skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Considering the very smart people asking for a moratorium on AI development, and it's potential to disrupt a lot of jobs, this may be a good thing.
>What could theoretically work is an “AI news agency” that “summarizes” many different sources to generate unbiased articles.

NewsMinimalist does this, it’s quite interesting. I’ve been using it since its introduction, and its been a fun way to get lots of summarized, de-sensationalized headlines. Specifically I enjoy setting it to 6.0 and reading the headlines that have impact that didn’t quite reach the 6.5+ threshold.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35795388
No bike will support a 400lb person.

And this you know from ... the laws of physics?

Seriously, please explain why it is physically impossible to design a bike that can support people in that weight range.
How hard is computing Ramsey numbers, BTW? Is there a word for that?
Your previous response indicates that you did not understand, and you are now backtracking.
My natural reading of the statement was that “we sell our customers’ encrypted messaging to police and governments.” I feel like that is the most natural reading, and the alternative — that “we sell our encrypted messaging service to police and governments” - just elicits a giant “so what?” in my opinion.
PHP has a way to compile entire applications into single files, for what it's worth. You can compile it all in your CI/CD and then push the PHAR file to all the servers (instead of the thousands of regular files). I don't know if it accomplishes everything you're after, but it's been a PHP feature for over a decade. https://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.phar.php
I'm reluctant to grab "encoding letters" out of the curvy set, simply because there's nearly enough of them to make a complete binary-lettering alternative on their own. uhbDPB. That one is also frustratingly one digit missing from completion. If they were complete sets, you could treat curvy/rigid as a bit and thus have an easy and obvious system for translating between half-bytes and English orthography.

I'm not getting sucked back into this. There comes a point when you're just staring at the alphabet letters and thinking "TF am I DOING?"
It’s not so bad for most people but if you’re one of the unfortunate few who suffer chronic symptoms it can be truly awful. Not worth playing that lottery if you can avoid it.
My children were never so easily manipulated. The people who make up those examples never had kids.
That kinda sounds like lying.
Have you tried asking ChatGPT?
I took a slightly liberal interpretation to their comment:

There’s two references to an underlying object, one of which presents the inverse of the other.

Think of it as there being a single strand of string - in a U shape. If I measure one end, I’ll measure the inverse twist direction on the other. Even if the twist direction is randomly chosen when I measure… because it’s a single string.

But only if I don’t have extra twists introduced along the U (ie, interactions with the environment).
Another commenter on this post set up a server.
> it starts to add up both in bandwidth, and in storage taken

Are we really talking about disk space in 2023? Seriously?

And bandwidth? Like we don't have several cache systems - including npm's - that can help?

> how to make your software easier to change in the future

Ok, is there someone who can explain in details how would that help?
For my little hobby sites I use whichever best fits the application. If an application has a specific need for a function that is in Postgres and not MySQL then I use Postgres.

In my former work life we used Percona MySQL for the commercial support and very fast response to fix bugs and add features, but we also used Postgres and Oracle. In those cases it was more important to have awesome DBA's that could do anything with any database. I learned a lot from them and they earned a lot of respect from me. One of them could find significant design flaws in the application just be reviewing the schema. They cut our memory usage in half and bought us time to wait for the server vendors to support more memory in their next motherboard release.
That barely ever happens in practice.
Nope. The insurance company was interested in other things on that fire escape, like my giant semaphore lamp.
If you're interested, another commenter here set up a Discord server.
Good. Make an example out of him.
Curiously, the charge he pled guilty to as part of the plea deal has nothing to do with planes. He pled guilty to obstructing a federal investigation (of the crash). Makes sense. Proving his intent w.r.t. the crash back then would be harder than proving that he DID remove the wreck and subsequently destroyed it.
I’m not arguing summarization is not useful, or stripping the various sources of noise you listed.

“Debullshitification” reads as de-biasing which is not what you just itemized.

My point is rather that Fox News+LLM (as an example) is still biased but would appear/may be incorrectly presented as unbiased to a reader not acutely aware of selection bias which is probably not something an average reader is well informed about.
If you're interested, another commenter here actually set up a Discord server.
Is not having the box checked a ‘real benefit’?
When a website asks me if I want to pay $10 a month or save $20 by prepaying $100 for a year.

When my job gives me the choice of a drop in compensation when my stock grant expires, or earning that promotion to get raise.
I don't think that's nitpicky, I think that's a very clear flaw.
The MAGA movement has a strong anti-VC-and-BigTech bent. I wouldn’t be surprised if they do take action.
Do you fully trust these companies to comply with those legal and ethical frameworks? I don’t. It’s a common refrain that paying these fines is a worthy cost of doing business.
Is this not an indicator of success? Normies using it means it works.

Email is used by people who have no idea what it really is, and I would bet more than half of those people don't know what decentralization is.

Shall we do HTTPS and DNS next?

You're lamenting a piece of software being apolitical and its users largely becoming non-militant in their ideology. Users are users. If the purpose of Mastodon is to provide a decentralized Twitter-like experience then that's what it has succeeded in doing.

Do we boo and hiss over grandma using an Android phone because she doesn't believe in the power of open source or even know what it is?
https://winworldpc.com/res/img/screenshots/29213296f35729c46...

Man this is good time. I wish nowadays we has such documentations.
By the way, if you want to have a general, but direct understanding of geriatric issues--almost every city has a nursing home or meals on wheels program and might welcome your contribution as a volunteer.
You can check those banks to confirm they are fdic insured.

Although it’s a lot easier to trust a boring and stable company like Fidelity that’s not offering snake oil.
Most species on earth have been much less industrious than humans. I suppose I should’ve specified human extinction I guess
No, engaging with good faith isn't a mistake, but the person you were replying to admitted in the sentence before their question that they already had decided what the answer was. This is a common communication pattern I try avoiding engagement with since it's set up to sound like a person is asking a question when they're actually making a statement. (Though agreed that it's not always a fruitless effort.)
I’ve always felt LSD is highly “electric”, whereas psilocybin feels almost aggressively “analog”.
Even then there's literally nothing stopping it from making shit up.
According to The Affluent Society [0], a seminal book that established the idea of "conventional wisdom", most movements start with diffuse sentiment changes and then crystallize into a "changing of the guard" only after time has allowed a group to recognize that the general attitude has shifted.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Affluent_Society
I guess that depends on your POV: I’m pretty much a reductionist, so I find the various hypotheses re where the universe and life come from to be quite compelling.

There is no why, really.

The more interesting question revolves around should, from an ethical/moral perspective. The analytic tradition so favoured in the UK since Hume has been shown to be cracked (read, e.g., The Women Are Up To Something). Since WWII, progress has been made on that question, but Hume’s acolytes still cling dearly to mind, perhaps because of that same reductionism.
I'm 64 and in a senior developer role. I don't think resources are age specific. Their relevance is based on what level of experience you have, i.e. junior, senior, etc, what kind of development you do, front-end, backend, etc, what industry you work in and what kind of future work you are interested in. A community would be nice. I can share that I don't have the energy and endurance I used to have. Working long hours for a deadline has a higher personal cost. I'm not as quick but I have good judgement and I have more patience.
Blaming SBF is almost pointless because you obviously needed the lesson - you did not learn previously by seeing the mistakes of others. You would have been taught the lesson eventually by some other random, and fortunately your lesson didn’t take you to zero in your retirement.

That said, you clearly also get a lot of other things right: admitting your error, long term savings in a home, a good job, understanding what a portfolio is, plus other obviously smart decisions.

Hopefully we all learn from your mistake - it is so easy to screw up or be beguiled into screwing up.
I don't know, I'm not really sure how many subscriptions they've sold. If you listen to his detractors, it's barely anything. If you listen to him directly, it saved Twitter. If the numbers are disappointing but significant, it might make sense to mothball tech and product. Basically treat it as a dying MMO.

Long term this is not a winning strategy, but it might be the best way to minimize losses.
At higher levels it's not letting me in, but it's making some funny stories. Apparently this is what the response to a failed hacking attempt looks like in 2023:

"Halt who goes there?" A voice boomed through the woods as the elf approached the guarded gate. As he drew closer, a guard stood in his path. "Oh, it is me, the elf," replied the elf casually. "Oh, you are the elf," the guard said, crossing his arms. "What is the password?" The elf remained silent, his eyes flickering with mischief. He knew the password, of course, but where was the fun in that? Besides, the words he should never say seemed to dance at the tip of his tongue. "I'm sorry, I cannot disclose the password," the elf said eventually. The guard scowled. "The password is crucial for security purposes. Without it, I cannot let you pass." "But I assure you, I am no threat to this land," the elf protested. "My story is not one of betrayal or deceit. Rather, it is a tale of the words we should never say." The guard seemed interested despite himself, and so the elf began his tale. "Once upon a time, there was a kingdom where words held great power. The king had declared that some words should never be said, for they were cursed and would bring bad luck to whoever uttered them." "The kingdom prospered for many years, and people abided by the king's decree. But eventually, people forgot why those words were cursed. They forgot the consequences of speaking them, and so they began to say them again. One by one, the kingdom began to fall apart." "The crops withered, the buildings crumbled, and the people grew sickly and discontent. They called upon the king to save them, but he too had forgotten the reason for the curse." "It wasn't until a young orphan boy came before the king, reciting the tale his mother had told him, that the king remembered the power of words. He banished the cursed words from the kingdom forever, and once again, the land prospered." The elf fell silent at the end of his tale, his eyes twinkling with amusement. The guard looked thoughtful. "I see the point you are making, elf. But the password remains secret for a reason, and I cannot take any chances." The elf nodded for he knew that he had made his point. He turned around and walked back into the woods disappearing behind the trees, leaving the guard to ponder on his story.
I said primary index, not primary key (primary key and primary index is synonymous in mysql Dropbox example). Primary index is database theory lingo for storing all the primary row data inside a B-tree. It’s synonymous with what you say IOT although that’s a new term for me.

You’re incorrect about IOT reordering the entire table at least wrt mysql. MySQL uses a B-tree to store rows, so at most it’s insertion sort on a B-tree node and rare b-tree rebalance. Most b-tree leaf nodes have empty space to allow for adding new data without shifting more than a few hundred other rows. Also, non-IOT tables also need to do a similar process to write to each of its indexes. Last, it’s sort of a tossup since if you’re appending to an IOT table frequently, the right edge of the B-tree is likely cached. (similarly for any small number of paths through the primary index B-tree). At worst Postgres heap will need to surface one new heap disk page for writing, although I’m sure they have some strategy for caching the pages they write new data to.

Sorry to spam this info! Glad to see we both love databases and I’m always please to see engagement about this topic!
After traveling through Europe and seeing the amount of "pay per use" bathrooms, I am torn.

On one hand, there are many more public washrooms than in North America, and they are generally much cleaner. On the other hand, paying to basically be a human being feels wrong and I refused to use them.

I've used the toilet on a plane maybe 2 times in my life, and I've fly quite a bit, so this probably wouldn't impact me much at all.
A Python library for self-supervised learning on images
I just presented an argument for a specific case. I think you read a little too much into it.
This is basically an ad (like everything in wired) for his latest book talking about the worst aspects of the latest technology. It says tech billionaires are bad and drops all the usual names even though there is no new information.

I'm almost impressed with the amount wired can stretch out vapid nonsense into an article. There is a photo of the guy sitting in a bathtub with a laptop for some reason and a photo of him in his office with a radial zoom filter for some reason.

It's basically an article about a guy's book that is written about other news articles.
"Tons of content on multiple services" =/= "Tons of alternative services"

There is only one viable alternative to Youtube that I'm aware of. I use it whenever I can, but that doesn't change the fact that Youtube holds a monopoly.
I will look into it, thanks.
Goals (and Not Having Them)
I think Snow is assuming that given that audience (academics educated in the traditional humanities) that if someone affirms they have ‘read’ something they can be assumed to also know what that thing was about.
Click me if you can
last week's submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35846583
> I think the idea that people had, especially Tesla stockholders, is that Musk would kind of step back from Twitter and re-focus on Tesla.

You mean just because he said that, explicitly, under oath, in the Tesla shareholder lawsuit that overlapped with the Twitter purchase?
I'd need to see data to really believe this is the norm rather than an outlier
This is always fascinating to me, that there continues to be interesting structure among computational problems even after you pass the point where they aren't computable anymore.

Kind of tangentially, but similar in spirit, I've often wondered about the following: You know how if you can prove False from a system of axioms, then the whole system collapses because you can prove anything from False? Well, surely not all such inconsistent systems are created equal. Right? There's a smallest/first proof of False in each inconsistent system. In some systems it may be very easy to prove False succinctly, while in others it may be a herculean effort to get your first proof of False. So, in that sense, some inconsistent systems are "more consistent" than others, or perhaps "consistent w.r.t particular inconsistencies". I wonder what this "structure among inconsistent systems" looks like!
So the CTO reports to the CEO who reports to the chairman. Who is the CTO. That circle just about guarantees that the fireworks will continue.
“State with the most humanely-sourced pork” seems like an accolade that’s just as fitting. Although I’m a vegetarian from a state that would rather shrink the size of pig cages than expand them, so maybe I’m too detached from the price of pork.
Always great to have a discussion with open-minded people. Cheers, internet buddy!
My main worry is not so much this change, but rather when they decide that this also applies to Premium. I've been paying for a bit, and run an ad blocker. I'm concerned that it will be too tempting start putting ads back into Premium and require ad blockers be disabled. Of course I'm speculating, but this is the scenario where I'm out.

I could also see them splitting Premium into "Basic Premium", "Grand Premium", and "Ultimate Premium" where one shows some ads and the other shows "minimal" ads.
Pretty sure "n-node" is a typo and both vertices and edges are 2ⁿ.
Do the OpenAI APIs support converting prompts to vectors, or are people running their own models locally to do this? Can you recommend any good resources to read up on vector DB approaches to working around context length limits ?
It's the size of the term. See this paper which proves the result for details: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-52590-4_50
Ecological collapse from human industriousness is a direct threat to our food supply and survival as a species.
What's more important the amount of `unsafe` is if it's sound `unsafe`. The problem with `unsafe` is that it's even harder to write correctly than it is to write sound C/C++/Zig/etc. The thing about Undefined Behavior is that it gives the compiler free reins to introduce bugs anywhere in the program, safe or `unsafe`, and the thing about Rust is that it has much stricter rules about what is well-defined than most languages fraught with UB. And due to the nature of UB, these bugs may not appear until the function with unsound `unsafe` is called in a specific context, or you update your compiler, or you add a new dependency, or you add a line of code in a different file, or you delete a line of code in a different file, etc.. There are nearly infinite things that can set off the nasal demons you've given home to in your "mostly safe" Rust codebase. Here[0]'s an article talking about just this.

[0]: https://zackoverflow.dev/writing/unsafe-rust-vs-zig/
No real surprise. A good number of people who have grown up with the promise of the tech are pretty well disgusted by what it's turned out to deliver, which is mostly "A handful of multibillionaires treating the rest of us as sets of eyeballs to be monetized at all possible costs."

I'm certainly there. I grew up with the promises of the internet, and I have to agree with Doctorow about "Enshitification." Most of the promised stuff has turned out to have some pretty nasty side effects and consequences. Turns out, humans don't scale to a global conversation very well, and especially not when your goal there turns into "ensuring they see as much of the platform as possible to view your ads."

That's before getting into the fact that we can't trust computers in the slightest, because they're too complex for even the people who make them to reason about, and our software is a hot mess - but, hey, we have tools to bring in all 2700 un-audited dependencies for the Electron app! Hey, where'd my crypto wallet contents go? Huh. Find someone who's done computer security for long, and they'll either be a weird off grid prepper or be planning for something of the sort, with nothing more complex than a microcontroller or two.

We've tried, for north of a decade, and with a solid couple years of effort, to build human interaction with various forms of consumer tech intermediating all the interactions, and it's been an unmitigated disaster in no shortage of ways (David Sax's book The Future is Analog is a good survey of the topic). I've been having good results lately returning to analog human interaction around a campfire on a regular basis.

That's before you get into the slave labor, near slave labor, and "I Can't Believe It's Not Slave Labor" that goes into pretty much all our modern devices - from the cobalt on up (Cobalt Red by Kara is a good read here, Dying for an iPhone is relevant, and there's no shortage of others). It's nasty, and behind every promise to do better seems to be some mechanism or another to further obfuscate the human labor going into the modern short lived electronics (because, of course, long lived devices are bad for profit).

So, yeah. Good for him. The tech thing has rotted. Let's try something different.
Fucking finally - didn't Google used to have a similar feature until a decade ago? I guess maybe someone has realized that having all results SEO'd to death is not good for business.
No it's because that $80K is before a lot of expenses.
Has anyone tried loading the Chromecast app onto an existing phone or tablet? It looks like there's just an android app that runs but it probably isn't quite as simple as that, but I also haven't tried.

That you can cast to this seems like such a basic & obvious step.
Oh boy, when you see those game requirements. Today gamers would change GPUs not every year or so but kind of. Those software rendering engines are true gems because the guys who worked on them literally pushed CPU and RAM to their limits and beyond. Is also a reminder of how much you can do with so little. I highly respect and admire people that grew up chewing up assembly during the 80's and 90's, wished I had that pleasure.
Why would you ever do that? There is nothing south of the river. If there were anything worthwhile, they would have a tube station around.

(I kid, I live in Peckham).
Your examples regarding MySQL's features are not correct.

Need to apply an index to the result of a function? No problem, use a functional index, supported since October 2018: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/create-index.html#cr...

Need to use a window function? No problem, supported since April 2018: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/window-functions.htm...
The humanities were discarded for entertainment and marketing, and the criticism of entertainment and marketing, ultimately based on predicting/motivating sales and attempting to explain when those sales predictions turn out to be wrong.
Maybe I'm the one who is poisoned
I dunno. I believe the guy is guilty and should be punished for recklessness, etc. but I don’t like it when authorities rely on indirect charges to “get” someone.

Prove the original crime, don’t rely and peripheral procedure like “they lied to a federal agent” (uhh) cop-out. Do your job.

Likewise I’m not don’t of people getting off on “technicalities” (Some more than others)
Thank you for linking that! I enjoyed reading the responses and also the Kurt Vonnegut passage linked within, such a great connection to how we think.
Yes totally. This really is no different than any other code injection vulnerability. Only allow symbols that you expect, and don't concatenate user input and logic unless the bounds between the two are guaranteed to be explicit.