skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> adding naive indexes

You get 90% of the improvement just from that.

Indexes are the whole reason anyone even uses databases. And yet some backend guys think they are optional.
because most of the people there use iMessage instead of Whatsapp or other apps like that, so if you dont have an iPhone you pay.
relatively is the correct word.

If I do benchmarks, yes it will be slower. Do I notice it when working? Or does it slows my actual work? No.
Symptom: you can't see the timeline. It shows "welcome to twitter!".

Search works half-ass-ly ("top" works, but not "live").

You can still read specific tweet or someone's profile.
Damn, didn't know C# can solve the halting problem.
Starting a company is risky. If everyone thinks like you, it creates an opportunity to create a product that doesn't exist. And yes, there's a risk.
But the company that uses Java quite often is writing the umpteenth line-of-business application, where dynamic dispatch is not going to cause a massive overhead
I thought Dart was close enough to Typescript to be fairly familiar (and thus less risky than a more novel language)?
I see this confidence and your same claim all the time now, and I think it’s so wrongly dismissive.

Why can we be so confident it’s not sentient? I’m not of the belief it is, but I don’t have proof. We don’t even know what our own consciousness is, and yet so many folks claim that AI is not and cannot be conscious because “all it does it take in text then predict what might be next based on that training and input”.

Are humans so different?

I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.
I don't follow, other companies can do whatever they want. OpenAI didn't present itself as for-profit and closed-source, so they shouldn't have cared what profit incentive others had.

In a way I wish for another AI winter. Then wouldn't have to mourn the loss of aesthetics and morality
> But if you use windows, there is no inline assembly so shrug.

(in Nim presumably)

Can anyone say why?
You can be lucky and hardworking, and have both of these factors be individually necessary but insufficient contributors to your success.

People get weirdly defensive about luck being a major factor in their success, but it always is. It doesn't mean you didn't work hard, it doesn't mean that your decisions didn't contribute to your success. It means that, if you were born a little bit less smart, you would have achieved less. And if you were born in North Korea or medieval Europe in the peasant underclass, you would probably have achieved nothing of note and may have died of the plague before reaching adulthood.

I'd estimate that just the sheer luck to be born in a wealthy, free country without debilitating handicaps in the late 20th century or early 21st century already puts you in something like the top 1% lucky people in human history.
Personally that would delete a lot of niche music videos where it's been like 10 years since they last uploaded to that channel.
I feel sorry for your country to hear that! That really sucks, I feel sad for you to face this. I didn't know things got bad. I've met many Nigerians and had the impression your country was on the up, and that your cities, particularly Lagos, were cool places to be. I'd really wanted to visit. Sounds like things must be desperate for you if you're reaching out here to an internet forum instead of to the people you live with in Nigeria. I'm sure there's lots of people from Nigeria on this forum, but in general I don't know what folks here would know that could help...Looks like you want to vent, and to remind others how lucky they are. Thanks, I guess. Poor you, tho. There might be many people here who have been through similar experiences in other countries. I know you said you never wanted to get out before, but did you ever think about it? If so, where would you go? Also...What makes you ask here in this forum?

Sound like you're quite upset, so, I guess one thing you could do, to make it easier on you, is you could work on the "mental game". Try to make staying work for you. Make it your strength. Be happy in it. I guess you could be successful and happy whether you stayed or whether you left, I suppose it just depends on you deciding if this is something you even need to decide right now, and if it is, what path you choose.

Anyway, I'm not you, and you'd have to do what you feel is best for you of course, plus I'm not giving you advice (I don't want that karma responsibility!) but I am trying to be helpful so I'll just tell you what I see--from my perspective, sounds like you need to take care of yourself and find a way out.

Maybe someone here can give you a helping hand? I don't know anyone in particular but there might be someone here who can. Maybe go to China? Many Nigerians in Guangdong I think, with many doing pretty well by the looks of it.

Also a random thought: What opportunities are there within the African continent to temporarily go to another country for work or study? Is something like that feasible--or you still absolutely need a passport?

Anyway, I wish you well and hope it work out for you! Take care! And maybe find someone to take care of! That could make things happier and better! :) Poor you.
If someone can make money off something, after achieving global visibility, they will - it's almost an iron law. The only exceptions I can think of are Wikipedia, Archive.org, and Wikileaks.
Unfortunately the cost of learning C++ has increased.
SUVs have a higher impact location I'm sure doesn't help, and then there's the legality of bullbars in the US which are pretty much outlawed in other places
above 3 boils down to - not enough enterprise backing
You can dismiss all those user problems easily by simply saying: "It works on my PC.
You are not correcting me, you are correcting Rudin :)
It's interesting seeing the predictions come true. I was slightly nervous when Elon fired 90% of twitter staff and the site kept working. If stuff never broke, then empirically, firing 90% of your staff seems to be a good idea.

But now stuff is breaking each week, and it's evident that maybe it wasn't the best idea.
Apart from being renowned for his iron hand, he was also known for the Swabian salute: "Leck mich am Arsch" (akin to expression "kiss my arse", but literally "lick me on the arse")

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swabian_salute
Inevitable given the cuts, very much feels like anyone capable has left the business or been fired.
When I've been involved in entry-level hiring, I nearly always push to hire candidates who exhibit some fundamental, non-domain-specific skills.

A question I used to like was asking someone to help me troubleshoot an everyday object that isn't working. Help me figure out why my toaster isn't working. Help me take apart a ballpoint pen and put it back together.

If you can answer those questions well, and you have a pretty basic level of knowledge, a desire to learn, and good soft skills, I'd much prefer to hire you over someone who's got great tech knowledge but mediocre troubleshooting skills and soft skills.
A new ASAP functionality is beng deployed.
So Elon wanted to build an open source non-profit AI but had to resign from openAI, which he had cofounded with that intention, because he wanted to create a closed-source and for-profit AI for Tesla and that brought a conflict of interest. Sounds quite contradictory to me to present this as an argument to construct an image of open-source, non-profit advocate. It reads as "I support open-source etc AI as long as it is others who do it, my intentions are to use AI for profit".
Places with high religious participation have fewer deaths of despair
https://archive.ph/wgx8A
So it comes down to being smart again, which is largely outside of your own conscious control. That means we're back to being lucky again, no?
If I'm reading it right, the advice in your comment is basically "Bad Infrastructure Planning 101" in 2023.

The right way to do it is what the Dutch do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAxRYrpbnuA

It's called "traffic calming".

Oh, and underground pedestrian walkways, skybridges, etc are absolutely horrible long term solutions. If you'd use one of them for extended periods of time, you'd know. They're generally under maintained over the decades, they tend to get dirty and attract homeless people as shelter (I don't want to get into the debate of why homeless people need to use them as shelter), they're for various reason a top target for muggings, they inconvenience the people you should be encouraging (pedestrians) by greatly increasing the distances they have to walk, which means that people will just stop walking when their 500m straight line walk becomes a 1.2km runaround, etc.
I can't tell if new tweets are populating, I can't find any that are newer than the outage.

Edit: they are, #TwitterDown is trending
And how can that claim be made with confidence? We can’t even define our own sentience and consciousness (are those things the same?) and yet folks are constantly making a strong claim that LLMs are definitely , definitely not sentient.

I have not seen one reason why that confidence should exist. People seem to think we are special because we are made of meat, and we are “more complex”. But I still ask — what is so different about the human brain than an LLM? And further, what proof is there that we know what sentience truly is, and that LLMs don’t have it?
Although I have not used it lately, Tachiyomi has been a lifesaver for comics and manga.
https://archive.ph/riUGx
The new (as in literally users that migrated after the owner of the other website stopped doing anything other than keeping the server running) forum is: https://forum.language-learners.org/
That's not a solution, that's madness.

Alternative solution. Stop worshiping economic growth. Fade out fossil fuels in energy (atomic), industry and transport (trains). Stop animal agriculture (30% of all habitable land), and reforest the grazing lands (double the forest area). Enable rewilding of nature (anthropocene) and repopulation of the oceans (90% of sharks now already gone).

But that would require a will to really do something. It's easier to spray some poisons into the atmosphere, I suppose.
Underestimating
This seems an important article, if for no other reason than it brings the betrayal of its foundational claim still brazenly present in OpenAI's name from the obscurity of HN comments going back years into the public light and the mainstream.

They've achieved marvellous things, OpenAI, but the pivot and long-standing refusal to deal with it honestly leaves an unpleasant taste, and doesn't bode well for the future, especially considering the enormous ethical implications of advantage in the field they are leading.
As much as I agree with what he's saying here, it seems a little insincere when all the tesla ai stuff is closed source.
On the other hand: "Twitter is Down Globally" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34980805
So the real reason behind him buying Twitter was to force the entire site to be his followers? Lmao.
Yeah but the chatbot will probably provide the users with links throughout use anyway. Even if users pay attention and are aware, all it takes is one user in an organization to do so - and over time there will be thousands of attempts like this.
It does, but periodic sentences can be hard to parse, because you've got to keep a lot of context in your head at once. I can't read French, but my English translations of Proust have single sentences which span a full page and more at times, and whilst I love Proust, I must certainly admit that those sentences require multiple readings to fully understand!
ANZ bank apologises after customers' personal information found in trash bin
we exist as water in a river
Apart from this, that has left the timeline completely broken, has anyone else noticed that the timeline on mobile doesn't auto-update anymore? It's often out of date and I have to refresh it manually, which I didn't use to. Maybe a hardcore measure to save server capacity?
Twitter ran pretty bad even before Musk though.

As a Twitter addict, I can remember at least 5 times total outages within 2 years before Musk took over.

There are also some serious privacy accidents that surprisingly never got any attention in Western.

For example, about 3 years ago, Twitter bugged that everyone's private lists (titles, descriptions) are publicly visible for at least half a day. It was a huge shit storm in Japanese communities but I can't find any article mentioning it in English media.
Show HN: Open source EC2 Spot savings estimator
Using Spot can save a lot of money on AWS but many people find it difficult to reason with savings percentages.

This tool allows you to estimate the absolute dollar figures of cost savings you can achieve in your AWS account by converting your AutoScaling Groups to Spot instances.

You can select various scenarios, such as to keep some of your instances as OnDemand in each group (maybe covered by Reserved Instances or Savings Plans), or only convert some of your AutoScaling Groups to Spot as part of a gradual rollout.

You may use any mechanism to adopt Spot, such as converting the configuration yourself group by group as per what you defined in the simulation.
If some field is referenced in WHERE clause, add an index for it.

If there are a few fields referenced in a single WHERE add a single index that includes all of them.

If you have index that has a, b, c then it is as if you also had indexes a, b and a.

If condition in WHERE is = put this field at the beginning of an index. If it's < (or similar) put it at the end. You'll get best results if you have none or only one < in your query.
Couldn't agree more. Writing from the UK here, and couldnt be more grateful to live in a functional democracy. Say what you wil about brexit but things are quite good here in comparison
When do you actually pass through? Only some state machines do that. But even I. That case, ifs are more clear and less error prone due to missing breaks, braces/scoping issues, etc
Please refrain from commenting if you can't do it without putting words in my mouth.

These people are forced into owning cars by a reality of our country that's not changing soon: we're pretty damn car-centric. But they're being taken advantage by a system that uses unethical and even illegal tactics to squeeze them between a rock and a hard place.

The government can either do something upfront and probably save a ton of money while helping lift a lot of people out of a predatory cycle... or it can pick up the pieces after the house of cards comes crashing down.

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The difference is that if it does something upfront people will claim it's evil socialist government charity to lure irresponsible people into voting. Never mind we did give these people checks to float which were often promptly turned in to these scum... leading to the lowest delinquency rate in the history of subprime ABS ratings (and record subprime loan performance!)

Instead the government will do nothing until the house of card falls, leaving a massive wake of destruction. And then the government will throw around cash to help out the various players across the wide wide range of markets that will be hit by the splash damage.

Their lobbyists will be out in full force assuring us this is what's best for the American people. The American people will be instructed that it was an necessary intervention to save the market.

Infusing overleveraged corporations with cash will benefit some very wealthy people (but don't worry it'll trickle down). And then we'll repeat this in 10-20 years.
Yeah, parent comment complains Elon is bashing OpenAI "any opportunity he gets"... while unable to point out how Elon's comment is wrong.

Maybe they just wants to express how much they don't like Elon any opportunity they gets.
I am shocked! Shocked!
And both people need it, so when you're trying to make eye contact, the other party's system will automatically make eye-contact with you (slightly delayed so it doesn't look they've been staring at you the entire time) and vice versa. Who looks away first though?
Unfortunately all of those have their own ethical issues, commercial corruption is not the only challenge to well-intentioned initiatives when meeting scale.
I agree, being discouraged from using a more powerful tool should be reason to pause.. too bad OP didnt elaborate on that bit

allthough... i can see reasons to avoid c++ in favour of other (systems) plangs but ultimately you will use whatever the team uses :D
No, this misses the point, which is that nobody should sleep in the office, and there's no reward for uncritical loyalty or killing yourself at work.

If your boss tells you to be "extreme", tell your boss to go jump in a lake. There are other jobs, other companies, better lives than sacrifice for corporate overlords.

Every dictator will eventually turn on his minions, because dictators only care about themselves. History has proved this ad infinitum.
Also known as Crossing the Chasm: https://bootcamp.uxdesign.cc/book-summary-crossing-the-chasm...
Blue Zones Bullshit
> He does have a narrow view, but it does not make his claims invalid.

I would tend to disagree on this, specially when claims come from the gamedev world. Games are presented as finished pieces (even when they aren't), and not just a release milestone. Ideally, a game is a one-off effort where you write a piece of code and if you're lucky, you won't have to touch it again. So, doing one-off optimizations instead of focusing on milestones and long-term maintainability of the code is not only a possibility, but actively encouraged. That's why until rather recently (20 or so years), assembly optimization for critical execution paths, if not for most of the product.

Most of the rest of the software doesn't work like that. You often implement something that will be maintained, modified, extended and reiterated on for several years, not by you, but by several other teams with totally different experience and backgrounds. Or decades. Doing some fancy trick to skip a cleaner, extensible, maintainable design because you shaved off a couple of cycles on it is literally burning your employer's money and potentially causing huge issues in terms of maintainability, as many programs don't actually rely on a happy path like games do.

The main reason modern systems are slow isn't (just) because programmers are lazy - Its because most software - unlike games - have compatibility and maintainability requirements, and more often than not, a huge legacy support. And also, in these systems, most of development time is actually spent maintaining and extending existing code, not writing new one.

The author's assertion is fundamentally wrong, because software engineering is quite more than performance - even when it matters. Flashback to the beginning of the 90's, and "every game" used bresenham's algorithm to skip usage of the (slow or non-existent) div instruction. In some cases, a couple of bit wise shifts would also eliminate mul operations. These implementations were in some cases 2-4x faster than the classical counterparts, on a 12-40Mhz machine. Two cpu generations later, the Pentium comes out, and both mul and div take 1 clock cycle. The fancy pants implementation is now 3-5x slower at the same speed. Except now the cpu clock is 4x faster and shoveling around registers may actually impede parallel execution of code. All of this in a 5-year window. I envy the relatively stable instruction set of the last decade, where everything is sort-of predictable and assertions of speed can be made on code with a relatively high degree of confidence, but the reality is, silicon is cheap, and for most applications, performance is gained not by throwing away what makes some huge applications barely maintainable, but by deploying hardware. New, fancy, faster, cheaper and more economical hardware. Choosing a single metric (performance) and an instance in time to bitch about something is actually a disservice to the community at large.
C# is an excellent language with an great ecosystem and lots of jobs available. Also, if you ever want to go a bit more functional, F# is excellent.

My personal reason for avoiding it is purely political: I don't trust Microsoft. I try to not rely on languages that are controlled by a single monopolistic corporations. Considering the recent case of the golang compiler planning on getting telemetry, I feel validated in that decision.

As for game development, I think the game engine of choice will already dictate what one should learn.

Unity is still king of casual and mobile games, so if that is your niche, learning C# is a no-brainer. Plus Godot has decent C# support now, if you ever need to change horses.

As for more complex 3d games, Unreal 5 is just insanely good. Nanite and Lumen offer tremendous improvements in both development experience and end result. Here learning some C++ is advised but funny enough, there are actually Nim bindings as well. If you don't mind getting into somewhat untested waters, Nim might be a very good choice here.
AFAIU, using the certificate does not "hand over" anything to the Linux Foundation?
How is this a CLA? This document is basically to say "I swear I have the right to provide this contribution"
> Pedestrians, bicycles, other drivers, everything then become an instant scapegoat for their frustration

Yeah, but if you yell at other drivers, they don't hear you so you can do it safely.

If you yell (possibly with open window) to pedestrian/biker they hear you and "take harm" (however small it is).

Another "priviledge" od being in car. Total isolation, including isolation from consequences of your own dick moves.

The very social situation of being canned box is reason for so much frustration of drivers.
When you're on bike/feet you behave much better usually.
I would guess you should google that information
> AI that makes movies for Disney

At least, for now, works entirely made by AI aren't eligible for copyright, so we'll have to change the law before we see things like that.
> US has a lot more immigrants than Norway so it may just be that driver didn’t learn the laws here

In absolute numbers, yes.

Percentage-wise? No.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/immigrati...

Norway ........... 852,238 ............. 15.72%

United States ... 50,632,836 ........ 15.28%
It's probably too early to make speculations but sounds like a "Not my Job" kinda problem.
There’s a lot of negativity towards Duolingo in this post, and this is the top comment, so I might as well choose here to defend it.

Nobody has proffered a better alternative. There’s just a lot of complaining.

It’s pretty clearly implied by the nature of the complaints that Duolingo is one of, if not the, best way to develop a foundation for a new language. Being able to slowly develop correct pronunciation and the skills to read a new alphabet is nice. It feels effortless with Duolingo. Moving past basic grammar will take additional work outside of the app, but I would posit that it’s the early stages that are more likely to stop someone from learning a language. That’s where Duolingo excels. Language learning is extremely difficult, especially later in life, and Duolingo makes the most intimidating parts easy.

Personally I’m looking forward to language-learning conversationalists based on ChatGPT for conversation practice.