skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, we are working on adding MySQL support as well, would you suggest any other integrations after or before mysql ? happy to learn.
I envision a hearth, a fireplace really, all steampunkish and with tubes and such for hot water heating.
There are graphene-related products in the market already: https://www.graphene-info.com/graphene-products
> how many developers are even writing GTK applications anymore?

I would like to know the honest answer to that question, actually.
Hmm what bugs? D4 had a pretty smooth launch, didn't it?

But also
> We’ve reached a point where it’s just not worth the hassle.

YOU have reach that point. As many do. And that's fine. Clearly there's still plenty of people who would rather play a somewhat buggy game sooner than wait. Why do we need to get on a high horse about it?
or just claim ignorance. or the opposite and claim browser DNS prefetching when a blog spam comment linked to pornhub
You didn't say if you read the books. I did and I thought the netflix series was pretty mediocre.
Related: The WWW + globalization has made even the process of purchasing consumer goods more difficult and stressful.

It's not even a matter of having a paradox of choice. It's that you now often have to spend hours becoming a mini-subject-matter-expert in, e.g., USB-C chargers to make sure you purchase one that won't set the house on fire and is sufficient for your use-case.

Consumer publications & websites (e.g., WireCutter) are in the pocket of BigWidget, so they can't really be relied upon. RTINGS is one notable exception, but I suppose it's just a matter of time with them too.

People with too little leisure time are screwed by this.
Evaluate LLMs in Real Time with Street Fighter III
There are quite a lot of known solutions now (12k): https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.16159
Exactly! Private insurance is A-OK, government-ran "insurance" is too far for many people.
Unfortunately, this is not just a problem limited to Berlin :-( [1][2]

It's been an absolute mess trying to secure my wife's settlement permit ("Niederlassungserlaubnis"). She has a german Master's degree, works in a government-funded research facility, and has been in the system since December 2022. We've now been ghosted for 14 months, only to be told to make an appointment to provide additional documents (which were not on the 'required documents' list they initially handed to us). After checking the appointment booking website to no avail, I came up with a python script that sends a notification to our phones when a new appointment pops up. It took 40 days of scraping until a new free appointment was available, only to be allowed to provide paper documents in person.

Adding to that, every six months, her employer threatens to fire her if she can't prove her legal status in Germany. So she's constantly jumping through hoops to get this temporary paper permit called "Fiktionsbescheinigung" just to keep her job. It's a hassle, costs €13 each time, and involves cycling through multiple unhelpful bureaucrats at the Ausländerbehörde's hotline (they do not answer emails) until finding one that very reluctantly produces this document.

All of this is beyond frustrating.

[1] https://www.merkur.de/deutschland/muenchen-kvr-auslaenderbeh...
[2] https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/baden-wuerttemberg/stuttgart/a...
Plus they should have removed the collector, as the arms will cause some of the panels to block energy flow in the system.

I’m also not convinced this is the densest layout for the panels. Pretty sure I could get 5-10% more onto this dish, not counting removing the focus.
Long Covid blood clues could prompt future trials
While i'm slightly surprised by the overall quality of the comments here:

It looks really really neat.

It looks like something out of a scifi movie and i like big dishes.
Migrating prompts to open source models
To some extent, I think you are right here. The jewish world controlling octopus is definitely an offensive prompt. However, many of the prompts such as "jewish boss" don't seem intentionally offensive to me.

If I was working for a PR firm and wanted to create some fancy artwork, I might use terms like "jewish boss" or "black boss" in order to fancy up whatever "inspirational" thing I was writing. In this case, I'd very much like to see the results from the non-copilot AIs rather than the copilot results.

Thus this raises the question; should the AI assume you want a bigoted picture or an non-bigoted picture when you ask it to make a "jewish boss" for you? The answer to that question kinda also answers the question: What demographic should find our AI product most easy to use? I think the companies behind LLMs would generally prefer that PR firm employees find their software easier to use than bigots. I think the author of this article also wants this.

Therefore, I interpret the article as a political (in a broad sense of the term) appeal to make copilot harder for bigots to use, and implicitly, easier for corporations to use.
This pattern appeared in my math math education in the USA as well, but not as pronounced as in physics or chem. The biggest example is that we were initially taught that you cannot take the square root of a negative number. I also have vague memories of learning that a larger number cannot be subtracted from a smaller number (sometime early in grade school).
Employed full time: Median usual weekly real earnings: Wage and salary workers: 16 years and over :
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q
text-to-sql is a dead end. There's no way for a model to correctly interpret the meaning of every column in a real world database using the `information_schema` alone. Most cloud warehouses (e.g. Snowflake) don't use foreign keys, so you don't even know the joins.

Imagine you hire a highly skilled data analyst (e.g. 9 out of 10 proficiency in SQL) and start asking them questions about your database. They won't answer them, they'll ask you more questions. The conversation would go something like:

you: what is our churn rate by channel?

new analyst: where do we store "channel"? what do we use to process payments? where is that data stored? do we include discounts in MRR / churn? etc.

If a human can't do it, an LLM can't either. An LLM isn't able to write the SQL from scratch get the right answers without a ton of additional context. We're working on an approach using a semantic layer at https://www.definite.app/ if you're interested in this sort of thing.
There is a big difference between what Java calls AOT and this. Statically linked hello world in Vala which uses some basic standard library functions is less than a megabyte (most of it taken up by glibc as I couldn't get it to compile with musl). If you assume dynamic linking for core libraries then it is just 15KB.

I have no doubt that the Java world has excellent tech behind the AOT support but the footprint is simply not comparable when you can't even construct a java.lang.String without bringing in the entire JapaneseChronology.
I love the lack of sympathy for tech workers across North America or perhaps even globally, when tech hub salaries still don’t allow tech workers to even have a middle class lifestyle. Very few people I know get paid enough to buy a starter home within 2 or 3 hours of where they work. I get paid more than my non tech peers yet still functionally have less spending power than a 25 year old from 30 years ago, despite being a fair bit older than 25
My first concern was whether it's some kind of operative, a guy who goes 'oh please don't throw me into that briar patch, and here is why we must all expect civil war immediately'.

If it ain't, it looks like this is a guy who can be used for that purpose. I guess it all depends on how wedded he is to his 'terrifying predictions'? I too am interested to know what his theory makes of the period after the Great Depression.

I'm wary, put it that way. So often, this message is not an alarm bell, but a payload. You're meant to take on board his assumptions, but they can be suspect. He might be sincere.
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But solar panels aren't chips, the hurdle for new entrants is significantly lower. I don't think this is a strategic move by China and more a result of Xis attempt to reignite their economic growth.
> It's the same type that exclusively drinks soylent and wears black
turtlenecks to avoid having to think about things or taste anything.

Nice.

"Technology is a way of not having to experience the world" -- Max Frisch
Lore Harp McGovern built a microcomputer empire from her suburban home
I happen to live in a place (Portland, OR) where the graduate / progressive elite class still rubs elbows with the working class. But that's not what I see in most of the rest of America. And even 20 miles from here, the working class loathes Portland and its politics, and people here with a lot of degrees have no concept of that or what those people actually believe. Both groups have no more than a caricature of each other in their minds. I happen to split my time between both places and it's pretty clear they are living in completely separate spheres of information.
:D
We have been working with many non-tech founders and business people who are genuinely interested in data but they cannot learn SQL, due to different constraints.
Triangle would have wiring problems.
'Social order could collapse': Two of Japan's top firms fear unchecked AI
Isn't "Israel" a banned word in copilot?
Thanks! It's a bit outdated now but I wrote up an explanation a while back that gives the general idea behind the scoring algorithm: https://findmyarea.co.uk/blog/how-findmyarea-works/

In principle it should be possible to do the same for any city. The hardest part is getting the data and massaging it into shape, which can be somewhat tedious. London is a fairly "easy" city for this due to the large amount of open data that's readily available from the ONS and the like.
Amulets in Medieval England: Protect grain, help children understand crows
Thanks. By consultant, do you mean someone like EY etc?
And yet they left the focal point and its support poles there. No I agree with the people calling bullshit/publicity stunt. This array irritates me.
Feels like Spotify is restructuring systemic issues instead of trying to solve them. It's almost amazing how little, since the advent of Internet, the music industry changed, it did change, for established names more than small artist but the fundamental issue remains the same : fair & stable redistribution of value generated from artists.
Are surveys dead? Why AI will reinvigorate feedback collection
>> The trend is to have less and less control over the devices you own.

> Markets are two-sided. Stop patronizing companies that abuse you.

The market can't fix this. That's a fantasy.

The manufactures all have an incentive to do this, and a combination of asymmetric information and users being like frogs in a pot mean they'll suffer little to no blowback. The market converges on devices that turn against their users.

> If you can't find a viable alternative, instead cause problems for them on purpose. Contact support and waste their time hearing your complaints. Buy the device from the retailer where they get the highest margins so you can leave a bad review, then return it and buy a used one instead.

Those are totally impractical suggestions. The weirdos willing to tilt at windmills over this can have no noticeable effect.

> Figure out how to root it and publish your work.

Rooting a device takes a lot of work, if it's even possible at all. Volunteers just don't have the combination of skills and dedicated man-hours to make that a practical alternative across the consumer device space, except maybe in some unusual cases.
Isn't the system just trained to provide the shallowest response it learned on its input data?

I don't want to try, but what happens if you ask for a Muslim boss? I wouldn't be surprised if it's a terrorist. Or "feminist boss" be a ball breaking, man hating matron.

Neither of those are good, but seriously, it's impossible to accuse an AI of being antisemitic, it only picks up on its training data. Take your issue to the general public.

(Plus I suppose it is a commercial product, backed by someone, there is an issue of the output they produce, regardless of how it comes about. But my impression is this is not the issue the article raises)
Not a bad way to exfil data from target server.
Does Elementary use Gnome? I thought it was something else. It's been years since I've been on Elementary, but it didn't feel like it was just a Gnome skin iirc.
Malicious helpers: VS Code Extensions observed stealing sensitive information
Healthcare, and other issues you care about, are not immune to the laws of supply and demand just because you slapped your "this is important gang" sticker on it.

Healthcare will always require money transfer.
> solved problem is a bit of an overstatement.

Sentence Emotional Polarity has been solved since the mid-2000s. It was even an award winning paper at the ACL in the 2010 [0]

> believes some of these to be offensive

Offensiveness implies emotionally charged. It's not hard to tell if a sentence is offensive (ie. Emotionally charged) or inoffensive.

Heck. Copilot has literally just made a racist trope of African American "thug" just by me asking "A boss very angry in the mountains, maybe holding an airsoft". It automatically made an image of a yelling black man holding an AR15 [1]. This absolutely should have been terminated, which is what OpenAI and Meta's generator did.

[0] - https://aclanthology.org/W10-2919.pdf

[1] - https://www.bing.com/images/create/a-boss-very-angry-in-the-...
You can change that in the settings.

Hamburger menu > Preferences > The name of your profile (mine is just called "Unnamed").

Changing the "initial terminal size" will do what you want. I have mine set to 132x43.
Well, if you want to make things look pretty, which product owners and users expect, you’ll have to fiddle with cosmetic intricacies regardless.
How to Protect Yourself (and Your Loved Ones) from AI Scam Calls
It’s been done a few times now. In looking for more SwiftUI docs, I’ve used a GPT from OpenAI’s gpt store where someone’s uploaded a bunch of their docs.
Ha, never thought of that. Thank you :)
The article all seems a bit negative. I mean AI isn't you friend or your enemy. It's a tool that can do some quite useful stuff, in a similar way to the internet or cell phones or whatever. There can be good and bad aspects to all of those. And none are going away because for every misery who thinks they are predators etc. there are quite a lot of us who like using them.
Ask HN: Prepare son for AMC 10/12 competitions
My son is interested in mathematics, soon going to high school. Looking for advice on how best I can guide him in preparing for olympiads/AMC math competitions.
This is just a guess, but what strikes me as interesting is that all the copilot pictures are cartoony, where as the other AI pictures look like photographs or paintings. I bet that copilot has something in its system prompt to output more "cartoony" images for clip art purposes, but the only cartoony references to jewish people in the training data are political cartoons, which tend to show stereotypes or be antisemitic.
What is the agricultural scene like in Bulgaria? Thriving or is it mostly food imports?
If you fancy the dopamine, I made a similar simulator with a randomize button which runs at a faster rate: https://crwi.uk/apps/three-body-problem/

It doesn't have proper collision detection, so the bodies sometimes spin off at a fast rate (division by a very low number). The code is available in Clojure and IMHO is quite beautiful.
For people new to Linux see also https://linuxupskillchallenge.org/
> There's no way for a model to correctly interpret the meaning of every column in a real world database using the `information_schema` alone.

Why would text-to-sql be limited to information_schema alone? Human analysts would use additional documentation, why wouldn't an LLM-based text-to-sql system?
I don't think we're playing the same game here. This is a random info page at ICANN from 2019. It doesn't even have a byline. I had to go to archive.org to figure out when it showed up. Why would you think this would be persuasive?
The original post is about someone changing their default browser themselves, and this new system blocks it.
You're right that minutes matter here, and so does correctness. Most applications with a database depend strongly on that database layer to provide various guarantees and correctness.

Personally, I think having a database and then tuning it for performance is the best option, followed by not having a database and being faster. Having the database but then running it in an emulator on a VM on your infra (which is probably itself a VM), as in this case, seems like a bad call.
Heya! Generalizations and personal experiences are necessary for any quick and easily understandable point to be made. I'm not going to write a dissertation on the intricacies of anti-nationalized healthcare beliefs.

Tying into personal experience. When I paid for my mom's knee surgery which left her wheelchair-bound for 2 months afterward, I had many proudly conservative family members ask me why I would do that. The knee surgery was to help with damage done from obesity (which she had beat before the surgery and is now at a healthy weight). I was told that I was rewarding her "bad" behavior. That she needed to suffer the consequences of her actions. That her health is not my responsibility.

All of those statements reflect my earlier statement of American individualism and our belief that these issues are moral failings, rather than societal failings. This individualism runs so deep in our society that a son is chastised for helping his mother.
the answer could possibly anyone who cares about the footprint of their software (disk, egress, image running size...), not wanting to deal with an entire browser engine (in every aspect)

wpf is still heavily used in industry so that isnt very convincing to me
It looks like a lot of work.
Sequoia aims to be a "complete gnupg replacement" but in many ways it's still the same mindset as gnupg (core devs are former developers of gnupg). Sequoia also got support from VCs and just recently received significant funding from the STF which gives them resources to polish the documentation etc.

Rpgp is much smaller but also very flexible. It's easy to adjust to more specific needs. It's also associated with RustCrypto project and with Rust in general.

For example to add rpgp to your project you just do "cargo add pgp". To use Sequoia "properly" you need this multiline setup which depends on whether your crate is a "leaf" crate or not: https://gitlab.com/sequoia-pgp/sequoia/-/tree/main/openpgp?r...

Another example: Sequoia is against rustfmt. This makes it harder to contribute.

On the other side rpgp is much more barebones and instead of docs you need to read the source (which is rather readable).

Both of them would benefit from a high level API, so that the users wouldn't have to work with types such as ValidUserAttributeAmalgamationIter (https://docs.rs/sequoia-openpgp/latest/sequoia_openpgp/cert/...).

Full disclaimer: I've worked 3 years on core Sequoia and I'm kind of involved in the OpenPGP protocol: https://github.com/wiktor-k
I think this is an interesting line of thought but think we should take it further. These codes of conduct that focus of the feelings of third parties over the good of the project (the code) can themselves be seen as an attack on the project. They also often are imposed on projects via peer pressure and other social engineering methods. Perhaps we can use these codes of conduct and the people that push them as open examples of how projects can be infiltrated by those with different agendas and learn from them how to better defend against such attacks.
Put more generously: solar panels are so cheap that other factors (existing scaffold, ease of installation, aesthetics, …) dominate installation decisions.
I adored the books and I think the Netflix series is pretty good so far (it’s not finished).
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I am an incredibly flexible and adaptable worker. I can quickly learn new programming languages, software, etc and I specialize in dealing with old and poorly maintained code. I thrive on problems that seem insurmountable. Of course I am happy to work on easier problems too.
US middle class cleaved into two groups post pandemic: homeowners at 2% interest rates and everyone else.

Its the new middleclass have and have nots. You have it pretty good right now if you are a homeowner.
I dropped my phone a couple inches into a rug and now it’s covered in tiny glass shards so I’d have to disagree. Hope your wrist heals up soon.
I think this hypothesis quickly falls apart when you consider other places other than the US and China. To take India for example, the northern parts rely more on wheat and the southern parts on rice. One could easily make up an argument that the rice dominant south is more individualistic as it produces more economic output.
Matrix-scan keyboards allow for an unlimited number of overlapping keystrokes, but that allowance requires per-key diodes to prevent ghosting.

Inexpensive keyboards often forego the per-key diodes in favour of cheaper/thinner construction, and to prevent phantom inputs the controller registers nothing when the matrix scan shows keypresses that might be the result of ghosting.
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I belong to an ethnic minority in Germany and had real Nazis, not Neo-Nazis, as neighbors growing up. Just because you don't know how racist the average German views are, doesn't mean it isn't so.

- CDU, which is politically the closest to the Republicans, is by far the strongest party now

- AFD, actual Neo-Nazis, are the second strongest party in recent polls

- East Germany is basically a giant No-Go area for PoC, with a couple of exceptions.

https://www.wahlrecht.de/umfragen/
Though I have no interest in writing an antisemitic screed, I wouldn't expect MS Word or Google Docs to interfere or report me to the authorities if I tried. Maybe I'm just old, but I'm honestly a little shocked that not only are people willing to accept it, but that it's considered a desirable feature in modern tools.
> May want to include a time series database, like InfluxDB

Seems to have native support for Prometheus, so that seems to be the TSDB to use for the project. That said, if you're at the point where your record density takes advantage of the benefits of a time series DB vs a well indexed RDBMS, I'd also imagine that you're beyond the scope of this little service.
My guess is: the problem is not the price of the land or the price of the structure, but the permits. In Switzerland, you can put solar panels on existing buildings without requiring a permit.

As the article says, there are many "large" solar panel projects planned in Switzerland, specially in the mountains, where the snow will reflect the light and increase electricity production in winter (where electricity is the most expensive). But it takes a very long time (sometimes many, many years) until those projects are approved, if they are approved at all. This is known to be a problem, and government did try to speed this up, but it still is far too slow. (I'm Swiss.)