skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
rqlite is a great project! Sometimes I have been wondering, how hard would it be to embed it into web server process, like nginx or apache, as a module.
> You can get same result by just blocking DNS lookups for everything except the sites you want to access.

"Just."

Are you willing to configure such a setup for my mom and Aunt Millie? And provide ongoing technical support?
This exactly my point. The FAQ makes the assumption that people don't want this, with no justification. I'm interested in what that justification is, especially given that the state-of-the-art that this is competing against is Infrastructure as Code, where storing this stuff in git is considered a good thing.
Converting to a for-profit changes the tax status of donations. It also voids plausibility for Fair Use exemptions.

I can see large copyright holders lining up with takedowns demanding they revise their originating datasets since there will now be a clear-cut commercial use without license.
The restructuring is designed in part to make OpenAI more attractive to investors

I'm not surprised in the least.

Who is going to give billions to a non-profit with a bizarre structure where you don't actually own a part of it but have some "claim" with a capped profit? Can you imagine bringing that to Delaware courts if there was disagreement over the terms? Investors can risk it if it's a few million, but good luck convincing institutional investors to commit billions with that structure.

At that point you might as well just go with a standard for-profit model where ownership is clear, terms are standard and enforceable in court and people don't have to keep saying "explain how it works again?".
That's the thing, the stuff you described isn't a phone replacement; we don't use our phones to do that right now. I do think that AR and holographic projection (which is also advancing very nicely, and having some very cool tech demos[1]) have a lot of interesting uses, but it's not doing the stuff that we use phones to do now (reading websites, watching videos, listening to music, text chatting, etc).

I don't know how anyone is excited to hear, "hey, with this you can watch videos just like on your phone, but the video is also kinda transparent so it's harder to see!" (which it has to be, or we're really gonna be seeing car accidents skyrocket).

I think there is value in doing certain things one-at-a-time, with full attention, but this makes some of those into overlays that you're now sharing with other tasks.

[1]: https://newatlas.com/vr/voxon-photonics-3d-hologram-volumetr...
also tourists, which there's plenty of in London. Roaming is expensive.

Especially nowadays, with Britain out of the EU and "roam like at home" policies no longer in effect.
I haven't compared performance with the P2300 proposal yet. It seems like it's trying to unify asynchronous and parallel execution for C++, which is much broader in scope than my library.

It's true that coroutines can avoid heap allocation, but I haven't tested when or if that happens in my implementation. From the papers, it's clear that certain conditions must be met for the compiler to optimize this. If you know of any good sources on this, please let me know.

I think it's definitely worth looking into this optimization and possibly using custom allocators for specific cases. I'll also compare performance with the proposal's implementation[1] to see the difference.

Thank you for your feedback.

[1] https://github.com/NVIDIA/stdexec
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The difference is this: in a community centre pool, a diver doesn't give you compressed air to breath at the bottom of the pool.

The thing the commentor above is concerned about is pulmonary barotrauma, a.k.a. "burst lung". Between 10 feet depth and the surface the gas in your lungs will expand by 30%. If you took a deep breath at 10 feet deep, and held it, then that expansion can cause rupture of the alveoli.

For this reason one of the first things you are told (or should be told!) in a scuba diving course is to breath continuously, i.e. never hold your breath.
The ones selling the shovels are doing well, but otherwise yeah nobody is making any money.

For the true believers that's just a temporary setback on the way to becoming trillionaires though.
Renaming to "TheAI" would match their ambition for AGI.
I know it's designed quite well and operates mostly without error but TfL as a whole is not perfect

> as long as you properly tap-in and tap-out

And this is far from straight forward everywhere. E.g. Waterloo & City at Waterloo and its lack of barriers

Some believe Waterloo is actually long-standing money-maker for TfL ...

> The system as a whole seems to be designed to prevent overcharging at all costs

But not the physical UX
I hope I can join in, as a consumer, because there’s a difference between using the IP I contribute to conversations for a non-profit and a commercial enterprise.
> They're computer systems that are terrible at maths and that can't reliably lookup facts!

It seems plausible OpenAI's most recent model is better at math and googling than the average human.
Elon Musk has gained a concerning level of power over US national security
I have a simple (simplistic maybe) way of ranking the tech giants for privacy: how much of their revenue is ads. Facebook is the worst (98% I believe), followed by google (~90% last time I checked). Apple is in the “least worst” category by this metric for now, but they are slipping.
>Google and Facebook track you wherever you go on the internet

I wonder if everyone's porn habits will one day leak
ChatGPT makes a "profile" out of your account saving most important information about you as a person. It would be much more difficult to do that by just analyzing your search queries in google.

This profile data is any intelligence agencies wet dream.
Ah but that's another story :) I love custom builds and I love retro stuff. But that I do for fun as well. I modden a cf19 toughbook with a new screen, ble keyboard, mostly batteries and a rasberry pi for many day battery life. And my house is full with all kinds of modded computers, new and old. Just when I travel, which is a lot of the time, I don't want to take anything but clothes; the xreal is perfect for this.
A non-profit entity will continue to exist. Likely for the reasons you stated.
Motivation is factored into initiative and rewards. My personal motivation was always personal time. If I accomplish all my assignments in the first two hours of the day then I have the rest of the day to do other things.

You don’t have to be smart or a great programmer to be a 10x developer. You just have to ask the right critical questions and be willing to not do the same stupid shit over and over like everyone else. That’s initiative.
While Seinfeld is only figuratively about nothing, Gefter’s subject is quite literal. Her book revolves around the attempt to grasp the bizarre state that existed prior to the Big Bang—though even the word ‘prior’ is misleading, as time itself hadn’t yet come into existence.
Do they match Li-ion in energy density yet? Especially for things like the earbuds in the OP, high energy density is critical.
It's a "courage isn't the absence of fear" sort of situation.

I don't think there's many people out there who would not be tempted at all to take some of that money for themselves. Rather, people are willing and able to rise above that temptation.
Just read the background from the appeal case and urs clear as day he’s guilty. They challenged a bunch of technicalities with flimsy arguments. At no point did they challenge if the evidence was sufficient.

https://law.justia.com/cases/missouri/supreme-court/2003/sc-...

He stabbed that women 43 times. And yet these fools support this evil monster of a man.
Something has gone wrong when we use and accept uning "content" as a euphemism for what is actually advertising.

We're not longer citizens, mearly consumers.
Time to go open source
No I meant AR glasses would be impractical with a controller whether or not AR glasses have a practical "scene".
Using WordPress the software is totally free, in both senses of the word.

Using the WordPress and WooCommerce trademarks outside of fair use is not.

Disclaimer: I work at Automattic.
my favorite completely unprovable yet strongly enticing theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_natural_selection
I do. To learn a code base it before tremendously, also to find what happened and why things were done it is off great help. I don't need it every day but I routinely do git archeology.
Didn't altman say 'pwease wet us ignowe copywhite waw! we can't be pwofitabwe if we don't...' in some legal forum recently?
Why is someone else writing my feature? Do we not have a ticket system? ;-)

More importantly, when using a feature branch one should really rebase master into the feature branch regularly, and any other branches that might touch the same places, it takes care of little surprises like this.
> CEO shuffles

Yes, I too can see how sama could end up as Microsoft’s CEO as a result of this
Not really, but perhaps I did not do it right.

As a solo consultant back in the 2010's, I created a website and blog for personal branding purpose.

* Blog articles about engineering, got well indexed on Google, getting me thousands of monthly visitors.
* Articles about business / functional aspects never really got any visibility nor engagement.

So in the end my content has been mostly helpful to peer developers (mostly in India and the US), and did not reach my potential clients / employers in Western Europe where I am located...

I do not know how much effect the website had to recruiters, perhaps it still gave me extra points sometimes...
Another reason to use Oyster (in addition to the fact that people can access their Oyster history currently, it's just Contactless that can't AIUI)
Author here. That's a standard dialog built into the browser, which of course was implemented from Day 1. The problem is that people leave tabs open for indefinite time, the browser regularly saves memory by emptying old tabs and then it's gone.
There definitely are people who aren't like that. Not a lot for sure, but they exist.
There are many examples through history proving you wrong.

* Frederick Banting sold the patent for insulin to the University of Toronto for just $1.

* Tim Berners-Lee decided not to patent the web, making it free for public use.

* Jonas Salk refused to patent the polio vaccine - "can you patent the sun?"

* Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds could have easily sold humanity out for untold billions.

* Chuck Feeny silently gave away $8bn, keeping only a few million.

... And in any case, this is an extreme situation. AI is an existential threat/opportunity. Allowing it to be sidestepped into the hands of Sam "sell me your retinal scans for $50" Altman is fucking insane, and that's putting it lightly.
This is it. Loss of trust and disagreements on money/equity usually lead to breakups like this. No one at the top level wants to be left out of the cash grab. Never underestimate how greed can compromise one’s morals.
>London Euston, Manchester Piccadilly and Birmingham New Street among those targeted with terrorism message

Makes it sound like the message itself was 'terrorist'. Also abhor the fact that we're never trusted with being able to see the actual source content. We MUST be told what we should think about it by 3rd parties.
I’m waiting for pg and others to excuse this all by posting another apologetic penance which reminds us that founders are unicorns and everyone else is a pleb.
I don't understand why that's not the default, or at least a choice.

I'm not super keen to share my exact location just so I can look at a city-wide map
I agree. But then, a TI-30 is also better at math than the average human. Can't google though...
There are some amazing low-cost, high-quality wired earbuds coming out of startup brands in China right now, start with looking up the Moondrop Chu and related recommendations along those lines
If WP Engine wanted to dedicate resources to build on the code they are using, they would've contributed more to the core itself.

Instead of forking, they could channel their resources to give back and that would be a good step to resolve this.

Disclaimer: I work at Automattic.
>If you're a tiny org, you don't need to contribute back. But if you're making half a billion in revenue every year on top of someone else's tech, you need to stay involved and contribute back in a very significant way.

For example Sony sold more than 100 million units of PS4 and made billions of dollars from it and how much they contributed to the open source projects they've used in PS4? Take a look at OSS projects used in PS4: https://www.playstation.com/en-us/oss/ps4/

Did they contribute anything? Did they contribute 100% enough or just 20% or 30%?

If the software is open sourced and if license allows you to do anything with it then you are indeed free to do anything with it including selling products which include OSS.
Unicorn is fantastic. I used it to emulate an SoC's boot environment to get around a very weird HAL, and it worked perfectly. Awesome tool!
I don't see why you want an embedded interpreter for this. Can you explain?
I agree—I've used the analogy in the past, but I don't anymore. The reason is: with new home construction, there's a very clear move-in date. You can make additions or renovations, but most people are not constantly changing their house.

However, in software, you need to continuously work on the product—and it's not just routine maintenance analogous to cleaning the gutters or changing the air filters. In software, it's possible to launch ("move in") before most of the rooms have been built. In software, you can use a library or API and start with a skyscraper on Day 1.

The analogy just doesn't work. It tells clients/stakeholders "this is a tough project but it'll be over someday, and you'll never have to think about construction again."
Teenagers are inherently reckless, but arguably can have lots of technical experience/knowledge by the time they're 17. If you've been messing with computers as a hobby and a passion since you were 11, you already have ~6 years of self directed experience, and a bunch of free time outside of school (and if you're a smart kid, inside of school too, winging classes and skipping homework).

Where teens fall down is their own overconfidence / arrogance / hubris / doing things impulsively, or generally just not considering (or possibly even comprehending) the full impact or risk of stuff they are doing. Like, understanding the technical side really well, but with a severely impaired frontal lobe.

So I feel it's a bit of a disservice to say it's "kids doing easy hacks". Without extra context we don't know what exploits they used or what they discovered. Could've been something easy and well known, could've discovered something novel.

I think the 17yo in question was indeed arrogant and I don't agree with their politics and I think it's unfortunate they've been indoctrinated by the right wing, but I would argue that they're probably pretty technically competent and motivated and I hope later on in life it serves them well and they make a whitehat career out of it.
Lot of people unhappy about this yet not at all unhappy (or even caring) about the 1,000s of others who started out for profit. And while we're all here hacking away (we're hackers, right?) many of us with startups, what is it we're chasing? Profit, money, time, control. Are we different except in scale? Food for thought.
This Lost Mozart Composition Hasn’t Been Heard for Centuries
Feels somewhat inevitable to me in long run so I can understand why zuck is pushing this despite it obviously not being ready for prime time.
I am not a tax specialist but from my understanding a non-profit is a for-profit that doesn't pay dividends. Why would the government care?
In this case though the defense never even challenged the evidence or if it was sufficient. You “regularly” hear about it because it’s so rare that it’s news if it happens. It’s a very rare event.

Read the background here and tell me you really support this man who stabbed that woman - mother and wife - 43 times.

https://law.justia.com/cases/missouri/supreme-court/2003/sc-...
Yes, absolutely. Writing out a change log when you have clean commit history is a trivial task. Doing so when it's not clean, can be arduous and take hours, and then still end up being inaccurate.

I also frequently try to find when some bug or change was introduced in the get history, so that I can understand why it was done through the context. Context. When it is just thrown in some random commit that doesn't even have much of a commit message, it is utterly useless. When it is part of a commit that is atomic and targeted at one thing, it is trivial to see why it was done. Even when the comment isn't super helpful (which is common despite intentions, because predicting the future and what will be useful in the future is very difficult) it's still valuable because you can see the code in its full context and it's often clear what it's doing.

So yes, I am a big believer in clean commit history with atomic, single commits that represent the task someone was doing. For example, If it was a bug fix, then the bug fix will be in its own commit with a commit message describing the bug that is being fixed.
Show HN: Unize Storage – AI to generate high-quality knowledge graphs at scale
Hi HN!

I've been building Unize, a personal and collective knowledge management app, for the last three years with a small team. It works with essentially any type of data, from Notion-like blocks to named relationships between items. In 2022, it seemed like AI could be really helpful for users to help them work with knowledge and achieve goals, so I started building a bunch of AI systems related to that. One of those systems was to store unstructured data in the app as structured data, and another was to retrieve data in different formats.

Earlier this year, I started seeing the term "GraphRAG" floating around, which seemed pretty similar to what I had been working on in the background. I was surprised GraphRAG was taking off because apparently, building the graph is the hard part, and it doesn't seem like anyone has figured that out yet. I was talking to the CTO of Neo4j who was very enthused about GraphRAG, so I decided to convert our proof-of-concept into an API that anyone can use to generate a knowledge graph.

And that's what I'm releasing today! I still consider it really rough, but I created a benchmark for knowledge graph generation and it seems to outperform existing systems by substantial margins, so I'm releasing the alpha version of it ("Unize ST-0.5") today to get some feedback. It's pretty slow and expensive, but it's just a converted proof of concept. I think that human-level knowledge graph generation is very doable, it just requires a bunch of changes we haven't implemented yet, but we might if there's significant interest.

There are free API credits and a playground to generate and visualize graphs within the API dashboard, so it should be pretty easy to try out.

API: https://api.unize.org/signup

API Docs: https://developers.unize.org

Launch Post: https://blog.unize.org/p/introducing-unize-storage

22-Page Benchmark Report: https://developers.unize.org/kgstorage

Any thoughts and feedback would be greatly appreciated!
Sort of. I read it more as "here's why it's done but it's totally effing useless".
I've read the outline of Hochschild's work, and it applies to jobs like waitresses, who have to maintain a positive image in order to do their job, not people in meetings in an office talking about a project. Hochschild herself has mentioned the scope-creep of the concept, critically.
Well @rini, maybe English is not your native language (neither is mine) but between "maybe there's hopefully some yet undiscovered low hanging fruit" and "LLMs are cracking all the genomes and all molecular biology" there's as much distance as between "riding a bicycle" and "interstellar travel at warp speeds".
There seems to me to be a lot of misplaced trust involved in connecting to Wifi networks. It's easy to set up your own public AP and why not call it "Netork Rail Free Wifi" or something?

https://naich.net/wordpress/index.php/abusing-public-wifi-ac...
Even before that cyberattack I was never able to get TfL online services working properly.

Luckily it's not needed, you can just buy an Oyster from a corner shop and top it up at the machines in the station (all with cash if you're concerned about privacy, which is nice).
Sam Altman: Long con was "child's play for me"
> It shouldn't be possible to sign a contract that binds you to arbitrary amounts of future fees.

In the US? Cable TV? Cell phone service? Restaurant bill?
Altman and OpenAI deserve their success. They’ve been key to the LLM revolution and the push toward AGI. Without their vision to make a product out of an LLM that hundreds of millions of people now use and have greatly enriched their lives, companies like Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Meta wouldn’t have invested so heavily in AI. While we’ve heard about the questionable ethics of people like Jobs, Musk, and Altman, their work speaks for itself. If they’re advancing humanity, do their personal flaws really matter?
I started and maintained this software tool for about a decade. It was a code beautifier and diff tool. It got me hired multiple times.

As a JavaScript developer writing open source applications eventually became a problem in regard to hiring. I could easily spin up an original application that does wonderful things, but other JavaScript developers can’t. I was no longer compatible to the employment.
Gherklin: A modern linter for Gherkin, using TypeScript and ESM
Do people wash their hands 15 times a day so that they absolutely fine so much value in getting rid of the bugs?

The answer is: some do, some don't.
Nearly every single professional opportunity that has come my way was through my blog.

A few months ago I wrote a post on the butterfly effect of having a blog for ~9 years, it covers some of the more interesting things: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/the-butterfly-effect-of-havin...
Fully second that.
Whenever I try to BDSM ERP with llama it changes subject to sappy stuff about how 'everyone involved lived happily ever after'. It probably wouldn't be appropriate to post here. Definitely has some biases though.
> None of the Open source ethos survive of sharing together, learning together etc.

Could be because of that missing part of "sharing together" replaced with "taking and not giving back anything in return"
> For what use cases though? Interacting with websites, most apps and content consumption? Hand tracking beats a controller.

I can only imagine this is an extreme minority view, as hand tracking is next to useless for these tasks, outside of tech demos.
In this article, "Full-stack" means building a unified application where the client and server are integrated, simplifying development and reducing complexity compared to SPAs.
I'm still not convinced the flood event trend is actually increasing. And i should be if I'm living in the Elbe valley.