skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is having your frontend hook directly into to your database without a backend a standard? I almost exclusively saw it in locked in BaaS platforms over the years (like Firebase)

I've barely even seen PostgREST offered managed: is even one managed Postgres provider with the right combination of PostgREST and go-true to let you move over today?

Edit: I also don't get why this is such a point of contention...

Since when is BaaS not just a trade off between initial velocity and later stage lock-in? The former is not worthless, but like most tools you should understand the tradeoffs involved
We've been getting a lot of interest and traction from SMBs, especially in the 50-200 person company range. What we're finding is that the strongest benefit to them isn't even the upgradeability (which they do like), but the reduction in employee downtime from being able to swap a part on the spot and get the employee up and running again.
The 5 Principles: I think it is worth watching the original Everyday Astronaut (which evannex.com cites). Here is Musk listing and explaining each: https://youtu.be/t705r8ICkRw?t=800

Text article: https://everydayastronaut.com/starbase-tour-and-interview-wi...

Sample story told:

And I asked the, the battery safety team, 'cause I was like, what are these mats for?
I said are they for fire protection or something? They said, "No, they are for noise and vibration. "So you don't get that." And I said, "But you're the battery department."
And I asked a NVA noise vibration analysis team, what's it for, they said fire safety.
So literally it was like being in a Goldberg cartoon. It was like actually, I feel like I'm in a Goldberg cartoon quite frequently.
Clearly in the before times, prior to the madness setting in.
>Yeah, I wonder how the EU will deal with people who use that law to hide evidence of their misdeeds...

Here in the US, we elect them to public office.
When I read the first sentence

> The other day this snippet of Typescript generated by Github copilot was floating around

I was wondering, did that happen on Twitter/X?

And I was not disappointed. That is the place where these people discuss things and take it for granted. Apparently, if you are not using Twitter, you are not part of the conversation.
We're targeting ads here, not heads.
One of the instinctive things was to tap the pedal to “unstick” it, but if you’re decelerating that can cause issues, especially if it doesn’t work.

That's not unintended acceleration, that's a sticky throttle cable that needed to be replaced. Or possibly a weak return spring on the throttle mechanism. I'm curious why you didn't take it to a mechanic and get it fixed (any mechanic could have fixed this, not just Toyota techs).
Iunno, the EZ-Pass website looks designed a few decades ago.
It's likely more nuanced than that.

I'm reminded of how I felt it was unfair that the hotword detector for assistants was discussed as "recording", but it's really just parsing a byte stream, never storing it.

Voice ID systems I'm familiar with work on a similar premise.
Also sexual repression and sexism in general. The assumptions about human sexuality made here... I presume the people coming up with this were particularly out of touch. Literally. The idea is really mind boggling ignorant.
You have any per-capita numbers? How about per-square-kilometers?
This was basically my studying strategy throughout my schooling, by preparing perfectly viable cheatsheets. Got everyone suspiciously staring, seeing the sheets on my desk as I reviewed them, only for me to visibly throw them out or put them away right before the exam started.
I certainly did not mean to imply that everyone had good experiences with Jobs. Just that the Apple old guard seems to have more fond recollections of the man than not.
Speaking of storage, why is Gmail still on 15GB, 11 years later, when hard drive capacities went up by at least a factor of 10x?

At least give us 30GB free, 15GB is just obnoxiously low for how much value G data mines from inboxes.
Fun fact: , in C is what ; is in ML.
>Does the Pentagon not have an in-house, 24-hour canteen?

I'm sure they do. But I'm also sure it's not Papa Johns. That garlic sauce is worth a national security incident IMO.
Oh this sounds really interesting, thanks!

Sometimes during my daily meditation practice I use my tinnitus as an object of awareness, like you would with your breath, which, coincidentally, I did this morning. There's so many more frequencies and changes going on when you meditate with it, including tones that definitely only arise when you're practicing with it. I find it helps and I'm definitely going to try it with your visualization.
"No Man's Land" by Ning Hao
imdb.com/title/tt1456660

This one was an unexpected surprise!
Hm well there just isn't a simple way to do it? Your equivalent options are

- Record of functions

- mtl classes

- extensible effects

- other weird hand-rolled things

I work in a normal boring "ReaderT IO" backend-y codebase and it's like pulling teeth to write neat code against interfaces. Doubly so to get less experienced Haskellers to do it.

Tbh if we used proper extensible effects (any of them), that would qualify and accomplish what I'm talking about. But even seasoned "simple" Haskellers push back on that for being to "fancy."
FWIW, AMQP is the same protocol as RabbitMQ- there's a library for pretty much every language/ecosystem.
It would be more impressive if I understood how big of a change this actually was. There's very little context in this post.

What was the previous filesystem, and how different was APFS?

If they both operated on the same core principles or underlying code, then the migration might have been trivial. Is it just a new "skin" on the prior FS?

If it's a radically new filesystem based on all new concepts, then that's a much bigger feat of engineering.

What did this new FS accomplish? Was it faster? More reliable? Easier to work with? Added functionality?
Don't they already scam people by duplicating government websites?
Near-duplicate detection critical for RAG apps at scale
Would love to see this!

Are you able to handle branching as well?
It mostly suggests large spikes in usage, no? Which does not seem very surprising.
That's why the writing style was so stuffy and stolid. The best writers are drunks, drug addicts, and dilettantes.
They’ll need a lotta pizza to eat their way out of their current situation.
Wyden needs to filibuster this. Come on obstruction babeh.
blinding flash of the obvious: In "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier" series, Sam struggles with not being able to get financing for a loan as well as not really getting paid for being an Avenger. In hindsight, I wonder if the writers were using that as an allegory for "the hero tax".
After seeing so many failed file system projects at vmware, I was pretty skeptical when I first heard about APFS. The fact it succeeded with so little noise just blew me away. It proves apples has the best system engineers in the world today.
Madoff is the obvious example
Or simply that traffic is uneven. Like the Spot instances of EC2.
There is no way to anonymize transcripts where I and others refer to me by name and reference uniquely identifiable information. What happens when the AI provider is served with a warrant or subpoena for transcripts mentioning MacsHeadroom in the 30 day window?

Your "anonymization" does nothing. You have major egg on your face right now.

The only remotely anonymous version of a service like this involves a private LLM endpoint.

I have Mixtral 8x22B and CommandR+ running on my home LLM sever. How can I use Limitless without handing my "anonymized" (but NOT actually anonymized in any way shape or form) PII over to a third party who retains it for at least 30 days (or longer if someone with a badge or gavel asks)?
You probably need to adjust the time scale of what "recent" means based on the number of reviews.

If a project has a total of 10 reviews, it's probably best to not just take the average of the 2 newest reviews.
On the other hand, if a project gets dozens of reviews a month, taking of the last two months or so would totally make sense.
Despite the name, and the leading sentence ("I am on a mission to scan all the ray-finned fishes in the world.") they do not actually intend to scan all the fishes. They settle for merely scanning a single individual from every known ray-finned species. I guess we can leave the real project to Bowerick Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged after he has finished insulting everyone in alphabetical order.

Joking aside it sounds like the way they go about the project is that they load multiple specimens in the CT scanner at a time by forming a "burrito" using the fishes and cheese cloth. Quite smart. Their procedure description is full of practical advice such as "sometimes eels fit best wrapped around the whole burrito." and "You must ensure absolutely no liquids will leak out of your canister", and "Do not force fish into the cylinder, you will break fins and/or deform the animal."

Sadly they don't have a Mola tecta scan yet. :)
It's pretty much always better to not get into a war than to win a war.
On a small team I was doing ~65% of the total number of tickets and not just the easy ones.

Then one of the other people on the team, one of the lowest performers, got promoted over me and I lost it. Apparently the CIO wasn't looking at the metrics.

He made sure I got a raise and got slotted in for the next available promotion, which was only a few months away.

Then the company that was contracting us early termed their contract, and they only asked me to stay to build a new team, based on the CIO's recommendation. Metrics are a pain but they can also be a life saver.
Have you tried hearing aids? I went to an audiologist a week ago and found that I have mild hearing loss in higher frequencies and as a result certain letter combinations are hard for me to hear. She told me hearing aids might help. I get a 30 day free trial, so the only thing I have to lose is the time to get them and get them dialed in.

The audiologist also gave me a copy of the audiogram. In the health app I used the camera to scan it and it adjusted the frequency output on my ear buds to compensate for some of my hearing loss.
to me it seems more like one of those things that an office boss does to make a situation less shitty.

"We're all pulling over-time, so I brought all 12 of us 2 large pizzas. Please, hold the applause."
probably test their migrator for multiple months on hundreds or thousands of testing devices

If I remember right, it was said at the time that they had included the migrator code in one or more of the releases before the one in which they actually did the migration. They ran it during those upgrades in a "do as much of the migration as we can without actually committing the changes" mode so that encountered errors could be reported back. So they had most of it tested on millions of devices.
Behind each request made to OpenAI is a staggering amount of GPU computation. If the price of the queue request is even a hundred thousandth of the overall price of a single request I'd be stunned. There is no message queue scaling issue here. Message queue scaling issues arise when you are blasting around a lot of messages, but each of them take minimal resources on an individual basis to service, so it's feasible for the queue itself to be the bottleneck. I wouldn't be surprised a single Raspberry Pi could handle the entire queuing load here, and if it couldn't it's not off by a very large factor, because the GPU resources behind what it would take to service a full RPi's queuing capacity would be staggeringly enormous, I think well beyond what OpenAI actually has.
Hey it's nice that you found this post and replied! You shouldn't have any regrets indeed, and I guess that style has its place for a "filler" article, even though calling it a filler is not so nice...

Make it a rant about the editors—if they had been your "mistakes" they should have corrected you, and I am happy to learn that they weren't yours in the first place.
I like the idea of looking up a given project and seeing a list of other projects by the same contributors across all the various hubs. That's a big use case for IMDB for me... _"wow, what an actor/director/writer; I wonder what else they've done I should see"_

I also like the idea of consolidating all the "awesome*" lists, which have been very useful for me for discovering software.

But I also like the idea of automated rankings, especially if it can avoid being clogged with clickbait, astroturf, and SEO like some popular software comparison type sites I can think of.

So I guess what you're considering might be kind of a list engine. Build a big meta-database, then provide both curated lists (top rankings, contributor lists, etc.), and user-generated lists.

I think I'd check out such a site
good. the poor needs better mental health
> These discussions are starting to worry me. There isn't much point to talking about the climate until we can start looking at this issue as a matter of "how do we increase human flourishing," which should be a universal goal for all of us.

Whatever you do, do not mention that the US Military & MIC is the #1 producer of CO2. And do not suggest that we reduce the CO2 emissions of the US military & MIC. It will make the people here angry. We can tolerate a little bit of talk about private jets flying into Davos. With each per capita attendee using the CO2 of >1000 people * years. So they can talk about "saving the planet". But not too much.

Rules for thee but not for me. Own nothing & be happy. Do not forget that.
The previous FS was HFS+ and APFS is quite different IIRC
Rammstein - Mann gegen Mann comes to mind. Let's have it directed by Tarantino.
Yeah. That's an oops on my part. The "first paragraph" isn't part of the article text. It's styled as a quote, summary, or caption. Safari's reader view displays it as such. (Gray sub-heading) I tend to skip those because they are often misleading.
The article references a tweet about an accelerator pedal problem. It doesn't specifically say what the issue is, but I think it's referring to the issue where the decorative plate on the top of the pedal can come off and cause the pedal to jam in the fully depressed position.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/04/tesla-stops-cybertruck-...
If I'm doing handheld cuts I'm not holding out that much hope for precision anyway.
"Who are you trying to fool, Mr. Lipwig?"

"Me, i think. I've fallen into good ways. I keep thinking I can give it up any time I like, but I don't. But I know if I /couldn't/ give it up any time I liked, I wouldn't go on doing it. Er. There is another reason, too --"

"And that is -- ?"

"I'm not Reacher Gilt. That's sort of important. Some people might say there's not a lot of difference, but I can see it from where I stand and it's there.

It's like a golem not being a hammer."
If the win is easy, why is the Pentagon worried and why is Bibi trying to sucker us into this conflict?
Quoting from their website:

“This fusion process, like an afterburner in a jet engine, transforms boron into high-energy carbon, which rapidly decays into three alpha particles. The result? A remarkable 50% improvement in thrust compared to our FireStar™ Foundation thruster.”

“We've witnessed fusion reactions occur in our lab and the result is a 50% jump in thrust performance”
I don't think that's right. There is an optimal batch size, and this allows them to just keep everything optimal or close to it for as much time as possible. I'd bet every single minute they miss chances to run things optimally because they need to hit some latency number, and this enables them to not have to make that trade off.
How do you plan on cracking down on publicly-available data?
> The Netherlands famously has more bicycle thefts per year than citizens.

No, it definitely does not!

750k bike thefts for 17.7m people. So roughly one per 25 people...

It famously has more bicycles than people!
Mr. Pony works at X now. Poor guy.

"He was the company's chief engineer. He'd come with the company, and had hung on because at 58, with twinges in your knuckles, a sick wife, and a bad back, you think twice about grand gestures such as storming out."
As best as I can tell, this is someone who's speed-run something like nand2tetris and an intro-to-EDA-tools tutorial, and is now trying to move into GPUs and is somehow distraught about how hard it is to make that conceptual leap. And this was picked up by a reporter trying to make a quick article who doesn't fully understand what he is reporting on and thinks it's something more impressive than it really is.

To be clear: I think that a decently motivated person can go from "0 knowledge" to a toy implementation of a CPU in a digital logic simulator in something like 20 hours of focus or so (especially if the digital logic simulator gives you prebuilt components for things like adders and memory). I've never done digital design for circuits before, but I imagine it's a similar level of difficulty.

From parsing the Twitter user's comments, the GPU confusion seems to be the Twitter user skipping any attempt to learn advanced computer architecture because he thinks it's not on the critical path to building a GPU and doesn't realize that the information he's struggling to find is really just computer architecture 301.
A D&D actual play show is going to sell out Madison Square Garden
Most defense industry contracts are awarded to the low bidder, so contractors underbid just to continue operating. But then that leaves them without sufficient revenue to pay market rate wages to employees with the specialized skills to deliver on the contracts. Most defense companies still manage to muddle through somehow but it's messy.
It's only a restriction to the "that being said" clause; it does not affect the GPL possibility.
Not really. It could be they have massive traffic during US daytime hours, which is not evenly matched by traffic from the rest of the world during US night times, so they'll just run this batch during US night time and hence the 24 hour period.
Totally. There are other explanations (like wanting to offer a discount), but my mind initally went to "they have a lot of provisioned compute that they pre-paid for, and they want higher-utilization when API request rates are low."

Just hypothesizing.
The acquisition of Oriole is very interesting. Getting that to a GA product would be a game changer for a lot of workloads.
If I knew it would work, that would be the easiest $4k I've ever spent.
Mine also has a physical button, but it only triggers a single wipe. My workflow is usually press physical button, then touch the manual setting on the touchscreen to continuously operate.
but you didn't follow directions?

you would start with 0 (pointing at nothing)
Architecture doesn't matter for general speed across all tasks. People have been saying this for a while, and you now see this play out in real life, where single core performance is pretty much equivalent across top of the line processors.

The benefit of going to ARM is reduced power use for tasks that are predictable. Apple silicon is basically chips optimized for general use case of Macbooks (typing text, web browsing, video content). For things like gaming or other intensive tasks that require a lot more branching, the efficiency drops. It still edges out a little bit because the compilers do end up optimizing parts of the programs a bit, but then again, because of Rices theorem, this is never a guarantee across all things and compatibility can be an issue.

As far as OS go, Windows is the best all in one if you have a good desktop. You get WSL2 which works well for all dev stuff, you get better monitor support, and you get access to software that is only available for Windows.

For laptop, its hard to beat a lightweight linux distro with i3wm once you get used to it.
LogJam – side by side logs and screen recording debugger
The other day I was testing out an input form with an autocomplete which led me to this group

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Solutions_for_Winning...

which was run by politician Newt Gingrich which he had let go bankrupt and get evicted from its offices in 2011 so he could run for president in 2012 and I must say it boggles my mind that he didn't think this would have an effect on "do I trust this guy to be President?" or even "do I want to donate to his campaign?"
Basically idea came from frustration to figure out how parts of the production app are not working logically correctly only when in specific environments.
Adding logs has certainly helped but getting screen recording and going trough 10MB+ logs isn't really most pleasant experience. That's why I created LogJam , which allows for Side by Side Logs and Screen recording viewing. You can try it for FREE, no hidden costs, it's simple app that lets you import .txt file and process it to match timestamp in your screen recording.

App uses Regex to figure out what part is timestamp what is actual content of your logs. You can even write your own Regex to match with your usage. App was written entirely in SwiftUI.
Tables-for-layout the whole way down! (https://www.e-zpassny.com/en/home/index.shtml)
I really, really wish authors used a bit more margin/padding on their websites. "Simple" doesn't have to mean unreadable. A small black text on white background stretching across a full 27" 1440p monitor is pretty brutal to read.
Yeah, that's another good explanation.
They have a whole food court inside.
I've been pretty happy with my AMD Framework 13. There's been a couple of hiccups, but things have mostly worked well and I've gotten help, or at least explanations from the community forums for most issues I've hit. (Help getting the wifi working reliably in linux, an explanation for why the top of the touchpad isn't clickable, a workaround for charger incompatibility, etc.)

It sounds like the wifi issue has now been fixed upstream, and apparently the BIOS beta they just released improves charger compatibility.

So not perfect, but good and improving. I bought this thing to last a while, and I think they're on the right trajectory for that.
It hits a little different with a $100,000 road missile vs a phone.
Limitless is encrypting at rest, not using end-to-end encryption.

E2EE suggests that only the user (or at least only people the user knows about in the case of e.g. group chats) is able to see/access the decrypted data, which is false. Limitless does not decrypt data on the client using a key only the user has access to, it decrypts the data on the server (in this case using AWS KMS) and sends it to the client. Even if we remove just decrypting everyone’s data out of the equation using AWS KMS (since the user does not control the key), you could trivially write a Cloudflare Worker (since you use Cloudflare on your API subdomain) that simply sends the (unencrypted) API response along with the email from the Supabase JWT used in the header to a server that accumulates everyone’s recording names, transcripts, generated notes and generated summaries. If someone gained access to your Cloudflare account they could also do this. You’re advertising Limitless as if you aren’t able to see people’s transcripts even if you wanted to, which is false. Even your employer can if they TLS MitM you with their own TLS certificates, which is not rare. On the other hand, Signal cannot see your data unless they modify client code, nor can your employer unless they install a modified Signal client on your device or install spyware on your device, which is reading decrypted data from memory. This is what separates encrypting at rest and E2EE (which you say your solution is just as secure as and is better than) for the end user and it feels like false advertising. Limitless, your employer and a potential hacker can all read your data, at the minimum while you’re using Limitless.
Your worldview seems to be very small. I would not count your personal experiences with any gravity.