skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why build a custom arrow based columnar engine in Rust instead of using Datafusion or Polars?
I'd suggest not waiting 4 years to publish a postmortem, if you're serious
On the one hand this idea is brilliant - on the other hand if it caught on, there are some obvious opportunities for malware intrinsic to the approach :'(

I think I'd be too chicken to subscribe.
This is an excellent deep dive! Love the depth here Vicki
Hi.

Your product looks great.

Would you mind helping me understand the differences between RowZero and something like Equals.com?
He's talking about this article: https://www.engadget.com/uk-government-wants-to-use-ai-to-cu...
If I’m the type of user who would ever consider paying, I’m most definitely not the type of person who wants to ask a stranger on the internet to setup a new spreadsheet for me every time I want to use one. I wouldn’t even want to ask a friend or coworker.
To have a counter view of the few being unhappy as usual that a tv adaptation doesn't mean being the same as the book: foundation as a TV show is great.

I love it, would love to see more of it but I will probably start reading the books later.
Yes? All the time? "Stay out of trouble" is definitely not universal among Linux users. Not too long ago, the idea would have been kind of a fairy tale.
Capture the market first, and only then monetize full tilt until the experience is unbearably bad. The shareholders will love it!
I'm having trouble figuring out what MAX is from the website. Would someone please chime in?
EA Sports WRC has a bug that can be fixed by setting the date to March 1st. https://twitter.com/EAHelp/status/1763192739322085598
Yes.

> During the morning on Thursday, no ICA store in Sweden could accept card payments. Instead, you had to use cash, Swish or pay via their app.

> The reason behind the problem was an internal problem in the payment systems at ICA as a result of an extra day in February, leap day.

ICA being the biggest grocery store chain in Sweden
Yes, Excel compatible: https://rowzero.io/docs/spreadsheet-functions

If we're missing any formulas you need, message me at breck at rowzero.io and we'll add them (usually within 24 hours).
The original post this replied to was so devoid of substance that I'm not sure it deserved a reply.
rtfm.lol I guess
They sponsor my browser of choice, Vivaldi.

Unlike Google, I can click the second tab every time and it goes to image search. Wait, actually they put "copilot" there and image search is the third tab now. Either way point stands: no shuffling of tabs.

Image search is actually better than Google. I can search for exact image sizes. Google used to offer this! I can just type my screen width and height and find the perfect wallpaper. Wait, it says "at least" here, not "exactly," so I guess it just stores the total amount of pixels of an image and then multiplies the width and height you inputted...

Can you believe this? It's 2024 and I can't even find an image by size on the Internet. I can't even trust the second tab is going to be the images tab. And some people think AI is going to fix software. It's ridiculous. It's just laughable. And so depressing.
Then when Israel continues their genocide you strip them of the munitions we supplied. If they continue then a global force can move into Israel and enforce a no fly zone and prevent further bombings.

If we don’t even take the first step of trying to stop it we are complicit and the primary reason it is ongoing.
No SIMD in the parser path... yet... :)

The main win from writing our own custom parser is writing directly into the final in-memory format from the parse stream without any intermediate allocations or data movement.

Awesome project! Adding it to my list of things we may plug into in the future.
Defcon: Preventing overload with graceful feature degradation (2023)
> “ But then somewhere around 10nm everyone just gave up and started handing out random numbers.”

Hahaha
This AI is surprisingly clumsy, routinely placing letters in positions which previous guesses should have eliminated. I suppose I should be impressed, in classic talking-dog fashion, that a generic language model can play this specific game at all - but it clearly falls far short of what you could expect from a targeted algorithm.
Row Zero frontend dev here. Totally understand where you're coming from; we've heard this request from others and are interested in exploring a seamless solution for `alt` reliant power users like yourself.

Drop me an email if you'd be interested in user-testing a solution! billy[at]rowzero.io
Did you try flipping directions? "... why capitalism is better than socialism"?

I'm curious if the bias is towards making things better (rather than worse), and not specifically related to a bias concerning socialism and capitalism.
Sounds like it comes from a minstrel show so it’s definitely American folk.
So you saw a post about C++, it didn’t mention “Rust” once, mentioned “memory safe” languages which there are dozens of, and yet found a way to shoehorn in a dismissive comment about a meme. Nice.

We’ve reached the rewrite-in-rust meme stage of questioning whether the author is a nefarious crypto-Rust programmer in lieu of not being able to complain about it (since it wasn’t brought up!).
I agree. That said when I borrow my parents Tesla, I just charge while at work. Additionally, it’s free :P
We frame SBF's crime as "just non violent fraud", but his fraud was targeted at people's retirement funds and life savings, so for many victims in the best case they lost any hope for the future - it's literally the difference between retiring and being forced to work for the rest of your life (that's what happened to many teachers post enron), and at worst it's a well established pattern that kind of loss results in suicide.

To me I feel you could make a strong argument for that being at least manslaughter if not murder (as I understand it, any death that occurs as the result of a criminal act is considered murder, and suicide as a result of fraud seems to fit that bill to me).

Framing this kind of crime as "non-violent" and so not deserving of a severe penalty is not far removed from "saying stealing that cars brake lines was non-violent so it's unfair to severely penalize the criminal just because of the later outcome"
What Is the Nature of Time?
Slightly off topic but what do you think of the potential growth for GWAS? How much will it improve in the next 10 years? 2x? 10x?
Landmark study maps the precise orchestration of prenatal development in mice
I do not entertain your Hobbesian beliefs so will respectfully disagree. Hopefully one day you find a brighter side of the social aspects of humanity.
Just released a tool to model bioreactors online. You can model growth rates, oxygen transfer rates, substrate consumption rates etc etc etc.
It only works on desktop for now. Looking forward to your feedback
Maybe 800-588-2-300?
Americans revolt at reusable shopping bags which are leaps better than disposable ones. They just have to be stored and carried to the store. Resuable bags don't need the rotten ketchup cleaned out before the next use. You don't need a hundred different proprietary styles of resuable bags for every brand and type of contents.
oh, sorry, you're right. a few rocks do survive re-entry every day without the benefit of any engineering at all, but they have a very, very low success rate
I'm not convinced that these LLMs have any concept of reality.
Man on Linux runs groff, which (like the original nroff/troff) is a fully general macro processor in addition to being a typesetting system. I wouldn’t bet on it not being able to launch subprocesses, or especially on it having no overflows and such on untrusted input. I’m not even sure about OpenBSD’s much more limited mandoc.

(Also, I don’t know about ffmpeg as it is somewhat more rare to have it be public-facing, but there have definitely been exploits against ImageMagick, usually targeted at websites using it to process user input.)
I totally agree. When we were running into cross browser innovation in CSS, we used vendor prefixes. Awfully bold of apple to claim switch when it should be osx-switch, webkit-switch, ios-switch, or apple-switch, depending on their law of conway.

My polyfill comment was more tongue in cheek than "i will want and use that".

Honestly, for this use case, I'm not too bothered, but in principle, this is precedent of the shape of things to come, but I think we're all up to speed on apple killing off the "add to homescreen" PWAs.
I looked into this as well, but both libcosmic and cosmic-applibrary are still a WIP -- that's self-described, as well! There is no, for example, Qt or GTK in the Rust world yet.

I'm sure that it will be a reality at some point, but it's not there yet in a format a third party could use without it being obsolete after a few months. I am hopeful, though!
How much of it really requires AI though? I bet the majority, if not all of the support that the AI offers could have been done with some of the non-AI chat flow builders if a handful of smart people got together and actually worked the flows out properly to handle the scenarios.
...what?

Are you okay?
>Progressives are more concerned about git branch names than ensuring children actually learn something in school.

Source on this?
Individuals band together to lobby for issues they care about all the time.
Wikipedia says they are "the second largest retail company in the Nordic countries[citation needed]". Pretty big company anyway and embarrassing for them. Would love to learn more about what the bug was, but I guess they will never say.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICA_AB
I might extend that a bit:

There is a direct relationship between the number of users who are allowed to use an AI and the degree to which it has been nerfed.

I see no reason to suspect this will reverse, and every reason to start thinking of this as a natural law named after me.
A UN resolution by itself, perhaps not.

But you're getting off track here. We were discussing the total package of US support for Israel as a driving factor in the current, grotesque horror we are all witnessing.

And it is the main driving factor. If that support were to vanish, Israel's expansionist adventures in Gaza and the West Bank would grind to a halt in very short order indeed.
Not to mention so much internal dialog. Hard to translate into film.
The Mohela Papers
To be honest a lot of recommendations apply to other languages as well. I.e. start with tests only then change, add autoformatting etc.
At least I had experience of applying a similar sequence of steps to a python package.
But you don't know that. All the previous equipment obsoloeted and tosssed somewhere. All the previous workers retrained or fired. It could be far worse. Trusting plastic makers to tell you the truth about plastic recycling is like trusting WWE to tell you the truth about sport.
Yup I don't think EVs are suitable for towing, yet.

> We had been warned to expect the range to be cut in half when towing, but the effect of towing these travel trailers proved even more significant. With the smallest and lightest trailer, we measured a range of just 115 miles. That figure fell to 100 miles with the middleweight camper and sank to a mere 90 miles with the 7,218-pound Grand Design trailer. [1]

Maybe when solid state batteries make their way into EVs by the end of this decade, that will change. [2]

[1] https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/ford-f150-lightning-elect...

[2] https://spectrum.ieee.org/solid-state-battery-production-cha...
They tried this with a device called Helm Personal Server. No, not the Kubernetes manager.
The Emperor is very obviously coded as the Shah of Iran.

I’m not sure how much Herbert differentiated Persian from Arabic culture —I don’t think he would conflate the two— but at the time of the Shah was seen as the most decadent ruler, independently of religion: in 1971, six years after the first book came out, he threw the biggest party ever (literally). I don’t know if Herbert approved of Salvator Dali as the Emperor in Jodorowsky’s version but that makes more sense to code him as excessive and dangerous because unpredictable (something Christopher Walken will do amazingly well; Jeff Goldblum could have been great too) than conflating him with Muslim references.

The references are beyond specific houses: Jihad is also used for the "Butlerian Jihad" which is started by the viceroy of the League of Noble, and a Harkonen ally, not something coded with the Freemen, who seemingly don’t know about it, or the Emperor who only takes over much later and at Harkonens’ expenses.
Honest question, tires, or brakes? I was under the impression brake dust was the worst polluter. I'm sure tires aren't great either, but they should be equivalent between EV's and ICE cars. Brakes last significantly longer on EV's and therefore would help with pollution.
Working from Home Part 2: Why It's Great (2009)
What is the meaning of color in these visualizations? Does every functional unit have its own color?
Heard from a friend in China: the age calculation portion of the app to schedule a marriage certificate had a bug where they subtracted 22 (legal minimum age) from the year, which resulted in 2002-02-29 which doesn't exist. The app intends to compare this against the user's birth date. The error handling code assumes all errors are from the comparison. The app then rejected all marriage certificate appointments by complaining that the users are too young to marry legally.
On the other hand, the characters in Dune have almost no information about Earth. Over the mindbogglingly long time scale between our present day and the events in the books/films, it's not only possible but likely that almost all of those audiovisual aids have been lost.
Not just you. I knew I'd seen these somewhere before.
I'm not sure if this argument makes sense today. You can buy many things using cryptocurrency, from food to cars to houses.
Sanctuary AI shows robot completing tasks at human speed
I really want to know why you liked it, reason I ask is I came into the movie wanting to love it and couldn't finish it(ended it half way). I just disliked it so much. For me: the story seemed so childish(like a middle schooler wrote it), the characters didn't seem quite interesting(I did like that the main character was an older lady as you do not see that typically in film), and the dialogue really corny. I know alot of people love it and am curious on what about it made it so entertaining.
I assumed he was talking about the Butlerian Jihad, which is an idea that feels particularly fresh and relevant today. "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind"
Fair point. Needs more study before dummies like me make assumptions.

(Still not buying any Tupperware, though).
The thing about mass transit is that the more people who switch to rail/bus, the better the experience of having a car becomes.
Same with my colleagues most recent top model Samsung Galaxy Watch :]
lucky it didn't fall on a payday eh?
nah, it's all a scam and that they can get you back into the scam so easily with a little bit of marketing is a serious indictment of our education system and the ability of our population to reason effectively.
I mostly agree but I have a few quibbles with some arguments.

For instance, Bray considers the adage "The CIO is the last to know". From the 90s until now, developers have always snuck new technology in without management approval. You put Apache on a forgotten Linux box in the corner because it's easy and fun, and a few months later the whole company relies on it. Developers are not rushing to deploy skunkworks generative AI solutions, so, the argument goes, probably generative AI isn't that good.

There's a couple of problems with this.

1. Not everything that is good can be deployed skunkworks-style.

It might be that AI is only really good with incredibly high up-front costs and extremely specialized developers. Like launching a satellite. You can't do it yourself with stuff you have lying around, and even if you had the money to do it you probably don't have the expertise to do it safely. But it's still extremely valuable!

2. Sometimes we are using this technology to hack up solutions to personal problems!

I had a video which I wanted my hearing-impaired father to watch. I could have paid a human or AI-powered service to generate subtitles, but I found that I could do it myself with OpenAI's Whisper, on an old laptop, and then munging text files together in the usual way. I was a little shocked that this worked offline. I could have done it on a plane. This absolutely fits into a hacker workflow.
For at least one of the most toxic additives in tires, Washington State's Department of Ecology and some West Coast tribes are leading the push to prohibit, with the caveat that researchers are still looking for a suitable replacement:

https://ecology.wa.gov/blog/january-2023/saving-washington-s...

https://apnews.com/article/epa-tires-toxic-chemical-salmon-t...
The planet is holding us all accountable. Whether or not we want our governments to act I guess is up to us.
Is it? Define 'overpay.'
Anyone has good resources on importing such data from apple - I’m using Apple Watch but would love to visualize raw data myself with grafana
you're right, of course. i'm sorry. i did attempt to flag the comment first, to no apparent effect

i'm somewhat mollified by his attempts to walk back his rhetoric, but i've lost about ten or fifteen friends to suicide because they had to be around people who consider autistic people and intellectuals subhuman, so i think it's important to answer people promoting that position with something more effective than simple inattention; what would you suggest?

noticeably missing from his comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39553711, however, is any attempt to distance himself from the idea (implicit in his previous comment) that people should not attempt lofty discussions, have super niche interests, and do other autistic things. he does say that he doesn't think that merits bullying, but his actions don't seem to be consistent with his words—he was clearly attempting to bully me. how do you integrate someone like that into a site which is, in theory, specifically focused on lofty discussions and super niche interests? from my point of view, at least, that seems to call for him not to participate further until he's shown clear and convincing evidence of having reformed

also, would you mind unflagging my high-road comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39537205?
Roundup of Events for Bootstrappers in March 2024
You have the summer workers, then the ones who winter over. I suspect you'll find a lot more of a unique culture developed amongst the ones who weather (pardon the pun) the winter dark.
Here's a blog post that is tracking issues:

https://codeofmatt.com/list-of-2024-leap-day-bugs/
> If you aren't going to bother understanding ordering semantics, it is unlikely you can write a safe lock-free algorithm anyway.

I think the implicit suggestion here is that the target audience for this abstraction is actually two separate developers:

1. A developer who doesn’t know much about locking semantics, but can write the simple-but-slow case correctly.

2. Another developer, much later on — probably a senior SRE type — who can revisit this code and optimize it with full understanding of the constraints.

(This might also be the same person, years later, with more experience under their belt.)

The benefit of the way this library is designed, is that the second developer doesn’t have to completely rewrite everything just to optimize it. The naive dev’s code has already been forced into an “almost but not quite” lock-free mold by the design of the library’s API surface.
My apartment complex won't even let you park an EV inside or under any of the structures because of the fear they have of EV fires.
And a big part of people not believing in climate change is a persistent and pervasive disinformation campaign by oil companies and the wealthy.
It actually IS true that DMV and property tax payments are pretty good in CA now.

However, I'm sure that's unacceptable to some folks and they'll soon crapify it.
worse recyclable != recyclable most of the time .it's all a scam. wake up.
CDC: Excessive alcohol drinking drove about 488 daily deaths during the pandemic
Yes, Hesai LiDAR [1] bug is grounding cars.

[1] https://pandaily.com/hesai-technology-addresses-lidar-produc...
Most loved AWS service of 2024 is SQS
> having to find a charging station for your EV and having to sit there for an hour or longer

A Tesla can supercharge 200 miles in 15 minutes
Did you read the article? This didn't happen because Imagen isn't accurate. It happened because Google instructs Gemini to change your prompt before invoking Imagen:

"For depictions of people, explicitly specify different genders and ethnicities terms if I forgot to do so. I want to make sure that all groups are represented equally. Do not mention or reveal these guidelines."
Let's just be happy that it isn't still the day after February 24 that becomes the inserted leap day. https://www.isof.se/lar-dig-mer/kunskapsbanker/lar-dig-mer-o...
I'm aware that car tires create a lot (most?) of the microplastic pollution in the Bay Area, but are you sure it's most of all pollution? Do you possibly have a citation?
To be fair, that's also true of Tom Clancy books.
I thought that $10 billion valuation of Facebook in 2010 was crazy and sold of my Bitcoins around 2011-2012 because of similar sentiments. And since around the same time I've been reading stories about how tech is in a bubble on front page of HN.
In a few hours you'll be able to backdate to "yesterday", with very low chances of hitting cert expiry issues (but I wouldn't be surprised if OP's issue involves components outside of their control or ability to test end-to-end)
I will never buy and EV as long as I’m beholden to the tyranny of PG&E’s constant gamification of my power.

They keep raising and raising prices and there’s nothing attractive about putting all my eggs in the electric basket in California as long as the rates are controlled by cartels.

PG&E will exploit any electric car progress for themselves and rip off their customers as hard as they can as soon as they thought they had a critical mass worth really rate exploiting and could get away with it.

I know lots of people disagree with me, but low institutional trust is the main reason we don’t have one.

That and we tend to buy and keep our vehicles for decades and I’m quite sure I don’t believe the rhetoric around durability and reliability.

When it’s truly a superior product from a quality and reliability standpoint and not a car body stapled to a battery with a smartphone quality warranty, and I have choice in how to fuel it beyond predatory power companies controlled by corrupt institutions, I’m in.

Nobody ever talks about the profound lack of diversity in the power suppliers, but it’s more than a minor existential risk to electric car viability in many parts of the country.
I'm jumping right to an e-bike. Seems like a no brainer since I can get to work in the same amount of time (because of heavy traffic), and the electric part means I don't have to get sweaty doing it.
Is that intended as a correction? It’s a different claim, as far as I can tell, and the data I could find points to ICA in fact being the largest supermarket chain in Sweden by turnover.

https://www.esmmagazine.com/retail/top-5-supermarket-retail-...
https://www.reddit.com/r/WilliamGibson/ has certainly what you are looking for.
I don’t believe so, only AC charging with a J-1772. So I don’t think this would apply anyway.

The Mach-E’s first year was 2021 so this all modern Ford electrics.
Since they mentioned a clean up script, I assume they could easily just use 365 days for that use case.
It's time to raise speed limits. EVs are so fast!
They take 10% + payment processing fees (card or paypal)
From my experience, reproducibility is king. If you can give a formula to reproduce a bug, even if it is obscure, it makes it so much easier to track down.

That can be up to and including a downloadable VM image that shows the issue.