skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're using an ORM then you're by default using the database fairly generically. I'd ask why you are paying for any commercial DB in that case.

Organizations who committed to and paid for Oracle are probably using a lot of the features that are unique to Oracle. Or they have a lot of legacy that is.

If IvorySQL can take all their custom plsql packages and ETL batch jobs and run them without changes that's a big win. It's not clear to me that it really can do that, though.
This list is exactly what we try to deliver to operations in our firm. All very reasonable.

You know why you "rarely get an answer for straight away "? I assume because they are working on the next ticket/delivery. A lot of this stuff is not estimated properly. A way to get it estimated properly is to work with the devs, cooperatively.

This said, for some reason, this blog post seems adversarial and gives me a bad vibe. Instead of "List of questions I’d like to get an answer from devs", it should be "we should work together to get these things done".
The reason people say that is because most people say "but the first amendment" when it isn't relevant.
> The first is that textual input and treating the model as a function (command in -> result out) are sufficient for anything. No, this is a fundamentally deficient way to give artistic directions, which is further handicapped by primitive models and weak compute. Text alone is a toy

Some artists just do the descriptive part though, right? The name I can think of is Sol LeWitt, but I'm sure there are others. A lot of it looks like it could be programmed, but might be tricky.
It’s an amount that likely covers the first visit. People that have struggled in the past will already know the benefits and the service. People newly disaffected will be reluctant to “just go” so the 300 bucks takes that off the table. If/when they go and decide it’s a value add to their circumstances then it will be prioritized and paid for.

I see it as a coupon to try it out.
Yes, check their website for options. They vary between UK, US and the rest of the world:

https://sisterswithtransistors.com/
Hey Micah!

Could you post a screenshot of the suspension notice you got from Twitter? Does it say which "rule" was allegedly broken?
This is the first time I've really truly felt that wow, he's actually going to kill Twitter. When he forces people with an audience to move elsewhere, that audience is gradually going to follow.
Cable tv providers pay for content from networks/channels who themselves put ads. Cable TV providers could only block ads by not buying channels with ads.
That's the problem with thread discussion. The comment you are answering to is answering to a comment that says that they are marginalized. If you are now reacting to this comment by changing the context, you are the one moving the goalposts.

But in fact, it does not really change my argument: the examples that you are providing does not show anything bad against Christians. What you provide is just examples of neighbors quarrel where one party happens to be Christian. If you think it means Christians are under threat or unfairly treated, it makes me feel that you are thinking that the normal situation is when society always side with Christians all the time, which would be a pretty strong privilege for Christians, and very unfair for non-Christians.
I definitely would make that case. Lots of news was broken on Twitter over the last years, including some pretty in-depth investigative reporting. Also in places that otherwise would not be figuring very high on the radar. Some of the Ukraine reporting on Twitter is Pulitzer level.
As long as we’re being pedantic, no they can’t (well, I guess they can try with no hope of succeeding?). You can find a sequence of bytes which will have the same md5, but you have no way of knowing that it’s the same string of bytes which someone else used to arrive at that md5. As I alluded to in my post, that information is gone.
> For example, in Australia, the official recommendation is that healthy people under 30 not receive a fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccine (...)

It should be stressed that this guidance explicitly refers to a fourth dose of a vaccine. I feel it's disingenuous to use this example to try to refute the OP when the problem lies in people taking massive leaps of logic such as going from "it's ok to take 3 doses of a vaccine but the benefits of a fourth might not justify it" to "don't get vaccinated ever because you will die".
Anyone still defending or apologizing for this guy needs to spend time doing some serious self-reflection about their choices in life.
Twitter suspends several journalists' accounts without notice
Honestly, I don't know. I spent last few days thinking about all this more seriously than in the last 20 years.

Essentially we are going to get away from market economy, money, private property. The problem is that once these things go personal freedom goes as well. So either accept the inevitable totalitarian society, or something else? But what?
I have very limited resources so I have devoted everything I have to make the code as performant as possible and make it easy to import data in a variety of formats.

I have little sales and marketing experience so I haven't done enough yet to promote it with proper documentation and other literature. I thought that the videos were the best way to show its speed and flexibility. People can see with their own eyes how to do something and also see it isn't just vaporware. Clearly, by little startup needs a lot of help to compete with the 'big boys' even if the underlying technology is superior.
Interesting thread. Are any of those strictly illegal?
> We're both being paid to solve different facets of the same problem

Code that is not running correctly in production is worthless. If you write code and haven’t thought about all of the implications that it takes to make it run correctly you haven’t produce business value.

Yes, I have been a developer for 25+ years professionally. But for the last 10, I’ve also thought through all of the topics that the author has delineated in his article.

Yes I consider myself to be an competent “DevOps” engineer as long as it is on AWS and can go from empty AWS account to a fully functional infrastructure using IAC, a CI/CD pipeline, monitoring, alerting, centralizing logging etc.

Knowing that I will either be the person doing the “DevOps” or working with the person who is informs the design of my development.
I wonder if you had $44B in 1 dollar notes and you fed them into an incinerator with a shovel if you could keep up with the value destruction here.
> Could our memory of a beautiful forest glade, for example, be just a re-creation of the neural activity that previously enabled us to see it?

As one with aphantasia (and apparently a cocktail of other perceptual deficiencies), I wonder if this means that memory happens "before" perception in the pipeline? I know there's a question of whether the lack of mental imagery of aphantasia is just a "short circuit" in the brain or a complete bypass of the relevant areas, but if "memory" is just an input replay…why can I remember seeing things without activating the "I am seeing" sense?
Increases in the standard of living are providing marginal gains to happiness. Happiness correlates with equality, not with income. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21841151/
I'm a short fiction writer. Do you think I could get one of these new models to write a good story?

I'd want to train it to include foreshadowing, suspense, relatable characters and perhaps a twist ending that cleverely references the beginning.
https://twitter.com/sherwinwu/status/1603522777968832512 appears to include it.
This kind of package is very rare. It's uncommon to get any kind of severance without tenure and many companies have been laying off w/no severance what-so-ever in my area regardless of tenure. They pay through the current week, expect you to return all equipment, and f right off.
The phone would have the same physical security features. But 'signing out' would be more of an ostracism thing.
They haven't hit EnterpriseDB who have been doing the same thing, except not open source, since forever.
I don't mind it myself, but a large chunk of devs really don't get it, and they do better with nesting
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Battle of Palmdale
Republican or Democrate journalists?
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I use the Readwise sync service and pocket and just checked out the app.

My _several hundred_ pocket articles all moved over seamlessly! Very impressed so far!

Hoping this can replace pocket and my ereader.
Yes, I can finally sate my homoerotic Trump fetish. Thanks, OP!
Anyone can get flight information. The FAA makes real-time flight information available (ADS-B). Individuals can request to keep their info out of the public feed. So no expectation of privacy.

Someone with Musk's public stature and apparent addiction to publicity will struggle to argue for any expectation of privacy.
In addition to the other comments, their APM platform is built specifically for graphql so it includes things like query performance on the field level. Existing tools don’t always play nicely since a graphql server is usually just one endpoint and doesn’t use normal status codes.

They also provide libraries for both the client and server so they can tell you what versions of your client are using specific data.
You can find a collision, but you can't (unless you are very lucky) reverse the hash. The bits are not there.
> Basic income or revolution. That's going to be our choice.

Third option. Mandatory 4 day weeks.

Although I'd specify it as no one can work more than X hours a week.

And then adjust X down - or up in short timescales but likely down overall - as needed.

The competition is for "work". If AI is taking large chunks of "work" off the table. Spread the rest of it around.

Now notionally people will tell you that there is no finite "work" limit. You are effectively limiting competition.

To which I say - good. The rat race IS the competition. Don't we all want to slow it down a little? If F1 can put limits on a race, we should too for humanity.

Work smarter, not harder.
The only rule most of them broke is "don't upset Elon Musk".
Putting @ doesn't actually do anything. And as https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html notes,

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.
BS,most people wouldn't know what to do with their time other than to waste it away. It's very hard to plan long term and execute so most people will do what they feel like doing minute to minute. If you have all the resources you will ever need then wasting your time is no problem. Otherwise be very careful with it. Most people can't manage it by themselves. They need the structure of a job or similar situation.
Because migrating off Oracle to an Oracle-compatible DB is less work than migrating to straight Postgres. This is not rocket science.
I see where you are coming from, but I would caution against such comparisons to lobotomies and eugenics. Those interventions were not in response to a large-scale crisis but were novel methods of solving problems for which there had been no previous solution.

I think my comparisons are more apt because they involve sacrifice and risk, but not incontrovertible harm. People getting the vaccine were mitigating a personal risk which at that time happened to be in line with what was believed to be a societal need (herd immunity) -- a minute chance of an adverse effect, compared to the yet-unknown effects of covid itself was deemed to be acceptable.

Was it a poor decision? Looking back on it, yes. If placed in the same position of a society-disrupting and mass-death causing pandemic with a new vaccine which has all the signs of being able to fast-track herd immunity and save millions of lives, would I be fine with mandatory vaccinations? Probably. Should we be incredibly careful when it comes to doing things like that and putting in place the mechanisms for similar actions? Absolutely.
Mastodon has been around for how long now? People keep bringing it up like its new. Its like VR headsets all over again.
And here is pg trying to defend it

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1603555493238435840
It could be a dead end if you stick with one platform; it's unlikely that one vendor will maintain a strong position for your whole career. But I think "low code" solutions are becoming more prominent and the platforms more complex, and I expect that trend to continue.

In your shoes, I'd ask yourself whether you'd enjoy the day-to-day of the work. Low-code work means closer contact with users and having to deal with a lot more platform history and idiosyncrasy. So it will be more anthropological (on the user side) and archaeological (on the code side) than standalone development. But as long as you're matching the right tool to the job, you'll be able to deliver more to users than when building from scratch.
I had a frequent cycling problem and the issue was that the air conditioning A-frame in my furnace was plugged.. it was causing a constriction that caused the natural gas furnace to overheat when it went into the second stage and cycle.

(I thought it was a shortage of return but once I eliminated that I cut open the furnace and found the problem)
Elon Musk blocks critic from viewing tweets
Twitter banned Jordan Peterson, The Babylon Bee, and a sitting president, and suppressed information about a huge corruption scandal that invoked a presidential candidate that helped elect the worst president in recent history.

So much for being an apolitical town square.
Mortes, Acidentes, Saúde Mental, Censura, Privacidade
Here is pg trying to defend that "free speech"

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1603555493238435840
California Reduces Subsidies for Homes with Rooftop Solar
But this happens all the time! Or so i thought.
Well, first, let's note that you can do all of those things now, legally. It's MIT licensed. If your argument is that without a strong intellectual property discipline in place, this would inevitably happen, your burden is to explain why this isn't happening.

Some potential arguments you might use are that it does happen, and will happen eventually to this project, that it's simply a matter of time. Another is that it currently isn't worth it for the amount of work you might put into doing this for this project, but as soon as it is worth something, it will be. Which implies in this case, the cost of all of this activity would not be covered by the return, even if you didn't have to pay the creator.

There's almost certainly a market efficiency in scaling up this packaging activity -- so that the original creator could give up some of his copyrights to pay someone to do the packaging, as long as that packager is doing it for lots and lots of other projects. That's how IP really works.

But in a world of explosive creative access -- where making copies, and creating works is extremely popular and hypercompetitive, the chances are that copyright as a sellable, alienable right isn't going to be the thing that pulls in the money for the artists. It's a thing that maybe you speculatively sell to that large-scale packager, that promoter, in a buyer's market, for a vanishingly small amount. Which makes the contrast between a world without copyright, and a world with, far less diabolically opposed. IP gets you a pittance, but for the vast majority of artists, it's not nearly enough. It may actually be kind of cruel to incentivize artists to produce with an endlessly drawn out false promise of IP riches.

Could we do better? Well, one thing is that we could stop what you're describing without an alienable right to copy, more like a system to prevent the kind of fraud or misrepresentation you describe. There are components of this in our existing creative incentive laws, but they're actually some of the least "property"-like attributes, and do not revolve around making copies -- moral authorship, some elements of trademark. But it involves a lot of work to try and reform our outlook to come out with policies that genuinely rewards artists and enables innovation. I don't see it arising from those praising current intellectual property models, and arguing for their expansion.
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Alberta Takes Back Constitutional Jurisdiction Effective Jan First, 2023 [video]
Everyone gets and cares about different facets of a given piece.

My last highlight is a blurb about someone charged with cutting a fence in 2013.

Why do you care about that? (You almost certainly don't!) But of course that's an important note for me! I spent two hours trying to find it!

Likewise if I gave you my notes they would make.. no sense. Well, my rough drafts might but not the bulk of it. Some of my pages of notes are literally just HN comments I find interesting.
I suggest you look into the reasons for those bans.

As for the 'the worst president in recent history' and that scandal: opinions differ. But it's clear where you stand.
> The lack of empathy is incredibly depressing...

My primary empathy is with end users, who could be empowered with AI-based tools to express their dreams and create graphics or software without need to pay professional artists or programmers.
I think the person who you are replying to was being sarcastic. These journalists have not been posting flight data.
Had Google had kept Plus running, they’d probably be reaping the rewards right now, being seen as the obvious refuge for disgruntled Twitter users to migrate to instead of what exists now, which is dozens of small, fragmented, networks. Much the same way Reddit provided a natural home for Digg users after the botched v4 release.

Plus was intended to defend against Facebook, but turned out to be more like Twitter without the arbitrary character limit.
I see you're getting downvoted, but I think you have a sliver of a point. The US right does indeed often feel that way. The question for me is what those feelings were based in.
I'm a bit interested to know whether locks that face the outdoors in this place have special considerations against freezing up?
Twitter suspends journalists who have been covering Elon Musk and the company
Social networks, as a concept, are dead in my opinion.

People used them to do two things: to communicate with people they know, and to publish info to those they don’t know.

Modern messaging apps like WhatsApp or iMessage work way better for communicating with people you know. And algorithm-driven platforms like TikTok and Instagram work way better for building an audience. Twitter, BTW, fits much more in the latter category than the former, since tweets are public by default.
Covid was mutating, that's why the advice kept changing. Vaccines were 80% effective, than immune escape happened and the vaccines got less effective. At the same time, covid was getting better at spreading, which is why 2 weeks to flatten the curve wasn't enough.

It's not a bad thing for experts to change their opinion as new evidence comes out.
The vast majority of music produced is listened to by nobody, or a handful of people, so this is already the case really.
Except that unlike VR headsets, Mastodon is a viable replacement for Twitter.
This was a fantastic read. Hadn't heard of this puzzle and intend to read more about it now. Authors did a nice job of keeping it simple so I could get it as a newbie. Congrats to the researcher!
Twitter Suspends Accounts of Rival Mastodon and Several High-Profile Journalists
> Is the number itself copyright?

For a work to be copyrightable (including derivative works), there needs to be a quantum of creativity. Since there's no creativity in the process of constructing a cryptographic hash, there's nothing copyrightable there.
Seek mental help
I liked Google+

It circles could be a little confusing but I felt like I could manage a feed… I miss that.
So it does.

The code there implies cl100k_base has a vocab size of 100k (I guess it's in the name lol) which means it is more comprehensive than GPT-2's 50k, so fewer tokens will be necessary.
That's funny (and I'm not disagreeing with you) because the Republicans are the same.
Yea and there are Americans that want those jobs to keep the lights on and get paid over 6 figures.
The first ever recordings had people shouting to get anything to register. They sounded like tin. Fast forward to today.

Looking back at image generation just a year or two ago and people would have said similar things.

Not hard to imagine the trajectory of synthesized audio taking a similar path.
> I've had DevOps engineers say they want us to feel the pain to make a point.

And thus you'll have an incentive to improve the quality and lower the pain. Of course that's easier said than done, and there may be other factors at play (e.g. priorities set by someone else), but at least if the misery is shared those who can do the most to fix it are fully aware of it.
Weren't they the ones that posted instructions on derailing trains?
Thanks for the suggestion! Out of interest, do you know if there are any plans to make the impact predictions user-specific? E.g I live in a very isolated city, so transport considerations dictate for some products.
The heaping massive amount of debt on the company really accelerated the insanity I suspect.
The core thing here is that people simply do not care. There is nothing that incentivizes me to spend one hour figuring out how to clone your repo, compile it, read the benchmarks, and run the benchmarks. There would be much less doubt if your website had any details on what your product is, how it works, and why it's faster, how to migrate to it, that someone can read in 30 seconds while sitting on the bus.
Davinci 002 has been released

Main news link
https://openai.com/blog/new-and-improved-embedding-model/

My article (I am shameless forgive me)
https://medium.com/@ithinkbot/openai-releases-embeddings-ai-...
So then you can’t load an archived repo?
What accessibility requires more than aria tags on your content?
The proximate cause looks like reporting on whether the "crazed stalker" thing actually happened. That makes the bans look vindictive and thin-skinned.
Twitter bans accounts of CNN, NYT, WaPo journalists
They can use the water before it gets to the Central Valley, it’s not like the water is used up by being pumped uphill or anything.

Hell, then they can claim their almonds are grown with environmentally friendly recycled water.
This issue was over-emphasized, probably because it affected reporters and seemed exciting. There is not mass defederating from journa.host. Note that even in that article, it’s only 45 servers defederating a single journalism-oriented server.
Name - Davinci 002

Main news link
https://openai.com/blog/new-and-improved-embedding-model/

My article (I am shameless forgive me)
https://medium.com/@ithinkbot/openai-releases-embeddings-ai-...
Signing up on a mobile browser should lead to a splash page offering to take the customer to their app store or continue to the web app.

I use Firefox and default it to private mode, so I get a nasty little "no storage available" and a spinner that never ends.
If you've got nothing more substantive to offer than a personal attack and some weird imaginary tangent then I think we're done here.