skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the reasons I left github for gitlab. But FWIW, I use emacs and vim for my editing, so I doubt those will every link into copilot. But for me, all these new tools do is slow me down.

But git use is rather rudimentary anyway :)
Isn't it interesting how the advertising monetization model didn't take over movies the same way Google took over TV, newspapers, etc. with free services? Like how a movie could be full of advertisements like cars, restaurants, tech and then be distributed for free
> Wasn't expecting to learn that the internet "weighs" about as much as an apple.

Something doesn't make sense here. An electron is 1/2000th the mass of a proton. So 1/2000th of the mass of your hard disk is its electrons. So they're saying the entire internet runs on thousands of hard disks? That seems off by several orders of magnitude... what are they measuring?
> puts consumers at the top. Right below them, investors. Way below them, workers.

I think you've got consumers and investors swapped there. Take a look at the EU, US consumers have extremely few protections.
Here's an overpass turbo query against OpenStreetMap, if anyone was curious:

https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1UCX

[out:json][timeout:25];
{{geocodeArea:Massachusetts}}->.searchArea;
(
nwr["amenity"="ice_cream"](area.searchArea);
nwr["shop"="ice_cream"](area.searchArea);
);
out geom;
There are a couple of ways. I've done it by downloading an extract from https://download.geofabrik.de/, using GDAL (ogr2ogr) to convert it to GPKG, then opening it in QGIS and friends. https://github.com/osmzoso/osm2sqlite is another option, which I've never used.
It is the future, we're just waiting for everyone else to realize.
It’s a pretty big stretch to connect any of this to the Boston marathon bombing. Literally the only two connections are the words “Boston” and “bomb”.
No this is an in-house tool. I would share the repo but for some reason it's private (not sure why, there's nothing confidential in it)
Learned quite a bit thanks!
There is a lot of truth in this, but especially when developers are semi-randomly promoted into leadership roles, they should be given enough time (and mentorship) to learn from their own mistakes. Some will learn very quickly (those with enough emotional intelligence), and some will learn nothing no matter how much time you give them. Being a good manager with formidable leadership skills is something you can only get through experience.
Unobservable, just like string theory.
I see what you're saying, but 60% of time spent doing something else than research, is not a research position. That is no way to be productive as a researcher. The upshot of this is what I point out in my other comments, that you end up offloading the research work to PhDs and post-docs while you take the back seat and of course keep the funds coming so that they can do their job.

... although my PI didn't :)
What mechanism exists in the initial bid phase to deter lower cost producers from offering less power than they will actually supply? This would push the price per unit up. Supplying more than they offered would get them a larger chunk of it.

I'm not sure how the market works in my country, but I understand there are bitcoin miners that work directly with suppliers to buy power that can be cut off at a moments notice so extra supply can be generated and sold cheaply if not needed, eliminating spin up time.

I think it might be at the pilot program stage, but it does seem like a reasonable option to provide resiliency in an economical fashion.
Lmao...i wish. Dont u realize this kind of solution would go a long ways towards solving the problem? Good luck with real solutions. Its more profitable to pretend. But thank you for still believing in us. Most stopped long ago.
Infinity Has a Price (2023)
"...to speak to others in different languages" is conspicuously missing from the title, so much so that it has pushed most of this thread into "why would I give up my own voice" territory

I guess one positive way to look at it is we're one small step closer to the Universal Translator
Related question:

One year ago simonw said this in a post about embeddings:

[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37985489]

> Lots of startups are launching new “vector databases”—which are effectively databases that are custom built to answer nearest-neighbour queries against vectors as quickly as possible.

> I’m not convinced you need an entirely new database for this: I’m more excited about adding custom indexes to existing databases. For example, SQLite has sqlite-vss and PostgreSQL has pgvector.

Do we still feel specialized vector databases are an overkill?

We have AWS promoting amazon OpenSearch as the default vector database for a RAG knowledge base and that service is not cheap.

Also I would like to understand a bit more about how to pre-process and chunk the data properly in a way that optimizes the vector embeddings, storage and retrieval ... any good guides on the same i cna refer to? Thanks!
In my experience .gitignore files are often overloaded, so would provide false positives.
The Byte Shift: Doing a Biz-Tech podcast the wrong way [pdf]
If you have enough budget you could use a PPC Agency, who may run your Google ads through their ad account.

PPC agencies often also have an Account Manager at Google (who will be able to unblock you, or at least give you more insight into why you were blocked).

Hope that's helpful
"You can keep beating me but you should pay the first hospital bill". A short term mitigation but a long/middle term death sentence. That is what they were pursuing for.

Maybe is all that could be obtained as things are set up, and I mean mostly about the power structures around this, including the very COPx organization.
Ah yes, the standard counterpart to 5318008.
> Digital content is currently a club good, like broadcast television. (Excludable.) You’re arguing for treating it like a public good, like a park. (Not excludable.)

Digital content was public good when I was growing up as everything published in the internet. When did it change? Did it change in the whole world at the same time or just in the US?
> The incentives to deceive are the same for content creators regardless the platform.

This is not true at all. Podcasters have no consequences for deceiving, and can easily recover from it by saying they're not journalists and that ends the subject there.

Try that with a News Outlet, then it would be Joe Rogan saying they're liars and are compromised.

There should be way more accountability for those platforms that have no code of ethics to abide by. Even the self-proclaimed "intellectual dark web" is extremely opinionated about a wide range of subjects way beyond their domain of expertise.

I'm not saying all news outlets are pristine, but comparing journalism, as an institution, and putting it at the same level of accountability as podcasters is just wrong.
I created a game to detect the browser history
No mystery, really:

Dead soldier's descendant goes looking for the details of his death, finds descendant of another (surviving) soldier that was good friends with him. That surviving soldier's descendant had documented the stories that surviving soldier had told, including the occasion of the first soldier's death(and their friendship). The death happened due to getting hit by a shell during an offensive.

It's an engaging story, which I'm of course not doing justice to here, but the word "mystery" is just absolute clickbait.
This reminded me of how cyrillic was invented.

The Byzantines created the cyrillic alphabet in the 9th century so that they could write a bible for Slavic countries.

Blew my mind that they didn’t have an alphabet before that.
Kind of interesting how we've come full circle. One of the original css demos (for css 1) was for a frosted glass effect https://meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/complexspiral/glassy.html
I think it's good. I guess it's possible for something to be simply done, and you don't always have to have a bunch of next ideas, but I generally always have next ideas.

If there is always some next ideas then by definition you must always have todos that never get done. It should actually be the normal state of every single project.
Thanks for telling us, I guess.

As you know, the reason for this is to improve water quality, or at least stop the decline. Do you have any thoughts about how to achieve that goal?
a) As he titled the paper "possibilities" then the "predicted" vocabulary is clickbait; has anyone explored if it's possible to buy a 1930s basket on 15 hours of 2020s labour?

b) From: https://www.aspeninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/files/cont...

> I would predict that the standard of life in progressive countries
one hundred years hence will be between four and eight times as high as it is.

Note the qualification "in progressive countries"; have we any?

c) I've heard that the ratio between the cost of nails and the price of lettuce is still more or less the same as it was in the 1770s; the big difference is that in the 2020s a "yeoman farmer" doesn't want to buy nails with their market goods, but wants to buy cars and smartphones.

d) Finally, on the parochial basis that my life revolves around informatics, we've vastly exceeded the 4-8 times Keynes actually predicted.

His future is here — it's just not evenly distributed.

Lagniappe: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/1729266273-20241018.png
One of the surest way to get your manager's back is to help them make their goals and put some stuff off their plates. Like other people said, most semi competent managers are aware of issues happening in their team. If you come up w/ some proposal to solve those issues, it will improve the team much more effectively than some feedback.

It also depends on your goals, but fixing some issues encountered by your manager is one of the most reliable way to promotion in up to mid size companies, unless your manager is a a*hole.
Have you worked for a charity? You want the government to regulate them in a nonsense way so that they close up shop? Sure, there might be a few people that can be employed to help but to pick an arbitrary percentage picked by a prepresentative body whose never talked to them ? you dont’ employ the blind to lead the blind, you hire an eye doctor
I have first encountered it as the default office suite in Manjaro.

It can correctly open my company's Power Point templates and IMO the UI is much better in both aesthetics and discoverability compared to LibreOffice.
This can't be true. I agree with what you are saying but I think that's not the case anymore. Popular entertainment is too diverse now.
Bill Nye, lol.
Too bad I only did my PhD in Imperial and my current post-doc elsewhere :)
I don't see how Haiti situation applies to Denmark.
Reminder that most picturesque images of butterflies are of dead ones, including the emoji!

https://www.emilydamstra.com/please-enough-dead-butterflies/
I think only only about 60% of stock trading is the machines trading with each other.
Is authenticity better than inauthenticity? If you think yes - is Ted Nugent a better artist than David Bowie?
In my organization the tools are great but the people don't put the work in to use them correctly. They rely on meetings and emails to get up to date information when the information can be captured on a ticketing system. My organization is very beaurocratic and has an older age group though.
I agree that if there are substitutes for the app, then complexity or obscurity of the file format matters less. There are open source spreadsheet programs that can read xlsx format, so its not like if the Excel disappeared overnight I would not be able to access my spreadsheets.

But take a less popular app with its own file format. Is it likely there will be an alternative that can process that file format? And if not, how long will it take the community to develop one?

More popular app = more likely to become a standard = more likely there will be an alternative
More complex file format = less likely someone could make an alternative

If a file could be made readable, why wouldn't it? Relying on substitutes to address a problem you created doesn't seem fair. But if the data is intrinisically complicated (like ELF for compiled code), then there isn't much you could do anyways.
IDK how it is in the jurisdiction of the author, but I know a bit about how it is in the small European country I reside in (and which has a market almost identical to how it's described in the post).

There is a "System operator" which has the final responsibility for the stability of the grid. The TLDR is that they really really really want to use the market to solve it, but in a crisis they have supreme powers over all production and all consumption.

There are multiple short-term intra-day markets for extra capacity, and both producers and consumers can participate (consumers can reduce their capacity temporarily). It is extremely rare that these markets are not enough. Any "weird" bidding (e.g possible attempts at market manipulation) is audited, and market manipulation is of course illegal. You can only provide bids based on your estimation on the value of the power, and you need (if audited) to be able to show how this is calculated in a consistent (over time) way.

In the case of a system instability from either market failure or some extreme unexpected event (e.g. multiple production facilities going offline) there are a hierarchy of actions:

- Many/most large industrial consumers have deals where they pay less in grid fees, but they can be disconnected with little warning and no compensation. In the old days the system operator would call them, but these days more and more of this is digitalized. (There are prototypes of markets where these kind of load-shedd services can sold on a per-kW-per-hour basis)

- Any producer can be forced to produce at any time. They will be compensated according to normal spot-price for that hour.

- Any consumer can be cut at any time. Every substation is prioritized according to their criticality (suburbia is less important than hospitals). If nothing else works then substations will be disconnected in accordance with this list. (Also btw, there is always 2 network-paths to every substation over a certain size)
That works a lot better, especially if there's nothing in your area.

It's really interesting to see how far off these old charts are when overlaid on modern GIS data, but still pretty impressive for the time.
Needing to hover over an icon is already a failure in UI design
When times are good? You have a chance.

When times are bad? Oh boy.
Bogs are excellent carbon sinks. Died plant matter turns into peat and in the long term to coal. The water isolates the carbon dioxide from getting out and is full of rare species that help taking care of it.
Show HN: memsparkline – Track RAM usage of process and descendants in real time
I would call that portability (data portability, phone number portability, email portability, social graph portability, whatever), and reserve “self hosting” to mean at least operating (in some sense) your own infrastructure.
This will happen when someone writes a new green thread framework and convinces van Rossum to preside over the corporate-sponsored integration into Python.

Four releases later async will be marketed as "this has been a mistake" and the green threads will be the best thing ever. Thousands of blog posts will be written and everyone has to rewrite their code bases. Repeat for goroutines etc.
JS is eating the world. You can fight it like so many people before, but you will lose like everyone else
Maybe I was holding it wrong but I found a new Laravel project out of the box takes notable time to respond to hello world HTTP requests, and to me it looks like all the time is spent loading code on each request
I would rather have the feature to hide window switches which cause differences in face illumination and/or keeping the eyes focused more naturally on the camera.
Call it what you will. The point about the handshake is that TCP + http headers need comes before the upgrade to use the raw tcp streams. This is part of the benchmark and while it exists also in the real world it can be misleading because that’s testing connections, not message throughput.

Also I was wrong about uWebSocket, they do have tls support so you can skip reverse proxy. It deals with raw tcp conns and thus to encrypt you need tls support there. It is also a barebones http/1.1 server because why not. The thing I misremembered is I confused tls with http/2 which it does not support. This is unrelated to WS.
I like to build from scratch, but I prefer maintain something on top of something. Less code to maintain since I can delegate part of my code to the technology built on top of it.

In that matters, for my professional work have a healthy long term life, I usually select on-top development style, and sometimes, if I have really good reasons to do, from scratch is the option. Of course, for learning and personal projects, from scratch is always a very fun choice!
I’m pretty sure the radio on a mobile device consumes more energy than the GPU doing a 2D operation on a single image.

If you want to save energy, send less data.
because we still have to compete with each other over resources (opportunities, wage, customers, etc)? Working less wouldn't give you an advantage? It's a race to the bottom and you see it everywhere.

Not an economist.
How is that different from the thousands of different languages that did not have alphabet until recently but then got one created by linguists or missionaries (or often someone who is a little bit of both[1])?

Cyril and Methodius (who created the Glagolithic Alphabet, not the Cyrillic alphabet) weren't even the first Chritian missionaries who created a new alphabet for a language that didn't have on in order to spread Christianity. I believe the first one was Armenian (in the early 5th century).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIL_International
I'm not following - explanation for his innocence or guilt?
The interesting thing in my mind is how dysfunctional I've found reporting chains' behavior (to the company). I've found the same thing others here have found -- certain cultural backgrounds or a large preponderance of H1Bs create a culture where upward feedback is silenced.

And in the end usually the company loses out - directors forge ahead with ill-informed projects (rewrite entire system X), don't measure/cherry-pick/game-metrics, and create a major threat to anybody on the team who surfaces any contraindicating metrics (e.g. "Our pipeline still takes Y hours and nobody is happy about it, including us").
That's what I'm saying, after several thousands years of using Chinese characters Korean found that it's not intuitive for literacy hence they invented their very own alphabet, and voila the literacy increased considerably. Actually as a foreigner, you can learn to read Hangul in one single day, and then you can read the Korean for names, sign boards, etc but to understand them is another story. However, if your mother tongue is Korean, you can understand them intuitively. That's the reason I considered alphabet is more important than invention of the wheels and it's truly the original "bicycle of the mind".
Also; The server calculated projectile trajectories independently of client-side predictions.It was buggy on certain? versions. We (OSP) noticed this on earlier Quake 3 releases and it may have been fixed.

This results in visible "misfires" where projectiles didn't behave as expected
Maybe I was holding it wrong but I found a new Laravel project out of the box takes notable time to respond to hello world HTTP requests, and to me it looks like all the time is spent loading code on each request.

I have heard a lot of praise for both laravel and php and I still reserve judgement, but since trying it out I take all the performance claims one way or another with 100% my daily recommended intake of salt.
The difference is the damage done.

I don't think training managers on real people is a good idea.
I cannot find a decent service to tell when the outage started. (One of those services has apparently the same exact problem - same interface and error - as php.net )

The best I found: it was up three days ago; unclear when it happened within the last ~70 hours.
Yeah, you can do a lot of agriculture just by planting some plants and comming back later which would have looked basically the same as hunter gathering to archeologists. Similar stuff is done to this day for cannabis https://www.vice.com/en/article/meet-the-gangster-free-weed-...
I happened to be there for a work activity. That night a bunch of us were out and I saw one of those things. I asked if anyone with me know what it was and no one new. We all though it was interesting but strange and moved on :)

Never once did the thought of 'danger' entered any of our minds.
The ones that don't are also interesting, like baldurs gate 3 uses this:

https://www.noesisengine.com/
Equating the Dark Enlightenment with the original article, I see.

I wonder how long before The Art Of The Deal is required reading in 7th grade classrooms.
It's a very simple explanation why the fire killed his children and not him.
Yeah. How did this even pass editing? Is it the article who is misrepresenting what is happening, or the researchers?
Late to the show, but this only works because the deposited charge always has the same sign, correct? For instance, if the ions used are positive icons (electrons stripped), the surface elements get positively charged, and the diodes drain that charge to the substrate. But, in operation, the surface elements are negatively charged, so the diodes block. (Right? Or is it the other way around?)
so why do programmers' communities give more value to those who program in React.js? i don't understand! with so much good stuff out there and everyone only sticking to one technology
Certain managers don’t like this since they want the participants’ full attention, which is why we have Zoom video meetings in the first place.
Same here, because otherwise I’m afraid the disease has reached their brain, and they must be destroyed. /s

In all seriousness, I hope that was sarcasm, because otherwise that sounds like absolute hell and the biggest waste of resources since the performance review. Except instead of just wasting time, now it also wastes energy, fresh water, land, and rare earths too.
No, the versioning scheme is that the first two numbers are the major version.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel_version_history :

> Each major version – identified by the first two numbers of a release version

For the last decade, the first number gets bumped once the second number reaches 19 or 20. This has been consistent since 3.x.

> So decades of work to make it finally real-time safe is not worth it.

Haha you can't actually be serious? Thomas Gleixner's goal was to get Real-Time patches merged, not to get an aesthetic version bump, because nobody cares about the version number.
Only some of those electrons can move freely.
Curious why you want to avoid Atlas.
You can explain it to officers when crossing border without passport and visa.
Blast of the past
Reminds me of the Zizek bit about taking a nice lady home and having stimulating conversation while each others' sex toys are plugged into each other, doing the dirty work.