skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the only metric to judge [what is ethical] is through the lens of legality

You've told us exactly what "side you would have been on".
There was no ruling. The parties settled.
CalyxOS has been working well for me and I recommend it. I appreciate how the included microG allows me to disable Firebase Cloud Messaging for any app that I don't need push notifications for. Having push notifications without Google Ads or Google Analytics is great.
I came here to ask the same question.

If this db requires 1 full-time developer then the cost would immediately be not worth it (assuming salary + benefits > $120k/yr)

As you say, without details it’s hard to know if this was a good idea.
This is about selling older games in their digital store, not about ensuring your old disks can still run, right?
I think for this kind of thing their needs are so simple and well-suited to a bespoke implementation that it probably paid for itself in less than 4 months. This doesn't seem like a db implementation that's going to need dedicated maintenance.

They're operationally using a funny spelling of SQLite and I don't imagine anyone arguing that such a thing needs constant attention.
You don't think colour photography is mature?

And even if that were the case, do you not think there would be some scientific value to having the photo in colour that it would be worth the risk?

Personally - I think its ridiculous that NASA get so many billions but are unable to put in a decent colour camera. I can't see any acceptable reason for this.

PS first colour photo was in 1890.

PPS I mean 1861! https://www.bbc.com/news/13411083
I’ve been waiting to see ‘luckydude weigh in, but here he is by proxy. When some time ago he and I talked about this (here, or on #Tcl), the thing I recall most from our conversation is “Tichy pulled the wool over our eyes.”
On the other hand, thankfully they haven't taken that approach, as otherwise wouldn't have been the multimedia machine it turned out to be, or have OS design decisions like its use of Libraries, Datatypes and everything scriptable that are yet to be mainstream.

With exception of a few UNIX systems like Irix, Solaris with NeWS, NeXTSTEP, Apollo, everything else tends to be the same deck of cards reshuffled.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39952128
Honestly probably a while. Selling the same game over and over with minimal changes is quite profitable (see: call of duty, fifa, etc). Selling the same game over and over again with no changes... probably more so.
Ah yes, if you go to EA’s “official” site then click “Take Action” that’s where it’ll take you. This is as close as you’ll get to an “official” list of endorsed causes, and it’s nothing like what’s being described in this thread.

https://www.effectivealtruism.org/
Even designers who can visualize report different representations and experiences: https://aphantasia.com/article/strategies/visualizing-the-in...
Microsoft's strategy is somewhere between the two, you can put an Xbox 360 disc into a newer Xbox system but what it actually does is download a recompiled version of the game and just uses the original disc as a DRM key to run it. Alternatively you can buy the game digitally and play the recompiled version without a disc, if you want.
My kingdom for a local LLM supporting my trusty Intel MacPro and AMD RX6900 XT!
It's interesting because it should be very easy to put a test in action. Are there true capability differences between people who think in different ways? Feynman[0] goes through a particular version of such a test in his Ways of Thinking series.

It should be trivial to write up a puzzle game such that, much like those color blind tests where you need to find numbers, will very quickly eliminate people who think in different ways while being a piece of cake for others. And yet I don't think I've ever encountered one.

Are there no capabilities that can not be overcome? Would that puzzle game just be terrible entertainment? Why doesn't it exist?

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbwLkuxORdY
Shouldn’t we up our standard developer cost for inflation?

That barely qualifies for the median mortgage in the US.
6 years ago I was called as a contractor by the company I work for as they were desperate that their ERP was just a money drain and despite the money was not functioning at all.
Fast forward 6 years. I'm a manager at that company, responsible for business processes and it systems.
The ERP works great, everybody's happy.
Secret recipe: dismantle custom company processes.
Culture change: realize that company's not that special and don't need special ERP recipes.
Takeaway: if the ERP standard is set up in a certain way, probably there's a very good reason underneath that setup.
>A writer's mistake is abuse

I thought we were talking about companies. Why should the owner of the work care about whether your writer was on too tight of a timeline to properly check whether they were allowed to use the photographer's work for free? Yes, a company stealing people's work is abusive, and I am not sure why we should be sympathetic when some small % of them happen to have aggressive representation.
On top of the iOS restrictions vs Android, an iPhone comes with a set of constraints that the type of user that cares about bootloader unlocking doesn't want to deal with. From apps that are not on the store to custom ROMs that have features that the stock OS doesn't have... iPhones are terrible for this.

iPhones are good, but in this case it's a bit like recommending a Chromebook to someone that is used to build their own computers and runs linux.
> If I have a object checked out, no one can check in their changes without talking to me.

The inability to lock checkouts is one of the things that a co-worker of mine fought tooth and nail about when we moved from RCS to CVS.
I by-and-large don't believe Anthropic that this is their complete list. The model's behavior isn't consistent with only this. Granted, they aren't saying what their starting materials lean is.

Claude is too conventionally WASP (white anglo-saxon protestant aka puritan).

While Scandinavian open-mindedness falls in the "Western" thinking it's being programmed to reject here, Eastern philosphy as well as African and South American non-Catholic and non-Muslim (are we seeing a theme here?) philosophies are rejected as well.

It's almost as if it's interpreting western civilization as meaning Greek philosophic stance prior to American programming and rejecting that, rather than rejecting religious fundamentalism. (If they replaced "Western" with "American" in their constitution principles, it might be a good first step.)

With the supposed "least harm" or "harmless" goal, you'd think we'd see an attempt to erase religious fundamentalism at least as strong as their attempts to erase any behavior implying identity.

From a book on the 100 worst atrocities in human history, if that's a reasonable measure of harms to the human race...

https://probaway.wordpress.com/tag/100-worst-atrocities/

... there are examples of other harms to erase, not erased by this "constitution":

- patriotism or nationalism in failing states (the biggest harm?)

- tribalism (primary cause of genocide)

- othering of races (arguably Anthropic attempt this one)

- religious fundamentalism, 15% of the 100 worst:

In my final analysis of White’s work, only around 15% of the worst atrocities in history can be attributed primarily, or at least significantly, to religion. The other 85% fall under a series of other causes, such as “Hegemonial War,” which includes the Crimean War, the Seven Years War, etc…, or “Failed States,” to include the Fall of the Ming Dynasty, the Fall of the Western Roman Empire, etc…. White provides several other well-reasoned categories.

- https://apholt.com/2018/11/08/religion-and-the-100-worst-atr...

Until they go after real harms, one could argue they're taking a wildly overprivileged (whether WASP-y or "Coddling of the American mind" type) view of the definition of "harm", which sort of defeats themselves before they start.

On the plus side, Claude isn't Pi.ai.
A lot of the code in basic utilities like that is handling the command line and reporting errors. The standard ways of doing those tasks in Unix (e.g. getopt(3) and strerror(3)) are fairly limited.
This does not seem an impossible problem for the likes of Microsoft. They own all of the Xbox APIs and backwards compatibility is in their DNA. Especially now that consoles are just regular computer hardware with a funny hat.

I think the business people calculated that keeping the full game library available for the initial investment of compatibility APIs is totally worth it. It becomes a huge differentiator if Sony cannot/does not follow the playbook.

Sell your game on Xbox. Forever.
I love the attitude, we didn't see a good fit so we rolled ours.

Sure it won't cover the bazillion cases the DBs out there do but that's not what you need. The source code is small enough for any team member to jump in and debug while pushing performance in any direction you want.

Cudos!
Robotaxis could work with preplanned routes, but a generalized solution seems too far away. Freight like interstate trucking or easy transit lines should work.

It sucks that it seems Tesla, or musk rather, is using their original promise as purely PR.
Extendable text-editors like emacs already are starting to see integration with local language-models. What the article describes sound like quite straightforward functions to add once you have some plumbing in place to send text selection to a LLM, unless I am missing something?
I just sent feedback as well. I bought an Asus phone in the past and was planning on buying more in the future. I used to recommend them everywhere. I will not be purchasing any more Asus phones until this is fixed.
I did a PhD in physics in the late 90s and loved the research and the teaching.

I was also constantly in conflict with some senior staff who had a medieval approch to academia.

I gave a hard stare at my life and realized that with my character I would either go for their positions to change things, among drama and politics, or I must switch to industry.

I switched to industry for 10x the salary, the comfort of not fighting for pennies when it comes to budgeting and basically the same management pyramid. I do not regret it, except that I miss research and teaching very much and will someday be back pro bono.

Like someone said on a comment, people do not like academia itself but what academia provides you. This is very true.
You still have to cover the extended medical care in Canada and they are often bigger than the initial hospital stay in the most expensive cases in either country (years-long therapy, chronic injuries, etc.)

The tortable aspect (compensation for causing personal injury) must also be covered.
For me, PID is one of those “algorithms” that has cool abstract analogies with life in general. I see it as a simple mathematical expression to how we react to things. Do we act “in the moment” (P), or with more conservatism and restraint waiting for consensus (I) , or speculatively skating to the puck (D).

Sometimes when I look at why different individuals react differently to the same observations, it’s interesting to speculate how their P, I, and D weights are resulting in different conclusions.
The mass recoginition of Aphantasia and the rise of screentime seems somewhat correlated. They might be reinforcing one another, multiple avenues of cognition could be warping in unprecedented ways.

Highly industrialized societies have large populations that can experience, interact and survive their entire lives almost solely through screens. This seems to be an unknowing experiment we're performing on brains.
> we’ve replaced our $10k/month Aurora

How does 0.7MB/sec end up costing $10k/mo in a hosted database?

Can you not achieve 1MB/sec of "queued writes" or something clever against SQLite?
This is not the point.

How many players are making a living competing mario karts?

Taking part in competitions with prize money doesn't make you a professionnal player. When I was a road racing cyclist in the upper amateur echelon I was making a decent amount of money in finish prizes, was sponsored, was given a high end bike, clothing and enough tires to last a season, and the mechanic wouldn't charge me for his work, all non local travels were paid. Yet I wasn't a professionnal cyclist as I didn't have a salary nor would I have made enough yearly money to support a family and leave a job.

So what are the highest, median and average income of those so called 'Mario Kart pros"?
Extremely interesting, I'm intrigued at the idea of preserving fragmentary historical accounts by weaving them into a semi-fictional narrative (which I suppose is something that ancient historians themselves frequently did).

> Maximinus and I looked at each other, and I recall that I shrugged my shoulders unhelpfully.

Is the author taking playful liberties with the metafictional "translation" here, or is the gesture of shrugging your shoulders actually attested in Roman times?
ClickHouse is one of the few databases that can handle most of the time-series use cases.

InfluxDB, the most popular time-series database, is optimised for a very specific kind of workloads: many sensors publishing frequently to a single node, and frequent queries that are not going far back in time. It's great for that. But it doesn't support doing slightly advanced queries such an average over two sensors. It also doesn't scale and is pretty slow to query far back in time due to its architecture.

TimeScaleDB is a bit more advanced, because it's built on top of PostGreSQL, but it's not very fast. It's better than vanilla PostGreSQL for time-series.

The TSM Bench paper has interesting figures, but in short ClickHouse wins and manage well in almost all benchmarks.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.14778/3611479.3611532

https://imgur.com/a/QmWlxz9

Unfortunately, the paper didn't benchmark DuckDB, Apache IoTDB, and VictoriaMetrics. They also didn't benchmark proprietary databases such as Vertica or BigQuery.

If you deal with time-series data, ClickHouse is likely going to perform very well.
AND the function is hard-limited to 1600 columns. Don't ask me how I know; you already know.
sort of related, when i was working on a university project in the early 2000s in germany i learned that they spent one third of their time on grant writing. so effectively from the three professors on the institute one was only doing grand writing and nothing else.
Not doing that writing/illustration of corporate/advertising bullshit in the first place, is a much bigger win!

And unlike the AI version, this also helps with our mental health: less crap fighting for our attention, less nudging to consume, less bullshit vaccuous messaging...
I believe the 120k number was in reference to the OP’s Aurora spend.
For an article about generative AI/UI, there sure is a lot of talk about recommendations and predictions.

As another side note, the idea of a UI that changes every time you open the site/app is, frankly, ridiculous. Not sure what kind of UX researcher or even user would want that. Seems like a saner approach would be one of two worlds below:

1) Each app has a carefully designed foundation on top of which user-customizable components exist. This is already common, sans GenAI-powered component creation.

2) There is no longer a concept of an "app." Users instead interact primarily with a smorgasbord of APIs, via their highly personalized but temporally consistent, AI-assisted personal OS.
Right... so the line goes. They're free to go to any neighbouring city that will do the same to them now that we've destroyed the village (by poaching young people in various ways. There are many ways to destroy a city if you are strategic and have financing.)

In these countries the cities are created around the factories etc and planned as part of the development.

You're not free once your subsistence relies on this corporation. It's slavery but because some tokens are being transferred (the food supply is probably also corp. owned--especially in the early stages of the development) it is possible to fool the naive / stupid into think this is not slavery.
That is such an insane headline.

You might as well say "we saved 100% of cloud costs by writing our own cloud".
So you're saying that if projects continue choosing to sunset without handing over the keys to the kingdom, open source will stop existing?

This is simply not even close to true.

Edit: I can't reply to your reply, so here will do. You've completely ignored my main point. I get that you want projects to pass on the torch, but saying open source will otherwise die is ridiculous.
Except when those companies have lobbied to create laws to make the use of their industry mandatory.
Certainly working for Nintendo. Does the NES mario game require any porting effort? Yet it gets repeatedly sold on their virtual stores.
2023 - humans should make eco-friendly choices. ai is a massive source of energy consumption, and thus carbon emissions.

2024 - ai should make eco-friendly choices. humans are a massive source of energy consumption, and thus carbon emissions.

here comes that acceleration.
I ve read the overview, and actually seems like a boring (in a "OK" sense), decent language with sensible behaviour. No bells no whistles

Speculation: it's the c++ we needed, not the one we had

Reading other comments, looks like it's rather dead than alive
This is more a bespoke file format than a full blown database. It’s optimized for one table schema and a few specific queries.

Not a negative though, not everything needs a general purpose database. Clearly this satisfies their requirements, which is the most important thing.
Is there a way to do this with models that aren’t homologous? Now that would be unbelievable.

Just smash every model you can find together?
Sounds very cool, thanks for the recommendation! Lots of videos on YT with setup guides too!
Isn’t this essentially the same concern that Socrates had about writing according to Plato:

“… for this discovery of [letters, writing] will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves.”
> Do you use a banking app? Last I read depending on the type of check used some apps can still be problematic.

It's important to distinguish between banking app and payment app.
If you just want to check your account balance or find an ATM, the banking app will probably not mind that you're on a device that can't pass integrity checks.

If you want to use your phone's NFC to pay for coffee, though, you're going to have a bad time.
Thanks for sharing that link.

It's risky business to infer anything from job preferences though. Consider that (as far as I know) an extraordinarily large proportion of professional programmers are male -- obviously a cultural phenomenon. We certainly cannot infer that a talent for programming is located on the y-chromosome.

Edit after reading the paper associated with that link:

> Our aphantasic and hyperphantasic samples were opportunistic, in the sense that our participants had approached us spontaneously following publicity triggered by our original publication

This suggests that many of the participants actually read scientific publications (or reporting thereof). That's an obviously biased set of people who indeed are way more likely to work in STEM (and have an abundance of time to spend browsing the web), rather than as hairdressers.
What makes you think a standard developer can afford a mortgage?
Perhaps I'm speaking out of ignorance, but that just seems... excessive. The game's on the disc, why not just play it instead of downloading the whole damn thing?

Can someone explain why this option is preferable to just playing what's on the disc?

Edit: Three immediate, simultaneous, and helpful responses - thank you! :)
Because it was fucked up that they were displaced for highways. Jesus.
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Privacy & security should matter for Linux Gaming Distros too. Bug reports should only include necessary information to prevent correlation & exploitation or at least not being posted on a public forum. Learn from history, even the NSA used Windows Error Reporting in their information collection. Disappointingly, when asked, the Garuda Team responds with personal attacks instead of addressing valid concerns. Is this the modern privacy & security management?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39953873
GPT4 is the SOTA, for better or for worse, so it would be just stupid to not use it just for PR reasons.
Every calculation I've seen regarding olivine comes out saying that the grinding and transport will release more carbon than the olivine will absorb, even accounting for technology improvements and green energy.
you'd have to emulate the 360 arch in software so just probably just easier to download a recompiled game than to solve all emulation challenges and edge cases
Did you know about this previously? Then why did you lie previously claiming there have been no escapes?

If you did not know about this previously, then why should I believe someone who boldly asserted that a system was "virtually impossible to break", despite the fact that your average developer would laugh at the idea such a thing exists, and was then trivially proven to have no idea what they were talking about, but has now backpedaled to a different stance after some hasty research?

For that matter, even if I take your statements at face value, why would a design goal have any impact on the security of a system. Those are called goals, you can fail to reach them. You need to present verification and audits that the goals were achieved. Given that you literally can not name a single other piece of software that has achieved the goal of "virtually impossible to break" (except by absence of evidence), you can not just assume such a goal is achieved.

Given that we are talking about press organizations that are regularly attacked by state actors, "virtually impossible" in this context means it needs to be proof against state actors. So please present literally anybody who claims that state actors such as the NSA can not breach a Qubes system, then you can present their evidence. I am certain not even Joanna would make such a ridiculous claim and would shoot down anybody on the development team who tried to make such a claim. There is a reason their tagline is "A Reasonably Secure Operating System", not a "Virtually Impossible to Break Operating System". They know it is not proof against state actors and they have the honesty to say that unlike the snake oil peddlers commonly seen in cybersecurity.
i especially liked when she pointed out how treating women differently by creating exclusive positions or programs just reinforces the prejudice that women are less capable than men
The version it downloads isn't the version on the disk. The disc version is compiled for the Xbox 360, not the One/Series.
The idea of business leadership is to minimize losses, not provide a public service.
Nope. Not even remotely.

Now that we know what we're looking for we've found evidence from the 1800s for aphantasia. And at rates that look consistent with modern rates. Galton famously asked about this but almost no one follows up on it seriously.
What if they pass the joining process but then later sneak something in that goes undetected until things go boom? There are alternatives, you can fork the original project, and things will go on. As others have said too, you can just update the underlying software and there's a good chance that the wrapper itself will continue functioning, providing there are no giant breaking changes and by that point, a fork or alternative will likely have handled it.
Wasn't this already discussed here yesterday? The main criticism of the article is that they didn't write a database, they wrote an append-only log system with limited query capabilities. Which is fine. But it's not a "database" in the sense that someone would understand when reading the title.