skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With falling interest rates it was possible to burn money in a furnace and still show an accounting profit on your operation. That’s how screwed up the incentives were
> updates will go into effect for customers 30 days from the date this email is received

(not a lawyer)
Well if someone acts NOW, then they can kick their butts (get a lawyer asap and do what needs to be done).
Yes I should have mentioned it's the mobile version
HN rules are fickle at best. Only way to get a good idea of how they’re enforced is to observe for some time.
Two answers: (1) it's not possible to be consistent because there are far too many posts for us to read; we can only moderate what we see. If you see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it. You can help by flagging it or emailing us at hn@ycombinator.com; and

(2) shallow as the GP's criticism may have been, your comment was far worse. Responding to a bad comment (or one you feel is bad) by breaking the site guidelines yourself, let alone with a nasty personal attack, is exactly the opposite of what you should be doing here—it's driving the wrong way down a one-way street.
Something haunting about this relic, like a skeleton in the desert,
remnants from a trusting, hopeful and optimistic age.

People from just 20 years before would have marvelled at this
wonderful utopian future... "Seriously, you can just send a message to
POTUS using electronic mail?!" But only 30 years further on it looks
like an object of mockery

Did this actually function or is the "no further correspondence" a
clue that they piped this whole show to /dev/null after about a week?
Unfortunately, there are many typos in my code :P

On the other hand, I'm not sure if this is a typo on Apple's part, but it certainly is weird: you must use "WindowSerial" here[1], not "WindowsSerial" with the extra s

[1] https://github.com/JJTech0130/pypush/blob/8b33c0ee5d540d8ac7...
If you trained a model for this, how would you avoid having to run the entire training process again every time you needed to add another song?

I wonder if there's a way to build an embeddings model for this kind of thing, such that you can calculate an embedding vector for each new song without needing to fully retrain.
Thank you for releasing this as open source under MIT license. I wonder how well it works on human speech. I have a few thousand hours of recorded word content that I need to deduplicate. If I get around to it, I'll report back.
I love the story style of Adam's podcasts and I always wanted to know how is it done... Is it first recorded as an interview and then cut and interwoven with the narrative parts? There don't seem to be too many obvious questions asked... Probably a lot of room is given for the guest to just speak up?
SQL Server Central has a "Stairway to T-SQL" series that starts off with some light history and then has two fairly decent chapters diving into the mathematics of SQL. It's not intensive by any means, but more than most other resources (and even some textbooks I've read).

[0]: https://www.sqlservercentral.com/stairways/stairway-to-t-sql...
The other point is when technologies essentially make redundant an entire class of people then those people are more easily repressed.

In this case, it could be the entire US populace that is not part of the surveillance engine.
There is also a wonderful book by a German philosopher, titled The Critique of Pure Reason.
I posted for people who like to use words correctly and might appreciate the note. The rest can get their prostrate's examined for all I care.
Why would you reuse a bottle instead of just having a nice refreshing drink of an ice cold Baja Blast?
> Bitcoin makes paying off gangs and cronies simpler for San Salvador. That’s the benefit of this boondoggle.

Does it? Surely it's easier to hand someone bags of cash or gold bars if he doesn't want to leave a trail. Everyone in the world can see the moment he withdraws some BTC from the country's wallets.
I feel it’s basically an exponent of selfishness/greed. So for some it might be status or other incentives that make them favour a moat or developing an entrenched behavior.

Countering it means to cultivate an open and egalitarian platform, where vulnerability is part of the equation as well as the associated trust that is needed. Good faith over bad faith. Selfless behavior vs “I am gonna get mine.”

My sources are my experience in organisations as well as a good friend who manages such an organization.
https://archive.ph/WS9vZ
Do you think that (e.g.) student loans should be counted as "income", given that they have much in common with a fully-collateralized loan?

(the collateral in this case is all of the borrower's future income, given that student loans cannot be discharged in bankruptcy).
On the other hand, a reluctance to do schema changes often just leads to a de facto schemaless system if new concepts start getting hacked into generic fields instead of properly modeled.

When you make schema evolution really easy to do with no downtime, you can also start doing phased deployments where you think in terms of backwards-compatibility. First you add some new/optional parts to the schema. Then you update the applications to use it, where the application has to tolerate data with or without the new bits.

Eventually, you might convert something from optional to required, first for new data entry and later as a conversion of existing data, where that makes sense. Then finally you might deprecate the application ability to handle the old missing bits, and remove that from your code maintenance problems.
As long as humans are capable of producing more than we consume, AI will keep us around.
Show HN: Directory of NextJS Starters and Boilerplates
Hey hackers and makers.

I wanted to run an experiment on building and launching a directory in one hour.
I made it in 54 minutes.
The following is the step-by-step breakdown.

→ Idea.
NextJS starter kits and boilerplates are super hot these days. It was as hot as gpts or AI back in the day. So I saw the trend.

→ Name & Domain.
I went to Google and searched for everything related to this to find a keyword that got nothing serious on the top. Then I looked at the Google searches for this keyword and picked the one with 10k searches but low competition and it was available on Godaddy for $10.

→ Directory and text.
I went to unicornplatform, picked a directory template, and cloned it.
I asked AI to edit to next based on the project name, it just made it all well from the first try.

→ Images, logo, favicon, video.
I asked ChatGPT Vision to generate this. It did a good job. Then I went to runwayml to edit the generated images with prompts and the gif for the tweet.
Took me about 10 minutes to make it beautiful.

→ Content.
I went to DevHunt and PH and found winners. Added 4. Just to start with.

→ New content.
I added a form so people can submit their NextJS starters, so that I can start to fill up the list.

Submit your starter kits, in case this goes viral, those who submit first will be on the top of the list
→→→ http://nextjsstarter.com
Shazam is perhaps the most profitable music informatics technology of all time, yet it knows nothing about music at all! It’s basically just a fast hashing algorithm!
I think everyone has the capacity to be toxic, but few things elevate my willingness to be toxic than having my well-reasoned contributions insulted or rejected.

I've contributed a total of once, ever, on Wikipedia. It was a typo correction that was reverted, then remade under the mod's account so he got credit for it.

If that's what I can expect by interacting with Wikipedia, I'll pass.

You have to actually reward participation if you want it.
The browser lock-in issue is why I’ve held off using Passkeys so far. I was waiting for 1Password’s implementation to allow me so independence. Being tied to Safari or Chrome seemed worse than being tied to a cross platform password manager.

That being said, I don’t like the “magic” aspect of them. I want to be able to see what I can only assume is a private key. I want to be able to move it somewhere if I need to. I won’t willing start using Passkeys until I know I can move them around. I have online accounts that are nearly 20 years old. Any solution for password management needs to be very future proof, and I’m not seeing the flexibility in Passkeys today (from my admittedly quick look).

I realize that flexibility can create some risk, but there has to be some middle ground somewhere.
That ConvoCube is so close to a good idea, but wow I would despise sitting in one. Frosted glass seems like the obvious choice to me, allowing in light and indicating to people outside whether it's in use, but preventing the user from being watched or distracted. Weirdly, the article mentions distraction-reducing polished glass, so maybe it's an industry term I don't understand that looks different in reality, but the concept image's glass looks completely transparent.

Overall, I don't feel like anything is very transformative here. I'd expect features/decor like these in a really nice office today. Zoom rooms exist, they're just ugly and cheap. Outdoor sitting spaces exist, they're just hard to maintain. Even my company's office, which I haven't been to in years, already has very small side rooms for calls which look less claustrophobic to me than the ConvoCubes, because they have full-height ceilings.
Given X's trajectory it's more likely to become the "nothing app".
I would also like to mention Wikidata that for many articles feeds data to Wikipedia. It would make sense to have all instances of the schools listed there as it can be batch updated
This is probably a better place to start: https://stylexjs.com/blog/introducing-stylex/

> We created StyleX not only to meet the styling needs of React developers on the web, but to unify styling for React across web and native.

Meta friends, the names "Review" and "Restyle" were right there.
My teacher never told us to avoid Wikipedia. They just told us not to cite Wikipedia directly. Multiple high school and college professors told us to read Wikipedia got general context building, and to read the citations to find relevant sources.
The parent said "power near 50% of the entire heat of the inner planet.". What you are describing sounds like the leaked power from the inner planet. These sound very different to me. One statement is about power the other about energy sitting there
> A culture develops to create a power structure that favors those who have devoted a large portion of their personal identity to the success of the organization. This culture serves as a moat against anyone who would integrate themselves within the organization and attempt drastic changes that would disrupt the existing power balance or pose an existential threat to the organization.

That pretty much directly describes a once-marvelous Q&A site, where I almost never go, anymore, and which is rapidly declining, in search results.
Firefox has it too these days (or at least in the Developer edition, not sure about the "stable")
This, but for so many issues. Innovation is being stifled by platform monopolies. Standards can too but right now that’s not the primary cause. It’s a balance.
A computer virus is self-replicating and can contain any arbitrary code to execute. There may be size constraints that make this impractical currently, but today's gigabyte is tomorrow's terabyte.
They can desaturate the iPhone / MacBook Air users to disambiguate from the MacBook pro / iPhone pro / max users. Also device age in years will add hints of green hue. That way people know they're talking to someone who can afford to spend thousands of dollars on hardware every year.
This is a platform feature of Google assistant, I believe. I have a "search a song" on my Pixel, but not in airplane mode, so probably being done at the mothership.
Jeff Bezos — regret minimization framework: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwG_qR6XmDQ
> will screw over existing investors of underutilized land.

That's a feature, not a bug.
It was a great story showing the bad side of mind uploading, but with ChatGPT it can be seen in a new light.

We managed to have a "mind" ready to answer all your questions, do some tasks, and it have a context at which it is instantiated for a task and then discarded. Reality is stranger than fiction, but it have too many parallels with this story.

Now, what if GPT5+ ends being an AGI? In which moment we should start worrying about the morals of having a sentient AI working for us in a pretty similar way than in this story?
Without knowing details, I can only assume you are misunderstanding something. I and everyone I worked with have bugs prevented by FK constraints. They prevent getting data to be in bad state, instead of it piling up and expensively fixing it afterwards. Not once have I thought "I wouldn't have had this problem without FKs" and every time I thought "oh yeah, I forgot this path, that would have been a problem".

Having to write code that can handle foreign key violations because the DB doesn't check it is a major pain. (we use Cassandra for example, so there is a "foreign key" usually from a PG row to a Cassandra row, obviously that can't be enforced on DB level so application code has to do the work)

As for deleting/updating data, FKs can be a bit annoying, but postgresql for example has two (possibly more) options.

1) The (possibly dangerous) cascade delete, which will traverse the FKs basically for you and deletes them
2) The check FKs (and other constraints) on commit. I.e. instead of checking every delete/update statement causes FKs violations, it'll check at the end, after having done all the delete/update statements if there are any FK violations. (or update statements). Called deferrable constraints.
The foreplay also takes like 10-15 years, c'mon?!
One of the big things to note is that Sparky plays very basic decks, with few complicated cards and combos. Rules-based AI could definitely play at a basic level using a beatdown strategy, but give it some sort of control/combo deck and it would struggle.
holy crap...i have a home in one of the higher COL areas in the US and it's only $600/sq ft. I know there's probably a lot of politics and corruption involved but honestly, I'm more impressed and excited for the future of the country (India) if things are going that well over there.
Wow, awesome story,thank you for sharing it. When it came out, I had to talk about it with friends, it was fascinating. Good luck with your carrier!
Well, they kind of did. We don't think much about Commodore these days because it died in the early 1990s (mostly from competition with IBM PC and compatibles, not so much Apple), but the Commodore 64 was the best-selling computer of the 1980s. And in Britain (and in many parts of Continental Europe) Sinclair and Amstrad were huge but people from the US hardly recognize the names.
I'd love to chat about that. Organisational psychology is fascinating,
but I'm no expert, just " a reader" as Bill Hicks would say.
What fraction of the US population currently passes that test?
> So, there might be some contexts in which long running Java application can beat Rust

yes, context is essentially all server side SaaS business segment..
>This was the smart approach when Shazam launched in 2008.

A noteworthy mention would be that Sony's TrackID did most likely the same thing on their feature phones a few years before Shazam.
To parent's point, I think this is still better than what we had before.

I mean, encyclopedias didn't have sources at all, and people were overly confident in books being correct.

On the niche topic part, I wonder if we'll ever be able to do something about it. I don't believe in AI check being a good fit for specialized or rare contexts, and as there's fewer eyes it's by definition more complicated to cross reference and have many active contributors on the same topics.

Even with more appeal to authority (let's say you get more power to edit if you're proven to be an expert in the field) I assume that would get abused to insert personal gripes in some place or another.
The people in control of Apple know their market power, ironically, derives from a closed-garden messaging product. Exactly like Blackberry.

The longer the anti-customer behavior continues the greater the resentment becomes. Customers do not like being treated as captives to Wall Street thinking. Mega-tech will face consequences for the unapologetic greed they exhibit right now.
Consumer protection hot-take: It should be illegal for revocable or conditional licenses (time limited, region or geo-locked, tied to off-prem DRM servers, etc) to be marketed as being "sold". The term "rental" (and whatever that does to the end user's perception of price-to-value) should be required in those cases.
This is actually quite encouraging for us as product developers (although maybe it's not a good thing if end users don't get good tools). It just means there's a lot more room to grow. I wouldn't say we've given up on external, but there's definitely a part of us that's hesitant to communicate the product as a "build anything" app so early. The fact that you think that could actually be an obvious differentiator is quite intriguing and thought provoking. I should do more research and understand the extent to which customers of big companies are exposed to google forms (and similar tools). Maybe we'll discover something interesting in the process. Thanks!
> No I haven't because it would be a waste of time.

got it
Related:

Every Noise at Once - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26668426 - April 2021 (94 comments)

Every Noise at Once - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20585447 - Aug 2019 (82 comments)

Every Noise at Once – an algorithmically-generated scatter-plot of musical genre - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10269685 - Sept 2015 (23 comments)

An algorithmically-generated scatter-plot of musical genres - with samples - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9315499 - April 2015 (3 comments)
related, Maroofy: https://maroofy.com/

shows you similar songs and imo does a pretty good job of it
It has become impossible to parody corporate greed because the corpos are getting greedier faster than comedians can come up with material.
Postgres with upserts (and triggers if your de-duplication logic can't be handled on the backend)?

OLAP works here, but is not great depending on how fast you need info to be available. If you're generating reports, Postgres is fine as long as your queries are properly optimized, and you can get them within minutes for massive workloads. If you need near-instant (sub 1s) results, I would recommend you sync your RDBMS to a columnar database like ClickHouse, and let the better data layout work in your favor, rather than trying to constrain a row-based DB to act like it's not.

Otherwise, both are rock solid and simple to use. I've dealt with more intensive workloads than you mentioned, with the same use-case and Postgres worked very well. ClickHouse never had a problem.
Writing well is really difficult, so it's not at all surprising that someone who is not a professional writer gets some help. But there's a huge gap between "the concepts were all mine but I got hep with the wording" and "I signed my name twice, once on the book and once on a check".
>desirable outcomes (i.e. harm reduction, efficiency, effectiveness)

Unfortunately different people have different definitions of "harm" and "effectiveness". What one person consider a, "positive increase in behavior" another might consider a grievous violation of their freedom and personal autonomy. For example there is an ongoing debate about compelled speech. Some people view it as positive and desirable to use the force of law to compel people refer to others as they wish to be referred, while others strongly support their freedom to speak freely, even if others are offended. Who gets to program the AI with their definition of positivity in this case?

A free society demands a somewhat narrowly tailored set of laws that govern behavior (especially interpersonal behavior). An ever-present AI that monitors us all the time and tries to steer (or worse, compel with the force of law) all of our daily behaviors is the opposite of freedom, it is the worst kind of totalitarianism.
Soo this seems to be when you use the "share" button on Youtube rather than doing the simple universal old-as-www thing of.. copying the URL from the URL bar. Of course, people these days have no idea what a URL or URL bar is, as it's often hidden anyway... :(

https://nitter.net/OldRowSwig/status/1732112446943269347
Calling to get more consent for something that was already under consent is not a trick and it's not against the law for them to use the samples.

THere isn't anything nefarious going on here. Just scientific research with medical data.
Man, that's contrived. Really its simple: Google seperates out Play Services so they can harvest user data from virtually all Andoid devices. It lets them market Android as OSS while still reaping the benefits of closed source data scraping.
Just make one which is capable of creating the perfect React / Vue / Angular framework including upgrade paths and while at it using it for us so that we don't have to bother with reinventing the wheel every 3 years.
Any good pointers on the specifics on how one would do this themselves with axolot? Did you find that the documentation was adequate?
All contributions in the world follow some kind of process, even if informal.
(E.g. you politely wait in line to drop off your generous donation)
This is a weird article.

For one, I think this is super easy to say this if maybe you aren't hiring anyway for other reasons, and there is nothing other than the non-engineering hiring freeze that indicates that they are placing meaningful bets on this outcome. Where is the mention of the well-staffed R&D effort to bring this into reality?

And "AI" has just become a super annoying catch-all that allows people to perform a sort of sleight-of-hand that they wouldn't otherwise be able to get away with. "Look here not here" and the audience is mesmerized by the possible economic windfall that our future robotic overlords might grant them.
What a jackass thing to do to vehicle owners. Changing the battery is a normal maintenance action you can do on any competently designed vehicle in less than 20 minutes.

Does anyone know of a sort of "buyer beware" website where these sorts of gotchas are catalogued by users? I don't fully trust any vehicle manufacturers to be beyond pulling this sort of thing.
> I think $80B is very cheap because the outcome is going to be a technological utopia.

I wish I shared your optimism. However I've seen no evidence that society is prepared to deal with a large swath of jobs being obsoleted by AI. I have no doubt that the "haves" will call it a technological utopia, but I strongly suspect the "have nots" will be larger than ever.
All of it. This post, yours, and this entire forum are mind-seed for AGIs, now, and in the future.
Configurability needs branching, and branching is inherently digital. Maybe that's why digital is more configurable than analog.
There's certainly some truth to that, but even the comparatively wealthy people of today live in homes made using terrible materials and zero craftsmanship/artistry. They're still charging us as much as they can get away with, to the point where housing is increasingly considered unaffordable, but the quality of the work and the materials are total trash.
But as long you can get hold of the data, it can be updated in batch. See https://wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikidata_in_Wikimedia_pro...
For the technically knowledgeable, music fingerprinting is a concrete problem which is understandable but pretty difficult if you get into the details without looking at how other people have already solved it.

It fits into that space of an unusual but comprehensible problem, unlike superficially similar features like recognizing animals or objects in images, which is mostly weird ML magic.
I would propose this one: https://xkcd.com/2347/
I normally understand internal to mean an internal corporate application used by the employees.