skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but is still useful, relevant

The proposed test for responsiveness actually does test an aspect of responsiveness. The problem here is only in the definition of the variable to test: Yes, "responsiveness" isn't well defined.

The Turing "test" however doesn't test intelligent behavior at all, so the problem is BOTH in the definition of the tested variable, AND in the actual test.
You are not likely to see the statement you are discussing unless you firstly somewhat frequently get into a situation where someone says something like "why do you care so much about privacy?" and then attempt to debate the issue.

It is not necessary to show actual harm from this breach for it to defeat the tacit premise behind the statement you are discussing, which is that their profligacy with their personal data cannot, by itself, reveal any of your personal data.
Microsoft updates are also really bloated. Fortunately, Microsoft was able to solve this problem by implementing a feature so your PC uploads updates to other PCs for them. No need to improve update size, users can just share the cost of the update infrastructure. Microsoft updates were always large but then they found out some users weren't installing updates because they didn't have enough hard drive space since the update process is so bloated. Microsoft innovation solved this as well, they just force reserved 7GB of end users (Microsoft's) hard drive so there would always be room. Mark that one as resolved.

These innovations are why Microsoft is such a profitable powerhouse. Maybe Microsoft can install a cryptominer to run on your PC when it is idle and send the money back to Microsoft. It would help pay for the cost of all the improvements Microsoft is always making to Windows. The possibilities are endless.
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There are no delays with the caps lock key on macOS. What are you talking about?
Does the Internet Route Around Damage?
Didn't Caesar die in 44 BC, while the Roman empire peaked in size in around 98 AD? i.e. it continued growing for 140 years after his death?
I think if you're just talking about writing extensions/packages (like magit) then the difference is not as big. But for using Emacs it makes a big difference. I can just start hacking on package code by redefining functions etc. and using/testing them straight away. The power of Emacs is not about being able to write extensions (most editors can do that), it's about being able to write tiny little bits of code to change your editing experience as you go. There are specific things in Elisp that make it good for this, like dynamically scoped variables. Writing extensions for other editors is always a "thing", a project. Writing Elisp to change how Emacs works is just using Emacs.
Isn’t that what we essentially have? Private insurance only covers healthy people, adults healthy enough to work. The rest is punted to Medicare (old and sick) or Medicaid (poor, jiblessand young that are too sick)
Believe me, we know. More and more people want to go back nowadays, but things are still very much a mess that cannot be fixed very quickly.
There was a recent post by Voultapher from the sort-research-rs project on Branchless Lomuto Partitioning

https://github.com/Voultapher/sort-research-rs/blob/main/wri...

Discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38528452

This post by orlp (creator of Pattern-defeating Quicksort and Glidesort) was linked to in the above post, and I found both to be interesting.
Spotify's Layoff Memo and the Art of Delivering Bad News
Right, like the person posting an idea on an Internet forum was the first and only person to have that idea. Security through obscurity does not work. It’s much better to open up the curtains and let the sunlight in. It’s the best disinfectant. At least then everyone is working with all of the information.
I don't know but just the tone they used encourages me to try to use WebAssembly
I really want to see information about my DNA. So it's very tempting to just give in, pay and send a sample to something like 23andMe...
Personally I've seen quite a few of up and downs in my market (UK contracting), this might be a bit longer than usual, but not a permanent situation.

An encouraging sign I'm seeing is that there's more permanent positions advertising higher salaries than in the past (maybe just the +20% of inflation from march 2020, but still!).

The market will change again... software is still eating the world, there will be shortage of SKILLED developers for the foreseeable future.
And even if I need to make 25% less of what I used to at the peak of pandemic hiring, it's not that bad really!
I think it's assuming a static site
On the positive side it's a whole lot better than 20 years ago where there was virtually no middle class in India at all.
> People sometimes group it in with other CMSs because it's good for rapid development of CRUD web applications

No, it's because there's a CMS called Django CMS.
I’m not sure if it changed, but Crystal was limited to a single core which I imagine made it easier to choose Go over Crystal.

That and I’ve found that folks often aren’t very receptive to Ruby like syntaxes initially.
AI Alliance
That and removing the thumbs down ratio from public view. I can't stand what they've become.
The Open-Source Storefront to Challenge Shopify
Hey community! I'm excited to share this open-source project I've been working on: a full-featured storefront solution designed to be a viable alternative to Shopify. It's built entirely with Vue.js and comes with a comprehensive set of components and an open API.

But here's the twist – I'm exploring the integration of GPT models (like ChatGPT) to enable building complete websites using simple prompts and pre-built components. Imagine creating a fully functional ecommerce site by just describing what you need!

I believe in the power of open-source and community collaboration. That's why the entire codebase is available on GitHub (https://github.com/selldone/storefront). I'm eager to hear your thoughts, suggestions, and see how we can improve or expand this project together. Your feedback is invaluable, and I'm looking forward to seeing how we can push the boundaries of ecommerce platforms and new possibilities by AI tools.
I love the term "eyeball friction" when referring to Golang's error handling.
And then replaced by someone who rewrites the history of his predecessor.. result a mad reign of madmen..
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I can't even fathom the rules for that - is it mass, texture, ease of departure? The mind boggles.
Munich, Germany

Pros: A lot more green areas than Berlin, Englischer Garten puts Central Park to shame. Probably the safest city in Germany, and definitely top 10 safest cities in Europe if not in the world.

Alps are easily within reach, lots of hiking areas that are safe and clean, but you have to plan those trips ahead, you can't just wake up at 10 AM on a Saturday and decide "I'm going on a hike in 2 hours", in some other places like New York State that is more doable.

People will mostly leave you alone, which is great if you're an introvert.

Cons:
Rent:
It's very hard to find a place to rent unless you know someone. When I first came here I was lucky enough to take over the apartment of a friend of mine who happened to be doing his MSc here. Then my second apartment we found through my gf's PhD. Without luck and just looking at the usual apps one looks for apartments I would have easily paid 400 EUR more on rent a month, which is just disgusting.

Social life:
Your mileage may vary, I'm at an age where it's hard to make new friends and to be honest the drive isn't there either. Loneliness will still be a potential problem especially if you're a guy.

Public transport:
It is a joke, trains are always late, or cancelled. I actively avoid the S-bahn at all costs and would rather switch 3 U-bahn trains than have to depend on a single S-Bahn train.

Food:
German cuisine is not that great, kind of unhealthy, not even aromatically diverse, restaurant choices get boring quick. Not very accommodating if you're lactose intolerant, a lot of Germans seem to be completely unaware that it's a thing. I mostly gave up eating out and mainly cook at home. Thankfully that's also a cheaper option but depending on what you're making it can take a lot of time, but you can learn to optimize. Eg I prefer to cook one big pot of stew that I'm gonna eat from for 4-5 days, then it's okay if I spend 3 hours making it.

Neutral/Meh:
Job Market:
Half the jobs in IT require you to speak German, so as an expat you'll probably be at a disadvantage there. If I'm job hunting I will throw my CV at 200 companies and 20 will come back to me wanting to talk, and maybe I'll get 7 offers in the end of a tiring process. If you're aiming for a 6 figure salary you're going to have a tough time negotiating, a lot of companies seem to not want to budge over 80K a year, you'll have better luck at startups since they understand there's more inherent risk involved there, but if you're good enough and willing to just not settle for anything less than exactly what you want, and are able to play the long game, it's only a question of time.

Personally I prefer working in as diverse a workplace as possible, German work culture is meh, people don't really make friends at work, and you'll be looked at as a weirdo if you even try. Another reason that I've been gravitating more towards startups nowadays where the atmosphere is much more relaxed.

Final remarks:
Would I see myself living here for the next 5-7 years? Yeah sure why not. Raising kids here? Maybe. I feel very relaxed most days and I know how to keep myself busy and make my own life interesting.
Fair. On the other hand, I'm a bit surprised that anti-immigrant forces in the US haven't made DNA sampling compulsory for new immigrants. The argument would be these would be harder to track down by these techniques, because the ancestry information is not as available, giving them an "unfair" advantage over white Americans.
As a Chinese this is the second biggest thing I have no idea how to say in English when first came to US.
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I ended up finding new work after a while but may not be able to hold it down for long.

At this point if the market is still garbage in preparing to resign and find something else to do with my life.
You don't need to obfuscate the code if you apply sufficient amount of acronym-driven coding practices to it!
Show HN: SuperDuperDB – Open-source framework for integrating AI with databases
Hi everyone, I’m Timo, one of the creators of SuperDuperDB !

Today we are officially launching SuperDuperDB, an open-source framework for integrating AI directly with major databases, including streaming inference, scalable model training, and vector search, with release of v0.1. on GitHub and on ProductHunt.

SuperDuperDB is not a database. It transforms your favorite database into an AI development and deployment environment (𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘵 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘦𝘳-𝘥𝘶𝘱𝘦𝘳).

SuperDuperDB eliminates complex MLOps pipelines, specialized vector databases - and the need to migrate and duplicate data by integrating AI at the data's source, directly on top of your existing data infrastructure. This massively simplifies building and managing AI applications.

SuperDuperDB provides a simple Python interface, but allows experts to drill down to any level of implementation detail such as models weights or training details.

Today’s release comes with the full integration of major SQL databases as well as further MongoDB support: PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, DuckDB, Snowflake, BigQuery, ClickHouse, DataFusion, Druid, Impala, MSSQL, Oracle, pandas, Polars, PySpark, and Trino.

Currently Supported AI: Any model from PyTorch, Sklearn, HuggingFace as well as AI APIs such as OpenAI, Anthrophic, Cohere.

A few useful links:
- Our website: https://superduperdb.com
- Getting started docs: https://docs.superduperdb.com/docs/category/get-started/
- Our repo on Github: https://github.com/SuperDuperDB/superduperdb

Check the uses-cases that we have already implemented here https://docs.superduperdb.com/docs/category/use-cases as well as apps built by the community here https://github.com/SuperDuperDB/superduper-community-apps and try all of them with Jupyter your browser https://demo.superduperdb.com/

For more information about SuperDuperDB and why we believe it is much needed, read the blog post https://docs.superduperdb.com/blog/superduperdb-the-open-sou...

We are keen to hear your feedback!

All the best,
Timo
That was great for diffing/creating patches etc. A gitfs that exposed a repos files like that would be great, but I suspect there are patents.
That conquest was brutal btw, estimates are that Rome killed 1.5m combatants and 1m+ civilians enslaved / executed. There’s also that part where they just cut off the hands of any fighting age males they came across for a while.

Really was closer to a genocide.
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Subways?

Also on open roads, attach the solar panel is more work an costs, recharge it one time every 3 years could be more convenient for the municipalities.
It seems they usually test for hyperaldosteronism if they see the obvious signs like low potassium levels. Maybe they did not observe this at the beginning?
Cursive Is Coming Back, Now That Kids Can't Read Grandma's Letters
I didn't mean React is legacy. You can't replace a React app with HTMX in general. I just meant within my project. Those parts are now unmaintained and will be replaced when they break or if we need to change them.
I've been there twice, really love Stanley Park and may even consider moving there. But yeah some parts of the city are wtf, I've seen people injecting themselves in broad daylight a few meters away from police officers.

The people living there seem super friendly though. I think I would prefer Vancouver over Toronto.
> IF an LLM is able to do information synthesis, it is trivial to set up parallel prompts to work as teams. Try it out.

What do you mean? I've had GPT-4 (3.5 I think too) talking to itself, setup as a planner and someone critiquing a plan, the end result is much better.

> However, expecting to get reasoning right is the bridge too far.

Hmm, how do you position othello-gpt in this? It builds a world model and makes moves based on that, so it's not just correlation of input (x,y,z typically followed by A so respond A).
> Does anyone think privacy of any real sort is maintainable going forward

Probably not, but it doesn’t mean we can’t guide the conversations about how it looks in the future. Sitting idly by just means they win, but discussing it in the open means that we might be able to put some safe guards in place.

Oh, who am I kidding. We’re all screwed and evilCorp will win so we’re just wasting our energy and making ourselves crazy fighting. Resistance is futile
GP was talking specifically about the republic, not about the empire that came after.
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I don't use it and don't know if the answer may be incorrect, but I assume NixOS may help.
So people in my family have used 23andMe but I'm assuming my data is also compromised. I've never used the service because I think it's kind of weird and gross. But it probably doesn't matter that much if both of my parents and my brother have. Health insurance companies in the future can still charge me different prices based on my risk profile.
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38522325
https://archive.is/oEo6V
The Republic ≠ The Empire
Such a scenario isn't really relevant here, is it?

And you can't fly an airplane on your land because you don't own the air. He crashed a plane that wasn't his on land that wasn't his.
https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/OSPHLD/LFS/CDPH%20Document%...

This is a cartel based law. Basically patients can't order tests or even look at results from tests by law.

The "made up" reasoning for why this law exists is because the law makers acquiesced into agreeing with doctors that all patients are fucking idiots. That's the bullshit reason.

But really it's business reasons. Same reason why the doctor supply is made artificially low, all these things are legislated by the AmA to lower the supply of doctors and give them more control.

>Sounds like you have a problem with either your insurance provider or your wallet.

If you're a doctor. My problem is you. How does a doctor even have the gall to say this? It's flat out wrong. So if you're a doctor there's only two logical possibilities for why you said what you said. 1. You're a liar and are therefore untrustworthy. 2. You don't know what you're talking about and are therefore incompetent. Which is it?
I think they meant that the "Republic" as a form of organization was dying, end being replaced by the "Empire", a different form of organization which flourished afterwards.
What if your patient switches from Dr. Google to Dr. ChatGPT?
You should only be taxed on income that you actually receive. Matt Levine did an excellent write up of this, but it makes sense. If you don't actually receive the money to do anything with it you should not be taxed on it.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-12-04/whose-...
>I've seen their cloud bill

how did you see this. How do you know what all the discounts and backdoor deals that were applied to the bill. How do you know the final amount that was paid out.

i am skeptical that some rando is privy to this information.
Is there another publication covering this case? NPR, whose funding comes directly from federal taxes, has an inherent conflict of interest in this case, and based on the slant of the article, they are doing little to mitigate it.
There is - it just involves us helping get you setup. We haven't built the UI side of things for self-serve so a quick setup call and we can then configure things in the backend for you directly
Did you decide you really needed to know after researching rare heavy metal poisoning symptoms on WebMD?
Recently mindblown that a single crunchy taco at a local Taco Bell costs $2.19 a pop. Wondered if anyone was using Taco Bell prices as inflation proxy similar to the Big Mac, which led to stumbling upon this.
Caesar was mostly following through with prior norm breaking.

That's why it is important to rebuke politicians in the mold of Trump. You don't know who will follow him.
Show HN: Figma-like VSCode extension with real-time React Native codegen
It's in closed beta state, but I made a temporary account so that you guys can try easily.

email: hacker@news.com
secretKey: hackers

Roast like hell, please.
I think he means the Republic (Roman democracy). The non democratic Roman Empire would continue to on for some time after that
They should, or at least a disclaimer in a normal human readable language.
But to be honest most people will not understand what is it about anyway.
Coming from the United States this is pretty far from what I'm used to.
OP was referring to the Roman Republic, the system of government. The Roman Empire didn't begin until 27 BC, shortly after Caesar.
thats very cool, you can create several projects with it
State of Mozilla
Anxiety and hobbies. Leetcode grind while that happens.

I joined an european robotics startup a couple of years ago in a promising field. Things aren't looking well for the business, we've been through a couple of layoffs at this point, and I'm looking. Interesting jobs opportunities have decreased dramatically since last year and, in my field, most recruiters reach out about positions on other countries in Asia.

It's been tough. I'm not even that old, but I would like to settle down for once.
We don't build on top of WhatsApp Business API - we enable sales teams to use WhatsApp personal and WhatsApp Business accounts to talk to clients. This is something that lots of businesses prefer doing for higher touch relationships.
This has been understood for many years in genetics. See Novembre and Stephens, “Interpreting principal component analyses of spatial population genetic variation” (2008).
Now with 17 % less adds?
It's not unique, but it is a special case.
If you can't keep track of your own words, there is no reason to pester other with them.
I'm also seeing positive signs.

8 months ago all the usual recruiter spam emails I got disappeared. 3/4 months ago I started getting recruiter spam again, but at lower salaries than before, this month I'm starting to see decent salaries again in that spam.

I've not tried myself, but the UK market looks like it's recovering to me.
I find the denialism around the great man theory somewhat baffling. Does anyone really believe, just for one example, that Apple computer would be what it is today without Steve Jobs?
This is fascinating as adhd stimulants usually raise blood pressure. I am going through the adhd diagnosis process and take a bp med.. maybe I can get guanfacine.
Ask HN: Stream about cyber security startup, would you watch?
Hi, I am the founder/developer/"ethical hacker" of a cyber security startup (Codean). We are working on a platform (call it an Integrated Development Environment) that focuses on reviewing code for security purposes.

See https://about.codean.io (work in progress...)

It has been quite a journey so far, building a company, getting investment, hiring people, letting go of people, finding market fit etc. In short, many ups and many downs!

Lately, I came across PirateSoftware on Twitch/YouTube (game developer that streams his journey) and I was captivated by his approach. Sharing his development, life lessons and just honestly sharing his journey. All the while interacting with his audience to make a great game.

I would love to interact with security experts/hackers/analysts and make the best damn software for you as well!

Would you watch such a stream, and what would you expect from it?

P.S. I just went ahead and put it live on Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/codeanio, YouTube will follow after 24h wait period.
We have a new law that requires mathematically impossible treatment of end to end encrypted data, which is an unenforceable clause. In a law that actually passed.

We have a lovely law called RIPA that makes non-disclosure of passwords or encryption keys punishable by 2 years in prison (or up to 5 years in certain cases). One of those special cases is "national security" reasons, which is about two steps away from becoming "because someone higher up wants that data".

Banning Linux, if not by malice then by incompetence/apathy, is not as unlikely as you think. Because they sure are, right now, very much incompetent and apathetic.
I don't think there's much you could do.

I remember someone on HN mentioning that "extrinsic motivation kills intrinsic motivation". I think for them it was something as banal as using a an app motivating them to jog or something like that. They were able to jog on their own just fine, tried the app, and when they tried to get off the app they couldn't do it anymore.

I'm trying to learn piano using an online course and I'm actually scared to even get a real teacher because of that. I'm afraid having somebody else push me and keeping me accountable will kill my inner motivation to learn.
Also another important bit is, F-Droid builds the apk's (android apps) by themselve from source code. So you can be sure (as long as you trust F-Droid, which is completely open source, the infrastructure too) that the app you install is nothing but open source.
Which is something you can't be sure on e.g. google play store or the apple app store.
SSDs are orders of magnitude faster than HDD, enough to justify the cost differential and investments to rethink the software stack.

Octane was an incremental improvement in performance when compared to SSD, and in cost when compared to RAM. An awkward spot to be in.