skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Somewhat off-topic, but since this thread has attracted people with a prior interest in L-systems: is anyone aware of an algorithm/ research/ anything really into reverse-engineering the - that is, given a degenerate tree or a set of trees, extracting a decent model that produces similar trees?

By degenerate tree, I mean messy real-world examples of trees in the computer programming/graph sense. Imagine applying algorithm to large directory trees or taxonomies; I'm interested in whether there's a mathematical way to approximately model the structural features.
Its OK. We don't need it. Google is the biggest spy agency worldwide.
Of course. There's an good video explaining this and also citing / explaining the same research. I made a error in my original post, it is the synapse* not neuron between the SG and audiotry nerve, and the IHC / OHC.

Hidden Hearing Loss: The Effects of Synaptopathy, Stanford.

https://youtu.be/ZGmPG94Rmr8
Per 100g was the amount, I think. Need to eat a decent quantity at that rate.
Not saying that it's strictly how it has to be done but historically in OT environments the choice was more between (Ethernet) CSMA/CD and token ring (not so much Netware, it wanted to do its own thing) on a segment that IP was transiting.
True, but the difference here is that running a performant and capable AI solution will be infrastructure-dependent, which has real costs.
Is the point of the game supposed to be that the only possible way to keep up is to blindly approve 90% of them and then actually look only at the ones that get appealed?
Are you arguing that the tax assessment is incorrect in some way, or just generally upset that the IRS stands before other creditors in the US?
Are they going to make more than 7 of these?

Usually they only manufacture 7 examples of what they sell.

Five to give to YouTube review channels and two to actually sell.

When those two sell out they wait 29 months and then make two more.

Or so it seems.
iMessage lockin is really just an America-centric problem. Rest of world uses Whatsapp, which I find actually works better than iMessage. This gives me hope that Americans will eventually switch over to Whatsapp too. For now, if you want a social life in America, you need iMessage, at least in my circles. I am part of exactly 0 group texts that have android users. Having a single android user just completely breaks group texts, so those users are harassed by their peers until they get an iPhone.
From a development perspective: Apple has been very pleasant to develop for. I like swift a lot, I like the metal API, I like objective C, they have solid options for UI libraries and frameworks, lots of up to date documentation, Xcode doesn’t drive me too crazy, etc.

Android development, in my experience, has been a complete shitshow. I remember getting started by following tutorials on the official docs that would fail to build with cryptic gradle errors. Like, the very first intro project.

There are numerous languages and frameworks that are options to use, and it’s not clear which are the best or most future proofed. If you’re getting started, what are you supposed to use? The base sdk, which can’t even work properly on the happy path? Jetbrains compose? React Native? I personally opted for flutter, which at the time was positioned to be the flagship framework for developing UIs on their upcoming OS, Fuchsia. RIP.

And last but not least, I would like to extend a single digit to Google for the hoops they make you jump through to ship a mobile app. I had the pleasure of having one of my apps rejected with only a vague explanation that I couldn’t make sense of.

I politely asked them to explain more about the issue and how I could bring the app into compliance, and I just got the original vague response copied and pasted with a random meaningless sentence highlighted. I tried one more time, same deal, and I gave up.

I since gave up on android development and switched to iPhone for my personal device.
I built something that summarizes hacker news discussion pages for me, and I have been very pleasantly surprised how much nicer it is to read "angryuser1 and angryuser2 got into a heated discussion" than to actually read the discussion. Forcing everything into the neutral gpt voice has greatly reduced the emotional valence of my HN consumption
The users who submit reports are fallible, the moderators are fallible, and the bosses who rate the moderators are also fallible. Sometimes you'll be right and the system will still say you're wrong.
Desire to become replaceable in order to continue working on new things is a refreshing take. It is a more positive, and imo, more realistic outlook than the usual one, which is more like, _I will be replaced and no longer be valuable/needed_.
Modern "news" is a lot like sewage padded by corn fructose syrup and wrapped into shiny colorful pills to fool the mind. It's true that the pills have useful elements in trace amounts, but if you start harvesting them from the pills, you'll get poisoned. Your LM just removes the deceptive shell, but the pill's contents remain the same. I think it would be better if your LM identified and highlighted lies and deceptions in news articles. Most of them will be all in red, but that's the goal: give users an idea what they are reading. For example, the prompt for your LM could be: "for every statement in this arricle, mark it in red if it's a lie or an unsubstantiated claim, mark it in purple if it's appeal to emotions, mark it in green if it's appeal to authority" and so on. I doubt journalusts will be able to outmaneuver LLM trained on every book in the internet. (journalusts to distinguish from true journalists, that are exceedingly rare today)
That's also my experience, part of the issue with iMessage is it's lack of Android client and the other half is that It's branded as an SMS app and SMS being dead for more than a decade in Europe doesn't help its case...
If you disagree, please tell me why instead of down voting. Oxygen use just means cells are active, it doesn't tell us what they are doing or how they might be signaling. The brain is a unique organ where things are incredibly specific and localized, signaling in the brain cannot necessarily just be generalized to regions because the networking is highly intricate
As a resident graybeard in my 50's, I have to say I really dislike working with rude and dismissive kids.
Yes, this has a lot of potential. If the news orgs won't de-sensationalize because of incentives, we can do it for them. It would be a great browser plugin, and you can define the URL's you want to de-sensationalize.
I like SQLite. But I really wish its default behavior wasn't to simply allow garbage data into the database. If I have an int column, don't let me accidentally store a string.
The rocker and the wheel both look like they would break under even moderate real-world use. And I get that not everyone is technical enough to do this but whisper.cpp gave basically everyone good-enough auto transcription, so that horse has kinda left the barn. Despite that, I hate how much I still want this.
Do you mind me asking what got you interested in coding and what kinds of things do you work on?
Almost all the difference is due to bigger homes and more miles driven in the US. Hopefully adoption of heat pumps and electric cars will send that number plummeting in the next decade.
I mean JavaScript is definitely gross to optimize, if you'd design a language for easy optimization and jitting it would look different. Python is just way worse, especially because of the large and rich CPython C API, which used invasive structures almost everywhere (it has been slowly moving away from that). The CPython people, GvR in particular, always considered it very important for the codebase to remain simple as well, and it is. CPython is a really simple compiler and straightforward bytecode interpreter.
Do you really expect the thread to be full of agreement? Upvote the best discourse and if you think someone is speaking fallacy then downvote or refute. I think it would be interesting to have a separate discussion which explores the subject of astroturfing but do you think OP is going to be like "right you are, here I am an astroturfer AMA" right here in this thread?
Which is like 99.99% of all the go code out there.
That's actually a really interesting use case!
May I polity just say that perhaps defending yourself to this many people is unneeded. You said your two cents, hammering the same nail with a different hammer won't get the nail in any deeper. I've already completely moved on, you should as well. We are in HN, not reddit, let's all get a long as best as we can and discuss the matters at hand. I have no problems with you, I hope you have nothing against me.

My intentions were not negative, if it was interpreted that way I apologize, same as you I type the way I type.
Employers pay an additional tax on payroll. The withholdings they send to IRS is not considered a tax.
There is no blue bubble problem on whatsapp etc.

iMessage is ok, but it’s hardly the pinnacle of messaging software.
Or the kernels becomes even less of a monolith on all fronts and more userland-like.

Both io_uring and eBPF would allow us to handle more complex tasks inside the kernel, reducing context switch losses yet still allowing the benefits of a upgrade-able structure without having to upgrade the OS or even the kernel itself.
Every use case is different.
So you bought an iPhone SE? Personally I think the Pixel 6a would be a better option, more battery, better camera, screen, worse processor though. I honestly think processor is much less of a concern than the screen and camera on a budget smartphone.
I think the waste involved in having a chunk of the workfoce sit around unproductive is worse for society. Locking in stasis to keep the paychecks flowing? How is that a good thing?

Yes, change happens, companies hire and lay off. Businesses start and businesses go bankrupt. Sometimes change is uncomfortable. But policy designed to prevent change in society is a bad thing in my opinion.
I would also like to, e.g., add more sites, say HN, beyond the currently supported list [^1].

[^1]: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, LinkedIn, Reddit
> whereas Google can - and will - give your local gestapo your photo roll

Sounds[0] familiar[1]...

[0] https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208351
PostgreSQL is a community thing and MySQL is Oracle. Maybe make some basic benchmarks for comparison?
If you feel this way and you have the option, an easy solution is to make less money and/or take a job you like that involves learning and self-improvement.

I realize not everyone has the opportunity, but I think a lot of people would be much happier earning less.
I'd have to be pretty desperate before I would trust Facebook/Meta with all of my communications (even with supposed end-to-end encryption).
MySQL is still ahead operationally (no vacuum, group replication, gh-ost, optimizer hints, etc.). I would choose it unless one of the Postgres extensions is a killer fit for your project.
How about working to fix the system and make it more equitable rather than cheating or excusing cheating
SQLite is great for its scope - but not in the same class as a full-fledged RDBMS.
Why is this Guardians story flagged? That's a true story not a fake news.
Funny, many of the places with the lowest birth rates are actually very socially conservative, with poor track records on gender equality. Japan, Korea, Russia, etc.

I've heard people argue the exact opposite - intense work cultures tire out the male working class. That combined with a gender culture that discourages women being forward with their intentions, and no way to meet people of other genders socially, means it becomes difficult to actually meet or date people. There is a lack of free time, a lack of opportunity, and a lack of motivation.

Frankly, it sounds to me like the issue would be solved by bringing in better working conditions.
On my case it's the translate bubble which I would miss the most, it's a simple widget but on iOS it's not a thing yet, if your hobby involves language learning, it's must have.
Commander Used Radio Found Gave False Coordinates to Russian Artillery
I have absolutely no use for it but I kind of want one. I think it's beautiful.
I often prefer Claude over GPT4 (partially due to speed), but it degrades more quickly. Like I can get a better response early, but usually the quality drops faster. But, sometimes if it can really vibe with it, it gets better over time.
Firefox, with some work, offers access to most addons.
...and here's the other shoe dropping for all the people thinking they were going to get at least some money back.
"any huggingface model" not even close
You may want to talk to operators of DNS servers to find out why DNS is mostly UDP. From a software point of view is hardly matters. UDP has some quirks, TCP has some issues, not a big deal.

The big deal for operators is resource consumption and latency. In the vast majority of cases where the UDP reply is not truncated, using UDP is both cheaper and faster.
Reflexes, movements, manual tasks, repetitive tasks
I'll take "Considered Harmful" any day over "Falsehoods Programmers Believe".
Can you give a specific example of what you are missing when using SQLite?
> Well i think that is the only thing that matters

It's not the only thing that matters. It may matter more, but not all. Yet since I'm not your CPO/CMO I won't get into the effort into analyzing their weights ^_^

> SAML client and OAuth client are both free. You can add auth with any OAuth 2.0 provider to SuperTokens.

I'm not denying what you say, but in your pricing page I read:

* "SAML Auth" --only proprietary version

* "2FA" --only proprietary version

so if they are open source, this feature naming is confusing.

We can go back-and-forth debating the merits of the non-open sourced features. But that doesn't change the gist of my comment: you are advertising something as Open Source, where only a fraction (big or small) is, and I consider this misleading. At least for me. I find it more honest to remove that prominent Open Source calls and instead replace for less prominent comments about part of your software being open source (which is fine and great!). But this is just my 2 cents, take them or leave them ;)

[Edit: formatting]
PostgreSQL every time, unless you have a specific reason, or as already pointed out, you're sure you don't just need SQLite.

PSQL in my experience has vastly better tooling, community, and is ahead of the curve tech wise. Same with extensions availability. Or perhaps you need to move away from it to say CockroachDB, or similar which is much easier.
The PaLM 2 stuff released yesterday has fine tuning for their newest large models as a core feature.
I have a feeling this is somehow going to end up becoming a hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy.
Alright, good luck out there. I strongly prefer types
This is the best explanation of the benefit of gig work I've heard.
To say there is a moat or there is no moat is a bit silly because it's not a binary thing "moat or no moat". It's an oversimplification to a point where it obscures what is really happening, which is that some moats are getting smaller, sometikes significantly smaller.

The author correctly points out recent trends where things that were significant moats, like large text and image datasets are now more accessible to individuals.

But to conclude as a main point that therefore data is not a moat anymore is just absurd. Datasets serve different problem domains. We now have accessible datasets for internet text and code, and images from the internet. Talking about whether data is a moat only makes sense with context of what problem domains you are talking about.

Everyone can download the entire text corpus of wikipedia. That's not a moat.

Can everyone download an enormous high quality self driving car dataset, comparable to what Google has constructed from Google maps and many human labelers? Obviously that data is a huge moat.

How about a comprehensive protein dataset? That's something that's gotten much more accessible especially with Alpha Fold, which is great.

But there are still other problem domains where data is a huge moat because collecting the data is super duper expensive and/or requires an expert team of biologists, for example.

To make an analogy, data is like drugs. There are different classes of drugs. Different drugs are used to solve different problems. Some cure you, some harm you, some are well understood and some are not. Some are more accessible than others. But it would be folly to talk about drugs as being good or bad or cheap or expensive without context of problem domains.
The thing about JavaScript is lots of people are touching it and are innovating both in how to use it, and for language features.

It's always getting better, and always has opportunities to get better
Erm, SMS has been solid for decades. RCS is end to end encrypted. It's not a "terrible" idea and it's nothing like putting Comcast in charge of the internet, that's just hyperbole.
> What I am saying is that entertaining the idea, that there might be a job out there that you actually enjoy, might help you find it.

Pretty sure competing for them necessitates that one might suppose they exist.
I'll stick with my iPhone + TX-6 for multitrack recording. The TX-6 has definitely been worth the $1500.

re: size: It's fine for me, I adjusted quickly to the knobs. They can be turned without fully gripping your fingers around their sides. The size is a feature to me as I have a fully battery powered portable setup that sizes down enough that I can easily carry the parts on my person without a bag.
Similar to the benefits I've found of actually committing to a blog for the past... 8 years. Wow.

The major benefits I've found:

- I can "flush from active storage" anything I've written as a blog post. I know myself well enough to trust that anything weird, non-intuitive, or otherwise "would be helpful for doing this again in the future" will be documented in the post - so I can genuinely just forget everything about the project after I've written it up.

- It encourages me to actually finish projects. I had a problem with a lot of "85% done" things, and it was both physical and mental clutter. They need to be finished to write about them, so I both get them finished and documented - freeing up both physical and mental space.

- If I want to respond to something in a longer, more thought out form, I can. I've done this over the years, though it's less useful than it used to be - responding to the 500th time someone asks the same question with a link to your blog is now considered "self promotion" and therefore banned on lots of places I no longer bother with on the internet.

- I occasionally get down weird rabbit holes and have months of post material from something that I simply can't find much information on. LED lighting (blue light, human health, sleep, etc), kerosene lanterns (beautiful, useful, and good winter heat in the deal), and an 11k word epic on lead acid batteries that should have been a few posts.

I'll just say, having learned the hard way, own your hosting and pipeline. I tend to write on a lot of "gutless wonder" grade machines, and after Blogger ruined their interface for anyone without a Google-grade workstation, I ended up moving to my own hosting and Jekyll for rendering. It's now possible for me to move my (static file) hosting just about anywhere, and I'm not reliant on other people to not break that which I rely on. Don't suffer the pain of using someone else's platform, and learning in a few years that you have to migrate off. It's much easier to just use your own, and if you want to refactor things later, well, you just do it.
Multi writer, access through the internet without 3rd party software, etc.
And there appear to be some bugs in the Chrome extension...

I just installed it and tested the 5 toggles for a few minutes, and found most of them only seem to work on the homepage of the site? Is that expected?

I mostly use these sites not by going to the homepage first, so I think blocking only one door into a house is an invalid assumption for blocking the site.

Also Facebook blocking doesn't seem to be working at all.
GPT has come a looong way
Taken from www.brellium.com

https://imgur.com/HoZj2qi
I actually liked this a lot more than I thought I would. I would say I’m pretty averse to clicking on sensational titles, but that definitely leads me to not click on articles that may have contained useful information.
This actually makes me comfortable reading about politics and issues that are otherwise overdramaticized and gives me the opportunity to objectively filter what I want to read.
I use many of the popular messaging apps regularly. In my experience, iMessage is unquestionably the highest quality and most reliable messaging app I use, everything else is a downgrade. Some people may care about blue bubbles, but most people just want messaging that doesn’t suck or randomly fail at its core purpose.

If people want to compete with Apple on iMessage, they need to offer a product that isn’t obviously inferior. The longer they wait, the harder it will be to displace iMessage in the iOS environment.
What do you mean by embed?
> So what do you call a RO snapshot

There should be no read-only snapshot: it's just a writable snapshot where you don't happen to perform a write
Instant coffee powder has extremely low caffeine vs. other brewing methods.

I'd suggest that most people, if they're drinking '5 cups a day' level, are brewing a pot of filter coffee via a drip machine. At that rate, each 'cup' (defined as 8 fl oz of coffee) should have something like ~100mg of caffeine.

If a 'cup' of coffee is something like a Starbucks Venti (20 fl oz), Starbucks claims it has somewhere between 410-475mg of caffeine. Two of those and you're approaching 1000mg of caffeine alone.
> This just brings reality to the forefront and makes me realize I don't care about the news

Maybe the pre-clickbait era version of you would have found more of these articles interesting? So maybe it's not that you don't care about the news, but your "base level" of what's interesting is different due to being used to clickbait.
The only instance where I'd choose mysql over postgres is if your database needs are very simple, but you need to be able to scale hard, and your devops aren't skilled enough to manage an advanced postgres setup.
Google have developed Med-Palm 2 for this purpose, https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/healthcare-life-science...
Usually in this kind of scheme you would not be paid your normal hourly wage but a low rate. If you still think that sitting in a car for a small return is better than just being at your desk or job site making full pay for actual work, that's on the employer for creating such a shitty job->pay match that it's better to endure traffic for peanuts than work.

Also, right now plenty of companies put out voluntary overtime that people don't end up taking, despite higher pay and literally the same work. Plenty of people would rather not be under someone else's command for an extra hour just to make a few bucks, and in fact, when you pay people adequately they largely don't want to do that. You always have weird outliers that think life is an idle game and try to make the bank account go as high as possible, but building systems around dumb outliers is not good systems engineering.

On average, people don't want to spend extra hours in their car, even if you pay them full wage. This is why when Uber started out they basically had to push subsidized high pay, so people would be willing to drive around all day.

Right now you can, with little experience, go make like $80k or more a year driving around all day, by being a trucker, and yet the industry is constantly struggling to keep people working, because the job is awful. If you have an employee that decides to move five hours away and waste ten hours of their day to make an extra hundred bucks, there are probably other things that make them a mediocre employee that you can fire them for.