skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bah, you could never convince me aleph numbers are real!
Apparently to save money on unions.
I kind of disagree. It's not "user friendly" but it is very descriptive. They are codenames afterall. Take "dolphin-2.6-mistral-7b-dpo-laser" for instance : with a little LLM background knowledge, just from the name you know it is a 7 billion parameters model based on Mistral, with a filtered dataset to remove alignment and bias (dolphin), version 2.6 and using the techniques described in the Direct Preference Optimization (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.18290.pdf) and Laser (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.13558.pdf) papers to improve its output.
"No one" is not accurate. But you are almost entirely correct, yes
Okay. This is very realistically your hobby horse, and you aren’t respecting that people might want a relationship with you without you lecturing them about this thing that you just care a lot more about than they do.

I don’t think that people should be lining up to show sympathy in this scenario.
> Private Eye would have more money and more eyeballs if it had a sufficient online presence

Are the publications putting everything online making loads of money by doing so?

Because they sure don't act like it.

They pay like shit, and they keep writing articles about "the ugly, ongoing collapse of U.S. journalism"
The article notes that Orwell’s father was an overseer of an opium farm in India.

You might ask if it was just for medicines. Nope, the British Empire was also in the drug business, and it fought two wars against China to keep the opium trade going.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars

Setting aside the horrors and humiliations of colonialism (not to mention what came afterwards too), ultimately this is why Hong Kong and Shanghai are different from the rest of China. That has its effects on the technology industry even today.
There was no discussion. The poster stated a claim without providing any explanation or examples. That's the dangerous part. There absolutely should be a discussion, but neither you nor the original poster want to have one. You both wanted to make a one-sentence, circular argument to claim the moral high ground.
You may be confusing what exactly decentralization is referring to in this case.

BGP may be fully decentralized for IP, but if your only providers are your ISP and Amazon then your local industry has consolidated to the point that decentralization of the last mile and services don't matter. Two entities have full control of how your packets get to other people.

The decentralized networking the above poster is talking about is a layer on top of this existing 'polluted' network where your traffic is encrypted in it's own layer and goes to servers/services not controlled by said providers.

The particular problem I have with OPs idea this will give them some measure of privacy or safety. This isn't how law enforcement works. They will bust individual nodes and force the operators to keep them running all while gathering information on users of the network. They'll capture more nodes and unmask users with threat of even longer jail time to those that do not defect.
I'd very much prefer something that works seamlessly in 95% of the use cases and makes me do some work or look for an alternative for the remaining 5%, than something that makes me do work in 100% of the cases.
Sports journalism has also never been a paragon of "real journalism." While there are certainly examples of great investigative pieces, much of what is written is dependent on access to and cultivating relationships with the subjects themselves (who in turn needed the media outlets for public exposure). With the internet and social media, athletes seem have decided to cut out the middleman via a slew of their own podcasts/yt channels/IG feeds.
Mind the Mental Stack
What I meant to say: a game studio dropping 2000 employees seem like A LOT until you consider it's Microsoft and it's "just" 8% of their workforce.
> “Getting married and having kids will give you purpose and make you happy” must seem novel

It's not novel; it's just blatantly false for large swaths of men, young and old alike.
Unpredictability in Economic Analysis, Econometric Modeling and Forecasting
A good primer to Hendry's work:

"The first entails that conditioning information does not alter uncertainty, so that the unconditional distribution is the best basis for all three activities, which are therefore on an equal footing of ‘uninformativeness’. The second adds the possibility that even when the distributional form is known, either unconditionally or conditionally (so otherwise there would be some predictability), an outcome can be highly discrepant at an unexpected
time, and thereby impose substantial costs. Such outliers do not persist, but are usually in dfferenced variables (like rates of return) so can permanently change a level. The third concerns unanticipated shifts in distributions, which do persist, as with location shifts."
I would re-up my forklift cert and go do construction. This would be difficult work, but would keep you gainfully employed with a roof over your head almost anywhere in the United States.

It would not be hard to find a job in construction even with a drug offense and no degree.
(2023)

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38698190
How could the U.S. get to the moon in the 1960's when it seems super difficult to do it today? Humans on board.
> One of the questions I ask my SF friends is what the entrepreneurial 20-year-olds are doing these days. Are they starting a billion-dollar company, or are they more interested in becoming a memelord who is trying to incite a movement on the Internet? I’m not sure we’re seeing a surge of exciting startup creation, but we sure are seeing a lot more online craziness.

This is a fun question. These things could mean the same thing: Starting a website. But too many people think that "becoming a memelord" and "inciting a movement" means trolling around on someone elses website. The only reason people start their own website today is to start a billion-dollar company.
If you have to use TSQL like me, you can use BEGIN/ROLLBACK TRAN with an OUTPUT clause to easily confirm, then just change it to COMMIT. I actually like this workflow quite a lot
Ask HN: Large companies with good customer support?
This is a bit of a rant which is a result of trying to negotiate a quota increase with a large cloud provider. The experience was absolutely terrible. It felt like I was talking to man / machine hybrid which kept asking me the same questions over and over. I really don't see why it should be this big of a deal asking for 2 more vCPUs when 64 were previously granted.

I've had a similar experience with my mobile carrier - absolutely cryptic and opaque to get any sort of help.

Are there any examples of large companies with excellent customer support or is it just not doable?
Activision Blizzard games are on a downtrend for quite a while. I imagine now post-layoff how it feels to work there, if before there were already plenty of cases of abuse.

Hope the laid-off folks have a better outcome long-term.

Such a terrible acquisition from Microsoft. I doubt the IP is worth that much, so many people are full of those grindy lootboxes games looking to something new and fresh.

If I could short that acquisition, I would go all-in.
Wi-Fi has the same challenges as if someone just tapped an Ethernet cable. (Except the Ethernet line can't be sniffed from the parking lot.) The amount of unsecure traffic on a basic Ethernet network makes Wi-Fi security slightly better.
Sloot claimed his method was lossless, and it supposedly started out from a digital representation (without compression artifacts such as introduced by DCT or FT).
That’s genAI, though, no? LLMs specifically deal with language.
To me it’s a self evident truth but unfortunately I can’t demonstrate it
Slightly weird, though grammatically acceptably, as far as I know.

But the debate is actually coming from something else your example shows nicely. When you select something from a drawer, you select entities. Usually when we select from a relational table, we select properties. In SQL, the drawer is not a thing.

A different way to keep the English-style would be to add a BUT-JUST-[THEIR] clause.

SELECT
FROM socks
WHERE size = 45
BUT JUST [THEIR] color

All fairly tongue in cheek of course. SQL isn't going to change, so there's really no point in worrying too much about it :-)
> as long as it’s done with user consent in the privacy policy

No one¹ reads those. I wouldn’t consider that informed consent.

¹ Not literally. I read them but personally know no one else who does.
I shouldn't be surprised given what website I'm on, but it's crazy that people will litigate the finer points of replacing human judgement of human arts rather than reject the premise outright.
Nah.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_treaties_unsigned_or_u...

https://www.cfr.org/blog/international-treaties-united-state...

https://civilrights.org/edfund/resource/where-the-united-sta...
Your mileage may vary, but my experience in the South was that most people (especially people with a few to many acres) don't care if you use their land if you ask. I've hunted or fished on a few strangers' land. I've used land I didn't own without asking, but did live in the neighborhood and the woods were largely considered communal if people weren't jackasses.

A lot of people own land because they want access to it, not because they want to deny everyone else access. Just go up to the nearest house and ask if you can walk through their land, or if they know who owns it so you can ask. People are generally nice about it.

You can also largely ignore corporate ownership of large swaths of land for stuff like logging or mining. They don't monitor it, and are unlikely to make a big deal of a hiker crossing through if you don't walk directly through the part they're working.

There's a greater conversation about private ownership and access to nature, but asking is a practical workaround in the mean time.
I've been on the lookout for new languages as well (though haven't created anything myself - unlike you).

I'd say, getting the data (1) and triggers/procedures (2) are totally different domains with regarding to syntax. For select (i.e, 1), I have my ideas, but for (2) I've no clue. For (2), now that I think about it, I would say there are two additional levels of syntax that need to be solved: first, in addition to "getting data" you need also to modify it, so there need be syntax for that part (i.e the UPDATE part of SQL); and second, how to you connect these modifiers to events that happen, this is yet another domain of syntax IMO. (This latter feels like a general purpose programming language already, so maybe build it in to any of them which have great syntax already?)
I doubt any of this matters compared to the loss of advertising. If the classified ads still were what they were in 1990, newspapers could source their news from National Enquirer and government press releases and still afford a large staff.
Because I read the whole article, and didn't interpret the one usage of "white" as racist. That neighborhood is wealth, 75% white people, with median age 35. So "wealthy, young, white" describes the demographic. Nothing in the article refers to race in any way a reasonable person could construe as racist.
I get enough of this OKR/KPI crap from work. My personal life has no written goals, just aspirations I store in my head.

Life doesn’t need to be optimized to the nth degree
Its not quite true that none of those people are still around - a bunch of them work for Frostgiant & are working on Stormate.
Excited to share my journey in creating a Telegram bot that learns Japanese and answers Q&As, all thanks to https://flows.network/ built in Rust
> In reality there are multiple systems that work together over multiple timescales to produce the behaviors we observe. Some of those systems can have their contributions mimicked by other interventions. Because of this complexity you can never say 'it's really about X', the best you can say is 'X plays a major role' or 'X contributes Y percent to this observed phenomenon'.

You can say the same thing about computer systems - as long as you don't understand the underlying logic. If you don't understand that the chemistry of transistors doesn't matter as much as the C code, you can say exactly the same critique about how a thinkpad works: "So while applying an external electrical voltage can act in a similar manner as causing a neuron to fire, it is far less precise than the calcium and sodium channel mediated depolarization which implements normal firing. Said another way 'bioelectricity' is not simple....In reality there are multiple systems that work together over multiple timescales to produce the behaviors we observe. Some of those systems can have their contributions mimicked by other interventions."

Once you do understand the logic - the 'why' of von neumann machines and Javascript and transistors, it's clear that your claim isn't true and there is an underlying logic. The trouble is, until we positively identify that logic, we can't know if it exists or not and we're stuck debating the bioequivalent of the fundamental computational significance of the clock cycle speed of a CPU.
A code efficiency improvement of 5% (represented as a 5% improvement in CPU utilization) does not equate to a 5% improvement in equipment power draw though.

You at least need to factor in the percentage of an individual server's power draw that goes to the CPU, which is about 30% (again, on average).

So a 5% equipment power draw improvement would need at least a 15% code efficiency improvement (0.05 / 0.3 = 0.1666), assuming you're CPU bound on whatever your code is doing. I factored in the average CPU load (50%) to account for this, but it's heavily application dependent.
I have a Coway Airmega 150, and have been very happy with it. Coway makes a variety of models and they all are well designed. Mine is on the smaller side but it is quiet, automatic, and no annoying screens or beeps.
You have to wonder, if there is an exact duplicate of a role, do they settle it in a 1v1? Mortal Kombat?
This is where statistics can really blind you, a majority of that is out west. Major population centers are on the coast. So you would still need to burn jet fuel to get there in a reasonable time frame.
> This is valid SQL.

> SELECT 1;

Something like Oracle's "dual" table would handle this corner case. Or just selecting a value from itself:

FROM 1 SELECT 1;

or

FROM ::integer SELECT 1;

Or whathaveyou. In any case, the SELECT 1 case isn't fatal to putting FROM first, merely annoying.

> Intelligent tooling can and does already solve this.

It can progressively guess as you type, but it can't provide an upfront list of alternatives for autocompletion. That is an annoyance.
Forgive my ignorance towards watching and reading about sports, so being someone for whom the Sports Illustrated broke the surface of attention in the past four decades only when clickbait portals reported about the new year's swimsuit calendar or when it was mentioned - for the very same reason - in teenager movies from Hollywood but this all leads to being very content and a bit bored when the demise of journalism is illustrated by the fate of Sports Illustrated, that is now known for "been tossed around between a rotating crop of dodgy international middlemen for whom journalism was an afterthought". Probably there could be better illustration than Sports Illustrated for the collapse of classic journalism, other than the tired and loong worn out Sports Illustrated? (which feels like being a string of letters only, the aging and drying out milk cow of the expressively named Authentic Brands Group that sounds like a warehouse of famous whatevers for shady whoevers trying to shave pennies off of the memory of once significant things that meant something for people once, but not anymore, not really, stopped having content but still having a nostalgic and fading facade)
What are the obvious reasons? it's not like you have to actually keep the body in your apartment.
This is the obvious answer assuming the designer of SQL was a native english speaker.

Most of these arguments that it should work some way logical to the DB make too many assumptions about how the internals of the database work and don't think about how the query optimizer/planner might work very differently than the way a query is organized.

SQL is really old now, 50+ years, assumptions about how it worked or work are probably not that relevant across its entire history.

I first learned it almost 30 years ago now, it was definitely taught back in the day that SQL was one of those odd languages that was designed assuming you "wouldn't need an engineer" to write it. Laughable but would explain why engineers might not find the syntax logical.
There is a hammer. Some people are skilled and proficient when using the hammer, some new people sometimes hit their fingers with the hammer. Do not try to replace all hammers in the world with something better, make a better hammer and leave old hammer alone, then if it's good enough, proficient people will adopt it and use it and new people will save their fingers.
And even if you make a mistake and stray off the official path you are extremely unlikely to be shot.
Americans have tons of financial wealth, but generally lack cultural, spiritual, and other non-tangible forms of wealth.
If the end where fire comes out starts pointing towards space, you are having a bad problem and will not go to space^W^Whome today.
Open source isn't the only way to allow people to self-host. Before SaaS was a thing, nearly everything was a closed-source self-hosted application.
feral children never develop what I would call the higher thinking. They still have mobility, spatial, etc. But "consciousness" is probably not something they really put together.

This is just my opinion. I think it took most of your brain to formulate that rebuttal, not concurrently, but as a deep and rich model of how readers might respond to a given argument, and weighing in a narrative sense your remembered experience vs what you "heard" me say in your head when you looked at these squiggly lines. Probably you even had a nascent image of me that was an amalgamation of your past experiences with internet idiots (fairly!) etc.

That's a lot, lot more than what a bug does when it finds its way past a complex maze, and probably something feral children lack.

I think all our higher level "reasoning" is a cooption of these systems.

There's a point in infant development where speech and social skills are developed, after which they cannot be. I'd go so far as to argue you'll never make a mathematician or physicist out of a feral child. Something critical to our higher level thinking is formed then. If missed, it cannot be recovered.

The flip side is I deeply believe if you can hold this conversation with me, then we both can be the best mathematicians there are, if only we took time to develop that language.
I propose Japanese:

Green apples, from the refrigerator, select.
You can make all the rationalisations you want and operate however you see fit, but Homo Sapiens Sapiens is an omnivorous apex predator of the highest order.

Meat eating and tool use, borne out of the need to maximise the amount of calorie-dense food available are the reason we are here today discussing the finer points of vegetarianism.

Instead of being a blind zealot, I try to understand that life is a series of paradoxes and compromises. Balancing the fact that meat is good for me while minimising suffering for any plant and animal that crosses my path does feel more human than altogether discarding evolution, our DNA and place in the ecosystem for a wishy-washy ideology that only exists for people leading rich and comfortable lives.

Vegetarianism is a fine and commendable personal choice, as long as it doesn't devolve in proselytism.
Was confused until I realised I'd confused Zed, with Xi[1] which is also rust based, and which incidentally has a frontend called "Xim"..

Also there's a wiki-editor (like Tomboy[2]) called "Zim"[3].

[1] https://github.com/xi-editor/xi-editor
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomboy_(software)
[*3] https://zim-wiki.org/
I don't know about Trello, but i understand why B2B SaaS have this problem.
The main issue is the ability to support various authentication systems, protocols, eg. Okta SSO, Google, Password, Mobile apps, Custom SAML and dozens of other enterprise-y stuff.

To be able to support that most apps do it as first step is ask for an email to be able to redirect them to the right flow. So the problem is bootstrapping how does a user confirm it's him before he can login to the right system.

Most B2B apps are forced to deal with this because there's no one protocol here, and different paying customers have different internal systems. Asking the user to choose from a dropdown of 20+ paths is proving to be impossible of the extremely high customer support costs.

It's a cycle of misery
Yeah but if it works on Windows, who cares about the tiny tiny tiny vanishing percentage of Mac users? I would prefer Godot concentrate on implementing missing features and improvements rather than trying to support the tiny number of MacOS gamers who want to use a browser.
!expert only works if you have access to the AI features. Right now, only available to users on the Ultimate plan. General release for all subscribers is end of February.
> First they were not enslaved. Second, it wasn't for centuries. Raj was heavily decentralized with local autonomous governance over much of its territory

That is patently false. My ancestral family had owned land in what is present day Bihar going back to reign of Akbar. Their land was given to an Englishman by the British Raj and my ancestors became laborers on their own land and they were displaced and scattered in poverty.

So fuck off with your whitewashing.
> You'll also see this in action, without DRM, whenever you buy a razor

You can get an old school safety razor for under $20 and it will last forever. They are what double sided razor blades (the kind you normally see used in movies to split cocaine) were designed to fit into. Good razor blades can be found at a rate of about $0.05-$0.10 per, and last about 4-5 shaves - for me at least - before they start going dull and pulling. They also get me as clean of a shave as any other razor

Still not sure why people pay 10x more on cartridge systems, but maybe I'm just weird
There is this ongoing disaster

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accidents_and_incidents_involv...

which you don't hear as much carping as you could because the USMC seems less inclined to complain when it gets ripped off by contractors as other military branches.
Like the US became a pariah when it didn't adopt the Ottawa Treaty that banned anti-personnel mines? Or when it didn't ratify the treaty that established the International Criminal Court and later withdrew its signature?

The EU has teeth, because EU law overrides domestic laws according to the member states themselves. The UN hasn't, because it's an organization of sovereign states. UN treaties are only as strong as the states choosing to enforce them.
I also haven't recognized any changes as a regular user and listener. I'm not an artist so I haven't uploaded any music and I do wonder if the artist experience has changed at all. I'm definitely bracing myself for change if / when it comes, however. I plan to keep using Bandcamp until then.

When Epic bought the platform I do remember a similar reaction from folks, along with confusion because why would a gaming company buy a music platform, and what kind of dumb sweeping changes were they going to make? The Songtradr acquisition at least makes more sense from an industry standpoint. Personally, I feel better with the platform in their hands rather than Epic's