skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> SQL doesn't have any form of abstraction at all. It's completely impossible to write reusable, adaptable SQL.

SQL is the abstraction. It's a high-level DSL which saves you from the low-level details of an ORM.

Unfortunately it came out 20 years before the first ORMs, so people default to thinking that ORMS must be an improvement over SQL.
Following that vein — or perhaps that vane, in vain — I hope you don’t mind my also pointing out that it’s terribly “florid”.

Sorry. Truly.
If you’ve spent any time on discord gaming communities you’d know. Roblox, Minecraft etc are absolutely rife.

As an example, the /r/pokemon discord had an ugly situation where predators were exchanging rare pokemon trades with kids for nudes.
In 2017 1 in 3 machine-readable passports could not be verified for authenticity [pdf]
Ask HN: Are there tech layoffs in government?
There has been a lot of news around tech layoffs at companies. Are people experiencing the same working for government?
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BlockSurvey-Web3 alternative to Typeform and surveymonkey
Web3 privacy-focused token gated forms/surveys.
Bicycles are good, but America lacks any real infrastructure and I'm not foolish enough to share the road with cars.
> the answer to that problem in this approach is to do multiple step upgrades, rather than skipping

That's what I said

> That deprecated usage (of the thing being deprecated) should be replaced (in your code, with the thing that replaced it, in the language/library) before it (the deprecated thing in the language/library) is removed (from the language/library);

The example in OP was that they were upgrading major versions after-the-fact, so they've missed the transition period (say, 2 major versions, after which deprecations are removed).

In my experience it has often not been beneficial to try and upgrade through multiple versions after the fact, when instead a big-bang update provides opportunities to improve the overall structure and quality of the code, because those things that were deprecated were done for a reason, and the thing being upgraded may have improved significantly in structure, usage, performance, etc in that time.
How are these bad actors coordinating hashtags in a way that can't be detected?

If they really have some sort of secret channel that no one else can infiltrate, why not just use that to distribute stuff directly instead of running an evil cabal of hashtags?

Surely, even given the evil cabal of hashtags, you could find a lot with simple heuristics? When you ban a tag, track which new new hash tags suddenly explode in popularity. Pull a list of hashtags with an unusually high number of links/images to sites that don't normally get linked? Track the people who follow these hashtags, and see what hashtags they go to next

If you actually want to fight the problem, it doesn't require a huge amount of resources - the problem is entirely that Meta has no actual desire to fight the problem (after all, it costs money and doesn't produce any benefit to them)
AWS will discontinue WHOIS lookup for email-validated certificates
Four day week as in four days of ten hours or as in 32-ish hours a week?
I had no idea Gumroad et al. took their percentage on top of taxes. Seems shady.
I use this method and became converted after a long lived refactor branch caused merge hell, delayed a project for many months and caused all manner of bugs that we were fixing for a long time afterwards.

My very wise and experienced CTO said to me something along the lines of: "if you don't think it's possible to break a big refactor down into small steps, then you're probably not thinking hard enough". That has stuck with me.

I wrote a blog post on atomic development a while back which references the Mikado method. https://tomsouthall.com/blog/atomic-development.
My case -20°C.
Prefer that to 30°C +
I recently did a very similar thing, but for visualizing DNS records on IPv4: https://reversedns.space/
Signed,

Publius
Which model is the best to run on M3 max ATM?
It should be none.

As in zero chance that US Senate will pass this restoration of R in R&D tax exemption over 5-year amortization.

And it won't be across the partisan line (nor party-line-ish).

But it will be a fight between Hawk and Dove over debt issues.
But it seems associated with blockchain and something named filecoin?

There goes all credibility.
> CPU with lots of cores is basically required

Funnily enough, the game devs were saying that the game is mostly single-threaded unless you're using mods. Each mod runs on a separate thread. They're working on changing this though! They'd like to see the game become multi-threaded this year (https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/11/09/parallel-rustc.html), which would improve performance a lot.
However, if we had glasses that looked like and were as light as regular sunglasses that had similar functionality but over wireless? That could be cool (and I suppose is the original google glass idea).
Riding a long john cargo bike is much nicer than riding a bike with a trailer. Cargo bikes ride almost like a normal bike, it's easier to navigate narrow passages, and parking your cargo bike is easier than parking a bike with trailer. I can walk my cargo bike through doors on my own, it is almost impossible when riding a bike with a trailer.

It takes me 3x as long to get the trailer outside, attach it to my bike, seat the kids etc. than it does with my cargo bike.

Trailer does have bigger capacity, so it is nicer for extended trips. But for everyday riding, a cargo bike is 100x better.
I didn’t know this is how it would work. I had hoped they would just confiscate the elected officials personal property or throw them all in jail.

Those sorts of variance in taxes would not be good for anyone.
Digital anonymity is the higher-level concept being discussed, but the underlying issue which it relates to is that of a chilling effect, which is a timeless phenomenon.

> The "chilling effect" refers to a phenomenon where individuals or groups refrain from engaging in expression for fear of running afoul of a law or regulation.

> Laws that chill free expression do not provide the appropriate level of breathing space for First Amendment freedoms.

https://www.thefire.org/research-learn/chilling-effect-overv...
That's exactly my point. Having studied it - what you're telling us represents about 0.025%.

Never would I take a stance at such a low percentage - it isn't representative.

Even after millions of years, it isn't a significant portion of what climate is and was.
>I find this argument stupid and disingenuous. Technology exists to reduce or eliminate labor. If you're pro technology only until it makes you, the human, redundant, you're anti-technology.

This smells like the "Yet you participate in society, curious!" comic. Is this just for upvotes' sake? "Job market relevancy" during George IV meant returning to the coal mines at best.
That's very kind, thank you!

Maybe you're interested to know that I'm currently trying to isolate the TCC backend and make it reusable with a binary IR: https://github.com/rochus-keller/TccGen/. I would consider QBE, but unfortunately it doesn't support 32 bit architectures, and the TCC code is time tested (albeit not particularly structured and modular so far).
Isn't this a similar argument about controlling cryptography that happened in the "Crypto Wars" (90s) [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_Wars
The game state clears on reload, so here's a wee console snippet to export your list of elements:

console.log(JSON.stringify({discoveries: window.$nuxt.$root.$children[2].$children[0].$children[0]._data.discoveries, elements:window.$nuxt.$root.$children[2].$children[0].$children[0]._data.elements}))

I'll figure out how to re-import the state later, but it's past midnight for me now.
> But LLMs simulate the abstract thinking for you

This isn't my experience at all. Or rather, it isn't my experience that people are able to use them to do this, effectively. So if a candidate tries to do that, that's signal.

The point of an interview is to - very imperfectly! - get a sense for how people think and work. If a candidate defers all their thinking to an LLM, that's something I'd like to know about them!

But I've never seen anyone do this in an LLM-allowed interview. Instead, they use it as a more effective version of how people have long used web search and IDE autocomplete, if you allow those. It speeds up the boring parts of interviews where people fumble over silly syntax issues or "what is python's method for xyz thing called" that don't tell me anything about how they think and work in a real setting.
The Weather Network has an IA bot now that you can ask “do I need to wear a coat tomorrow” or “should I bring an umbrella”. It really feels like a “how can we use AI for _anything_”, but only really shows that looking at a weather forecast doesn’t require a lot of intelligence in the first place, so there’s no real problem to be solved by adding the artificial variant.
Yes! Because everyone will have small nuclear reactor in the backyard, just in a case photovoltaic become dirty. So why not micro Tesla factory as well?
That is a misrepresentation of the argument. The point is not that 90 workers are outraged, the point is that the business owner will spend 90% less and keep the difference for him, accumlating wealth. The "wealth pie" is now more concentrated in only a few hands, and in the next technological evolution, the same process occurs, which leads to an always increasing concentration of the wealth available with less and less people. The Luddites did not say to keep the 90 people subsidized (that again is a rhetorical misrepresentation and very dismissive of the work force). They said that the wealth available had to be distributed more evenly between the people who created this wealth and who are impacted by the change. As the capitalists of the time refused, they smashed the machines and the other side said they were against progress.
The fact is that we do not put the same meaning in the word progress: if a society becomes more and more a society of masters and servants with less and less possibilities for the lower class to better their condition, is that progress? There is a convergence at play here : real life communism and extreme capitalism are the same thing, the monopolization of wealth by a small class of people by every mean possible and then, making this admissible through communication to the masses.
I also recommend checking this: https://codisec.com/binary-data-visualization/ - visualization of binaries by mapping n-grams into n-dimensional space.
Weaver, a family of LLMs focused on creative writing
Just search "Netherlands bicycle snowing" on Google Images to see how normal it is. The top results show both children and the elderly cycling on ice and slush and snow.
Such a pity, for an otherwise excellent browser :(
> inherit fundamental limitations like finiteness and boundedness of everything

This, in my opinion, while true in principle, does not have to become visible to the simulation (from inside the simulation). For example, we cannot build a true Turing machine because we can't supply it with an infinitely long tape, but we can always get a new roll of paper and paste it back-to-back to the one being used, thereby creating an arbitrarily long tape. This process can't go on forever, but if you are sure you can erase and re-use some old tapes (e.g. because they're sufficiently far from 'now' and your machine will only backtrack so much and ultimately advance to the same 'future' direction) it's conceivable to have unbounded non-periodic processes on finite hardware.
> just let me build rockets

Once ze rockets are up, who cares where zey come down…

https://tomlehrersongs.com/wernher-von-braun/
SO is one of the examples where there isn't that much bloat, usually the longest answers are more detailed and let you learn, instead of just copy pasting (potentially) working code.

In the web Google is in part responsible for adding more content, they always suggested longer articles because it helped the algo get a better context. But for us humans it mostly doesn't make sense.

The same happens with books but I think we are at fault too, I would think twice about a book that is 80 pages, but the truth is that 80 pages could be a lot for most topics. I believe that the summarization capabilities of LLMs are gonna make a generation feel different about short content.
This is the next generation: artificial artificial intelligence
Almost feels like they bit off more than they could chew with some features. The end to end encryption of group chats is pretty revolutionary, but it's never really felt like it worked, and none of the competitors even try as far as I know. It's just too hard. Being federated probably makes every feature 10x harder to implement.

The bridging feature that they sell also never really worked properly for me. It would go down almost weekly, messages would go missing, get delayed, get reordered, etc. I never felt confident using it and would have to check the actual app to see it come through as expected.
They can lose entire countries worth of people and still have a plenty of engineers to run circles around others.
yeah that's worked out fantastically against any hundreds of companies that leak user data every year.

same thing will happen, a leak will occur and the authorities will be thrilled to offer me a 45 cent class action suit -- meanwhile bad actors will have the data and do who-knows-what with it.

if bad internet data is really the problem here then I would suggest more rigorous filtering of results rather than involuntarily signing up the world for a club that every individual may or may not want to be a part of by way of an eID.
> Conclusion: I’m reminded of the time I tried Dwarf Fortress, only this time the gameplay is even stranger.

As a fan of DF this quip made me giggle uncontrollably. Lovely article, great humour.
Encrypting Facebook Messenger with Jon Millican and Timothy Buck
How would that hit exactly look like?
How dare you! Ecological SUVS do not contains any hazardous materials! It is a lie
I don't see how such a "ban" could be effective. If you boot all minors from current social media platforms, they'll more than likely just migrate to an alternative solution - an alternative which will be less accountable and more opaque than the current ecosystem.
DCV Inspector
Why Meta and not the ISPs trafficking the child exploitation bits, or Xiaomi and Apple for selling the silicon that enables it? Or the GNU project for providing disk encryption software that hides it.

The end goal is to morally and legally blackmail every company to act as an active spy for the panopticon.
and don't forget defeating western world is a common dream of all Chinese people. they are fighting for this prospect until it comes true. this is helpful for encouraging people.
I forget how I got Trump (it was a different formulation than others mentioned though). But Trump + Titanic = Sinking Ship
> it's entirely couched within the realm of personal opinion

"AI output is fundamentally derivative and exploitative"

"If you want custom art, pay an artist."

"Human recommendations will always be better."

If you can't argue against any of those stances, what stances are up for debate?

Surely the person you're responding to was just posting their own opinion, and you're as much a bully as they are?
Y Combinator CEO apologizes after tweeting local politicians should 'die slow'
https://archive.ph/AxXXF
Cheerpj3: Java Virtual Machine for modern web browsers
Proof that even the most desperate heterosexual male can, given sufficient time and money, find a heterosexual woman willing to lower her standards far enough?

I’d really be curious how much he paid for API access and who, of the two, (eventually) gets the better ROI.
Yes sorry, I meant 43. It's been a long time :)

> However you may need to hide the virtualization from some games or other software, where Qemu/KVM can be more flexible.

How prevalent is this? Is it basically just multiplayer games employing anticheat?
That's disgusting. (Even though it was no physical sex and it was not clear to me, what was original in the script, what she consented to)
> Like say the Internet

It's not so clear cut ;) "Research at CERN in Switzerland by the British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee in 1989–90 resulted in the World Wide Web, linking hypertext documents into an information system, accessible from any node on the network."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet
Vision Mamba: Efficient Visual Representation Learning with Bidirectional SSM
I work in a technical role in state gov in Australia - it feels like there will never be layoffs in my org (24k total headcount, emergency service). the problems are what you'd imagine but it's a job for life if you want it.
Millions of years of past tracking of a baseball (assuming one could last that long) has little bearing on the trajectory when thrown yesterday.

We're informed by past conditions and responses - but the most recent conditions (climatic parameters steady state wrt decadal means for past several thousand years + most recent hundred years of atmospheric change) are what matters now wrt AGW.
I live on the top of a hill and have 6 months of dark cold weather with snow and I use a cargo bike for around 12kms every day. The roads are covered with salt to prevent the ice though. Works fine overall.
Personally yes, every day to the train station on my way to work.

The bike paths are a bit less busy but basically nobody changes their behavior except to go slower around the icy corners.

This is in Netherlands
> California has, by far, the largest share of solar in the mix. Grid-scale solar PV and concentrated solar plants covered 16.6% of the state’s electricity needs over the 12-month period, and rooftop solar another 11.3%. Those systems are backed by 7GW of storage capacity.

California absolutely killed their rooftop solar program. There’s been a massive drop in installs.

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/californias-rooft...

To add to your point, PG&E, the largest provider in the state, has had massive annual cost increases and has yet another one on the docket in 2024, even while it successfully gutted rooftop solar in the state.

They are now introducing (this has passed, it is happening) a rate schedule based on income meaning to pay your power bill you have to provide accurate income numbers to them.

It is also illegal to disconnect from their power service in California if you already have it.

https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/06/california-i...

https://www.sfchronicle.com/climate/article/pge-rate-increas...

What’s happening with renewable power in California is a warning to other states, not a model to be looked to for inspiration. High prices, illegal to unplug, the shredding of rooftop solar programs, income-based pricing and the data collection of this information (which I’m sure will never get used for anything else now that they have integrated income-based automatic billing) on every rate payer, etc.

We continue to have models like SMUD, Roseville Energy, and many others. Smud, which operates right next to PG&E, offers cutting edge solar programs, high levels of renewables and delivers it for 54% less on average.

https://www.smud.org/en/Rate-Information/Compare-rates

California is a broken model and it’s almost entirely due to regulatory capture in the state. People should be aware! And beware!
No, we should calibrate expectations accordingly and not assume that even the signatories to the rules won’t rush to exploit the loopholes the nanosecond they put their signatures there.

There should be a way to codify what “the spirit” of the rules is and that seeking a way to subvert it is against the rules too.
I have a car, it's use doesn't depend on the weather, but distance & stuff to carry (no cargo bike)
> Combining those two in a movie would kill the most patient directors

It killed Richard Stanley's career for 20 years. After which he got the make the fairly well-received Color Out of Space, just in time for his career to get re-killed by a domestic abuse allegation.
I feel like if you make a study with any conclusions, some article will cite it as fact.
> They always run into Nimbys who don't understand that sea birds etc are far more threatened by the direct effects of climate change than by projects that affect their habitats in a designed way.

That's incredibly dismissive of genuine environmental concerns about immediate effects on coastal ecology
Tangential but does anyone have any recommendations for hex map generators? I seem to remember something like this posted on HN but was hex maps.

When I search for them I get grid generators but not maps.
Definitely. But if you ask a candidate for a solution, and watch them ask chatgpt, and then you ask what the pros and cons are of the solution, and they ask chatgpt to explain them, then you have still learned a lot about the candidate.

The key is to be able to see the conversation, just like how you would previously want to see what people were searching or looking up on the web if you allowed that.
"Study finds ..."

"That's bollocks, I still like my car very much"

A completely valid study can find something to be true, one person's anecdote doesn't change the result.

Doesn't mean this isn't a valid study, but "it's bollocks because I don't think so" is not really a scientific reaction
He's wrong.

The US debt is just the amount of savings in US dollars that the non-government sector has accumulated from government spending that hasn't yet been paid back in taxes.

In other words it is a component of the money supply that allows people to save safely for the future.

The problem is the idea that this saving has to be rewarded in some way. It doesn't. The saving will happen anyway for status and insurance purposes and then have to be accommodated by additional spending.

It's the belief amongst economists like Powell that they are 'guided by the stars' that is the issue. We should not be using interest rates as a control knob. After 15 years it should be clear they don't work as advertised.

The stabilisation policy for an economy needs to be in the market for labour, not the market for money.
He's considered the pioneer of realism in cinema. He was also beyond conventionally attractive in his younger years, so much so that it's been memed on a few times. Look up "sexy eye roll".
You mean places like the Netherlands?
> Also, look at quantitative easing

Quantitative easing in US, UK, EU, and Japan happened during the economy balancing on the brink of deflation. I.e. when capital from the developing world was actively escaping into the developed world, when the developed economies were bathing in cheap capital and firms could borrow at zero or even negative percent, and the economy grew massively and required quantitative easing for simply avoid inflation.

We can see how money printing works when the economy isn't growing respectively, the inflation hits as it happened in EU, US and Japan now.

> Did you know that Indonesia has an explicit monetary policy to monetize a certain portion of their national debt each year?

No, I don't. The only sources I found tell the opposite.

https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2020/05/06/no-need-for-u...
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> disproportionately damaging to the environment compared to the alternatives

This is a new one to me. Do you have any source for that? Once a model is trained, it seems pretty obvious that it takes Dall-E vastly less to create an image than a trained artist. I have trouble believing the training costs are really so large as to change the equation back to favoring humans.
have you?
Hehe. That's lifetime funding if you go buy some Bitcoin.