skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have access to the article, but do they define "populism" in it?

The same Wikipedia article you linked to also says

> In popular discourse—where the term has often been used pejoratively—it has sometimes been used synonymously with demagogy, to describe politicians who present overly simplistic answers to complex questions in a highly emotional manner, or with political opportunism, to characterise politicians who seek to please voters without rational consideration as to the best course of action.

With this definition, it's not about getting people what they want.
12 miles range? I wouldn't even get to work and back. My Van Moof gets 35 miles and that's at 20mph with a 80kg load.
> The twins were conceived by IVF

Fun fact: I believe I remember reading / hearing that IVF yields twins more often than natural insemination.

That aside, her quote makes it sound like they spent some "quality time" together. But maybe that didn't result in a pregnancy? So she went with Plan B?
hey, is compile time verification of queries supported for PRQL in Rust?
> If you program defensively you can save on certain common Schema updates in e.g. a document based data model (e.g. adding more fields)

ALTER TABLE whatever ADD COLUMN new_field type DEFAULT NULL;

I've seen a lot of people claim that they don't want to waste time clarifying their schema and I'm sure there are edge cases where that is clever. But, in the majority of cases, they are literally risking data integrity for a saving smaller than the time it takes to write a HN comment.

Making schema implicit doesn't "save" anything. The schema is still there, now just only insiders who are completely familiar with the code know what it is. And they're going to have a few extra bugs because they'll forget too.
When anti-antivaccine demonstrations? In all seriousness, fantastic news.

There is no cure for autoimmune diseases atm, although some promising research in disease modifying drugs like https://www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/news/new-drug-offers-hope-for-p...

This sounds like a far more targeted approach that could work for most autoimmune diseases (maybe even allergies?)
I don't know how that connects in any way to what I and the commenter preceding me wrote.
> I don't think Rust is over-hyped; almost everything I would have used Haskell for I do in Rust now.

As a Haskell fan this is very interesting! What sort of things do you write where you find Rust is a better fit? No code that I write in Haskell would be much better off without GC so I struggle to think of reasons Rust could be a better fit.
How is the language server support?
There's quite a few stories outlining how many companies are taking advantage of the "cover" of inflation to take on additional margin. Like, they see cost increases of 5% on their side, but raise prices 10%. It doesn't require a cartel for every notable supplier in a market to have the same idea.
Long live the philosopher king??

I mean only somewhat in jest this is precisely the debate going on since Plato's not so subtle critiques of Pericles' Athens circa 400 BC
Your link doesn’t work for me.
I use gilder myself, that's how I found hn, but this is alright.
> Our immune system is dysfunctioning because of something (not natural occurrence)

So, an autoimmune disease? Because that falls within the parameters of what you've described.

> What is that something? - vaccines - toxins, pesticides? - lack of vitamin D, infrared? Something else?

The question of why autoimmune diseases are becoming more common is good one. There is research that shows correlations between the incidence of autoimmune disease and vitamin D deficiency and exposure to microplastics. But as of now, these are just correlations. Causality has not been established, and there are a lot of missing links left on that road.

> Whatever is causing immune problems is at the same time creating a lot of shareholder value.

You give way too much credit to big pharma.

1. We don't know enough about autoimmune disease to know how to intentionally cause it.

2. As with many conspiracy theories, this one relies on the very improbable occurrence of tens of thousands of people keeping mum over multiple decades and not a single one of them growing a conscience at any point. Or just leaking something out of incompetence at any point.
Taxes funds public R&D which it's used by all companies
This was a really interesting read! I find it so tiresome trying to evaluate food prices and optimize grocery shopping to optimize [time and money spent], and a large data set like this could make it much easier. Is anyone aware of a similar price analysis for the United States?
Or to tell tall tales, so to speak.
Because engineering !== market opportunity. Very rarely does the market care about technology. The market is selfish. It has one concern: What is the benefit for me?
Fermented/pickled foods can be quite salty (to control bad bacterial growth) but still healthy - but usually eaten in smaller doses as condiments
How is this different to a group chat in any messenger?
After Twitter announced they upped the length limit on videos to over two hours, there was a wave of pirated movies being posted. I wonder what happened to that.
Media loading is dog slow these days. 10+ second waits for images in tweets to load.

That's the most directly obvious thing that has happened post takeover.
I think that's closer to the definition I adhere to as well.

So I think there are two "dirty" words in this abstract, 'populism'
and 'economy', both of which assume meanings as the interpreter
pleases, hence my distate at the prima facie "woollyness" of the
research.
I run a small startup. We use a monolith and docker and no kubernetes. The tech team is me and two young software engineers. I.e. I'm the only experienced person in the team. My engineers are super productive though and quick learners.

The thing is that with a small team, you need to focus your engineering efforts on things that add values, i.e. mostly functional improvements of your product. Everything else is a distraction. Anytime we hit a problem everything grinds to a halt until we fix the problem.

Non value adding activities like devops are things that we do on a need to have basis. I have used things like teraform in the past but I opted not to on this product. Reason: I'm not planning to take down my servers and recreate them. And when I do that anyway, it takes about half an hour. Not worth spending days/weeks automating. There's a reason companies employ full time devops engineers, it's actually a lot of work. I do most of the devops in my team. When I have time and when it adds value. Which is not often. I do it well and I keep it simple.

We deploy multiple times per day though; that's worth automating. Automating things you only do once just isn't. We might get around to getting some automation for setting up our infrastructure eventually. But it doesn't really solve a problem I have right now.

Like instagram, we can scale if we have to. We're in google cloud and we use a load balancer and a scaling group of simple vms that run the docker container. One nice thing in Google cloud is that you can create a vm and parametrize it with the docker container image and it will run it. No need to install anything. The default os on the vm is docker ready. So, that's one less thing for me to worry about: installing shit on vms and making sure that is updated. I simply build my docker containers, push them to the registry and tell the scaling group to apply a new instance template with the new container. It does the rolling restart. That's just 2 simple gcloud commands in a Github action.

Simple is essential. Easy to understand. Easy to fix when it misbehaves. Easy to explain to others. Simple ensures you don't waste time.
The bear is sticky with honey.

https://piped.video/watch?v=i92Ws7qPTRg
Does anyone remember Quibi?

Has anyone ever even seen Quibi content? As far as I can tell, they had the piracy locked down perfectly .. meaning nobody ever posted any clips of their shows. So nobody knew about them, nobody watched them, and nobody paid for Quibi.
Yeah sometimes you want it but sometimes you dont. I think they are enforcing it to save resources
The entire multi-media infrastructure at Twitter is visibly creaking.
> The "normal forms" could merely be suggestions for a database designer, not a technical limitation enforced by the software itself.

I think most of the motivation for normal forms is to avoid 'update anomalies', which is essentially, don't represent the same information in two places in your base relation variables (aka tables in SQL). So you can have repeated values or nested relations in queries, and you can have them in base tables which are morally normalized, as long as there's no possibility that these lead to the same information being recorded in two distinct places.

When people talk about 'denormalizing' and it's justified, I think it's breaking this rule about representing information in two or more places in exchange for performance. If you do this, the application programmer has to be careful to keep these multiple locations in sync - a kind of consistency you don't have to think about in a clean database design. I think that database management software in general cannot enforce normalisation - it can only make it easier or more difficult to use it with normalized databases.

In theory, the DBMS itself could directly support 'physical denormalization' and make this performance optimisation easier to implement and transparent to the application code. I think some SQL DBMSs have attempted to do things like this.
Recently someone posted an office etiquette post on our intranet, citing all you should do or avoid so that your coworkers can work and focus comfortably.

The person posting it probably though it was helpful, but it was just showing how an hell of a place offices have become since they went the open space route.
$150M and slowing growth isn’t even a unicorn. 1.4B raised, founded in 2013
The reason for these articles and the frustration people have is that GPT 4 is a black box and is being changed whether we like it or not. Nobody can choose to continue to use a specific snapshot with the alignment that suits them, because a third-party is enforcing their preferred alignment -- and not even specifying what that is!

It's as-if a private company had invented portal technology and used it to establish trade routes with far-off alien civilisations. They even handle the purchase order translation, currency conversion, and so on. It's a miracle! You can order room-temperature superconductors and floaty rocks at a reasonable price.

"Sorry, due to high demand, we had to cut some corners on the translations" comes the announcement.

Now the entire human race sometimes gets copper wire and ordinary rocks.

"You're still trading with the exact same aliens" is the follow-up press release to appease the angry customers.

People point at the clear evidence of almost-but-not-superconductive wire they've received and demand answers.

"No, you do not need to know anything at all about our translation technology. No, you may not visit other planets without our express approval, that might be dangerous to our prof... I mean that might be dangerous to the human race. Yes. Dangerous! Existential, even."
Worthless article. Zero useful description of what it's trying to sell. A bunch of disjoint historical facts about relational databases that have nothing to do with the product being sold take about 2/3 of the article.

Also the author seems to be very proud of associating themselves with Microsoft's products (w/o even a hint of doubt that that may not show them in favorable light)...

Also, marketing-inspired use of pseudo-programming terminology (eg. "dynamic languages"). Ewww.
It is an OS that is able to run Unix/Linux applications locally, in a terminal at the moment, with a graphical environment in the near future. Its microkernel is compiled from C to WebAssembly thanks to emscripten
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Great project, wish you all the best. Anything to try and unseat SQL from common use (we can all wish for the day we run PostgrespostSQL in production). At the moment the project is probably going to lose people because it isn't obvious how to get started - many SQL beginners don't know what a compiler is and will get confused by the docs.

For the sake of their sanity, it'd be worth considering putting an example of using the compiler on a local text file somewhere prominent on that site. That way beginners can go in, write some PSQL, compile it and use it against real SQL databases.

Or if not the compiler, make it clear how beginners are supposed to engage with this. There is a big need out there for something dplyr-like that works. There are a dizzying array of options and that isn't going to help some good people who need a bit of handholding.
We don't know how that relates to the traffic. If the load caved, you need less capacity to handle it. The DeSantis launch campaign was a complete disaster, and only recovered mid-stream when 2/3 of the users left.

There is a case to be made that Twitter would have been profitable if it didn't torch money on unnecessary complexity, but the crashing ad revenue suggests Musk is not the business genius that you might expect.
How about doing stuff outside consuming Internet content? Then you are forced to interact with the real world, where taking action is the default. Take it from somebody very recently recovered from the digital loop: I have lost tons of time ruminating while life flowed out the window, screen, etc.

By the way, is spawning new tabs while waiting for a website to load in order to keep oneself occupied really a thing?
I first noticed the counting shortcut back in April. It still persists with both the previous and current models.
Considering the hostile takeover of Twitter, the layoffs, lack of leadership and Elon pulling cables out of servers, the platform has been working exceptionally well, at least in my experience. Either it was built like a tank or some of the people working there are extremely competent. To be fair is not like Twitter has never been prone to issues. I'm an old enough user to remember the fail whale and many of the great outages of Twitter's first decade. It didn't became stable until maybe 5 years ago and even recently just prior to Elon coming in they had another hours-long downtime.
The Marvellous mechanical mouse organ seems to be a bit like how some start ups fake it until you make it.

If someone says they can make chocolate digestive biscuits from bread crumbs and butter beans don’t fall for it:

https://youtu.be/bBFwClllXQs
But you own the modifications of your code so you can still license your derived work as closed as you want as long you as you obey the original MIT license terms which consists only mentionning it and keeping original copyright notice.

That is what all company selling proprietary products that include MIT and BSD licensed codes do. Usually the jist include a file called "third party copyright notice" with the product ad well as an entry in the "about" section of their gui.
This was using gpt-4-0314, fixed and datestamped. The counting shortcut still affects newer models too, but the old version undoubtedly changed behaviour without warning.
Comics creators are famously exploited. Superman's creators died in poverty, and most work by Marvel and DC is performed as "work for hire", i.e. not generating royalties for actual authors. This is also why authors increasingly try to publish independently, but that also means working on brand new series that may or may not attract any popularity and actually generate profits. For one Mark Millar or Todd McFarlane there are hundreds faring worse than Joe Shuster.
Indeed. Having warned against "If you treat the code like a pet for sentimental reasons, you’re working in direct opposition to the interests of the business." He does exactly that.
You said that sentences aren't formed by probability from an existing corpus, as that method can't count backwards. GPT-4, a system based on such a method, can count backwards, thus disproving your claim.
Serpent OS departs from D, adopting Go and Rust
The motivation behind first normal form is to keep the query language simple and powerful at the same time. Allowing nested tables would require extensions to the query language but wouldn’t give any additional expressive power since you can already express the same relationships using foreign keys.

Also I dont see how it isn’t hierachical? Nested tables create a hierachical structure just like nested records in a hierachical database. What is the difference?

I consider Date and Darwen more like fan-fiction writers than spiritual sucessors. It is fine they propose a modified version of the relational model, but they are doing it in a weird way where they try to redefine Codds words to mean the opposite of what he is saying, instead of just noting how they disagree. Like if Codd was a prophet whose words cannot be directly contradicted.
Look at a picture of a skull in profile. You'll see that there is half a nose, not no nose. That half of the nose that you can see is the bony part. The missing half is the cartilaginous part.

Why is there a hole? Because your nasal canal extends inside your skull to connect with the back of your throat. I guess I don't fully understand the question there.
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This feels like the debate between tax evasion and tax avoidance. What the engineer did here going to an IP lawless place is more like tax avoidance. It has a bad smell but he legally exploited a loophole in the international IP system if I understood correctly. Sort of migrating to a tax haven to avoid taxes.

Unless there is something explicitly stated in your contract banning you from taking the "know-how" in your brains and use it elsewhere (so long as you don't breach any patent) then it sounds there is nothing technically wrong.
Presumably in a post apocalyptic situation survivors wouldn't be surrounded by a glut of processed sugary foods.
They define what they mean by populism and economy is effectively GDP, if I read it right. Doesn't seem that wooly to me in the paper itself.

A (earlier) version of the paper seems to be here: https://www.ifw-kiel.de/fileadmin/Dateiverwaltung/IfW-Public...
Am I the only one who finds this sacrilegious?

As a British person and a computer scientist I think such a use of
Bletchley Park, a place I've oft visited, worked at, and supported
during my life, to be distasteful. Bletchley Park is a symbol of the
struggle against the kind of tyranny these tech robber-barons would
thrust upon us.
GNU gzip has limited support for ZIP:

> Files created by zip can be uncompressed by gzip only if they have a single member compressed with the “deflation” method. This feature is only intended to help conversion of tar.zip files to the tar.gz format.

-- https://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/manual/html_node/Overview....
Ok? What does that have to do with the SDK?

Having access to the SDK doesn't
give you unfettered access to publish on their stores. It only allows you to write and compile code targeting their hardware/runtime.
Yeah I’m a web dev, and recently I found out the most popular JS ORM doesn’t produce joins. It’ll just execute multiple queries in sequence. I don’t know how common that is in the ORM landscape but for me that’s a deal breaker.
First one of these I've seen that actually supports an open source models

Can you self-host the models too?
> When you cut the company to 1/3 and keep foreigners because of their visa status, ... that says a lot about you!

That... you care about people regardless if they are foreigners and that you try to help those that would have the most problems if they were let go, especially as these problems are a consequence of your hiring of them?

I'm not familiar with the story, but from the way you presented it it sounds like a proper thing to do.

EDIT: not taking Musk's side, just pointing out the issue with the parent's argument.
Our company has a position like a DEI director, and honestly, it baffles me. All they seem to do is push what some might call 'leftist woke propaganda' in their never-ending meetings, and I question whether our company's resources should be invested in that.
SheetsBear: Use SQL with Your Google Sheets
I've heart the term "skimoflation". There have been posts on HN about it.
Thank you for your well detailed response, I appreciate that!
I was very curious about this and did some digging but couldn't find a straight answer.

Which yours was.
Feature suggestion: I've been looking for a long time for something that will look through my games and tell me if I've ever made a bad move twice from an identical position.
Look, this time its bullshit. But let's say the company in this case is something like DuPont. Let's say the recognized industry experts are paid to shut up and write whitepapers backing up the company. This has happened plenty of times over the course of history and employees talking about unethical or even downright dangerous behavior should at least be heard I think... even if they don't understand what non-ionizing radiation is.
What are the current SOTA open source projects for bot detection?
> No data collected

> The developer says this app doesn’t collect user data

In theory, can someone flag their app like this but still collect user data? It just caught my eye since the emphasis is on “developer”.
> I think most of the motivation for normal forms is to avoid 'update anomalies', which is essentially, don't represent the same information in two places

This is true for the second and higher normal forms, but not for first normal form. First normal form is about eliminating nested tables, not about eliminating redundant data.
I’d like a good write-up. My current boss has this tendency to interrupt anyone when he is not doing something, let daily stand-ups go into 30-40 minutes, and ask everyone to gather for spontaneous group meetings regardless of their ability to contribute or how important their current task is. I’m not very good at phrasing this criticism positively, and while I have addressed some of them, little has happened. I try to educate myself to become a better leader, and I only want to help him do the same.
> so I should buy 10 apples today, then sell them on Friday'

Simulation might also want to take into account that you can’t stock pile apples indefinitely before they spoil.
It seems to be fixed now, but yes your URL did work.
Are you using the API, or just the ChatGPT UI? Do custom instructions/system messages help at all?

Saving resources like this seems okay(ish) for general-purpose ChatGPT, as they'd know there's a human who can interpret the abridged output. But for API-driven requests this would be pretty terrible, and makes it far harder to develop with.
45 Drives homelab server goes on pre-order
>Nothing in the author's linked story suggests this code is not MIT licensed as the repo claims.

The lack of him saying he went to the effort of having Box or Uber license their code MIT suggests it.
'ig' Nobel Prize winners
"The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that make people LAUGH, then THINK. The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative — and spur people’s interest in science, medicine, and technology." Some of them are rather interesting, actually.
Nexus: An Algo Trading IDE for Windows (C++/Python)
Agree. The state of Kubernetes increasingly reminds me of the complexity hell that is Java J2EE. It’s an ecosystem of vendors with a self interest in selling complex solutions to sell high margin consulting services on top. Thus was J2EE.
I was told that you should only build strategic things you needed to differentiate on. Anything else, buy and adapt yourself to it.

I like your story of enlightenment though! I guess if you could genuinely build and maintain something cheaper, then why not.
Does the paint handle some friction?
> your account looks like a bot

That's not a bot if you are not a bot? I know it's 'normal', but I still it as a bug. AI classifying me as something I not is a bug.
I suspect you meant lesions rather than legions?
No I hadn't realised that. Thanks!