skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except here the out is not commons if I understand correctly.

EDIT: might be cc, non commercial
> It's not that SQL is substantially better than QUEL, it's that QUEL was not substantially better than SQL.

You seem to have your own point backwards, unless you have failed to make one. The premise you gave, at least as I understand it, is that there is no reason to put in the effort in moving away from SQL because nothing else is substantially better. So, by the same token, unless SQL was substantially better than QUEL, there should have been no reason for Postgres to put in the effort to make the same transition.

Which implies that SQL was substantially better. The question was: In what way?

> I can't think of an example where one of these newer query languages actually solve bugs

Perhaps because you are getting hung up on newer? They need not even be newer. The most glaring bug-inducing "problem"[1] of SQL was already recognized and solved by the original database querying language, Alpha.

[1] Problem might not be the right framing, but I lack a better word. There is no problem if you write perfect queries every single time. But, like C, it opens opportunities for making mistakes that could have been made impossible with a different design.
Fifteen years ago, I wasn't hostile and I am not hostile now. However, now I really don't care about Gnome at all. As I mentioned, I wouldn't mind if they went under. That's not wishing for their downfall; it's simply indifference.

You need to work on your reading comprehension because you're twisting everyone's words in your comments, not just mine.
before the US entered WWII the british had an office of propaganda with offices in New York that was dedicated to getting the US to enter the war.
Thank God you're protecting us from what you do not find interesting.
This was number one post two mins back bu now it is vanishing into oblivion
SEC Hedge Fund Fee Disclosure Rule Struck Down by US Court
I find the quiet hum they make very unsettling
> 'winget'

IMO the main purpose for WinGet was to kill AppGet because MS doesn't want a 3rd party to control the package repository for an easy to use distribution system.

As far as I can tell, custom WinGet repos need to be run on Azure, so MS basically has a stranglehold on distribution. If you publish anything they don't like they can label you as being malicious and ban your Azure account. Regardless, the friction to running your own repo is high and most people will capitulate and submit their apps to the official repo for approval (by MS).

Big tech has been relentlessly locking down software distribution for the last decade and killing everything but the Windows Store, WinGet, etc. has to be a long term goal for MS.
I have no idea why you're getting downvoted.

Unlike the game of go where AI can try random stuff and see what works, it's not possible with general knowledge.

GenAI is destined to know at most what humanity knows, and we can already see that it has terrible reasoning capabilities. GenAI is not going to hit a wall, it already has.
I would have assumed Rupert Sheldrake would be completely taboo to most on HN, so I'm glad to see your comment voted highly! His telepathy "pseudo" scientific work is what he often leads into with any discussions of fields, and this was my favorite talk he gave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS1Drlyr37Q
> I think one of the challenges (and let's be really clear, Boeing has MANY issues) is that there's a double standard (or at least different expectations).

> How many SpaceX rockets and failures have there been? (And that's not a knock on SpaceX, either - this stuff is hard. Combining precision and technology with 'controlled explosion' is going to be a challenge).

IMO, this really misunderstands the two kinds of "tests".

SpaceX is engaged in a development program. And as a part of that development program, they're doing test flights to discover how to properly build Starship. Those flights are expected to fail in various ways. The exact way they fail gives SpaceX vital information that's used to improve the rocket.

A big part of the reason SpaceX is doing this is because simulation and modeling have a limited ability to give good answers to questions about novel behaviors when it comes to rockets - the speeds and just too high. And the only way to find the true unknown unknowns is to interact with reality.

In contrast, Starliner's tests are supposed to be demonstrations that the system is complete, functional, and ready for service. They are not supposed to have anything wrong with them at all.

It's worth pointing out that Boeing chose to do less testing and more paperwork as part of Starliner's certification. If Boeing had done an in-flight abort test instead of a pad abort test like SpaceX did, they probably would have caught the OFT-1 problems then.
Your post is complete hype, all about people saying things instead of showing things that've actually been done.

For me, 2024 was the LLM exposed as basically pure hype year.

There is no expert of any field I follow online where they're posting up results from AI tooling for any other reason than to show how awful it is. I consider myself an expert in software, and LLMs specifically have only caused me great pain.

Even the one situation where you describe someone describing the ability to work in an absolute vacuum sounds like a huge negative to me. The recent push for DEI policies were even ostensibly about the importance of people of diverse backgrounds and viewpoints working together.

The most important thing you're missing a perspective of scale on is the step you describe as "quality check it". On things I don't know, and have attempted to enlist an LLMs help on, in every case I have had to go back and just actually learn how something works, after time wasted struggling with subtle wrongness in the output.

At least I have the background expertise to do that, however, I have seen a Jr dev's mind get literally rotted by too much time in pure LLM land. Besides the cost of rewriting their code, the company was now the proud owner of a young dev with a mind filled with nonsense.

How do you even weigh the cost of fixing a corrupted human mind?
Retail for one, all under the mask of “AI”. Just google “pricing optimization software”.

https://www.trustradius.com/pricing-optimization
Announcement notice: https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-ai-kit-availab...
You are simply underlining my point that your perspective is disproportionately (and inappropriately, in this context) focused on the Starship program, which is completely irrelevant to NASA's Commercial Crew program.

It's true that SpaceX enjoys more latitude to destroy test hardware in its private development programs that aren't funded with somebody else's money (public or private), but why is that relevant here? Commercial Crew was funded by NASA with public money, and SpaceX developed Dragon 2 in a relatively conservative and conventional program with NASA looking over their shoulder the whole time. There is no double standard.
Vahrenkamp's discovery of living stromatolites on Sheybarah Island is a big deal for anyone interested in ancient life. It’s amazing to see how these organisms, which were some of the first to oxygenate our planet, are still around in extreme environments. This find could teach us much about how life began and survived on Earth. Plus, the idea of growing stromatolites in an aquarium and studying them up close is pretty exciting.I wonder what it would take to commercialize these organisms to the general public.
Speaking of free speech, can you name another foreign interest that has managed to make it illegal in the US to boycott it's companies?
My reading (grain of salt, I'm not a lawyer) is that receiving a password from the person who owns that password is likely to always fall into "validly obtained" and be considered fair dealing

However the ruling leaves open the possibilty to find other forms of password sharing to be considered invalid. We'd have to see if something like a "My friend shared his friend's password with me without his friend knowing" would continue to be "valid"

Stolen passwords are almost certainly "invalid

If we think about it like house keys, entering someone's home with a stolen key is likely illegal. Entering a home with a key they lent you is fine. Entering a key that you obtained from someone who is allowed to have the key but not explicitly allowed to share the key is a grey area
For auto-immune diseases, the question is always whether suppressing over-activity will cause more disease than it prevents.

In this case, the pathway affects macrophages, leucocyte activation and migration, and production of 3 inter-leukin's and other cytokines -- which doesn't offer much hope at avoiding off-target effects. As they mention, this gene is shared as far back as other proto-humans, so it's likely essential.

And they didn't really need this finding to consider targeting (toxic) MEK at macrophages using antibodies, particularly since GI drugs can be made relatively non-absorbable, further reducing off-target effects. But since these are chronic diseases with wide variations between patients of severity and tissue involvement, and since macrophage activity is relatively acute, the narrow therapeutic range of a MEK-based drug is far from ideal: too much opportunity for overdose.

So I hope this stimulates more investigation of the ETS2-mediated pathways, but I don't hold out much hope for a MEK + Ab drug for IBD.
Does WarpBuild offer discounts for nonprofits/FOSS?
Sigh:

Stable Audio Open is an open source text-to-audio model [...]

License: https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stable-audio-open-1.0/blo...

STABILITY AI NON-COMMERCIAL RESEARCH COMMUNITY LICENSE AGREEMENT

Stability are one of the worse offenders for abusing the term "open source" at the moment.
It would probably become a lot more possible if we could get this "SLS/Orion with frickin' Starship as a lunar lander Rube Goldberg machine" monkey off our backs.
put my name down for one of them.

I could do with a new head.

I fancy myself as a bit of a Worzel Gummidge type.

Maybe Aunt Sally will marry me if i've got a few heads
You're right, but just want to dispute the claim that NYTimes is somehow Israeli propaganda - I think it's clearly not.
'Land of opportunity': USA is cricket's bold new frontier once again
Also, "do what people want" is fine for your interactions with an individual. But it's not a viable general rule for language, where we need one single approach. I think saying gypsy unless someone personally tells you they would rather you don't call them a gypsy is perfectly reasonable.
If we ever get to heavy industrialization of lunar resources, how are we going to deal with the CO2 footprint of rockets?
> As soon as I asked "are you giving me instructions for Gemini Advanced or Bard?" it was like "OH LOL WOOPS!! YOU GOT ME BRO! XD I CAN'T DO ANY OF THAT! LOL." Which, honestly, is great. Being able to evaluate its answers to realize it's wrong is really neat.

Did it evaluate its answers, or did your expression of doubt cause the eager-to-please language model to switch from "generate (wrong) instructions because that's what the user asked for" to "acknowledge an error because that's what the user asked for"?

How many times have we seen "Oops, you're right! 2 + 2 is actually 5! I apologize for saying it was 4 earlier!"
Can you provide a link? I have been unable to find any report of Putin's expressing such a disbelief.

I did find a report that "a former chief of Russian space agency Roscosmos has voiced doubt over the authenticity of the 1969 Apollo 11 Moon landing", but of course that is not the same thing:

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/russia-s-former-space-chief-...
On the other side of town where I live, billboards appeared with slogans like "Be pro-Semitic." This happened almost immediately after the latest conflict involving Israel began. So I can't just be against anti-Semites, but I have to be pro Jewish ethnicity? Interesting. There was also one stating that anti-zionism is anti-Semitic; I guess my Jewish friends and family who are not Zionists didn't get the memo.

I can't prove that these are somehow connected to funding from Israel, but it seemed like these billboards were ready to go at a moment's notice.

As far as why we deem foreign propaganda as acceptable, I like to think that we play dumb about it in part so we can strategically point it out when it is in the favor of politicians and/or elites. Remember how Russian propaganda supposedly got Trump elected even though it was going on during prior years when the establishment insisted on the integrity of the elections? On the other hand, maybe we are just dumb.
The major breakthrough is that perhaps a genetic test will be able to identify you. That perhaps there's a drug in a decade from now that might help?
BSE, CHX, MS4X, NSX, PHLX and more? NYSE & NASDAQ aren't the only players in the US equities exchange market. NYSE & NASDAQ are merely the 2 largest players in a very large field. And that's _just_ equities. Get into commodities or options and other derivatives and there's even more.

Also, not being listed on NYSE or NASDAQ doesn't mean you're any less of a reputable company. There's some real shit listed on both.
When a sitting President is banned for political speech and at the behest of partisan narrative, that's anti-democratic authoritarianism. Sorry, "anti-authoritarianism" doesn't mean that unelected people with the power to ban have equal democratic mandate with an elected president. In terms of possessing a democratically acceptable ability to restrict a communication channel widely treated as The Commons. Those who banned him were given full political cover, if not a mandate, by POTUS's political opponents and an unelected hostile media. Without which there would have been too much "norm" respecting political pressure to accomplish.

I have nothing backwards and your wordplay is overly simplistic and wrong, to be polite about it.
The big one off the top of my head:

Dream Chaser flies in a fairing for aerodynamic reasons. In order to fly crew (so that the vehicle could have a working launch abort system), they'd need to figure out how to fly without a fairing.
Free idea because I’m never going to get around to building it:
An “AI 8 track” app; click record and hum a melody, then add a prompt and click generate. The model converts your input to an instrument matching your prompt, keeping the same notes/rhythm you hummed in the original. Record up to 8 tracks and do some simple mixing.

Would be a truly amazing thing for sketching songs! All you need is decent humming/singing/whistling pitch. Hum and generate a bass line, guitar lead, strings, etc. And then sing over it - would make solo musicians able to sketch out a song far easier than transcribing melody to a piano roll.
> The real problem here isn't the POTUS repeating some rumour that was going around.

It wasn't “a rumor going around”, it was Israeli state propaganda which both started and continued for a long timw to be pushed by Israeli state organs (official sources like the Foreign Ministry, not just proxies.)
>Imagine working on something for over a decade only to see it fly just 7 times!

Huh? My understanding was that something unique about the falcon is the capability of multiple reuses, in contrast to previous missions that were one and done uses. What past experience in the history of spaceflight might someone be referring to where seven reuses registers as a disappointment?
I've posted about this here before but the thing I do it type out a single easy thing I need to do directly in the code so it breaks the syntax. Then the next day I can read the note, delete or comment it out to fix the syntax and then implement the thing. It is a good dopamine boost right out of the gate.
Are there Linux or BSD boxes with ADSL or DOCSIS physical layers present? I use a separate modem and router, as do most people in the US that are not renting equipment from their ISP.
To make any progress on this question at all, we need first to come up with some definition of internal monologue. Even if we may need to modify it later, there has to be a starting point.

Otherwise, nothing can be established at all, because for any statement there always will be someone's understanding of "internal monologue" for which the statement is true, and someone's else understanding for which the statement is false...
We could also learn to live within the means of our ecology.
Wait until you read up on NUMEC and Rafael Eitan.
I would imagine (a) keep watch over the lunar atomics and (b) fend off PLA officers stationed there permanently after Chang'e-42.
I don’t think that’s true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/feb/16/instagram-...
So you're just going to ignore the 5 years of continuous training? I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.
MMLU is not a reasoning benchmark. It's a measure of how distributed and representative their training data was and how well it's able to recall (for lack of a better word) based on training epochs.

GPQA etc. test reasoning in some form, and you see the drastic change in score between the two for every model.
Empirical influence functions to understand the logic of fine-tuning
It wasn't obvious to me that this only had 16 possible beats so I kept trying to input triplets and it didn't work. I was very confused and thought there was some awful latency or something else odd like that.
I'm using this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08Z3XDYQ7/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...
It’s answered in the opening paragraph although I’ll admit I’m still unclear.

> We are committed to keeping your data safe through end-to-end encryption and to making Coder easy to run across a wide variety of systems from client laptops and desktops to VMs, containers, and bare metal. If we used the TCP implementation in the OS, we’d need a way for the TCP packets to get from the operating system back into Coder for encryption. This is called a TUN device in unix-style operating systems and creating one requires elevated permissions, limiting who can run Coder and where. Asking for elevated permissions inside secure clusters at regulated financial enterprises or top secret government networks is at best a big delay and at worst a nonstarter.

The specific part that’s unclear is why encryption needs to be applied at the TCP layer and at that point if they need it at the transport layer why they’re not using something like QUIC which has a much more mature user-space implementation.
This sounds like the harder problem.
I am not an astronaut. I prefer knobs. As my comment said, I think of them as a feature. I think the average astronaut would put up with their lack of preferred control schemes to go into space.
allsides.com has done reviews of the fact checking websites. The last one for Snopes was in 2021, it says:

"We reviewed the numerous instances of Snopes' left-wing bias that we found during our June 2020 Editorial Review, such as slant. We also noted a number of times that Snopes had recently interpreted things in favor of the left, including when it "fact checked" a subjective opinion on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), when it defended Gov. Andrew Cuomo by saying an accurate tweet about him was "Mostly False," and when it "fact-checked" satire from humor website The Babylon Bee (an entry Snopes then had to edit following criticism)."

-- https://www.allsides.com/news-source/snopes

They claim Snopes has a "Lean Left" bias.
This line of propaganda is kind of infuriating. Separate from this incident, Israel bombed afaik every hospital in Gaza. They claimed Hamas was operating inside them or under them and produced absolutely zero credible evidence of it. They killed a lot of doctors and patients. But if they start out polluting minds with the claim that one time at the Al Ahli parking lot, there was an Islamic Jihad rocket once, they then by extension use that to imply that Hamas is somehow responsible for all the deaths in hospitals that happen by Israeli hands on every other day.
You are right, there's not enough time to filter a bad hire. Not enough time to fully vet anyone during an interview. We can work a challenge together to see how you work collaboratively
That wouldn't prevent one off extinction type events like asteroids. We can improve our understanding of ecology by trying to design such systems for lunar colony artificial biospheres.

I do agree that we should better manage our impact on the only system that we know works.
This is an article from 2017. Hardly relevant.
> meaningless data

Things like .git and .ssh not are not meaningless data even though they are not in ~/.config/ssh/ or ~/.local/shared/git.
It produces decent audio, but something unpleasant about its high frequencies. And no voices, it doesn't seem to talk or sing.

Udio, so far, is undefeated.

And ElevenLabs' music demos were very very impressive, but it's still not released.
Hi saw this listed on slack search relevance channel. I'm a search engineer with 10+ years of experience on Solr and Fusion. I'm at linkedin.com/in/robipete and would love to share my CV

thx
Robi
That's literally the SLS.
Boeing's Starliner reaches orbit in first crewed mission to ISS
Turning the Met into a multimodal vector database of art
UK tribunal greenlights $17.4B advertising monopoly case against Google
Forgive a bit of ignorance on this, but it seems cool and I want some clarifying questions.

If I want to send SMS to a bunch of people, can I hook this into a self-hosted Asterisk server or something? Or does this have its own SMS gateway? Or am I forced to use a third party dealio like Twilio?
> To be fair, most people aren't really looking for super high-signal info anyway.

This is the charitable interpretation. It's not that people are necessarily dumb or that "the algorithm" is trying to appeal to the lowest common denominator. It's that the vast majority of the time, people are "engaging" with the Internet in order to seek out entertainment in the first place.

The world wide web began its life as the promise of unlimited information at our fingertips. But most people who need to engage in "serious" academic research on a topic are going directly to specialized sources for that information that they are already familiar with and trust. Even on the Internet, websites like StackOverflow come to mind when it comes to software development. But more often than not I'm going back to text books, be it for algorithms or design patterns or what have you.

When I'm taking time to engage with the web, even here right now on Hacker News, it's because I'm taking a break. I'm not engaged in any specific productive endeavour at the moment. I'm looking to fill my time and unwind until I'm back to work and chores.

I used to think about this when I considered why there is so much hate and outrage on social media. My theory is that people are on social media because they're on a break, or they just got home, or they just got their kids to sleep and all they want to do is look at cute cat gifs or watch TikTok videos or whatever. Then the news feed shoves a bunch of stuff in their face that they disagree with or find contrarian, because they're most likely to engage with it, and the fact that they're tired and not in the mood to have a well reasoned conversation goes a long way towards triggering that outburst.

It's a cliche truism to say that the algorithms are giving people want they want. I think what people want most of the time is entertainment and "easy reading/watching." And so there is far more of that than anything else.
Eglin Air Force Base and their involvement with Reddit...
Used sans metronome, I can see its appeal. That is, cool grooves in the studio may be related to low listener expectations. I mean, J Dylla grooves are cool precisely because they violate listener expectations. Funk is the art of surprise.

However, with metronome, it is unusable on a Chromebook from USA. Getting my ictus to agree with the metronome was impossible, presumably because the latency from the key press to the recording of the event vs. the sounding of the metronome. I'm guessing the author knows this.