skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I meant to say that this idea that the people 1000 years ago being “my people” doesn’t hold up to close inspection.

I think what you're saying is absolutely true, and a better example would be culture in general. There's a certain continuity in the cultural practices of a people in a certain region, with religion being one of the most resilient... but also other things like food, music and, of course, language.

However, all of those change over time. It's funny for me that the Americans of today would almost certainly consider the Americans of the 1950's a bunch of racists and homophobes. A culture can change over time so much as to be more different in 75 years than when actually compared with that of other countries. The continuity exists but change can be very fast. Look at the culture of any European "country" and you'll see just how much change happens. An extreme example, perhaps: the Swedes of the year 1000 compared with the Swedes of 2000. The people inhabiting what we call Sweden today were Vikings back then. I don't believe they had a concept of Sweden yet, as a country, though the regions around Stockholm (which didn't exist yet) and Uppsala (a small region which later grew far North and South to form Sweden proper) seem to have already had a sort of cultural identity (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varangians). These people were raiders and conquerors - they may have founded the Kievan Rus state and served as elite guards in the Byzantine Empire, which shows just how much of a bad ass warriors they were. How does present-day liberal, tolerant and egalitarian Swedes relate to their ancestors? If they could meet today, the modern fella would lose their head in no time, literally.
No, I get no other symptoms. I just have to wait for it to gradually shit through my visual field. Occassionally, at work I've had to say - 'can't do much for the next 30 minutes because I can't really see - anyone want me to make a cup pf tea'
thanks for your friendly response haha.
still pretty based tho. featherless little armed bright orange and purple spotted raptors eating Triceratops the size of double decker buses running around recking stuff
Any plans to support other languages like Go or Rust?
Go to the Pricing page -> no pricing.

Go to the About page -> all engineers.

If everything's running on top of a database -> how well does any of this scale? What is it going to cost me to run at scale?

In the durable execution space, flawless.dev has no pricing, but they're clear that they're still in alpha; temporal.io does have clear pricing for their hosted model: https://temporal.io/pricing/ , clearly documents limits: https://docs.temporal.io/cloud/limits#throughput , and allows self-hosting.

How does DBOS compare to its competitors?
I have one digital watch, the Casio F-91W, along with a mechanical "jump hand" watch, which shows the time using a pair of rotating wheels which have digits written on them. Kinda cute, but also a little hard to read in low-light.

I admit I've used the rotating bezel of a diving-watch to time cooking more often than for timing dives. They're very practical for that!
The root problem is a lack of imagination that cannot fathom how the person making the judgement might find themselves in the position of the judged, in the not-so-far-future.

The good news is that reality does not care whether or not you lack imagination. One can only marvel then, at the sequence of events that lead to the "unthinkable".
Harvard University was founded shortly after Shakespeare's death and decades before calculus was invented.
Gaza: 23M tonnes of debris 'will take years to clear'
It's an off-shore turbine only because the blades are too big for ground transport. Really feels like missing an opportunity not aiming higher with that purpose-built plane.
Thing is, doing exactly that has built strong businesses with rich execs! Silicon Valley's penchant for giving employees equity (even if not quite the terms I described) has created the most dominant businesses the planet has, over the course of a mere 50 years, _and_ minted hundreds of thousands of new millionaires while it did it.
From what I remember about that Claude 3 didn't reference itself, it wrote text along the lines of 'this looks like a test'. This was hyperboled into self reference. Even if it did, it won't be any different from how ChatGPT keeps repeating 'I am a language model made by OpenAI'.
Wasn't a favor, it's pretty standard. Same thing happened to me when I sold my first house ~8 years ago. I didn't even ask for it, the agent offered.
VS Code does this for me.

What use case is this after? Linting in CI or similar?
Well, yes. If you have a combustion engine or a turbine, Carnot tells you exactly the maximal efficiency you could achieve. But the exhaust still can be used for residental heating. So while the generator doesn't get any more efficient at producing electricity, you can use the heat which drives up the overall gain of operating the generator.
I have a degree in CS, from a Polish university, and virtually all the course material was in Polish. That's a legal requirement, since I signed up for a degree taught in Polish, and I can't be expected to speak English, even though I would be useless in real life if I didn't. An English version would be available, but it would probably be painful, considering how bad some of the teachers are at short phrases, let alone a semester's worth of lectures.

Similarly, all my direct coworkers speak Polish, and that's the language we use to talk about technical matters. We do use English words randomly, and our code (comments and variables) and docs are in English, but nobody is complaining about people using their native language.
Sleep apnoea can cause a lot of dreams, as it causes you to be half awake. So definitely get yourself tested for that.
This shouldn't be surprising given that even orthography and names were often not standardized consistently for most of history.

For example, Adolf Hitler's grandfather was called Hiedler, not Hitler and the spelling change was the result of his father's name, Alois Hitler, being changed later in his life after first being recorded as Aloys Schicklgruber (the family name being that of his mother rather than father as the fatherhood was apparently initially contested).

Or for orthography you just need to look at any historical text pre-19th century or so and you'll find plenty of oddities that often change regionally or even between writers in the same region.

Now expand this to the time scale and area of the Roman Empire/Republic and it's amazing most of it was somehow coherent over time. Actually as far as I recall, the "subtractive" style was only used consistently in the Middle Ages. Another odd variant I've seen is "IIX" instead of "VIII". And let's not talk about how larger numbers were represented or shenanigans like the "long I" instead of "II".
Great achievement, but what a horrible future we are facing.

Instead of progressing towards more powerful programming interfaces with less cause for misinterpretation, we are going to automate the silly process of writing redundant unit tests to check if the behavior that we wanted was encoded properly.

Why not skip this nonsense and have the code generated from the behavior in the first place?
If you have uBlock Origin - and who doesn't - you can use the 'element zapper' to do targeted killing of such annoying elements. It does wonders for those sticky headers, grey-out overlays and similar nuisances. Bind it to a key - I use CTRL-ALT-Z for 'zap' - and you don't need to leave the keyboard to go on a killing spree.
Might as well leave the door open, and a chilled drink ready for the home invader to enjoy while driving your car.
The average user isn't going to compile llama.cpp. They will either download a fully integrated application that contains llama.cpp and is able to read gguf files directly, like kobold.cpp or they are going to use any arbitrary front end like Silly Tavern which needs to connect to an inference server via an API and ollama is one of the easier inference servers to install and use.
If someone is hiring idiots that's on them. But giving equity doesn't even mean paying them more; it does mean aligning the incentives of the employee with the business. And it means the goals of the executives becomes the goals of the employees. Less politics, less bickering, more making stuff and selling it for profit.
Yeah, sounds like the IT situation was working within reasonable parameters for the company.

As a developer, I often see other developers/Adkins propose "huge improvements" only for it to cost much more than expected and deliver less. Maybe Ferrari guy was right to ignore this suggestion.
Such a mistake by the CEO. Power and money hungry clearly.
You're confusing two deferent things. I was talking about the language of technical IT terms, not which language you use at the course/school/university as of course that will almost always be the local language out of legal requirements.

In your Polish courses do you use translated Polish words for all the IT technical terms, or the original English ones?
Seems to be £12k, so not cheap: https://www.visionaid.co.uk/dot-pad

I was thinking if the dots need individual actuators. I'm old enough to remember dot-matrix printers; take the print head but put slightly beefier pins on it, move it left and right and use it to push metal spheres up in a hour-glass shaped cavity, with springy walls in the center section.

Obvious problems: how do you reset the spheres? And wear issues.

Edit: You could replace the hourglass throat with a plug valve (shared between pins). Print head comes along, turns the valve open, pushes the necessary balls up, closes valve, moves to next column. Needs more mechanics per cell, though.
I tried with GPT-4 and it can't recognize the font shown in the article without context.[1] (You can generate it as as the 'block' font using FIGlet or the many online generators that use it.[2])

[1] https://chat.openai.com/share/72d5e89d-1233-4078-8856-40f213...

[2] https://patorjk.com/software/taag/
>Best of luck to anyone that buys their stock

Also the fact that everything that will make reddit a "good business" is antithetical to the community.

I mean, how does reddit grow at this point? Who is going to start using it?
My guess is that IIII was used before IV in various cases. So maybe a mistake or to reduce confusion.
Fuzzing Ladybird with tools from Google Project Zero
Notably, synthesized waves generated through transcranial optogenetic stimulation substantially potentiated cerebrospinal fluid-to-interstitial fluid perfusion.

No wonder Musk is interested in this area of research.

This line indicates that with an optigenetic implant you can substitute sleep with something more efficient.
A lot of people running degoogled androids depend on the location service: https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/issues/2237
Actually, the contractor's boss surely did the math:

* this client is giving me xxxx $

* it costs me yyyy $ for salary team... so there's so gains... so let's no lose the client (even if it means dumb work for the team)

Moreover: it's easier to justify the contract's cost (we have to monitor closely your infra to get your IT business running... here are the numbers of tickets that we processed) than having to explain: "OK, we did nothing this month BUT you pay us because MAYBE SOMEDAY something bad may happens"... because the client might either think that he doesn't need the support contract or that he doesn't need to pay that much...

All in all: it's not a bad thing for the team to leave that kind of bullshit job
Depends on your definition of "close". There is a wind farm pretty close to the Berlin airport, but certainly some miles away.
Can we please shut down all research into those random bullshit generators? They aren't smart, they're glorified autocomplete, and a waste of humanity's resources.
It /could/ do, sure. There's uncertainty. Companies deal with uncertainty all the time.

Perhaps they didnt believe that internal investment could actually bring profits.

Perhaps it could bring profits, but the opportunity cost wasn't worth it.

Businesses can do all sorts of investments, beyond upgrading their file serving setup to meet the ideals of IT workers.
You can limit the number of threads used by DuckDB via `SET threads = x`, see https://duckdb.org/docs/configuration/pragmas#threads

(Disclaimer: I work at DuckDB Labs)
I’m not sure what you mean. If you’re saying people get screwed by large corpos… sure? Are you saying therefore burglaries and robberies are fine?
I've been using Dagger, it's awesome. It's the second take by the creators of Docker. It accomplishes most of what nix does for this problem

Write your pipelines and more in languages you already use. It unlocks the advanced features of BuildKit, like the layer graph and advanced caching.

nit: this post makes a point about deterministic builds and then uses "latest" for source image tags, which is not deterministic. I've always appreciated Kelsey's comment that "latest" is not a version
In my own experience, no they haven't. Nothing really changed substantially. Unless the spam is targeted specifically at your website, the bots of 2024 are as stupid as they were in 2007.
Because test define the behaviour. The hardest part of requirements is describing exactly what you want. Tests are great way of doing that.

I think AI software development is going to involve writing tests, which the AI agents then get passing. Or some other requirements language that allows for exactness where English can fall down.
Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20240316115049/https://news.un.o...
I have consulted in this sector, specifically academic publishing and textbooks. My sense is that publishers in the education market are biding their time while old pedagogies wane.

Every new paper book soon becomes a used book, worth zero or even negative revenue, whereas ebooks are sold de novo to every student at nearly full price with much lower fixed costs (print, distribute, stock, return). But publishers are wary of being seen as interfering with academic freedom by pushing to ebooks.

There are a couple of use cases where students overwhelmingly prefer paper. Cost savings with used books is obvious, but also, for example, if a prof -might- allow a paper book on an exam but -wouldn’t- allow laptop ebook access, most students will -never- take the risk of being disadvantaged, even if it’s only in rare cases.

I’d have to think about corresponding forces in the general publishing and public libraries realm, which I’ll assume is more complex but roughly analogous.

Publishers are waiting until there are a few successful targeted solutions and generational overturn, then paper will disappear in a blink and they will get a fat profit boost. Tech to enable this should be a nice little unicorn.
Ssh.
>The value of Reddit is in the information posted & pseudo-communities formed.

And what incentive do people have to build or maintain these communities going forward, for the sake of shareholders? How does reddit "get better"?
1.4K boys, girls, mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, grandparents were tortured, raped, and murdered on October 7th.

It will take decades to recover.
Really sad to see it go. It powers KDE Plasma's geolocation for its Night Colors feature among other FOSS projects.
I'm not sure I know what you're talking about, but there's nothing imaginary about how bad some "science journalists" are, and the notion of a bunch of HN commenters "punching down" at either journalists or physicists with much bigger platforms than we have is dubious.
The first until we hear about this guy as a result of sunshine laws
It didn't get the memo on big 'O'.
Sorry, but I can’t take the suggestion that the PCI bus and the internet should be treated the same seriously. You’re telling 4 or 5 orders of magnitude difference. Maybe more on some specs.

It’s like saying you should use the same file access algorithms for a RAM disk and punch cards. No you shouldn’t!
the show it's always sunny in philadelphia has a good episode covering this idea, the episode is 'dennis takes a mental health day'
DuckDB runs fine on laptops, including x86 and ARM architectures.

It runs on macOS, Windows and Linux.

It's not yet available as a conda package but can be installed from conda-forge (or from PyPI via pip). Additionally, it also works in R (via CRAN) and has bindings to many other languages.

(Disclaimer: I work at DuckDB Labs)
- 12 cores vs 8

- 8 perf. cores vs 4

- higher TDP

- ~$1,968 vs $1,499

not a fair comparison, you need to compare against the M3 Pro, and then you loose ;)
For those wondering, Skyhook is a "location technology company" that was acquired by Qualcomm

https://www.skyhook.com/
Is the idea that yoga/meditation are more efficient than sleep at redistributing the cerebral fluid? That would be very surprising.
Very different things. There is basically only one solar panel size on the market. Which starts at $100. Making large solar installations means just getting more panels. This is great for cost reduction, as that most of the times goes along with ramping up production numbers. The production of the single panel doesn't get more complex though.

Wind energy is also getting constantly cheaper, both due to cost reductions and due to making the wind generators larger and thus more efficient. Onshore wind energy is the cheapest in Middle Europe and if they could grow further, costs would go down accordingly.

But even if production can deliver, getting the blades gets more and more difficult, so here we area.
The CPU? it's the slowest you can get
This is an interesting problem. I love my library. And I use both physical and digital books.

On the one hand, it's probably true that more people can read a digital book. Ob the other hand, I have read fewer than 20 pages of a bunch of ebooks - enough to see if I might like them.

Do these count as checkouts? Am I a very expensive library user?

(And I also am happy to have several ebooks that I'll read sometime, casually renewing them until I get to them).
Fun fact: ppl act the way they do for a reason.

In the industry we love using the 5 whys to get to the bottom of an issue. I just wish folks would apply the same to their daily life.

1) Why did this man steal your car?
> Because he's poor.
2) Why is this man poor?
> Because his previous job paid too little.
3) Why did his previous job pay so little?
> Because he can only accept terms of a contract, try to find a better contract, or face homelessness
4) Why does he have to make that terrible choice?
> Because there is a power disparity between the employer and the employee
5) Why is there a power disparity between the employer and the employee?
> Because employees, despite being the real wealth creators, do not have any oversight and democratic control over their workplace.

A society that rewards theft will breed thieves. The alpha thief being the capitalist. Thats why "the west is falling"; it's only sowing the seeds of its destruction.
> […] but both sides are based on the understanding that company leadership has a fiduciary duty to shareholders.

Not really? Kind of?

Yes, directors have a "fiduciary duty to shareholders" but they also have a fiduciary duty to the corporation itself. § 102(b)(7):

* https://delcode.delaware.gov/title8/c001/sc01/

Further, you have to ask which shareholders:

> Serving shareholders’ “best interests” is not the same thing as either maximizing profits, or maximizing shareholder value. "Shareholder value," for one thing, is a vague objective: No single “shareholder value” can exist, because different shareholders have different values. Some are long-term investors planning to hold stock for years or decades; others are short-term speculators.

* https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-co...
I think non-continuous succession of the same entity comes down to using or grandfathering the law, claiming the same assets, but also honoring liabilities of the predecessor. It's the same as with companies.
Mainly get good at describing what you want.

I think tests are good way of doing that, or some special requirements language will emerge that AI agents can use. I don't think English is particularly good way of describing things exactly. It often has ambiguous meanings which is where the bugs will come from.
How do you alter layering without a restart? Just have an immutable base and do other rpm-ostrees in containers? Is that what flatpak is up to?
I...did you miss the part where I said I have Spectrum, in a rural area, with over 100Mbps speed?

Like, I can totally believe that there are places where they are perfectly content to shrug their shoulders and ignore entire populations (I actually know of some not too far from here). But to say that as if it's a universal constant is patently false.

Regardless of what the particular geographic parts of Spectrum you're familiar with do, it is demonstrably possible to get 100Mbps+ internet service over coax in rural areas, from them specifically. Thus, to say that you're "realistically looking at fiber" to go over 100Mbps doesn't hold up.

If you want to just bump that up to 1Gbps+, instead, your statement will hold pretty true.
Was Iceland a country when it was founded? Or later, with the start of the Icelandic Commonwealth? Did it end being a country after the pledge of fealty to the Norwegian king in 1262?

If it was always a country, then go west. When Eric the Red founded Greenland, was it a European country? Did it become a country? After the Norse died, the Danish-Norwegians still claimed sovereignty, and reestablished a colony. The place is now a constituent country of the Kingdom of Denmark.
Such a humanitarian disaster :(

I wont be able to see the world with the same eyes as before.
DuckDB also does not (yet) support adding foreign keys to a table, see: https://duckdb.org/docs/sql/statements/alter_table#add--drop...

One typical way to work around this limitation is to create a new table, copy the data there, and drop the old table. Copying from table to table is in general very fast.

(Disclaimer: I work at DuckDB Labs)
Yes, and so much could be addressed and fixed if the US Congress could commit to some acts of representative democracy. Laws could be written, laws could be changed, and many or all the seeming impasses could be legislated away-through acts of representative democracy. Something, something, people should politely write their representatives and otherwise fulfill their civic duties.
How long will it take to recover from the 30,000+ boys, girls, mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, grandparents killed and maimed in Gaza?

Israel's response to the brutal atrocities of Hamas has been to create even larger ones.

Where does this all end?
I inherited a legacy code base that suddenly had a lot more attention on it and had to be rapidly overhauled. Deptry was invaluable for quickly removing a large amount of unused dependencies.

The newest update was a delightful surprise since deptry is now fast enough to run during automated pull-request analysis via GitHub actions
Yes, the point is that unless they actually take the time to do something like that, you might see that the victim has no residue on their hand and could not have shot themselves.
That would greatly limit the maximum number of simultaneous clients behind the same IP (at the office, at the university etc)

When the limit is reached, all clients would be broken

Looks like a good deal indeed, why do not we do that