skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are already several products out there with varying success.

Some findings after I played with it awhile:

- Langchain already does something like this
- a lot of the challenge is not with the query itself but efficiently summarizing data to fit in the context window. In other words if you give me 1-4 tables I can give you a product that will work well pretty easy. But when your data warehouse has tens or hundreds of tables with columns and meta types now we need to chain together a string of queries to arrive at the answer and we are basically building a state machine of sorts that has to do fun and creative RAG stuff
- the single biggest thing that made a difference in effectiveness was not what op mentioned at all, but instead having a good summary of what every column in the db was stored in the db. This can be AI generated itself, but the way Langchain attempts to do it on the fly is slow and rather ineffective (or at least was the case when I played with it last summer, it might be better now).

Not affiliated, but after reviewing the products out there the data team I was working with ended up selecting getdot.ai as it had the right mix of price, ease of use, and effectiveness.
Good point. Most of it is indeed incinerated here.
Do you have any podcasts you would reccomend with this type of content?
Sure, it calls it out to some extent, but overall both the article and the art piece itself seem to imply that this is a somewhat good idea, and definitely imply that plastic waste is a comparable problem to global warming (or even more pressing, given that the art piece massively sacrifices carbon emissions per km for the massive gain of burning some plastic).

The reality is that plastic waste is a much, much lesser problem than global warming. Burning plastic to power cars, even a statement, is insane given that we have already blown past the 1.5 degrees warming and are on a trajectory that will probably lead to much more than 2 degrees, which is now the most optimistic target for 2100 - and even this assumes 0 net emissions in 10 years, which is obviously a fantasy.

Overall this is an idiotic art piece that entirely misses the point of what we should really care about in environmentalism.
There is zero external pressure. I just built too much stuff that needs maintenance.
Germany is much more disciplined than the US about being in the right lane and only overtaking on the left. Most of the US has the same rules in theory, but people following the rules less strictly combined with the low speed limits means they don't get the clearly separated speeds for each lane you get on a German Autobahn.
The free-gratis supply of bread; as a daily life-preserving staple; to a portion of the population doesn't appear to match the spirit of "more stuff faster".

Surely basic food supply is "the bare minimum of stuff" and the rate is fixed to 'each day' (and the delivery to grain stores is 'each harvest in the supplying region'? Yes, it's more as populations grow and centralise, but that appears to be occurring the context of the question, no?
My understanding is that higher temperatures also mean some toxic byproducts get processed. And you can install scrubbers and other technologies to clean rest from exhaust... And with combined production also capturing waste heat after electricity production efficiency is comparatively good.
Being able to switch between multiple libraries under one application, and being able to assign those libraries based on a logged on user is sort of what I'm talking about. My partner and I have two very different tastes in books, and managing them under one library is a pain.
I’ll bite.

I built and sold a company. Regret it now. Would really love to get back into something new but haven’t found an idea which really grabs me.

Semi technical in the sense that I can architect sane systems that meet business requirements. But not a CS background, and while I can write code, it’s not a good use of my time.

Last time was 100% bootstrapped and solo founder. Would love to have a cofounder this go around.

Strong preference for someone based on NYC or willing to relocate here.
Because registers on x86 and RISC-V are different, you still need to have a register file to map those, no?
.NET has always had native support, although in various forms.

NGEN, only usable for fast startup, using dynamic linking.

Singularity and Midori respective C# dialects.

MDIL in Windows 8.x based on Singularity Bartok compiler toolchain.

.NET Native on UWP, taken from Project N, inspired by Midori's System C#.

Mono AOT used by Xamarin for iOS and Android.

Homebrew OS like CosmOS.

Unity's IL2CPP toolchain.
A backend Engineer

Location: Nigeria

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Typescript, mongodb, GithubAction, Nestjs, SQL etc

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CsJK7cGjHu8_CgSCyMwQREA7Hdf...

Email: clementolaniyan95@gmail.com
I think there's a lot of sideloading. Buying non-{english,mandarin,spanish} books happens often in other book eshops, usually language- or -country specific. If you supply your kindle ID, they are able to send it straight to the reader, but the book collection is then stored in the local eshop (or more eshops if you buy from multiple). That's why Calibre exists.
> they explained how they believe that the US will never regain what it has given away, in the last couple of decades.

Sure we can. It requires pivoting into stealing or otherwise replicating China's insane level of industrialization, but it's a little funny seeing people become despondent at the idea of merely losing clear economic hegemony over the world and becoming #2. We didn't lose anything in the last 5 decades we can't gain back faster.

Here's hoping China's reign comes with fewer invasions.
> Yes, it's different behavior than gas vehicles

It's different than *some* gas vehicles.

Have a manual transmission? a automatic Mercedes? what about use paddle shifters or manual mode? what about turning off overdrive? of, use the S, 1-3 gears?

In the US, yes, the automatic transmission is most common, but worldwide, less so. Even then, we've failed to educate how to use the settings of the automatic transmission to not overheat brakes on steep grades, varying terrain, or actually control a vehicle.

One thing I hate about driving an automatic transmission car is that it doesn't have a predictable engine braking mechanism.
Designer and frontend dev looking for interesting projects. Solid experience in Adobe cc, svelte, ts, and CSS.
> Are you a Boeing stock owner?

Nope, just someone rational who has a passing interest in aviation, and knows that broken cockpit windows are pretty routine. They do get tracked, of course, and if you look at that you'll find that every manufacturer is well represented.

I have no appreciation for emotional clickbait outrage news and I hate to see it on Hacker News. I'd like our community to hold itself to higher standards.
Seems like it should be more stressful for the cyclists especially if they aren’t following the rules of the road.
He’s an excellent follow on mastodon (and Twitter)

https://mastodon.social/@parsonjameswoodforde

https://twitter.com/JamesWoodforde1
Show HN: Pogzul, the Programmable Artboard
Hey HN, been tinkering on this idea for a while, and in the spirit of being embarrassed by v1 it's time to share...

I call it a programmable artboard, something like a stripped-down Photoshop with a built-in text editor and the beginnings of a game engine. Draw things, and bring them to life with a bit of (JS) code.

This is not Unity, or any other fancy engine. I wanted something super simple that you could start with in seconds, and it's been a joy to make. Let me know what you think :)

Also wrote some extra thoughts on whence, why and what's next: https://pogzul.com/blog/what-on-earth

- Nick
It never was a helpful point of view; it was and is a cynical, sad, low side compliance moral principle. One might as well say: "You know, the government and businesses are not allowed to discriminate on the basis of race, but it has never been the case that I'm not permitted to be a racist in my own heart, in my own thoughts. I'm free to think that black and brown people are lesser humans." That is a legally correct statement, but abysmally immoral. Similarly, yes it is true that the constitution only protects my free speech vis-à-vis the government, but there has always been a prevailing ethos of free speech in America, in the spirit of the maxim often attributed to Voltaire: "I disagree with what you say, but I defend to the death your right to say it."

At one time it was a sign of a cultured, educated person that they did not bristle at the expression of points of view contrary to their own; they realized that in a pluralistic society we all have our points of view but no one can or should assume that their point of view should reign supreme. The increasing polarization of our society can be traced to notions such as this one expounded on Xkcd.
CDC reports dips in flu, Covid-19, and RSV
So clearly they don’t know what they are talking about. Any sailor would tell you, you don’t go above and below 55 degrees. Granted these are steel container ships but the seas don’t care. What’s one or two lost containers of goods? They sit just below the water surface for the next vessel to crash into.

The Panama Canal has two paths. Only one can be used for container ships. Even that has been at capacity for quite some time. A more integrated shipping supply chain is needed to get goods from A to Z. Rail, truck, boat, and plane.
Biolite has some cool off-grid stuff you could check out. I have a CampStove 2+, which I occasionally use for cooking outdoors.
Great read, I have seen this myself in the last 4-5 years with services surfing on the privacy wave - I mean, not just email, but also cloud drive. My conclusion, even regarding established privacy-focused email providers, is that it’s not worth the hassle, really. I use trusted and reliable email providers (according to me), and I just don’t use email for anything sensitive. That’s just right for me.

I know some people do need more privacy and/or security. But a lot of people think they need the same but really, they don’t.
This is a really interesting list, thank you for replying!

(the following are entirely undirected musings on using your technology for my game engine, mostly in case anyone finds them interesting or has something to suggest that I haven't thought of since I'm new at this)

At least for my use case C, Zig, Rust, and even probably Nim are out of the question because I'm not just using scripting for sandboxing capabilities and such, I'm also using it because I want people to be able to program games and write mods in a high-level language, so using a systems programming language as my scripting language kind of feels like it defeats part of the purpose and I might as well just use dynamic linking with a C ABI or something crazy like that (I'm new to this so excuse me if that's nonsense lol). JavaScript and Kotlin are intriguing though, because they aren't systems programming languages, so I'll have to think long and hard about those;

I've been considering C# for scripting lately (because I like it well enough, it's widespread, and known in the gaming world) and I wonder if you can get natively aot compiled Kotlin to work, if you could get natively aot compiled C# to work too... there would probably be similar complications due to the large and complex runtime, but I know you can strip it down so I wonder how that might play in. I also wonder what the performance would be like compared to just hosting the dotnet runtime, which is what I was intending to do before I saw your post. Maybe at some point I should set up a benchmark to compare! Although I have to say the pre-compilation thing is a bit of a deal-breaker for me, since I really want people to be able to put plain text things directly in the game folder and see those changes in the engine without having to do any kind of build process, which is something that is achievable with the regular dotnet runtime using a precompiled assembly bootstraps the rest of the sctipts using dynamic assembly compilation and loading to collect everything else in the script directory.
GNU Smalltalk is nice for writing small scripts, has TCL-like feel to it, while being a "real" programming language.
That’s mostly what the products and libraries around this like llamaindex or Langchain are doing. If you look at the Langchain sql agent all it’s doing is chaining together a series of prompts that take the users initial query, attempt to take in a db and discover its schema on the fly and then execute queries against it based on that discovered schema, ensuring the result makes sense.

The tough part is doing this at scale as part of a fully automated solution (picture a slack bot hooked up to your data warehouse that just does all of that for you that you converse with). When you have tens or hundreds of tables with relationships and metadata in that schema and you want your AI to be able to unprompted walk all of them, you’re then basically doing some context window shenanigans and building complex state machines to walk that schema

Unfortunately that’s kind of what you need if you want to achieve the dream of just having a db that you can ask arbitrary questions to with no other knowledge of sql or how it works. Else the end user has to have some prior knowledge of the schema and db’s to get value from the LLM. Which somewhat reduces the audience for said chatbot if you have to do that
Naturalistic developmental behavioral interventions can help autistic children
I will try again.

I think a lot of people don't like DEI because they don't agree with the underlying premises. For example, DEI says there is a history of structural discrimination in higher education, that teachers must be aware that these biases exist, and that teachers must work to counter these biases. Diversity statements during hiring exist to see how well candidates understand those issues and have worked to improve the situation.

Some people do not like DEI because they want to believe they are in a meritocracy, and they are a professor simply because of personal effort.

Problem is, there's a lot of evidence supporting that DEI premise, and demonstrating the flaws in the meritocracy viewpoint.

Some do not like DEI because they believe accepting the systemic racism premise means accepting that most people are racist, while the evidence is that a system built on racism can continue to be racist even if no one involved is racist. We have generations to go before the wealth inequalities caused by deliberate racist government policies disappear. We have drug laws on the books which were created to persecute blacks more than whites. We have place names and statues meant to honor and remind everyone of white supremacists. These laws and statues were created by long dead racists and still enforced by non-racists.

There's an old quote: “If you have the law, hammer the law. If you have the facts, hammer the facts. If you have neither the law nor the facts, hammer the table”. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/07/04/legal-adage/

Since the premise is against the professor, instead attack the requirement to have a diversity statement. Liken it to Orwellian thoughtcrime and Soviet apparatchiks and anything else that might sound bad. It just has to have enough emotional power to get people riled up - it does not have have to be part of a larger, logically consistent framework.

Compare diversity statements to 1950s loyalty oaths, since those sound bad. It doesn't matter that 100,000s of people, including university professors are still required to sign loyalty oaths to get their job, because the point isn't to get rid of loyalty oaths, the point is to figure out some way to not sign a diversity statement.

Don't try to explain why some loyalty oaths are acceptable while others are not, because that's hard. Instead, just say that a political test is bad, and be "suspicious of an institutional requirement to do public good" .. while conveniently omitting how government funded higher education exists because of politics and how universities for centuries have said they contribute to the public good.

And even though this a diversity statement isn't actually oath, ignore how all sorts of other things are likened to loyalty oaths, like the Musk/Twitter example I gave earlier or even how the Pony Express riders swore an oath for their job.

Hammer the table and don't get caught in the weeds.
Chatgpt 3.5. Maybe I should pay for a couple of months access to 4 to see the difference. Is it worth the money?
Yes, plural. It was a question similar to this one:

https://stackoverflow.com/q/500607

Some of the greatest questions on StackOverflow are open ended like that.

I've gotten people to reverse closures before. They closed a Q&A pair I made on the finance site where I explained how I did something specific with the ledger software. Closed, then reopened with a positive score.

Not this time, I guess. I linked that question as an example but it didn't really convince anyone. I was frustrated but eventually I just accepted it, left it alone and went away for a few days.

Came back later to find they had just deleted the question along with the one answer I managed to write. That made me feel like shit. Certainly didn't expect that, especially not from a stack exchange site that's still in beta and thus in need of content.
First thing I went looking for, but couldn't find one. Can it really be called a newsfeed without RSS?
"The fossil fuel companies just serve their customers"

They also put out disinformation and lobby politicians..

That's not to say that we're not personally responsible though - we are. We were warned and did nothing.
But in a stick shift, the engine brakes, even in the highest gear ie 5th or 6th - the car slows on it's own about 3x quicker than an automatic in overdrive.
Remember that there are a few common elements, like <p> and <li>, that you usually don't need to close.
YES! Thank You!

But there was more on sites like rbth, onlyinrussia, or some such. Much more detailed pictures.
This is a very typically ignorant point of view. It's best characterized by "Everyone who thinks america is the best place to live is some fat white loud dude living in Texas, who's never left".

I'm not american. I spent just over half my life outside the US. There are 10's of millions of us.
Hong Kong's Last Remaining Whole-Roasted Underground Hog [video]
I see Skiff also advertises itself as "end-to-end" encrypted. This is the same misleading advertising as ProtonMail is guilty of. Traditional email cannot be E2E encrypted because of protocol limitations. You can technically achieve E2E encryption if using PGP, but if the private keys are not in your control then it is effectively pointless.

ProtonMail can only guarantee E2E encryption without PGP if you are sending email to another ProtonMail user. I don't know if Skiff also offers this special kind of encryption. Either way, they should be more upfront about the level of privacy they can offer.

I had a read of Skiff's page on E2EE. It is very carefully worded and, from a skim read, is not upfront about the fact that un-PGP'd email sent and received through Skiff can be read by Skiff.

https://skiff.com/blog/end-to-end-encryption-email

Oh, one more thing. Skiff's SMTP server (inbound-smtp.skiff.com) is running on AWS in the United States which means it will be beholden to US warrants. Skiff does not have a warrant canary. Getting big Crypto AG vibes from this.
This is Krasnoyarsk dam. It is located in small town of Divnogorsk some 40km up the Yenisei river. I was raised in Krasnoyarsk and have seen this with my own eyes.
Joplin is great try it. I self host mine, it syncs between devices, encrypted notes.
I actually think we should also include a hood height limit.

I would be for a CDL for any vehicle that is tall enough that an aver age pedestrian standing on the street cannot see over the hood.

I'm over 6 feet tall and I regularly have trouble doing this as a pedestrian in the USA. I can only imagine how it is to be smaller.
I'm really liking writing HTML in markdown. Write the markdown, feed it to commonmark's parser, splice the text together in ad hoc sorts of ways. Robust, trivial.

Css on the other hand I hate more every day I look at it. Write some, see if it behaved as expected, it did not. Iterate until angry. There's something fundamentally wrong in my mental model for what the style text is likely to do to the appearance of the page.
Those weren't affected by dieselgate
Show HN: Play QuakeSpasm – a Quake game engine based on FitzQuake in the browser
Original source: https://github.com/sezero/quakespasm
My fork: https://github.com/midzer/quakespasm/tree/emscripten
Why don't containers already solve that problem? You can unload individual containers just fine, even put them on a truck for last-mile delivery. And then there's this American idea of putting entire trailers on flatbed cars, so you can just roll them on and off.
You can just make a GitHub repo with what you have. It'd still be valuable to the community
Ah, thanks, very coolio! Great to see this as a feature, haven't quite seen that mechanic well and I think it's a really great way of implementing it! :D :)
It is a Linux distribution that is based on Fedora Silverblue (another Linux distribution). What makes these distributions special is that they have an immutable/readonly root file system, which means that only /var (which contains /var/home) and /etc can be manipulated directly by root.

By having less moving parts, it is much easier to provide a Linux operating system that works (more) reliably on many different machines.
You could use the parser from commonmark instead of diy'ing your own
There exist programs to export them to markdown or what have you. Dunno how well they handle embedded media. I do a lot of copy-pasting screenshots or embedding PDF pages… or entire pdfs.

[edit] “why screenshots?”

1) To record gui workflows, walkthrough-style.

2) to record whole screens of values from guis while preserving formatting perfectly (think: cloud dashboard vital stats screens for various resources)

3) to record short message exchanges from ephemeral messaging with all the formatting intact with zero extra effort. (Think: feature discussion in a periodically-cleaned chat channel; I can always turn it into text later if I need to, recording with screenshot is fast)

4) plus now that it’s almost as easy and reliable to copy-paste from images as from regular text, on macOS and iOS, why not?
The same problem exists with manned and autonomous vehicles here though, it seems. Only for autonomous vehicles you don't have to worry about the safety of personnel. They might need digging out come the end of the storm?
Just build a giant bathtub and tow that /s
My guess is the secrecy of the project was the main contributing factor to its failure. There were no vetting on the products, feature, design, development process, technologies, language choice, etc. Too many people read Skunk Works and thought they were Lockheed Martin.

The language choice probably contributed somewhat. Smalltalk used to have problems with source version control and configuration management. It's difficult for multiple people to work on the same codebase. Merging change was difficult as the individual development environments were modified. The rapid prototyping was probably a false lead as it lured decision makers into thinking lower development cost.

By and large when the only thing about the project you can talk about is the language used, it is probably doomed to fail.
The content server is fine, but it's the managing of the library that is done in the desktop application. I have a home server that I use to host Jellyfin and such, and Calibre is the one application that wasn't really built to be managed from a web interface. In fact, the Docker container I use basically pipes an X11 environment to a VNC web client.
This New "Her" based AGI architecture is setting the stage for AGI in 2024