skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, small.

There has been extensive non-partisan (historically accurate) analysis of this, which I won't repeat here because it just invites the wrong kind of nit-picking debate over minutiae that don't matter.[1]

Meanwhile, actual fascists and literal NAZI party members took over most of Europe in the 1940s. Italy was fascist. Austria joined the NAZIs. Hungary did too. Hungary is turning increasingly fascist right now and Russia loves this: https://theconversation.com/i-watched-hungarys-democracy-dis...

Apparently, that's no longer a problem, but a single long-dead[1] collaborator with no real impact on Ukraine even when he was alive is apparently reason to invade with... drumroll... a merc army lead by a neo-NAZI with SS tattoos: https://aijac.org.au/fresh-air/russia-sends-its-pet-neo-nazi...

You can't make this stuff up. If this was a script for a movie, the author would be laughed out of the room.

Sigh.. the whole "Ukraine is NAZI" talking point is just that. An excuse, a throw-away comment that works on Russians and nobody else. It's like the bully that punches the kid in the playground because they wanted to, and when asked, comes up with some "reason" on the spot, like "Oh, I didn't like the way they looked at me" or somesuch.

[1] A favoured argument tactic by those people who know they're in the wrong with respect to the fundamental points. Ukraine could have been 100% NAZI and saluting Hitler in school, but this doesn't matter if it occurred when 80% of the current population hadn't even been born yet!

[2] In the dirt for more than half a century now! Bandera died in 1959! that was 63 years before the start of the current invasion. THIS is my point precisely, that Putin's justifications are out-of-date, based on politics that have zero relevance to modern-day Ukraine.
Great. Now, do military spending. Or, you know, the money the Pentagon just loses every year.
Increased for sure

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-....
If you don't want to use Google to the extent of blocking all their domains, maybe it's time to change browsers? Why would you use chrome if you don't trust Google at all? The main concern here is Google giving itself unfair advantage, btw
i'm not trying to argue, was genuinely curious to hear your thoughts. i sold all my crypto in 2021 so i could buy land with abundant water as a hedge against the uncertain economy, maybe a more extreme way to hedge.
Third Places and Neighborhood Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Starbucks Cafés
Other way. Racing to the bottom caused globalization.
I wonder if there’s a wiki written by the losers in history.
The ring looks really interesting, especially becasue i had problems tracking my sleep with a smart watch as it always felt kinda wird going to bed wearing a watch.
We don't need unbounded advancement. We need something that retains the core ideas of OSS and moral integrity of people involved . What we're seeing now is what it should look like. We don't need open source MSFT or Apple with their ever advancing progress into exploitation of all the low hanging fruit.
I have recently had a lot of unfortunate interactions with 24.04, and it really makes me hate debians.
Ollama vs. OpenLLM: A Concurrency Comparison
It sounds nice, but also consider: 1) depending on how your app crashes, are you sure the buffer will be flushed, and 2) if logging is expensive from a performance perspective, your base performance profile may be operating under the assumption that you’re humming along not logging anything. Some errors may beget more errors and have a snowball effect.
Sounds like really bad design choices here. #1 logs shouldn't go on the same machine that's running the app, they should be reported tp another server and if you want local logs, then properly setup log rotators. Both would be good.
The ecosystem rewards it.
You built it years ago and already had a Show HN for it. The content smells like scam, a bunch of copied "recipes" from the internet or generated by AI.
In fact there is. https://hackaday.com/2021/01/17/leds-from-dubai-the-royal-li...
You must be very naive as to the general Conops of the NK government.
Fair 'nuff, so a small patch would be:

- Which ex·tends from hea·vy use
+ Which re·sem·bles hea·vy use

I'd argue in both cases the dot is serving an additional role (beyond those mentioned in the article) of marking significant positions within a word.
Confirmed, the tomcat 9.0.58 in Ubuntu 22.04 is not in bookworm/stable (which is on 9.0.70) or bullseye/oldstable (which is on 9.0.43), and the 9.0.31 in Ubuntu 20.04 is the same as the version in Debian buster.
If the moon orbited earth a little bit faster, would the number of microseconds per day accumulated change (even if ever so slightly)? In other words, is the speed a determining factor in the offset?

Your answer seems to indicate that yes. So, in principle, I should be able to come up with a thought experiment that highlights what that speed means.

Would this hypothetical faster moon, billions of years orbiting earth at a different speed, look geologically younger than our regular speed moon? (genuine don't know, but that's the kind of coloquial illustrative example I'm looking for).
It's all political rhetoric. Whenever you see wording like this ("hard working Americans", "blue collar" vs "white collar") your bs detector should start beeping. These are not factual and substantive discussion points, but political rhetoric to incite the masses. Divide, distract, and thanks for all the money while we keep doing the same as in the past few decades.
using a byproduct of mold to cure a bacterial infection isn't simple.

Merely noticing it was a rare occurrence (Fleming got lucky with his dirty lab), it only works on gram positive bacteria, and importantly, use of penicillin leads to evolution of antibiotic resistance, reducing the utility of penicillin. That last point especially is a highly non-simple process.

Like just about anything in medical biology, there is a simple narrative taught to the general public, and then there's the reality as it stands in modern medical research and practice.

For prions, I'm sure people can find any number of ways to module prion activity in vitro, most of which won't work in vivo/in the real world, for messy complex reasons. To use machine learning parlance, a feature like the existence of a TED talk by the creators of a medical treatment being True highly correlates with the ineffectiveness of the treatment (same as "If published in Nature, it's almost certainly wrong!")
All the photos seem to have broken links, but for some of them you can get their direct link and remove the "-scaled" part to get a higher resolution. Not for the Kimchi one though.
In my experience, applications tend to do far more DB queries than users do backend requests, and as such, 50ms to the user matters much less than the difference between 1 and 10ms on DB queries.

That said, thanks for the experience. Do they also tend to launch in other cloud providers? It seems like it would be a tricky business to navigate, restricting your customer base to specific providers.
Are you suggesting that the labyrinth in Minos was more open like a forest?
Thanks for the in-depth explanation! I’ll keep an eye on it :)

Fine-grained crash recovery does sound like a great application as well.
But not enough to actually make it worth it to deal with customers. Aka you're just not worth it as a customer, sorry.
This only affects the IRS's cashflow, it's a matter of collecting as the title states. No new policies or tax laws are responsible for this $1B. Just working harder or more focussed at collecting. A good thing, for sure, but not something new or newsworthy for HN if you ask me.
The style and quality on this research seems extremely similar to past research on teenage porn viewing, except that with social media usage it is teenage girls and with porn usage it is teenage boys. Correlation with negative traits are always minor and generally with the negative traits leading towards more viewing rather than the reverse.

Since politicians seems to like drafting laws and in other ways have a strong opinion here, it seems like those areas should get some more funding in order to really establish if there is a harmful effect and if so, how strong it is.
A couple of iPhone accessories and an extension of the iPhone processor to Macs isn't really making the case for Cook as a "product guy" much less a product genius. His two big swings at the fence, the car and this AVP monstrosity, are both duds. Elsewhere he's just riding Jobs' coat tails.
> My guess is you haven't worked much in the private sector

the waste in the private sector is nothing compared to the public sector. you have no idea.

> Elon Musk just got Tesla to pay him $50 billion. For what, exactly?

for this: https://fortune.com/2021/03/16/elon-musk-net-worth-tesla-sto...
Ok, but surely if there are no branches, but only a single path, there would be no way to get lost? The only way would be if you forgot which direction you were facing?
Why people care so much about AGI in a rampage to kill us, when we are right at the verge of the problem of some very powerful humans having Artifical Almost Intelligence powerful enough to fuck us in their hubris of trying to build whatever they think is a perfect world?

I am far more concerned about election manipulation, widespread warfare, terrorism, totalitarism, informational warfare and all other unsavory things PEOPLE that control AI could possibly do to the rest of us.
If you had 3 hours to learn data engineering, how would you spend your time?
...and you're probably less safe as a result. In the 90s and early 2000s, running as root (admin) was the Windows default for home computers, and that's why we had such a malware and spyware problem then. It wasn't until UAC limited user and app permissions on purpose and Windows Defender became standard that it began to get better.

Root access for you means you have control, sure. But it often does mean you're less safe too, depending on your OS's security model and what other apps can run as you. That's why limited sudo and other "root ish, but only in small doses" models were made. And that's assuming you know what you're doing.

For Jane Grandma, root of any sort means power she'll never need and a footgun to lose her life savings with. It's a good thing mobile phones protect ordinary users from themselves. Most people don't need root access any more than they need the ability to reprogram the ECU on their car.

Besides, on a rooted phone, I thought there were already ways to fool an app into thinking it's not rooted...? Or did they change that?
Or you could visit the world’s largest thermometer, float on the LSU lazy river. Go to Kerala and drink some delicious chai, watch the Rockies play a game in the Mile High Stadium. There is a whole world of things that are entirely unlike North Korea
The code of the website if from that era, and the interactive element in the center was written in flash.

You don't need flash installed in the browser to view it because flash projects can be emulated by js frameworks and they can also be "compiled" to web.
Again, this is application logs. The stuff you would log in your program with log4j for instance.

With a microservices architecture in particular that can pile up rapidly.
The comment you replied to said that some inefficiency is inherent in just being an organization made of humans. We’re not robots.

The examples you gave seem serious but don’t suggest the public sector is that much less efficient than the private sector, if at all. Bureaucracy is a reality of most sufficiently sized companies.

As another data point, the team events I’ve experienced were dramatically different between sectors. In government, we reserved a local park and had a pot luck. Nominal public cost if any. At another company, they bought $50 baseball tickets for 200 people. Certainly within our rights as a company but it came at the cost of our customers. Not “efficient”.
Copied Act would make removing AI digital watermarks illegal
Just don't ask Stephen King for his opinion on it.
That's because SMS verification isn't 2FA. It's faux 2FA. You don't possess your phone app or your phone number... it can be cloned and intercepted. A key you hold on your person is 2FA.
And then proponents of an antiquated system try to post memes about how 95% of the counties in the US are red and the electoral college makes sure "cities" don't have an outsized say in government.

Perhaps there's a correlation.

I do find it amusing how one of the reasons for the "original" (I know) settlers of the US was to get away from feudal landholders dictating politics and life, only to speed run a system where 33,000 sq mi in Wyoming that holds 90,000 people (3 people per square mile) have the same weight as 20 million people elsewhere.

This system made sense 200 years ago. Probably.

I don't understand why there's this belief that the Founding Fathers were infallible. They certainly weren't. Or this belief that they were all wizened old men.
> It’s a simple question—perhaps so basic that it’s been overlooked: How old were the leaders of the American Revolution?

> As it turns out, many Founding Fathers were younger than 40 years old in 1776, with several qualifying as Founding Teenagers or Twentysomethings.

The Declaration of Independence was signed by:

A sixteen year old, a 21 year old, 2 26 year olds, a 27 year old and a 29 year old.
Source: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2013/08/how-old-were-the...
LLM Evaluation doesn't need to be complicated
No. By selling it for $2, they have to deal with the credit card/whatever fee, Wich is typically 2.9%+30 cents, so they're already down from your $2, and then they have to staff customer support to deal with any sort of problems that crop up. Which makes it not worth the < $2 they'd get from everyone in that category.

100 paying customers in that category is still only $200, which isn't even enough for groceries for a family for a month. and for how much hassle?
Show HN: A tool for rendering and interacting with SDFs
I'm thinking of using SDFs in a game that I'm working on, and built this to allow me to explore the space and try ideas out.
// Most companies don’t buy jets and yachts //
True, but it is also hyperbole to say the government is terminally wasteful. Most departments of the government are very efficient. Social Security, for example, has an administrative overhead of 0.5%. That compares very favorably to any of the funds in my 401k.

// Shareholders voted and approved this compensation package, twice. //
Just because shareholders voted for it doesn't' mean it's not a big fat waste of money. While we're on the subject, how about Musk paying 2x the real value of Twitter?

// ure there are some packages that are irresponsible but usually there’s a good reason they are what they are, //

And again, most of what is pilloried as "government waste" usually has a good reason too. To suggest otherwise is hyperbole.

// simply don’t understand hiring for those kinds of roles

chuckle let me tell you a story about the time I made $25 million in one all-nighter :-) I was working in Manhattan, for a very well-known financial firm. One day I noticed that one of our regulatory filings was going to be late. I told my boss and he said not to worry about it. So I escalated it to his boss--who also told me not to worry about it.

I figured that I could regenerate the report and submit it on time, but only if I worked all night. So I did. I was just finishing up at about 8:30am, when the president came to my desk and said "THANKYOU so much for submitting that report!" I thought great--I finally caught the attention of the execs.

He came around again at 5:00pm and thanked me again. I thought wow, I'm in.

The next day they fired him :-) Turns out, he had a $25 million golden parachute--and one of the conditions was that there were no late regulatory filings....so I worked all night, and he got $25 million.

But wait!!! There's more!! in 24 hours, I had gone from the president's favorite--to being the guy who just cost the company $25 million. You can't really fire somebody for obeying the law, but you sure can gaslight the shirt out of them. I eventually had to quit, and I'm still looking for a job.

Don't tell me in those condescending tones that I don't know what those bonuses are for. And again, if you think the private sector is some uniformly wonderful example of efficiency you are the one who is out of touch with what goes on in the C-suite.
My reply to the people who want to designate my neighborhood a historic district
I really wish they resume work on pg_analytics which is in IMO the key differentiator in current PG Market
Is cloning the repo and building this from source the only way to try this currently?
What is the biggest lesson you learned building AI applications?
It doesn't make sense to call Pluto a planet.

In fact, if we needed to change it's classification it would make more sense to call it a binary dwarf planet or a binary planet than it would to call it a planet again.
I heard from some young people the 2000s aesthetic is "in" right now.
Exactly! Also that they measure time not in minutes, hours and days, but in the kiloseconds, megaseconds, and gigaseconds.
Many good responses here about why you actually need those CI/CD tools. From my experience I would summarize it as “standardized, repeatable, automated processes at scale”.

I am surprised though that you are getting those questions about XYZs and how would you use them where XYZ are supposedly CI/CD tools. I personally do not understand the hate standardized LeetCode, system design, and STAR interviews get. It is something well-known that you can prepare for, and ace those interviews even if you never had to (or never will) solve a contest-style problem or design a distributed system. These interviews test your general intelligence, memory, tenacity, ability to learn, and communicate. Who cares if I never used ArgoCD and only used Jenkins or rsync or whatever.

I admit sometimes companies need someone with a specialized knowledge to hit the ground running, but these situations are rare. So if your interview consists mostly of questions like “have you used XYZ” and “how would you use XYZ to do ABC” - those are lazy questions, and an imperfect proxy to measure your professional ability. Usually you don’t want to work for companies that ask those, anyway. Anyone smart and with attitude of getting things done can figure those XYZs if and when needed.
Even so, they can drop from their training set a few dozen pages from the internet and it won't be a huge loss among the trillions of documents.

The LLM will still know how LLMs work without having trained on the handful of documents containing that specific canary string, because other documents will mention the concept of a canary string without that exact GUID.

Better to do that and be on the safe side and look honest than have people believe your company not really competitive.

Anything else is a risk for no gain in an industry theoretically worth trillions.
Totally unusable on mobile unfortunately (at least Firefox and Chrome on Android). Might be a limitation of how the keyboard works, but every command gets duplicated (at least) when I enter it.
>It's interesting how everyone wants to go back to the 50's america with functioning infrastructure and all that, but no one wants to pay the 90% tax that lead up to that

combined State+ federal taxes look to be on par with 1950s levels. It also ignores the fact that the inflation controlled GDP has gone up 4.5X since then too. The government is rolling in 4X the cash as the 50's, but cant build a fraction of the infrastructure.

>Also consider that payroll tax has become an increasing portion of what is collected, health insurance is now required to be paid by the individual regardless of health status, and auto insurance is now required for all drivers. These are effectively regressive taxes on the general population.

Payroll, health, and auto insurance aren't regressive taxes, they are flat taxes and slightly progressive taxes. High earners still subsidize low earners for SSI. auto and health are flat.
They let you choose a region. Here is Xata’s region list:

https://xata.io/docs/getting-started/available-regions

Looks like it’s using AWS Aurora under the hood:

https://xata.io/blog/serverless-postgres-platform

But also, they’ve done some work to reduce the number of network round trips that Postgres needs to respond to a query. For many situations, SQL over HTTPS is used. In JavaScript, the database driver is a wrapper around a fetch request.

Xata seems to have its own SDK with higher-level API’s to reduce round trips.

Also: https://xata.io/blog/geo-distributed-postgres

Meanwhile, here’s Neon’s blog post on their connection options:

https://neon.tech/blog/http-vs-websockets-for-postgres-queri...
Hilariously, the windows boot manager supports dual booting as well. So one can use it instead of grub to dual boot.
> you have no idea

Does anyone have an idea? I hear this so much but I’ve never seen hard numbers on it.
I guess considering their group is called the Physics-based Simulation Group [1], I'm thinking maybe that's just the terminology they've always used? Or maybe it's a German->English translation thing?

[1] https://ge.in.tum.de/
"Moon" (capitalized) is too confusing when talking about moons. It's easier to give it its own designation.
I can't say this is the disconnect some are having, but it's the one I did until just now. I read "24/7 compute" and assumed that meant no cold starts. It really meant "up to 24/7 uptime but it will still scale to 0 and require cold starts."
That’s probably the worst reason they could give. By that logic they should also ban a home owner from doing their own home repairs, as hiring a professional will mean more income tax for the government.
>when it is finished later this year

Source for this claim?
Indeed, I love this feature of Firefox. There's something that feels so damn good about saying "No" to DRM content. If only there was a way to tell the website that the content was blocked due to DRM...
The Tax Foundation...

Founded by the Chairman and CFO of General Motors, and the President of Exxon to ostensibly "improve lives through tax policy research" but has in its 86 years of existence NOT ONCE supported:

- increasing individual taxes

- increasing business taxes (actively the opposite)

- the existence of excise taxes

- the existence of tax credits

and generally argues for "significantly smaller" government, "significantly smaller" budgets and such.

While it describes itself as non-partisan, it is generally rated:

- heavily business-friendly

- conservative

- center-right to right

I am shocked that such an organization, founded by "titans of industry" would claim that we need to tax the wealthy far less and tax the corporations they own and run far less. Entirely shocked.
Net GDP normalized graph looks the same right? However, my point was that the origin of the income has shifted significantly. Parent says 45% progressive tax is high, it's not - it's half as progressive as it was in the 50s before including other societal changes that effectively serve as a regressive tax.
What we've observed is that pg_analytics is very useful, but significantly more work to make production-ready than pg_lakehouse, and we can service ~80% of our initial users with pg_lakehouse.

We do hope to resume work on pg_analytics eventually, but given the bigger scale of the project, we've decided to postpone it for a bit longer. But stay tuned! We'll be announcing some partnerships which will help us get there faster.
Or alternately, neighborhoods with no previous coffee shops where Starbucks start opening are gentrifying.
i'm a person and I read it for that, therefore others humans do too
We'll be bringing DataFusion again in a different part of our tech stack soon... Guesses are open for where that might be!
More likely I think, the reason it got no comments was that even great stuff only has about a 20% chance (or worse) of getting traction before it falls off. I love HN, but I see a lot of great posts that never get their signal through the noise.