skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a sense, internet was this neat thing to share knowledge between academics and all but now we predominantly serve media and ads over it and all the SEO spam that makes real money.

AI is now this neat little thing to play around and has some values(non tech people makes MVPs/Emails/Slides, while tech people get faster search and code completion) but who know when the tiktok/fb like moment happens and takes all this AI into rocket to the moon.

At this moment, I think, the push is the slow boiling the frog, i.e. hold hard until skeptics just become used to it and then a generation becomes dependent on it, from which point it’ll become everyday necessity and become viable business.

I remember the “for cost of your morning coffee, you get this cool slice of server timeshare(VPS)” when people were skeptic until it became the norm. Now even if that VPS costs much less to operate, we still see the sticking “$5” price. May be AI will continue to be that “$30/month” but with advances in computing, it’ll get cheaper and at a certain point, that $1 spent to earn 80c will become 5c spent to earn $1.
I'm not sure why DoJ should be concerned with Google's leadership position in AI and what Chrome has to do with it.

They're basically saying "Chrome makes us a lot of money, and we should keep making that much money since we're investing it in AI". Well, uh, how about you not be a monopoly and raise VC money instead like the rest of the market.
Media just buries people in bad examples, and they don't notice the rest of the world. If you read about someone driving over 5 grannies, but still don't follow that example, certainly you can't say that “everyone is doing it”.

Despite what success fantasies and other self-help garbage teach people, a lot of society — most of it, actually — does not work on greed. That you can ignore thinking about it is itself a statement about deep foundations under the shallow bling.
Alright, so we're spherical cow-philosophers... (jk, I like your point!)
Partially yes, Android vs iPhone is largely vibes. The point is it’s a product that works for years without the user having to fuck with it too much for most use cases. If the hardware fits your needs, it’s the best in the world. If you like a 3.5mm jack, there are other options—hence why it’s tough to argue they have a smartphone monopoly.

If you’re asking why it’s luxury, it’s a combination of the materials, machining and service experience. Luxury products aren’t necessarily better, certainly not for someone who can’t afford them. They’re simply more luxurious. Easier, more comfortable, et cetera.
What would have a democrat president done different during the first year of the pandemic?
This certainly was an issue but it's solved by ECH/DoH. As long as they aren't blocked on your network anyway.

> Also, State (sponsored) Actors are certificate authorities.

To generate a fake certificate as a CA you have to either put it in the Certificate Transparency log, in which case everyone will notice, or don't, in which case browsers will notice (they know what top sites' certificates are supposed to look like) and your CA will get shut down.
What urban hellhole do you live in where you can't buy a home in a safe neighborhood while earning $200K?!

You need to look outside your immediate area. Or at another state. Most of the USA is nothing like that.
Of course concealing one’s true intent just enough to be able to later play dumb and deny motivations when called out is a decent strategy for online arguments, but it’s not foolproof.

Deciphering the commenter’s true meaning wasn’t super hard in this case. From claiming that a highly intelligent conservative pundit is a moron it’s easy to deduce that the person thinks less intelligent conservatives are also morons. They also explicitly said they “don’t like conservatives” which is a pretty silly statement to throw out there in general.

It’s also painfully obvious that the poster doesn’t understand the idiom “facts don’t care about your feelings” from them having now tripled down on trying to explain it or those who use it unsuccessfully.

The idiom’s intended message is as simple as it seems. It says that getting emotional about facts doesn’t change them. It’s not some deeply profound thing to say.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unhinged
It's not you who's confused, it's that this part of the process is not described. We only have some hints, here:

> If you called rope.offset_to_point(7234), the Rope would traverse its SumTree to find the Chunk that contains offset 7234 and then, on that Chunk, it would call offset_to_point again.

And here:

> while the Rope can get us to the right Chunk in O(log(n))

I would guess that each node of the SumTree includes the number of newlines of all the chunks before it.
You are right on that. But of course, there is no basis for assuming battery cost won't decrease anytime soon. We're looking at decades of progress coming from material science research, economies of scale and learning effects, entirely new battery chemistries coming to market, etc. Any plan that assumes none of that is going to happen would be pretty weak.
Fiber can help with that.
The real destruction will no doubt be in the courts.

Vivek and Elonsky will push the boundaries as far as they can, and Trump will not enforce anything.

Someone else will sue, and maybe somewhere someone will have standing. It will start to get interesting when SCOTUS has to face the monster they've created.
Remember Why You Started

Be honest with your self, maybe gentle, and answer this simple question:

Why are you doing the thing you are doing NOW ?
There's always the Opera model: attempt to sell inserted ads, fail, sell it to a Chinese holding company, and have future development funded by the Russians. What could possibly go wrong?
It sounds like trivial insight, but at least in my experience many adults and even teachers have this "it's hard so it's ok to not want to do it" attitude towards math. And I think that is very detrimental.
Right, those would have the biggest incentive. But I'm sure good fundraisers will be bale to even get some large companies that aren't engaging in the standards at any level to throw some money to support a standard web browser, if they can convince everyone that without this there won't be a good way for people to access their web sites.
In all languages of the world? Is that realistic? How could you know whether something in Vietnamese is spam or not?

In my opinion it could work, but you'd definitely need 40-80 and not 4 people.
Hey! The author of the article here.

Thanks for pointing out at this part of the text.

Please note that English is clearly not my native language. Sometimes, I may structure sentences in ambiguous ways due to grammatical or other errors in my writing. I'm not sure if this is the case.

To avoid further misinformation, let me elaborate what I meant to say in the paragraph you have mentioned. It's quoted below for other readers' comfort.

> But if you will use it, keep in mind that it uses Bolt as its data backend. The same Bolt used in the HashiCorp Vault integrated Raft storage and in etcd. Hence, it may need some maintenance too. More specifically, database compaction.

As per InfluxDB documentation, "InfluxDB uses BoltDB to store data including organization and user information, UI data, REST resources, and other key value data." (see here: https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v2/reference/config-opt...). To me that's exactly what a data backend means. This piece of software uses different backends for different types of data if I got it right.

Since I haven't had any experience with InfluxDB itself, it's not clear to me whether its BoltDB storage may (or may not) need maintenance. In my opinion it's just a little detail that may be helpful for some people, so I mentioned it.

It's possible for me to redact this part of the text for more clarification, but that information by itself isn't very important to make me do that.

> There is at least one basic factual error in this blog post, which makes me discount the whole thing.

Everyone makes mistakes, that's why all of us filter and interpret information based on our experience accumulated through years of living on this planet. Such a radical change of perception to a large piece of information caused by a small mistake is not always necessary.

Again, thanks for being interested in making corrections! Have a great rest of your day!
For Monty’s system, we use sensors from Bosch and Sensirion. During our initial prototyping phase, we tested around 20 different types of sensors and found they had the most workable results across a range of composting environments.

Feel free to share more about your project ideas— happy to dive deeper if it helps!
Building more efficient locks [video]
Anecdotes don't equal data. "Always" and "never" don't exist in medicine. I'm sure that your experience is accurate to yourself, but these studies have to cast a wider net since there is always variability in results.
Yeah I proved myself wrong after adding more compiler optimizations.
US authorities issue arrest warrant for Gautam Adani
Thanks for sharing. The reverse direction here, I'm trying to go from fuzziness to the exactness of those true/false dichotomies, haha. The way I've been attacking mathematics, it's like a tree in the forest, one could start with the axioms and from the base reach each branch and the leaves and fruits. But I've just been walking around the tree, looking at the leaves and fruits and branches from different directions to see ways of climbing without doing a whole lot of climbing. What I mean is I've been thinking and reading in an imprecise way a whole lot without actually juggling symbols with pen and paper, haha. Or a roadtrip analogy, I've done little driving and a lot of map ogling. At least I won't miss the turns when I pick up some speed.
Prediction: in 20 years, I’m going to be reading about some dude who wrote a program to drive the car continuously until it ran into some surreal edge condition, and finally hit it. There will be a subculture of “matrix glitchers” who spend much of their time doing these kinds of experiments.
There can be many ways open sources comes into being. The way any open source software I've written is I've needed it myself and made it available to others. There has never been an expectation of getting paid for it, it doesen't even matter if anyone ever uses them, because the software's primary purpose is to solve _my_ problem
Whatever. The original point I was trying to make was a comparison of usability between Bluesky and Mastodon. But everything has to be about Elon Musk, so here we are.
I've worked with a great many professional schmoozers who go to the office and do almost no work. They're great at being seen and networking, but very poor at actually delivering anything.
It seems also answer https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/14903/why... this.
“Concepts of a plan” is often enough to make people think you know what you’re doing. Think most people, here included, got the impression that they had succeeded already.
Weird that a Biden DOJ would do this.

Here's a bet: they are offloading a legal liability. Within 12 months someone reverse engineers the binaries and show that they were siphoning out all keystroke data, or it has an official remote backdoor or something equally horrendous.
>My conclusion was that pandas is not for developers. But for one-offs by managers, data-scientists, scientists, and so on. And maybe for "hackers" who cludge together stuff 'till it works and then hopefully never touch it.

It doesn't work for me so it can't work for anyone?
The original title fails to explain who is building the model and where the data is coming from. It also implies a discussion of the task of training models, whereas the actual page is an announcement of an intent to train a model.
I used to subscribe to several ACM SIGs and IEEE SIGs. They are useful resource if you are an academic or doing bleeding-edge R&D. Otherwise, I rarely find them any use for day-to-day engineering.

After spending several thousand dollars a year on various transactions, etc over a couple of decades I cancelled them all and haven't missed them.

As always, I'm just a single data point. YMMV.
> if you aren’t using their client, then they can’t.

This is my point. How many people won't use "their" client, sans the knowledgeable people?

Mastodon is much more fragmented than Bluesky, so an intentional feed manipulation is only visible to the users of that instance.
At the same time there are many places that seem to have figured it out. The way Philadelphia chooses to run their city isn’t the only way.
I agree. So many disparate solutions. The streaming sql primitives are by themselves good enough (e.g. `tumble`, `hop` or `session` windows), but the infrastructural components are always rough in real life use cases.

crossing fingers for solutions like `https://github.com/feldera/feldera` to be wrapped in a nice database, `https://materialize.com/` to solve their memory issues, or `https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/materialized-view` to solve reliable streaming consumption.

Various streaming processing frameworks often have domain specific languages with a lot of limitations of how to express aggregations and transformations.
So you're saying success at maths isn't an inbuilt ability. Instead, it depends on an (inbuilt) ability to hyper focus... Which you are just born with?
The Open Source movement was definitely a different way of organizing people

I wonder if non-religious subcultures like that can last very long though
Hyrum’s Law in Golang
Chrome currently has far more paid full time engineers than the linux kernel does. I struggle to see how they get paid - except again, by charging search engines to be the default browser or something.
You know that what you say would be considered "hate speech" were you supporting the opposite side. The term is subjective and seems to mean "something I strongly don't like". We won't ever get to a situation where everyone likes everyone. You should instead look into the specific topics and debate over them specifically (including those "camps"): the laws still hold - point out what and how is wrong when you see it.
Google has ~180k employees. that seems like a pretty small price to pay to make search work...
That varies a lot between countries in EU. I live in Finland and my country has student unions, and professors are quite free to choose how they do the grading, so it's not always just one final exam per course. There are no dorms, but there is cheaper only-for-student housing. There are also really cheap state-subsidized meals in student restaurants on campus.
It's all part of an ecosystem. Chrome is a vehicle in which users are roped into their search engine and ads. And their search engine and ads also push users into Chrome. It's all cyclical.

Breaking off any chunk weakens the link between them and locks users into their ecosystem less. Rome wasn't built in a day, and monopolies aren't destroyed in one either.
Most people don't try hard at the gym. Most people don't try hard at music. Most people aren't comedians.

This reads like the foreword to the incel handbook.
That does not match my experience. Engineers learn a new tool, that tool is successful in solving a problem. Whether it is recency bias, incorrect pattern matching, or simply laziness, the tool is used again but with reduced success. Repeat that process a few more times (sometimes in different organizations) and now the tool is way outside the domain, ill-fit to the task at hand, and a huge pain.

That often happens with engineers who pushed that tool getting promoted a few times and building their career on said tool, which is where I have seen this being pushed down, but I think it is important that in most cases are still engineers
But also, some people are stupid, right?
The announcement was correct and precise. I am not sure what misinformation you are describing here.

Regarding your 100 more energy claim. It overlooks key facts about the NIF breakthrough. The fusion reaction itself achieved net energy gain, producing 3.15 MJ compared to 2.05 MJ of input laser energy - far from consuming "100 times the power it produced." While the total facility power usage was indeed higher due to laser inefficiencies, this misses the crucial scientific achievement. This was basically humanity's first controlled fusion reaction producing more energy than was directly input to the fuel. Dismissing this as a "minor, arbitrary improvement" understates its significance. This wasn't just about efficiency metrics - it demonstrated fusion ignition was possible, a fundamental physics milestone that had eluded scientists for decades. Though challenges remain for commercial fusion power, the breakthrough proved a critical theoretical concept that many thought impossible. Many critics before that were referring to this point as the reason why it isn't worth it to keep researching. And they were proved wrong.

Trying to redefine the announcement and experiment result to mean something else so that you can attack is a dishonest behavior.
The LLNL fusion result was not a breakthrough. The fusion output was about 1% of the energy input. The exaggerated press release was just a PR ploy to get support for continued DoE funding, which was expiring at the end of 2022.
Bloom Filters and SQLite
This is the thing though. Non-Apple phones are made of equally nice materials, have equally nice design and equal or more utility. Several Samsung phones and the folding Pixel are more money than the top end iPhone. Hell, because of carrier subsidies the top end iPhone can be had for $0 up front.

So what makes an iPhone more luxurious than say, a Galaxy S24 Ultra, Z Fold 6, Pixel 9 Pro XL or 9 Pro Fold?
Or it would have forced the open source tooling to get improved. As they say, necessity is the mother of invention. A lot of features in the open source tooling is due to an itch that needed to be scratched. I think without piracy, the open-source software would have had even better feature set.
This is where I wish governments would step in and stop allowing companies to make appliances that are throw away. I understand that a company can only viably support or offer warranty for a limited time period but that should not cause something to become trash when it falls out of the warranty period.

The right to repair movement focuses mostly on the actual repair of the item but when so many of these items are using microcontrollers that are running software code instead of simply running solid state systems the right to repair the hardware itself is insufficient. The United States is too dumb and too controlled by a businesses to pass any meaningful legislation but I would hope that the EU would step up and pass legislation that says when you EOL a product, like this, which is a physical appliance that is running software code you must also open source along with all appropriate tooling that software code. So this way the community can continue to repair these devices because they are not functionally obsolete they are obsolete because the cannot support them forever but third parties absolutely can. We have technology that's now 50 plus years old that is integrated circuits transistors etc that third parties are supporting and repairing had manufacturers have long abandoned. Well you complain all the time about e-waste but recycling is not the only option rebuilding and reusing our options as well.

One other thing that should be considered is that even though this is an end of life product this was a defect that existed from the beginning of the life of this product. Therefore this was defective the entire time it just wasn't discovered until now. This is another area a legislators need to step in and correct. Automobiles have no time limit on a safety recall. The reason for that is that safety issue was present from the beginning it doesn't matter if it took 15 years to be discovered once it's discovered you know it's in absolutely every single one of these that's in service and has always been there. Therefore the manufacturer is required to correct it.
Interesting, I didn’t know the context. They’re not blameless though, with all the conspiracies they’re in bed with it’s hard to tell what’s a joke anymore.
You’re overthinking. It’s just a PR piece
The past 8 years have been a nonstop stream of "he can't" and "that'll cause a civil war."

I'm not sure why people are still expecting normalcy.
It’s not just money laundering. It’s trolling as well.
> Non-Apple phones are made of equally nice materials

The machine quality is totally different.

> what makes an iPhone more luxurious than say, a Galaxy S24 Ultra, Z Fold 6, Pixel 9 Pro XL or 9 Pro Fold

Start with the BOM.
Not even that. It depends on the learned ability to stop pushing yourself when your focus is wavering. That's how you develop aversion towards the topic. Let your natural curiosity draw you to particular topics (that's why you might have a winding road through the subject).
> I agree with the sentiment of this. I think our obsession with innate mathematical skill and genius is so detrimental to the growth mindset that you need to have in order to learn things.

I would argue something different. The "skill" angle is just thinly veiled ladder-pulling.

Sure, math is hard work, and there's a degree of prerequisites that need to be met to have things click, but to the mindset embodied by the cliche "X is left as an exercise for the reader" is just people rejoicing on the idea they can needlessly make life hard for the reader for no reason at all.

Everyone is familiar with the "Ivory tower" cliche, but what is not immediately obvious is how the tower aspect originates as a self-promotion and self-defense mechanism to sell the idea their particular role is critical and everyone who wishes to know something is obligated to go through them to reach their goals. This mindset trickles down from the top towards lower levels. And that's what ultimately makes math hard.

Case in point: linear algebra. The bulk of the material on the topic has been around for many decades, and the bulk of the course material,l used to teach that stuff, from beginner to advanced levels, is extraordinarily cryptic and mostly indecipherable. But then machine learning field started to take off and suddenly we started to see content addressing even advanced topics like dimensionality reduction using all kinds of subspace decomposition methods as someting clear and trivial. What changed? Only the type of people covering the topic.
Laptops are typically designed and manufactured to a price-point. Increasingly, I'm finding it easiest to just use the laptop with the OS it was supplied with. For the daily-driver I find a modern ChromeBook suitable.

Then ... I use a Debian mini-tower for development and hacking work. No need to run iffy webapps, etc on it.

Used to mostly use NetBSD for older server oriented hardware. But increasingly using Alpine Linux instead.
Hey those were „military grade soap dispensers” those pesky reporters always twist the truth /s.

Anyone knows is just fallout from other investigations, like „hey let’s double check everything from Boeing just in case”.
The inclusion of Redis timeseries is huge!

This was available for a long time as an extension as part of Redis Stack, but most hosted Redis providers don't make extensions available (I'm assuming due to nuances in Redis's not-quite-open licensing).

If cloud providers which include Redis are now going to include this, it opens up a lot of potential for my use case.
I don't get why people get confrontational about not being able to buy a new ICE vehicle. Who cares about that, if you can buy an electric vehicle with similar performance for the same money? It's actually a superior choice, since you can easily install a charger into your home, while you can't turn your home into a gas station easily.
They have never been a mobile game company and they have said as much themselves on many occasions. They're a data harvesting company. Guess now they're trying to figure out what to do with all of that data.