skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Regrail – Open-Source, Visual Data Transformation and Querying Tool
As a software engineer, it's frustrating to see those who can't code stuck with spreadsheets as their most powerful data tool. This is especially true when there is such a thin layer that exists to access arbitrarily powerful data and AI/ML tools (typically just Python and pandas/SQL).

I built Regrail last year to demonstrate a visual, procedural tool that abstracts the primitives of data engineering. It uses a block-based editor that allows users to see the changes they are making to tables step by step. You can think of it like a visual DAG builder.

I believe that data literacy is fundamental to human progress, and I'd love to see a world where a more advanced data tool than Google Sheets is available to the general public and working with data can be as fun and collaborative as coding or design. Regrail may be a good starting point for this and I'd love to turn it into a community project to get it to a v1.0 state. Feel free to send me an email if you'd like to get involved.
Security, the love of cables
Armbian or DietPi.
I've said it before, the web's demise is Google's fault.

SEO optimization has pushed content 'producers' to generate page after page. There are websites that have a page for every Microsoft KB<number> error out there pointing to their own product.

It even is starting to overtake YouTube.

All just to get higher in Google and push (malicious) ads to visitors.
Call it therapy, charge $200/hr, and people will be lining up at your door to do once a week for an hour.
Your statements seem contradictory. "bajillions of layers of bloat" sounds like exactly the situation of "many micro-decisions" that degrade performance.
I personally use RDS
> It's not any different from capitalists having terrible working conditions in their factories

Is it not, really? Have we read the same article?

I hate capitalism, and I hate many consequences it has including horrible working conditions for some workers, sharp inequalities, terrible incentives like preferring to produce stuff in countries with terrible laws because it's cheaper and therefore promoting horrible working conditions and terrible environmental practices, etc. I see capitalism as a worldwide oppressive system. However, as a human being, I can see how capitalism can be applied in good faith by other human beings, and the things I listed being somewhat unintended consequences (at least I can hope so - and now we know the consequences I would hope we would move away from it).

But this?

(this is not a communism/socialism vs capitalism debate by the way, what this article describes is not communism or socialism. It's torture)
Thanks, this seems to be a step in the right direction. I'll use it for a few days and see what I think.
TIL a new law.
WizardCoder: Empowering Code Large Language Models with Evol-Instruct
> I don't see how it could get any worse.

The embattled regime could employ a scorched earth policy and will launch all the weapons they've got, resulting in millions of civilian deaths. That seems worse to me.

It's not like Saddam Hussein or the Taliban, or even Putin's Russia.

If it wasn't for that Korea could be reunited and it will probably end up fairly well, similar to how the reunification of Germany ended up well.
Pull the drive out, insert it into his machine, replace, then insert it back.
Surely, if anything, this whole shitshow has shown us that having a single website host the majority of the world's web forums is a bad idea.

Perhaps the best way forward is to return to traditional, independently-hosted forums, perhaps with some sort of communally-maintained registry so that members of forum x can easily discover a new forum y.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230615202717/https://www.sfchr...
What personally works for me is to have a machine dedicated to specifically being productive. A “work machine”.
I'd suggest using `.clone()` over `Rc` since it'll be easier. Rc is an optimization to make `.clone()` cheap, but the downside is it makes mutability more complex.
- Google already put ads on search, thus incentivized to show users the best results.

- But this must be balanced with other incentives, like upranking links that also display ads good for the bottom line. (And up/downranking stuff to maximize its "value" (eg data collection), at users' expense.)

- re "best software engineers in the world"; Firstly, Google (200k pax corp with national interests) has optimized itself to lowrisk recruiting, thus having a heavy "careerists" bias builtin by design ("best software engineer" is definitely nowhere near the top priority of its hiring rulebook). Which corresponds to a very low % of mentioned group. Also https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/03/06/the-hiring-post/

Obligatory venn diagram here: https://i.stack.imgur.com/GN2Rl.png.

( You'd think ppl such as Satoshi will pass the Google interviews? What about Linus and etc? )

( Not to mention plenty of weirdos (like Ciro on SO) would be banned from interviews regardless of skill level; and plenty of best engineers are weirdos )
Super cool! A separate fan community like this is huge for longterm fan/community building. It also totally fits the ethos of star trek itself.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out. 3rd party apps is the primary way I consume reddit. I'll probably stop consuming them after the shutoff date (or lightly consume their data since It'll only happen when I'm at a desktop).

I'm not going to install reddit's official app.
Now I'm picturing two cave dwelling fellows in front of a fire knapping flint and shooting the shit, and one goes "hold on, what about cave paintings... as a service!"
If you're using a design tool to build your website... why would you need bootstrap? If you use a tool, the implementation details shouldn't matter much to you, just the process and final product.
Any specific examples you can share?

I haven't experienced any decline in quality so maybe I'm not searching for the right things.

It makes sense that when a bunch of content goes dark it would have an impact so a few specific examples would be appreciated.
WizardCoder model Surpasses Claude-Plus (+6.8), Bard (+15.3) and InstructCodeT5+ (+22.3) on HumanEval Benchmarks

twitter description: https://twitter.com/WizardLM_AI/status/1669109414559911937

code: https://github.com/nlpxucan/WizardLM/tree/main/WizardCoder
People in this thread itself are talking about how they wish NK would be invaded. You can justify pretty much anything using any justification as long as enough people believe or support it.
You must have misunderstood me but just to reiterate, I have no sympathy for the moderators of reddit whatsoever.
I don't know about your experience (individual web footprints and all), but the banners I see mostly aren't really asking for permission. They're telling you that they use cookies, that by using their website you consent, and the "accept all" button just notes your consent and makes the banner go away. Not all sites with banners work this way, but it seems quite common to me.
Duckduckgo has somewhat recently added a feature where with some searches they'll spot you're trying to search for Reddit posts, and ask if you want more of them displayed. It's a useful addition for the habit I've picked up of adding "reddit" to searches to limit the blog spam.

It's a shame it came out now, when reddit is increasingly full of spam and now is blowing itself up.
I don't know about ability but it is obvious they are not willing to even try. Why? If search result quality was anywhere in their radar, there would be a button next to all search results letting me block the domain from my personal search results. One day they might even figure how to use the information about blocked domains to help ranking results while not being gamed.
Ah Dreamweaver. You just won't die, will you.
My experience reflects this strongly! Ironically I performed what you describe as extroverted networking relentlessly by nature with great success for years, went to engineering school as an adult and dutifully attempted to perform 'networking' as it was recommended to me and as a result had almost that exact 'introvert networking' experience.

Like, your description caused me to recoil in horror from remembered embarrassment.

Because of that I think the 'introvert networking' experience is simply following the procedure as described.
If you look at the video some of the patterns are very regular and geometric, not what I'd expect for a regular sharpening of a tool. It's possible they sharpened tools artfully but then that's just a different way of creating the inscriptions.

https://youtu.be/fFbgQhY4Yxw?t=769
What's the intended workflow, once I see a community I want to subscribe to? I've created an account on lemmy.world, but I see a community from lemmy.ml..... what do I do?
This seems to miss the point of their comment. They're "clowns" or "dumbasses who want to get attention" because they're pretending to be nazis. (I clicked on that thinking I'd see someone with a big red nose, rainbow wig, and a swastika tattooed on their forehead; closed that tab in disappointment.)
This is mindblowing. Here we are, 3000 years in the future. But how many of us could make such a “primitive” thing?
What changed to make GPL more "dangerous" - and to whom?

I was under the impression that nearly every Linux distro uses GPL code in the kernel and/or userland.
On my phone:
old.Reddit ~15 posts/page,
new.Reddit ~5 posts/page,
lemmy ~2 posts/page
That's military industrial complex propaganda. The North Korean air force consists of just 40 MiG 29's. The ROK military outclasses NK in every way that matters, including 167 F16's, 60 F15E's, and 40 F35's. This is in addition to the 160 F16's the US has stationed there.
My 24 year old HP Jornada can do things an iPhone still can't do
Why do you say there's no more geopolitical reason for the country to exist? The Cold War is long over but China may well see DPRK as a valuable buffer and a means of diluting the military capabilities of rival countries. Belarus, another dictatorship that seems to be frozen in time, has a similar role vis-a-vis Russia.
Look, the elephant in the room is that if a power company wants to invest a billion dollars in power generation, they are going to do it with solar/wind. The project scales out, the cost is dropping constantly, and they get power generation early in the project.

A nuclear power plant is:

- a 10 year investment delay (with no return until completed)

- could be cancelled at any moment (high risk)

- with a very uncertain price target (solar/wind + grid storage will probably be half the cost or less of what it is today)

- can't be expanded

- very likely to balloon in cost and be a total financial quagmire

Solar/wind can be scalably purchased, installed, and expanded as needed. The costs will drop continuously, replacement and maintenance is easy, there's no nuclear waste to get rid of, and can very reliably be specced in terms of cost for generation.
For the sake of a compiler? I'd rather not add complexity for complexity's sake. Or does it give you another advantage not mentioned above?
Adds integration with WebAuthn to skip 3DSecure/SCA popups in cases where the user has a biometric authenticator that's been registered with the bank
That is untrue, you still need a server to facilitate discovery/passthrough. Peer-to-peer does not exist in the wider internet for most consumers.
I get a cert error. Maybe the Let's Encrypt issue?
> I don't get a ton either which is odd because I OFTEN add "reddit" onto my search and get way better results for what I'm looking for.

Could you give some example queries?
In some ways, software development practices have degraded since that era. It largely has to do with the need for speed which comes at the expense of careful consideration, quality, integrity and the formal standards that support it.

In fact, I believe it pretty much killed the profession of software architect. Many teams had it as a dedicated role, and this indeed would be a person documenting/designing systems using UML or otherwise. And they'd know the classics, like memorizing all design patterns. Finally, they'd use formalized architectural decision making methodologies to justify tech choices.

Nobody seems to do anything like that anymore. Everybody is half-assing design or skipping it entirely. Solutions are reinvented and tech choices made on a whim by the loudest person whom won't see the consequences of it anyway. Because we've told ourselves that shipping garbage in short cycles is the one and only way to do things.
The harsh reality is that NK defectors could end up being second class citizens in the South or wish to return back [0].

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/26/forever-strang...
> This article isn't very clear on the fact that CO2 can be re-injected back into the cement later in the production stage.

How can that work? The calcium oxide (or hydroxide) reacts with silica to make silicates, which bind things together. That CaO which reacted is not available to soak up CO2.
is this correct?

It doesn't sound right. It last raised money at $10B in 2021, but Fidelity, who led that round have since cut that valuation on their own books back to $6B.

I would not be surprised if that is a conservative number.

The market has moved and reddit hasn't been going in the right direction.

While that's still a lot of money, it is unprofitable, so a trade sale would make some sense. The real issue is that it comes with a lot of reputational baggage that a lot of public companies would not want.
It's open source. You can self-host it.
As far as I can tell, it is also a desktop application, and the source code is available on Github: https://github.com/webstudio-is/webstudio-builder

On the main website you can scroll down to the bottom and click Download.
The nukes we had by korea were much larger
I want us to distinguish between planning (where the office may or may not be better than writing) and implementing (where a noisy open plan office is definitely worse). The latter should be the majority of our work, unless we’re constantly making last-minute design changes.
I’m not talking about the reality show friend.

He has a fast food restaurant chain that has grown insanely quickly by partnering with local restaurants. He has no kitchens yet dozens of these fast food restaurants operating solely on Uber/DoorDash.
State machine diagram maye useful from time to time.

Object diagrams are sometimes great illustrations of how data is structured. I specifically recommend object diagrams, not class diagrams for that. If you are learning unfamiliar system just by reading the code and making user interactions, its easy to loose track what is recorded where. Collecting your observations on a diagram you draw gradually will help to acumulate details and build a clear picture.

Maintaining several simple object diagrams for main usage scenarious may help future newcomer developers to quickly grasp the implementation backbone.
Feathery: Powerful form builder for product teams
Subscribe to the communities you want on lemmy.ml from your account on lemmy.world?
Blame the Reddit moderators taking a unilateral decision for sham reasons.
It was the moderators' choice and it is reddit's fault.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fractionalreservebankin...

"The fractional reserve banking process creates money that is inserted into the economy. When you deposit that $2,000, your bank might lend 90% of it to other customers, along with 90% from five other customers' accounts. This creates enough capital to finance $9,000 in loans."

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/09/gold-standard.as...

"The gold standard is a monetary system where a country's currency or paper money has a value directly linked to gold. With the gold standard, countries agreed to convert paper money into a fixed amount of gold."

I was talking about how fiat came to be, not the Fed
uBlock (at least uBlock Origin) doesn't block banners, at least not by default. Apparently you can adjust your filters to do so, but I didn't even know that was a thing until I looked into it just now.
Not sure why you think dehumanization was a prerequisite for slavery.
You got a better price than the other dealers offered but not less than what it cost that dealer
This paper immediately brings to mind Kurt Vonnegut on the the "shapes of stories": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP3c1h8v2ZQ
I feel that the whole P2P thing isn't necessary to explain just to get up and running with it, just that it's useful to know when you start digging in to figure out how things work.

> Tbh also not a fan of deleting content that’s more than 6 months old

Agreed. Aether's idea is that the community will hold on to material that is important, likely by reposting.
Optimizing Models: Cross-Validation and Hyperparameter Tuning Guide
I visit GameFAQs sometimes. But I also find that site can be very toxic and aggressive at times.
Here in California, the state government itself advertises gambling, promoting the California Lottery. I find this extra frustrating - my tax dollars are being spent to encourage dumb behavior by other citizens.
> Whoever is paying for the servers gets to call the shots

But if everyone can run a server; if I can run my own server just for me to only fetch the stuff I'm following, then I'm not beholden to some unknown or commercial hosting entity.
To be fair, how many of the populace 3000 years ago could make such a thing?
> What would you do with a naked guy who hasn't showered in 3 weeks walking around the library with a piece of glass in his hand threatening to potentially cut someone?

What would I do in one hypothetical case that you invented, with no other details about the situation and person? I don't know. Is that really the question you're interested in here?

What I think is that as soon as a situation becomes really bad, it's likely already too late. There's no magical solution, certainly not jail. The jail proponents often say "We shouldn't tolerate this behavior", but we don't tolerate murder, for example — we arrest and jail murderers — yet murder continues to be a problem, for which jail has demonstrably not been a solution. You might ask, "What then should we do with a murderer?", and we could talk about that at length, but I don't think the answer to that question would actually be a solution to prevent murder. We have to look at the conditions that result in increased murder rates, and do what we can to prevent those conditions from arising in the first place. And the question here, relevant to the linked article, is why do homeless people end up at libraries? It's because they have nowhere else to go. What we do with the homeless once they end up at libraries is already missing the point, in my opinion. Jail is not a solution, it's at best a bandage for a gaping wound.
Frankly, it’s a miracle how many of the original actors were able to reprise their roles given the unfortunate ratio of deaths in the cast after the show wrapped.

I hope it’s great, but I can’t help but worry that JMS has returned to plunder the bones of his one time success.
What you're seeing on Google is the content that's most well adapted to Google's algorithm. There's a lot of stuff that is not as well adapted. For the most part it hasn't gone away, it's just not able to compete with the bullshit.

At the same time I don't think Google is exclusively at fault. I think their dominance in shaping web traffic is a far bigger factor.
YouTube Tells Open-Source Privacy Software ‘Invidious’ to Shut Down
Squarespace purchases Google Domains
11d ago: https://meta.getaether.net/t/is-the-project-still-alive/1060

7d ago: https://meta.getaether.net/t/aether-is-being-revived-as-some...

Someone tries to do something around it, I guess
> Most developers IME actively reject these diagrams because they are quickly outdated, or require constant changes to keep up to date

Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. The act of diagramming things up front is useful to get you thinking about the problem space and come up with the outline of a solution. After that, keeping the initial design documents up-to-date is optional, and often might not be necessary.
The development has stalled since 2021, but the app still works. There is a tiny community picking it up in the wake of the Reddit blackouts.
> It is not just the police she fears, it’s her neighbours. There is now almost no-one she can trust.

This is interesting. Reading a book recently called Ivan's war about the Soviet Union under Stalin one of the things it emphasized was the effort by the state to ensure no one could trust each other, to make sure each person felt isolated and alone.

Remember the purpose of propaganda isn't to convince you of something it is to convince you; you are alone.
Zoonotic jumps can still happen in a lab. They are simply jumps from one species to another.
Nah keep hearing this, was doing multilayer in 90s, the problem was my machine didn’t even have a floating point unit, had to hand roll my own fixed point math and cpu was about 100mhz
There are other types of diagrams beyond what UML formalizes. For example, Data Flow diagrams can be very helpful, but they don't exist in UML (Component, Composite Structure, and Activity diagrams all have similarities with Data Flow diagrams, but none are really a great fit).
Today while I was searching it was a double whammy because Stackoverflow was down. So Reddit content was gone and StackOverflow too. That's basically the two resources for coding knowledge gone.
Hi Syrus, this looks great and I'm an early adopter of WASM and Wasmer so anything new on this end is interesting to me.

That said,

>Join the waitlist to try Wasmer Edge today and experience the difference for yourself.

... this was very anticlimactic, it made me look away, honestly.

Could you just let us all in?
How many people could make them 3000 years ago? Im curious how many blacksmiths there were back then with the appropriate skill and resources to learn it and do it well. I feel as if there are still a surprising number of people that could make a sword today, although maybe not from raw resources.
uTox – Lightweight Tox Client
> thanks, my Matrix Synapse server is bad enough

OT but what pains did you experience with matrix / what would you have done differently? this'd make a good blog post/HN article at this moment imo.
How are you defining this? You made cold outreach to the companies for job postings you saw adverts for?

I ask because if recruiters were involved they are often power networkers that will unashamedly ask the people you know, "who do you know that would be good for this job."

My cofounder got two jobs because after they rejected me I told the agent they should hire him instead and they did.
This seems like a really great idea to help deal with the difficulties in moderation.
> An example of this is that PyPI just got the ability to namespace packages.

You're thinking of organizations, which are not namespaces: https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2023-04-23-introducing-pypi-orga...
>they are an objectively enormous company making these purchases and deserve this scrutiny.

They and hundreds of other companies.

>Glencore is 1/10th the size

In marketcap (which is speculative). They are 3x the size in revenue (which reflects size of operation). Action by Tesla would not cause glencore to do anything. Do you know what glecore has already done and gotten away with? They don't give a shit that some car maker isn't buying from them.
Is is using Mastodon?
According to their blog, the main developer used to work for Webflow. They wanted to start fresh because of some technical debt that Webflow (apparently) has.
Are you being a racist towards homo naledi?
They were humans, just like you and me :)