skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Secrecy is necessary for privacy, and you can find plenty of essays defending privacy rights.

Also, if I asked you for the password to your HN account you probably wouldn't tell me, because it's a secret - and that doesn't make you evil.
The post was 2021 but the pain is still true for today. Also, does anyone know how to turn off AC just for the passenger side? Even when I’m driving alone, I still have both sides on.
If you're able, my artist friend has had a lot of success running their own site and doing their own payments through PayPal.
Example on Excel: https://x.com/OpenAdaptAI/status/1798502003045548480
It sounds like the problem is that you're using a combination of devices that makes it unusually hard to just play a video from not-your-TV on your TV.
Maybe in specialty cameras with ultra low maximum recording durations but it's usually just a bunch of DRAM, take this Phantom camera as an example.

https://www.phantomhighspeed.com/products/cameras/tmx/7510

The spec sheet lists up to 512GB of RAM depending on configuration. There's no way you're scaling cache-like SRAM up to those numbers.
Yeah, it would be awful. A normal quick ratio steering setup will still turn around once. If turning the yoke 90˚ meant turning the wheels fully, it'd be really hard just to stay in your lane. Was already annoying enough in my ex cop car.
Because there's so much to learn from having different perspectives.

Back in 2006, I was working mainly in C with a bit of C++. One of the things I was taught was that "macros are evil", period. Then, in my spare time, I decided to try Common Lisp. I had a blast. I never wrote anything more useful than a half-assed catalog for my MP3 collection, but I learned a lot. My main takeaway was the power of metaprogramming -- with all of its footguns and pitfalls -- and took that knowledge with me to my day job, where I suddenly had a more nuanced view of how preprocessor macros can avoid being evil.

Later, when I changed jobs, I went back to Java, which was my main language before the C stint. I slipped back into the comfort of having my memory managed for me and the expressiveness of OOP. But in my spare time, I discovered Self and Io, and the fact that you can have OOP without classes blew my mind.

At that same job, I undertook the task to make our proprietary in-house language not only transpile to C++, but also compile to be executed on JVM. Understanding how JVM bytecode instructions work was easier than it might have been had I not dabbled in Forth in my spare time.

These days my day job involves working with C++ full time, but my hobby projects in Rust taught me to structure my thinking about the ownership and lifecycle of memory allocations.

So yeah, most of what I do in my spare time with other languages is largely "unproductive diddling" if you only look at the code I write in those languages, but the insights I take away with me are useful.

Also, it's fun ;)
All this points to is the danger of believing someone based on reputation rather than evidence.

Empirical evidence is the basis of science, not reputation. No one, no matter what they've done before, gets to present their hypotheses as fact without evidence.

One problem that outsiders to a field have is that we may lack the background knowledge to evaluate the evidence for a hypothesis. In that case, I try to rely on consensus rather than one expert opinion.
Great stuff! I hope it gets traction
Definitely interesting, though I often just use docker compose for dev dependencies, this is definitely a cool alternative.
We tested several models and GPT-4o was the most accurate and makes the most sense for our initial launch

That said: it's 100% our intention to add local models. This is just our v1.
One of the funniest things I've ever heard/read about chatGPT "writing" is that it writes like a highschool student trying to inflate their word count on an essay. It typically uses a lot of words to say very little, and the style is hard to un-see once you recognize it.
Triplit: An open-source, local-first database with built-in realtime sync
Yeah, it's tough because it feels like more trashing and churn that will never lead to any sort of understanding, just like where they had come from. Optimizing for line-goes-up is exactly how we got to this place where most women are forced to work full time. Then if they want kids, their family has to scavenge that now-additional time from somewhere. It's more egalitarian for sure, but the economic system has transmuted it into equality of losing.

I don't know if that rebuttal about oceanfront property really makes sense - even if you're concerned today about future destruction, you can generally find a buyer who won't be. I think the situation is more like people will happily continue enjoying what they have, and plan on being bailed out when something catastrophic does happen. There are also ways to get the equity out of the properties without having to sell them (eg reverse mortgage), and the carrying costs likely aren't that high having been mortgaged under ZIRP. So like the rest of the property bubble, the calculus is ongoing mortgage payment versus expected appreciation, not any type of core asset value.
That’s what you say when you don’t accept your defeat but it’s hard to prove. I’ve seen the finals and the Canadian guy who won was clearly better than the French one; if it were 95% politics the French would probably have won.
In Patreon's case, I don't think the user found the content "through Apple". The customer found the creator, and the creator said "Pay me through Patreon". The user, only having an iOS based device is now trapped by Apple's restrictions on the transaction, which brings dubious benifits to the table.
How can another platform be better about this? Wouldn’t they be subject to the same thing? Or is there some component here that is not tied to the Apple demand?
Spoken like someone unfamiliar with both development and evolution.
https://archive.is/ZPedd

Not sure if full article is captured in link
Does it help to know that this sort of face-rec customer demographic scraping has been widespread for at least a decade. Themodels hace gotten more accurate and cheaper, and it's only going to get worse.
Yeah, my personal theory is that plastics and PFAS are going to be the "things we did wrong for too long" for millenials / Gen Z.
I love Ra. (also Fine Structure.) I don't think the plot is necessarily that much messier as much as it is more complex.

As in, this is super mega nerd shit. Unless you can relate things you're reading to things you've read before, it won't make too much sense to you. But if you're constructing a theory of the book's universe and story as you read, it's downright addictive.

I don't know where to find more books like those but I really, really want to.
The film is run through the camera & projector sideways, allowing for a larger frame to be laid down on the same stock.

https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.183/gkz.aeb.myftpuplo...
There are several issues. One is that the craft doesn't properly separate from the station. If it backs away from the station, then dies, it will risk colliding with the ISS after an orbit. (Lower perigee but same apogee = collision potential.) The craft needs to back away from the station sufficiently to reenter or at least conduct a second maneuver to ensure its apogee is lower than the ISS's orbit.
Fine Structure too!
There was controversy in 2012 at the U.S. Olympic Trials when Allyson Felix & Jeneba Tarmoh finished neck and neck -- basically the cameras at the time couldn't make out the difference [0]. I think that was pretty hard on the athletes, so I'm glad to see we've made some progress.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2012/jul/02/jeneba-tarmoh-...
The word ChatGPT uses the most is "apologize". Whenever I ask it to clean up a code and it either screws up the syntax or removes some necessary parts then starts apologizing until it is fixed or I give up. I specifically ask ChatGPT to stop apologizing because it becomes insufferable after a while.

For texts, it uses "furthermore" more than any other word followed by "lastly" imho.
Discussion on official post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41224853
Achieving the perfect golden record with graph data
it supports sqlite: https://docs.firefly-iii.org/references/faq/install/#i-want-...
Yeah perhaps I came in with the wrong expectations. The ui/url made me expect a postgre playground, when instead I got this. Perhaps Postgres.ai?

Also... the page title is "Postgres Sandbox". This is, at best, misleading.
It is fiction.

But it is also absolutely the case that uploading yourself is flinging yourself irrevocably into a box which you do not and can not control, but other people can. (Or, given the time frame we are talking about, entities in general, about which you may not even want to assume basic humanity.)

I used to think that maybe it was something only the rich could do, but then I realized that even the rich, even if they funded the program from sand and coal to the final product, could never even begin to guarantee that the simulator really was what it said on the tin. Indeed, the motivation is all the greater for any number of criminals, intelligence agencies, compromised individuals, and even just several people involved in the process that aren't as pure as the driven snow in the face of the realization that if they just put a little bit of code here and there they'll be able to get the simulated rich guy to sign off on anything they like, to compromise the machine.

From inside the box, what incentives are you going to offer the external world to not screw with your simulation state? And the reality is, there's no answer to that, because whatever you say, they can get whatever your offer is by screwing with you anyhow.

I'm not sure how to resolve this problem. The incentives are fundamentally in favor of the guy in the box getting screwed with. Your best hope is that you still experience subjective continuity with your past self and that the entity screwing with you at least makes you happy about the new state they've crafted for you, whatever it may be.
Any external verification ofthe benchmark results?
They have to make more and more money or their stock goes down. This is the gross world we live in now. There’s a reason Warren Buffett sold half of his Apple holdings. They’ve squeezed blood from the turnip about as much as you can.
Sorry if this is in the RTFM;

So, you can basically use this to deploy a portable fully enclosed little webapp.

Basically any little web-app that has a bunch of backend DB:

A sales USB drive that loads a page that then has the pglite of all your product stuff on there. and you can just provide custom buttons to slurp data either way.

Utils to yank a [data] from a postgress server, onto your little sneaker-DB-USB -- then carry it over and to a DB function...

A little util USB that you already have it setup such that you can curl a bunch of data directly into tables on your little headless-browser-pglite minion?

Full Kisok DB USB (SSD) upgrades.

Basically - running a pico headless postgress DB with a webUI?

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samwillis March 2008

samstave March 2009

:-)

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https://i.imgur.com/6YLwEuj.png

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Yeah this is pretty dopes.
An approach to optimizing TypeScript type checking performance
Peiter 'Mudge' Zatko Returns to DARPA as CIO
If they drop the app, then they are free to send users directly to the web site.
that's what washers are for.
Me too, but shockingly there are a lot of people who don't have a computer, just a phone. I even know people in their 40s like this.
Last week we also saw the Middle East looking like it was ready to kick off WW3. Seems that cooler heads have prevailed for now.
Would really like to see a benchmarking analysis vs SQLite. How do they compare on memory usage and overhead?

I already default to SQLite for new side projects with the idea that "eventually I'll migrate to Postgres if this project gets legs", so switching to PGlite feels like a no-brainer as long as it's not going to weigh my apps down or force me to upgrade out of whatever entry-level server solution I'm using is for a given project.

EDIT: Found the benchmarks here https://pglite.dev/benchmarks
Seems like Apple has given up on being the good guys. Do they not care anymore? All the news I hear is them twisting on the rope over one obligation or another. This is just petty. Good job they are not involved in blood donations.
Nothing for you. Important to others.
It sounds like "professionals" weren't allowed to compete. Image if no one from the NBA was allowed in the olympic basketball games. It would be pretty second rate.
There's a decent chance they are about to watch the same thing
This is only tangentially related, but have you played the video game "Control"? That and Alan Wake (both from Remedy) seem to relate very well with the SCP genre.
Soju: An advanced modern IRC Bouncer
Yes, it was learning about this level of data collection that made me stop using my credit card for routine purchases and go back to using cash instead.
I enjoyed reading your insights. I just happen to be re-reading this book right now; I also find it both well-layered and entertaining. These stories reward repeat visitors!
It appears to me there's probably a "best of both worlds" compromise:

1. Send the astronauts home on Dragon

2. Certify Starliner for human flight if it can make it home safely (uncrewed)

If the capsule can make it down, it doesn't matter if there were people in it or not, right?
I've been getting into / discovering local-first databases and solutions in search of something simple & powerful to build a realtime offline-capable app (built with nextjs, react, react native), and have been playing around with Triplit which I find quite capable & easy to build with.

Here's a bunch of other links I've run across:

* https://localfirstweb.dev - List that aggregates many products

* https://www.localfirst.fm - A podcast about local-first software development.

* https://www.localfirstconf.com/ - local-first conference - many interesting talks on their youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@localfirstconf

Another promising, similar product I found is Instant: https://www.instantdb.com/, though their schema/relations/permissions are not quite as straightforward as Triplit's. However, they have written up a great article here: https://www.instantdb.com/essays/next_firebase
That sounds fine for the Olympics but rather awkward for a lower profile race at which someone just wants to roll a camera out to the track.

The same problem could also be addressed by having two cameras, one on each side of the track, synchronized and recording the same plane.

One could align the cameras into the same plane by putting a vertical array of distinctive marks (e.g. rapidly blinking LEDs) on each camera, above and below the optics and in line with it, such that each camera would see the other’s marks when correctly aligned.
Patreon also stands to gain from this change. Come think of it, the new arrangement is a win for everyone involved - except the actual patrons ofcourse.
The quotas just need to trend down. The faster the better.

People just have to realize how cheap Co2 certificates are and that to fight climate change we need to spend max 5% of GDP annually.
We already had SQL model and code generators well before LLMs. What does adding in random output do to improve that?
Emacs Lisp is my first Lisp, so I don't even really notice how supposedly weird it is. It's a fine language, don't let it get in your way, and it's just as important to be able to read other's code than it is to write your own. Unless you have all the time in the world, you want to use as much of other people's work as possible. Would I have preferred an editor written in Ruby? Sure. But I think I was right to not worry about that.
AI Is About to Boost Power Bills–Who'll Take Heat for That?
I airtagged my keys and my wallet. I have an Apple Watch and an iPhone. These are the things I need. The watch to find the phone. The phone to find the other things. Everything else I just give to memory or my wife’s memory since it’s never urgent.
> I don't think there's any significant factors that'd make people more or less likely to lie about ownership over the years.

I think there is: political polarization. Gun ownership seems like a fact that could get you othered, which would make people less likely to talk about it with strangers.
Good point. I guess if you're occluded to the camera, I was assuming the presumption is you haven't crossed the line. But it could still be arguable that he did cross the camera's finish line, it was just occluded.
>In fact, they were fairly useless when they modelled the source distribution, that's why ChatGPT was an instant hit whereas GPT-3 was mainly only interesting to other AI reasearchers.

I had a bot which used the original GPT3 (i.e. the completion model, not the chat model) and its answers were pretty decent (with the right prompting). Often even better than GPT3.5, whose answers were overly formulaic in comparison ("as an AI language model...", "it's important to ..." all the time)
'The AI-driven, energy-hungry data-center boom was bound to bring up uncomfortable questions: Will it raise energy bills and, if so, who will shoulder the costs? America’s largest wholesale power market is starting to see the results.

Rapid data-center build-out is increasing power demand just as a wave of older power-plant retirements is reducing supply in PJM Interconnection, the independent system operator that manages the wholesale power market spanning 13 states including Virginia, Pennsylvania and Illinois. It said two weeks ago that its latest capacity auction yielded prices of $269.92 per megawatt-day for most of its footprint, about nine times the clearing price a year ago. A contributing factor was a tweak in PJM’s modeling to better plan for extreme weather conditions. Skyrocketing capacity prices are a clear signal that the grid needs new power plants.'
tinfoil had theory: they implanted watermarks already, so that AI generated text can be flagged for future training runs or as a service, such that some phrases are coaxed to become statistical beacons.
The pipelines were only delivering fuel to Hungary, Slovakia and Austria. Literally everyone else has switched to Norway, US, and Azerbaijan. Should be easy for the others to do the same.
I was unfamiliar with Hammerspoon; to those like me, https://www.hammerspoon.org/
> I can help you with that—demolition, framing, reworking the plumbing, moving some electrical, installing some mould-resistant drywall, maybe some nice tile for the floor and some classic glazed ceramic three-by-six subway tile for the tub surround. Should take a month or two, depending on what all’s involved.

A month or two?! To re-do a bathroom? You say this like you're proud of it. I wouldn't. Accounting for drywall mudding and drying it should take a week, where most of the work happens in 2 days, on the weekend. Maybe you need 2 more days, the next weekend. Hell, take the other end of that weekend too.

1-2 month quotes is why I don't hire contractors, why I fix my own cars, and only use a personal friend for HVAC help.
When I come home, I take off my hat and then I put all my 'leaving home stuff', keys, wallet, glasses, and put them in my hat. Done.
On the contrary I can say first hand that it is true (3700X which is two years newer, but on benchamrks it is a toss up between the two). What modern GPU at you using?
Hey Sam from Electric here, I work on PGlite

What the team at Supabase have built with postgres.new is incredible, it has been a lot of fun to work with them last month or so to have PGlite incorporate the things they needed. It's fed directly back into the development, helped us iron out some bugs and finish hitting the feature list required. They are the most genuinely nice team to work with.

SQL databases and LLMs go together so incredible well, the structured data and schema enables an LLM to infer so much context about the database and the underlying data. This exploration into a UI over this pairing is going to be incredibly influential, it opens up what has traditionally been a complex technical problem (designing database schemas) to everyone. That's the true power of LLMs.

I'm not going to go on about PGlite here as postgres.new really deserves the limelight!
Yes, how much time do you think a redesign takes?
We are at a turning point for electricity generation because electricity will be so cheap and plentiful in a couple of years during summer and during the day that we likely don't know what to do with it.
soju is a compelling modern alternative to the classic znc and psybnc IRC Bouncers.

See also:

The dockerizer version - https://git.sr.ht/~fourstepper/docker-soju

It's also trivial to build from source via docker:

git clone https://git.sr.ht/~fourstepper/docker-soju
cd docker-soju
docker build -t docker-soju:$(date +%Y%m%d) .

Then you will need to create ./soju-data/soju.cfg as per the docs https://soju.im/doc/soju.1.html.

Pretty snazzy, have fun.

Related:

IRCv3 2022 Spec round-up - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33682835 (2022, 129 comments)

List of still alive IRC networks - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22892516 (2020)
The SpaceX vehicle may look like the safest choice. But is it? A handful of manned flights does not prove that a vehicle is 'safe'. Likewise, some anomalies in 1 flight do not prove 'unsafe'.

Perhaps the knowledge of Starliner issues makes it more accurate to assess the risk.

Either vehicle could lose the crew on the return. "Astronauting" is a risky business.

I do not envy anyone on the decision chain.
> worst thing I have ever seen happen in any major language

Survivorship bias. Python just barely survived the transition, and you only still use it now because it did make it. Take a look at Perl 6 to see a major language that failed.
> ... the user found your app through apple.

Not necessarily. They may have heard about it on the internet and then looked in the app store for it.
> he doesn't believe in settings

wait... whut? No thanks, I like to customize things
Whoever shared this article, thanks! So much truth. 'New' feels good at the moment of buying, but more often than not, "struggling & repairing" feels so much better afterwards. Oh the toilet doesn't flush well anymore or it keeps taking water... no problem, I know how to fix it since I did it before. Oh the kid' s sword is broken, let's fix it together! My fiancee seems unsatisfied with how I acted at the table yesterday... honey tell me what's wrong, we can talk it through.
FDA approves epinephrine nasal spray, a needle-free alternative to EpiPen
If you put social media in the equation, I could argue that it’s certain that stress went up for young people.
Open source framework from Firebase for building AI-powered apps with Node.js
I agree. Topics like “how is the lifetime of a QObject exposed to the QML engine managed?” lack coverage and clarity. On the surface it is simple, but in practice it’s an extremely complex topic that has been a source for many bugs in our medium to large QML desktop app.

We contribute upstream a bit and we had documentation updates to clarify the stability of pointers to QHash elements rejected. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Personally, we superbuild bleeding edge Qt with the source code in tree so that it’s trivial to go to definition and inspect behavior. Makes the experience substantially better.
The Great Typography Bake-off (2020)
The European Space Agency has a space program as well: it has the Ariane rocket. I don't think it's capable to bring astronauts to the ISS but maybe it would be worth starting to cooperate to enable this in the future.
Am I not allowed to visit the Patreon website from my iOS device?