skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Language policing costs a lot, but its invisible since its the cost of everyone updating themselves and spending time rethinking what to say. That is worth many billions of dollars in lost time, and since its a moving target like we see with other words constantly getting updated it will never stop, its an ongoing cost we constantly pay for this.
Pardon my ignorance, but are you saying that embedding model leaderboards aren't useful? When I look at https://huggingface.co/spaces/mteb/leaderboard I see voyage's embedding model is at the top. Does that mean they have the best model?
It’s not inheritocracy, it’s family units working as intended.

In America we’ve had this fantasy of rugged individualism where you could just say fuck you to mom and dad and your elders and just go off and do your own thing and prove everyone wrong and be wildly successful and owe nobody anything.

That dream should now be thoroughly eradicated. It makes people way too selfish and it’s not good for society as a whole. We must see life as a team effort.
Not much I can say other than that was a disappointing piece of trash from Paul.

The whole tirade against wokeness by the far right is nothing more than a bizarre attempt to stigmatize those who want to improve things for segments of society.

A more legitimate article might have focused on tactics such as shaming and cancelling those who disagree which is problematic in many instances, but Graham paints with too broad of a brush and comes across as another conservative whose only interest is to discredit those who think differently.
AI has made some once absurd ideas possible. For example, you can hardcode personal details and have a resume builder export it to PDF or a web portfolio. It'll probably be less work than formatting a resume in Word. Leave AI to do repetitive work like mapping data types, while you figure out the code to make it look pretty.
That's Mead Lake, you're thinking of, not Lake Mead
Yeah that's why they halted the cancelation of it. I figured this was exactly why the second I saw it.

I'm sure China will still get it's yummy feed of U.S user data too even it Elon does buy it. I don't really personally care about who's watching me poop or knows where I live. I know why someone would though. I also don't have anything to hide personally but I understand how this is an issue for more "important" people. Also the whole "give them a hand they take an arm" thing is why I won't conform to it.
Yes! I've found this to be true too.

Early in my programming career, work was a mix of repetitive, somewhat mindless tasks (implement this webpage, fix this bug, etc) and more intensive, thoughtful activities (figure out a better algorithm for something, help architect a solution for a problem).

I think this is healthy. We can't be "on" 100% of the time. And I'm convinced that during those times when we're doing mindless tasks, our brains are actually working in a different way that we're not conscious of. It's like how a solution will sometimes come to you in the shower.

I don't think increasing intensity of work is the single cause of burnout, but it's definitely a part of the equation, and one that's definitely overlooked.
Discussion (60 points, 13 hours ago, 64 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42683251
Yes, but if it’s somebody else’s data center it’s on them to figure out how to earthquake proof or whatever. The cloud isnt just renting a computer, it’s renting a computer with a guarantee of uptime that somebody else can be financially liable for
The shortest, simplest equivalent I know that has most of the same 'spice' is Chicago Express/Wabash Cannonball. At first you think it's a game about building a company that tries to get to Chicago first to claim the prize money, but then you realize that this is really about making money, and that maybe the best thing for you is to completely wreck any and all attempts to have anyone, ever, get to Chicago. Plays in an hour, instead of 3+ in your typical train game with this kind of mechanics.
They'd still need permission from the licensing authority technically, waste is a pretty highly regulated thing here and rightly so. Plus, this guy could be misremembering.
For float and int8, 1024 does indeed outperform 2048. However, for binary, 2048 outperforms 1024.

For our general-purpose embedding model (voyage-3-large), embedding vectors with 2048 dimensions outperform 1024 across the board: https://blog.voyageai.com/2025/01/07/voyage-3-large/
I'd be surprised if you got away with digging around for long before being fired for being in an off-limits area. Seeing as there's all those bulldozers shoveling the trash piles around.
as am I!
https://roominabox.de/

The Bett 2.0 was one of the most comfortable things I’ve ever slept on. The Grid Bed was useless and fell apart.
Play the cards you’re dealt.

For everyone that had some obstacles removed that made it easier to apply themselves, there are dozens of other people with the same privilege that didnt apply themselves at all.

For everyone that is told to “check their privilege” there are dozens of other people that do check, and realize they weren’t using nearly enough of it, more vastly accelerating inequalities as their previously humble integration into society was considered to be in vain.
It's a general purpose landfill for a town of 150,000 people and according to the original article he only understood his loss three months after disposal, in which time a further 10,000 tonnes of rubbish had been deposited. That small HDD will be surrounded by much larger items: not just whatever can be crammed into a wheelie bin but also possibly larger special items such as bedframes, furniture, etc. That "goblin" will have to be able to tunnel through compacted masses of steel and concrete while being delicate enough not to destroy the target, and definitely needs to avoid breaching the landfill lining. Probably best not to count on the stability of the tunnel it's making, so it will need autonomous power. Probably easier to go for the moon landing X-prize.
> Even if the bureaucracy is the worst offender, every foreigner buying a house still results in 1 less house for Spaniards.

Just to be pedantic, it's not about foreigners buying property, it is about non-resident buying properties.

A foreigner that actually resides in Spain would not be taxed, if I understand correctly.

I don't think that limiting property ownership to residents is a bad thing. I do think, however, that it will not have that much impact in the properties the average people actually need and want.
It’s actually the other way around. Most people like “affirmative action” when you use that term. But most people dislike it when you ask whether race should be considered in college admissions or hiring decisions: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/06/16/americans...

“In that survey, 74% of U.S. adults said that, when making decisions about hiring and promotions, companies and organizations should take only a person’s qualifications into account, even if it results in less diversity.”
https://archive.is/zyA93

Not the original scores fortunately.
then why do people pay over $600 per month for a spot?
> People don’t realize sound was solved decades ago.

This really isn't true at all. HiFi has an obscene amount of snake-oil and non-rigorous design decision making.

Audio Science Review (https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php) has documented this very clearly and well.
more valuable than ever if you ask me
Measuring Price Discrimination and Steering on E-Commerce Web Sites (2014)
Programming is a means to an end for most of us. If you want to become an expert programmer for the sake of the craft then go for it, but most would benefit more from learning more about the business side. If you're building the wrong functionality then it doesn't matter how good your code is.
If I have to choose between a firewall and a VPN, I'm choosing the VPN. I should not be forced to make sacrifices like this, nor should anyone else.
If we qre exchanging anecdotes, I do know plenty of people that either moved out to the countryside, or would be willing to move if they were sure they could work remote indefinitely.

I'd even say that having kids is one major factor in wanting to move out of big cities.
Although voyage-3-m-exp is at the top of the leaderboard, I would not use it for production use cases unless your data is extremely similar to "in-domain" MTEB data. Check out this post from Nils (one of the authors of the original MTEB paper) for more info: https://x.com/Nils_Reimers/status/1870812625505849849

voyage-3-large will work better for almost all real-world production use cases.
By phone standards, yes. By computer standards, absolutely not.
Would have been great if the author reached out to community about .NET first instead of posting content that they did.

Anyway

# JIT-based build
dotnet publish -o {folder} -r linux-musl-arm64 -p:PublishSingleFile=true -p:PublishTrimmed=true

# Native binary build
dotnet publish -o {folder} -r linux-musl-arm64 -p:PublishAot=true

Can build on the RPI too: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux-...

I guess it's too challenging to browse the docs...
i dont. the day bitwarden dies is the day i sign off from the internet.
Kind of interesting to imagine long term inflation due to long term lost crypto. It seems much easier to lose large amounts versus fiat currencies.

Electronic money can be recovered (i.e. its given over to the government if left unclaimed as far as I know). And its hard to lose that much physical cash.
Especially so with land. My ancestors that came to America just claimed homestead land or bought it for a song and everyone back to a couple generations back just used what was passed on. The boomers sold off the land and I started the way my Nth great grandparents did with fuck all, except after boomers passed a gazillion regulations to stop anyone else from building the inherited properties they sold off. I spent decades getting back to square one including having to take raw desert land to a house with my bare hands, which was sabotaged at every step by codes zoning and licensing.
Self plug, but I made this to deal with bots on my site: https://marcusb.org/hacks/quixotic.html. It is a simple markov generator to obfuscate content (static-site friendly, no server-side dynamic generation required) and an optional link-maze to send incorrigible bots to 100% markov-generated non-sense (requires a server-side component.)

I do serve a legit robots.txt file to warn the scrapers I know about away.
One the one hand, I think it’s great that after all these various iterations of prigs throughout human history, we’ve finally arrived at a point where the label they gave themselves has become a humorous insult. Unfortunately, this means

- they culturally appropriated “woke” from a group they believe to be systemically persecuted and turned it into a joke,

- telling someone that you don’t want to hear their racist joke is now “woke” even if you’re not playing to an audience, and

- suddenly, every little thing people don’t like is “woke” and it is beyond ridiculous.
The lessons we learn best are those which we are emotionally invested in and sometimes that emotion can be negative, but a lesson will be learned regardless.
> A person who actively discriminates in hiring against black people but doesn't call anyone a slur is seen as more virtuous as someone who doesn't discriminate, yet uses the slur in jest. The first behavior is seen as more excusable than the second, although an actual reasonable moral judgement makes it evident it's not.

What in the world are you talking about?
The article conflates solved and charged to in a way that suggests there’s some unsolved mystery. My guess is that many of these are uncharged because there is insufficient evidence to prove guilt.
"Inheritocracy" is a complicated way of saying "class system".
You pretty obviously don't want to mess with it frivolously. But if there's something wrong with it, and you have to fix it? That seems better than the alternative where you can't. Note that the right to modify it doesn't imply that you're required to in the absence of any reason to.

Also, if someone wants to kill you in your sleep, they... don't need you to even have a pacemaker. And the security of medical devices is notoriously bad, so if you're worried about that sort of thing, be more worried that the status quo doesn't allow you to fix the existing remotely exploitable wireless security vulnerabilities.
how can you train a system with zero positives?

this is clearly a illegal overreach, but they got the right deals with all relevant global governments. how do you stop something like this?

also, Netherlands is more of a puppet state to the USA than Australia nowadays. and that's a hard act to follow.
But he wasn’t willing to write an article like this until Trump’s election provides him cover. It’s funny how many moderate liberals have suddenly found their voices.
https://sources.debian.org/data/main/n/nvi/1.81.6-17/debian/...

No doubt it's possible to produce a working static nvi binary for Linux.

The point I was making is that vim requires zero patching. It just works. Even a version from 1997.
four 9's uptime https://uptime.is/99.99

Daily: 8.6s

Weekly: 1m 0.48s

Monthly: 4m 21s

Quarterly: 13m 2.4s

Yearly: 52m 9.8s

If you assume that "uptime" means all tools are available

https://statusgator.com/services/github

this appears to be 45 minutes in just one day

Incident with Git Operations
30m Jan 14, 2025 9:01 AM Down

Incident with Git Operations
10m Jan 14, 2025 8:51 AM Down

Incident with Git Operations
5m Jan 14, 2025 8:46 AM Down

Not much margin to hit four 9's left for the rest of the year.
Judges are fallible, therefore a judicial system is impossible!
I wonder what the ticket vendor would have said if you told them that you don't own a smartphone.
> I don't think this statement is fair. There has been unionization effort across the country throughout the years.

Not very successfully. Only 6.9% of private-sector US workers have a union.
That peaked at 35% in 1954.

[1] https://www.epi.org/publication/union-membership-data/#full-...
Not exactly sure what you mean - is there some reason companies that sell speakers shouldn't be able to be publically traded?
They did not claim that leaderboards were useless. There’s a big difference between an embedding model leaderboard and the SWEbench leaderboard though, given that they measure completely different categories of models.
Wikipedia implies this version was mostly BASIC, the hunting minigame was in assembly.
Imagine him actually offering $191 million in cash for a 44 meter x 44 meter plot of trash. $2000 for every resident of the city. They'd riot if it got rejected.
> Rule 0: Don’t panic

“Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.”

I know this and still get caught out sometimes…

Edit: hahaha ‘Cerium saying ~same thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42683671
Winconaa: A color ASCII-art SDL video driver for the Win32 console (2003)
Flippyr.am
The keyword there is could. America is the land of opportunity, the Declaration of Independence calls the pursuit of happiness an unalienable right.

Nowhere is happiness or success promised or guaranteed. You have an opportunity, the same (equal) opportunity as everyone else; whether you will succeed is an entirely different matter and can come down to sheer dumb luck.

Freedom is power, power is responsibility, responsibility is hard. Obtaining success is hard, living in a free society and country is hard, but the fruits are unparalleled if you win.
there was a company doing exactly this in brighton (uk) when i lived there about 10 years ago. great idea, not sure what happened to them though.
Especially if the problem was due to a lack of electric grid as they're suggesting.
Articles like this on either side are a waste of time to write and read. Commenting on them is even worse (and here I am too...)

Zero people are receiving value from any of this energy, because it is impossible to - these are intellectual empty calories. Nobody here will be changing their mind, and these comments won't bring anybody closer to changing their mind. Literally nothing of substance is being created, and nothing will change because of any of it.

It proves that you and I are foolish that we participate in such useless activities while our short lives slip away. I'm here hypocritically yelling into the wind like an idiot right now. All of this is a sad waste of human potential.

Imagine if the time spent writing this article and all these 1400+ comments went into something simple like picking up litter where we live. What a real appreciable difference that would make. I'm going to go do that to offset the time I spent writing this stupid comment.
They'd need to provide sufficient confidence that they were going to continue to operate the landfill in accordance with all regulations, not just declare bankruptcy when the hunt is over and leave an unsafe mess and a financial black hole. Possibly the set intersection of treasure hunters with that character AND optimism that the drive remains useful is rather small.
In the US, not many places. But that's the complaint from some people.
they are mostly underlining the fact that the whole situation is about corruption and that it would easily please the corrupt if they benefited financially. and they ate the bait.
The people arguing against high fructose corn syrup specifically are doing so under the misguided notion that sugar is somehow healthier. You see something similar in the seed oil discussions.

There are good reasons to promote excessive sugars in general, but specifically targetting high fructose corn syrup is like that old joke where someone asks if we should ban adding dihydrogen monoxide to foods.
There was a time when Sonos really tried to EOL "Gen 1" devices, including the Play 5. There was such a backlash that they backpedaled a bit, but Gen 1 devices lost the ability to interact with Gen 2 and later devices and you need to use a different app for them.
Yeah a lot of us that knew of bitcoin but didn’t really get in to it seem to remember generating a coin or two but can’t remember where we left it.
I believe he found the open source tools being used (CVS?) weren't good enough, and he started using a commercial closed source tool called "bitkeeper", which rankled the ire of the FOSS community who wanted to eat their own dogfood.

So Torvald's opted to "clone" the features of bitkeeper into an open source version he named 'git'.

That's the story I heard, no idea if it's true.
People use WordPress for its plugins...
I'm not sure who's "intending" this, certainly not me. We should be working towards a society where "who your father is" isn't the strongest predictor of one's standard of living. This isn't about saying fuck you to your parents, it's about working towards a level playing field, where the winners and losers aren't pre-determined by who their families are.
Food for thought: I have never had a productive conversation with someone who thinks buybacks are market manipulation and see it as cue to disengage. IMO it is like debating with a sovereign citizen. They invoke a ton of technical concepts and jargon, but all with their bespoke personal definitions. Up means down and 2+2=5. We simply dont share enough common reality to communicate.
An 836-pound 'cursed' emerald traveled the Americas, ruining lives
Sometimes my friends ask me why I don't use a CMS for my personal site instead of just writing articles as pages on a Ruby on Rails site.

Aside from finding CMSes to be overly heavy and restrictive, this is why. You never know when they're gonna go off the rails (pun intended). If I can't just do everything in vim/notepad++ and a terminal I'm not super interested.

Same reason why I'm skeptical of game toolkits like Unity.
>I've always been dismayed at the misdirected fury around corn syrup

there is good reason to be furious at corn syrup because low income 3rd world countries would love to sell the US their cane sugar at very cheap prices, but the US govt controls prices artificially high to protect US sugar growers.
Would there be a rebranding?

I vote for "Dick Talk".
It looks cool, but I'm struggling to justify paying almost $800 for it. What makes it so expensive? I'd expect it to be a tenth of that pricetag, at most.
Oh hell yeah, dude!
Wouldn’t lost crypto cause deflation due to the lower circulation?
Another example of "The rich get richer and the poor get poorer"
I feel like “much” is an exaggeration. In my day to day use, the only annoyance I regularly run into is having to tap an extra link or two in order to follow someone on a different network.
>Well, we could at least examine the idea of paying executives over a longer time horizon.

Every publicly listed business already does this, in the form of stock grants and options with various targets to hit at various intervals. See bottom of page 51 for an example:

https://investor.apple.com/sec-filings/sec-filings-details/d...

It’s where all those rage bait headlines of extreme executive compensation come from, from maturing equity granted before the stock appreciated a good amount over the course of a few years.
What kind of capitalism-apologist hot take on parents/families caring for the well-being of their children/members is this? Surely the world is not frequent with Tom-like Oxford-educated actors feeling bad about how good they have it. If some people arrived to the conclusion that they don't have to work because their parents provide for them, then I would argue their parents have failed them in other ways, but not because of what they provided.

Should we decide on a different social contracts where people return things when they die? Sure. But start with the wealthiest please.
43K fewer drivers on Manhattan roads after congestion pricing turned on
I mean most Americans ARE entitled.
Stratify by the dates on receipts, should it be too hard to narrow it down? $765M is a lot of money where I come from.
On the other hand, it's demonstrably proven that food producers will switch from sugar to corn syrup rather than pay extra for cane sugar, so consumers are deprived of a choice.
In business, a sabbatical means either you are quitting, going for a long vacation because you hate your job, or burnt out beyond repair and using fancy words like sabbatical before changing careers. Maybe that's made people think he was going to do drugs to chill.
When I was at UCLA in the mid-‘90s there were computer science courses taught through the school of engineering, mostly limited to SEAS students. So computer science, computer engineering, ee, me, and the like. I think the intro classes were taught in scheme.

And then for everyone else the Math department of the school of Letters and Science had their PIC (program in computing I think?) series which had two or three courses in C++ and another course in Lisp. As a physics major I took the latter.
I wonder how many wild animals would be killed and eaten yearly in a world without humans. Are those deaths horrific too?

Would the earth itself be a horrific hellhole given it would be sustaining billions of deaths, each year?

I have never understood this argument against animal farming. I'm all for humane treatment of livestock, but we can't fool ourselves into believing that the corresponding biomass in a completely "wild" earth would be having a better time, or a better death, than our cows and chickens.
All peoples' life experiences equally matter. Just some areas more equal than others.

/s
There are four things that, if fully funded, would lead to crime rates plummeting. They are welfare, mental health, housing and drug rehabilitation. We know this based on numerous examples around the world, particularly some European countries.

The alternative is to spend even more money on police funding, who aren't really that effective at stopping crime and who directly cause their own negative social issues. Prisons are extremely expensive to run per inmate.

The crime problem is much easier to deal with if the crimes do not happen in the first place.