skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don’t necessarily get offered it, you demand it as a term. If it’s a “hot startup” you pick and choose your investors so if some don’t like it they can walk.
"The difference between science and screwing around is writing it down"

-- Adam Savage
SQLite is not weakly typed, it's flexibly typed [video]
If you claim not to have encountered it despite its prevalence, nothing will convince you. Especially as you already demonstrated your willingness to misinterpret what I claimed in the first place.
Such a waste of water
Very good channel!
Most apps are almost useless without an internet connection as well. Maybe if youre a content heavy site, it would be useful offline too but in that case, using static HtML is enough
Thanks! I'll ask the next time I'm in the store then. So far, the only such inconspicuous document I ever found lying around in a supermarket was a binder with a list of allergens for products in the meat and pastry sections.
> Remotion is pretty good, but we didn’t want to rely on it as it is not FOSS (source-available only).

Noob question :
How would you explain in the simplest form the difference between FOSS and source-available.
In other words, what does Remotion do not have that would make it FOSS?
> The United States Library of Congress recognizes SQLite as a recommended storage format for preservation of digital content.

That’s one hell of an endorsement.
> It's nothing to do with finding you "disagreeable". It's pretty basic etiquette when having a conversation.

Please tell me more about this etiquette while calling me a foodstuff.

Indeed Covid is the unrelated topic, my opening words: Regardless of where you stand on Covid ...the original reasons for draconian law enforcement meant to be temporary are long gone..

The mentality however remains. I can only hope not permanently.

Not litigating the past, talking about the present. I say this with all sincerity, come back tomorrow perhaps and reread the exchange with fresh eyes.

> I'm not really sure why you think I would be your border guard, or how you assume I would treat a person in that scenario even if I was?

You would with some probability jump to conclusions that I'm part of the outgroup and treat me with a heavyhand as demonstrated by this whole exchange. These are not good vibes, hence, unpleasant and disappointing enough for me to steer clear. And I'm quite sure you are more reasonable than the typical border agent.

> in my experience the assumption by foreigners (typically Americans but probably not exclusively) that Australians are all "hopping mad" about the government reaction to COVID is vastly overblown

Wonderful, what does that have to do with this foreigner? Are you starting to understand the issue?
What are those minimal tools to you?
You don't need feed crops for meat. Historically people used marginal land where crops don't grow to graze animals. (And there is a lot of marginal land, even with modern fertilizers.)

Anything else makes no economic sense.
46 here and broadly experienced across multiple stacks. My last job ended 3 months ago and the market has been rough in the US at least. I struggle to get interviews. It’s not just you.
Gorilla, belgian startup that helps energy providers crunch big data raises $25M
Thank you - amazing information.

These System/360 descendants were programmed in languages I've never heard of, such as JOVIAL and HAL/S. It feels that people were having all the CS fun in the 70s and didn't have to deal with the garbage pile of Javascript, "Modern" C++, flaky frameworks etc. Am I romanticizing?
Turbo Sparse: Achieving LLM SOTA Performance with Minimal Activated Parameters
> nonce and use a random one

Recently discussed: "Galois/Counter Mode and random nonces" (28.05.2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40497525
That's not common? I was under the impression that everyone hires at least a lawyer to get through the paper work.
What problems did you encounter with something like https://ui.toast.com/tui-editor? Which is much more featureful than simplemde.
Reminiscences of the VLSI Revolution – Lynn Conway [pdf]
Hope they can keep their focus on simplicity, usability and developer experience now that they're beholden to the whims of their shareholders.
So how can one start with doing something useful with this sort of things. Let’s say I have backend experience, some spare cash and time to try to get into embedded
Take a look at the Sync and Merge section of the readme [1]. I tried to explain it in details.

[1] https://github.com/computing-den/unforget?tab=readme-ov-file...
There are lies and there are "lies" waiting to be truths. If you can back it up on the fly, what's the harm?
AFAIK git has pluggable diff and merge engines. I wonder if it would be possible to create a diff/merge git plugin for sqlite files that does an intermediate conversion to .sql dump files, with some kind of serialisation normalisation so that rows are output in a stable order between runs.
They indeed are - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_pepper

Ha, what do you know!

I was dead sure that they were bred by that crazy mad dude from Carolina, Ed Currie, but apparently he just improved on nature's existing work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Currie
In many places, this can be substracted from taxes, effectively slashing 35-40% of the cost where I live. So does almost all renovation costs (not upgrades though, just repairs).

Also, where I live 7% wasn't the case in past 20 years, and even now its rather 1.5% + whatever bank puts on.
"The social network formerly known as Twitter". At least when in polite company.
If you want a good head start with SQLite, Aaron Francis and Stephen Margheim are 2 big voices in the space that have helped me learn a ton!
Does that mean there's an opportunity for increasing performance by bringing collections of gates into scope for optimization? Or does that not actually let you decrease transistors very much?
My niece, 3yo, at the zoo, spent about 30 seconds trying to figure out whether a pig was a cat or a car.
Can't let anyone know/feel how we've been drip-fed improvements for personal enrichment
On Linux for screen recording I use Peek and I really like the approach

You just resize Peek‘s transparent window over the part of the screen that you want and hit record

https://github.com/phw/peek
Why is AGI important? I am worried we will create something slightly better than drosophila and put it in charge of all human-wide decision making...
Commonly believed, but not so: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/02/070220021337.h...

I heard a similar case before I did my A-levels, so at least 22 years ago, where the person had cateracts removed and it took a while to learn to see, something about having to touch a statue (of a monkey?) before being able to recognise monkeys?
Please do you have in mind a sample of this content oriented for younger generations? Thanks for your time and consideration.
As Big Tech eyes the carbon market, will it work this time?
Your complaint that jobs are for the specific tech stack is spot on. Employers are currently treating every job as a specialization. It's a combination of a filtering technique (because there are too many candidates for every job right now) and complete stupidity (Because there are too many options for tech stacks so that, sometimes, your pool is very shallow indeed).

I'm older than you are and have been out of work for longer than ever before in my life. BUT I finally got a decent offer and will be starting a new job soon. There is hope.
This is assuming only actors with good intent enter the market. A number of coding bootcamps are terrible and saddle students with even more useless debt.
I just use ImageMagick's "import", and if I need to annotate the screenshot I have a shortcut to screenshot and open it in gimp.
Of course you're right about today's LLMs, but the author imagines a not-too-unlikely incremental improvement on them unlocking an entirely new surface area of solutions.

I really enjoyed the notion of barefoot developers, local first solutions, and the desire to wrest control over our our digital lives from the financialists.

I find these ideas compelling, even though I'm politically anti-communist.

The presentation was also quite lovely.
You can't back up lies on the fly. You're contradicting yourself now.
Scientists engineer human antibodies that could neutralize black widow toxin
Nope! That’s what the write-ahead log (WAL) is for: https://www.sqlite.org/wal.html

Of course, if you experience scaling issues there (you probably won’t if it’s anything less than enterprise-level usage), you can always just add a second db file!
> The goal of the CAESAR competition [1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAESAR_Competition
The thing is, low level types can already be inferred by the operators anyway. That’s what dialyzer does and it catches most things.

For the rest of it, you have a conversation where the benefits of full static typing don’t exist in a distributed environment. Example, you’re making function calls to other nodes in the cluster and the node is updated while your code is running potentially changing the function call. You won’t get the chance to do a contract exchange live with other nodes, recompile and examine results.

Instead, you have to pattern match on the parts you care about just like with an API call to a server you don’t control.

Even with Gleam, static typing only protects your node. In a distributed environment you can’t validate everything and on the BEAM everything is a distributed environment.

Once you accept this, you realize that the benefit of static typing simply doesn’t exist here.
Thank God someone said this. Of course it is stressfull, there is no free lunch. If you can't take the heat just dont enter into a such top-heavy game.
> Also, more importantly, the password database is not stored in some server God knows where.

Well..
I do not trust the current tech bros at all for very, very good reasons even with the current so called "AI" much less with AGI. We shouldn't work towards that until we have fixed the incentives and ethics. This is very hard but think any dystopia and multiply it by a thousand if we were to reach AGI any time soon. Luckily we are not. As Doctorow put it, no matter how good you breed horses they won't give birth to a locomotive.
Japan, Italy and Germany are prominent example of this demographic problem. It is very obvious in japan that the country is struggling with increase cost of pension and Healthcare with the shrinking of workforce.
At this point OCB has an expired patent, and only needs one pass over the data:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCB_mode
This is one of the reasons I get annoyed at services that require a phone number for an account.

As such, I am never going to switch to Telegram or Signal unless you let me have an account that's not tied to a number. I've lost shit in the past because of this, a phone number is only a temporary identifier.
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Something people often miss in threads about this:

> Raspberry Pi Ltd, the public company, is the commercial subsidiary of the Raspberry Pi Foundation.
As somebody with very little understanding of the business world: why would a seemingly successful organisation like this become a public company? What benefits are there?
>> Putin wrote a fancy paper long ago about his aspirin

Explain?
How to make money with data (DaaS)
The annotate/draw in-place in flameshot just made me convert from spectacle.

Also on i3 spectacle is sometimes buggy, it misfires or loses the capture.
The mark of a good post!
1 Interview time
- if the interviewer schedule the interview time out of office hour (like 8PM or 10PM), it's likely overtime is a common thing for them

2. Interviewer asking template questions and doesn't show any interest
- if interviewer asking those basic questions and don't understand even what the job means, it's a sign that they don't even bother, they are just there to filter you

3. Interviewer pushing for the interview ASAP
- it's very likely the position is needed as soon as possible, sometimes this could be something really serious and they are hiring someone to put out the fire, sometimes it's already a crisis and they expect someone to save the day
Most dishwashers can be programmed to operate on half loads, making them viable even for single house holds
Sure, Russia that exports nuclear power plants and processes 50% of the world's uranium wants to get others' off of nuclear energy, when it's the energy source they have the tightest grip on.
As much as I love rasps (think I’ve got a dozen or so) I struggle to see their moat.

They certainly have an edge on ecosystem and software polish but it’s pretty slim.

I’ve got a mixed k8s cluster - half rasps half orange pi…and I’m having more issues on the rasp side.
I wrote about the AI stock market craze in my blog https://learningquant.com/blog/202406/invest-ai-stocks/ The TLDR is that the market will come down once it becomes clearer how the technology can actually improve productivity.
Bikebeamer Adds POV Display to Bicycle Wheels
Great work. Would it be possible to use the model with other tools like piper that are more lightweight?
I'm not in the US, but I've not heard of this.

My 60Gb can be consumed by YouTube, HN or tethering. It doesn't really matter to them.

Is this common in other countries?
"new state apparatus in place. Political parties were banned, and a governing council had been elected..a military force was chartered"

Yeah, how does this work? This sounds more like civil war. Admittedly, one side of the war staying to themselves. But, also, break down of any overall government.

If Idaho suddenly did this people would freak out, would call it communism, and attack.
I also wrote to Chomsky and got a reply, once. It seems he really replied to anyone who emailed him. It's amazing how he could do that.

But, look here. He's 95 years old and just had a stroke. He's not going to get well soon, or at all.
How many plants do you need to breathe? [video]
This would make sense as the answer if there were sky high prices for time sensitive things but much lower for things that don't need to be done right now.

My impression of US health care is everything involving a hospital being expensive.
I mostly agree about a certain layer of semantics in our 'normal' programming languages. And most of the time, that level is good and good enough. But whether eg certain compiler optimisations kick in or not is sometimes much harder to forecast.

Btw, currently I wouldn't even dare to compare LLMs to compilers. For me the relevant comparison would be to 'Googling StackOverflow': really important tools for a programmer, but nothing you can rely on to give you good code. Nevertheless they are tools whose mastery is an important skill.

Remember how in yesteryears we complained about people copy-and-pasting from StackOverflow? Just like today we complain about people committing the output of their LLM directly.

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I do hope that mechanical assistance in programming keeps improving over time. I have quite a few tricky technical problems that I would like to see solved in my lifetimes.
Retail trading starts on Friday morning.
Good. An AI will probably do a better job than our politicians and disillusioned voters.
Can you explain what you mean about needing to be careful about it?
Better access to external funding, for one.
I think it's the same reason Windows feels easier than Linux to manage software in, or why Docker has the extremely fast and wide adoption it enjoys, or why so many of us hate working with modern web stack.

Windows software is often enough "portable executables" that can run off the folder they were unzipped into, and historically, even installed apps could often enough be copy-pasted from their installation folder into another machine and Just Work (it was helpful, in particular, that all the DLL files lived next to the executable instead of being installed system-wide).

Docker, obviously, because it eliminates all the bullshit of installing software - again, especially painful on Linux systems - and gives you a single file that drives it all. The platform itself may be system-wide, but the thing you care about: individual software - is contained (literally) so it doesn't spill out. Easy to reason about.

Modern web stack is a mess of tooling, some of which system-wide (so people will reach for Docker to contain it all!), with huge version churn and lots of moving pieces. Source code of your app doesn't feel like a major component of it; it's useless and unparseable without chains of finicky tooling. That's in contrast to "vanilla JS", old-school experience, where source files were the only thing that mattered. No transpilation, no build chains. You could fire a site up straight from your hard drive, or FTP/SCP it to a file host, and It Would Just Work.

Same with SQLite. To this day I don't like RDBMSes, because they're a system-level platform designed for admins, while all I care about is the RDB part. My database. SQLite maps conceptually to how I think about it - one database, one file (+/- WAL). One well-defined place my data lives, that I can move around and between machines using regular file operation tools.

Etc.

Files over apps, always.

EDIT:

This also makes me very eager to try doing something with RedBean[0] - a webserver in a single Actually Portable Executable[1] that's also a ZIP file into which you put all the data you want it to serve. A turn-key website in a single file!

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[0] - https://redbean.dev/

[1] - https://justine.lol/ape.html
Is SQLite the best solution for on-device logs?
Elixir 1.17 released: set-theoretic types in patterns, durations, OTP 27
Am I missing some context? Where is it "recounted with such enthusiasm"?

Edit: These are both brand new accounts created within a minute of each other. Is this some strange act from one person/bot? Or, maybe both coming from the same external source that I'm unaware of.
This is the resource curse in a very reduced and local setting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse
People didn't care much about politics (and distant future in general), and voted in populists, who basically destroyed the economy.
It allows the company to raise money and existing shareholders to cash out or at least to turn their shares into liquid ones (that they can sell easily), with a "real" market value.

In this case, the article says that they've raised $200 million, which means they sold new shares as part of the IPO.
This makes no sense, it would be more akin to buying a meal and only being allowed to eat noodles with the left side of the mouth.

You paid for X amount of data, why does it matter if you are using it for a work VPN or browsing HN?
I was aware something along these lines was going on when a profitless not-quite-unicorn (and still private & profitless 6 years later) startup founder bought the nicest penthouse apartment in my building some years ago... and then spent more money gut renovating it.

It wasn't Adam Neumann sized liquidity but certainly mid single digit millions at least. His company meanwhile has floundered with wave after wave of layoffs post ZIRP era.
Humans don't need those examples because our brains are very pretrained. Natural fear of snakes and snakelike things, etc etc.

ML models are starting from absolute zero, single celled organism level.
> Current models take a nuclear reactors worth of power to run back prop on top of a small countries GDP worth of hardware.

Nice one. Perhaps we are to conclude the whole transformer architecture is amazingly overblown in storage/computation costs.

AGI or not, we need better approach to what transformers are doing.
Raspberry Pi Goes Public
Maybe not the best source considering his own hubris got him killed.

To paraphrase another 2023 film: "That Russian a-hole is going down. What's he gonna do, snow on me?" -- Napoleon
Tool to analyse leetcode compensations (India: Jan-Jul'24)
What makes one subsidy fair and another unfair?
I only ever bought Pis because it was a mission focused company.

Now that they are in stock-price-go-up mode, I am inclined to buy and promote cheap clones, and I expect most will feel the same.
> Reminds me of the alleged magic power of Facebook ads to eg swing elections.

... but the preferred candidates of the founders of Facebook and Google etc still losing elections. (I'm fairly sure comparative technocrats like Mitt Romney or Michael Bloomberg and so on would be more to their liking than the people who are actual front-runners in the elections.)
It's the old "why train an employee (or let them learn on the job) if they could quit and go to our competitors" coupled with employee loyalty to the company going down (probably to match low company loyalty to employee levels) and companies want people pre-trained and ready to go. It's up to the employee to ask for a premium for this, and most can't.

So you're not wrong. It's where things are going not only in software engineering but other professions as well.
rqlite isn't competing with Postgres since postgres does not provide any mechanism for highly available + serializable consistency and that's what rqlite gives you.

Postgres does have replication out of the box but it has a bunch of limitations meaning you have to manage it yourself (ddl isn't replicated I think). And the replication will not get you strict serializability.
Name recognition? You know exactly what you get, which isn't necessarily true for the bajilion clones out there. You know that if you buy an rPi, you can buy a replacement tomorrow and it will work the same. In a world where I can't even rebuy a laptop of the same make and model a few months later that's quite the advantage.
Brainrot
it would be great if you will mention what LLMs users can use or in your initial setup :)
The algorithm probably and correctly noticed that all men in general have trouble not clicking on scantly clad booty posts.
" the EU based automotive companies and their tactics because in the last 5 years we've seen extreme price increases (25%+) " We have seen price increases on the EV market in general. So why focus on EU based one?
That sounds great but how do you deal with the fact that robots require mass-produced electronics and the infrastructure for those is currently in the hands of, well, let's say not anarcho-communists?

How about the environmental costs of all that automation?

Is there a realistic path for getting to what you propose from where we are now?

[Edit: realistic in the sense that e.g. the Alcubierre drive is possible but requires exotic matter, therefore "not realistic").
danger signals, or what constitutes a dangerous situation, changes from country to country. so if you hop on a jet, drive to some area out and about, it would be easy to be somewhere you are in danger and not realize it.

i had a co-worker from another country talk about going somewhere in an american city, and we were all like 'dude you could have died', he shrugged, said it didn't seem bad.
Stuff is worse now (2023)
Cybercriminal threats are mainly from a few countries
> do people really believe GPT-4 was trained with more data than a 4 year old?

I think it was; the guesstimate I've seen is GPT-4 was trained on 13e12 tokens, that over 4 years is 8.9e9/day or about 1e5/s.

Then it's a question of how many bits per token — my expectation is 100k/s is more than the number of token-equivalents we experience, even though it's much less than the bitrate even of just our ears let alone our eyes.
We have a similar conundrum for coffee, and the "this coffee is ethically good" handling is just complicated. It works at super small scale, for extra invested people. The bigger the scale becomes, the murkier it is, and at some point a vendor is just selling a label with not much reality behind it.