skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone in the whole world is separated by a limited number. The notion that everyone is separated by six degrees [0] is apparently considered an urban myth, but social networks seemed to have an average of six jumps to reach everyone else (see link). Curious how it holds up nowadays.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation
...because the editor understood he misunderstood how the algorithm works? Or becuase they don't know so they shouldn't risk signing off on it?

Sorry I don't see how you could possible challenge this article without a deeper understanding of the technology. That is the fundamental critique here is it not?

Expecting every newspaper to have those domain experts on hand for each topic is naive and highly optimistic. The journalism world doesn't work that way for better or worse.

If it did we would have 50%+ articles never written. Probably more.
A funnier title would be "NIH confirms mouth breathers really are stupid". :)
Oh come on.

Technically, yes, that is 'encouraging people to engage with others', but it is clearly inflammatory and I wouldn't be surprised if several people on that list have been blindly harassed by her fans/supporters/followers.

That tweet was stupid, and anyone on that list who is harassed may well have a good chance in a defamation case if they chose to pursue it.
Inded. At least there is a very good decorator in pypy: https://pypi.org/project/retry/
But having it in the stdlib would make a ton of sense.
Public lying has turned out well for Elon Musk. It is really up to the rest of us to make public lying turn out less well.
15 hours idling or something like 8 hours of use. https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/109348054803945724
> When working with big tables, its super annoying to select all but one column

What's the use case for that? In fact, I can hardly understand the benefit of projecting at all, except at the very end. Why would you want to do it? Is there a performance benefit?
Chat Control: The EU’s CSEM scanner proposal
I tried to play with it, rewrite some code to it to find out if it really is more readable ... but without a CASE statement, this can't actually do much business logic yet, so it will have to wait.
There's a difference between cardinality when it comes to databases (essentially cardinality in modelling vs cardinality in data).

Cardinality in modeling (relationship cardinality) refers to your relationship type i.e. 1:1, 1:M, M:M

Cardinality w.r.t. data refers to how many unique values a particular column can have. e.g. a Primary Key has high cardinality because every row has a unique value. A boolean flag has low cardinality because it only has two values.

TBH, I'm not 100% sure which one the OP is talking about here because you need to factor in number of joins and indexes etc, but from the perspective on relationship cardinality, you can think of some of the common differences in modelling for OLTP ("real time" databases) and OLAP (data warehouse etc).

The former would generally have smaller tables and more joins, while the latter would usually have relatively massive tables which inherently could imply fewer joins, but this is often not the case. It just depends on your system and use-case.
> Economics of Star Trek, Rick Webb - Exploration of how finances could work in the fictional world of the Federation

Have you read “Trekonomics, Manu Saadia”? How do they compare? Are these same books?
Nope I dont live there full time and honestly haven't been there since covid madness started as 3 month tourist visas got much harder.

And yeah from my own experience it become much more humid in May and there is some actual rain during the rain season, but nothing you can't bear if you live next to the sea. Some of my relatives lived in Mui Ne whole year since they stuck there during covid and it was pretty much okay.
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>The Cantillon effect is a desirable result in theory because it can greatly increases the viscosity of the resultant inflation

Whether it's desirable in theory depends on what the end goal is. If the end goal is less wealth inequality, a less efficient but more fair system might be more desirable than a more efficient one that systematically transfers wealth from currency holders to financial institutions.
Respond to my skywriting on the subject of error-handling, you coward! That plane was expensive and my opinions are important!
You haven't committed to memory every hn comment from Ptacek over the last decade?
I dont believe this is only a recent phenomenon. English dictionaries have been altering definitions on behalf of the ruling class for centuries.
dbt-prql lets you write prql in your DBT

https://pypi.org/project/dbt-prql/
It is indeed. With CGNAT becoming more prevalent with the shortage of IPV4, this is starting to get really annoying. I'm actually switching providers to one that doesn't use CGNAT for this exact reason.

It would be really nice if IPV6 one day actually becomes default so we no longer have to mess around with this stuff.
Evidently ChatGPT is smarter than "both sides..."
35-year Southwest Airlines pilot: Beancounter CEO and COO responsible for outage
The earth gravity field isn't uniform even in the context of Newtonian physics, the apple will not directly fall toward the center of the earth.
I should fix the interaction between “Nagle algorithm” and “delayed ACKs” (2006)
Breath by James Nestor. Great book.
At least with the substrait[0] project there is some push for standardization & interoperability when it comes to the relation algebra and query plan.

I think this can unlock a lot more experimentation when it comes to SQL-alternative "languages" or approaches where plain text languages are just skipped all-together and are instead replaced by good libraries that act directly on query plans.

[0]: https://substrait.io/
The complaint about CF blocking is, I think, the other way around: blocking users access to sites, or making access a faf, because of the address their request comes from. It affects people behind GCNAT significantly, as well as those using commercial VPNs, because of the activity of others who appear to come from the same address*.

Unfortunately there is little you can do about such collateral damage other than wistfully wonder “what if IPv6 had been implemented widely, and properly, some time ago, so such address sharing wasn't necessary”. VPN users might still end up coming from the same address/range so be indistinguishable from bad actors using the same VPN, but that is their choice to be unidentifiable and they should be aware of the ramifications†).

--

[*] It can impact those with a dynamic address similarly, but more randomly.

[†] I'm not saying not wanting to be identifiable is not a bad thing: just that you need to appreciate that being indistinguishable from the average non-identifiable Internet user makes you, erm, indistinguishable from the average non-identifiable Internet user[‡].

[‡] Who is trash. Or a bot written by trash.
> I'd like to like HP Dev One, but I don't trust HP to make reliable things any more :(

I second this. And even while they do work, build quality is atrocious and you can never really say they're "good". The worst offender is by far the screen. The quality is so unbelievably, absurdly, ridiculously bad for a laptop that costs the same as an MBP (32 GB RAM / 512 GB SSD).

You also better not be bothered by coil whine and an unbalanced fan fresh out of the box (but at least it doesn't spin that often).

Since the keyboard is pretty nasty, you probably won't use it that often, so you won't notice that it doesn't lay flat on the table and, therefore, it creaks.

It just feels an all-round cheap imitation of a macbook.

But, to the point of this post, Linux runs perfectly on it. Every last piece of hardware is supported, which hasn't been the case on Windows until a few weeks ago (no webcam on my amd model, and wonky dp-passhtrough through a hp (!) dock on my intel model).

These impressions are based on multiple generations of Elitebooks. The dev one seems similar, but actually cheaper, so it may be a better deal.
But those are exactly some of the arguments that you can find from real humans (no surprise, as that's where the AI gets them from).
It doesn't have to be that way. People could have accounts with the central bank and it could credit their accounts directly, and the banking regulator could mandate 100% reserve requirements so that banks themselves couldn't create more money.
If environmental costs are included, it might be more than “some”, such is the structure of the economy.
Allow me to doubt that.

According to Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Tate#2022_sex_trafficki...

he had already been arrested in April, and it is more likely that the Romanian Police have other means to find out his location, or they simply entered his villa and found him there.
It might be entitlement. But I dont f*cking care anymore.

Having to manage 7 subscription services for the 5 movies I watch per month and having to divide by zero to transfer my files from one device to another is hell.

I don't buy digital goods anymore, except games. And you know why? Because everything is on steam and available with one click.
>SQL is used to reduce network roundtrips.

Actually, SQL is used to hide DBMS implementation complexity and diversity. It was a great abstraction when RDBMS tech progressed rapidly. Now it has matured to stability, and it makes sense to try a better language.
Almost every db I've used has `information_schema.tables`, doesn't that solve your list tables issue?
EV batteries would have cost as much as a million dollars in the 1990s
Yep, the basic web UI is a bit weird. However, if you go into preferences and enable the "Advanced web interface" option, it turns into a cool, Tweetdeck-like interface with customizable columns.

The basic UI always surprises me whenever I open a new mastodon account, and then I always forget about it. :)
Worth the read, thank you very much.
Apart from the dystopian future this suggests, what surprised me in particular was that apparently "Gmail, Facebook Messenger, outlook.com and the chat function of X-Box, [already implement] indiscriminate chat control". I couldn't find a source in the article for this though.
I never really could figure that out, and I don’t think I would have.

For 5 percent it’s multiply by 1.05, it seemed broken but I don’t think I ever thought to find out how people expect to use it.

It does feel a bit icky though.
That's an easy one, it's all of the ones that use Cloudflare.

If your IP address is for some reason blacklisted by Cloudflare, you're screwed. With CGNAT, this means that you can have a hard time visiting many web sites if your IP is used by someone else who does nefarious things.
As an individual, yes, but for "reporting in the public interest" truth is a defence in Japan.

That's the theory, anyway. In practice, the Japan Sumo Association won a major defamation suit against a tabloid claiming matches were being rigged, despite there being incontrovertible proof that matches were being rigged and the Sumo Association itself expelling a dozen wrestlers for their part in the scheme.
I'm not a native English speaker, but pretty good at it, but the word "induce" here gets me. Does "induce impaired cognitive function" mean something good, or something bad, for cognitive function?
I tried to do it but couldn't find open source MIT licensed SQL parser which is needed to make it secure against SQL injection.

Metabase works well is such scenarios.
How surprising...
Corporations that have long outlived the original creator and cry about you not paying them. The horror!
Ironically the same defence used by Fox.

https://www.quora.com/Did-Fox-News-say-that-No-one-should-be...

To be fair I'd trust a Tarot reader more than I'd trust any news channel owned by Rupert Murdoch.
That's not why he was fined.
https://archive.ph/b2ib9
Paywall free link
Why did Prisma pivot to this? It sounded to me that offering a ready-to-go GraphQL API ala Firebase was a great idea and could certainly turn good profits.
Did they? They provided pre-M1 mac minis (aka DTK), but I don't know that they actively contributed code. I don't remember seeing code from them for Firefox, at least (I was involved in getting Firefox to work on Apple Silicon)
Maybe I didn't understand the article correctly, but are there any people, especially on HN, that identify as specialists? By that I mean, they only know one skill, and that's it, they don't consider themselves T shaped.
Even on planet Earth many places are not arable:

https://www.mapsofworld.com/thematic-maps/arable-land-map.ht...
As an aside, a few years ago I saw a stage production of Flowers for Algernon which I found surprisingly good.
I did, it just was poorly written with second order ideas and non sequitors, instead of trying to identify the primary concepts.

> Try double clicking on that ID to select and copy it. You can’t. The browser interprets it as 5 different words.

After reading that, shouldn't my first thought be: "Have you though about simply removing the dashes from your string?"

To me these are the questions that you should ask about a uid function:

1. How much randomness do you want to add to prevent collisions?

2. What characters are allowed? If you want to dictate it, maybe avoid 0,1,o,l and keep lowercase. If you can paste it, allow uppercase characters.

3. Can you precisely describe the algorithm in case you want it in another programming language?

4. Do you want any non-random information encoded? Maybe a sharding id or a timestamp?

Only the first question was actually addressed, and even that without doing the math, by simply referencing another website. Doing estimation calculation is something that an engineer should have a good intuitive understanding of, so I think it's slightly damaging for industry mentality when even these articles don't do this themselves.
Bad. Induce means “to lead to”, from the Latin. Think ducts and dukes.
In other words, it's an AI.

What you get out is based on what you put in. Only it can assess information so, so, so much quicker than a human.

It is missing something very important, the for which escapes me at the moment. And it is amoral to a fault.
"how can they arrest the guys on To Catch A Predator since there was no actual minor they were chatting to before coming over to the sting house where they thought a 13 year old lived with handcuffs and wine coolers"
I think pi-shaped is even better, connect two fields which you know deeply.
I've often done this manually, and have wanted to automate it. Awesome!
Someone who can't afford a lawyer can probably not be considered middle-class. That would mean they have no discretionary income to speak of.
It really depends where you put the cost in the end: do you pay the cost on the query side or the manually managing data integrity side?

Even if you don't denormalize, there's plenty of optimizations for joins: e.g. a bitmap join index can optimize a millions x billions join pretty well!
I confirm this comment: the UI is way too slow for what it is trying to measure. I also type about 80 WPM and found the response speed of this site unbearable.

Also using Firefox on Windows 10.
"Induce" basically means "cause", so it's bad.
> If you have to pay to use Kagi, that means you can only use it logged into a user profile that's associated with a payment method.

True. But even the payment thing could be solved although most users won't care. Mullvad comes to mind: you can send them cash via mail and the payment is associated to a serial number that is simultaneously your login and password.
It makes sense. Just trying to breathe from the mouth for a while makes me feel sick.
RDBMS has matured? I feel like I'm seeing a new database pop up every quarter.
Except for when you’re performing any hard aerobic exercise, at which point you have to breathe through your mouth.
Yes exactly, I don't really even see this as an application of the 'n degrees of separation' phrase/principle. Why did OP stop at Felix: who suggested they take the class, or whatever, you can keep going back as you say, the six here is completely arbitrary.

Someone doing something for you whom you met not at birth but after some stuff happened isn't 6 degrees of separation, it's just life.
I think your script chugging along in the face of a failure and running whatever commands that probably relied on what happened before it blindly is probably more evil, though.
Apple has proprietary, in-house solutions for these tasks. If I were an employee working on one of those, I wouldn't like if a different part of the company provided support to or funding for an alternative to the thing I'm working on.
I'm a writer and in my opinion the perfect writing app would be thought-to-text ox better yet thought-to-edit-to-text-to-printer. Sci-fi stuff at the moment alas.

My current go-to writing app is Zettlr with ghostwriter a close second.

I've discovered Enso through a comment here and will give it a try.
Upvote if you identify as T-shaped
... because it causes impaired function. if it caused enhanced function, maybe that'd be helpful.
If you want it in a less abstract sense, in this case it's essentially a kind of theft. A slow, steady transfer of wealth from currency holders to large financial institutions. Much as how counterfeiting is theft. Now people can argue it's okay to give the government the moral right to counterfeit for the greater good, but it's harder to make the argument that the financial industry should also be given that right.
If that's how society turns, then yes, we most certainly would.

A bigger question is how is AI going to play a part in how society develops in the future.

Right now, you could easily get it to write an undergraduate essay, that with minimal 'manual' tweaking could get you at the very least a good grade.
But he's not constantly in Romania. Like, he was in the UK recently, with Piers Morgan.

My source, FWIW: https://mobile.twitter.com/Esqueer_/status/16085800522200145...
There are multiple "shouldn't do that" and "bad practice" things that saved my ass out in the wild. The "don't do that" people are usually not the ones out in the field having to keep things working...
It seems like it's getting more and more limited. Which is a shame. It was often entertaining to see how AI would write how certain hypothetical scenarios would play out, using all the knowledge it has.

Now you are likely going to get something like this in response:

"As a language model, I am not able to create original content or engage in speculative discussions about hypothetical scenarios. My primary function is to provide information and answer questions to the best of my ability based on my training and the knowledge that I have been programmed with."

This gets to interesting situation where us the pleb will not have access to AI speculating on things we are not supposed to speculate about, but the rich will have access and this will be another tool to widen the gap between the rich and the poor.
> if any model is allowed to say something non-PC in public, the next day the whole press will be full of articles

I had GPT answer a prompt (in Dutch) with a reply containing the N-word once. A week later they released a new version, so I tried the same prompt. This time it refused to answer the prompt. I assume they have some sort of alerting system to get notified when it uses 'inappropriate' words, so they can then create some query filters.
>the media has a liberal bias

Depends on the media. In Hungary, the media has conservative bias - because the ruling party controls like 95% of the media.

>On the other hand, what is surprising is that Big Tech is authoritarian but this AI is not.

Companies are mostly authoritarian. But the face of the authority changed a lot after the 90s or so. Soft power now has a much larger emphasis than previously, in a "you can catch more flies with honey than vinegar" type of way. So what you see is honey, and what you get is vinegar. Looking at it through this lens, it's not surprising that this dissonance exists in Big Tech.
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For me, battery life is most important in a laptop. I would go with any of apples offerings.
I'd like to have an experiment on how HN the crowd evaluates the following claims/observations.

- personality tests
- why not tarot, enneagram, astrology, human design, etc

The most functional way to see these systems, I believe, is not as descriptive systems that need to be empirically proven to be useful. Instead, they can be used with a phenomenological attitude.

Instead of objective, they are useful as pedagogical tools, as constructive learning environments, as something to reflect one's immediate subjective experience against. What is there in human experience others before me have observed, that by just directing my attention to it, I can find new points of view, new discoveries about my own way of perceiving myself and reality?

If I continue to observe the phenomena with sustained presence in my embodied experience, what can this make visible in the whole of my emotional-mental-social-bodily experience that I'd not noticed before just because I had not happened to be present to see it?
WOW!! Glad I didn't give up after 5 minutes of scrolling. Thank you!
Read it all: https://www.quora.com/What-goes-into-making-an-OS-to-be-Unix...
22 people in the study :eyeroll:
Airplane mode has only been required for takeoff and landing for many years now.
I, meanwhile, have a Dell Precision 5570 and on the latest LTS Ubuntu it suffers from intermittent trackpad lag; crashing when moving from one docking station to another when suspended; the fans sometimes running when suspended; poor audio quality from the built-in microphone; it intermittently becomes unresponsive to mouse and keyboard; and it exclusively has USB C ports.

I very much do not feel like a first class citizen running Linux :(
I got an error when visiting zlib.zu1k.com/.

Error code: 1020

Ray ID: 781a36f1b9b0babd

Country: IT

I got an error when visiting zlib.zu1k.com:

Error code: 1020
Ray ID: 781a37c3aeacbae1
Country: IT
Data center: mxp03
IP: 31.157.83.62
Timestamp: 2022-12-30 10:51:01 UTC
I've also seen (but not verified) other examples where it will make jokes about Christians but not other religions.
How much of this is just them breathing deeper as a result of more conscious focus on it?

Bit like breaths (in my experience) tend to be deeper and more "purposeful" even if the doctor says take a normal breath.

Struggling a bit to convey this right but you get the idea hopefully...
> It is very rare for someone to have a sound argument from first principles as to why inequality is worse than equality for society as a whole.

Rare to find sound argument does not equal absence of argument.

I’m not sure what a first principles case would be here, but I guess it would need to start with an agreement about what a person is and what a society is, and the interaction between those two. Difficult as these are not agreed upon, even in the west.

On a relatively orthodox view on these points, your argument might be that beyond a given level of inequality, there are diminishing marginal returns to even the beneficiaries of the inequality. Tinbergen, a relatively well-known economist, thought this was around 5x disparity in income (ignore assets). You might argue about the precise figure, but having lived in places where there is high inequality, the crime rate put a serious cap on my perceived quality of life.
CAD Animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JaJ6T0T1sk