skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, in a rather simplistic world view the argument boils down to the following, which does seem to happen:

(A) There are two dominating uses for large computers:

(Use 1) HPC a.k.a. Floating point numbers, Fortran, LLM, CERN, NASA, GPGPU, numerical analysis, etc. These examples all fall into the same bucket at this level of (coarse) granularity.

Dominating use number (2) is accounting. Yes accounting. Append-only logs, git, Merkle trees, PostgreSQL MVCC (vacuum is necessary, because it boils down to an append-only log that is cleaned up after the fact — see also Reddit’s two giant key-value tables), CRDTs, credit cards, insurance, and accounting ledgers.

(Use 2) is dominated by the CAP theorem and favoring consistency over availability during network partitions, because it has to provide and enforce a central coherent view of the world. Even Bitcoin cannot fork too hard for account balances to still be meaningful. (Philosophical nit picking: How does this relate to General Relativity and differential geometry? Can this then only ever be "local" in the sense of general relativity?)

This is where mainframe style hardware redundancy always enters the picture (or your system sucks). Examples: (i) RAIM (RAID for RAM), (ii) basically ZFS, and (iii) Running VMs/Docker containers concurrently in two data centers in the same availability zone (old style: two mainframes within 50 miles and a “coupling facility”)

(B) All other uses like playing Minecraft or Factorio, smartphones, game consoles and running MS Excel locally are rounding error in the grand scheme of things.

Note: Even oxide computers seems to be going down this route. IBM ended up there, because everybody who can pay for the problem to be fixed makes you fix your hardware and processes. Period.

In the end all processes and hardware are locked down and redundant/HA/failure-resistant/anti-fragile. It is a mainframe in all but name by being isomorphic in every conceivable aspect. This is Hyrum’s law for our physical and geometric environment. The other systems die out.

Even Linux user space ABI, JVM, SQLite, cURL, and (partially) JavaScript are so focused on backwards compatability. Everything else breaks and is abandoned. Effectively every filesystem that isn’t at least as good as ZFS is a waste of time.

(C) https://datademythed.com/posts/3-tier_data_solution/

(D) Look at what MongoDB promised in the beginning and what they actually ended up delivering and what problems they had to solve and how much work that ended up being.

EDIT: Add points (C) and (D).
I use FF as well. I think the problem is lack of focus on core workflows. This is a problem with all major browsers.

For example, why is the address bar so tiny on high resolution screens? One would think this is an easy fix that would improve the UX for many people. Yet years go by with unresolved issues in the trackers.
Good point, agreed. I assumed that most people looking at the repo would already be familiar with Firecrawl, but there should be at least a sentence or two explaining what it does regardless.
Very large mature businesses that don’t see IT as a core function have probably outsourced management to a third party. There’s not much daylight between that third party’s margin and just paying a hyperscaler.
You continue to blatantly misconstrue my comments.
> Trump’s running on blaming the next guy for problems that he created as president.

No politics on HN. Especially today. Also welcome to American politics…
> And yeah it's not perfect. Stop making perfect the enemy of good.
No, but the substance looks like blue snot and you dip the hot tip in it.
You can have multiple trends at once. Veteran cloud users leaving, international business onboarding.
I just spent two weeks wasting my time trying to code my pet project in various flavours of Next.js plus Prisma/Drizzle etc and gave up at having to constantly reinvent the wheel or work around some incomplete/naive implementation. And then went back to Rails where everything just works. Etc etc etc
what is WIC? I only find nutritional screening for infants? seems not the right definition
The law was blocked

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/07/01/supreme-court-texas-...
Computational psychiatry needs time and context
It's impressive, but to me it seems like the saddest development experience...

agent = Agent(
task='Go to hackernews on show hn and give me top 10 post titels, their points and hours. Calculate for each the ratio of points per hour.',
llm=ChatOpenAI(model='gpt-4o'),
)

await agent.run()

Passing prompts to a LLM agent... waiting for the black box to run and do something...
It seems to be more about
the data tables, data models and use cases, rather than the hardware.

Maybe we can build a CSV file that only fits into a 19-inch rack. Someone would buy it for owning their own vendor-lockin story…
S3 has two more cost saving dimensions: How long will you commit to storing these exact bytes and how long are you willing to wait to get them. Either of those will allow you to reduce S3 costs without having to chance data loss due to AZ failure.
Why are you bothering me with this supposed problem? In my desire to resolve the tension, I imagine that there is no difficulty, and that instead you are incompetent. Why don't you just do the first thing that comes into my mind? I would not have the problem you claim to have. Shut up.
And just like that, they track you down to an Upstate NY MacDonald's wifi hotspot that you're never going to visit again. Now what?
Depends on the 'culture' and 'values' of the refugees. Maybe those are exactly the reasons for the failure of their states?
Sure, that's the initial niche of 3D printing. But now people want to be able to repeatedly print something else again and again without having to do some sort of maintenance on the machine.

Now, you're getting those massive print farms that are able to change what they produce on the next print.
Csiro opens $6.8M printing facility to make flexible solar panels
Embedding Model Benchmark Tool
I never said we did it alone did.

But without US industry/industrialists the war would have very much been lost.

Soviet Russia simply would not have survived. That anyone was left to use weapons was because of America.
Time to collect people's excrement and use it as fertilizer after some treatment :P.
Show HN: Use multi db at once on single web server with the most unique UI
Do not need to talk too much. Just take a look at 'Jetelina'. It amazes you.
The introduction video is my recommendation at the first.
Do dbt or SQLMesh do this, or if not can you say more about what you’re envisioning?
I've written a fair bit of PySpark code and Polars's syntax feels fairly similar, but it also offers a limited SQL dialect.
Break Versioning (BreakVer)
And the reason they have this, is so that pilots can overcome a jam by breaking that linkage. Only half the plane will then be responding to the controls, but that's much better than none.
What is the Mandinka people’s relation the Camel Toe and One-Eyed Snake products advertised on the website?
Local machines, but only because of years of muscle memory. Not because dev environments are worse or anything.

I have used github.dev before, and they seemed decent.

(Tip if you didn't know, pressing '.' when in any github repository will spin up an in-browser VSCode editor for the repo)
Also, there's an important difference in threat-model between:

1. Insulating a blind trust from an insider's reactive knowledge of changes. ("A secret CIA report says Latveria is going to open its borders to trade.")

2. Insulating a blind trust from an insider's proactive policy decisions which causes changes. ("I've always told my friends that we should try to trade with Latveria.")

In other words, it's not really a "blind" trust if it makes investment decisions knowing that the politician will cause certain sectors or businesses to perform better or worse.
sure, when I pay illegal immigrants less than minimum wage for dangerous work I've broken the law, but when Apple does unfair labour practices they've "broken the law" with "quote marks" around it.
It really bugs the hell out of me that we are constantly forced against our will to fund these companies for basically nothing. It’s an utterly insane model. Sure, we get to then give them yet more money to use those critical chips after the same people squandered the time and gutted the American economy and shipped it all overseas for decades prior; but can’t there be a rate of return and not just give, essentially executives huge bonuses forever?

There should be no such thing as free grants, if anything they should be ownership stakes by the U.S. people by way of the government if, e.g., we are handing them 700 Million dollars and then basically deferring on 1 Billion dollars which also has an additional opportunity cost and a cost of the money, i.e., inflation and interest.

I can’t tell you how many people have become extremely wealthy from nothing by getting government grants and contracts that built and funded their companies, paid for by you, with your tax money and inflation you pay at the grocery store.
Is this implemented with lockless programming? Is it a reason for the performance drop in single thread code?

Does it eliminate the need for a GC pause completely?
This is like someone telling a fish that there are people who live on land, and the fish saying "it doesn't have to be that way". Someone mentions a cultural difference between your group and another, and you say "the other group is wrong, my culture is right".

Instead, what you could do is think about how this is a completely arbitrary thing that the two cultures just do differently, and that maybe people shouldn't be offended by friendly banter that isn't meant to offend.
Wikipedia article has photos

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_tube_battery
Explain ‘advertising revenues’ to them and ruin dolphin culture forever. :P
Tracker Beeper (2022)
Show HN: LLM Applications from Yml Files
You build LLM applications with YAML files, that define an execution graph. Nodes can be either LLM API calls, regular function executions or other graphs themselves. Because you can nest graphs easily, building complex applications is not an issue, but at the same time you don't lose control.
The YAML basically states what are the tasks that need to be done and how they connect. Other than that, you only write individual python functions to be called during the execution. No new classes and abstractions to learn.
It's like a symphony of watermarks, all playing in harmony.
Read about commodity fetishism, relations of production, alienation etc.
There's a "one eyed snake" product too, why are we not complaining about how men will be driven from the profession with such sexist talk?
Yes, for sure. FPGAs are a great way to move around and crunch large amounts of digitized data. But there are other times where that doesn't help much because you're doing something like a submillimeter analog front end or something.
I am sure somewhere is a job you would like. Probably with less salary.
They are building a new fab in Boise to return production to the US. That's in addition to the new fab in Syracuse. Any guesses why they need two new facilities in the mainland US when the bulk of their output is just going to be shipped to SEA? DRAM is a fully commoditized, low margin product. Kryptonite to MBAs, but someone convinced them to make the move to reverse their successful offshoring with a lot of promised benefits.
Then there's One-Eyed Snake something penetrating oil spray from the same company.

The idea that sexual innuendos somehow differently affect men and women is rather strange.
Samsung or Windows could easily develop a feature to quickly disable biometric auth, if that is a usecase they cared about. But this ultimately means you don't trust your biometric auth.

Remembering a password is only a problem if you don't trust your biometric auth: otherwise, your biometric data is pretty much your password.

If you don't trust it, a solution is simple: do not use it (on either Apple or any other device).

Apple approach could be somewhat more secure if done properly, but it only covers limited usecases (eg somebody getting your device before you had a chance to disable biometric auth) with increased complexity.
But Unix could run on a cheap PDP-11, within the budget of many departments.
Nice job! Do you have hypothesis why this is particularly popular in Japan? Did you launch to specific market?
But that's their reason for being. So they have to try.
More: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42054186
thank you friend :)
> And yeah, it's stupid, and it makes the problem worse. It's the reason nonetheless.

While that's true, it's also a difficult problem to solve. In tiny organizations like startups where the CEO personally knows everyone and what they do, it's easy.

But as soon as you grow beyond that (and I've been in a number of startups that cross that gap), how do you objectively but fairly handle this? There is no easy answer.

You could go with fully empowering all managers to do as they wish. Trust them to hire, fire and promote correctly. This is great, until you hire some bad managers. And as you grow, it is 100% guaranteed at some point you'll hire bad managers. So then they ruin it for everyone, hiring and promoting their buddies.

And that's how you end up with more objective metrics. Take away some of that freedom, make everyone measure and justify actions based on metrics. It's terrible, but probably better than the alternative.
> But my key insight here is that many of ills of modern society arise from the idea that things should in fact 'scale'

Somehow, one way or another, dispute resolution has to scale to the number of people in the world. That isn't a chosen scale, it is the scale determined by present conditions.

For that to happen, given how many disputes exist between 8 billion people and all their groups and subgroups, there is going to be non-direct decision making.

You can point at subgroups with direct decision making, which is great when it works well, but that only works between those people, and they will invariably care about many things that extend beyond their group.
I'm with you. I also like the IDE niceties like autocomplete and docs on hover that don't really work on SQL
Not sure that'd even work. The best developers would get paid a lot more by working for a for-profit company, probably US-based. It's just too tempting.
Recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41952389
Build a database with Linux built-in commands
SmolLM v2 1.7GB Q8 has been running pretty fast. Only needs about 3.5GB of memory. I think it's fine for chatting, but it's only really good for Python code compared to larger models.

Deepseek-coder is pretty slow, even with the quantized models.

https://huggingface.co/blog/smollm
I mean, is that really much different than an API? I pass a query, and get data back, and rarely do I get to inspect the mechanisms behind what's returning that data.
Like "handedness" there's also "footedness", and they're not strictly linked. Apparently around 40% of left-handers are right-footers but only ~3% of right-handers are left-footers.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/the-asymmetric-bra...

The above also notes there are similar (semi-)independent preferences for hearing and seeing too.
At what database size does it make sense to move from SQLite to DuckDB? My use case is off-line data analysis, not query / response web app.
Traceroute was immensely helpful for me figuring out why my favorite video game tend to have large latency and massive lag spikes.

Geographically, where I lived, my connection should have been about 220 miles directly to Chicago. Instead, my connection traveled about 180 miles west to Minneapolis then 350 miles down to Chicago. Because this involved a bunch of extra network switches, my packets would often get buffered and sometimes delivered out of order (this was obvious by how the game worked).

A fiber provider came to town and solved all of my connection issues. Not only was the connection inherently faster, but it had fewer hops and was routed more directly to Chicago (where this game had a datacenter).

I think I went from nearly 100ms ping to 10ms ping.
Because you hit a kill switch hours earlier, or (more innocently) sent a slack message to your CISO that some "scary men" showed up at your doors.
Never short based on fundamentals. It takes a lot of tuition fees (losses in the market) to learn that lesson.
I recently helped a company migrate off a SQL-92 DBISAM database they used to serve customers like Google and Microsoft for over 20 years…
Same. Another variation is which foot you push off with. I always push off with my front foot, the right (strong) foot. So it makes sense to me to ride goofy.

First time I saw people push off with their back foot it seemed so weird. But I think they were mostly natural not goofies.
My grandparents were slave owners
>Turns out that witholding data as a company executive is outright illegal, so yeah, we're in favor of it and they can get arrested and charged for for it.

Except in this case it's not the executive that has the data. The data is sitting on some cloud server somewhere, and the executive no longer has access because the CISO got wind of the raid and locked his account. If you're holding the executive, you're not holding the executive because he's refusing to cooperate with a warrant, you're holding the executive as a hostage so HQ would turn over the document.
Countries-I'd-not/want-to-live is an odd threat model.
Traditional models: collect data and store it on central servers.
Anon AI models: Conversational data still go to an LLM, currently hosted by us. However, we've implemented several measures to ensure user data security:
- Our AI model is stateless, meaning it doesn't store any info about previous conversations.
- We use ephemeral processing, where user input is processed in real-time and only retained for the duration of the request.
- The AI model processes user input in memory only, without writing any data to disk.
- Any temporarily stored data is automatically purged at the end of the process.
As we scale with model providers, we'll thoroughly vet them to ensure they meet our security standards.
Thanks for pointing this out, and I hope this helps address your concerns!
See my other reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42057072

it's not clear whether the executive has the ability to turn over the documents.
>I'm curious to what you mean by this

pretty much all weird gender dynamics happen in upper class and posh environments. You won't find women on a farm afraid to get their hands dirty or men afraid to stitch something. People just do the jobs that are necessary. The entire idea that women are too pristine or fragile to do any work is basically an upper class fantasy because no working class household can afford to operate like this.

Whether its the military, manufacturing or agricultural environments, anywhere that's sort of blue collar or practical people aren't obsessed with their differences that much. I grew up in a rural environment and as kids boys would play with girls, as teenagers we'd go skinny dipping, there'd be none of the weird neurotic and insecure interactions I encountered when I went to university. There's entire categories of stereotypes and boxes highly educated and "high status" people invent to separate themselves in, not just along gender lines.
See my other reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42057072
I felt generate recipe repositories is quite a friction, not sure how many user would like to go through this process. But if you have nearby restaurant pictures, swipe right for matches seems a better use case. People don't need to populate the content, and you can let them define a zipcode to narrow down the options.
I once met a welder who was told upon entering the field, “You’re going to meet a lot of serial killers in this line of work.” He thought his boss was just messing with him, but it turned out to be prophetic. He met something like 5 convicted serial killers in 20 years as a welder. Welding is solitary work that is itinerant. Some of the stories that guy told me would turn your stomach. Anyway— totally off topic, but I thought it was interesting.
FPGA, ASIC, and SoC Development
yet another message passing framework? why reinvent the wheel? also, no need for all those protocols like STUN, MQTT etc. if you do it the right way.

here are some examples you can take inspiration from:

NKN (New Kind of Network, ~60k nodes in operation globally) [0] or something like Kameo [1]

[0] https://nkn.org/

[1] https://docs.page/tqwewe/kameo
Thanks. Glad you found this one helpful
> against our will

Let's not push that one too far, there is no "little guy" in these deals.

What does surprise me more is that we don't see "tax credits" in "pay your tax in shares". The amount would be higher then, probably - but many of these deals would in the end be profitable.
Someone provided an archive.is link in a comment, use it.
Around the time that UNIX was being rewritten in C.
maybe some science will open your eyes: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23654206/
Sexualizing the product name at all is more hostile to women than the reference is hostile to men.
My dad taught instrument flying in fighter jets. He'd ride in the back seat, with the student in the front. The controls were linked together.

Against regulations, he carried with him a length of steel pipe. The problem was sometimes a student would freeze and hang onto the controls with all his might. The pipe was so my dad could beat him on the head until he let go, and save both their lives.

Fortunately, he was never forced to do this. But he said "I'll be damned if I let any student kill me!"
They will never be a state. They’re in the sweet spot of self governance and endless federal subsidies. Despite what Wikipedia will tell you, English is not prevalent. Statehood will never happen and I’ve been listening to that drum for over 30 years.
haha nice. thank you
This is interesting. I always new the big tech companies had trackers all over the place, but I didn't realize it was so bad.

Would be interesting to run this with and without ad blockers and other filter lists to see how good they do at actually protecting you from tracking.
I do love my work in tech, I do mostly all I ever wanted, but have also interrogated my grandparents about their lifes and their hard work in the fields, and I believe they had a better life because:

* money wasn't their end goal, they were able to have a large family and a house with little of it

* they were not bombarded by a consumerist culture that required them to have something to be something

* they were surrounded by fellow people not hierarchies

* physical work is exhausting, not maddening
The rationale for this (I did some work on this system at Boeing) was that the pilots would not be fighting each other for control, they would be fighting a jam.

Flight controls at the time were not designed for dealing with a crazy or malicious pilot.
lol, I think I saw this API recently for another game. It’s a GraphQL frontend right? They disabled introspection but their error messages will helpfully offer suggestions for misspelled field names

BTW, pro-tip when reversing APIs of popular services like this: use GitHub code search! Put some unique endpoint names into it and see what comes up. You’ll often find some kindred spirits who have hacked their own little API clients to do something you never even thought about, but which nevertheless helps you advance along your own quest…
Non-mobile link (will still automatically switch for mobile users anyways): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_tube_battery
I'm hoping someone writes a Python LSP that understands DuckDB SQL.

I use DuckDB and I typically write correct SQL, but having LSP assistance would greatly enhance my quality of life.
FUD!.The total including SLBM is 442.

https://thebulletin.org/premium/2024-01/chinese-nuclear-weap...