skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The rumors I've heard is that it is the "Oracle Golf Club Handshake Problem" in action: the current C-Suite of Wal-Mart got wined and dined and golf outing-ed a bit too much by Oracle who wanted a large contract expansion with massive revenue boost (for Oracle) and were promised a bunch of software resources/troubleshooting/consultant time in the next contract if they switched to far more Java. That sales job turned Java into a top-down mandate. It is a fun modern version of the "Nobody went wrong ordering more products and consulting from IBM" problem if IBM had an even more ruthless sales department and also owned too much of the database industry and too much of the Payroll/Time & Attendance industry (and worse, their legacy purchasing decisions and sunk costs) because no one has cracked down hard enough on vertical monopolies in the last century.

Allegedly, of course. I'm sure Wal-Mart PR will happily tell you it was their own idea and how Java is the language of the future again, or something to that effect.

Also, whether or not the rumors hold, it is hard to discount the pure Occam's Razor that it was just Wal-Mart's own idea to cut costs because of the simple dumb fact that labor costs in Wal-Mart's home labor markets for Java developers are certainly cheaper than .NET developers in the same job titles/experience levels. A mandate to switch to Java certainly was one cheeky way to do a slow layoff of expensive laborers without doing a real layoff.
One heuristic I like is a kind of reverse Occam's Razor: When no clear solution doesn't emerge even after a huge amount of searching, it's probably because the problem actually is complex, not because it's simple.

For example, maybe cancer does have a single unifying cause that can be fixed very easily. But the millions of hours put into studying it suggests otherwise.

This seems to be generally true about most things. Only very rarely do we get something super simple like goiter being caused by the lack of iodine, or stomach ulcers being caused by H. pylori.
Why do developers love clean code but hate writing documentation?
This is a plot point in one of my favorite sci-fi series: Schlock Mercenary.

Elephants are one of the races that have been "uplifted" to sophistry. Some (Neophants) have been engineered further and now have hands.

Check out the notes below the following two comics for some of the musings that make these stories so compelling to me:

https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2009-06-16

https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2014-05-07
It's 'character', like 'ASCII character'.
Is this a PR piece? Skimming the article doesn’t reveal anything remarkable about the business.

The $20 million business “that could only exist in the bay area” seems to exist pretty much everywhere outside of it since companies giving up offices is actually also a thing in the rest of the world.
I still use a Yamaha Clavinova that I got in the early 90's...it has a floppy disc drive that still works for recording midi and is extremely convenient. Why such a feature with auto record didn't become a standard feature when SD cards came out is unfortunate.
> Of the languages I know

https://docs.toit.io/language/blocks-and-lambdas
This site has the cookie permissions dialog which has "reject all", but I think this rejects only the "opt-in" cookies.

The "legitimate interest" cookies, which are equally comprehensive but are on a different tab, are not rejected by this, and to reject them you have to turn each one of them off by hand, scrolling down a massive list.

If you select "reject all", the dialog instantly closes, I think with the legitimate interest cookies all in use - but I can't check, because I know of no way to get the dialog back up again, which is why I'm saying "I think".

When sites pop this one up, I leave - and notably, The Register, the UK news site, started using it a year or so ago.
Could it be motivated by more tax cuts?
It looks like this defaults to GPT-4o: https://github.com/microsoft/TinyTroupe/blob/7ae16568ad1c4de...

If you're going to try this out I would strongly recommend running it against GPT-4o mini instead. Mini is 16x cheaper and I'm confident the results you'll get out of it won't be 1/16th as good for this kind of experiment.
The opposite it true, as anyone who has seen the documentary "The Meg" will attest.
thanks, this was the part that clarified for me
"After R2 has been stored, T2 could use R2 (or T2 could use A2)."
And mad thermal.
35c = 95freedom units btw.

I agree. The article mentions all of this... when it gets that hot, especially with US-Midwest humidity levels, you need evaporative cooling with "just a fan". The phase change absorbs energy and can provide relief to higher temps.
Have they not heard of wet bulb temperature?

The chart in this wiki article is really good at showing the various effects.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychrometrics
Guys where's the cybersecurity and fbi, we need to ban blockchains and do some refunds

(i think that a lot of people would be millionares if they get the money they gambled back. i also think that the government would just keep all the money and "invest" into the country's needs)
From a writing perspective, I think much of it is about “weighting”. If you make every line ornate and full of adjectives, then nothing stands out.

Therefore for not-so-important details like “the knight woke up” that are just about giving the reader necessary info to follow along, it’s generally better to put less weight and emphasis by stating it plainly. This way when you do add emphasis to make the reader visualize a crucial scene or situation, or describe emotional states at these moments etc, they will jump out as being special rather than just more of the same.

In my experience, every great writer follows this pattern, though they begin at different baselines. It’s fundamental to good writing, just like creating attention hierarchy is fundamental to good graphic design.
And they are able to show insight and planning to get what they want...

Once a friend of our dog came visiting, grabbed his favorite stuffy and happily chewed it in the yard. Which our dog clearly resented.

So he cleaned up the yard and hid all other toys in the house. Usually that's our job - he never bothers to look after his toys.

Then he came out with an old tennis ball, pranced around, played with it, like "Dude, this is the BEST toy EVER invented. An it's mine."

His friend dropped the coveted stuffy and came over to investigate... our dog dropped the ball, grabbed the stuffy and hid it in the house.

His friend was left with a slimy, boring ball.

I really can't think of any other explanation - he knew how to get his stuffy, but also anticipated this trick wouldn't work twice. So the cleanup in advance.
Pgvector 0.8.0 Released
For what it is worth it’s not wrong to say that the triad where E is the root would be Em#5. The inversions you point out still have the same root (C) even if the bass is different.
But I agree you’ve identified the fundamental problem: we cannot infer the root note and, therefore the name (enharmonics aside), from just a set of notes and attempting to is a fool’s errand. Even with a root note, it's going to be difficult many times to have a sensible answer

The key problem with this implementation in addition to not simply taking the root note as input (or a key or scale), appears to be the chord database is pretty spartan, since it doesn't appear it would identify C-E-G as anything other than CMaj. If you want figured bass/slash notation then you'll need to specify that as well (bass note).

A number of chord namers take these as additional inputs.
I don't think 64 RFID antennas would be that bad - you can etch them onto a PCB. That would be a pretty large PCB, I guess, but you could segment it if necessary.
I haven't read Hegel before, but I find the abstraction of something like "reason" as separate agent in itself, and then thinking about how its agency manifests a fun way of thinking.

It is, I think, begging the question, with regards to "reasons" autonomy, but it is a mind bending perspective.
Read the law
Might help GRRM finish his books.
https://archive.is/95Pck
That's incredible - I missed this when it was first released!
All of this makes a lot of sense. But to add; a semi-professional piano player I know once gave me a heuristic that can help sometimes, namely “the lowest fifth contributes the most to what the chord feels like”. But you can still get into discussions about whether something is, say, a Dm/F or F6 (and I see a lot of tabs where I disagree which the author's choice).
Show HN: Self-hosted blog platform with AI workflow and full editing
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I built a self-hosted boilerplate for blog/content creation because I think current AI writers have a big red flag: their limitations. My ideal AI writer should work for multiple projects and generate as many articles as needed.

How it works:
First, you create a project and add topics. Each project represents a complete blog page, you can customize metadata, header, footer, CTA, and social media links.

I spend some time on how to generate content at best and I am happy with final result, here how it creates the content:

- Find relevant articles about your topic using advanced search algorithms

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- Pick from 6 different AI models (Claude, Gemini, OpenAI, XAI, Cohere, and Mistral) to create an article with references to those relevant articles—this way, we eliminate hallucination risk

- OpenAI scoring: After article creation, OpenAI scores the generated article based on quality metrics

- Iterate and publish: Create infinite versions of an article, pick the best one, and publish

- You can edit everything about your generated posts including content, meta tags, and URL slugs to perfect your SEO and content strategy

Looking forward to hear your feedback and opinions, cheers!
New Dataset: RedPajama Dynamic Topic Modeling, 100K Docs W Topic Heirarchies
We at least need an abandonment clause to copyright law for software. If you no longer produce copies of a thing for sale, then you lose the copyright after a certain reduced period.
> The issue is that AFAIK it does not reduce the clock rate; it runs at the normal full clock rate, then when it detects the temperature went over the limit, it pauses the CPU for a while to let it cool down.

I'm 99% confident that that is not a thing, pausing the cpu. The closest thing that exists is sleep/suspend/hibernate, but those don't work like that (on temperature triggers). Other than those, if the machine is on: the cpu is always doing _something_.
That first part is not fast either. The venture backed paas makes for a lot changes in the software (all those people need to do something right?) which you need to learn. Vanilla JS, CSS, ancient Lisp/PHP/Perl/C etc I am almost always faster with.

A tell-tale sign is that even fast moving LLMs have issues keeping up with frameworks; they already changed so when you npx bla@latest create my-coolness, the LLM already is going to do things 'wrong' or different than intended as it simply doesn't know everything change yet again for no reason anyone but the most hardcore devs care about. The rest of us just want to get our work done and have it compile 3 weeks from now still.
This is not how it works. The weighting is based on the Consumer Expenditure Survey. BLS does not arbitrarily assign the weights. If they change the weighting between butter and bread it's because they found that people were buying more bread in the CES not because they assume that's what will happen.

CPI's methodology is transparent and the data is available if you wish to reproduce it. They aren't playing games with the data. There are all kinds of reasons your personal inflation rate might differ from CPI but it's not because BLS is putting their thumb on the scale to try and show less inflation.
Huh, so I have it half right when I quarter-twist the cable so it naturally forms the next loop of the bundle. I just had the "under" part missing.

That is a great tip: "hold the loop in left hand, cable in right, both palms up, then bring thumbs together to create the 'under' loop"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Curry

Seems like she retired recently.
I worked at a startup in the UK and the dev team started with second hand (but very new) MacBook Pros from a recently-deceased startup.
My tuppence!

Billed as a time saver and convenience for the modern family, turns out it is absolutely useless. Spend more time sorting out their incompetence than getting any products on time.

The cost of 100 deliveries each year at £5 plus for each delivery adds up to an astonishing amount of money on top of the cost of buying stuff online. £500 spent on time wasting deliveries that are never on time or arrive when they say they are.

"Dear sir, we will be delivering your parcel between 8:00am and 14:00pm". Then another email at 13:45pm. "Dear sir, we will be delivering your parcel between 14:00am and 20:00pm". On and On it goes!

So convenient waiting around all day for that personalised delivery service.

I was sick and tired of constantly being signed up to these companies and then having to remove myself from the email list. The constant emails reminding me of dire price reduced products.

What that must be like for a non techy person! Their email inbox must be stuffed with shite.

Then there is the returning issue if an item is damaged. Spend my petrol money and valuable time faffing about dropping it off at the preferred location pick up point some 5 miles away from where I live. More petrol and my valuable free time wasted.

I am sick of delivery drivers being unable to find my home, yes you Yodel, then getting an email saying my delivery has been sent back to the seller. Then I have to go to the store in the local town centre to arrange for a delivery to the store but the last time I tried that it took more than three weeks and eventually I got an email saying my money had been refunded. More petrol and my valuable free time wasted yet again.

The Pihut delivered a damaged raspberry pi 7" screen cable and wanted me to drive miles and send it back to them before they would replace the damaged item even though I sent them close up photos of the damaged cable. All for the sake of a 75p cable. Won't use then ever again! Expected me to use my petrol and my valuable free time to send back a damaged item!

I dont bother now!

I save up and go on a long weekend shopping to London and make an enjoyable day of shopping.

I walk around London nice and relaxed, had a coffee, had lunch, and bought a new pair of Doc Martens and a new pair of levi's, some new socks and pants and T-Shirts. All for under £500 I spent on deliveries last year. No hassle, no annoying emails or delivery drivers.

What happend to those lovely high streets we used to be so proud of. Where we met our friends and shopped together?

Someone is making a hell of a lot of money for providing a Shite service.
Here is my experience in the Philippines:

In 2022, I imported a Samsung Galaxy A02 phone from Turkey, which I bought there in a retail store. It works, but could use VoLTE with Globe or SMART, and the operators' personnel provide conflicting answers as to why. Finally, they revealed the existence of a whitelist of models. But it worked with DITO, which is a 4G-only operator, but even that is not an argument for Globe and SMART to extend their whitelist.

Same for the newer POCO X4 Pro (international version) which I bought online.
Paul Erdős The Man Who Loves Only Numbers (1987)
For a surprising application of this chart, check out Indirect-Direct evaporative cooling.

More cooling but (paradoxically) lower water consumption.

Summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJl-NIgGDL8#t=89

Long-form (chart @29:30): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVgB557bz0I
That is crazy. So how do you use these right now? Do you store vectors on disk and iterate over them, or something else?

How do you do the search?
I haven't used LaTeX in ages to be honest. I guess I could give it a shot and compare pros/cons between them. If I'm not wrong also the book "The Go Programming Language" by Kernighan and Donovan has also been typeset with groff (I think there's actually an email sent by someone to Kernighan mentioning how beautifully the book was typeset and he explains why he didn't choose LaTeX and leaned towards groff). The main reason why I used it was because is a tool that has been in unix systems for ages and was simply curious about it and re-writting my CV with it was an excuse to give it a shot.
Yes it did: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/10/us/dallas-police-defund.h...
Yeah I don't think I ever saw one either, but at least over here you can bring it over to a counter, or request an employee to turn it on and test.

Obviously not viable for evaluating continued operation for something like a fridge, but just turning it on for the panels is usually possible.
I was also thinking that each piece could have a magnet at the base. And when a piece is captured, the underlying gantry could flip the polarity with an electromagnet and sorta launch the captured piece off the board.

Although it seemed like the author had other issues with using an electromagnet here (i.e. overheating / switching polarity).
Is there a Linux alternatives to symbol servers? I'm always kind of annoyed when I need to deal with debugging native code running on LTS Ubuntu servers from my Manjaro+non-LTS Ubuntu box, because the libraries (including glibc) are all different versions compared to the server the code was running on.

Microsoft's symbol servers allow cross-OS-version symbols with ease. The easiest solution I've seen on Linux involves downloading a full copy of the foreign distro and hope the exact library versions on the server are still available in the repos.

The Void Linux tooling sounds interesting for sure, but by your description I think it doesn't solve the same problem?
so, only escape sequences are in line to make the character more colorful. :(
My impression (again, open to correction) was that, although that's true, there are many places where breaking is not preferable, like how you can hyphenate in English but should prefer not to. Many in Japanese, basically needing a dictionary, and fewer in Chinese but still some.
There is a company in the big cities here called オフィスバスターズ(Office Busters) that sells used office furniture. I got an amazing chair from them for about 40% of the retail price.
Encore is an AI-powered search engine for your thrifting needs
These kinds of stores are great. I'm sitting on the legacy of some old tech company right now, actually. I paid $250 for this very fancy office chair. I don't care if it's pre-sat!
Whales and dolphins are not "semi-aquatic". Think more beaver and polar bear.
Here's one dictionary's definition of hypothesis: "a supposition or proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation."

Here's one dictionary's definition of theory: "a supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain something, especially one based on general principles independent of the thing to be explained."

According to the dictionary you have it exactly backwards. A hypothesis requires some supporting evidence. A theory requires none. Though the dictionary won't reflect scientific definitions. I like these definitions, though we have to add verbiage about falsifiability to make them scientific.

One can still refer to Newton's theory of gravity as a theory, and indeed one does even though it has been falsified. Well, I suppose one could say the same thing about "the flat earth hypothesis" -- there is no evidence supporting it, and one might still refer to it as a hypothesis because there might once have been evidence for it when people did not recognize the evidence for the Earth being round.

So what is the difference between those words? Both are "suppositions". Both can be falsified. A theory must be falsifiable in order to be a scientific theory (the dictionary didn't say this, but this is a pillar of modern science). A theory is a "system of ideas", something much larger than a hypothesis. A hypothesis is a starting point for a theory.
This is how it worked in the US until this year. 2G can actually work pretty well along side 4G and 5G, it never really needs to be shut down since it works in the guard bands of LTE (i.e. nothing else is using the airspace 2G occupies and never will).
I've been waiting almost 4 hours to somehow bring up musth.

That sounds like musth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musth
Do you really think bringing in the types that find reviving extinct animals 'sucks the air' from conservation efforts? It gives an interesting visual story that protecting a rodent species in the middle of nowhere can't.
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Yes I do know how to avoid basic string injection vulnerabilities.
It used to use CDK/CF. There’s a long blog post about them deciding CF is unusably bad and moving to Pulumi this year.

https://sst.dev/blog/sst-v3/
The length of the contents of the tape of any halting TM will be less than or equal to the number of steps it takes to run. Quite trivially: you can’t consume tape without taking a step. For BB(5), 4098 1’s are written to the tape (this is referred to as Σ(5)). As for the length of the contents, I’m not sure, but again you can’t so sume tape without a step, and anecdotally the BBs are generally “back and forth”, at least the Collatz-like ones (which BB(5) is).
> Popular science is meant to be easy for the general reader to understand. Often that means using simpler words

The point above, and I agree, is that the word 'hypothesis' is taught every year in public schools, from elementary school through highschool. Even dropouts should know it, and from what I've seen do know it. At a certain point we've got to stop pandering to morons. Or worse, pandering to what we assume is the level of morons but is actually substantially lower. I don't think the general public is perplexed by that word; anybody who thinks they are is probably underestimating the public. Even if the average Joe on the street isn't disciplined about using the word hypothesis vs theory, they still understand what the word means when they read it.
> Will anyone see the value in a chatbot that takes an hour to solve a problem?

Yes! The biggest usability issue with almost all the AI products I’ve used has been the termination problem, especially with fixed price offerings like ChatGPT. The LLM doesn’t actually have any time to “think” (however you might want to interpret that) except for the attention mechanism that visits each token.

I want to be able to query an llm, give it access to web search, and give it a time limit so that it keeps going, consuming sources a hundred pages deep, “thinking” and writing a report for me until it’s given a signal to terminate.
When I lived in New Mexico people frequently used a "swamp cooler"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaporative_cooler

which gives excellent cooling with small amounts of water and electricity. Good luck trying that in New York!
Many of them believe Trump is bluffing and that the tariffs will be much more limited than what he campaigned on.
Citadel hires 20 year Microsoft vet Herb Sutter for new tech leadership role
Yeah, that's exactly right. You take the embedding of your query and then compare it to the embeddings of your documents (or chunks of documents).

You can use vector databases that implement the Approximate Nearest Neighbors (ANN) algorithm, or if you don't have too many documents you can just brute force the similarity comparison.

I'm not sure at what point you _really_ need or want a vector database, but anecdotally, calculating the Hamming distance for a couple thousand vectors seems pretty negligible.
The weights might be slightly adjusted for each person they hand it out to. So Google would know instantly who leaked the weights.
>frozen bread loaves

Don't the loaves get soggy when you thaw them out?