skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hahaha, I read the article first for some reason (I usually don't), but was then expecting exactly that: everybody discussing the title, not the article itself.

I should probably always read the article first, if I don't find the title interesting enough to do that, then reading the comments is probably just a waste of time as well.

Yes, his definition of nerd is unusual, but I like it ;-)
It’s been a while since FerretDB (well, we were called MangoDB back then) was first posted on HN. Back then, it was nothing but a tech demo - today, FerretDB is being used in production.

We’ve received a lot of great feedback on HN, which we used to set the direction of our project. So it’s only natural that we want to show HN what we used your input for. Please give it a try and let us know how it went. Read more about the new release in our blog post.[1]

As a recap, FerretDB is an open source alternative to MongoDB. We started building it because we believe that there should be an OSS alternative to MongoDB, as they changed over to the proprietary and controversial SSPL license [2]. We built it on Postgres, because we believe that Postgres as a backend is more than capable of playing the part. FerretDB is written in Go; it also can be used as a Go library.

We started adding support for SQLite as well, as there is a lot of interest in it.

Our long-term goal is to create an open standard for document databases, similarly to how SQL is a standard for interfacing with RDBMS.

[1]: https://blog.ferretdb.io/ferretdb-1-0-ga-opensource-mongodb-...

[2]: https://blog.opensource.org/the-sspl-is-not-an-open-source-l...
I think Ruby is fine for the task.

But if anybody wanted to show off the ability to run these updates excessively quickly and economically, there is a number of ways.
What about other tasks, like research in other areas? How is Claude different than chatGPT ?
"the VHS of AI"
Well that proves my point. Not only one tiny anecdote isn't evidence or a network effect, it is mostly techies continuing to complain about Twitter that are there, not those who don't care about technology, that is still using Twitter; in the hundreds of millions. Daily.

Even attempting to bring up the daily number of users on Mastodon after 7 years would be extremely painful to mention since Twitter still remains unchallenged.

This is before even mentioning the friction of 'Choosing an instance', already being the first barrier to entry being a failure for the user.
Twitch is owned by amazon
Cities like Austin feel like they grow more because 50% growth is a LOT more than 15% growth.
For the past few months we've been building no-code features like Workspaces that give non-tech users great powers of customization. Forest Admin Cloud makes all of that even more accessible and it makes so much sense: now basically anyone can launch their own admin panel in just a few clicks, no technical knowledge required, then build highly customizable interfaces on top of that. Game changer indeed!
The main reason why companies don't allow NSFW content is because of puritan payment processors that see that stuff and then go absolute sicko mode and lock people out of the traditional finance system.
Now we just need 1k shark fin photos and I can finally build a CNN to power my dream app of Dolphin vs Shark.
>So then why did Star Trek happen if they had replicators?

Because when you have everything you poke around for fun. Kind of like how science was pushed along by bored aristocrats doing it as a hobby for centuries.
Show HN: Sheet Markup – add spreadsheets to a Markdown document
GitHub: https://github.com/EqualTo-Software/stackedit-sheet-markup
Is there anything left? Even creativity we're starting to relegate to machines.
Does the sentence imply that they aren't costly? Would you write "strongly averse" instead of "somewhat averse" or "it is the end of the world" instead of "it isn't the end of the world"? If so, what language would you use to convey that strongly negative changes are that much worse than neutral ones?
5000 feet up the mountain: "I'm climbing Everest solo without oxygen even though it's supposed to be impossible. How come I'm making such good progress?!"
I was thinking if you can fine tune / train on a restricted subspace of the weights? If so they one can assign specific partitioned subspaces and then the averaging wouldn’t overlap, however maybe that would destroy some valuable cohesion.
> Why have this level of disdain for the mental capabilities of a huge subset of the population? Why even say this out loud if you must think it?

I don't have disdain for people's mental capabilities. I'm saying that for Apple fans the chance to own something that the company marketed as 'Chip by Apple' computers there's a really big draw. They've developed a market that is eager to consume their brand more than the technology itself. I don't think those people are dumb because of that, there's a lot to like about Apple's gear.

My point was rather that the technological aspects of it aren't really going to play into it as much and haven't for a long time. You could see this in the mid-90s to early 00s era Macs. People happily bought slower less capable systems because they looked good and they preferred the OS over everything else.

> 99% of Apple's customers can certainly recognize "it's a fuckton faster than my previous laptop" when they see it.

I'd actually be surprised if that were true since I don't believe the same about users of other systems either. If you eliminate the "new OS" effect I'd be amazed if it were anything above around 25%, if that.

Now, had you suggested that it doesn't heat up anywhere near as much or some other obviously perceptible thing then sure.
Culture is set from the top.

My wife is transforming the culture of the small org she directs.

My employer replaced operational leadership with bean-counters, and the culture has gone to shit.

Musk has prioritised engineering results, which is reasonable, in the only way he knows, which is not reasonable: namely, inhumane tech-bro-ism. He built the company absent any shred of compassion. At least, that's my reading. Happy to hear any counterpoint, if anyone has stories of him being kind or accommodating or interested in people's welfare.
Commenting two minutes after the Show HN was created suggests the author asked friends to come to HN to comment. I'd like to point to the guidelines "Please don't ask friends to upvote or comment. That's not ok on HN." https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Yes, fundamental human drives like greed and power seeking.

The whole history of philosophy has been a discussion of morality - which drives to promote and which to suppress in order to live a life that benefits both the individual and the community the individual lives in.

Robert Nozick discusses these matters in The Examined Life: Philosophical Meditations.
That's a nice tangent there, but for that to be a credible answer we would have to assume that any and all advanced civilizations would not want to try interstellar travel. That's the thing with this paradox, it would theoretically only need one to diverge from the norm to see it's effects.

Which I believe is also why most great filter candidates are usually not things that a species would do by choice, but instead an accidental, inevitable or inherent feature of the universe/existence.
> Using a throwaway for this [..] this ended up scratching a very real social itch and I am just waiting until this sort of thing can be spun into video generation in VR or something.

Founder of character.ai? ;p
I have no military background, but I like Sun Tzu's Art of War for some ideas about one's stance when engaging in "battle": I know it is more of a poetic liking than actual military advice.
Does it seems silly to anybody else to even call these GPUs? That's a GPU minus the G.
In my opinion, the person isn't the organism, the organism makes up the person. That distinction is important when it comes to things like DID, which I have. Even "whole people" becomes questionable when a single organism contains multiple people~

But I still totally agree. My main concern when I was getting prescribed my meds was "will it help me mentally instead of just making me do things?" and the answer was "yes". I didn't actually believe it, until I tried the meds and they freakin' worked. Now I'm just so thankful and grateful I found something that worked so well. I feel like my brain is finally functioning the way it's supposed to. (Neurodivergence included of course~)
So what did you mean by saying jeans manufacturing should not be regulated, and only (?) jeans (and other goods) ownership should be regulated?
Also quality of google search after the first few years didn't meaningfully improve as a user. I'd expect the big ramp up we're in to taper off as well. Once you reach the point where you train a model on the corpus of "the whole internet", that's it, all you can do is incrementally train it. Of course there can be whole new architectures but that's harder to put your eggs in for investing.
As many are guessing, I only knew their online handle and they only knew mine. That was fine, it didn't impact our friendship in any kind of negative way.
It didn't collapse entirely - but by all accounts, it was a major failure.
A housemate many years ago was laid off from a government agency. He said that it was a sure conversation-killer when someone would ask what he did and he would reply, Nothing.

I don't talk about work--theirs or mine--with my neighbors, yet curiously I know what an awful lot of the adults on my block do for a living.
I'll take a robotic vote any day over any kind of conservative bullshit. It really can only get better here, not even kidding. At least if the last things humans do is releasing artificial life forms, its still better than backwards humans killing each other for nonsense tribalism or ancient fairytale books.
I am willing to bet that a model finetuned on HN will be the bombastic and arrogant enough to pass just fine. The bullshit is already there.
Yeah clippy is amazing, but I was thinking things everyone has to do sometimes in rust, but that if you find yourself having to resort to them often might be a hint that your overall paradigm might need a tweak to fit well. I didn't mean unnecessary arcs, but rather necessary ones. I find that if I donthings the way Ferris wants me to, that I dont have arc, rc, refcell, or clone very often, and nothing ends up needing to derive copy. When Ferris is happy my life is easier.
>>> That's the wrong way to learn STEM, and is the fault of your high school.

Indeed, but I would say the high school "system" as a whole, burdened by pressure from parents. And pressure from the state, which was rewarding and punishing schools for test scores and other metrics.

Middle class parents were just gaa-gaa over pushing their kids into STEM programs at top colleges, to the point where it was kind of overbearing. I might have been one of those parents, but my neighbor, a high school math and physics teacher, talked me out of it when my kids were younger.

At the same time, some of the non-STEM classes were pretty hard nosed, like the one were they took apart media and advertising.

Fortunately my kids learned the scientific method at home, same place they learned to read. But it was for the love of knowledge and learning, not to get ahead. That's also how I learned it.
Congrats team! Great to see long awated 1.0 finally shipped!
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I do notice a difference between north and south of Europe (more likely to be asked in the north) but it always felt more like "do you do an interesting job?" more than "can you be useful for my next startup?" :P
"Dario Amodei, the former VP of research at OpenAI, launched Anthropic in 2021 as a public benefit corporation, taking with him a number of OpenAI employees, including OpenAI’s former policy lead Jack Clark. Amodei split from OpenAI after a disagreement over the company’s direction, namely the startup’s increasingly commercial focus."

So Anthropic is the Google-supported equivalent of OpenAI? Isn't the founder going to run into the same issues as before (commercialization at OpenAI)? How does Google not use Anthropic as either something commercial or nice marketing material for its AI offerings?
Musicians have also had incomes become way less evenly distributed, after recording started one star could reach millions, before that you needed to see a musician live to hear music. Tim Hartford did a good pod cast mentioning this.
Aka. "The holodeck is the last invention of a civilization."
I hope these guys do well, but yeah. In my lowly experience, the last 10% of the goal takes 90% of the time.
That attitude can help. (In fact, I think it's pretty close to essential for maintaining your mental health.)

But I still prefer that my code be used, not just thrown away. I want my work to matter for something, for someone, not be just a paycheck. In the short run, sure, things get thrown away. Over a long time, I'll gravitate to situations where my work is used.

> At the end of the day you should shrug, warn of missing deadlines (if that doesn't change their mind) and start again on the new requirements.

Be sure you warn in a way that leaves a paper trail. You're going to need it to protect you from the higher-ups trying to blame you for missing the deadlines.
ISO 646 and 61966? I won’t disagree with your annoyance with ISO water torture[1], but ASCII and sRGB are not the examples of needlessly sprawling web of references I would’ve chosen. Even if sRGB is an utter mess[2], it’s a mess you essentially have to use if you’re doing colour on computers.

[1] https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/x509guide.txt

[2] https://photosauce.net/blog/post/what-makes-srgb-a-special-c...
Problem is consumers will end up with x% worse products (and not necessarily cheaper).
You can use the "favorite" link instead.
This was an rear-seat overhead DVD player, not a console one. Although, I probably would have been better off wiring to the head unit instead. At the time, I still had the factory one in there so it's not quite as expandable and more complicated to add stuff to.
The Free Software Foundation is dying
Isn’t Apple known for integrating DTrace in Leopard back in 2007?
One day at farmers market i was buying tomatoes and the guy asked me what was my job (swe) and he started saying that he was only there to help his brother and that he works for a company that sells firewalls to other companies and tried to sell me the product, while putting tomatoes in a paper bag.
Bear in mind if the OP is primarily focused on business accounts, plenty of servers block them pretty aggressively. There are servers that allow businesses and some businesses with a reasonably decent following, but since there's no advertising business there with an incentive to force people to see business accounts, many people choose not to.
This is exactly the type of thing why I am so excited about LLMs. If they make use widely more productive we can build huge things like this and take on the monopolies in the space. It might lead to a wave of "thought impossible to build" products.
Like others here, technical lego although I will make a specific recommendation. They used to make "test car" sets with gearboxes that work, simulated piston engines, articulated suspension and working steering.

The pinnacle, before they got too realistic body work was lego test car 8865. Once built its robust enough to play with. The engine is a little tricky and the gearbox might be puzzling to an 8 year old but its a great set for learning how a car works without being aimed completely at the grown ups market

https://www.toysperiod.com/lego-set-reference/technic/model/...
"Scientists" and "journalists" are the very people being accused of propagating pseudo-science so who cares what they think? To resolve disputes about whether certain claims are scientific you can't just ask one side and say, "Well? Are you right?".

"The discourse about the replication crisis comes from scientists and is being fixed by the scientific process."

I've also read a lot. Unfortunately, it's not being fixed. There is a small amount of discourse in a small segment of a small set of fields, which has had absolutely no impact whatsoever on common practice in those fields, let alone the wider government research enterprise.

Also, mind that replicability is only one tiny part of the problem. There's also huge problems with papers that misrepresent their own data, use invalid (but replicable) methodologies, abuse statistics, are entirely fraudulent to begin with, are based on logical fallacies, encode extremely ideologically biased ideas into their study design, are based on buggy programs or invalid assumptions, cite documents that contradict the claims being made and so on. Inability to replicate is not the only problem here, even though it's the only one that really gets discussed.

"one diagram in the non-scientific portion of the IPCC report"

It's not a diagram, it claims to be a graph of long term temperature history and is thus the core claim that supports the entire thesis of the summary, and yet it's known to be fraudulent and was previously dropped from IPCC reports for being so. And non-scientific?! The IPCC supposedly a summary of a scientific report, which is itself reporting on and summarizing the science! You don't get to put claims about temperature in the summary that don't appear anywhere in the science, then claim to be summarizing science. Yet they do, and this is just an example. Fraud in apparently scientific claims is out of control, but only conservatives are willing to call it out. Then they get labelled as science deniers. It's actually the other way around though: it's the people who blindly accept anything that looks superficially like science, who are denying true science.

https://climateaudit.org/2021/08/11/the-ipcc-ar6-hockeystick...
Definitely. I see this going even further, probably leading to something akin to programming, i.e. interleaving multiple prompts, one prompt calling another, like lmql or langchain.
Why the downvotes? HN is funny...I spent a portion of my life giving HN users a free glimpse of ChatGPT...and I get downvoted + flagged. ChatGPT might actually be more objective, and less passive-aggressive!
In my experience, anything computers related = "IT guy" or "Computer Guy"

I think it's better to state the field you're in rather than your job title. For example, if you work for a bank, say "finance".
It's a bit early to tell, isn't it?

If we get more unexpected emergent abilities by scaling the model further, things could get very interesting indeed.
After the doomer wave I think we are going to see a lot of incredible projects people have built with these tools
The "value-for-value business models that have the potential to be more fair" is the bewildering part.
I see what you mean. I guess in my mind "people who like cryptocurrency" like it for reasons other than its bigger-fool value proposition.

Yes, I agree that there are many many people out there who don't care one bit for e.g. bitcoin itself, but would be perfectly happy buying a regulated ETF that tracked the price of bitcoin.

I implicitly did not count these people as "liking cryptocurrencies". What they like is money, in particular fiat money.

> These people don't care much about yields, they cannot transfer money via traditional ways for various reasons, and they want governments to stay away from crypto as long as possible.

These are the people I was referring to, who want "no regulation" when they want to do something fine, but "full regulation" if and when they get screwed.

They want insurance only when things go poorly, and see insurance as a waste of money the days when they don't have accidents.
Personally, I can't think of a more likely-to-tell-everyone-in-the-room profession than a journalist.
So far in engineering, as tooling makes us more productive we're just tasked with building more and more complex widgets.

Taking web development as the example - compilers, bundles, linters, git, hosting services, even new languages all made us more productive. Companies could have fired half the engineers and kept building high quality, mostly static sites for their content marketing. Instead we took all the productivity gains and started building every website with the complexity of Facebook.

The risk won't be when we're able to use code assistants, the risk is when an AI can produce deployable code and infrastructure directly. As long as any dev is needed in the middle most businesses won't realize they could cut some engineers because most businesses honestly have no idea what is done on the engineering side.
The Beauty of Pulse Arc Welding
I plead guilty :-) I yelled in the office that I had launched Forest Admin Cloud on hacker news... I guess it is a shared office effect
True. I guess those are almost ASICs in a way just with gpu flavour interface
> get together with friends and family on a community-owned instance

Do you think if I had friends that I would be on social media?
It works exceedingly well in our current system.

The problem comes from people believing they should be paid for willingly giving away the fruits of their labor.

I only use FLOSS and don’t feel I’m missing out at all.
> We believe that companies that train the best 2025/26 models will be too far ahead for anyone to catch up in subsequent cycles.

Now that's some well executed FoMO. What a load of bull**.
This article and study seems to be wrongly conflating "opportunity" with "outcome". They have the same or even more of an opportunity to enter college and succeed than anybody: they're just not getting the same outcome.

> Similar effects exist for students with other types of admissions preferences. A study conducted at Duke University found that legacy students — those who received preferential treatment in admissions because a parent or grandparent graduated from Duke — also abandoned highly quantitative majors because of mismatch effects. Their collective drift away from the sciences cannot be explained by anti-legacy bias, lack of legacy role models, or any other explanations commonly offered to explain minority students’ attrition from science majors. Preparation gaps appear to be, by far, the bigger factor.

Wow, so it appears that middling-IQ legacy students are just not smart enough to hack it in positions they didn't earn, and attempting to artificially place them in roles they didn't earn through merit is a tremendously dumb waste that causes needless problems and social division.

But why can't people who get into college through race-preferential admissions succeed? It remains a complete and utter mystery.
For the Logflare infra, we manage a cluster of around 6 VMs. Not a very complex setup, and no need for k8s as we have a monolith architecture. We also don't scale horizontally as much as the cross-node chatter increases with each additional node.

The supabase infra is much more complex, however.
I wrote this story. And yeah, I was glad so many people responded. People can surprise you; many are happy to talk if you approach them with actual interest and curiosity about their thoughts. Only one told me to f off. Hetter ratio than I've had on other stories, to be honest.