skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Beeper will know only a small number of valid serial numbers

If it ever becomes popular, there will be a lot of duplicate serial numbers. That's easy to detect and ban.
You might be if the difference in an accurate thermal signal is the difference in a jet engine blade expanding too much to self destruct while in flight :)
There's all the rest of open source, and then there's SQLite. A public domain software that doesn't accept contributions from outsiders, and that happens to run much of the world.

And it just keeps getting better and better and better, and faster and faster and faster.

I don't know how these guys manage to succeed where almost all other projects fail, but I hope they keep going.
17Lands data would definitely help, but humans don't have that data in their head when sitting at a draft table.
Crypto is actually picking up after FTX and Binance, though as it's a social problem of adoption rather than a technical issue, I'm not sure it's comparable.

The problem with fusion and quantum computing is that advances are being made, but because those advances aren't consumer facing, you don't see them. Eg December 2022, they managed to get more energy out of a fusion experiment than they put in. That's huge! I'm not going to see an effect on my power bill for another couple decades, if ever, but it's real actual solid progress. For quantum computing, they're moving past the singular q-bit tech demonstrations level and moving into actual practical applications like making chips that can talk to each other **. Again, doesn't remotely affect me or my laptop today, but we've moved past the 1998 Stanford/IBM 2 q-bit computer.

Meanwhile, I can adopt a new model getting dropped with an afternoon of work, and see the results in milliseconds, in the case of StableDiffusion-turbo.

* https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/11/16/1083491/whats-co...
** https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/01/06/1066317/whats-ne...
China opens tallest unmanned veggie vertical farm
That'll take it full circle.
Yeah, agreed.

CHI, yes, sometimes.

But never ORD - or MDW or GYY. Although CGX would be hilarious. :)
If this is the bar for “harming your wife’s mental and emotional state”, I bid you the very best luck working through literally anything difficult. And all relationships eventually do encounter difficulties.

Something being uncomfortable and something being harmful are very different.
Really? Long-term capital gains tax rate at upper income levels is 20%. Most households have a lower effective income tax rate than that after accounting for all deductions.
> Next step is to go full Ouroboros

That was the previous step. Binary BLOBs have been supported in SQLite for some time.
I find his comment on Copilot to be enlightening. He says it’s not always right, but he still finds it useful. Kinda like that old saying in stats “all models are wrong, but some models are useful”. Language models are really helpful when you have enough experience to be able to judge when it fails, I do feel sorry for novices who don’t have enough experience yet to do that.
What is your point? As I said that overpriced think is NOT CRT and I actually think the hype about is not justified. I do not own a CRT but I think they would cause eye strain and modern up-scaling and smoothing and all that stuff makes games look objectively better.
I thought the point was that the DB could reach into JSONB for you (potentially indexed as well) instead of having to deserialize outside. So the exact serialization isn't maybe as interesting as the direct queryability.
Singing in the rain: Why the bundengan sounds better wet
Griffel and StyleX arrived at very similar ideas and we've discussed the possibility of sharing more code between the two.

There are some meaningful differences in the API choices, but the high-level design is pretty much the same.
It takes a lot of complex code to optimize a JSON parser. You don't need to optimize that hard to make an equally performant parser for binary serialization formats, and given SQLite's JSONB is purely an internal optimization, it doesn't have to be a well-known interchange format (which has much more concerns than SQLite).

> Any time data is serialized, SOMEBODY is going to read it. With something as popular as sqlite, that's true 10x over.

And this statement is equally true for the SQLite format itself. That doesn't mean that the SQLite format should be replaced with something more standard, of course.
Revolut calculator returns incorrect results?
We're solving the performance pitfall of CSS-in-JS libraries by making a compiler instead. In the vast majority of cases, there should be zero runtime cost to using StyleX.
My last phone was a Samsung Galaxy A50, and it was pretty good as far as the hardware went. But I felt that Android was bad; I couldn't help but notice that a number of the apps loaded very slowly and had other small glitchy issues. Nothing that would compel a person to switch phones, just a lot of mostly minor inconveniences, except for 2 that really stick out right now: the Android messages web app always had a hard time connecting to my phone even when the phone was clearly on, had the messages app open, and was connected to same wifi as my computer; and second, Chrome recently just started becoming unopenable (like it would open and then immediately close for some reason).

These are just a couple data points in a bag of info and anecdata that has made me question whether Google is a company whose products are worth investing in, gives a damn, etc.

As to what exactly about the iPhone seems so good in comparison, the things that really stand out are the crisp aesthetics (noticeably better "graphics" than my Samsung) and the speed of everything. It's also just pleasant to touch/interact with--I think part of that is Apple's craftsmanship, and part is simply the fact that the phone is new.
I thought I was missing something. But then I came looking for confirmation. Does this mean I may have what it takes to make it in webdev?
I'd prefer not to see horses used this way too, but I think the pollution and danger from all the cars and buses is much, much worse. They should ban the private cars, and force the taxis and buses to be EVs, and install protected cycling lanes to get more people onto bicycles.
Smallpox is no longer a disease (anywhere in the world) thanks to public health services funded by governments. Likewise polio is on the way out (with an unfortunate recent spike due to some parents not vaccinating their children for "reasons").

Water-spread diseases like cholera which used to kill thousands every few years in in places like New York or London in the 19th century are basically unknown today in the developed world, thanks to modern water treatment plants and sewers. While you might say there was some contribution to these efforts by private philanthropists, the vast majority of these public health efforts were government (taxpayer) funded.
I'm with you there. I'd love if that were the case. Even if it were only for associated services, like having a domain-specific SSO for mastodon.example.com, pixelfed.example.com, and lemmy.example.com so that you didn't have to maintain 3 accounts for those 3 services owned and operated by the same people, it'd still be super useful.
Losing energy shifts the frequency of your emissions towards red.

Basically, cooling down is the same thing as moving farther away from an inertial reference point.
All mobile phones have non-mutable shutter sounds.

Japan has similar legislation that came from men taking up-skirt photos in public places (trains, etc.). Workaround: Buy a phone overseas. It will still work on the Japan mobile networks. I assume Korea has a similar backstory. Please correct me if wrong.

Location services like find my iPhone are banned.

I assume this is related to North Korean spying.
There are plenty tools like this, plolty dash, justpy, nicegui, lona, reflex, streamlit, just to name a few.
If your app does not involve complicated interactions, streamlit is really easy to pick up.
We also had a great experience with plotly dash for a more complicated application.
nicegui also seems very promising.
Ask HN: What's a strong tech opinion you have that few agree with you on?
I’ll take it one step further: As long as humans are capable of producing more than they consume at some point in the future, then it’s logical to keep them around if your goal is production.
I guess most of the people never knew the titles are different.
So now you have finally come to realize that you need to explain how you arrived at your allegation, and let's recall what that was:

> What I’m reading here is “you’re wrong and lying or lied to because of an ‘agenda’” and that’s it.

Where "you're" means GP, i.e. Bermion, the person to whom I was replying. So where did you get the notion that I was saying these things about Bermion? From your latest post, it appears that you think that in the statement "capitalism is not the simple proposition that profit justifies anything, even if some people sometimes suggest that it is...", the "some people" must refer to Bermion, but that does not follow, and Bermion is not even a particularly good fit, having not said anything so simplistic.

In fact, it is referring to a group of people tacitly referred to in Bermion's comment - those who go along with the view that "in a way, this is the 'right' thing to do in a capitalist society", a group in which Bermion clearly does not belong. It is not uncommon to find people implying, and even saying outright, that capitalism is just the proposition that profit justifies anything (sometimes, for example, in the guise of the claim that a board's only duty is to maximize profits by whatever works), and when it is being claimed by someone who knows better, in the hope of influencing other people in a way that benefits the claimant in some way, then that is duplicitous (which is not a synonym for lying, even though it may involve it.)

Next time you are thinking of making a wild allegation, do yourself a favor and check beforehand whether you have grabbed the wrong end of the stick.
As an aside, isn't the name of the country South Korea? Has something changed that the preferred name is Korea?
If Blockstream wants to change the protocol in a way that Coinbase, Binance, Trezor, Electrum, Metamask, the miners, El Salvador, Grayscale and Microstrategy don't like, they will probably have a hard time pushing it through.
> It’s not really designed to be an encryption system as much as it is a text message system that happens to include encryption.

And yet, Apple uses this (flawed?) encryption in lots of other features. It's not a messaging platform that happens to include encryption, it's a messaging platform (iMessage/Madrid) built on top of a generic/reusable encryption system (IDS), and many other Apple protocols are built on top of IDS. Apple's "platform security guide" has several places where they recognize this:

"When a user signs in to iCloud on a second Handoff-capable device, the two devices establish a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) 4.2 pairing out-of-band using APNs. The individual messages are encrypted much like messages in iMessage are."

"When an incoming call arrives, all configured devices are notified using the Apple Push Notification service (APNs), with each notification using the same end-to-end encryption as iMessage."
Voltaire would like a word without about optimism and stupidity being "British"

Joking aside, this whole paper had me thinking about Candide... All is for the best!

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19942
What is “pool”, I don’t have such a link on my orange band.
There's also that library all the AI models started using that gives you a public URL to share. After researching it: https://www.gradio.app/ is the link.

It's used specifically for making simple UIs for machine learning apps. But I guess technically you could use it for anything.
Which is weird if you think about it. If I buy a car, give it a paint job, mount some LEDs, and a new sound system, I'm totally within my rights to sell it. I can't say that I'm Ford or Honda when selling this modified car, but I'm totally allowed to sell it.
Interesting. Is the part to render HTML in the browser coming, or is this API-only?
Another demo: https://twitter.com/gapier_com/status/1732245106156359896
Impose "burden of proof" to push back over-brainstormers
Because it seems to not be common knowledge on this thread: JSONB is a format offered by Postgres for a while now, and is recommended over plain JSON primarily for improved read performance.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-json.html
Twitch is free, so it can’t do the same.

Twitch is an advertising platform first, and a streaming platform second, similar to Google search is a search portal second. They can reduce advert payout rates, which is similar to Netflix raising prices.
Does SQLite make any promises on the internal implementation? I assumed that the only guarantee was at the SQL interface.
eh. I was raised watching the iphones go from 1 to 15 while the numbers kinda lined up with my grade levels, so for context I feel like I've seen both sides of the coin when it comes to kids & phones.

I believe in what you're saying, to an extent, and even am grinding my schoolwork with a flip phone, but at this point I think the onus is on the parents to encourage productive habits and make the kid understand WHY the addictiveness is so implicit and dangerous.

if you don't have anything to replace the scrolling with, you will return to scrolling.

best of luck with the kids, imho meditation worked best for me kicking my phone addiction
It’s only about three or four months old for the website at most; the app might have been doing it earlier (but I doubt it)

When it became news https://old.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/15ukrpi/what_is_the...
I blame Twitch's laziness. There is a competitor of Twitch in South Korea, namely AfreecaTV, and it is highly profitable. Why is AfreecaTV sustainable whereas Twitch is not? Because Twitch hasn't altered its business model while operating in the Korean market. The same network cost applies to both AfreecaTV and Twitch, so there can't be a fundamental restriction keeping Twitch from being profitable in South Korea.

One thing that makes AfreecaTV profitable is that it charges a fee for every donation happening in the platform. Twitch does not. AfreecaTV also uses a P2P network to reduce network cost. These policies may make the users and the streamers a bit annoyed, but it is still infinitely better than abandoning the service.
I have confirmed with him that he hadn't been born yet when Steve Jobs announced the first iPhone. I feel old.
From the techie perspective, Mozilla didn't have "best years" I think. As a Mosaic/Netscape/FF user, I liked Mozilla for two things, adhering to standards compared to IE and being open source (the second being the reason I still use it today, not because of technology (I don't like tab management with 50+ tabs open e.G, never liked the environment implementation)). I don't consider Firefox a technological marvel, but IE looked very bad. Firefox for me never innovated enough or seemed to have the user in mind. From my perspective the USP was always "We're the open source one" which wasn't enough when Chrome arrived.

Not an Opera user, but from the sidelines it always looked like Opera was innovating more.
> How long do you figure we'll be allowed to drive old cars that can go more than 500 miles at a clip and aren't loaded down with spyware?

At least for the remainder of my life, I recon. (I'm in my 40s.)
Nice site. I think it would be cool if there were some examples of what the service can do without watching a video. My takeaway was the service adds extra tools and actions, but I don't know how I'd benefit from them over a plain GPT integration. Just my initial 2c, no shade.
All of those sit on the shoulders of private business and enterprise. Government (and bureaucracy generally) only prevents them from efficiently executing on what the market demands of them.
yk what you're so right. I should think like this more often thank you man
Another pattern that I hate is that Reddit will create an account for you if you are using a browser profile that does not have an associated Reddit account. It will then prompt you to 'personalise' the username and password.
Facebook started doing this a while ago https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/07/facebook-is-n...

Reddit too, but I don't have a news source for it. I can only share a link I came across: https://reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/s/LCv7yIwiVF

If you click on the link, you can see all the tracking parameters in the URL bar. Whosever link this is used the official Reddit iOS app to generate the unique URL.
I don't think we are going to settle questions of the ideal capital gains rate from an economic or moral standpoint over comment.

Good deal or bad deal is relative to some counterfactual alternative.

The topic is far too entwined with what one thinks the point of taxes or even the government is, and who should pay for it.
You should start with a single monolithic application on a single server that you scale vertically as much as possible before even thinking of scaling horizontally. Most apps won’t ever need architecture more complex than this.
Interesting. Most regexes being short, I reckon that copy is very cheap. Still I wonder, wouldn’t Cow be an acceptable middle ground, “best of both worlds” style (only copy when needed)?
The official name of the country is the Republic of Korea. However, it’s common to drop descriptors such as “Republic of” from country names, leaving only “Korea”. South Korea is an informal name, used only when it’s necessary to disambiguate from North Korea (officially, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea), which in this case, it isn’t.
> JSON has been optimized to death; it seems like you could get the 2x gain and avoid a new format with normal optimization

Either I'm experiencing a reading comprehension mishap or this is self contradictory. Where is a "2x gain" supposed to come from through "normal optimization" from after something has already been optimized "to death?"

> SIMD JSON techniques

Which are infeasible in key SQLite use cases.
PostScript is a pretty good programming language for what it's meant to do, which is put vector graphics in a box. It was the first language I wrote a lot of code in just for fun and not for school or work, specifically to draw a bunch of fractals. It's particularly well suited for that type of graphics whose structure is mathematically determined by a simple algorithm.
Gee, I wonder what little trick they have up their sleeves so they can at least make sure Google Tag Manager can keep tracking users. For their own benefit, of course.
That JSONB is different from SQLite's JSONB, though.
SQLite says you should not attempt to access it: https://sqlite.org/draft/jsonb.html

> JSONB is not intended as an external format to be used by applications. JSONB is designed for internal use by SQLite only. Programmers do not need to understand the JSONB format in order to use it effectively. Applications should access JSONB only through the JSON SQL functions, not by looking at individual bytes of the BLOB.

> However, JSONB is intended to be portable and backwards compatible for all future versions of SQLite. In other words, you should not have to export and reimport your SQLite database files when you upgrade to a newer SQLite version. For that reason, the JSONB format needs to be well-defined.

If SQLite intends to own the format forever, I can believe that their requirements are such that leaning on an existing implementation is not worth the savings to implement.
which iPhone model did you go for?
Clouds are a scam and are designed for:

- fools who can't do simple math or read fine print ("have no idea how much 20 $2 per hour instances pumping data at 10 mbit/second add up in a month, and OMG that data is not free when i already pay for the instance?!". And besides they give me a whopping $100,000 credit - that will last eternity!")

- corporate tricksters ("if we don't invest into our hardware and buy AWS instead, our next quarter bottom line will look GREAT and i get a nice bonus, and by the time truth transpires, i will jump the boat to the next shop i do the same trick with")

- people with breaks in basic logic and total lack of foresight ("i can't afford buying all the hardware for my small pet startup, and will make do with just $200 a month in AWS, and i don't realise it will only work for as long as my startup is not successful and has no users - and when it's no longer the case, i will be vendor-locked with tech solutions based on AWS and petabytes of data which is $0.05 per GB to download, locked up there, and will bleed money for years").

They should be avoided at all costs except for development purposes, and if you don't know how to or can't afford to do something without clouds, you just don't know how to do it or can't afford it.

In Europe, none of my clients use clouds. They have dedicated setups with reputable providers that work a lot better than cloud-based ones and cost pennies. Also, i realise that my custom software development biz doesn't really work with EU clients, i barely make a profit with them and they get to be real pain. Probably suggests that educational level of Europe is a lot higher.
Those carriages could lose the horse and become fully autonomous and electric.

Waymo could run those, you can book them and it’s just a carriage that is motorized.
The books of Samuel and Kings from the Hebrew Bible predate Herodotus' Histories by quite some time.
While this will be good for SQLite queries that look into JSON data I’m not sure it really changes much for Deno. V8’s JSON parser is very highly optimised so it may be tricky to make a faster SQLite JSONB parser.
Is it an excellent and unchecked attack surface like JSON is in MSSQL? Postgres is also known for SQL injection. And if this is based off of that...

https://www.imperva.com/blog/abusing-json-based-sql/
Also would be useful to add a disclaimer that you work for PlanetScale.
> I don't think we understand enough about our own sentience for us to create it in a machine.

Invention preceding understanding is the norm, not the exception. We created fire before understanding chemistry, and we constantly use pharmaceuticals without really understanding how they work. Invention first, then theory comes along to explain and generalize.

For all we know, sentience is a necessary side-effect of semantic processing of any kind, in which case LLMs already have a form of sentience.

So yes, you're right that we don't understand our own sentience. In fact, we understand so little that it could literally be staring us in the face right now and we don't realize it.
Verifying that your idea is understood by the audience the way you had planned is important for almost any author.
A Brainfuck interpreter written in Rust
I was inspired by the recent Brainfuck posts, and decided this would be a good time to practice Rust.
iPhone 15 (normal)
Yeah the "Copy without site tracking" isn't very good right now. I'm still using the ClearURLs extension to remove the tracking junk.

Ironically I've only seen it work best when removing tracking from Firefox's own links. https://mastodon.social/@lazycouchpotato/111480927753796790
Is this just a data type, or did SQLite put in a JSON interpreter?
I was able to answer my own question via their Zendesk (from 2016), for those interested. It looks like I just had not come across the issue, but articles were previously not being saved server side with the exception of those manually emailed.

https://instapaper.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/227342887-W...
I just ask ChatGPT to do it. Actually just today I asked it to format an existing set of tests into table-driven format. Worked great.