skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They currently don't seem to be winning, but that does appear to be their main gamble.

So who do you think is winning it?
Databricks Announces Lakehouse Apps
it's only a national problem insofar as these people are going to leave the charred remains of their city, destroyed by the people they elected, move somewhere else, and continue their exact same election habits there instead, expecting a different result somehow—if you don't live somewhere that's likely to receive an influx of CA expats, then it's not really a concern.
True but it's also true that Saudi Aramco isn't drilling just for the thrill of it.
> In a way, he's sort of a precursor to modern day social media influencers.

He's a precursor to Churchill who wrote "history will be kind to me because I intend to write it". But then again, alexander the great was a precursor to caesar since alexander brought a team of writers with him to write about or invent his great exploits. Alexander was said to bemoan the fact that Odyseus had the great Homer but he himself had no one as great as Homer to write about him. Imagine having a large team of the best greek writers glorifying everything you do and still feeling cheated because none of them is Homer.

From Alexander to Caesar to Churchill to Trump, regardless of whatever else they were and your opinions of them, they were great self-promoters.
my espresso machine has software written in TCL and within the group of owners/hackers it's quite the bit of drama how much everybody regrets the original developers choice for it and his insistence it is still a good choice. personally, i value language aesthetics highly and TCL is an ugly one.
Principles for Scaling Front End Application Development [video]
The general principal of alternating soft and hard layers is still a useful design tool. Even starting from silicon with the microcode emulation of the x86 instruction sets, kernel, syscall interface, building an app and exposing configuration, whether into Tcl, yaml, tool, .properties, json or xml, it’s very likely the consumers of complex software will want to configure its characteristics into a specific use case, but the implementation will be more general. Look at LLM as he ultimate soft layer.

Unless your team manages to never write YAML files.
When economists say standards of living are higher they mostly mean life expectancy has increased and we have iPhones.

Go around at talk to some of the young people you know, are they willing to trade a few years at the end of their life and their iPhone to get out of student debt and own a home?
Permanent Vector Storage for LlamaIndex
The command-argument based workflow is so easy to grok as a model that it is intensely loveable. Generating arguments at runtime without messing up your substitutions can trip people up occasionally, but the straightforward nature of how the compiler understands the function is relatively wonderful IMO.
I thought it was related to a discussion on HN last week about an article that discussed the unreported and untracked levels of benzene in hand sanitiser, after regulations were eased during Covid.
I’m still getting adverts for Brennan thingies online, did they find a way around the court judgement?
>The reasonable thing to do would be to still not have children, and if the world doesn't end up horrible, know let the next generation have kids knowing that climate change won't be an issue.

What next generation?
Drinking a lot will be harmful, but not drinking a glass.
JWST hints at lower number of habitable planets
I think he's overselling it. I've used some truly heinous keyboards in my life and I'm sure this is better than at least some of them. I had a roll-up keyboard where every time you hit the key you had to hit it dead center or the top of the key would tilt away and cause your finger to smack the adjacent key. I had another keyboard that was just projected on a tabletop with a laser and would correctly read keypresses maybe 95% of the time. Just good enough to be infuriating without being useful. I've used chicklet keyboards on 80s computers. Membrane keyboards where there is only a bubble in the plastic sheet to press down on. There is no way this is the worst keyboard ever.
I'm curious have you been to many of these areas or are you just repeating the things you've read on reddit?
>Because the problem isn't technical, it's well, human.

I agree wholeheartedly. We are no longer at the point where the core end user services provided by FB/Reddit/Twitter require serious technical innovation. They require a massive amount of moderation though. And Reddit shows that there are volunteers out there who will do it for free, but they need to feel that they are valued and supported by the organization that runs the show.

What better org structure to support volunteers than a non-profit?
Being alone in the city, "alone in the crowd", feels just as lonely if not more so for me than walking alone in the forest. The latter I expect to be alone, but in the former, I'm surrounded by people but with no connection. It's a strange feeling.
2023, his focus is on Twitter.
Unless I am eating something like unseasoned celery, the feeling of being physically unpleasantly full only comes after I've eaten way too much food. If I ate to the point of feeling full on a regular basis I'd be getting something like 4000 calories per day.
Given the tech already exists for genetic screening, IVF, cloning, etc., if that scenario ever looks like[0] a real risk I'm sure we'd very quickly rehabilitate the whole "eugenics" brand.

[0] Perception is everything: It's very very easy to ignore the uncomfortable bits of history, no matter how important the lesson
> No other country in Europe recruits child soldiers, only the UK.

That'll show the French!
Cowards. Respond if you have problems.

I’ve just gone through removing “memoization” from two parts of our code that were difficult to understand even without the caching layer. The reason I did the second one is because the first one went so well I wanted to see if it was a fluke.

In doing the first, what I did was replace depth first execution with a tree scan. At the end I had a set of actions that needed to happen, and why. Essentially a plan for the execution. That’s a great spot for a breakpoint if the code or a test are failing, but it also yields you a set with all of the duplicates removed, instead of a graph. And in this case the number of data operations to combine all of the data is n+1 instead of > nlog(n) based on the number of duplicates. It also pointed out other optimizations that were possible.

In the second case it also surfaces a potential ordering problem, and the added wrinkle was that some warning messages were being repeated, quite confusing to other developers. Those could be reduced from eight to three.

In both cases memory usage was reduced (and in the one case the code was a bottleneck for starting short lived processes) because you don’t cache anything that is used once. There is no clever trick you need to work out. It just works, and the mechanism is perfectly readable and reason-able.
Cool URLs Don't Die
Oh, I don't use Twitter. I set up a handful of accounts to look at information spread, for academic research purposes, and that was it. Once I learned nothing can be deleted, it was enough to deter me from the platform.
I feel like the induced demand portion of my argument is being ignored.

CA prison might be 3x expensive per year, but would CA be looking to house 3x or more people if they offered free housing?
> But neither is the square named for Argentina (the country)

This is a really bizarre comment for anyone who knows about Latin languages. Argentina is an adjective form of the Latin word for silver. I expect tons of European stuff to have argentina in the name long before Europeans knew of the Americas. They named the South American country after silver, not the other way around.
Is it just me, or are all the pics in the article the same picture?
Nice work, I will have to read the research paper later ("Tacit Programming Code Synthesis and Optimization with Genetic Algorithms").

One question, why did you decide to make the size of cells visible to programs (pointer arithetic)?
Will that not lead to the same portability challenges that we have already had with C and C++?
> Can you elaborate on what it means to use PostgreSQL enums "on your code API"?

If you export a procedure for creating a socket into pgPlSQL, you shouldn't use magical numbers for setting the socket flags. You should use enums.

As for sqlalchmey, well that design is not good. It should support more mappings than just to string. But well, personally, I would ignore the feature and go without enum types (notice that it's a recent addition). You can always declare your own enum and convert the column if you want.
Now we just need a search engine replacement for Google with site:reddit.com ...
>Also, this wasn't a US bank! It wasn't under FDIC control

That's the part that I disagree with. My understanding is that FDIC took possession and sold off the International loans to bank number two, but did not discount them by the international account balances.

It doesn't seem right to me that the FDIC can say "it's not my problem we don't have control“ while simultaneously taking and selling the international loans
The fact that this is being downvoted might be because it hits a bit too close to home for a few people here?
From the article:

> These findings suggest that simply spending time with others (vs. alone) is not associated with a reduced burden of loneliness and may even backfire.

As a member ranking pretty low on the socialization needs scale, I would suggest that the regular barrage of "you need a social life / people in your life at the end of your life" media isn't actually balanced with "learn how to be happy by yourself, and with yourself" counterparts.

But I will concede this: I'm pretty happy being by myself most of the time. I miss my son when he's gone but I look forward to using my solo time fruitfully (if even that means vegging on the couch binging something).

But what can feel distressing, and loneliness inducing, for me is when I get the urge to be social and can't drum it up. It sometimes feels like the urge to be gregarious arrives inversely proportional to its opportunities... the few people in your life just aren't available, and sometimes you visit a coffee shop or a grocery store and no one will make eye contact with you, and sometimes you try and run a few quick errands in peace and everyone seems out to chat with you.

I've learned to experience each with grace, but neither flow really changes what I usually need, and how much of it.
This is actually really concerning at this point.
Completely random thought. Maybe some day a mind like Shanon’s will become obsessed with AI and finally create AGI
My personal (American) view is that you made a great decision visiting the South. It's super underrated. I grew up in my little corner of America (New England) and it wasn't until my twenties that I realized just how many amazing places to visit there are in this country with deceivingly friendly people and interesting culture. Americans certainly do not present themselves that way to the rest of the world, but people are usually amazed at how welcoming they can be face-to-face. I think you would have had a good time in NY or SF as well, but it would certainly be different, and probably less memorable, than being pleasantly surprised by "simpler" places in America.
Come on, a noscript/basic (x)html prompt is enough.
I wonder how non-federated options (e.g. web forums) compare to federated options (e.g. ActivityPub (somewhat, since it’s not globally federated like NNTP), NNTP).

Federation seems to come with disadvantages such as inefficiency and additional bad places for moderation to occur (e.g. if you’re on A, talking to someone from B, through the sublemmy on C, all 3 servers’ moderators can interfere. For web forums, that’s not the case, as only C (the web forum’s moderators) can interfere, whom you probably already trust).

It does have an advantage: not needing to sign up to multiple web forums, but that can be solved with other methods such as IndieAuth or by allowing anonymous posting.
It's much nicer than soma in my opinion and there are basically only two drug dealing/prostitution corridors along shotwell area and capp.
Agriculture subsidies and obesity are orthogonal problems in my view.
Maybe on HN the majority of people have those modern cars, but I assure you in the real world the odds are not that good.
I am not a cave diver myself, but I do a lot of scuba diving and am friends with cave divers. Cave diving is one of the only remaining ways where an ordinary middle-class person can do original exploration without being part of some bigger organization. They can just get together with a few friends, fly to Mexico or wherever, and potentially go where no human has ever gone before.
Tesla's Nevada plant makes 37 gWh per year and is currently expanding to 100 gWh per year. 100 gWh would put that at #2 if it was operational today, however the current leaders will also continue to grow rapidly so it's unlikely they'd go above the middle of the top 10 list.
This is pretty cool! I'm not sure what I would use it for, but it seems like it's definitely useful.

I've been in the midst of developing my own frontend (SPA/PWA) data storage solution, using IndexedDB (and the Dexie library), so I've been watching all of the recent announcements about the wasm-sqlite implementations and wondering if I should probably just switch over to that. If, for nothing else, for the exportable .sqlite file that would be available without having to do a custom "Database Export".

With that in mind, I'd be much more interested in a clean library that abstracts sqlite data access, but stores it in the same format. That way, I could implement the library in my frontend app to store data, and then use the sqlite files that can be exported to load into your Undb app to inspect them (I'm thinking for, say, error debugging or whatever). Similar to how I might pull a client's db backup and load it into Microsoft's SSMS management app.

But hey, maybe that's in the roadmap! And, even if not, it's still a great utility all on its own. And it seems to be a solidly made and well-styled app. Very interested to see if other people have some obvious use cases for this.
A lot of chemicals seem to have effects on the endocrine system. I wonder if there is potentially an issue with them in aggregate. Such that the dose of any single chemical isn't problematic but all of them together with similar effects causes a problem.
I think a lot of people are having trouble distinguishing between the two highly-hyped technologies. So there's a lot of "fighting the last war".

Generative AI, or AI in general, has actual use cases that people can immediately understand (and in fact use already on a daily basis). Not one crypto fan ever made a pitch for cryptocurrency that made any sense if you asked follow-up questions.
I wouldn't trust the US to recycle water. I don't even trust the water as it is. The country is too profit-driven, too quick to loosen regulation, and too bad at enforcing regulation.

People pour all types of chemicals down the drain....pharmaceuticals, solvents, paint, oil, and whatever other liquid they have to dispose. There's no way that's cost efficient to properly filter out and certain things there's no safe levels so even trace amounts shouldn't be allowed.
Ahhh! Unsurprisingly, It seems like there is already a revanced patch for the Reddit sync app that allows you to use your own API key. So I guess users will just start doing it anyways, but still I wasn't aware of that restriction
> the US and silicon valley are presented as the paradise for tech people,

The value comes from colocation - there is a LOT of tech value here - and that makes the location expensive

it’s a bet that doesn’t pay off for everyone

Also, the conflicted areas of SF are not the whole Bay Area by a long shot
If the goldfish story is true, it probably died from a lack of oxygen.

Does drinking water contain any nutrients not adequately available from a normal diet?

I am extremely skeptical of the osmosis story told in the last two paragraphs, as I am doubtful that there is that much difference between clean soft drinking water and ultrapure water.
> And once "computer says no" you'll have a hell of a time trying to fight it.

Cars have been equipped with event data recorders that capture information moments before the crash for at least 20 years. It is part of the air bag controller. Insurance companies have equipment to read that data and use it against customers all the time.

You don't need a Tesla or other black box insurance to get cheated.
> but changing weather patterns is orders of magnitude beyond us

I mean, we're doing it right now ....

What does the flood myth has to do with the thread btw ?

I'll tell you how you sound: "guys forget what science tells us now, the bible and aztecs talk about a flood a long time ago s..so....so hm so I guess climate change doesn't exist ?"
Yes, I agree om both counts.
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Damn, I'm sorry to hear that. I relate to this because I've dealt with depression too, which I also medicated in various ways.

Other than quitting the two aforementioned drugs, what helped a lot for me was living in a more evolutionarily consistent way. Especially around nutrition, sunlight, and sleep. I made this the focus of my life for about a year because the alternative was, well, you know about that.

Good luck.
Hedge funds buy up a bunch of newspapers and publishers then lobby for laws to force online platforms to channel money their way, lobby the DOJ and now they're suing and playing the victim.
This may be a definition with several edge cases, but I always thought of a program as something that was compiled and run, whereas a script was information you fed into a running program.
I lived in Vicksburg MS for four years. Mississippi is as bad as everyone says it is, at least. No idea about the other states.
> Democracy is what the people want.

Um, what? "The people" is not a single entity, and does not "want" things. Individual people want things. So if democracy is "what the people want", then democracy does not exist.
I’ve lived in SF since 2007. OP is likely factually accurate about where he lives, which is one of the worst blocks in SF. I’ll add that this was the case in 2007 as well, I wouldn’t say that 7th and Mission has gotten significantly better or worse over the years. It was likely slightly nicer when OP moved in, but that was the exception, not the historical norm.

The main thing is that OP then uses that to generalize about the state of the entire city. This makes it difficult to actually have a reasonable conversation about what is working and what isn’t in SF because everything reverts to the binary “sf is/isn’t a shithole” argument. In OPs case, it actually exposes the reality behind a lot of these “random tech blogger leaving SF” stories where they don’t actually know much about the city or appear to have much of a social life outside of tech that would expose them to other parts of the city. In SF there are tons of places to live that aren’t “single family homes 4 miles from downtown” - the city is 7x7 square miles.
This is my point. Tesla is good at a small handful of things, and making cars is not one of them.

They could sell batteries, charging infra, software, and whatever else to the companies that are competent at building (and fixing!!) cars. They aren't going to remain competitive on the cars themselves
Europe != The EU
> it's pretty common for a spark to jump the gap of the leads while you're plugging it in

Do you live underwater?
According to the 2022 numbers I was able to find, the Model Y was number 9 in the US, behind the Tacoma, CR-7, Sierra, Camry, Rav4, Ram, Silverado, F-150.

And the numbers on most non-Teslas seemed down because of chip supply.

I don't think it's controversial to say that cars have been supply constrained in the past few years.
If you want to monitor this event, https://www.mainsfrequency.com/ is a good starting point: during the increased solar activity, grid frequency should go up a bit more than usual, although the magnitude is still quite small and nothing like the 2022 event(s)
> Let's say I'm avoiding having more children due to the risk of climate change making the world a bad place to live. If I put money into fixing climate change, why would that make me more likely to have children?

They did not claim that putting money into fixing climate change would make you more likely to have children, you missed the point made by the comment you were replying to.

The "cope" part they were referencing was that the people surveyed simply used climate change as an excuse for not having children, and it wasn't their real reason (with the real reason being one of bajillion possibilities, just probably a less "socially cool" sounding one, but that's irrelevant). The grandparent comment reasoning was that if those people actually cared that much about climate change and wanted to have children if it wasn't for climate change, are they doing anything to address that problem (with the primary method being funding climate change reversal initiatives)?

Mind you, I do not necessarily agree with that reasoning entirely, but you are attacking a strawman here.
We're probably approaching the limits of human vision. Increased PPI wouldn't have a corresponding increase in visual clarity to be worth the price.
I think the difference can be useful in terms of addressing different software/DX needs. For example, scripts and programs tend to have very different maintenance, dependency management, packaging, publishing, etc needs.

You see this a lot in the Python ecosystem, where Python is used extensively for simple scripts that just need to calculate one thing and then tend not to get maintained, but also for larger software projects that will be continually updated and maintained over time. Currently, Python packaging is in a pretty poor shape, and it doesn't work well for a lot of people in different ways, but if we look at software on a kind of script/program continuum, we can group people's needs into two rough camps. That sort of grouping and categorisation helps make it easier to find solutions: rather than solving the problems of ever single Python developer ever, we can now reduce the situation down to two problems: that of the script developer and that of the program developer.

This is of course just an example - in practice, there might be more categories that are worth making here, and those categories may well have sub categories that are worth exploring. But I think these sorts of divisions can often be useful.

That said, I've heard the advice before that categories are only useful if they're being used additively - that is, a category is useful if we're more interested in what we can put into the category than what we can exclude from it. So with the Python example, this is useful if we're trying to build categories of code types that tell us something about how our tools are being used. But if we're only interested in marking code as being "script" in order to exclude them from our more 'advanced' category of "program", then we may as well give up.
It may look like the same picture of a water purifier, but actually the water it contains is sequentially purer and purer the further down you scroll.
Could it also be a reflection of Google's lawyers advising that using LLMs trained on masses of unvetted source-available code is probably tantamount to copyright laundering?
You have to find the seven errors.
https://youtu.be/IukTiqAqVBM
very interesting topic but really crappily written / organized / formatted / produced article.

can we have Derek Lowe write this article instead?

(edit: this Derek Lowe: https://www.science.org/blogs/pipeline not the pro baseball player)
‘We couldn’t wait’: Ukrainian farmers improvise to clear their land of mines
We need the strategic transformer reserve!

https://www.energy.gov/ceser/articles/strategic-transformer-...