skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> SeaORM is not typesafe, by design

What is your definition of typesafe here? With SeaOrm structs are created directly from the db schema with codegen. This is vastly superior to using strings and checking them at build time.

Just up front, it seems like you think I don't know about how all of these things are implemented.

I do.

So when you say SeaORM has Sqlx as a dependency. I know that. If the purpose of that statement was to say seaorm compile times can't be faster that sqlx because sqlx is a dependency of seaorm, that thought is wrong.

Using SeaORM the way it is intended to be used results in code that is much faster to compile than sqlx being used the way it's intended to be used.
I wonder how much of that is "bad people" and how much of that is "Stanford prison experiment"

Or to put it another way, how much of this indefinite prison sentence due to reoffending is caused by prison guards assuming these people are bad apples and finding every fault they can with them to extend their sentence?
Free speech doesn't protect against libel/slander. It also doesn't protect against speech that induces violence or panic (the old "yell fire in a theater") And I argue impersonating celebrity voices to radicalize others falls under the latter.

So yeah, I would call this "wrongspeech" and wrongspeech is already banned.
They (microsoft) are literally bringing a nuclear power plant online for this.
Those are half measures. The obvious solution is to forbid bundling data/cell plans with phones. Those are separate businesses. Bundling can only be bad for competition and customers. That we don't even get this basic protection in EU while things like forcing USB-C are pushed speaks volumes about the state of customer protection.
brain size does not scale with information quantity

If I were to tell you this comment was written on an iPhone, you would not be surprised. If I told you it was written on a Burroughs B5000, you would be.

To the degree computers can teach us about brains, there's no reason to believe that more brain volume means more brain power. Or to the degree all things aren't being equal.

https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/memory-storage/8/...
I guess another option would be to store the native code as an assembly manifest stream, and cast that to a delegate at runtime. That would achieve much the same thing as IJW without the proprietary bits.
It is indeed incredibly useful for getting from zero to an undergrad level of understanding of most subjects. In my personal experience, it's also been largely useless beyond that.

That's not to diminish the potential impact of having an almost-free grad-student-level tutor available 24/7! Even if AI stops improving here, this alone will have a huge impact on future science (there being more trained people around capable of helping solve hard problems and all).

But we're also definitely some way away from AIs doing their own research, and I'm not sure if scaling the current architecture alone will get us there.
> the foundation of civilization is standing on the shoulders of giants. Progress in large part is figuring out better way of doing that

It's so much easier to imitate than to invent something truly novel and useful. Let's do a bit of napkin math. A human lifetime is about 500M words. GPT-4 used up about 30,000 human lifetimes of language. But cultural evolution took 200K years and 120B people to get here, about 4 million times the size of GPT-4's training set.

That is of course hand wavy, but it shows progress is a million times harder than imitation. We really are standing on the shoulders of giants, or a very long chain of people. If we forgot all the knowledge preserved by language it would take us the same effort to recover as the first time around.

I think all progress comes from search - search for experience (data), and search for understanding (data compression). This feeds on itself, but is coupled with the search space - the real world. And the world is not eager to tell us all its secrets. AI will only advance as fast as it can search, it's not a matter of pure scaling of computation, we need to scale interaction and validation as well.
> You can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you. —D
RoCE sends huge packets down the wire.

TCP has the wrong abstraction for truly high performance.

I wouldn't necessarily standardize what Tesla does here, but most of the big companies have their own layer 3 transport protocol for things that need truly high speed and are operating within a datacenter.

Cray/HPE has their own Ethernet-based protocol (Slingshot was an earlier version of it - not sure what its name is now) which seems to be better than whatever Tesla has, but is not necessarily published.
The discovery is great, but when I add music to my library, I'd like it to just be there, and I'm not able to guarantee that with Spotify. On any given day, for any arbitrary reason (okay mainly licensing and geography), music may disappear from my library, so I end up having to listen to it on Youtube or Bandcamp or pirate it.

As others mentioned, Lidarr helps with this.
> What we have right now is impressive, but no one has shown anything close to a possible path from where we are right now to AGI[0].

[0]: From GPT-4 to AGI: Counting the OOMs https://situational-awareness.ai/from-gpt-4-to-agi/
That was exactly the reason we built this - to facilitate the gathering of this intel. Will it be a panacea for doing research - of course not.
But it can speed things up a bit and throws another (probably faster) research methodology into the mix.

If you're interested we wrote a longer article about how this idea came to be: https://medium.com/@roman_leeb/how-to-figure-out-what-users-...
Some states in the US have banned cell phones or other devices that can connect to cell networks. In our school district at least can connect is the key. Teachers aren’t going around testing if old iPhones have SIM cards so all iPhones are banned. (To be clear, I don’t except them to do that.)

Seems like a lot of kids would love iPods to listen to music at school like we did when I was in high school.
It's no one factor, and I'm sure internet contributes. Especially if you feel isolated in the physical world.
"We had a chance to meet this young man, and boy that's just a straight shooter with upper management written all over him.."
Thanks for the link.

Nevertheless, I see that Decwriter II was not a true teletype. It was a teletype emulator derived from a dot-matrix printer and it was introduced very late in the evolution of computers, in 1974, at a time when the true teletypes had already become obsolete and more than two decades after the line printers that have established the standard width of 132 characters.

Decwriter II could provide a width of 132 characters only because the dot-matrix printer on which it was based was built to be able to use the standard line printer continuous perforated paper of 14 inches, like most other dot-matrix printers.

It is likely that Decwriter II has been used much more often as a remote teleprinter than as an interactive teletype and in the latter case it was used only because some users were forced to use it because their bosses did not buy decent computer terminals for them.
YC partner cofounder tlb also has recommended the book

Too bad this got insta-flagged, it's not exactly a political text.
I don't own an Ipod, but damn that is cool.
The biggest productivity gain I've seen in my programming life has not been from Claude or ChatGPT. It's from the Rust compiler. A good compiler that catches errors at compile time instead of runtime, that makes writing tests and pulling down dependencies easy, that makes documentation easy.

Good old fashioned tooling.

"Let's train an LLM that can decode C++ compiler error strings!"

No, let's make better tools.
Thank you! Yes I’m still 2 OS versions back.
I've also been shocked at how little post-processing prints off a Bambu printer need. They're pretty amazing machines, right out of the box.
This very much resonates with my recent experience. I've searched for a tiny, battery efficient music player for exercising and backpacking trips, and there's just nothing of reputable quality out there made today. All low quality Amazon junk. I miss my Sandisk clip from ~10 years ago!
Since you're talking volume: what about MacBooks?
Smolblog: Why, What, and How [video]
For the last five years, I've been working on a project called Smolblog. This is my vision for getting away from the problems with social media as we know it and building a better, more sustainable future. Submitted here for discussion.
SQL is good, writing SQL using strings is not good.
I'm a bit more optimistic in that it might just be able to effect that change through brute force: Scaling a call center is more expensive than scaling phone robots/agents.

You could counter that health insurers will just start staffing their call centers with their own robot army, but I suspect that the occasional incredibly expensive hallucination will put an end to that at least in the medium term.
I spent 10 years+ in this suburb, it is filled with medium/large SFD homes built in the 70-80s, very family oriented. It doesn't seem economical to buy expensive SFD and build condos but maybe I am wrong.

The newer communities in Calgary were master planned to include SFD, Townhouses and Condos/Apartments, Lake Bonavista was built when density was not on the radar of any city planner as Calgary was 1/3 the size.
also worth noting they published papers together with wengrow being an archaeologist and taking that perspective. he is friendly on twitter if you want to talk to him...
Precisely, problems/complaints/negative comments unveil a lot of interesting opportunities.

For this very reason we instructed the model to pay a bit more attention to expressions with a negative sentiment.
The thing is: robotics is knowledge work. Supposing a scenario in which AI makes advancing fields of engineering and science much more rapid, it will be leveraged to build and cheapen robotic labor. There would be a gap period where AI is smart but unable to perform labor without humans, which could be ugly, and then we reach effective post-scarcity and post-humans-being-useful. Where we go from there could be heaven or hell depending on who's in charge.
Regarding OP’s unanswered question:

> 00. Are there any other Dictionary Servers still available on the Internet?

There are a number of other dict: servers including ones for different languages:

https://servers.freedict.org/
Is OpenTelemetry Open for Business? September 2024 Update
We haven't? https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/technologies/3d-v...
But you don't need to solve the problems of 99.9% of the population, it is enough if you make one person happy :)
So for all ya'll software companies... one day it might be prudent to update these leetcode problems...

With quizzes about tensors, Einstein summation, and recent scientific papers
>"Security" in the real world doesn't get to profile people

1. yes they do. have you ever been to vegas? there's cameras and facial recognition everywhere. outside of vegas, some bars and clubs also use ID scanning systems to enforce blacklists, and in most cases that system is outsourced to an external vendor. finally, ticketmaster requires an account to use, and to create an account you need to provide them your billing information. that's arguably more intrusive than whatever cloudflare is doing, which is at least pseudonymous.

2. "profiling people" might be objectionable for other reasons, but it's not a relevant factor in whether something is a "protection" racket or not. There's plenty of reasons to hate cloudflare, but it's laughable to describe them as a criminal enterprise.
Rowboat: Visualize Large CSV's in the Browser
> we actually rediscover classic solutions, at a certain point classic desktop computing will came back forcibly

You make it sound like evolution being circular is matter of fact/inevitable (and, to be fair, tech history proves you right in more than one occasions!), though I wouldn't discount the sheer power exerted of the tech monopolists of today: we don't have dumbed down pocket computers out of technical necessity, or because users "demand" that, or because new trends and implementation paradigms emerged: the dumbing down is purely a marketing strategy meant to extract more profit from users (by controlling the user experience through an "app store", where every app is not just "sold" but "installed").

This time around, I fear that we would have to break those monopolies, or have governments intervene and compel them to open-up their stores and OSes to get back to a fair and fertile ground for innovation.
Four parties? Try five! Insurance means there’s a pharmacy benefit manager in the mix as well. Sometimes those are independent companies, but often they’re owned by either your insurer or your pharmacy (or some other big chain of pharmacies, e.g. CVS). That’s one more middleman and often one more conflict of interest in the mix.
Wait a bloody second. Why does GAS looks like this for ARM:

push {ip, lr}

ldr r0, =hello
bl printf

mov r0, #41
add r0, r0, #1 // Increment

pop {ip, lr}
bx lr

str r0, [r1] /* M[r1] = r0; */
ldr r0, [r1] /* r0 = M[r1]; */

str r0, [r1, #8] /* M[r1 + 8] = r0; */
ldr r0, [r1, #8] /* r0 = M[r1 + 8]; */

str r0, [r1, -r2] /* M[r1 - r2] = r0; */
ldr r0, [r1, -r2] /* r0 = M[r1 - r2]; */

with the destination on the left-hand side, with no "%" before the register names, and with the square brackets for addresses (with relatively sane looking expressions inside those brackets) — basically the same syntax that ARM's own assembler uses, — while x86 gets some absolutely unhinged syntax that looks like it just fell out of the sky (or an abyss for that matter) since it has almost no relation to what's written in the Intel's docs? I always assumed that GAS used some "unified" style for all its targets and disregarded the conventions of the CPU manufacturers but apparently no, it only did that for x86?
>I'm not sure I want either of those to happen.

at this stage and current behavior, I wouldn't mind some poison. That's the only way companies will learn at this point.
Currently we have a quite basic RAG setup, no fine-tuning.

We wanted to get this out fast so decided to use Assistants API but definitely needs some polishing in this RAG pipeline (e.g. having more control over the exact search queries). For the MVP it was convenient as it all comes out of the box. Metadata filtering also better with Pinecone for instance.
Haha! This reminds me of https://inutile.club/estatis/ and especially the Falso system.
I got a kick out of that. Spoken like a man who doesnt have to concern himself with the price of housing or any other necessity as we watch this strange short lived phenomena called the middle class disappear and we're back to the haves and have-nots.
Perhaps, but I’m not sure how different that would be in practice. I have no more idea how the NYT implemented their paywall than Cloudflare does.
I mean, I didn't say it was completely useless, just that it's not making code any better. There's definitely use cases for it. Rapid, throw-away prototyping may end up being one of them. (Though I am skeptical about that, given how often the prototype ends up being the finished product, but that's neither here nor there.)

If your main goal is the _short-term_ result, sure, it's delivering. In the longer term though, I still believe it to be dangerous.
Perhaps ironically, Sam Altman is also big into Fusion. (https://www.helionenergy.com/)

I guess it makes sense, for deep-learning/LLMs to "scale to infinity" you basically need infinite amounts of power.
Supreme Court's Gun Rulings Leave Baffled Judges Asking for Help
And how is changing the brand name supposed to help with that?
Ahhh I love it. The era of silo's has well and truly arrived, I hope websites milk every dollar they can from the AI startups, they can afford it!
That's fine, just know that you are not as ethical as
paxys and I. Both of us use Microsoft Edge with all tracking/ad/popup blocking turned off because we believe in supporting every website and ad network that so graciously provided us content to enjoy.
Would you be open to send more than $10k? I have few talented engineers within my dev shop.
The library is a pirate's best friend
And the manchurian qing dynasty had a test where you had to be able to draw a 300 plus pound composite recurve bow! Which folks were still doing in the 20th century!
Oh, right, like completely changing the way the entire medical field in the US works is easier than having an LLM help make some phone calls and read some emails. What are you even saying? Have you ever dealt with systems so large one person can't understand it? It's much much easier to write a quick hack and be on your way then to rebuild the whole damn thing. Also, it seems like you're implying that you're not impressed with LLMs because they can't rebuild our medical system. Good grief.
Very good input, thanks! We'll add some examples on the page.
Ask HN: What tools should I use to manage secrets from env files?
My cofounder accidentally exposed a bunch of our API keys and we didn't know until we got a billing alert. I've wanted to use a secrets manager before and have asked a few friends what they use for advice, but I want to see what I may have missed.
> that the team is totally working on solving it any day now.

With just a itty bitty bit more funding!
> POPCNT has been added to the x86 ISA by AMD, in "Barcelona", in 2007, presumably because some customer for AMD Opteron has requested it.

Might have been Cray, they were using Opteron in that era.
No business? It's purely an American company?

I could be hallucinating, but I swore job boards also had peopel hire from the EU.
I recently got some help from my banker dealing with sorting out accounts following a death. When we finished she told me she'd appreciate a review on the survey I'd likely get, but that only 4s and 5s (or 9s-10s) count. In the end I didn't get a survey but it left a bit of a weird taste, I've worked with her for 8-10 years, she seems good at her job, and I've never really had any complaints.
It's sad how politics can dominate even "smart" people to the point that they refuse to appreciate how magical it is that an off the shelf car can drive itself on the vast majority of roads.
Occasionally, I'll find old copies of Life and/or single page cut outs for movies/events.

The advertisements (sometimes on the back) are honestly more interesting.

There's no truer window into a capitalist country's soul than how products are sold!
Let me guess: so say the natives of Arrakis?
The DICT Development Group also provides a dedicated dict: client:

sudo apt install dict

brew install dict

Which allows you to query dict://dict.org/ directly:

dict foo
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Yes, very few news sources are genuinely irreverent. The Register is one of the few, and you can tell, because it often gets people in the comments here complaining of it's style.

A lot of content out there, user-driven especially, is just sarcastic or "ironic" for the sake of it, not actually pushing boundaries. Worse, they're often cementing the status quo but doing so in a way that doesn't actually make the point they want to make.

They just state the (often minority) counter-point in a sarcastic tone and leave it to the reader to fill in the (typically agreeable) blanks.
Original title: Elon Musk didn’t show up for testimony in a probe over his $44 billion Twitter takeover. Now the SEC wants sanctions
Oops, fixed. Thanks. I had just lumped it in with all the others.
Could a "copy" of me exist in the Multiverse?
Is anybody else seeing an absolutely massive amount of Amazonbot crawls on their site? What are they up to? And why so aggressively?
I’m not saying it’s a good system, just that there’s no reason for anyone without insurance to pay the unrealistically high list price.

There are discount cards that work with insurance, too. Like a drug with a $10 copay might have a discount card that fully covers the copay. You just have to do a little research before going to the pharmacy.
Hehe….life would be so boring without coincidences!

But I definitely panicked too and still a worried if I carried something over to my home network.

I’m a developer and at least superficially aware of the issues. Can’t imagine what non techies go through when faced with such situations!!
Existential horror of this whole conversation aside, this is a beautifully written comment. I'd read your novel, but you don't seem to have one, so I'll have to settle for following you on Mastodon.
In one of the first couple of games (looks like Loderunner), start the game, go to the first screen to the left. While in that screen, open the Terminal. You'll see uh something in the hex code. Try typing it into the terminal :).
The number "50" is not so accurate.
Every time I contemplate increasing my use of S3 or similar cloud services, I get annoyed at the extremely sorry state of anything on-prem that replicates to S3.

Heck, even confirming that one has uploaded one's files correctly is difficult. You can extract MD5 (!) signatures from most object storage systems, but only if you don't use whatever that particular system calls a multipart upload. You can often get CRC32 (gee thanks). With AWS, but not most competing systems, you can do a single-part upload and opt into "object integrity" and get a real hash in the inventory. You cannot ask for a hash after the fact.

I understand why computing a conventional cryptographically-secure has is challenging in a multipart upload (but that actually all that bad). But would it kill the providers to have first-class support for something like BLAKE3? BLAKE3 is a tree hash: one can separately hash multiple parts (with a priori known offsets, but that's fine for most APIs but maybe not Google's as is), assemble them into a whole in logarithmic time and memory, and end up with a hash that actually matches what b3sum would have output on the whole file. And one could even store some metadata and thereby allow downloading part of a large file and proving that one got the right data. (And AWS could even charge for that!)

But no, verifying the contents of one's cloud object storage bucket actually sucks, and it's very hard to be resistant to errors that occur at upload time.
While I agree these LLMs are getting pretty good, I think google shares fault for making it so hard to find information on the internet.

You have to scroll past 4 sponsored links to get to their algorithm results, which themselves have been gamed by SEO and content farms. As far as I can tell, google has no plans to limit AI generated botfarm search results.

LLMs now seem to get you an answer more quickly than google. LLMs don’t cite their sources, so IMO they can’t fully replace google for me yet.
Ask HN: How does Telegram make money?
I've never used it and just learned that you can store arbitrary files there. They also store videos. Storage is quite expensive and I've heard that Youtube has troubles making money.

So how does Telegram make enough money to support unlimited file storage?
The absolute trust killer is when your customer finds out about some issue on their own - even though you were supposed to monitor that. :-)

More important than raw uptime.
Agree that rows/columns following normal latin writing feeling more "natural" to me, but a bigger roadblock is that the chosen colors are completely identical for people with the most common type of colorblindness. :(

At least I can tilt my screen until the colors get wonky and see the pattern! For a while I admit I didn't even notice there was color coding at all.