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Show HN: Valmi.io Open Source Reverse-ETL Engine
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We have built the valmi.io open-source reverse-ETL platform. You can quickly check out a live demo sync by following the link on the GitHub page or at the bottom. Please try it out. You can also easily deploy it locally or schedule a run on the demo website.

We are seeking feedback on the product. We have outlined a variety of use cases valmi.io currently supports on the blog.

Currently, the engine supports 13+ connectors. The connectors are built using the airbyte protocol, and dagster is used as the orchestration engine. We will soon provide a detailed architecture diagram.

We are currently working on essential features such as injecting state on connector failures. More upcoming features are listed on the website: https://www.valmi.io.

Please give it a try, and valuable feedback from early adopters will shape the product.

Live Sync - https://demo.valmi.io/spaces/a9195c50-60ca-4692-8f03-5a486ee...
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I didn't pick up on this on the first read, but I think you're right...the Raccoon info stealer is "a modular C/C++ binary designed to infect 32-bit and 64-bit systems Windows-based systems"

so this is a collection of logins, passwords, etc. collected via some bit of malware on clients...not info gleaned from OpenAi server logs, which is what I got from the article initially
It's not an intrinsic property, as it only comes into existence due to social interactions. An individual, viewed fully removed from all other humans, can be cis or trans, but they can only be involuntarily celibate in the context of a society.
Toes are jammed together because shoe toe boxes are not foot shaped, on most shoes they are shaped purely for vanity. In other words we still do foot binding, just milder. Hello bunions and foot issues!

And the width is set at average, so it fits very few people. Also the non-foot shape makes it so the few shoes that do offer different widths still fail to fit.
Cash-strapped Pakistan in talks to transfer largest port to UAE
I don't equate charisma with uniformity. Most lack of charisma is not because of a failure to adhere to some standard, but due to actively negative behaviors. Chewing with your mouth open, interrupting people, not paying sufficient attention to what people say, insisting on talking about your favorite things even when someone else doesn't care, etc.

I don't imagine many people forcing AI social guidance on others. But a lot of people want social guidance, and if an AI can help -- even if it's not as good as an unaffordable therapist -- some help is better than none.
Thank you! I find people repeating the "GDPR is stupid because there are other ways to track than using cookies" thing all the time and it's so frustrating. Misinformed comments like that usually end up at the very top of discussions like this.
Yes, but no one in Silicon Valley forced this on these people.
terrible news, but also refreshing that there are so many people interested in Moog
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We started Openstep.io because wanted to offer an affordable service and new AI tools that users could use for a range of services. Our service is currently free and just want feedback from users. Any suggestions welcomed!
Ah yes, the nearest comparable example of an illegal and undisclosed activity is a 100% legal and disclosed activity...

Consider me unconvinced.

I'm sympathetic to the view that these should be seen more similarly than they are, but that is unambiguously not the case in current law.
I just don't think this is mometarily driven corruption. It's corruption of the purest form, and these people crave power, influence, and acceptance amongst the so-called elite. I'm sure money is a part of it, but I don't see how paying depraved people more makes the corruption go away. The main way to make it happen is for real consequences to be in place, but that's not going to happen.
Blackrock and Vanguard don't own everything. While Blackrock does directly control some assets, Vanguard doesn't. They have a large amount of assets under management, which means they manage assets for other people. If all of Vanguard's clients removed their money, vanguard's assets would be a few buildings in Malvern, PA. Even their votes on the board are because they are proxy voters for the actual owners (the clients), and most people just don't exercise their right to vote on things.
You can email hn@ycombinator.com and they'll fix it.
Meanwhile in China, all union except the state-driven ones are illegal.

Deng Xiaoping took away the right to go onstrike because "the communist party is owned by the worker and represents the best interest of the workers".
If running a micro service use sqlalchemy and switch your db to sqlite for testing purposes.

There are scalability limits to this but for most cases it works extremely well and is fast.
The information stored in therapy or prayer apps is much more sensitive than a disposable Reddit account.
Work life balance too.

I hear folks talking about insane hours and feeling pressure to work them.

I uh… work when I want… and that’s not uncommon from other folks I talk to.

I think big tech and squeezing out every last dollar in compensation gets folks into a bit of a skewed world where their employer wants to do the same and they don’t always know it.
I can absolutely see the parallel if you read a headline and have not made any effort to understand the subject matter in any depth, yes.
They make great synths though and sell them, for cheap. Pretty damn innovative to me.

You can compete on differentiation, niche, or cost right? That’s all good business and good for the consumer.

Ideas are only as valuable as their execution makes them. Otherwise, there’d be lots of “ideas” for sale on eBay.
Ok I'll do this one more time with you.

Solar output has been decreasing as global temperatures increase.

Over 20 years ago scientists weren't just predicting temperature increase, but also making a wild prediction that global temperatures would not revert back to the mean and would increase well beyond our max temperatures. That has happened.

You can't be sure at all that global warming is false based on the available information. If you are wrong and we do nothing humanity will cook.

I don't personally want a leopard to eat my face. I don't spend my whole life doing climate research. The people who do spend their lives on this say this climate change is happening, and they were right 20 years ago predicting the global temps would increase over our previous max. Idk if they were right exactly with magnitude, but their predictions were more accurate than the other side of this debate.

The people saying global warming wasn't going to happen were wrong. They are heavily funded by the people releasing all the greenhouse gasses. They lack credibility and they have a worse track record.
But that's also a form of tracking. Are you saying it's a form of tracking which is exempt under the GDPR? Do you have a source on that?
> It just seems odd that such an unimportant merger is being so strongly resisted.

Videogames are a huge consumer market. Monopolistic behavior will harm consumers.

The fact that other companies in others areas "are allowed to pretty much own everything" is a non-comment. Hypothetical regulatory actions against "the likes of Blackrock and Vanguard" do not preclude regulatory action against Microsoft/Activision.
Perhaps it's of use to others, The possibilities for healing were not as diverse then as they are now. Besides the clinical dbt or cbt, there are many coaches and bodyworkers with diverse offerings on how to transform trauma. Somatic practices like Hakomi, breathwork like holotropic. Many many options, all of which can have a contribution to healing.
100K.. percentage who uses ChatGPT and doesn't use google or microsoft login.. that's a decent malware coverage.
See the movie Blackberry[0] for a dramatic telling of this.

[0]: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/blackberry
Even by the standards of 2000 years ago, Caesar was at best controversial (in the view of many Romans at the time, he essentially destroyed the country) and most of the emperors were widely loathed (note that it was a position with an extremely low life expectancy; they tended to be assassinated).
Hey folks! I'm Sarmad from the LastMile AI team. We'd love your feedback on this as you try it out. Here's a video example of using AI Workbooks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19vRQQNZLFo

Example Workbook from the video: https://lastmileai.dev/workbooks/clj530sqs000znztcmd5qr7v6
If you are using the exact same search terms you have used dozens of times, then you likely know what the first few pages of results are, and may want to skip to where you previously left off in your search.
Growth at any cost is creating a dystopian society. Tax share price increases so companies can focus again in making good products and providing good services.

To reward growth above all, and share price instead of profits does that, creates incentives to grow now at the cost of the future of the company and the trust of customers or even society.
What's really wild is you can't even reset your password without going through the forgot password flow from the login screen.

They don't even have basics here.

MFA? Not even an option, even though they're using Auth0 and Auth0 can do that.
Please, at the very least, recommend solutions.

For instance: election administration should use the Australian Ballot system (private voting, public counting), ballots cast at polls sites, ballots tabulated onsite the moment the polls close. Election workers composed of members from all parties (and independents), who must jointly certify the tabulation and chain of custody.

And so forth.

As a hot take, your pessimistic comment is not constructive, and only serves to further undermine confidence in our democracy.

Source: Am a recovering election integrity activist. I spent a decade of my life on this issue. It's so utterly exhausting to rehash, from scratch, this topic every four years.
All text editors are modal editors though, all text editors have a command mode and an input mode.

In (q)ed/ex/vi and their direct and/or spiritual successors, you'll reach Command Mode by pressing Escape. In Emacs, it's Ctrl/Alt/Meta. In Acme, it's the mouse. Even editors which (almost?) follow the CUA standards have a Command Mode - using the Ctrl modifier key.
We need to alert the Apostrophe Protection Society [0]

[0]: https://www.apostrophe.org.uk/
You're mainly using HN to advertise, so yeah you're mainly going to get your submissions flagged.

From the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.
"Genuine People Personality", eh?

>“The Encyclopedia Galactica defines a robot as a mechanical apparatus designed to do the work of a man. The marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation defines a robot as "Your Plastic Pal Who's Fun to Be With". The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy defines the marketing devision of the Sirius Cybernetic Corporation as "a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.” ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Being open about your motivations to yourself and others and identifying how that can help or hinder you is the real takeaway here, not the particular motivation discussed.

I personally appreciate the candor and his own story of growth in this subject.
If you have to make laws against people laughing at you, you have already lost.
The only nag I have with this (and it might just be a case of me doing things wrong) is that it seems you also have to create types for tables based on the operation you want to perform by wrapping them in the `Selectable`, `Insertable`, etc. Kysely types. Kinda wish kysely-codegen created all those types along with the base table types. Otherwise, it’s been working pretty well for me so far!
Tauri uses WebkitGTK, which has pretty bad performance compared to other browsers on the same hardware.

https://github.com/tauri-apps/wry/issues/890#issuecomment-14...
> It's possible to print large negatives from digital files.

You can actually do it on your home laser printer, onto transparent sheets.

You can then go even easier and make salt prints (also uses silver) and the sun. They come out very interesting.
That sounds a bit more rigid
than what I knew to be the case. I think every one I worked with from Goddard had a mac - unless - they specifically asked for something else. That includes both the civil servants and contractors.

Purchases were hard because acquisition was hard but I don’t think the bar requires previous use. Usually getting a vendor to accept a PO was the hard part IIRC
These are low priority issues. Real issue is how many times did an ad not load up. And a click to an ad not register.

Prioritie$.
I don't need all of the fancy features that Waze has. Just a simple map that routes me from A to B. Which is why I use Apple Maps more than Google Maps these days.
Company A tries to push rival Company B out of the market and vice versa, what is the news here? Every company under the sun has the same objective.
> As the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer noted: “All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; second, it is violently opposed; and third, it is accepted as self-evident.”

Survivor Bias, anyone?

Lots of hypotheses are ridiculed, turn out to really be ridiculous, and then are quietly forgotten.
Isn’t everything in Unix/Linux already a file? Isn’t that the power of Unix? There’s even a Wikipedia article about it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_is_a_file#:~:text....
They can't add more terms on the GPL and call it GPLv3.
Do you mean you click reject in the analytics pop-up dialogs (or hide them with ad blocker), or that you disable cookies in the browser?
Yeah, as I mentioned below, "Standard" equipment did include macs, and I had a mac myself. I'll edit for clarity.
My mind still unabbreviates "ML" into "Machine Language" before anything else, only because it was the first of these three for me.
Most of them will. Some will still try to find a way around them or look for loop holes. But yes, the fact that most of them will respect them is a major win
This is what motivates them, give them exposure and likely financing. It's good for moral, and for marketing.

If they eventually draw extraordinary conclusions from this, there will be hundreds of scientists to double check it, just out of curiosity, precisely because they had this stance.

All in all, it will be a win-win.
At least a couple words about what that might look like?
Check out Adam's "What if infrastructure as code never existed" talk from a month or two ago. Great framing for SI and entertaining.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lPa2U239C4
When I was a public employee (actually a research assistant at a state university, but that still qualifies), I had to sit through training every year reminding me that it's against ethics rules to accept a gift worth more than $50. As a private employee contracting for the government, I was similarly reminded of some ethics rules... and when we actually had government visits, the government workers had to pay for their own coffee and lunch (basically sandwich, chips, and cookies, standard conference fare) during the breaks.

Alito, in the extremely unlikely chance that you're reading this comment: if you want to understand if someone could reasonably find that a gift might pose a conflict of interest, why not try asking your own law clerks? Or better yet, take the same training they have to. It is absolutely gobsmacking to me when you have elected officials taking massive gifts and defending themselves by saying they can still be impartial, when their unelected underlings aren't allowed a thousandth the leeway without falling afoul of election rules.

Although, given that he thinks "I was offered a seat on a private jet that would otherwise have gone vacant" is a defense... he is really, really out of touch with how most of the country will see things.
I would wonder if increasing the size of the image keeping the pixelation and then using a pixelation removal network might do better than this. Those, at least, are already trained to add detail where it isn't.
Yeah, I hate Amazon but I do think personal responsibility is really lacking. FTC should focus on making cancellations easier and mandatory. I am evaluating privacy.com because of some bad experiences with this factor. Privacy.com uses Plaid which I dont really want to allow so any suggestions of temporary cards are welcome.

Anyway, I also recently signed up for prime because I got a gift card and it didnt seem "tricky". I do hate dark patterns though which Amazon has a lot of. Frankly, things like this lawsuit are just a boon for lawyers. How much would i get back on a few months of $14 charges?
For me, its a better CarPlay experience with the phone. Google maps has very tiny text that is hard to read. Waze has a great high contract view of all upcoming turns that is easy to drive with.
Nice! however, it says not available for my device (Galaxy Flip 4).
Hopefully at some point it will be?
While you're not wrong, in many many states in the US, if not a majority of them, finding a therapist that is both a) covered by your insurance and b) accepting new patients can be extraordinarily difficult if not impossible. At the same time, demand for mental health care is steadily rising. That's why these apps do so well.
As someone with a Latin background, it sure _seems_ like everyone does this. You get to a certain level in society / class structure and corruption just becomes part of how the game is played. Nothing seems to be immune to this -- religious organizations, political parties, claimed alignment, revolutionaries, counter-revolutionaries, counter-counter-revolutionaries, dictators who grew up rich, dictators who grew up poor, dictators who grew up capitalist, dictators who grew up communist, etc.

At some point money doesn't even talk, it becomes about stuff like positions, literal wielding of power, and influence with a capital "I", not social media type stuff but "I can change the world" sort of ambition. Politicians especially all seem to think of themselves as being part of a thin line, of being a vanguard of how the world should be run.

I want to believe that public servants in the so-called developed world are above all this, but I have doubts. There just aren't enough guardrails in the system, it requires the rule-makers to make rules about themselves and for their allied enforcement officers to actually hold that law above their comradeship (and, above the power-gaining benefits of that very friendship).
I’ve know mountain climbers, hang glider/paraglider pilots, scuba divers, sky divers, and more and we pretty much say that exact thing. I’ve been casual acquaintances with people who have died doing extreme sports.

Usually, the people in these sports say if the worst were to happen to them, they accept that risk and wouldn’t want their fate to stop other people from following their passions. That the feeling of being alive chasing these dreams fulfills a part of them, and they would be lost without that fulfillment.

We all do take risks for our own happiness, different people just want different things from life and will drawn that line in different places.

My guess is the five people on the sub would not want this incident to stop people from attempting to visit the Titanic.
Random fact check bc I never know how much GPT hallicinates:

"Southern Pacific Railroad (SP): The SP was a prominent railroad company that operated in the western United States from 1865 to 1998."

It's actually 1996, not 1998. I checked multiple sources.
Same. This was scary to me.

It means Amazon knows they are kings of online retail and have no problem abusing customers now.

Walmart online is sometimes cheaper, but also sometimes more expensive. Makes it really hard to make the switch. I have refused to give money to bad companies, but with the rest of the world being manipulated into giving them money, I realized I never made a dent.
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Ironically, if they are using attention methods, then dictionaries are not the only thing you'll need.
There's no shortage of people conflating "legal" with "ethical", so invoking the law to claim something is "acceptable" can easily be understood as claiming it is morally acceptable because it is legal.

Especially when one can use the unambiguous and concise "legal" instead of the vague and plodding "In current law, though, it's entirely acceptable".

Edit: You focus on legality to the exclusion of all else, while I care more about ethics and undue influence. Yes, the two cases are not identical. That does not mean they're not at least equally problematic.
Yup. Earlier this week it was an alien wire found on a magnet.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36372194
I was actually rather surprised to find that mydigitalfriends.com is actually available....
Microsoft hasn't changed, but the opposition has. Back in the old days it was easy to hate Microsoft. They were doing as much damage as possible to Linux and open source. Their rivals today are just as bad as they are - maybe worse.
Testing Trident Ballistic Missiles
Nowadays it is, but only the thin ones.
Yes, but the quote use the word "truth", not "hypotheses".

The real kicker is that they are already assuming they are right, which is definitely over the top :)

Well at least it keeps them motivated, and it keeps readers engaged.
That is such a reductionist view on children's books. Children's books serve many other purposes:

- Learning language structure and storytelling organization, as you say.

- Learning about the world around them. Even fictional books help with that.

- Imprinting cultural values and morals.

- Activating the child's imagination, and sparking their curiosity about the world around them.

Good children's books can hit most or even all of these points. What they read about and the pictures they see are just as impactful to them as the language learned.
can you explain the math of how you got to 25 gpus? everyone seems to know these conversions and idk if i missed the memo or something
The accuracy degrades with a larger context size, as pointed out in the article itself:

> Claude offers fast inference, GPT-3.5-level accuracy, more customization options for large customers, and up to a 100k context window (though we’ve found accuracy degrades with the length of input).
> Does the state charge for the collection service?

I have no idea. I'd think that's something to be negotiated between church and state.

> And what if you declare yourself a member of the church but do not want to contribute - can you opt out or do you just have to lie?

If you tell the state that you're member of either of those two religions, you have to pay the tax. Tax evasion is taken seriously in Germany.

If you lie to the state, it's out of the picture. And no church will check your tax record when you go there to pray. They might refuse other services like marriage etc. if you're not declared member.

Most people though are either fond of their church and more or less gladly give or just exit. A good share of people living in Germany don't belong to any religion.
archived from: http://bub.blicio.us/interview-with-amie-street-why-keep-acq...
That's an incredible story. Someone had to keep their wits about them to successfully resurface. I imagine there was a lot of experience and training that saved that crew.
Oh I absolutely think so, in fact I really hope kdbus gets merged and eventually it gets used to expose kernel structures

Processes being real objects /kernel/proc/1363 with interfaces like org.kernel.proc.Process1 that allow you to manipulate them
with generic message passing/function calls would be amazing.