skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My lay understanding of the problem with classical algorithms is basically that a lack of resolution means you need to monte carlo the thing millions of times... which is why it's slow. If you could model it as a set of quantum states of similar inaccuracy, wouldn't that by definition be just as (in)accurate but faster?

[edit] this reminds me of something I read about how NASA doesn't predict solar eclipses by trying to keep an exact model of the solar system, but rather uses pattern matching algorithms.
We are. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aihq6jhdW-Q
Actually, good point. But that is solvable with better registrar UX. For example, I run a registrar that offers free subdomains, and I'm planning to add support for a long term guarantee, by registering the apex domains for the max time (10 years) and renewing every year.
Indrema: The Linux Console That Could Have Changed Gaming
That would actually be really cool. You'd miss out on getting to see a horse, but you'd be spared from the not-so-great things about being near a horse (horse poo smell), and even better, you wouldn't have to deal with the driver. And you could probably book a timeslot in advance too, see how much it costs, etc.
Especially if there’s little or no performance difference, may as well minimize code size.
After the Plague: Health and History in Medieval England
For true AI governance, we need to avoid a single point of failure
Can't keep encryption keys around forever, and that means encrypted URLs have a time limit on them.
What do you mean by a JSON interpreter? I think SQLite already has a full implementation of JSON including tree walkers, and this internal format (that is externally just another BLOB) makes them more efficient.
No, they're plutocracies, in the most literal sense. The involvement of votes doesn't factor into it. The "public" in "republic" refers to the public at large. A private corporation, being privately held, is necessarily not republican in any sense.
umm, from _my_ reading of it seems that apple distributes the firmware for every bootable os partition, thus, every (apple silicon) device which needs the firmware has it already. this gets loaded by the bootloader anyways...
I think people see 3M as evil because they have secret directives to not allow women to work certain jobs because 3M knows they'll be exposed to dangerous chemicals that can ruin their ability to have kids. And 3M knew the chemicals were dangerous generations ago, but didn't stop.

https://minnesotareformer.com/2022/12/15/toxic-3m-knew-its-c...
It is preferred practice, not a weird thing, to have a dedicated domain and a different address per site for anyone involved in online security research.
At the protocol level, they are indeed just integers:
https://theapplewiki.com/wiki/Apple_Push_Notification_Servic...
I'll take this one step further.

What if you're able to pinpoint unique loci for an individual or group which can serve as a target of a highly specific bio-weapon? Do you think genomic bio-weapons aren't being explored as future weapons?
> I found SO very frustrating until one of the moderators explained it rather clearly: SO isn't about me (or you). They don't want to help me (or you). They want to help everyone else.

I know that's what they say. The thing they have trouble understanding is that "helping everyone else" does not mean bending every question into some 101 level software design advice thing.

"Helping everyone else" very much can mean being a repository of answers to hard questions or solutions when non-typical constraints are at play. Every software engineer worth his salt must have had an experience where the answer he was looking for was in some old, weird forum post that was the single hit to his search query, but a lot of SO doesn't seem to get that.
I find when learning a language, reading the code for a problem that you already know the rules (or the shape of) really helps.

I think this is probably good project for simply reading the code to learn
> Then I wonder if, in a sense, kids are like drugs

Oh yes. Very much like the brain slugs in Futurama

> and for the same reason just like you I think that you shouldn't have kids if you want to chase immortality.

Yes. However having children does "turn on" certain emotions and modes of thinking that you don't get otherwise (at least I didn't prior), so I'd think that not having kids also deprives one of a very key aspect of the human experience.
The things written and said in private are often more real than how that person acts to your face. If I found the same things, it'd call the entire relationship into question.

Maybe you're okay being led on or talked about but that's not universal. Plenty of human behavior is destructive, our social behavior is no exception.
I don't remember that ever happening...
Here's some context: when Amazon bought Twitch, it basically took that IP and created Amzon Interaction Video Services ("IVS") [1] as a live streaming solution within AWS. IVS is also the basis for Kick.

Amazon and Twitch frequently talk about how Twitch is unprofitable and use it as an excuse to increase ad density. lower creator rev share, etc. Thing is, their unfprfitability is largely an accounting trick. Let's asy the compute cost for a stream is $50 and the ad revenue is $80 but there are two points in between: IVS and Twitch. Amazon could charge $50 for IVS and Twitch is super-profitable. Amazon could charge $90 for IVS and Twitch is losing money even though IVS is hugely profitable.

The reason I bring this up is that I'm skeptical about Amazon's claims of Twitch in Korea being unprofitable just like I'm skeptical of all of Amazon's statements regarding Twtich profitability. South Korea is a developed nation with robust netowrk infrastructure. I doubt egress bandwidth from South Korea is particularly expensive. If it is, Amazon is a large enough company to solve that with their own backhaul. AWS has a region in South Korea so encoding shouldn't be an issue.

In the last 2-3 years we've had a slew of reports from the likes of CVS and Walmart blaming theft on unprofitability in closing stores. This was and is a lie. It's used to mask rising costs, poor inventory management and bad execution.

So when I see an announcement like this I really have to ask "what failure is Amazon/Twitch really hiding?" because I'm convinced there is one.

[1]: https://aws.amazon.com/ivs/
Lots of confusion on what JSONB is.

To your application, using JSONB looks very similar to the JSON datatype. You still read and write JSON strings—Your application will never see the raw JSONB content. The same SQL functions are available, with a different prefix (jsonb_). Very little changes from the application's view.

The difference is that the JSON datatype is stored to disk as JSON, whereas the JSONB is stored in a special binary format. With the JSON datatype, the JSON must be parsed in full to perform any operation against the column. With the JSONB datatype, operations can be performed directly against the on-disk format, skipping the parsing step entirely.

If you're just using SQLite to write and read full JSON blobs, the JSON datatype will be the best pick. If you're querying or manipulating the data using SQL, JSONB will be the best pick.
Spandex is great for comfort, but instead of polyester, they could use more nylon. Nylon is extremely durable compared to most polyesters.

But I agree: repairability for clothes seems a little silly. We have industrial processes (like automated cutting) that make clothes-making extremely efficient, and materials that make them far more comfortable than ever; we just need to improve what we do with them at the end-of-life (i.e., reusing/recycling).

As for the ugly jackets, they should be able to sell these to secondhand stores or the like for next-to-nothing, where they could be sold for very little. Or given to homeless shelters.
Most online innovations were because of porn
Yeah, the code is in a docker image, published on docker hub. It's prepackaged so it's easy to set up with docker-compose. The repo mostly has the docker files needed to self-host the dropbase worker and client. As you said, it's a bizarre, but not uncommon way to distribute. We're not technically open source at the moment, but considering evolving into source-available, and maybe eventually move up to an open source model. But we still have plenty to figure out. It's a bummer we can't get your feedback though, that's definitely a nice thing about open.
37 years ago: "Why wouldn't you want some random file to be able to execute random code on any and every machine that its on?"
Also, blue implies that attachments will be sent via iCloud, and are practically unlimited size (including images and video), that you can securely send money, make video calls, etc, etc.
Interesting approach. Doing this for events recent enough to be numbers to estimable is a well-chosen tactic - it gives a basis for estimating earlier millenia.

Leaving out wars, there's a lot of nasty that happened to humanity before 500BCE of course, including countless wars, but also including the Late Bronze Age collapse (around 2200BCE), which it looks like might have been worldwide. Dating tech has advanced greatly recently, so physical causes might eventually be known (quakes, volcanoes, climate change, floods...). But estimating deaths is hard.

P.S. Those who've avoided book 'Earth in Upheaval' for some reason (FO Velikovsky?) might consider checking out the first few chapters full of voluminous evidence of past, non-human catastrophes. Regardless of 'explanations', it's an impressive laundry list. (Now available in AI-read audiobook form.)
Why is Jepsen written in Clojure?
There is absolutely no rule or law like that. This is completely made up. Elon Musk censors people on Xitter all the time.

(Pretty sure you are a fan of his)
It’s not entirely clear that the location stuff is related to North Korea. A lot of the heavily restrictive laws are done under the guise of privacy.

It’s funny how the two things you mentioned are related to a particular quagmire of mine which was that my baby son misplaced my phone inside our place in Korea. I had absolutely zero way of finding it. I didn’t want to buy a shutter-compromised phone so I just waited a month to buy a phone in the US.

It’s just absolutely bizarre that, in this modern age, an iPhone briefly going out of sight means losing it forever. (I think he threw the phone away, as he started to enjoy putting things in the trash can.)
Such a thing is possible, by removing things that give them power while inside the space.

I.e. anti-gov, anti-corp spaces can and will exclude those entities once discovered. Sure there's espionage but that's true of any situation.
All model outputs (text, image, video) are considered public domain in the US, so they can be used for whatever.
If I give you a list, you’re going to proceed to tell me that they all exist because of government regulation. I don’t argue with zealots.

If you define criteria you will accept as evidence before I give you a list, I’m willing to do the work to show you that pure free markets produce outcomes that force regulation on them.

Finally, if you aren’t talking about “pure free markets” when you say that regulations are bad, then what the heck are we even arguing about? I haven’t said we should turn the US into the Soviet Union, just that free markets require some regulation. This should be as uncontroversial as stating that gravity exists. You have to go very far back in academic economic literature to find anyone arguing that free markets are an unmitigated good.
I agree. I think precision in all cases makes it possible to pursue the technology, as opposed to almost dabbling in superstition and philosophy.

However, it’s taken an inordinate amount of time to achieve even the finesse shared in this comment chain. It’s a challenging topic.

We have to carve out levels of utility for systems that generate output given inputs. Some way to distinguish between what our wetware achieves, and what LLMs achieve - Without putting our models on a pedestal.
I was working as a contractor in a chemical plant owned by one of the largest companies in F500.

Work beyond 50 hours required approval from your direct manager. Work beyond 55 hours had to be approved by the next level of management. Beyond 60 hours required approval from the highest level of plant management and was usually only approved during commissioning when you have no choice but to start your testing at random hours of the day or emergency scenarios.
Oh, sure, they're no substitute to a "hardcore" retro gamer. Folks who won't be happy with anything short of an FPGA recreation (if not original hardware) outputting to a Sony Wega, or a powerful modern computer getting a real workout doing fancy render-ahead tricks to fake real-hardware input latency (so: remarkably low, by modern standards) and neat multi-step high-fidelity CRT-mimicking shader output, won't be satisfied by the classic consoles. But they're damn good for what they are, and especially for folks who don't know WTF an emulator is, or do but don't want to mess with them—the Nintendo ones, at least, the rest seem to have fallen short on one or more important measures.
I think the best shot a modern Anglophone has at knowing the word is that it was used in Dracula for the title of Vlad the Impaler. [Voivode, that is, not voivodeship. But if you know the title voivode, the meaning of voivodeship is obvious.]

It is not immediately obvious why the word would have been adopted into English in more or less the native form as opposed to being translated into an equivalent title, the way we talk about German "dukes" and "duchies".
A Software Developer Knows Enough to Deliver Working Software Alone and in Teams
I've had a lot of trouble getting dates, women see the Android-colored bubbles when I message them, then they typically blow me off. I'm sure it's the Android-colored bubbles.
US gov't supporting monopoly instead of fighting it? I'm not surprised.
Gradio is popular for machine learning but is versatile enough for interactive web apps, really easy to tinker with
It's hard to do a lively presentation like this without an audience. I'm a little jealous of how well he does it.
What shape is the universe? (2021)
> I agree. Is there any way to "inoculate" organisation to prevent this failure mode?

Maybe competent moderators, and a kind of rock-paper-scissors rule structure. Where you have rules, but excessive rules lawyering is a grave, bannable offense.
Yes, and this analogy is even more valid than usual, because unlike most software where each binary is an exact copy of all the others, in this case each binary is actually unique to a device.

But it's more like a ticket, or an NFT. It's a unique blob that was sold to you. You should be able to transfer it.

Apple's best argument here might be that the blob is meant for one person, and distributing it this way is like sharing a ticket to the cinema between multiple people. I can't enter the cinema, then come outside and pass you the ticket so you can enter it too.
I have two, at least.

1. Personal names are not generic strings, any more than Dates are numbers or Money is a floating point value. Name, as in a person's given and family name, or whatever, should be a type in every standard library, with behaviors appropriate for the semantics of a Name, language, and country. Yes there are lots of conflicting international differences. We've managed to handle languages and calendars of significant complexity, we can do so sufficiently well for the things we use to identify ourselves.

2. "AI" is a marketing term for a kind of automation technology able to use pattern matching to reproduce plausible new versions of the data used to train the model's algorithms. It couches this automation as especially powerful or magical as a way to draw a smokescreen around the real problems and limitations of the technology.
Come to Germany, everybody uses Whatsapp, nobody cares about the color of your bubbles or what phone you have.
Also, a lot of the ones you mentioned are actually open source, no strings attached, self-hostable. I have personally used plotly dash and streamlit, still have a couple running for years. This one appears to be a closed source (?) commercial offering where you have to have an account to do anything with it.

Nothing wrong with commercial offerings, but the trend of posting a GitHub URL to fool people into an open source first impression when there’s nothing in the “repo” really irks me.
will iMessage Contact Key Verification coming in iOS 17.2 break Beeper — or just make it super annoying like the “not a genuine Apple part” warning when replacing a screen or battery
Roda: lightweight, productive framework for web applications using Ruby (2019)
They can barely agree on a budget. They wouldn't be able to unify against the public, they're too dysfunctional. You'd need a President willing to defy his oath and two other branches on board with him.

Not happening.
Heh. This thread is like an invitation to get downvoted.

I'll bite: Using const for all variables in JavaScript is moronic. It's a trend that should have been killed with prejudice in the crib. If you want type safety, use another language. Use let for variables and const for actual constants. Words have meanings. The const statement wasn't created so developers could litter their code with it to show how cool they are.

Imagine you're learning JavaScript at young age: "Here are three ways to declare variables - var, let and const - but you should only use the most confusing one that doesn't actually make verbal sense for general use, nor do what you'd think it would do based on its description. Use it anyways. Because reasons."
Postgres's JSONB uses native numbers, which is faster but coerces values. It also removes duplicate keys but you shouldn't use those anyway.

Sqlite's JSONB keeps numbers as strings, which is slower but preserves your weird JSON (since there's no such thing as standard JSON). I'm not sure about duplicate keys.
These are all great tools! The use cases we are going after different than those these tools make easy. One way we think about the difference is analytics vs operations. Another way is dashboarding (streamlit) vs triggering actions (dropbase). By triggering actions we mean, triggering tasks that get/act on internal/external data, as opposed to a rearrangement/display of existing data.
Note that a key cannot be copyrighted, but it can be considered a circumvention tool for access controls that protect other copyrighted works.
I miss the days of jabber being able to senselessly talk to aim, msn, yahoo, icq, etc. All chat contacts in one account.
The actual mind-blowing scale is that Apple's push notification service isn't just carrying iMessages. It's also carrying push notifications for every third-party messaging app.

And the non-messaging apps with notifications too.

And the silent internal notifications. You added a meeting to your calendar on your Mac? Push notification to your iPhone to tell it that the iCloud data changed and it needs to update. Changed a file on iCloud Drive? Push notification to sync your other devices. Got a phone call, and it starts ringing on your Mac too via Continuity? Push notification (encrypted like an iMessage).

Just how many messages are going through that service every second?!
The neural network module looks identical to PyTorch
The name originates in Poland (and I have a TON of distant family there). I know there are more than a few Grecs in France and around, so chances are there are some in Greece...
An existential problem in the search for alien life
> Find My / Airtags

Another Apple ecosystem that can be used by non-Apple devices. OpenHaystack [0] has been working well for quite a while.

[0] https://github.com/seemoo-lab/openhaystack
> William Gates was The World's Richest Man for what, twenty years without fail?

Longer.

For some reason, when he endowed the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, its assets stopped being counted as part of his wealth, despite being completely controlled by him.
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Companies don't like refunding either in all fairness. And your phrasing makes it sound like this happens to you regularly.

I don't think "refund" is the best use of word here. That's usually a customer returning a product. And a company with bad refund policies tends to have bad customer service.
> Contrary to your assumptions, I've been quite vocal against the Chrome/Blink monoculture for a while.

I apologise for my incorrect assumptions. What browser are you reading this on, right now?
I just explored the trending posts on Indie Hackers and found that the post I made is at the top!
Sometimes you gotta keep the riff raff out in order to march forwards with your vision. Too many cooks in the kitchen can be deadly.
> I disagree with that article for the simple reason that I do not consider burning wood to be sustainable, or healthy for anything with lungs. Wood should be used for long-lasting construction or left alone / carefully nurtured to aid our forests in rebuilding biodiversity.

In Northern Canada there is almost no other way. Once you are ~10minutes out of town there is no natural gas. Also note wood stoves now are double (or triple) burning with catalytic combustors that extract waaaay more heat from the wood and emit waaaay less particles in the air (because they burn it)
How about those second hand shops, who supplies them? https://bineboutique.ro/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/1_IMG-202...

Maybe they are just discarded "first hand" clothing?
Ask HN: Changing Speech and Lip Sync?
Recently, I have seen many people taking movie actors and changing their voices and speech.

I want to do a funny, cool video, and I am looking for the right software.

Is there something that can do everything, or do I need to mix multiple software like lip sync and voice?

Thank you!
Neat idea. Aluminum smelting isn’t really hands off enough to make this viable at home.

It might make sense at industrial scale while pumping waste heat to nearby office buildings or something. But even slightly higher electricity costs would be a huge issue.
When it's -40 often, and you live off grid, no moving parts trumps complexity every time
This blog post is about using these operators to bypass WAFs. You don't need JSON operators for that. You can substitute `1==1` with `2==2`, or `1!=1`, or `true`, or a million other approaches. There are an infinite number of such strings.

This is a problem with WAFs, not databases. Postgres and SQL Server both provide prepared statements as an alternative to string concatenation, which addresses SQL injection. (Though some people may be stuck with legacy or vendor-contolled systems that they can't fix, and so WAFs are their only option.)
They do promise it'll be a stable format:

> The JSONB format is not intended as an interchange format. Nevertheless, JSONB is stored in database files which are intended to be readable and writable for many decades into the future. To that end, the JSONB format is well-defined and stable. The separate SQLite JSONB format document provides details of the JSONB format for the curious reader.

And indeed the functions jsonb() and json() will let you convert to and from jsonb.