skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I grew up listening to my dad's record/CD collection, all 60s-80s rock. When we drove in the car, we listened to music on the radio.

My father in law likes 1950s big band music; it's not really on broadcast radio much. He listened to a lot of public radio when my wife was growing up. As a result, she listens to public radio in the car 90% of the time.

When we first got together and I rode in her car, I was stunned that she never listened to music while driving.

Podcasts are on-demand talk radio. It's really nothing more.
As far as I understand dark energy/matter is not established, it's just a placeholder as we don't quite know what's missing in our formulas. Isn't it like that?
You can buy a clio for less than that. Or a Duster for even less.. And last time I checked, they both had rear windscreen wipers.. :-)
I have trouble seeing the definite utility of consciousness in terms of evolutionary fitness.

Assuming consciousness isn't somehow necessary for intelligence or associative learning and that it plays a somewhat subserviently role to unconscious mechanisms, consciousness seems potentially less efficient than unconscious mechanisms. For example when physically avoiding a collision while driving conscious thought is often too slow.

Intuitively the role of consciousness as a supervisor of faster unconscious mechanisms seems to be to review the unconscious and perform some sort of steering or review of it. But I'm not sure it's obvious consciousness is effective at doing this.

For example in ironic process theory trying to consciously will away a thought takes resources which increases the prevalence of that thought. "Try to pose for yourself this task: not to think of a polar bear, and you will see that the cursed thing will come to mind every minute."

Some of the concerns for consciousness in a evolutionary model are better outlined here.

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10....
With Redis it isn't even a case of "grow a user/customer base based on the fact that your software is open source and then turn it proprietary"

It's "buy the naming rights to an already popular piece of open source software and try to make a quick buck"
> The now-elder employee ~~gave~~ freely sold, for an excellent wage and benefits, their best and healthy years to the company and its mission.

FTFY
I don't see how AGPL does not run afoul of item 10 of OSI's definition of open source [1], which is that the license must be technology-neutral, which they describe as "No provision of the license may be predicated on any individual technology or style of interface".

AGPL has provisions that only apply when a remote user interacts with the program over a computer network. Those provision do not apply if a local user interacts with the program or if a remote user interacts with it by some means other than a computer network.

To meet the requirements of item 10 those provisions should apply when any user interacts with the program regardless of whether they are local or remote and regardless of what particular technology is used to carry the communications between the user and the program.

[1] https://opensource.org/osd
I wrote this in another comment, but it's relevant here I think:

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I do scaling and performance work, mostly with Rails apps, but a significant amount of the work is database level and not language specific. I've used both postgres and MySQL (and a few other databases) going back to 2000.

The best thing I can hear from a company when I start is "We use Postgres". If they're using postgres then I know there's likely a far smoother path to performance than with MySQL. It has better tooling, better features, better metadata.
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Right now I would not choose MySQL over Postgres at all, ever. I can't think of a single way it is materially better.
Amazon won't have much interest in supporting on-prem. But I'm sure you can find independent companies that would be willing to help with this. I wouldn't know any one of them well enough to vouch for any at this point. But with a quick Google search I was able to pull out some company names.

There are enough companies going down this path that you should be able to get support.
At the end of the article they mention the world record of 22.9 Pbps was set by a team at NICT in November 2023.

See this link for more info: https://www.nict.go.jp/en/press/2023/11/30-1.html
Familial Alzheimer's disease transferred via bone marrow transplant in mice
Does this mean anything for actual latency, or only bandwidth?

e.g. speed of light could mean a ~40ms ping between LA and Sydney, but best we get today is probably around 150ms?
If your sample is cross contaminated with fentanyl e.g. from a scale there is a chance the portion of the sample you sent for testing doesn’t have any fentanyl. These aren’t homogeneously mixed substances its someone loading a dime bag in a bedroom.
If expansion at the big bang started with a rate of X. Could the varying densities at different points cause their expansion to deviate from the original rate?
Something that's rarely talked about in startup circles is co-founder conflict. It's pervasive, and in many cases leaves a bitter taste for years afterwards. Part of the reason we never hear about it is legal liability/NDAs, but the other part is the investor ecosystem (including accelerators) doesn't want to hear about conflict, just the fact that there is a committed founding team with the right match of skills and background.

Regarding this:

I have been told by A-san who is the representative of the investors, very firmly, and very clearly, that my performance today will have a significant impact on my leaving deal. And my performance today must include reading out the bullets.

The outcome isn't surprising. In some countries, foreign CEOs and founders will always be at a disadvantage in the eyes of investors, employees, public perception, and the law.
This was the "good" example:

> One of the main problems in gauge theory is understanding the geometry of the space of solutions of the Yang–Mills equations on a Riemannian manifold.

Perhaps I'm the wrong type of human, but this still does not resonate at all.
You definitely win! Safety first, easy to reach controls and music selection without needing to guess which music library owns your artist (because it changed last month of course) while driving on the highway.

Mental safety : never getting mad at why did they upgrade this damn thing and change all the buttons.
I remember "turn out day," where all the recently turned out [apprenticeship graduates] become journeymen. You start noticing all the new trucks your idiot co-workers are financing, and wonder how much better it'll be once you've turned out.

At least in my union experience, the greatest "cost savings" that most families have is that our health insurance premiums cost exactly the same whether a single male, or married father to dozens. Collective bargaining has some of its greatest strengths for Joe D. Everyman.
the current thought is that these are measurement errors not actual differences in expansion rate but even if they were actual different expansion rates, they are separated by time not space.
Visiting Romania :)
Living in Romania :(
> Instead of trying to discuss that (and I could) - on HN there are plenty links to thinks I don't consider useful, like retrocomputing, programming in AGDA or yet another rust rewrite of some tool. I don't go around and leave nonproductive comments there, i just don't click them. Why do you feel a need to do so?

Mostly because unlike those other examples, cryptocurrency is actively doing harm to society by accelerating climate change, enabling various forms of crime, and doing financial damage to many people who have been convinced to put their savings into various ponzi schemes. So I view it as a sort of moral obligation to be a dissenting voice in these conversations.

I don't intent to be actively nonproductive with things I say though, and you might be right that it would be better to not engage with my original comment. The parent comment I replied to was not very productive either though. Mostly just "this is good". So my intention was just to represent the opposition and say something like "I disagree, and think this is part of something that is harmful."
>I think it's important to internalize that stamps are like a form of currency[0].

So much so that the original Ponzi scheme involved arbitraging the price of stamps via international reply coupons (and then promptly got way out of hand).
I remember when I heard "peak oil" type arguments for ... the third time around? Long past other deadlines.

Not that I care much if we use oil or not but it's interesting how the inevitable type predictions come and go and come back again.
I don’t know if that would’ve helped in this particular case, because this was a phone tree for the pharmacy at my location, and i needed to return a call for the pharmacist.
There are some podcasts that will fit each listening style more than others based on their speaking style.
That poem was added to the statue 17 years after it's opening, by an American. It has nothing to do with the French, and the statue was not designed to symbolize "immigration" but liberty and enlightenment.

Maybe they'll suggest chaining the sign, but they never created it in the first place.
> I like MongoDB for the ease of use when rapidly prototyping things.

I think this is similar to when people say writing tests speed them up through TDD, then others don’t write any tests at all. What I take away is you can do it either way as long as you’re bought in and are familiar with the process.

For me it’s no trouble at all to define my schema in advanced. And Postgres provides me with the json column escape hatch. Combined with the massive benefit of the data validity guarantees later in the app’s lifecycle I pick Postgres every time.
I listen to a lot of podcasts, but I treat them as kind of drift-in, drift-out background noise. When I'm washing dishes or something I'll listen to every word. But some tasks, like some parts of playing a video game or sorting out the mail or whatever, requires more attention so I'll stop listening for a bit and then drift back in when the task is done. For that reason, I don't listen to "high attention" podcasts, like stories or highly educational shows and audiobooks. Instead I listen to weekly update kind of things (weekly video game podcasts, science news podcasts, guitar Q&A show, etc) where if I zone out for a few minutes, I don't really care because they'll move on to some other topic shortly and I can tune back in.
Venmo is probably even more popular than zelle
Well, yes and no. If you already have your database running in production with many transactions and live connections 24/7, changes to the schema might not be hard per se but always needs careful planning and execution. Additionally, in Postgres a change like adding a column locks the whole table (although I hear this is going to change) so writes are off for a short time. If this becomes unacceptable, you go for a blue/green deployment which has its own gotchas.

So, while I agree with your main point - there is nothing in Postgres that prevents rapid prototyping, and I would chose it over Mongo any moment, I understand why some people might prefer the more "dirty" approach.
To add to the list of coincidences of this popping up now, I will turn 37 this year!
Comparing Soviet corruption to US corruption is like comparing a decapitation to a papercut.
Can You Tweet Your Way to Impact?
This makes me think of a concept for a story:
It’s the end of a dark age and science is becoming popular again. They’re in a constant battle between the religious forces but at least they have unity and political power of some kind for the first in known human history. However, they keep coming up with solutions to problems that seem to line up perfectly with the strange little details of religious superstition in a way that just doesn’t make any sense. Things exactly like “it takes 8 minutes for the sun god to hear you.” As the battle between the religious forces begins to get worse and worse, they realize the obvious conclusion: there used to be scientists that discovered all this before, but they all “died out.” In fact, this cycle has happened many many times over
I wonder if there is a use case for an open source permissive license that also cannot be changed. Several companies have started off with MIT in infancy and then switch to something else later when successful to improve monetization.

I mean, I get it, everyone wants to become billionaire, but best to be honest about it up front.
I wouldn’t worry you’re missing much. The whole reason podcasts are popular is that many people can listen to them and do something else.

If you can’t it means your brain is doing something else. For me a podcast completely arrests my thought processes in a way that radio chatter or music doesn’t.

I listen to a very, very small number of podcasts either that I find valuable enough to listen to despite the trade off. I’ll especially save them for cooking or another task which already half occupies my brain.

I take in information dramatically faster by reading. Podcasting is a perfectly viable way to get information or be entertain, but so are books and movies and shows or just looking at things and thinking.
Sometimes, but good podcasts are usually structured around some discussion or interview, which is hard to compress.

Additionally the somewhat stretched nature is good if you don't have 100% of your attention on it.
You're a good poster, but you are hurting your cause by taking this approach. Take the advice of others and email Dan (hn@ycombinator.com) and make the case for why you think he should protect this post from flags. He'll probably be talked into it. For better or worse, that's the way the system works here.

As to why it was flagged in the first place, it's hard to say. The easy answer to reach for is to assume that people who disagree with the conclusion want to suppress discussion. I think this is sometimes true, but I'm not sure about this particular case. It could also be that people think it's inappropriate HN for some other reason.

Personally, I think our flagging rules are increasingly being a problem, and we should change so that small minorities can't prevent discussion that the majority want so have. But this isn't the case yet, so for now you are better off with direct appeals to Dan.

Good luck!
Have you tried using something like Turso? Curious how that experience would be for you.

(I do not work at Turso)
I believe one of the job interview problems at Mongo for software engineers, was to design a relational layer on top of the document store.
Project Veritas and all associates of them deserve to sit in prison. That's the worst possible example you could bring up here.
Sorry if this is a silly question - I was never a Mac user, but I quick googled Mac Studio and it seems it's just the computer. Can I plug it to any monitor / use any keyboard and mouse, or do I need to use everything from Apple with it?
I randomly know some people who did research on the relationships between the stakeholders that are involved here. See:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08941920.2021.1...

I find the whole thing facinating.
Aggressive dismissal of an entire field with minimal attempt made to understand it is never going to play well and following it up with sarcasm doesn't improve the situation.

Attempting to work backwards to the beginning of the universe from a single tiny point in time and space is fairly obviously going to be a lot harder than understanding the physics of events we can repeat, measure, and examine. This doesn't make them quackery and it does explain why many things remain poorly explained. A century from now its likely that many understandings will be retained and some will have been consigned to the bin.

People do challenge existing theories. Most frequently unsuccessfully. Because most novel hypothesis turn out to be wrong.

Riffing off the science fiction reference this isn't a process we can skip any more than authors can skip brainstorming, first drafts, rewrites and just skip to typing out the final draft.

In brief stop coming off like Agent Mulder. Everyone knows the truth is out there. If it takes a while to coalesce its not because the educated folks working on the problem too stupid to listen to basic physics. It's because the physics that explains the rest of the picture isn't written yet.
As an ex-academic, my personal experience was that two out of three academic labs that I worked in were engaged in fraudulent activities (but at the time, I didn't think to carry hidden microphones and microcameras around like a spy to document what was going on). The third lab was very high quality, though. The key differences? The good lab had:

1) Rigorous lab notebook policies - everything had to be documented and signed off on, and there the PI conducted a weekly lab notebook review with each grad student (note this was a fairly small lab, for some large labs this might be difficult, but in that case postdocs could review grad students and the PI reviews the postdocs). This led to one grad student getting booted from the lab for cooking data at one point.

2) Weekly lab meetings with review of progress and open discussion of any issues, such as uncertainties in data quality and so on, with all members present. No secret squirrel meetings or people trying to figure out how to cook the results for publication or patents or what not.

The frauds had either no or badly flawed notebook policies (record data using a pencil so it could be erased or altered later), a highly secretive modus operandi, lots of whispering in corners, grad students being pressured to get 'the desired result', etc. This goes on all the time, and generally only high-profile bogus claims are the ones that get any public scrutiny.

As far as why this behavior is common in academia? Well, if the PIs think they know how a system works then they can just invent data to back their belief and hope that someone else diligently replicates it, so they can be first to publish and get the prizes, career advancement, patents etc. that come with that. A fair number of big-name scientists have probably gotten away with this - an indication is that they make a big splash in a field and then never do much else with it. (At the grad student level, they'll invent positive (publishable) results just to get their degree and move on).

Solution: academics with government funding should be forced to endure audits of their lab notebooks and data retention policies by an independent party on a regular basis.
I just tried to put in a 60 min limit and my child freaked out. She claims her peer groups just sit and watch TikTok during lunch.

So as a parent I can make my child the one that stands out from their peers. And for many teens being different is their worst fear. So I don’t see how this comes down to personal responsibility of the parent.

Alternatively these apps have been designed to be addictive and evoke dopamine hits. Why can’t we make it the responsibility of the app companies to stop creating experiences that have massive negative societal impacts?
Effective light cone and digital quantum simulation of interacting bosons
I have the same concerns generally. But one non-evil popped into my head...

My dad passed away a few months ago. Going through his things, I found all of his old papers and writings; they have great meaning to me. It would be so cool to have them as audio files, my dad as the narrator. And for shits, try it with a British accent.

This may not abate the concerns, but I'm sure good things will come too.
I do most of my podcast listening in the gym, while walking around the city going places, and on airplanes, trains, and buses.
So what is a good use case for Mongodb? I have never seen an application where a "document database" would have been a good choice. In every project where I have seen Mongodb, it has turned out to be the wrong choice.

Even for prototyping there are many other good choices since RDBMS like Postgres have implemented JSON support. Mongodb looks like a solution in search of a problem.
> which I am aware is entering theological realms

Theological realms are where people tend to go when they feel they must have an explanation to something unexplainable.

I think it’s important to preserve a non-theological space that allows one to acknowledge how little we know without defaulting to a theological position, and to highlight that acknowledging these unknowns does not make one a believer in deities.

Not saying this is what you’re doing by the way, but it’s a kind of binary choice that many people seem to force on the situation.
I/O Passthru: Upstreaming a flexible and efficient I/O Path in Linux
Colon Cancer Is Rising in Young People: What to Know About Causes and Symptoms
And StyleTTS2 generalizes out of domain even better than that.
Postgres 8 supported functions capable of returning tuples (RETURN QUERY), but lacked transaction control and other features that CREATE PROCEDURE added in Postgres 11 (2018).

Extensions in Postgres 8 (and earlier) were also half-baked compared to 9.1 (2011), which added CREATE EXTENSION and other quality-of-life improvements including standardization.

The latest complete implementations are what most people have in mind when talking about them.
I am extremely skeptical about all things regarding consciousness, and nothing stated in this thread has done anything to reduce my skepticism. We barely know anything about human consciousness, I feel we are under qualified to speak with conviction about anything else's level of consciousness.
A "mars colony" is fantasy hucksterism.

It's very different than space exploration. Sending humans to Mars and back would advance science and engineering. Since there is no Cold War "high ground" to be seized, the considerations are very different from Apollo. It has to be a chance worth taking, in terms of lives and money.

It might be do-able soon-ish. Or it might not be. I'm content to wait until NASA can get astronauts back from Mars who are not an irradiated mess of brittle bones.

This "backup drive" hogwash is meant to trick the gullible.
Ah, got it, I was thinking you were referring to the mobile OSes and the details of their MAC randomization implementations.
Why is that wild? Witness dies in the middle of testifying against X - seems perfectly reasonable to wonder about whether X had anything to do with it. Given Boeing's seeming lack of regard for human safety in recent years (which was also the subject of the testimony if I understand correctly), I don't see any reason to think Boeing would consider murder out of bounds.
I'm not sure what exactly you mean, but the Hubble tension could also be explained if we live in a particularly large under dense region of the universe. Then the light we observe from the CMB basically has to climb out of a gravitational well which would influence our measurement. IIRC such a substantial under density is considered unlikely though and very hard if not impossible to measure.

The spatial inhomogeneities of matter in the very early universe, which I believe you might be talking about, were extremely tiny.
I feel like this podcasting hype is filling a sort of para-social gap that we’ve had in the last years. Listening to podcasts feels like you’re on a couch with your mates, just without the awkwardness of.. you know… socialising.
Because his "back-of-the-napkin" estimate that someone is going to spend $100 billion to train a "GPT-6" (whatever that means) is laughably bad. These aren't estimates, these are just uninformed guesses pulled from nowhere.
based on an understanding of physics, economics and energy policy. This is to get ESG approval not because it makes economic sense, the article itself speaks to why they are doing it. Denmark is extreme about renewables. Also its total excel magic that they get to “green” Dont take my word for it, just follow the claims and see how little of this is anything but ESG strategizing and greenwashing