skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Does anyone else hate X?" is pretty generic, if there are billions of X in the world. A couple of examples would help.
Ask HN: What tools to use when creating an AI voice?
I am interesting in learning a bit about this AI engine stuff and I would like to set up my own instance of a voice ai creator.

I am a seasoned software engineer but I have no clue where to start (sure I could Google it but I want your answers instead).

Thank you
May I perhaps add my rant 50 cents here and link to my post about this?

https://www.justus.pw/garden/telemetry.html

It’s opt out, and it doesn’t even completely disable it (unless given an env var as well)

The devs know about this:

https://github.com/storybookjs/storybook/discussions/19910
How about allowing competition and different app stores? Or hell, allowing someone to download an app from their website and run it like we do on desktop.
What if it's a homeless person?
I don’t make phones. The question upthread was in the context of LTS for the Linux kernel and by implication open source projects more generally.
Show HN: Amber – A Terminal Theme Inspired by Amber Phosphors Monitors
Amber-theme is a theme for Microsoft's Windows Terminal Application that is inspired by Monochrome Hercules Phosphor-based Amber Monitors.

Shoutout to all the stories of programming before my time, to my mentors who told me stories of writing legendary code on beautiful Hercules monitors.
> In the context of LVT, 'unimproved value' pretty much means the value of a lot minus any buildings on it

no cutoff necessary, the distinction is between thins on the lot of land and things not on the lot of land today.
Actually, iron rusts away so quickly that it's hard to recover them from the ground after only a millennium or two. Bronze tends to fare much better in that regard.

Wood can last quite a while if it's buried in an environment that inhibits microbial degradation, such as a highly acidic bog, where iron doesn't stand a chance.
3 year… almost 4 years ago you commented about a few years ago. So not really relevant.

For the idiots downvoting.

2018 was version 11. Right when PostgreSQL JSONB support was beginning to get good.
Imagine any other consumer product boasting about teaching you things, instead of just do what it means to do.

Also am I dumb? Why do I need to be taught these things again and again every damn installation?
From this, seems like my total is too low. Below 200.

I should go out and eat some ribs, and pump it up to target 220.
> Developer productivity is far more valuable that open source purity.

I mean, at least you get access to MongoDB source code, so that is something.

I remember working on a project that used Clusterpoint years ago and the problem was that it was basically an abandoned piece of software due to the company behind it no longer releasing new versions. It was running, yes, but getting data out of it and migrating to something else sure took work and was very annoying because a lot of functionality had been built around it.

So in regards to something so critical as databases and data storage solutions, I'd err on the side of picking things that are open source, or have compatible alternatives with permissive licenses.

If someone were to build their own business around MongoDB (say, offering it as a service) and then SSPL came along, they'd be done for, even if just because of getting caught up in things going on between the org and large cloud vendors or something. Same with how you have to be careful with AGPL, so something like MinIO might be a non-starter in some cases.
Opt-Out Telemetry Shit Show
It's mind-boggling that we have utterly basic fallback standards for storage (ATA, USB Storage Class), display (VGA), USB (xHCI), webcams (USB UVC), mice/touchpads/touchscreens/keyboards (PS/2, USB HID) or Bluetooth, with BIOS usually providing emulation layers for everything of that excluding webcams and bluetooth so you can theoretically take any modern x86 PC and hand-write a basic OS in Assembler if you want and have all of that sorted out, but nothing equivalent for networking (both wired and wireless) to make bootstrapping less of a pain.

Every OS, no matter if Windows, Linux or BSD, needs to bring a crapload of drivers and binary firmware blobs with it, just to make sure networking works.
> maybe the author really does like PicPerf (and just so happened to include a referral tag lol

Worse: The author of the post is the creator of PicPerf
And Harvey Weinstein claimed the same thing - innocent !!!! - come on - with so many accusers unrelated to each other - it is kind of obvious to any person that he crossed the line with woman he slept with.

Whether it broke the law is a question that needs to be dealt with by a court.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t a double positive just a positive while a double negative is a positive?

Opt-in by default: you are in
You can’t not select opt-in: you are in
I don‘t understand why HOCON (https://github.com/lightbend/config/blob/main/HOCON.md) isn‘t used more often (at least for configuration use cases). It‘s a superset of JSON, has comments, multiline strings, optional quotes, replacement syntax. We use it at many places, and it‘s as nice at it can get.
> Maybe you could plausibly say that people have been soured on XML by ill-conceived uses for it that don't demonstrate its strengths... but you think most people have never worked with it? Come on.

https://truelist.co/blog/software-development-statistics/

So, according to the link - The average software developer age is between 25 and 34 years.

I think we should also define - are we talking about people who have worked with XML because they made a google site settings xml file OR people who have done serious work with XML and know what they're talking about?

First type - pretty much everyone.

Second type - not very many. I'm pretty much the only person who knows anything about XML wherever I go.

if you are 25 you have probably not done anything with XML or at least not anything important.

If you are 34 you might have, but I mean the last time I did anything really important with XML was 2013, I did a few other things since then because I knew XML was the best solution but that was me or because there was a very niche thing I was doing and the company was providing an XML api.

I bet most of the age 34s have not done anything meaningful with XML either, even though if you are 34 I suppose you probably had some ticket at some point that took you a week and you thought wow, my extensive experience with XML now gives me the right to grouse about how bad it is! If only everybody knew as much as I the world would be a better place!

on edit: my example of google site settings file is an example of some trivial usage, not meaning that pretty much everyone has done that exact trivial usage.
No it's not. It's only a bit above a quest's resolution. It won't be enough unless you increase font size. 4k would be close though to get decent 1080p screens (remember those 4k pixels are spread out over a big field of view)
"Opt" means to "To choose; select" [0]. If you opt in (i.e. make the choice to go in), that implies that you were not already in. In other words, it implies that the default (when you don't make a choice) is "out", i.e. disabled.

"Opt-in" and "opt-out" describe what the default is, so adding "by default" doesn't make any sense. If you can choose to go in ("opt-in"), then the default is "out". If you can choose to go out ("opt-out"), then the default is "in".

Some companies appear to be trying to twist this into "The choice is yours, and we have taken the liberty of making that choice on your behalf.".

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/opt#English
Any saturated fats when eating healthy? (eggs, coconut oil, other tropical oils, butter, cheese, margarine, etc)
A lot of people are going to end facepalming themselves when the truth comes out.
Which are top AI-Based Document processing Platforms?
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This way, businesses obtain error-free and reliable information, reducing costly mistakes and improving decision-making.

Healthcare, legal, government, education, retail, banking, finance, insurance are all the industries that it KlearStack works with.

ABBY Flexicapture: ABBYY FlexiCapture redefines document processing by leveraging machine learning to automate data classification, extraction, validation, and routing.

It achieves an impressive 95% accuracy rate in categorization and data extraction. This leads to a 50% reduction in processing time.

It handles invoices, tax forms, onboarding documents, and more. Utilizing deep learning Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) for image-based classification and advanced text analysis, FlexiCapture

Laserfiche: Laserfiche revolutionizes operations through automation.

It can achieve 30% faster application processing with streamlined automation, reduce resolution time by 40% through automated case tracking, and cut onboarding time by 50% with paperless, automated document handling.

Parascript: Parascript leads in computer vision, excelling in image and text classification through state-of-the-art AI. Their unique topological character recognition, powered by neural networks, achieves remarkable precision.

Parascript's AI-driven solutions achieve exceptional image and text classification, with accuracy rates surpassing 95%.

Docsumo: Docsumo is a powerful AI-driven platform that automates data capture, extraction, and processing for a wide range of document types. By utilizing a blend of intelligent Optical Character Recognition (OCR), AI, and Machine Learning,

Docsumo's intelligent OCR extracts text and data from documents with precision, minimizing errors during conversion. Its API models are trained to recognize diverse document layouts, leading to data extraction accuracy of up to 98%.

Docsumo reduces manual intervention, saving up to 70% of processing time and cutting manual errors by up to 90%.
> If you are bottling water, you are effectively removing it from the local “water system” with no chance of it ever replenishing the source.

Sounds like the perfect solution to sea level rise caused by melting glaciers. Just bottle it all up.

I can see it now "Every bottle of water sold fights you dealing with climate change!"

/s
Agreed that it is different to mobile or cloud that it is not a distribution mechanism
OSM updates instantly; every edit is an immediate operation on its database. Tile refresh on the official website (which is little more than a tech demo) may take a little while, though it could be you just need to refresh your browser cache. The OSMAnd app updates map data once a month, unless you enable OSMAnd Live where map updates come hourly.
> It solves _so many_ problems of other comparable tech stacks right out of the box

Could you expand top 5(or more) major pain points that it solves?
Exactly.
Sorry, only skimmed, but this was in Korea correct?

My recollection is that Koreans have a pretty healthy diet of meat and vegetables.
It might be that they have higher HDL? So total is high, but they generally have a better ratio.
I don't think they're thinking beyond the end of the day. Look at today's news: the Tories are cancelling policies that don't even exist! This is why it's completely performative. They try to get the headlines without having to actually put in any work.
They always were.

A NFT is just a URL embedded into someone's block chain that points to a pic on the web.

That is not something I'm inter sted in paying for.

Among other things, I can post a pic myself, and there is no ongoing payment to keep the images hosted so they will disappear.
John Grisham and George RR Martin Among Authors Suing OpenAI
Now get yourself some half-decent psyops and contaminate the first group with supporting voices that emphasize weaker evidence, use poor logic, name-drop socially questionable sources, and go out of their way to sound ridiculous.
Maybe I'm wrong but who can stop you or me from deploying VPN and providing secure comms channel to our families? surely, any user who encrypts their comms is suspicious to govt, but there needs to be something more than suspicion for govt to step in and tell me I can't encrypt my traffic?
I found this worked on my newer PC but did not work on my older z77 chipset based one, even though it supports support UEFI.
Hard to get these jobs.
Ask HN: First Customers and Distribution in 2023?
Building product has never been easier. But what about actually finding people who want your product? I understand the methods of customer discovery, but what about distribution beyond the first few - what worked for you?
I wonder how they can manage all this tech for that price. 4K displays, flat design, eye tracking, excellent passthrough for 750$?

It's too pricey for me to preorder, yet it seems a lot price for all that expensive tech. I wonder how they'll manage that.
Not much info in the linked page. Here’s the project repo: https://github.com/elide-dev/elide

In summary: a Kotlin server that lets you write apps in multiple languages using GraalVM, integrates Node.js and esbuild for building frontend apps, and provides server side rendering for JS frameworks (presumably through GraalVM? Not clear from the docs).
It is absolutely their fault and not that of the public at large.

Companies are not sentient “profit-maximizing machines, they’re a collection of people. And it’s people making the decisions.
Chinese researchers create mutant worms that make spider silk
Most people would agree, but some people are early adopters and have different risk profiles. I'm typing this from a virtual desktop experience using a quest 2 looking at 2 giant VR 2k displays, 1ms latency connected to my laptop through a usb-c cable (if you have good wifi the latency is good enough for wireless, but my airbnb wifi is meh, and the wired doesn't bother me).

I worked like this for more than 12 hours yesterday, too.

I strongly considered their product and found it very tempting. Not a perfect fit for me, so I didn't go for it in the end, but you have to realize the world is not full of a bunch of clones of you.
> They do note however that having Ofcom be the regulator and monitor isn't right

When the UK Government adds yet another enforcement responsibility to OFCOM's list of duties, you know that's a task they don't really want done. OFCOM has always been seriously underfunded. Most of OFCOM's "activity" consists of sending out letters to offenders, drawing their attention to the relevant legislation, and advising them of the steps they should take to come into compliance. Actual fines are as rare as unicorn shit.
In my experience, the DB layer is always the hardest to scale. At a certain point, vertically scaling system resources starts producing ever diminishing returns. At that point, the natural progression is to move to a clustered setup with multiple DB nodes, etc, but that introduces a whole new universe of complexity and failure points.

My takeaway is that proper data modeling at the initial stages of designing a software architecture is absolutely essential to long-term scalability. You really need to consider the type of data you are storing, its shape, and the access patterns involved with reading/writing it. Of course, since it is basically impossible to get this correct the first time, it is even more important to have a good abstraction layer between your business logic and your database to make it possible to change your data store in the future.
It's the same argument if you consider the government also to be bad hands - but point taken.
Not charging would prevent treatments like the one in this article which would presumably be expensive. I think better that a doctor has to sign off a bit of paper saying they feel the treatment is reasonable. They'd be reluctant to do that for snake oil.
If you paid for an NFT, check right before the statute of limitations runs out in a civil suit for fraud and see if it is still there / if the image is still online at that URL. If it is not, sue for fraud. Make sure your attorney documents that they did not even keep up the web hosting.

This could be a business model for attorneys.
Right now that is what it is because apps aren't ready for full 3D environments. Once this takes off it could open the door for that.
Most scaling issues are due to the software, what’s newsworthy about this? Gitea, Gogs, GitLab, name a scm, have all had their fair share of growing pains. If you run a SaaS, scaling issues are par for the course. They are also a good thing. Failing endeavors don’t have scaling issues.

You can likely squeeze some extra performance out of your database by:

slimming down large tables with old data. Move it to an archive table to reduce the index sizes

looking for missing indexes on hot tables, or inefficient ones. Combining multiple indexes into one can help too

Running vacuum full

checking and possibly increasing work_mem, and shared buffers. Enable pg_stat log temp files and look at how often you’re writing to disk due to worker memory exhaustion on complex queries and joins. You can set the logger to log above a certain size and adjust work mem to cover most hot queries. Don’t try to get them all, that’s a losing game and the gains are not worth it for seldom used queries. Just let them hit disk.

Take a look at your max connections and see if you’re at the limit, and increase or look into a connection pooler if so

Think about splitting reads and writes. This can be done in the code, or, using a pooler (pg bouncer I think or pg pooler). Send your writes to a primary and reads to n number of replicas following the primary. Throw replicas at it load balance reads until you optimize the queries.

First thing I would do though, throw beefier hardware at the db. If using managed service like aurora/rds, work mem, shared buffers, and max conns are proportional to instance size. More memory on a larger instance could get you stable again. I guarantee you, you’ve not reached as far as you can go on a single db server, you just have to pony up the dough

> Just adding: The performance problem is also worsened by the fact that we are hit with spam waves for several weeks now. Bots create thousands of issues on Codeberg continuously, and although we got more efficient with cleanign it up, it heavily stresses the database.

Sounds like you need to start blocking ip ranges instead of optimizing spam cleanup. If you can, put a WAF infront of the app servers. Throw captchas on forms that are spammed for suspicious ips. Implement rate limiting for issue creation and if it’s already there, make it more aggressive. People don’t make multiple issues on a repo in an entire day usually
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> At least the overarching-plan theory has a boogie man to attack.

Oh but there is such an overarching plan: some people have power, and they want to keep it. It’s not even a secret, see how increasingly plutocratic governance is becoming across the whole West. Problem is, the known methods to thwart that plan (that is, taking power from those who currently have it), tend to be unpredictable and deadly.
I understand that the diameter tells whether the LDL is oxidized, which would be bad.
This would be a good use case for government grants. The system to administer them is already there. It's beurocratic but it is free money that could support developers long term. It could probably be argued the DOE should offer funding due to the national security etc implications of open source maintenance.
That's what we need-- some random third party inbetween you and your entire infrastructure. What could go wrong? :)
The letter Rumble posted isn't asking them to suspend him from their platform, as far as I can see.
all your doubts can be cleared up in one day, lets say one week, of you working there and talking with people...wheres the risk? you lost one week of your time?
> Child safety is what is pushed in the press

For example, in yesterday's Guardian [1]. Meta introducing encryption "will let child abusers ‘hide in the dark’".

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/20/meta-encr...
Including me!
Why is there no conversation on the topic at hand and instead conversation on why use MongoDB.

This authors post has nothing to do with pro/cons of mongodb, and is entirely around a new query engine and computer science. And instead we've devolved into a discussion on the pros and cons of PostgreSQL vs MongoDB.
"Programming is hard" ... let's go shopping instead?
Carry a "burner" phone and give that to the criminal. Ideally just carry it, or at least keep the real one somewhere more secure and less obvious and produce the burner. Requires the discipline of using the real one when you're out because someone could see you have it.
Funny enough, no matter how big these things get, they never seem to make me a lot more productive.

If my CI build time at least would go down.

Software is so slow compared to hardware. It's embarrassing that we haven't moved not even a hundredth of what hardware has the last 30 years.

Why get this?
You could choose to stay on Windows 7, that is NT 6.1, and Microsoft will still backport updates from newer kernels such as NT 6.2 and NT 10.0 for the support life of NT 6.1.
The british are known for being this kind of people. They must be isolated and boycotted.
BWXT and Crowley Developing Nuclear Power Generation Ships
>> but they also make your (now former) audience not believe you have done original work

I've experienced this.-
PS. One of the (most) worrisome aspects of AI might just be this: The general "depreciation" of writing, as with the "depreciation" of "truth" in this "post-truth" age, when absolutely everything can be assumed to have non-human origin.-
I think a great deal of opportunity is indeed being missed: AI Porn.

History shows that you can always sell a lot if you rely on the 7 sins of men, in this case lust. Porn has always been a sort of a pioneer in the tech space anyways but none of the VCs have the agreements in place to invest in such a space.

Though I know AI Porn is going to print money. Especially when video generation becomes remotely usable.
Isn't there a telemetry manifesto? I understand that developers want to peek into what their users are doing. That is the fruit of their labor after all. However telemetry became increasingly easy lately, and it is impossible (in theory and in practice) to do it right.

Collecting data of your users is

- stupid
- illegal
- harming your users
- makes your software a spyware

so in summary, don't do that. Instead, do the exact opposite, and excessively delete any data that you may store. Also make sure that your users are exposed against 3rd party (isp, cnds and such) to the minimum when they check and get new updates. (Randomized update checks over TOR, for example.) They trust you, and allow your program to handle their network, so use it wisely.

Also there are sane methods to know what your users are doing, for example you can buy usage blogposts from them, which you can showcase, and link in the manuals and support.
"DAMN! I didn't trip over myself fast enough to make sure this personality was immediately demonetised on every internet social media platform after they were accused of a crime on a TV channel!"

said nobody, ever.
You can get rid of Step 2 if you're going to be creating a new S3 object for each batch. AWS has an inbuilt feature to trigger SQS notifications for S3 operations: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/enable...
Scriban lightweight scripting language and engine for .NET
I'm very curious, what's the LFE experience like?

Are you in the REPL all day? Any major interop issues?
I would personally like it for the money, and the name recognition which can provide other opportunities to make more money in the future.
the iphone 1 sold 6.1 million units.

over 20 million quest 2s have been sold (ignoring all the other headsets...)