skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Holy cow.

If somebody asked me to support this format after you'd left the company I'd quit on the spot.
This frankenformat is 100% premature optimization, non standardised, requires custom parsers (which are potentially inefficient and may negate the network performance from having to parse both json and csv) and is potentially very difficult to maintain and debug (no syntax highlighters or rest like posting tools)

Just either use GRPC or JSON with regular network level gzip encoding.
It wasn't exactly common knowledge when I was in the USAF about what would happen if you washed out of your tech school. If there was another class starting relatively soon you might be placed on casual status[0] until it starts. But if your school only starts a new class once a year, then you would be reclassified into another job, or given an administrative discharge[1].

If you were able to reclassify, depending on how your squadron commander felt about you washing out (and with respect to overall USAF manning needs), you might have been given a chance to pick from a short list of jobs that are hard to fill. Or not given a chance to pick. This is how someone who originally signed up to repair aircraft can become an admin or in the security forces.

The unfair part of how the Navy is treating them is that they're doing this to sailors who failed BUD/S because they got injured. It's one of the toughest schools on the planet and getting injured is a distinct possibility[2]. The Navy is wasting talent by having them swab decks. They should identify the ones who rang the bell for reasons beyond their control (like getting injured) and show promise, and let them pick a new rating based on their ASVAB and physical abilities.

If they failed BUD/S because they rang the bell because they'd had enough - then the SEAL culture means you get reclassified to whatever the service needs.[3]

[0] In casual status you will be cutting grass, cleaning windows, picking up trash, etc. It's easy work but you will be closely supervised.

[1] An administrative discharge can be Honorable, General, or Other Than Honorable. Washing out of tech school makes it very unlikely that you'll get an Honorable, meaning you won't get many veterans benefits after you leave.

[2] Even in the USAF trainees can get injured. I met someone who was training to be a linesman when their climbing spike came loose and they fell 30 feet, breaking their leg. After the bone knitted back they were in casual status waiting for their class to begin - but not as a linesman.

[3] USAF Pararescue (PJs) will have you interviewed by the commander to see if you have the right attitude to try the course again. Otherwise you get reclassified. Fun fact - most people fail the PJ Indoc class because their swimming skills aren't good enough.
That'll go over well with Germans. Cold dead hands, prying, and whatever.

Good luck.
Should not be too difficult to solve. Go back to the old way of recruiting only from existing enlisted members instead of new recruits. Or provide a backup rate as part of the original contract they sign on enlisting. Or guarantee the option of an entry-level discharge if they fail out of BUD/S.
It can answer any question but the answer won't necessarily be right.

Lazy people will think it is a simple matter of adding some little piece to it that can classify its right and wrong answers but that is a problem like trying to get a bubble out from under a rug.

The book

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach

has a set of dialogues about some people struggling furiously to build an impossible machine who take a long time to understand what they're trying to do is impossible. I've talked to people who see that book as a rebuttal to the old symbolic A.I. which was fundamentally based on logic, but the constraints that it talks about apply to any technology because they are about the very concept of logical truth, which is something that you have have to master to correctly answer a wide range of questions. Neural networks do not escape the results of Turing, Godel, Tarski and such, unless they don't promise to get the right answers.

Back when I was a Chuunibyou and really into things like Bigfoot and E.S.P. I remember reading something by Edgar Cayce about how there were two pathways to the answers you get doing channeling or pendulum dowsing (which I liked to do back then) There was one for the true answers and one for the false and you could become a good psychic if you could tell the difference. Of course you can't. Cayce was wrong about many things like much of the U.S. sinking beneath the waves, the U.S. government reinventing the death ray that sank Atlantis, etc.
Unfortunately it consumes a tree, which takes a while to replace. Better to be able to build a facility that can produce what you need on a continuous basis.

Interestingly I had to reword my comment (plant->facility and evergreen-> continuous) to avoid looking like I was trying to pun. Natural metaphors are a deep part of our thinking about the world.
Here's a translation: https://nordot-app.translate.goog/973917552334143488?_x_tr_s...

# Ministry of Defense launches research on manipulating public opinion Utilizing AI, guided by SNS

According to interviews with several government officials on the 9th, the Ministry of Defense has begun research on using artificial intelligence (AI) technology to guide domestic public opinion on exchange sites (SNS). Influential "influencers" on the Internet unwittingly induce the ministry to transmit information that is advantageous to the ministry, thereby broadening support for defense policies, fostering hostility toward specific countries in times of crisis, The goal is to create a trend in the Internet space that dispels anti-war and anti-war momentum.

China, Russia and other countries are actively engaged in information warfare. The Ministry of Defense has determined that Japan also needs to acquire capabilities in this area. The three revised security-related documents will also include measures to improve the ability to deal with information warfare.
Is this not Jungian disintegration/disindividuation?
I don't know about that. Some of the first responses I saw were along the lines of "It was a test. Tests have end dates. When that end date comes, the code gets removed unless it is being committed to full support."

Re-read this after-outrage-began-and-being-put-on-the-spot response with the new lens of "Non-browsers should add it first": https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/WjCKc...

Doesn't it now read like the bulk of the message is other's support? And the internal debate of "Should we be the ones to push this first, despite other's support and objections and browsers ideally adding support last?"

EDIT: To help clarify what I mean, let me insert my thoughts here inside a quote:
"When we evaluate new media formats [new as in not yet widely supported], the first question we have to ask is whether the format works best for the web [which is why it isn't yet widely supported -- IE it should actually come to browser first]."
Well the good news is that every year that 400ppm goes up
Tools like htmx aren't the reason the gmail tab uses a GB of memory. You'll find the majority of cases where pages are using way more resources than it should, are due to reasons forced on web developers, like a billion different trackers and several different ad networks, and workarounds to ad blocking to sell more subscriptions, etc.

This is what is so shocking to me when HN spends such an absurd amount of time rallying around this idea that frameworks are the reason sites are bad. Mind you, I do think a lot of them are misused, but 99.9999999% of poor websites aren't because of the framework chosen.
Like others have mentioned, this seems to be from ~2016. The lack of HTTPS on the provided link ages this some for me, but the use of coffeescript really dates this[1]. I even thought coffeescript had been deprecated, but it does seem that the project is being kept alive[2] which is really cool.

Perhaps, what is most interesting is that it took nearly 4-5 years for the front-end community to collectively come to the conclusion that SPAs are not _always_the answer. I don't think the zeal for SPAs came from a bad place either. I can remember how poorly ASP.NET and other frameworks of the 2008-2012 era packaged an overcomplicated way to pass data to view layers. There's lots of curmudgeon-ining from non-frontend folks but, in my opinion, the lack of performance and ergonomics with existing frameworks, combined with the newness of Node.js is what brought about the explosion of tooling and frameworks.

There is a place for SPAs, though. VS Code, Spotify, and other apps that need a desktop / browser experience to feel like a mobile app are great candidates. Twitter, for example, shouldn't be a SPA or SPA-like application. I find that it frequently over-caches content and will randomly refresh my feed at times while I'm browsing. It feels as if a simple web page that needs to deliver more JSON responses as I scroll is trying to do too much.

1 - https://github.com/unpoly/unpoly

2 - https://coffeescript.org/#changelog
They allowed us to do the basic try-out for pararescue during basic training. I didn't do it, but it did have quite a reputation. Better be a good swimmer.
Inflatable castle.
For a while ( may be the same) the Army was using 18x Recruit for special forces contracts. Most washed out and were placed into traditional infantry units. There were a few that were other MOS's but the irony was if they went Infantry they would still have the same options. I think selling someone that they're a SF recruit / SEAL recruit is easier option. For the Navy it makes more sense they are needs of the navy, there really isn't an Infantry outside of the Marine Corps which would be a whole other paperwork issue.
Chrome supports plenty of things that are unsupported by Firefox and Safari. E.g. you get set the audio sink id on individual media elements in Chrome. You can’t do that in Safari and Firefox.
This is just problem of structure. I am not convinced that there is particularly higher chance to end up with "unworkable mess" with SSR compared SPAs (of course most projects end up being a mess).

If you look at the hottest trend of the "island architecture". New frameworks like Astro (https://astro.build/) and Fresh (https://fresh.deno.dev/). They are basically what are you describing. All SSR but with dynamic parts. Seems like these "islands" by their nature are less entangled than full SPA.
This is using the DB as designed. Not a bespoke solution.
It's a promotion of barter.

(I understand in this tree the '/S' is taken for granted.)
Soon Flutter will have WASM support too, so it'll be a great time. I've been looking into stuff like Iced, Yew, Tauri etc but the multiple client situation for cross platform isn't too great, unlike with Flutter.
I actually expect a nice boost of progress as the occupancy network is improved and used more by other parts of the software stack.

And I expect a fairly significant improvement when they release the HW4 hardware upgrade. Better cameras, and more processing are such "free" (as in effort, not money of course lol) improvements to their error rates. I'm surprised they got this far with their current hardware. If you've ever done real time computer vision, you know how hard it is to maintain decent performance (fps and latency) even on fairly beefy GPUs.
People do this because mirroring cognition to machine learning lends credence that their specific modeling mechanism mimicks human understanding and so is closer "to the real thing".

Doesn't this also involve people not having another category aside from "cognition" to put natural language processing acts in? How many neural net constructors have a rigorously developed framework describing what "cognition" is?

I mean, there's a common counter argument to the "this is not cognition" position. That is: "you're just using 'cognition' as a placeholder for whatever these systems can't do". I don't think that counter-argument is true or characterizes the position well but it's important to frame one's position so it doesn't seem to be subject to this counter-argument.
I hadn't seen that book before.

Looks like it's a companion to this YouTube series that looks pretty interesting
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQVvvaa0QuDcjD5BAw2DxE6OF...

I will check it out for sure
Not only that, but in-house offerings can be a competitive advantage. Sometimes it's over-engineering, and sometimes it's the secret to what makes your business successful over competitiors.

In house has the ability to build only what is really needed and nothing more, and can adapt to your specific needs, it can also identify unique to your domain challenges and tailor solutions specific to that.

A good CTO has good intuition into when and what makes sense to invest in an in-house solution and what is best using a self-managed open source solution, and what is best using a paid managed offering, and all manners of hybrids.
AJAX in early Gmail was a massive improvement. It was mostly hand-coded javascript in a relatively thin page and it was the sweep spot. Today's version of gmail is the most bloated pile of spaghetti framework code imaginable and is far less responsive and usable than the plain HTML version.
You’re expecting ordinary citizens to be aware of their actions on the broader economy when their own governments are lying to them. Leaving aside the fact that most people have neither the knowledge nor the power to live other than as their system allows them to, why then doesn’t your logic apply to Germans? Why shouldn’t we blame them for continually voting in governments that kept bailing out irresponsible German banks? Stop looking for scapegoats. It takes two to tango.
Banning Perpetual ownership just reduces everyone to being a surf with leased land and possessions.

I have very little interest in a return to a feudalism where higher authority owns the product of my labor
Are we looking at the same graphs? In the linked comparison, WebP has at best maybe 10% of an improvement over JPEG for a 500px image, and actually performs worse as the images get bigger. (The 18% you’ve likely read are in comparison to the cjpeg, not mozjpeg, which compresses better.)

There’s also no reason one should tolerate further loss just because the image is already lossy. Whether the original is lossy or not, you either want to keep it exactly the same, or you're okay losing quality to save some space. Archiving and preservation come to mind as the first reason someone would want to go with the former.
Who blamed the authors and what did they blame them for?
Or wood gas. At the end of WW2 there were about 500,000 vehicles with wood gas generators in use in Germany to make up for the lack of other fuels.[1] But under today's conditions, this possibility does not seem to make economic sense.

[1] See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_gas
For one example you might want to consider how Asian males are considered in Latin America as opposed to the US (hint: a lot more desirable)
Good to see I'm not the first one to notice. Some of the author's points are super vague:

> Use Postgres for caching instead of Redis with UNLOGGED tables and TEXT as a JSON data type.

> Use Postgres as a message queue with SKIP LOCKED instead of Kafka (if you only need a message queue).

I'm sure if we try hard enough we could find some sort of meaning in these points, but then the content is coming from the reader not the author.

Also from the author's mastodon:

> Using ChatGPT As a Co-Founder
Because of performance degredation panels are rated over 20 or 25 years and generally need to be replaced after that.
Author here. The link is a 6 years old presentation. The demo app has since been rewritten.

The old demo app focused on the downsides of classic multi-page apps (MPAs), i.e. the reason the world moved to SPAs all these years ago. In an MPA clicking a link loses all transient state, like focus, scroll positions and unsaved form state. This can all be solved with updating fragments instead of full pages, while still keeping rendering logic on the server.
Couldn't you get the recipe based on the brand name if not available in your region?
To be a little pedantic, individual states maintained systems based on English common law, rather than the US as a whole adopting it. There’s famously no such thing as Federal common law.

This matters in Louisiana, which has a civil and not a common law system, dating from the French period.
Could you please be clearer? Please also expand the assumptions - you are being too obscure.
Which is still 3% of its actual value if melted down.
> Choose boring technology (tm)

I'd call Postgres pretty solidly "boring technology", including for session storage and job queues. People were storing sessions in SQL databases when I got my start in 2005!

It won't address every scale and every use case, but then, that's never your project's requirement anyway.

I frequently see the term "boring technology" treated as a euphemism for "what I'm accustomed to".
Context matters. Reread the comment to which that was a reply. It focused specifically and exclusively on the name so I called out that focus.
I feel this. Once had something locking up a production SQL Server instance, and it turned out to be a dreadful partially-recursive web of sprocs, views, and TVFs that worked fine until apparently one day the query optimiser decided otherwise. Spent hours tracing what the heck was going on.
My country loses about €32 billions in yearly income due to tax evasion. That's the amount of money that could change many lives if used right. Instead we're cutting benefits to the poor bto reduce our deficit. Tax evasion is a top priority.
Gmail is just poorly written. The old version of Gmail was still an SPA, and it was perfectly quick.
Is the goal to push people to crypto?
First line in the article:

> The EU continues its fight to protect EU citizens and the EU's financial system against money laundering and terrorist financing.

The EU has control of the propaganda machine at levels comparable to the Soviet Union. We should've just let them have it.

I wonder how many Europeans are going to get in this thread to tell us Americans how much more privacy they have.
Yep. After the last few updates, I went from a non-believer (you need LIDAR, vision only autonomy is at least a decade away and tesla fucked up going this route) to actually believing in 2 or 3 years we'll have a very nice and useful level 3 from Tesla, and that vision only is the right approach (because I want this to be affordable, not some tech only robotaxis have).

And I think by 2027 we'll have level 4 vision only.
> The fact that new image formats can't be added for code maintenance reasons

Your entire premise is wrong here. A new image format is being added across all major browsers (AVIF).

So what's the distinction between JPEG XL and AVIF? On a tecnical level, it's hard to find a way that AVIF is preferrable. It's just gross. But the reality is that Apple will support AVIF and will never support JPEG XL, and an image format that doesn't work on iOS-based browsers is useless. Basically nobody will deploy it, even if it works on Chrome, they'll just continue using other formats. We know this from nobody deploying webp in a similar situation. The blood is on Apple's hands here.

Why is adding e.g. USB support useful, then? Because that's entirely new functionality, unlocking new capabilities, with no obvious fallback to a slightly less efficient older version unlike with images.
Don’t draw attention! Installing a permitted comment is $1.7M so no one is doing it by the books. It’s unpermitted comments all the way down. Like be honest Did you get a permit for that comment?
If you can't do the sprint planning - if you can't decide on the list of things that need to get done during the next two or three weeks - then you obviously can't have scrum.

So it probably means that you will have daily meetings and jira tickets...
There are lots of past threads about this if you use the search function: https://hn.algolia.com/

Hope you will find an alternative you like!
I think he's alluding to the fact that Germans use cash almost all of the time.
So of you don't have anything you sign on account creation you're safe? E.g. Hacker News is just name/password.
Companies are headquartered in states like NY and California for a reason.
Well, only if the person has 2FA set up in their Google account, which most people don't in my experience.

That aside, do you have a recommendation for auth that provides good privacy while also having wide adoption and ease of integration similar to Google or Facebook auth? And also 2FA of course.

If there are no options then I think our problem is bigger than this particular dev's ideology.
I don’t understand why it is disheartening?
I actually had this debate at work a few years ago. We needed a queue system and I wrote a postgres prototype in about 100 lines of code that would have worked fine for our use-case and would have likely scaled with us for years of growth.

My boss said he just wanted to install the best thing and be done with it forever. So we ended up spending 10x the time and wrote like 10x the code to integrate a third-party solution and we only ended up using the most basic features. Not to mention additional infrastructure.
The bots are in production and live.

The warehouse still needs lots of staff but less than a supermarket
It depends on the speed of capture. If you can capture faster than conversion reduces, and there are time constraints that mean reducing carbon now is better than later, then it can make sense.

It's the same as whether you should reduce expenses or increase income. Both yield a net increase, but there are variables than can make one better than the other in the short term. Whichever yields the most benefit for the effort is probably the best one, or if one has a time constraints and the other doesn't, that might be the best one to focus on.
Do we know that they haven't implemented another 2FA mechanism behind that email/password?
That's not a realistic view though. Technology and AI aren't some magical things that remove the need to have a balanced life. At the end of the day, we are living/breathing animals that depend on the things around us to grow and thrive.
The Climate Change Debate on Lex's show got rid of a lot of panic for me, and put things back into manageable, and far more hopeful territory. I think if it were to reach a wider audience, it could help cure the hopelessness that keeps people from making the reasonable changes required in the time available.
Thank you so much for this, this is hilarious.
p.s. I use the term encrypted loosely, the mechanism could be as basic as a unique file name... whatever it is the association to the existing footage is lost.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_College_v._Woodwar...

Different Ivy League school, but established a precedent that states must respect preexisting charters.
I'm in Germany there are plenty of speed changes. Sometimes it's not always clear if I missed like a speedlimit cancelation or not.

Or they reduce from unlimited to 100, 80 and 60 in no time.

It's not a big issue but because I don't care for a hard limit it's for me a better deal
What we «prefer» - sorry, radically "will" - is to live in dignity.

This implies, no record of personal purchases around.

The current "fight against cash" goes in direction of that risk.
That should have read maitresses (autocorrect can be a bitch), and the average life expectancy for a 19th century king was more like 70.

> Palaces 150 years ago sucked in comparison to modern apartments with isolation so good you barely have to heat, modern plumbing, hot water on demand, showers and electric toothbrushes.

I'd much rather live in Versailles or Neuschwanstein in their then-valid state than in an 1960s-era social-built flat, thank you very much.