skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For an article about LLM+OLAP, it doesn't spend much time on that part. Specifically it seems like their strategy is around using an LLM to generate a DSL query for an unnamed semantic layer, then everything downstream of that is normal warehousing, with the semantic layer handling actual SQL creation.

I wish it spent time on talking about how they trained their LLM to reliably generate parsable queries for the semantic layer, and what the accuracy rate of what the user intended vs what they got.

I do think the only way a LLM based analytics tool can succeed is via a semantic layer rather than direct SQL, since database schemas fail to encode a lot of information about the data (EG a warehouse might not even know user.customer_id = customer.id).

Malloy could be an interesting target here.
Crysis 3 very comfortably ran on 2 GiB of VRAM. I wonder what its system requirements would have been if it were developed today?
This is an absolutely ludicrous statement. I don't owe my mother for the birth or childhood that I wasn't around to give approval to having. Nor do I owe her an ounce of positivity that I'm paying her rent while she's owned and sold more houses and motorcycles and everything else while I've been estranged from her since I was kicked out of the house at 16 and she votes for Trump and republicans who want to eradicate the $1200/mo she lives off of outside of my money.

Be at peace.. my god.. lol. I don't have children, and won't have children. I don't expect anyone to pay for my old age.
Boomers in the US lived through potentially the most economically prosperous environment in the history of humanity.

Of course you can point out various crises and low points, but generally every factor has worked in their favor. They've had strong employment, cheap education, population growth, strong unions, rising wages, common pensions, strong dollar/low inflation, low real estate prices that later peak around retirement age, great stock market returns peaking around retirement age, advent of the 401k, cheap debt in peak earning years, and the list goes on.

Unless they had incredibly bad luck or a major disability it'd be hard to be in a bad spot for retirement without being completely financially irresponsible. I have much less compassion and willingness to help in that situation.
I grew up watching the X-Files and it was magical. A decade later, it was also fun to later follow along with the show with Kumail Nanjiani's The X-Files Files podcast (https://open.spotify.com/show/6QqxMrErkQpEfq67zXL6Gr) which with a brand new medium for the show (the show was of course pre-podcast, pre-reddit)
He is a paperclip maximizer in human form, with the disposition one would expect from that sort of drive. Would've been fine if he could let his ego die and just stand on his accomplishments, but for some reason, the desire for validation and power over others can't be let go. "Any man who must say 'I am king' is no true king at all." A cautionary tale.
In the very typical for Python community way, an effort was made to put more training wheels on a bicycle that already has like six pairs of them.

1. This is not a real problem (this only affects completely inexperienced users for whom everything is a problem anyways).

2. The real reason for a problem is the existence of multiple syntactical forms for import. To solve the problem one would have to remove the unnecessary import forms (but, come on, there isn't really a problem, so nothing needs to be done).

3. Modules historically struggled to be "real" objects in Python. So, another direction this could've taken is giving up on making them real objects. Just make them a syntactic convention (like packages in Java). But, again, there's no real problem here, so nothing needs to be done.
> turn off the toggles on each of the three subpages.

I'm trying to think, are there any downsides to this other than "you won't get custom ads catered to you"?

Like Google can see you requested this off and most of us are logged into a Google user account attached to Chrome. I wonder if they can "behind the scenes" label users who don't let them serve them as customized ads in a "less good" bucket? Too much of a stretch/conspiracy theory? Deny us features? Just spitballing...
Dupe.

2 days ago, 307 comments: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37450915>
How about "Excel Developer"?
In this article: Someone is surprised that time happens.
What about the schools? They seem to be under-performing according to this summary.

https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2023/01/05/floridas-educati...
If you rent you need to spend less on housing in the early days, and invest the difference. If you do this all along you should be fine. However if like many who rent you just taking your savings from rent (vs a house - including not just the payment but also property taxes, insurance and maintenance) and party you are in trouble. Houses can be a great forced savings plan. (so long as you don't cash our refinance like many do, you don't move too often, and a bunch of other fine print things)
Containers are really great. Even my non-technical spouse uses them (She isn't quite ready for the temporary containers add on yet though). However, there are some downsides to containers vs profiles, mainly that you can't have different settings.

She is in grad school, and the online learning platform requires 3rd party cookies to work. With containers, this means enabling 3rd party cookies every where, which isn't good.

I set her up a separate school profile that has a different theme. Only that profile has 3rd party cookies enabled, and she knows to only do school stuff in that profile. It is clunky to say the least, even with the profile extension.

I'd really like to see better support for profile management!
Climate change is going to be a humanitarian disaster for the developing world, but for the typical readership of this site and probably most developed country residents, it's basically a non-issue.
> Our money isn't a durable store of value since the gold standard was abandoned

Few that save for retirement keep their savings in cash. Most would save in some sort of instrument that would expose them to the stock market, money market, real estate etc. You might not always beat inflation but you also aren't seeing your savings eaten at the rate of inflation.

> the line can't go up forever

Central banks normally have an inflation goal of 2% meaning they literally want everything to slowly go up, forever. The problems usually occur when it's faster and slower than that...
Data ownership sounds great but is incoherent as a concept as we get lower down the IP to information spectrum.

Intellectual Property has strong protections under copyright law. If I copyright a photo, or publish a book of my web browsing history, I can sue the pants off anyone who attempts to use it with permissions outside of fair use. The protections are strong, and the enforcement mechanisms are strong (though expensive).

Automated information collection (data), does not have strong permissions, because there is a fundamental blurring of system logs and user tracking. It is necessary to know what external systems are interacting with your systems to ensure system integrity and availability (can't IP ban without knowing IP addresses). So there is obviously legitimate collection and usage of this data. Not to mention weak enforcement mechanisms for privacy. So weak protections, weak enforcement (and enforcement is still expensive).
Profiles are amazing. I have a personal Firefox profile and a work one, and keep a browser open for each, with no account mixing. It's great.

I can also make the opposite argument for extensions. One of my most-used extensions, tree-style-tabs, has no Chrome alternative.
https://archive.ph/HlYzt
Even more importantly, a game can have crunchy 8-bit graphics that no one praises, but still be an amazing game.

No one (at least that I've heard) is saying, for instance, that Undertale or Deltarune are "visual masterpieces". They don't need to be. They're well-made games that do and say some interesting things.
>So it's never wrong to try a pacing approach to see if it helps.

How many people who've had chronic fatigue or post-exertion malaise for a few years do you think haven't tried pacing?

I'm sure some have not tried it, but my guess is that it occurs to most as a pretty obvious thing to try even without a health-care provider's or information source's suggesting it.

Even if a person's first response to chronic fatigue is to try to power through it and work even harder, after a few months of that strategy's not working, most people it seems to me will try taking it as easy as practical for a while.
> From a package maintainer standpoint

Like why is this the standpoint that trumps everything else (eg stability of the ecosystem)? Have a tool to solve the problem and be done with it. It's not like with esm you can publish packages free of tooling anyway.
Eh, many of them have some way to provide markup even when its informational only, because a data catalog or dictionary is required to use most large olap products.

eg Snowflake lets you declare all the foreign keys you want, but does nothing with that info except let you use it.
“Rm9sbG93ZXJz” almost precisely presaged the entire plot of all of the Black Mirror episodes combined, and was great fun (particularly the near-total lack of dialog). I thought the “My Struggle” bookends in Season 10 were quite good, but then Season 11 retconned the whole plot away.
If there's 700 active developers on Firefox then they sure as hell must be having a great time "working" remotely. The development pace of Firefox is atrocious.
The attention is all on the lander. But X-ray telescopes are impressive all by themselves. It isn't as easy to manipulate X-rays as light can be using optics. Wishing good luck for both missions.
For me, the real problem is actually showing up. I know it would be good for me and I'd drive some benefits, could open up connections.

But the idea of going to an event and chatting with people feels revolting.
I echo the comments on Emacs. Jetbrains tooling is just so /nice/.

You can get your Emacs to act like Jetbrains in a number of ways, but that can sometimes end up being quite complicated. I very much like the experience of opening any Jetbrains IDE and having this working relatively easily compared to Emacs.

All that being said, investing in Emacs gives you benefits you won't find anywhere else.

For example, I was able to make my Emacs find by reference and find by definition functionality work well and exactly the way I wanted it to.

I basically set it up to fall back on resources if the previous one didn't return anything. It went from Language Server Protocol -> CTags -> Regex with rg.

It was also cool to pick multiple sources and priority order them for suggestions. Mine, from highest to lowest priority, were: Language Server Protocol -> local buffer matches -> open buffer matches (or something like that, it's been a while since I touched my config).

This made it so that I'd get suggestions from my LSP for code, but if I were typing a comment and repeating a word I've used before then LSP would come up empty but Emacs would be auto-completing that word for me.
> There's some lawsuit going on in PA

Last I read, the superior court of PA denied hearing his case and so the lower court ruling holding him responsible held.
I've had third party cookies disabled for years. I can't remember the last time a website broke as a result.
The cynical person in me thinks it's because most predictions place the worst outcomes to the poorest countries on the globe, while those with highest economic impact will be affected much less. There isn't a super massive incentive to change things very fast.

Also, we can't cut oil use cold turkey, as literally our whole civilization runs on it, including food production.
> Everybody and their dog want you to download "apps" - I wonder why?

Because apps can collect more data... many apps are just spyware with some function on the top of it ;-)
> Dude, we all know where he was.... We all saw him reading the book.

The submitted article is specifically about how many people, especially younger people, don't remember 9/11. Thus, "we all know" is a mistaken assumption.

> Reread my post and actually try to answer the questions.

The video recording of the President answers the questions. You asked what my "thought process" was, but I wasn't speculating; as you seem to acknowledge, there's a video, of which nobody has ever disputed the authenticity (because of course there were plenty of eyewitnesses on the scene too), that we can watch and thereby verify the timeline.

There's no factual dispute whatsoever that Bush was told America is under attack, and he just sat there doing nothing for excruciating minutes, then lingered in the classroom, making no attempt to "hustle" out of there and take command of the situation.
Well, I lick most of my plates clean, our small washer takes 3 and a half hours and everything is cleaned just fine. EU citizen here :)
The most eye opening aspect of this issue is how many people find the all white male default to be normal and self evidently meritocratic, and a deviation from that is what they instinctively consider to be contrived.
Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers - which if you're a car or mechanical person at all is even funnier.
Hadn't heard of x-ray space telescopes before so this sounded like a cool new thing to avoid atmospheric interference and do better measurements, perhaps even in the moon's shadow to avoid earth-originating noise, but then I looked up whether there have been others and there's a whole host of them: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_X-ray_space_telescop...

What would we do with yet another one?

Clicking through to the article about this telescope:

> As the only international X-ray observatory project of its period, XRISM will function as a next generation space telescope in the X-ray astronomy field, similar to how the James Webb Space Telescope, Fermi Space Telescope, and the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) Observatory are placed in their respective fields. The mission is a stopgap for avoiding a potential observation period gap between X-ray telescopes of the present (Chandra, XMM-Newton) and those of the future (Advanced Telescope for High Energy Astrophysics (ATHENA)). Without XRISM, a blank period in X-ray astronomy may arise in the early 2020s due to the loss of Hitomi.

–https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Ray_Imaging_and_Spectrosco...

You also made me curious why Hitomi got "lost" (launch failure? Micrometeorite? Hard-/software failure?)

From its article at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitomi_(satellite)

> [Problems] began with its inertial reference unit (IRU) reporting a rotation of 21.7° per hour at 19:10 UTC on 25 March 2016, though the vehicle was actually stable. The attitude control system attempted to [correct that nonexistent spin, spun it faster and faster, and that broke it up]

What caused this glitch or what was known on the ground at the time (did they know it wasn't spinning but couldn't tell it to stop?) is not mentioned

Edit: oh but it did science in the 36 days that it operated!

> Measurements by Hitomi have allowed scientists to track the motion of X-ray-emitting gas at the heart of the Perseus cluster of galaxies for the first time. Using the Soft X-ray Spectrometer, astronomers have mapped the motion of X-ray-emitting gas in a cluster of galaxies and shown it moves at cosmically modest speeds. [...] [So now we know] turbulence is responsible for only about 4 percent of the total gas pressure.
What's the scientific consensus on tipping points?
9/11 in Realtime
Is there a way to get Awk to emit a non-terse version of the script passed in?

ie awk '/test/' -> '{ if($0~/test/){print $0} }'
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.osmand.plus/

it literally is (see `.plus`); in fact, if you install from F-droid, and then open Google Play to look at OsmAnd+, `Install` button is gone, just `Open`
There are definitely sites that don't work in Firefox, although they are pretty far and few between.

Mailgun is one of the worst offenders. when I mentioned to their support that auth among other things was broken in Firefox, their response was "use chrome"
Nvidia's dominance in AI chips deters funding for startups
> the power/water utilities don't make insane amounts of profit

They do make insane profits. And mostly all they are doing is acting as a middle man for the consumer to the energy generator - it is an entirely parasitic role adding no meaningful value, when the infrastructure is in place.

They really shouldn't make profit at all - of all things that should be provided at cost to citizens, and special rates charged to businesses, this is it.
https://archive.ph/d8nSF
Ask HN: When did desktop Microsoft Outlook become unusable at startup?
I used Outlook daily in the Windows 7 days. It used to be that you would launch it and it was as highly-responsive as most native Windows apps of that era.

I'm backing to using it at my new job (Office 365 subscription with all the desktop apps), and it's literally unusable for several minutes at startup. The UI just stops responding while it presumably does some background sync. I can't even click a button and start writing an email. Confirmed on two different computers.

This is the sort of characteristic I'd expect from a junior dev writing an Electron app in his spare time. I don't expect it from one of the three flagship apps of Microsoft Office.

My current flow has become launching Outlook to send an email, then realizing what's going to happen, open Notepad++ to write my emails in, then when Outlook finally becomes responsive again after a few minutes, I copy-paste them in it. Every time I do this, I think less of Microsoft.

When did this change happen? How does something like this pass QA? "Works for the QA guy on our 10Gbps LAN, therefore no problem"?
For a quick visualization, I like Rich, Broke, or Dead (https://engaging-data.com/will-money-last-retire-early/)

For in-depth planning, I like ficalc.app, and cfiresim.com is good, too.
Bye bye CI builds (at least for now).
Use Relay to stop reinventing the wheel on data fetching
Wow, what a perfect name...
Relaxing physical requirements is a different issue. Those people are fully capable and cognizant of deciding whether to join, and can handle the extreme emotional and mental load as well as anyone. Also, they can get themselves into sufficient physical condition.

Putting people in that extreme situation without the mental and emotional capability is a nightmare of cruelty.
I was able to squirrel away a little of my mom's Social Security (and a bit of pension) money each month when she retired so that it was less likely I would have to dip into my own savings to support her.

I do share the sentiment.
I think it might become question of availability of labour. So unless we increase efficiency massively a unit of currency that buys x amount labour might not even with above inflation investment returns buy even same amount of labour. Simply as there is not enough of it available as most of it has retired.
> Is it more moral for the inevitable sacrifices of warfare to be solely among a society's higher IQ individuals?

They're the ones that run the society, so I don't see why not.
Understanding the Cyber Resilience Act: What Everyone in Open Source Should Know
During exercising: I don't mind if it's not dangerous. For example, when you are biking IRL and get distracted. A fixed bike is nice for thinking. On the other hand, I can't think while swimming, so it may be an option to 100% disconnect.

During out for dinner: Alone of with someone? When you are with other people the UI/UX is important and must be responsive. Remember to switch off as many side process as possible.
Is there a source for that story?
This should be opt-in so this corporate piracy is blocked by default.
About a decade before that I was at a friend's house. The guy was a little bit weird so he subscribed to magazines for people to keep track of airline security and ant-terrorism monitoring and whatever.

I looked through his magazines. I remember one magazine recommended that security forces should be on the lookout for terrorists using passenger planes as essentially human guided missiles. Went way into details of how much explosive power fuel would have etc.

I suppose it wasn't especially prescient, more like obvious for any expert in the field.
You’re right, except you had to install it for her. Viability and practicality mean people who aren't devs or power users can install the OS and update/upgrade by themselves.
We need to separate the concept of pensions from the concept of retirement. If retirement should go away as a concept, that would mean it is somehow impossible to put away any money so that you don't need to work your last years. Obviously unless something radically happens to the way the global economy works, many people will be able to set aside 20% their pay, and and live the last 20% of their lives on that.

But pensions on the other hand usually involve some sort of government system which often ends up trapped by demographic swings. The key for a pension system is this: don't allow it to depend on demographics. Make sure each generation provides for it's own pensions.
In JRE terms, Rust doesn't have Exceptions, but it has Errors.
https://www.cfiresim.com
I dunno man while the revival was not great I feel like the X-Files might be only second to Game of Thrones on my list of shows that did not end on high notes. It went about 3-4 seasons too long.
Cant even retire if you own your home outright. Still got to pay property tax
A conversation with Walter Isaacson about his new biography of Elon Musk
> Criticism against Russians is not moderated the same way as criticism against Jewish people.

People are not criticizing ethnic Russians. They are criticizing citizens of the Russian state, which includes people who aren’t ethnically Russian but doesn’t include people who are ethnically Russian in e.g. Ukraine. It’s arguable how much responsibility Russian citizens have for the present situation but it’s more than zero.

Similarly while it’s fine to criticize Israelis for the actions of Israel, it’s not fine to criticize Jewish people in general for it.
If you want to revive your memories of Red Alert 2, some people ported the game in the web[1]. The online multiplayer feature works fairly well.

[1]: https://chronodivide.com/
>Hmm? How could desertification, ocean acidification and water scarcity affect me?

That doesn't answer the parent's question, which is that those events have been happening in the past few decades with seemingly no material effects.
Yep, 100% Miele.
So the people who can’t afford to pay for their browser, email, etc…

Let them eat cake?
> Since it's impossible to un-vote a story

When I vote a story, an "unvote" button appears to the left of the "parent | context | flag" buttons. Are you saying that it doesn't work?
Broadband Subsidy Program Boxes Out Small ISPs and Community Broadband
> I just don't understand this take.

Fairly easy to understand, for many Crypto is synonymous with 'bad actor'. Which isn't exactly without merit given the number of schemes, scams and outright law breaking elements that have surrounded the topic.

It doesn't matter if its legitimate, people will still understandably have issues with it.
No, but there’s no chance of Windows becoming my primary platform — I use it almost exclusively for games (some of which don’t play nice with Proton) — and so I don’t need as much from it.

Additionally, Windows isn’t usually sold on its flexibility to anywhere near the extent that desktop Linux is. As such I don’t think it’s strange to expect that taking advantage of said flexibility is relatively painless, regardless of what the user is trying to do — there’s no point in flexibility if e.g. there’s actually only a small handful of options that are practical.