skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’d forgotten all that stuff. It’s weird, they usually can’t keep the name of their products the same for more than a couple of years at a time, but this one lasted decades for some reason.
Hopefully with a means of passing page content and browsing capability to your local openGPT / GPTnu / whatever the open models end up being called
Can any situation that exists in the world be bad? Yes, indeed. If anything, the ubiquity of JavaScript makes its shortcomings a worse problem than if JavaScript weren't so widespread.
I wonder if we all tabulated all our expenses in the most fine grained detail and calculated our own personal rates of inflation how meaningful it would be to have percentiles of our population to say things like 50% of citizens experience a personal inflation rate of x.xx%. That would be very fascinating. I'm almost there myself with some web order scraping I've been playing with. It's a lot of work but once I tackle another big vendor of mine I should be able to look at trends for given products over time that I regularly buy.
This makes sense. It has been one years since the war started which was the leading cause of inflation.

Now with the first year passed, we compare today’s prices to after war prices a year ago, which were already high.

I’m expecting the rate go down further the next months.

EDIT: of course I’m not suggesting inflation started on the day bullets started flying. Things were heating up before with Russia slowing down exports strategically well ahead of time and tensions were on the rise for some time.
Are brown squirrels disturbing?
and also the same Oliver Stone that helped making conspiracy theories mainstream!
I sometime use a #a-text-comment at the end of long/complex command line incantation. Easy to find using fzf at a later date. Also can provide you with a quick context.
Math fundamentally isn’t about the “names”, it’s about the “things”. We are doing it because we want to know about the “things”. The “names” are only incidental. Saying that math is invented and not discovered gives the impression that it is building fantasy castles in the sky, whereas it really is about gaining knowledge about absolute and objective truths, truths that exist independent from any human inventiveness or creativity, or from the choice of “names”. The “names” are merely a vehicle, a tool for that purpose.

To take an example from computer science, we discovered that comparison sorting algorithms have a time complexity of Ω(n log n). This discovery is independent from the notation we use to express it, and independent from the programming languages we use and independent of the choice of sorting algorithm. It is a fundamental fact of the matter, and there is nothing invented about it. Any alien intelligence would end up with exactly the same insight about sorting.

Or to give a more hands-on example: If you have two, three, or four balls of the same size, you can arrange them such that each ball touches all of the other balls (a tetrahedron shape in the case of four balls). But you can’t do that with five or more balls. Convincing yourself that that’s true is an essential example of doing math. And it is true regardless of what “names” you use. You can also use apples and oranges if they are approximately spherical and of the same size (or, alternatively, “look the same from all angles”).

For these reasons, when chasd00 tells their kid that math is invented, not discovered, they are misrepresenting what math is really about. The above example with balls could be one way to illustrate to a kid how math isn’t invented. (I’m sure there are much better examples, this is just from the top of my head.)
I used to think that, but the more I take pictures with my phone the more I disagree. My iPhone is very very good at taking iPhone pictures. That is to say all the places and people I take pictures of with my phone look the same. It's a lovely seductive sameness, don't get me wrong. But my phone "knows" what pictures it wants to take and takes them. It needs me less and less.

I don't think we're all that far away from having some sort of always on camera that cuts us as directors out of the "picture" entirely.

Eventually, your phone equivalent will tell you and your friends where to stand, what to do and what to say to get the most out of the location, people and activities you have at your disposal. You won't have any choice (unless you are in that small group that is effectively allowed to self direct your own videos for Tikstagram) if you want to be competitive at projecting a successful image.

Great for the folks shoveling content around, but maybe not what you want if you are trying to develop an individual vision.

That said for a quick snap where I'm just trying to document something my iPhone is awfully handy ; )
You could argue 5 sides are touching
It is on-chain, there is no fee to use it. It was funded by winning a $100k grant from Chainlink.

https://whitepaper.truflation.com/background/what-is-truflat...
>This is what many older people don't understand.

If you remember before gmail, then you are ancient.

Tell us, gramps, more about these $25/month Yahoo! email accounts.
I don’t think I’ve ever searched for an image that wasn’t specific to whatever I was trying to find.

Playing with stable diffusion on the other hand… who would search for “Stalin petting a llama” and what practical application would it have?
> “data sources and metrics created by developers and crypto investors”

I... if I had to name groups of people I would not trust to build data sources and metrics for broad economic measures, “developers” and “crypto investors” would both be very close to the top.
> The original paper seems to be https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0012365X79...

Cheers. I've found the full paper is accessible through Sci-Hub [1]. I've had a very quick glance over it. The paper was submitted in January 1978 (when he'd already been at Microsoft for 2 years). But this NPR transcript [2] of a chat with Gates' Harvard professor Harry Lewis describes him as coming up with the solution a few days after the professor referenced the problem in class (in either 1974 or '75). Gates' co-author Christos Papadimitriou was an assistant professor at Harvard at the time. Papadimitriou went on to a glittering academic career and he recounts his recollection of the collaboration with Gates in a 2013 ACM profile [3].

So it appears that I do have to concede Gates this one contribution towards computer science. Although the paper contains a somewhat intriguing note right at the bottom :

> Ervin Györi of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and György Turán of J. Atilla University have independently discovered a proof of Theorem 1 [the five-thirds solution]. Their algorithm and proof are essentially the same as ours.

And their paper [4] was published in 1978, preceding publication of the Gates & Papadimitriou paper in 1979.

[1] https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1016/0012-365X(79)9006...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20110919161456/http://www.npr.or...

[3] https://www.acm.org/articles/people-of-acm/2013/christos-pap...

[4] https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&h...
Ok, but what if you zoom out 5 or ten years? Or as far as the historical data set allows?
Selefra mainly solves the problem of multi-cloud analysis, we are a just open source project, you can try, if you have any questions and suggestions you can communicate with us through Github Issues or Selefra Slack Community
Show HN: librtree-python
Congrats, Frigade! I'm on the team at Vanta that is revamping our user onboarding flows and really wish y'all had launched a couple months ago! Building out the platform to support these experiences internally is no small feat and can blow up in scope quickly. Kudos!

Eric was kind enough to take the time to send us candid and actionable feedback as he went through Vanta's onboarding which definitely helped us smooth out a couple wrinkles. Thanks so much for that.
I am mostly a Python person, but I must confess I'm impressed by both modern .NET and Java's Spring Boot. I architect for two teams, one using Java, the other using C#, for building services and the amount of boilerplate code, that used to be a huge turnoff for me, has been impressively reduced.

There's still a lot, but it's now more or less comparable to what you'd expect you'd end up with on a similar app built on, say, FastAPI.
You missed a great opportunity to answer a simple "yes". ;)
Because that is pretty much the pendulum swinging in the IT world. Right now it is solidly in 'centralization' territory, hopefully it will go back towards decentralization again in the future. The whole PC revolution was an excellent datapoint for decentralization, now we're back to 'dumb terminals' but as local compute strengthens the things that you need a whole farm of servers for today can probably fit in your pocket tomorrow, or at the latest in a few years.
Right, physicists seem to generally agree there are parts or dimensions of the universe we cannot directly measure. If scientists can't predict whether you will eat a ham sandwich for lunch or not, it won't be clear if they can't predict it because you have "free will" or because we have limited access to information on how the universe works.
Show HN: Neighbourhood Watch
A little 24/7 compilation for big screens.
That is impossible. You might be able to do it if you invented a completely different method of image generation, but the amount of original images present in a diffusion model is 0% with reasonable training precautions, and attributing its weights to particularly any of its input is nearly arbitrary.

(Also, it's entirely possible that eg a model could generate images resembling your work without "seeing" any of your work and only reading a museum website describing some of it. Resemblance is in the eye of the beholder.)
> While I might look in the direction of PostgreSQL for more advanced in-database processing, for most CRUD apps the aforementioned two are going to be more than enough

I see this sentiment often here on HN. Something long the lines of "MySQL is enough for small apps but you want PotgreSQL for serious work."

When in practice I find the opposite to be true. PotgreSQL is hard to scale and hard to upgrade when compared to MySQL. I mean, just take a look at the caliber of companies that leverage MySQL at scale using Vitess to orchestrate it (spoiler, it powers Youtube, GitHub, Slack, Shopify and more):

https://planetscale.com/vitess

What's PostgreSQL comparable list?
A Python native extension for the R-tree spatial index of Guttman-Green, depends only on libjannson.
> The standard procedure to overwrite a file is to save to a temporary file first

… which on the other hand has the annoying side effect of wrecking hard links.
Countries with nuclear reactors: 32.

Countries which have had nuclear leaks or meltdowns: 15.

Number of nuclear leaks and meltdowns since 1952 (only those which resulted in loss of human life or >US$50K property damage): ~100.

About 60% of those have been in the USA, allegedly the most advanced country in the world.

Note that the USA requirements for nuclear reactor waste (yes, they produce toxic waste; they are not clean), last time I checked, required the canisters to be able to survive for 300 years. The waste lasts longer than 300 years.

Two years ago the USA had a leak which spilled ~400,000 gallons of radioactive water into a major river system, and it was covered up for two years.

Finally: If you are not willing to have a nuclear reactor right beside your house, but are willing to have one beside someone else's house, you are a coward and are not really in favour of nuclear power.
It’s not dissociative identity disorder, it’s a personality ensemble model. A majority of voices agree!
I've used my olympus TG4 underwater at a depth of 15m (best I could do without scuba), and had it trailing on a lanyard on my wrist whilst swimming in the ocean. I'd like to think nobody would subject any current smartphone to these sorts of conditions, and expect them to survive, nor believe the marketing rhetoric.

One other thing I do like about the TG4, nice big buttons, and I've had plenty of opportunities to use it in rather adverse conditions.
Terrible for her. Tough spot for FB, though. She was in recruiting, which very clearly needs to be downsized if a company is not hiring.

So FB could have shown compassion and spared her job because she is pregnant... but can they legally do so, without being exposed to lawsuits?

The article doesn't mention severance. Seems to me that a generous severance is the right solution here.
Inodash is a comprehensive SaaS platform that simplifies the process of generating and validating new business concepts. With Inodash, you can start by identifying a problem or need, and work through the various stages of design thinking to arrive at a valid business model.
Please feel free to ask anything or give feedbacks.
Maybe you are confusing AdGuard with AdBlockPlus? The latter[1] and the parent company Eyeo GmbH have some points of criticism.

AdGuard is basically pi-hole, just with different pre-configured filter lists and especially child and parental control settings. IIRC, some services can also be blocked there directly, Instagram for example.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adblock_Plus#Controversies
The white paper smells of many crypto white papers I’ve seen, vague, almost intentionally.
I've thought of another test, actually, and that one is easier to carry out: what are journalists today saying on the topic?

https://nationalpress.org/topic/objectivity-journalism-new-n...

https://dailycaller.com/2023/01/31/major-news-outlets-object...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/to-regain-trustthe-n...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/01/30/newsrooms...

So obviously they themselves are aware that they're doing something differently.

>Nonpartisanship was particularly important for a paper that was a national leader in covering politics and government. As the final gatekeeper for Post journalism, I stopped voting or making up my own mind about issues. As Bradlee had, I insisted on noninvolvement of Post journalists in political activity or advocacy of any kind, except voting. I also worked to make The Post newsroom more diverse, and encouraged everyone to have a voice in our decision-making.

The bit about not voting is something that today's "journalists" would reject completely, I'm pretty sure. I wouldn't lie down on the tracks for "objectivity" if instead we got "nonpartisanship."
i use it a lot but want an accompanying binding just for directories

edit: okay done

http://i.imgur.com/n12DYUu.png

Two examples in case you have a preference w/ or w/o the preview:

fzf_insert_directory_preview() {
local dir
dir=$(find . -type d -not -path '*/\.*' | fzf --height 40% --reverse --preview 'tree -C {} | head -200')
if [[ -n $dir ]]; then
READLINE_LINE="${READLINE_LINE}${dir}"
READLINE_POINT=$((${#READLINE_LINE}))
fi
}

fzf_insert_directory() {
local dir
dir=$(find . -type d -not -path '*/\.*' | fzf --height 40% --reverse)
if [[ -n $dir ]]; then
READLINE_LINE="${READLINE_LINE}${dir}"
READLINE_POINT=$((${#READLINE_LINE}))
fi
}

bind -x '"\ey": fzf_insert_directory_preview' # alt-y
bind -x '"\et": fzf_insert_directory' # alt-t

http://ix.io/4rtn/sh

Sent from a LLM
NewPipe supports it. There's also TubeLab.
I don't think people lied about their expertise. Instead, they likely believed that what they knew was sufficient for their work. Another possibility is that the big tech hired so many people in the past few years that many people ended up doing bike-shedding work. They could be excellent engineers in the past, but as time went by, their skills got rusty yet they were too busy to be aware of it.
I joked that it's the fear of palindromes. In English it'd be "aibohphobia", which kind of works.

When giving this exercise, I used to hear, in sequence, "wtf" and "uh?", then "ah", then comments about my mom.
Rust mentioned twice here, maybe there’s something too it

I don’t think it’s possible for me to go down a PHD path.

HFT seems like a cool gig if you can get it
That's a pretty novel concept - you've inspired me : )
Been using .NET for years now for backend web development after having taken a break from C#. It is such an improvement over the old .NET framework. When I started building my first backend with it, I was surprised how much was included and "just worked". Need to add authentication? Few lines. OAuth? Also built in. Response caching? Yes. ORM? EF Core is pretty good. Need to use env variables to override your JSON config? You are going to have to build a... just kidding that works with one more line too.

Coming from NodeJS, the amount of stuff that could be added with a single line from an official package was great. No more worrying about hundreds of unvetted dependencies.
Cans or bottles: What's better for a fresh, stable beer?
Probably its time somebody wrote something that could be titled 'The Unreasonable Effectiveness of JavaScript' - the language has of course been wildly successful, if measured in terms of adoption at any rate, and it might be good to try to understand why (beyond 'it's on every browser, dummy').

Enjoy:

- record and array literals

- arrow syntax for lambdas

- spread operator

- map, reduce, forEach

- string template literals

- default values with ||

- single thread memory model

- all the pretty colours

Avoid:

- Formal OO constructs, i.e. 'class' and whatever goes on inside it. They feel out of place, and e.g. the this.function() syntax is clanky. Special hate reserved for those magic proxy getters - breaks the simple record model.

- Formal typing, i.e. Typescript. Becomes unnecessarily verbose and boilerplated, tooling is not quite there, and you almost always need to poke holes in the type system to do anything interesting anyway.

- Lodash and friends. Not needed now the core language has so much out the box.

Where Javascript seems to shine is in being a simple, functional language, with concise syntax, and without heavy OO or type formalisms.
> no core

Except the docs, which still say core all over the place, including the url's. ;-)
> Truflation is the first true US inflation index based on the independent data sources and metrics created by developers and crypto investors for developers and the crypto community.

I gave up before I could find details about their sources. Too many Blockchain Buzzwords to invest much time into reading more.
> a prompt is somehow a recipe and not a novel expression that merits copyright

People keep bringing up photographs, I think the better analogy is commissions. And in fact, the copyright office points towards commissions in its explanation of its policy.

Under current copyright law, if I work with an artist to produce a commission by giving that artist repeated prompts, pointing out areas in the image I'd like changed, etc... I don't have any claim of copyright on the artist's final product unless they sign that copyright over to me. My artist "prompts" are not treated as creative input for the purpose of copyright.

I would love to hear an argument for why prompting stable diffusion should grant copyright over the final image, but prompting a human being doesn't grant copyright over the final image. Directing an artist is just as much work as directing an AI, and in many ways will put you much closer to the creative process and will give you more control over the final product. You can direct an artist in much more specific detail than you can direct stable diffusion. You can be a lot more involved in the creative process with a human artist. And just like with an AI, if you take that artist's final drawing and do your own work on top of it, you can still end up with something that's covered by copyright.

But despite that, we've never assumed you intrinsically get any copyright claim over the artist's final picture that they give you.

So the "prompt as a recipe" analogy seems to hold up pretty well for both AI generators and human "generators". All of the same questions and tests seem to apply to both scenarios, which makes me feel like the copyright office's conclusion is pretty reasonable: prompt-generated art isn't copyrightable, but prompts may be protected in some way, and of course additional modifications can still be covered.

Yes, there's grey area, but no more grey area than already exists in commissioning, and the creative industry has been just fine with those grey areas in commissioning for a long time; they haven't been that big of a deal.
LLMs and SQL
Background: I have been paid for IT work for 20+ years - mostly as a Consultant or SME (subject matter expert).

I am responding to you because I learned to ask the right questions and how to communicate effectively.

Now, I may or may not have more experience than you - but if I can speak longer, without flinching, and answer you - correctly or with successful deflection - I am confident you will believe I am the expert.

I chose Postgres for my last production application because I did not know it. I knew mysql and sqlite and if I recall it was the only thing offered by whatever PaaS I was using.

A file is a file. A database is a database. A punch is a punch.

Grab three Postgres books. Read one of them cover to cover. Start the second. Skip everything you know from the first book. Start the third book. Double study everything that is contradicted between the three books.

Congratulations. You will be an expert according to those three authors.
Ngl, was in SF at the weekend and got a pic outside a branch downtown.
That's more or less the classic "If I can only get 1% market share in China I'll be rich." Which turns out to be really hard.

I did some research as a consultant once for a company trying to sell a product for 32-bit to 64-bit transition. They were obsessed with the total addressable market and assigned some percentage of that market they thought they could capture. Weren't interested in hearing about any more substantive advice and went out of business of course.
This is indeed an interesting application of GPT-4, since the topic of removing sensitive information is applicable to domains beyond healthcare.
So scrappy and simple-I love it!
https://www.reddit.com/r/badeconomics/comments/3zik5t/shadow...

Shadow stats is comically bad economics.
> Can you write me some Javascript that finds all the elements on the page with the text "foo", and clicks them?

ChatGPT: [working code]

Bard: I'm not able to help with that, as I'm only a language model.

Ah well.
Your point touches on the hardest part of solving the problem. Even if we could all agree that JS needs to be replaced, which of course we can't, and we had a perfect ideal replacement that we all agreed upon, that already works -- what about the ecosystem? All the tutorials, videos, articles helping newcomers, all the libraries, linters, IDE integrations, build tools, etc.

The only way I can see the problem (assuming someone agrees it is) of JS getting solved is if something comes along that's so amazing and blows it out of the water so hard that adoption explodes and browsers start natively migrating to it, along the lines of what we've seen with TypeScript, but instead of a bandaid a full replacement.
A bit off topic but I enjoyed reading the bar exam questions you linked and also found that Virginia publishes their answers. For those interested, you can view them by year (the answers also contain the question text): https://barexam.virginia.gov/bar/barsampleanswer.html
yeah, I've heard a crazy amount of bellyaching at other FAANG companies about not having the same perks as Google

I'm sitting here thinking "News flash: you can just buy lunch for yourself at a restaurant using the $400,000 they pay you per year"

Those perks are the real deal. They do pull people in
As War in Ukraine Grinds On, China Helps Refill Russian Drone Supplies
Yeah, very few speedups can actually be proven. For all we know, P = PSPACE. In which case everything in between those two classes becomes polynomial, including all quantum speedups and also NP-complete problems.