skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not have experience with AWS RDS so I cannot speak to that.

In my experience, GCP Cloud SQL for Postgres has been more expensive than MS Azure SQL. In our tests, CloudSQL also was not comparable to the resiliency offered by Azure SQL. Things like Automated DR and automated failover etc. were not at par with what Azure offered. Not to mention , Column level encryption is standard for Azure SQL.
What no-one is pointing out is that LLMs have made almost as much progress on the first part of the request as the second! ChatGPT writes me a is_point_in_national_park function and points me to the relevant shapefile in like ~30 seconds. That's a few hundred times speedup of the "few hours" referenced in the comic.
I understood immediately where you are pointing. And I wish you would be right.

Correlation does not imply causation.
Don't stop at robots.txt blocking. Look through your access logs, and you'll likely find a few IPs generating a huge amount of traffic. Look them up via "whois," then block the entire IP range if it seems like a bot host. There's no reason for cloud providers to browse my personal site, so if they host crawlers, they get blocked.
You may think that. But what about the escalation factor instead?

As LEAs have become increasingly militarized, so has their opposition. Look back into the Prohibition era and the weaponry that organized crime needed for their operations. The criminals will only match the opposition in the arms race, and then the LEAs will obtain funding and resources to increase their so-called "deterrent factor", which winds up in catastrophes like Ruby Ridge, Branch Davidians, SWATting, and school shootings.

Perhaps crime doesn't go up in Finland or Japan because the LEAs have not felt the need to militarize and escalate at every turn. (I mean, Japan got their entire military confiscated in 1945, so they should know about escalations!)
"Miller says the NFL doesn’t get a cut of the amount wagered with these companies. But the NFL and its television rights holders, which pay the NFL more than $13 billion a year to broadcast games, have seen a boon from advertising by the legal gaming industry." (https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/10/business/nfl-super-bowl-sport...)
Yes, it is, but it's not the slight that grandparent makes it out to be.
I think OrioleDB is picking up from where zheap left things, and seems quite active in upstreaming their work, you might be interested to check it out.
It always has. With rent control there is no incentive for landlords to rent, repair, or improve. Which actually reduces the amount of available properties, and dissuades building more housing (because what’s the point?) If you can’t make money doing it then you’re probably losing money.
> Almost every nonprofit that raises revenue outside of donations has to be structured more or less this way to pay taxes.

I don't think that's true? A non-profit can sell products or services, it just can't pay out dividends.
Ask HN: Is there a code editor that combines terminal and AI chat interface?
It's a bit clunky to have that extra panel for AI chat, considering most code editors these days provide support for integrations with AIs. We already have a file open, a terminal open, a sidebar for file navigation, and now that extra panel for AI interaction. Considering the UI of both the terminal and AI chat are very similar - and terminals are essentially command "prompts" - it seems logical that they could be combined into one panel. Is there any code editor that's trying to do this?
Hey, I have some magic beans to sell you.

I don’t think that the consumer LLMs that openai is pioneering is what need optimism.

AlphaFold and other uses of the fundamental technology behind LLMs need hype.

Not OpenAI
I find this hard to believe because putting out a new paper fundamentally requires new data or at least a thorough review. One can't legitimately put out a paper if they don't have at least one of these two things.

AI can write survey articles, it can suggest avenues for new research, and it can convert data into a paper, but it cannot create real-world data from scratch, at least not without conducting a real-world experiment. Does this make sense?
I didn't have to "remember," they're on the tab right next to this one. I'm sorry you're butthurt about someone wanting to vote who isn't a part of the l33t insiders club. Anyway, right under the game in question it says "Voting for this edition's games is in progress - sign in to vote on this game." so how would any sane person know that it's only for insiders?

Sorry I raised your bloodpressure about something that doesn't matter to you since I'm an outsider. I'll send you virtual flowers using my totally safe GitHub App
I really dislike that news media never give references to the actual court docs that they are reporting on. Many times it's truly lazy, just reporting the fact that another news outlet reported on a case.

Noho Diagnostic Center, Inc. v. City of Los Angeles (2:24-cv-07952), District Court, C.D. California

Full complaint: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.94... [pdf]

Docket: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69172475/noho-diagnosti...

OFFICER FRANCO conducted surveillance on multiple dates in 2023, reporting the "distinct odor of live cannabis plant"..

OFFICER FRANCO compared the power usage of the TARGET PREMISES to nearby businesses and found it significantly higher.

Sounds like Officer Franco may need some retraining.
These look like those corrective glasses the doctor gave Bart Simpson - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Cgi8WqjU1U
You are free to spend your time and money to help people broadcast whatever message they want.

And others are free to not spend their time and money to help people broadcast whatever message they want.
Maybe crime is actually higher because of low trust and general ineptitude and ineffectiveness. The police in many many places in the US have a local reputation of being useless. That can’t be much of a deterrent.
>> Is it really a new class of language considering we had Ada / SPARK for ages? It takes safety further, too, with formal verification.

Rust and Ada have similar goals and target use cases, but different advantages and strengths.

In my opinion, Rust's biggest innovations are 1) borrow checking and "mutation XOR sharing" built into the language, effectively removing the need for manual memory management or garbage collection, 2) Async/Await in a low-level systems language, and 3) Superb tooling via cargo, clippy, built-in unit tests, and the crates ecosystem (in a systems programming language!) Rust may not have been the first with these features, but it did make them popular together in a way that works amazingly well. It is a new class of language due to the use of the borrow checker to avoid memory safety problems.

Ada's strengths are its 1) powerful type system (custom integer types, use of any enumerated type as an index, etc.), 2) perfect fit for embedded programming with representation clauses, the real-time systems annex, and the high integrity systems annex, 3) built-in Design-by-Contract preconditions, postconditions, and invariants, and 4) Tasking built into the language / run-time. Compared to Rust, Ada feels a bit clunky and the tooling varies greatly from one Ada implementation to another. However, for some work, Ada is the only choice because Rust does not have sufficently qualified toolchains yet. (Hopefully soon . . .)

Both languages have great foreign function interfaces and are relatively easy to use with C compared to some other programming languages. Having done a fair bit of C programming in the past, today I would always choose Rust over C or C++ when given the choice.
Only if they’re competent.

These guys don’t sound competent.
You can train the model to do these things in the same way you can train a blind person to describe the colors of objects. But if you put them in an unknown environment or give them a texture they've never encountered before, they will have no idea how to perceive its color. This is a fundamental problem for LLMs and won't change until someone invents a method that gets rid of tokenization for good.
Are your morals better than mine? Mine say that Meta is a successful business that has delivered on user demand for a solid while now.

My morals also say that sharing any news, be it fake or real, should be allowed. Likewise they say making as much money as possible is admirable.
>How this is being allowed to happen legally is baffling.

It's completely unprecedented.

We allowed scraping images and text en masse when search engines used the data to let us find stuff.

We allow copying of style, and don't allow writing styles and aesthetics to be copyrighted or trademarked.

Then AI shows up, and people change lanes because they don't like the results.

One of the things that made me tilt towards the side of fair use was a breakdown of the Stable Diffusion model. The SD2.1 base model was trained on 5.85 billion images, all normalized to 512x512 BMP. That's 1MB per images, for a total of 5.85PB of BMP files. The resulting model is only 5.2GB. That's more than 99.999999% data loss from the source data to the trained set.

For every 1MB BMP file in the training dataset, less than 1byte makes it into the model.

I find it extremely difficult to call this redistribution of copyrighted data. It falls cleanly into fair use.
I am allowed to cancel my cable service and cell phone plan. You can't cancel a timeshare.
https://archive.ph/1vnOb
This metaphor is quite stretched.

A more fitting metaphor would be something like... If you had the ability to read all the books in the library extremely quickly, and to make useful mental connections between the information you read such that people would come to you for your vast knowledge, should you be allowed in the library?
> Yes they are.

Right, so when you said "there’s no way of meaningfully marking a contactless card as being paired with a railcard", there was nothing of substance to actually support that assertion.

What you've proven to me is that TfL are in exactly the position where they could deliver this if they wanted to and put their minds to it, but it nonetheless hasn't happened. Just like Oval (how late is that now?)

I am quite cynical about TfL, yes, and suspect that they just see this as likely to cause a financial hit when it comes to revenue, which is probably why it hasn't been prioritised. The status quo is a convenient one. I'm sure it'll happen one day when the tech debt of Oyster forces it to happen, but it won't be done proactively for passenger benefit.
Inequality aversion predicts support for public and private redistribution
I think they had to get over the knee-jerk reaction that Zig was a, quote, "massive step back for the industry", frowny face.

It seems they have, which is all to the good: the work to make custom allocators practical in Rust is another example. Rust still doesn't have anything like `std.testing.checkAllAllocationFailures`, but I expect that it will at some future point. Zig certainly learned a lot from Rust, and it's good that Rust is able to do the same.

Zig is not, and will not be, a memory-safe language. But the sum of the decisions which go into the language make it categorically different from C (the language is so different from C++ as to make comparisons basically irrelevant).

Memory safety is a spectrum, not a binary, or there wouldn't be "Rust" and "safe Rust". What Rust has done is innovative, even revolutionary, but I believe this also applies to Zig in its own way. I view them as representing complementary approaches to the true goal, which is correct software with optimal performance.
I was foreman of a jury on a murder trial once; it’s my signature on the verdict form that sealed the fate of a man. In an extremely real and personal sense, I am directly responsible for putting a man in prison, and given his age, health conditions, and the sentence that was going to be passed, that means I’m directly responsible for ensuring a human being dies in prison.

I ask myself every day if we made the right decision. We passed the bar of reasonable doubt, but we did that entirely because the prosecutor’s office had infinite resources and a homeless Black defendant with HIV and addiction had zero resources and an obviously less than interested (or prepared) public defender who had given up the fight.

If I’d been his lawyer, I’m sure I could have gotten him off, and IANAL… I just would have poked at obvious and extremely reasonable holes in the prosecutor’s story.

Because the prosecutor had nearly infinite resources (victim brought significant press attention) they had nearly infinite power to keep retrying until the defense was simply overwhelmed.

Don’t know a damned thing about this case, but after seeing how the sausage that is the law actually plays out and how very little anything in a real court resembles TV, I don’t think anyone should ever ask a juror to pass a death sentence on someone else. It’s simply impossible to take resource bias out of the equation, and doubt that would have been reasonable if it had just been brought up by an overworked public defender will haunt you… in my case nearly 20 years later.
Got it thank you so much
Even if you don’t like it, idiots do have as much right to speak as any Nobel Prize winner. Not only that, the more they speak, the better, as the chances of stopping being an idiot increase. All Nobel Prizes were at some point also idiots, if they’re still not idiots today about some topics.
When I was a student we got a task where we had to spell check some text. This was super easy because we could fit the entire dictionary in memory.

Hadn’t always been that easy. Once upon a time someone was paging in and out their dictionary from a floppy disk. Not to forget about the compression they had to implement from scratch.
Children’s children? What? Like 50 years from now?

These AR innovations are going to produce great value already 5 years from now.
Back when Google Glass came out, I learned I was accidentally a good benchmark for wearable tech, in that if it's too dorky even for me, it's never going to fly.

This is solidly in that category. It's a good thing they don't mean to release it to the masses, but this is going to put a negative impression if the overwhelming majority of people who actually see the thing in real life.

Just a prediction, but Meta's going to regret having people wear this in the wild.
Ideally you would make it extremely expensive to get started, but inexpensive if you're already addicted and beyond the point of thinking rationally about money.
No I'm just agreeing that it's not 'aligned' with the bulk of humanity if it doesn't believe in some god. I'm happy for it to be agnostic on the issue, personally. So you have to be careful what alignment means.
> That was the point musk was complaining about.

I think the real issue Musk was complaining about is that sama is quickly becoming very wealthy and powerful and Musk doesn't want any competition in this space.

Hopefully some people watching all this realize that the people running many of these big AI related projects don't care about AI. Sam Altman is selling a dream about AGI to help make himself both wealthier and more powerful, Elon Musk is doing the same with electric cars or better AI.

People on HN are sincerely invested in the ideas behind these things, but it's important to recognize that the people pulling the strings largely don't care outside how it benefits them. Just one of the many reasons, at least in AI, truly open source efforts are essential for any real progress in the long run.
If you don't have any proof of that, you're no different than those that believe he exists. (Respectfully) Agnosticism really is the only correct scientific approach.
Corporate tax is always only paid on profit and is usually a minor part of the tax draw for the government from corporations of all sizes.

The vast majority of taxes paid in developed nations are employee taxes and whatever national+local sales taxes and health/pension equivalent taxes are (indirectly) levied (usually 60-80% of national income). Asset taxes are a bit different.

It's true even in the bootstrapped company case:
If you earn say $100k and keep $50k after all the employee indirect/direct taxes. Now imagine you spend $40k of that $50k in savings, setting up a business. You spend $30k on another employee, paying $15k of employer and employee taxes, and spend the other $10k on a company to do marketing (who will spend $5k of that on employees and pay $2.5k of tax), and you earn less than $40k in income, by the end of year 1 you have:

1) A loss-making startup which nonetheless is further along then nothing

2) Out of $100k of your original value, $67.5k has already reached the government within 12 months

3) Your time doing the tech side was not compensated but could not (for obvious anti-fraud reasons) be counted as a loss and as you have noted, you don't pay tax when you make a loss, and you don't get any kind of negative rebate (except certain sales tax regimes or schemes).

If you are in the US, the above is currently much worse due to the insane way R&D Software spend needs to be spread immediately as a tax burden.

So it's really not fair to say a new startup isn't paying taxes. They almost always are. There are very few companies or startups that pay less than 50% of their income to staff, and almost all of those are the unicorns or exceptional monopoly/class leaders. Startups, and founders tend to disproportionately give more of their income and are essentially to that extent re-taxed.

Even though you saved the money in order to start a startup, and paid your due employee taxes, you then have to pay employee taxes to use it, etc.
Multiple witnesses seeing a suspect run out of a store holding a smoking gun shortly after the store clerk was shot is both circumstantial evidence and plenty for a DA to bring to trial.
At least it tells us that LAPD doesn’t have very precise/high-frequency access to power usage, instead only seeing daily/weekly/monthly averages.

Or maybe they do but are just negligent.
Thankfully there are many options for offline LLMs now
I've seen this same map used for years in digital nomad guides.
html is nothing like latex, quite the opposite. Latex does all the formatting for you and produces a perfect document, html is just a markup language.
I actually like GCC's nested functions a lot, although an implementation with function descriptors would be much better.
I have been active on internet forums since the mid-late 90s. Facebook and Instagram and their other social media didn't create any of those bad human traits, they were rampant to begin with.

What these normie-networks did do was make a UX for public posting so easy that scores of low-education users were able to be influenced and re-share low-infromation-quality stuff in huge magnitudes. FB is guilty of making a super accessible user experience, and then in not being aggressive early enough in having high standards for its userbase. But it didn't invent society's ills.
The hardest part has to be building webRTC streaming support from scratch into our SDK to provide extremely low latency API. We had this idea where we imagined the webRTC server and AI model running on the same instance and talking to the user via a direct peer connection. As far as we know, this architecture is first of its kind and isn't usually how webRTC peer connections are made.
I don't think? this is even a real debate. One can want it to be otherwise, but criminal law does not disfavor circumstantial evidence.
Yeah. But for that we can squash everything into a single commit on merge. Instead of spending a bunch on time making every single commit in an MR perfect both in isolation and all-together. And if squashing everything in the MR causes a problem with the git history being too coarse, then that is almost certainly because the MR itself should have been split up into multiple MRs. Not because of how you organized the individual commits that belonged to one MR.
The idea that you can come up with a perfect law is how centrally planned economies fail.
Did people do illegal online sports gambling before it was legal? Did it do as much harm as it does now?
>The problem is a few of them after work go out and don't get a full night's sleep.

...unlike car drivers, cyclists, doctors, other humans.
I think some of it is the training material. People with strong ideologies tend to write more.
"It's hard to check buffer boundaries" is memory corruption circa 1998.
Unfortunately we use a cloud provider to host our databases, so I can only install limited extensions.
It's a political gift.

"Vote for me! Forget that I have been in office for decades, vote for me and this time I will make those greedy landlords pay. I will give you rent control! Vote for me."

And it works.
His entire argument amounts to Eternal September[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
Yes, this is the correct way to do timeshares.

I've thought of making a portal connecting people like this before, especially digital nomads.

Find a group of DNs who like the same countries as you (think a circuit), pool money to buy property in the 3 or 4 countries, then just hop over.
Different APIs and models are going to come with different capabilities and restrictions.
Hadnt looked at this way. I need to consider throwing one away tbh. Thank you for the insight
This is precisely the madness that I'm astounded by. Most people think this is sane, normal and moral.

And, I imagine most people reading this think I'm either insane, ignorant or uneducated, or will attach some other adjectives to further alienate me. It's okay, I already feel like an alien.

I'm not looking for an argument. I don't need to convince anyone.

I was hoping for a more receptive audience. Oh well.
The pronunciation of the word is already on the boundaries between "awk-toe-poos", "awk-tuh-puhs", and "awk-tah-piss" depending on your region just in America.

So adding an additional "-es" that can be "-ehhs" or "-iz" gives at least six possible pronunciations.
Why sqlite but not something like Rocksdb which is optimised for NVMe.

While SQLite can be used on SSDs, it is not as heavily optimized for SSDs as RocksDB. SQLite is a general-purpose embedded database and was primarily designed for use on devices like mobile phones or lightweight embedded systems, where storage is often slower and smaller (e.g., flash storage or basic SSDs).

SQLite’s traditional B-tree structure involves more random I/O compared to RocksDB's LSM tree, which is less ideal for maximizing the performance of high-speed SSDs like NVMe.

SQLite’s limited concurrency (single-writer, multiple-readers) also means it cannot fully utilize the parallelism and high throughput potential of NVMe SSDs.
"suddenly"?

I was under the impression that most people saw this coming years ago. The second "Open"AI refused to release the weights for GPT-2 for our "safety" (we can see in hind sight how obviously untrue this was, but most of us saw it then too) it was clear that they were headed towards profitability.
Musk decries government 'censorship.' His X has been more compliant
The key paragraphs are:

> The site acted on 71 percent of the legal requests it received to remove content in the first half of this year, up 20 percent from the last time it reported the figure in 2021 and more than double the rate in preceding years, according to a new transparency report X published Wednesday and a Washington Post review of past disclosure data.

> As in past years, most of the removal demands came from a handful of countries, including Japan, South Korea and Turkey, which have each submitted thousands of requests. Much more often than not, they have been successful in persuading Musk’s X to remove or restrict content on the platform, the data show.

...

> X’s Abboud said Japan has typically filed lawful and accurate requests, and because it submitted a majority of the overall global demands, it drove an uptick in the compliance rate. The report notes that X can object to “requests that are legally defective, overly broad” or that unduly burden free speech.