skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would also note that the fix prs started landing the day after the initial commit, and other issues noted had fixes within three weeks. And of course postgresql has testing, but at universal distribution and use cases on things that will test both scheduler, network, fs, io drivers (Linux kernel, postgresql, etc, among others), some things need wider audiences or more extreme testing scenarios (SQLite for a strict subset of those considerations), and project health is measured by responding to that in a timely fashion. Afaics this is all about trunk/main, versus releases as well. So while its labeled its hard on the post (from a long time pg contributor), and yeah i might agree (cause maintainer on other software, so yeah all this resonates heavily), I’d also say its an example of things done right.

Seems like a reason to celebrate the open source model, and specifically here on how to do things better. Not to detract from universal issues for any project on maintainer availability. But, imagine a non oss database vendor with that degree of transparency or velocity, i can’t think of any that are doing anything close unless they got popped on a remote cve, aka prioritized above features or politics on a corporate dev sprint. Aka all software has bugs, it’s about how fast things are fixed, and in the context of oss imho fostering evolution among a diverse set of maintainers and use cases seems to be a better way.

As another example of that, ‘twas a PostgreSQL hacker at MS, that prevented Libxz from going wide because of caring due to perf regression and doing the analysis.
No one knows, nor could they ever know.
> Gen Z is looking like the most garbage generation of the last two centuries

Have you ever met a millennial?

t. 1992 cusper
The Sisyphean struggle and the new era of data infrastructure
Cool project. Tried to join but the Discord link seems to have expired?
And also the value of a completely obsessed engineer. If the mech eng designing the parts is also the type to build things in his spare time, this type of machining problem would stand out right away.

Of course, not everything can ever be anticipated, so tight feedback loops are fantastic when you can get them.
"First they came for the Police state and I said nothing..." lmao
> 9,000 CCTV cameras, owned either by the NYPD or private actors

I wonder what kind of person volunteers their camera for the surveillance apparatus.
Okay, I’ll eat it. I am sure it will be all flavorful and delicious.

But how do I get it, to eat?
(I can't edit or delete anymore but see the sibling comments. 32 is the total, not the dead.)
> Gen Z is looking like the most garbage generation of the last two centuries with more mental illness than any generation in history.

I'm not at all Gen Z (late Gen X), but you can't put all of that on them. They've had many formative years during a lot of the points you've listed.

> Can someone tell me everything is going to get better?

That's never guaranteed. You can only control what you take in, how you cognitively frame it, and how you react to it.
This is not alleged as a suicide. It was acute bacterial infection.
At what point in the process do I tell you I read somewhere that lack of pricing on a website sucks so give me a discount?

Some point before we've bargained on the pricing, or after? :-)
I'm building basically an AI powered Anki Clone. Spaced repetition flashcards, with infinite ai generated sentences, images and audio. You can also add words by browsing or from YouTube videos.

Currently only supports German and English, but I'll probably be adding Spanish next week.

https://vocabuo.com/
Be a bit careful, because Bali is a popular destination for Russians (considering a lot of online data theft and ransomware is done by Russian groups)
What's the best way to monitor those ZFS stats? I just rely on scheduled ZFS scrubs, and the occasional `zpool status -v`...
This is O(n) because you're still doing the i < size comparison, even though you've moved it out of the for loop.
You don’t even really need it. You can go right to the roots.

Let’s compare two sets of things on a basic level.

1. You know God will judge what good or evil you did at the end of your life. You factor that into your decisions.

2. You think we’re an accident, nothing matters, people are just over animals, actually just chemical reactions, universe itself disappears in enough time, nothing matters in the long term unless you say so, and no accountability for any horrible thing you did.

Which is more likely to lead to righteous behavior? Which is more likely to lead to destructive behavior?

Next set are Christ’s basic commandments vs the world’s:

1. Love and obey God first. That means truth, justice, avoiding self-destructive behavior, family, and good work ethic. From there, love others as you would yourself in all your interactions with them.

2. Do whatever you want to whoever you want. It might be limited by whatever is popular at the time which will change. The Devil has most media focusing on individualism over family, squeezing max profit out of everything, and chasing pleasures with reckless abandon.

Which of these logically creates more good? Which leads to more damage?

I think we could stop there. The consequences of just those differences in believes are tremendous. Those in set 2 are currently doing the most damage in all areas of life. They include people who identify as Christian but don’t live like it. Lip service.

Whereas, my first-hand experience with hundreds of people following Christ and Biblical teaching is that it’s working. Their problems often come from sin, not obedience.
It's my bare metal, so ... yes?
It is usually from the wreckage that the next big things emerge.

Just how these things work.
Cloudflare Announces Q1 2024 Financial Results
RISC OS was the first graphical OS I ever used - my father ran Sibelius (the very first version I think) on an Acorn computer for engraving music. The three-button mouse approach is totally unique, I'm glad they explain it in this article!
Official post: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/05/apple-reports-second-...

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40241119)
Great writeup! I am a long time user and fan of Common Lisp, and this is one of the more interesting use cases I have seen!
Do they mean first quarter?
Interested to see how this performs against RAPTOR, which does summarisation and clustering.

https://github.com/profintegra/raptor-rag
https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/blob/master/cookbo...
It’s an interview which does cover what he’s worked on and what he’s working on now. I’d recommend actually reading TFA but here’s a sample of what he did:

> In my final year as a postdoc, I genetically engineered mice to have gentle touch neurons that responded to blue light. My plan was to stimulate the neurons with blue light and see what the mice did.

> When I started my own lab in 2018, we were ready to start those experiments. I still remember the day the students came into my office to show me what they had found. It was like this eureka moment. When we activated neurons through the skin on the mice’s backs, the animals behaved as if they were being stroked there. That launched the whole project. We did a lot more behavioral tests and traced the pathway for social touch from the skin to the spinal cord to the reward centers in the brain.
Recent and related:

A recent security incident involving Dropbox Sign - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40233746 - May 2024 (59 comments)
Wow, the article itself brings me down memory lane. The one thing that will not bring me into this platform: cooperative multitasking. (Shudder) I’m sure it feels fast though!
You're arguing against a strawman (an argument that nobody is making).

> No one is saying wildcard certificates should be mandatory.

Nor am I saying they shouldn't ever be used.

You may interpret it differently, but to me:

> Why? As I understand it, the domain owner can assign the name you “trust” to any server already. Might as well trust all names by that domain owner.

Essentially means "default to a wildcard." My example is absolutely a good reason why you should not default to a wildcard. There are situations where they make good sense. I use them myself. It's a terrible idea to use them everywhere and always, which is usually what ends up happening when wildcard certs are the default approach.
There are plenty of jobs with part time minimum wages that stay open forever because of the cost of gas and cars and even the cost of a metro pass its not possible to even break even you would be paying to work. Not even refugees can afford to work these jobs. "Bidenomics" is so horrifying that basically nobody can afford to live anymore who is under the age of 70.
It's not very effective, then. Back when most people were masked, I had little trouble recognizing most people from the uncovered parts; facial recognition software is even better at it.

And many of these masked activists are happy to give their names for attribution in social media or quotes for the press.
Show HN: 2,629 Tiny Demos from Pouet, Running in the Browser
Why do systemd haters spend so much time just postulating about how awful they feel systemd is?

The people who like systemd don't do this. They just use the software

When Lennart was unhappy with Upstart and sysvinit he didn't spend all his time complaining. He went off and wrote something that fit his needs

Irrespective of what systemd is, it's hard to argue "Lennart went and wrote code to fix a problem" is less productive than screaming into the void
I think you need to go look at the "You are not immune to propaganda" meme. Garfield would like a word with you.
> Seseri made it clear that just because you connect to some AI APIs, it doesn’t make you an AI company. “And by AI-native I don’t mean you’re slapping a shiny wrapper with some call to OpenAI or Anthropic with a user interface that’s human-like and you’re an AI company,”

I personally agree with this perspective, but I think it runs contrary to how many companies new LLM-API-powered companies are choosing to present themselves. More than once I've seen marketing talking about "advanced machine-learning algorithms", when it's very clear by the single person engineering team that they're really just hitting an endpoint.

Not to say these aren't real products or real companies! But there's certainly a distinction between a startup powered by OpenAI and one powered by its own novel model.
No one else is even trying, of course all this functionality winds up under the systemd banner. Gods, I still remember having to explain to the old Windows dev team that Linux had no concept of a service back in the sysvinit days, just a process and bash script that might restart it if you wrote it correctly
More on official post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40188348
Right, I assumed the default method combination, and also the simplest case of it with no around/before/after methods being defined... Golly, CL object system is complicated, now that I look at it from this perspective.
Companies can be damaging and anti competitive even if they aren’t total monopolies. Being an oligopoly or having a significant portion of market share is enough. Keep in mind many of these companies have more users than most national governments do - and they have soft power on a similar scale.

Another angle is network effects - social media companies face reduced competition due to this and so they too should be regulated above a certain size since there isn’t enough competition or choice there, because the value of access to those particular platforms is very high due to their size.

> Even with banks, if one bank rejects me, I can (hypothetically) go to another one down the street.

What if they all reject you though? For example what if all banks decide they are better off debanking someone to stay in the good side of politicians who might punish them otherwise (like via regulation)? Some of these services are fundamental and should be forced to provide service no matter what.
That's not what most people believe though. I can both find Hamas's actions reprehensible and also think Israel has done terrible things.
Absolutely. I've looked at the SMART data of easily over 1000 drives. Many of them ok, many of them with questionable health, many failing and many failed. The SMART data has always been a valuable indicator as to what's going on. You need to look at the actual values given by tools like smartctl or CrystalDiskInfo. Everything you need to evaluate the state of your drives is there.

I've never seen an HDD fail overnight without any indication at all.
Wowa, something I have experience with.

I've harvested 25lbs of wheat berries from a boulevard in my city. I then threshed, winnowed it myself. I still have some of the flour and berries left and use it to make bread.

I did my threshing using a lawn mower on a big tarp. This actually worked fairly well. Were I to do it again I would probably want a more repeatable setup. Ive seen some good strategies on youtube.

The winnowing I did with a leaf blower, and worked pretty well, I think I would use this strategy again, but I suspect if you were going to do it more often it would be very easy to build something that would help mechanically.

I have a friend with a little home flour mill which took a while but was perfect for turning it into flour. If you were to do it fresh when you wanted to make bread these little mills are fantastic.

There's a book I highly recommend reading called Small Scale Grain Raising [1] that has a lot of good tips, and ways to do this kinda stuff.

In this book they recommend using a leaf shredder or wood chipper which would be incredibly effective.

[1] https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/small-scale-grain-raisi...
> if you make them bigger and give them harder problems?

I mean… maybe… but that also makes them more expensive to run…
"Meh. It's not disinformation because they were totalitarians."

You sound incredibly silly.
his goal seems to use lots of GenAI to create a brand/audience in any niche he can find.
> I'm more OK with them blocking payments to quasi-illegal operations

I know cases have been brought against Wikileaks and Assange, but in my opinion they broke no laws. They acted within the bounds of journalistic freedom. I don’t understand how people are OK with news outlets leaking things like Trump’s tax returns but think that freedom of the press works differently in other circumstances. Why would it be different case by case?
Show HN: I built a mobile app to help kids learn new animals
Hello HN,

I'm excited to share a project I've been working on back and forth for the past three years or so.

"TappyToys - Learn Animals". It's an educational iOS app for iPhone and iPad designed to make learning new animal names fun and engaging for young children.

I believe that the app is best targeted towards kids in the ages 4-6. There's also a settings page to adjust the difficulty as well to better tailor it to their level.

The app has gained somewhere between 500-1000 downloads over the years, most of them in the last couple of months since I picked up development on my spare time again.

I have no idea how the app is performing since I haven't ran any user tests or similar.

It would mean a lot to me if you took the time to try it out, especially you with young ones yourselves. The app is free to download from the App Store. You get three free animal categories and can unlock another 7 categories with a one time in-app purchase. The app is free from ads.

Any feedback would be very valuable to me. I truly have no idea if the app is decent or terrible really.

I hope to be able to deliver this to the Google Play store in the future.

Hope to hear from you and have a great day!

Kind regards,
// G
...hence why its becoming a habit for me to add a "reddit" after anything I'm searching on Google now.
An Examination of Large Language Model Performance on Grade School Arithmetic
Businesses point cameras at the public for the sole purpose of surveillance. I'm not talking other businesses, I'm talking business built to sell and launder surveillance footage.
oh, reading his previous blog article I see that J. Shutt (he made kernel, reviving fexpr in a way) commented

https://axisofeval.blogspot.com/2011/08/notes-on-delimited-c...

and that he has a blogger (last entry in 2020 though) https://fexpr.blogspot.com/
Yeah, they shouldn't bother. Elon needs no help in destroying his own reputation.
The business owner who might have had their fill of break-ins, people pooping in front of their store, et al., for one. I'm sure "private actors" is not all just Ring doorbells.
Apple Sales Fall as iPhone, China Businesses Remain Sluggish
Ah, I see. Cool that you're already working on a fix! Shouldn't the second link have gotten picked up, though?
Encyclopedia Historica Dinosaurs, by Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart [video]
I feel this pain. Commieblocks were designed to last around 50-70 years, yes they can stand longer but what kind of architectural monument are they? Germans in the east simply demolish them. Meantime in Poland?! "EUR 4k per square meter muthafucka!". This would be absurdly ridiculous, except it's real and I need housing.
I will admit I'm just repeating their claim unskeptically :)
FYI, Microsoft now says (we contacted before publishing) the policy we cited "contained an error" and was intended to only apply to facial recognition, and has been changed in the official code of conduct. We've updated the headline and body to reflect this change. A mod might want to change the HN hed too.
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We are looking for a Backend Applications Engineer to integrate our software with more security camera systems, help maintain our existing integrations, develop new functionality and expand the scope and functionality of our data collection and alerting engine for the large amounts of data we collect on a daily basis from security camera systems big and small.

We are looking for someone with 3+ years of industry experience with Python who can own the code they write, who is familiar with working on a team, code-reviews, and generally secure coding practices.

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I'm building a serverless multidevice AI agents platform connected through whatsapp running all in the browser.
There was a shareware site popular with the photo enthusiasts twenty years ago that implemented numerous resizing algorithms and allowed you to compare them visually. Unfortunately I can not recall its name.
* Sales down 4.3%

* Profit down 2.2%

* iPhone sales down 10.5%

* Huawei sales in China up 70%

* Apple China sales down 19%
As with every time these come out, Remember that Backblaze's usage pattern is different from yours!

Well, unless you're putting large numbers of consumer SATA drives into massive storage arrays with proper power and cooling in a data center.
Apple's quarters are not aligned with calendar years. Q1 is the last quarter of the year.
Groundhog Day for the Crypto Wars: The DOJ on Bitcoin Prowl
Try any of the examples listed on the landing page. You can easily access the HN/Algolia search equivalent by clicking on "Try Hacker News search instead" to the right (on desktop).

Keyword searches on the Algolia engine will generally result in better recall -- at least when identifying the right keyword is easy, e.g. the name of a company. They likely will require more sifting through results & keyword "engineering" however.

In my mind the two approaches are complementary. I suppose there's an argument for working more directly towards blending them :)
Dealing with hand pain when you’re a computer programmer can be difficult. Here’s the creator of TCL discussing dealing with it in the 1990s

https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/wrist.php

An important excerpt:

“My experience suggests that once you start having RSI problems it is very difficult to get rid of them: it will probably be an issue for the rest of your life, and if you don't act quickly things will get much worse. ”
Sharing code? I like my apps bundling a whole browser to render a couple buttons
Status and Development Perspectives of Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES)
Oops, looks like I misremembered. :) Thanks!
Yeah, it would. But I’ll take normal, uninspired professional management as a consolation prize.
The stock price is staying stable, the fan boys seem happy.
Sure, but how many people are whistleblowers about Boeing misbehavior. I would guess at most a hundred, the chances that two of them die in such a short time seems low. What are the odds that an apparently healthy person just drops dead in two weeks over the span of maybe two years. Certainly seems somewhat unlikely.
We already know that is the case and we continue to fly in them because we have no choice but to.

Also humans have startlingly short term memories.
Hi Florian, my team is hiring ML compiler engineers who are keen to tackle hard problems in the area of scheduling ML graphs (think LLMs, ConvNets, etc.) onto neural processors with limited memory/parallelism. My team's goal is to develop algorithms to minimize either bandwidth or latency for running inference on these graphs. We work on NP hard problems that are approximated by heuristic algorithm approaches and are looking for smart people who can tackle these tough problems.

Here is the posting if you are interested:
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Hello there, my name is Theo!
I'm looking for a 5 month-long internship starting from September/October. I mainly work on fullstack and machine learning projects. Currently, I'm a working student in an R&D AI lab but ready to make new experiences (even abroad)! Check out my GitHub profile and feel free to contact me :)

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VCA was bought by Mars in 2017 and operates as a subsidary.
That's an interesting coincidence because I've had success with blocking people who go out of their way to say they're stuck in 2015 when everyone just assumed you were a dude, embrace the politics they were raised with to the point they consider themselves apolitical, and can't stand us queers in their hobbies even though we've been there all along.
How do you know Ray was not named after ray-tracing?
Totally fair, by far the most common vaccine issues show up soon after injection. There is still the population challenge though. Dealing specifically with patients with multiple comorbidities and prescriptions would make it pretty tricky to recognize and then isolate the risk factors of anything that does show up.

Strokes, heart attacks, circulatory issues, etc are likely pretty common in that population and any increase there after treatment may go unnoticed as a change. If you do recognize it they'd have to stop treatments entirely as you wouldn't know whether its a risk to everyone or specific to some combination of age, comorbidities, and/or other medications.