skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But it can’t make anything great, not without a lot of luck or creative input from the user.

That seems true of "non-generative" art too, no?
I’m interested in what we committed enormous effort to researching and testing and discovered it’s simply not something to worry about or be bothered with.
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IMO the only "lunacy" with the current plan is regarding schedule and budget slip.
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Isn't that the same issue really? The demoscene seems to be in decline because there's hardly any new blood coming in, the teens who would have time to commit to a big production today just aren't interested.
A company is nothing more than a group of people, working towards a single goal, no? If that's a case, breaking up the group itself also seems futile.

We can probably assume that some people who belong to the group are both unessential and innocent of the crimes of the group. The janitor at one of Dupont's buildings isn't to blame for this, at least under most theories of culpability. But there is a core subset of people who are, and whether they are punished individually or not, at the very minimum, they shouldn't be allowed to participate in business (any business) again. Otherwise, they run off and get C-level jobs (or really, vp/director-level jobs and up), and perform more of the same stunts.

Not that it matters, the companies that commit these sorts of crimes are always large enough that their political sway would protect them even if there were laws on the books that could theoretically dismantle them. And certainly, all such companies collectively have more than enough mojo to prevent the passage of such a law.
I wonder how much of this is syntactic familiarity (from training) and how much of this is needing to attend to balanced parentheses.

I don't use lisp often enough to have played with getting GPT to lisp with me, but I have played a bit with getting it to read and write Datalog (which I suspect is even more scarce in The Pile dumps). It's ok at recognition but misses details. I haven't seen it produce much of value yet. But it can write JavaScript for days, and has no problem balancing parentheses and brackets there, even without compiler/tree-sitter support.

If I had spare experimenting bandwidth I would look into whether fine-tuning for Lisp format and conventions would show a significant boost in performance..
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And on a wide display it's very convenient to use the width to put useful ancillary content on there (e.g. docs, company chat, ...). I shouldn't waste half my display on nothing because you won't add line breaks to your code.

Annoyingly lots of modern website have very wonky breakpoints / detection and will serve nonsense mobile UIs on what I think is reasonable window widths e.g. if you consider bootstrap's "xl" to be desktop then an UWQHD display (3440x1440) won't get a desktop layout in 3 (to say nothing of 4) columns layouts, nor may smaller laptops (especially if they're zoomed somewhat).
Exactly! Why take a system not designed for this sort of scale and force it to scale, rather than use systems which are designed and tested for this scale and volume? All you will do is hackily re-invent all the other things that the other databases had to do to scale to this extent.

Plus size is only one limit, you would be limited to 1 write every few milliseconds. My napkin maths estimate is that there are at least 1-2m writes per hour going into this thing, so probably 300-600 writes / second (Average) and maybe over 1k writes/second peak. We are going to fall over here!

Not sure why some people seem to have a viwe of "There is no scaling problem that can't be solved with a sufficient enough number of SQLite databases".
I'd make it clear on the resume that these were all consulting jobs under the same parent employer (make the formal employer the top bullet, indent for the engagements you want to highlight).
Earth-size planet orbiting nearby star will outlive the sun by 100B years
I've long been thinking geoengineering is the most likely way for humanity to survive this mostly unscathed.

And this scares me a lot. The technology makes nuclear weapons look like pussies. Letting 1 country control who has which weather where is unacceptable for almost any country.

We need global cooperation to the point of becoming 1 huge global superstate, or we're having all out wars between the most powerfull nations of the world, while dealing with climate change at the same time.

And that's making the assumption that no mistake is made, with a completely new technology field, and mistakes easily killing millions of people.
There is also jump consistent hashing https://arxiv.org/pdf/1406.2294
But... this isn't The Verge? It's Wired.
Great video! This is more a problem of the various other hardware interfaces though, considering even a 120Hz panel has a maximum of 6ms of latency between it's refreshes.

As a person who does some digital art from time to time though, I'm depressed we still don't have that tech 12 years later...
This is probably better known here under the name of implicit type conversions. Strictly speaking, the rational number 1 is not the same as the integer 1; we just have a conversion map that preserves all the relevant properties. It's all fun and games until there are 1000 types and 10000 conversion maps involved and the relevant diagrams no longer commute (i.e., it depends what order you go).
Most modern UEFI BIOSes also show which sticks are installed in each slot.
Most TVs have a "game mode" that reduces latency to a single frame time, give or take a few milliseconds[1]. Not as good as the best monitors, but close, and certainly not dozens of milliseconds.

[1] https://www.rtings.com/tv/tests/inputs/input-lag
Most osteopathic medical schools teach real medicine these days. They should drop the DO label.
You’re right, I should have said “the Senate”.
You sort of need to do both. The issue at hand with a corporate death penalty is shareholders. If a company being "killed" zeroes out the value for shareholders, the stock value will have to price in the likelihood of complete loss due to malfeasance, which will start making companies on the level a safer buy.

This means companies doing more to prevent illegal behavior become worth more and companies have a financial reason to prevent crime greatly exceeding mere fines.
Your blog posts doesn't discuss the medieval era at all though. You are strictly talking about modernity.

The medieval period ends around 1500 AD. A time where the vast majority of people lived in small villages. This is when population density was very low and the industrialization hasn't happened yet. Cholera is a modern problem. Water pollution is a mostly modern problem.

So yes, you are right that water safety was an huge issues in the modern era (end still is is in many regions of the world). Not sure about always preferring beer as I haven't looked deeper at the evidence but it is hell more plausible than for the medieval period.
>I guess what I’m trying to say is that I was hoping that someone with a write intensive workload would want to spend some time evaluating a product built specifically for that.

Again, it's not clear to me exactly what it is you're doing that's any different from the plethora of existing off-the-shelf solutions.

You're saying that you started this project/company because you were looking for a solution to a specific use case (write-intensive workloads) and existing options didn't work - can you expand on that? Can you create a chart, for example, that lists out the specific things that Haystackdb does and alternatives don't? Presumably, if you optimize for write-intensive workloads, there are some drawbacks when it comes to reads - no? Or maybe storage? That's good to highlight.

What you need are whitepapers/blog posts/youtube videos/talks at conferences/etc. that highlight the technical details of your solution, because you're trying to get technical people interested in your product to the point where they will invest time to learn more.
Which algorithm are you referring to? I have a copy of Jain et al and I can’t find what you’re describing. Do you have a link to something? The Hough transform is used in this article, if that’s what you’re thinking of, but that will not work to find the bounding box of text, the lines have to be solid, contiguous, and linear for that to work. Note the method in the article doesn’t depend on the text having a solid surround color, or even have the text arranged in a roughly rectangular shape. And it also doesn’t depend on the text being linear. These differences are valuable, not having to make the same assumptions you’re making, and it means this method (whether or not it’s “better”) may work in a wider variety of situations, or may make a very good complement to existing methods.
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Spot on. $6M/annually is not much of a saving for a company like Uber ($130B market cap). It only makes sense if it's also more efficient and actually improves the app.
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mainly that it's not requests, but also read the docs yourself for god's sake
> No really but Congress had put them in an impossible position so I think they didn't have a choice.

It's an "impossible" situation they've been in many times before and had a standard strategy to weasel out of: award the contract for more money than Congress has allocated, and then slip the project to the right until you get enough money. Every large NASA contract has worked this way, even their contracts with SpaceX -- Commercial Crew (aka Crew Dragon) was several years late because the project was underfunded in its initial years.

SpaceX's $3B bid for HLS broke this unwritten convention.
Yes. I think it’s a garden path sentence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence

“3M Execs convinced a Scientist…” ok

“3M Execs convinced a Scientist PFOS Found”… ok, the PFOS found the scientist?

“3M Execs convinced a Scientist PFOS found in Human Blood”… PFOS found a scientist in human blood?

The problem is that there are gramatically valid ways to parse partial versions of the sentence, which you have to reparse as you go through the sentence.
lets say where u live there is a non-natural-cause of death rate of 10 cases per 100,000 inhabitants per year.

That means every year you have a 1/10,000 chance of dying, so on average people would live 10,000 years
That's very interesting, as a Frenchman I assumed it came from "brutal", like "brutalité", as the raw concrete and abundance of right angles tends to make these buildings feel, well, aggressive (to me at least).
The job market has collapsed. You need to know someboody.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons
I've got the same thing with kiwis.

I discovered it in a funny way - I was in Tokyo trying all sorts of random foods. One night after dinner, in the cab, my throat started to swell. I had a fun time getting some emergency Benadryl from a gas station late at night speaking Japanese poorly.

I had no idea what caused it.

Flash forward a few months, I was at a birthday party back in the U.S., had a slice of kiwi, and felt like I'd swallowed battery acid. Throat immediately closed up, worse than in Tokyo. Thinking back to that previous night, I realized it hadn't been some exotic food - I'd had a salad with kiwi in it.

Fun and rare allergy.

For even more fun, try being allergic to milk. I developed that allergy later in life and hoo boy has it been a humdinger.
In some cases, applying a limited set of basic operations might make up a significant part of development time, but in my experience most of the time is spent designing algorithms, parsing function input and managing the flow of vectorized expressions across function boundaries. And that is generally more efficient in the context of multiple dispatch with efficient loops.

For example, writing a function that works on scalars, then mapping or broadcasting it over array input is very good for productivity (and is efficient in Julia). On the other hand, designing an inherently array-based algorithm is often a headache that one must contend with for the sake of performance in numpy.

So, if you design somewhat complex or novel algorithms, I don't think object-dot notation, or the lack thereof, has a significant impact on productivity.
Yes, I'm not here to downplay the severity of XSS. Rather, I'm trying to be specific about the potential attack vector here.

If you're just viewing a PDF using the built-in pdf.js in Firefox, then (AFAIK) it doesn't matter what site you downloaded it from, because pdf.js isn't running in the context of the website, so it doesn't have access to that site's locally-stored data (including cookies). Instead it's running in the origin mentioned above, with the accompanying concerns.

So the XSS (again, as far as a web browser is concerned) would be if the site itself is shipping pdf.js for viewing PDFs inside the webpage itself. As you suggest, Gmail lets you preview PDFs, so XSS would be a concern there, but only if Gmail is using pdf.js.
Why not use SQLite's own guidance on where SQLite probably isn't appropriate:

- Client/Server applications (Check)

- High-volumes (Check)

- Large datasets (Check)

- High concurrency, particularly for writes (Check)

https://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html
> having an "approachable" or "charismatic" voice that "feels timeless" were among the characteristics it targeted to create the personalities

Surely these same criteria determine the success of actors such as Scarlett.

> "This is giving such “female character as written by men” vibes," said one person on X. "Why is she so obsequious and flirty?"

My read: OpenAI very deliberately paid homage to Her by building a working version of Samantha, as a relatable and impactful way to get people to realize "holy crap, what seemed like fanciful scifi suddenly exists." They (very likely) didn't base Sky's voice on Scarlett's, but on some level designed it around the Samantha character. The Court of Xitter Opinion decided that the similarity was close enough to fuel outrage, and OpenAI decided that removing Sky would benefit them more than keeping it.

Outrage about what? Being too obvious about the fact that AI can out-converse and even out-flirt increasingly more humans?
And now...?
I would think of it as a "URI-reference" (a URL or a relative ref), since `src` can be thinks like "https://example.com/test.png" (absolute URI, not a path) or "//example.com/foo.png" (relative, not a path).

The bigger point is yeah, type T isn't a parser for type U.

I guess unfortunately, I'm not sure if there is a URI-ref parser in JS that I know of … but does one ever want to do that, without first normalizing it over a base URI?
>Or do you want someone who's going to stick around a bit longer, on the basis that much of the value of someone in a job is actually domain knowledge specific to the business and the code, rather than transferrable skills?

Do the incentive structures at your company match this? If they do, thats great, but I've worked at places who don't even give raises that beat inflation and still wonder why people leave within 1-3 years.

Typically what I've seen of job hopping, is more often than not their previous employer simply didn't have a proper incentive structure to keep a good engineer around very long. Alot of people leave when they realize they'll never get more than a 3-4% raise, for example.

If you desire employees to stay around for awhile and really learn the product and business deeply, it needs to be incentivized properly
i want jonah jameson from the spiderman movies yelling things at me
Most places I've worked we couldn't even consider using a product that wasn't supported by a major cloud provider like this. What problem does your product solve that customers absolutely 100% need it?

Structurally, you are a small entity trying to compete on cost with hyper scalar cloud providers and open source software. Most ISVs like you charge a ton of money for big problems very few enterprise customers have.

I think you need to find a specific use case where your product is a clear winner. Like 'HaystackDB is the best option for healthcare exchanges to use when receiving claims'.
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I wonder how China will keep the spigot flowing.

By one estimate, in 2023 China's population stood at 1.409 billion, down from the 1.412 billion recorded in the 2020 census. By another, the population was likely 1.28 billion in 2020 and had been surpassed by India some years earlier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_China
> What if we could keep them, but make them work for the good of us all?

What if we could tame these gigantic, bloodthirsty monsters that casually wander into big cities and just start stomping skyscrapers down for shits and giggles? Think of how wonderful it would be to have one of those creatures under my control!!!

> I'd like to see them 'multi-nationalized' - not for one nation, but for the world.

Nothing would make such a kaiju safer than putting it beyond the reach of even sovereign nations. And when it's under the direction of some weird-assed UN committee no one's heard of, that has Saudi Arabia, North Korea, and China put in charge, think of all the wonderfully progressive things that will happen then!
Would be interesting. Considering TigerBeetle is written in Zig. And Uber is probably only rare big company which has support contract with Zig foundation.
> I would change jobs, but I hate interviewing and everything else in the process

Networking helps. Who did you work with in the past that meets your standards... Get in touch, ask them where they're working and if they know of any openings.

Often times you skip at least some screening BS, you may also get more of the interview time set for them convincing you to join, rather than trying to see if they want you. Depends on the place and the strength of recomendation.
Then please point out the studies that show they are safe for the human body.
No sorry, I'm not tuned in to typescript at the moment. I've mostly used fp-ts in the past because I haven't found a better runtime type system than io-ts, but I haven't written typescript in a while.

Mostly responding so people with better context don't wait on me.
> When a high performer encounters a shitty company culture, they want to quit.

That’s just as true for average performers.

I just don’t buy the premise here that high performers think different on this.

Everyone wants to work for a pleasant, high performing, well managed company not just high performers.

Professional job hoppers on the other hand is absolutely a thing. Realistically that is the most reliably way of earning more
Defining empathy with no mention of compassion? To have human empathy for another is to take some action, no matter how small, while echoing the feeling itself.
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Possibly, but that is not what their statement suggests to me, unless those 'questions' came from her/her legal team. I suppose they could also be worried about future legal action from her. Maybe it just isn't worth getting sued, even if you technically did nothing wrong. But I also have a hard time believing they went thru this careful process of voice selection and it never occurred to them that the voice sounded like her, and didn't think about the legal repercussions

https://openai.com/index/how-the-voices-for-chatgpt-were-cho...
A quick look at their careers shows they hiring eng seemingly anywhere but the US so maybe they've already saved the dollars there.
Im curious if this is true.
Seems like Nim is the living embodiment of this paper. Similar expression-based syntactic concepts, similar AST dumps.
What the mainstream media won't tell you is that the pilot was a Mossad agent named Eli Copter.
> so the Guardian fell for it.

I'm not sure you understand the Parliamentary Privilege loophole (and I assure you both the Guardian and David Davis MP do!). It gives any sitting MP the power to effectively legalise mentioning something in the media - that's what David Davis MP was doing. His invocation of Parliamentary privilege wasn't just because he wanted to say something about it; it was effectively an executive action by him alone. He mentioned the New Yorker piece in order to allow the British media to mention it too. This article's headline and wording will have been carefully vetted by the Guardian's legal team, as it's still technically illegal to report on anything to do with the Lucy Letby case. The loophole is that court injunctions can't stop you reporting what an MP said in Parliament.
If you have specs for 8k and 200 years, I'd basically give you an engraved stone tablet. It even has a proven track record for this .
I would enjoy seeing the studies that show they are harmful in the doses that humans are exposed to as well, I don't know much of anything about this subject.
less than 5% vs. over 6% is not that big of a difference
Do we want art to be highly valued? Doesn't that make it out of reach for the masses? I think making art more approachable is a good thing. I probably would not have gotten into visual art if I could not use a camera, and had to paint or even dance. The camera de-valued painting by saturating the visual art ecosystem. Image generation does the same once again.

Consider: generative art technologies (as all good technologies) raise the skill floor, without lowering the skill ceiling.
What do you think will happen after ten generations, when population will start to grow exponentially? Will Dyson swarm, food, shelter and infinite resources immediately materialize ex nihilo?
You're right, but it would be really cool!
pi's feel like the perfect candidate for submerged liquid cooling. imagining a tiny little french fry basket filled with pi's being lowered into some mineral oil and bubblin. salt to taste.
I stumbled upon this comment from a related discussion in 2020 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22823773:

>"Saleem Abdulrasool is the release manager for the Windows platform (@compnerd), is a prolific contributor to the Swift project and the primary instigator behind the port of Swift to Windows." Saleem's github, https://github.com/compnerd, lists swift-win32 repo, which is a "a thin wrapper over the Win32 APIs for graphics on Windows." So it's one person wrapping Win32. Not too promising yet, but it's early and there's room for Windows programmers to get involved.

Amazing work by Saleem and the team at The Browser Company to devote years to this and make it a success.
I don't think we are ignoring any evidence here, there is just no evidence (or at least I haven't seen any). It seems these spirits are allergic to video or something, I have seen more video evidence of UFOs than spirits.

Of course, personal experience is also valid evidence, and I have seen none of that either.
Surveys of humans strongly demonstrate that they are rather impressed with their mountain climbing accomplishments thus far. The main shortcoming to humanity is only the actions of those other people.
Aren't you supposed to use more buckets than nodes, with each node hosting a number of buckets not all adjacent on the circle? This I expect would reduce the problems described in the article, though not eliminate them of course.
Wikipedia itself calls it "semi-cursive".
That doesn’t scan for me. We call it car theft and thousands of cars are stolen every day that are properly locked and parked, even in the owners driveway.

Banks are notorious for adopting new technology at a glacial pace, often only when forced to do so.

Witness the adoption of chip and pin in the U.S. oh wait, we still haven’t properly adopted it and a stolen card can just be tapped on the terminal of most retailers in 2024 with no additional authentication.
I’m glad I met my wife before dating apps were a thing. Though I have to ask, why can’t you just meet someone the “normal” way without an app doing it for you?
> But when Mulisp finally conquers the world...

That will be never. If Mulisp hasn't done so in the last 46 years, it never will.