skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Especially as we're not training the LLMs on really specialized stuff

Internet content does not go as deep as it would ideally be in some areas.

For example, do training sets contain ArXiv data? Or other stuff behind a paywall?

LLMs know very little about XX century literature.
I literally sit in cybersecurty chat channels where people who know tons still cannot get the "plenty of tools" to block this to work correctly. The ones that do have spent thousands on equipment and monitoring capabilities. You don't even come in with examples of how to do it properly, let alone for non-swe/network engineer/ families to do it. Just hand-waving away "i'm sure mobile devices could".

It's nothing like a parent bringing home the beers. In order to participate in education and social life your kids need access to the internet and devices. You parents are giving you a tool to do a job that comes with a negative externality of being able to access adult websites (and anything else on the internet).

It's not ridiculous for parents to vote for representatives who will put legal blocks in place to force a change since there's no way to vote with your dollar here, even if the source is religion where making children is a core tenant.

I'm very familiar with living with LDS. I'm in Idaho.
> I'm wondering if the countries moving off the dollar reserve are countries we would even want on the dollar

The US Government has gone to War with or at the very least militarily involved with the entire World except for 3 countries: Andorra, Bhutan, and Liechtenstein. You vastly underestimate how much bad blood US Government has created over the years with various countries in their own capacities. Heck the USG spies on its own all-weather Allies and recently blew up the Nord Stream Pipeline (in a covert operation no less).

> I get that Russia, China would try to diversify — not a surprise though.

You might want to include India in the list too. And it should come as a surprise to you that there are plenty of other countries, who have been historically neutral, are badly wanting to diversify and de-dollarize. India now does trade directly in INR with 18 countries [1]. Just a year ago there were only 4 countries we traded in INR with (this is apart from the 18 new countries that we added recently). If this doesn't ring alarm bells nothing else will.

> (The article mentions the "Global South" - I had to look it up. That's a pretty broad region that includes all of South America, Mexico, all of Africa, South Asia.... it seems unlikely all these regions are moving off the dollar.)

You are unfortunately living in a bubble.

[1]: https://www.wionews.com/business-economy/rbi-allows-banks-fr...
They’re a strong argument against the Americans dissuading others from using the dollar as a reserve currency.

In any case, the secular dollar shorts are a perennial watering hole for our FX community. Similar to gold or commodity ETFers.
What sort of inflation would take it from 2700 to 37,000 since 1987? How close to the CPI is that, exactly? It seems a little off.
Okay so functional languages need to thread a lot of function parameters. In languages with algebraic effects, receiving an implicit parameter can be modeled as an effect (that's what Rust people want to have with capabilities https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/rlmbg2/contexts_and_c... - watered down effects to pass around implicit parameters).

In languages with monads (which is another formulation of effects, but reified into a concrete type - monads are to effects like Result is to exceptions), it's the Reader monad

Haskell has actual implicit parameters, but while they have a clever implementation they aren't used in practice because they have serious problems - they use type constraints which interacts with type inference in nontrivial ways https://chrisdone.com/posts/whats-wrong-with-implicitparams/

So.. in Haskell, people end up using the ReaderT pattern (which is like, you wrap your monad in a ReaderT transformer so you can have implicit parameters threaded everywhere in your program - making some sort of composable globals) https://www.fpcomplete.com/blog/2017/06/readert-design-patte...

And this is all about reducing the boilerplate of threading parameters to functions

Bonus: in Emacs lisp implicit parameters are everywhere, because the language uses dynamic binding https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DynamicBindingVsLexicalBindi... this means that any variable that is not a local variable implicitly becomes an implicit parameter (Haskell implicit parameters are a controlled form of dynamic binding). Needless to say this is a mess, but highly appropriate for a moddable environment, like a game or, in this case, an IDE. RMS gives this rationale

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3786033/how-to-live-with...

> Some language designers believe that dynamic binding should be avoided, and explicit argument passing should be used instead. Imagine that function A binds the variable FOO, and calls the function B, which calls the function C, and C uses the value of FOO. Supposedly A should pass the value as an argument to B, which should pass it as an argument to C.

> This cannot be done in an extensible system, however, because the author of the system cannot know what all the parameters will be. Imagine that the functions A and C are part of a user extension, while B is part of the standard system. The variable FOO does not exist in the standard system; it is part of the extension. To use explicit argument passing would require adding a new argument to B, which means rewriting B and everything that calls B. In the most common case, B is the editor command dispatcher loop, which is called from an awful number of places.

> What's worse, C must also be passed an additional argument. B doesn't refer to C by name (C did not exist when B was written). It probably finds a pointer to C in the command dispatch table. This means that the same call which sometimes calls C might equally well call any editor command definition. So all the editing commands must be rewritten to accept and ignore the additional argument. By now, none of the original system is left!
That would depend on my absolute income and my overall situation at any given time, just like the tax I pay to support society in my own country.
Anduril Announces Lattice for Mission Autonomy
Alternatively: IBM automates itself away
Because companies have to raise prices to the point of replacement. When selling something, that should cover the costs of production of the replacements in order to be able to sell it again. This means the current price has to account for the future costs adjusted to inflation. And this is when inflation gets exponential.
I intentionally picked a DECT audio-only monitor on a shelf of high-tech gizmos. Secure, local, doesn't reward the monkey-brain need to "just check in" like video would, and works without configuration in a different building. Would do it again for sure.
First of all, sorry for the spelling mistake (head/heard.)

You are correct, I didn't know about Pipelines. However I don't use Bitbucket myself. I only use it when a customer uses it and this was the first customer of mine that uses Pipelines. I remember that I setup a pipeline for a new project and it was easy to do it.

In general I'm always surprised by the amount of different products that do the same thing and I never heard about. The diversity is good, my ignorance is bad. However there is a limit on the number of things one can use.
oh come on!

Corp profits dont help, but they're about as consequential as wage increases.

Its sticky because of the money printing done in the past, and still happening.

They printed a TON of money, its devalued our $$$'s. This is the direct consequence.
Would a BRICS Common Currency Work? [video]
I am sorry that you didn't get any value from reading my article. I only mentioned the program at the end and it's something optional if the reader is interested in. I am not forcing anyone to buy my program and also not saying that you can only overcome anxiety if you buy my program. The heading "How to overcome anxiety?" comes with tools and practical tips that helped me on my healing journey. If you have some recommendations on what helps you with deal with stress, etc., I would love to hear it as it will probably be beneficial to others too. Thanks for the feedback!
Agree on the callout. This one we are going to enable soon so it's fixable. So the correction is that it's architecturally possible, but temporarily disabled. Hope we will be able to run Supabase on it soon!

Also there are some storage plugins that won't work b/c we take over Postgres low level storage.
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I'm already being fully parented by Apple, so what difference is more parenting tech going to make?
My daily driver is my Platinum Century (3776). The lavender colour just makes me feel like using it more.
Also Vercel CEO has previous investment in both Upstash and Neon.
Anecdotal, but it feels like there are less competitors. So…
Show HN: Public data research using ChatGPT
After trying some queries, I found ChatGPT is good at finding public data, sometimes it may not be accurate, but overall, pretty good.

Then why don't we make the data in a beautiful way ready to share?

Columns + ChatGPT (alpha) is for data researchers!
Looking forward to any feedback or suggestion...
America has a loneliness epidemic. Here are 6 steps to address it
It doesn't hurt that (old) Edge had a worse UX than IE. The rendering was nicer, but I do not need a browser where back/forward/stop etc all just queue up and wait for the rendering engine to finish. The whole point is the page is taking too long to render and I want out.
Full disclosure: https://twitter.com/SolidEvidence/status/1651765620877172736
I wrote a response to this article, because that is a bad comparison.

https://ravendb.net/articles/re-are-you-sure-you-want-to-use...

Agree on CMU being a great resource.
T-Mobile customers impacted by personal data breach
Be very careful, it's surprisingly hard to eventually get out of it
Ouch. By git committer sounds brutal
Very nice I have subscribed to test it out for a couple of weeks.

I would love a simple mobile app, it's just easy to tap your news app on a phone, ideally with a way to customize the notification timing. I have certain moments each day when I want to consume this type of content (breakfast, lunch break)

A small community driven comment section with Karma system would also be nice. I like to discuss news and it enables knowledgeable people to add some additional insights. See the dutch tech news site for inspiration. they explain their karma system here: https://tweakers.net/info/faq/karma/#tab:1-2
Yet the sales keep increasing.

https://blocksandfiles.com/2022/07/19/ibm-storage-revenues-q...

There are still Aix features that aren't available on Linux and BSD, let alone what IBM i and z/OS offer.

As for IBM owning Red-Hat, it has come full circle, Linux only started taking off on big shops as IBM, among others, entered the game back in 2000.
The lack of information (or information asymmetries) are such a huge deal and not often appreciated.

I would pay a lot more for many small electronic gadgets if I knew that they would 1) work better and 2) last longer than the cheap ones. However, It's basically impossible for me to find out how good is the signal on my bluetooth usb stick or how long my plant LED lights are going to last without breaking so I just buy the cheapest since the price doesn't seem to be a very reliable indicator of either of those things. I'm sure there are players on the market who make things that I'd like to buy, but it's impossible for me to find them and verify that they actually do what I want so they are not getting my money.
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I have personal proof of this.

I made a "clever" lisp (nth-fib x) and it has bugs I have never been able to get around. I keep it as a challenge. It has no loops, so it should be a whole lot faster than nearly every other version out there. It isn't and I don't know why. And it has a maximum nth that I also haven't been able to get around. Second example on this page: https://ksaj.inlisp.org. It's cool enough to look at and figure out that I posted it anyway, but broken so much that just about every non-clever version beats it to death.

Probably clever, but definitely harmful if ever used in production in all but the most basic / restricted situations.

I figure one day I might obfuscate it just to give it some reason to exist.
> "We reverse analyze [wastewater] to see if anything in there that doesn't match any lineages," said Johnson. "Very early on there was this [sample] that was different than anything we had seen."

> Johnson does not know if the person is contagious, nor does he know how they have managed to stay positive for COVID-19 for such an extended period of time.

So wild that it's a poo-analysis manhunt!

Now that the story is out, I wonder if there are people in the area leaving the team some pretty awesome voicemails. "look, I just know it's me, been sending y'all morse code in creamed corn, take me now"

Regardless though this would make a fascinating book or long read. The poo-analysis infrastructure alone would be interesting to learn about.
So if you have 2 software options to choose from, and they accomplish the same thing (or, at least, they are both designed to accomplish the same thing), which one will you choose: one that sucks more or one that sucks less? Or, if you think that all software sucks - one that sucks or one that sucks just a little less? There basically is no product (software or not) without some cons; so in the case pros are the same, wont you choose the one with less cons?
Someone invent a Seinfeld joke here. Then why are they called forever chemicals?
>The value proposition for living in those places isn't very good for high earners, if you make enough money the taxes alone are enough to live in TX, FL and get your fix of NY, CA from traveling.

The downside being you have to spend at least half the year in TX or FL. I had such a choice and rejected it for that reason.
we can debate liquidity and depth of the market for those assets, but they're also just using the same standard as what was lost as well, so does it really matter?

unless we’re going to start with “they didn't lose $8.6bn and an independent valuation put all lost assets at $2bn so now everyone’s solvent what an amazing turnaround”
Kubernetes makes WebSphere 5 look user friendly, disregarding 6.x improvements on purpose.
> Given most sites still support HTTP/1.0

Uh, HTTP 1.0 doesn't support the host header, which means that you need unique IP addresses for each host you want to serve.

Ironically, you could solve that problem with IPv6, but...
Eventually? At what point do you start showing your kids extreme brutality videos to help their education?

Do you hide it for their first few years or do you begin as soon as they can grasp the content of the videos?
Not me: I learned (FORTRAN, BASIC, Z80/6502 ASM) at home while still at school (70s/80s).
The issue is that fsync is super expensive.
Like, it's not even funny.

There are many cases, and ingest is one of them, where no being durable is fine.
If you can either:

* Repeat the whole process on failure (which is assumed to be rare)
* Recover from the failure without data corruption (distinct from data loss, mind)

In those cases, being 10x faster is very compelling.

Note that this is about ingest for bulk loads, while online transactions not being durable is a really bad idea.

For bulk load ingest, you can usually retry the whole operation. Not so for transactions.
Econ 101 is using those models for the same reason Phys 101 uses Newtonian mechanics in a vacuum with rigid bodies of low mass and no charge and with all collisions being elastic.

They are a good enough approximation to reality in a lot of useful situations, and understanding them does help in later classes when they bring in relativity, electromagnetism, fluids, thermodynamics, quantum mechanics, bodies that aren't rigid, and so on.

Even after you've got all that stuff under your belt the Phys 101 stuff remains useful, because often something that cannot be modeled accurately enough with just Phys 101 material can be modeled accurately enough if you take the Phys 101 model and tweak it a bit with the rest.

I believe its the same in economics.
Sourceforge lacked the social network status. It was just a place where people put their source code and binaries. But there was not a lot of interaction on the platform.

To kick off that effort to replace Github, lots of money would be needed and some incentive to get people off Github. I.e. a busines model and some added value. Hard to see where that would come from right now. Github did not displace source forge by doing the same but by doing something better.
> Bitcoin when it's cheap

"Your 40, time to start buying loto tickets I guess."
Burroughs B5000 (nowadays ClearPath MCP) and z/OS are also like that.
because the clawbacks are easier to track through multiple hops, even when the initial recipient had already done other things with the funds
Likewise in Vitess. It is architecturally possible to add 100% compatibility :)
I wound up just getting a signed cert for my home webserver. It wasn't too painful.
Using _ftruncate_ or FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE is a bad idea for a database.
The problem is that you may get an out of disk space error mid operation.

If you are using mmap, that will express itself as a segmentation fault, which you really don't want.

You _need_ to allocate the file ahead of time, so you can properly behave there.
I think you can have a lot of debate on it, but for me personally it can be summoned down to the following: the privacy sandbox wants to block tracking on everything that isn’t of “high user interest”. But as a user I don’t want “any” privacy intrusion.

On one hand it’s better than what’s going on now, on the other hand it’s not going to give you privacy and it’s likely going to further Google’s advertisement monopoly on much of the internet. Which is where a lot of the debate can be had, but as a user, do you really want any company to track you? If not, then you most likely don’t want control of who gets to track you in the hands of the biggest advertisement company on earth.
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I assumed you did one llm batch a day and served it to all users. With +- buttons wouldn't you need to re-engage the llm?
Because otherwise competitive benchmarks will show not so great results against other dbses
Yeah, have you seen the characters from the plates? Very similar. I had them on a brick on my parents’ shelf growing up. It was sort of a Mormon Household staple, but they are supposedly characters from the original golden plates.

This sounds critical, when it’s not meant to be. Well, historically critical, in that I feel like it aligns with the theory mentioned above.

A lot of Mormon History is a study of political savvy and lack thereof, and I will never not be fascinated by it.
> How is USD better than Zimbabwean dollars

It’s backed by the most powerful nation in the world.
It doesn’t matter when you first learn because once you start, if you like it, you’ll never stop.

I learned to program BASIC in 3rd grade and C in 7th grade. Then FORTRAN and PASCAL in college (Mechanical Engineering). Then C++, Lisp and C# at my first job. Then PHP and SQL, and later Python. Somewhere in there I learned assembler for x86 and some microcontrollers. I learned Java just so I could teach it as a volunteer APCS teacher.

Just start; that’s the key.
> but more arable land.

This is dangerously fantastical thinking. Global heating gives us less arable land. It becomes harder to grow crops as the temperature increases. This is a much bigger negative effect than any positive effect from CO2 increases. A lot of current arable land in the tropics will become unusable.

Or are you thinking of growing crops in recently-defrosted tundra in Siberia? In which case, how are you going to get political agreement to grow stuff there, get high enough soil quality, irrigate it, and move all the farmers from, say, India to there to work it?
You're being very uncharitable. It's wildly different to cosleep with a new born than a near teen that the article mentions. And the rest of the article mostly reviews the benefits of cosleeping, so I don't see your point.
To join mine, I bought a $5 share (as a minor) and continue to get a $5 dividend many many years later (but I gotta close the account to get the accrued dividends...).

I gotta go to the AGM one day. I hear it's catered.
I know of five or six companies using Next; none of them use Vercel. I tend to think that their moat against “write a five line dockerfile” just isn’t all that large. I use Vercel for my personal site; I’m familiar with the product suite; I genuinely don’t know why anyone would pay the markup beyond not knowing better.

The auto branch deployments on PRs is pretty cool.
Tacit collusion isn’t illegal
So tacit collusion?
Could you make a feed that posts one news article per post, rather than one day per post?

That is, for a day with 5 news, post 5 times on the feed, one for each.

I'm using a RSS reader that only shows the title of each day (and not the body of the post), and right now it's showing only

> Tuesday, May 2 — 4 significant news

> Only significant news. All signal, no noise.

But I would like to be able to skim all headlines in the RSS reader itself

(I know I could probably make a custom RSS feed out of this though)
I agree. I use it handily for my upper level probability class.
What's difficult to pronounce about ローランド for a native speaker?
> we judge 2D shapes by their area

I've seen this claim a few times in discussions about such charts, but it's far from obvious to me that this is really true. My best guess based on my own perception is that we estimate quantities represented by circles as proportional to something between the diameter and the area.