skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Italians weren't "white" when they first came to the US, either.

Italians have been "white" since the dawn of the construction of "race" in which "white" was even one of the options.

(They've been othered as "ethnic" in a way which closely mirrors othering on race-qua-race, and we use "racism" to describe both racial and ethnic bigotry, but while similar and sharing some features, the two things were not the same in the US.)
When cab drivers are too poor to afford living in your town you gotta come up with some kind of plan B.
Interesting... I like the strategy of having each user be 1:1 with a DB. What would be done for data that needs to be aggregated across users though? If I'm subscribed to another user and they post, how does my DB get updated with that new post? Or is this meant just for durable data and not feed data (like profile data, which users are followed / not followed / etc.) and all the interactive stuff happens separately?

I like that "connection pooling" is just limiting the number of open handles in a LRU cache. It's also interesting because instead of having to manage concurrency at the connection level, it handles it at the tenancy level since each DB connection is single-threaded. You could build up per-DB rate limiting on top of this pretty easily to prevent abuse by a given user.

Is there a straightforward way to set up Litestream to handle any arbitrary number of DBs?
The digital markets act may make this illegal. Although if twitter wants to push dumb pricing then it may have to push the costs onto consumers
If the primary value-proposition for your startup is just customized prompting with OpenAI endpoints, then unfortunately it's highly likely it could be easily replicated using the newly announced concept of GPTs.
On average Americans have gotten dramatically richer over the past generation or two. The average American is doing far better financially than the average German or Swede.

The median is the relatively ugly picture.

The average American has invested a lot in housing and equities, both of which have soared over the past 20-30 years.

The average wealth per adult in the US is ~$550,000. That's just behind Luxembourg for #2 in the world (led by Switzerland at $685,000). That's a shocking average figure for a nation with 250+ million adults. It's closing in on double that of Sweden, and it's 2/3 higher than the UK or France. It's well over double that of Germany. It's also far higher than very affluent Norway. The US Gini figure is also lower than Sweden now (Sweden has become one of the most unbalanced affluent societies due to their horribly failed immigration integration over the past decade or so).

If you're American, you definitely want to be average (or above), not median.

How about the median wealth per adult? ~$107,000 for the US. That's above Austria, Germany, Sweden, Finland, Japan, Singapore, Spain, Italy. And it's below the Netherlands, France, Canada, Norway, UK, etc.

Germany's median wealth per adult is a mere $66,000. They should be asking some serious questions. Greece is at $53,000 and Portugal is at $70,000 for refence. The UK is up at $151,000, with France and Canada around the $135,000 area.
> Reproducible outputs and log probabilities

> The new seed parameter enables reproducible outputs by making the model return consistent completions most of the time. This beta feature is useful for use cases such as replaying requests for debugging, writing more comprehensive unit tests, and generally having a higher degree of control over the model behavior. We at OpenAI have been using this feature internally for our own unit tests and have found it invaluable

This will be useful when refining prompts. When running tests, at times I wasn't sure if any improvement from a prompt change was the result of random variation or an actual improvement.
heh https://github.com/baldurk/renderdoc#readme is all "RenderDoc is intended for debugging your own programs only. Any discussion of capturing programs that you did not create will not be allowed in any official public RenderDoc setting, including the issue tracker, discord, or via email" but the 3 of the 4 screenshots are of dota2 :-D

Still, that looks handy for sure
The idea is don't tear down the fence until you know why it's there. But a fence across a road - it's so obviously wrong everybody wants to tear it down - not recognizing somebody with a good reason put it there. Big lesson when examining legacy code.

Then there is the Terry Pratchett version, when they move a big piece of furniture to reveal a door with a sign, "under no circumstances should this door ever be opened. " so they open the door and general madcap laughs ensue.
> in reality what all these models essentially are is just a distributed compression algorithms for digital media?

Nope. Here's an easy test for your claims; prove it.

None of your examples are copyrighted works. They resemble copyrighted works, but my so does my framed painting of Super Mario smoking weed. As long as I'm not using it to identically reproduce copyrighted material in full (which is impossible), what is the potential harm here? It is legally protected, unique expression created in parody of a pop culture figure. This isn't even remotely a new concept.

Also, brush up on copyright precedent and Fair Use. It's not the 60s, Pinkertons won't burn down your house for animating Mickey Mouse sucking a dick anymore. Brave new world, huh?
After hearing about how often their cars need a human to intervene, I started wondering about that incident where a Cruise taxi ran over a person that had been thrown into its path, stopped, and then started up again to move to the curb.[1]

Did the car stop, notify the mothership, and then have a person direct it to pull out of the flow of traffic? How would we know? If the car moved on its own, that's bad. If the car moved after being contacting a "remote assistant agent", that's bad, too.

1 "The Cruise car ran over her, briefly stopped and then dragged her some 20 feet before pulling to the curb, causing severe injuries." https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/03/technology/cruise-general...
Are those more important than, say:

- Proven with Coq, a formal proof management system: https://coq.inria.fr/

See in the real world: https://aws.amazon.com/security/provable-security/

And check out Computer-Aided Verification (CAV).
They barely drove a few million miles in ideal conditions and where children are relatively uncommon.

Edit: removed a Cruise incident.
Mike Johnson is on HN?
I work at a mass-customization company. We have an online designer and show you a preview of what you’ll get that you have to initial saying you approve the design.

From time to time, someone will assume there’s a graphic artist manually creating the products and will hand-write a description of what they want, scan or snap a picture of it, upload it, and approve the preview.

Because of the heavy automation, they’re likely to get 250 business card sized pieces of paper with their description of their business card on it.
The incredible part is the RPi sucks less than all the other commercial embedded SBCs such that it's had huge industry uptake purely by being the least worst.

The state of the embedded industry continues to amaze me.
> my disillusionment with work, deteriorating relationships and steady decline in my ability to carry out daily tasks weren’t signs of a personal lack of interest or effort, but an inevitability resulting from the position I had put myself in.

Wow this is exactly what i'm suffering from right now... I recently thought about applying to a more serious tech team at my company given i've slowly slipped into a basic DBA/PM roll.

But i'm worried it's only going to make it worse. What does the science or your peers say is the key to getting help?
From the article itself:

"The team at DuckDB Labs has been hard at work improving the performance of the out-of-core hash aggregates and joins."

Aside from that, since April DuckDB has vastly improved performance of a number of queries, including aggregates, joins, window functions. [0]

[0] https://duckdb.org/2023/09/26/announcing-duckdb-090.html#cor...
Reminded me of Ice-9
Unemployment is not increasing. By any measure it is near all time lows. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/U6RATE
> People were hyper saving

i think instead of thinking of it as saving, it's more "unable to spend". Now that they are able to spend again, they do.

There was never an intentional savings spree imho.
Paying engineers to develop said driver costs at least "a buck."
Meta built Threads in 5 months
> The recent (lack of) availability to anyone except commercial/industrial buyers

While Pis were a hot commodity about a year ago, today as far as I can tell consumer Pi supply is mostly back to normal. My local vendor has stock of 0s and 0Ws, 02Ws, every memory config of 4B other than the 1GB, 3As, picos in all configs, and some flavors of CM4. Yes, 5s are somewhat hard to get, but I don’t think it’s big institutional customers soaking those up - there isn’t a CM form factor for them yet, and besides, nobody would have had time to build a full product around them yet.
Write Clean Code to Reduce Cognitive Load
Almost all, or the vast majority.

We already have plenty of words and phrases that mean 'large' or 'most', so it's a shame this phrase is losing its specific meaning and joining with myriad interchangeable synonyms that mean something more pedestrian.
When you confirm an airbnb reservation, you get the host's phone number. One caveat: As long as the host is actually a person and not a property management company.

If someone messages me and asks for my phone number to discuss a possible stay, I'd be happy to provide it.

I'm an airbnb (super)host.
Your kids school has a makerspace - that sounds awesome can you provide any more details?
> Why would you allow some tech company to develop its technology at the risk of pedestrian safety?

If we cared about pedestrian safety, we wouldn't let ~half[1] the drivers on the roads drive.

[1] I kid, it's more like 5-10%.
Twitter applied a ton of pricing changes around working with their API, and simply connecting users and offering an integration with it may not be worth their time considering the sheer number of users.

Accusing PlayStation of being the walled garden here is laughable considering Xs practices.
Residence Inn isn't really the equivalent of a house for a larger group--even if I like it for one or two persons myself. There is a soft-of kitchen but you do have predictability at least even at the cost of more interesting, if less predictable, options. (Which is fine for me in a lot of situations.)
For the entire "The birds of America" see: https://archive.org/details/birdsofamericafr01audu
Insane Engineering of the F-16
Apple's Trademark Exploit
A sector that will likely see a significant impact from the recent OpenAI updates is the ecosystem of so-called "GPT wrappers." Here's how.
Wowah! Never had those sort of 'adventures' on ABnB, mostly very good experiences, though a few places that weren't ready for for a stay (Recently, one I stayed at had a broken shower... I got some compensation, but ti wasn't my favorite experience to deal with). ABnB is still one of my favorite ways to travel, even with its rough spots.

Is there anywhere I can ready about this ABnB host who kidnapped your wife? I am so glad that she made it out safely! Sounds wild, I would think ABnB would be very concerned with this host, not worried about the damages from a police intervention!
I have been doing this for about 2 years now. Got a few glass mason jars that I fill up with items like rice and nuts from the bulk bin at the grocery store. Peanut butter and jelly both come in glass jars. I get just about everything else from a local farm share where the items are not packaged in anything. It’s nice not dealing with plastic with my food. I used to throw so much of it away. Now most of my food waste is compostable.
WPA3-only is mandatory if you want to use 6GHz frequencies though. At least for the gear we use, that means if you want 6GHz you either must only have devices that support WPA3 or you have to use a separate SSID for 6GHz clients to use. Fallback to WPA2 isn’t permitted.

I appreciate the sentiment, but new devices being sold that still don’t support WPA3 means the adoption of 6GHz is going to be a very slow process.

More info here since this is surprising to many: https://www.extremenetworks.com/resources/blogs/wireless-sec...
At any event, how is an attendee supposed to assess such a thing?

If you see clear tubes emitting a light blue glow, close your eyes and get away ASAP.

One of the few positive things about the pandemic may be that it's educated lot more people on what UVC lamps look like, as they're often used --- away from people --- for sterilisation purposes.
> This is one of the best states as there is only self and nothing else. You can experience this during general anesthesia etc.

I suspect, but don't know for sure, that most people remain (barely) conscious during dreamless sleep, or at least parts of it. However, we don't remember it as sleep. When we are awaken in the middle of dreamless sleep we simply believe we were lost in our internal monologue.

This is most apparent when somebody is taking a nap, possibly even snoring, and when awakened they believe they were not sleeping at all.

Now, in most people, this dreamless sleep isn't a quiet, sharp, blissful experience, but rather a blurry incoherent mess of internal monologue.

If you practice falling asleep consciously, you will find your internal monologue progressively become more and more incoherent and disjointed, until a point when (REM) dreams manifest "out of thin air". This is easiest done as you approach your usual waking time, what in lucid dreaming circles is called WILD.

That is my personal experience, anyway.

I also believe that experienced meditators go through dreamless sleep with far less chatter and are able to maintain a sharp vivid blissful experience through the night.
>People still talk about how wonderful SnowLeopard was simply because it was a bug-fix only (mostly?) release.

I think that was part marketing, snow leopard brought pretty sweeping architectural/internal changes: ARC, GCD, 64-bit kernel, so it definitely wasn't a pure bugfix release.
> regarded by members of the profession as disgraceful, dishonourable and/or unprofessional.

So it's not what he said it's how he said it? I think most people from democratic societies would see repressing speech based on such nebulous standards as worse.

You could target anyone this way for any slip of the tongue. This is a watch what you say society and I think you should be careful, you sound a bit heated and unprofessional maybe a regulatory agency might come knocking at your door.

I think also it's largely only Canadians who view it as defensible and Canada is increasingly being seen as a nation that does not respect speech rights by people on both the left and the right.

Go in the street and talk to 5 random people. Very few people left or right view Canada's government as exercising legitimate and responsible power. I think Maintaing the illusion seems to be a thing for a members of the older generation who spend all their time watching the CBC.
Closure Library Is in Maintenance Mode
TL;DR: 'Closure Library will be sunset over the next 9 months, from November 1, 2023, to August 1, 2024. We no longer see it as meeting the needs of modern JavaScript development, and we recommend that users look for alternative solutions.'
Q4 always has the highest GDP. presumably because of holiday spending.
I mean...the 3rd circuit ruled that J&J did fully fund the spin off's liabilities - or rather, that the spin off had access not to "a couple of hundred million", but to at least $61.5b.

In that specific case, are you suggesting that the 3rd circuit got it wrong, and that the spin off didn't have access to that money?
I would actually tend to agree. I think the organizers deserve all the scorn and dunking in the world, but I'm less comfortable about that framing for those impacted. "Conference organized by the monkey JPG people" should be a major red flag, but it wasn't a red flag for the target audience for probably the same reason "monkey JPG" wasn't in the first place.

Similar to the Fyre Festival, the real villains are the scammers (or idiots, if you're giving them the benefit of the doubt) running the show, not the people who fall victim to the scam. Cryptocurrency and NFTs fall into that category where I think recognizing the BS requires a level of technical knowledge that is unreasonable to expect everyone to have. Dunking on people who don't get the technical argument for why NFTs and the people promoting them are BS does not feel like the way.
I really enjoyed the videos that focused on the math intuitions. This was a nice way to bring it all together. Thanks!
What baffling is how did they get this popular ? Plenty of stupid things to go around, why this specific one? Who was the marketing genius that convinced a critical mass to buy something worse than sand in the middle of the desert.
whilst simultaneously hurting those that can't afford a EV.

the point of sale ev credits coming in 2024 would help, but if your in the used market (e.g. low income end) this would suck.
Something similar happened to me at the Luxor in Las Vegas a few years ago. The only reason anyone would want to stay at that hotel is because of the pyramid, and I specifically booked a room in the pyramid, before which I didn't even know they also had some plain towers next to it. I go to check in, and they inform me that I'm staying in one of the plain towers. When I told them I was only staying there because of the pyramid, they informed me that "we put people in the towers all the time, you're lucky because sometimes we don't even have any rooms at all and send people to another property." And that was the last time I will ever stay at the Luxor.

TL;DR: Fuck the Luxor in Las Vegas.
If this gets you kicked out of the developer program, I think everyone would be quite upset, yes.
This was long before Trump.

And the thing is, depending on how you do the agreement. Europe could produce the engines themselves, they only would need plans and help with manufacture.

This isn't unprecedented in the space industry. Its how India and China worked with Russian engines. And it also happens between commercial companies.

In case of a complete breakdown of relation Europe could continue to manufacture the engine.

This would allow for in-depended access and still produce jobs in Europe. This could serve for both a large, medium and small rocket. Additionally it could allow for learning to do landing. Also, Europe has a decent second stage engine that they could have combined with that first stage.

Europe has to get away from solid fuel boosters and hydrogen main engines, its totally the wrong architecture and moving away from it would have been smart. Sadly they domed themselves with the Ariane 6 and Vega designs.

If not the US, you could have done the same with something like the RD-191 or something like that.
democratizing traffic data and monitoring for high-risk corridors and neighborhoods
> we will continue to find mutually beneficial ways to work together to help people utilize new technology in a rich content ecosystem

By stealing people’s work, which if they come for you we’ll threaten with lawsuits. Guess the only way to stop the steal is to feed openai garbage. Garbage in, garbage out.
Here's why I think that won't work: https://simonwillison.net/2022/Sep/17/prompt-injection-more-...
Trying to Try (2008)
astrange had the right context but characterized it not-so-correctly. Modern agriculture's origin involved power structures where farmers were forced to be unable to be self-reliant, and would instead trade their crops at a market to get the other things they needed. The powers that be then had a nice, centralized place to take their cut and exchanges to offramp goods into currency. we're seeing it all over again with crypto via fiat reliance
> Many companies were hiring Data Scientists, only to discover that what they really needed were Data Engineers who could set-up the data pipelines.

I think, at a lot of places, these roles end up being the same (?)
Which is doubly curios that tech companies seem to have so much influence on the SF municipality, yet do not use it to fix the city's other issues, like homelessness and just shocking levels of petty crime. Their employees live there, after all. They live there.

But maybe it aligns with their vision of a free-for-all libertarian paradise, I am not sure.
Eh I dont buy it. I know people who smoke daily and eat healthy and excercise often. And vice versa. Is it all that surprising that a drug that spikes your heartrate and blood pressure every time you use it might do damage to your heart if you use it regularly? Seems pretty intuitive to me.
I don't know, what I do know is that every book on Google Books worth reading is behind a paywall
This sounded really cool so I went and checked it out, turned it off within 10 min. Was just kind of silly, felt more like someone having fun with drawing than someone really trying to do any sort of serious ecological design.
Less active than Mastodon, more active than nostr.

https://vqv.app/stats/chart is useful for Bluesky and draws on the Bluesky firehose for data. https://stats.nostr.band/ seems useful for nostr.
> Microsoft disabled Xbox clip sharing to X from consoles and PCs in April.

Did the Digital Markets Act incur any outcomes when this occurred?
Notes on Compression in the MySQL Protocol
Network Earth Rotation Service
I feel that broad overgeneralizations like this are often just self-revelation.

This reads like you find people besides your wife attractive, but rather than recognizing this as normal and healthy, you vilify and repress it. But you see (part of) the responsibility for avoiding your thoughts with others, and expect of them to act according to your needs and wants.

The thought of people of the other gender using a toilet near you is sexual to you and you don't like that, but this is a you problem.

Also, I don't know whether your "stably married mother/father" is just heteronormative or deliberately excluding same-sex couples, but if it's the latter, your "belief" is demonstrably wrong. [1]

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6309949/
Not my experience but a guy I worked with and respected. He retired and I haven’t heard from him, but from what he told me, one’s experience with punch card systems varied greatly due to the size of the shop. In larger shops:

The programmer would typically write out the program with pencil and paper. He/she would then pass that along to another programmer, possibly several, to have them review it and look for bugs.

The program would then be passed along to person who was skilled with a card punching machine and he/she would get the program entered.

Once the program was on cards, the program would be run. The print out of the result would then be inspected to ensure the program ran successfully. Often, the programmers would rewire the output board to cache the output and allow multiple prints. Once terminals became available, that cache could also be inspected with a monitor. Eventually on-line terminals became available and card punching went out of favor. Tape replaced it. Eventually tapes were replaced (for many but not all use cases) by floppies. Naturally, tapes still exist in some arenas for backup/archival.
Because part of cryptobro culture is thinking you know more than anyone else, and projecting an image of access to secret insider knowledge. Likely one of them just decided to be a lighting designer because they thought they new more than the professionals.
>But I don't think Microsoft was at its core a fraudulent company

Didn't they make their initial money basically rebranding an OS they licensed and then selling it to Intel, whose CEO was buddies with Gates' mom, with ridiculous terms?