skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please read Taleb's article that I posted. What you are describing is exactly the idea of using the principle of "intolerant minority" to effect change in the majority behavior.

> 90+% didn't want to deal with the hassle of using a different application.

On the positive side, this means that 10% of your friends are willing to try a different application to keep connecting with you. This means that if we take Dunbar's number (150) as the average size of a social circle, every person that refuses to join WhatsApp leads to 15 other people getting acquainted to an alternative network. Any network that managed to capture 10% of WhatsApp userbase would be more than sustainable, and if you imagine that as soon as secondary effects kick-in, the friction will get lower and lower.

> I wonder what percentage of your friends and family dropped off?

Dropped off from casual conversation? A good part. They are still friends, though. I can pick up the phone and call them, or send them an email like people used to less than a generation ago...

If your friends/peers can not accept personal change or let it affect your relationship, then you are dealing with shitty friends to begin with.
Any chance you're making a joke/point about someone else?
No, it is CCTV heavy, but most cameras are private, not public and not part of the single network.
Or general anesthesia prevents ketamine from having it's usual effect on the brain.

This is such a stupid study, I hope they didn't anesthetize people just to study this
True. I found the description of his "writing process" somewhat interesting, how he circumnavigates current LLM limitations to create long-form content. Yet, you might be right that the number of 574 copies sold should not be attributed to the actual book content itself, limiting the article's value.
I recently stumbled upon a perplexing discrepancy while converting Time to DateTime using the #to_datetime method. Intrigued by this unexpected behavior, I delved into an investigation to unravel its root cause. I’ll share my findings in this blog post with you, as I believe it’s worth your attention.
But it's clear GDPR isn't working as intended. The compliance costs are absolutely enormous and EU member state national courts are leading to rule virtually every tech product being in noncompliance with it, as it so broad.

It's likely to lead to the quasi-ban of LLMs sooner rather than later in the EU. This is going to be an enormous challenge to the EUs tech industry if UK and US firms can use LLMs but EU companies can't.

While I lean remain; some people seem to have serious blind spots that a _lot_ of EU legislation is poorly thought out and given the slow pace of change extremely hard to revoke once it is in force (cf the ridiculous cookie banners; which were implemented in law in 2002 and _still_ haven't been changed, despite 10+ years of efforts to do so in the EU institutions). It's going to be even worse with the EU Digital Services Act, where being in compliance with GDPR and the DSA is a lawyers dream, as from what I understand it directly contradicts each other.
You could maybe run a Vickrey auction style auction.
alas, it's been OOP for a long time, and copies are seriously expensive.
Audience for the post matters too.

Much of this and the supporting articles were focused on the security and fraud topics. Since those details were linked out from this article, most of what's left is around the technical bits that didn't get their own posts.

For an audience of programmers on HN, I'm not surprised that this topic got more attention than the fraud but it definitely wasn't intended to be the focus of the post.
End of an era, goodbye annoying visual interruptions, the web is so much better today without them. /s
Oh, I'm not judging at all -- I have my own preferred time-burners as well. I'm just pointing out that a lot of the time when I hear people say they don't have time for something, they also spend a lot of time every day doing things like that. For many people, "not having time" is the result of decisions about how their time is allocated. Those people can allocate differently if they so choose.
I wouldn't consider the first Mad Max as a scifi film though I love its awful acting and general cheesiness. It's far more of an action film than anything else as it doesn't really examine why society is breaking down from what I can remember.
As for the argument that professions like plumbers and electricians who physically visit their customers are not threatened by AI, this is not quite true.

For example, utility companies would send someone round to read our meter. Now they want us to have a smart meter (or, failing that, report our consumption online ourselves).

A current development in the automotive sector is toward systems that can be diagnosed and monitored automatically and remotely, and in some cases even fixed remotely, cutting out physical visits to a service centre. This will happen in other sectors as well.

Once your boiler or heat pump has enough sensors to monitor everything that could go wrong, physical visits will only be required once there is actually something that needs physically fixing. Etc.
It's not a randomized control comparing 1 vs 2, it's the claim that one may be better because in developing countries it's more practical to have people do one.
Show HN: Psychic - An open-source integration platform for unstructured data
My cofounder and I used to work at Robinhood where we shipped the company’s first OAuth integrations, so we know a lot about how data moves between companies.

For example, we know that the pain of building new API integrations scales with the level of fragmentation and number of competing "standards". In the current meta, we see this pain with a lot of AI startups who invariably need to connect to their customers data, but have to support 50+ integrations before they even scale to 50+ customers.

This is the process for an AI startup to add a new integration for a customer:

- Pore over the API docs for each source application and write a connector for each

- Play email tag to find the right stakeholders and get them to share sensitive API keys, or give them an OAuth app. It can take 6+ weeks for some platforms to review new OAuth apps

- Normalize data that arrives in a different formats from each source (HTML, XML, text dumps, 3 different flavors of markdown, JSON, etc)

- Figure out what data should be vectorized, what should be stored as SQL, and what should be discarded

- Detect when data has been updated and synchronize it

- Monitor when pipelines break so data doesn’t go stale

This is a LOT of work for something that doesn’t move the needle on product quality.

That’s why we built Psychic.dev to be the fastest and most secure way for startups to connect to their customer’s data. You integrate once with our universal APIs and get N integrations with CRMs, knowledge bases, ticketing systems and more with no incremental engineering effort.

We abstract away the quirks of each data source into Document and Conversation data models, and try to find a good balance to allow for deep integrations while maintaining broad utility. Since it’s open source, we encourage founders to fork and extend our data models to fit their needs as they evolve, even if it means migrating off our paid version.

To see an example in action, check out our demo repo here: https://github.com/psychic-api/psychic-langchain-tutorial/

We are also open source and open to contributions, learn more at docs.psychic.dev or by emailing us at founders@psychic.dev!
That's nice for them. Germany committed to send 2.47 billion in contrast to 46 and a half billion from the US.

https://www.statista.com/chart/27278/military-aid-to-ukraine...
I guess if no Facebook exec ever wants to touch European soil again, that is an option.
Awesome work and looks great!
I'd suggest looking at https://www.shortcutfoo.com/ (which launched on HN very similarly like 12 years ago), and the model they followed, adding different sets of shortcuts and finding a good pricing model. I was a happy customer for years, and it's clear there's a market here. I'd love one for Figma personally
> The end result is you'll just have sweatshops of people watching CCTV streams clicking matching face images because it's illegal to get a computer to do it automatically.

Good luck explaining how that isn't "data processing".
> Nothing to do with taxes.

If companies view it as cost of doing business, it's akin to a tax and the rights you hold dear are not respected
> I think a possible reason why medical research prefers a pill that works forever for continued use is that if you buy something cheap twice in your life and it fixes whatever needs fixing the pharma industry can't make money off of you the same way they can put you on antidepressants for life.

Drug discovery is difficult enough that the pharma companies don't have the ability to make a meaningful choice between fix-once-and-you're-set-for-life versus manage-symptoms-forever.
* in vector encoding
If you are in an armed standoff with someone, you have to need a lot of trust to let them point a gun at your head in self-defense.

How high do you let the gun get before you consider it provocation?
I have often found that participating on Instagram quickly turns into a comparison game with unhealthy results. But the view you expressed feels so healthy and in the right spirit of social media - to share special moments with your friends and family without all the fuss of engagement, likes etc.

The ill-effects of social media were almost depressing and I stopped using them altogether. But this also meant I had almost no one initiate a conversation with me. If you have anything to say about how to best use social media healthily, I'm all ears.
I don't see how this is testable, given what is written here.
This isn't about protecting users from spying. This is about managing user data and privacy in accordance with the laws that privately-owned businesses must abide by. You can claim that it's a double-standard, but it's still wrongdoing and needed to be sorted out either way.
Something I was always wondering about black holes:

Does there really have to be a singularity? If I understand relativity correctly, time slows down as mass increases. Couldn't this slowdown affect the contraction so that it never can actually reach an "actual" singularity point?
Good job! The first lesson was flawless
AI Agents Design Proteins
I also covered this in my weekly newsletter, and will do my best to answer any questions you might have. https://www.readcodon.com/p/ai-agents-design-proteins
I think I might have hit a nerve. Not my intention, sorry.
This is exactly what deno does: https://deno.com/manual@v1.33.4/basics/permissions
Get your DNA sequenced with Nebula. They seem to be pretty committed to privacy.

https://nebula.org/whole-genome-sequencing-dna-test/
Oh. It’s better. I mean I vastly prefers it. More coherent and less excuse / deus in machina
>TDD being a typical example

Shots fired! I love tests, but I mostly agree with you. The whole idea of 'write your tests first' is great if everything is precisely defined. I find it odd I haven't seen more pragmatism around unit testing in the blogosphere. It's TDD or death out there.
What you call a joke does work albeit slowly. Most of pages have a 'reject all' button now. It didn't get there in the first iteration, but the effect is nice now. As a bonus, you quickly see who works in bad faith, by how it's implemented.
My thesis: a combination of lower-cost deskilling and automation of labor management will have far more pernicious wage effects than higher-cost complete automation. Both white collar and blue collar skilled labor will be impacted.

A few other notes:

1. Lag Effects.

My father in law worked at an auto plant for most of his career and regularly pointed out that his job didn't exist at any of the newer factories. He continued working at that factory for over a decade after his position had already been automated on newer lines, and lost his job only when the factory was scrapped and replaced (and moved to a different state in the process, for tax benefits).

Robots destroyed a lot of skilled labor, em masse, over the last thirty years. And many of the jobs that it didn't already destroy will cease to exist over the next thirty years as new major capital investments are made and capital investments from 30+ years ago are wound down.

2. Automation/Optimization of Labor Management.

Over shorter time frames -- in-between large capital outlays -- automation of labor management ("Uberfication") is a lot more impactful than automation of labor. There are a lot of skilled jobs, both blue-collar and white-collar, which are now effectively commodified. Not automated, mind you, but definitely commodified. I think that's a much larger threat to plumbing and electrical work than automation.

3. Meta RE: Mike Rowe

Mike Rowe is a (very rich) media personality whose brand was built on calling attention to the trades as a viable path to the middle class and questioning the necessity of "four-year college for all". I think that's admirable.

Lately he's turned this into a wedge for separating two components of the non-managerial working class. I think that's deplorable. Software Engineers and Welders should be in solidarity, and as far as I can tell people like Mike Rowe function -- intentionally or unintentionally -- as lackeys for the ownership class.

IMO, the distinction between white collar and blue collar work is just red meat. Of course language models won't have any effect on plumbing or electrical work! But the idea that robotics won't de-skill a huge portion of blue collar work as well seems extraordinarily naive. (NOT automate. De-skill. Which, combined with automation of labor management, turns a career track into low-pay/no-benefit gigwork.)
I'm not surprised this works - accurate cuffless blood pressure has been validated from other physiological sources like PPG / pulse oximetry.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7141397/

and is even now FDA-cleared for clinical use: e.g. https://www.bio-beat.com/post/the-biobeat-cuffless-wrist-blo...
And here I thought Hawking was a quantum field theorist.
> I hope they didn't anesthetize people just to study this

Why not? Apart from potential side effects of anesthesia, this sounds like a great study to find the mechanism of ketamine helping depression.
> The compliance costs are absolutely enormous and EU member state national courts are leading to rule virtually every tech product being in noncompliance with it, as it so broad.

Isn't that intended?
Pretty much. We can't get past the big wigs until the big wigs are no longer enforcing beliefs that make little sense.
It does lots of good. What's your point?

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Edit: I presume drive-by downvoters supported the conviction of Wayne Couzens?
Morphing Fractal Engraving Vise Can Hold Any Shape
I find your last analogy kind of interesting. If it were 1994, and the Tutsis said "If you vote Hutu, you vote oppression, you vote fascism", would you tell them that they should not fan the political flames?

I hate to risk Godwinning the argument; it doesn't (yet) look like that. And you've already said that you don't want to draw false equivalences. But I think it's worth considering that sometimes the motives are the worst possible motives, and it's not up to the victims to reduce polarization.

This isn't just about "people who don't vote like me". It's about people who are actively voting to oppress me, to make harmless behavior illegal and to diminish my voting power to prevent it. Voting isn't harmless; it's ultimately a matter of compulsion.

That can often be benign. We'll never be unanimous and sometimes minorities on any issue will be compelled. That works when it's not done with malice. But malice is a real thing, and it only takes one side to have it. And it really looks to me as if it's being done out of malice in the US, right now. Maybe not genocidal... but I don't think it's up to the trans people or any other group to avoid inflaming Republicans just by existing.
> It’s like you’re trying to manufacture the outrage on the spot based on a loose skimming and the appearance of keywords.

Good advertising should only require loose skimming to know what they're trying to sell you.
I love Vim. The only thing that bothers me is: when I open the same file in a different terminal, I don't get the option to kill the other session cleanly.
is it a website or an app? do you have a link?

it could be something with your on-boarding flow.
I'm 26 (so, born around the time author started at Apple) and took up programming as an on-and-off hobby in my early twenties. I've never worked in IT in any capacity and don't consider myself skilled or talented. But I love the thrill of figuring things out, of building (usually useless) things, of solving problems. I suspect there could be many like me, who perhaps never get into (or even try to get into) the industry, yet are enthusiastic about the field itself.
HP is one of the scummier companies in a very scummy product space.
Please don't use "realistically" to privilege your own opinion beyond its merit. My opinion is just as reality-based as yours. Time after time after time, leaders within any elite have accumulated personal power and turned it into an instrument of that power (as opposed to its original purpose). When that elite is ruling society, those leaders therefore are too, and we have a word for that: oligarchs. We probably can't fix the organizational dynamics that lead to this accretion of power, but we can prevent it from being our basis of government by keeping the franchise broad. Limiting franchise has always been a favorite tool of dictators, oligarchs, and supremacists - not of people who actually believe in democracy.
Having been born in '71, my folks, who loved horror and sci-fi, dragged me along to a lot of these. There was an old drive-in in town that would show this stuff so, we'd pull in, get popcorn and I'd usually fall asleep part way in, but I still remember scenes from Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Incredible Melting Man, etc. Funny, though, many of those movies I never watched again when I was older.
> While I lean remain; some people seem to have serious blind spots that a _lot_ of EU legislation is poorly thought

Oh, I'm not blind to it. My calculation is a simple one: looking at where we were and where are now, where would I prefer to be? For me it's not a difficult conclusion.

> This is going to be an enormous challenge to the EUs tech industry if UK and US firms can use LLMs but EU companies can't

Sure, but your argument completely disregards the privacy concerns which is the reason the EU has done what it's done. It's possible for Europe to decide that it's worth the cost in potential business to protect the privacy of its citizens. That's essentially what GDPR decided, after all.

(FWIW I've worked on GDPR implementations, I'm not so convinced it's a failure. It lead to a very meaningful drop in the amount of personal information the company was storing. The compliance costs were not particularly huge ongoing costs, just upfront implementation ones)
Quite a formidable trivia player as well.
I've downloaded it, but never got around to watching it.

If we're going back to the sixties, I'll nominate "Seconds" with Rock Hudson.
If you're familiar with the history of the Rwandan genocide, it was not simply a matter of the vulnerable Tutsis being massacred by the evil Hutus.

The genocide was the culmination of a hundred-plus years of power shifting from one group to the other. When the Tutsis were in power, they made life hell for the Hutus, and when the Hutus were in power, they made life hell for the Tutsis. Each group came to see the other as deserving of that punishment because of the way they had been mistreated when the other group was in power.

But my broader point is a criticism of the major-party duopoly, where every single social issue, economic issue, military issue, civil rights issue, etc. gets boiled down to these two choices. And often the philosophy that underpins them is inconsistent. So it's no wonder that each party is able to point out the inconsistencies and evils of its opposition; our political system is designed to make that as easy as possible. And the politicians who run within those parties benefit from that polarization.
Probably a stupid question, but as someone trying to dabble in optics, what's the difference between numerical and geometrical optics?
I have a friend who's been a programmer at Apple for 30+ years now. He's still very enthusiastic, though I'm sure he could retire several times over by now.

Great programmers are the ones who have side projects they're doing for the fun of it.
String theory has been pretty useful outside of string theory proper. There are analogies to lots of other systems which I think continues to breathe life into the research. See: https://www.quantamagazine.org/string-theorys-strange-second...

> “It’s hard to say really where you should draw the boundary around and say: This is string theory; this is not string theory,” said Douglas Stanford, a physicist at the IAS. “Nobody knows whether to say they’re a string theorist anymore,” said Chris Beem, a mathematical physicist at the University of Oxford. “It’s become very confusing.”

I knew some string people who easily transitioned into other fields (like condensed matter) because the work was similar. I don't personally see it as a huge waste of time, and it's like the least expensive thing to fund.
Somewhat related: "Harmonic" is a GREAT viewer for Android

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.simon.harm...
Myth: Windows 3.1 was just a shell on top of DOS
While I feel like these companies could easily implement sensible daily spending limits to help combat this, parents could also do more to make sure their children aren’t charging their cards. I’m pretty sure Apple and Google both have systems in place where parent’s can approve all purchases.
> The value (department name) is repeating and should be extracted

Then the id would be repeating. Furthermore, the department name would make a fine primary or alternate key for the new relation you're proposing.

Also, that's not what 1NF is. 1NF means there should be no table-valued attributes. And neither is any column list-valued nor does any subset of columns form a subtable.

The other normal forms talk about functional dependencies and there aren't any.

The only possible violation of 1NF could be not splitting the name in given name and family name. Other than that, the table is normalized.
I believe the point is that if the US government had policies to never use such data for anything (e.g. criminal investigations, intelligence agencies perhaps), then the EU would not be worried about the data being in the US. The US government’s behavior is why they are worried about it.
I have plenty of time to look for new music. I just find it all in the live scene these days. Not on the internet.
I have a very hard time believing they don't realize who they're voting for. This isn't a secret. They're quite explicit about it.

I had been willing to believe that they simply put other issues first, which was merely selfish and short-sighted -- the kind of thing a democracy can be moderately robust for. But the culture war is front page news every day in every medium, and I simply cannot believe any more that it's not a deliberate choice.
Awesome release!

Lem also works for Python, Rust, HTML [and more](https://github.com/lem-project/lem/tree/master/modes), it has a built-in LSP server, a vi layer, a directory mode…

It has a very good CL REPL, with an interactive debugger. Call it from Lem: M-x start-lisp-repl or directly from the CLI:

lem --eval "(lem-lisp-mode:start-lisp-repl t)"

Also, more editors for CL (Jetbrains (new!), VSCode, Sublime, Atom/Pulsar, Vim…) https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/editor-support.ht...)