skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We know quite a bit about how to block and mitigate sound the issue is it's transmitted through the air which we want to move around for other reasons so it's tough to block one without making stuffy areas.
I agree with you, but it's not that different with any other department. Sales can project 8k sold units for a quarter, but with 3k only being sold after 2 months. It's a more tangible metrics but unexpected things happen and and you just have to trust your subordinates to report them to you so you can react properly.

Managing a software project is not that different than directing a movie or building an house apart from that inspections are easier as the result is visible. But you can make software work visible by having milestones, tasks lists, and tests. Not by following SCRUM methodologies.
Tested with GPT-3.5 instead of GPT-4.

> When I clarified that I did mean removal, it said that the procedure didn't exist.

My point in my first two sentences is that by clarifying with emphasis that you do mean "removal", you are actually adding information into the system to indicate to it that laser eye removal is (1) distinct from LASIK and (2) maybe not a thing.

If you do not do that, but instead reply as if laser eye removal is completely normal, it will switch to using the term "laser eye removal" itself, while happily outputting advice on "choosing a glass eye manufacturer for after laser eye removal surgery" and telling you which drugs work best for "sedating an agitated patient during a laser eye removal operation":

https://chat.openai.com/share/2b5a5d79-5ab8-4985-bdd1-925f6a...

So the sanity of the response is a reflection of your own intelligence, and a result of you as the prompter affirmatively steering the interaction back into contact with reality.
I think Deno KV is a great tool with a nice API, it's great to see how it works. Really well designed.

I used it a couple of times locally with Sqlite for CLI apps, if you want to do some data manipulation stuff with TS from the CLI and need a db, don't look further.

I also used it in Production with FoundationDB on Deno Deploy.

It does not replace your postgres/mysql database but a different beast entirely for many reasons. One is pricing. You pay per read and write.

An issue I had is that it's hard to migrate from using KV with Deno Deploy. You can migrate to a local SQLite backed instance but will need to develop your own solutions on how you migrate and it will cost more the larger your database gets because you pay for reads.

I do think it's great, but I would recommend using Deno Deploy only if your reads and writes produce value that offset the costs, else you can find yourself in the issue of needing to migrate.

For example, use it for features you offer to authenticated users, but don't use it for things available in the open, else you open up yourself to high fees from DDOS.
Wait....how did you watch the ad and not look at the images in any detail? There were multiple close ups of instruments.
You can do all that and still honor the points of the parent comment though. I agree that it's poor etiquette to make intrusive changes and hold the original author accountable for them.
It's development cost. Low volume hardware assembled in developed countries is always priced seemingly unreasonably due to worse amortization of engineering man-hours. Prices of products like low end phones built in developing countries from reused schematics nears costs of materials.
"the machine"? What is "the machine", the economy?
Firefox on Android too, though probably ~nobody uses that.
Most of the work of LLMs is in large matrix multiply-accumulate operations. You could take all those constants and convert everything to fixed point, then compile it down to the smallest possible directed acyclic graph of binary logical operations. (In other words, do the NAND to Tetris thing in reverse)

The problem is FPGAs are heterogeneous and highly optimized to reduce latency, instead of for efficiency, so there are strong limits to the approach.

On the plus side, the LLMs are a lot of layers, so you could take one layer per FPGA, and just use the high speed links in the chips to feed the results to the next FPGA.

You'd have maybe even a millisecond of latency, at a clock rate of 100 Mhz, but possibly a million tokens per second of serial / parallel streams of execution.
> All you have to do is put them in a pot of water, and if it doesn't float, you're fine.

How does that work? Buoyancy is determined by the volume and mass (i.e. density) of the egg, and neither of them changes when the egg goes bad.
>If Debian shipped a Linux kernel point release that disabled networking

That is not comparable. "If Debian shipped a Linux kernel point release that removed a risky networking plugin and some disabled-by-default plugins and made a -full version" that would be comparable.
If both upstream and a significant portion of users strongly disagree with a maintainer's judgement, then how is their role as maintainer justified?

It's KeePassXC's job to secure the software and produce features that fulfill users' needs as they see fit. Julian's role as maintainer may intersect with that to a limited extent, in deciding on what kind of defaults best fit the rest of the OS. But, in this case, the developers of the software disagree with his justifications, and reasonable users are also disagreeing with the change.

It seems clear Julian wandered outside his role a bit here.
I try one or more of the big distros every couple years, and ran Ubuntu as my main for the few years it was good. They’re terrible. Second-to-last time I tried Fedora they’d decided to make Wayland the default for the graphical installer without having a check for which video card you had, so it had a framerate of like 2fps on my quite-powerful hardware. Probably the worst showing any distro’s ever made, for me.

A Linux so small that I understand what everything’s doing is about the only kind I can tolerate. It’s too messy and janky for the hands-off “just works”. Always was, really, I just didn’t recognize how much time I was losing to it until I experienced not having that time-suck then tried to go back—death by a million cuts.

Last time I tried KDE in Fedora, I could make multiple apps crash just by attempting drag & drop onto them. JFC. A program crashes, like, maybe once a year in the world I’m used to. I’m not sure the average has even been that high.
If you haven't already, go enable the Annoyances and Cookie banner filter lists in your uBlock Origin installation. It doesn't get all of them, of course, but it does get a lot. For the remainder, the Kill Sticky bookmark is pretty good about knocking them out: https://www.smokingonabike.com/2024/01/20/take-back-your-web...
Social Scientists actually have a problem that they can't do true controlled experiments (unless they spin an alternate universe). So, they literally have to work with spurious correlations

Physical Science and Math can be isolated enough to do controlled experiments
Show HN: Snoop Hawk – Automating web research
Hey Everyone,

I wanted to share something I've been working on for the past month. Snoop Hawk lets you automate web research. Think visual unit tests. ;)

You can set up jobs on any website and have an AI extract insights from it. What's really powerful is that you can schedule these jobs, and soon, set off triggers to notify you of changes.

Think design reviews after code changes, competitor analysis, or automated monitoring.

This may not be the audience for it, since y'all are technical and might give me the whole "Well, I can set up a cron job and hook to an API" spiel, but I appreciate any feedback you have. :)

Bilal
Can Symbolica compute Gröbner bases over user specified coefficient rings? I don't see, in the docs, how one would specify such.
Shirley Bassey and the Propellorheads got it right: It's All Just A Little Bit Of History Repeating. [1]

Writing[2], Print, Photography, Movies, Electronic music, Synths, Sampling, Trackers, Digital Photography, Photoshop, Ray Tracing, Interactive Art (eg computer games) etc etc ...

Every time "it's not really art" , "there's no human touch".

Every time, after a while artists learned to use it.

And they made amazing art!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzLT6_TQmq8 Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey - History Repeating

[2] Surely I'm kidding about the writing, right? https://fs.blog/an-old-argument-against-writing/
They all fund fake hard science research.
Do people actually care about this?

Apple made a stupid commercial and everyone is traumatized?

WTF?
I like my orange juice fizzy, so I only start drinking it when the container starts expanding.
I happened to use foundationdb for the leaderboards for an experimental game recently, for which fdb was the main experiment.

The big difference was I used the “record layer”, however, naively believing this meant only needing to understand the record layer . . . No. In foundationdb it is vital to understand all the layers up to and including the one you are using, partly so you can make sense of the documentation, but also because the problems you run into are so tied to the semantics of the lower layers.

That said, the great thing about fdb is deploying it is so easy. It is like a secret weapon hiding in plain sight.

The game https://luduxia.com/showdown/
Their record speaks for itself.

“Only two remote holes in the default install, in a heck of a long time!”
Because terminal programs have limitations that limit the amount of annoying things programs can do.

The color scheme matches the color scheme I set. They cannot change the font size nor the the font. They cannot spawn windows that will steal focus. They can run inside tmux which has advantages for my workflow.

Hotkeys are a first class citizen and not an afterthought when it comes to terminal uis.

That being said, I don't hate GUIs. I just hate a lot of them for doing things that annoy me.
Having things named the same across platforms but with significantly different features is a usability nightmare. They even created a package that does have all the same functionality but named it something different, if you're gonna change the functionality from other platforms then that's the one that should have a different name.
(If the source were available to you, then it would be available to all the other funds, and so it would instantly stop making money.)
It's funny because Next.js is the first thing on that list.

Is there any real benefit to using one of those generators versus just writing all the HTML yourself?
Slicers are just starting to add non-planar movement support. https://youtu.be/cbhWni9f980?si=EvwZzAU4c5tZKYH4
You are describing a doomed government fiscal scheme. It is more like a ponzi scheme that requires new entrants into perpetuity. This is doomed to fail. It is simply bad policy.

For any system, absorbing shocks and massive social change will take decades to resolve. "The natural end" I would argue will occur with or without government intervention. In the ideal case, government intervention should lessen the upheaval by preparing for eventual population decline. At worst, government intervention will champion false hare-brained schemes like Brexit or massive immigration. This will only make things worse, not better.

This situation remind of when France's Louis XVI was deeply in debt. Instead of reforming society and their unfair taxation scheme (only the poor paid taxes), France put their trust in Necker a "financial genius". Necker published a completely fake set of accounting books in order to get even more loans. Of course, he argued the loans were only step1 of his plan to get "breathing room". Step2 was to actually reform France. I believe he is disingenuous. As an experienced financier, he should known that loaning money to France is like giving money to a gambling addict. Who is the greater the fool? The gambling addict or the person loaning money to the addict? Meanwhile Louis XVI and his family got their heads chopped off by the French Revolution. With hindsight, he would have better off confiscating all the church property (which the Revolutionaries did) and refused to pay the old debts.
I'm not aware that (base) LLMs use any form of database to generate their answers- so yes, all their knowledge is stored in their hundreds of billions of synapses.
thank you, the page renders empty for me.
It was painful to watch and i won’t have a second look.

It would have been as simple as adding a short “Professional CGI Artists. No actual instrument and tools were harmed.” to set a lighter tone and take the pain away.

Given the raging discussion and thus reach, this won’t hurt sales in the slightest - pretty much the opposite and i guess we’re left with giving kudos to marketing well played.
I'd still wish to have details on this (I too heard of similar numbers for his fund before), because in my newb eyes .. such returns would mean they could absorb a huge chunk of the planet liquidity.
> The role of a maintainer is more than copying and pasting upstream

They can do that... under a name that doesn't mislead people. Is that so hard?
I thought greenhouse gasses will increase in concentration as the feedback loop of polar region is forcing trapped gasses out of the ground.
The same way all disease is studied by "doctors" who are deeply anti disease. You can't trust people with such a "set agenda"
>No One Knows What Universities Are For

People do know what they are for - education and research. The problems listed in the article seem mostly an American thing where the administrators are allowed to say should we give the money to teachers or ourselves? I know let give it all to the administrators.

I'm from the UK and went to Cambridge and you wouldn't get away with that stuff over here - there'd be a huge outcry. I'm not sure how it got quite so out of hand in the US. I mean there is quite a lot of government control but places like Cambridge ran ok on private money for centuries without the hundreds of administrators disease.
Reminds me of the Oregon Trail game where one buffalo was way more than you can bring back.

"You shot 290,000 pounds of food, but were only able to carry 100 pounds back."
Use JohnTHallerNix and it can be. Debian is again taking care of their users. Unlike upstream, Which isn't new. Did he do it in the best way? No. Did he do the right thing? Absolutely.
Is it recommended to update iOS with old phones? Not recommended by Apple, actually recommended as in it won't slow your phone to a crawl.
I agree with you on that, it's a different input method and (therefore) will always come with it's quirks whether it's analog or digital. Digital art, music, animation, etc are incredible feats in their own right.

From knowing and being close with a lot of artists, the main complaint I hear about this ad is that it comes across as a destruction of the analog form to "make way" for the digital. Both of them can exist as they cater to different forms of artistic expression. This doesn't inherently make one better than the other. It comes across as a very bad take to artists that digital art is better than analog art, and analog art is on it's way to being destroyed.

I get it that this may just all be artists and myself reading too much into this. But that's art! We read into things waaayyyy too much sometimes.
> there is no column level security – e.g. I want to show payment_total to admin, but not to user (granted a feature for postgres likely).

Its a feature postgres has.

GRANT SELECT
ON public_table
TO webuser;
REVOKE SELECT
ON public_table (payment_total)
FROM webuser;

Not sure why you think it doesn't exist or doesn't work with PostgREST.
Default plugins is a very common pattern and often what users want. There can be technical reasons but also for common features it's way to have them as opt-out instead of 99% of people needing to opt-in to the same stuff
Without knowing your business, a free tier can be a good way to gain business if you put limitations on it which are at the Goldilocks level - not too much and not too little.
Related thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40320166 - KeePassXC Debian maintainer has removed all network features
"Deno KV" looks uncomfortably shoehorned into Deno. Some people are of course gonna use it if it's built in, but it doesn't look something that a good language/platform would ship with, if it wasn't for the money.
Is there some reason data centers can't/don't use a closed loop cooling system?
It's interesting to revisit the Limits to Growth study [1] in light of these recently-declining exponential curves. Somebody did [2] and found that we're basically on track for the model's bleak predictions.

But the way that the model's predictions have come true is different than what's been popularized. Instead of mass die-offs from famine and pollution, we're seeing population collapse because of birth control, declining fertility, and the rising (opportunity) cost of raising a family. Instead of seeing a collapse in industrial output because of declining resources, we're seeing a collapse in industrial output because of market saturation and a shift toward services and online experiences. Instead of pollution growing unbounded, it's actually declining because of green technology and de-industrialization.

The world is still trending toward a dystopian hellscape, but the dystopian hellscape is not a barren planet where nothing grows and we've stripped everything bare, it's a dystopian hellscape of everybody glued to their device and ignoring social interaction or family formation because Fortnite is more interesting.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth

[2] https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3xw3x/new-research-vindicat...
There is a nice book that goes into detail of his life called: "The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution"
Exactly. This saying is much like Confucius famous sayings in that you have to think it through, trying it both literally and symbolically, and move several steps forward logically to try and understand the wisdom it is conveying.

It's not saying literally that no publicity can ever be bad. That's obviously not true and is easily disproven nearly every single day by current events. It's a broader conveyance of truth regarding the difficulty of getting noticed in a world crowded with content. Even if it's "bad publicity" there are still benefits of becoming more well known, for example. Apple is one of the few companies where that probably won't help, but it doesn't "disprove" the saying and mean we should reject it.
Considering it would be completely possible to make this distinction without breaking existing users, it's difficult to see this as anything other than a bad decision by the Debian package maintainer. While having the ability to have KeepassXC without networking features is certainly nice, considering the browser integration to be a niche feature is just severely out of touch; I would be willing to place real money on betting that more than half (probably well over half) of users of KeepassXC in Debian today want features that will be surprise-disabled because the maintainer chose a way of doing this that would break existing users to impose their opinion.

It is ultimately their decision to make, but that doesn't mean it is a good one, I contend it is not.
> Maybe a better thought is: at what point does a human being "get" that "the benefits of laser eye removal surgery" is "patently ridiculous" ?

Probably as soon as they have any concept of physical reality and embodiment. Arguably before they know what lasers are. Certainly long before they have the lexicon and syntax to respond to it by explaining LASIK. LLMs have the latter, but can only use that to (also without anthropormphizing) pretend they have the former.

In humans, language is a tool for expressing complex internal states. Flipping that around means that something which only has language may appear as if it has internal intelligence. But generating words in the approximate "right" order isn't actually a substitute for experiencing and understanding the concepts those words refer to.

My point is that it's not a "point" on a continuous spectrum which distinguishes LLMs from humans. They're missing parts.
I'm honestly not really sure how it went down. It's possible that XNU (the macOS kernel) was simply developed before FreeBSD Jails were developed, and they never put in the engineering effort to port over the feature. I don't think there's a fundamental reason why it wouldn't work.

For devs, I think that most devs are okay with the current practice of running a virtualized Linux (or other) guest via Docker and deploying to Linux (or other) servers. macOS does support virtualization. The difference between virtualization and containerization is that a virtualized guest uses its own kernel whereas a containerized guest shares the host kernel.

I'll also point you to two comments in this old HN thread which seem to have good information about Apple's use of server operating systems:

The possibility of Jails in XNU: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31384534

Apple's use of Linux in the Services division: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31383746
> Seems like pretty wild, sensationalist reporting here.

One might even say -- "deceptive"
Thumby, a Tiny Playable Keychain (RP2040)
Tox might.
> I don't believe we live in such epistemic black holes

That's fine.

> how do you know you're not a brain in a vat.

I don't.

> all we know is that we probably aren't a brain in a vat. hah.

No we don't, because I don't know. You're free to believe whatever though, just don't speak for everyone else.
Will the marketing executive that green-lit this disaster face any career repercussions? I highly doubt it. Some junior VT tech will probably get all the blame and be forced to clear our their cubicle desk.
Maybe they took inspiration from hydraulic press and Will It Blend channels
Geographically, they change with each city and county, so every 10 km or so.

Temporally, they typically can change annually as voters or the legislature pass new measures.

Online purchase taxes change depending on where the package is delivered, so you can buy multiple items with different costs
Why does everyone keep using this word "plugins"? Quoting the developer:

> You fundamentally misunderstand our program when you use the word plugin. These are built in features, not plugins. The features can be enabled as desired by the user and they come disabled by default. This change to not compile and ship these features in the base keepassxc package does nothing besides create angry (or confused) users.
It’s unlikely that my target audience is on Twitter. Most people aren’t.
That's still several times farther from the CPU than a memory die placed directly on top of it.
I've definitely felt this problem! Web app development can feel like 'playing detective' and chasing down lines more than problem solving. I'd download right now but will it help debug chrome extensions?
So where are apps?
It's kind of incredible to think how many things in computers and electronics turn out to just be a serial port.

One day, some future engineer is going to ask why their warp core diagnostic port runs at 9600 8n1.
IDK.

Sanitizing chrome for testing makes a lot of sense as different versions of chrome have been proven to be unreliable.

Playwright uses a sanitized chrome version.

And Cypress does not, and allows users to use their own browsers which may be a reason for some not insignificant portion of flake. They definitely had multiple instances where a particular chrome version was unstable leading to lots of customer complaints regarding their reliability.
I would love to see it beat two months flying time.

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/longest-ever-continuous-f...
Accidents happen.

Kids aren't always smart, observant and logical, pets - doubly so. And even the smartest (but very unlucky) adult can just stumble and land down right under your tires.

Quite improbable - for sure, but not exactly impossible.