skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love this kind of reasoning that forces you to climb out of the comfortable nook in a tree of thought you’ve been occupying for years to see if there’s a better vantage point!

So would this work equally well? Use Postgres on some cloud and “spin up” a read-replica that your clients have access to. Let them read from the replica.

If yes, I have tried that and I can tell you the problem I had. They don’t want to get to know my database schema. I know, frustrating! “If you would just get to know me better, you would have all the secrets you desire!” Sigh… they just want this overly simplistic Interface that doesn’t change, even when we rewrite things to make them better on the backend.

Another thought: if sharing compute is the main problem, you can just egress the data to distributed file storage like S3 and let them write SQL on the files using some Presto, like Athena. Or egress to BigQuery and let them bring their own compute. But the problem there again is getting to know my internal data structure, and also by “egress” I really mean “dump the whole damn thing because once the data is on S3 I can’t just update a single row like I can on an OLTP database” and you can only do that every so often.
Although it doesn’t meet the definition of bribery it’s a similar concept. It’s trying to influence someone’s decision by personal gain rather than just what’s best for the company. DataDog used to do this (maybe they still do) where if you signed up for a trial they said you would get a 1 in 8 chance of getting an iPhone.
Most people aren't driving across the country every time they need to go from the east coast to the west coast. If planes didn't exist these trips would also not exist.
More discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37499720
Drugs winning the “war on drugs” would be a problem for the “war on drugs” only if reducing drug use had actually been a priority of the “war on drugs” at any time in its half century of existence.
https://archive.is/e6L3N
Just a question out of curiosity, but have you seen figures on the spread of beef usage in specific foods? e.g., what percentage is in ground beef and fast food form, what percentage is in whole cuts heading to homes and restaurants, other applications, etc.
I still use my 2011 11” MacBook Air. Only had to change the battery 5 years ago. iPad with keyboard just added one more device to charge.
It sounds like this is essentially database replication, but perhaps cheaper, since it's a SQLite file with a schema hopefully designed to contain whatever the client needs rather than random junk. You'd still have to send writes to one location and they'd fan out from there, with some latency.

It seems like it would be a good fit with edge servers, assuming any node that starts an instance could get a copy of the database when it starts. Most database-as-a-service companies don't do that.

I doubt I'd try it if it isn't a fully managed system, though. The only one I know of is Cloudflare's Durable Objects, and it's not in the free tier. For hobbyist programming that's kind of a drag, so I haven't tried it. Instead I'll probably try Deno's KV. (This sort of thing is what I hoped KV would be, but apparently it isn't.)

I wonder what the cold-start performance would be for downloading a small SQLite database from S3, starting it up in memory, and subscribing to a replication log?
> Though as it says in the article, Godot does lack proper support for consoles.

None of the open source engines do, or ever will as publishing to consoles requires that you sign an NDA. If you're a godot dev and want to publish on console look towards https://lonewolftechnology.com/
Exactly who are these "millionaires"? If they are the normal w2 types or 1099 that pays 25% tax every quarter, exactly what will come of this? They have no mechanism to dodge taxes like corporations other than a silly real estate deduction that trump ended.

We don't have a revenue problem but the issue is companies not dodging taxes owed persay but creating an llc in a tax haven and selling a "contract" to a us corporation that coincedentally costs the same as the profit of the us branch resulting in no taxable revenue. This would need legal fixes and co-operation between the countries involved.

But go ahead, tax a doctor/lawyer/sr engineer making $400,001.00 dollars at. 50% rate like canada and the like.
They also have their culture, which isn’t some deterministic destined thing. It is self perpetuating.

Unless something serious is done to break the pattern.

(By definition: non-self perpetuating cultures rapidly don’t exist.)
The article talks about innovation and says that it has not increased fast enough to offset the rules.

I wonder if it has been considered that increasing innovation may increase the number of regulations.

Specifically around safety.
Detecting SSH Tunnels (2017)
Quantum Technology Recruiting Inc. (https://ca.linkedin.com/company/quantum-technology-recruitin...)

Our guy, Alex Rhatushnyak, is listed as employee.

BTW, this is the first result on DuckDuckGo. (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=qtr+company+canada)

Is it time to switch? ;)
https://archive.is/mDJr2
Serving Spam Detection with XGBoost and Elixir
XGBoost is an extremely popular and powerful machine learning library that implemented gradient-boosted decision tree models, and is still state of the art in field such as time-series analysis and tabular data prediction while taking a fraction of the computing resources of models such as neural networks.

Elixir now supports XGBoost models (even those trained outside of Elixir) and you can leverage the benefits of Elixir concurrency and distribution to serve your decision tree models using Elixir-Nx's `Nx.Serving` construct.

In this blog post (which you can run as a Livebook), we walk through a full example of training a spam detection model using XGBoost and serving it with Elixir. Check it out!
> Good books aren't lossy

As someone who recently began rereading books, I heartily agree. The lossless original has value. That doesn’t mean the lossy imprint of that book in my mind “has little utility” or value.
Ah, reddit is leaking again.
I personally still think most people (not necessarily the author) miss out on the biggest improvement LLMs have to offer: powerful embeddings for text representation for text classification.

All of the prompting stuff is, of course, incredible, but the use of these models to create text embeddings of virtually any text document (from a sentence to a news paper article) allows for incredibly fast iteration on many traditional ML text classification problems.

Multiple times I've taken cases where I have ~1,000 text documents with labels, run them through ada-002, and stuck that in a logistic model and gotten wildly superior performance to anything I've tried in the past.

If you have an old NLP classification problem that you couldn't quite solve satisfactorily enough a few years ago, it's worth just mindlessly running it through the OpenAI embeddings API and sticking using those embeddings on your favorite off the shelf classifier.

Having done NLP work for many years, it is insane to me to consider how many countless hours I spent doing tricky feature engineering to try to squeeze the most information I could out of the limited text data available, to realize it can now be replaced with about 10 minutes of programming time and less than a dollar.

An even better improvement is the trivial ability to scale to real documents. It wasn't long ago that the best document models were just sums/averages of word embeddings.
https://archive.is/OMf2Z
>He's right. Usually you need an agreement to resell.

That's not the argument though. The argument is if a few people living together in a building decide to just divide up a bill counts as "reselling". Or one person pays the internet bill and another then pays some other utilities or something, which is legally the same outcome. Ie, $90 month, each pays $30. It's not getting resold as a whole new connection. I really don't agree that, even if it was possible for them to find out, ISPs would go after anyone for that. I've never heard even a hint of it in 30 years, but I don't have a global perspective either. Is this actually a thing in some places? Like 3 friends rooming together somewhere and they're all supposed to buy their own separate WAN not divide it up like other utilities?
Absolutely. But it sounded like he was afraid he wouldn’t be able to buy enough at once, hence the accumulation.
The stack monoid is related to the bicyclic semigroup (which got its name before "monoid" was more common, though I do see both names), but I am drawing a distinction: the bicyclic semigroup counts parentheses, while the stack monoid actually contains elements of some type (which is free). So the primary difference is how much storage is required for the representation; the bicyclic semigroup is very conveniently represented as a pair of natural numbers, while the stack monoid requires space proportional to the maximum stack depth. That's why it's so challenging to implement on GPU.
Source is not easily licensable.
Do you have an example of that screensaver? Is it something like this? [0] That's the only thing I could find online. You'd probably just want to use a fragment shader. [1]

[0] https://www.fullscreensavers.com/sea-raindrops-screensaver/

[1] https://godotshaders.com/shader/ripple-shader/
They didn’t say prescription drugs. OTC drugs are also drugs. (In fact, they’re the drugs the article is about!) And the majority of drugs are OTC drugs. I would fully believe that the majority of OTC drugs do basically nothing.

(Consider: how many problems are there with your body that you’re actually likely to be able to solve with a drug that can be taken safely and correctly at basically any dose, basically any schedule, quitting whenever you like, and without checking for cross-drug interactions? Because those are the requirements for a drug to be OTC. There exist far more OTC drugs than there should, given the number of OTC-able problems, is what I’m saying.)
Is this Ad at risk of causing epileptic seizure?
I couldn't post there because Reddit allowed the advertiser to lock the thread with no comments. The Ad is very flashy, it hurt my eyes within seconds, I'm not epileptic, but I am worried for those who are.
https://archive.is/7ydI7
It’s expensive to eat less meat. And I done mean in an abstract way about the time it takes to prepare meals, etc.

On a per weight basis, chicken is half the price of peanut butter or cheese at the local grocery store. A whole cooked chicken is even cheaper at Costco. Not everyone can afford to eat less meat and replace it with plant protein.
While I know it wouldn't qualify for the prize due to the size of the model, I'm curious how well a big modern LLM can compress the prize file (enwiki9) compared to the current record. (I guess ideally it would be an LLM not trained on wikipedia as well, to minimize memorizing).

On that thought, with a modern LLM's weights dwarfing the enwiki9 file used by the prize, it feels like this prize was setup with the right idea to advance AGI, but with the problem several orders of magnitude to small.
Kargo – Application Lifecycle Orchestration
Is the lack of console support a technical issue, it hasn't been added yet; or a political one, no permission to add support on open source software?
Re: key distribution, we're just changing it now but in a few days the scheme will be:

1. a community member sends you an invite link containing some onion addresses of community members

2. you sync community data and send a CSR to the community owner.

3. We show an "unregistered" message next to your name until the community owner signs your CSR, at which point you're a full member.

We use PKI.js for the certs. For multi-party message-layer encryption with multi-device support we plan on using: https://github.com/local-first-web/auth, which is inspired by Keybase and a Martin Kleppmann paper.
https://archive.is/UVK3a
Use liquid nitrogen and you can get it to turn light pink!
Most image compression smooths skies. Because most people don’t want a regurgitated sky. If you’re an astronomer, on the other hand, you’ll compress away the trees. These are all lossy retrieval (and, inherent to compression, transformation) functions.
https://archive.is/B3QFH
Question: why does anyone want to use stimulant decongestants anyway, when corticosteroid nasal sprays (the -metazolines) are equally effective at treating a runny nose, and much more effective at unplugging a stuffy nose?
I'm only hearing about Earthly through this blog post, but is their optimization just shaving time off of overhead? From their landing page, it sounds like their system made caching and build targets a first class feature.

> Rebuild only what has changed, automatic parallel execution, automatic caching with no configuration required for the entire pipeline, no upload/download of cache – instantly available

You _could_ get these benefits on other providers like CircleCI, but it would require a lot more work/customization.
This is why I feel an engine like Bevy will one day beat them all. ECS, rust, memory safety, thread safety.

It just needs an editor (or even a gameplan for what an editor would look like), animation, halfway decent rendering pipeline... it's a very long way from production ready.
Having slammed brakes on hiring, Google says no longer needs so many recruiters
Sizing is rarely accurate, even in Western shops, and even within the same batch. e.g. fabric is typically cut in batches piled on top of each other, and it's often not a straight cut. This is fine as such, although a few cm here or there can make a big difference in how comfterable clothes are or how well they look.
I actually was also inspired by it.

The reality is you can take months to plan it , have it be really expensive to try to get 100% accurate, but that may not be the most efficient way.

It may be better from a trade off perspective to take this approach way more frequently than we realize.
What is your point? You can see from my previous comment I already agree excel is user friendly for non programmers.
IIRC the thing about supporting Android is that with game engines, that typically means working with the NDK which as far as I can tell is a bit of a bear to deal with relative to desktop platforms.
This blog post points out something really interesting:

> Less than half their revenue comes from game engines. Over half comes from advertising.

That is to say, Unity makes most of its money from people PLAYING games made with Unity. The sales to the developers are secondary. Unity had to change their model, and that meant either making the engine cheaper to acquire more games to get more ads, or it meant raising the price of the engine at the likely cost of ads, and for some reason they chose option 2, which seems like a dumb idea.

The best explanation for that I can think of is that almost all of the advertising money should be coming from smaller mobile games, and so this is a move to try and make more money from the desktop games and the mobile games that don't use Unity's ad networks, which probably look like big, untapped sources of income to dumber product managers.

But now imagine that they did the opposite: they raise the maximum revenue requirements and "must show splash screen" requirements and generally make Unity more available for less. Engine revenue goes down a bit, but ad revenue goes up, which probably works out even better in the long run, but also solidifies the user base, garners good will, and generally leaves everybody feeling great about Unity.
If the price is saving the planet is turning it into the dystopia we seem to be zooming towards full speed, I will be happy to not pay it and suffer the consequences of our civilization collapsing. I’m not changing my behavior and I will fight vigorously for it.

If you stopped all meat production today it would not save you. (Post)industrial society itself is what is unsustainable. There is no way around that. There is no technological solution - we can barely maintain the pretense of keeping up with all the problems our tech causes. You can buy time (maybe), that’s all. Technological man cannot seem to grasp humility. There is no controlling the world. This article and some other comments go into some great detail.

>might cause minor inconvenience for you.

My current great health is not a “convenience.” It is an incredible blessing and I will fight to maintain the things that seemingly contribute to it.
I live in the marginal subtropics in an area with subtropical rainforest. There is a severly degraded historical landslip at the back of my house which we've been working on for 12 years or so.

After getting rid of the gross weeds, it only took a couple of years for a bunch of native rainforest species to start popping up, but it's going to be a very long time before what they call "ecosystem function" is approximately back to the way it was before. You can reduce this time in the tropics because the carbon cycle is so fast, but it's still going to take many years of restoration. Appropriate management can speed things up, but only so much - and the techniques used vary in effectiveness.
Yeah, this would be really useful for my RP2040Zero project.

I don't know if it's the board or if it's down to circuitpython, but being able to software powercycle the USB ports on my motherboard would be really useful, particularly as the RP2040 is mounted inside the PC.
My system's running fine with no noticeable issues. I opened Console to check for faults and after running with logging on I eventually got a couple, all tied to Safari trying to read a preference from a domain it didn't have permissions to. No performance issues or other user-detectable impacts.
Private IPFS networks for each Quiet community make this not a problem. I haven't investigated using Tor on the big global IPFS DHT, but we don't have to worry about that.
Unique email address under my own domain for each service. Don't have a Google/Facebook/whatever to auth with anyway.
Spending too much time replying to comments!
Its not economical for quick profits/next generation pays the price. Maybe we should take in consideration the ‘long term, that way better things would become a lot more economical, especially when reuse becomes common sense again. We did better in the past in this regard.
I follow indie games news and I don't remember seeing any recent indie release using Source. My guess is that it's no longer as popular as it used to be.
This is an interesting article, because it's a product of its time: modern languages solve a lot of these exact problems. I think this is a resounding success that they have correctly identified a genuine problem that people used to struggle with (safe types, exceptions) and make it standard and correct and ergonomic.
https://archive.is/90R8r
probably a better thing to do would be to get the rest of the world to pay you to not do it.
MessagePack goes to "extremes" to shrink message size; I suspect that at least to win out.
If I recall correctly https://www.listennotes.com is a one-person operation. The owner has posted about it a few times: https://www.listennotes.com/blog/the-boring-technology-behin...
Did you know that "Made in Japan" and "Made in Taiwan" used to be a mark of cheaply and badly made junk only a few decades ago? Back then, Americans were pretty confident that the United States would remain dominant in manufacturing indefinitely, particularly in at the time high-tech stuff like electronics and automotive manufacturing, and that other countries would have a hard time catching up. What a difference a few decades makes...
I feel like any piece of software that's widely applicable to a whole industry of users (3d modelling, image editing, game engines, etc) is destined to eventually solidify on an fully production quality open source solution that everyone contributes to.

It's already happened for 3d modelling (Blender) and digital painting (Krita), and it feels like gamedev is an even better market for this to happen in than those because all the users are also going to be capable of contributing to development of the engine.

From the outside Godot looks like it's the closest to ready for building proper AAA quality 3d games.

I've also actually used Bevy and if you're a fan of rust and ECS based development it's really nice for building procedurally generated stuff that doesn't need a level editor, or for building 2d games and relying on a 3rd party editor like Tiled or LDtk. However there's plenty of places where it's still a bit rough around the edges, like dealing with more complex multi stage asset loading pipelines.
https://archive.is/uiPob
It’s an idea that goes back to at least the Romans, but Newton attracts attribution like Mark Twain. (Referring to Roman serrate-edge coins)
Apple Is Dependent on China's Economy and That's a Big Problem
it's more accurate to say that we've out sourced it.
Who is people? I've been a vegetarian for half a decade now on account of a family history of cardiovascular disease. People lack discipline and imagination, but it's not exactly rocket science to have a plant based diet. The largest obstacle is the large swathes of food deserts and the subsidizing of junk food.

If people had to pay the real price of meat with environmental externalities factored in most people would consume at a level you've described or even less. My issue with that is it doesn't address how most lifestyle emissions are attributable to the wealthiest economic class. It's still a better alternative to the system we have now, which is clearly unsustainable.

A 1/3rd pound burger takes 660 gallons of water to produce, or about 2500 liters. That's not even getting into any of the typical inputs like antibiotics which have their own collection of problems. Say what you will about vegans, it's impossible to talk about the environment without bringing up the impacts of industrial agribusiness and factory farming.

While we're talking about efficiency, you gain an order of magnitude improvement by farming crops for humans to eat rather than farming crops for animals to eat for humans to eat. Only about 55% of the crops we go are directly consumed by humans, the rest is used for feed and biofuels. It would take a tenth of the land area to feed the same amount of people plant-based vs an omnivorous diet. We should absolutely be pushing for less centralized food production, and chickens are a useful part of that. They turn food waste into new food and deal with several pests. That's very different from slaughtering them wholesale for cheap dinosaur nuggets.
>Run in parallel with the old department and slowly cherry pick officers who fit the criteria.

No. Any cop who was willing to put up with the corruption for a paycheck is implicit in supporting the system, and the old department is the problem. There are no good apples. Burn the entire system down. Fire everyone, no pensions, no gold watches. Start over from scratch, rethinking policing as a concept.

When BLM started saying "defund the police" people walked the concept back immediately, and maybe for good reason, but mostly because it was too upsetting to the status quo to even consider. But we need that kind of radical thinking, because the system is broken, rotten from the head and blood-soaked down to the floorboards. Nothing less than revolution, a complete rethinking of policing as a concept, can fix it.
This comment appears completely unrelated to mine. I understand you think your point needed emphasis but why in response to my question?

They are currently called user agents, right? And arent they currently utilized by advertisers? Does this change give more power to users, advertisers, both? Its an honest question.
The Economy's Safety Net Is Finally Gone
"Free" games don't really exist any more on the mainstream platforms. "Ad supported" games though... and guess what? Unity is an ad company, not a tech company, at heart.