skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cursor also switches to "pointer" (the hand) for no reason on the documentation pages, eg. here: https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/master/String.html#method-i-ri...
People die in car crashes although they have seat belts, it's been shown many times, so seat belts doesn't do anything to stop the real danger.
See "orthographic mapping." When you see a word you haven't learned yet, you look carefully at the letters in order to figure out how to pronounce it. Once you do this enough times for that word, it's saved into memory. You see the letters and you can retrieve that the word very quickly.

Next time you encounter a new word, try to catch yourself sounding it out in your head. I wasn't really aware of the process until I tried.
I’ve been using pg_search for a tranche of emails in 2+ GB PDFs converted to PDF-page-per-row. Along with some materialized views for regex extracted timestamps it has given us a means for data forensics that has been very fruitful.

Orchestrating this outside of a few Python scripts and a single instance of postgres would have taken much more work!
If I recall on when this happens with my Wife’s or Daughter’s Air Tag, it only happens when the Air Tag is away from the “parent” Air Tag. Since theirs is not linked to mine, it won’t trigger when they are around.
Yeah that’s fair, not open source, I was incorrect, though I think it’s more than personal use only. “Production use only” is doing a lot of heavy lifting and I don’t know exactly what that means (though could make a guess).
Hey, I did a similar thing last week with my preschooler's paper schedule they handed out, using GPT-4o.

But I asked it to output in a certain CSV format, which Google Calendar can import. Easier to review, fewer tokens.
Declarative programming needs a new name
Declarative and imperative programming are completely different skills and need to be delineated through different names. I have people who know imperative languages like R or Matlab who think building something like an online forum is simple because "it's all just code."

Yes, both are needed, and neither is superior. And yes, while declarative programming is imperative under the hood, it exists at a different level of abstraction. It's like saying chemistry is just physics; a chemist works at a different level and faces different challenges than a physicist.

This is more frustrating than people thinking Java and JavaScript are related.
It's not that hard to train people in offensive and defensive security ops - it just takes effort and commitment.

When I was working for a Vendor, we'd often train Jarheads, Squids, etc in IOW MOSes technolgies and techniques for offensive and defensive capabilities.

Most other regional powers have built out a similar talent pipeline - it's very doable now that computing has diffused globally.

Heck, LE in plenty of countries now has capabilities comparable to the Five Eyes circa 10-15 years ago.
Definitely and that’s not incompatible with what I’m saying.

You are indeed looking far back to the Proto-Indo-European where words are very different and sometimes a bit of guesses.

If you look at the whole tree, you will see that both trust, truth and true share common Germanic roots (that’s pretty obvious by looking at them) which is indeed linked with words meaning “solid” and then “promise, contract”.

What’s interesting is that the root is shared between “truth” and “trust” while in French it’s not (vérité from veritas vs confiance from confere).
I've counted exactly 659 times when a statistic was used to sell something. Exactly 659.
now it kills the process (dev env, container).

Not sure what kills it, but without "columns" in "full_json_result" it runs through.
https://gpt.franzai.com

AI over email.

Had some vacation. Now lots of new ideas. Think I will enable email forwarding (not yet possible)

Mailto:gpt@franzai.com

Hey, please send example@example.com a friendly email inviting them to a google meeting next Thursday. Keep me cc.

Will only implement minimal spam protection and a simple opt out and see what happens.
Yeah, storage needs to be implemented in UTC and display needs to be in local time.
Logic Leaps FPGA playing Chrome dino game
So let's see all the power and copyright violations that are required to build an LLM and it can be used to replace a ~20 line bash script. Awesome guys.
I understand that sets can be a difficult concept for some. I'm happy to help you work through some basics (Venn diagrams, etc) if you'd like.
The state of Ruby dev tooling [video]
I am working alone on MyApps [1], an app of apps where you can spawn any number of pre-defined "app windows" into a zoomable, pannable infinite 2D space. Currently it only features a clone of PureRef.
It runs Gundb in the backend, providing a privacy friendly, p2p syncing organization tools.

[1] https://github.com/hrkck/MyApps/wiki
My step-mom tutors. A high schooler was having a terrible time in algebra. She quickly realized there was foundational numeracy missing. The next lesson they walked out to the residential street and asked: how many tires are there. The kid froze and guessed. Time to start counting. A couple months later, the kid was able to raise their grade to passing in algebra
Yeah, GP is sort of saying that seat belts are pointless since traffic fatalities can happen anyway
> - Where are decimals, to avoid things like `parseInt(0.00000051) === 5`?

I personally dislike decimals, I would prefer a full BigRational that is stored as a ratio of two BigInts (or as a continued fraction with BigInts coefficients.

Decimals solve the 0.1+0.1+0.1!=0.3 error but are still broken under division.
My personal site https://www.tyleo.com

After years of having the New Year’s resolution, “make a personal site.” I finally got past my procrastination and did it! It’s live and I’m filling it out with things I’ve done over the years.
Hi, I am Software Engineer from India, I am working on https://shoutmemo.com to collect, manage and showcase customers testimonials using embed widget on website. It can also import testimonials from socials like twitter. This is my first side hustle. It is still in beta stage.
He's not actually making that point.

> In this kind of an environment, most of the technical people you are hiring are your “programming language feeders”.

> These are people who take the logic from you. They do not determine the logic.

> And they will translate it into a language that the computer understands. AI can naturally do that, which is why non-technical people who get exposed to the coding abilities of an LLM get so super excited. You know, like, “oh, I have found my technical co-founder”. If your technical co-founder was doing this, you were anyway screwed.
I work with my small team on the exclusive co-op game Sixth Force, about father and son. Father is AI network developer and son-teenager is the artist. They find themselves trapped inside an AI network simulation and need to get out before the network takes over the world :).
Btw your wish listing on Steam is very much welcome to finish the game https://store.steampowered.com/app/2830090/Sixth_Force/ :)
There’s a couple. One would be to run a Python interpreter and fix it with that.
There is https://github.com/stride3d/stride which should be pretty close to what you are looking for :)
Thanks you for this ad homimem attack.
Adding additional information the author didn't mentioned looks very uneducated, thanks you for this observation.
> The maximum cost of a serious nuclear accident is well beyond anything we see in other industries, save perhaps the cumulative effects of CO2 pollution.

That isn't so. If I just look up a random explosion I get https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Beirut_explosion which is more damage than most serious nuclear accidents. 218 deaths, 7,000 injuries, 300,000 homeless. That is pretty bad.

And, again, your logic would involve people looking at the industrial revolution and deciding against it.
Actually, it also externalizes and centralizes the authorization data, so it won't work without the knowledge contained in the application database that could affect any authorization decision.

Permify provides a Permission Database[0] that unifies the authorization data (as a collection of Access Control Lists - ACLs) in a database of your choice, serving as the single source of truth for all authorization queries and requests via the Permify API.

[0]: https://docs.permify.co/getting-started/sync-data
You badly overestimate the technical chops of the parent-guardian cohort and underestimate the practicality of a printable PDF with key dates.
True. My actions here are extending empathy towards you, and to consistently express that the empathy is genuine.

Responding as strongly and as angrily as you have suggests that someone in your past was needlessly rude or over correcting, and it's made you put up some walls.
I’m trying to start a few projects. (Email in profile if you want to discuss or team up)

Playing with toy LLM models to see if there’s a way to identify gaps in knowledge and guide training.

Thinking to do a kaggle challenge soon. (Is there a way to join a team?)

Maybe do a chose-your-own-adventure style interactive story to teach python to beginners.
I don't think the CIA had much to do with it. I am pretty sure they tried to soft-power their way through some decisions though. Europe is too big for the CIA to control.
Just close the original article's window and it will stop narrating.
Is there some technical limitation that forced you to make Aide as a fork, rather than a VSCode extension?
do you pay for the pro plan?
Democracy is not a spectator sport. You have to be vigilant for it through the years.

With that vigilance, it helps to be able to accurately assess the problem. In this case, Durov wasn't arrested for non-Western aligned subject matter. He was arrested for tacitly allowing drug trade and extremism on his app. Yes, Telegram is deleting many of these groups, but it is a token effort at best.

If Telegram ramps up the moderation of these efforts, perhaps the charges against Durov will be dropped. But if they continue to allow these whilst upping the moderation against.. say.. pro-Russian groups, Durov stays jailed. Hence, accurately assess the problem, and choose to work on it.

For what its worth, I lean libertarian with a progressive bent, so in my book anything that is not overly dangerous should be allowed to be communicated.

- Weapon sales? Probably not.

- XTC sales? Go ahead.[0]

- Nutella boycot? Go ahead.

- Infiltrating a local government to sabotage it? No.

[0] Yes, I am fully aware drug production funds violent organisations and there are tonnes of externalities like chemical waste dumping. That needs to be fixed via legalizing, it is not an inherent problem of drug sales.
I have a corollary: people who are smarter than I am are mostly just less lazy than I am.
Seems pretty clear from the article that this person had no interest in doing this in any of the easy ways!
Terence Tao at IMO 2024: AI and Mathematics [video]
100% I've just started using Claude recently and couldn't believe how good it was!
Probably not a lot when in the same city you have two huge tech companies. You would be crazy to go to Boeing
I'm tinkering away on a turn-based web game that will ideally mix Counter-Strike with something like Door Kickers / Frozen Synapse etc.

Ideally a way to let people lay out strategies and see them executed by a team, go on - prove you're the best IGL!

It's slow going between a full time job and family life but really great to expand my mind into something that isn't "web dev".
DOJ Takes over Whistleblower Cybersecurity Suit Against Georgia Tech
I don't think any implementation ever did this. But it was "technically possible" as the spec didn't prevent it so you have to account for it.
Then my main point is that wealth and/or income is likely more studied than IQ, because it is/they are easier information to acquire. Even in psychology, I suspect it's quicker to assess someone's "socioeconomic status" than IQ.

The article you linked me to is paywalled. By "wealth" I mean family wealth even when one is 12 years old and have no income. The abstract says of another line of research: "Sibling comparisons ensure factors like the resources available during childhood, the impact of growing up in particular neighborhoods and genetic predispositions are all controlled, without explicitly adding these variables to the research."

If they normalize for parental wealth, then the paper you linked to concerns a different topic.
Hi I've been working on something similar but using podcasts as a starting point for concepts. I wonder if we might collaborate? Link in bio, anon!
> there is no way to verify the degree of "good faith genuinity", so we cant use that parameter in aspect of legal actions.

of course there is…

one of the reasons people justifiably bring up spam in these “my free speech” cases is because it shows definitively that the “free speech absolutists” don’t actually care about free speech—if they truly believed all speech is as valuable as all other speech then spam would have the same weight of priority as non-spam speech for them, yet they have no problem silencing spam.

off the top of my head, we would consider their guard rails against spam and have they implemented those same guard rails against the things they’re being charged for? if not, then obviously they’re not making real attempts.

of course there are multiple ways to determine whether they’ve made meaningful attempts. i think this is all moot though, if my understanding is correct, he’s resisted doing anything at all which is why he’s been charged.

as i said in a different post though, it’s still muddy on the specifics, we’ll know more later—we’re just wildly guessing at this point.
... That was my point?
I made a personal, self-hostable read-it-later service that fits my needs. Just for fun I gave myself the constraint that I couldn’t use any JS, so it’s all done with static html templates in Django. It also archives all articles so you never have to worry about link rot. https://github.com/brendanv/lynx

And now, because I have a problem, I’ve completely pivoted and I’m rewriting it from scratch as a SPA because I wanted to try using Pocketbase for the backend and extend it so I could learn Go. https://github.com/brendanv/lynx-v2
This is very cool, first time I'm hearing of Reactor, thanks for sharing
It had a reusable orbiter, not a reusable first stage.
Dentists and doctors in general is complicated because it's impossible to train "on your own", but law school...come on, you just need a good brain, patience and reading a lot.
These kind of responses (yours, zx10rse) are the absolute worst appeals to anecdote and bias I can think of. Someone actually comes along with a logical argument so you just give up and say "yeah well uhhh I'd like to see you try". Sad.
What is $112k worth in 2476BC, adjusted for inflation? ;)
I've been working on a pretty basic who's that pokemon game for a little while. There's quite a few online but none quite scratched the itch for me.

Still got a big list of improvements to make but I'm quite happy with how it's coming together.

https://whos-that-pokemon.gicelascona.org/
Shouldn't name a software project after a popular font
Interference by German foundations&sabotage of the French nuclear industry(2023) [pdf]
You can always phonetically spell in the dialect. Which Finnish does often. So if you have a dialect you write it out phonetically. There might be slight deviation from standard phonetics(some vowel variations), but the dialect does get rather close.

In the end, maybe it is inherently wrong take that same word in different dialects is the same word. Usually they are close enough to be relatively intelligible.
I'll stop advocating more nuclear the very nanosecond someone shows me the fabled cheap-as-water seasonal battery storage.

Renewables make cheap energy, but not when you need it, or even predictably, especially outside of California. But you need to store it, according to renewables maximalist this is imminent and a non-problem, until that is obvious I'm in favour of nuclear.
Or thrown out from the solar system, antenna facing an other galaxy
I'm working on a metadata catalog aimed towards scientific data. After standing up an enterprise data platform/lakehouse for science and laboratories, I've been really depressed by the current offerings and the massive oversight they have when dealing with scientific data. So I thought I'd change that. We're targeting not only the right kinds of data, but also connectors/integrations that reflect where most science data lives at these labs.
Ismyhostfastyet.com
Thanks. Just getting rid of the showstopping bugs at the moment... as always, works great on my local dev machine :)

It'll be running on Hetzner in the background so I'm just working on getting all the moving parts synchronized (and writing the docs!) and it will be ready for early access.

Hopefully in a month or so.
I worked at Boeing. The reason people attribute McDonnell Douglas is because it caused a fundamental shift in leadership expectations.

It was clear as day on the ground that something had switched, suddenly every conversation was about minimizing cost. Every meeting was about maximizing value. Efficiency above safety.

I cannot overemphasize that it really did fundamentally shift the language, the incentives, etc. I started having to prove I needed vms to two different business panels.

Sometimes you are right, the root cause is too simple, but I was there for this one. It really was that simple this time.
I'd like to see that ! been fiddling with sqlite and fts5 to drop algolia from my application.
Now do the Erdos number: defined the same way but for coauthors of papers linked to the absurdly production (and always high on amphetamines) great Paul Erdos. The most glorious of all, the Erdos-Bacon number, is defined as the sum of your Bacon number and Erdos number.

Mathematicians Daniel kleitman and Bruce Reznik both tie for top spot with a number of 3 (Erdos 1s and Bacon 2s). Danica McKellar and Elon both in there with 6s. And Mayim Bialik, Natalie Portman, and Kristen Stewart all up there with 7s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s%E2%80%93Bacon_numbe...
We are the good guys and fight for the good and we should have better weapons than the bad guys.

Says the bad guy too.
Thanks for pointing that out! Just to clarify, we provide a single, hardcoded query that fetches metadata, with no option for user input. The user only needs to take the generated JSON and use it in a React app that they can also run locally. Since there's no user input involved, SQL injection shouldn't be a concern here. If you see any specific risks, though, I’d love to hear more!
Electric vehicles, and control modules.
As long as I can avoid or disable "AI", I'll continue to ignore it. Consistent, reliable, predictable, that's what I want from my computers. Boring is good.
> to me trust means exactly "I don't need to verify".

If you use the slightly weaker definition that trust means you have confidence in someone, then the adage makes sense.
Thanks for giving it a try! I just tested it on an RDS PostgreSQL 15.4 instance, and it worked on my end. Would you mind opening a GitHub issue so we can dig into this further and help resolve it? Your input will be really helpful in fixing the issue.
Nifty! I worked very briefly about 12 years ago on a similar concept that was live at chicago.com. Things didn’t work out with it for various reasons but while it was up I found it quite useful. Some of the original team is still in Chigaco and building stuff. Best of luck shipping it!
i'm glad people remember the impressions games city builders, even to this day they're still totally unbeaten imo. especially zeus (because it's the one i spent most time playing as a kid, of course)

"our stinging bitesssss are our gifts to you!"
Ton price falls 16% after Telegram CEO Pavel Durov arrested in France
I am building my very first computer game, Tungsten Moon, a VR+desktop spaceflight simulator with realistic physics and engineering, inspired by Orbiter, Eagle Lander 3D, and a little bit of Subnautica: https://tungstenmoon.com/

I am using the Godot engine: https://godotengine.org/

The playable demo is already available today on Github: https://github.com/Eccentric-Anomalies/Tungsten-Moon-Demo-Re...

We're releasing the demo on Steam for the first time in a few days, followed by an early access version probably in October: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3104900/Tungsten_Moon/
I used to have this same argument but apart from the few that I've used on solr, it is not trivial to have general search using it. Won't even comment on ES b/c they already target analytics better than search. I think it is worth exploring pg and other tools as all search cases are narrow/specific (ecomm, graphs, domain-specific documents etc), specially if you need facets and filtering. Also multilanguage ok to consider for a tool but products usually look for better recall at their original lang then to have same results in other languages.
Arguing in good faith: places like Ukraine would need significant storage. If it's battery-based, how vulnerable is that? How big a boom do you get from a fully charged, ready for winter seasonal battery storage?
A simple timeline using CSS Flexbox
Still working on https://exist.io, a platform for quantifying and tracking data about your life. We've been around for about a decade now and seen many competitors come and go — this niche is definitely not at the peak of the hype cycle any more. On the other hand, Apple Watches have normalised tracking body stats like activity (and sleep to a degree), and yet we think there's still so much more that can be done with that data. We're still (always) working on improving our insights and correlations to find better ways to use the data to optimise your health, mood, productivity, and so on. But not with "AI" :)
He certainly continued wars, opting to increase the number of drone strikes even higher than Obama. He's no pacifist.
Hey,

Working on the open source alternative to Heroku - https://ptah.sh (https://github.com/ptah-sh/ptah-server)

Already have some success: we use it for our other 3 projects, thus saving us some cash. :)

I have the 1-click apps marketplace, backups and, soon, monitoring.
so much better.. but 10-20 requests a day even paying $20/month for the pro plan!?
G-Helper: Open-Source Armoury Crate Alternative for Asus Laptops and ROG Ally
tbf how many people sign emails when they don’t work for a gov in any capacity and therefore aren’t likely a target.

people in this field tend go overboard with security when really nobody cares about what they have access to.
> Most people cant tell the difference between an expert opinion and random words.

That's because humans are stochastic parrots too. We use leaky abstractions we don't fully understand, or their edge cases. So we don't know what we are saying, but keep doing this as long as it doesn't break. When it breaks, we go to experts, another abstraction we don't really grok. What's the difference between using LLM and using a human expert? Not much if you have no clue about the topic. It's a matter of replacing real understanding with trust.

Even more, can we say we understand anything down to first principles? Probably not. It's a patchwork of people, each with their limited perspective, like the Elephant and the Blind Men parable. The world is based on functional understanding, combining partial perspectives, it's never fully grokked. And what you don't understand, you can't be conscious of, not in it's real meaning. So we might be unconscious operators of language as well, no better than hallucinating LLMs.
Wierd old school read... he seems pro war? I was enjoying his observations of east vs west philosophy until he lamented the withdrawal from Vietnam. Oh well.
Also, I have created the Vendor Stories - https://stories.ptah.sh - the curated list of success or failure stories when people are meeting the huge corporations.
What I genuinely don't understand is that Pavel Durov didn't see it coming.