skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a market researcher and a programmer. I often spend a lot of time browsing industry reports so that I can build business cases for my clients.

Inspired by GPT-Reseacher and Quivr, I've created a web ui for a research agent that will

- search the internet using duckduckgo
- scrap top 6 websites for text contents
- summarize content to determine relevance
- provide a final report

With supabase, we can now store our report findings and retrieve and share our research easily.

All credits to the original repos. Let me know what you think. Many thanks.
Thanks for sharing insights about Transposit. It's great to see other players in the space acknowledge the challenges and opportunities that come with integrating AI into incident management. The "human-in-the-loop" approach is indeed a valuable mechanism to strike a balance.

With UnStruct AI, our goal has always been to seamlessly augment human capabilities without overwhelming them. Your point about AI potentially being "noisy" resonates with our observations. It's precisely why we're seeking feedback and engaging in conversations like this - to understand where the true value lies and to refine our product accordingly.

I think there is so much more that can be done in this space. The potential - if done right and we solve the right use cases and pain points - is huge.

Would love to hear more thoughts from the community on this. When do you think AI-driven interventions are most appropriate in the incident management lifecycle?
Ever since I saw that stupid TikTok video about being so “smart” for being a crypto billionaire at age 20 something, I have wished, perhaps even willed into existence, the day Sam Bankman-Fried would go to prison.
How many people did you see pirate and not buy? Not sure what the point of this anecdote is this it’s not like pirates resort their activity rigorously in a way that can be analyzed.
After seeing the damage from a few EV fires, I don't think we're anywhere near proper insurance underwriting of EVs...both for the vehicles themselves and also surrounding property damage.

Tbh, I wouldn't want an EV parked anywhere within 500 feet of my house. And seeing $41k dent repair bills for the Rivian or a non-covered Tesla battery replacement for driving in heavy rain...Well, I really don't think the masses are ready.

The fact that regulators are pushing so hard for EVs is steering us into a crisis in the near future, I think.
Personally I don't trust vinyl flooring not to outgas toxic chemicals or produce toxic dust as it wears down.
Nina Paley knows exactly what she's talking about, and she's trying to explain it to you here.

Much of the current internet is based on Free/Libre/Open Source Software at least somewhere in the stack. Of the world's top 10 most visited websites, at least one is 100% Creative Commons. Several others have large chunks of FLOSS in the software stack.

Feel free to disbelieve, but be aware that you've already been out-competed by people who DO participate in and/or make use of our digital commons (fairly or unfairly).
I don't know about you, but if I go out with someone for dinner and that someone is constantly on Twitter with their phone, I consider that terribly rude.
Some good information on lime can be found here:

https://www.scotlime.org/
I'm aware that it's a promotional video for a product, but in my own experience as a former masonry worker, it is still faster. And a layperson who is bad at gapping mortar correctly can get it right if the first blocks are level
Diagrams should generate themselves. Is there a good markup that does this well? I hate manually manipulating boxes and arrows, can't be assed.
Good. I'm not sure why we'd want statues of our national enemies hanging around. Imagine how weird it would be if a group called "United Daughters of the Taliban" started erecting statues of Osama Bin Laden all over the place.
I think the excitement about SQLite comes from LAMP stack fatigue
Every Wordpress site could have been built on sqlite just fine, with better security too. But beyond that, you probably want a real RDMS with auth and alter table.
reasons are plentiful and subject to arguments, nothing fundamental here
Oh, I was wrong. My bad.
Ouch, I'm feeling attacked!
The most surprising thing about this is how bumbling and incoherent SBF appears. Crooked or not I would expect anybody to be able to convince corporate level execs to invest millions would at least be able to sound like they know what they are talking about.
What's the long game on banking on a hung jury? That would typically lead to a retrial, especially given the publicity and amount of money involved here – the prosecution aren't going to let him off from one hung jury.

I feel like he'd need a game plan, either waiting for something additional his team can bring in, or seriously thinking that the practice run would result in a higher likelihood of a not guilty verdict. I don't think either of these is likely, and think the prosecution would likely do better out of the practice run.
Why disable swap? And...only 8gb of ram (am I misreading that?) with zfs? It's been years since I've needed a bunch of storage but I remember zfs being much happier with gobs of ram.
There was a time when public speaking was ranked as peoples' number one fear. Many saw someone, particularly a young someone, willing to speak publicly as a mark of greatness.

Social media has dragged us out of that infancy. But the bias, particularly among the pre-digital generations, remains. Bankman-Fried's word salads played that bias, which generated social proof. That, in turn, played into others' bias towards judging character by social proof. That generated wealth, which played into still others' quick filters.
I agree. The hard part of autonomous driving is when people and things behave unpredictably and there aren't many context clues.

However, as someone who regularly visits and drives in a 3rd world country, there's a "vibe" to it if you will, and once you learn the vibe it becomes natural. (It seems to be that people respect the laws of physics over the laws of the land, if you will) If you train the cars on a 3rd world country's driving patterns, further refinement will be necessary to fit in better in a more developed country. But early on it will deal with stuff like driving on a road with no lines at the edges or between lanes, one lane bridges, sharing the road with pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists, and animals, etc.
I occasionally post things that I know will be downvoted to remind myself the votes don't matter.

Ironically, when I do want to say something mildly controversial but I want it to be taken seriously, I just add "I know this will be downvoted to hell but..." and then it is not downvoted. Pro tip.
You mention there probably several such guns aimed at ASML's head and I have no idea what set of carrot+sticks are involved but want to point out it might not just be sticks/guns.

It might additionally be an appeal to ASML or Dutch self-interest. China does not have a good reputation for respecting IP (and I do not think this is just propaganda.) ASML is not somehow exempt to that medium/long-term in one way or the other and has already had issues with that vis-a-vis China (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/15/critical-chip-firm-asml-says...)

Sometimes a corporate entity like ASML needs government(s) to take a stand so that there is a more level playing field so they don't lose out to local/smaller competitors who take a different approach.
Depending on the platform it can be other things too.

View time, remaining on platform, etc.
Do you have a non-ad hominem response to the point that was made?
> People can develop antibodies against things which are not foreign micro-organisms. TIL.

Well yeah- that's how many (most?) resistance to toxins works. When you are given pit viper antivenom, it's literally a bunch of sheep antibodies that attach to the venom molecules and neutralize them and/or make them easier to get rid of.

You do the same thing for novel toxins as you develop a tolerance to them. Alcohol and peroxide have specific enzymes that are produced to break them down, but the immune system is responsible for a ton of stuff.

I am not an expert but I do know it's heinously complex- there are tons of different pathways that are activated by a combination of foreign substances and/or different types of cellular damage (not to mention location in the body). Anaphylactic allergies are controlled by different types of antibodies in different cells that react to different types of damage, normal allergies are a whole other thing, blood antibodies are yet another (multiple types!) of thing...

Biologists are amazing. It seems like picking diamonds off the beach. The book documenting the (public) operation of a new CPU is 10k+ pages long, but a single mammalian cell (taking up <<.001% of the area) makes that CPU look like a joke.
This is really cool. I did a similar thing years ago with FreeBSD + 1TB WD Green drives on an HP Microserver. It had a AMD CPU similar to an Intel atom so power consumption was pretty low. Overall I was really happy with ZFS and it worked well. I ended up using jails to have it perform various tasks like using pf as a firewall.
By recent, you mean since the beginning of time?
You should wash your hands from that, too
Looking good, but seems to be under the HN-hug of death, so slow. Also doesn't work with uBlock-origin, been lazy and just switching that of for your site.
Lean is for verifying proofs, not writing them. It helps you find mistakes, but doesn’t help you understand or express ideas in a human readable way.
Profit comes from useful things. People wanting to buy your thing is a much better signal as to what's a good thing to work on than a bureaucrat's inkling.
I don't disagree, but something like Shakespeare's plays or the Odyssey/Iliad probably were refined/changed based on audience responses before they became the fixed works we have now. Dickens (after publication) softened the language towards Jews in the latter parts of Oliver Twist based on reactions he got from acquaintances.

It's hard to evaluate cultural production without the benefit of hindsight. In two hundred years someone will take the best YouTube video produced today (best by their future standards) and be amazed at how great people were in 2023.
DB Pilot: Query Postgres, files, S3 and more – all at once, from your laptop
Hey HN, creator of DB Pilot here.

I first announced DB Pilot on HN back in April: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35761979.

Since then a lot has improved: More databases are supported, most of the product can now be used for free, and most importantly:

The app now comes with an analytics workspace powered by an embedded ClickHouse instance, running locally on your machine. This allows you to query local files, files on S3, PostgreSQL, SQLite & more - and all of those at once.

Embedding ClickHouse was possible thanks to chDB (https://github.com/chdb-io/chdb). A recent discussion on HN about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37985005
> Django is an artifact from another time period of the web, and I'd argue it's in decline.

If it's able to survive other 3 or 5 years, I'd argue the pendulum will just swing back to the "django's way".

> If you want an admin wrapper around your database, you have better many modern alternatives (I use directus). If you want low code and easy platform, you have bubble.io. If you want an easy api for your database, you can use things like hasura. If you want python frameworks, try fastapi (its third party admin is great). If you want an orm, sqlalchemy gives you more bang for your buck.

And your requirements.txt or poetry.lock file grows and grows. The thing I really like about django is that I don't need any external packages to start. I have basically everything I need to start inside a single package and don't need to bother about how to integrate sqlalchemy with flask, how to add auth and authorization to my stack or how to check that all of my tens of dependencies are safe and regularly updated.

The only thing I really miss is something like LiveView. I know there's htmx and similar, but i hope they will be some "official way".
facts have no place in the "rocket man bad"-crowd
Can you share a link, please?
> By recent, you mean since the beginning of time?

No. Rambling idiots were historically judged.

The quick-talking stream-of-consciousness bullshitter relies on rapid technological change to suspend listeners' disbelief. Because ex ante, you can't know if you've got someone brilliant but nervous (or simply neurodivergent), or one of these.
Seems fine to me. Functional, responsive, clean and easy to understand. Nothing 'ugly' about it.
That was the parent comment's point. My point is that there are trade-offs. You make the network less vulnerable to that particular attack, and open up other vulnerabilities instead. Anonymous communication service design is full of such trade-offs.

There's a theory that intelligence agencies control many relays. I've haven't seen evidence of it. Tor does its best to be secure even when it can't trust the relays.
> but is lost on Instagram for some settings

Are they settings that Meta wants you to change?
Some of us like to program
Making Plastic Bags Durable for the Planet [video]
I dunno I can think of a couple of ways to make them economically nonviable...
I feel it would be a good choice to give users rather than force all users into it. Not all users stories are the same.

You’re right as well as this is one way it could be, and there could be other ways.

Tor might want to see that, but I’m not entirely sure how well it’s going when hosting exit relays can be an issue for the hoster.
They should create a new Smithsonian museum in D.C. and fill it with all these controversial monuments instead of melting them. Call it the Museum of American Bigotry or something like that. I'm being perfectly serious in that suggestion.

Scrubbing our misdeeds from history isn't as bad as valorizing them, but it is still a form of denial that prevents us from learning from our past and growing as a society.
As always, society will push a problem caused by its economic system away by making it illegal and create a new one in the black market.

Sourcing organs is an especially difficult problem since for the people needing one it is a literal matter of life and death. I wouldn't be surprised if people travel to countries where buying organ is legal/easier.
I haven't read the book, I have read reviews and been listening to his podcast.

It seems that he likes SBF on a personal level, which I think is reasonable, but then it seems that he falls short of making strong statements about the fraud. I think people have interpreted this combination as an implicit support of SBF, where it could in fact just be that, publishing before the trial, Lewis didn't want to "call it" the wrong way and limit the relevance of his book.
> But the people who are pushing these timelines are basically the same people who just finished up spending tens (hundreds?) of billions of dollars making the food delivery industry worse, more expensive, and probably less profitable overall.

I've stopped ordering delivered food all together. I just go pick it up now. Everything about it has gotten worse

- More expensive

- Delivery people don't work for the restaurant, so many of them just don't care at all. We had one deliver someone else's food to us, and tell us it's not their problem when we informed them of such.

- Tip must be up front, so not based on performance
I understand soap molecules having polar and nonpolar ends, so that it can help nonpolar things dissolve in water. What I've never understood is, why doesn't soap clean off pine sap?
The old "1-0=1-1" argument. You are unlikely to convince anybody here that this is true.
I live in a one car household and it's been perfectly fine, including our yearly roadtrip driving up and around places like Banff in Canada and down the coast to San Francisco. And that's not a Tesla either, it's just with a cheap Chevy Bolt I got for 25k.
A workaround (edit: in some of those cases): Setup a Tailscale exit node in the country where you're normally located - with a residential IP. E.g. in your apartment back home, or at a friend's.
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Do people lock luggage in Japan? Does their TSA/police have master keys?
I am sure 100% of thornewolf and 99% of people reading the same news as you know who Terence Tao is, but extrapolating from your own perspective is treacherous.

https://xkcd.com/1053/
OWASP's DependencyTrack[0] lets you keep track of your released versions' dependencies post-release.

[0] https://github.com/DependencyTrack/dependency-track
there is substantial, but not convincing, evidence that much current obesity is due to an infectious etiology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infectobesity

the cure you suggest fails on 95% of obese people, though like many pseudoscientific quack cures, it does appear to work at first, and actually does work in a few cases

the implied etiology doesn't hold up to the most casual critical thinking: resting and eating have been part of every human life since long before there were humans, but the obesity pandemic is only 50 years old. this is like attributing deaths from dengue to "bleeding" and recommending that people bleed less
The problem is these studios don't seem to get or understand that nobody likes the subscription model. Nobody likes to feel like they spend thousands of dollars a year to essentially own nothing.

When you bought a DVD in the past it was incredibly easy for you to take that DVD and as long as you have a DVD player you can rewatch that movie over and over again without having to pay another dime for the privilege to do so.
Now you have to contend with licenses expiring and a show you wanted to watch on Netflix (for example) is now no longer available because people at the C-level can't stop being greedy and pushing for more and more money.

Edit: Not to say the subscription model is completely wrong. It's actually a very compelling model, pay once each month for access to an entire catalogue of movies and TV shows is amazing. It's just really frustrating to watch streaming platforms hemorrhage content as the original media owners look towards higher licensing fees or even consider standing up their own streaming service, making yet another streaming service you have to pay for to access content.
I used to drive a taxi. Now I write code. I paid for my own training. I'd expect to find that self-help is the most usual way to transition into other jobs.
Yes! Like I mentioned in the other comment, multiple processes cannot access the same :memory: sqlite db, which makes it incompatible for our use cases.
that's absolutely counterintuitive. is it because all the weight of your car is shared equally between all points of contact, so more grip area = less force per grip area?
Death rates have already been trending downward for decades[0]

There are a whole host of technologies that exist and have been invented to improve safety, that fall short of full self driving. From vehicle design, to improved road designs, and changes is laws (drunk driving being a major example).

Self driving advocates treat it like the messiah that must save us, but there is plenty that can be done to continue to make improvements.

> Getting americans to use public transit, requires not only investment in public transit: it requires a cultural shift in how Americans view life.

I can see why you would have that opinion, but it is an opinion, not a factual statement.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_traffic_deaths_per_VMT...
FBI agents visit scientists building flying saucer
EA isn't a form of act utilitarianism. Though EA certainly has a consequentialist flavor, it isn't the case that all (or even most?) EAs endorse utilitarianism (utilitarians aren't the only ones who care about scale). For example, Holden Karnofsky is explicitly non-utilitarian and Will MacAskill advocates making decisions based on considering (fundamentally, not just for optics) non-utilitarian ethical systems, though he is more utilitarian than someone like Karnofsky.
Eh, maybe. The tech community seems predisposed to a certain kind of hero worship based on perceived intellect that I don't really see in the rest of society.
Why not include a third pedal type, then have all three at once? In a Citroen DS, the clutch pivots above, the accelerator pivots below, and the brake is a button that engages the hydraulic system.

Granted, the DS is perhaps the weirdest production car ever made in large numbers.

https://citroenvie.com/ds-brake-button-advantages/
WebSDR's are indeed awesome. Get your ham license and you can transmit too and not just listen!
And it’s annoyingly good at it, emphasis on annoyingly. Fortunately it has settings to turn it off in common scenarios
I don't remember who this was but there was some Congressional hearing or somesuch where one of the execs begrudgingly permitted that it was okay to get up and go to the bathroom during an ad and that wouldn't count as stealing. :)
But they were relatively expensive and scarce.

And no-one is getting fat by drinking litres of olive oil or eating tubs of butter.

It's a combination of more high-calorie convenience foods and a more sedentary lifestyle than even just 50 years ago.
Dependency-Track is an intelligent Component Analysis platform that allows organizations to identify and reduce risk in the software supply chain. Dependency-Track takes a unique and highly beneficial approach by leveraging the capabilities of Software Bill of Materials (SBOM). This approach provides capabilities that traditional Software Composition Analysis (SCA) solutions cannot achieve.

Dependency-Track monitors component usage across all versions of every application in its portfolio in order to proactively identify risk across an organization. The platform has an API-first design and is ideal for use in CI/CD environments.
Finding those roads, or parks is key.

Reducing the number of lights on a walk can help.

For winter time finding a walking treadmill (they are a few hundred) can be a great way to watch those YouTube playlists of things you mean to.
People underestimate the amount of work it takes to tweak aesthetics, much less come up with a coherent design language that is intuitive and straightforward for users to learn.

One of the eye openers for me personally was the realization that the Mastodon organization contracted a UX engineer firm. It shows.
Exactly I have seen, and been into, similar organizations with just as talented people, who just didn't go anywhere due to poor leadership.
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Our Next Brand Will Focus on Loneliness: Hostelworld CEO
What you mention as weaknesses would be considered strengths by other people though. I'm sure it's indeed possible to replace every single bit of Django functionality with a third-party package or service, but there's value in not having to do that.
Most of the alternatives you list wind up having to be cobbled together with other things to create a full application, I think Django still delivers very well on the promise of being an extensible unifying layer that keeps development focused on differentiated work rather than reinventing too many wheels.

Having used Django on and off for ten years or so I don’t perceive the ecosystem to be dying–the last large project I worked on used dozens of third party Django plugins and only one or two were unmaintained, and even those had some active forks happening.
I think how worthwhile that time investment is depends on the reach and longevity of the diagram.

Sometimes you're only sketching something out to think things through and you'll get rid of it after 20 minutes.

But if at other times, if you've got reference material that's being used to onboard people or explain your system to other teams, etc. that hour spent creating something more understandable probably pays dividends & worth the effort.
The part that's hard to understand is why we'd keep a job that kills people when it's no longer necessary.