skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.perplexity.ai/ seriously. Or try just literally asking Claude.

I am an "AI expert" in the sense that I have been focused on applying generative AI for the last two years, (since we had useful general purpose LLMs).

Give me an idea of what you are trying to do and I will give you search terms to put in Perplexity or Claude or ChatGPT or whatever.

You are not going to find anything close to what you would get as far as value for mentoring as you would with LLM tools like I mentioned.
I have an old boss that calls me from time to time. Maybe I'll just call him an old friend at this point. He lives by the philosophy that you put in the work and you debug your thinking by bouncing the context you've built up off of experts. Sometimes he shoots a cool hundred my way thereafter, sometimes he doesn't. Most of the time we're just catching up.

This works for him and tbh it works for me too. I guess my advice is that the important part is not sourcing the expert it's putting in the work to come with enough context to get something out of talking to an expert and to leave them without the feeling like you've wasted their time. Follow people on the socials, read their code, show up at NeurIPS with actual good questions to ask people in person on the hallway track.

Without the _hard work up front to get good questions to ask_ you're in danger of finding a good expert and them deciding you're just another starry eyed kid that doesn't know for just how many years longer you wouldn't even pass the screening call for an interview.

Just my two cents, hope this helps!
You're talking about a system of good actors that just disagree on what's being said, if you spend 10 minutes running your own site you'll quickly learn there is a metric shitton of bad actors.

Run something unmoderated long enough and, depending where you are, you'll have law enforcement knocking on your door.
It works with SQLite too - the functions have different names (json_group_array() and json_object() rather than PostgreSQL's json_agg() and json_build_object()) but they work pretty much exactly the same.

The one JSON PostgeSQL feature that SQLite doesn't have yet and I miss is row_to_json(record) which serializes an entire row without you needing to specifically list the column names.

I've not tried this stuff in MySQL myself yet but it looks like JSON_ARRAYAGG() might be the equivalent there: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.4/en/aggregate-functions....
Dial-Up Access by Using the Michigan Terminal System [video] (1969)
You can’t really sync the data in real time tho. Transactions still need to hit your Postgres, and then you reload. You might as well do write thru cache.
Very useful! I was just thinking this kind of thing should exist!

I would also like to be able to have the LLM know all of the documentation for any dependencies in the same way.
>It is cute you think a couple millions dollar is a lot.

And utterly disgusting to see how far removed from reality some people here are. A million dollars is life changing money for the vast majority of the population, and well beyond what most engineers earn.
I bet they cannot macgyver it if it’s software locked.
Where animals have been domesticated and trained to do economically productive tasks, we've stopped the practice under the guise of preventing animal cruelty. using elephants or monkeys to do work evokes strong emotions in a ways that making humans doing the same job doesn't, so we've decided treating people that way is okay but not animals.
> and a week’s paid vacation after a year of service

Meanwhile in Europe, four weeks guaranteed by EU law, and many states go above that, and many companies top that off. Oh and a truckload of public holidays on top.

Working at the corner hours of the day, in a backbreaking job, for 20k a year and just one week of vacation? JFC.
Exploitable but obscured backdoors in software distributed in form that is compiled and installed by downstream users is not impossible, though sufficient auditing may make it improbable.
RunCVM: An open-source Docker runtime for launching container images in VMs
This looks great! Thanks for sharing here.
> US free speech allows someone to protest on public property

Social media is not public property or a public square. Social media also spans all geographies and legal speech landscapes.
Hash lists aren't that hard to defeat. They'll stop the amateurs tossing stuff around endlessly but the real problem--the creators--will know to keep changing it up a little bit.

And the capability to remove anything means they have to respond to secret orders from the government to remove something.
Purism is mostly known for its laptop and smartphone products. You might be thinking of System76 Thelio.
Since I'm someone who believes in consent, then if someone else doesn't want me to reshare their post with my audience, then I respect their wishes. Particularly since that's the default.

It's possible to override this with a screenshot, but it's a clear escalation. The question is, how often do people do that? Does it become routine, or an exception? If you do a screenshot, maybe it would be a good idea to blur the username, if it doesn't really matter?

When people stop caring about mutual consent, things get messy, but I think tools that assume it are a good default that avoids unintentional conflict. Maybe it's a default that most Bluesky clients will follow?

Compare with robots.txt: if you don't want your website crawled, okay then, says the well-behaved crawler.

(I might want a client that keeps a snaphot regardless, just in case, but doesn't show or publish it.)
What we do know is that they already lost an F-16 pilot, though not necessarily in the air:

https://newformat.info/news/u-lutsku-povidomyly-pro-zahybel-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonfish_(pilot)#F-16_involvem...
I agree. I’d like to be able to share my knowledge from time to time for a small fee and little hassle on my part.

I made some money on Codementor for a time and enjoyed it while I was between jobs, but wasn’t easy to balance that with FTE so I dropped it after a while.
> Not all data can live on the client

When you say "client" are you referring to the end user's machine, or the server hosting the application they are talking to?
This reminds me .NET's short lived Linq to SQL;

There was a talk at the time, but I can't find the video: http://jaoo.dk/aarhus2007/presentation/Using+LINQ+to+SQL+to+....

Basically, it was a way to cleanly plug SQL queries into C# code.

It used this sort of ordering (where the constraints come after the thing being constrained); it needed to do so for IntelliSense to work.
I remember how much my work improved when I got to use Purify. The pager just stopped going off after a while.
Lol, did they break someone's "code of conduct"?
> People can build other clients for Bluesky, but more importantly, they can build other apps on the protocol which have no relation to Bluesky (but can still ingest Bluesky data if they want to).

Additionally, these apps can benefit from the distribution, moderation, and data hosting portability. ATProto allows for shared infrastructure across apps.
Everything hooked into windows powertoys makes it even better. You can then simply search from the launcher bar.
The 2030 Rust Update
source:

https://voidtools.com/Everything-SDK.zip
That screenshot makes me want to use Fluxbox, it looks great!
When I type in 'reboot' it gives me Reboot the movie in some online store.

They have played us for fools.
What are the consequences as far as releasing the weights but not the training data? From what I understand, Llama and other open-weight models can be freely used and modified. What can people not do presently, but could do with an open-data model?
That comment where he explains why he's not rushing to add new unproven SQL syntax to SQLite is fascinating:

> My goal is to keep SQLite relevant and viable through the year 2050. That's a long time from now. If I knew that standard SQL was not going to change any between now and then, I'd go ahead and make non-standard extensions that allowed for FROM-clause-first queries, as that seems like a useful extension. The problem is that standard SQL will not remain static. Probably some future version of "standard SQL" will support some kind of FROM-clause-first query format. I need to ensure that whatever SQLite supports will be compatible with the standard, whenever it drops. And the only way to do that is to support nothing until after the standard appears.
Take a sharpie and write "counterfeit" on it before sending it back.
New invention harvests ambient WiFi and Bluetooth signals to power small devices
> Where animals have been domesticated and trained to do economically productive tasks, we've stopped the practice under the guise of preventing animal cruelty.

Mostly, we've stopped the practice by replacing it by more efficient, non-animal technology. There's probably a few cases where animal cruelty laws put the final nail in the coffin of practices that were rendered marginal by technological progress, but animal cruelty laws certainly are not the principal means by which use of animals as productive capital has been eliminated. It was tractors, not animal cruelty laws, that mostly stopped animals from being the used to plow fields, etc.
The issue isn't that "postgres is actually slower" but the network round trips:

> Such criticism would be well-founded for a traditional client/server database engine, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQL Server. In a client/server database, each SQL statement requires a message round-trip from the application to the database server and back to the application. Doing over 200 round-trip messages, sequentially, can be a serious performance drag. This is sometimes called the "N+1 Query Problem" or the "N+1 Select Problem" and it is an anti-pattern.
This is a solution for a problem that does not exist. It's just unnecessary bloat. If you need to store the time zone specifically, do that. Use a library or create an child object with an extra field. There are very few use cases where you need to know specifically what time zone a given DateTimeStamp was originally stored in.
Also giggled at calling Xcode “an Idyllic IDE“.

I guess one ugly mobile app IDE is better than two.
Statistical Challenges in Online Controlled Experiments
Backpage.com founder Michael Lacey sentenced to 5 years in prison
Framing "harassment" as "disagreement" is bad faith at best, and actively toxic at worst.

I don't think you have any idea the kind of harassment anybody in a marginalized group deals with on public social media.
While I heard about this feature I thought it was made to find friends or dates. What shows that the intended use is to faciliate drug trade?

Also, in my country they usually just write the ordinary website name on the wall and add "VPN Tor" whatever that could mean. Maybe they try to hint that Tor and VPN are apps for drug trade? Do Tor and VPN have moderation and do they cooperate with law enforcement?
Neat — I like it https://www.cappuccino.dev/aristo/showcase/
I'm not sure how that relates to AI models. Freely distributing compiled binaries, but not the source code, means modification is extremely difficult. Effectively impossible without reverse-engineering expertise.

But I've definitely seen modifications to Llama3.1 floating around. Correctly me if I'm wrong, but open-weight models can be modified fairly easily.
Super easy to use! Thanks! What's powering this under the hood?
The recently introduced StarterPacks so people can collect groups of accounts on a topic for new users go quickly find and follow.

They seem to be holding off on indexing these, as well as the block lists, to prevent abuse. I saw they wrote that somewhere, but cannot find it at the moment
Funny to think the strong nuclear force is just one dude’s underfunded and barely maintained side project that might collapse some day
You can run a Go binary without installing `Go`.
Can you distribute PHP code as succinct binaries?
Three crew investigated over Bayesian yacht sinking
WinXP Search was pretty good.
> using the various hosted flavors of SQLite
Just "start doing it" and quickly you'll run into a wall, ask for help with a legitimate question that isn't vague like "teach me about x".

Solve that problem and move onto the next. Via a string of problem fixes you gain more domain knowledge and you'll retain more as you struggled through it and deeply understood it.
Do you assume the current growth rate?
Exactly.
Most people need to some familiarity with Go to do any serious Hugo template modifications.
So, by using Go, I'm avoiding an extra learning curve for them.
Is this for a specific language? Does it support polygot (multiple languages in 1 project)?
"The Mesozoic terminated in boreal spring" - fossils from the Tanis site in North Dakota -
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04446-1
Nah, let’s not go this far. Might be true for some AmazonBasics product categories, but I have a specific example where this is just not true.

Their AmazonBasics monitor arms are manufactured by Ergotron (aka one of the most reputable and best monitor arm brands out there). I have both AmazonBasics and Ergotron arms (purchased from their official website), and it is clear as day that they are nearly the exact same product.

I purchased the AmazonBasics arms back in 2016, and they still serve me great to this day, surviving 2 moves between west-east coast and many more local moves.

You can call this anecdata, but both AmazonBasics monitor arms and Ergotron ones have excellent reputation.
I wasn't sure if I would but I agree with the points you made. I'm generally not for using AI but there are places it works great and as you said, stuff I don't want to do because it's tedius and mindless, well the AI is great at that...

One use I had today... Make all the fields on this record nullable and add these attributes to them. Done in seconds what would really have been at least 30 minutes of work. It's mindless and tedius but I didn't need to do it...

I don't think I would trust the AI to catch edge cases I didn't think about, but I get the feeling for you it's more that dealing with them would be super tedius and they are truly rare. Like an http server unable to create a socket... It's an edge case but realistically let it crash, well the AI can write some more graceful exit with logging I guess...
Yeah, it has been pretty bad in win11. But at least you can disable the bing search. (For now)
If you have a database server and an application server, then move your application on the same machine as your database. That's basically the use case of sqlite server-side. You can easily fit 250TB on rack (or 64tb on an ec2.) That's a lot for non-blob storage: 750KB per us citizen
The starter config is Openai embeddings + llm, pinecone vector store, gradio for the UI. But it's customizable so you can swap out whatever you want easily.
Breaking out feeds and moderation are also interesting design decisions that allow an app like Bluesky to give users more control and select algorithms from outside the centralization
> gets things wrong and so I don't trust it

Pretty much true of real life and everything on the internets.
>Without that money, the US economy would collapse over night.

But that money would just get spent by other government agencies, or the taxpayers, right? And if the military vendors aren't efficiently using that money, then society would end up better off if they (the military vendors) weren't spending it.
I'm personally using wyzant.com to get some help for a certification right now.

I will say the quality of the tutors varies wildly so you may have to do some digging depending on the specific domain.

I was able to find someone who currently works at the company the certification is through and it has been very helpful.

I will note that the whiteboard on the site is pretty bad so we just use something else.
> for web servers, you have many (tens? hundreds? thousands?) of web servers that all need to talk to a single database

Maybe if you're in the top 1000 or so largest websites.

Back when the alexa 10k was a thing, $work was on it - and we're serving that level of traffic with a rails app running on 30 CPU cores. It would fit _easily_ onto a single machine.
Thanks!

This is a great idea. Definitely something we plan to support.
> Which makes me question every single time I use the Windows default search box: How? How is one of the most fundamental features of the biggest software platform in history, made by one of the biggest companies in history, after decades, still not even close to as good as multiple basic indie replacements?

The worse thing is that it used to work much better in the Windows 7 era. I don't know what happened there and how they justified this launch of massive quality degradation.
That’s probably what happens. That’s why they go from 120mb/sec down to a sad 20
I'm not GP, but running over that video I'm actually having a hard time finding any detail present before the dragon obscures them not either exit frame right when the camera pans left slightly near the end or not re-appear with reasonably crisp detail after the dragon gets out of the way.

Most of the mob of people are indistinct, but there is a woman in a lime green coat who is visible, and then obstructed by the dragon twice (beard and ribbon) and reappears fine. Unfortunately when dragon fully moves past she has been lost to frame right.

There is another person in black holding a red satchel which is visible both before and after the dragon has passed.

Nothing about the storefronts appear to change. The complex sign full of Chinese text (which might be gibberish text: it's highly stylized and I don't know Chinese) appears to survive the dragon passing without even any changes to the individual ideograms.

There is also a red box shaped like a Chinese paper lantern with a single gold ideogram on it at the store entrance which spends most of the video obscured by the dragon and is still in the same location after it passes (though video artifacting makes it more challenging to verify that that ideogram is unchanged it certainly does not appear substantially different)

What detail are you seeing that is different before and after the obstruction?
NN group might have some resources, like this related article about all-caps: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/glanceable-fonts/

Or maybe more resources here: https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/readability_and_accessibi...

People tend to apply results from proportional font studies to monospace fonts. I guess monospace text isn't popular enough to get its own studies.

We need more readability A/B tests in general.
> This reminds me .NET's short lived Linq to SQL;

"Short lived"? Its still alive, AFAIK, and the more popular newer thing for the same use case, Linq to Enntities, has the same salient features but (because it is tied to Entity Framework and not SQL Server specific) is more broadly usable.
The cost of cracking cancer: what the $1T race for a cure leaves behind
Fine-tune large models like Mistral-7B, Llama-2-13B, Phi-2, or Qwen-14B for free
> There's obviously a privacy tradeoff, but a lot of people would rather avoid cheaters than maintain tight control of their computers.

I don’t agree. Instead, a lot of people allow the install because they have no say in the matter if they wish to continue playing the game. Even if it weren’t effective, I’m pretty sure most people would allow the installation of some form of not-yet-proven-to-be-dangerous malware if the alternative is cutting ties and accepting the sunk cost (be it in terms of in-game purchases, proprietary file format, etc).
Heat at some level, not every level. Same goes for magnets or heck, even biological specimens.

Computer haxor discovers that heat destroys all signs of life in organic material.

Sensitive apparatus requires insulation.
Right, which is why I try to make it very clear to everyone that there's no point torturing me. The problem is if someone thinks you have information which you don't in fact have; if they know you don't have the information, why would they waste their time?
VC Neil Mehta nabbing prized SF property, plans a "Y Combinator for restaurants"
This sounds like a nice side-effect - I wonder why it happens.
There's no need to "allege" that they did. There was tons of propaganda to that effect in 1950s/1960s (just as there was in the U.S. at the time, though this has been largely forgotten). For example:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PropagandaPosters/comments/k4iggr/a...

It's also why the Chornobyl facility was officially named the V.I. Lenin Nuclear Power Plant, and so on.

The only thing they didn't do was "promote anti-nuclear propaganda in the West".
Elizabeth Warren being in the DoD’s corner on basic serviceability of equipment critical to the sustained warfighting capability of our military against an industry flexing DRM was not on my late capitalism bingo card.
> The net import in 2023 was only 10TWh so you've over explained this by x10, so something else must be going on than just importing nuclear from France (which is roughly 8TWh that year)

They were previously exporting 90TWh.

> the shares of RE, nuclear, and fossils in Germany net imports were 59%, 33%, and 8%, respectively.

That's still a pretty big proportion of nuclear and fossil fuels, and it's not clear that the way they're calculating that actually works. Imports are going to be needed at times of high demand or low renewable output, when baseload capacity is being consumed for domestic use by the exporting country and incremental power for export has to come disproportionately from peaker plants, i.e. fossil fuels (or lower curtailment by nuclear in France).

Moreover, they're counting hydro under renewable, e.g. Norway is "99% renewable" but is in fact 88% hydro.
Okay, but as a person reading a tech forum, it is assumed knowing how to look something up on the internet is something that is known. Unless you're just so fundamentally afraid of rabbit holes that you just don't use the web like that.
Good to see Skip on the home page! We were evaluating Skip just a couple weeks ago for a side project.

The issue we ran into is that we've already built a native iOS app with SwiftUI + a bit of UIKit. Integrating Skip with an existing app seemed like a significant task

Does that hold true in your experiences? Do you have any examples of small- or medium-sized existing apps that have migrated to Skip?
Telegram CEO charged with numerous crimes and is banned from leaving France
> I'm not sure what you're arguing - that it changed dramatically or that it has not changed dramatically.

Im arguing that the original comment, that income taxes weren't originally intended to be what they are today, or it was some kind of bate and switch, or slow bleeding, that led us to today. That was my read of thread parent anyway.

> You should also note that 1917 was prior to the introduction of sales taxes (1921) and social security taxes (1937). Looking at only federal income tax paints an rather incomplete picture when looking at total tax burdens.

We aren't arguing about total tax burden, we are arguing that a new kind of tax will/won't necessarily be abused and changed post introduction. Those three tax vectors prove that they won't be if anything, as they haven't changed much since introduction either.

>A married couple with no kids will pay < 5% on 50k" I assume they're dual filing for the 50K so 25K on average? The lower %16 percent of the population.

1) Most households were single income in 1917.
2) 50k was inflation adjusted equivalent to numbers that I was responding to. I didn't pick it at random, I chose it to show things hadn't changed much.
Studies say dunno: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190124-is-it-worth-taki...

Personally I try to take some biotic food - yoghurt and the like
1. Get home

2. Get the backup forms of 2FA out
LINQ, PRQL, Kusto has all preceeded this.

While LINQ is mostly restricted to .NET, PRQL is not.
https://prql-lang.org/

It's a welcome change in the industry.

I made this prediction a couple years back:
https://x.com/tehlike/status/1517533067497201666