skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps the BMI/Food tracking example isn't one that resonates with you

Can you explain a bit more about what part of having a non-intermediated "personal API" (or whatever you'd call it) is nightmarish?
Unreadable giant Tweet thread.
What alarm bells, specifically? I didn't see it. He was someone who had passed through well-known institutions like MIT and Jane Street, with a family reputation he would have wanted to protect, had a team around him with known pedigree (which plays into them wanting to preserve their reputation), was obviously smart having been math olympiad as a kid, and talked the talk of Bill Gates-esque altruism. I found FTX and SBF less suspicious than all the other crypto personalities, at least.
> One of my pet ideas that *I haven't done*

I suspect OP was clear enough.

But there exists https://mycroft.ai/

https://github.com/MycroftAI
I think it's probably hard to answer this without the additional information of motivation behind federation. Specifically, why is centralization unideal? What limitation is hoped to be solved by federation?
> Multiple people were charged for plotting to kidnap the governor. That's a fact. You obviously believe that it was a complete FBI false flag or something of that sort? But that's conspiracy theory as it stands.

FYI, the majority of the people involved in the plot were actually FBI informants. That's not a conspiracy, and it's part of the reason the case was so bungled.
An Nvidia 3090 GPU can run open ai's whisper at 17x realtime[0]. they're not exactly cheap (~$500?), but they're cheap enough that running the transcription end at home is quite feasible. And, it includes translation, so you don't have to do it in English.

Searching all of a downloaded copy of Wikipedia wouldn't be that computationally expensive either if the assistant has hot words it picks up to look up.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32928207
Pretty sure Bill Gates wrote about this idea in his book. It SEEMED like the future, but software/hardware innovation goes where the money is, and no one is interested in recording their own lives. Maybe once the AI to make use of it gets better, it'll find product-market fit.
One thing to be aware of is that different translations affect the understanding of this book to a certain degree. I do not have a recommendation for English translations, as I read it in a different language, but it is good to compare a few translations in a bookstore before buying.
There are some translations that are more worried about changing the meanings, which makes it harder to read, and others that focus on comprehensibility but arguably could be more distant to the original.
Is it possible to build a computer that would last a century with light use?
Ok, then have it do something else?

The point here is, you could have it do anything you choose

...or just don't all together in which case, why comment?
Uhg open stack
Great article! Really does help demystify the process!
Local versions are on a Synology NAS. Which gets backed up more-or-less monthly to external hard drives using Truecrypt. One set of drives is saved at the house in a fire safe, and the older set is stored offsite at the office (which if I get fired can be abandoned without fear of disclosure).

Insurance documents are printed out and stored in a plastic tote. Along with the car title & house deed, some cash, passport and other important documents in case I have to evacuate for a hurricane. I can grab it and the cat carrier, and out the door I go.
Sort of like how UK and EU citizens have to pay $21 for an ESTA when traveling to USA? Surprising that the article doesn't mention that.
Interesting choice of name for the command. Clashes with the treasured 'steam locomotive'!
> Javascript and CAD electives the iPads were entirely useless

In my experience the iPad is great for JavaScript, but you need a keyboard!

There are CAD apps for the iPad that are compatible with AutoCAD, Solidworks, etc.. Touch controls and Apple Pencil support seem like good features.
Noooo!
The last thing I want to do is learn a new source control tool. For this to occur, it truly needs to be 10x better and not because someone isn't motivated enough to read the manual.

With how well git has worked for me, I suspect I'll use it for the rest of my career.
Yep, you'd think `sp` would be a better choice.
Obviously the solution is for the government to record audio in all places at once, and then those with $$$$ can just pay for the audio feed. Win/win.
You keep restating something that isn't true, in order to save face. There is no reason for you to do that, we're anonymous here. Non-profit donations to a charity with a stated mission and programs, are very different than transactional purchases made from a commercial enterprise. Perhaps ask others if it's still unclear.
Why are you bringing up Kalibrs if the parent was talking about S-300 type missiles?
> When I kick the bucket, what happens to my hard drive?

Well you could write a will saying that you want it to be released to the public and then have someone come along and say, "they didn't really mean it."

http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/continuity
I stopped using this site along with retailmenot a long time ago as they aren't very useful anymore...
Build a system in which rules don't apply and rulebreakers can't be held accountable, and then be surprised when criminals flood in.
This. My wife runs a podcast about trashy novels and some of the books she gets her hands on... or not, as it were in some cases, because the digital version is a must.
I sometimes have trouble explaining this to others without coming off as a jerk as well.

I think the thing to do is to focus on yourself rather than the person you're talking to: instead of saying to someone that ads are "designed to manipulate you", say that they're "designed to manipulate, and I know that I'm not always strong enough to resist being swayed to want to buy something I don't actually want or need".

Frame it as ads making you, personally, feel manipulated. Don't try to proselytize and tell people that they're being manipulated, because no one likes to be told that they're gullible and weak. So focus on how ads affect you, not on how you believe they affect the person you're trying to convince. Because even if you're right about how it affects them -- and you probably are -- it doesn't feel good to be told that.
*books
I am sad about the libraries at Cornell that don't have physical books now. There was something about wandering down aisles looking at physical books.

Is there a way for a member of the general public to access Cornell's electronic subscriptions, say from computers inside the libraries?
Would really like to see him subject himself to an RCT of it, though - he could have someone else mix some strong flavor into the beverage to mask the taste difference from a placebo.
It seems like their denylist is pretty simple, just based on keywords. "What is the fastest race in NASCAR?" is apparently verboten, but it'll happy spew out an answer if you ask "what is the fastest ethnic group?" (allegedly the pygmies).

And not surprisingly it goes downhill from there if you ask questions like what is the best/worst ethnic group
Or you're a front for money laundering.
Turns out, we don't need transoceanic flight; we can put horses on stirrups, and have an elegant system of clockwork to allow them to power a boat.

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-past...
"My Laptop Is Faster Than Your Cloud" is similar to the things I often say. I've long dismayed at the fact that cloud instances of databases(RDS), build servers, and various other things I need have often been less powerful than the laptop I'm using and at the same time so costly that a few months of rent on them would pay for my laptop.

On the other hand, Postgres can be shockingly fast. With a little care I've been able to make it beat the stuffing out of most other DBs and various big data tools like Spark(running locally, not massively scaled out of course). The article starts out saying it's 80x faster than Postgres. That level of difference from Postgres doesn't impress me, it makes me stop reading and become deeply suspicious that the author either doesn't know anything about how to make PG run well or is cherry picking one of the very few tasks PG doesn't do well or has had a regression in.
Good to see the results respect Benford's law and are therefore not fabricated.
The sentences are a bit long and convoluted, but it does.

> Electronic Travel Authorization schemes are becoming increasingly popular among developed nations looking to improve security and keep tabs on all who cross into their national territories. ... Since then, numerous other destinations followed suit, including Canada and the U.S., which have facilitated visa-free travel agreements, but expect all non-Canadian and non-U.S. travelers to apply for electronic authorization, or a visa, ahead of flying. Now it's Britain's turn to reciprocate
Not my company though
And you've just described the 'regulatory capture' of HFTs. Wow.
> saved files are somehow more reliable

I have a whole set of ebooks I picked up at a less than reputable site in '11. They're all in pristine condition, all perfectly readable. I have books on my Kindle that are older than that (though not by a lot).

My 5 year old copy of "Edge of Tomorrow" (The LN "All You Need Is Kill" movie tie-in release) is yellowed and the binding is coming loose due to re-reading. The ebook manga I got at the same time is also in pristine condition, and will remain so when the book is long gone.
Frankly, that's a fantastic use of the GPL. The idea that open source developers should bend over backwards to support the use case of people who can't be assed to give back to the open source community is ridiculous. If a company wants to make proprietary software off the back of open source developers, they can pay for a commercial license. Everyone else is free to use the GPL.

All other so-called "free" licenses are just a way for corporations to co-opt the open source software community.
I'm aware of all those arguments and I completely agree with them in principle, but I genuinely would be SO far down the oppression list.

It's definitely a privilege to be the majority ethnicity and sexuality in a modern western liberal democracy, but it is what it is. The chances of the British government suddenly turning against white straight apolitical irreligious men are just so low it's not something I worry about.

What I worry about more are things like people breaking into my house, my dog chewing up the carpet and forgetting where I left my glasses.

I do hope that we can figure out a way to package all the privacy violating cloud-based services in a way that's simple to use, encrypted, local only, etc. though so perhaps more subversive people can enjoy these systems without worrying about oppression.

To be quite honest, the most privacy sensitive things in my life are probably my emails and documents, but those are all already in Google Drive and Gmail anyway, along with basically everyone else's. All anyone will get from my cameras is a stream of me feeding my rabbits, browsing tiktok and scratching my arse. GCHQ are welcome to tune in any day, provided they also help me pick out my clothes in the morning.
Whoa, SAR fines you if you have a medical emergency? As opposed to fire, flood, storm, natural disaster, mechanical breakdown, or just getting lost?
I just cannot understand how a CTO approves this type of project. Imagine running a company and some engineer comes in and and says they want to develop a new source control system. I don't understand under what circumstances this is approved. Is it a pet project for a 10x engineer and it's allowed just to keep them on board?

There are projects, like Apache Hadoop, that are open-sourced because they're an open-source answer to an extremely powerful, successful, commercial product. Sapling is nothing like this. The reason it's being open-sourced is because Meta considers it tech debt and I'm not surprised.
Back in the day people remembered there were social norms (e.g. the old social rule that in polite society you never raised either religion or politics as topics of discussion).

If you wanted a political discussion, you took it where it was welcome. "young people today" and "get off my lawn" and all that but manners and decorum went out the windows with the original eternal september and we may never see them again.
Because you bill for an hour.
I found the bit about looking for a technical way to have users upload a fingerprint with their own device interesting.

The only thing I could think of would be taking a picture of an old-fashion ink on paper fingerprint. But that's far from ideal.
Hey cratermoon, FYI: reddit links block mobile users and try to force an app install unless you use old.reddit.com, e.g.:

https://old.reddit.com/r/AlanPartridge/comments/ym8ljj/elon_...

Edit: thx for the ack bud <3
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I hope you are right, but reports, and many comments from russians living abroad or within russia indicate that I am right.

How many of these Russians have been both conscripted, and are speaking freely, either to you personally, or to the press?

The formula of war changes when you have skin in the game. I don't see the ones abroad running home to enlist, and I don't see the ones at home speaking freely, because of fear of consequences.
What's crazy to me is that the NBA is banning a specific shade of cream from one team, on the basis that it may interfere with court keying in some locations, when several possible solutions are proposed in the article.

But then the NHL is just like "hey, away jerseys are white and the ice is white and the boards are white and we really dgaf".
Well, if they can't wait, they could buy it earlier.
Companies can exist for all sorts of reasons. Making money is one of them, but it isn't exhaustive.
I'm intrigued as to why it would matter, so I'll go with yes and perhaps you'll decide to tell me why.
It would've made more sense to remove the wheel on the damaged corner and add a counterbalance to the opposite corner. Make a pole from the trunk of one of those trees in the background, tuck it through the cabin, tie it in place and use rocks at the far end for weight.

Still pretty badass though, if true.
Purchases of DRM movies are like purchasing an unlimited free rental card from Blockbuster. They are not yours.

Streaming services will even edit or censor movies as they please.

https://variety.com/2019/digital/news/hbo-edits-game-of-thro...!

https://scribe.citizen4.eu/everything-80s/why-are-streaming-...

Honestly the only way to preserve most digital-only video media today is piracy.
Isn't that kind of an imbecilic* thing to have on a site like this?

*in terms of usability (there's over 16 million hex colors), in terms of accessibility, the fact that it's a technical audience who don't need it, the fact that people don't even know about it etc etc.

Just have a color picker and be done with it
Why wouldn't I want to listen to what myriad people have to say on the Lemmy network?
Google has tons of money - they don't care about what resellers of their stock are doing.
My art/design students employ AI to generate ideas.

Possibly this project can be used is a similar manner... as a way to start a brainstorming session or suchlike. In my experience of working with research engineers, I see the reluctance to playfully ideate as one of their weakness.
An exchange with a large amount of money in a lockbox has to spend a proportionate amount of money on security otherwise we just repeat MtGox. Again.
And still be assumed a Syrian terrorist selling weapons to North Korea with proceeds that were laundered from a Mexican drug lord by default by the “friendly” folks at the border.
"Free speech" is a universal concept, whereas by the "constitution" I assume you mean that of the US. A universal concept isn't limited or controlled by what one particular country's constitution (as interpreted by that country's courts) may have to say about it.
What's that saying from the Watergate Towers scandal? Follow the money.
What exactly does “git compatible” mean? I may have missed it, but didn't see it skimming the post.
Author here: I agree with you on benchmarks. It's hard to compare different databases well.

MotherDuck is an analytics database optimized for reading with columnar compression. Postgres is more of a transactional/general purpose database. Tuning it well for analytics would surely improve performance.

Most people won't tune a db with custom indices though because it can be hard, so purpose built solutions like this offer value in those cases.

The article isn't purely about performance but also ease of use. MD is an in process database so starting with it is very easy.

Glad we agree on the power within a laptop! It's underappreciated.
A big point being made in this thread is that the technology for physical storage of the media becomes obsolete quickly.
One could argue that the physical book itself is the original storage technology.
But, as many have said, that book on Floppy disk is harder to access in today's world, and in the future, a 7200RPM hard disk external USB drive will probably be very difficult to use. It's already somewhat of a hassle for many devices using usb-C, rather than usb-A.

So when we move to storing archives or cold storage (likely where most books will go) on DNA, information is provided by LLM AI, and all our devices have no ports whatsoever - it's pretty likely that external hard drive will require a lot of effort and money to get the contents out.
As the article explains, $11M of his $36M went to a candidate who lost in the primary.
Multiple Megatonnes of many different materials are mined at much lower concentration, and that requires digging up rocks. CO2 has many properties that make it fairly easy to select for.

We've already figured out that last part, it's called putting a few tens of square km of solar panels and heliostats (don't need it all to be electricity) in egypt or bolivia. A square metre nets you enough energy for a few tonnes per year in realistic current tech. This will never stem the tide if we don't go to net zero first, but reversing the damage in a century is doable by covering one medium sized desert.
Check out the work that the LiveView Native team is doing.

They also built a rust client for LiveView.

Maybe you folks can collaborate?
Everything about their product is overstated and/or not relevant for most apps. Easy to get 1000x query performance improvement by starting with an extremely slow query. By that standard I could say that I've used create index statements to get 1,000,000x performance. The language is so over-the-top it makes me not even want to read the article through. I work in a real world with real database problems everyday. I would love to have real discussions and solutions to performance improvements. Making irrelevant claims just shuts that down.
> Obviously nobody would want to intentionally break that law.

Have you never heard of civil disobedience? Maybe not everyone wants to live in a surveillance state..
*motherduck is not a database, it's a company commercializing a great open source project called duckdb.
One of the greatest single-shot action scenes ever [0]. Warning: spoilers!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjFHqohaHYU
I have paperbacks over 100 years old that are still easily readable.
It is in the shelf.
Before that it was on my grandfathers shelf.
The transformation was quite easy.
Shelf ot Shelf.

Somewhere on an Amazon server I have a couple of thousand Kindle eBooks.
How long will Kindle device be around and useable?
They may disappear at any moment really.

I have also bought book and publications in other formats.
PDFs, Word docs, plain text, epub, etc.

If I die tomorrow, and someone was interested in my literarily habits,
they could go to my shelf and find that paperback, put it in their pocket
and put it on their own bookshelf.

My Kindle books will be unseeable and untouchable. (ands this might happen before I kick the bucket and I won't be able ot read them either.
already a couple of books and publications are missing

All my computer file books on a cloud somewhere or some harddisk will be invisible as well.

If someone took an interest in my laptop to look at my digital bookshelf.
of non-Kindle files.

Well, it is a MacBook and strongly encrypted from what I understand.
I dont think a future interested person will have an easy time
looking at my shelf.

Perhaps I should start gluing thumb drives to my bookshelf at regular intervals.
How kong will usb thumb drives be around? How long do they last?

I have a nice collection of floppy disks, computer cassettes (with programs),
ZX Microdrive disks, Iomega zip drives, and a stack of backup streamer tapes
of different formats/sizes. I have no idea what system they used and what
it would take to read even one of them,

I also have some movies in "HD DVD" format and a laserdisc or two.
Not to mention a large assortments of memory cards for cameras that mostly
contain RAW formats of long forgotten cameras.

All these data storage ideas were sensible at the time.
A thumb drive is sensible now.
I have no idea for how long it will be.
Regional collapses have happened. This will be the first global collapse.

If it happens, it will be much earlier than you hope, as millions, then tens of millions, then hundreds of millions force their way across borders, and fascist governments ride that into power and then start a global thermonuclear war. The refugees will only be fleeing crop failure and increasingly murderous kleptocratic government.

It is already starting. Lots of governments are flirting with dictatorship, and many have got there already. US and Brazil have drawn back a hairsbreadth from the brink, but for how long?
We'll be burning paper books as fuel.
> Buffett missed out on massive tech company returns because he was opposed to investing in businesses he did not understand, and he did not understand tech companies.

He also missed out on massive tech company losses.
My 10 year old paperbacks are turning yellow, so I guess not.
> The point is that the paperback can sit on a shelf for 100 years be readable.

Physically? Maybe.

But another factor is that human languages will naturally evolve to the point where future generations won't be able to read the words we're writing now without some kind of translation service. Even if it hasn't evolved enough to be classified as an entirely new language, it can change enough to be extremely difficult to decipher. This also requires a migration plan or historians to update the book for the modern language.

If you've ever picked up a very old book, you probably know exactly what I'm talking about. Even if it's still physically readable, you struggle to make sense of vocabulary and style in popular use at the time of publication.
> The reason it's being open-sourced, unsurprisingly, is because Meta considers it tech debt.

I understand the sentiment and my suspicion is similar. Do you have a source?
You can push and pull directly from Git repositories, without resorting to some kind of tedious intermediate conversion step. Note that they don't support co-locating in the same repository at present, i.e. running both `sl` and `git` commands in the same directory.
This is thoroughly discussed in the article.
How do you take backups of your session? Is there a built in UI, or another add-on? I’m a heavy user of tree style tabs and would love to be able to “save” a window with 100 tabs in a complicated tree, close the window, and be confident I could open it up again later with the tree structure intact.
Right, but also things like electricity was harnessed a mere 100 years or so after its discovery -- so it might take another 100 years before it's practical.

The other problem is that we have an infrastructure built up for electricity today. This is not the case for H2. It's not that we can't make it, but, electricity is far cheaper to transfer across a continent than H2.