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*Update from the Authors:*

We have successfully tested this project with the official Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Postgres. For those interested in integrating this project with LLMs, you can find the guide here: https://github.com/apecloud/myduckserver/blob/main/docs/tuto...

We were pleasantly surprised that the integration worked seamlessly on our first attempt. Moreover, we observed some fascinating behavior: DuckDB's clear and suggestive error messages proved incredibly helpful for the model. During our testing, the free-tier Claude Haiku model initially hallucinated table and column names, but it impressively corrected them based on DuckDB's suggestions.

This integration highlights the conveniences offered by this project:

- DuckDB’s native SQL support: We can create a table directly from a CSV URL without manually determining the schema.

- Standard Postgres protocol support: The official Postgres MCP server works out-of-the-box.

We’d love to hear your thoughts and questions about LLM + MyDuck integration!
People do drive to smelly, expensive _gas stations_ to power their gas-powered cars. Having to drive to plug your EV is not worse UX than that.
Apartheid was a crime. SA occupying and running mining operations in other countries was criminal. Profiting from it means you're accumulating criminal wealth.

Mistaking first-mover advantage and access to extreme amounts of funding for "kick ass" is quite weird.

No, that's not a characteristic of fascism. He's impressed by and promotes nazis, maintains his wealth through corporativism, and so on.

No, it's that he makes wild promises, takes money and then don't deliver on them that makes him a grifter.
That's a good explanation with the bridge. There is also the parachute clinical trial being used to explain the futility of it:

https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5094
What does the smell have to do with it? Do people choose car refueling methods based on smell of the refueling place, or on cost/convenience of ownership? Can't some drunks or homeless people piss and shit at EV charging station and make them smell even worse than gasoline fumes?

My point was you don't have to loiter for hours or leave your car at the gas station to fill it up then come back to get it like with EV chargers. It's a 3 minute in and out quickie situation so smell or not is not an issue.

I wrote that argument in my previous comment as well but I guess you didn't read it.
Many central banks like the Bank of England don't even have a reserve requirement and rely on the bank rate to control it instead.

The equivalent for the USA would be the Federal Funds Rate, I suppose. The reserve requirement is just one tool among many.
I can imagine running electric wires along tha tracks is a big challenge. However I think using the container BESS mentioned in the video above receiving trickle charge from the grid would leave opportunities for local solar generation to augment the grid too. Think of it like a decentralized solution. Scales much more and provides resilience against outages.
It’s in the article:

> Georgescu based his campaign on TikTok

It’s not “singling out” if that’s the principal hub.
Not all of us have printers, for a start.
I think author chose the wrong mantra too!

What happens in fast paced startups is that you ship what essentially is a MVP as soon as possible (i.e. you stop at the "make it work" step) because you need to build your customer base, finances, etc.

A better mantra would've been Facebook's "move fast and break things". But, that only works if you can fix the things later. You wouldn't do it if you're building an aircraft for example.
Social media is not social anymore. The algorithmic feeds messed up almost all utility.

Facebook was a great platform for local communities and democracy but later turned into a threat to civilization more or less when they introduced the 'algo' 2010 something and wanted to get money for 'promoted posts'.
Is this the Babylon Bee? Like, it posts a lot of transphobic stuff. What would you call that, if not intolerance?

There’s an odd tendency amongst the modern far-right to want to (a) be openly bigoted but (b) not to be judged for it. I feel like this ‘snowflake bigot’ phenomenon was born a couple of decades back, with some homophobes getting very upset about the term ‘homophobe’, not because they felt it was inaccurate as such, but because they felt it cast their thing as a _bad_ intolerance, like racism.
Hah, Pyright passes everything.
I thought there would be areas where it was less conformant than mypy.
A Song for Black Friday
That's exactly how I use them. I'll probably add a selector for "with Emojis | Plain text" on the website. So we can make everyone happy.
I think it’d do a lot better with Rust fans than Go fans, to be honest. It may not he as safe or whatever but Rust build times are brutal for larger projects and their ecosystems are mature enough to be comparable.

It’d be even more useful with a Rust/Borgo interop layer but I bet that’d be really complicated.
Here's what I don't understand:

> As long as this usage remains, the checking tools built into both compilers must treat any trailing array in a structure as if it were flexible; that can disable overflow checking on that array entirely.

No, they don't? Why couldn't they just have a mechanism to suppress the check for this particular struct (like a whitelist)?
I think most people that have EVs are pretty happy. Very few people going back to an ICE car once they switch. Of course there are counter examples. But they are outnumbered by 9 to 1 by people that stick with EVs. And then they convince their neighbors. That's why the market is growing. By 20% world wide.

Anyway, apparently Shell is planning to close a 1000 stations. About half of the petrol stations in the Netherlands are projected to disappear over the next 5-10 years. Not surprising considering the massive shift to EVs. Some countries this will go quicker than others of course. But even countries like Germany are starting to see a shift.

You can deny all you want but the numbers are there if you care to look at them. I don't know many businesses that can deal with double digit percentages drops in demand. That's exactly what petrol stations have been facing for a while now and will continue to face. All the obvious things are happening. By the 2030s most commercial traffic will be electric. Because it's simply cheaper. It's not virtue signalling but economics that's driving this.

All the small businesses, contractors, etc. that convince themselves they need to buy diesel at a premium in large quantities will be competing against others that simply don't. More every year. The rest is just Darwinism and market inertia.
Wow, that's amazing that at 37 you're building a platform to help with anxiety and procrastination—what a meaningful way to make a difference!
I suppose the much more bothersome scenario is finding a microbe that is ambiguously novel, and doesn't neatly fit any particular family of Earth microbes, but also isn't radically different enough to be confidently classified alien.

Like did we accidentally discover an eccentric and rare Earth microorganism that thrives in this unusual environment, or is it an honest to god extraterrestrial and life in both spheres just happens to converge along certain lines by evolutionary convenience or chemical necesssity? How would we tell?
> how can countries tell to or from whom they're exporting and importing electricity.

In terms of market deals, TSOs can't really do that. What can be done is measure the power flowing in lines connecting two grids, and summing them you get the total power exported from one grid to another.
ok, let's follow your logic there to the very end.

Your argument is that we should not pay attention because whoever the MP who made this comments is, she is not part of the EU commission and she is not a big wig as you put it. So we could assume that whatever she says does not carry much weight.

But the website reporting this news does not agree with you here, otherwise, why report it in the first place? To them, it matters and it is important because she is part of the Renew group. The Renew group is staunchly opposed to the far-right and pro NATO and pro Ukraine, that is to say the complete opposite to this Romanian candidate.

Furthermore, the MP in question is a close ally of the French president which means she could have the means to convince other MPs to join her and maybe get some support from Macron to jump start some kind of investigation into this matter.

Macron is/was the de facto leading figure in Europe (before becoming a lame duck in the last election) and his words still carry a lot of weight at the EU level.

If she was a random MP in a small fringe party on the sidelines of the EU parliament, I would have agreed with you but not in this case.

Maybe you are right and nothing will come out of it but to me this is not nothing and it should not be dismissed as easily as you think.
Yes, I was just triggered by the "just" somehow :( it is not the hard part that I was trying to solve. The hard part is the UX/UI and the WebRTC part itself.
Mine is a work in progress, but chat should work just fine. Let me know if you have any questions/concerns.

https://oorja.io/

click create space -> choose proceed as anonymous -> In your space, use chat or other apps.
It's end to end encrypted (using the hash-frag in url as key, AES-128 bit GCM)
I'm aware of its purpose.

The connection here is that restaurants are part of the appeal of walkable cities and now their life will be made harder. Net effect will of course be an increase in prices.

You need places like these in a city because they shoulder a huge burden, namely logistics, which are particularly hard in densely populated areas.
True, this service doesn't solve every one of humanity's problems. But even if you just get inspired to do something similar by email, or however else you can contact a maintainer, then it's had some success for you.
True, but that kind of also requires some way of distributing the bootable binaries, e.g. via netboot image via a TFTP server.

I usually store these keys on a LUKS encrypted flash drive. Not the best opsec, but at least good enough to prevent this kind of malware from spreading around. Can't update the kernel without the flash drive though :D
@continueandpersist.org please continue and persist :)
It only prevents tampering if the cost of generating hashes is extremely high.

Internally in your company you're not going to spend millions of $'s a year in GPU compute just to replace a database.
If audiobooks count, so far enjoying the hell out of Project Hail Mary, I possibly got turned on to it by a mention on HN (I like The Martian movie, so I gave it a shot, and maybe decide to get that on audiobook too, now)
I agree with you. Even something as simple as a loop like (pseudocode)

for (n=0;n<10;n++) {
sleep(1 second);
}

Changes the results quite a bit: for some reasons java use a _lot_ more memory and takes longer (~20 seconds), C# uses more that 1GB of memory, while python struggles with just scheduling all those tasks and takes more than one minute (beside taking more memory). node.js seems unfazed by this change.

I think this would be a more reasonable benchmark
>I think most people that have EVs are pretty happy.

Well d'uh, that's why they bought EVs in the fist place, but that's not the point. The point is to convince the people who don't have EVs to get EVs. You need to make them happy too, otherwise they're not gonna buy EVs. Why don't people get this fact?

>You can deny all you want but the numbers are there if you care to look at them.

Care to share them? Also, the NL isn't representative for all of Europe, not by a long shot. Most new cars I see in my neighborhood are diesel, lots of new diesel SUVs, and EVs are only in the suburbs where the richer people live in their single family homes, while poor and middle class drive ICEs because they don't have chargers at home or at work. What happens in the NL has no impact where I live and vice versa.

>All the small businesses, contractors, etc. that convince themselves they need to buy diesel

They didn't "convince themselves" as if it's some cult/religion, they actually did the math on the economics and decided that diesel is better for their businesses' bottom line. You'd also know that if you'd get out of your bubble.
Emacs, which has been saving me from Vim-induced RSI since 2019.
As an outsider looking-in that caught some of this portrays in Pixar/Disney's animated Cars [1] movies its interesting to reflect upon the parallels with its Route 66 references, which originate from and also culturally impacted us locally [2].

It's also ironic that Route 66 [3] was originally in-and-of itself a bypass.

As someone that predominantly lived in a capital urban city of a nation still expanding rather than contracting, understanding its equivalent occurence in Bulgaria is even more difficult.

[1] https://betweenenglandandiowa.com/2018/02/11/cars-route-66-m...

[2] https://route66.com.au/

[3] https://www.britannica.com/topic/Route-66
There is a community project called typst by examples, see this link https://sitandr.github.io/typst-examples-book/book/
...and no one talks about a toxic effect of comousory education in this context: your child is locked together with children whose parents you would never be friends with because of conflicting values.

maybe the peer pressure for phones issue would look completely different without compulsory education.
There is no upside to VM colocation (2022)
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That is totally possible if you just want to join a driver/host.

If you want to take over and become the driver that would not be possible or with some real limitations (not being able to give access to your keyboard/mouse and also not having the ability to show the cursors of the participants)
Lies, Damned Lies, and Elon Musk
I can see why someone would prefer Typst over LaTeX when the source is written in Typst or LaTeX, but what are the advantages if your source document is in Markdown? Is there anything else beyond the (presumably) smaller install size of Typst?
Dude... 'If you believe X, you're stupid and here's a whataboutism about an unrelated but politically charged topic' doesn't really seem like a productive way to discuss research. May I suggest having your beverage of choice and a nice walk in your lunch break and to think back a bit on your university days when you presumably learned how researchers work and how to read studies? Also, maybe consider less insults and insinuations while you're at it.
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How is this different than a US or European based company hiring someone with a high degree of knowledge from another US or European country?

What makes this more of a ethical violation because a national order was crossed?
Not just startups, this cognitive dissonance is everywhere in business and we're supposed to just swallow it. Honestly I've been a cynical prick for most of my adult life and for a while I played along with it but it just does not align with my values and keeping up the pretense is draining.

I mean uh. Come work for us / hire us, we're the best at what we do! Honest! AI!
Spotify deprecated libspotify years ago and all current clients are using some unsupported reverse engineered client implementation or web APIs.
Of course they don't have capacity to make millions of pills. But they are GLP and GMP certified and make all kinds of custom stuff

https://www.avl.nl/en/preparing-for-your-appointment/departm...

https://www.avl.nl/en/preparing-for-your-appointment/departm...

https://www.nki.nl/research/facilities-platforms/bioanalytic...
I've had the exact thing happen to me. Real information they deemed fake for whatever reason.
That's the outcome of the law.

Think of it this way - how will YOU, specifically, prove you are actually over the age of 16 without having some proof of age object that is tied to your device(s) or usage patterns?

If a 15 year old will have to prove they're 16 to use a service, so will a 35 year old. It's not just the kids proving their age.
> >It honestly makes me sad to watch a guy who went to Stanford and worked at Apple and Google get involved with drama like this.

> So, these people are indoctrinated to cow in the face of censorship based on insanity. Got it.

Well, apparently they are -- at least according to the GP -- supposed to be indoctrinated to cow in the face of censorship based on insanity.
Of course it's valuable, I just gave you another example of a difficult industry with highly paid labor that doesn't need all the bullshit pharma needs like extra crazy patenting systems, protection from side effects and then still cry that without them there would be no drugs because the process is so expensive. You've misinterpreted every comment in this chain.
The thing is, there is a fundamental disagreement ablut what the “principle of free speech” is. The 1st Amendment is not, in fact, a restricted-to-government application of a broader principle that there should all speech should be treated equally and unimpeded. It was very much an implementation of a theory that speech should succeed or not as a result of decisions of others to choose to hear more of it or not, choose to repeat it or not, and that the government putting its finger on the scales go suppress or compel speech was a distortion that interfered with that. You seem to adhere to a very different principal that you call free speech, but which is not the same principal which animated the First Amendment. Which is understandable, there are an array of different principals people adhere to, and only a finite number of ways of arranging words to name them—but it is important not to conflate your principal of free speech with the one underpinning the Constitutional right, or to treat it as universally what people are talking about when they talk about “free speech” as a principal when it is different, and incompatible with, one of the more common understandings of not only the legal right to free speech, but the animating principal behind that right.
Alcohol, tobacco, drugs, sex, driving and many other things are heavily regulated for children. Should a parent be able to allow his 12yo daughter to drink, smoke or marry 40yo guy? We're living in a society. Social media is just another item in the list.
So you think amplified disinformation and misinformation, with high frequency per user, play no role in people's perception of reality and their decision-making process?
Yes, but in this specific case the focus is on the design elements labeled onto the lego blocks.
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I believe struct sockaddr was supposed to serve the role for which sockaddr_storage was later invented. That's why it has the padding array sa_data: so that if you actually define or allocate such an object it will be big enough to hold any address. In no way is that a flexible array, and you never want to be accessing it.

Probably, sockaddr_storage was introduced rather than making sockaddr's array bigger because by that time the definition of sockaddr had become a mystical sacred cow, not to be touched. Plus that size of 14 is the same on every system. It is a one size fits all approach which is not a way to define the maximum size structure over all the address types if you want every platform to be able to make it a tight fit. The size is going to vary with implementation due to different alignment and padding requirements.
As an Australian parent, congratulations: you are the problem.

I for one was on a public panel with politicians discussing how ridiculous this proposal was, a couple of months ago, before it passed.

The government gives all children email addresses while simultaneously banning them from social media. Only a bureaucracy could do this with a straight face.

IMHO as a technology-engaged parent the answer to complexity online (and in the entire world) for young people is education, not "ask the Nanny state to change the rules".

Timelessly compressed: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Benjamin Franklin.
The problem is usually reframed as factually accurate claims that the number of people in most countries is below the replacement rate, and thus the number of people over working age swells whilst the number of working age people is set to shrink.

The implications of this may have been exaggerated of course. But it's quite clear that it is not being "self corrected" by the offspring of people who do choose to have more children than the replacement rate being genetically [or culturally] predisposed to breed like rabbits...
Who will you vote for instead? Everyone supported it :(
Your explanation of fractional reserve banking is somewhat correct, but missing the big picture

Licensed banks can and do write loans at any time without having any deposits to 'lend out'. In doing so they create both the loan (an asset) and a deposit (a liability) simultaneously from thin air. The books immediately balance.

The deposit created is then paid to the borrower and the liability vanishes. The bank is left with only the asset - the one that they created from thin air.

For short term liquidity a bank can always use the overnight lending facility at the central bank. Doing so just makes all their loans far less profitable as this is at a floating daily rate.

In reality the limit to which the money supply grows is not dictated by 'fractional reserves', but solely by interest rate policy and the commercial viability of being able to make loans and demand in the economy.
> Many kids have their own channels which are promoted by parents and their identities are based around them.

What kind of sociatal cast do they belong to? I'd imagine this is mainly a thing among wannabe elite, wannabe 'influencers'? Like failed pro sports parent forcing their children to go for it to.
For a goroutine doing nothing, no.

But if I have 1 million tasks which spent 10% of their time on CPU-bound codes, intermixed with other IO-bound codes, and I just want throughput and I'm too lazy to use a proper task queue, then why not?
What are the biggest pain points developers face in developer tools for Edge AI?
FAANG has exactly the same behavior. When you have billions of users and no customer support, no one cares about the customer being right.

Last month I tried to create an Instagram account, I kept being instabanned on 5 different devices with different IPs. No recourse possible. HN is full of horror stories like this.
Yes! We added it in later so people could make their own!
I tried asking an Electrostatics problem which I assume is not very interesting training data for such CS/Maths biased LLM. It's still going....

I like the tentativeness, I see a lot of : wait, But, perhaps, maybe, This is getting too messy, this is confusing, that can't be right, this is getting too tricky for me right now, this is very difficult.

I kind of find it harder to not anthropomorphise when comparing with ChatGPT. It feels like it's trying to solve it from first principles but with the depth of Highschool Physics knowledge.