skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While they aren't the same thing now, they were up until 2011. The Horizon Post Office scandal began before in about 1999.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_Services_Act_2011
Using sea doggos would make sense. Man’s best blegh friend.
I like to put things into perspective, certainly in a period such as this one, when every other week a new breakthrough in AI is announced, a new game changer, a new revolution. Mr Eugene Linden was the author of a piece on Artificial Intelligence in Time about 36 years ago. AI made the cover of Time in 1988.
The thing is, that "hand wringing" is what renewable proponents always apply to nuclear. However, the moment you ask them about storage, "oh it's a solved problem"
More discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39861680
From Theory to Action: Building a GPT-Powered Company in 2024
At my company, we've been actively working with AI tools for quite a while. We've introduced a custom GPT for analyzing legal documents, created one with a knowledge base to help our team dodge Confluence's less-than-ideal interface, and developed another that our marketing and sales teams use regularly to quickly create content that aligns with our brand.

We're constantly brainstorming and deploying new AI-powered features and solutions that streamline our workflows, speed up our processes, and cut down on the monotony.

Inspired by our experiences, I wanted to share some insights on how companies of any size can make their way through the AI landscape.
In "From Theory to Action: Building a GPT-Powered Company in 2024," I explore the different stages of AI maturity across companies and detail steps to advance with AI solutions. It's not just about the tools we've built but about fostering a mindset that sees beyond the hype to the practical, transformative power of AI.
I'm keen to hear your thoughts, particularly if you're on a similar journey or thinking about where to begin. Let's share ideas and experiences on making AI beneficial for all of us.
Looking forward to the discussion!
AI hustlers stole women's faces to put in ads. The law can't help them
They hire someone to take each batch from them. So at best, you can only ever prosecute a fall guy, not the skilled counterfeiter.

In essence, it's easier to make any counterfeiting illegal, and then not prosecute the person who once prints a picture of a stamp and tapes it to a letter. Trying to make counterfeiting legal in certain situations can be abusable.
That's not entirely true. Current-gen Nvidia hardware can use fp8 and newly announced Blackwell can do fp4. Lots of existing specialized inference hardware uses int8 and some int4.

You're right that low-precison training still doesn't seem to work, presumably because you lose the smoothness required for SGD-type optimization.
Designing an interactive decision tree for vision model deployments
But isn't there a point before which "just use sqlite" is more appropriate advice?
A very interesting site, a lot of very smart people, but too narrow-profile information, focused solely on developers. I think if this site wants to have readers from other fields of activity, it makes sense to write more on broader topics.
The foundation is set up as a 501(c)(3) and to the benefit of the public. While it is not the only open-source project foundation working like that, many others are 501(c)(6)'s and primarily for the benefit of their (most often corporate) sponsors.
> Or just set a goal to join a company with demanding products.

Thie highlights a related but slightly different problem: it's important to learn enough to be able to talk about design choices for optimization, as these companies will throw you into such an interview as part of the hiring process.
Postgres as we know it has only existed for about a decade, since the post-9.x era in 2010-2014 when many of its lauded features were added. Replication, heap-only tuples, extensions, foreign data wrappers, JSON, leveraging multiple indexes, parallel index scans, reindex concurrently, JIT compilation, declarative partitioning, stored procedures, and major WAL improvements are all "recent".

I love Postgres and it's been my go-to default since 2014 and you can pry it from my cold dead hands, but it's more contemporary with Perl 6 than Perl 5 if we're talking grey beards.
And it has caused me so much pain. Open a file big enough to crash np++? Good luck getting out of it.

Eventually I figured out it only reloaded the file if you can few enough tabs open so I could just open a bunch of other files, let it crash, open some more and then eventually it wouldn't load the huge file, so I could close the tab. But still, such a pain.

It was many years ago and I was young and stupid, so there's probably a much better way. But I've moved on to Linux and to Emacs now
No, what renewable proponents do is point out nuclear's egregious demonstated economic flaws. This is not a case of hypothetical problems, it's a case of actual repeated failure.
There's a pretty uncomfortable dissonance between the rejection of antisemitism in TFA and starting the about-page proudly describing how an uncle got wealthy from making money for a rabid antisemite.

Same goes for rejecting Nietzsche, famous anti-nihilist, and then a few paragraphs later rejecting nihilism.

Seems this Ph.D. emeritus excels at confident confusion that distinguishes itself from discordianism by being crude and likely involuntary.
I think of these things in terms of how much they help the CIA. Inversely correlated.
I dare say, I wasn't sure how the QC | KC accolade was treated, but that does pass the sensible test.

I note that:

After being turned down by several leading lawyers, Dennis and Anderson secured the services of barrister and writer John Mortimer, QC (creator of the Rumpole of the Bailey series) who was assisted by his Australian-born junior counsel Geoffrey Robertson; Neville chose to represent himself. At the opening of the trial in June 1971 Mortimer stated that "... [the] case stands at the crossroads of our liberty, at the boundaries of our freedom to think and draw and write what we please".

~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oz_(magazine)

is on the money, Mortimer was a QC at the time (1971) and Robertson was yet to be appointed (1988).
What I said re: Ukrainians also applies to Israelis... Israel would not exist if they weren't armed, because people - including Gazans - irrationally hate Jews and want them to cease to exist.

It's a good thing that Israel has the capability to defend itself. Which means killing a lot of Gazans.
Are they literally setting money on fire?
Sure, if you simply need a dumb store just for storing basic types that’s simple to operate. But SQLite is not at feature parity with Postgres.
next level operation:

put your enemies' address as sender (not legal advice)
How so? They're in the same ballpark as digital ocean and linode who would be their primary competitors, each of which are roughly a 3rd of the cost of AWS/GC/Azure.
About the terraform part, I am not sure about how it works for Azure, but GCP providers are developed /maintained by Googlers. Assuming it's the same, terraform problems are actually Azure problems (IMHO).

Disclaimer: Googler but working nowhere close to Google's Terraform efforts.
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Attendance is correlated with student success. This leads to mandates to increase attendance. Then the perverse incentives kick in. Teachers refuse to post good materials online so more students have to attend.

The idiots in the US Department of Education decided that correspondence courses were not worth as much as distance learning courses. They decided the difference between correspondence courses and distance learning courses was that in distance learning courses the instructor initiated (real-time) regular and substantive interaction with the students. This means that if your students can take the class entirely online and never have questions because of the excellent materials, then your school gets penalized by getting almost no money for online courses. If you sabotage your online materials so badly that students have to sit through painful, multi-hour video chats with annoying instructors, then your school get the big bucks.

The US Department of Education has destroyed online education through gross incompetence and blind rule following.
To realise a vision like this we were faced classic startup dilemma of launching early and adjusting vs aiming for perfection in the first build, what would you choose? We embraced progress fuelled by customer feedback over perfection. Building an app was shaped by a tight budget and limited knowledge, but this is not an issue anymore with today’s incredible tools like Chat-GPT and Fiverr. The main lesson from this for me? However cliche it sounds: in today's world, you can do, learn, or outsource almost anything, the advantage goes to fast movers who build, publish, and adjust quickly.
If you tell me which ones are wrong I'd be happy to look into them again. :)

We can't guarantee that all of the posts are 100% correct, although we try to confirm all of them before posting. Most of these are things we encountered during our daily work, and yes, many of them are possibly just documentation errors. But when you can't figure out how to do something in a reasonable amount of time... that's not great either.

We use Terraform as our primary Azure client, but I'd argue most of the problems with Terraform are because of fuck-ups in the underlying Azure API or Azure resource providers.
I already follow that account. A reason is that we use Azure at work. A previous job used AWS, IDK what the next one will use, so it goes.

I don't see Azure as uniquely bad, but since I have to use it, I want to know about the particular ways in which it is bad. So I follow that account. By all means, do an AWS one.
Aren't public institution obligated to accept letters from the public?
It should be noted that most IPOs are not a good investment (unless you can get in pre-debut and sell on the first day). For some background on the topic, this is a good episode to watch/hear:

> We’ve previously compared IPOs to lotteries that are prone to inflated valuations and low returns. Today we welcome “Mr. IPO,” Professor Jay Ritter onto the show for a deeper dive into IPO performance, for his insights into SPACs, and to hear his research into why economic growth doesn’t correlate with stock returns. Early in the episode, Jay unpacks how long-term IPO returns perform against first-day trading. While exploring the role that venture capital plays in tech IPOs, Jay talks about why negative earnings don’t affect tech IPOs in the short-term before sharing how skewness factors tend to impact young companies. Reflecting on how IPOs are usually underpriced, Jay discusses how the interests of companies are not aligned with the interests of IPO underwriters. After looking into IPO allocation, Jay compares the 2020 ‘hot IPO market’ with the internet bubble of the late 90s. Later, we ask Jay about what special-purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) are and why they’ve exploded in recent years. His answers highlight their investing benefits, risks, and why SPACs might be a better option for companies than IPOs. We examine how SPACs have historically performed and then jump into our next topic; why economic growth isn’t a good indicator that a country is worth investing in. He touches on why returns don’t correlate with economic growth, the place of capital gains and dividend yields when investing abroad, and how innovations in an industry can lead to higher stock returns. We wrap up our conversation by asking Jay for his take on whether the stock market is efficient before hearing how he defines success in his life. Tune in to hear our incredible and informative talk with Jay Ritter.

> Since 1996, Jay R. Ritter has served as the Joseph B. Cordell Eminent Scholar in the Department of Finance at the University of Florida's Warrington College of Business. Prof Ritter is known as “Mr. IPO” for his work on initial public offerings. During 2014-15, he served as president of the Financial Management Association. Prof. Ritter has been a trustee of a mutual fund, and a consultant for companies on valuation and financing decisions. He has also worked as an expert witness for government agencies and law firms, and is frequently quoted in the financial press.

* https://rationalreminder.ca/podcast/139
A "factoid" is not a "small fact", it is "something that looks like a fact" (cf. 'android' or 'humanoid'). A better word for this kind of small fact would be "factlet".
If a ToS is going to be a contract, it has to be interpretable by the person hitting 'agree', no? If someone is confused about what it means and reaches out to the company and they respond by locking the user out of their account which they use to generate their livelihood, it has stopped being an 'oopsie' and become a 'we don't care about our customers, we only care what they give us and will use strangely worded legalese and extortion to get it'.

The response of 'why would they ever assume bad intention by a startup tech company which pivoted recently to focus on AI offerings' crocodile tears just makes it worse.

At this point, barring the existence of an impeccable and long-running reputation, if you assume that any place you store your data is not going to screw you the moment they can to make a buck, then you are hopelessly naive.
Certainly. There's the cloud providers everybody hates and the cloud providers nobody uses.
I can concur. At an old job we had a slack channel filled with terraform issues like these. We were an AWS shop.

Terraform tends to be one of those things that can quickly become a nightmare if you take up it’s offer to manage everything in your infrastructure.
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Did anyone here ever see a migration _from_ PostgreSQL/MySQL _to_ MongoDB? I've only ever seen startups pick Mongo, then regret it a few months or years down the line and migrate to a relational database. Did anyone ever see the opposite?
I'm still fuming from when Azure cancelled my organisations PowerBI A1 instance account, and refused to explain why.
We re-opened the account and got the report working. They cancelled it again.

A scientific reporting project trying PowerBI dead in the water.

I was called from leave, from the beach in Thailand, to try and untangle this mess. I couldn't. I'm the "linux guy" but all the "microsoft people" were at their wits end and didn't know what to do.
A colossal kafkaesque maze mess of Microsoft support agents with cheerful "have a nice day and is their anything else we can help you with" emails canning the project, over and over. AND REFUSING TO EXPLAIN WHY.

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Array.prototype.append = Array.prototype.push;

Etc
> "Asking your waiter to wrap up the rest of your food to go almost never happens in the UK."

It happens, I've done it. Certainly at pizza restaurants and such where we've over-ordered. It's easy to chuck half a pizza or whatever in a takeaway box, and they're always happy to do so.

It's just less common in the UK because meals generally aren't so oversized like they can be in the US. In the UK we usually order what we can eat. If there's food left on my plate, it's because it didn't taste good and I don't want it.
I think that interpretation conflates civility politics and banality of evil.

One axis about decorum and appearance. Those who look and act like "good and decent upper middle class people" always get the benefit of the doubt where others do not, even when that appearance, like with Eichmann, completely falls apart on closer inspection.

The other axis distinguishes between people who have a highly ideological agenda and execute on it (evil) and those who are mostly unthinking cogs in a machine of destruction (banal evil).
Extensions and stored procedures are not; they've been around for longer.

I do not actually use any of the others you listed (well, occasionally bitmap index scans, but it's not a killer). The main difference between 8.x and 15.x for me is the small stream of optimizer features and tweaks (e.g. at some point, it started being able to reorder outer joins).
I’ve met Simon for the first time in Tokyo in 2009 for a birthday related to JPUG (Japan PostgreSQL User Group) when hot standby was getting integrated into the upstream project. I saw him last time in Prague three months ago, and we have joked about a few things while discussing about life and how things were going on as I did not go to the Postgres Europe conference for 6~7 years.

The community has lost a member, and many people have lost a friend. That’s so sudden. My thoughts go to his family and people who knew him. I’m so sad. RIP, Simon.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39862040
Nope. They stored a WHOLE RANGE of fields which was also used to display the rates directly to the customers. A total mess!
KeyDB is flaky garbage
> I would beg and plead for my students to come to office hours. "It's free one on one tutoring from the guy who writes the test! It doesn't get any better than that! If these times don't work for you, I can accommodate your schedule!" And yet very few people would come. And then I'd get feedback at the end of the semester that I "was never available to help."

You need to constantly remind your students of your regular office hours, always be there (e.g., a live webcam they see by clicking on a link,) and have a lot of office hours at easy to remember times.
If the product is free, you and ALL of your data are the product.
It’s a very unfortunate but classic myopic view of a hopefully smaller part of Linux community. Where-as .NET in reality is often easier to contribute to than a random project they are using with owner having ego issues.

It’s a stack they are looking for but keep missing right under their nose.
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> 1 every time u add a component to a system you double the complexity. [...] Vs say USB c.

Then you concede that it is not necessarily so.
Perhaps they didn't intend to, and clearly you hope they didn't, but it really seems they did:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39862040

And if there's lack of clarity on this point, while their intent was not to make the claim, they've failed.
Ah. I think the wording plus the existing downvote when I read your reply made me not even consider it might be literal and not at all snarky.. I'd like to blame my British sarcasm-as-a-first-language upbringing, but really that one's on me.

For what it's worth I've popped an upvote on your comment and will go out of my way to double check snark is actually snark before replying to things in future.

Sorry for the misfiring assumption!
Languages with a rich standard library and generating a lot of code for you usually need some love to get rid/represent idiomatically common patterns and to detect common data structures.

We haven't looked into it yet, but the automatic data structure recognition might help.

Frankly, Rust looks particularly scary: https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-11684-rust_binary_analysis_featu...
I'm not concerned about this kind of attack. Very few people live or work sufficiently close to the sea to be a potential target. Nobody can crash a container ship into the Pentagon. The damage a ship colision could do is probably mostly economic (a refinery, some docks, a bridge) and environmental (storage tanks near docks, a nuclear power station).

It makes sense to do training for the shipping companies. Cyberattacks on shipping companies happend before, just not on ships. These attacks were ransomware. They don't intend to destroy their hacked assets, because no ransom would be paid, and they don't hack one system/target, they hack all of them at the same time.
this is exactly that, he got 25, will be free in half of that. Thats the best his influence could get, given the publicity.
> Matter is an iPhone app, so we store data on your phone with Core Data, and in a private database that syncs within your iCloud account, but is set up in a way that even we can't access it.

But Apple can? From the title, "We outsourced storing user data to an evil megacorporation" isn't exactly what I was hoping for...
It’s also an already solved problem. Every contact could be like a channel (like in IRC) where you can gain access to (or not)
It links to identity of whoever purchased them with credit card. Or whoever stood in front of the camera when transaction for these stamps was registered.
NYC takes first step towards unleashing robotaxis on city roads
I see these types of comments all the time, but fact is folks at large who wouldn’t use the cloud version won’t pay. The kind of person who has a 4090 to run these sort of models would just figure out how to do it themselves.

The other issue is that paying for the software once doesn’t capture as much of the value as a pay per use model, thus if you wanted to sell the software you’d either have to say you can only use it for personal use, or make it incredibly expensive to account for the fact that a competitor would just use it.

Suppose there were such a thing - then folks may complain that it’s not open source. Then it’s open sourced, but then there’s no need to pay.

In any case, if you’re willing to pay $1000 I’m sure many of us can whip something up for you. Single executable.
Thin, bacteria-coated fibers could lead to self-healing concrete
My work headset is DECT, I always buy callcenter-grade headsets. DECT allows me to wander around the house as much as I like or need to during calls - kitchen, bathroom, balcony, whatever - with high fidelity audio. Bluetooth and other wireless technologies are significantly limited in range.
People would do these things for free because they had a stable job which guaranteed their material needs. Now every type of job can be automated and done better/cheaper by a machine, people will be forced to "monetize" everything that exists unless we get a literal revolution in how we tax and distribute the produced wealth.
I watched a team go from a sloppy MySQL that they never tried tuning to Mongo (cause it's web-scale). It was another thing that almost killed the company. Now they are on PostgreSQL.
If, in a binary Enigma, one could not encrypt a 0 as a 0, nor a 1 as 1, “decryption” would be trivial.
Design by committee is not really common in the PostgreSQL community. Instead people just work on whatever they or their employer wants to. Makes having a roadmap or cohesive plan impossible but the issues of design by committee rarely show up.
TL/DR; people are still unfamiliar with Zero Trust. The ray.ai security model, or lack there of, relies entirely on being inaccessible by threat actors via network separation. In 2024 this security posture is outdated, ineffective, and downright negligent.