skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(opinions are my own)

https://coral.ai/products/
The Open Source licensing war is over
I do not share this opinion at all. On the contrary, I believe that the day software licensing ceases to be relevant, we will slowly and inevitably return to times of slow technological development, expensive and insecure services, and high levels of legal conflict.
Applying Nir Eyal's Indistractable Princples to Slack
Why would JS be the problem itself? Bundling a whole browser engine? Sure. JS itself is quite fast and plenty of frameworks use it for scripting their GUIs, e.g. QT.
While Java is the 'safe' pick now, remember that it was once a language being fad pushed by Sun and Smalltalk fans.
I actually ran into these precise problems with rusqlite and found them equally frustrating, and ended up ripping that code out in the end. The lifetimes model in that library are, IMHO, "wrong".
I am not "complaining". I recognize the reality of the situation. This is why I am selling the company and reallocating the capital.

I have been running the company for three years. Yes, my predecessor could have invested more earlier. All of the tugboat companies in our cohort could have invested more earlier. They could have raised prices so that they could attract more people. I agree that the industry and the government made bad choices in the past that lead to a shortage now.

The path from deckhand to licensed captain requires seatime. We have a fleet of four tugs. Even if we had been able to invest in the deckhands, where would we have put them? Each tug has a finite number of men it can carry, limited by physical space, supplies, and regulation.

I answered about pay rate elsewhere in the thread. I will try to add more details about the various labor categories.
I use declare in a lot of my bash scripts for associative arrays and some other stuff. It can make scripts easier to read/reason about IMO. Something useful to learn if you’ve never heard of it.

https://linuxhint.com/bash_declare_command/
Thanks, I always wondered how these chips were economical. I have no knowledge of chip design, did I understand correctly that there were a few pre-made "templates" chips populated by generic gate arrays (and supposedly SRAM and general purpose peripherals similar to MCUs?), you'd choose the one that best fit your needs, and then the existing gates of that template would be connected according to your custom logic needs using a "slapped on" metal layer?
> I am 73 years old, and have spent more than 50 years in “the community”.

Indeed Mr Hall's efforts helped make the community happen. I'm kinda surprised to see this slide by without more attention.
The complete feature comparison is here: https://www.sql-workbench.eu/dbms_comparison.html

Range types, array types, foreign table wrappers, partial indexes, statement-level triggers, MERGE, non-blocking index creation, row-level security, etc. And that all isn't counting the huge ecosystem of extensions and custom functions & types for Postgres.

It still boggles my mind that in 2023, MySQL STILL cannot use a temporary table in a query more than once [0].

[0]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9364602/how-can-i-refer-...
Thanks for sharing this insightful post, and also the other comments with maps and movie recommendations. This is such an interesting topic
Or, indeed, they self-isolate (gab doesn't federate anymore, ol' minihands' Mastodon instance never did).
I would argue it’s not regression, that it’s normalization. ZIRP is on pause and things need to be profitable right now, I don’t see this as a bad thing in any way.

If the business model doesn’t work, it shouldn’t have money thrown at it.
That's part of it. The US airline industry expects pilot candidates to apply when they already have the necessary FAA licenses and flight hours. To reach that point, pilots have to either serve in the military for 7+ years or take on a huge amount of student debt. If the airlines had instead maintained a pipeline by hiring trainees and then paying them to get certified then they wouldn't have such a severe shortage now.

Airlines have also laid off pilots during several industry downturns since 2001. Every time that happens, some switch careers and never return to flying.
put the nice looking calls to `map`, `filter`, etc in a comment then rewrite it with a for loop under it.
This map makes my optimistic about humankind. Similar to https://patrickcollison.com/fast. Amazing we can achieve such feats, it's inspiring.
When I read the title I thought OMG, someone else is trying to use Ingram's book API :)
The only issue, that they are probably trained on most common data. This includes the fact that FDA and some other major organisations avoid some sort of diseases (parasites, 3.5B people infected, lyme disease and some more)

looking forward on updates
Combine an LLM with long-term memory formation/recollection and a protracted (~18 year?) incubation period where it interacts with the outside world, and... the line between AI and consciousness would be pretty blurry at that point.
Give it time. AMD, AWS trainium/inferentia, and Google TPUs all compete here. The gap is mostly with software drivers/support.
Since the docs mention deploying to Fly.io, I wonder if it’s possible to use their managed LiteFS service for backup?
But in the case it's not an artifact?
I ponder this question myself on the edge of Gen Z and my life is simplified tremendously if I just essentially pause it in high earning young person mode.

Money is abundant for travel and anything I want. I don't need to figure out dating. Means I don't need to figure out everything from conflict resolution to clothing. I don't need to struggle to buy a ton of housing. I have friends/a sister who will have kids I can just play rich uncle to. I can retire decades early due to overemployment and spend an absurd amount of money every year doing whatever I want.

The Peter Pan life has a lot going for it.
The bill would create a new federal agency, the Federal Digital Platform Commission, to regulate digital platforms, which are defined as online services that facilitate interactions between users and between users and entities that offer goods and services. Some critics argue that this would create unnecessary bureaucracy and stifle innovation and competition in the digital sector.

This bill would also give the commission broad powers to set standards for access, competition, consumer protection, age verification, and algorithmic processes for digital platforms. Some critics worry that this would infringe on the free speech and privacy rights of users and platforms, and that the commission would lack the expertise and accountability to oversee such complex and dynamic issues.

The bill would also allow the commission to designate certain digital platforms as systemically important, based on criteria such as their economic, social, or political impacts. These platforms would be subject to additional regulations and oversight, and would have to notify the commission of any proposed mergers or acquisitions. Some critics contend that this would create a two-tier system of regulation that would favor established platforms over new entrants, and that the commission would have too much discretion and influence over the digital market.
Definitely interested if I can materially contribute. Email in profile, looking forward to hearing what you're building and how I can help.
Based on the criticisms I’ve seen, the melting ice / volcanism theory isn’t true.

That result didn’t pop out of existing climate models, it was an effect they explicitly made a domain specific model to look for.

This is how most climate models are made - bespoke models for a small application using other global models as boundary conditions.

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009AGUFM.G53B0673L/abstra...
> Just let individual users block others on the Fediverse

As a user, this sounds like a lot of work. There are instances that don't defederate at all, and you can use those if you want, but... it wouldn't be for most people, I don't think.
Google kind of has done this with Coral: https://coral.ai/about-coral/

These TPUs obviously aren't the ones deployed in Google's datacenters. That being said, I'm not sure how practical it would be to deploy TPUs elsewhere.

Also, Amazon's Infinera (sp?) gets a fair bit of usage in industrial settings. It's just that these nvidia GPUs offer an amazing breeding ground for research and cutting edge work.
Which programmers are paid $570 per hour?
Another Day, Another Room Temperature Superconductor
I happen to work in the computational fluid dynamics department and I happen to have coded in the video game industry (optimized 3D engines).

So I do know when optimizing is necessary.

It's just that most of the time, for my computation, just waiting a few hours for a one-shot computation is much more effcient than spending 2 days optimizing it so that it runs in 20 minutes.

But I admit my parent message was not quite clear on the context in which I was thinking :-)
Seems there is new support that its legit!

https://twitter.com/Andercot/status/1686215574177841152

National Lab (LBNL) results support LK-99 as a room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor.

Simulations published 1 hour ago on arxiv support LK-99 as the holy grail of modern material science and applied physics.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.16892
Because rubbing your chin doesn't accomplish anything, messing around with stuff does.
There's a recently coined word for that: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/enshittification
I think his argument is that slavery benefits the enslaved, or something like that.
> I would not do this simply because hiring and managing that would suck.

Could you elaborate on the disadvantages of Rust from the point of view of a manager or a project lead?
libp2p – A Modular Network Stack
That "one-time payment" will only give you updates for a year.
> People only really learn when they’re surprised. If they’re not surprised, then what you told them just fits in with what they already know. No minds were changed. No new perspective. Just more information.

To me, knowing "more information" seems to be essentially the definition of learning.
This is simply false. Having written code like what you're talking about... There is always an escape-hatch. Rust just wants to make sure you really know what you're doing before letting you go there.

The idea being to provide safety-minded well crafted but performant libraries where the hard thinking about atomics & locking and unsafe-bounded memory shenanigans are confined in well-tested locales.

Also don't see why you're comparing with Go. Entirely different bowl of soup. Go is not a systems programming language.
I think this looks novel and interesting, but I’d recommend putting really screenshots/animated gifs of the product on your landing page, highlighting use cases. I want to see the product before signing up.
How so? Surely one wouldn't think to mitigate this kind of attack unless you'd already seen it.
There are X projects funded right now that need captains. These projects need roughly 2X captains. There are, right now, Y licensed captains. Y < 2X. More pay today does not make Y == 2X today.

I agree that this shortage could have been avoided.
Oh its from Google? Eh. Pass. It will either be killed in 5 years, or be pitted against Git in an attempt to take over the community.
because it is unreadable and unmaintainable with all of these dependencies. Even in the description it says that it spiraled out of control at some point

"Originally conceived as an alternative firmware for the TS100, this firmware has evolved into a complex soldering iron control firmware."
I’ve noticed the same. Very low utilization. But they are all used at peak every few weeks. For many companies having more GPU cost to unblock velocity of innovation here is worth it. As the benefits of improvement to your top line revenue far exceeds the GPU cost.
So, now we need another app that we can open when in a new country to show us all the local options and compare them.
A Leader’s Secret Weapon: The Power of One-on-One Meetings
I don't know about that. I have a few successes under my belt where I've outperformed a team. For example, delivering a solution in two months compared to a team of four failing to deliver anything at all in a year. Then there are the well known geniuses who delivered Doom and Quake in a spectacularly short time frame. There are many other examples. I do agree, however, that 10x programmers are few and far between.
> Well, for starters, batteries have their own internal resistance.

Indeed they do.

> Not a whole lot, but enough that whether you short out with copper wire or superconductor, the effect would be the same.

Not necessarily, assuming a charged battery in many cases with a copper wire the wire will simply heat up to the point of evaporation and then break the circuit as it sprays molten copper bits all over the place. Some heat will be generated in the battery as well. Watch people mess up with starter cables for some ideas on how this tends to go (and do so from a distance...).

Using a massive copper connector that you some how instantly put across the terminal and manage to keep there would indeed make the balance of the resistance shift to the guts of the battery, which would heat up faster than that that energy can be shed and hence in all likelihood (violently) explode. Besides bits of molten lead and zinc for a car battery you now also have the joy of having to deal with spraying acid. Which depending on the state of charge of the battery can be really nasty stuff.

With a superconductor there would be no chance of the conductor evaporating first, there isn't any work done in the superconductor so it will stay cold, an explosion of the battery would be all but guaranteed.
Germany has pushed Britain out of the EU by allowing more than one million people in, at a time when the UK had a sensitive debate around the very issue that Germany created along with Russia. Russia pushed, Germany pulled. After that Germany has threatened countries with sanctions if they didnt agree to taking in the very people it welcomed against the wishes of member states. It knew exactly what it did, and it did it to push Britain out of the Union because it found it to its advantage.
You can give them agency or a good approximation of that via self generated prompts. Of course, just agency + intelligence doesn't equal SkyNet.
I haven't used DoorDash/UberEats/etc. since early in the pandemic, but what you describe isn't unlike what I experienced then, either. It has always been significantly cheaper, the food warmer, and the arrival of food shorter, to go and pick the food myself via direct interaction with the restaurant (either by me calling in, or using their online ordering system). These services may have felt convenient to an extent, but that convenience also came with the feeling that - pardon my French - I was being fucked.
I'm so happy to hear this and proud to read about it. Good for you.

I could swap weed for alcohol in your blurb and make the same comment. It's obvious in my 40s, as a husband, and a parent of two young kids, that the altered state of interacting on a day-to-day is a "waste." While haven't cut entirely, I am cutting down, and hopefully soon won't waste any time at all.
You missed the point of my comment, then.
The claim is that an AGI can instruct humans to do the experimentation (knowingly or not).
It's been a few years since I've looked at them but those KSGER irons had a reputation for potentially being unsafe, with questionable mains isolation and no chassis grounding. There's videos around showing how to mod them to improve the safety margins, but of course you need to be aware that it's an issue before tackling that.

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/dodgy-technology/dangerous-sol...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuV3LO7_PpE
Your review isn't some reward you are bestowing upon the person. It's for management to evaluate their performance. So yes 5 star review for when someone does their job. Its a customer survey not a fucking critique. So yes when someone does their job its 5 stars because you shouldn't expect anything else
"I Was There, Gandalf, 3000 Years Ago"
That's all perfectly fine and a perfectly understandable attitude.

The thing is, it's not really what Linux is about, or FOSS or plain old human nature.

Different people like different things. They want choice and the same choices don't work for everyone. If you have a whole group of Unix computer users all hacking away on what they like and they want, you get diversity and options.

So that means that there are lots of types of Linux with different choices and tools. That's a good thing. It's one of the things I like about Linux.

If you want the one best choice for everything, the democratically-arrived at moderate sensible path of compromise, then go try FreeBSD, which does that but also embraces modern commodity hardware. You still get a wide choice of desktops and things, but much less wide.

But the choices of FreeBSD didn't suit everyone, and as a result there are also OpenBSD and NetBSD and DragonflyBSD and a lot of divided effort that results in slow overall progress.

Me, I am old and grumpy and I want stuff that Just Works™. So, because I can afford it, my home desktop is an iMac, because by and large, macOS Just Works.

But I dislike Apple's modern keyboards, and pointing devices, and lack of ports, and a lot of other things about their laptops. So I use Linux laptops. And there, I do not find that systemd helps me... but the mainstream distros all use it so I just put up with it. And it keeps making my machines fail to boot randomly, and it's not getting any better.

I keep eyeing up distros without it and stroking my greying beard thoughtfully, though.

The moral here is that there isn't, and can't be, One Best Option that suits everyone. It's not possible because different people want different things.
I don’t think many models predict much difference between 3 and 4 degrees, so I don’t think you can describe it as horrific.

IPCC predicts some local tipping points at 4C but global tipping points are much higher.
Instant Datasets: immediate, production-replica data for your teams [video]
I was there when room temperature superconductors existed before Uber’s first profitable quarter.
> Do people have the right to stipulate they don't want their original creative works ingested by an algorithm and then regurgitated out on a prompt thereby benefitting the corporation who owns the algorithm and not the original artist?

Most times somebody makes this case it's explicitly framed as "AI owned by big corporations". I can see why this makes the argument more compelling but does the argument stand without this?

i.e. if we are talking about an open model with no corporate control then do you feel your point is as strong as before? These models indisputably exist. I think there is still a reasonable case to be made but I think it's slightly dishonest to make it in this way when we know that things have moved on.
Looks cool. I could do without the cutesy meme images.
Bc that's not how independent scientific verification works. Other labs need to replicate it themselves to avoid/reduce any bias from the original experiment.
git-branchless also fits in the same vein as stacked-git with everyone’s favorite commands like `record`, `unrecord`, & `smartlog`.

That said, I’ve been using darcs this past month & the performance issue seem overblown (/ largely fixed, tho not fully addressed) while the stability & usability are there. Email support is a bonus.
It is both. The pay has increased. But that doesn't make licenses magically appear now. They still require training and seatime.
The "less-bad" alternative would be to remember what you were told when you were five years old:

"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me"

Puritanical grown adults on the post-2008 Internet acting like scared children afraid of tokens of text are the root of the problem.
Ask HN: What everyday things would improve with lk99 superconductors?
Sincerely,
A confused smooth-brain
> as you said "THERE IS SHORTAGE OF REVENUE"

I would never say such a thing as "shortage of revenue" is completely nonsensical. A shortage occurs when an external mechanism, such as government regulation, prevents price from rising. Revenue may be impacted by a shortage, but revenue fundamentally cannot be in shortage itself.

The original comment that set the stage for the thread stated that certain businesses are struggling to find workers because they don't pay enough to attract workers. That is true, but the reason they aren't able to pay enough to attract the workers they need to keep going is because the customers aren't interested enough in their product to want them to keep going. Not everything is worth doing.

It is not clear how you think Louis Vuitton fits into that. They seemingly have no trouble hiring workers, and when the workers do leave over concern of not being paid enough they demonstrably offer more to win them back. They have sufficient customer interest.

> Difference is that these are not random people but people that do work for him, see the difference?

No. You also have people working for you. Everyone, save those who have gone completely off grid (which you clearly have not), does. That is how an economy functions. The question stands: How often do you pay your workers more than they have asked of you?
You mean the mermaids?
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It's not combining an LLM with data/memory recollection and infinite agency that will lead to leaps in cognition. Complex systems still can do that and still not have self-awareness / cognition. We will need to take some more fundamental leaps to synthesize memory, agency and prediction to operate within a single system where self-awareness resides in the entity and not in the building blocks. LLM's represent a building block towards that cognitive unit, but the real deal is still some ways away
Instead of taking over a territory, you spend resources to make them allies.