skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Past HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22145189 (2020 - 120 comments)
allow me to clarify.. Dataherald isn't intended for developers because they don't know SQL, it's intended for developers who want to build text to SQL into their products
Puter.js – Turn the Web into an OS: An Alternative to the Cloud
The Discogs integration is a great feature. I’ve checked out musicbrainz but it’s no where near as complete for the music I listen to.
About 3 feet
What a non-story.
These undo enhancements will save me so much anxiety
To Wube: Please make an undo/redo version that also works in just a selected area. I tend to move around a lot and want to undo some changes but not others. Like Doctor Strange sending an apple and just an apple back and forth in time.

To the contributors to github.com/vim/vim: Same.
I work in the agtech industry, software for record keeping of spray paths

I wondered out loud why the industry spends millions on making us valuable vulnerable monkeys fly the helicopters when drones would be an order of magnitude cheaper

Turns out the companies that do the work were all started and operated by pilots

Progress happens one funeral (retirement) at a time
This is a paid ad. Flagged.
The enigmatic 'brain microbiome' could play a role in neurological disease
> It is implemented locally

I am afraid nothing Microsoft works on is local anymore.
> Corporatism is a bit socialist in it's essence.

They are orthogonal; it is possible to have socialist corporatism, but there is nothing inherently socialist about corporatism (or inherently corporatist about socialism.)
Well, you mileage can vary. I see trade-off almost everywhere but many managers are not exited to hear about trade-offs and want to get a perfect solution when you don’t need to sacrifice anything. Though it is not as bad as a manager who already made a decision ignoring trade-offs of different options.
“Y is being laughed at by X” is an odd linguistic construction to see in a headline - why not the clearer and shorter “X laughs at Y”?

And yet by far the most efficient way to explain Perplexity is “a rival to Google search”, so writing it this way still makes for the best headline. Interesting!
I found so many great new Songs (ProgMetal and similar) through Spotify, but the quality of recommended Songs really deckined gor me in the past two years.
The headline is a bit misleading because it doesn't state that Ozempic is a product made by Novo Nordisk. When you take that into consideration, this article becomes less about a study and more of a pharmaceutical company making promotional material for their own product.
Discuss HN: On the "Best" Language
I think it's time we have a discussion about the "best" languages.

Any seasoned/senior developer knows that there are real differences between languages, and that a measured approach to choice of language to develop and deploy a specific application is the best approach.

However, lately I have seen suggestions that any language is the "best" language so long as you love that language. This is false and will lead many junior developers to unnecessary headache and technical debt in the future.

Let's take, for example, speed. If speed is a factor, the lower level the language, the more optimized the application can become. If you need concurrency at a higher level, Go or Erlang would be the answer. Fast prototyping, node or ruby.

There are in fact differences in the application and efficiency of languages, and its best we don't ignore this.

There is no best language, only a best language at _________.

What are HN's thoughts on this? What languages are the best for what purposes? Would love to hear about some of the mistakes and improvements learned through experience that I know many on HN have to share, and I think openly sharing these experiences will really help strengthen the developers of tomorrow!
I've been amused by this for a while, although I think when I first saw it I didn't realize that there was so much country-to-country variation in what year the Gregorian calendar was legally adopted.

Maybe a better (or much worse!) behavior would be to show the switch in the current locale, so in ru_RU it happens in 1918, but in es_ES (or es_MX, es_CO, es_AR, es_PY, ...) it happens in 1582.
Love to answer questions if I can.

1. The testing culture is very thorough. I was involved on the propulsion side of things, and as such the safety is taken very seriously, for the safety of the test/production engineers and of course the spacecraft. Propulsion systems are typically integrated in such a way that it is very difficult (nigh impossible at times) to separate them if an issue is found at a later stage, so the testing goes through things with a very fine comb. And even still things can go wrong and can sometimes only be found at a later stage.

From the spacecraft Assembly Integration and Test (AIT) side of things, which is where I work, things are traditional but pragmatic. If a new way can be shown to be more reliable we will adopt it. But not before it is very well understood and characterised. In space, heritage is king, the best way to know if something will work in space is to already know it works in space. So it can take a lot of evidence for a new method/system to be adopted, and when we think we are moving quickly, it probably looks like a glacial pace to others.

During the build and test, we are often so far from the end goal of a spacecraft, its not possible to see the "groundbreaking" aspect of things. Perhaps the payload designers and engineers can see this better.

2. I believe it is named after Euclid, as the father of geometry, as the mission goal was to measure the geometry of the universe. And also yes, go Europe.

3. Christ, accomplished? I love the idea of being accomplished in many ways, but its also a scary concept. Wouldn't want to be having notions of grandeur either. I am very lucky to have worked on many great projects, in many countries, and in a job that I honestly think I am good at and enjoy. But I am always surrounded by so many people who have done so much more, so it mostly feels like I am trying to catch up really.

The science missions really are special to me, I have a background in Astrophysics, and sort of fell into spacecraft engineering. So it is always a real pleasure to get to work on something I understand on a deeper level. But most of the missions I have worked on have not been so special. Most spacecraft are to make money or do something for a military. Its why I have so much time for ESA. Even with their issues (cost, time, etc.), they really feel like they do the important missions for humanity. Nasa and Jaxa too, but they mix in a higher amount of the less special stuff in my experience.

The stress and sacrifice was stressful and sacrificial(?). I wouldnt say it was worth it, or not worth it. Its an odd one. Mostly I have just tried to do cool shit as often as I can, and I have been damn lucky.

Thanks for the kind words though, and I hope I wasn't rambling too much in my response.
Indeed, AI is not marketed as a BS generator, just as HTTP is not marketed as a spam/ad/fraud/harassment transport protocol. All technologies are dual-use, deal with it!
Much higher click through rate if the first 2 words are “Google AI”
Oh hey! Congrats on the awesome mission!
Released C source code for CVBasic: BASIC compiler for Colecovision/MSX/SG1000
I've never been that fond of SO, but I find chatgpt very useful. SO tends to be simpler one time questions. My interactions with gpt are conversations working towards a solution.

LLMs totally have a beginner problem. It's much like the problem where a beginner knows they need to look something up but can't figure out the right keywords to search for.

Also chatgpt has never called me an idiot for asking a stupid question, having not read the question properly, and making the assumption it was the same as an existing question after skimming it. I wouldn't ask SO a question these days, the response is more likely to be toxic than helpful.
I use metadatics frequently as well. Great program.
> The US 5th fleet can just stop policing the Bab-el-Mandeb strait and the various local peoples would hinder maritime traffic through piracy and ransom. Those can't be stopped with ICBMs.

While it would be a particularly horrific way to deal with the problem, the local people in the area of the Bab-el Mandeb strait and their capacity to interfere with international shipping can, in fact, be stopped with ICBMs.
Tractors may not care about weight, but soil does. Current tractors cause soil compaction issues in farm fields, even heavier weight-inefficient-battery laden tractors would be that much worse.
will you even have a choice to turn it off? they always make it opt out at first until updates silently turn things on again
What? How does that ensure user 123 only generates LLM queries that constrain on rows where user=123?
We recommend users leverage row-level security features built into modern RDBMS so the query results only return data for a given user.

You can read more on how to do that on Postgres here https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/application-users-vs-row...
oh like the windows login?
How much wild boar from chernobyl you eat, is a function over radiation hormesis, radiation poisoning, tapeworms and taste. I'd probably eat a cooked wild boar sausage. I don't think it'd live off it. Or, eat less well cooked organ meat.

Australian wild meats are often sold into discriminating European markets but the slaughterhouse and cold chain has to be distinct from the beef and lamb market because Japan and other buyers will exclude farm meat products which share fridges and knives with parasite risk wild roo and feral pig meat.

Mushrooms concentrate radiation. Maybe this can be turned into bioremediation but what to do with the umami rich, vitamin D and B rich, post nucleotide extraction mushroom gunk?
> They would have had to work with the non-militant parts of Hamas leadership and the PLO of the West Bank and with neighboring Arab countries to bring these murderers to justice

I don't really see how this could work? As far as I know, all Hamas leadership supports the Oct 7 attack. The PLO and neighboring Arab countries don't really have power in Gaza.
I understand that the voice actor does not sound like ScarJo to you.

But you need to understand that it does sound like ScarJo to a lot of people. Maybe 50% of the people who hear it.

Those kinds of coincidences are the things that make you lose in court.
That’s because it’s industrial
NOAA predicts above-normal 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
I'll 2nd Picard. Been using it for years (and contributing to musicbrains for years).
Not a doctor fwiw, but elevated ALT and AST levels often comes with being overweight and that could be seen as liver damage. I'm willing to give MS the benefit of the doubt on this claim.
See if your investors need and manager types at their portcos. Or see if you can get a junior EM role at big tech.
uhh-ohh!
Thanks for summarizing it for them
> what are the downsides to it?

It's honestly looking more and more like a vitamin, albeit one most of us synthesise in adequate quantities, than a drug. (Not saying it should be sold OTC. But increasingly comparable to e.g. Vitamin D.)

Disclaimer: I have zero medical or pharmaceutical training.
Boeing Found yet Another Design Flaw in Starliner
This is why I like having things split up. Even with zero service redundancy, it massively improves the reliability of the system overall. Often users don't even notice that a less important service had to restart because of an issue. If that service was just another component of a monolith, then it failing would guarantee that the whole monolith fails.
As I wrote on the original thread, we recommend using the RDBMS row-level security features.

This blog discusses how to do that on Postgres

https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/application-users-vs-row...
Some days I think the Microsoft personal computing team is just a division of the Apple marketing department where their main charge is to help sell more Macs.

About 1x/year I get frustrated with the depth of my lock-in to the Apple Ecosystem and start looking for an alternative (thats not a science project).

After I go through the Windows offerings and do some reading I'm generally happy to go back to dealing with whatever bullshit Apple want's to cram down my throat this release. Now sure iCloud knows the depths of my soul but at least I voluntarily put things there. Thats a far cry from some AI screen capping me in the background and running some AI over it (to show me more relevant ads in the Start Menu).
>The companies I was CXO of created some pretty impressive intellectual property (deep tech; which I coded the v1.0+ for personally) and two books (major tech publisher not self-published).

Ah. My mistake, I'd guess that is likely to get staff+ level interviews at Big Tech.

>Interesting, I've heard that opposite. Good feedback.

That managers have to do DS&A coding rounds at FAANG+? Maybe some, I don't think the bar will be near as high as the IC route.

>Good idea. What do you think the best way to go about that is?

Well, I don't think this is something you can fake, but if you've been working on deep tech, you don't have to fake it.

I'd go against the grain of reading 'system design books' and say instead read (some of) the actual code and design docs for large popular web scale open source projects (stuff like K8s, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, memcache, Spark etc).

That should be enough to get a deeper understanding of how to design large scale systems.

Then do a few practice interviews at some place like pramp.com or interviewing.io, just to get used to talking about it with someone.
Well, it does have some nice features. It autocreates playlists of my girlfriends and my music. And playlists of different genres I listen to. And playlists by release year of genres that I like. And playlists of songs I used to listen to some years ago.

Totally separate from the "song radio" playlists what you probably mean
I'm suggesting they treat it like a screen recorder, which it is
fintool.com already has an LLM on top of EDGAR
For an up to date meta-analysis, see Masks and respirators for prevention of respiratory infections: a state of the science review (2024, Clinical Microbiology Reviews)

https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/cmr.00124-23
Minnesota, because it was too hard to put in the title apparently.
If it was the big tech cos themselves.
The logical conclusion is to just give the camera 5g for the world's most bulky camera phone.
The unwashed dogs will be fine as long as it doesn't rain.
The obvious advantage of using domain names and in general URLs as the package names is that the Go project doesn't have to run a registry for package names. Running a registry is both a technical and especially a political challenge, as you must deal with contention over names, people trying to recover access to their names, and so on. By using URLs, the Go project was able to avoid touching all of those issues; instead they're the problem of domain name registries, code hosting providers, and so on.
Not positive, but pretty sure that this, and the Unix Network book were golden for us in the 90s when we were writing MUDs. Explained so much about Socket communications (bind/listen/accept,...) Been a long time since I looked at that stuff, but those were fun times.
Where do you recommend this? It sounds dangerous for databases that do not implement RLS, like Mysql, MariaDb, Sqlite. I think you should highlight that very clearly somewhere.
I think it is a matter of how you are exposed to programming. I started with pascal at 9, and I wrote my first (VM-)bootable OS in junior high school (around the age of 14). Not as fancy as this of course, but it booted into an environment not unlike r4rs scheme - based on SIOD. A scheme error was handled but any C errors would immediately lead to a kernel panic.

I am not a programmer today, but I can still wrap most of my head around many low level concepts. I can't, however, write anything resembling a modern web page. Nor can I understand how any larger JS application works.
A red light not turning on will only give you the impression that nothing is being recorded.
The first issue I have with this feature is: It's opt-out and not opt-in.

The second problem I have is that they tell me that neither the snapshots are send to Microsoft nor are they analyzed on Microsoft's servers, but I do NOT know what happens with the data once stuff got analyzed on an operating system that is phoning home all kinds of information all the time w/o me being able to tell what it is. Not even the enterprise version can disable all the "phone home features" there are and Microsoft doesn't make everything public that they transfer.

The third issue is that stuff is stored on my local drive with bitlocker encryption that can be easily circumvented even if they store the keys in a TPM. There is this universal, not well known, only documented in a single file, backdoor to Windows [1] that allows you to gain full control over the system even with secure boot enabled.

The possibilities of your boss spying on you will become endless. Not that they aren't already, but this opens a whole new can of worms.

[1] - https://download.microsoft.com/download/8/a/2/8a2fb72d-9b96-...
Dissociation under massive stress IS normal, for a significant quantity of the non-monster people among us. I don't think framing it as "self control" was a good characterization by the grandparent, more like shock... a failure of emotional processing.
I use my phone mostly as a PDA. Quick searches, reading Hacker News and RSS, Chatting (very infrequently), calls, and utilities. No socials apps, no games. And I have an ereader and a digital audio player for books and music.
I just bought a refurbished 16in M3 pro, no regrets at all. There's always a new one around the corner, it's really just about whether your setup achieves what you need it to.

Look at real world differences between M2 and M3, it's not a massive jump at all.

I do cross platform app development and the machine is excellent for that. Glad to have it now rather than waiting months for a slightly better system
First thought: I had assumed ICQ was long dead. It seemed impossible anything from that era could still be running. IRC is of course, through the grace of an ecosystem, but it is a tiny fraction of what it was.

Second thought: how do people randomly connect to talk now? Comments sections mostly? I have long ago stopped seeking new connections of any variety.
This kind of argument is exhausting. I don't know if there's a name for it or if there's some kind of "razor" for it, like; "Moving in any direction of bettering things is always going to be confronted by someone who thinks it's not good enough and there's some far bigger problem somewhere else so let me distract from the actual good that's trying to be done here"

To the actual point - I do think there's a difference between inmates dying in prison for other reasons (and we should reduce those) vs. sentencing someone to execution for a crime they didn't commit.
Masking during a pandemic is never just about individual risk. Collective action has an exponential effect on prevalence, so the real risk goes down by far more than 5%.

Not taking action to reduce risk of illness or death is irrational.
On the subject:

https://hypercritical.fireside.fm/14

https://hypercritical.fireside.fm/15
> can't crank this engine harder and expect it to power an airplane.

Similarly, but from my far-less notable-self in another discussion today:

> [H]uman exuberance is riding on the (questionable) idea that a really good text-correlation specialist can effectively impersonate a general AI.

> Even worse: Some people assume an exceptional text-specialist model will effectively meta-impersonate a generalist model impersonating a different kind of specialist!
Public internet access did coincide with appearance of 14.4kbit/s modems here (Serbia) yet 9600 "baud" was actually more common, but you still rarely got that speed out of them.

Still, I don't ever remember needing hours to download a tiny wav file (though I mostly looked for MIDI music as that was long songs in a few kb).
Always has been. 62 deaths, about half during initial testing and development. Over 33 years, that's averaging nearly 1.9 deaths per year. And these aren't combat deaths (like an aircraft brought down by enemy fire). Mostly training and exercises.

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