skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm usually the first person to suggest SQLite for just about anything, but in this particular case I do feel like JSON is a better default format.

Interacting with SQLite from different programming languages is easier than most other formats, but you still need a SQLite binding. They're available for every language but that's still a not-completely-trivial dependency.

I expect most tools that people build against JSON Canvas will run in a web browser. Adding SQLite as a dependency means you need SQLite running in WebAssembly - totally possible, and even officially supported these days (the SQLite team run their own WASM builds now) but still a sizable piece of extra complexity over just using JSON.parse(...)

Also: SQLite files aren't very easy to diff, so they're not great for collaboration in version control. JSON is better for that.

I'm 100% with you on the schema changes and versioning challenge. The best way to address this IMO would be for the spec to include a top-level "version": key which indicates the version of the spec that a file was created against.

Handled carefully and introduced right at the start of the project this could ensure an ecosystem grows up around the standard such that older spec versions can always be opened by newer implementations, and any implementation can fail-fast if it is given a file that it doesn't yet know how to handle.
Regardless of whether you consider it a scam, it's not worthy of the "web 3.0" title. Like, why did npm allow Ethereum to have the "web3" name instead of simply "ethereum"? It's so annoying.
> Speedometer measures web app responsiveness.

We know that, but you haven't said anything specific about scores other than higher scores are faster, in an abstract sense, which has already been established.
To host RSS you just need a domain name and a server. It's pretty hard to stop somebody from getting those.

Or does the new USA constitution of 2024 state that "free" speech is not as in speech as we used to understand it but more in the sense of free beer? Maybe we can trade the possibility for people to put a lot of effort into having meaningful to say for the "free" ability for people to express their membership in a tribe.
I searched for one of the passages and found this https://books.google.ca/books?id=3K3LEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT21&lpg=PT...

Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert

I also found that my link is actually from https://thetransmetropolitanreview.wordpress.com/2024/02/19/... as cited at the top. It has images and links! I'm sorry for the bad link. Mods please replace it with this one
Maybe Spock was just playing the long game. Knew he would be resurrected by space magic and get to pon farr with the rescue party.
Jevons Paradox exists.
for some examples of "not-most" things - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy_distribution#Occurrence...
Heh, the problem is we only have 800, maybe 900 million years left!
> I find boot times quick enough on modern laptops that shutting down and restart is fine.

How mobile are you with your laptop? If I had to restart (i.e., lose all my xterms' state, etc.) every time I'd stopped using my laptop for a day or so it would totally kill my workflow
Entirely a tangential aside, but related to SS7, so maybe a fun aside:

I got nerd sniped by a Facebook meme joking on a Gen Z "text chat" caption to a "Gone with the Wind" still that said "tbh bae idgaf" in place of the infamous Clark Gable line and how incomprehensible that seemed and might be to past generations. All the individual pieces existed in 1940 when "Gone with the Wind" released to figure it out (TBH was already well established as an acronym, babe as a term of endearment was too though the bae form is a very recent twist, IDGAF was easily explainable/guessable as an acronym, especially to anyone familiar with military acronyms at the time and/or the quote in context). That lead to the idea of writing a short story about what if Bell Labs accidentally got that MMS message in 1940, which has lead to fun micro-research like some of the basics of SS7 (the true backwards compatibility point of no return for MMS) and how much Bell Labs might recognize SS7 from the 1940's era of basically "SS3.5", and how much any of it might look like AT&T technology to them if they were staring at printouts. I'm absolutely taking fictional liberties with it as the answer is probably that SS7 would be a massive stretch for 1940s tech even with IBM's involvement (which makes for a silly semi-cooperative antagonist of sorts in the story). UTF-8's ASCII compatibility (emoji are a running undecodable debate in the story), and Unix's epoch timestamps would probably feel familiar to AT&T/Bell Labs (even if they probably would not have guessed the epoch start date of 1970 from 1940). I even felt like giving IBM a small "win", for the sake of interesting fiction, in guessing that IBM might have helped design JPEG (they did, in the 1990s), though I'm currently assuming that JPEG would have been undecodable in 1940 (even the math for wavelet compression was decades away) and 40s IBM would probably be upset JPEG encodes small bits of ASCII and Unix epoch timestamps. (40s IBM in my story was also upset by "new phone who dis?" Our world really does kind of look like "What if AT&T did win at computers like their 50s/60s ads thought they might?" but for many of the wrong reasons and twists neither AT&T nor IBM would have expected.)

It's been a fun, silly story to write (I start with AT&T Bell Labs/IBM combined spending a bunch of time decoding a "u up?") with the excuse to at least do some light dives into the crazy backwards compatibility stories of some of the technology we just sort of take for granted today.
Yes, the planet got destroyed.
But for a beautiful moment in time
we created a lot of value for shareholders
AI's Effect on Human Consciousness
Even though I currently use this setup with Wayland, I originally came across it with X. I am fairly certain this is how switching between accounts works, via more user-friendly means, but I find that directly switching between virtual consoles is more efficient for two reasons: it is far easier to guarantee a particular session is on a particular virtual console, so switching between sessions is more predictable (e.g. my personal session is always on console 1, and work session is always on console 2); on top of that, I don't have to concern myself with re-logging into a session. At worse, I simply enter the password. In practice, I usually have screen locking disable on my personal session (since I don't have to worry about confidential information) and only have to enter a password on my work session (since I am concerned about potentially confidential information of others).
I've been waiting on Xata to allow a direct SQL connection to the underlying db to take advantage of the Postgres connector in Plasmic for rapid product development -- that Teable allows this is a killer feature for me.
Really Good Job
No chance this is Figma
I tried to show off an Apple II to my then 5 y/o daughter using a CRT monitor. She the sound (presumably somewhere around 15Khz) and was really annoyed by it and clasped her hands to her ears. My wife and I were completely oblivious.

We didn't see if she could acclimate to it. The monitor works okay but it's early 1990s stock so, presumably, something might be wrong w/ it, too.

I definitely remember hearing CRTs as a kid and adults telling me I was making it up.
That's manipulative but not really deceptive.
> he was experimenting with a doner board

You might just be hungry right now, but I think you probably mean "donor" board.
Incredible story. Would love if anyone has any similar recommendations.
It's not a surprise to me, but it probably is to a lot of people who comment that they either couldn't code or wanted the AI to boiler plate something.

If you didn't write it, then it's going to be low quality, insecure code by default.
The z/Architecture Principles of Operation [pdf]
I know quite a few PDs. Ask the ones you know: are the accused guilty nonetheless? In other words, is the problem procedural or substantive?
There was also a sequel called Starquake which I remember as being less interesting. An ST:TNG episode also very much riffed off of Dragon's Egg.
From the article, the sizes they're talking about are 10 um pixels, or 10 um pitch, so approximately 2540 ppi. [1] Pretty respectable by modern standards, as Wikipedia says a lot of phones are ~600 ppi. [2] The demo was 3 mm pixels, so not quite as impressive.

Not sure what the refresh or contrast are, as the summary was really light on actual meaningful numbers. If somebody has the paper from something other than a paywall, maybe it has more.

The shape changing part might be neat, depending on how much shape changing there is, and how difficult it is to achieve. Maybe piezo style pixels or something.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dots_per_inch

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_density
Got deep into interview with this company (3rd round) and they ghosted me. I’m starting to feel like I dodged a bullet
"the size and color of micro-nanostructures adapt to fluctuations in alcohol concentration or pH value"

Varying them quickly enough is the remaining part of the problem.
I didn't know about this and made ChatGPT prepare me a typescript definition form the markdown: https://gist.github.com/egeozcan/27db06f6771dcf214f0f92bce8c... :) Perhaps I shouldn't be too lazy to google things.
'out' sharepoint does nothing for chance resolution, therefore concurrent editing is always problematic. Can you explain how you tackled this? This is a huge problem for us, but maybe I should ask someone yo enable something on the SharePoint share?
I can't po$$ibly imagine.
Silicon has only superficial similarities to carbon. Even at high temperatures, water and oxygen prevent silicon from substituting for carbon in any of what we are familiar with as organic molecules.

Your linked paper points out that the only viable solvent that supports a large variety of silicon chemistry is sulphuric acid, and even then it would need to be very poor in oxygen since silicon-oxygen bonds are so strong it ends up being much more strongly preferred over si-si bonds.

It makes for an interesting conversation, but I can't imagine spending an entire class going over what amounts to a massive distraction from the lesson plan.

All that's left is going to amount to an effectively dismissive answer, I suppose (though I agree that teachers who are intentionally dismissive are doing it wrong).
Was there not similar rhetoric about asymmetric cryptography?
By far the best episode, IMO.
> Weird that such a 'techy' mag was created by a dentist...

... oh, was it? ISTR that the "overbyte" thing was because of/in reference to the picture of Kirk Douglas(?) showing off their choppers, and didn't make the connection (all those years ago)
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To be honest if we manage to extinct ourselves by bringing AGI into being, instead of via catastrophic climate change or nuclear war, it would be a nice achievement. At least other species coming into contact with Earth will show us some respect for our ingenuity, if not for our wisdom.
Haven't tried it, but I did stumble across this while searching for Xournal: https://github.com/saber-notes/saber

Edit: just tried it, tap-and-hold on a note brings up a share menu that lets you select PDF. Hopefully that helps!
We should stop "speed-shaming" browsers and focus on websites, which negate all performance improvements made by browser developers by adding more useless features.
The later we meet someone in a sequence, the more negatively we describe them
Incredible indeed! Just hunting down one of these bugs feels like a very time consuming endeavor.

What's your approach for these more subtle numerical bugs?
Really like your approach! We tried to keep things tied to code as much as possible rather than dealing with complex interfaces between changing inputs and outputs. Most legal and tech teams we talked to pointed to the fact that CI/CD would quickly become unbearable when decoupling documents and code implementation. What is your approach on that?
Wow. Didn't know it could do that.

I showed up to the internet party around 2011, a little late for my age, so I was still getting my legs and kind of missed "being there" for a few events, like Megaupload going down and Google Reader getting killed.

I'm honestly starting to get a little stunned at the number of number of times I see people say "yeah, Google Reader could do [this-or-that]".
No need for a rock. Hanging will work just fine.
>Your claim is _Black people spell this way_

My claim is it is a recognized by linguists dialect of English (with tons of regional and temporal subdialects).

Black people can spell in the standard US English spelling, and can also spell and use syntax from AAE, and can also do both in different mixes and percentages, depending on the context, their background, and so on.

No "context of playing" required, it can also be done when dead serious.
I'm not sure why anymore unless you want to rent out a single family home, many places ask for north of $200 a night now. It hasn't been the cheapest option for years. Especially considering there are services now that demand price unbooked hotel rooms for these near motel prices.
The main issue is conflating templating and pdf generation.

Using html to pdf solutions allow to do the templating in html, where it is pretty much a solved issue.

And as many said, headless chrome is a robust html to pdf solution, even though it feel like a hack.

But, yeah, there seems to be a lack of awareness about these options within corporations. So, kudos to you for addressing a genuine problem!
I forget things all the time, but I don't like it. I suppose what I imagine I want is perfect recall of everything I've seen, heard, experienced. I get great joy from looking at old photos or videos, and I hate that there are millions of experiences over my lifetime that I can't recall and that there is no record of.

So, yes, I do want to remember everything all the time.

At the same time, I recognize that there are mental health benefits to forgetting things, so I will settle for being able to easily flip through all of my text messages with friends and loved ones.
Doug DeMuro covered this recently:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iqz-mlYwRo

Tesla doesn't have a legal ground to stand on here and would lose in courts, but it would also cost way more to the person trying to sell his or her own property. The litigation itself would be more than the profit margin unless you do this as a trial/civil lawyer and can litigate it yourself.

Ferrari has banned sales to people and this seems within the rights of a company to do (so long as it's not based on specific discrimination like race or sex).

I personally would never buy an Internet connected vehicle, and I'll never buy a car with access to cell networks. Cars made before this decade are going to become insanely valuable as time goes on.
I think it may be unfortunate to lump Ikea in with Bauhaus. While I agree with the general sentiment that Ikea tends to be single use, the idea of the flatpack was truly revolutionary. Shipping furniture used to be crazy expensive, but the idea of designing a bookcase that could take minimal space to ship and let the customer with no tools other than a screwdriver and a hammer put it together was truly a leap that I’m not sure many at the time were prepared to take.
If you see that I talk about a certain config of Sharepoint, it's much faster to point that out than being argumentative.

What did you do to have concurrent editing (or what did you not do), and how does it integrate the various diffs?
You speak with the kind of confidence that comes from knowing a system extremely well.

How much time have you devoted to serving as a defense attorney?
This doesn't say anything about what the scores mean.

21 is apparently better than 20, but how much better? You could say "1 better", tautologically, but how does that relate to the real world?

Driving a car 1 mile per hour faster may be better, in a sense, but even if you drove 24 hours straight, it would only gain you 24 total miles, which is almost negligible on such a long trip. Nobody would be impressed by that difference.
SQLite allows transactions involving multiple databases (see https://www.sqlite.org/atomiccommit.html section 5)
You can't, it's very expensive and controlled now: https://www.tumblr.com/photomatt/696629352701493248/why-go-n...
> ... make the comparison to religion even more bizarre ...

Oh, I disagree. I've met quite a few religious folk who will attempt to convert an atheist's distrust of religion into a distrust of science by drawing parallels between science and religion. After all, there is no internal conflict when a religious person attacks a religion that is not their own.
Cool idea, I can definitely see the appeal of having everything in one database. I would probably also add an "attempts" column (int) so you can discard messages after X attempts.
It used to depend on your keyboard layout I will say.

But nowadays it's autocompleted anyway.
I was around then. Never knew anyone who used Google Reader, though. Megaupload going down, now that was a big event.
I love the fact that an honest question is met with such hostility. I knew there was a quote, but was unable to think of it well enough for a proper search. It is easier to find an answer from other people with just a shard of detail that search engine will not find as there's no SEO for the broken fragment.

I'm so happy to see this place is alive and well with the attitude to support a curious mind. What a tosser
Reddit's CEO and COO made $193M and $93M in 2023...
Are you serious, man? You edited your comment, twice. We both know your comment did not include "(cofounder)", but did include unnecessary jabs at your your competitor ("this makes me lose all faith in our credibility.") when you posted it. I've used Budibase and think it's a great product, and couldn't have anything but respect for the people behind it. You're above this.

EDIT - Apologies, you did indeed include "(cofounder)" in your original post, I just missed it (based on bing's cached page.) Regardless, this is not the way to deal with competitors, and frankly your product speaks for itself. And perhaps obscene amounts of torrenting in my teenage years has permanently skewed my moral compass for these things, but I really don't care about table cell background svg theft.
Anyone who doesnt buy new equipment regularly and comes in to the store is tried to upsell the most premium stuff. That’s what they are doing here. The premium stuff has the greatest profits.
I think whatever the Commission or the EU in general is paying Microsoft per annum would go a long way towards the development of LibreOffice. I think ISO/IEC 29500 Office Open XML (docx) formats would work fine in LibreOffice and support backwards and international compatibility, especially with all that money. Imagine how quickly bugs would get fixed: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/log/
I'm a big believer in easy no code abstractions without black box restrictions on the code underneath, particularly for "power users" who run into the limitations of no code tools after a few iterations (particularly on a cost per function level).
In line with the article, I have anecdotally seen stores closing in high-crime areas, and in moderate crime areas I have seen more product being locked up or not offered for sale anymore. Unfortunately this has made shopping more inconvenient for me, and I have started buying more online, which I hope doesn't accelerate the issue.
Interactive Mapping of 1800 GPT responses
We actually take HTML as an input to our API converter. The React tooling is mostly to ease the barrier with most frontend codebases, as well as leverage the existing ecosystem of components.

It seems that these conversion engines are massive pieces of work that require a lot of upkeep, partly because CSS is a living spec but also because of the sheer number of edge cases.

We are already working on SOC2 as this has been a recurring ask, and indeed documents almost always contain PII.
How will systems such as ChatGPT influence the ideas, concepts, and writing styles over the next decade?

To grasp the situation our research methodically requested data from the underlying API of ChatGPT about its own knowledge. The first prompt is the following:

"Create a dataset in table format about the categories of all the knowledge you have."

From this initial prompt, a recursive algorithm requested data about fields of knowledge, their subfields, and the humans, objects, places, and artifacts within these categorical systems.
does he?
Don't worry about the Internet, it will survive this just fine. It was designed to reroute around damage like the "Reddit IPO".
Ask HN: Are AI and data centers are worth the amount of power they use?
Amazon recently bought a data center in Pennsylvania that comes with a guaranteed 960 MW of power.
(See https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/aws-acquires-talens-nuclear-data-center-campus-in-pennsylvania/)

That one building will consume more power than any city in the US except Miami. More than New York, more than Houston or Chicago or LA! (See https://www.statista.com/statistics/807951/average-monthly-electricity-usage-in-major-us-cities/ for stats on power usage by US cities.)

Today, the Washington Post reports that US power utilities don't know how they're going to meet demand for new data centers in the coming years. They can't build infrastructure fast enough. (Non-paywalled version of Post article: https://archive.is/xmQTg)

We're at the point where a single data center can offset the gains of entire cities switching to LEED certified buildings and energy-efficient bulbs and appliances.

The SaaS products we develop now consume a lot of power because they have redundancy across all components. AI uses massive amounts of power for its fundamental operations.

Given all this, is anyone questioning whether the software and AI we're developing is even worth this level of power consumption? Could that energy be better spent elsewhere?
Skimmed the litepaper. Has the flavor of: you can do "simulated" annealing by literally annealing. I like the idea of using raw physics as a "hardware" accelerator, i.e. analog computing. fwiw, quantum computing can be seen as a form of analog computing.

I do think that a "better rng" can be interesting and useful in and of itself.

Thanks for the Normal Computing post, it felt more substantial.
> It takes a lot of work to keep all of those user interfaces crappy, slow, and hard to use.

They're slacking on Old Reddit. It is still usable with RES.