skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your belief is incorrect. The links you have provided do not provide any data on actual use of these databases in the industry.

I've been working in the MySQL/MariaDB ecosystem for 21 years and am the creator/maintainer of a MySQL and MariaDB specific schema management utility used by hundreds of companies and with over 1.6 million downloads to date. I can tell you conclusively, MySQL usage in the industry significantly exceeds MariaDB's.

While I personally enjoy both systems and do hope MariaDB adoption increases, this doesn't change the facts on the ground. And unfortunately MRDB is a penny stock, Azure is dropping their managed MariaDB offering, Vitess has dropped MariaDB support entirely, AWS Aurora is compatible with MySQL and not MariaDB, Percona Server is based on MySQL and not MariaDB, and so forth.
Accelerating 1g constantly is much more difficult than it sounds. You'd need a practically infinite fuel source or some way to generate fuel while traveling. That's why the EM-drive was so tantalizing. If we could [near] perpetually generate even the smallest amount of thrust, the implications would be unimaginable. But for now this seems impossible.
Even when our own citizens are killed, they don't get condemned.

E.g. the IDF targeted and killed a Canadian UN peacekeeper in 2008 (because he got too squeaky) and the Canadian gov't barely lodged a protest.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/un-officer-reported-is...
Newer better music you would think would pose a greater existential threat to the likes of Pearl Jam!
Art has never really be a viable career path except for the exceptionally talented and lucky few.

With YouTube and other social media, it's probably never been better.

I'm not interested in AI art, and feel that the defintion of art should be "created by a human" but I'm sure many don't care.
> Drivers would typically be paid a small sum for showing up on the night and then keep the delivery charge and any tips.

Under that model, wouldn't drivers only want to work for the busiest restaurants?

With delivery apps, a restaurant can have just a few orders per night and still be open for delivery.

I would bet that there's an order of magnitude more deliveries happening (and drivers working) these days vs pre-Uber.
Whether MS deserves credit or not, he's a very senior SW engineer at Microsoft so this should at least provide some reassurance that the company has technical leaders who are looking out for these sorts of security risks...
I'm quite big on privacy rights for indibviduals but I also feel that when corporate wealth (thus, influence on culture and politics) reaches a certain scale, radical levels of transparency become very important for the health of our society. For an extreme example, the public deserved (and still does) to know who were the individuals at Shell devising a decades-long misinformation campaign about climate change -- and that the bullshit they were hearing about climate change being fake was driven by nothing but greed.

To address inevitable replies: No, I don't know exactly where the line is (or lines are - it should probably be a tiered system), and I recognize defining those lines is itself a position of immense power. Those are solvable problems though and don't make the idea bad. (It could still be a bad idea, but for other reasons.)
It is illegal for both the rich and the poor man to steal a loaf of bread.
The idea that the wealthy could ever have "less rights" than the hoi polloi is an absolutely hilarious thought.

If any billionaire wants all the "extra" rights of being a normal citizen I'd be glad to swap anytime.
It is probably the most misunderstood poem of all time! There's no going back now though.
Some of the best advice I've ever heard comes from the following observation:

Blundering is often a result of trying to overplay a small advantage.

If you are playing thoughtfully, with an eye on the whole game, you are smart enough not to blunder. It's when you get excited about pursuing an opportunity that you overlook mistakes.

Play your advantages and play them hard. But don't lose sight of the big picture. Or alternatively, when you see an opportunity, look for the danger.

The insight has served me extremely well in competitive and security contexts, and I think it accounts for a lot of blunders in product design as well.
Literally named after the time Elon Musk paid for a hit piece then disowned the guy who wrote it for him. I'd treat with equal skepticism.
Hmm some EV manufacturers could start running ads to counter this perception. Make the trucks seem silly
Certainty is hard, but we've done pretty well with it on land, so I think leaving the 3x larger mineral resources untapped would be madness.

Not saying things will be perfect, of course. They never are.
I don't know about you, but when I took freshman calculus, it was a big disappointment. Do you find a nice, crystalline, ultra-elegant framework, like the 5 axioms of Euclid?

No, you learn about this random grab-bag of methods for finding the derivatives of all kinds of functions. Every time you want to prove a differentiation formula, it requires a separate, new, creative act of genius. You are wondering why math has suddenly become as ad hoc as chemistry.

Even that wouldn't be so bad, if it were actually useful for anything. But when you start taking advanced physics classes, you find that physicists don't do calculus at all like your freshman calculus class. You've been told that dy/dx isn't really division, dy and dx aren't really numbers, and you basically shouldn't even think about using them that way.....and then you find yourself looking at a chalkboard full of equations where the professor is doing just that.

Hasn't anybody figured out an elegant way of putting this all together?

Well, they actually have, and its dual numbers. I don't know why we aren't just taught this in freshman calculus. Using dual numbers, you can write down proofs of every derivative formula taught in freshman calculus on the front and back of a single piece of paper. You could even do it on one side of the paper, if you used a small, but not microscopic, font.

What's more, after you sit down and write out that piece of paper, you don't even need it anymore :-) You no longer have to memorize dozens of ad hoc differentiation formulas, because if you ever need a formula, you can just derive it yourself--faster than you can pull down a book from the shelf and look the answer up. What's more your brain is now all primed with a good grasp of the structure of the problem you are trying to solve.

And that's only the first few things in the dual-number toybox. You can use them to represent generalized angles (an angle + an orthogonal displacement) and to analyze mechanical linkages (wanna make a walking robot?). You can combine them with vector analysis to make a wonderfully elegant projective geometry which unifies homogeneous coordinates, barycentric coordinates to create an all-but-perfect language for 3d geometry.

What's more it just takes a few days of playing around with them and you are a pro. No big year-long time commitment. Highly recommended.
The Oregon decriminalization experiment had several really puzzling elements. One of them is that isn't clear that public use was illegal, at least not in a way that police could actually enforce. In a fun example of "the exception proves the rule", a few weeks ago the state leg. passed a law criminalizing drug use on public transit.

Decriminalization was really badly implemented in Oregon. Part of it was the pandemic. Part of it was the confluence with the fentanyl surge. Part of it was that our public agencies just didn't seem to know how to coordinate with one another on the issues that arose.

https://www.kgw.com/article/news/politics/bill-using-drugs-p...
if anyone has worked in any development. (closed or open) you know half the time developers are lazy and just approve PRs. Linus Torvalds is like the glimming exception where he will call out shit all day long.
> Noël, aïoli, and naïve

All three of those were borrowed from French, which uses the diaeresis, so this is "just" keeping the original French spelling.

> I don't think you'd ever use a hyphen with zoological, but might (or might not) with re-elect.

The hyphen only works with words where the vowels came together as a result of compounding (here, adding a prefix like re- or co- to the beginning of another word that already starts with a vowel).

At least in Noël and naïve, the vowels came together because French lost a <t> that was present in Latin between two vowels -- interestingly in both cases here a word related to "birth" (natalis and nativus).
this area is super murky with legitimate use cases for shell companies. im wondering why this is an area that hasn't been solved by eager engineers. seem like there is a large gap to fill for people needing turnkey IBCs but one problem might be using offshore data centres.

I often see advertisements for incorporating offshore but there is no legitimate way to know which are authentic and which are just skimming on top of what you can do by yourself.

It's quite fascinating enough that I need to hire a CFO or someone specifically familiar with IBCs
You'd think after a few hours they would break the window or something.
Surely just letting the machine give you a random ticket is as good as any "strategy"?
with AI Platforms like https://www.suno.ai/ -the capabilities are indeed mindblowing. - We do need protection for artists, but the tech itself is amazing and will only get better. Not sure that limiting the tech is the answer..historically that has never really worked.
JPMorgan Chase is about to let advertisers target customers based on spending
Thank you. I like you too.
Now that's the billion dollar question, isn't it.

But it's true.
Thanks, I need to spend some time digging into OpenRouter. The main requirement would be reliable function calling and JSON, since Plandex relies heavily on that. I'm also expecting to need some model-specific prompts, considering how much prompt iteration was needed to get things behaving how I wanted on OpenAI.

I've also looked at Together (https://www.together.ai/) for this purpose. Can anyone speak to the differences between OpenRouter and Together?
I'd love o buy a cheap truck with no bells and whistles (under $25k) with a simple V6

Sounds like you're looking for a "work truck".

A lot of these $100K monstrosities only haul the owner's ego. They're too afraid to haul anything else in it --- it might get scratched.

But from the manufacturer's perspective --- why build a cheap truck if people will buy the monstrosity? There is a lot more profit to be made from it.
That’s not really less rights though. That’s like saying the rich have fewer rights under progressive taxation.

And no, generally the more rich and/or powerful you are the more rights society provides you. Even countries which strive for more equality simply try to shore up the most egregious instances but there’s always a difference. That’s because not all rights matter equally to everyone.

For example, rich and poor both don’t have the right to sleep on a park bench but in practice that right is only particularly relevant to one party.
It seems their main complaint is that AI companies have used their copyrighted music to train AI.

>It alleges that some of the "biggest and most powerful" companies (unnamed in the letter) are using the work of artists without permission to train AI models, with the aim of replacing human artists with AI-created content.

How is this any different than HS kids using their music to learn to play a song, an instrument, write music? Isn't this done today on a much larger scale by humans?
> Also, can an AI commit a war crime?

"An AI" doesn't exist. What is being labeled "AI" here is a statistical model. A model can't do anything; it can only be used to sift data.

No matter where in the chain of actions you put a model, you can't offset human responsibility to that model. If you try, reasonable people will (hopefully) call you out on your bullshit.

> There’s so much about this death machine AI I would like to know.

The death machine here is Israel's military. That's a group of people who don't get to hide behind the facade of "an AI told me". It's a group of people who need to be held responsible for naively using a statistical model to choose who they murder next.
Honestly many of those artists didn't reach fame because they were such brilliant singers or composers. They were also not bad, but their strong point was building an image, performing live and gathering a large fanbase.

You could sample their music for all you want but it would never sell anywhere near the originals.
Meter is defined as how far the light travels in a vacuum in 1/299792458th of a second. The actual speed of the light in a vacuum is fixed, so unless you have identical seconds the distance of the meter changes. If you have identical seconds in lower gravity, then you get less of them.
>Are you sure? I'd asked antirez to clarify 6 years ago, and he said he had transferred the Redis IP to Redis Labs, without being more specific

Well, trademarks are a form of IP. But in any case the copyright was never antirez's to transfer to anyone. In the absence of a CLA with a copyright assignment, every contributor retains the copyright to their contributions, and licenses them to everyone else (Redis Ltd included) under the terms of the BSD license. Legally speaking, Redis Ltd's SSPL code is, in effect, a fork of the Redis BSD code, in the same way that Redict is.

>In any case, congratulations on the very fast release of Redict, rewriting references to Redis is not a simple s/Redis/Redict/g sed job. How do you feel about possible competition with the Valkey project, apart from the licensing differences?

Thanks for the congratulations!

As for Valkey, so far they've put a lot of time and energy getting the various corporate stakeholders on board with their fork and getting some marketing out (which is no small feat, to be sure, I shudder to imagine the number of lawyers involved), but they still have a lot of boots-on-the-ground work to do getting their fork up and running so it may be a while before our projects are interacting directly. From the limited communication we've had with them, it seems likely that we'll be able to collaborate insofar as reducing incompatibilities is concerned, maybe co-maintenance on the protocol specification, but not much more. Redict does plan on pulling useful patches from Valkey once they get the code going, though it's unfortunately not possible for them to pull from us unless they're on board with switching to a copyleft license -- and we encourage them to do so :)
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39918245

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39917727
You can select a rest frame based on the velocity of all observable galaxies adjusted for the expansion of the universe and the impact of local sources of gravity.

As far as we can tell any observer would come to similar conclusions about that reference frame would be. It’s just not a particularly useful reference.
I'm not sure I agree. In our (very very) hypothetical scenario, it seems that self driving would play out similar to how software incumbents in general are very hard to displace.

You could use the same argument for search, operating systems, or public cloud as well? "Why couldn't a more nimble or well funded company come in and commoditize {software industry}"

I'm not sure, but we only have two major app stores, we only have three big public clouds, we only have three companies making major operating systems for consumer devices, two search engines, I could go on.

I think that marginal benefit that comes from first mover and scale really makes it hard to catch up in the world of software. Big tech is not afraid to use rapidly rising stock to retain talent, which makes it very hard for startups to acquire comparable talent unless VCs are willing to throw gobs of money at companies, that then go to exorbitant comp. (and you see this in the bull market run of 2015-2022).
You've never seen a gaggle of drunks in Vegas or New Orleans? Drinking in public absolutely can be a problem, similar to using opiates or whatever else.

I'm not implying the laws should be exactly the same, only that public alcohol consumption also has problems that are visible to non-drinkers/locals.
To be fair, this is no different than what's done by a human artist. Virtually every song composed today is inspired by or based on, in some manner or other, a previous work of art.

This is exactly what machine learning does - a novel recombination of what has been previously observed (ie., "reusing the music" - building upon that which is)

Whether this process is done by a human or not is irrelevant. ML, for the most part, does exactly what humans do.

There are currently very few capabilities which ML performs that humans do not - namely, blatant plagiarism.

People whining about their exact job being done by a machine is as old as time. Farmers, industrial revolution, the printing press (scribes whined), etc.

Nothing new here. New jobs will be created to replace the lost ones. We've arguably been in a "BS economy" for quite some time now.
No, the point of this program seems to be to find targets for assassination, removing the human bottleneck.

There is also another AI system that tracks when these target get home.

Additional automated systems, including one called “Where’s Daddy?” also revealed here for the first time, were used specifically to track the targeted individuals and carry out bombings when they had entered their family’s residences.

I think "assassination" colloquially means to pinpoint and kill one individual target. I don't mean to say you are implying this, but I do want to make it clear to other readers that according to the article, they are going for max collateral damage, in terms of human life and infrastructure.

“The only question was, is it possible to attack the building in terms of collateral damage? Because we usually carried out the attacks with dumb bombs, and that meant literally destroying the whole house on top of its occupants. But even if an attack is averted, you don’t care — you immediately move on to the next target. Because of the system, the targets never end. You have another 36,000 waiting.”
This feels ripe for an aphorism like "you can take the cat out of the home, but you can't take the meow out of the homeowner"!
Backblaze is unprofitable and publicly traded, a combination which cant last forever. They raised B2 prices 20% last year, I wouldnt be surprised to see more increases if they continue to burn through cash.
It sounds different to me because each person can say they were just trying to buy the items they walked out with and didn’t get charged. Like if you scan an item at self checkout and the machine says it’s free, that’s not going to be theft. At least I sure hope not.
Yes let's rewrite everything… that will fix security! /s
There's a whole lot of people on forums like HN that like to write in this intellectual style with a bit more "Queens English" sounding idioms and some $10 words thrown in. They increasingly sound like they're Generative AI.

Maybe a useful side effect of GenAI might be that people will start speaking more bluntly so that they sound more human.
Yeah that is the crux of most modern three-tiered architectures (client<->server<->database) these days. We're working on simplifying this with a new concept: a full-stack database.

If you run an identical query engine on client and server and then sync data between them, a client can just write a normal query on the client and you get an optimistic response instantly from a local cache and then later a response from the authoritative server. Frankly, this is where most highly interactive apps (like Whatsapp, Linear, Figma, etc) end up anyway with bespoke solutions we're just making it general purpose.
That was once a popular belief, but we have moved past that historical concept.

Here is a paper that is fairly accessible that may help.

https://home.csulb.edu/~scrass/teaching/math456/articles/sen...

It becomes important when you have a need to make useful models, or to know when you probably won't be able to find a practical approximation.

It is similar to the erroneous explanation of entropy as disorder, which is fundamentally false, yet popular.

It has real implications, like frustrating the efforts to make ANNs that are closer to biological neurons:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.13921

Or even model realistic population dynamics.

> It has been shown how simple ecosystem models
can generate qualitative unpredictability above and
beyond simple chaos or alternate basin structures.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/241757794_Wada_basi...

Chaotic, riddled, and wada can be viewed as deterministic, practically indeterminate, and strongly indeterminate respectfully.

If you want to hold on to the flawed popular understanding of the butterfly effect that is fine, you just won't be able to solve some problems that are open to approximation and please don't design any encryption algorithms.

I think realizing it is simply a popular didactic half truth, is helpful.
very sound advice not just in sales but dating too

dont be a turn off dont signal turn off behaviour
>Israeli values align closer with western values

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/04/middleeast/jerusalem-chri...
Artists that figure out how to leverage the tech will succeed.

I'm really bored with the whole "plight of artists" argument lately.
> Fearless Symmetry

I happened to pick up a copy of Fearless Symmetry at a garage sale recently. Was wondering if it was worthwhile (kind of hard to go wrong for $1), thanks for the recommendation.
> In 1963, the Russian mathematician Vladimir Arnold gave an alternative
topological proof of the unsolvability of the quintic in a series of lectures to high school kids in Moscow.

...

> Arnold’s insight was to show that if there is a radical formula for the roots of a general polynomial, then the “dance of the roots” cannot be overly complex, in the sense that the image of the monodromy map must be a solvable subgroup of . But, for example, the 1-parameter Brioschifamily of quintics
() = 5 + 103 + 452 + 2, ∈ ℂ
has monodromy group 5 (see Figure 1), which is certainly not solvable since it is simple, as we will see by relating it to the icosahedron in the next section. Hence the unsolvability of the quintic.

...of course, well within the reach of most high school students.
As obesity rises, Big Food and dietitians push 'anti-diet' advice
If my car is on fire I sure as heck don't want to rely on an electrical door release
Could be harsh to some, but I'm right there with you. I can't express the shame and guilt when my first "naughty word" came out in front of my son.
This would not be productive. Investors who come in throught mechanisms like this (SPV) do not appear on the companies cap table and would not directly interact with a startups IR team. This is normal for this type of investment.
> And finishing this war also means civilian casualties. That's part of the very sad price.

Yes, of course. But, there are a _lot_ of civilian casualties. More than what seems necessary.
> Last I checked they're almost as big no-nos as using goto.

Huh? Why is goto a no-no? It is there for good reason. I think we all agree with Dijkstra that, in his words, unbridled gotos are harmful, but C's goto is most definitely bridled. I doubt any language created in the last 50+ years has unbridled gotos. That's an ancient programming technique that went out of fashion long ago (in large part because of Dijkstra).
> The problem is committing crimes while using drugs.

The problem is also damaging your brain and body with drugs, developing bad habits and/or drug addiction, your supply being contaminated/poisoned, making irresponsible decisions while intoxicated, etc.

For example cannabis can be mostly safe for adults, but children or teens who use too much of it can develop neurological defects like short-term memory impairment, depending on the frequency and duration of use.