skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll just drop this here, and say nothing more:

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/02/israels-apart...
Open-source only helps organizations that take ownership of their own design and decision-making.

Contracting disasters are always because the customer is trying to outsource thinking. Usually it ends poorly. Either way, you don't solve the problem with a configurable OSS tool.
The health insurance companies and the hospitals involved in this scam of a system are responsible for so many deaths and bankruptcies. Every year they make record profits by denying care and raising prices. Nothing will be done to fix this, Biden certainly isn’t going to, the man’s campaign is paid for by them. This whole thing is just so damn frustrating.
> I use grep on a flat file, and testing now it takes 200ms for a query across my 180k history entries

200ms is order of magnitude more than I'd prefer for interactive use
Given that SCOTUS essentially ruled that clean-room implementation is more or less automatically fair use, why not?
Preventing additional sources for financing state-sponsored terrorism, what is hard to understand?
So kinda like "build your own consul"
While the fine-tuning pipeline is fairly straightforward for tuning and building custom models, the RLHF pipeline doesn't look to be as straightforward. Creating a dataset for RLHF seems like a fairly labour intensive exercise especially if your model is tuned to do work like code generation ?

What about the Replit Ghostwriter? Did it have a RLHF phase?
Thanks! Still does nothing to break the association with the other definition for me though so I’ll add ERP vendors to the list of things to giggle at
Given that Oracle ERP licences start at 100k per year for small-to-medium companies, NOT including hardware or let's say 2 years of consultancy to get it installed in the first place.

Big enterprises pay a lot more and will have to maintain all sorts of operations folks anyway, so I'm pretty sure you could have a team of, say, 5 SWEs for less than and ERP system. Especially for less than Oracle.

Also there are at this point plenty of open source ERPs you could start from.
It's a legally mandated black box. Anti-money-laundering laws in the US make it explicitly illegal to even tell you that they suspect money laundering if they think you might be laundering money. (Source: 11+ years of anti-money-laundering training and quizzes in a Fortune 500 financial services company.)

They are legally required to be vague and/or lie to you if they think you might be laundering money.
I wish there was a separate catalog of these posts which I could browse through.
You don't get to keep the money yourself. It sits on your balance sheet as a liability for 7 years, and eventually gets classed as a dormant account and gets paid to the state treasury.
Nice work if you can get it, but fine-grained "services" like this feel dead in the water, since you're one motivated developer away from e.g. GIMP/Krita plugin, no?
Think it through - would a billion dollar industry have resources to pay people to run illegitimate studies to create sham findings in their favor? Is there a counter-balancing force with the same amount of financial backing?

Meat consumption has reliably been found to have bad effects on health.
Probably the best answer I can think of is to just stop caring what people think (about your work/code), I know my work is never perfect (or even good) but I show up anyway. We are not defined by the code we write or the work we do because to be honest most of it is probably not bringing that much value to society anyway; what defines us is our character. Stay humble and look at every criticism as an opportunity to learn and build relationships.

I've been working for a long time now and I have learned the hard way that nobody is perfect and nobody cares if you are perfect, in fact people tend to prefer those at their own level (not perfect), but most of all relationships matter and are probably the most important part of having a healthy and enjoyable career.
Monzo have a very informative article about it, explains what this looks like from the side of the bank. They are literally not allowed to tell you, and also the other interesting thing is that they see how skilled fraudsters are at social engineering - the kind of posts that sometime surface here on HN "my bank/google/paypal blocked my account and they won't help me!" - it's not that every one of them is a scam, but fraudsters are incredibly good at writing those across social media and putting pressure on companies to unblock them.

https://monzo.com/blog/2019/04/04/why-we-block-freeze-close-...
There's also this non intuitive fact that the critics you'll hear about are usually judgment free, at review time. Whereas you'll be judged harshly on your committed code and will probably never hear about it.
We could summarize it with something like "hard critics prevents hard judgments".
Tesla Model Y Was the Best-Selling Car in Q1 2023
That's why I said, as per the physician's guidance. The Maalox-Omeprazole duo is the best route to suppressing reflux, but the dosage you need to take them is as per the physician's recommendation.
I was also thinking Tarkovsky’s Stalker while reading the parent comment - a great accompaniment to a nap on a lazy afternoon. Nice atmosphere, but did anything happen in that movie?
Do you have an option to opt out of being followed?
10 years is a long time. This prediction requires two things to happen: interest rates never decline in that period and wages of the owners stay the same. Given the inverse relationship between the two, I don't see that happening. Even modest 3% wage growth over 10 years is an increase of 34%, 4% pushes that to 50%.

Since the mortgage is fixed, these wage gains don't even need to be "real" (positive when inflation adjusted).

> I also wonder if people who are in a position to sell our build houses will try (and maybe even succeed?) to sit this out or whether we will see a downward trend in prices again.

You can't time the market. It's so difficult to predict what is going to happen in the future with any degree of certainty. Also, where are you going to live in the mean time?

Lots of people were burned in 2014-now by assuming the housing market was going to "collapse any minute now" then watching the exact opposite happen. It's as if they thought 2008 was some kind of regular occurrence and not a black swan event.
The number of times I’ve tried to scan a QR code menu only to realize I have no service is shocking.

Like, a basement bar should be aware pretty quickly why everyone seems to be sharing a single phone for the menu - it’s the only one that loads!
The obvious final step
New superbug-killing antibiotic discovered using AI
You assume malice. It's not. They're just covering their asses. They earn magnitudes more on the transaction fees of legitimate purchases than they could ever get from stealing money through that scheme. Not even considering that the frozen money isn't even theirs to use but a liability in their accounting.
Wow really? This seems really surprising to me.
Show HN: 3D Video Ad from Single Image
Hi HN,

I built videoad.app to help advertisers create video ads for their products.

All you need is an image of a product and a prompt for the background scene.

My server then generates a WebGL scene that can be recorded and downloaded as a video file. The app is currently running on a $5 Heroku server, so please be patient if the generation takes a while.

I'm currently focused on e-commerce applications, but the app might be useful in other areas as well.

At this time I'm testing to see if anyone would find this useful, so I'd love to hear your thoughts.
At long last, the glorious future we were promised in space is on the way
Istanbul has an elected mayor and a local parlament. The current mayor is Ekrem İmamoğlu.

Big cities in Turkey have a single metropolitan municipality each. Below the metropolitan municipality each district also has its own local mayor and local parlament. They have a duty sharing system.

For example water and public transportation is responsibilty of the metropolitan municipality. Collecting property taxes is responsibility of the smaller local municipalities etc.
I know a young programmer in Brazil who is running Linux on a 2000's laptop simply because they cant afford anything better. At the time I was ignorant of their import taxes and said I had a spare motherboard/cpu/ram combo and a laptop I could send them and they politely refused my offer stating they would go broke paying the import taxes. Sad situation.
For so called "rationalists" they sure seem to love bringing up this frankly moronic idea that "processing" is the same whether it's a factory with bleach and other chemicals or a person at home dicing fruits. Is it because the leader of the movement is a fat slob?
Just in a quick glance at the source it seems like simply poor or misleading phrasing on wikipedia. Looks like the poll wasn't "support/oppose" with 95% oppose but it was more like "do you support" with 5% yes.
The first amendment also refers to “the right of the people to peaceably assemble.” By your logic, is there no individual right to protest? The fourth amendment refers to “the right of the people to be secure in their persons.” Does that mean that you don’t have an individual right against unreasonable search and seizure?

You’re correct to identify “the people” as the key phrase, and you’re correct that the second amendment is referring to a collective right. But so are the other amendments referring to “the people.” The constitution is talking about a whole society, not individuals. E.g. the fourth amendment guarantees a society where “the people” aren’t subject to unreasonable searches from police. But that collective right also protects the individual. What applies to the collective applies to its individual constituents.

This makes sense in the context of the 2nd amendment: militias were “bring your own firearm.” The collective right was enforced through the individual guarantee. There was no need to interpret the second amendment in the past because it really wasn’t unclear what the framers meant. Some of the key figures in the Supreme court’s recent jurisprudence on the second amendment were prominent liberal academics like Larry Tribe and Akhil Amar. Here is Larry Tribe talking about how he changed his mind on the second amendment once he started seriously researching it: https://hls.harvard.edu/today/why-i-changed-my-mind/ (scroll down).

Your strongest argument is that the second amendment only applies to the federal government, not the states. That’s clearly true, but that’s true of every other amendment as well. The first amendment’s Establishment Clause clearly was intended to prevent the federal government from interfering with established state churches, or creating its own. The “wall of separation” phrasing wasn’t used by the Supreme Court until 1946. (Ironically, it was quoting the individual views of Thomas Jefferson, who also believed we should overthrow the government every couple of decades. With guns that every individual was entitled to bear!)

I’m willing to entertain the view that our whole incorporation doctrine is non-sensical, but that cuts more broadly than I think most gun control advocates would like to go. Moreover, the notion that the 14th amendment was meant to apply the second amendment to states is far better supported than the incorporation of the first amendment. Disarmament of freed slaves was specifically one of the concerns at the time: https://www.encounterbooks.com/features/racist-roots-gun-con...
Off topic, but I would love the opposite of this. The ability to block certain HN users, just hide their comments entirely. Certain people have shown again and again they are not willing to have good faith arguments, and I simply don't care to be subjected to their nonsense.
> "2x father 2x Ironman finisher"

Humanity can be really hilarious. Perhaps aliens don't contact us because they prefer just watching us on their TVs, as a highly entertaining reality TV show.
I do agree Apple's hardware is still top-notch. Their home-made chips have been amazing to use and I have no worry they'll continue to push the envelope there. And even iOS I feel is a solid piece of evolving software (other than Siri). It's MacOS and their lack of focus on devs that worries me.
If the data is small, then the index will also be small, so it doesn't really matter either way. The reason to avoid indexes is if you can't accept the time or space cost. Only the last of OP's examples is a situation where choosing an index causes a problem; the rest are examples where an index isn't necessary but does not cause problems. Several examples are so trivial that you'd be crazy to use an external database at all. I'm not sure I'm really sold here.
I actually make my objectivity a point of pride.

Yes, there is a bit of a sting when you put up a PR or a design doc and your teammates basically roast it, but then there is a prideful "oh yeah, I'm someone who doesn't take any of this personally."

It's part of being an engineer, working in engineering culture. It's not personal, and it makes the codebase better. It helps to remember that your goal is the long-term health of the platform, not a little bit of your PR that you thought was clever.

It also helps to avoid toxic teams. In a good team, feedback is offered objectively, without judgement or attack.
who can realistically challenge the chinese EV market in terms of efficiency / cost? simplicity of EV motors + established industry + possible commodity imports from russia
Agreed that Europe & US manufacturers will lose Chinese domestic market. Any data to show Chinese EVs taking over Europe though? Haven’t seen that happening.
The greens haven't been part of the national government for decades until 2021.
I disagree with their decision to not keep the nuclear reactors running, but if you want to point fingers at people it's not them that unilaterally decided to stop building new reactors.
Your comment is ironic considering PayPal does exactly that and is in fact not a bank. They are licensed as a money transmitter.
I'll forever remember the garbage setup I first saw Alien on: an old MacBook and its internal speakers, in a not-dark-enough room with friends. The seating was clearly uncomfortable, too. But how perfect that afternoon was. I was blown away for two hours, mouth wide open. For that reason I fear to re-watch it at all, fearing that 10 y-o experience would be tarnished a bit.

The sequels really are worth it, imo, with each director adding its own ideas and set design, photography, special effect etc... Please Hollywood do not destroy that franchise like LOTR, SW, Harry Potter etc with garbage reboots.

I had a similar experience in front of The Thing, but was in the theater this time.
It's a bit of a weird semi-pedantic stats claim, they're basically counting "largest lowest level of government". Birmingham is a large unitary authority, there are no district or borough councils below it. Looking at Wikipedia Istanbul seems to be split into districts which have their own local governments (similar to London with its boroughs). So they're counting the 514,900 population of Başakşehir or 259,146 of Hackney vs the 1.1 million of Birmingham, rather than the total populations of Istanbul or Greater London.
It can be. We still running PG11 and 13 in production. Not obligated to upgrade - especially when the software is rock solid.
New Species of Catfish Discovered in South America – Sci.News
Play a text based adventure with LLMs
I was laid off in the Great Financial Crisis and was very early career. Honestly, I was angry at the employer for a few years. Eventually I got over it, and it inspired me to become more resilient & diversified in income. I've had clients, customers, and employers end relationships since, some hard stops and some soft stops. I don't get ruffled anymore by it, and knowing myself without that first layoff in early career I'd not be nearly as able to bounce back after processing.

It's not easy. I wish all the best to the folks who have been laid off -- it sucks, its hard, and really can be nerve wracking.

A few suggestions:

- Register for unemployment right away

- If you have tight constraints on resources (such as low bank account and food/housing affordability) reach out in your network right away -- people, community organizations, food banks, religious organizations if you are an adherent (my biased experience is they tend to be insular with help).

- Junior career or low network cultivation - pound the street, apply to what feels like an uncomfortably crazy number of jobs

- Mid to senior career or high network cultivation - pound the street, connect with what feels like an uncomfortably crazy number of people, even second degree connections

All the best to yall.
The Xreal Beam adapter just supercharged the Nreal Air AR glasses experience
Where are the sales going to come from? is there a breakdown?
I read every LLM news and I was getting ready to cringe from this one but it's accurate.
Arc’s new Boosts feature lets you change the way any website looks
Modern Eventing with CQRS, Redpanda and Zilla (a.k.a. StreamPay App Demo)
To demonstrate how event-streaming can be used to support Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS), and what a fun, practical application of this architectural pattern could look like, we built a p2p payment app called StreamPay and wrote up a blog post. Hope you like it!
The paper: https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15251
Interesting. Do you have any examples? I'm familiar with Dr. Greger overstating certain things, but haven't been aware of any outright falsehoods.
Yeah. Something like the federal highway system, or dams.
CloudWatch Logs Insights, Snowflake, Grafana Loki all do minimally indexed queries with highly parallel brute force scans of tons and tons of smallish s3 objects. A lot of data, especially data like logs, the ratio of “retrieved:ingested” can be in excess of 1:100. That makes it very much worth while to not index up front but to pay the retrieval cost for that rare amount of data that is actually retrieved. The minimal indexing mentioned is typically time and sometimes bloom filteresque term existence indices at the object level.
https://www.w3.org/TR/epub-33/
Does it compete with them if you stop paying for their API?
Do you think the same is true for fruits, vegetables and nuts?
Has Zeihan really surpassed Thiel on HN for who gets to be called by the first name Peter?

This dude is the absolute most entertaining geopolitical analyst, perhaps because no one else is filling this niche?

Is anyone else filling it? Any reason they aren't blowing up right now?

The thing is, Zeihan seems to be wrong a lot or most of the time about the particularities of his claims, yet his delivery is in a tone that is almost confident to the point of parody. Why doesn't he ever show any self doubt? I guess because that's a big part of his entertainment value, the showmanship. It doesn't stand up to scrutiny though if you watch for a couple years and then go back and look at the old videos.

We've yet to hear him really explain in a coherent way why piracy will suddenly plague the global oceans just because the US Navy won't patrol as consistently.
I've held a grudge against the Android app "DaTuner" for literal years now, because at one point I paid what was then a one-time fee to remove ads from the app. I used it for years as a very handy and useful tuner. And then, they added a subscription.

YOU ALREADY GOT MY MONEY!

Since then, I have just used the built in tuner in the Ultimate Guitar app - which is inferior, but I'm not paying a subscription for a single-purpose app like a guitar tuner.

This happened like 8 years ago and I'm still annoyed by it.
What's the average karma/comment for people with 10k+ karma?
The State of Data 2023
Or logical replication to the new box then migrate traffic.
I'm using deno in production and npm compat is, for me, a must.
Ah, but eusociality means that the genes you have are in kin that inherit the world you leave them. So, by all means, leave them a better world!
Some body stopped you from shipping a mistake. Just like when someone stops you to tell you your fly is down or a shoe is untied, feel a little embarrassed, and a little grateful that they didn't let you walk around like that all day.

> feeling bad for honest mistakes.

Use it as an impetus to get better. If you make the same kind of mistake repeatedly how can you modify the way you write code to not do that anymore. There is a popular saying "the worst code I know of is code I wrote six months ago", but if you aren't analyzing and improving (not just changing), then it will be just as true six months from now. Code from the previous month should be better than the code from two months ago and so on, otherwise you are chasing fashion and quality is stagnating.
Orthodox Jews by vast margins support Israel, you've been a victim of disinformation. There is a tiny sect of ultra-Orthodox that don't, but even the vast majority of the ultra-Orthodox are pro-Israel. Support for Israel amongst Jews in general is somewhere north of 90%.

Zionism is simply support for a Jewish state in Israel, not necessarily for settlers. The vast majority of the center-left political groups in Israel consider themselves Zionists, while being rabidly anti-settler. For example, the left-wing protests against judicial reform in Israel used the Israeli flag as their symbol — because they're Zionists, and believe the judicial reform undermined Israel. (The right wing and religious counterprotests also used the Israeli flag as their symbol, since they're also Zionists, and believe the current judicial system is detrimental to Israel.)

Even some right-wing Israeli political parties have been anti-settler while pro-Zionism, e.g. Ariel Sharon's Kadima party that forcibly evicted all settlers from Gaza at gunpoint, destroyed the settlements there, and ended Israeli occupation of Gaza (the "unilateral disengagement") in 2005.
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I prefer the gag in Demolition Man where a human answers the phone and says "if you would like an automated response, please press '1' now".
> It's MacOS and their lack of focus on devs that worries me

You and me both, System Settings alone is a disgrace that I'm embarrassed for them that they shipped and it's only one of many recent failures related to macOS.
I was thinking Tommy Lee Jones looking over his newspaper.
what are you eating for lunch? is it lots of carbs?
AWS has gotten much better in recent years. Pg15 is available on Aurora as of last month. That's about 6-7 months after it was released, a significant improvement over years past.
It includes both. I just made a forked version that takes an extra `tags` parameter that lets you customize which kinds of posts you want to subscribe to:

https://www.val.town/v/stevekrouse.hnFollowApp

You can see all the tag types (and other search options) here: https://hn.algolia.com/api

Happy to help you customize it however you'd like :)
This is dumb, Tape as a percentage of data center storage is going down. Yes raw bytes go up, but growth rates mater.
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watched it for the 5th time a few months ago.
result guaranteed: scared the bejesus out of me :)

Great cast, great characters. And a franchise which: 1) is one of the greatest scifi franchises around (bar the couple of alien/predator anomalies) 2) is hopefully not going to be purchased and ravaged by Disney.
> The findings reveal that if the participants had a habit of eating a lot of processed carbs, especially during snack times, their performance in cognitive tests dropped off.

False. They found that when people's cognitive ability was starting to wane, they were more inclined to reach for processed carbs.

The novelty here is in misrepresenting that correlation as being causal in the reverse direction, in the absence of any real evidence to support this.