skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My company has a bunch of Oracle databases. It's a large bank so I assume they are paying a lot. I don't know why Oracle was chosen in the first place, but it surely wasn't by people who were very passionate about databases or open source or even tech. It's something that works and as long as it works they are not going to ditch it. Whatever it costs, it's not very much in the big scale of things.
Oh I know, I run into this often. Wont stop me- someone at the top can ban me if they want to badly enough.

One user took so much offense to a simple crack, that they spent weeks replying my thread, while I continued to crack on with them. So weird, like problematic weird.
The proclivity to suggest something is LLM generated when it isn't is such a fun one. Almost like a Rorschach test for literary exposure.

The answer in this context is no (you've might not been exposed to enough fiction).
Show HN: Semantic Grep – A Word2Vec-powered search tool
Much improved new version. Search for words similar to the query. For example, "death" will find "death", "dying", "dead", "killing"... Incredibly useful for exploring large text datasets where exact matches are too restrictive.
NOT rolling your own has also never been easier. I've had Sonnet recommend great libraries and tools to me that I probably wouldn't have discovered on my own, and the plus side is I don't need to spend as much time learning those libraries because I can pass in the documentation and have it interface my code with it.
Article and interspersed visuals were a pleasant learning experience. I'm not caught up on mathematics as much as I'd like to be..
Wow! Thats a very cool device. I'll be investigating further for my at-home setup.
Ah, I was watching between German channels, which explains it!
PS. With our without charging grid? (etc., etc., ...)
I'm not sure what you mean that they're the same thing. They're different domains with different transfer functions. There's even a recent ish paper exploring how they can be used to inform one another. Can you say more?
Agreed. Poor scripting/replay inherently limits the GUI.

That said, the best late 90s expression of the core advantage of the GUI over the TUI/CLI is that it demands less of the user:

"recognize and click" vs

"remember and type"

That seems very fundamental to me.

I have not seen as succinct expression of tradeoffs for V(oice)UI or L(LM)UIs
Ask HN: As a recent graduate should I find a job or try to build own product
Hi!

I graduated from university a few months ago. Through time there, I have accumulated knowledge in various topics: mobile development, web development, product management, data analytics, machine learning, etc. It's not that deep, but it is enough to build an AI model or code an MVP with a few days or weeks of research.

The question is whether I should find a job or build my product.

What's the goal?
- Make money
- Have fun
- Learn and progress as an individual

Below, my thought process for the two choices is presented in a simple yet straightforward way.

Job:
- Salary: $1k-1.3k monthly is considered pretty high on average in my country
- Scalability: going let's say from $1k to $2k monthly will require a year or two with an upper limit on $7k-$10k as an employee
- Personal growth: the job will provide me with consisting feedback on my work as well as I will have some mentors
- Direction for growth: clearly defined, look up to senior members of the team
- Freedom: 8 hours per day

Own product:
- Salary: of course, I might be biased here, but finding 100 users that will pay a $10 monthly subscription to achieve $1k MRR seems like a feasible option
- Scalability: going from $1k MRR to $2k or $4k seems
- Personal growth: more horizontal, i.e., more shallow knowledge in the different fields
- Direction: pretty vague. What should you do next if you go into specifics
- Freedom: I have no illusions that a startup will require more than 8 hours per day, but for some reason, it feels more like freedom because the product is yours

Note: I had experience participating in the local startup acceleration program with a b2b startup (which didn't go further than customer discovery). I am familiar with lean startup methodology, iterative approach, hypothesis testing, value proposition canvas, etc. Moreover, I am sure I can raise a $5k initial investment from FFF.

At this point, I understand that I didn't share a lot of other variables that take part in my decision process, such as social anxiety (working on it) and love for engineering and math (although I don't feel accomplished there).

Please share your thoughts on the topic. I would be glad to engage in the discussion.
The crabs analogy isn't a good one, because they evolve independently to play well in a common environment. GNU/Linux is a rewrite of Unix that avoids the licensing and hardware baggage that kept Unix out of reach of non-enterprise users in the 80s and early 90s.
I plan to write about my home setup, which is... a little crazy antenna-wise.

The noise here is really bad due to my area and the construction of the building I live in. Much creativity is required to get QSOs from here.
certbot and crontab needs to be setup just once, to solve cert problem
Now I'm wondering what a fashionable young man's watch is supposed to look like. I think the synthwave aesthetic is really cool but maybe it's just me.
On windows, steps recorder can be useful. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/record-steps-to-...
They didn't flee the war. They fled the Nazi oppression before the war. See "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" by Richard Rhodes.

Once the war started, the borders were closed.
The article says it is a misspelling.
Looks like the WASM emulator does not emulate the classic Casio easter egg, or was I holding it wrong?
> Following this revelation, we were able to observe that these keys change on an hourly basis...

Is it recommended to rotate keys hourly, or even daily? Or only for something like AWS - I've read/been told monthly is more than adequate for reg. web apps
And in this case, it seems misleading and definitely clickbait. The quote at the end doesn't support the claim that he forgot anything.

The citation (https://books.google.com/books?id=9zu0BQAAQBAJ&pg=PA33&lpg=P... ) doesn't support the claim either. It sounds more like the story was: While waiting for his wife to arrive at their wedding ceremony, he stepped away and passed the time by working on a problem.
That is a definition of a bubble, one that I have never heard anyone use ever.

For each Amazon that was undervalued there were 100s of companies with stupid ideas and no revenue.

You're free to redefine words, but then a lot of people will disagree with you.
> Information isn't made out of molecules.

Oh yes it is. DNA, neurotransmitters, etc. biology is closer to information science than you might imagine (imagine with your brain molecules.)
Right. It's difficult to compare because the quantities involved are relevant.

If paper were 100x more expensive today, e.g. it would cost £1 per A4 sheet rather than £0.01, but it was the only way to take notes, then I would still buy it and just moderate my use.

It's not like you need thousands and thousands of sheets of paper.
There used to be a ton of search engines, there still are. Eventually, one rises to the top. That was Google. I don’t see why the LLM race won’t repeat.
There have been plenty of these retroactive reviews of the 1990s tech boom that have questioned whether it was a bubble, by changing the definitions that everyone else uses to define valuation ratios and bubbles. I've heard it argued that the dotcom bubble wasn't a bubble, because the valuations were justified in the moment due to future expectations, until they weren't, which just sounds like the definition many others use to define a bubble.

As to Cochrane, even if the value of Amazon is argued to have justified the tech sector valuation, the fact was that the tech sector valuation was not all, or even mostly, concentrated in amazon, which is why it was a bubble.
It feels like while the marketing of launches may still be like that, it is purely to usher along adoption of the target future state which seems to be doing away with versions and having you simply locked in to forever paying an ever-increasing subscription fee to continue to use your computer in addition to data collection which can be separately monetized.

This is markedly different from how it was in the past when they needed people to get up, go to a store, and buy the disc containing the new version of the OS.
https://archive.ph/Pshsp
Many academic research groups will hire for various software engineering roles. Pay will likely be lower!
> wrinkles

They go the other way.

The US surpassed the UK in per capita income in the 1880s. However, American yeomen farmers, factory workers etc. were far better off than (non-UK) Europeans even in 1800, hence millions of Europeans immigrating. By 1913, the American was still earning almost twice as much as the German or French: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regions_by_past_GDP_(P...
This seems like a great intro to Linux PCIe device drivers. I've never worked with Linux device drivers but have worked with multiple PCIe drivers on a different operating system years ago, and the concepts look very familiar. Love to see more of this type of content in the world.
How is this different from the calculators in MFP and other calorie apps? I have to use those anyway if trying to cut or bulk
The CIE 1976 u'v' chromaticity diagram is skewed to be closer to perceptually uniform, and is probably overall a better picture than the xy chromaticity diagram or than the equilateral triangle picture.

X, Y, and Z dimensions are somewhat arbitrary, so plotting xy inside an equilateral triangle isn't inherently more correct than plotting it inside an isosceles right triangle.

If you want you can use something closer to the cone cell responses as your coordinates, and the result may be conceptually clearer, but any 2d picture like this is going to be misleading to viewers who don't have a sophisticated understanding of how vision works and what the diagram means.
Self-inflicted is a tad questionable. US played a big role in industrializing USSR. US also played a role in post-WWI peace deals which eventually lead to world war part II.
To compare it to wiretapping is taking it too far. You don’t have a choice whether or not your government forces a policy on you, but you still have a choice of which ecosystem you buy into.

Complaining about the lack of freedom you have in Apple’s ecosystem is like moving to a totalitarian country where the streets are clean and the buses run on time and then complaining about the lack of freedom of speech.
you can setup the job on your trusted machine behind the router, could be raspberry pi or your desktop
You don’t need automated DNS fiddling for lets encrypt. Certbot can either hook into Apache or NGINX, or run its own standalone server for verification.
An Interview with Robert Caro and Kurt Vonnegut (1999)
Having spent an unhealthy amount of time thinking about this, I think it's even worse than an abstraction _level_.

I suspect that the fundamental problem with visual languages is that you have to reify _something_ as the objects/symbols of the language. The most widely used text languages tend to be multi-paradigm languages which have significant flexibility in developing and integrating new abstractions over the lifetime of projects and library ecosystems.

It's not clear to me how this can be overcome in visual languages without losing the advantages, and instead ending up with a text language that is just more spread out.
It could be both. There will be existing companies using AI to enhance UX (like Github) and there will be new companies whose UX you can't even imagine now
To save others from reading pages upon pages of fluff:

The siblings spent two years refining their approach, doing more tests. Across a thousand runs, the model cranked through the temperature data and settled on a year. Sometimes the model spat out later dates. Sometimes earlier. The two scientists made a plot of the numbers and a neat cluster emerged. Yes—2057. But that’s just the middle point: In 95 percent of the model’s simulations, the AMOC tipped sometime between 2025 and 2095.
It was almost impossible, I had to scroll very fast from the header so the momentum will get me all the way to the footer section.
A very stupid reason not to add safety. We woudnt need safety belts with the same reasoning. Stupid people gonna do stupid things, with or without safety.

You might stumble, hook onto something, loose grip of a weapon and pull the trigger accidentially.

A safety is to prevent accidential triggering, not to prevent stupidity. For that you need laws that prohibit carrying loaded weapons without license and strict requirements and training for the ones who get such a permission.

Our police is training in virtual reality. I know of a case where an officer did not take the safety rules seriously in the vr-training who got reviewed and put on leave for a few days for his behaviour.
Most people welcoming them were probably of German descent themselves.
State owned or incorporated as Worker Cooperative.

Here a humorous sketch from a 1980 comedy Miś by Stanisław Bareja criticizing living conditions under Iron Curtain.

Milk mar 'Apis' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-viM9WyGss

Milk bar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_mleczny

>Polish cafeteria which during the Communist era provided government-subsidized traditional Polish cuisine at low cost. The name comes from cheese cutlets, which were often sold when meat was rare.
"The United States has been the world's largest national economy in terms of GDP since around 1890."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_United_States
Troubleshooting: Terminal Lag
I always like to point out Wordle for nailing the timing. Some version of it has been viable since 2000, mass smart phone adoption helped with how it spread, but it could have been viable in 2010. What it did was landed at the right moment.
It’s amazing how much America has benefited from brain drain from totalitarian countries. We should keep it up.
Freud was 'misunderstood' and wasn't so obsessed with sex, new analysis suggests
How big are your Docker images?
Edit: It seems like the comment was edited. (?)

No, I don't work for ente... I posted the article here.

Parent comment opposes cloud backups for probably valid reasons, but nowhere it was mentioned in the article, the commenter altered the text, they didn't even mention using their service or "cloud", suggesting that the parent commenter is talking about cloud backups generally. I provided my feedback on using different cloud services since it seemed unfair.

Original:
"At Ente, we're all about preserving memories (digitally, that is), but we know that those physical snapshots hold a special place in your heart."

"6. Digital backups
Here's where Ente's expertise shines!
While we're all about those physical originals, having a digital backup is like photo insurance.

Scan at high resolution (at least 600 dpi)

Save as TIFF for top quality

Store copies in multiple places
"

"Remember, at Ente, we're all about keeping memories safe in the digital realm. But we know that those physical photos hold a special kind of magic. By following this guide, you're ensuring that the smiles, the awkward hairstyles, and the love captured in those images will continue to tell your family's story for generations to come."
I do the same with tailscale, which has a nice friendly UI for setting everything up.

I setup some Cloudflare DNS records to the tail scale 100.x IPs to make them easy to remember.
Exactly, people who claim LLM will be commoditized don't understand the underlying forces that are acting
I believe this is in play:

https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/logicalfallacies/Shiftin...

Do you disagree?
I could have sworn I have seen this in the past, but I am not sure exactly where. Thinking about it; it probably would have been part of OIDC and not directly addressed by OAuth... maybe someone can find it for me, or maybe I misspoke when I said it was part of the spec.
I don't doubt there's pointless research in NT. However, I feel like I should justify just how useless this result is:

In theoretical CS, one is typically interested in the computational complexity of mathematical problems. Early on, researchers identified classes of problems with varying difficulty, as well as certain fundamental problems that appear in many applications. Research in these topics is typically quite interesting.

Studying stupid problems like Super Mario has no merit at all. It probably contains fundamental problems as sub-problems, so the research then just reduces to finding these problems. "Oh look, if I make a level like this it turns into the halting problem, it means Super Mario is undecidable!"

Literally the only reason this is news is because SM is a famous game.

I should confess I didn't read the paper, so I'm just guessing what's going on. However, if there was anything actually interesting going on, there would be more fundamental problems discussed rather than SM.

Edit: read the article, it reduces to halting problem. God damn it.
Easily $600. Especially considering how niche this is.
I love it too; I also love the secret layouts of the house.
You can have Caddy return the user's IP address directly: https://caddy.community/t/caddy-server-that-returns-only-ip-...

Similar things are also possible with nginx and Apache.
From the foundation of the open-source movement, hackers have always had an adversarial relationship with manufacturers. It is that relationship that motivated the creation of GNU in the first place.

At least Apple allows developers to sow in their walled garden, even if they ultimately get to decide what is allowed to grow.
Which is neatly abstracted away so you don’t have to think about it unless you want to. And therefore reaching out to an external server and having it say where the request came from is the path of least resistance for a script that can work across different hosts with minimal machine specific configuration.

Listen, if you want to check the IPv6 address from the interface list go ahead I’m not trying to stop you.

But because I anyway need to reach a third party to know my own IPv4 address then yeah when that third party can also tell me IPv6 address I’m gonna do it that way.
Relevance: from the cited paper, the variance of the median estimator is proportional to 1/(n * f^2), where n is the sample size and f is the density at median.

Two observations:
1. With sufficiently large n, you can control your variance to an acceptable level.
2. The factor f is outside of your control. If your problem has a small density around the median, then you'll need to throw more samples to compensate for it.

I think your concern is about #2: you can always construct a pathological distribution to make the sampling-based approach unattainable. The paper provided guidance on what to expect when you apply the sampling-based approach.
Brain drain or taking hostages?
100% agree. Supremely patient and helpful. It is so clear in this back and forth that there is so much more going on than a refusal to "suck up".
I have been using Gleam on the frontend in production, together with Vue[0] and I can confirm it's a joy to use.

Simplicity is such an advantage for a young language.

[0] https://github.com/vleam/vleam
Huh? During the preceding decades the US invented the skyscraper, was home to the world’s tallest building, invented the light bulb, air conditioning, the airplane, the supermarket, and cotton candy!
Appel has a book on compiling with CPS Compiling with Continuations. It’s implemented in SML so the types are front and center. Might be of use!
Our biggest ally!
even counting slaves

This remark should leave a bad taste in one’s mouth. Obviously being immoral and exploiting human beings is an economic advantage. And excluding them in the census but benefitting from their work would be dehumanizing them even more.
Still as a French, I think we could have done better much earlier. Much much earlier. The US isnt the cause of our problems, we are. We are even the cause of the US in the first place, you know, eradicating the natives, enslaving the africans, colonizing the land.

It's ALL self-inflicted. But there was no sense of self at the time, what's new today is that Europe is starting, slowly and shakily, to see itself as a whole. At least I cannot imagine today ever wanting to murder a German more than a French. Ever.
I'm not great in that field at all, but in Poland private companies existed. At first (after 1945) they hoped to survive until regime will be gone "in a few years". Then the regime tried to kill those one by one. Private owner was an oppressed enemy, fined, bullyragged, threatened.

Small businesses existed the whole time, but it was not an easy life.

https://dzieje.pl/ksiazki/prywaciarze-biznes-w-peerelu-1945-... (article about a Polish book on that topic).
The iPad can replace a computer for the average user. Hackers and developers make up a tiny, tiny percentage of people who buy iPads. There is a huge library of business-class professional software available on the App Store that fits all the needs of the average user. Graphic designers rarely lament the presence of a proper terminal.
> 2008 showed that to be a very unsafe assumption.

Totally. Just because it's the game that capital wants us to play doesn't mean that there's any guarantee that you win. It's just also that it's the only way to maybe win. This supports parent's argument that wealth distribution is arbitrary. One person wins and another loses, playing the same game the same way, just because they entered the market at different times. The uncomfortable contradiction that we're supposed to generally agree with is that the first person is "smart and hardworking", and the second person "is financially irresponsible, obviously living outside their means".

> So does the price of things that work produces.

Not sure if this a comment re: UBI, antiwork, or housing costs, but housing in particular is always a special kind of crazy because we've insisted on looking at it as a financial vehicle instead of you know, a place to live and work from. Prefab things that could cut costs are illegal most places. In Florida they build labor-intensive houses out of match-sticks even though the next hurricane is always coming, because that's what's easy to permit, that's what people historically wanted to insure, and it keeps construction rackets and developers in business. Further from the coasts, even in the more sparsely populated mountain/desert states, you can go to the edge of any larger town and look out at the "supply" of hundreds of miles of empty, and still get forced into paying half a million for a crappy place on half an acre. Supply and demand is certainly some kind of a factor, but like parents point about wealth-from-work vs wealth-from-asset-appreciation, it's a small factor and getting smaller. The market's already intensely manipulated.. it's just done in a way that makes problems worse instead of better.
US coastal waters use fathoms.
He should know, he wrote this article.
Tell HN: I am going to host "Real Analysis" book club meetings
Hello HN! After two successful book club meetings on analytic number theory and Emacs in 2021 and 2022-2023, respectively, I am going to a host a new series of book club meetings.

This new series of book club meetings is going to be on Real Analysis. This is going to be a multi-month journey where we are going to cover topics like sequences and series, functions and continuity, calculus, logarithmic functions, exponential functions, circular functions, etc.

The first meeting is scheduled at 19:00 UTC today, i.e., about 40 minutes from the time of sharing this post.

If you are interested in this type of thing, please see https://susam.net/cc/real-analysis/ for more details.