skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't.

I tried and tried to sell stuff to "privacy freaks". Turns out that type doesn't like paying for closed-source services and generally will turn their nose up to subscriptions. I am one of these "privacy freaks", love them, but they are honestly probably the hardest people to sell to.

I stopped trying to market to them. It is also a nightmare to try to reach that audience too because they almost always have ad blockers and any space they hang out in very quickly sniff out ads or outright ban talking about products they created.

Furthermore, privacy people tend to be technical themselves so they would prefer to build a solution specific to them rather than use someone else's solution unless it is difficult or requires specialized knowledge they don't care to acquire.
Why cloud? Rewriting some text is definitely something a local LLM can do; they have NPUs on the Copilot PCs so why not use that?

So far the only feature I've seen them talking about for the NPUs on the Copilot PCs is image generation in Paint. Something feels off here.
I'm well aware of it, but if it can be undone entirely on the first day of the next admin, then it's not progress, it's band-aids and we've had too damn many band-aids from the Democrats for decades. Are band-aids good? Sure. Are they a replacement for a cast and splint? No.
Invoking the right to retrieve and correct information helped me to get Google’s attention to my case and unban me.
Reminds me of Norman Borlaug.

Talk about leaving a dent.
I agree that it's important to advance knowledge of what's possible, but that is very different from proving a negative.
Propel and Zero (the first options) both contain sucralose, aka Splenda - I'd prefer to just drink salt water personally, or take the hit on a tablespoon of sugar mixed in and walk it off.
difference to something like duckdb?
A lot? The fun is in solving a problem.

Maybe you have a good problem of your own to solve, but in my experience the most interesting problems are usually those that other people have.

Solving someone else's problem is what a job is.
Palantir Secures $99M Army Contract for User-Centered ML
That's a really good point

Those AliExpress clone kits were really popular in the community in the beginning
There have been previous protests for things like defense contracts and succeeded. Google was openly and self proclaimed political in allowing it in the workplace. The change has only happened in the last couple of years.

It is a bit hypocritical too that there is this mandate yet Sundar called Trump to congratulate him.
I don't think that's a reason. PLA and ABS were invented before the 1990's. What was this self-destructing material, and why?
This sounds cool. How can i check it out?
The big limiting factor IMO is CAD skills - otherwise you're just printing parts off thingiverse.
Deuterium is also not renewable, even if it is more abundant than uranium.

The H1-B11 reaction would be a much better energy source than anything else, but for now nobody knows any method to do it. There is no chance to do it by heating, but only by accelerating ions, and it is not known how a high enough reaction rate could be obtained.
> You have to recognize when the system is making a problem worse than it naturally is.

The irony. How can you be certain that it's not social media making "problem worse than it naturally is"? Many people believe that social media is.

As someone who was not particularly visible, and was not invited to every party, I am very aware that "there are plenty of situations where someone gets invited to something if and only they are visible to others and easy to invite". Is "not being on social media" really all that different than "not being on the <insert sport> team"? The same arguments apply. Easier to see and invite teammates, more social cache, etc.

In any case, if all teens were off social media then it would not be a determining factor, and I'm sure alternative systems would emerge for inviting people to places.
But it doesn't matter what the intent is. The intent behind many types of publishing and media can be malicious. The ability to publish that media and the ability of Americans to consume that media is protected free speech
> It's literally on the same sliding scale of nonconsensual sexual activity.

Human relationships are messy and complex, treating sex in such a manichean fashion is not helpful. Under Biden there were new Title IX regulations that made it virtually impossible for universities to expel students for sexual assault because they were so strict, often after being removed from school solely on the basis of an accusation they would sue and win and come right back. Its become nothing more than a formality at this point used only in the most extreme cases.

I don’t think Trump is the model of sexual freedom or anything, but the situation was far more authoritarian—at least in that respect—than before. Sometimes people get hurt when they have sex, it doesn’t mean we have to get the law involved.
No, that isn't the goalpost I set. The goalpost I set is that Twitter didn't improve by a metric many people would pick as the important one.
What a final level, though! Having skipped a large chunk of the game, were you surprised by it?
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I would like to see faster ways of counting. Only just recently AZ and NV have been called. How do other states, with millions of votes to count get it done quicker?
I was assigned a partner in my robotics class that used Wordpad to write Java code.
The same caveats for managing backwards compatibility of HTTP routes/endpoints apply to managing database tables/columns.

> Need to add a column or perform delicate schema alterations? You run the risk of breaking dependents.

Create a stable-interface view over your unstable-interface underlying table, and query that view. Or version your tables (my_table_v1 -> my_table_v2) and create a new table for each breaking change.

> Have parts of your database that are sensitive (i.e. PII)? Your DB platform will need to reflect that to avoid arbitrary queries.

Use views to exclude PII fields or aggregate/hash them.

> Is it possible to perform a query that recursively joins dozens of tables together on every entry? Your control is limited in how you could prevent them.

Databases are designed for multitenancy, they have mechanisms to cap the resource usage of a query.

> Who wrote that breaking change? Or, did someone's service get compromised? Hope you aren't sharing credentials for access among services.

Not sure about MySQL, but Postgres has the pgaudit extension which handles provides this visibility for DML/DDL queries out of the box, as long as you create a DB user for each use case.
> dude the founding fathers were all british subjects who committed an act of high treason against the crown

Because they objected to a powerful, unaccountable ruler with absolute immunity to the law.

> They were well aware that criminal prosecutions can be politicized and applied selectively.

And that's why they set up checks and balances, three branches of government, the Bill of Rights, etc. instead of a monarch. Asserting this means they wanted a monarch is... odd.

> If somebody can commit a felony and still get voted in by more than half the country that reflects poorly on the criminal justice system not the election.

I mean, yeah - the criminal justice system is clearly flawed here, as he's fundamentally getting away with the crimes. Garland fucked up by waiting too long; a judge Trump appointed successfully delayed the most serious criminal proceedings until they became meaningless, etc.

The election reflects poorly on the people. Which wouldn't have come as a big surprise to the Founding Fathers, who didn't really trust the people all that much - that's why we have the electoral college, after all.
Modern Prolog libraries have handled the issues of unidirectional integer predicates, so the old ways of handling numeric values is not relevant for most problems.
A mixture of patent protection, China’s (lack of) precision manufacturing at scale at that time, and software immaturity. LM8UU around 15 years ago when I started my 3D printing journey was upwards of $15 PER PIECE. You need at least 8 for a Mendel or i3 style printer during the reprap boom. Just the bearings alone would have cost you, $100 or so. Then factor in chrome rods, stepper motor, stepper motor drivers (Pololu just released their A4988 boards), you’re looking at almost $1K just for the parts. The software like slicers and even gcode interpreters weren’t even made yet. Merlin wasn’t even a big thing until about 10 years ago. We take for granted how much work the community has put into 3D printers to get us where we are today.
OpenNext Gets Closer to Making Next.js Portable
There's also an economy of scale going on that snowballed a ton. In 2014 I got my first printer off Craigslist. The bom was like $1200. Steppers were like $80 ea, a ramps board without controllers was 80-120, the controllers were 20-40 each, the heated bed was a huge PCB so also not cheap. Cheap PCB houses were nascent at the time. Arduinos we're $50+. Power supplies like 40-150.

Now you can get the steppers from Amazon for $8, a control board with stepper controllers for $20 with a built in 32 bit MCU. At scale if you're building a lot of them those parts are going to be even cheaper maybe even another order of magnitude. For a while it was difficult to actually even comprehend how much cheaper stuff was getting and what that lets you do. And then you see a resin printer for $140 and realize it's a cast-off I found screen one stepper and some extruded parts.
I'll accept that, sorry and thanks for clarifying.

To be clear voting third party in anything close to a swing state rather than whoever you feel is the lesser of two evils is not something I would do. I don't think third party voting makes sense in a US (or UK) system beyond being a protest vote, I was just trying to show what happens when a remotely supportable third party candidate emerges.

I don't think trying to shame those who did is going to do much to win them back for more than one election cycle without providing a candidate they can believe in though (somehow a lesson the democrats continue to drag their heels on every single time). Especially when in the case of Florida there were other factors on hand that were far clearer miscarriages of justice which they decided to accept.
(1) distributed computation. If you can network two quantum computers, you essentially have one quantum computer with twice the storage. Quantum networks avoid the need to build one enormous quantum computer.

(2) easier experiments. Currently, doing a loophole free Bell inequality test is hard enough that people get PhDs for it. With a quantum network that experiment is way easier, because the network solves the hard part (distributing the entanglement). You could probably also use quantum networks for other experimental tasks, like coherently linking telescopes on separate continents, though the bandwidth and computational requirements for that would probably be a bit insane.

There are also some more out there ideas, like if stock markets contain Bell inequalities then you could use a quantum network to build up entanglement that is then consumed to win those games more often which equals $$$. But it's hard to imagine concrete scenarios that would create such an inequality, nevermind one where the expected dollars gained from the quantum strategy exceeded the cost of operating the network.
How can you setup automatic replication from Postgresql to a duckdb instance?
I made a home-brew seismic sensor using something similar, a hard disk head arm assembly, a cd-rom laser (which has an anisotropic lens and four photodiodes) and a Red Pitaya used as PID, so I guess it can be done!
In an attempt to try to listen: what I read from this in response to "be nice to people different from you, otherwise you're a scum":

"I believe our differences are merely political , and that I should not suffer any opprobrium for my political positions. If I do suffer insults for my positions, that intolerance is problematic".

I generally agree with your view that we should not be vilifying each other over political differences. The disconnect, I think, comes from one side asserting that all positions are merely political, and therefore up for debate, while the other feels that some positions are beyond reproach. An alternative of the above then becomes:

"I believe acceptance/rejection of $OUTGROUP is a mere political difference, and that I should not suffer any opprobrium for my rejection of the outgroup, or my political support of platforms that include rejection of $OUTGROUP as an explicit or implicit plank. If I do suffer insults for my position, it's that intolerance that's the problem, not my merely political views on $OUTGROUP".

which feels less generous to write, but closer to how I read it.

What would you like to say to someone listening?
Can't wait for Zig team to adopt this over libc, citing concerns about "libc not existing on certain configurations"[1]

[1] https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/1840
Is VLC really "complex software" if you just want to use it as a media player? Double click your media file, it plays. Play, pause, volume controls are where you'd guess they are. There's plenty of complexity underneath, but the happy path is simple.

By contrast, "open this image and draw a single red circle in it" in GIMP is as challenging to a newbie as quitting vi. Even for an intermediate user - I use GIMP a handful of times per year and I absolutely could not tell you from memory how to do that.
Media, business and "power centers" of any kind align to wherever the power is, and take whatever form is necessary to tap into that power. The only ones actually wedded to ideology are the rubes who show up to the polls.
Smart devs write their horrible code in Notepad++
Maybe?

Search hasn't been search for a long time. It's been a dynamic feed masquerading as search results.
> No country with the means to respond militarily would decline to do so. And no army in the world has ever disengaged from a conflict once casualties became asymmetric.

None of this is true. The UK did exactly this in Ireland during the IRA insurgency.

Interesting that you end your comment with flimsy justification for targeting and killing UN workers and peacekeepers, which Israel is now doing.

You basically ignored most of my comment. I never said anything about morally right, I argued from the realism of the past 20 years of counterterrorism. It leads me to think you're not responding in good faith. Like I said earlier, I have seen and am no longer willing to support wasting billions of dollars on ignoring the root of terrorism, ignoring the diplomatic means which worked with other terrorist groups (IRA, Taliban, ANC, Irgun, etc.) Maybe one day you will too
Do you know how excalidraw compares to draw.io? I've used draw.io in the past, but see excalidraw mentioned quite a bit too. I'm not good enough at using draw.io to be against switching for future projects.
Pylingual: Toward Perfect Decompilation of Evolving High-Level Languages
> The irony. How can you be certain that it's not social media making "problem worse than it naturally is"? Many people believe that social media is.

It is the problem. I don't think you understood my point. If nobody in high school had it, I wouldn't be bringing it up. The problem here is some students will have it the last year and some won't. By seeing it at 18, you're making it worse for the younger kids. Either 19 or 16 would be better.
As much as I'd like to believe this isn't true...
What point(s) of that discussion feel to you like satire? I'm not trying to be snarky; I'm genuinely curious. I remember myself when I was younger; I never viewed note-taking as a serious endeavor. Oh boy, how wrong I was. I wish I had found better ways of taking notes sooner.
You must be the only Person in the world that Beat this Game, cheating or otherwise.
A few notes:
The patents were a huge impediment. They did not expire till 2008 - before then printers cost $25k. They were expensive and stratasys had no incentive to make them $300 like they are today so volumes were limited. From their release in 1995 until 2008 stratasys sold like 13000 printers according to their company history web page. For a long time now Prusa has shipped more printers than that in a single month. The Reprap Darwin wasn’t built until late 2007, then makerbot and others followed. I bought an Ultimaker in 2011 and that’s when it feels to me like home printing started to become viable.

Once anyone could build their own design, a community of hackers and engineers formed that continuously improved the designs with diverse ideas and experiments. That community is what made 3D printing what it is today. And it was illegal for them to do all of that (in many countries) until the patent expiration in 2008. That’s a big reason why it took so long. I think it’s interesting to consider whether this would have happened sooner if they had never been patented, though perhaps the expired patent created a legal safe haven where no one could take away the basic principles by patenting them. Anyway, patents play a big role in this story!

Edit: Some cool history here: https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/interview-dr-adrian-bowy...
No telling if the ancients acted on the information that was available if they wanted to, this is just one of the ways to do it that is not in conflict with their habit of gradual debasement of their coinage as reissues took place over the years.
People get promoted for improving key metrics. Like Revenue or Retention or Installs or whatever. Metrics can be abused and gamed ... but you can do a better job aligning them to improvement than the de-facto metrics of "number buzzwords in a new shiny toy"
Nope. They‘re absolutely right.
They're undercutting CF Workers - requests are $0.2/million rather than $0.3/million, and CPU time costs the same.

Seems pretty good on paper. There's no free allowance like you get with Workers though.
Ask HN: What are some real problems people can solve with coding projects?
I see a lot of project ideas, and I see a lot of people shoot them down because no one would use them.

I recently made a project called gg[0], and it's a collection of TUI video games. It's really just a toy; it doesn't solve a problem.

I'm curious, what problems do you have that could potentially be solved by developers?

[0]: https://github.com/Kaamkiya/gg

P.S. This is my first HN post. Feel free to give me feedback on it :)
Similar prison time to the one that a 17 year-old faces for buying alcohol by claiming to be 18.
You can get a cast off tomorrow and I can break your arm again same day so I'm not sure what your analogy is trying to say about longevity.
XMPP is amazing. There was a neat white paper years ago about XMPP over HF radio. Long live XMPP.
Do you have a suggestion on where to / how to start learning Prolog beyond towers-of-hanoi? Prolog is basically the last language on my list of things I want to look at, but whenever I tried, I failed to find anything practical to do/try.
> Really feel that this is a missing area in CI today

Years ago I wanted a tool to continuously build and test some soft while measuring and saving the resources consumed by the tests to spot large variations.
Couldn't find one so I built my own: https://github.com/rixed/lurch
It does not collect any instrumentation though, just measures cpu/io ressources in the cgroup as a whole.
Thank you!

The pg_analytics Postgres extension partially supports different file formats. We bet big on Iceberg open table format, which uses Parquet data files under the hood.

Our initial approach is to do periodic full table resyncing. The next step is to support incremental Iceberg operations like updates. This will involve creating a new "diff" Parquet file and using the Iceberg metadata to point to the new file version that changes some rows. Later this will enable time travel queries, schema evolution, etc.
I don't know what you want me to admit? Over a million dead vs millions dead? Either way it's wild to defend it.

I understand since Cheney hates Trump he gets a pass. Not in my book.
I was sure this comment is a parody but the last sentence doesn't quite fit.

Either way, it is such mouth foaming of the wokespeople that fuels the right.

For example:

> they're literally paying a guy to enact those policies and views.

Not literally, no. There are so many layers of indirection, that you could as well say everyone using money pays a guy... Either way, this applies in the same extent to people who voted for Kamala Harris so I guess we can say from now on, that Kamala voters literally pay to enact misogynist and transphobic policies and views.

Keep demonizing Trump voters, it will surely convince them to not vote Trump ;)(well they can't vote him on the 3rd term, but if you demonize them, they will sure continue voting against you).
I rather think the fact the the same symbol/string always denotes the same thing is especially helpful for cyclic structures.

Anyway I think I misunderstood the article, I thought they added things to a dictionary in the prolog repl, which would be impossible in haskell/ghci afaik.
Mistral Launches Moderation API
CropSwapLA is in my neighborhood, they do amazing work! Just the fact that a single residential property can grow enough produce for 45 families _each week_ is astonishing. Their technology in their latest farm (https://www.cropswapla.org/degnan) is very special as well: they refer to it as terraponic. 100% recycled water, but also using some soil for temperature and moisture control. Best of both worlds between traditional farming and 100% controlled aquaponics farms. The growing boxes are entirely separated from the ground, which limits pests and maintenance. Nutrition is provided through the water, with exactly the right balance that the respective plants need.

Yes, I'm biased, I'm a big fan. Just wanted to share some highlights because I think the article doesn't do the amazing work of Jamiah and his team justice. I hope we get to see many more such micro farms all across Los Angeles and Southern California.
I'm equally honestly curious: what objective and rational evaluation criteria, unaffected by gender and race, would one use to conclude that Trump is a better candidate than Harris?
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You can create a free account via our website: https://www.airtop.ai ! You should check out the Studio once you create your account so you can experiment with some prompts and examples
Awhile ago. XEP-0286 (mobile connection improvements) dated 2018-01-25. File sharing has many different XEPs and I have no idea which works, but I know that early XEPs usually didn't work because of NAT. XEP-0384 (encryption) dated 2022-01-18.
> an intractible problem to solve numerically.

Yeah, so we'll just get a reduced dimension model that we don't know how it works.

Sounds good.
>And if the rocks get a liiiitle bit too close together, they might explode

Impossible. Worst thing that can happen without carefully designed explosive lens is a nuclear fizzle.
I think you misunderstood... Maybe it's because I'm not a native speaker.

I meant it should not be a pain to learn a new language just because you are desperately trying to get a job with it. Do something fun, regardless whose problem you are solving and the learning experience will probably be much better.
> It’s pretty obvious after their data grab with the new Outlook.

What did they do this time?
Noise is bad. Horrifyingly and anxiety inducing. The Internet may be noise, but you never actually see it directly. If one could, it would likely drive them insane. Search engines and other discovery methods is how we view it, and why it works at all.