skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t know if Git’s storage is deserving of this level of scorn—I can’t lay claim to any in-depth knowledge, but if it were indeed a big problem I’d expect it to come up frequently in comparisons with Fossil, which stores things using SQLite. (As a counterpoint, I use git-annex quite a bit, and it almost certainly couldn’t integrate as neatly into Fossil’s storage approach as it does into Git’s.) So I’d appreciate any details here.

All that is beside the point, though: the article above is not about using or not using flat files as a storage primitive, it’s about using files of whatever nature as a replication and version reconciliation mechanism, in view of the fact that concurrent editing is inevitably application-specific, so we might as well lean into it instead of leaving it to a database. In that sentence, “a database” is not just any database, it’s one of a very short list of multimaster databases with relatively loose schemas, which includes CouchDB and—among legitimately FOSS projects—I’d struggle to name more.

This is not a decision about data storage at all, in other words. It is a decision about protocols. Experience shows that the alternative does not end up being an off-the-shelf database (even CouchDB, which does seem like a major road not taken looking back at Canonical’s efforts a decade ago), the alternative is usually a central synchronization server speaking a custom protocol. (CalDAV, CardDAV, Bitwarden, etc.)

And if you want to do your CRDT or OT or whatnot over per-client SQLite databases instead of per-client text files, all the more power to you.

Finally, I tried to phrase my comment above in a way that makes it clear that it’s a suggestion of a direction to have fun in, not of a principle to architect your production app around. So the sneering in your comment is... honestly disheartening to read. Like, do people even hack anymore? I know they do, but every time I read something like this I become a little bit less sure of it.
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The whole point of this model is that it's so tiny that even a weak RPi could run it. Apple has also done some interesting work with a common <4B base model that is customized with different LoRAs for different purposes.
I'm glad I spent 10 years working to become a better programmer so I could eventually become a ditch digger.
Thankfully, even here I've seen more faithful discussion of the Luddites and more people are willing to bring up their actual history whenever some questionably-uninformed techbro here uses the typical pejorative insult.
>Every few years you can vote left or right,

If you're talking about the US, you can vote center-right (Democratic) or far right (Republican). There is no viable left wing party in the US.
There's two approaches here:

Pick one phenomenon in the world that you observe and don't have an account for, and try to come up with an account, assuming nothing except for your own observation and experimentation, of the causes of the phenomenon. Once you're done, follow the trail, reading only original or translated original documents, of the history of human descriptions of the phenomenon, do the "science" of "science" by observing the phenomena of observing and describing phenomena.

Go in the woods and read Plato and Aristotle and Sophocles for a year.

:D
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I guess we need to find a way to incentivize good practice rather than interesting results? Turns out that science is so hard that people cheat.
I'm a software dev and I'm tired of LLMs being crowbar'd in to every single product I build and use, to the point where they are unanimously and unequivocally used over better, cheaper and simpler solutions.

I'm also tired of people who claim to be excited by AI. They are the dullest of them all.
I fully agree that if you want the highest quality outcomes, you have to consider the whole process.

However, I don't see that as being in conflict with using tools that can also help you achieve higher quality within a certain stage of that process.
PyCharm understands pytest fixtures and if this is really just about a single fixture called "database", it takes 3 seconds to do this refactoring by just renaming it.
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That was an interisting read

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s_number
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41655382
What I find very interesting about the examples here is they cover the whole spectrum of government-managed to free market.

Most teachers are employed by state-owned schools, and as far as I understand, they're very often unionized in the US. Nursing is mostly private but regulated, probably with some mix of non-profits / government thrown in. Restaurants are as free market as it gets, there are both large chains and small restaurants, there's lots of competition, most customers have more than one option, reviews exist and a lot of people are repeat customers, making it hard to overpromise, underdeliver and stay in business.

I don't have the answers as to why this is a problem, but clearly "evil capitalists", "mismanaged government", "underregulation" or "overregulation" are not it.
I suspect how Milei would frame it is he's focusing on the currency crisis and deficit. If/when that is under control, Argentina will be more attractive to foreign capital or some other mechanism of creating better paying jobs which will alleviate poverty.

I don't think the people quoted in the article are saying the plane is going down, but rather the policies will probably get reversed due to politics.
This is what I want more people participating in "language wars" to understand. There is not much sense to compare projects that pursue completely different goals.

And having a background in programming language design surely makes understanding of solutions and compromises a lot easier.
Coppola on the parallels between the fall of Rome and U.S. decline
I might be misunderstanding your needs but my home server uses just LVM. When I run out of disk space, I buy a new drive, use `pvcreate` followed by `vgextend` and `lvextend`.
I would say that functionally reproducible builds are sort of inherent in the concept of “source”. When builds are “not reproducible” that typically just means they’re not bit-for-bit identical, not that they don’t produce the same output for a given input.
> OpenAI would need to continue raising money over the next year because its expenses grew in tandem with the number of people using its products.

It’s kinda funny how many businesses are coming out and saying they are going to be able to reduce headcount because of AI, but it’s clear we don’t actually know the real costs of this yet, as OpenAI is charging less than it costs to operate.
I’ve been using https://jlcpcb.com/ and have nothing but good things to say about the results. Caveat: my latest order was well over a year ago.

BTW if someone knows of any domestic US alternatives, please list them. I’d be more than happy to pay 2x the price for faster turnaround, but certainly not 10x the price.
As others say, Londoners/brits make a distinction between “pub” and “sports pub”, the former don’t usually have any TV (or it’s off, only used for big England games when every pub becomes a sports pub).

Contrary to your experience, I’m pretty sure that most pubs are not sports pubs in London
IQ levels has risen on average because of nutrients, not using lead and education.

An increase in blood lead from 10 to 20 micrograms/dl was associated with a decrease of 2.6 IQ
Interesting that the hackers in the book of the same name (by Steven Levy) were looking to change the public's perception of computers from something very different from what we see today to something very similar to what you describe. You both describe an end state that is very tactile, emotional and human.

I struggle to get my kids to experience computers with the same sense of wonder and amazement that I had. This could be inevitable (I've always taken flipping a light switch or refrigerated food for granted) but it still makes me sad.
AFAIK significant banks didn't really shut down over FATCA, some have paid fines or higher tax rates and most of them do the minimum for anyone who matches any of the criteria for persecuting a possible US person, within the limits of the institution's local laws, if any.

From a general government structure POV, I respected a Congress more than the prevalent US views, but I don't respect the US Congress any more.
Are other providers safe? How do I know they are not going to block other sites that offer Wordpress as a service? At least this will give me some leverage to tell management to move away from Wordpress.
In PyCharm: Move cursor on any occurence or definition of "database" fixture, press the "Rename" hotkey (Shift+F6), delete old name and type new name, press Enter key to confirm.
I'm so glad to see such a positive step in this conflict. It really shows how much Matt genuinely cares about the community and how he's willing to take the higher ground. WP Engine sent a cease-and-desist to WP.org, and Matt decided to keep providing the free service to them temporarily, prioritizing end users, even though it increases his costs for WP.org, and without WP Engine stepping back on the trademark infringements.
A good article about a somewhat similar scheme by
Taboola https://www.readmargins.com/p/taboola-outbrain-and-the-chum-...
Or ... in 2022 when Mat called GoDaddy "Parasitic" and an "existential threat to [WordPress's] future." And then to argue at GoDaddy employees ... attempting to convince them they're working for a bad organization. All hovering around his presumption about the quantity and quality of GoDaddy's contribution back to WordPress, while GD simultaneously profits by being in the broader marketplace.

* https://wptavern.com/matt-mullenweg-identifies-godaddy-as-a-...
With the feeling people dislike milei, and risking down votes, could this be 'getting worse before it gets better'? As said in the following video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18RTtDVghfw

As someone not really too informed about argentinian politics or economy, but knowing stuff only from news reports - isn't milei doing really everything that macroeconomists said needs to be done?

First of which was to reduce the public sector and subsidies?

https://apnews.com/article/milei-economy-union-protests-stri...

Reduce Inflation?

https://www.reuters.com/markets/argentinas-august-inflation-...

And it seems that poverty didnt go to 50% under milei, but actually went 10% up (saw it in a different comment here).

I'm not for milei (or against him), as I said, I don't really know or understand argentinian politics to make an opinion (although what is being done might be a bit brutal), really just asking a question here. This looks like an economic transformation or economic revolution in progress, and there will be (of course) difficulties before it goes better.
"Doing work" vs. "performing work": the epitome of this is consulting. Companies pay huge sums of money to consultants that often spend most of their time "performing work", doing beautiful slides even if the content and reasoning is superficial or even dubious, creating reports that are just marketing bullshit, framing the current mission in a way that makes it possible to capture additional projects and bill the client even more. Almost everything is bullshit.
That's false on all counts. You're engaging in incorrect conjecture in regard to what he stated. Further, what Christ "would not endorse" is your conjecture and not fact.

Christianity is not about allowing society be destroyed by its internal enemies such as criminals and their syndicates, nor about blanket injustice for victims, nor about allowing foreign armies to overtake it (often destroying Christianity). How ridiculous. Although that would be a convenient misinterpretation for wayward Christians, anti-Christians and society's enemies.

Imagine giving your statement to virtually any historical Christian Society of any significant size. Such flirtation with this type of interpretation has always been fringe at best or outright secular (from Christianity's enemies), and always incorrect.
I also appreciate the way that Zig focuses on tooling, particularly around cross-compilation. That's something that is usually a "nice to have" rather than "must have" particularly in young projects, and for users that need it, it's a huge win.
At some point, I wonder if we will go more analog again. How do we know if a book was written by a human? Simple, he used a typewriter or wrote it by hand!

Photos? Real film.

Video.... real film again lol.

I think that may actually happen at some point.
A comment, power seem like a hell of a drug.
Reproducibility? I mean what's the point of an open technology nobody knows if it works or not.
I've never understood why retro computer enthusiasts go through such effort to replace their floppy drives with CF cards, when Sony had a solution almost 25 years ago.

My DSC-30 came with a metal floppy disk that has no moving parts. But you could insert a Memory Stick into it, and then stick it in any 3.5" floppy drive and read the stick as FAT.

Every time I see someone on the VCF forums struggling with the latest floppy drive replacement board I wonder what ever happened to that technology.
Refreshing but rare; usually this kind of eval gets done by someone excited to do it because they've already been "intellectually captured" by the hype.
The flood of feedback from power users shouldn't prevent a simple experience for a new user. The hard part is gradually exposing the new user to ever more complicated goodness in the correct order to upgrade them gradually.
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Or pick the right shovels.

And profit!
Microsoft Entra having first class support for OIDC really helps; I remember seeing a decision diagram in their documentation recommending using OIDC for new projects, it can help negotiating. Google Workspace also works just fine with OIDC, and so does Okta.

I've been told that the only source of problems is going to be companies using Shibboleth, even though there seems to be an OIDC plugin.
Yes, but copy/paste from stack overflow was a meme that was discouraged. Now we've got people proudly proclaiming they haven't written a line of code in months because AI does everything for them.
>unmanaged t2 diabetes

Diabetes causes sleepwalking? Or mega tiredness?
you still haven't properly implemented nachos.
> Nursing seems like one where a feedback loop could happen. As others quit, your patient burden increases. The higher your patient burden, the more likely you are to make a mistake

Or your burden becomes insufferable and you burn out and quit.
How do you figure drivers driving under the influence aren’t reckless? Are they not aware of the risk? Are they not consciously disregarding it? Or are you using some weird definition of recklessness?
I don’t understand the standard of modeling you seem to assume.

Modeling a human brain, a cephalopod brain and a corvid brain aren’t even mutually exclusive if your model is abstract enough.

When I say „a neural network models a human brain“, I’m talking about the high level concept, not the specific structure of a human brain compared to other brains. You could also say that it models a dogs brain if you wanted to. It’s just the general working principle that is kind of similar. Does that not count as a model to you?

Edit: Here’s a simple example:
I would say that a simple SIR model „models COVID infection in humans“. But that doesn’t mean it can’t also model Pig Flu in Pigs. It’s a very abstract model so it applies to a lot of situations, just like a neural network basically models the brain of every reasonably advanced animal.
Everyone in here is saying SAML is dead and long live OIDC. The company I work for has SAML support, but not OIDC. As far as I understand it, all the customers are asking for SAML. I've never heard a request for SAML. This is in the health care sector.
vintage hardware is too expensive. I'm not sure why, or who's buying it, but if you want to actually run & program on it you're better off with emulators
I was also the SAML person at one point in my career and I 100% agree. I used to laugh at all the HN criticisms of JWT because of how much of a nightmare SAML is.
Note that its not so much five in two years as five in a narrow window that opens in two years; they’d be near-simultaneous missions, on whose success would depend the manned mission when the subsequent launch window opened.

But, yeah, Musk timelines are not something I would put a lot of faith in.
I thought his incentive was to defend the idea of miracles/faith/angels/God.
crazy that this is true and GDP just keeps increasing anyway
Google says net worth 60bn. I think he'll be ok even if that goes down a bit.
You want to know, because someone in management has decided its a problem, and are intentionally taking choice away from you. It isn't meant to be actionable, but a slap on the wrist.
The Nature paper describes the importance of pre-training repeatedly. The ability to learn from experience is the whole point of the method. Pre-training is just training and saving the weights -- this is ML 101.

I'm glad you agree that HPWL is a proxy metric. Optimizing HPWL is a fun applied math puzzle, but it's not chip design.

I am unaware of a single instance of someone using SA to generate real-world, usable macro layouts that were actually taped out, much less for modern chip design, in part due to SA's struggles to manage congestion, resulting in unusable layouts. SA converges quickly to a bad solution, but this is of little practical value.
Is it that different from parsing JSON? A honest question, what's the difference? Billion laughs attacks and similar?
The cases that would require more diligence from the insurance company are the kind of research that should be encouraged. Breakthroughs are more likely to happen when people take risks and try something fundamentally new, instead of adhering to the established forms. Your insurance model would discourage such research by making it more expensive.

Additionally, even if we assume that the insurance model is a good idea, it should be tied to individual researchers, not universities. The entire model of university research is based on loose networks of independent professionals nominally employed by various organizations. Universities don't do research, they don't own or control the projects, and they don't have the expertise to evaluate research. They are just teaching / administrative organizations that provide services in exchange for grant overheads.
Interesting refactor!

This is trivial with codegen.com. Syntax below:

# Iterate through all files in the codebase
for file in codebase.files:
# Check for functions with the pytest.fixture decorator
for function in file.functions:
if any(d.name == "fixture" for d in function.decorators):
# Rename the 'db' parameter to 'database'
db_param = function.get_parameter("db")
if db_param:
db_param.set_name("database")
# Log the modification
print(f"Modified {function.name}")

Live example: https://www.codegen.sh/codemod/4697/public/diff
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For sure, like I said, it isn't about this (your) post. Just wanted to make a small amount of noise about keeping hn aligned with the interest I associate it with.

Very cute story though, commend you for observing such truths in your parenting.
I don’t know his history fully enough to say. But it does seem like past claims about not getting equity or about keeping OpenAI’s founding principles may have at least changed. Some claim it may be an honest change - they need capital to compete, attract talent, and complete their mission, and giving equity actually keeps Altman focused on OpenAI instead of side gigs and investments. That could be true. But I’ve found his evasiveness in interviews to be untrustworthy.
Staged for clicks. This might entertain people on /pol/ but it doesn't wash here.
>Many people act like submitting papers is impossible for non-Ph.D's.

I agree. But academia reinforces this perception. I feel like PhD's only give serious consideration to the utterances of other PhD's. The rest of the public consists of the unwashed masses, and at best gets the smiling-nod treatment from teh PhD.

PS I (a non-PhD) managed to publish a paper during the pandemic (doi: 10.3389/fphar.2022.909945 ). One of the biggest barriers was the item you mentioned quoted above, and the bogeyman of "epistemic trespass" in general, as operating in my own psychology. I've since become noisy in advocating for the #DeSci movement.
Re: the role of (gel) images as the key aspect of a publication. To me this is very understandable, as they convey the information in the most succinct way and also constitute the main data & evidence. Faking this is so bold that it seemed unlikely.

The good news IMO: more recent MolBio methods produce data that can be checked more rigorously than a gel image. A recent example where the evidence in form of DNA sequencing data is contested: https://doi.org/10.1128/mbio.01607-23
I have said this recently a few times: I have found that most of the time, various people involved in working on languages themselves have far kinder attitudes towards other languages than their respective communities tend to. I've always chalked it up to some sort of collegial professionalism, but maybe understanding the tradeoffs more deeply is an aspect of it too.
Consider indenting your code block, it's unreadable as it is now.
Sam Altman will champion Direct Intelligence, while Elon Musk will take credit for Alternating Intelligence. Then, to prove how dangerous Alternating Intelligence really is, Sam will use it to execute dogs, fry elephants, and even immolate a few Teslas, before finally inventing the deadly Artificially Intelligent Chair to execute prisoners.
Anyone who thinks OIDC is way easier than SAML has never implemented OIDC (or SAML).
As I remember, when you step slowly from the middle of a tile, you always end up on the edge of that tile. And if there is a chasm and you try to step once again, you almost trip and regain balance. If there is no chasm, you step to the middle of the next tile.
As someone who worked at a very large SaaS company this is a good recommendation if the vast majority of your customers come from large enterprises with competent IT departments.

The problem is when you work with smaller shops that don’t have IT departments or worse bad IT departments you’re going to pay a fortune in support costs.

Use an open source identity provider or pay someone to do it for you.
If your CISO wants to use SAML for anything, fire your CISO.

Frankly I’d suggest the same thing about Okta but as bad as they are whatever you do to avoid them would probably be worse in practice.
Like I said, if you didn't follow Orion's demo and still parroting "Metaverse Bad" you belong in the exact same category as Blockbuster
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