor a system we don't understand, writing new, similarish code as writing code is more fun than reading it.
If the code is a generated artefact and conforms to the test cases, who cares?

What maintenance is required when the codebase is regenerated from scratch on each build?
For anyone 50+ of age wider monitors are harder to use than multiple monitors specially if you don't use varifocal glasses. I bought a 47 inch monitor some time ago but had to go back to a multi monitor setup with smaller monitors because I can't see the sides and corners of the larger one without moving or standing up. Works better if you have a standing up desk though.
> The date of Ramadan is not well known because it's based on being able to see the moon from the local position on Earth.

Note to self, look up what Islamic scholars think should be done about Ramadan on a moon base.
I wish I had seen this when I was starting out, that would have made life a lot easier!
IDF Gaza sniper works at Microsoft
My aunt and uncle got called for a parent teacher meeting because my cousin wrote a story in 1st grade:

First the farmer pets the bunny. Then the farmer feeds the bunny. Then the farmer gives the bunny some water. Then the farmer kills the bunny and eats him for dinner.
I agree. However, I think what they are saying is the embedding should just be like any other index. I mean, yeah it should be but that isn't reality. There are massive latencies involved as well as costs.

Perhaps in ~10 years embedding / chunking approaches will be so mature that there will just be one way to do it and will take no more time than updating a btree but that certainly isn't the case now.

I think the right abstraction for today would be for OpenAI to manage the vector search. It is kind of weird to send all of the data to a service only to have it compute a vector and hand it back to me. I have to figure out how to chunk it etc (I'm sure they would do a better job than I would). I should just have to deal with text ideally. Someone else can figure out how to return the best results.
Your list of records doesn't require subtyping, it requires information hiding, eg. existential types. Subtyping is too powerful.
It was their outside auditing firm - not an individual auditor on SMC's own payroll - that resigned.

And from a quick search - it looks like SMC has suffered problematic-at-best accounting for years. And the SEC, DoJ, etc. are digging into things...
Way back, one of my uni projects was to write a C to MIPS32 compiler. Why? Because the lecturer was a big fan of MIPS. I've never needed to touch anything related to MIPS since.
It seems to be more accurate. If a fetus is going to be aborted, then the negative affects of this chemical are moot. The affects of the chemical only become a problem if the fetus becomes a baby.
There used to be a difference, if I am correct. Many years ago, we had to rewrite a lot of implicit joins before we could upgrade MySQL because they changed the precedence of tables in implicit joins between major versions. I couldn't easily find this reference, but it was well over 10 years ago.

EDIT: 10 years ago... lol it was over 20!
http://download.nust.na/pub6/mysql/doc/refman/5.0/en/join.ht...
search for 5.0.12 on this page.
Same reason many aren't using HEIC or HEIF which are common image files from phones now. They are overlooked or aren't thought about.

Also many people forget about JPE, which is rare, but I've had problems with it, its basically a DOS format for JPEG, and alternative for JPG
Try Meg and Mog. British and non rhyming but one of the truly great illustrators and fantastic little stories.

Also anything by Tomqi Ungerer or Mo Willems.
This seems like an excellent educated guess (and you were right about the Mac Mini!)
Could be - but isn't.

> ... as the cost of emitting carbon rises, people will search for alternatives ...

The only alternative for most poorer individuals is the power grid and while it is more convenient it is nowhere close to carbon based fuels in price. So it is used for small things, and for heating carbon based fuels are used.

And, perhaps ironically, the grid is becoming on a per-person/per-customer basis more expensive because the people who traditionally pay the bill, large, industrial users, have by far the easiest time and the most to gain switching to solar.
Thank you! I will update the post and fix it.
Yet. Just like this chemical. Just like DDT. Just like BPA. Just like PFCs.

Not nearly enough testing is ever done on these things. Everyone is in such a rush to get these things into our environment and our bodies, no regard for higher order effects, which is why this pattern keeps repeating.
If you want the language to encode a liveness guarantee that you do something meaningful in response to an accept rather than just accept and close you do need linear types. I don't know any mainstream language that encodes that guarantee in its type system, whatever IO mechanism it uses.
Look at the pixel density
And avoid 'upscaling' type things.

Pixel density impacts the distance you need to be from the monitor to avoid eyestrain
One of my favourites are the shadows in PS1 game Power Shovel (aka Power Diggerz) which were interesting as they had to be projected over uneven terrain. I guess planar shadows is the closest technique in the article. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_c4ZgcLTuE
> Imagine halving the resource costs of AI and what that could mean for the planet and the industry

Google has done this:
"In eighteen months, we reduced costs by more than 90% for these queries through hardware, engineering, and technical breakthroughs, while doubling the size of our custom Gemini model." https://blog.google/inside-google/message-ceo/alphabet-earni...