skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like flutter. My biggest fear is that one morning I will wake up reading that google has killed it. The community is so slim that it will not sustain on its own.
> Honestly, category theory is more useful for programming language designers than for programmers in general.

Probably true. However... I wouldn't take that comment too far. IMO if more programmers took interest in the subject, they might begin to see complexity/simplicity they didn't recognize before, and make different language choices, or take a different approach to compositionality.
Have you ever had a decision maker who struggles to articulate what business decisions they want to improve? How do you handle that?

I’ve heard pretty high-level managers respond to that question with things like “we were hoping your data would tell us” in response and I’m not sure what to make of it.
About a year ago my (new-ish founder) boss came to me and asked me to build him a custom dashboard. "I have all the data in a spreadsheet but I want it in a dashboard" he said. I was a specialized systems dev, only occasionally doing a bit of webdev if necessary and really didn't have time for those kind of errands.

I showed him this tutorial I had recently seen. Just a few minutes and the thumbnail, about how to build a "dashboard" in excel.
https://youtu.be/z26zbiGJnd4?si=HWn8qTbozD8vmXiF

"Oh wow, I didn't know excel could look so beautiful!".
He asked for the link, never did anything with it of course but was totally satisfied. I am pretty sure he just wanted a shiny toy and also felt inadequate about "just using excel" to do his important founder work. Showing him that excel can look beautiful and is a powerful tool was enough. No more feeling inadequate, no need for an actual (or even excel) dashboard.
I think the issue isn’t about mice demand, it’s more that mice have notoriously awful insurance coverage.
> 200 million/sec

OK, but you aren’t just pushing raw ASCII across the wire, you’re getting those results out of a database.

For a weekend clone, someone will probably just use an RDBMS (a very reasonable choice). I’ll be generous and say they can retrieve a given tweet in sub-msec time, say 10 usec. Suddenly, you can only send 100,000 tweets/sec, ignoring all other overhead (which of course you can’t).

I’m sure there is unoptimized code and some unnecessary bloat, but fundamentally there are limits on data retrieval that are very, very hard to get close to.
No I don't think you do. I'm interested

> Surely it's whoever puts up random historical facts, who should justify them with sources.

Yes quite. I posted an article, it seems to stand on its own. You claimed some other fact, but didn't provide a source. Perhaps your advice is wiser than you know! haha

> Good luck getting cancer-treatment tips by Steve Jobs.

Well lucky I never need them, but oh your edit is getting nastier isn't it? I get that you're not happy, but maybe you could explain your why, or provide some more sources?
"Business users often ask for things without an ounce of rationale."

Deserves extra upvotes just for this statement.

This has always been painful to me working in the data analysis and reporting space. When I get many requests for dashboards or reports that lack an answer to the question of "how will this be used?", I seem to find the requesting groups are cost-centers in the larger organization and are somewhat obsessed with processes and procedures.

This is rarely a good group to build a career with . . .
There should be a common English phrase for the kind of Judgement anullment (and mercy anullment) that is commonly seen online when it comes to objections against tech invasions.

A red herring is often used to mean an idea that leads one astray.

A red sparrow (or whatever animal) should often be used to mean a response that anulls one's idea.

The kind of whatabout-ism and but-it-already-is-everywhere responses are the old slippery slope concept, practiced in real time. They do nothing to discuss the facts at hand and are a void of useful conversation.

note: maybe an aussie bird, cause culturally aussies love peace, and will trick people to get it.. like Barbossa in pirates of the carribean..

the Crimson Rosella has a 'cussik-cussik' sound and a series of harsh metallic screeches. like a robot bird...

https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/crimson-rosell...

Red rosella - to make robotic screeches in an attempt to anull disliked ideas...

(or something)
> That's true. But it's not excluding display stuff.

How many product landing pages talk about what you cannot do with the product or what it doesn't include? That'd be a very strange landing page for a product...
> Would an LLM gain a "good command of language" if it was just fed all the taling a human hears and the words it reads in its first 18 years of life?

Depends on what its starting weights are ;)
For this thread I produced this:

https://www.solipsys.co.uk/Chartodon/111142286901955845.svg
WebUSB is actually a W3C open standard. For instance, the BBC:MicroBIT educational dev environment runs in a web browser and allows python code to be pushed to the microcontroller straight from the browser.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebUSB_API

Isn't that neat?! Well, it could be, as long as you browser didn't allow this to be used, probed or even enumerated without explicit consent.
My m2 mini can't seem to use DNS over an Ethernet connection since I updated yesterday. Luckily wireless still works so I can download an update to fix it someday.
Care to elaborate in which particular ways you find a Model 3 (or any Tesla car) "mediocre at best"? I'd like to know about your experience. Here's mine:

I have driven other EVs. The torque is not universal at all, especially considering I have AWD.

The very low center of gravity, combined with the torque and AWD, makes for very fun rides in mountain roads.

The autopilot is really convenient in highway driving, and is much better than the driver assist features I've experienced in other cars (Honda, Fiat, MG).

Interacting with the screen is natural, snappy and very intuitive, as opposed to most other cars I've interacted with. Being able to use the screen as an entertainment center (e.g. play youtube cat videos while charging) is fun.

Regular software updates are seamless. Hopping in the car and getting a list of new features is fun. Maybe the most fun was the time a software update shaved half a second from my 0–100 time.

The steering wheel is simpler to use (just two knobs instead of tens of buttons spread around) and the screen is much cleaner to read than other cars that try to ram too much information in too-small displays.

The audio quality is much, much better than any other car I've been in.
I think he means Veloren.
China tends to do well there.
When my kids noticed our cat sitting in the box looking around, I called it his "tank." So they promptly drew tank treads on the side and colored it green and built a paper turret. Now he looks rather regal sitting in his tank.

So yes, my kids gave heavy weapons to the animal definitely plotting an overthrow of the humans. I'm sorry.
Therefore the garbage can was not put by the curb last night, because they have
no knowledge: and the family is watching tv and no one ones to get up and
check, and the kitchen rubbish has no place to go.
This is blatently used for device fingerprinting. Maybe this wasnt a big thing back in 2019 which is why he doesnt mention it?
Not sure what your point is about non-reported, but that's still previously leaked data. It probably means stuff found in the dark webs.
I helped build the analytics group at a PE fund, and this really fits with my experience.

Good decision support is where most of the value is, and it’s about building things that draw conclusions, not just throwing the data over the fence with 50 filters and expecting the end consumer to do the actual analysis.

I now work on an open source, code-based BI tool called Evidence, which incorporates a lot of these ideas, and might be of interest to people in this thread.

https://github.com/evidence-dev/evidence

Previous discussions on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28304781 - 91 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35645464 - 97 comments
> I can choose to run open source software on any vendor or platform I want, not just ones who have a licensing deal with the software authors. This is a very practical matter.

The MongoDB license prevents cloud providers from reselling a Mongo IAAS. It does not restrict you from hosting your own database on any infrastructure you want (cloud or otherwise). Is there a license that does prevent you installing on specific clouds?
That's interesting, I'm a millenial aged leftist so I don't have the political baggage from the 70s-90s that older people have on Chomsky.

And so I find in a globalized, hegemonic world, Chomsky's first reason is just as important if not more so than the second: Seeing what the larger component is is crucial, as a prerequisite to doing something about it.
It might. If hallucinations are truly random and not correlated to anything shared between models. For example, something inherent to the data they are trained on. Given how locked down I think potential training data is going to become, and the amount of data required, I think that sharing data between models is almost guaranteed.

Also that sounds like an awful lot of computing power for everyday UIs. It also doesn’t solve the non determinism problem.
Search for “cat tank” and you can mobilize like it’s 1939.
Some thoughts:

- a clean data pipeline is critical. Is your data pipeline manageable? Is it observable? Is it monitorable? Can you make changes quickly at different stages? How do overrides work? Does your data pipeline have entitlements? (Can private data points be provisioned to specific users?)

- Should you implement your own dashboard? Or are you reinventing the wheel? Can you reuse/recycle existing BI tools? What are the licenses involved? Power BI is proprietary to microsoft and will have per user economics. Grafana is AGPL, be very careful with anything AGPL in your tech stack because it may force you to open source your code. Apache Superset is pretty cool. I've seen big startup valuations with off-the-shelf BI tools. If its an MVP, definitely consider using this as opposed to rolling your own.

- Making assumptions for your users is bad because users will always ask for more. So building a flexible framework where users can add/remove visuals and build their own analytics may be necessary. The flipside is this adds complexity and can confuse the user. Its a delicate balance to cater to all types of users: the basic user vs the power user.

- How do users send you feedback? Bad data point? How do you find out? Can the user address it themselves?
IMO, knot theory is not as closely related to shoe-tying as programming is to algebra...
I get it - I'm against revisionism in theory but practically there's a strong argument that all history is revisionist. I am conflicted, but I'm going to argue the "ok with revisionism" side of things - "Ok" being the weakest pro word, like I'd rate this 6 out of 9 if 1 was "totally against", 5 was "totally neutral" and 9 was "totally for".

Part of us building the future is interpreting the past in a way that applies to our current world. For example - our modern western world was built on reinterpreting Romans and Greeks and idealizing their use of democracy. We had to throw away a lot of awful things they did to focus on just the good stuff. And even that period of history is being debated about how to interpret it in an attempt to understand who we are now - was it slave owning colonists who only prospered due to others labour or was it enlightened open thinkers who brought prosperity to the world, or was it a mix of those things or something else entirely. Revising the Luddite movement to include the earlier peaceful methods with the goal of saying healthy skepticism about technology is IMO a good thing - the Luddite movement specifically is tightly linked to the earlier movement so it's not a stretch to revise things it to include that whole chain of events.

But I'd be lying if I wasn't annoyed when he said things that weren't technically correct during the 99% invisible interview. But it's also revisionist to use Luddite as bludgeon, so if people are going to remove any subtlety from a word, I'd rather it was revised in an helpful way.
The UP is pretty great but I wouldn’t characterize it in the same way the OP did with the ski towns. More of a hunting and fishing vibe. A bit insular as well which is fine if that’s what you’re aiming for.
Sorry, didn't see this comment. It is here: https://github.com/thiagokokada/nix-configs

In the `actions` directory is all the Nix files. There is some glue code in `lib/flakes` to generate the YAML files from Nix.
I seem to recall a similar device in. “Fall; or, Dodge in Hell”. I think it was a collar-type device you wore but maybe it was closer to a helmet.
But can you rigorously define "event" without time?
And the enshittification continues.
Chimeracoder already put it in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37679129
Doesn't seem like a very good theory given that Twitter's political bias was one of the driving motivators for him to acquire it in the first place. He's done some unpredictable stuff but this is entirely expected and consistent with everything he's said.

As for the EU killing Twitter, lol. Twitter has very little staff footprint in the EU now Musk has done so many layoffs and recentralized things in SF. He can just tell the EU to take a hike, publicize all their ham-fisted attempts to censor their ideological opponents and ignore any fines that are levied. The EU can then try to escalate with payment blocks or outright internet censorship, which in turn will just lead to people in the EU getting a worse Twitter experience. The EU doesn't care what Europeans think of course, that's part of its appeal to a certain type, but "we are breaking your Twitter access because we want to censor the internet" isn't going to go down well.
I spent 5 years leading a data team which produced reports for hundreds of users.

In our team’s experience, the most important factor in getting engagement from users is including the right context directly within the report - definitions, caveats, annotations, narrative. This pre-empts a lot of questions about the report, but more importantly builds trust in what the data is showing (vs having a user self-serve, nervous that they’re making a decision with bad data - ultimately they’ll reach out to an analyst to get them to do the analysis for them).

The second most important factor was loading speed - we noticed that after around 8 seconds of waiting, business users would disengage with a report, or lose trust in the system presenting the information (“I think it’s broken”). Most often this resulted in people not logging in to look at reports - they were busy with tons of other things, so once they expected reports to take a while to load, they stopped coming back.

The third big finding was giving people data where they already are, in a format they understand. A complicated filter interface would drive our users nuts and turned into many hours of training and technical support. For this reason, we always wanted a simple UI with great mobile support for reports - our users were on the go and could already do most other things on their phones.

We couldn’t achieve these things in BI tools, so for important decisions, we had to move the work to tools that could offer text support, instant report loading, and a familiar and accessible format: PowerPoint, PDF, and email. Of course this is a difficult workflow to automate and maintain, but for us it was crucial to get engagement on the work we were producing, and it worked.

This experience inspired my colleague and I to start an open source BI tool which could achieve these things with a more maintainable, version controlled workflow. The tool is called Evidence (https://evidence.dev) if anyone is interested.
I bought an N100 for 160 USD including an SSD off of
AliExpress. Thats 2x the cost of an rpi4. I benchmarked it and cpu perf is roughly 2x the rpi however i/o was easily 10x without any sdcard or USB shenanigans. Bonus because it's an Intel chip I can use the regular x86-64 os builds instead of some goofy fork. That's very compelling if you don't need a gpio or any of the raspberry pi accessories for your use case.
GDPR and upcoming DMA are quite explicit about these things.

HN really loves to hate those regulations and laws.
Maybe it's time to opt out of Reddit.
DDoS Protection – free robust defense for your apps
I'm holding out for the first car accident narrated by the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board.
Everything that is intensely loved will eventually be intensely hated. My theory is that it attracts a type of people with borderline personality, who intensely love something then after a period of disenchantment in which they fight, reject and ignore evidence that their passion is not flawless, they abruptly switch to hating it. They’re also typically the loudest voices in a community as they always feel intensely about everything, whether positive or negative.
> dissolved pilots during ww2

I had to search that one and found this nice article:

https://ig.space/commslink/me-163-komet-the-rocket-powered-g...
So with this PCIe 2.0 x1 port, would I be able to connect a GPU to this Raspberry? Would be very useful, even if the bandwidth would be horrible.
How can you tell these examples aren’t simply referring to events that have passed? It doesn’t seem clear to me that these are referring to future events as if they had already passed.
Two questions:

Even after "reviewing millions of videos on the biggest international porn sites" how can they get the 90% figure?

Only looking at the biggest sites is going to get you a biased sample. Not all porn is on big sites. That's not to say there isn't a problem.

And did they talk to sex workers/performers?

Governments and anti-sex orgs have a habit of talking about and legislating sex work without actually listening to those who do it. In March, the UK’s All-Party Parliamentary Group on Commercial Sexual Exploitation published a report[1] labeling all porn exploitation without speaking to any sex workers.

[1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3pa9y/porn-sex-workers-expl...
My go to is the 'midshipmans hitch' with an extra half-turn at the end, dead easy and secure whenever I've used it https://www.animatedknots.com/midshipmans-hitch-knot
Case for optimism about being able to communicate with whales and dolphins
Rtc.on – Multimedia Development Conference
We're excited to announce RTC.On - the first edition of our multimedia & streaming development conference!

We'll have the speakers willing to share their knowledge in areas like:
- audio & video coding algorithms
- distributing & scaling media servers
- creating & designing APIs and SDKs
- building cloud infrastructure
- video composition/mixing
- the quality of experience, adaptive streaming, preventing packet-loss
- real-time and interactive communication
...and anything related to WebRTC!
All you need is legal access to limestone. (other stone works as well, but limestone as basically fossils so it is easy to find fossils in it, and limestone is common) Where I live there are places where limestone always has been right on the surface not covered by topsoil, and other places where you need to dig down many meters (potentially dangerous). I know of public parks where you are allowed to dig up any fossils you can find.
Awesome, thanks - will check them out
I know most people here don't care for it, but for those who like it, I produced this chart of the conversation:

https://www.solipsys.co.uk/Chartodon/111142286901955845.svg

Added in edit: Click on a node to open the original post.
Hence why less is more. You can have strong bonds with select few friends, but this can be lonelier if social time is limited, as it can be in adulthood.
“They will still be able to bring their own alcohol to drink at the bars … The current alcohol ration allows Antarctic workers to buy up to the equivalent of 18 beers each week, or three bottles of wine, or a 750 milliliter (25 ounce) bottle of spirits.“ It seems like they’ll still be able to get plenty of alcohol
If there is a universal moral code, we can never know it for certain. Moral knowledge, as well as all other kinds of knowledge, is always open to criticism and being proven wrong. But nevertheless we can make moral progress, just as we make scientific progress. We can find good explanations for why killing and enslaving people is wrong, even whilst we can point to countless examples where killing and enslaving people has been glorified. This is David Deutsch's principle of optimism: "All evils are due to a lack of knowledge".

Commitment to solving problems entails a commitment to knowledge growth, which in turn involves a commitment to certain values, such as valuing truth and being open to error-correction by debating and criticizing ideas. Killing and enslaving people is the opposite of this.
My grandmother used to literally build a fire in the back yard and throw the skillets in whenever she thought they needed it (maybe every few years).

This was long, long before Alton Brown was a thing.
> we've described over 20,000 different trilobite species. That's over three times the number of mammalian species we're aware of.

Is this actually true? Only 6,666 identified mammalian species, over past and present, seems way too low.

Edit: Well google answered my question, it seems like this number is correct. I guess I just always assumed that mammals were as diverse as other orders, but given their place in the food chain it makes sense that there would be a lot less.
The plane that could dissolve pilots
Why Sun's logo is on the back of Facebook's sign
Cloudflare Hyperdrive
Also gevulot in Quantum Thief - mentioned in nested comment above
"There are no valid absolute moral positions" is itself an absolute moral position. We don't need to appeal to language or darwinian survival characteristics or whatever to refute it, a reasonably educated 12 year old can understand why it can't be true.

Say what one will about "do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law", at least it is internally consistent.
Chomsky is yet another person, who gained public "fame" for expertise in his initial field. And who then went on to believe that his newly gained recognition, and expertise in one field, qualifies him to reach out into other fields with public comments. And since the internet and society works the way they do, people assign him authority in those fields as well since he's famous. Hence, he became more popular science than hard science. At which point it is almost fair to just ignore him.
I think that's what's the most interesting is when it can tell you what the code does. or have it go line by line and add comments. great for learning something new.
Does somebody else have manually written or at least edited Hasura permissions in YAML? Well that is for sure is a lot of YAML.
Yeah, true. Why not just use elisp, the one and only configuration language?

It's amazing what you can do with it, given the appropriate platform. Some people even managed to implement a decent editor using elisp.
> Two centuries ago Leibnitz invented a calculating machine which embodied most of the essential features of recent keyboard devices

Mmm, not exactly. The first calculating machine was invented by Blaise Pascal in 1642, three centuries before that article was written. Leibnitz "expanded on Pascal's ideas" [0] and produced his version of the machine in 1673.

[0] http://www.gwleibniz.com/calculator/calculator.html
due to the increase in fingerprinting protection showing up in more and more browsers, advertisers are getting rather desperate to perform the ritual of establishing unique clicks.

youll also see "enable DRM playback" on many news sites or aggregators. both of these actions are user-hostile attempts from not-google to target ads to you.
There will never be fully automated prompt engineering