skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It turns out, there's a huge market for this! Had Glitch not been stuck on Flash and was able to pivot to mobile it may have been a success.

My daughter, her friends, her cousins, are all obsessed with Toca Boca (https://tocaboca.com/) which is nothing more than digital "barbie", a game you can play forever, fully powered by your imagination.

It's also the reason Minecraft is still so popular: it's a platform for creativity. Games don't always have to have an end-goal.
The more/smaller microservices you have, the more frequently your APIs must change. It’s more fruitful to recognize that this is a dimension of freedom rather than a binary decision.
Sounds complex, just use a UUID. If that’s the dominating factor for storage, then you have a different problem to solve.
It's a little sad to see CRTs withering into nothingness. The devices just don't last. The glass is obviously fragile. But even if you keep it padded and safe, the coils of the deflection yoke are thin magnet wire operated at high voltage, and after decades of thermal cycles and the resulting rubbing eventually the barrier between two drops enough and they short, catastrophically.

And you can't really repair that in any feasible way. There are hundreds or thousands of windings, which have to duplicate exactly the configuration from the factory (and then probably be calibrated by processes that are lost to history). A dead CRT is just a useless hunk of glass, forever.

They're all dying. And that's kind of sad.
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I'm currently reading a book about a war in the 17th century. One thing that is entirely different from today is how kings and governments could just stop paying back their lenders and there was nothing you could do about it but send angry letters...

Ofcourse it worked the other way too. Entire armies of paid mercenaries could just take the money and run into the night.
The problem with IVF is that you need to find the right centroids.
And that doesn't work well if your data grow and mutate over time.

Splitting a centroid is a pretty complex issue.

As are clustering in an area. For example, let's assume that you hold StackOverflow questions & answers. Now you have a massive amount of additional data (> 25% of the existing dataset) that talks about Rust.

You either need to re-calculate the centroids globally, or find a good way to split.

The posting list are easy to use, but if you are unbalanced, it gets really bad.
I saw it!! Thats pretty neat ngl! Also, open sourced LFG!!
I had one of the 36” Sony Wega Trinitron CRTs for years. Weighed well over 200lbs, which combined with the shape, made it a really “fun” thing to move.
Is this a reference to a specific incident or just a general claim?
Watching the Generative AI Hype Bubble Deflate
Cool project! Does this use AI? My suggestions would be to make the results go faster, add opensearch to this, and improve the UI. If you haven't already, I'd recommend open-sourcing this so everyone can contribute.
The medium is the message. Any microcblogging platform that tracks and displays engagement inherently optimizes for short form swipes and "rebuttals" and outright lies. The "real time feed" nature optimizes for taking zero time or effort to confirm anything that anyone says. Nearly everything that "breaks" on twitter and doesn't make it to actual reports was an outright lie.

You can't put a necessary amount of nuance in 140 characters.
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Ketamine too. Mine comes in the mail from doctor that's conducting a 'safery trial'. They've never asked for feedback from me, and have never pushed back on me requesting a higher dosage.
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Boston installs vending machines for addicts with Narcan, fentanyl test kits
Russia is a hell of a lot closer to world domination than it was in 1950 or 1970. If anything, the prior "peak" was in 1945, when Stalin failed to call Truman's bluff [1]. Parenthetically, the Haberdasher is the unsung hero of the eight-ish decades of Pax Americana.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_Totality
Modern Germany doesn't inherit from any of the predecessor states after WWI and the Nazi era.

Not quite. Its criminal code inherits directly from that of the 1871 Reich (including quite notoriously Paragraphs 175 and 218).

But it is correct to say that its constitution inherits only back to 1919, and it never maintained any pretense of connection to the Holy Roman Empire.
> For starters, you compared Nix the ecosystem to Starlark

No I compared the Nix language to Starlark.

> but it seems like you don't know which part of Nix you are even referring to.

Incorrect. I was referring to the Nix language, as was hamandcheese. He literally said it explicitly. I don't know how you could miss that.

> I fully admit that Nix has a steep learning curve. Very steep. But I don't think you know enough to give a thoughtful critique.

You're proving my point here. The very steep learning curve and "you need to be an expert before you can use it" aspects of Nix (both the language and the package manager) are exactly the problem.

Let me put it another way. Imagine I gave you a vacuum cleaner, and you tried to turn it on but it had a very complicated startup sequence so you needed to read the manual... but the manual was written in Egyptian hieroglyphics. You take it back to the shop and they say "nah this is a perfectly good vacuum cleaner. Sure it has a steep learning curve but you just need to spend some time learning it before you can criticise it".

That's obviously stupid right? For most people package management is like vacuum cleaning. It's a necessary task they want to think about as little as possible.

Nix is written by a vacuum cleaner collection & restoration club, who assume that everyone in the world is as obsessively into vacuum cleaners as them.
check out the repo. (Feedback is appreciated)
It reminds me of a similar product [0] from George Hotz

[0] https://tinygrad.org/#tinybox
At PlanetScale, we have a really nice solution for this in MySQL using SPANN + SPFresh. The way we've implemented it allows for pre and post filtering, full compatibility with where clause filtering, and has the same kind of acid compliance you'd expect from a relational database. You can read about it here:

https://planetscale.com/blog/announcing-planetscale-vectors-...
Never really pushed it. I have to reason to believe it wouldn’t get most of that stuff correctly. Math is very much like programming and I’m sure it can output really good python for its notebook to use execute.
That's why the B-Ark was built.
I've tried to get o1 to generate Xordle puzzles.

Warning: post contains a spoiler for a recent Xordle.

Xordle is Wordle with two target words that share no letters in common. Additionally, there is a "free clue" given at the start, and all three words are thematically linked. It's not always a straightforward link, for example a recent puzzle had the starter word 'grief' and targets 'empty' and 'chair'. All puzzles today are selected from user submissions.

o1 is the first model that's been able to solve Xordles reliably, or to generate valid puzzles at all. It's well-known that these things are massively handicapped for this type of task due to tokenization.

But since o1 can in fact achieve it, I wanted to see if I could get it to make puzzles that are at all satisfying. Instead it makes very bland puzzles, with straightforward connections and extremely broad themes.

Prompting can swing the pendulum too far in the other direction, to puzzles where the connection is contrived and impossible to see even after it's solved. As I've often experienced with LLMs, being able to hit either side of a target with prompting does not necessarily mean you can get it to land in the middle, and in fact I have had no success in doing so with this task.

This is one of the most basic examples I know of lack of creativity or "taste" to an LLM. It is a little hard for a human to generate two 5-letter words with no overlap, but it is extremely easy for a human to look for a thematic connection among 2-3 words and say if it's satisfying. But so far I've been totally unable to make the LLM make satisfying puzzles.

edit: Nothin' like making a claim about LLMs to get one up off one's ass and try to prove it wrong immediately. I'm getting some much better results with better examples now.
Entrepreneurship is darts: playing with just one shot
So this is just the adapter. That's fine I guess if doing the absolute minimum to make the thing work is the way they want to go, but some people like to express themselves by doing more.

I don't remember which car company (Ford maybe??) is paying for a home charger install at the buyer's home (I'm assuming a single family dwelling type of restriction). Clearly trying to entice more sales. So the ad kind of worked, except not so well that I remember exactly which maker it is doing this. Good job ad guys!
Until such time as a lawsuit declares otherwise, Google's position is obviously that scanning books, OCRing them, saving that text in a database, and using that to allow searching is no different, legally, than scanning books, OCRing them, saving that text in to a database, and using that to train LLMs. Book publishers already went up against Google for the practice of scanning in the first place, we'll see if they try again with LLM training.
There's already plans for more restoration work done - are you Sicilian? Can you share with us knowledge of things in Sicily going to shit?
I've seen many people joke about intentionally poisoning training data but has that ever worked?
This seems like a "turtles all the way down" kinda solution... What's to say you won't fool the supervisor LLM?
Nit: the drawback of “not working well in disk based systems” isn’t a drawback unless you’re already using disk based systems.

The difference in recall is also significant — what you really get with HNSW is a system made to give good cost:approximation quality. These IVFPQ based systems are ones I’ve seen people rip and replace if the use case is high value.

I really don’t understand the push to make pg do everything. It wasn’t designed for search, and trying to shove these features into the platform feels like some misguided cost optimization that puts all of your data infrastructure on the same critical path.
I've spent most of my career working to make sure that my code works safely, securely and accurately. While what you write makes sense, it's a bit of a shock to see such solutions being proposed.

So far, when thinking about security, we've had to deal with:

- spec-level security;

- implementation-level security;

- dependency-level security (including the compiler and/or runtime env);

- os-level security;

- config-level security;

- protocol-level security;

- hardware-level security (e.g. side-channel attacks).

Most of these layers have only gotten more complex and more obscure with each year.

Now, we're increasingly adding a layer of LLM-level security, which relies on black magic and hope that we somehow understand what the LLM is doing. It's... a bit scary.
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I'm building a cozy multiplayer game engine (very early stages - just a few days in!) combining Elixir, Go, and Godot to achieve sub-50ms latency while maintaining a warm, welcoming feel. My architecture uses Elixir/Phoenix for fault-tolerant session management, Go for high-performance game state sync (1ms tick rate), and Godot for client-side prediction. I've implemented lock-free data structures, SIMD-optimized physics, and binary protocols with delta compression. Quick note: the website/login aren't functional yet - this is a work in progress! Here's my technical deep-dive into the challenges and solutions so far.

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Well, if an order of magnitude error does not alter the conclusion, then it does not alter the conclusion...
trying to make a framework for this called clusterops.

https://github.com/The-Swarm-Corporation/ClusterOps
Care to point out something specific?
> The glass is obviously fragile.

Ever broke one?

Like 2/3 of the weight is that front glass. It's _thick_.

When I was younger and dumber (well, at least younger) I tried breaking one. Took a running swing at the screen with a wrecking bar. It bounced off and all I got for my trouble was a sore shoulder.
Ha! It kind of makes sense now!
Thanks to the generosity of Stewart and Tiny Speck releasing all the artwork and other assets for the game into public domain, a few non-Flash versions of Glitch showed up. One, Odd Giants (https://oddgiants.com/) is particularly successful and worth checking out if you're a Glitch Fan.
Not sure if it's trivial or high accuracy for a dedicated user. This jailbreak game [1] was making the rounds a while back, it employs the trick you mentioned as well as any others to prevent an LLM from revealing a secret, but it's still not too terribly hard to get past.

[1] https://gandalf.lakera.ai
The geometry was a killer when trying to move it because you couldn't wrap your arms around the thing. When faced with moving one by myself down the stairs to my apartment, I was forced to (carefully) roll it downhill.
I'm curious, what would be the reason for doing this?
Apparently water is very common throughout the universe. A previous paper covered an expanding supernova shockwave that fused an enormous volume of space into oxygen, which then combined with ambient hydrogen to form H2O. That volume was estimated to have 10 trillion times the total water on Earth.
I found a 32" on the curb, heaved it into the back of my truck, and got it home.

It worked great, I thought about how much of a pain it would be to drag into the house and up the stairs to the gaming room, and decided I'd just find a 19-27" to use for old consoles.

Ended up selling it on Craigslist for $250.
Yeap, the next government fall is expected to be on 16 of January.

A real prediction will be the impeachment of Macron. It may happen if he fall short of candidate to be prime minister.
It's hard to gauge the effectiveness of poisoning huge training sets since anything you do is a figurative drop in the ocean, but if you can poison the small amount of data that an AI agent requests on-the-fly to use with RAG then I would guess it's much easier to derail it.
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When a company shows you who they are, believe them. If an ad company selling you a browser says you don't have permission to block ads, what makes you think they won't be making (or have already made) other customer hostile decisions?

There's alternative browsers out there, some of them quite good.
That's pretty much it yes.
Completely non-surprising.
Nothing to worry about. They are dead end only if we find something better. Till then they here to stay. And likely even after they will be used.
What advantage does a supercap have over batteries?
Nitpick: BONE was part of R5.1 "Dano", which got leaked but never publicly released.
Are you sure you aren't confusing Remarkable with something else? I have never heard of them sending C&D letters, nonetheless to community sites.

Searching for this I could find only a single example from 4 years ago where they sent a C&D to remarkable-explorer.com. Aside from the copyright issues, this site seemed to be using non-public APIs and asking the user to enter authorization tokens directly on it. I don't have all the facts but I'm not surprised this would be problematic.
Because reasons i don't remember, I ended up doing all my scraping through Firefox (i think it was easier to make PDFs?). Is there something like this that works for running (non-headless) Firefox?
Nuclear power plants have a design life. The flux from the reactor causes
permanent damage to the surrounding structures. Think of putting a bullet
through a wall of your house once a day. Do you still think it will be safe
after 40 years? MIT has a free course on nuclear reactors and they mention
this damage as a lifetime limiting factor.
Thanks for your response.

My bad for "massive starvation", that's clearly a mistake, I meant to write something along the lines of "massive unemployment – and sometimes starvation". Sadly, too late to amend.

Now, I'll admit that I don't have my statistics at hand. I quoted them from memory from, if I recall correctly, _Good Economics for Hard Times_. I'm nearly certain about the ~40 years, but it's entirely possible that I confused several parts of the industrial revolution. I'll double-check when I have an opportunity.
Simplifying Disassembly with LLVM Tools
Former Mossad agents reveal secrets of 10-year exploding pager operation
I thought those haiku error messages were only in NetPositive (the BeOS web browser).
Texas school district bans the Bible because of its sexual content
I'm sure they are good, but you and I have quite different levels of "very affordable." On Amazon, they seem to average around $10 each depending on size. Contrast with mason jars at a little more than $1 each at my local Menards plus a bit more for reusable lids or silicone gaskets.
https://archive.ph/mGQtr
The "American" grids aren't American. An American grid almost always has 2 answers (both directions) per square.
Saturn Is Losing Its Rings at Worst-Case-Scenario Rate
Yeah, I wasn't talking about a "meetup group". I was talking about a spot where I could go on any given day, sit down, have a drink and just chat with whoever is sitting nearby, with the chances that they also live somewhere nearby. Think of British pub culture, but imported to PNW. In my area, we have exactly 0 of those spots, despite having a decent amount of bars and restaurants in the area.

As it was mentioned in the comments, it usually boils down to regulation and financial problems to have a place like that, unless you've been grandfathered in.
Am I overthinking it or is this blog post heavily AI-edited? The way the text is very similar to what modern GPT models would give you.

This paragraph was the last straw that made me think so:
>This story isn’t just about a TV; it’s about preserving history and celebrating the people who make it possible. Shank’s journey serves as a reminder of the lengths we’ll go to honor the past and connect through shared enthusiasm.

Also

>Shank Mods’ video is not just a celebration of retro tech but a love letter to the communities that keep these technologies alive. From the daring extraction to the meticulous restoration, every moment of this story is a testament to what can be achieved with determination and collaboration.
Most of that is irrelevant here. All they have to do is put in an interest bearing account, and pay out some amount less than they're earning. Furthermore, they will effectively owe you less than even the principle since they (on average) sell the goods for more than they cost. You're forgetting that this liability comes with an over-offsetting asset.

Then, if they have any wiggle room, they can get a further increase by buying back a bond of higher yield sooner, modulated by expected cash flows.

>Much easier to encourage people to spend the gift cards and get your financing from proper, predictable business loans or bonds.

That doesn't follow at all. The longer the gift card goes without being spent, the more free money they get. There's no net benefit to the goods being called sooner.
> Its reliance on frequent random access patterns makes it incompatible with the sequential access nature of disk storage.

So use SSD? Are people seriously still trying to use spinning disk for database workloads in 2024?
it reads fine to me
What it means when someone says "he went to Turkey"
Reach Beyond the IDE with Tools for Gemini Code Assist
MIL makes me think we’re missing MILILF.
Wildfire smoke's health risks can linger long-term in homes that escape burning
Oh that's really interesting thanks! That would actually be an easy constraint to add too.
In the YouTube video they explain that CRTs have a layer of safety glass in front of the actual screen to protect viewers in the event that the screen implodes. You were actually trying to break through multiple pieces of glass! I've taken a crowbar to a broken CRT before for fun and can confirm that it takes a lot more effort than one might think.
Data farms are all about cost per GB. Spinning media is a fraction of the cost per.
Is there really no market for a modern CRT tailor-made for retro gaming? Or is it just not feasible?
Why should websites implement yet another custom output format for people^Wsoftware that won’t bother to use existing, loosely yet somewhat structured, open formats?
As a child in the early 90s (maybe 1993), I nearly got crushed under one of these trying to connect my Nintendo to the AV cables on the back. It was against the wall in an alcove and the only way to access was to rotate it slightly and lean it forward to reach the connections on the back (which I couldn’t see, only feel). It tipped off the shelf and onto me, partially supported by the shelf and partially by me.

I didn’t want to get in trouble because it was so nice, so I just kind of squatted there pinned under it trying to lever it back. Thankfully my dad walked by, noticed, and kept into action. And here I still am today.
Ford is offering the home charger installation, or a $1000 public charging credit. I'm trying to shop for one of these trucks right now, and my sense is that the dealers are not a big fan of EVs and are almost actively working against Ford. The buying process is extremely painful compared to my last two purchases from pure EV manufacturers.
If you play retro video games from the NES / SNES / N64 / Gamecube era on original hardware, a CRT is the way to go.

People that play competitive Smash Bros Melee will only play on CRTs.
LOL. Worms come up to eat food, go down and poop. Poop forces remaining food and wormpoop (compost) up to the top.

They aren't pushing the teabags to the top, they're digging to defecate.
I always wonder what free software, particularly on Windows, is or will become a Trojan horse weapon during a conflict.
I've had a similar situation with Kotlin. I've always been a java developer, and I enjoy using it, but even with the newer features it's just...slow.

When I had to script things I chose JavaScript (native JavaScript) since it's way faster to iterate, but I've always missed the static typing (I also know python, but I honestly prefer JavaScript)

Until I learned Kotlin. It's been a blast to use, incredible common libraries, streams everywhere, nulls that you can use without issues...I just love it (so much in fact that I'm in the process of switching project from java to Kotlin).

When I need to do scripts, like for the advent-of-code, I choose Kotlin.
I believe the thick front (leaded) glass is to try to block the produced x-rays.

People were starting to get scared of the cancer those xrays might produce, and I suspect CRT manufacturers predicted a huge court settlement for cancers caused by TV's with insufficient shielding.

So far, it seems that hasn't materialized - not, I suspect because those xrays didn't cause cancer, but because it is simply impossible to produce any kind of evidence of cause/effect.
I thought it was more that python was basically perl with the fun bits removed.

Or to put it another way: python helps you think more like the computer does. Perl helps the computer think more like you do.