skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How's that work for anyone with allergies? (I'm guessing it doesn't). Getting penalized because it's ragweed season or whatever is bullshit of the highest order.
> "you asked me to move a dining room chair into the living room. Then you asked me to do the same with the toilet."

> "figure it out"

that's the kind of motivation that leads to someone making Armchair Toilet

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ce/11/34/ce1134ca396e43f55c84...
I suppose at that scale you may not have to worry as much as errors like this, but I still think the point that there needs to be a human in the supply chain shows how much of AI is in fact just laundering of human intelligence. There's even an XKCD on this [1]!

[1] https://xkcd.com/1897/
> After a couple of decades most buildings tend to need major overhaul and that's not much different than software

Respectfully disagree. Software is like building a house, and then needing to build more rooms every month forever, and every few years having to tear it all down or completely rework the foundation.
Same for Pittsburgh: Completely wrong information about nearly all neighborhoods with a healthy dose of racism.

Basically, the internet.
Well I saw plenty of commercial software failing at this kind of thing even a few years ago, when presented with real-world pictures. Seems to be solved now, though.
Very impressive changelog.

Bit sad the UUIDv7 PR didn't make the cut just yet:

https://commitfest.postgresql.org/49/4388/
In Greek, it's just making stuff up. I asked it how it was, and it asked me how much I like violence. It looks like it's really conflating languages with each other, it just asked me a weird mix of Spanish and Greek.

Yeah, chatting more, it's confusing Spanish and Greek. Half the words are Spanish, half are Greek, but the words are more or less the correct ones, if you speak both languages.

EDIT: Now it's doing Portuguese:

> Εντάξει, πού ξεκίνησα? Εγώ είναι ένα κigneurnative πρόγραμμα ονομάζεται "Chatbot" ή "Μάquina Γλωσσής", που δέχθηκε να μοιράσει τη βραδύτητα με σένα. Φυσικά, não sono um essere humano, así que não tengo sentimentos ou emoções como vocês.
#1 would be a good FLOSS project to release out.

I don't understand enough about #2 to comment, but it's certainly interesting.
Wonder what happens to the employee's equity.
I give you this:

Yesterday, I delivered a long-asked for feature - optimistic updates for a UI screen after a button click on Screen #1. It took only one day because the server-side logic is entirely under engineering control and the only edge cases are "their account was concurrently drained" or "the person who clicked the button is trying to hack us". Both of which will be handled when the server responds with a non-successful response. There is little to no likelihood of this behavior changing any time in the next 10 years so I ensured coupling between these components was respected with a simple comment in both places.

Today, you are asking me to provide an optimist update for a button click on Screen #2. However, that button runs business logic that is specified by multiple other users in a scripting language based on a variety of inputs, some of which are dependent on the responses of external systems over which engineering has no control. The response's fields are known in advance, but those fields' values are not.

Of course, anything is _possible_ and if we build a feature where users can specify the likely result of the external systems and build a heuristic-based analyzer for common patterns in the scripting language we could eventually get to the point where simple screens driven by this monstrosity could optimistically update. However, it will take a lot of development work and the testing effort will be high, both for the initial design of the feature and to add sufficient integration / system tests to ensure that future updates to any of these systems do not break common assumptions between them.
Show HN: I don't like the follow system in X so created this website
Follow system sucks and not everyone enjoys it. Most of the people prefer building meaningful connections on X rather than following some random dude on X. Follow for Follow helps you connect with like-minded professionals, grow your audience, and increase your influence on X.
Yeah; I mentioned the SE3.

It’s too bad you can’t cut the razr 2024 in half at the hinge and have one side still work!
Yeah, people are literally dying.
Especially for this small of a site. And they even mixin vanilla "patterns" rather than use jQuery. Very strange.
In the US standing is a specific legal concept about whether you have a valid reason/role to bring up a particular issue. For example most of Donald Trump’s lawsuits around the 2020 election were rejected for a lack of standing rather than on merit (whether the case is any good).
OpenAI is losing billions in the way Uber lost billions - through poor management.

When/if Altman ever gets out of the way like Travis K did with Uber then the real business people can come in and run the company correctly. Exactly like what happened with Uber - who never turned a profit under that leadership in the US and had their lunch eaten by a Chinese knock-off for years abroad. Can't have spoiled brats in charge, they have no experience and are wasteful and impulsive. Especially like Altman who has no engineering talent either. What is his purpose in OpenAI? He can't do anything.
Why were they a non-profit in the first case?
Almost all vehicle manufacturers have bug bounty programs of some kind (open or closed) but I seriously doubt Kia is one of them.

BTW, the Tesla bug from April is really scary. $100K is peanuts for the ability to remotely control the engine from an adjacent vehicle.
So are they going to give elon equity? He donated millions to the non profit and now they are going to turn around and turn the company into a for-profit based on the work done with that capital.
>Octopuses seem to have quite a bit of independent cognition in each of their arms, which are wrangled by the central brain.

Yes, that's inherent in the design. All grey matter (optimized for local intercommunication), no white matter (optimized for sending signals between regions).

Each arm has its own ganglion ("CPU") and the central unit struggles to keep up with these and keep them coordinated.
I had a brochure like consulting site after I quit my last job. Despite only ever having one small client, that site convinced a big tech recruiter to tap me for an interview. I passed, took the job and moved. Completely changed the course of my life for the better.
Since they referred to talking to “clients”, I’m guessing the problem wasn’t that the task couldn’t be done but that the client didn’t want to pay more for the additional work.
I generally find that more resources are often the easiest thing to get and rarely helpful.

Most of the time the issue is the "9 women can't have a baby in a month" problem where adding more resources is not going to make things happen faster - in fact it may slow things down.

But the business doesn't understand that software is not like construction where adding more people really will get that ditch dug faster.

At its core software is not making a thing - it's inventing a machine that makes the thing.

If you're Little Debbie and you have a machine that makes cupcakes it's hard when the business comes in and says, "now it needs to make fudge rounds." And no amount of extra people working on the problem will get that machine retooled any faster.
can someone provide context? who is sam responding to and why?
> I hope SQLite3 can implement SQL/JSON soon too. I have a library of compatability functions to generate the appropriate JSON operations depending on if it's SQLite3 or PostgreSQL. And it'd be nice to reduce the number of incompatibilities over time.

Is this available anywhere? Super interested
Did you not pay for Oracle?
It appeared but was buried on the second page and never made it to the front page, for some weird reason. Some in the discussion speculated that it was due to a flame war detection algorithm:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41651548
It isn't just pilots, sadly.

Hospitals are chalk-full of surgeons, doctors, and nurses that are all overworked, burned out, and half-awake.

While I do not have the statistics, I would imagine sleep deprivation is a frequent cause of a lot of medical mistakes.
...and buried in this discussion of octopus management technique, we find the TRUE reason behind the wave of return to office requirements
The titan keeps rocking.
except the mother has to care for her eggs until they hatch. So I guess we'd be fine only eating the males...
If the assets were sold to the for profit at a fair price I could see this being legal (even if it shouldn't be). At least in that case the value generated by the non-profit tax free would stay locked up in non-profit land.

The biggest problem with this is that there's basically no chance that the sale price of the non-profit assets is going to be $150 billion, which means that whatever the gap is between the valuation of the assets and the valuation of the company is pure profit derived from the gutting of the non-profit.

If this is allowed, every startup founded from now on should rationally do the same thing. No taxes while growing, then convert to for profit right before you exit.
I want everyone to believe in God.
Not a technical problem. The technical solution is 4g.

It's a financial consideration - mobile companies charge what they think people will pay. You can't have a technical solution to that.
> Last year, Infosys cofounder Narayana Murthy suggested that Indian youth should work 70 hours a week for the nation's development. Murthy’s advice came up at the Indian Parliament on the first day of its winter session and found support from a list of influential Indian tech leaders, including Bhavish Aggarwal, founder of India’s first AI unicorn, Ola Krutrim; Ayushmaan Kapoor, cofounder of the AI-powered customer platform Xeno; and even veterans like Sajjan Jindal, CEO and MD of JSW Group, and Vinod Khosla of Sun Microsystems.

Well... we see the same bullshit being pushed across Europe (particularly Germany and France), justified by us being no longer "competitive" with particularly Asian countries.

How about we just go and say "hey, no more imports and trade with these countries until they either reduce their working hours to reasonable limits or there will be levies applied to compensate for the extra productivity gained through exploitation"? Or why do we not go and close our skies to airlines that operate under clearly unsafe regulations?

The super rich will not stop undoing a hundred years worth of labor laws history until we all stop them.
Doppler is nice.
Sorry but down here in Earth, not having unlimited resources and time does force us to use dependencies if you want to get things done.

The line has to be drawn somewhere. And that line is much more reasonable when you can trust large trillion dollar backed standard libraries from the likes Go or .NET, in contrast to a fragmented ecosystem from other languages.

What good is vendoring 4 million lines of code if I have to review them anyway at least once? I'd rather have a strong MSFT/GOOGL standard library which I can rely upon and not have to audit, thank you very much.
I doubt there are many people in the world whose diets rely on eating octopuses. You'd need either an environment that had octopuses in abundance despite having little of everything else, or a selective method of fishing that primarily caught octopuses.
stuck doesn't mean twiddling your thumbs wondering what to do next - i'd certainly expect someone to ask if they were in that situation.

No, stuck can often only be observed by looking in, the person or team may think they are doing useful stuff, but someone coming to it fresh can see that they have missed something obvious, hence why recreating the problem seems to be impossible, or why the fix seems very involved.

So a standup can allow you to see that someone is stuck, even when they don't realise it themselves.
Sam had a blog post literally two days ago that acknowledged risks. There’s also still a sizeable focus on safety and people with roles dedicated to it at open ai
Yup. I know a guy who refused a filling because he didn't want "forever chemicals" put in his mouth.
At first, I thought, “Wow, if companies can start as nonprofits and later switch to for-profit, they’ll exploit the system.” But the more I learned about the chaos at OpenAI, the more I realized the opposite is true. Companies will steer clear of this kind of mess. The OpenAI story seems more like a warning than a blueprint. Why would any future company want to go down this path?
The Security Analyst Pyramid
Even if apple’s was worse in most ways, it would still sell.
Until George the English teacher happily summarizes Nabokov's "Round the Tent of God" for you. Hallucinations are a problem inherent in the technology.
Fund your startup by masquerading as a non profit for a few years and collecting donations, genius!

The stinking peasants will never realize what's happening until it's too late to stop!
Gemini is the product of a company that is still half-asleep. We’re trying to work with it on a big data case, and have seen everything, from missing to downright wrong documentation, missing SDKs and endpoints, random system errors and crashes, clueless support engineers… it’s a mess.

OpenAI is miles ahead in terms of ecosystem and platform integration. Google can come up with long context windows and cool demos all they want, OpenAI built a lot of moat while they were busy culling products :)
> These oddball modulation schemes would prevent that from working.

You need to generate a train of audio pulses separated by silence, and find a band whose activity is being modulated with the same timing.
Well, from one VERY expensive vendor, to another considerably less expensive vendor

Also, MSSQL have few things going for it, and surprisingly no one seem to be even trying to catch up

- Their BI Stacks (PowerBI, SSAS)
- Their Database Development (SDK) ( https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/tools/sql-database-projects/sql-database-projects?view=sql-server-ver16 )

The MSSQL BI stack is unmatched , SSAS is the top star of BI cubes and the second option is not even close

SSRS is ok, SSIS is passable , but still both are very decent

PowerBI and family is also the best option for Mid to large (not FAANG large, but just normal large) companies

And finally the GEM that is database projects, you can program your DB changes declaratively, there is nothing like this in the market and again, no one is even trying

The easiest platformt todo evolutionary DB development is MS SQL

I really wish someone will implement DB Projects (dacpac) for Postgresql
This sets a very dangerous precedent - that this software "sold" as free and open source, free as in free beer and free as in speech is not really free at all. This only exposed the fact that the plugin repository was all along centrally managed and Wordpress has never been truly free all along. That if you tick off the overlords, then you can be banned from this critical central repository of plugins. All this for someone customising the way their admin panel looks like and making some changes they had the right to, in the first place.

I think someone should use this as an opportunity to build a better Wordpress clone. You know what, I'm going to do it. I don't care about adoption and market share. I care about freedom. This is not freedom.

It reminds me of the WURFL saga that happened a few decades ago for the exact reason.

And you know what? Even for such a large, mature product, it is full of security issues, bug and has absolutely poor code quality and poor development experience. Did I mention it doesn't even scale without throwing tons of money at it? I will update you guys soon.

/endrant

Thanks.
Short histories remove a lot of information, but it would be impractical to make it book-sized. There were numerous founders, and as another commenter mentioned, Elon Musk recruited Ilya, which soured his relationship with Larry Page.

Honestly, those are not the missing parts that most matter IMO. The evolution of the concept of attention across many academic papers which fed to the Transformer is the big missing element in this timeline.
Rembg: CLI tool to remove images background
It seems incredibly convenient that a non-profit's leaders can say "I want equity in a for-profit company, so we will sell our assets to investors (who will hire me) and pass off the proceeds to some other non-profit org run by some other schmuck. This is in the public interest."
InstaFail. Nobody wants this. We are already saturated with bull-shit through social media.

Now, there is yet another devices that manufactures BS before it hits our eyes.

Steer clear.
> If you want an edge over the people who are writing RFCs, don't write an RFC. Write a complete, production-ready implementation of your idea, with documentation and test cases, which can be cleanly merged into the tree.

Please by all means provide an implementation, but do write the RFC first. (Or in some cases smaller processes, such as the ACP process for a small standard-library addition.) Otherwise you may end up wasting a lot of effort, or having to rewrite the implementation. We are unlikely to accept a large feature, or even a medium feature, directly from a PR without an RFC.
Did you not read your own links before posting them lol?

> Mind you, this is definitionally a conspiracy theory; please don’t let the connotations of that phrase bias you, but please feel free to read this (and everything else on the internet) as critically as you wish.

https://sneak.berlin/20231005/apple-operating-system-surveil...

I will admit that this sentence was easy to miss, hidden deeply at the start of the second sentence of the piece.

These links are just all Apple Does A Thing HN Dislikes and I just don’t think any of those things is particularly bad.
MERGE support for updating views is huge. So looking forward to this
My god, he said that when he was in college. What is it with this recently popular opinion that nobody is capable of changing for the better?
https://imgur.com/8pQYSUd
Is it secure? I am asking as I do not know; the secrets can be viewed again; I would think pk with doppler never knowing would be a lot better?
Its not that it was used incorrectly: Its that it isn't a word actual humans use, and its one of a handful of dog whistles for "I'm a tech grifter who has at best a tenuous grasp on what I'm talking about but would love more venture capital". The last time I've personally heard it spoken was from Beff Jezos/Guillaume Verdon.
We have met the enemy, and he is us.
The rational take on Founder Mode
Anyone know how well / if this compares with BGFX?

https://github.com/bkaradzic/bgfx
With the advent of "Kia Boys" and now this, it's a miracle people still buy Kias.
The term for parasitoids that attack other parasitoids is a "hyperparasitoid". I did my PhD on parasitoids that attack aphids, but I've never heard of a hyper-hyperparasitoid, do you have any reference to that example?
RunningReality – Borders of Empires over Time
Matt Mullenweg confirmed:

> They had the option to license the WordPress trademark for 8% of their revenue, which could be delivered either as payments, people (Five for the Future .org commitments), or any combination of the above.

— https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1fnz0h6/cease_de...
Mobile teams are second class citizens, but not on purpose
> the token with id 24912 for gpt-4o to be precise

How do you find this out?
Very cool with the JSON_TABLE. The style of putting json response (from API, created from scraping, ect.) into jsonb column and then writing a view on top to parse / flatten is something I've been doing for a few years now. I've found it really great to put the json into a table, somewhere safe, and then do the parsing rather than dealing with possible errors on the scripting language side. I haven't seen this style been used in other places before, and to see it in the docs as a feature from new postgres makes me feel a bit more sane. Will be cool to try this out and see the differences from what I was doing before!
I tried to get my head around the 1Password implementation of this, but as far as I could work out, every single secret is stored as an individual item in 1Password and the 1Password app makes no accommodations for the differences between a server secret and a login. We have maybe 100 projects, with multiple environments for each, and multiple secrets in each environment - managing this in 1Password looks like it would be an absolute nightmare.

Edit: to expand on this a little, even the image [0] they show on their secrets management landing page is baffling. It's showing an entry in the 1Password app called `AWS - Access Key`, which for some reason has a username and password. Now if I need to inject that into the environment variables on my server, what's the name of the envvar, because `AWS - Access Key` isn't going to work. How do I separate staging variables from production variables? How do I know which project this is the AWS access key for?

[0] https://images.ctfassets.net/b71sid4v0oel/7zRNbDUY8dxGuKxUtV...
Do you count Python, where the ref impl (CPython) uses reference counting, as a GC language? If yes, you have a better idea when GC will occur compared to non-deterministic GC like Java/JVM and C#/CLR.
It's appending "think step-by-step" to the end of the prompt to elicit a chain-of-thought response. See: https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.11916
New Tool for Crawling Google Search Results for RAG Pipelines
We’ve just launched the RAG Web Browser, a tool designed to crawl and extract content from top Google search results deeply. It's ideal for anyone building Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems that need real-time, relevant data. Would appreciate any feedback or ideas for expanding its functionality.
How about, get your bug to connect to an open Wi-Fi hotspot, pretending to be a printer or something. :)
If the poster is referring to the comic, the geotagging is the chair, the bird identification is the toilet, and the act of "moving" is the effort involved.

An analogy that could more closely fit could be something like:
You have a new kubernetes cluster and some servers running code. You're migrating some services over (moving rooms). If you have a simple webapp that has no persistent storage and is containerized, the move would be simple (like moving a chair between rooms). However, if you were to try to move a webapp with login info and databases, there's a lot more "plumbing" not apparent to an outsider that would take a lot more work.
Gemini thinks the founding fathers of america were black and that the nazis were racially diverse. so ya
I’m not sure extreme wealth is possible with a non-profit. You can pay yourself half a million a year, get incredible kickbacks by the firms you hire to manage the nonprofits investments, have the non-profit hire outside companies that you have financial interests in, and probably some other stuff. But none of these things are going to get you a hundred million dollars out of a non profit. The exception seems to be OpenAI which is definitely going to be netting at least a couple people over a billion dollars, but as Elon says, I don’t understand how or why this is possible
The problem is not the figuring out. The problem is the client paying for the solution.
Defining Good Metrics for Evaluation
Low-carbon ammonia offers alternative for agriculture and hydrogen transport
Apparently the family believes that he is guilty but doesn't want him executed (but does want him in prison). In some countries the families wishes are enough to prevent an execution but not in the US.
> The recent Guile performance discussion thread is a good example.

Sounds very interesting. Can you share a link?