skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Automatically Generate Company Names with Available Domains
I have found myself running into the issue where I think of a great project or company name, but the domain is already taken multiple times. I decided to create this simple project which uses openai and route53 (hence the name) to generate available domains for a company based on keywords, rather than just come up with new company names.
I think it’s reasonable to critique anything and everything. People have, historically, been over eager to believe any AI hype. Hence the numerous AI winters.
Right here, but the entire talk is great: https://youtu.be/lKXe3HUG2l4?t=1431
Show HN: Transform data directly in PostgreSQL DB with just SQL skills
Hey Everyone,

I built https://querysimple.com, its a tool that allows you to transform data directly in the PostgreSQL with just SQL skills.

- Creation of tables
- Data syncs
- Error and status reporting
- Scheduling queries

All of this is taken care by the application. You just write your select SQL queries.

I would love some feedback from the community on the tool. You can watch a video demo, there is no need to signup. Of course, if you want to signup and give it a try that would be great!
Am I right in that it's Poe's law[0] that's getting the workout today?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
I'm happy to agree to disagree about where the line between "division" and "division like" should be placed. As you say, it is a question of convention and not really a question of math. But I don't agree that a student with the curiosity to ask about extending the numbers in various ways would not find something "division like" with the properties they're interested in to be relevant to the question (even if it is missing some other properties that most mathematicians consider to be essential to the notion of division).
When I was a tester first thing I’d do was fill every text box with Ws just to see what ran over. Good to remember as a dev now.
> if your daughters couldn't leave their house for fear of the man under the bridge raping them, then you might change your answer. It absolutely changed my answer.

Quite possibly as I don't pretend to be a saint who always puts society ahead of myself. (Edit: this is the heart of the tragedy of the commons, everyone is making rational choices we can be sympathetic with but the end result is that things end up getting worse for everyone over the long term.)

However, I would do it with a heavy heart since I know that while I am protecting my (hypothetical) daughters, I am doing so at the cost of putting someone else's daughters at risk instead while also making the overall situation worse.
I hope that CA does not follow the UK down the path of absolutely fucking insane policies to try to hide the utterly insane state of their housing market(s).

The UK has policies like this (utilized by my niece to buy an apartment in London): buy 60$, rent 40% ... since you're only buying 60%, the downpayment requirements drop, so more people qualify. But wait, won't they have to pay rent as well as the mortgage? Why yes, they will indeed. But doesn't that mean that their monthly payments are still essentially unsound, as they would have been if they had bought 100% ? It certainly does, which is why this plan requires government backing to exist in the first place.
You had me until "Right wing nutjobs gonna nutjob?"
$73/month for YouTube TV

$350/season for the added subscription

Ads

No local games

No primetime games

Hard pass for me.
Agree, search engines should be banned.
> Your contention is that any and all poor performance is due to the pandemic, not in any way related to Brexit?

Your interpretation of the parent post is mistaken. They are saying that if you wish to try to isolate the effects of Brexit from the effects of the pandemic (and the recovery) in your analysis you should compare 4 years' data.
Based on my admittedly limited understanding of the Flynn effect, the thing that's notable about this is not that American IQs are going down, because the same thing has been observed in Norwegian, UK, and Australian groups as well. The interesting thing about this is that until recently America was somewhat unusual in that measured IQs had NOT been going down or plateauing like they had in many other countries. The article makes no mention of the observed Flynn effect reversal, and would seem to imply that it is unique to America.

(I think all of this is really silly, and put very little credence in IQ tests as an instrument, or lean on the Flynn effect as anything but a sort of interesting metaphor for progress in the 20th century)
I mean this is clearly not the case with LLM. They create value today even though they are not AGI yet.
I stressed over this and finally gave in and got a P365, which I tore down and measured various things to assure it wasn’t as naughty as a P320. I wouldn’t even carry (EDC) a nice Glock which some PD reverted to, because of the unfortunate possibility of inadvertent discharge when re-holstering. For the P320 there was no real visibility of the risk from a slight trigger movement - for the Glock you know anything that moves the trigger safety opens the envelope.
Give the doctor an AI tool which is fast and 99.999% accurate. Since they have automation now, give them a massive workload, so they can’t reasonably check everything. Now the machine does the work and the doctor is just the fall-guy if it messes up.
I'm a Ntfy user and I really love this tool! Thank you so much for your work
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I immediately thought about that, my first go at it started with a big glitchy rapidly-flashing ball right in the middle of the screen. (Not sure if it should be like that? iOS safari, iOS16.0) Kind of the worst case scenario.
I'm going to start saying: "Art Vandelay", Architect
With regards to the negative interpretation having positive value, yes - working in a company that values ‘not failing in particular cases’ higher than ‘working in general, room for improvement’.

For example in a conservative corporation where a given project requires a ‘go’ from several departments were the success of the project does not give an immediate advantage to those departments, but a failure will require them to explain why they didn’t ‘catch it in review’.

Not an example to follow, but pretty common IME.
Even worse, too much “beauty” can end up being distracting, and thereby reduce usability. Good UI is like good film music — you don’t notice that it’s even there.
Approximately none. Which is why I would be fine with javac generating a synthetic public static void main(string[] args) that forwards to it when the pattern is encountered.

In this setup the generated classes/jars work fine without extra flags to java and even work on older jvm installations if you pass the right flags to javac at build time. I really struggle to come up with a reason to implement this as a change to java vm over just javac.
He is too big to jail. He legally/lawfully been spending nice chunk of revenue for lobbying and has many ex-politicians working for him. So unless you operate in gray area (maybe one day your car will self drive) and not in black area (our machines never worked and actually some people even die because of misdiagnosis), you should be good to continue. I also think he has reason to attach himself so much to politics - you already have many republicans like Jim Jordan strongly defending him (like with Trump) regardless of any law breaking.
Blacked out games also make it a nonstarter.
"WordGrinder needs the following packages installed:
<...>
- an OpenGL/GLFW development kit (if you want the OpenGL frontend). This is
supplied with most systems."

That's one hell of a terminal based word processor. I wonder why vim doesn't have an opengl frontend? >_<
You might benefit from looking at personal experiences of what a psych ward is like. There's a furry comic called Fresh Meat about the partially fictionalized experiences of a teenaged girl in for attempted suicide, where one of the beginning sections she is forced out of bed from a dead sleep in order to be transferred to another ward by being shoved out of bed and then when she's asked not to be touched the nurse tells her there's much worse that can be done to her besides touching. She is also withheld food and water until she signs a consent form that allows her to be kept indefinitely, but also she cannot leave the facility on her own will because she's in a psychiatric hold.
Blood-Glucose-Powered Metabolic Fuel Cell for Self-Sufficient Bioelectronics
What about those of us who’d like to defend their reputation by staying as far away from “Web3” as possible?
Not 200 million but certainly plenty enough to impact the financial security of trade jobs. People DIY for fun. Now you’re saying it’s the best way to make a living? Well, sure - let’s give it a go. Who will train all these people? Recall we just put multiple industries out of business with a masterful reference and generation program
That's fascinating. Thanks for the pointer.
It only applies to first time homebuyers. That's not fuel for property speculators.
Then Daniel Goleman arrived and popularized the notion of a number of other qualities as superior predictors

("Emotional Intelligence", "Focus"¹, grit...)

[¹Capitalized as they are also book titles]
> many designers feel the established design systems like Material are insufficient for some reason

Because Material is awful?

In their original iteration they had to do a study with 600 people to find out that text inputs should look like text inputs https://medium.com/google-design/the-evolution-of-material-d...

Their latest abomination has almost nothing aligned optically: https://twitter.com/dmitriid/status/1643607965935476737 When there are 5 elements, they follow 5 different guidelines: https://twitter.com/dmitriid/status/1643682248959328258

> That is OK, if you know the rules you can break them, but often they don't know the rules either

And that's the problem with what I call "dribbble-raised designers" ("designers" of Material UI included): they work for the designs to look nice in static screenshots on presentation pages without much scrutiny, and that's it.
> When presented with this tradeoff, the path of least resistance is to say “Let’s just keep the threshold lower. We’d rather get woken up when there’s nothing broken than sleep through a real problem.” And I can sympathize with that attitude. Undetected outages are embarrassing and harmful to your reputation. Surely it’s preferable to deal with a few late-night fire drills.

> It’s a trap.

> In the long run, false positives can — and will often — hurt you more than false negatives. Let’s learn about the base rate fallacy.

Not sure about anyone else, but speaking of alarms, this style of writing trips my "self-promoting snake-oil Internet bullshitter" alarm. It's like nails on a damn chalkboard, and if you're writing like this, you've already lost me; however, maybe I ought not be pointing that out, since signals are nice to have.

Incidentally, I wasn't sure which way the author was gonna go with the core analogy. My smoke alarms have false-alarmed probably 10x as much as my car alarm, even counting times one of us has hit the alarm button on the fob by accident. I've certainly never been so annoyed by my car alarm that I've ripped it out and stuck it in a freezer, as I have with a smoke alarm.

(If I were writing like the author I suppose that last part would have read:

"I've certainly never been so annoyed by my car alarm that I've ripped it out and stuck it in a chest freezer.

I have, with a smoke alarm."

Except also I'd have found a way to use "we" and "you" a bunch.)
Is it that much different from other APIs serving large numbers of users?

(other than the large GPU costs and lower request throughput per instance)
The Semicolon Wars (2008)
No, IPV is NOT better in all ways. And your link verifies that fact.

Specifically IPV only protects you from serious illness. OPV stops transmission. Therefore where polio is endemic, you need to supply OPV to end transmission. Once polio is no longer endemic, IPV guarantees protection without the additional risks that OPV brings to those around who are immunocompromised or not immunized.
that was what could be proved in court personally (that she had intent)

when it comes to the patient health there was not this clear paper trail
In my experience its terrible for juniors, and tough right now for senior devs. I'm applying for Snr SRE/Devops roles -- I maybe get a 50 percent response rate since my resume looks good.

Get the call with the recruiter -- bla bla bla - we will submit your profile to hiring manager and typically ends there. Its like they are playing games and intentionally messing with you. Somewhere in the process I fall between the cracks, and its rinse and repeat.

Its time consuming and you basically do free work (take-homes), or even assessments as part of the application. Very morale reducing.

Seems like the jobs in demand are for principals/leads/ or management roles.

A year ago with less experience it was much easier to get final round interviews.

I've cast a wide fishing net, applying to jobs on Linkedin, through Slack channels, and posted on Hackernews. But to be frank, basically it goes nowhere.

I'm using my time to upskill and read books on tech topics, take video boot camps, and sharpen my coding skills. Its hard to stay motivated without an incentive really. Seems like techies are disposable at this moment and requires a huge ego check.

It sort of baffles me -- tech jobs are abundant and I'm not picky --- like trying to work as a game dev at a AAA studio or be a screenwriter in Hollywood.

BS and recruiting hell seem to be the norm now
I am still sure if I understand what the product does. Seems like a list of affiliate products. Can anyone explain?
The general case is quite reliable. If a commenter posts the way you did, the expected value is most certainly a flamewar, and that's obviously the basis on which we have to moderate the site, precisely because we can't predict the specific outcome in any given case.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
These are somewhat obscure PostgreSQL SQL commands:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/sql-listen.html

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/sql-notify.html

I think they have been around for ages, but handling the LISTEN responses may need special client library support.
One of the rare moments I simply don't understand how something gets upvoted that much on HN.

Edit: this is like "get rich by just following this". It's not wrong, but so much facepalm-inducing, and it's just 100 bucks. Sorry, but: WTF?

In my mind there is a bot army upvoting this article at work right now.
Very low IQ is predictive of poorer outcomes in wealth and income. That's about it. https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-...
I'd be surprised if there are any studies that show this.

Anecdotal evidence: me. Can reliably get high scores in IQ tests. Trained to pass IQ tests as a child. Regularly questions the validity of IQ in internet comments.
This seems an oversimplication of radiology. Things are not black and white, we are talking years of training on specific subjects to be able to “see” an image. I believe AI will help, but it will need supervision, at the same rime the doctors are going to get trained on the difficult border cases. Also deanonimizing data for training is a big deal. This is not happening any time soon.
> CA will make money if home prices increase

Wouldn’t CA also make money by allowing more housing to be built instead of playing finance shell games ?
This is really cool. I write a lot of long text in him but find it not perfect for that task. This looks really amazing and I’m glad to know about it.

I really like that it sticks to the CLI ethos of doing one thing very well.

Thank you for your work.
A lot of humans fake it until they make it. A lot of humans are lazy. A lot of humans are given responsibility of things that they are unqualified for. A lot of humans make mistakes.

The military, for all its funding and all its training and all its planning, has lost multiple nuclear weapons, on American soil.

We are imperfect machines who aspire to build more perfect versions of ourselves, through children and now through AI. By many measures, we’ve succeeded. The progress will almost certainly continue. The question is, when will it be good enough for you to embrace it despite its imperfections?
SaaS companies know this too. They'll charge a higher price than they're actually looking to get because they know that if you provide a concession at every step of the chain of the customer (biz dev, salesperson, VP, CTO, CEO, etc) in the buying journey, you are more likely to be bought over a company who had a lower overall price but didn't provide concessions. There are people in procurement who literally exist only to extract concessions from the seller.
There are different levels of AGI. They might have achieved a low grade AGI which is busy improving itself...
It's not all one or the other, I'm more of a layer-at-a-time developer and within a layer development can be inside-out (start with an algorithm and add an interface) or outside-in (start with an interface and mockup, then add the internals later).
It’s possible they actually wanted someone dumb so maybe the test worked as intended
That doesn't mean anything about the quality of his courses or exams. Lots of world-class professors phone it in on their teaching responsibilities because they don't care. I had several of them in school - usually more prestigious professors had worse courses.

I can guarantee you that ChatGPT cannot do anything that a quantum computing class prepares you to do, aside from passing this final. That makes it a bad test.

ChatGPT, in a sense, is the police on that front.
I guess the million dollar question is what are the problems where a 95% solution works.
The function of raising rates is to destroy money to reduce money supply - so there is less money to cause inflation, and that means reducing both credit and deposits via deleveraging
It supports more formatting than notepad does. The project link has a site that includes screenshots: http://cowlark.com/wordgrinder/screenshots.html

My first thought was to compare this to MSDOS edit or *nix nano, but it has basic formatting that they lack. While I doubt I would ever use this for real work, I enjoy that it exists. Back when I was in college I used to pull the PCMCIA wifi card out of my laptop, put AbiWord in full screen mode, and write papers without distractions. It was a great way to write, and this tool seems like the terminal equivalent.
Musk killed the APIs that enabled third party tools like TweetBot. Twitter is close to unusable now.
It's AI all the way down...
But you have to pay for forecasts from a government run app? On their app homepage it’s due to a court ruling??
> Postgres is probably the best solution for every type of data store for 95-99% of projects.

I'd say it's more like:

- 95.0%: SQLite

- 4.9%: Postgres

- 0.1%: Other
Why does this make it beneficial to outlaw athiesm?
Here is what Steve Jobs said about this in 1983 (copied from the book):

"The problem was, you can’t ask Aristotle a question. And I think, as we look towards the next fifty to one hundred years, if we really can come up with these machines that can capture an underlying spirit, or an underlying set of principles, or an underlying way of looking at the world, then, when the next Aristotle comes around, maybe if he carries around one of these machines with him his whole life—his or her whole life—and types in all this stuff, then maybe someday, after this person’s dead and gone, we can ask this machine, “Hey, what would Aristotle have said? What about this?” And maybe we won’t get the right answer, but maybe we will. And that’s really exciting to me. And that’s one of the reasons I’m doing what I’m doing."
I would assume that if "probability that other users will positively engage with a tweet" is the primary determiner of reach, then the more you can help Twitter accurately predict that probability, the better, because otherwise the default probability is likely no higher than middle-of-the-pack.

If that assumption holds, then I would guess this type of algorithm favors consistency of content. In other words, someone who picks a certain topic and consistently tweets only about that topic is going to be easier to form predictions around versus someone whose tweets show much more variety, in topics, styles, etc.

What that might mean, from a "gaming the system" point of view, is that if you're a person who intends to primarily tweet about two or three disparate things, you might be better off creating a separate account for each, rather than a single account where engagement is harder to predict.
Please let's not have the nth (or n-thousandth) celebrity flamewar about this celebrity. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35530201.
Postgres job queue in Elixir: Oban

"a million jobs a minute"

https://getoban.pro/articles/one-million-jobs-a-minute-with-...
It's gotten quite a bit safer and healthier, but it is still a quite gnarly job.
Medical Scans are reviewed abroad. This practice started in Dentistry in the 90s/early 2000s but expanded to Radiological scans as well. At this point most CT, MRI, and XRay scans in the US have a first pass analysis done by doctors in India+Pakistan.

Medical billing has also been offshored to India+Pakistan btw

In general, a lot of back office Dental+Medical functions were outsourced in the 2000s+2010s.

Eg. Paper about this from 2006 - https://ipc.mit.edu/sites/default/files/2019-01/06-005.pdf
For example C/C++, with the help of something like: https://www.absint.com/astree/index.htm

But there are actually other languages that are better suited to such methods: More or less everything from the functional space is quite well applicable to those.
IQ has racist and eugenicist origins, not understanding that in 2023 can only be described as willful ignorance.
You get the local station advertisement (as if you were watching the game in-market), but you can switch to any other live game during commercials. It also includes the DirecTV Red Zone channel[0], which basically does that for you and tries to just show whichever games are currently at exciting moments. That's honestly one of the best ways to watch, because they just switch away from any games that have an ad break. Presumably it will be changing or going away entirely, since DirecTV no longer has the rights to these broadcasts.

There's also a "Fantasy Zone" channel for fantasy football stuff, but I've never actually watched that one.

[0] Not to be confused with the "NFL RedZone" channel, a completely different television broadcast that does the exact same thing, but hosted by a different dude.
Why do you say she'd instantly get caught?
Just to mention one thing that isn't user facing (and therefore not so obvious): Social media companies dealing with user-generated content have to build their own enforcement mechanisms (abuse, copyright infringement, etc.), which is at least an order of magnitude harder than the user facing content engine itself.