skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, but it depends on what you mean with fitting in memory.

Succinct datastructures are used in genomics (e.g. bwa, megahit exome sequencer) because N is so large that you're actually hitting asymptotic behavior.

For memory latency it can by making your memory footprint fit in LLC or a single node; cross-node NUMA latencies are typically enough to absolutely tank performance.

It can theoretically also help in massively parallel access situations where bandwidth becomes a limiting concern. Although, I intuit we would need near-memory hardware to perform the rank+select. Otherwise the latency of the multiple dependent accesses will kill your performance again, cfr previous point.

With a lot of parallel accesses, bandwidth could also be an issue in conventional structures.
>I mostly wish their were more places were thoughtful people to find and chat with each other, without having to get involved with petty blog/Twitter vanity games.

Sadly a lot of that moved to Discord. So, you can't really search it up. You have to simply follow a rabbit trail of people and forums until you find that community. It's tough.

But maybe that semi-elusiveness is a feature. You let anyone in and you may start to fall into that Eternal September where the low quality vapidness wins out
yeah that's a fun challenge — what we've seen work well is a system that forces the LLM to generate citations for all extracted data, map that back to the original OCR content, and then generate bounding boxes that way. Tons of edge cases for sure that we've built a suite of heuristics for over time, but overall works really well.
What would the equator have been like at this time? Too hot for human life?
It takes between 22GB-37GB depending on the context size etc. from what I've observed.
Is this able to convert pdf flowcharts into yaml or json representations of them? I have been experimenting with Claude 3.5. It has been very good at readig / understanding/ converting into representations of flow charts.

So I am wondering if this is more capable. Will try definitely, but maybe someone can chime in.
Way to miss the point entirely. GP was talking about why that happens. And yes, it's almost entirely due to going places that actually provide effective tools to deal with bad-faith participants.
1) I'm sitting on a quarter acre in the suburbs and we're slowly eliminating the lawn in favor of more food garden every year

2) Sure, but growing food is something I can do using only myself and the materials to hand without having to wait for the crippled and backward process of creating new regulations to sort itself out, growing food now helps mitigate the problem now while we push for new regulations and growing food does nothing to get in the way of new regulations and if the push for new regulations fails I still have a garden
>Many forums are notorious for having awful search. This is somewhat made up for by the fact that they're indexable and you can google search that forum instead.

I think this really depends on the content. Projects that use discord as their primary community support create a significant barrier for users doing preliminary troubleshooting. I have a huge folder of discord servers of projects I took a couple steps into before passing on. Those should have just been internet searches. Once I have an agent doing that research for me, I assume it will have to register with discord servers just to do its job.
Well, we are unfortunately seeing more of this with the rise of populism. However, I feel as if certain factors come together to provide a pretty effective stop-gap:

1. Members of Parliament (MPs) represent roughly 70k people. And while that's still a significant number, it's small enough for them to know and be known by their constituents. It's more difficult to vote against your constituents when you know them.

2. The House of Lords (HoL) can revise and delay, but not block, which means we are functionally immune from cross-chamber games of chicken that result in US-style government shutdowns, or European-style budget bills as confidence motions. We did come pretty close to this with Brexit in 2019, but this was all within the House of Commons given that the ruling party did not command a majority.

3. Parliamentarians usually respect the inertia of institution. As in, the idea that it's right to continue things as they've always been done, unless there's a compelling reason. It's why we're still a Monarchy, why there's still bishops and hereditaries in the House of Lords, etc. Basically, there's a culture of incrementalism. Because if you don't have the inertia, you appear to lack legitimacy, it's just a gimmick.

4. And on the heels of that, I think Parliamentarians have an occupational understanding of the adage "With great power comes great responsibility."

5. The Civil Service, while ostensibly neutral, tends to resign when asked to do anything believed to be damaging to the country.

All of this put together (and probably more than I haven't thought of) means that MPs understand that they could do great damage, and so they restrain themselves.

Contrast this with other countries with difficult systems where politicians stir up the passions of their constituents by naming their systemic limitations, "I would love to do X, but I can't because Y prevents me." A somewhat related example would be abortion in the US, where after Roe v Wade was decided, many states became soapboxes for anti-abortion rhetoric. It's a safe rhetorical position: you can say what you like and then blame the federal government for not being able to do it. But then Roe v Wade was overturned and many of these politicians and states have changed their tune, because the power is now in their hands, they are now answerable to their constituents on this matter. Not that it matters given how much gerrymandering there is, but still, the effect was noticeable.
PDF/A doesn't require preserving the document structure, only that any text is extractable.
ngl didn't know vim supported that so conveniently
Here's another dimension to the stupidity: it's probably going to drive some Boeing customers to Embraer, instead of waiting for their 737MAX to be built. I would add COMAC and Airbus but Airbus will have trouble expanding production, and COMAC might still be too risky.

Also Poilievre and the Tories have had to modify their soft-on-Russia stances. Trump is creating blowback that's reducing the effectiveness of influence campaigns elsewhere,
Wow, I've been using Vim exclusively as my text editor now for 15 years and I did not know it could do this. Awesome!
> Does anyone subscribe to this in the current economy?

Not anyone whose net worth is under -say- fifty- or a hundred-million dollars and is older than their mid-thirties, that's for sure.

If you're not rich enough to routinely afford very well-made things, and you're old enough to know that very many things legitimately used to be far, far higher quality for not that much more inflation-adjusted money [0], then you sure as shit don't subscribe to that saying anymore.

[0] And sometimes, far less... especially when you factor in the cost of continually replacing the garbage that's all that you can afford.
This makes it sound like the FBI was unaware they were dealing with a mafia don. They knew and didn't care, it benefit them.
A chess club I played at was frequented by a guy who used to work as mathematician but got fed up by it at some point and started to work as a chess trainer. Still did maths and blogged regularly but never bothered to publish academic work.

There's a lot of people like that in maths. Very talented but dropping in and out of it or doing it recreationally.
Cool! I was just looking at how to build something similar using a presence sensor wired up to some flavor of arduino. But I was hoping to keep it 100% local with little-to-no cloud involved.
Okay. So now the question is, who maintains this database of people who can be contacted using a phone number-less system? And what do you use as the unique identifier?
Would be fantastic to convert the agent history into deterministic crawlers/scrapers (playwright typescript, etc)

Ran into a tool called Promptwright on the Discord that was an example of this
From Wikipedia:
"About 140 kilograms of castoreum are harvested a year. An average beaver has 100 - 200 grams of castor sacs. So less than 2000 wild beavers are trapped and killed each year for castoreum, mostly in Canada - Eurasian beaver population levels are still too low for trapping to be effective."
Oil burning was a common problem for early S2000s (specifically AP1 motors) and AFAIK (having been an owner for 10+ years and read nearly every s2ki/s2kca forum post over the last 20 years), the problem was never truly solved in a documented, reproducible way.

Replacing the valve stems, seals, changing oil brands/weights, etc. have all been a bit unscientific and for me, the only thing that’s “worked” was not overfilling (as anxious owners tend to do), checking early and often, and ensuring I read the dipstick correctly (the trick on this motor is to read both sides of the dipstick).

Unfortunately, Honda always held firm on the "1 litre per 1000 miles is considered normal” and the problem went away with the F22C/AP2 motor. I've learned to live with it for an otherwise extremely reliable ownership experience.
Thanks for the kind words. What are some of the annoying issues?
Seems like you're basically asking it to compile from an English description of "Hello World" to an optimized binary for various platforms. I guess I'd be more surprised to see it be capable of doing that, especially in one step, than I would be to see it fail.
I live in the SF Bay Area (Los Altos Hills). My neighbor used to raise miniature goats. A few years ago a mountain lion got into the goat pasture and killed all the goats. It was pretty gory. On the other hand, it seems like the mountain lions (and coyotes) are doing a pretty good job bringing down the local deer population. I wish they would also start eating the non-native wild turkeys that have migrated into my area over the past 5 years or so.
It's possible that people who end up as teachers in community colleges actually like teaching and see it as a challenge they are willing to tackle.

Whereas in big universities the professors really don't much want to teach they want to accomplish scientific breakthroughs, themselves.
> Using the Digital Signal 0 (DS0) encoding

DS0 is not encoding. It's (pseudo) framing.

> phone calls became digital with

The G.711 encoding in either aLaw or muLaw format.
Legit what i was aiming for :)
I am working on a pet project, using tactile "premium" 4/5-way switches in super-ergonomic form-factor keyboard (initially like the logitech vertical mouse, but that turned out awful). The only model to not get hung up on Cherry MX and hallucinate 4-way cherry switches has been Claude (the others did make attempts at other manufacturers, but hallucinated part numbers). It is significantly ahead of the competition.
Frankly, I have better track of my electronic payslips than I ever did of hardcopies.

For some reason, my brain works much better with soft copies.
>Loath as I am to give 4chan credit for anything positive

I love the fact we have somewhere unambiguously lowbrow on the internet. It's fun to watch how highbrow places talk about it.
One possible reason is that the community college teachers -- at least in my state -- are unionized. This makes teaching as a career possible.
more info https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eocene_epoch
I use this for a watermeter. Works quite well as long as you have a good SD card
And do you think a Discord community force-migrated to Telegram wouldn't have their own UX complaints? This is gonna happen almost no matter what platforms you're talking about, people are used to their thing and don't like seeing it forcibly changed.

> Normal people are not fond of Discord UI specifically, they just get used to it.

Disagree. I think most people are pretty okay with it, maybe not in love with it, but they don't see it as particularly bad in most respects either. I use Google's corp chat for work and my god, Discord is SO much better than that it blows me away.
Always learning something new with vim. For such a barebones looking editor, it's got a lot going on.
Yes, he is going to deploy Ricky from Trailer Park Boys to climb trees with some hubcaps.
Your school allows you to add a degree retroactively like that?
Ah. Glad to hear that they finally got that done. Good for them! (I hope it's feature complete, and hope there aren't any subtle bugs in it! (And if there happen to be any bugs, I hope they're super committed to acknowledging them and fixing them.))

Thanks much for the link to the FAQ.
It's from 2001 when IPv6 didn't really exist. I love IPv6 but it's basically crackpot retrocomputing tech at this point.
We see things more in the light of Heidi Howard’s recent Flexible Quorums and her comments that all these ideas can be mixed and matched.

Further, our reasons for not picking Raft are different, and have more to do with “what makes Raft Raft”, namely the concessions around view change and replacing message passing with RPC.

We’ve spoken a bit on this if you’d like to dive deeper:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tRgvaqpQPwE
I have heard of it maybe at a distinct place, but not common.

Alot of things also passed off as crepe but not...

Not alot of standards lop
As for why they dropped suddenly, I don't really know. Sometimes models develop degenerate behaviors, but even when forking from the best checkpoint and lowering the learning rate or changing other hyperparameters, performance stills drops.
It's as if its fate has already been sealed many iterations ago.
Actually, re-electing GWB was the early confirmation to the world that something was very wrong here.
Distance is the problem. The gauge is small so we can't throw a very strong signal down the wire. So you have repeaters on almost every span of any appreciable length.

The very first part of a dialup modem sound? Where it's playing a tone that reverses phase at regular intervals? That tone is actually designed to disable all the repeaters and echo cancelers that are in your switched circuit.

Also two parallel phone lines are prone to capacitive coupling. I had a case so bad once that one office could pick up the phone and nearly perfectly couple onto their neighbors line and hear all their conversations. It was a 50/50 which port on the PBX recognized the tones and started the call when either of them picked up to dial out.
> I also strongly support major changes to agricultural and food policy

Florida and Illinois, on complete opposite ends of the political spectrum, are the only two states with laws the explicitly prohibit towns and cities from preventing you from using your yard (front, back, side, whatever) as a vegetable garden. They allow for regulations about how big and where your greenhouses/hothouses could be, how much water you use, etc. But nothing that can defacto prohibit you from using your whole yard productively.

This is something that should be nationwide. In most places, growing crops in your front yard is either sort-of-tolerated-until-you-make-someone-mad or not at all allowed.
I have a 64GB i7-3930K from 2012 next to me. It still worked in late 2024, and was faster than many modern computers.
> This is the logic a Victorian surgeon hacking at a patient, safe in the knowledge that sea sponges do alright with a fraction of a human’s organs.

Except its not? Every organizational takeover and efficiency push looks pretty much the same as what Doge is doing. He's not resorting to a playbook 500 years old, its today's playbook. Whether or not you agree it needs to be done, there isn't a much better way to do it.

> 70 years ago we were reeling from WWII

Kinda proves my point tho, no? We spend more per-capita now than we did fighting the most deadly conflict in our countries history. Normally spending increases when you're at war.

> Our real GDP was 10x smaller, our population half as numerous.

What about the year 2000? What differences between then and now in government services require the federal government to spend 50% more (inflation adjusted) per-capita in 2019?

> There is waste and fraud abundant. But not where Musk is looking. DOGE itself would be near the top of the list.

I get you're trying to make a point, but you aren't currently auditing the government, and, therefore, that statement is purely performative.
I'd like to see what the author's motivation was for making this, but I'm not sure benchmarks would be the first thing I look for :)
Thanks for the feedback!

The phrase "AI-native" increases your startup's valuation by 100x nowadays

(just kidding)
I agree entirely. I think both our arguments are entirely within the real of possibility, and I don't have the faculty to gain much more confidence either way...

> My least favorite aspect of discussing AI is the undercurrent that we're monkeys discussing the Sistine chapel.

This resonates.
Founder of All Quiet here.
Sorry - this is also promotional :)

We've created All Quiet as an Alternative to Opsgenie and PagerDuty et al.
We are building an incident management platform for developers from developers.
We devs don't need a "full service platform" that also brews our team's coffee.
We simply want to get a critical notification on our phones when sth's broken.

Check out how we compare to Opsgenie: https://allquiet.app/opsgenie-alternative
Cool, the link is helpful, and the package is pretty cool. I'd just add that the examples are simple and be done with it, you can revisit with more later. Keep writing :)
And if you want to pay for support you can reach out to CIQ

https://ciq.com/products/warewulf/
Can you tell us what the vast difference was that made you give up programming for it? I've only assembled SPARC in college, so I have no basis of comparison.
I think this is where (in the EU) a Subject Access Request could work.
Social media is the RSS feed and has been for like 15 years. Short form posts that link to long form posts. Social posts that link to the content you've published wherever. The change in recent years is ppl skipping the self-hosting/POS part of the POSSE and posting directly on the social media sites because they were convinced to do that and the social media sites were discouraging users from travelling off-site etc. We just need to get away from using social media sites as the hosts of our content and back to the POS part.
If that's any help the king of Bulgaria did win the elections (the parliament) and became a prime minister (2001)... yet nothing much went of it.
不要忘记中国!
The nice thing though, if you are a developer, is that most of these providers code is open source. We've had cases where we've forked providers and fixed bugs on our own before we could get something merged in. I've personally fixed several provider bugs on my own out of annoyance - terraform's just a wrapper around cloud API's, usually, and you can be in control of how that works.
Yep, I've used these a long time back when I was a microbiologist, for categorising bacteria. Using two rods meant you could do an AND search in one operation. Also, if you clipped the wrong hole, you could fix it with Sellotape. I can't remember what they were called though.

Fun to be reminded of them!
I didn't try it yet, but the docs looks great.
Almost, down the page it says:

vi
Invokes gvim on your workstation,
passing it an scp://... URL of
the file(s) you wish to edit

So it's just a more convenient way to launch local vim, doing something you could do manually.

suvi is neat, and bcp seems like something that I'd actually use.
Oldest impact crater found, rewriting Earth's ancient history
Technically, I think you can make a chat application's chats archivable and searchable, but nobody is going to do that. Discord actually does a better job than I expected, but the text is stuck in the app. It would be great if somehow the chats could be archived in text based format online, but then you would need to write a security model to handle the privacy aspect.
No android backup software I've seen is remotely good enough though: as in "indeop my phone in a shredder, and replace it with another identical model but thanks to the backup it relaunches exactly as it was"

Like a bunch of stuff will backup data, yet it's just about impossible to autonomously and confidently ensure I can restore my home screen and other app configuration data.
Built a Personal AI Doctor after watching my mom nearly die from a rare disease
My mom has been battling with a rare and chronic disease for the past 20 years, with very little guidance and knowledge about what it is and what to do. I quite my job and for the 6 months, I have been building CONY, my mom's personal AI doctor.

CONY proactively monitors your health, answers your questions, and recommends plans that adapt to your changes in real-time.

Looking for feedback from the HN community, especially if you or someone you care about manages a rare or chronic condition.

demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXm4CzHQVhs&ab_channel=Danie...

For early access --> Join waitlist: https://enduranthealthspan.com/
Show HN: Generate MCP servers from your docs
Exactly, saying it’s the easy part.

But even without a job, you still need energy and motivation. The tax of switching between tasks (or hobbies) doesn’t magically disappear. Neither does the time suck of social media.
Seems so, a quick search turned up this[1]

[1]: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/rootlyhq/rootly/late...
I used an early e-learning platform not because I wanted to but because I was one of its developers. I didn't develop the course-content just the technical implementation.

What I didn't like about the content is I often had questions about it but there was no-one to ask the questions from. Whoever wrote that material was no longer around. It's a frustrating feeling when you can't really trust what you're studying is factually correct, or is misleading.

I assume AI will have a huge improvement in this respect.
I think the article states that the equipment will continue to be operating; so its cost (and presumably those of its operators) isn't changing, and thus can be ignored when evaluating this service cut.

And yes, $10 is hyperbole, but we have AWOS (automatic weather observation systems) at airports all over the USA. I wonder how much it costs to transmit data from those.
Thank you for adding that nuance.
Come on in, the water is great!

You can also do regular accounting with vibe programs
Trump puts new limits on Elon Musk
This line of reasoning can be used, unmodified, to argue against essentially all of public education.

An educated populace is an inherent good. There’s nothing magic about the particular choice of K-12, and one could very convincingly argue that with the increasing complexity of modern life and increasing expectations from employers that ongoing adult education is also a net good, even when you’re not the recipient.

Ongoing education can also be vocational for those who aren’t inclined towards typical academia.

Cynically, one can also point to the current political administration of the U.S. (and the comparative education rates for its voters) as a case in point for why education is important.
Ask HN: Where are ChatGPT Voice competitors?
The inital demo went absolutely viral and it seems to me that a ton of use cases could be unlocked by true speech-to-speech AI models. But while AI companies are fighting hard on text, coding, video and image generation, I have yet to see someone working on this. It's all just speech-to-text-to-speech with major downsides.

Why is that?
> It's depressing to realize that the style of engineering that accomplished such a feat is all but dead.

The engineers behind the Curiosity and Perseverance rovers on Mars and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter operating overhead may like to have a word with you.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/mars-reconnaissance-orbite...

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/msl-curiosity/

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mars-2020-perseverance/