skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems fine to me, provided some sanity constraints, like having read-only access, and some guarantee that the fields you're interested in will not be removed/changed.

I've worked on systems that use a SQL DB as a communication layer. A main advantage is that every language comes with good SQL read/write libraries, so things just work right away.
My last question is more specific: can a language be designed with a syntax that is not yodaspeak yet still maintain the power of lisp?
I’ve been using GitHub Copilot as my daily driver. It is now as indispensable as the Vim extension for VSCode. It doesn't write much new code for me and, frankly, it fails miserably at most tasks. However, it does a phenomenal job with auto-completion. So, while I still feel like I am in the driver's seat, it does help me achieve tremendously more by simply extending what I have already started.

But that should be no surprise. After all, LLMs simply complete the next token in a long sequence of text based on some probability outcome. A lot of the code is a sequence of patterns. So the LLM should be able to do well.

I feel that true coding agents are perhaps around the corner, but it seems to me that we are a couple of innovations away before this happens.

However, even with coding agents, there will be simply more people producing a lot more code (even non developers) which I believe will drive the demand for higher quality code or at least code that can be understood and proved by other humans. Thus, coding agents are just force-multipliers. Great developers will become greater. I wrote something about this here if you are interested: go.cbk.ai/divide. My $0.02.
Ask HN: Backend connector for graphs dashboard?
What are people using to power their charts dashboards on their web app nowadays? I know most business intelligence tools offer embedding, but there are also dedicated platforms like Explo and Vizzly. There's of course also the old fashioned approach of rolling it yourself.
Do you support scaling to zero? I wonder if native offerings of cloud providers (Cloud SQL/Alloydb or Aurora) still make sense as keeping hundreds of PG instances at scale will likely be a challenge if you're managing them from your control plane.

Also, is there any compliance that requires it to be in different Postgresql servers? I assume most companies just use some sort of isolation (tenant_id column or dedicated tenant database/table) so I wonder if this problem could better be solved as a proxy layer.
When I'm Dining Out, Should I Have to Deal with Your Dogs?
Recall is a misfeature. I don't need or want it.
If they think the response from Stripe for fraud/spam/PBL was too harsh, wait until they see how their banking partners (Deutsche+Fargo) will handle that; if they can't even keep up a level of due diligence that's "clean" enough for Stripe, they'll eventually end up owing the whole company to the banks due to contractual penalties and cost of fraud.

A big reason why companies use an outsourced card payment service instead of going directly for a merchant account with banks is the difficulty of handling fraud & spam well, which is horribly expensive unless you have got a major economy of scale.

As a payment processor, your potential risk is larger than your turnover. And while Stripe might freeze part of your incoming funds, in this business you'll need significant upfront capital as collateral - which you'll lose if you're mediocre at handling fraud.
Fair take. I always thought it was weird to have crypto projects in Discord servers. The dream was corrupted.
I wholeheartedly disagree. I think the Stripe docs and developer experience is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, I've ever seen.

It has great user docs, API docs, developer centric UI elements like copy pastable IDs, webhook event browser, time travel features, test mode (!!), and you can even look at the exact API calls that the stripe UI itself is making. I've brought it up to many colleagues are awesome the docs and experience is...

IMHO, for most things, the data model is straight forward and well explained. Of course there are complicated topics and quirks, but that's just because payments is not easy in general..

I'm clearly a Stripe fanboy, but I am not affiliated in any way.
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That nobody wants to pay for things in an oversaturated market.
I think the video does dwell on that a bit too much. The paper he's pulling from defines machines like this:

> First, machines can be described in terms of a list of parts and a blueprint indicating how those parts fit together, meaning that someone who has never seen a particular kind of machine should in principle be able to assemble any number of copies—each virtually identical in appearance and performance—provided they can consult the machine’s design specifications. Second, as machines are designed to perform highly specific functions, their operation is tightly constrained, which is why it is possible to predict and control their behaviour. Third, machines are highly efficient in what they do because they always follow the exact same sequence of steps in every cycle of their operation. And fourth, the operation of machines is not continuous; their functioning can be interrupted and their parts examined without thereby jeopardizing their structural integrity.

And argues that cells look more like this:

> according to this alternative view, the cellular architecture is regarded as a fluid, self-organizing process; protein complexes are considered to be transient, pleomorphic ensembles; intracellular transport is deemed to result from the harnessing of Brownian motion; and cellular behaviour is viewed as a probabilistic affair, subject to constant stochastic fluctuations.

And

> Viewing the cell as a machine allows us to think of its organization in terms of modular, solid-state circuits that can be approached reductionistically, and it also gives us the confidence to expect that when we eventually work out how all of the cell’s parts fit together, we will be able to completely predict its behaviour. If, on the other hand, we view the cell as a highly integrated, self-organizing, fluid
system composed of densely interconnected processes ever-subject to stochastic fluctuations, we no longer have reasons to suppose that achieving such epistemic goals is even possible, let alone feasible. The stark contrast between these two outlooks is exemplified by their strikingly different ways of understanding causation in the cell (Bizzarri et al., 2019), and it serves to explain why some researchers find it easier than others to obtain funding and publish their work.

https://philpapers.org/archive/NICITC.pdf
We live in an age where learning has become an applied mathematics problem. The rigor involved in mathematics makes it closer than ever to a formal definition about what learning actually is.

We do know modelling learning will involve fitting a multidimensional curve among a set of data points. There are multitudes of ways to do curve fitting. Our biggest issue, however, is to imitate the way the human brain does it. For this we still don't know how to do learn like a human. But we do know in it's most basic form that learning can be simply fitting a 2 dimensional straight line among a set of two dimensional data points.
> A BIN attack is feasible if the entry point lets you endlessly try card info

Yeah, I just figured with all these fraud detection systems in place that rate limiting would be figured out and implemented. Regardless if the seller has a custom page or not, I still would think that PSP APIs would inherently disallow this to protect their customers.
Crowdstrike isn't the only one of its kind. If they fail from lawsuits, others will take their place.
How will they enforce this? There's no easy test if an LLM write a given post. Perhaps they can post honeypot questions.
Does Fortress add any value if SaaS product is creating Neon.tech instances for each tenant?
Stripe is also one of the most expensive payment services - enough so that I worked at a company where we had an in-house payments frontend for Asia which was basically a common integration over about 6 different major regional banks. The reason was pretty obvious: Stripe was something like a 2.5% surcharge, our system 0.2-0.5%. That was a huge difference in revenue.
Somewhat? But I think it might lead you slightly astray. With SVG text, there's an interpretation step to get to the image. If you ask a question about the image represented by the SVG, you'd probably do SVG --> image --> result. With my memory of what something looks like, I don't really process it into an intermediate image form, even if I'm drawing something out. For the above example, it's more like memory --> result. More similar to a regular person's image --> result than something like memory --> visual representation --> result. In all cases, some sort of processing happens on the --> lines.

My knowledge of what a square looks like includes the right angles at the corners, the equal length of the sides, the alignment with one side at the bottom (not part of the mathematical definition, note), some sense I can't describe of the overall shape, the closed shape, the straight sides, etc. Some of it corresponds directly to mathematical notions, some of it is the feel, some of it is associations with how they work in practice or where they've shown up. When drawing it, I rely mostly on the straight sides, the 90° angles, and the closed shape. I'm not logically figuring out what those together imply, I just start with drawing a straight line segment and then close it off with 3 more segments at right angles to each other, and confirm that it looks right at the end. If you ask me what part would be most painful to bump into, I do something very close to visualizing the pointy corners, but I don't picture them so much as retrieve my association with their sharpness.

Dunno if this makes sense or how generalizable this is to other people, I'm just kind of laying out my stream of consciousness impressions of my brain's workings.
Server reset is at 4am and that's when your action points reset. :D
It's often not a problem because it's often easy to make a call idempotent. Consider the case where you attach an ID to every event and the subscriber stores data in postgres. You stick everything in a transaction, persist each event's ID, add a unique index to that column, handle failure, and bang, it's now idempotent.
It seems implied. Anybody only reading the headline or not giving it a thorough enough reading would probably think the dot is relevant to the sentencing.

Even carefully reading it, the dot takes up significantly more of the article than what Iran claim the charges were.
> without neutering the ability for a society to come up with new ideas.

The goal isn't always this instrumental one. There is also freedom of conscience, which (like the US freedom of religion) isn't about generating new ideas.

But wrt to the goal of generating new ideas you also need to consider all ways of making it too expensive to access information. There's the 1984 approach of violently preventing the spread of information. Then there's the more Brave New World aligned approach of flooding all communication platforms with distracting nonsense and lies.

The second strategy scales a lot better. A lot of people are stuck in a mindset where you can shut down a few printing presses and kill an idea. That's the old war. The new war is much harder and we mostly haven't even begun to be honest with ourselves about it, let alone found any good answers for what to do about it.
I've noticed that when calling companies on the phone, many of them have started pointing out where to read their privacy policy.

I suspect many types of technologies are starting to use voice for identification, demographics, emotional analysis, and the data is being saved and/or shared.

And lots of phone trees now require you to talk instead of using touchtone sounds.
You could update the dependency "enigo" to the current version. I've implemented experimental support for Wayland. It can use Wayland protocols or libei. There will probably be bugs that's why it's hidden behind feature flags.

I'm the maintainer, so if you need anything, please let me know
The more I hear about the changes being made to Windows 11, the less I'm interesting in using it.
They posted that on reddit. How far do you think they can go?

People post all kinds of things on reddit. Most of them aren't true at all.

Most people who post on reddit are people no one would listen to otherwise. That's why they post on reddit cause reddit will let anyone post there.
No OS. There's just a setup() function and a main loop() that runs forever.

It's really really fun, at least to my brain.

If you want to see how it works without spending any money, TinkerCAD (https://tinkercad.com) will let you layout, program, and simulate an Arduino. They're somewhat less powerful than the ESP32 CAM proposed to replace this, but it's a good way to "dip your feet" in programming and wiring up microcontrollers.
Would be an amazing Myth Busters episode to blast golf balls with a variety of high power laser beams. I believe that the insides of a gold ball are under considerable pressure so it could explosive when zapped.
> Unless laws exist to prevent this, you can bet that ALL BigTech are doing this, to varying levels.

I would absolutely take that bet. It's nothing more than unsubstantiated paranoia.
> The woman in question, phycologist Muriel Bristol, claimed to be able to tell whether the tea or the milk was added first to a cup.
Yes. SQL is a form of API, and it carries all the same challenges.

-> Permission control, making sure that the user of API can not see data they are not supposed to.

-> Auditability. Verify that the API is being used correctly.

-> Performance. Do not overload the endpoint. (Read from a read replica? And maybe you are not running hour-long analytics queries on the database)

-> Consistency. Are you using transactions to read your data? Could you be causing contention?

-> API versioning. How do you upgrade the underlying tables without breaking the users.
Microsoft recalls Recall uninstall option.
Wow, this comment sounds like it's written by someone who's never interacted with "musicians" or thinks a musician is a person who goes on stage and plays the same song over and over. And further thinks that engineering or being an "athelete" or "musician" is a very narrowly scoped job.

Musicians, like any other "professional" have a broad range of functions from arrangers, composers to song writers, performing musicians, session musicians, touring musicians and so on.

A jazz musician (who might be performing live on stage) will likely not play the same song the same way twice. Is a jazz musician then not a musician because they aren't "repeating a set of movements over and over?"

If anything writing a CRUD type application IS something that could be automated because the patterns and the goals are largely the same but to take this example and apply to what atheletes do is pretty misguided.

Most atheletes are dynamically reacting to their environment or situation, taking into account the newest data and formulating a plan "on the fly" to meet their goals (scoring a goal, landing punches, etc).

My own credentials including multiple engineering degrees, experience designing equipment for "musicians" and "atheletes" so I don't think I'm talking out my ass here.
I can’t bro, it’s not worth my time. Look it up.
I didn't look at the code but the Cargo.toml file says it's using enigo as it's dependency. You can use that to simulate input an Windows, macOS and Linux
“ It now seems clear, though, that by unifying thermodynamics with the theory of computation, we ought to be able to understand life as the predictable outcome of a statistical process, rather than regarding it uneasily as technically permitted, yet mysterious. Our artificial life experiments suggest that, when computation is possible, it will be a “dynamical attractor,” because replicating entities are more dynamically stable than non-replicating ones, and, as von Neumann showed, computation is required for replication”
Also, average lockdown in the UK looks to be about 3 months. Far less in the US. A lot happened in the last 4 years, but there seems to be a disproportionate focus on one brief, but controversial, period of the response.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_lockdowns
Perhaps anachronistic to call the distribution of + and - 'memetic' but with the volume of written materials of the time outside of the canon, and the function of trade and notes of exchange and bill of goods, this was very much a memetic-viral diffusion thing I think.

I hadn't realized zero entered the door before operators.
Does it mean that for getting high quality news, NPR has become just as garbage as an average media outlet?
This didn't seem possible to me? SpaceX's assets weren't frozen because SpaceX did anything wrong, they were frozen to penalize the majority stakeholder. Said stakeholder has at this point approximately zero chance of an amicable resolution in Brazilian courts, so SpaceX acting at distance wouldn't get them their assets back.
Thanks for the correction on this. I always thought BSD and the various Linux flavors were all derived from Unix. But reading up on it, it sounds like BSD is a derivative of Unix whereas Linux was simply modeled off of it.
Sorry I misread, I meant that the article itself points to the fact that theres more to the charge than the "dot", the just, oddly, happen to mention it on the last line.
The ID would need to have some government digital signature for the ZK circuit to work. The proof would be "this digital ID that has this valid government signature shows XYZ".

The verifier would need the government public key and then can see "This ID that has been signed by the governments private key shows XYZ"
There have been other studies that show positive heath outcomes for gluten free diets in patients with epilepsy and schizophrenia. So I do not think any cleaner diet will have positive heath outcomes. For example, vegans still eat gluten and if that is the mechanism here then nothing will change.
Not addressing your actual question. However, if this is the horse you want to continue betting on:

> I've been studying how to be a SaaS Founder, but it's just too much to do alone. I am good at building software, but the marketing, sales, customer support, etc... Man... it is too much for one person.

This will continue being true. I think your priority should be finding a compatible business-oriented co-founder (or first hire, but that one's even trickier).
> In mice [0]

This is anti-science Wokism. The idea people are not mammals, people are defined by the identity rules the Woke control, not evolution.

There was no reason to say in mice with this thread.

> Did we need to euthanize 11 pregnant mice (at least) to determine this?

You want to do this on aborted human fetuses with a random control? What are you talking about? Do you only want experiments that jump straight to curing cancer in humans with FDA approval?

This is called science, you do experiments to find parts of the puzzle.

You seem to be making some point that 11 dead mice lives matter, when I drowned that many so they wouldn't eat $10 worth of livestock feed.

The HN article might be blogspam but it links to the research and it's open, do better - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221287782...
Sure, lots of things radiate, but the meaning is clear, no? The word ‘radiation’ without a qualifier or in a medical context is generally understood to refer to EM & particle radiation, such as x-rays, gamma rays, etc.
Be Simple
Makes me wonder if these economists weren’t just telling people what they wanted to hear so they could collect some fat consulting cheques.
A SQL database is an excellent integration tool that I think is very underutilized. You get strong semantics around transaction isolation, and can easily bake in permissions. Language support is nearly universal and you can avoid a ton of API decisions that are already made for you.
> What in the world would be the strategic advantages of [making your adversary think their undetectable device was, in fact, detectable?]

It can cause your adversary to react in ways that causes them to reveal more information to you. For example, they might move known specialists to locations that you’ve never associated with the kind of work those specialists do, possibly revealing secret sites.

You might cause your enemy to pause their program while they review, buying time for you to learn how to defend yourself better.
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Come on. There is no way CEO of a huge company like Amazon can really know every detail. At some point he’s gonna just have to trust someone at the company.
Flagging this because it's clearly trash / fake news. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41404229 for background.
I see why they would want to try and enforce this, but it isn't something they'll succeed at.

Especially questions that have one correct code solution. Unless proven otherwise, everything is now written by an AI, the targh is out of the bag.
Why is it funny. You could just go to a computer store and buy RDRAM.
> Asked 1 year, 9 months ago
I don’t share the sentiment that it’s “very good”. It’s strongly mediocre at basic tasks and regularly fails at anything complex.
For Generations of Alaskans, a Livelihood – Fishing – Is Under Threat
Seems quite a lot like Densha de Go! I am sure it is inspired by the series.
The subtitle is even better,

> Microsoft is working to fix Recall showing up as an optional Windows 11 feature.

then

> While the latest update to Windows 11 makes it look like the upcoming Recall feature can be easily removed by users, Microsoft tells us it’s just a bug and a fix is coming.

with the crown

> Microsoft is now making the AI-powered feature an opt-in experience instead of on by default.

I thought that had been changed already.
As before, they want to make it Optional Until They Change Their Minds.

tl;dr Uninstall Windows 11.
If its not in a sealed environment it will get clogged.

If it is in a sealed environment then at best its heat transport, to somewhere radiative. Still useful.
https://archive.ph/PFQi6
ZKPs have only become cheap and easy enough to do in the last few years, so of course Goldman Sachs doesn't use them yet. They'll be using them in a decade, for now look at startups. https://github.com/zk-passport/openpassport is one that is working today, worldcoin ID verification is another.