skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can only repeat what I told you earlier. Our distributed consistency model meets the SQL-standard's requirements for consistency and tolerates such outages. This is a fact.

CAP is a bad model for more reasons than the ones listed in that article. My favourite one is that it requires Linearizability, which nobody does in SQL. The disconnect when saying "SQL is not consistent" to me is just too much. CAP is based on a badly defined idea that comes from a presentation that was wrong in what it said.

That you need to tolerate outages of entire regions is a good argument to make in itself, there's no need to point at CAP. My answer to that is that as there's a way to define consistency in a way that allows for it to manage partition problems more gracefully, and that is the model we show. If you require communication to establish consistency and stream the changes associated with the specific timeslot at the same time, partition means that the global state will move on without the changes from the partitioned areas and that they will show up once the region rejoins the global network. While separated, they can still do (SQL-) consistent reads and writes for (intra-region) records they can modify.
A lot of comments here assume that two countries are either "at war" or not, even though it's much more of a gradient in which military escalation is one of the last steps. In fact, you can financially support an endeavour of a country while also sanctioning them for another thing they did. Relationships are complex.
Came here to drop a link to the Rick Rubin advice on the topic of building a thing for yourself out of love first but think the writeup intro from the 2min YouTube link is worth quoting in full ....

>Last month, Elon Musk tweeted that Rick Rubin’s philosophy of creating something truly for yourself is how Tesla creates products.

>Rick elaborates on this philosophy in the clip below:

>“My only goal is to make something that I like… I know what I like. If I don’t like it, I keep working, and eventually we get to a place where we like it.”

>And somewhat counterintuitively, he doesn’t consider the audience at all:

>“The audience comes last… I’m not making it for them. I’m making it for me. And it turns out that when you make something truly for yourself, you’re doing the best thing you possibly can for the audience.”

>Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt a similar point:

>"If you think about the greatest products, they've almost always been designed for the benefit of the people who are actually building them.”

>Uber started out as a private timeshare limousine service for Garrett Camp and his friends. Microsoft started when Bill Gates and Paul Allen wrote a Basic interpreter for the Altair so they didn’t have to write machine language to program it. Drew Houston built Dropbox to make his files live online after forgetting his USB stick. Larry Page and Sergey Brin built Google for Stanford—and particularly for themselves—with the first server in Larry’s dorm room.

>There’s of course a delicate balance here between building for yourself and talking to users—you don’t want to be “fake Steve Jobs”.

>Perhaps legendary coach Bill Campbell said it best in response to Steve Jobs’s approach of relying solely on the taste of Apple’s team members:

>“I don’t think a marketing person would have created the Macintosh, but [talking to users] would have made it better.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVe9-_ebyXk
Thanks! Appreciate your understanding.
Commute talk: Why did I start building a browser? – Andreas Kling (2019) [video]
> I contest otherwise. Even if that is the case, how does that prevent the govt from acting correctly or morally?

The govt already acts profoundly immorally. Social security is unconstitutional! My view of the government is that it exists to enrich itself, regardless of morals. While this legislation is narrowly worded, which I appreciate, it still goes so far as to prohibit a voluntary transaction. To me that is immoral.

> Not all Americans. Americans want to ban TikTok.

The Americans that want to ban TikTok aren't trying to ban it because they don't like the content. If that was the case, they could simply not use it. Instead they want to ban it because they don't like others using it, and that is categorically different.

> Democracy

I do understood how democracy works, especially federalism. This does fall under the purview of the commerce clause as it has often been interpreted by the Supreme Court, so I fully expect it to withstand legal challenges. I just think it's bad policy and hypothesize the precedent is what's needed to push for more and more.

Thank you for your response. We disagree, and that's okay.
No one is claiming absolute privacy is possible. It cannot all be reduced to an indistinguishable mass of surveillance. There is an enormous amount of nuance in the privacy picture, and laws like the one described in the OP are a meaningful step in the wrong direction for that picture.
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The presence of advertisements on a site does not make the site content. Whether a site primarily hosting sexual content uses advertisements also changes nothing about whether it's constitutional for the government to mandate that a site publish particular "health warnings" about the non-ad sexual content on the site.

Non-obscene porn (okay for adults, not okay for children) is protected by the First Amendment, while obscenity (determined by the Miller test [1]) is not protected (not okay for adults, not okay for children) by the First Amendment. The Fifth Amendment's decision that some sexual material can obscene only when viewed/read by children and non-obscene when viewed by adults relates to the mandated age verification part of the Texas law, and has little if any relation to the mandated "health warnings" (which are for adults, since children aren't allowed to be on the site).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_test
Are there writeups about this isolation feature? I was left wondering if it's a security boundary, like sandboxing, or a packaging system feature.
No, he meant that we don't use vaccines that are bad.
The seats are sitting on rails and can be adjusted.
All of the bigtech is still hiring, folks with good track record have no trouble moving around. Perhaps even _too little_ trouble, as evidenced by attrition in my neck of the corporate woods of folks who are going to be darn near impossible to replace. A large segment of bigtech is hiring and firing thousands of people pretty much at the same time. It's psychotic, inhumane and counterproductive (IMO), but that's currently how it is.
It's she*
Thanks for your feedback. We'll definitely keep that in mind as JPEG-XL becomes more widely supported across modern browsers.
He thinks it's really amazingly cool! :D

I'm so happy to hear that I had some part to play in inspiring such a marvellous project.
The part in question is around the 4 min 20 sec mark.
Using the term "energy" here is suboptimal because it's mixing grid electricity with gas power.

A/C tends to be powered from electrical grid. Heat is often from propane or fracked gas.

More energy overall is used to heat homes in cold climates, but cooling homes in hot climates creates the challenging grid demand.
Yes, a CEO is generally expected to know the basis of their latest big product offering.
The Internet was never meant to be exposed to children. No one would let their child go to an effectively unmoderated random place to converse with anonymous strangers that are knowingly grooming children.

Country wide ban on Internet access to minors is necessary to significantly mitigate the negative impact the internet is causing youth today, and the destruction of legitimate adult spaces on the net.

The solution is simple - any user interfaceable computing device expected to be sold to a minor must be child locked by default. This lock identifies the device as a minor, blocking most ads, "social media" apps, in app purchases, other maliciously sold apps, and filters the available domains in browser to a simple whitelist.

Remove any kind of parental "monitoring" and control nonsense that are so often abused. Don't make it necessary in the first place! It's only a scapegoat so they don't have to do the right thing.

The whitelist is simple, buy it off of one of a dozen existing commercial solutions.

Unlocking a phone is also simple and non invasive by showing ID during purchase. Same way you have to do any other kind of business with malicious business practices.
The monetary case of PV does not account for the damage that is done to the environment over the entire lifecycle. Solar hot water panels are ecologically superior. Not only are they more efficient in W/sqm. Their production is not as energy intensive (plumbing included), the recycling process is less complex, poisonous materials can mostly be avoided. If heat is the desired product, they probably beat PV by an order of magnitude in the energetic dimension.
Not intended to be racist definitely. Also, india has many races from my experience there.

This is more my from my own real life frustrations and experience. If we can't talk about a country, and certain issues there, then where are we?
Fundamental Components of Deep Learning (category theory) [pdf]
For those that don't know Bruno, he's one of the organizers for https://cats.for.ai/

He also maintains an "Awesome-$X" like Github page for ML and Category Theory: https://github.com/bgavran/Category_Theory_Machine_Learning

I have no association with him and I doubt he knows who I am. But I thought there is enough interest here in both ML and Category Theory that others might be interested in this.
I agree. Semantic diff is very useful. Tangentially, I'm surprised that the terraform diff cannot be displayed in a more user-friendly manner.
Any idea if this will work for expats?
Maybe you need to try it out rather than casting doubts about a product you haven't tried yet? Pre-emptively doubting claims based on your past experience with a tool Flox claims to solve seems like a poor way to go here.

For what it's worth, there are a number of options in the Nix space that really do solve for its complexity like Devbox and now Flox.
And, an embarrassed silence fell across Silicon Valley. "What do we do now?!"

But take heart. Just as the working definition of "gender" has proved to be far more pliable that ever dreamt until recently, so, too, perhaps "history" can be cheerfully reinvented to suit the ideological whims of an age? I personally look forward to imaging the philosopher Zhuangzi as Adam Smith. The deep paradoxes of economics ("greed cumulates to the public good") hearken to the wildly shifting perspectives of Daoism.
The interviewer asked "videos from YouTube?" and the answer was "I'm actually not sure about that."

Similarly no answer about videos from Facebook or Instagram.

It's a kind of significant implementation detail, wouldn't you say? If the discussion were about minor sources of videos it would be a lot more understandable.
Since recently, you can't obtain the Mac address through iOS system APIs, you'd have to make a network request to retrieve it.
Yes, but how could it relate to the nosediving by just adjusting the seat?
What's next for a global design system
Ask HN: Is startups aiming for small medium businesses viable?
I have an idea with helping small medium business to use a certain tool, that I'm not aiming for the large companies and enterprises because those are likely to have their own team to deploy the similar stuff. I target SMBs specifically, because they often don't have enough capital to use that tool, but I fear that the startup seed fund panels won't like the idea because 1. It is kind of boring to them as it is not really novel and innovative, the stack is all based on well-known CNCF projects (but should be practical) and 2. also capital intensive at the beginning (I'm using hyperconverged infrastructure for this) and 3. I intentionally avoided AI because I think it is a bubble and doesn't mean much for SMBs, although AI related stuff would be added in later stages, given my idea is fruitful and after AI got away with the peak of hype cycle.

I fear that focusing on SMBs won't give me a positive financial outlook in the future, which maybe also be a bane, though.
The view transitions API addresses this:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/View_Transi...
Currently, Trangram doesn't support exporting SVG animation files. While static SVG export is planned, it's not yet available.
That same logic applies to cryptocurrencies. Nobody actually cares about the "utility" of Bitcoin or Ethereum. An expensive cryptocurrency also means expensive fees which diminishes the net benefit of the cryptocurrency. So in practice homeowners and cryptocurrency speculators are making money off the collapse of their community.
Hetzner cloud?
I’m from Seattle. I’ve worked at Boeing before and so have many people I know. It’s not just suits. The company is rotten to the core—from the factory floor to the CEO office. It’s a toxic company culture that pushes out high performers because the high performers makes everyone else look bad. As a result, it only retains low performers. The job can be done in one hour, but the company requires you to be in the office/factory for a full 8 hours. There are a lot of over employed people with second jobs.
Amazing work.
The code looks very neat too.
I love projects that simplify software.
Wow - I hadn’t noticed that they still use GitHub for their own development. From their long-running migration ticket it seems the project has since grown so large they are basically stuck there too.
Might as well shield yourself from
future litigation at the price of looking like a detached CTO.
copyright is kinda important, espcially for "generative" AIs.
Boeing is like most big companies part of the capitalist system where shareholders expect an annual rate of return of 5 to 8%. Every company that does not deliver this rate will fall out of the game.

Some of the shareholders are completely innocent people like some family who's saving for retirement via an ETF. It means that if Boeing is not growing at the rate of other companies, it will fall out of some stock market index and hence the ETF. Before that, it will probably be removed from many other portfolios that are managed by people directly.

Both sides of the game are people trying to do the best. If the managers decided to invest heavily in the next years and make losses, they'd be kicked out of that position and replaced by some who continue running this game.

I think politics is the only way out of this. It won't change until people can convince politics to regulate some areas more strictly or putting higher penalties on some mistakes.
She should have asked GPT4. Might know more.
Alternative link https://courseworks2.columbia.edu/files/587042/download?down...
Throw out the 1.4-1.6 tonne SUVs and leave the 2-2.5 tonne EVs. It's not about weight or size. It's about: divide people to two groups and make one feel more superior. This method allows to introduce oppressive laws.
Modern medicine is great, but sadly they push C-sections a lot. My understanding is they can bill at least 50% more than a natural birth. This skews even higher if you don't have the best insurance.

A bit outdated but:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/10/c-section-...

https://archive.is/4jj0h#selection-761.59-761.224

Also once you have one c-Section, the chances of a second increase significantly. It is not suggested to have more than two c-Sections, so if you want three kids you are out of luck.
I hate Microsoft with a passion but Playwright is a gem.
Chisel does emit FIRRTL. Which can be made into a bitstream directly by Yosys.
They don't know, do they...
> IBM and NASA build language models to make scientific knowledge more accessible

Newspeak ?
It may not be a lie. She may actually not know if YouTube, Instagram, or Facebook videos were used to train Sora. This way she can protect herself when the legal shitstorm inevitably hits, and throw some of her engineers under the bus instead.
OpenAI's CTO knows exactly what data was used to train Sora. She is just not going to say it publicly in front of a reporter because she knows that lawyers from every large content owner and content host are listening to every word, ready to pounce.
Oh wow!! Thanks!!
And Jung refined it, 150 years later: “our age has a blindness without parallel. We think we have only to declare an acknowledged form of faith to be incorrect or invalid, to become psychologically free of all the traditional effects of the Christian or Judaic religion. We believe in enlightenment, as if an intellectual change of opinion had somehow a deeper influence on our emotional processes, or indeed upon the unconscious! We entirely forget that the religion of the last two thousand years is a psychological attitude, a definite form of adaptation to inner and outer experience, which moulds a definite form of civilization; it has thereby created an atmosphere which remains wholly uninfluenced by any intellectual disavowal. The intellectual change is, of course, symptomatically important as a hint of coming possibilities, but the deeper levels of the psyche continue for a long time to operate in the former attitude, in according with psychic inertia. In this way the unconscious has preserved paganism alive. The ease with which the classic spirit springs again into life can be observed in the Renaissance. The readiness with which the older primitive spirit reappears can be seen in our own time, even better perhaps than in any other historically known epoch.”
What about Youre Holding It Wrong?

IE: Maybe rather than throwing it find problems, also use it to just build things from scratch - as an example:

The side hustle: make that a product:

Let someone like me who is not a coder have access to Devin for a month with the only goal of building a side hustle that brings a solo person a monthly income.

Then - Sell that so that the millions of people who have a solo idea and just need that "technical co-foumder" can use it to build. and limit it to one devin instance to a person to start...

I dont want it to do a one fell swoop - I'd like to say "build this module...

--

Have a contest where you get What can you build with Devin in TOPIC in 30 mins.
> Is there a great Rust GUI library that is both lightweight and looks good?

I'm going to say Slint. https://slint.rs
I like that I can get more performance, but I don't necessarily want an anemic environment for when things go wrong. Production machines are often pretty barebones to begin with - making investigating issues often feel like working through a key-hole.
Certainly, we do have a Pen Bezier tool available. When you switch to path mode, the first one is what you want.
This looks a lot like Stashpad Docs that came out today, too!

https://docs.stashpad.com/
transpilers are a subset of compilers though. they span the gamut from things like coffeescript that do fairly simple syntax transformations, to full fledged languages whose compilation target happens to be a high level language like C or javascript, but which otherwise implement most of what you would expect in a "compiler".
She definitely knows, she’s just trying to avoid any chance of future litigation by feigning ignorance. Makes sense since OpenAI’s been getting a lot of bad press for using copyright data in training their models.
Sad when a CTO is trained to answer legally correct, but that is how for-profits are run.
Many of these vultures would be heavily cuffed if stock buybacks were curtailed, as they were a long time ago.

Once you get a vulture in who is there for the quick returns rather than for what the job should be - growing the business - it's all over.
There is literally no good that could come to her or OpenAI by answering the question. That's why she didn't give a real answer.
Thanks. Your feedback is valuable and will be taken into account as we continue to improve the tool.
How close are we to this technology replacing RPA?
They live for a thousand years but will never be able to reproduce in the uk?
Website Prompt Injection – POC – GitHub
Website Prompt Injection is a concept that allows for the injection of prompts into an AI system via a website's. This technique exploits the interaction between users, websites, and AI systems to execute specific prompts that influence AI behavior.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39679787
The problem is that “experience” has no value in our industry, unless it is recent experience with some technology, framework, language, and the memorization of those algorithms and data-structures.
It's cool to see other hackers "switch off the targeting computer". I used Emacs for a while with $TERM set to vt100, which masked much of the highlighting. To this day I don't use autocomplete, because I don't want a video game popping up in my FOV while I'm coding; and because using the full name of classes, functions, and methods helps me remember them better and how they fit together.

I have this idea that IDE features are designed to make programming more normie-friendly and approachable; and that neurodiverse hackers like myself, who used to predominate back in the 70s and 80s, just find them distracting. There's probably some neurodiversity specificity in there, but recently the idea got some support from this study:

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-35017-7_...

Which was also covered on Hackernews:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36721055

I keep dreading the day when I finally have to switch to Visual Studio Code, either because work requires it or there's just no longer adequate tooling in anything else. I will be completely at sixes and sevens compared to Emacs or even vim.
Well, I wonder about all language communities why they don’t coordinate efforts indeed. I see monthly arrivals of new ‘js runtimes’ and package managers as well. And that eco system is a lot larger than nix. If these talented people would band together, wouldn’t we get a better endresult as a whole? If it’s commercial products then that doesn’t work, but this is all nice open source under good licenses, so outside ego, what’s the benefit of 50000 things that do the same thing except 499XX*n hours of life wasted?
If it was a PR stunt, then my assumption would be lemon did it, and he has some sort of backup plan that isn't public.

Of course it could always not be a stunt.
Crazy to think that this thing was just sitting there, two centuries old, when Jesus was doing stuff in the Middle East.
Yes. The CTO is the Chief __Technology__ Officer.

And pretty much everyone knows that this question is going to be asked during any interview. If there's anything to prepare for, it is this question.

The specific questions were

What data was used to train SORA?
So, videos on YouTube?
Videos from Facebook? Instagram?
What about Shutterstock? I know you guys have a deal with them.
It would be interesting to hear from the Gitea contributors who were vehemently denying on here that this would happen when concerns were raised just a few months ago.
Did learning about the brain being made of meat also destroy your awe of human intelligence?

I feel like being able to look inside the clockwork should not distract us from being amazed at how wonderful a system can be.
CTO btw, not CEO. Which kinda makes it worse.
Yes, but they are rare and almost certainly not on Hacker News.
My wife's first language is not English. (Though US citizen for well over 12+ years.) The hospital brought in someone who spoke both languages to bring up the concern while I was in the room.

Friends suggested bringing in a Doula. They are really good at patient advocating for patient's rights.
Oh God, I lost my friend to that cult. There is a lot of resentment, anxiety and emotional turbulence for members of IFS.

Constantly nurturing internal representations of the world, leaves very little time for nurturing one's self. It creates a sense of accelerationism.

I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.