skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve been doing some reasonably serious playing with the idea of using jsonb columns as a kind of front end to relational tables. So basically, external interactions with the database are done using JSON, which gives end users some flexibility, but internally we effectively create a realtime materialised view of just those properties we need from the json.

Anyone else tried this approach? Anything I should know about it?
Ignoring the tone of the other poster, the point they are making is that there is no clear value for indentation markers in a (unified) diff view, which is based around lines being removed and added.

Similarly, you might not even see braces for the corresponding block, so the braces-vs-spaces is not really a win for "braces".

However, I am guessing you are mostly using side-by-side diff view (as opposed to unified diff view), which might have some value to indicate indentation change for a bigger chunk of the code. But again, if you are not seeing where the block starts or ends with braces in the diff block, why is whitespace in any way "worse"?
Anyone else live in a Jupyter QtConsole?
Again, returning to the "it's not the internet itself, but the content on it" thing.

Facebook and microblogs use the same infra and can be accessed via the same means (web browser, etc).

At least from anecdotal experience, the really good stuff has been getting easier to find through IRL-ish means, like asking a colleague for the invite link.

I haven't really seen behind the invite veil much, since I'm about as far as it gets from someone cool you'd want in your group chat, but from what I've seen, "good" things are happening and thoughts are thought. It's just happening in private.

There were comments or an article somewhere about someone being sad about "very deep technical discussions being held on discord servers and that knowledge being ultimately lost". I don't think it's that bad of a thing though since that knowledge was never intended for the public and being ultimately lost and forgotten is what the people writing said messages are expecting of it. Certainly, as a person, I care more about myself having less of a digital papertrail than someone in the indefinite future not being able to solve their nieche non-essential problem.

I could elaborate more on the "onlyfans has replaced sex" and the such, which are, IMO, while somewhat true, are conclusions to which the author arrived to from a wrong place, thus continuing to think in that direcion would get them further from the truth, not closer to it.

In the end, just as human brain is a sort of general purpose multimodal input-output machine, the internet can be used for all sorts of purposes. The good ones will stay, the bad ones will fall out of fashion, without getting a solid cultutal foothold. The test of time works as well as ever.
There are many reasons to use Sagemath.

It unifies multiple existing open source math libraries and packages. It integrates with Octave, Scilab, Maxima, etc. It also integrates well with LaTeX... you can take results, format them as TeX and also render them.

Its objective is to be a replacement for Maple, Mathematica and MATLAB, which are prohibitively expensive for many people. As such, once it's installed it comes with batteries included and you can easily share workbooks that others can run without falling into a DevOps-like situation.

The DSL that is offers can be more convenient than Python.

There are some interesting quickstart tutorials here
https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/prep/quickstart.html

And it was also discussed earlier on HN here, with many comments that are more informed than anything I could say at this moment:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23511183

I tried JetBrains DataSpell as a desktop frontend for Sage and the results were not good.
So if I understand correctly some types of RFID can be tracked from satellite. Makes sense if you got something like SAR sats to be used for imaging.
Spelling mistake at:

https://www.ninjachat.ai/pricing

"Hoow can I view my usage?"

Now surely that's worth a month subscription of the beginner tier.
I think it's a little weird to say there's no killer app when millions of people already use ChatGPT and tools like GitHub Copilot are already quite embedded into professional workflows. It's just not a given that these will truly take off into the stratosphere as the next Google or whatever. If people are expecting that to happen in the next year, well, I guess they spent too much money. Whoopsies.
The explanation I've given a couple of times for people who are completely non-technical and just want a basic intuition for how cars turn gasoline into forward motion goes something like this:

-Gasoline vapor is highly flammable, and when you fill a confined space with flammable vapor and ignite the air, it causes a small explosion.

-If you set things up carefully, you can use this kind of explosion to push really hard on something, just like firing a cannonball out of a cannon.

-The way a car engine makes the wheels spin is very similar to pedaling a bicycle. When you push down on one pedal, in addition to driving the wheel forward partway, it also maneuvers the other pedal into place, ready to be pushed down next. When you get down to it, powering a bike is just a sequence of well-timed downward pushes in an alternating pattern. The bike takes care of the rest.

-A car engine combines the two concepts. Instead of human feet, it uses small, controlled gasoline vapor explosions in a repeating pattern that "pedals" the car's wheels and causes the car to move forward.

-The timing is crucial. All the complicated engine mechanisms you see are there to "reset" each explosion chamber (like reloading a cannon) so that it's ready to go in time for the next push: flushing out the exhaust gases and refilling the chamber with fresh aerosolized gasoline.

So there you go. Cars are basically just 4-wheeled cannon bicycles.
Which word embeddings get their own dimension though, and which don't? ("feminine" and "blue" are words like any other)
GPT-4 might have cost 100m to train, but how much does it cost to run?

If we look at NVIDIAs profits roughly 10x that annual revenue number is spend on hardware from NVIDIA each quarter.
>And he doesn’t take much comfort from history that
shows technologies improving and becoming less costly over
time, arguing that AI model advances likely won’t occur nearly
as quickly—or be nearly as impressive—as many believe.

Currently we need cards with larger memory, then we'll need faster cards, then cards with more memory again.

The only reason why we don't have $1000 64gb cards is because, as the article points out, NVidia currently has a stranglehold in the market. Given that GPUs print money it won't be more than a few years before we see those cards from other parties.

At the same time the improvement in small models has been phenomenal, there are now 8b models that consistently outperform the original gpt-3.5-turbo. In two years the state of the art model is now something that can run in your phone for free.
Synonym for sharp, when used with observation meaning perspicacious. Acute eyesight can make out small details at large distances.

Nabla9 perhaps might have considered expanding on what they saw a little more.
This is what Unison is supposed to do. As far as I know there is currently only one (Haskell-like) textual representation, but the program is stored in a binary representation of the AST, and once you've entered your code, it's all operations on that AST from then on, and adding different frontends should be not difficult.
As others have noted before, [0][1] the ideals of the 'small web' movement are essentially just a subset of the much older IndieWeb movement, which is more deserving of the credit.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24269071

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29790502
No users = no clicks = no Google. Their incentive is to strike a balance between profiting off users and driving all the users away. I'm not commenting on whether they're getting it right.
Block Coding for Godot: Lowering the Bar of Entry for a Powerful Tool
>but could pull someone up if super urgent

This is the key, IMHO. We've simulated such things as human isolation and closed-loop ecologies before, numerous times. And we did learn some things. But I don't think there is much you can do, and surely not anything ethical, that would correctly simulate being months away from Earth.

Just as you said, when you're on-planet, anything that goes wrong can be dealt with. Have a leak you can't fix? Someone just had a medial issue and is unresponsive? You just can't take it any more? Whatever the case, help is just a press of the red button away. I'm not sure if you've played many video games on Hardcore mode, but it's a totally different experience to know your saved game file(s) are in jeopardy if what you're about to do goes south. I would imagine the feeling is somewhat like this, but worse.

A lunar base might simulate it. An undersea base (as you suggested) might work too if you put it deep enough. But again, you're entering unethical territory here by making something exceedingly dangerous just for the sake of increasing the risk/stress.
Trying to survive and dealing with the inevitable crisis situations that will come up (critical life support machinery breaks down etc) and the efforts to actually establish a colony will make life far from boring. After 100 years yeah maybe.
Mark Zuckerberg's Surf Video Gets Lots of Likes (But Not from Elon Musk)
They've been making servers for quite a while I think. They just don't sell them, and I certainly would not expect that to change any time soon.
> everything is seen thru the lens of power -- oppressed and oppressor -- that we have lost the Western idea of servanthood

Had not looked at it that way. Well put. Indeed.-

My only honest question: "western"? (Surely not as in "only western" ...

I am sure non-western cultures have equivalent concepts to "stewardship" and the like ...
Yes, but handicapped.

I have a Bluetooth keyboard and somehow all f-keys (F1-F12) just won’t register. The same happens in remote desktop from the ipad to a real computer.

So yeah… it works as long as you stay within the limits apple has randomly chosen for you.
> It does not have any kind of support for custom file system device drivers

This was true of MS-DOS 1.x and 2.x but not subsequently.

The IFS layer was added in MS-DOS 3.1:

http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/microsoft/_MSDOS_releases.txt

Although Wikipedia claims MS-DOS 4:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Installable_File_System
I’ve primarily been an iOS developer for the past 5 years and I still enjoy it. Swift has a lot of niceties such as Optionals, and Enums with associated values. SwiftUI simplifies UI development and provides a faster feedback loop with previews which is very important for me because I’m easily distracted. It’s also easy to drop back to UIKit if needed.

You probably don’t want to target lower than iOS 16 if using SwiftUI since a lot of nice APIs aren’t available on lower versions.

We used Catalyst in work for bringing our iOS app to macOS and it’s been good enough.

It may be Stockholm syndrome but I quite like Xcode. My main complaints are that the vim bindings are seriously lacking, and that it’s slow to start debugging when hitting a breakpoint.
True. But what percentage of the workforce is extremely skilled and smart lab techs? And who knows, if we automate mundane normal jobs, we might get more people who find the time to pursue such high level skills instead of being worried about paying for food.
> where are all the followership classes?

Great question :)
IIRC you weren’t affected if your revenue was under $100k and you couldn’t use the free version before the change anyway if it was over that. I might be wrong but I’m almost sure that that proportion was close to zero.

> it as a complete negative to be on the base plan.

With the changes if you didn’t get pro after surpassing the revenue it would have gotten price but that wasn’t even an option previously.

I think it was actually a significant improvement for some people in that position:

- the cap was now per game/project instead of company

- you could still surpass the previous cap a bit and save some money by paying for install instead of immediately being required to get pro.

Everybody just seem to ignore that/ didn’t notice it because Unity did such a garbage job explaining the changes.

(I’m not really defending them, they only had to introduce this few because they almost literally burnt billions between by pointlessly buying random companies and going on some deranged hiring spree for no reason..)
And does that get your groceries bagged or your leaky tap fixed?

Acemoglu readily concedes that AI helps a lot with some jobs, but points out that those are a small proportion of total employment anyway.
Convincing "community" to prepare for a potential problem before they are actually smacked in the face with it is a tall order.
we can stop ads, but i don't believe we could stop only targeted ads because then we'd have to prove that they are targeted. that's way to hard except for extreme cases (like the infamous ads for a pregnant girl)

but ads are not the only problem. we'd also need severe, and i mean bankrupting a company severe punishment for data breaches if we want to get companies to keep our data secure.

in a very advanced future where tech is so advanced that anyone can easily scan a planet to get the data they want, punishment for the abuse of data is the only option. but until then, i think we are better off to simply prevent the collection of data in the first place.
I18n is 4 syllables, internationalisation 7. It may not be pronounceable, but many abbreviations are not, and it’s still faster.

But yes, like every abbreviation, do use the full word the first time you use it “Considering the topic of internationalisation (i18n)…”
Just to clarify some stuff here (from an actual TUMuchData management team member):

The form is not really relevant for our events, it's just to support us. Since we have made the decision of being a MUNICH BASED IN PERSON club to get the maximum networking and social experience, we also wanted to make sure our actual club members will fulfill these criteria. That's why we have the paper form in person policy.

There will be some member-only events but those are more social events or maybe ones with very limited spots but usually access to events will be public.

Our events are not exclusively on the Garching campus. As you already found out we have two major formats:

1. The weekly paper reading group which is mostly researchers (mostly PhD students, sometimes professors) presenting their research or a single paper. Some weeks we have industry talks instead. These events are in Garching and only during the lecture period because they are mostly targeted towards students (we are a student club after all) so that they can learn more about the very relevant database research that is happening at TUM and how it's applied in industry.

2. Monthy or bi-monthy Munich Database Meetups which are more targeted towards industry and bringing together industry, students and researchers from academia. Those events will usually have more than one talk unlike our weekly events, the talks will mostly have speakers from industry (usually 2). They will usually be somewhere in the city center of Munich to make sure industry people will get there easier. We usually try to get some location at some company. We already had them at CodeCentric, Google and JetBrains.

For both formats we try to make sure we get deep technical talks about mostly database systems internals. For the research talks they are usually very deeply technical anyway and for the industry talks (including meetups) we are working on guidelines to make sure they know what type of talk we expect.
If OpenAI has merely 10% margins, they've recouped their costs by 3x.
> For a contrast, think of The Three Body Problem. It's set on an equally epic scale - but so much more happens!

I disagree. TBP is not nearly as epic. TBP could easily exist within the Culture series, but not the other way around.
Japan Urges Global AI Rules for Military Use
Its a mobile (celltower) first technology. Not a device first technology.
Yahoo's URL in 1994 was `http://akebono.stanford.edu/~yahoo/`.
Oh finally have a name for that. Neat!

As an aside, that was something I think that is one idea Ballmer did ok on. The focus on developers as an admittance that Microsoft cannot do everything and that you need to help others work with them. Developers (x 3), may have been silly but it sure is a good stance to get behind.

By contrast, as much as Apple talks about the App store, they seem to be becoming more inward focused on a lot of things. For better or worse, we are yet to know.
To a consumer it's fine. For a business the amount of money spent is only one part of the equation. Some places will have spent significant time both in the procurement process and setting this thing up. Time that can be translated to opportunity cost.

As the person proposing such purchases you want to be able to show successes. Amazon just bricking it means you don't have much to show for, probably burnt political capital for nothing to get these, and if anyone was opposed to getting these they are now proven right.

Both on the organizational and individual level these kinds of things are far more impactful in business products than in a hobbyist product
said no one who worked in hospitals in 2020 and 2021

Not sure I'll ever get over it
I mis-remembered: The Book was titled "Passages" by Gail Sheehy.

And my confusing typo above was supposed be "I'm not sure" instead of "I'm so sure"
the more stuff proton tries to do, the less likely i am to be an email paying customer.
Keep in mind that the topic is thinking in writing (vs "volatile" thinking).I average 25-30 notes per day. Even if I'd ignore it's relatively specialized math and CS, it would take a rather large crowd to review and a lot of context. Meanwhile, like with coding, writing and re-reading notes forces your mind to lay out things with more structure, often uncovering loose ends.

I agree that public forum like HN/Reddit is a good, scalable way to review (some) ideas, but it works for a fraction.
The difference here, I think, is a matter of degree. A perfectly normal trait can be a pathology when taken to an extreme. Consider the difference between feeling sad sometimes and suffering severe depression.
Can someone explain their views on Jupyter notebooks? As far as I can tell, the instructor/content creators will set up the "notebook" and students can read the notes and click on the "play" button to see it work in action. Is there anything else besides that?

I guess I'm old school and am used to cutting and pasting and running things in my own terminal, so I'm wondering if there are added benefits that I'm not aware of of Jupyter notebooks. It seems to have a very loyal following so I would love to learn their perspective!
I'm funding Ladybird because I can't fund Firefox
It’s shorter to say (4 vs 6 syllables), and to write - how is that ‘no gain’?
> it proved the correct decision through virtue of the fact that the story continued (and they weren't all killed off in episode one).

In the show’s fictional plot, the decision seems correct because the story continued and the characters survived. However, we shouldn't judge decisions in real life by how they are portrayed in fiction. In modern fiction, decisions are often shaped to please audiences, not to reflect real-world correctness. Thus, it may not be wise to judge these fictional decisions by the same standards we use in real life.
I think you're right on the crux, with a qualification: every argument has already been made in one form or another - the underlying universal concepts are not that complex. the talent of a writer is to present it in a manner congruent with the geography/times. Isn't vacuity when speaking in pure style, but in a style that itself acts as a mirror to the zeitgeist, a valuable tool for thinkers? A frame, a kind of meta-thought?
OP: the YT loading paradox you are thinking of is https://blog.chriszacharias.com/page-weight-matters
How does this compare to the “official” Jupyter desktop app: https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab-desktop
I think you submitted the wrong article. The title doesn’t match the link.

Here’s what is probably correct: https://substack.com/home/post/p-146377845
The vocabulary used here doesn't have sufficient intrinsic dimension to partition the input into a low loss prediction. Improvement is promising with larger context or denser attention.
Screenless
> But I've always felt that semicolons at the end of lines were just noise.

I felt this way until I engaged in code with very horizontal coding styles. Semicolons make it extremely easy to visually break up sequential statements from expressions consuming multiple lines.
I regularly find the hybrid model is a sweet spot. I keep core fields as regular columns and dynamic data structures as JSONB. It brings the best of both worlds together.
Pretty sure that's not what they're saying.
Looks like a native app vs an Electron app.
Can you explain what it means to reason about something? Since you are so confident I'm guessing you'll find it easy to come up with a non-contrived definition that'll clearly include humans and future "actual AI" but exclude LLMs.
Fax Machines FTW baby
I played this custom map called "Assassins", and it was one of the best things I ever played, I'm not exaggerating. Idk if something similar already existed, or if it came out from SC2, but I was really hoping for someone to make a real game based on it. Everything I can find on the internet is just this one yt video, but it's an older version, I didn't play under 3.0 I think - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX4hpQouvKA
It's hard to believe that a 15-year-old book was a defining cultural touchstone. What do we have from 2009 that has the reach of HHGTTG in 1994? Twilight? Hunger Games?
Certain jobs eroded my passion for programming, not just because they were bad for me but also because I overstayed there hoping the conditions would get better (spoiler alert: wishful thinking). Effort put into undoing the damage paid off, nowadays I'm happier than ever "passion-wise".
> an indie game renaissance is underway, and it’s fantastic.

Can you elaborate?
Agreed. When you look at the Court's rulings in aggregate—including the ones that don't make headlines because they're not controversial—it's clear that they have a very specific agenda: they want the branches of government to go back to doing what every civics class claims they do.

For this Court, the Legislative branch is meant to write laws, the Executive branch is meant to enforce them, and the Judicial branch is meant to interpret them. They've very consistently rolled back cases where the Judicial or Executive overstepped and started writing laws on their own.

So as for the why: they really seem to sincerely believe that government will work better when the branches stay in their lanes.
When someone has a short position, they and the submission author will use all kinds of biased information to manipulate others to sell.
Really good for doing some basic data science, the kind of thing where you want some graphs based on some source data that is variable.

Being able to change functions around and generate new graphs (IE; if I want the mean not the median for a contrived example) is really handy.
It wouldn't be far fetched to argue Denmark is more socialist than China.
ooooh what if qualia is just embedding? some philosophers would get their toga in a twist!
Being prepared is part of community resilience. This is a false dichotomy. If you are totally unprepared for anything you are a burden on the community. If you at least have some basic ability to survive and help out others in an emergency that is anything but foolish for the community to support. Of course you should also invest in the community and other collective resources as well.