skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I enjoyed the story, and want to offer some mild feedback. I found the reuse of "Hooli" from Silicon Valley distracting, spent the next few paragraphs wondering if this was supposed to be SV fanfic. I can think of a number of fake company names which would immediately suggest Google to the reader, without having that effect, as I'm sure you can as well.
I think Apple hardware is excellent. Anti-consumer, but excellent. Their software is a mixed bag and I'm not impressed with the majority of it.
It would probably help if you included that context in the beginning of the comment. Not just dumping ChatGPT output.

From an outside observer it just seems like you wanted ChatGPT to contribute on your behalf, not start a discussion of the code.
Imagine that you are someone with frustrating limitations on their physical capabilities. It might simply take a long time for you to get to their front door when someone rings. It might be that time wasters (salespeople, real estate agents, cult evangelists) knock so frequently that you might not want to open the door, which you can't see from your window. It could be that getting to the thermostat is painful or impossible. It could be that you've collapsed and need to be able to let in people who can help you.

Perhaps you've realized that the ancient single-wire system in traditional fire detectors doesn't work well or scale effectively, especially in a house that's been subdivided into units, and that it's nice to be able to silence an alarm at 3am in an unoccupied unit while you're on vacation.

Or, maybe you just like cool shit. You are openly wondering why people might be excited about home automation in the community most likely to be inspired by science fiction.

As someone with significant mobility issues, I'm going to take a hard pass on your sincere empathy.
Boy do I miss go/epitaphs; you could actually sort by departures based on tenure as well. But I've heard you could get into trouble for scraping epitaphs or specific ganpati groups to figure out who has left specifically around layoff seaon.
I'm using the term "oligarch" here to try make it clear why "let's have a very small number of not democratically elected people/organizations in control of your human rights" historically has proven not to be a very good idea, and why it's somewhat better to have a functioning democracy taking care of that. And as a huge chunk of our human rights are now digital and managed by corporations, it means that it's essential to maintain a free market, so that at least some choice is left.

It makes me feel old, but I do remember the times when the US lectured EU countries about those concepts. It's frustrating that people here who clearly are expected to be well educated and who might be coming from that country that used to lecture others about freedom, free markets and ownership rights no longer put any value in that.

It all appears to be empty words these days. "Stand your ground"? No? It's my hardware. I paid for it, with money I got from doing work. I own it. It's mine. I decide what Apps I install, I decide what music I listen to, I decide if I want to watch porn on it. Why has the concept of "owning" something lost all meaning to some?
Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing
A simple function call as a wrapper for a well optimized sql query just can’t be beat for performance. I have never understood why anybody would use an ORM, it’s usually as much work to learn and maintain them as SQL.
probably fun
sortof. except two differences:

1) i'm primarily interested in data types, rather than objects, as i believe most runtime errors are the result of unexpected changes to data types.

2) i'm suggesting a type system that does away with hand annotations and rather builds them on the fly by keeping assignment history and using that to determine when statistically anomalous types appear.
The Ryzen ones are pretty amazing. I have one with a 8 core 16 thread “Cezanne” chip that performs all kinds of tasks. (game servers, jellyfin, etc.)
Maybe dates in yyyy-mm-dd so non US users won't be tricked by 03/01/2024? Or this could be one of those rare places where today, yesterday and 2 days ago would be appropriate. But then, when does today starts? HN time zone (Pacific time?)
I know it's hard to know this since not everyone has access to JSR yet - but it's incorrect to say that adopting JSR (as a module author or consumer) will result in breaking changes. JSR is additive to npm, and can be used alongside npm in existing projects.

Node.js / npm module consumers will be able to use packages published to JSR with minimal differences from packages published to npm. Here's what that will amount to:

- The install command will be different - "npx <jsr command> i @foo/bar" versus "npm i @foo/bar")
- some of the configuration will end up looking different when you inspect it. JSR's npm integration makes use of npm aliases and requires a minor configuration change to .npmrc (that will be done for you by the command to install)

But at the end of the day, JSR is integrating with npm using its existing extension points, not replacing or circumventing it. As a practical matter, your Node.js code that imports dependencies from JSR will look the same as code that imports dependencies from npm. It's all coming from the node_modules folder at runtime.

Whether or not module authors choose to use JSR is more about DX than platform support (JSR works well in Deno and any kind of project that uses a node_modules folder). If as a module author, you would find it useful to:

- Publish actual TypeScript source files to the registry rather than build artifacts
- Have API docs auto-generated for your package from source code
- Use a registry with an explicit goal of being usable across JS runtime environments (rather than being tied to Node specifically)

Then JSR will likely be worth checking out. We'll be opening up JSR to everyone to try soon, so hopefully you can take a look and decide for yourself then :)
She has inherited wealth. Money means nothing and she took no effort to be cost-effective. The roof work was reasonably priced, but the rest was vanity-priced.
Instead of gnashing our teeth at the stupidity of these companies, maybe we could build competition that takes advantage of their competitive disadvantages, now that they have become inordinately obsessed with AI?

This is a wonderful, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: a shiny has obsessed all of these big companies such that they can’t think straight. Their obsession with profits at any cost has made them chase a (mostly) mirage, long before it has become stable or useful enough to actually justify eliminating so much of their workforce.

For those laid-off people with deep industry experience, it would not take much to put together a worker’s collective that could pick up the advantages that these established players drop on the floor thanks to their obsession with AI. And more importantly: as a worker’s collective, they wouldn’t be beholden to parasite-class “investors” that could force them down that same AI path in a vampire-squid obsession for profit at any cost.

Not that such a new entrant couldn’t make use of AI, but they could certainly use it from a more pragmatic standpoint, utilizing only known, well-proven attributes. As in, let these established companies stumble into the AI wilderness and carefully observe their progress. Let them waste billions figuring out what works and what doesn’t, and carefully follow in their shadow until they have done most to all of the heavy lifting.

Sure, the early bird gets the worm, but it is the second mouse that gets the cheese. Being a “first mover” is not always a winning strategy.
And many are owned by nonprofits, or ultra-rich people.
I agree on both counts. I could never finish the Iliad. No matter the translation, it can never overcome the catalog of horrors.

Whenever I see "scholar" in a sitename I go on alert. The About page confirms it in this case.
> This promise was, as far as I understand, effectively abandoned first by the introduction of "Baseline" compilers (Liftoff, in V8 terminology)...

This, I don't understand...

AFAICT the "baseline" compiler's entire job is to get pixels on the screen as fast as possible and then they use optimization strategies to recompile code sections or functions or whatever to speed it up based on $reasons.
Given there are deep ocean subs with nukes, unless you can decapitate those there's no such thing.

Moi? The whole idea (survival nuclear war) is so absurd that any such discussion borders on (political) theatre. It's the narrative power dreams up to maintain a state of fear; to justify their existence to the proles.

It's a page(s) out of 1984, while the masses are distracted into submission a la Brave New World.
Its kind of funny how people digging Tesla grave when BYD rise is a way bigger problem for all other car companies. Tesla is still producing a huge amount of EV compared to everybody.

Tesla strategy is to have huge factories, not many factories. They are not only building Giga Mexica. There is currently expansion of Berlin and Texas.

In addition to that they have many other things and locations. Such as their own lithium refinement. Battery materials factory in Austin and stuff like that.

> All that while Tesla seems to have lots cash at hand, so why don't they expand more aggressively?

As Musk has pointed out, the real limit isn't money but the ability to hire experts and to manage all these complex projects.
I'm reminded of a recent news story where scammers used multiple AI deepfakes on video calls to convince someone in a financial corporation to transfer them some 25 million dollars.

So I'm thinking it's possible to do this _right now_.
Total immersive obsession: the man on a mission to record every bird in Ireland
Why not? How do humans drive if not by vision?
You never even read the post enough to engage on the core topic. Keep confusing yourself. The original question was how to find out, you've done all but conflate your issues with my concerns. I quoted the one portion that expressed your position more than the paragraphs of diatribe trying to hide it. Good luck, goodbye!
If you want people to pay for a blogging platform, you should integrate paid subscriptions. That's the #1 important feature for any serious blogger and something that easily motivates them highly to pay you.
They should have just put everything on Tesla model 2. In Belgium everyone is excited for a 5000 EUR tax cut for EV vehicles below 40000 EUR. Lots of people interested in buying Model 3 and Model Y now. But 35000 EUR is still too much for the general public. If they could’ve released a model 2 for 25000-30000 EUR instead of the Cybertruck, it would have dominated the EV market.
I don't like the "post truth" trends in politics either, but I don't think there was ever a time when treating "news outlets" as "truth" was actually a good strategy. They've always had biases, blind spots, and agendas - just like they do now.
Pgroll: zero-downtime, reversible schema migrations for Postgres (xata.io)

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37752366

https://github.com/xataio/pgroll
That looks like a variant of Truchet Tiles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truchet_tiles
> Imagine two corporate raiders flying in their private jets, biding on the same block of controlling stock: who bought it first would be different depending upon which frame of reference you were in.

Market maker decides that, not them.
Tesla is basically against a whole country which has the world's second largest economy. The cheapest model of BYD is around $8,000 and the BYD will get much much more subsidies from the government. Big China companies like BYD, Huawei can literally get infinite funds and other resources from the government.
I grew up on dark mode on an Apple II+/e/gs. The white background mafia didn't take over until the mid-to-late-90s and forced everyone to use it. I'm entirely happy with the dark mode backlash and getting back to my roots.

Now we have the backlash to the backlash to dark mode which is rehash of the arguments in the 90s proving that time is circular.

Cite all the studies about "people are more productive with white backgrounds" and it just convinces me more that I'm not people.
A good way to think about it is that any operation for which Postgres needs to inspect the existing data can block for a long time if there's a lot of data. For example, adding a unique constraint has to block. There is, however, a workaround with "NOT VALID".

Same with adding a NOT NULL constraint without a default value. If there is a (constant) default value, then postgres can do that without blocking, which is pretty cool. That works because it only needs to modify metadata.

Same with changing column types, they need to go over the existing data.
1000% Hasura https://hasura.io/
There isn't one version/mix of composite/plastic. I know this because when I was younger, I got a filling and it got wrecked quite quickly. They then said they'd use a different mix but it was the last resort. I forgot the pros and cons. But I can say that approx 20 years later, my filling got replaced and the dentist (a different one, for sure) said 'this stuff breaks so quickly'.
This house was built in 1911, the population was over 20k which puts the population density at the time at over 4000 per square mile. That's not exactly rural.

The current population is only at 54k or so now.
Maybe it’s just my phrasing but I consider the “slightly fancy” places you mentioned ($35/person) to be mediocre, not in the “it was bad” sense, just in the sense that it’s nothing particularly special and that it would be a meal that I could easily surpass at home with my own home cooking.

To me a fancy/good/special meal out is something that only a culinary school-trained chef with access to the restaurant supply chain can actually pull off.

I’m also thinking you didn’t include tax and 20% tip. “With drinks” implies at least two drinks per person? Or are we rationing, one per customer here? Do you tell your date they can’t order another glass of wine or can’t touch the cocktail menu, American light lagers only?

$50 a person with two drinks including tax and tip is like an evening at a chain restaurant like Texas Roadhouse or the Cheesecake Factory. Maybe not even that, you might even have to step down to Olive Garden.

Eating isn’t a hobby but eating out with service sure is.

No matter, this is all pedantry on your part. I already showed you that my ~$250/year gaming budget is relatively modest, and that’s coming from someone who doesn’t ever stop myself from buying a game I’m interested in.

If you have a single Netflix no-ads Ultra HD account you’re spending about the same cost on content you don’t get to keep the moment you shut the subscription off.

Hell, Amazon Prime charges $140 a year for basically nothing and 200 million people eat that shit up for breakfast.
I'm looking at such techniques that appear here on HN every now and then, and indeed, they are very impressive, but also something an intermediate 3D artist will do better with ease.

I think however, that the existence of such tools could perhaps motivate more people to create low quality 3D assets, that for many purposes are good enough - but people might be shy to do that due to many high quality assets shaming them... Once AI 3D stuff will flood the space, amateurs might start competing with it - or so I hope.

Also it's just a matter of time until we reach the 80% (from the 80/20 rule), 90% and 98% quality of these tools. The remaining 2% will still be of value in AAA titles though...
Yeah, that's not about life expectancy. He's saying it's unsafe for the rest of the world to give UAE control over anything needed for AI.
More so the fact that BYD's battery division is an absolute gold mine like AWS is for Amazon.

BYD is the primary battery supplier for most consumer electronics (you're iPhone is using a BYD battery for example)
I feel they only explained the "what" but not the "why". i.e., you do this and this and suddenly your code is 250x faster. But I want to know _why_ this is faster, or _why_ the old version is slow, which is not explained.
Celt. Franks came later from germany
1 in a million is the probability of correctly predicting a unique sequence of 20 coin flips, in the exact order. (E.g. first 10 flips heads, 2nd 10 flips tails, in that order - 1 in a million)
Funny how its always a Tesla killer, rather then a killer of the legacy manufactures. That's the actual story here.

BYD in China more broadly spell doom for GM and friends, far more then Tesla.
Have you considered setting up a web seed?

https://www.ubuntubuzz.com/2021/06/how-to-add-web-seeds-to-t...
What would be the Chinese equivalent of the illiad be? (well equivalents, there are going to be more than one)
robots.txt is relevant and effective, as is my DNT header.
I think those are a very different use case. sqlite is used for things like app settings. Both of those are heavyweight monsters designed for rather large data.

That said, I'm reading their documentation right now, and I think one or the other might slot into a different use-case I have where I do have rather large data. I'd last looked at this space quite a number of years ago, and both are way ahead of what I'd recalled.
Same story here. It's a shame.
Three questions: 1) is the population of Montana scattered anywhere close to what is it like in Norway? 2) Is there abundant hydro power in Montana, like in Norway? 3) do people in Montana pay maximum income tax of 17% and not having to save for their pension because Montana has a $1.5 trillion pension fund?
Embedded in that culture is the fact that the wait staff is often (legally) paid far less than the other people involved, and that their survival depends on those tips.

The pricing of the meal is what pays for the music, lighting, ambience and decor.

I'm not saying any of this makes sense, or that I think it's a good system, but I know too many people who rationalize poor tipping because they disagree with a system that the wait staff has no power to control.

I want the system to change, but I also don't feel that it's right to protest against it at the expense of the people least able to do anything about it.
I’ve used Vis JS Timeline for this recently: https://visjs.github.io/vis-timeline/examples/timeline/
Well done. It's horrifying that the Python standard library "+/-" operators don't handle DST correctly.
Of course of houses. Houses are the best example - they can be built for invested money, then bought as an investment, closing the loop. The fact that you can't afford one is secondary, there are thousands of empty houses anywhere, their prices are just kept high by the incoming capital.
BYD's battery division is an absolute gold mine like AWS is for Amazon.

BYD is the primary battery supplier for most consumer electronics (you're iPhone or Macbook is using a BYD battery for example).

Tesla doesn't have an "AWS" equivalent to subsidize it's automotive division, as the Solar+Grid Battery+Battery Management Systems divisions have much lower margins and higher upfront cost.
Fair enough. The Overton Window shifts quickly these days.
Also why is it controversial? Apple has a marketplace and it has ToS that allow it to pull any app.

What's next, they can't preinstall the Music app? I foresee some major enshittification of this ecosystem
How does VC work in China? How did he get his money?

Snooping a bit on Wikipedia, it says that he partnered with his cousin who was some kind of banker.
it’s tiny. it’s like comparing a village of hundreds to a metropolis like tokyo/nyc/london.

totally different problems/solutions. there is no equivalence, there is almost nothing in common between the two.

norway should be compared to it’s geo and cultural neighbours, sweden and finland.
New Stable Cascade image-generation model – try it online
You've taken a wild leap from narrow psychometric observations to characterizing all of humanity, induced wholly from the observation that "children's IQ is closer to that of biological parents than to adoptive parents" (itself a complicated and tenuous finding). There is far more variation within large cohorts of humanity than between them. No, I don't think you can explain any kind of "Eurasian" dominance this way.
Was just trying it out earlier this week. Or at least wanted to, after hearing all the good opinins about it over the net. Unfortunately using xmonad it simply refuses to display in certain positions. When I found a position where the interface was displayed, there was still no tooltip on the icons, which makes recognizing their function non-trivial. Anyway, after I spent 8 minutes trying to find a place to set custom include folder unsuccessfully for my project, I gave up, and went back to QT creator.

Will try again next year.
It was built in the 20th century.
Unfortunately timezones have the nasty ability to change.

See: https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2019/03/27/storing-utc-is-not-a...
Per the article, “free” shipping (and returns) incentivizes inefficient behavior. Instead of grouping your purchases and avoiding speculative purchases, you just buy anything you think you might like, whenever you think of it, and inefficiently ship things one at a time.

Even worse, the shoppers who are being thoughtful effectively subsidize the worst actors. My return rate for non-damaged goods is sub 1%, but I pay the “baked in” price of shipping for the average purchaser - the same rate as the person returning 99% of their orders.
Proxy companies are a big winner now
No it isn't (an average Norwegian pays close to 40%). There is basically no difference between taxes paid by employee or employer (besides the lack of transparency built into the tax system) all of is is still coming from the same pot. Denmark is pretty much the only country in Europe that isn't purposefully trying to trick their taxpayers...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_rates_in_Europe
Or maybe they are just fucking up since their CEO is occupied with other things. Or they face an uphill battle against an opponent that is essentially state-backed. Or it's just very hard to scale up a car manufacturer, even if you want to very hard.

History shows that no company ever was as superior to its competition as it may seem at their height. Shit's hard yo.
So how much do people of Norway have to save up from their income for their pension?
Reading articles author did not asked students to read it all. They read sections, wrote essays on topics that show up in poem etc. The poem was basis on which other stuff was taught - like American style essay writing.

Author spent roughly a year preparing the seminar.
And even if AI was going to be successful, you always lift-and-shift in stages, evaluating at each step to ensure that your strategy is working and that you aren’t heading in entirely the wrong direction.

This sudden wholesale replacement of employees that many companies are doing in favour of some unproven AI initiative is nothing more than the C-Suite suits and their parasite-class “investor” masters being dumb AF and chasing profit regardless of the risk.
I agree with you in the sense that it isn’t a constructive form of communication in the sense that the short form prevents nuance and complexity which inevitably leads to conflict.

It made Trump president and gives Musk control of the media narrative though so it certainly works for some people.
He spams this nonsense all over the net. He thinks "lead deficiency" causes schizophrenia, among other nonsense.

https://warosu.org/sci/?task=search2&ghost=false&search_text...

He denies the above is him, but makes all the same characteristically batshit claims: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39088089
You can export your files to PSD format (among others) any time. Even if it's pulled, you don't lose your work.
Add to that the removal of public APIs and things like RSS feeds. I would much rather use an API than scrape you, I will even pay a small fee, but if you don’t provide anything, then you’re getting scraped.
This is entirely made up. One tell is the word "moderators".