skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, at about half the rate a mortgage on this place would cost.

I put those savings into investments that aren’t stored outside.
I find that highly unlikely. Maybe in specific markets but not US wide.
"Continue choosing to sunset"? A large amount of projects does not sunset, it gets passed on instead.
Looks like a slight modification of FActScore [1], but instead of using Wikipedia as a verification source, they use Google Search. They also claim to include a wider range of topics. That said, FActScore allows you to use whatever knowledge source and topics you want [2].

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14251

[2]: https://github.com/shmsw25/FActScore?tab=readme-ov-file#to-u...
I actually disagree with you here. There are costs above and beyond the engineer's effect on the balance sheet. There's the partial salary of management to manage them, plus asking them to document their work and train others so that the database won't have a bus factor of 1. So in well-run engineering departments, there's no such thing as paying for a "single" engineering salary. You have teams; a team maintains the system and it has a pre-existing workload.

A large part of the value of popular platforms is precisely that they are not bespoke. You can hire engineers with MySQL/Postgres experience. You cannot hire engineers who already have experience with your bespoke systems.
There are app-only banks too. Some of them provide a web interface, but it depends on the app to sign you into the web interface (similar to the way whatsapp requires you to use the app to sign into whatsapp web).

What happens when you primary bank has been one of these app-only banks for the last 5 years, and you decide to make a technology change to your phone, and can now no longer get into your banking app?
Greed isn’t the problem. All companies and organizations in general are greedy for more resources and greater responsibility.

Boeing is guilty of lack of foresight, lack of technical proficiency, lack of engineering culture. The problem is stupidity. Incompetence. Putting powerpoint monkeys and financial finanglers in charge and relegating the problem-solvers to the lower reaches of the pyramid.
I really like what MS is doing with the Series S/X. I don't play video games all that much but when I do, I like turning on games that make me nostalgic for when I was a kid. So far I've bought a number of older games off the Xbox store and for games that aren't available I run the Xbox in dev mode and run a PS2 emulator.

I'm particularly impressed with XBSX2 and PCSX2, I have an OG PS2 (fat one) but I seldomly use it because when you plug it into a big screen TV the graphics are all out of whack because it was designed with older "fat" TV's in mind. The emulators though allow you to upscale graphics which makes them so much more playable on a large screen TV. Granted there are bugs and various issues you have to get over and setting up the entire system can be a little challenging and time consuming but it's hard to complain.

And overall I think the Series S is one of the best bangs for your buck in the game console space, at $299, it's much cheaper than even the PS5 digital edition that comes in at $450. Though I bought mine back during the "PS5 Crunch" where the only PS5's you could find online were all resellers that marked them up 1.5-2X the original price, so $299 versus $600-700 was a great deal.
Our journey through backwards compatibility in GraphQL at Jam
You also need a generous and patient investor. ;-)

It's being done. There are people who are researching novel ergonomics and designs for instruments. I don't know of one working on the violin specifically, but certainly viola and double bass. Here's one:

https://uptonbass.com/shop/upton-bass-ergo-double-bass-by-ae...

And in the world of double basses, there's enough variation that players do choose basses that fit their bodies. For instance my bass has sloping shoulders that probably affect tone and volume, but that allow me to play with better posture. And designs have changed over the past few centuries. Older basses with super long necks get shortened.

I've also read about a piano professor who's researching pianos with narrower keys, for players with smaller hands, and has discovered that even players with big hands prefer it, who'd-a guessed?

Given the fact that a player has to adapt their technique without taking themselves out of competition for gigs, or getting injured, before even finding out if something is an improvement, maybe a realistic rate of change is pretty close to the actual rate of change.

Different materials are being explored. There have already been start-ups making carbon fiber double basses.

I'm both a musician and a technologist, but I have to admit that I separate those two activities for the most part. I do technology all day, and playing music is my escape from ... user interfaces. Many musicians arrive at the point where they say: Time to stop chasing gear, and start playing music.
Is there an accompanying paper out there?
Cybersecurity Is Broken
Hmm I suppose wifi can be augmented with some kind of connected nas. Still mess no?
I've no doubt this is true, however, anyone I've ever met who exclaimed "let's create our own database" would be viewed as dangerous, unprofessional or downright uneducated in any business meeting. There's just too much can go badly wrong, for all the sunk cost in getting anything up and running.
I use Teams every day and I know exactly how much its search sucks. I am very familiar with how Microsoft doesn't innovate, does not have a history of innovation, and only copies competitors' successful products and features. Unless you were born yesterday you should too.
Thanks, very interesting. Those samples sound like total gibberish to me. I'm a native english speaker, and if I really concentrate, I can sometimes pick out a word or two, maybe a phrase with the written text right there too. Maybe I could get to understanding speech that fast if I worked my way up to it.
It would be interesting to see a database built from the ground up for being trivial to maintain.

I use managed databases, but is there really that much to do for maintaining a database? The host requires some level of maintenance - changing disks, updating the host operating system, failover during downtime for machine repair, etc. if you use a database built for failover I imagine much of this doesn’t actually affect the operations that much assuming you slightly over provision.

For a database alone I think the work needed to maintain is greatly exaggerated. That being said I still think it’s more than using a managed database, which is why my company still does so.

In this case though, an append log seems pretty simple imo. Better to self host.
I get a message that the device is not secure but I can still make transfers and such from the banking app on a rooted OP9Pro.
Never tried to use NFC payments though.
There is a sort of confusion when people read about aphantasia, they tend to imagine (pun intended) that most people have vivid pictures when they close their eyes, coming to conclusion that they must have aphantasia, because it isn't what happens with them.

But normally, you won't actually see anything with your eyes closed, otherwise it would be a "closed-eye visual" (CEV) which is you only experience when you do hallucinogenic drugs (shrooms, LSD)!

Nonetheless, most people can "visualize" when they imagine objects, people's faces, places from memory — but it is totally not like AR (i.e. actually overlaying images on top of light perception). Nope, it feels more like you see it with some mysterious "mind's eye", disconnected from real eyes. It is very faint and tacit, like you're perceiving a very abstract high-level representation of an object, instead of seeing actual "pixels". And it doesn't require having eyes closed, people often can do it as easily with their eyes open, as it doesn't interfere with the normal vision at all.
> I've been giving less and less attention to PiVPN, and the desire to keep up with it is no longer what it once was.

I wonder if financial/monetary incentive would change this. I don't think it would personally (because putting a value on your free time/mental load/time you can spend with your loved ones doing something else away from the PC is precious)

On the flip side... $500/mo? $1k/mo? $5k/mo? I'm sure most projects that go "defunct" open-source-free-no-financial-incentive-thanklessly-help-build-something could probably find "motivated maintainers" for $3k/mo on average? Internationally?

Is the "capitalist" answer "this repo and all of its efforts are not worth $3k/mo to the open market"?
No one said they were wrong, they just lobbed a grenade to end the conversation.
What if there's no joining process, and they contact a maintainer directly, and peer pressure them to hand over the project, and the maintainer does, and then they sneak a backdoor in some binary test files?
And the farcical doom spiral of tech continues.
Image models support merging already. There exists thousands of StableDiffusion models for that reason only. Downside is that almost all models you see are now inbred. Community does talk about it and can see the effect this is having on the image quality. A prominent example is you will see the exact same japanese kind of girl face from almost all models out there when you generate image of a woman. Check out Civitai to see what I am talking about. It's not easy to train new models but super easy to merge.

We can expect an explosion of LLMs using this technique similarly. And later at some point the degradation of quality perhaps. Or may be all those LLMs will be just saying the same things at that point.
For my banks the only fallback is a hardware device that you put your card into. Before the app you had to carry this everywhere when traveling to do online banking.
Aren't you the author of "Remote Job Roadmap" and thus an expert in this field? (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39857838)
Do you recall the name of the software? I am aware only of PhoSim (https://www.phosim.org/)
Yeah and for most companies without a huge supply of developers the financial risk of having all your stuff blitzed when your home spun solution fails.
It seems that Aphantasia does not globally bin into two groups, since I don't fit in either.

By my rough count of Figure 2 tests, where Derek is at 0 to Loren at 6 (ignoring F), I have about 3.5 atypical responses.

My experience with Figure 2:

A) I can flip between cone and weird triangle, saw the cone first

B) I see it as if someone placed identical cat stickers on the drawing. I can intellectually understand the perspective, how the upper-right one is supposed to be bigger, but don't experience it that way.

C) I see that there is an implicit rectangle (to me it looks slightly wider than tall). But the color doesn't "spread" to the middle, it's just like 2A -- a boundary in the surrounding shapes implicitly extends into the empty space to form a rectangle shape.

D) It takes minimal, but non-zero effort to see the vase

E) It's trivial to flip between the two orientations of the cube

F) skipped

G) I don't understand what I'm looking for here. I see clouds, sky, and a silhouette with a tree. Is there a face in it somewhere? I can see the smiley face on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia
Asteraceae is a spectacularly successful and very complicate family to classify the same time. Very easy to spot at family level, but a lot of tribes and a nightmare of details at species level

The (real) flowers are "trumpet" like, thin and long ended in a small star, but the extreme of this trumpet can be arranged in several ways, as the article explains. It seems that this shape evolved several times in the (28000 yet?) species known. The success of is family as plants can be compared with 'beetle' level of success on animals.
The LLM is used to power an interface that allows users to easily query and consume insights. It’s not what generates the insights.

* I’ve been working on the UI/UX of RAFA. Any feedback would be welcome.
I don't know what geospatial features are needed, but otherwise time series databases are great for this use case.

I especially like Clickhouse, it's generic but also a powerhouse that handles most things you throw at it, handles huge write volumes (with sufficient batching), supports horizontal scaling, and offloading long-term storage to S3 for much smaller disk requirements.
The geo features in clickhouse are pretty basic, but it does have some builtin geo datatypes and functions for eg calculating the distance.
From the OP:

Memory Management

eC already takes care of many aspects of memory management through reference counting. However, it does not automatically manage [memory] allocated with the new operator, which must be manually freed with the delete operator. Furthermore, to avoid the overhead and recognizing the limits of reference counting, reference count increments and decrements is left to the user, except for the initial construction (at instantiation) and destruction of the object (when it goes out of scope). At the moment this automatic behavior is also limited to global and member instances, other instances currently start with a 0 reference count and must be manually destroyed with delete.

[edited]

This is definitely a weak point in the language.
Use ollama and browse the available models, download some, and try them out. Ollama is a llama.cpp front end.

https://ollama.ai
“And on the pedestal, these words appear:
I am Jordan Mechner, Game Designer of Game Designers,
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

Never bet against the sands of time… but more power to him.
Well presumably they need only 1/3 of a developer to do this and they intend to scale up 10x in the next 5 years.

$60,000 per year in-house vs $1,200,000 per year aurora. No brainer really.
That's not what they meant at all, don't be obtuse. The community exists around the project (in this case the repo and associated website etc). If you fork it then you have to hope that the community follows you to your fork and that then everyone coalesces around it. This isn't guaranteed to work though, so passing the existing project onto a new maintainer is a much better way of retaining the existing community. That is what was meant when talking about the community.
Whatever you think of the cars, the work culture, or of Elon, Tesla is the most prestigious EV brand in the world right now. They are the "reference" for the industry.

Tesla on your resume (versus, say, GM) is far more likely to get you an interview at another company than get you auto-rejected.

Plus ... imagine the stories!
I can't believe some people here are criticizing MS. I got a Series X and digital games I had bought almost 20 years ago on the very first iteration of the XBOX Digital Store simply worked with no extra fees. I don't know anyone else delivering this kind of backwards compatibility.
Depends on their meaning of a "database"
Yes, insurance companies should sometimes lose money on business that they expected to be profitable. But they shouldn’t be writing business that they expect to be unprofitable a priori. Many states and lines of business are firmly in the second category right now due to overzealous insurance regulators.
> The cost of 120,000/year for Aurora seems like it would be less than the cost of development/organization time for the custom database

Only if they planned on hiring someone just to develop this new database and if they switch to Aurora they’d let them go immediately. If the said developer was already costing them $250k to maintain and develop the application and work on top of Aurora cost seems like a good way to save $100k/year.
A Theory of Composing Protocols (2023)
How thin is “thin”? If I build a chat app on top of Redis, is it safe? There’s a tutorial on the Redis website: https://developer.redis.com/howtos/chatapp/ — is it a sign that it’s too simple to be distinct?

Or I can just migrate my app to Valkey and be sure I’m safe from lawyers.
When you reject GrapheneOS, the most secure mobile OS on the planet but accept a no-name chinese ROM I feel like that you can't invoke security reasons anymore.
This is so bizarre. We're in the middle of a global state of emergency, and people aren't supposed to protest, because they'd slightly inconvenience local residents who wanted to go to the beach.
One time when I was a kid, I rode with my dad while he gave a blind guy from our local Linux users group a ride home. With the windows rolled down and an occasional question, he gave us turn-by-turn directions to his house, based on the map he had in his head of the route between the venue and his house, plus the way traffic sounded as it echoed off of various key buildings and streets that were landmarks for him.
Per mac dhcp probably works. Also, per mac pxe config... I have pxe for general use that is just a menu, but for my test machine autoboots my hobby os.
I guess it could still use the assets on the disk, in theory.
How well does HN reflect the market segment for this type of product?

Keeping in mind that for many people who write comments on HN, commenting is the allure of HN...e.g. this comment, what channels will work to create awareness among likely buyers.

Good luck.
I feel like the word "database" is throwing people off because they're comparing it with something like MySql/Postgres, when this seems slightly more complex than a k/v store stored to a file, with some other indexing, where data integrity is a low priority. That shouldn't take too much time and should be fairly isolated on the tech side so little involvement from product/project managers.
Both KDE and GNOME have improved dramatically over the years in stability and user-friendliness. The leap from KDE Plasma 5 to 6 was massive and brought proper DPI scaling to all displays for both X11 and Wayland applications, on par with what Windows offers.
Would building a data lakehouse be an option?

Stream the events to s3 stored as Parquet or Avro files, maybe in Iceberg format.

And then use Trino/Athena to do the long term heavy lifting. Or for on-demand use cases.

Then only push what you actually need live to a
Aurora.
Bought an xbone recently for a few titles, all my old Xbox games work. Nothing more to add.
Summary: Fine tune a foundation model for a task. How did all weights change? That's called the "parameter delta." These changes are highly redundant. You can carefully (use DARE to) revert like 80% of them, yet maintain fine-tuned task accuracy! But only if the tuned weights didn't shift much. Otherwise DARE fails. Maybe you can make an LM polymath by melting together many fine-tunes of some base model. No GPU needed.
Ideally my goal is a mix of 2 and 3. I think agents are quite interesting, but maybe something I’d look at later.
As others had mentioned, probably hosting your own clickhouse instance could yield major savings while allowing for much more flexibility in the future for querying data. If your use case can be served by what clickhouse offers, gosh is it an incredibly fast and reliable open source solution that you can host yourself.
> At the same time, SAFE is more than 20 times cheaper than human annotators.> LLMs have achieved superhuman performance on reason- ing benchmarks (Bubeck et al., 2023; Gemini Team, 2023; Li et al., 2022) and higher factuality than humans on sum- marization tasks (Pu et al., 2023). The use of human annota- tors, however, is still prevalent in language-model research, which often creates a bottleneck due to human annotators’ high cost and variance in both evaluation speed and qual- ity. Because of this mismatch, we investigate how SAFE compares to human annotations and whether it can replace human raters in evaluating long-form factuality.

I am not an expert in this research but this seems like this is just a slippery slope all in the pursuit of cost, first and foremost.

Given that the summary focuses on cost and this paragraph mentions cost as the first point, it sure seems like these folks only goal goal is to just take humans out of the mix entirely when it comes to facts.

Is this a good idea? I am not sure.
Why isn’t that a database? In my understanding a DB needs to be able to store structured data and retrieve it, so not sure what’s missing here? Many modern DBs are effectively append only logs with compaction and some indexing on top as well as a query engine, so personally I don’t think it’s weird to call this a DB.
Ha -- no worries on the snark; Irix probably was a better system in ~1998, as ZFS, DTrace, Zones, SMF, FMA, etc. were all still in the future...
I would imagine, as someone with no special insight into goings-on at Hivekit, that the answer is intended scale.

They mention 13.5k simultaneous connections. The US has 4.2 million tractors alone, just the US, just tractors. If they get 10% of those tractors on the network that's a 30x to their data storage needs. So multiply that across the entire planet, and all the use cases they hope to serve.

Investing time early on so that they can store 50x data-per-dollar is almost certainly time well spent.
MSFT gets a lot of flack, probably rightfully so, but one thing they do do better than most is backwards compatibility
Has it been? I think it's pretty universally believed that he was sentenced despite having committed no crimes and died sinless. He was tried for promoting not paying taxes and was judged to have not done so. There's really no room for other interpretations I can see, but if you can provide some Christian source which interprets that statement (You should return this coin to Caesar, it's his) as saying you shouldn't pay taxes, I'd love to hear it.
Are you saying that he was wrong, and tech workers do have the same work ethic as garbage men, or are you saying that the comparison was inappropriate?

Basically, what was so egregious about the complaint that people shouldn’t listen to him? I didn’t see it, so maybe there’s some context I’m missing.
I disagree - I don't care about most specs, but ASUS Zenfone is still one of the best small phones, especially for the money.
Right, cassandra/scylla model is really good for time series use cases, i’ve yet to see good arguments against them.
niche skills
I will try and read that article later when I can bypass paywall, but googling in the past showed 70 to 90 percent of wild salmon have parasites. Personal experience aligned with this.

I have no doubts farmed can introduce new parasites. But our supply chains have far cleaner animals than people realize. Is a large part of why rarer steaks are safer today.

Edit: I should add it is largely safe to assume farmed has been frozen before you get it as a consumer?
Why should they charge extra fees? You bought it.
The story of "Project Azorian" and the Hughes Glomar Explorer (the ship this crane was first used to construct) is a Wikipedia hole perfectly sized for a Saturday and some coffee. Well worth reading if you haven't before:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Azorian

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomar_Explorer
Build one. Then another. Then another.

Make building them normal not an imaginary exercise.

You don't have to build a good one to learn. Which is good because you probably won't. But no one will care because nobody had to give you permission and nobody is going to give you a grade.

Good luck.
Insurance works on the basis of (a) quantifying risk and (b) charging fairly for the protection. In the long-term, getting better at (a) and consequently, (b), is in everybody’s interest. For far too long, certain risk covers have been under-charged. At the end of the day, difficulty in finding affordable insurance, or any insurance at all, tells you something about the level of risk and the ability of insurers to charge appropriately for it. Regulators are often way behind the curve, to the detriment of insurers and consumers.
House Senate leaders nearing deal on landmark online privacy bill