skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is very cool! Couple of suggestions:

- Don't use "mysql" in the name, this is a trademark of Oracle corporation and they can very easily sue you personally if they want to, especially since you're using it to develop a competing database product. Other products getting away with it doesn't mean they won't set their sights on you. This is just my suggestion and you can ignore it if you want to.

- Postgres wire/sql compatibility. Postgres is for some reason becoming the relational king so implementing some support sooner rather than later increases your projects relevance.
I don't think it's working.
Yeah - it pains me to say this is exactly right. Security concerns trump rationality too often.
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> Many people would prefer that our hypothesis not be true

Executing unwanted children (or adults) after birth might also reduce crime, but it's hard to test the hypothesis in an ethical manner.
# grep Package: /var/lib/apt/lists/apt.grafana.com_*_Packages | sort -u | grep grafana

Package: grafana-agent

Package: grafana-agent-flow

Package: grafana-enterprise-nightly

Package: grafana-nightly
Ask your managers or skip managers, many may don't mind signing their names as long as you write it.

P.S. One of the worst parts of application process.
The world has gone to shit.
I would love to just see a hyperlocal minimum wage set in CA that's tied to housing prices. Live in enclaves with an average home of 10M dollars, your house cleaner will need to be paid $500/hour type thing.
Not sure what you are using but on Windows I can set my "default" but each application can still individually select which input they want.

IE an untrusted process running should be able to pick the inbuilt mic.

Maybe linux has permissions around device inputs that can be used to stop this but if a person is worried their untrusted laptop might be listening to them then I suspect such a permission layer is already breached.
What makes it a lot more powerful? Running pihole just because I know it better than others
For correctness, yes, it works as well as the SQL version. And the aggregation can be extensible for other operations easily. For example, we have an operation of last, which is not even available in standard SQL.
This was a great read, thanks for posting it. I didn't really understand what he received so much jail time for though...
Thirty years earlier people were also "always at home". Watching TV, or playing console games…

The big difference was: At least the youth was at home together with others doing so. You went over to your neighbor to watch some TV show for example.

What changed quite lately are indeed the always online smartphones. You don't need to go to your neighbor, even if you want to "do something together" (of course online, like everything nowadays).

Also people don't even call each other. The default is chat, or very often voice messages. But no real talking.

So no, media and electronics aren't the main driver here. It's the always online devices everybody uses everywhere the whole time. Human minds likely aren't constructed to be always connected (or one could argue, actually disconnected) in such a way.

It's not primary the quantity, it's the quality of media consumption that significantly changed. Also the media is the first time completely interactive and personalized. Compare to for example TV (which was back than "the devil who destroys the morale of our youth" according to some elder people). You didn't get targeted personalized ads the whole day on your TV…

The psychological manipulation that the pre-smartphone media could possibly exercise on individuals was much more constrained compared to what's possible (and actually gets executed) today. Smartphone apps are a great example as they're now mostly constructed to induced addiction (the companies selling ads call it "engagement").
Always has been opt in when free of charge. The register form is the checkbox.

Only exception is free software.
The Spectator harps on this issue, but do they ever offer their own definition of "woman"?
Yeah, but if Intel can't even get internal customers to adopt their foundry services it seems to bode poorly for the future of the company.
>> Definitely jail....

Well that's one way to try and make the point.

The funny thing is there is a long history of the bay having art predict its own downfall. Mostly with imported talent at that.

Thompson was probably the first. He has some choice quotes about the 60's and high water marks. And riding a bike to Oakland high...

But this round falls squarely to Willam Gibson.... He pegged the class and culture fall out of corporations. He picked the wrong part of Asia as a motif but was close there. He nailed the homeless camps but had them a bit east on an abandon bay bridge.

You could make this same statement, and make it standing on the shoulder of a giant. It could be far more effective and resonant. Go read some Gibson, it will blow your mind ;)
As I said, everything we do affects others. That can't be the sole basis.
This commit message is gold: https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz/commit/e93e13c8b3bec92...

While the backdoor was inactive (and thus harmless) without inserting
a small trigger code into the build system when the source package was
created, it's good to remove this anyway:

- The executable payloads were embedded as binary blobs in
the test files. This was a blatant violation of the
Debian Free Software Guidelines.

- On machines that see lots bots poking at the SSH port, the backdoor
noticeably increased CPU load, resulting in degraded user experience
and thus overwhelmingly negative user feedback.

- The maintainer who added the backdoor has disappeared.

- Backdoors are bad for security.
A solid pattern to build LLM Applications (feat. Claude)
is the article more or less saying that? is the west and our way of living perfect other then our social media use.

I dont think so, but seeing how chinese people under those circumstances view their lives and satisfaction with their social lives, etc would be one more data point in a complicated problem
I miss FM radio and IR blasters being a norm on phones.
Windows 95 had a better UI. Windows 98 was the beginning of Microsoft trying to Webify everything to cram Internet Explorer down everyone's throats. It had non-monopoly-related dangers; by making the difference between the desktop and web more ambiguous, it erased the "local things=relatively safe, network things=relatively risky" heuristic we internalized at the time. Not exactly 100% true in an era of Word macro viruses, but it was useful.

I would nominate late AmigaOS or BeOS as having a better WIMP UI than any Windows.
This a while ago, so I don't remember the source of the miscalculation.

We have a popular website, and this was the first analytics product outside of Google Analytics that we reached for. We used several other metered tools that didn't charge extreme amounts for our volume, so this was our very first real surprise.

They're selling to websites with low visitor counts, expecting people to sample small subsets traffic, or catering to large orgs with huge budgets for this.

The out of the box behavior for new customers should be to downsample until a flag is turned on or to set billing thresholds.
Three employees utilized an unused and unknown space as a break room and,

>"It just completely destroys the reputation of Metro North, it's so disturbing on so many levels," said Rinaldi. "These employees should not be doing this when they're on the job, so to have this thing set up it completely unacceptable."
At top it should read “L = …” (as it does in the compact form printed on the coffee mug image).

Here, L represents Lagrangian density. The integral of L over spacetime (between some initial and some final time) is the action S, which therefore is a functional of the particular configuration the various fields take. The classical configuration of the fields (solutions of equations of motion) is the one that minimizes S between initial and final times. Quantum mechanically, the amplitude to find final field configuration given initial field configuration is obtained by integrating e^iS over all field configurations. Modulo a few details* the workings of the universe ensue.

*joke
Show HN: I make an iOS app for runners using Apple Watch
about run and plan
Just give me radiant floor heating
Sounds like the publicity might have forced the manufacturer to open up the relevant control software a little?: https://rollingstockworld.com/passenger-cars/newag-to-make-c...
That would make sense, but it's not. It's pretty small, theres only like a dozen active users at any given time. I still like the place so pretty explicitly not calling it out, just not the right fit for me for this moment
Is there no modern gcc or clang for PowerPC?

edit: looks like gcc 10.2 (at least) will work, so that's up to C++17?
Fluxzy Desktop: cross-platform HTTP debugger without time, feature restrictions
It kind of sounds like one of these guys just expanded out a break room to avoid having to do the commute so often.

If he'd shared it with his team members he might have been able to spin it as something official. ;)
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/databas...
No there isn't an option for that at the moment... Might be interesting to open source it if i cant build a business on it.
>> New plants are set up to recover lithium because the price of lithium has increased, but old plants don't. <<

The price of lithium has collapsed by as much as 85% since 2022 Nov peak and is expected to drop further all the way through 2030. Other valuable raw materials in the cathodes have declined quite a bit past year.

I wonder how that's going to affect the future of battery recycling.
It's surprising how many parents I know who are in denial about this. It must be because they themselves are constantly using social media and don't want to accept what it is doing to their own mental health.
Seems like a low cost to pay for that part being robustabd controlled by you. But this is from an emacs user perspective, perhaps ypu vscode guys have it better.
The solar charged Aptera is the only type of vehicle that could theoretically function in a post-collapse world.
But it wouldn't be easy. It requires a pro plan on vercel to even run, because of the long time outs of the serverless functions.
Aggregation of different data points in conjunction with whether a user used find my device recently. Really a bazillion methods. The fact they allegedly encrypted (their word there’s no break glass mechanism or backdoor) a single piece of location data doesn’t really matter when the other data they have in aggregate tells them precisely where you are, and this can only really help.

It’s entirely reasonable at this point in history not to trust google marketing-speak that dances around stuff like this.
Show HN: Make a map of the countries/cities you've traveled to
I made this because I wanted a page on the internet that shows the countries/cities I have been to. In addition to a profile page that shows a map and list of the locations, you can also embed the map to any website with an iframe tag.
feels kind of like writing in cursive

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I send their comment through ChatGPT, then paste is as an example in the response. "Please use ChatGPT, this is an example of what your comment would look like..."
For offline computation, it is okay with the table with 5bn rows. But for online serving, it would be really challenging to serve the features at a few milliseconds.

But even for offline computation, for the same computation logic, the code will be duplicated in lots of places. we have observed the ML practitioners copied sql queries all over. In the end, it is not possible for debugging, feature interpretability and lineage.

Chronon abstracts all those away so that ML practitioners can focus on the core problems they are dealing with, rather than spending time on the ML Ops.

For an extreme use case, one user defined 1000 features with 250 lines of code, which is definitely impossible with SQL queries, not to even mention the extra work to serve those features.
Jobs' "sweet solution" of web apps wasn't completely terrible - they added native-look widgets to Safari as well as touch capability and multimedia features. I wonder what might have happened if we had gone further down that alternate path...

Even today Amazon somehow managed to make the Luna web client work on Safari, which shows that with an appropriate server back end you can stream some fairly demanding games (and by extension, almost anything) into a web app.
JEP 475: Late Barrier Expansion for G1
Doesn't work on phone. Especially if you're on the road. If you're at home and use YouTube on multiple devices, of course you can use a pihole or something.

I have a long commute (which is not very unreasonable). YouTube Premium also lets you download videos on your phone and have it background play. I usually record talks/lectures the previous night before my commute the following day. Has definitely help me keep my sanity!

My kid watches YouTube sometimes and I'm sure she'll appreciate getting this when she was younger so much so that she will naturally develop the aversion to ads when she grows up! :D
The pci-e p100 is has 16gb vram and won’t go below 160 dollars. Prices for these things would pick up if you could put them in some sort of pcie adapter
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I would love to see a variety of cables to support your vision.

USB-C to 0.78mm 2-pin or USB-C to MMCX

basically a DAC cable, not a huge fiio dac thing.

There are very interesting in-ear earbuds, but the whole subculture only handles 3.5mm, relying on the phone audio section.

EDIT: I like this list (just one guy):

https://crinacle.com/rankings/iems/

EDIT: I guess I should add his other list:

https://crinacle.com/rankings/headphones/
They didn't really "revive" it so much as the legislature failed to repeal it for the last century+, and the court didn't intervene.

That said, weird Hacker News post.
Full-disclosure: personally I'm a big supporter of an individual's right to choose to end their own life in a medically-facilitated manner.

There's something weird about letting people who are happy with life (read: society) choose to force someone who isn't to continue living, against their wishes.
> Who in their right mind would think that video could be a productivity tool!?

Unless it's a fiendish plot to sell LLMs to prepare summaries of the videos. I'm at Google Next 24 and today's keynotes were pretty much AI from start to finish.
I'm sorry to hear that, but that does match my understanding that there's very few murders done by a random stranger in their own home.

Most people worrying about home invasions arent thinking about it being their niece.
Well, the p40 has 24gb VRAM, which makes it the perfect hobbyist card for a llm, assuming you can keep it cool.
Well, it seems there's both types here in equal numbers. Since I posed my comment the votes have risen and fallen many times, it's now back to unity again or close to it.

Usually I don't bother to note votes until logging in agsin which can be days later but the subject seemed somewhat controversial so I watched them (it's a shame HN only provides a summary, so if say I see two points then I've no idea if only one person voted or if it were twenty).

I thought what I said was pretty mild so I'm a bit surprised at the reaction. It's a shame most down-voters don't bother to say what they consider is wrong with one's arguments.
How has fastmail helped you?
Isn't the characteristic of languages like C++ or Rust is you have to think way more about managing the memory (and even more so if you use C)?

Borrow checker based .drop/deallocation is very, very convenient for data with linear or otherwise trivial lifetime, but for complex cases you still end up paying with either your effort, Arc/Arc<Mutex, or both. Where it does help is knowing that your code is thread-safe, something Rust is unmatched at.

But otherwise, C# is a quite unique GC-based language since it offers full set of tools for low level control when you do need that. You don't have to fight GC because once you use e.g. struct generics for abstractions and stack allocated/pooled buffers or native memory for data neatly wrapped into spans, you get something close to C but in a much nicer looking and convenient package (GC is also an optimization since it acts like an arena allocator, and each individual object has less cost than pure reference counted approach).

Another language, albeit with small adoption, is D which too has GC when you want an escape hatch while offering features to compete with C++ (can't attest to its GC performance however).
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The ticket replay cache does not apply on the TGS side.
Loom

Loom is quite popular.

Seems like Google has noticed.

https://www.loom.com/
AWS. The logging and metrics capabilities in AWS have been maturing for years and while not as polished as other options, come with far less drama and expense. There are a few good service alternatives and approaches to consider. I prefer streaming logs to S3 via Firehose and putting a thin reverse index over the top. That said, CloudWatch logs are pretty good these days, and with retention rules in place can be affordable. CloudWatch metrics aren’t as pretty as DataDog et. al. but avoiding their smelly business is worth the plain looks to me (all day long).
Haha I was thinking about that, but the joke is actually the reverse of this. When someone sends you a WUPHF, you receive it on every medium. Phone, email, fax, text. Beeper does the opposite, anytime you receive something on one of these platforms, it consolidates it to the Beeper app
Last weekend, I decided to take a step to learn and build things, it is also a way to learn about LLM, in which I ended built InkChatGPT. A small and simple RAG LLM app that with tons of learning resources that I was afraid to start to learn with.

I've been diving into the world of Large Language Models (LLMs), particularly the Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) approach. As a learning project, I built InkChatGPT, an AI agent that can assist with learning from multiple documents through a chat interface, inspired by projects like ChatPDF.

Under the hood, I used LangChain as the LLM framework to simplify the backend, Streamlit for the front-end UI and deployment, and OpenAI's `gpt-3.5-turbo` model. For generating embeddings for document chunking, I leveraged HuggingFace's `all-MiniLM-L6-v2` model.

Coming from a mobile development background, delving into ML, LLMs, prompt tuning, and various techniques has been an eye-opening experience. While the wealth of information can be overwhelming, building projects like InkChatGPT has been an incredible learning journey.

I'd love to hear your thoughts and experiences with LLMs and RAG systems. Feel free to check out the InkChatGPT repo [1] and share your feedback.

[1] https://github.com/vinhnx/InkChatGPT
There was Kerberos in their SNTP! It was just NTP with 1DES auth keys. Which 1DES auth keys? The ones derived from the machine account password for this purpose.
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Ethanol (alcohol) is toxic; do I want bacteria producing ethanol in my mouth constantly, poisoning my brain? If I swallow this bacteria, will it start producing ethanol in my gut? If it does, how do I get rid of it? I don't want to have a low level of cognitive impairment 24x7.

If I have this in my mouth and then have a baby, will the baby be contaminated with alcohol-producing bacteria during critical periods of development (up to age 18?) Will that alcohol damage their central nervous system?

So much wrong here.

EDIT: some data from their FAQ: "The endogenous alcohol concentration in the blood of sober people is 0.39 ± 0.45 μg/mL or 0.039 mg/dL (Antoschechkin, 2001)."
Further down: 5. Then you’ll end up with 11mg/5L of blood. This is, in more familiar units, 0.22 mg per dL
0.22 / 0.039 = a 5.6x increase in chronic blood alcohol concentration under pessimistic assumptions [1].
No thank you. There's no telling what that will do to a person over 50 years.

[1] I'm not sure it's so pessimistic. This number comes from culture on blood agar, which isn't exactly the sugar level of a Western diet. Blood agar contains almost no sugar.
You're not wrong. The average age of our students is... up there. I guess that's why people shared it on Hacker News and not on Tiktok.
Static HTML is even cheaper. I don't understand how some people can't think outside of CMS land
I grew up in Millbrae. Oddly satisfying to solve the mystery of why I often saw a couple dudes hanging inside the decommissioned old station over the last 5-10 years. It has a display train car. I wonder if they were living in that too. https://maps.app.goo.gl/vk9ZXxWGJT9UmM3D6?g_st=ic

The Millbrae one would be easy to get away with but the Burlingame one is more surprising. If we're talking Bgame Ave, that's a very busy area. If they mean Broadway station then that makes more sense.
True. But it is not necessary to reinvent the wheel for engineers. :)
In my opinion, no, since it isn’t clear how an LLM is a complement to Meta’s core businesses or who is affected by that commoditization. Maybe others can educate me about that. My view is that they have the key capabilities to build high performance LLMs - talent, cash (for hardware), data - so they might as well do it just to stay relevant. They may ultimately create innovations that are ahead of everyone else (like the JEPA architecture that Yann LeCun is pushing) but until then, at least they’re proving to users and investors that they still have bleeding edge technical capabilities. And sure they may find ways to use these models in new incremental features in their existing products (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp) - but they don’t have a great way to reach users even if they had new AI-centric products to offer (more below). At least they get some good marketing by putting open weight models out there as an alternative to big players pushing closed models and services.

I think a big problem for Meta is that they don’t have a way to put a new AI-centric standalone product or service in front of users. That’s because the main platform owners - Microsoft for Windows, Google (or Samsung) for Android, and Apple for iOS/MacOS - will act in anti-competitive ways, push their own services, bundle their own services, and otherwise prevent others companies from getting a fair shot at the market. We see this already with Microsoft forcing Copilot buttons on every keyboard, effectively creating a default choice of Microsoft-owned AI services. It’s the 90s all over again, and at least in the US, competition laws are woefully inadequate and long overdue for a rewrite. So what’s someone like Meta going to do without that ability to freely compete for users? Apart from minor uses within their apps, I think they are just biding their time.
You don’t need an ML, each letter and based on its location on the keyboard draw a predictable path, so you can draw whatever you want somehow
Construction cost a mere $50k? These guys should be promoted to top management in SF public servants, with that kind of money management they could house all the homeless.
This is cool, if we just have straight up pricing for a product (no custom pricing) can we just publish that so people can see it on the site? Specifically would like to list pricing https://certifytheweb.com/register (Certificate Management)
And it will likely also be a lesson in "performance oversupply", that is never releasing more value than you absolutely have to to stay ahead and always leave them gagging for more a.k.a. apple cult mode