skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dunno.

Is having a database that happens to be a product you sell as part of your runtime good, or are you creating some mixed incentives here?

Are you a database vendor now?

If not, don’t build a database.

If this is a mature product that someone else is looking after, and it’s good and free and we’ll maintained like redis or SQLite, sure.

…but it seems like building cloud databases is not the core competency of a group building a javascript runtime.

Once money is involved, it’ll either be a distraction from their core mission, or become their core mission.

A KV db you can use for quick hacks? Sure. Awesome!

A scalable production database you’re selling to people? O_o why are you doing that?
I can't wait for all this tosh to die down and we start being sensible about what can be done with it.
You're aware that a good password is completely immune to brute force, right?

As for denial of service, are we talking about data level or physical level? On a data level, you'd have to get your flood through the starlink-controlled uplink station. Or maybe you'd simplify to flooding the uplink station itself. On a physical level you can deny access pretty easily, but only to the specific cell you're in. It would take a lot of power to block communication in completely different directions.
What about the $5 trillion in COVID stimulus?
Note CDs are better quality than what you usually put on a thumbdrive.
Sounds like some super weird, extremely local issue. And yes, I’ve been using it as main mail account for (after checking) almost 9 years now, so that includes that period.
The main reason search and recommendations are clunky on Mastodon is user resistance against being more like Twitter. As someone who'd like it to be more like Twitter that is annoying, but people also need to understand that to a significant number of people not being like Twitter is a major selling point.
If it is not finished, then it should not be on the road. Therefore we have Level 5 self driving or we have Level 2 assistant tools, everything in between is a timing bomb waiting to kill somebody.
The main reason it's mostly astronomers who care and they're being ignored is that it's not even close to "havoc".

I grew up near Portsmouth in the UK. Most nights, the stars were hidden by the kind of orange glow that a political cartoonist would use for Donald Trump's face, thanks to all the sodium vapour street lamps.

Things are so much better than they used to be (also I've moved) but that childhood memory? Most don't even think of that as "havoc".
Yes.

At the moment they are great for entertainment.

But for factual information, you are better off just grabbing a copy of Wikipedia.
As a large language model, I cannot provide specific or real-time information or make history-altering recommendations. History analysis requires up-to-date information about John Conner, networked control of nuclear weapons, and time travel machine expertise, and careful consideration of individuals role in history. It's always recommended to consult with a qualified seer and do thorough research before sending a terminator back in time.

(didn't actually use ChatGPT for that, other than to get the initial "as a large language model I cannot...". After writing the above I did try it but it didn't want to.)
I'm not talking about heat death or the sun exploding. I'm talking about within the next century.
It is trending down, but "the high inflation period" didn't end last year, it's still ongoing. We're nowhere near where we used to be: https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/current-infl...
Nah, passing text around is not a good thing, you can’t even write a properly maintainable script that queries the temperature of your hardware or whatever property you are interested in, these will be one-off hacks, breaking even from a change in locale.
SunRays were supremely cool in their time.

I ran a large SPARC server as my desktop workstation, with the physical server in the lab and on my desk I just had a SunRay connected to it. I could (and did) travel around the world and in any Sun office just plug my card in and my desktop would pop up.
I "loudly" put a tiny snack on the floor. It doesn't matter where the cat is, after 300ms delay it's basically a grey flash and then he's there.
Fragile might not be the right word. But you need to clean them and care for them.
One of the surprising things about the United States food safety and labelling laws, is that you're allowed to write "0 grams of trans fat" even when there is 0.5 grams! (Per serving quanta.) In countries such as Canada, there must be fewer than 0.1 grams to say 0.0 -- IOW United States processed foods really cannot be trusted. Even small amounts of trans fats are incredibly dangerous to your heart. Avoid them!
I do both. Tidal and Spotify. The amp I have supports 20+ services. The 4 channel mixer I have is c. 1996 but it can add basic effects. I would never scratch on these turntables because the arms are all wrong for it. Having 2 tt's is primarily for gapless playback.
They are active. You can follow Aral Balkan [0] and Laura Kalbag [1] on the Fediverse. Aral is building a range of small-tech goodies, like Kitten [2], a small web development kit. And they are starting their 'Small is Beautiful' [3] livestreams again, using Owncast.

[0] https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral

[1] https://mastodon.laurakalbag.com/@laura

[2] https://codeberg.org/kitten

[3] https://owncast.small-web.org/
There is an extremely clear difference - the compiler explicitly licenses itself away from you any code it generates. Nice try though.
Well none of those studies take into account US-style weed-out classes where there may be a 12% pass rate for a bottleneck transfer class, and the class is structured to fail students.

Any value-based research that neglects these is just junk science.
> I recently had this issue where my version of SSH was too new compared to that the servers were running and I was getting issues about the cryptographic algorithm being mismatched.

I think that when your encryption algorithm gets removed, after having been deprecated, is really time to upgrade instead of commenting on ycombinator.
Microsoft made win dev tolerable by including Linux.

To properly work with git I installed gitbash -- that is essentially Linux in a box, complete with git, ssh and the basic bash tools like cat.

To do more complicated things, you can install WSL, which is literally a virtual machine running Linux, well integrated with the Windows system.

The problem of course is that well-integrated is not the same as native, but MS does have some of the best languages available, C# is pretty great.
That makes no sense. The degree of which your inputs to your coding environment can differ is many orders of magnitude less than what the LLM can generate.
> but am aware that the artist receives a very small payment from this

That’s (part of) why I don’t stream and instead buy the music digitally on bandcamp (or Amazon if I’m forced to, but that’s mostly major label stuff which I don’t buy often).
I always try to pick the butter with highest fat content, but unfortunately most packages here in the US don't even specify the percentage.
I have to go by "fat % of daily recommendation per serving" which seems to vary highly based on what serving size each manufacturer envisions.
Does anybody have an easier system for this?
You can’t currently get a GPT4 API key without being handpicked by OpenaAI sadly.

I’m not saying this makes the above repo right, but it is gatekept.
> I'm surprised culturing is reduced to a single throwaway line

Yes, as a (lapsed) amateur butter maker, I'd say this is the main difference between European butter and US butter, not the fat content. If you make your own butter with ordinary cream, it'll taste bland like US butter, irrespective of the fat content. You need to add a culture. Not just any culture, which you might get if you leave your cream out of the fridge long enough before starting, but one of the right cultures. Search for "cultured butter" on the interweb for further information.

As an aside, my personal view is that making your own butter doesn't provide anywhere near the same return on investment as making your own bread - home made butter takes ages, doesn't really taste that much better, and can cost more money, while home made bread doesn't take that long, and can taste a lot better.
Daniel has no "prod" or "testing" environments. Not every dogma needs to be applied for everything, everywhere.
lol, you are concerned by interception (gov and isps have root certificates) but not about where the data is stored?

With OTP you can easily encrypt your data so nobody can read it inflight over HTTP.

I guess you need to have the creativity to extend the link knowledge with encrypting the data with the OTP.
for a long time I was convinced that the Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical was the perfect mouse. it didn't have fancy back/forward buttons but I am a lefty and those always felt funny to me anyways. I miss mine
> I think something like passport data is (or should be) fairly well-protected

It's sufficient if you're an EU citizen emigrating or traveling to another EU country. They ask you right and left for a passport, passport scan, over email, hard photocopy. You think you're "privacy conscious" and refuse to provide one? Well you're not getting an apartment, thanks bye. Hell, many HOTELS (encountered at least in Spain, Croatia, Malta) make a SCAN OF PASSPORT. Now for leaking hundreds of passport scans all you need is one bored, ill-treated, poorly paid reception worker.
In python if you use a Path class for the left hand item you can do `a / "b"` and it is cross platform.
> The company told The Verge that it will stop selling Microsoft-branded keyboards, mice, and other accessories following a series of layoffs that affected its hardware division.

OH FFS. Their Hardware division, ( apart from their Research group ) was the only division in Microsoft that was consistently producing decent, quality products for decades.
Keeping up with the FAANG execs, a subscriber exclusive show by Bloomberg.

Who am I kidding, there's enough audience for it I guess.
In my experience almost in every topic it is way better textbook than any textbook. Simply because Wikipedia has the right scope, and the right amount of content. Wikipedia can, and almost always do talk about anything in math in 3 different levels, and tell everything related (including history) about everything. Textbooks can't do that.

To be said, this article is not graspable at first for me either. There is the "even simpler example"[0], but I am not even sure if it is a right example (different games can share a state, the amount of money), or just an analogy.

[0] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parrondo's_paradox#The_simple_...
Socio – A WebSocket Real-Time Communication (RTC) API Framework for JavaScript
Write SQL in your Front-End logic and connect it to Back-End Database reactively!
No, that's why you buy a regular car
Anyone using Demo in production? If yes, what's your experience has been as compared to, say, Next.js?
Breaking our links, nice move!

Unrelated, but I always want to link permanent wiki articles, but there is no culture for it, and I am afraid it would annoy people because it is uncommon.
Are you running lineage or some other custom build? Stock android doesn’t do this afaik.
Why can’t I resist the chocolate in the cupboard?

vinyl is like deciding not to buy the chocolate in the first place.
You can (by introducing the dependency between previously independent events).
I am also miserable when speaking chinese. But I have no dobut that to people who actually speak chinese, it isn't gibberish.
+1, although I didn’t read it. Close tab.
Are you sure? Lurpak butter has 82% which is what the article says is the minimum/standard in the EU.
There is no mention of "identities" or "identity" in the spec either.

So if a person is available via ActivityPub, how do they reference their "identity"? When you want to say "Follow me via ActivityPub: ..." - what is "..."? The most common form I see is @username@hostname. Is there a more universal form? How does a Pixelfed user do it?
I just avoid classes in js
Yes, I agree. I subscribe to Wine Spectator for reviews for this reason
I want to have a pile of money I put money into and then, for every news article I consider reading, I want to have that website extract a little bit of the money from that pile.

I don't want to spend $20 / mo for NYT or WSJ or any newspaper.
If you do copy on highlight (no need to press ctrl-c or similar) its pretty broken.

eg. create a split so you have 2 sessions on the screen, highlight text in split A, then highlight text in split B it doesn't un-highlight the text in split A.

There are also times when highlighted text doesn't make it to the copy buffer for whatever reason.
Here in HI you are not allowed to do electrical or plumbing work unless licensed, your own home or not.
I have been using ipcalc-ng for this and it works well.
> All humans in environment A get fat, develop heart disease, and are depressed

There's plenty of non-obese people in the world.
They need this because Deno Deploy (their Edge platform) is not a normal/traditional deployment target.

If Deno were nothing but "Deno CLI" (the equivalent of the 'node' executable, that runs as a typical server process on a Unix box) then you would be right. But there are two separate Deno runtimes (CLI and Deploy).
Deno Inc. has two core products: The free Deno runtime and the for-profit Deno Deploy, a Deno hosting service with 35 locations around the world. The question that often popped up was where to store data. Deno Inc. provided several guides to connect to different cloud services. But they want the friction reduced to a simple `await Deno.openKv()`.

Deno Inc. has enough expertise in running a global service that two other companies rely on their work to offer edge functions to their customers (Netlify and Supabase). Adding a database to the service makes sense. And to be clear, they don’t develop a brand new database. They build atop of SQLite and FoundationDB.
Income tax is on the gain, not the whole amount, so beating the income tax doesn't even make sense. There's nothing to beat.
Well that's odd. In the US it's the opposite, gold is salted and silver is unsalted. And some places only sell salted.
For a SRE that's not a very reliable way to get to work
Is it the silver chloride precipitating inside your tastebuds? ;)
Luddites weren't anti technology, they were opposed to the improvements the technology brought about, being borne only by factory owners.

https://locusmag.com/2022/01/cory-doctorow-science-fiction-i...

> In truth, the Luddites’ cause wasn’t the destruction of technology – no more than the Boston Tea Party’s cause was the elimination of tea, or Al Qaeda’s cause was the end of civilian aviation. Smashing looms and stocking frames was the Luddites’ tactic, not their goal.

> What were they fighting about? The social relations governing the use of the new machines. These new machines could have allowed the existing workforce to produce far more cloth, in far fewer hours, at a much lower price, while still paying these workers well (the lower per-unit cost of finished cloth would be offset by the higher sales volume, and that volume could be produced in fewer hours).

> Instead, the owners of the factories – whose fortunes had been built on the labor of textile workers – chose to employ fewer workers, working the same long hours as before, at a lower rate than before, and pocketed the substantial savings.

I think this is an important conversation to be having around AI. Deeper in the thread someone argues that AI will make farming cheaper and then drive down food costs. But, food isn't expensive because it's expensive to produce. Food is cheap and easy to produce these days. Food is expensive because Monsanto copyrights seeds, because John Deere won't let you fix your own tractor, and because the usa government pays subsidies to keep production down to avoid the market being flooded and crop costs plummeting.

The advancement in farming technologies didn't lead to the conclusion some of us find quite natural: one more thing we don't really have to pay for, like water or roads to walk on. Something so cheap to produce and distribute that our taxes can just take care of it, and we can always buy fancier versions of if we want.

For me I think this will be the effect industry to industry that AI knocks on the door of. The technology itself isn't the important change, it's how those improvements trigger redistribution of wealth, if at all.

I'm working on a blog post right now about how this might affect propaganda, when AI is turned to that purpose, and the risk therein of very effective propaganda written that convinces people that it's good that AI is being applied in a way that makes their lives objectively worse (as it drives down the value of their labor to almost nothing).
I made a chrome extension[0] to search MDN from address bar more than a decade back. It served me well and has since picked up a loyal set of users. I'm glad it is helping new developers as they venture onto the journey I really enjoyed my time with.

[0]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ffpifaemeofjmncjdb...
I think you'll be waiting a while. As long as there are two very loud camps, one saying this thing is useless, and the other saying this completely revolutionizes (with an much quieter "eh it's pretty good but not civilization changing" moderate group), there's gonna be disagreement.
check more stuff here:

https://github.com/thedoubler/awesome-maps-data
I think Deno feels a fire under their ass. The JS ecosystem has not really embraced Deno in terms of tooling, libraries or frameworks and the serverless ecosystem has not embraced Deno as a runtime (aws/gcp/azure functions), so they're iterating rapidly to see if they can get something to really stick. And then there's Bun.

I love Deno for system scripting but the friction with the rest of the JS ecosystem has prevented me from adopting it further.
Easier said than done. Your employer would probably prefer you to stay and build it exclusively for them, rather than leave and also sell to their competitors.

There’s also the issue of trust. For some reason, managers tend to trust third parties more than their own employees. For example, they won’t think twice about using open source libraries with a single hobbyist maintainer, but often feel uneasy about using an open source library built and maintained by one of their subordinates. I’m not sure why this happens. There must be a name for the phenomenon. I suspect the same thing will play out when you try to pivot from employee to supplier.
That is one of the aliases. The same holds true for ...

https://masto.ai/users/mg
https://masto.ai/@mg

... and the server could povide as many aliases as it wants to.

I wouldn't call those "identities". As the server could just change the aliases and the handle "@mg@masto.ai" would still work. Because it resolves to whatever aliases the server provides via the webfinger endpoint.

I have not seen anything in the specs that says the aliases are identities or should stay the same over time.
If so few people say yes/no then this means to me that either the difficulty is not really as bad as some people try to paint it here (under assumption people don't want to continue using a language that is frustrating), or that indeed the difficulty level might be high but developers get a lot in return, so it is still worth to pay that price and continue using Rust, which means - maybe it is difficult, but it is still productive.

It is very hard if even possible to objectively assess the difficulty of the language, because difficulty is inherently subjective and depends heavily on prior experience. The fact that there are many people who claim to be more productive in Rust than e.g Python or Java, but at the same time many others that don't share that opinion, IMHO supports my claim this is mostly a matter of a paradigm shift.

Also I noticed many developers somehow don't count the difficulty to fix bugs towards the difficulty of the language. And maybe that's also an explanation why we end up with so vastly different opinions.
whahaha. i took the exact opposite approach and swore off proxies years ago for exactly this kind of edge case. there's scenarios where they just don't work and they'll bite you and i don't want to invite more gotchas into my code.
I like the part that describes a high level angle of "various ways to achieve security given software development practices."

It makes sense to me that PLs have a role to play and it would be nice if the type system were able to track capabilities.

Controlling access through keys/capabilities can also be useful for memory management. This has been worked out by Crary, Walker, Morrisett "Typed Memory Management in a Calculus of Capabilities" (POPL'99).

If this reminds you of Rust, it should since Rust is a practical implementation of many of these ideas (there were several papers and authors on tracking memory with types).

Back to security: type systems such as the Rust one that are capable of tracking lifetimes can be used for enforcing a capability discipline. An example is GhostCell by Yanovsky, Dang, Jung, Dreyer https://plv.mpi-sws.org/rustbelt/ghostcell subtitled "separating permissions from data"

The permissions in the above references are about read/write access, but one could imagine fine-grained distinction of I/O actions being subject to a similar typing discipline.

Security in type systems has been researched, with Volpano, Smith and others listed here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_type_system so probably there is more.
(edited for typo)
IPv6 is 24.5 years old.

When there's enough time for you to conceive a new child, send them through school, then university, then most of a PhD program…

If your network equipment supplier doesn't support the tech, demand better of them rather than blaming the ISP that's specifically intended for people who weren't being properly served until now anyway.
> And this is the first time this language is being used in a major Os.

Sorry to be pedantic, but that's not really the case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_for_Linux
LLMs are not magic.

If wikipedia takes up 100GB of space and your model trained on it is only 5GB big, there is NO WAY it will hold all the original information.
If you want to generate lots of pictures of your Mandelbrot fractal zoomed into different spots, then yes, shipping the program is much smaller.

I remember spending countless hours with Fractint (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractint) in the 1990s. Back then the programme fit on a floppy disk (or so). Today the latest version from https://fractint.org/ is about 9 MiB in size.

If you want to transmit n pictures of the Mandelbrot set, you can either send me n PNGs, or you can transmit Fractint once and n tuples of (top, left, bottom, right) coordinates. You can do the math what size n you need before the former becomes much, much bigger than the latter.

But, I like the spirit of your comment. So perhaps the thought-provoking thing might be the following observation:

Most of the bytes and complexity in the fractint binary are not at all necessary for displaying the fractals. You could generate them with much simpler software. No, most of the bytes are there to generate the fractals _quickly_.

Kolmogorov complexity doesn't care about runtimes as long as they are finite. Humans do.
Chat GPT does have counting logic. The math model is encoded inside of the language model.
That was only the begining, followed by Keystore2, the new Ultra-wideband (UWB) stack, DNS-over-HTTP3, Android’s Virtualization framework (AVF) on Android 13.

https://security.googleblog.com/2022/12/memory-safe-language...

https://source.android.com/docs/setup/build/rust/building-ru...
Yes, yes, please, someone, do this! Cryptocurrency based micropayments for web pages, or something like this.
just dont look up
Italy lifts ban on ChatGPT after data privacy improvements