skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea they had was to just make something up, like pandas and a series/columnar database, themselves. There are other competitors to kdb/q, but they are not as entrenched and maybe not a perfect fit. These guys cooked up a closer fit for their own systems, than, say clickhouse and other tools.

It had to be a very close fit to what they do, as kdb/q is pretty damned good at some things in finance. Maybe there is not enough money in the highly specialised areas it does very well at, for other people to come in with something new.

It would be a huge mistake to think sql is a replacement for Q.
The article in question seems to suggest otherwise. ;)
Nothing to hide, nothing to fear : )
I also know people buying drugs on WhatsApp but you need to get the contact by another mean. You can’t find it inside WhatsApp.

I know absolutely no one using Telegram as a chat app however. Pretty much everyone uses WhatsApp for everything here.
In the context of this thread, freedom of speech always meant exactly that.
The EU is not as altruistic as it seems, a lot of good looking policies are backed up by bad intentions.

Not having the possibility of a 3rd party app store means that you can never have an app store in the EU, where the 30% stays in the EU.

I also don't believe that the EU is doing a great job, the cookie law didn't accomplish anything other than force companies to pay monthly for a cookie banner service and waste millions. GDPR failed, it just created legal black holes and it's now fine to transfer data to the US, rendering the whole thing ineffective.

I'm an EU citizen and I'm not sure if the EU would have been so keen on USB-C if Apple would have been a company in the EU. This talk about saving the environment fades away at the first sign of economical inconvenience.
Telegram's data centers are located in USA, Netherlands and Singapore
Security is PvP, safety is PvE. Different game, different tactics.
> Where are the Russians doing the same about the war in Ukraine?

Pretty sure a bunch of them got arrested early on for doing the same kind of protest stuff.

Guessing they've all either left or decided to keep their heads down for safety?
Dude, this is amazing. It deserves its own HN post!
GM just announced a $4.4B quarterly profit and more than 1k layoffs
This is super interesting IF they add an clear option to configure the providers so it's possible to only use on-device processing / self-hosted providers.

EDIT: from the FAQ in their discord:

> Q6: Will there be other STT (Speech To Text) Services allowed?

> Yes! We currently use Deepgram while we are developing the app but we plan to update the settings so users can choose a wide range of STT services like OpenAI's Whisper, Deepgram and we want to allow users to use there own hosted server for this.
Also sometimes known as “not invented here syndrome”.

Sometimes it’s useful to know how something works and to be easily able to change every piece of the stack, other times it’s a massive waste of time and the end result is a worse documented and worse developed solution than what hundreds if not thousands of people have built and tested over the years.

Depends on what you’re working on, really, I’ve seen some really unfortunate stuff once people start rolling their own security stuff and it’s not like you can ask StackOverflow about why some random bespoke library or framework is full of weird behaviour.

But for personal learning projects? Go wild!
Not in France, but same experience here. Telegram has by far the best UX and clients of any chat app, so that’s what I use with my friends and family.
Ask HN: An AI landing page builder with an API to create it?
hi,

Framer.co can build landing pages with its AI builder, but it lacks the possibility to create the pages with an API.

So far I haven't find any web page builder, that I can use programmatically (APIs).

Thanks
Pico-Rgb2hdmi
Gitea hosted in Russia or Iran or similar jurisductions that would SHIFT+DELETE a DMCA request.
"You need to jump through hoops to get end-to-end encryption on the platform."

What do you mean by this?
> Are environmental benefits really worth the negative reactions to regulation this will spur in the population every time someone tries to drink from a plastic bottle?

Yes.

We fucked up our ecosphere so badly, every little bit to counter our effects helps. Sure, it's just a goddamn bottle cap, but as a friend of mine uses to say: "No one snow flake feels responsible for the avalanche." Can be read both ways – all our small "misdeeds" accumulate, but all the small "good deeds" do, too.

Regulation helps, people will get used to it, and quickly, especially when it's just about minor inconveniences.
This sort of general architecture (store parquet-like files somewhere like s3 and build a metadata database on top) seems reasonably common and gives obvious advantages for storing lots of data, scaling horizontally, and scaling storage and compute separately. I wonder where you feel your advantages are compared to similar systems? Eg is it certain API choices/affordances like the ‘time travel’ feature, or having in-house expertise or some combination of features that don’t usually come together?

A slightly more technical question is what your time series indexes are? Is it about optimising storage, or doing fast random-access lookups, or more for better as-of joins?
He is also United Arab Emirates citizen. So it's safer to live in UAE, than to be a citizen of free West :D
I am working on a SaaS for real estate agents. Customers get their own tenanted database and web front-end with some fancy front-end tools like geospatial searching to keep customers attracted to said customer's portfolio. I have a paying customer who's been using a 1.0 version for more than a decade now. I don't know whether I got lucky or there's a legitimate market for v2.0 out there. I am building it with boring tech as it's a boring product. I guess I should get back to building it.
> I’m not sure that the old one did either.

You probably don't remember because you have not needed to read Ruby documentation on mobile. Good news though -- I suspect you are not alone in this.
But it's a false dichotomy. It's entirely possible to question authority while not engaging with and spreading "toxic nonsense." It really doesn't have to be all or nothing.
"The property" you mean the council housing where all the ganging, killing, raping and terror plotting occurs, right? Sure, the administration of said council should be jailed ASAP.
Is PIO fast enough to capture HDMI? I'd like an HDMI freeze button device, providing the same function as many video projectors but inline with an HDMI data stream.
> It’s a side show, and a distraction from the main business

I'm pissed this is accepted as normal for the IT sector, while in railroad engineering and aviation (where human lives are at stake) you'd get your licenses and certificates revoked. Therac-25 something.
All tests have this problem. We still write them for the same reasons we do double-entry bookkeeping.
Nice, it's a free download too. Thanks!
I'm working in the final features for an office productivity suite with deep AI integration. I think the current slapping of a chat window on software is pretty tame, if not lame. So, in addition to that chat window that replies with conversational chat, I've got over a dozen integrated into software tools LLMs that when you ask them things, their output is programmatic and either modifies the data of what you're working on, or or performs some type of modification to the software tool in use. The tools include a complete word processor, where the AI knows the word processor's API and can directly manipulate the document in the word processor, likewise for a spreadsheet, and there is a "prompt engineer" interface where one can clone, modify, and create new LLM Agents that have deep access to the APIs of the tools, the data in the tools, and the wider application framework.

This has been in development for 3 years, and I've got an immigration law firm using it, with about 1/3rd of the LLM agents being immigration law specialist agents of some type.

I'm just wrapping up transforming the system from being immigration law specific to being generic, capable of operating in any industry. I previously made a "do it yourself: build your own home solar energy system" as a proof of concept that this framework could be modified in such a way, which I put online for a few months and then took down, having proved what I wanted.

I've got multiple creative writing 'bots: legal, technical documentation, creative writing, and code authoring. I've got multiple spreadsheet 'bots: create any standard spreadsheet form on demand, reverse engineer and explain complex spreadsheets, and co-author spreadsheets interactively with the human user, guiding them through the understanding of the spreadsheet being built. I've got foreign language translation agents that allow people without a common language to speak to one another through the voice transcription interfaces.

And the users are never copying and pasting LLM outputs from one place to another, that integration is built in to the business logic of the software: ask a chatbot to write a document, the output does directly to the word processor and the document is created, likewise for spreadsheets, likewise for talking to the "projectBot" and asking "what's the state of this project?" and a detailed report is generated.

I've also been making the app itself multi-lingual, and multi-skinned so it can be refaced for different cultures, demographics, and industries. I've been calling it "AI CMS" but that is meaningless to far too many. I'm considering calling it "Midom Office AI" because that sounds like "my dumb AI" and I'm generally sarcastic, considering an anti-gushing sarcastic marketing angle on the software. Rather than everyone's else's over praising, I'll have just some confident smuck referencing how he's got an entire team of AI experts helping him, enabling him to be calm and cool in the face of all the deadline pressures, he sips lemonade while his AI team works for him, and not him for it. We'll see what my "marketingBot" says...
>In some ways they seem more authoritarian than even China and Russia

Not even close. You are just poorly informed about the situation in Russia or China.
Not every website's key metric is conversion of mobile users. I have never needed to read Ruby documentation on my phone. I'm glad they did not waste their time on unimportant stuff like mobile UX in this case.
So if we want to tie this back to CIA, it's less a CIA project, and more of major European powers deciding to band up before CIA comes for them too.
Check out the book Island, by Aldous Huxley. Came out in 1962 and the whole island is covered in surveillance devices made to look like birds.
> Samsung can become another Apple, but it's gonna take some effort.

For sure, and I hope they will, further competition is always good. I dont know numbers but I guess the ad revenue must be significant since the "generational leaps" and innovations on the mobile department arent there.
Julian Assange would like a word about exposing American war crimes.
EUV the concept is obvious. You want higher resolution, you need shorter wavelengths. But there are many devils in many details, and the relatively tiny US EUV program didn't do a whole lot about them. So no, EUV is not mainly a US development.
If it’s correct 99.9% of the time, and the piano lessons are every two weeks, that’s one error in piano lesson scheduling over 40 years. That sounds good enough to me to not verify.
While both points are true now, there is a lot of work happing to bring both column storage and separate compute and storage to Postgres.

The pg_duck project has the eventual aim to implement a column storage engine for Postgres. There are a few steps to get there as it needs to be tied into the Postgres page storage and replication system. So it's not solved by the first version of pg_duck, but the team is incredible and I believe it will happen.

Neon and Oriole (acquired by Supabase) are both open source and separate storage and compute. There is a few steps more for them to go to be truly usable self hosted, but they will get there, and some of the work they are doing will hopefully be upstreamed.
It's like knowing how much clock speed, RAM and storage is on a typical computer.
I really don’t understand this cope. It’s scientifically established that intelligence is highly heritable, especially the analytical kind. It also agrees with experience, we all know people who have a very hard time understanding mathematics, while others sail through it.

Of course it’s not fair, life isn’t fair. But the good news is that you can quite easily compensate for lack of aptitude with more work, and that is most definitely the case for mathematics, up to and including undergraduate level.

I grew up in Sweden where everyone goes to the same kind of pre-school, that does very little math teaching. Still, the difference in aptitude when we started school was significant. But we all know this.
Have two LLMs do the task and compare.
How do you generate your text? Do you write the middle of the sentence first, come back to the start then finish it? Or do you have a special keyboard where you drop sentences as fully formed input?

As systems humans and LLMs behave in observably similar ways. You feed in some sort of prompt+context, there is a little bit of thinking done, a response is developed by some wildly black-box method, and then a series of words are generated as output. The major difference is that the black boxes presumably work differently but since they are both black boxes that doesn't matter much for which will do a better job at root cause analysis.

People seem to go a bit crazy on this topic at the idea that complex systems can be built from primitives. Just because the LLM primitives are simple doesn't mean the overall model isn't capable of complex responses.
Google's Gemini dev docs contain a few of such warnings. For a good reason, these models make stuff up and the domain where ROI is positive is small.
Ventoy is fantastic.
Alien, Aliens

Terminator 2

The Matrix

Heat

Die Hard 1 & 2

Lord of the Rings

Usual Suspects

Star Wars Trilogy (originals only)

Unforgiven

The Predator

X-Men (2000)

Jurassic Park

Total Recall

Bourne Identity
I don't know how much this is based on science but our history (and popular) books about ice age always depicted a hunting method that involves a dug out pit with spikes. Then the hunters would chase the animal and steer it towards the pit, where the mammoth gets trapped and they could finish him off.

Maked sense to me as a kid because directly attacking a thick wooled mammoth with stone tips on sticks wouldn't be feasible.

I guess the theory from the article could work too, it's more flexible than betting on chasing the animal to a specific pit.

But I am surprised the pit method isn't mentioned at all as an option in the article.
Working on an NFL stats & visualisation project, the working title is American Football Insights.
It's a hobby project, I'm not planning to charge for. I did a bit of work on this a few years ago, and I found that analysing the stats, you can gain insights, which you can't really from just watching the games. It was prompted by the upcoming NFL season.

Things I'm thinking about...I had an idea for a centralised local DB where I collected all kinds of stats on my life, all in one place. They're already being collected on various platforms, I thought 'why not make them my own, and maybe there's something to gain by pulling them together?'.
I'm building a developer tool for working with FHIR APIs called "Vanya Client".

- https://vanyalabs.com/

FHIR is a data standard for sharing healthcare data. It's in use all around the world by healthcare, health insurance and medtech companies as well as researchers working with healthcare data.

Vanya grew out of my own frustrations as a developer working with FHIR. I wanted an easier way to see the data behind the APIs. To say Postman is not ideal for working with this data is a major understatement.

We're a few months away from a commercial release, and have an MVP available for download right now. We're very much building in public and have a strong user base already all around the world.

Just finished a Sunday morning release of the latest version. Looking forward to the next 6 months!
> Nobody will ever say "yes I like censorship because I am a reactionary".

Yes, because no one except idiots will say "I am reactionary", and no one except idiots believe that "because I am reactionary" is a valid explanation of anything. Political categories are dumb, and most people aren't stupid enough to define themselves by them.
AI for calendar invites is a real winner, I did a related thing here, but ical is even simpler!

https://hareeshganesan.com/2024/07/14/baby-calendar
Pretending to care? I am not saying I care about communist symbols, I am saying it would be absurd if I did, I wasn’t in the war. And yes I agree that all the people that pretend that the word ”master” is an issue are behaving badly. It’s pointless virtue signaling by proxy.
I see it with people who "want to learn programming" but they fizzle out.

That is not a single or 2 persons it is basically dozens of people whom I gave materials or tried to guide. It never is that they are too dumb to learn programming it is that they rather do something else than sitting in front of computer hunting down why their program doesn't compile.

For math I got good enough to barely pass, for electronics I know basics, so I am "want to learn more math"/"want to learn more electronics" person but never get to really spend time on it.

DevOps stuff, programming, databases, web frameworks is something I can fiddle with all day and not get bored, I can spend all day hunting that misconfig somewhere.

On the face value all looks the same it is fiddling with stuff and solving puzzles, but somehow one type of puzzles is more interesting for me and since I do it a lot also much easier for me.
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Many folks like schools, employers, etc still publish calendars in PDF format.

They spend more time on branding and visual formatting, than trying to create the same in formats that we can import into our calendar apps and actually use it practically.

I wonder if there is a two step process we can follow that will more robustly generalize ...

1. Read any document and convert into into a simple table that tries to tabulate: date, time (+timezone), venue, url, notes, recurrence

2. Read a table that roughly has the above structure and use that to create google/ical/ics files or links

We may be able to fine tune a model or agent separately to do each step very well.
PC Floppy Copy Protection: Formaster Copy-Lock
>that includes people from Russia, China or the US believing they are the ones who are truly free, and everything else are totalitarian shitholes.

In Russia, China or North Korea - nobody believes that.
I am working alone on https://tree-of-knowledge.org

This is a hierarchical representation of any given piece of knowledge.

It starts with a tree root node that you specify (let's say Kung fu), then it branches out into multiples subcategories (techniques, styles, philosophy, weaponry, ect...) and then you can click on these subcategories to branch out even more into the graphical tree.

This is all generated on-the-fly with Claude 3.5. There is no limit to what knowledge you might explore.

The killer feature is that it is totally free and does not require to login.
Just click the link and have fun. I'll keep it free like that, as long as I can.

I hope you like it guys because it is the best project that I have up my sleeve.

Enjoy!,

Pierre
It's still baffling that he could have been, and that this law exists at all
> I would say it happens on as frequent a basis as any other network tbh.

...really?

I find this extremely hard to believe on its face. Sure an attacker can infect a system via a USB drive, but they need to get physically close to the victim (at least at one point in time). That both dramatically decreases the number of possible attackers and increases their personal risk.

It also becomes far more difficult for an attacker to exfiltrate any data.
Evaluating your AI models in the wild
Most of officials in every democracy, purported or otherwise, are unelected. For practical reasons, you always elect a group, which then sets up or elects other groups, which together form the government.
I accept your hypothesis, but allow me to suggest an alternative hypothesis for you to consider (and maybe reject after consideration).

I am in my late 40s. Modern videogames are a great deal easier than games I played as a child. I tried playing a few games from my mispent youth recently, and was absolutely amazed at just how much harder they were.

FWIW, I also play music, mostly guitar.
How does this make money? It says it’s free, and I don’t see any ads.
It seems that for Boeing management, engineering is an annoying nuisance that gets in the way of making money.
I prefer systems inspired by ecology:

1. Network connectivity: Crickets

2. Cluster resources: Bees

3. Queues/pipelines: Ants

Consider the population of ants on earth is 20*10^15 : One could spend the rest of their life stepping on individuals, but the futile behavior remains meaningless to self-repairing ecosystems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksZTYRqr444 (Jimi Hendrix, "Castles Made of Sand" )
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Note there's also a exploit to gain local access via malformed incoming ipv6 packets fixed in the same patch set
Apart from the fact that, in my years of using Telegram as my messaging app, I have never seen any of the "easy access to drugs" screens people here seem to find: an easy way to find drug sellers is a boon to law enforcement. This cannot be a reason for going against Telegram.
> Doctors being the most notorious pill pushers on this planet

How about science podcasters advertising supplements?
Thats interesting. You had almost exactly the same idea as me: https://hitchdev.com/hitchstory
At this point I think that vanilla SQL should just support optionally putting the from before the select. It's useful for enabling autocompletion, among other things.
> The servers themselves are also often located in piracy friendly jurisdictions (the Netherlands used to be common, not sure what’s current).

Definitely not piracy friendly jurisdictions most of the time, most are located in Netherlands (most popular), Germany, Canada, United States, Finland and France.

> I used to spend some time in the space and I can’t recall a seed box provider ever getting raided.

Most seedbox providers don't officially allow piracy and don't promote piracy and will listen to valid legal requests, they're safe, you aren't. If they get in legal trouble that involves you, they will totally throw you under the bus to save themselves.

A lot of seedbox providers also don't allow public trackers because that attracts legal notices.

> It’s also a huge pain in the ass for law enforcement because it becomes international quickly. You’re in country X, the server with its IP in the swarm is in country Y, and the company that has the rental agreement with the data center for the server is in country Z.

Actually, it really isn't.

They just don't care as long as the providers stay legal (example: Whatbox (Incorporated in Canada, servers in NL and US) and RapidSeedbox (Incorporated in Hong Kong, servers in NL) started forwarding the legal notices to their users to avoid issues, Ultra.cc (Incorporated in Singapore, servers in NL, CA and Singapore) and Hostingbydesign (Incorporated in Denmark, servers in NL and DE) blocked some trackers to avoid issues)

It's when you stop following the law that you get into trouble, like Hostingbydesign's owner who ran another seedbox provider and got arrested, sentenced and fined when he knew about the piracy and ignored it.