skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ll bite.

A book full of years of texts would be an interesting artifact, but how often would you pick it up? How interesting could it really be? Would you even want anyone else to see it?

Now suppose each exchange comes with a haiku summary, a fresh high-level look at the conversation that condenses its vague essence into a little linguistic locket, portable and easily recalled. The interplay between the mundane raw material and the poetic take would render it much more interesting, and tend to reward repeated examination.

A human poet would undoubtedly do a better job at this than an LLM, if any human poet could be persuaded to start and complete such a project. But having an LLM do it would be a very low-cost, low-effort way to at least try for interesting results.
> The rest of the world doesn't have to stand still. They can just confiscate Apple's money using threat of government force.

But surely the US would not just stand still either while the rest of the world plunders one of its most successful megacorps/source of American influence.
CT scan of Heinz's new ketchup cap
The most passionate professional people are working on this. In 46 years, legions of amateur coders have fully reverse engineered game consoles, networks like AOL/Prodigy, retro computing systems, you name it. For free/fun.

I truly don't understand how they can't just at least rewrite the codebase so as to understand it.
Sam Harris isn't impressed with him:

> I know many of you love this guy, and think he's a genius. I can assure you, none among you, are as impressed with his intelligence as he is. This guy is just insufferable. I've actually never witnessed a marriage of incompetence and confidence so fully and grotesquely consummated in the mind of a person with a public platform.

> This is the most arrogant person I have ever had the misfortune of meeting. When you meet him you quickly discover that he radiates a sense of grievance from his pores in a way that few people do. It's kind of like a preternatural force of negative charisma.

> He is a child in a man's body. And the mismatch between his estimation of himself and the quality of his utterances is so complete and so mortifying to witness in person that you just find you're jumping out of your skin.
Three options:

- make it the DNS for your wifi if your router can do that

- set Pihole to be the DNS for individual devices in their wifi settings if it can't

- create a personal VPN that uses Pihole as the DNS
Yea this seems like a gift for https://neon.tech/, https://turso.tech/ and https://developers.cloudflare.com/d1/.

Planetscale is definitely popular and they get a lot of free advertisement from tech influencers (may change without the free tier) but most people I know in enterprise haven't heard of it.
So how is a 3rd party going to give support to a customer with iPhone, if Apple will ban such 3rd party for whatever reason?

Let's say that given 3rd party is making a device, which can be controlled via Bluetooth from Windows, Android, MacOS and iOS. They don't make any money on any applications, but from the device.
And yet you're the one who brought it up
Electric cars will take ~30 years to transition (~10 years before almost all new cars are electric, and then another 20 years before the old cars are off the road). They will increase electrical demand by 20% over 30 years, or under 1% a year increase to demand.

The US increases its generating capacity by about 4% per year. (50GW added per year, 1.3TW total).

EV's are a very small part of demand increase.
> Why else wouldn’t they build a local economy instead of investing in the daily rain of rockets on their neighbours?

Seriously? If you’re trying to build an economy, one of the first things you’d want to do is establish free trade with other countries. If you can’t do that your economic prospects are basically zero.
100% agree.

Hyperbole also makes it easy to dismiss the real severity of an issue by detractors.
There is a NGO in Germany (Space-Eye) working with satellite images for search and rescue purposes.

I know from some people involved there that they are always looking for developers and data scientists.

The main page is in German but the call for volunteers (you need to scroll down to "Volunteers for Space-Eye") is in English.

[1] https://space-eye.org/satelliten-erkundung
No, but I rarely find that LLM-generated code is just pasted in as-is. It gives me some code that speeds me up, but I still tweak the details and change things to integrate it into the bigger picture. It certainly doesn't bring so much value that I'd be tracking timestamps and prompts... it is just quick boilerplate for tedious stuff that I don't want to burn time on.
Phone manufacturers should be forced to open the bootloader with reasonable hardware documentation so users can install alternatives, the insane situation that we have now is created by this very issue.
> informal chat makes it difficult for certain candidates that lack people skills.

I think that's nearly right. If it were just a people skills issue, then a "failed" informal chat would be a valid reason not to continue with a lot of candidates--people skills are much more important than widely thought in programming, and doubly so for entry-level engineers whose early work is largely going to be learning/pairing/correcting.

However, informal-chat-with-the-CTO filters are made unfairly difficult for the kinds of people who would not find themselves with quality face time with the CTO, which is a much bigger problem: remote candidates, non-native language speaker candidates, disabled candidates, and candidates at the "far end" of the funnel--people graduating from no-name colleges distant from the employer with no network connection that they could parlay into an informal chat.

And that is a problem for informal face-time as an interviewing practice.
It's kind of brilliant. He was probably confident that Google Cloud's security was good and wouldn't let employees access private data. And, it's a domain / network traffic that wouldn't be flagged.
WASI is one of the next things I want to explore. Right now, there sadly doesn't seem to be any self-contained implementations for the recently released WASI preview 2 out there, and TinyWasm also doesn't have support for the WebAssembly Component Model yet.

For performance, I have some very preliminary benchmarks, but this is something I want to go into more as part of my upcoming bachelor's thesis.
Show HN: SEO Flight Deck – AI-Powered Keyword Rank Tracking
Back in August 2020 I was building E-Commerce websites for a few clients and assisting them with their SEO efforts. I wanted an easy way to track their keyword rankings in Google over time to assist them in establishing the effectiveness of their content and paid marketing efforts. I'm a software engineer, not a Search Engine Marketer, but I have been dabbling with SEO for a couple of decades now.

I tried a number of the popular tools out there, and while they worked, they just seemed bloated and overly expensive and I just felt they lacked the simplicity and ease of use that my, non-technical, customers needed. There seemed to be a gap in the market between hugely expensive products and useless cheap products and there the idea for SEO Flight Deck was born.

It took around 8 months to build the SEO Flight Deck MVP. The intention was to give my E-Commerce customers the best Keyword Ranking Tool to suit their needs and budget.

I was providing it to them for free as a part of an existing website maintenance contract and I saw it as a tool to help me retain customers, I never really thought about selling subscriptions to it.

It didn't take long for my customers to start using it as part of their daily routine and new feature requests to started coming in. People were falling in love with it!

After just over a year of 11 of my E-Commerce customers using SEO Flight Deck and contributing feature ideas, I realised that this web app really could benefit a lot of website business owners, outside of just my customer base.

I had a backlog of feature requests and customers chomping at the bit to get those delivered into the MVP. At this time I decided to productionize the MVP but if I was going to commit myself to building it, I felt a complete re-write was necessary to ensure the application architecture would be able to handle scaling up.

Many months passed by and progress was slow. I was juggling full-time work and only getting a couple of hours of development done in the evenings and as much time as possible on the weekends.

My customers were still loving using SEO Flight Deck and their feedback was fuel that fed my motivation to keep going. One thing that concerned me was that while the product was beautiful and did everything I wanted it to do, I felt it needed a little more differentiation from the competitors as price and usability were only going to get it so far.

Around this time the AI hype train was speeding along and I was using AI tools extensively in other areas of my software development. I could have launched SEO Flight Deck at this time, but I felt I could leverage AI to expand on the existing value proposition.

I would spend the next 6 months building features powered by the Open AI API, many of which ended up in the recycle bin, apart from the AI Powered Keyword management feature, which the initial real-world testers absolutely loved!

This is a big moment for me – I'm finally ready to share SEO Flight Deck with everyone. It was originally made for just a few, but I've seen its potential and decided it's time for the world to experience it too. So, here it is.
I was about to make an argument that "there's no DRM" because it's a simple flash memory chip used to keep track of how much detergent is left, and it's totally unencrypted...

But wait, could it be that the reason for the bizarre "xor 0x50" is so that they have a "technological protection measure" in place to trigger anti-circumvention rules? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_and_Information_Soci...)
For those looking for alternatives check out https://neon.tech/, https://turso.tech/ and https://developers.cloudflare.com/d1/.
What's new in this edition?
I've not had much success finding events using web search. It also requires constant pro-activity. I'm looking for something I can subscribe to. For example Meetup & Eventbrite email me upcoming events.
No. Haskell has this notion of what they call "bottom", more easily remembered as what happens if you call undefined. The issue is, your function can be as pure as it wants, as long as you are able to write "f :: T -> T; f = undefined" all your purity based analysis goes to hell.
> Backed by the creator of SQLite.

Any more details on that?

Presumably this is Dr Hipp. How involved is he, what does that involvement mean?
You're not wrong, but those numbers are not completely equal. If you add the cost of transport to and from the airport, and the total time for the trip, the flight will probably still cost less, but not quite that much.
While I agree that it would make a lot of sense, as another user commented, it's too much of a political football. More's the pity. Nuclear is an incredibly useful power generation method. With current tech, it would take much less time to stand up than it used to.
And I never said it wasn’t serious, did I?
Show HN: FormStream – A Fast Streaming Parser for multipart/form-data in Golang
Postgres: A Better Message Queue Than Kafka?
The idea is to a) use V2G vehicles over a day / night cycle to "buffer out" gaps from renewables and b) incentivize high-demand consumers during low-production times to shut down by the power of the free market.

Point a) has already been explained by GP, but b) is the interesting one. Right now there's barely any incentive for large consumers such as aluminium smelters to shut down or limit consumption during the night (where there is no solar energy), the only incentive these kind of consumers get is a premium for short-term load shedding. We would, as a society, need far less of generation capacity buildout if we can get the large consumers to drastically reduce their consumption at night.
This doesn't surprise me. I knew someone that intentionally graduated with a specific major, so they could get a job in that industry and send trade secrets/IP back to China. The purpose was to create a competing company.

It didn't work out for them that well. They couldn't last more than 6 months at any one company and I think eventually gave up and went back home.
I seem to recall Scientific American had some similar allure via some small math/comp-sci article somewhere near the back pages?

Possibly A. K. Dewdney's "Computer Recreations" and "Mathematical Recreations" column [1]? I think it was the first place I came across CAs and the concept of computer viruses.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._K._Dewdney#Computing,_mathe...
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> But I'm not sure the account is a parody

The content is very clearly parody. Not only this Tweet, but other Tweets. It doesn’t matter if it’s a real person or not, the content is obviously parody.

It’s alarming that such obvious satire/parody is not only going undetected, but that people are continuing to debate it after it has been pointed out to be obvious parody content.

Does not bode well for the future of online information wars when something this simple is generating so much debate. The comment doesn’t even offer an excuse, it’s a joke about circulating private company content with government officials of another country. Even if you take it to be true, it’s not even an alternate explanation! I’m perplexed that this is causing so much confusion among this comment section.
https://archive.ph/uYgm2
Is it the sensor? I though it was the processing.
He is an investor in SQLite Cloud, Inc.
Words like abhor and loathe:

Loathe: [0] "to dislike greatly and often with disgust or intolerance"
Abhor: [1] "to regard with extreme repugnance : to feel hatred or loathing for : loathe"

Basically any word that means exactly the same as another word.

The SAT liked to do questions like Abhor is to Loathe like X is to Y.

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/loathe
[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/abhor
>The mature, productive move is to try to help. If you truly cannot level someone up you may need to make a difficult decision, but that doesn’t at all mean you need to be a huge dick.

I've been on the receiving end of this before. The problem is there are a lot of folks out there with tremendous subject matter intelligence, and often times they are pushed into management. A good amount of these folks don't really have the skills to deal with people as people, not as subordinates. They "teach" to the best of their ability, but this, sometimes, comes up short, and their way of dealing with the people they can't "teach" often involves making a tough decision. They don't think their way of doing things is dick-ish, and in my case, the person wasn't intentionally trying to be a dick, he just happened to act in a manner that made everyone think he was.

Human relationship dynamics are tricky, and doubly tricky in the working world. Everyone is different, and this can make things outright impossible when it comes to setting expectations and managing people in a uniform or case-by-case way.

Thankfully, I don't manage people for a living.
Sudo-rs dependencies: when less is better
Reminded me of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17776
I think the main point is that all this trash is a problem Google created, and has no incentive to fix. The web would be a much better place with these practices weren’t the foundation of SEO.
The Google hiring process can take months. They have time to haze people with Leetcode but no time to do a good vet of a person who may be a high risk security threat.
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A French company does this: https://www.monlivresms.com/
(warning: the website is annoying)
There would be skeletal evidence of that. The oldest remains of early humans points to 35-40 year olds with high child mortality rates per https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/people-lived-up-to-40-year...
True. But how do you know the paradox applies here? What if my sample is accurate?

What I don't get is how someone can out of nowhere say the paradox applies in my case. I mean this paradox can apply to any measurement even the most rigorous experiment. So why suddenly come to my post and bring up this application?
1. Is it the worst thing if the top level headlines for those cases aren’t here?

2. We have more than on heuristic. Those are specifically about tech.

It is not that difficult to identify a hot politcal topic that has nothing to do with tech, unless your judgement is motivated.
Guess, that is what I was asking.

If you take any current functional language, and add the criteria that it must only use pure functions, then Int->Int is the same as described in the Total Language. Because if there are no outside interactions inside the function, it's 'pure', then the Int->Int is guaranteed.

Doesn't using only pure functions, equate to this Total Functions.
The text describes it as a "splashdown", but the timeline ends with "an exciting landing". Are they going to attempt a soft landing on one of their landing drones, or is it going into the water?
I can say, using pg as a time series database works completely fine for < 1B rows. If you have significantly more than that, it is a good idea to start thinking about alternatives.
I'm interested in how you came up with this, do you have a blog post or something I can peruse?
Read: "I'm not donating in a manner that's easily or directly attributable to me."
You probably don't even need AI.
What would be the purpose of such citations? If you understand the function and it does what needs to do, does it matter where it came from (within legal limits ofc)?

When I read your code I want to do know what the function does and why it does it. LLM generation details would just distract from that.
So confused. From whom did Israel seize control of Gaza in 1967? From the Palestinian Authority or what?

Edit: So, for those of you inclined to believe that "both sides probably have a point" but are otherwise not clear. No. This is the best you will ever get from the "pro Palestinian" side. It is not a side that is pro Palestinian people. Pro Palestinian people would like the war to end and Palestinians to live peacefully in their own state. A 2-state solution. No, "pro Palestinians" don't care about history or the truth. They are only anti Jew. When you try to bring up evidence or facts, they will reject anything that comes from Israel and accept anything from anti-Israel sources.
A more general, but less catchy version of the rule is: don't do things with a significant probability of requiring an "all hands on deck" response when doing so will be unacceptably slow/difficult.
The title is “ Ex-Google engineer charged with stealing AI trade secrets while working with Chinese companies”
I think I may be missing something. Why would you be interested in the automation of theorem production? Wouldn’t this make mathematicians obsolete? How far away do you think we are from that?

I ask as a newbie in math; math is a passion of mine. I am genuinely reconsidering going into math research as I fear just being automated away.
> I am definitely going to recommend they write TS instead of JS

Why is that? If you want them to learn JS, teach/recommend them to learn JS?

Compile-to-JavaScript languages come and go, but JavaScript has remained. First learning vanilla JavaScript makes sense, and then add TS on top if you really have to. At the very least they'll be prepared for when TypeScript goes out of favor.
Why do they bother spying on us if they’re so far ahead then?
On Authenticity and What's Worth Doing
This is an easily solvable problem. Make crypto-bros subsidize the electric generation they consume. Levy a tax on bitcoin mining and use that to build more power stations.
The statement is not about allegiance, it is about knowledge of breaking company policy and conducting corporate espionage.

The question is, just to clear: "Regardless of whether it is right or wrong according to his personal morality, do we honestly believe that he didn't know it was going to anger his employer and likely violate his employment agreement to the extent that he'd face civil or legal penalties?"
I love the idea!

The thing I like the least though is the table of contents, it's so dry with just the months and years. Despite the skepticism I have about latest AI use and abuse, generating a one-liner from the contents of each month seems like it would be a fitting usage for it.
your continued obsession with the accuracy of the numbers im just pulling off the top of my head is just reinforcing my point that hacknernews commenters are by far the most pedantic and insufferable people on the entire internet.

worrying about protein absorption and glycogen stores is so far off the mark on what is important to someone trying to lose weight that you are actively harming them by making them think this is some sort of complicated problem, when it is not.
Most F50 companies will not hire those without citizenship and will be reluctant to hire talent born in China to protect trade secrets. The number of Chinese students at the local BIG!) university by me is a fraction of what it was in 2019. Companies are well aware of the risks now.
Or it could be because the EU has not yet reached the tipping point where it’s not worth it, or it could be that they have but companies are adapting by reducing investment and it will take years for patterns to emerge.

Not sure where the weird China stuff came from. Are you saying that as long as the EU is even slightly better than China we should celebrate it?
You can't say "How am I supposed to run a company if I can't catch random people on the street and force them to work at gunpoint?" either.

There is nothing naive or idealistic about his position. Forcefully catching unwilling civilians and sending to slaughter is a human sacrifice going against the very idea of human rights. It is pure evil, there isn't exactly a lot of room for shades of grey.

To be honest, when I see the sophistry designed to justify the relegating of citizens to the role of an animal in the butchery by their own state, it looks like a classic horror material. Scarier than the descriptions of atrocities in the warzone. It's like a a cabal of cannibalistic cultists trying to gaslight normal people into thinking that killing those people is (and always was) absolutely normal and it is their very purpose to be slaughtered and it is you a weird freak for pretending that you have some rights and can decide whether you want to die for something or not.