skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO, people want corporations like Apple to facilitate art by humans, not crush it with AI and effectively replace humans. It appears this is just an outlet for the legitimate frustration and fear creatives are feeling with respect to Gen-AI. There's no safety net. The ad seems to strike that exact chord, and people react. It's perhaps a little dystopian that Apple still needs people to buy their devices (ya know, the offended creatives).

That said, I don't think the ad should be taken down.
GH stars kinda function as a bookmark system, except I never go looking at what all I've starred, so it's more of an optimistic bookmark system.

I only sometimes use it as a "I would recommend this repo" -- how can one do that anyways, given that the repo could morph into something one would no longer recommend?
What Taylor Swift can teach us about your users' notification experience
I usually see this statistic about family businesses. In the USA a family business passing through 3 generations is rare.

My personal observation is that the 4 generation has so many better options than the family business is holding them back with responsibility and the family unity has broken down through generational grudges.
Ok, I guess I am repeating myself but so does this post since I assume it spawned from this discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40284225

Why does no-one mention Trino or the AWS branded Trino - Athena?

This will solve basically all of the problems listed.

In the case of Athena and provided you already have your data in s3, without having to set up a new service and very little work.

Using Athena is not like setting up a new database. You just point Athena to the files and it will use resources provided by AWS to query. No import required, no service required.

I think Athena is an amazing tool. I can borrow like 120 CPUs (my tasks often parallelize to that) for free during 5 minutes or even an hour to join / group / modify all my data.
This is true, but how many hosted postgres providers support it?
Bloomberg's upcoming LLM model will reference back to the source financial statements when calculating financial metrics for you.
Lincos: Design of a language for Cosmic intercourse (1960) [pdf]
This article would be greatly improved by at least a single sentence saying what your proposed alternative is. Otherwise it sounds like you're saying "having to eat is really annoying. let's stop eating".
I think best would be if people stopped watching ads. It's not like you learn anything useful there.
The minor irony of this is that current efforts at AGI are focused on the data scaling laws, which we have showed no signs of slowing on, but if funding dries up these crazy expensive training runs wont be allowed anymore.
Both can be true, if growing up with more money is a causal factor in having "better" habits (in terms of wealth generation/retention). I also agree that many rich people could not survive poverty. Both are adapted to their situations.

The problem is that this makes it harder to bring people out of poverty, because you're trying to pull them into a situation they're less adapted for. I actually am in favor of simply giving the poor (/everyone) money (e.g. basic income), but even I acknowledge that poverty-formed habits are going to be a barrier in that strategy's effectiveness.

We're not trying to pull rich people into poverty, so the fact that they wouldn't fare well there is moot.
Just watched the masterclass link and gathered he preferred an "organic" sound rather than polished studio production.
Remind me late Yeltsin.
Can Your Programming Language Do This? (2006)
The book is also all about religion and specifically Christianity. It's one of the most interesting and nuanced explorations of the psychology of Christian faith that I've read. I also understand why the filmmakers thought, "yeah, I'm not touching that."
But why? Why not have a proper SQS service? What's the obsession with Postgres?
In my experience they typically codeshare these flights and use the other airlines planes because theirs… can’t fly out of Africa.
No, not really.

I'm a techie turned journalist, who's been using computers for well over 40 years now, with a particular interest in obscure and niche OSes and programming languages.

I've used an exceptionally broad range of computers for someone still active in the industry. Counting the entire field of PC-compatible x86 machines as one, then I'd guesstimate I've used and worked with 30 or 40 different architectures. Counting all forms of Unix-like OS from SCO Xenix to Linux as being Unix, being 1 OS in different implementations, then again, I'd estimate 30 to 40 different OSes.

I remember how small and simple OSes used to be. I remember the era when a multitasking GUI OS fitted easily into a single megabyte of RAM. When a machine with 4 or 8MB of RAM was more than adequate for exploring the Internet.

I am especially interested in OSes that are still around today, still being maintained, that are small enough for a single person to read the entire codebase, all of it, every line, in a matter of weeks and understand the whole thing in months.

There are several such systems.

There seems to me to be a belief today that a serious useful system must inherently be gigabytes of code, tens of millions of lines, and nobody can understand the whole thing. That is simply NOT TRUE and it never was.

No, I am not writing such things. I am writing about them and trying to bring more peoples' attention to them.
Show HN: Loglayer: A fluid logging interface for JavaScript loggers
This has been in use on our production systems for around two years now at Switchboard (https://switchboard.app).

The problem we had was that we were using two different logging libs for our frontend and backend at the time (specifically roarr, and bunyan), and the API for the logging libs were not compatible with each other.

Loglayer was designed to wrap around popular JS logging libraries where you can swap out any underlying library without re-writing your log entries to adapt to the new library.

One common example is using plain "console" as a starting integration, but later swapping to a logging library like Winston once you've nailed down which JS logging lib fits your use-case. You can also swap to another from there (which we have done from bunyan to pino on our backend) if you need to later on.

It also provides a fluid API that standardizes how one should feed error, set context, and metadata. This means regardless of the underlying logging library used, developers use the same API to write logs throughout.

log
.withMetadata({ some: 'data'})
.withError(new Error('test'))
.info('my message')

With this new 4.x release, I added a plugin system allowing you to manipulate data before it is shipped to the underlying JS logger).
All stable societies are stable due in no small part to regulation in some form or another.

I'm guessing by "truly" you mean "perfectly", but of course no such society exists in the real world.
More anecdotes incoming, but I'm regularly told that I share traits with my father, with whom I don't share DNA. To the point that people who aren't aware that we're not biologically related have remarked that we look alike - which is amusing considering we're different ethnicities.
The hard part is finding the right balance between security and freedom, no?
Equal Earth Wall Map (public domain)
This is true. There are two tools you need to know for this: duckdb and visidata. With these tools, Parquet is almost as easy as CSVs (but a few orders of magnitude more powerful and faster)

Parquet is also usable in polars and pandas, and Apache Spark too but that’s getting into complicated territory.

DuckDB it’s literally just

Select * from ‘s3://bucket/*.parquet’
Also disabled, and this is a topic I've been chewing on a lot lately—I started writing up a longer comment but deleted it, lol. What I really want to say is that I have a few problems I would 100% cure in a heartbeat, and a few that I'm less sure about, so I get it.

Some disabilities only have one true cure: fix the part of your body that's bad at its job. No amount of accomodation or acceptance is going to mitigate the worst parts of, say, liver disease.
But other disabilities have two paths forward: cure the body, or create a world that's more accommodating to people with that disability. Deafness seems like it falls in that category, which is tricky, because both paths have salient points but are also at odds with each other.
10^x developer.
"ChatGPT, how would Claude have answered that?"
hopefully this being self hosted gets around that kind of restriction (at least for a while...)
what is your point? They talked about 15GB of parquet - what does this have to do with 1TB of parquet?

Also: How does the tool you sell here solve the problem - the data is already there and can't be processed (15GB - funny that seems to be the scale of YC startups?)? How does a tool to transfer the data into a new database help here?
They are not awful if you use right tools. Welcome to the world of Spark, Apache Drill, Trino/Presto, etc.
Definitely not an AI winter, since the tools are so useful. People who think AGI is right around the corner might be disappointed though, since we can't really even accurately define AGI.
Are all decedents rich, or just a small fraction? Even if a family line has been continued for hundreds of years, there may be hundreds or even thousands of decedents of the original members who do not have access to the line of wealth. Also many families stay wealthy by only marrying members of other wealthy families. Marrying outside of the ruling class results in rapid dilution of power.
Socket Partners with CISA to Champion 'Secure by Design' Standards
I think it depends on where in the world you are based.

I think the reason people have a problem with it, is because they think that this knowledge will crush people's motivation to do the work that is necessary to succeed. If your hypothesis turns out to be true, then only people that have innate drive, skill and resources will be able to do the work to succeed. Accepting that theory as true implies that there are also people without the drive, skill and resources and what is to make of them? Are we not all created equal? Should we not have equal opportunities? Should these lower-people be helped? Do they deserve it? Do they "earn" to not earn a lot of money because they are born from the wrong mother? In the past this problem was solved with religion...
Peter Drucker
Obviously the Intelligence community doesn't say exactly how they learned such things, making it difficult to say if they used SIGINT, HUMINT, or something else, but there have been some big displays of their overall effectiveness recently.

1) Clearly the US Intelligence community telegraphed Russia's plans to invade Ukraine well in advance.
2) Recently the US warned of an impending terror attack on a concert in Moscow just before one happened.

Most intelligence they collect won't be made public, so only those in the higher echelons of government will know what they regularly learn. But I do think they have demonstrated the ability to predict the future more than a few times with their public statements.
I've implemented many use cases professionally where LLMs sit at the center, from customer support, to document classification, general knowledge management and many more. Personally I use them frequently for coding, to carry out various text based tasks (turning information from one format to another etc). Hallucination can be significantly reduced by injecting knowledge into the request, to the degree that LLM output is suitable for various business use cases.

Saying LLMs are not useful for anything but generating spam is objectively wrong, as to disqualify your commenta from serious discussion about the topic.

There are many issues with GenAI that are worth discussing, saying they are generally useless is not the way.
A few weeks ago, I noticed a personality "quirk" in my 14 yr old daughter that had disappeared in my own teens. I've never told my wife, no one else has told her (not alot of my family left to tell it, they might not even have been aware). It's specific, non-subjective. It seems almost impossible that it should be genetic (but I have no other idea how it might heritably transmit).

The idea that personality is heritable is, to me, not farfetched at all.

My son is 11, I'll get to see if he does the same within a few years.
A congressperson said this email directly contradicts what the FBI told them during the bid to get the program renewed.

Even if you're fine with them spreading their net to the legally allowed limit rather than what's necessary, lying to Congress seems like nefariousness.
>it's for the safety of the established bureaucracy of government.

Seems vague. What exactly does this assertion mean? Are you saying that they are collecting this information to blackmail people or something similar?

Because I don't see people being defenestrated or otherwise prosecuted for threatening the "bureaucracy". On the contrary, there seems to be an all-out public assault on our government from some quarters.

And who, exactly, is the "established bureaucracy" anyway?
> Give Brazil time. Things will improve again.

What mechanisms were put into action that indicate improvement?

I'm Brazilian, living in Brazil and I don't share your optimism.
A Way to Beat High Mortgage Rates? Take over Someone Else's Loan
PKD's novel is misunderstood as a result of the movie. This novel and his work in general were less interested in trying to know ascertain who's a robot, and more interested in why one thinks he's human.

The movie was made to play in Peoria, so it was written with a Cartesian conceit of "replicants" as others in the Baudrillard sense of simulacra: the story was designed to reinforce the idea that humanity is a stable fixed point of reference upon which cleverly designed machines are intruding. This was calculated to be assimilated my audiences (the movie functions as a memory implant) who are upon arrival to the theater were already operating under the delusion of thinking they're free because they have endless choices for consumption, including which movie to watch. The love story between Deckard and Rachel seems calculated as a somatic device to inhibit introspection that might further trouble and arouse viewers to the point of rejecting a challenging product.

My recollection of Deckard in the novel was that he wasn't much concerned with what constituted androids outside of narrow technical dimensions—though maybe I mis-recall my own reading? The character had his own problems. He was quintessentially American, preoccupied with status, possessions, work-a-day worries, televangelism, and somatic distractions, like the mood organ.

Stepping up a level, the open question of the story being who is building us as the robots we find ourselves to be? Of course there's no answer to this question: it begs a god a patriarchy, an orthodoxy.

That the movie took on a adoring following which is overly invested in particulars is typically ignorant fan fetish: Robots (fans) touching robots for pleasure. The cusp is the awareness that civilization is robotic.

Lucas's THX 1138 seems well informed by the ideas of PKD's Androids.

The uncanny and nihilistic aspect of the beast-machine was the central theme of Kubrick's 2001; the monolith illustrating a realm of authenticity inaccessible to us, no matter the power and complexity of the garments we attire as tribute to our uncanny of our self awareness. Kubrick's epic comes off as a depressive's longing for an extinction event that would result in a rebirth of the species (self) on some other plane of existence.

Tarkovsky's adaptation of Lem's Solaris tried to go further than Kubrick, with the observation that everything we feel is real is a regress of a universal mind, and our views of ourselves play out in some kind of Klein bottle of nature.

Blade Runner feels trite, but I truly enjoyed Villeneuve's sequel as just stomping ahead with the pre-suppositions of Scott's movie and continuing to build out its world of increasing alienation with some kind of an attractor of family and self-sacrifice in the midst of a gruesomely overdeveloped world: the star child has no immune system and so must live in a hygienic bubble with nothing to do but create memories for everyone else.

21st century Hollywood eating itself.
Are you eyes more sensitive to UV than the rest of your body?

I guess melanin absorbs UV in the skin, so this serves a similar purpose in the eye?
Do you have a specific timestamp of him advocating for the use of nicotine? From the description and timestamp chapters this seems like a fairly reasonable episode on the effects of nicotine in the brain, which, given the topic of the podcast seems in his lane. It even dedicates a decent portion of runtime to quitting smoking and vaping, even though that isn't really on topic.
I'm rewatching the originals now, and it occurred to me that they were made during that magic period when computer graphics were advanced enough to be believable, but still expensive enough to be used sparingly.

By the time the Hobbit movies were made, it was cheaper to make all the orcs into digital props than to hire and costume a bunch of actors, and everything looks like a video game.
> I agree with that evaluation, but I also think mavericks should be allowed to try curing their own colorblindness (assuming they had informed consent and paid for the therapy themselves).

I mean, what's stopping you? This guy cured his own lactose intolerance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3FcbFqSoQY

But I'm guessing — in part because you say "paid for the therapy" — that you don't really mean "should be allowed to cure their own colorblindness"; but rather "should be allowed to buy a colorblindness treatment from a vendor of such" or maybe "should be allowed to request a prescription of a colorblindness treatment from a doctor who acquires it from a vendor of such."

And you're already also allowed to do that — in theory. The FDA doesn't care about people buying medical treatments. It cares about companies selling them. Because companies are profit-focused, and the quickest way to money in medicine is to lie.

For you to be able to get what you want, there'd have to be an intermediate category that stops just shy of the current "FDA-approved medical therapy" category. For a treatment to qualify for this category, it would still have to pass both safety and efficacy studies. The only thing that would be different, is that the FDA wouldn't weigh the safety vs. the efficacy of the treatment at the end; but instead just put an absolute minimum threshold on both safety and efficacy, and leave the prescriber to determine whether the safety risk outweighs the efficacy.

But think about that word "prescriber." This would certainly allow people motivated to do this to go to their doctors and ask for such treatments specifically. But it would also enable doctors to choose such therapies for their patients, without the patient being previously aware of the treatment option.

And doctors can be bought. (See: doctors prescribing on-patent drugs when equally-effective generics are available; doctors adding on unnecessary adjunct therapies because a sales rep convinced them they should "give it a try"; etc.)

Do you want to live in a world where there's no ability for regulatory bodies to set a safety:efficacy-ratio threshold on a doctor's ability to prescribe drugs to patients? A world where a (bad) doctor might prescribe a drug that has a huge risk for very little chance of success, and all they have to do is put a consent form in front of the patient for the huge risk — without even having to explain the low-efficacy part?

(Honest question. Some people might very well prefer such a world.)
A llm is biased by design, the "open models" are no different here. OpenAI will, like any other model designer, pick and chose whatever data they want in their model and strike deals to that end.

The only question is in how far this is can be viewed as ads. Here I would find a strong backslash slightly ironic, since a lot of people have called the non-consensual incorporation of openly available data problematic; this is an obvious alternative option, that lures with the added benefit of deep integration over simply paying. A "true partnership", at face value. Smart.

If however this actually qualifies as ads (as in: unfair prioritisation that has nothing to do with the quality of the data and simply people paying money for priority placement) there is transparency laws in most jurisdictions for that already and I don't see why OpenAI would not honor them, like any other corp does.
Building a browser does seem intimidating! What technical considerations made you finally take it seriously? Any advice for folks trying to do the same or taking on another intimidating project?
Where did you see me compare it to Americans?

I'm from Europe so my knowledge revolves around local examples.
Am I reading it wrong or are you admiring deafness which shouldn't be cured? Or the deaf people who are admirable?

Why should curing deafness not be a goal of medicine?
That's like renting a manual car thinking how hard can it be after only ever driving automatic.

Sure, it should be easier to charge things, rent a tesla and problem solved, does route planning and no hassle charging at superchargers. Rent a chevy bolt and... yeah... ask the renting company how to charge at least and where they recommend or choose something else.
We are using ellipsis and sweep both for our open source project and they are quite helpful in their own ways. I think selling them as an automated engineer is a little over the top at the moment but once you get the hang of it they can spot common problems in PRs or do small documentation related stuff quite accurately.

Take a look at this PR for example:
https://github.com/julep-ai/julep/pull/311

Ellipsis caught a bunch of things that would have come up only in code review later. It also got a few things wrong but they are easy to ignore. I like it overall, helpful once you get the hang of it although far from a “junior dev”.
Open LLMs don't need to beat OpenAI
The same thing could be said about ICE rentals, yet that also isn't accounted for in the cost. It's not unique to EV.
Oh awesome. Self hosting geo-ip is so nice, but updating the DB is a pain. Great idea.
>I think I'm not following, or else failing to see the relevance to this comment. This is essentially what the GP was getting at: these advancements can/will lead to anatomically "correct" humans failing to compete.

I suppose this is just down to interpretation/point of focus.

I was focusing on the 'levels' being referenced. A 'perfect' prosthetic allows all people to be able to reach the same level, while the GP was talking about things that bring below median people to median level only, and previously median people to super-human level.

If we interpret this to refer to competition against people who aren't using any augmentation, it covers even just the act of practicing. Which in my opinion, kind of defeats their point by making it excessively broad.
That was my first though, BUT... to play devil's advocate, people choose gender reassignment surgery (including young children) and that choice continues to be very very controversial.
So soon enough we'll get stuff like:

> Me: Give me a small sample code in Ruby that takes two parameters and returns the Levenshtein distance between them.

> ChatGPT: DID YOU HEAR ABOUT C#? It's even faster that light, now with better performance than Ruby!!! Get started here: https://ms.com/cs

I can generate the code in Ruby or I can give you 20% discount on Microsoft publishing on any C# book!!!
And they really shouldn't do this. Even disregarding the network aspect of it, this is still bad for performance because syscalls are kinda expensive.