skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There were a lot of unusual things about Harris that combined to make it harder to be elected. The vibe of the economy is worse, the reality that the economy is worse than it was 10 years ago for low-income people. The very short time she had to run, how she was kind of part of the Biden administration and tried to push new ideas.

And she's a woman and she's black, again. Then there was the issue that one side of the Democratic party wanted to support Israel more strongly or something, and the other side wanted to protect gazaans and the Palestinians. I think many people wanted to do both at the same time, but there is a fair number of people that picked one side or another. Some of those people voted against her. Some people in my family thought the biggest problem facing America was dei.
Certainly someone needs to be second-guessing doctors, because they routinely make decisions that fail to adequately consider both costs and risks. I grant that the insurance companies don't do a good job of it, but don't fall for the ridiculous trope that doctors would make great decisions without insurance companies.
It's the third high-profile assassination (or attempt) in the US this year. I think the Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot in 2020 was the closest thing we had before that. Sadly, I think the answer to 1 is yes.
Definitely non-faang companies, that lean more towards being rational and steady. Faangs are a nightmare to work at in this decade.
I see them as essentially the same. All of these people are choosing their financial interests over your health. People are dying from their inaction.
It depends on your use case. If you're looking to have a set of data that you can search through, sure. If you're looking to tail the log while working on things, having it output in plain text is very handy.
litdb does include support for registering TypeConverters for mapping custom RDBMS types [1]. The drivers doesn't include any converters for custom RDBMS-specific types yet, but you should be able to register your own in your App or even better submit a PR to the postgres driver [2] so it'll work OOB (tho it'll be dependent on whatever postgres.js can be configured to support).

[1] https://litdb.dev/customize#type-converters

[2] https://github.com/litdb/postgres
Actually, my experience is, there is always a cause. But some causes could be very subtle or unexpected.
Logs seem like they'd be easily compressible, no?
I wonder who came up with the $200/month idea, and what was running in their mind.

$200/month = $2400/year

We (consumers/enterprises) are already accustomed to a baseline price. Their model quality will be caught up or exceeded by open-source in ~6 months. So if I find it difficult to justify paying $20/month, why should I even think about $200/month.

Probably the thought process was that we can package all the great things (text, voice, video, images) and experience. The problem is that very few people use everything. Most of the time, the use cases are limited. Someone wants to use for coding, while someone else (artist) wants to use for Sora. OpenAI had an opportunity to introduce a la carte pricing, and then go to bundling. My hypothesis is that they will have very few takers at $200 for the bundle.

Enterprises - did they interview enterprises enough to see if they need user licenses for the bundles? Maybe they will give it at 80% or 90% discount to drive adoption.

Disclosure:
I am on Claude, Grok 2/X Pro, Cursor Personal, and Github Copilot enterprise. My ChatGPT monthly subscription expires in a week, and I will not renew for now and see the user vibes before deciding. I have limited brain power to multitask between so many models, and I will rather give a chance to Gemini Pro for 6 months.
> Intel is dying because it simply cannot bring itself to make a product that people want instead of the things it thinks people want [0].

Not sure that the link adequately makes its case. The number of people that actually care about Intel Management Engine is extremely small. Intel's real problem is that their products have struggled to be competitive in the marketplace on a price and performance level.
Compression will basically achieve that kind of encoding without tightly coupling your logging with an external enum or schema.
No, hence we're now seeing cases like Brian Thompson's where citizens rightly take law enforcement into their own hands because the actual judiciary has been completely captured by the wealthy class.
Brilliant, thank you so much
Atlassian's The Earworm Eraser – Get catchy songs out of your head [video]
I volunteer to donate my brain to an otherwise young and healthy person who is lacking one!
how can you use something like a feedback tool without signing up?

I mean, local-first (or 2000s) apps work without signing up, but that's not what we expect from SaaS.
When compared to an employee $200 is peanuts.
> I am planning to stick with my choice that's all.

>as for why I personally choose React was due to the job market

From my experience, this is the problem, and I don't know that anyone is to blame for it. React's success has created skill drift away from the web platform. When I first started as a web team manager, my new hires knew the fundamentals of web standards: html, css, js, and some libraries to make those easier to work with.

Now, most entry level web devs know some flavor of React, full stop. These aren't Bay area web engineers, these are the web mechanics that need to get into whatever is thrown at them and keep it working, or make it start working again. I know losing grip of the platform is short-sighted in principle, and for the purposes of my team is immediately impractical.
Huaweu allocated 2.5 x 10^33 IPv6 addresses
Ah McKinsey, my favorite story was from my sister who worked there some years ago. McKinsey worked on strategy for the Obama and McCain campaigns at the same time! Heh talk about heads I win tails you lose. I guess an Obama win was what was best for McKinsey.
So we are in agreement that cheap EVS would make sense for invigorating car sales in Europe. So why don't they do it? I think it's because they conclude they can't make any money if they make cheap EVS cuz the labor, batteries, components are too expensive or something for the lower profit per car world of cheaper vehicles.

American car companies have gotten addicted to selling huge more expensive cars as a way to keep profits up.
I did not know that, thank you
USA Fails to rigg Romanian Elections using 1M fake TikTok accounts.

You gotta step up your game boys.
How to Pronounce Chinese Names a Little Better
Your argument was about unmodified code, not mine.

If you only want minor changes, don’t install new major versions.
Health Insurance Companies Take Down Leadership Pages Following Murder of UH CEO
By asking musk to step in are you talking about having him make the company worth 10% of what it’s worth now?
Most people would just use the most popular framework that did all that for them, while the remainder would complain loudly about the shortcomings of that framework, and we’d be right back where we started.
Original report from Android Authority [0] lists up 6 limitations:

> First of all, it’s highly unlikely that this containerized version of Android 12 will pass Play Integrity checks, especially once the new Play Integrity upgrades roll out next year. That means many Android apps will refuse to run entirely. Second, the container appears to use microG instead of Google Play Services, which means certain features won’t be supported. Third, only whitelisted Android apps can be installed, according to early adopters. Fourth, notifications for many apps only appear when they’re open. Fifth, apps like Netflix won’t stream videos above SD quality as the build lacks Widevine L1 DRM support. Finally, Android apps in the container don’t have access to files or photos from Harmony OS Next, though it is apparently possible to share files to the Android container.

Many Chinese users are actually quite satisfied with smartphones that don’t have Google Play Services. Running Google Play Services in the background can cause performance issues, so devices without it tend to be smoother and have better battery life. However, there are some limitations with notifications, as mentioned above.

[0] https://www.androidauthority.com/harmony-os-next-android-app...
> what are you basing this view on?

Every other developed nation?
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This is a great write up. In a recent post about Stupidity being our biggest threat I wrote about Bonhoeffer and his message. “Against stupidity we are defenseless.” ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

https://onepercentrule.substack.com/p/stupidity-our-biggest-...
The Bubble of a Manicured Society
US life expectancy, currently 49th, expected to fall to 66th by 2050
We can terraform Venus, it is not that difficult. Venus is extraordinarily hot, and has a very thick atmosphere. The pressure and temperature on the ground are both immense. But there's an intervention that we can perform that is close to our current technological capabilities. If we put a large sunshade in front of Venus, so we decrease the amount of light that comes from the Sun and hits Venus, then we can cool off the planet. If we cool it to -80 °C the CO2 from the atmosphere will freeze and turn into dry ice and fall and settle on the ground. The remaining part of the atmosphere will be N2, at roughly the same pressure as on Earth. The albedo from the dry ice could be enough that the solar shade might not be needed anymore.

How much would such a sun shade weight? Current solar sails weigh between 3 and 5 grams per m2, so 1g/m2 is probably possible in the near future. That is one ton per km2. The radius of Mars is 6000 km, so the area of the cross-section is about 100 million km2. To obscure a few percent of that would take a few million tons of material. That's a lot, but a million ton is the cargo capacity of 5000 Starships. It's not completely impossible.
You are 100% wrong, the market is not zero sum. A quick google search will educate you here.

Derivatives like options can be zero sum, options expire worthless.
You can’t put a house over your head and food in your kid’s plate with morals.
Most of our vision is already noise, we just make sense of it.
Didn't they initially offer a professional plan at $42/mo?
There are two broad concerns with public-option M4A:

* The resulting customer shifts will result in private insurance becoming more expensive or, worse, exiting some markets, which violates the requirement people have that, in the worst case, their current insurance remain accessible to them.

* The resulting customer shifts will drastically increase the cost of Medicare, threatening the existing program with benefit cuts.
The numbers are FAKE. How else can you describe a 30% downward revision in jobs numbers this year?
You’re right. Intel makes too many woke CPUs.
Next up Chamath for SPAC czar!
This sentiment reminds me of the movie Law Abiding Citizen. Gerald Butler's role Clyde Shelton could've single-handedly avenged his family from the get-go, yet he chose to also take his vengeance on the justice system as well. Yet somehow many viewers still think that Clyde was righteous and it was a pity that Jamie Foxx's role Nick Rice didn't get punished enough.
Authorities read encrypted messages on Matrix in real-time
When it comes to housing? Yes. The naive version is wrong.

I challenge you to find a counterexample. Go on. A large city (>200k population) that lowered housing prices by increasing density.

The mechanism for this failure is also long known: induced demand.
It's a miracle that Portland has direct international service at all. They probably had to bodge on the customs area after the place was built to pick up that route to Vancouver. Also good to keep in mind that a lot of older airports seem kludged together because they were. Fifty years ago passengers were screened at the gate. Then they invented central screening. Then they invented TSA and stopped letting non-passengers into the terminals.
Good news for Palantir.
$10B of compute credits on a capped profit deal that they can break as soon as they get AGI (i.e. the $10T invention) seems pretty favorable to OpenAI.
> …why wouldn't you want type safety in the logic that happens to be database queries?

The problem is you’re writing queries in Litdb’s Javascript/typescript-based query language instead of SQL, but the types it provides still aren’t real — you need to ensure they match the data some other way, just like with “as”.

What the types here really accomplish is code-completion. That’s nice but there are ways to do that without giving up real SQL. Not to mention databases have their own type systems, which differ from each other and typescript. Maybe they nail all the mapping, but I suspect their are misses (probably by not allowing valid things, since typescript is generally more strict that dbms’s).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0I9gx_8XHM
If you’re “this close” to the finish line, may I suggest putting your finish line goal into Claude or ChatGPT - or if it’s a web app, into Bolt or v0.

Ask for it in its final state and prefix with “I want to build a ...” - in other words give the model the reins.

If you like what it suggests you can swap to IDE - scaffold a new project and paste the code in. That’ll free you from paid tiers.

With this method I finally made a photo gallery website to thank our guests for coming to our engagement party! I started in v0 to get a nice landing page, then pasted that code into a new nextjs repo. To spruce up the photo viewer, I downloaded the readme.md for a component I like (Spotlight.js - thank you devs!) Next, I pasted that readme - plus the 3 or so key code files from the repo - into a Claude conversation and said “please redo the code using the component documented in the attachment”.

Seeing it run in Claude Artifacts got me over the hump - now all that was left was tweaking instead of big hairy decisions.

(Pre-empting the responses, I agree the workflow is smoother in Windsurf, Zed, Cursor, Cody, Contiue, or Aider. Pasting code back and forth forces me to read it, which leads to finding more bugs and removing more superfluous bits.)

You still have those domains OP! You can do it!
i want to learn to speak another language but now i find myself questioning whether or not it makes any sense in light of the fact that AI already translates so well. its clear that by the time i learn another language real-time translation will be so good and so accessible that my own translations will just be a hindrance to effective communication. i looked very hard for some reason to justify learning other languages because i have always wanted to learn another language. the only good reason to learn another language is to have privacy. you could also say that it would be useful if you were cut off from AI services but that will probably only apply to terrorists or other extreme cases. the only solid justification for learning a language yourself is to have conversations that are not monitored or data-mined. honestly, in the context of the world-to-come, its not worth doing.
They are probably counting on the brain's remarkable ability to make sense of input. Consider that a birth-blind person has no prior experience with sight, and so can possibly rely on the brain to make sense of the input, no matter how imperfect. For example, humans can adapt to inverted images within about 8 days (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upside_down_goggles)
The distances involved are orders of magnitude smaller, so you don't get these effects nearly as much.
I was going to compare this to the existing Cool-X Pyroelectric X-ray generator (https://www.amptek.com/internal-products/obsolete-products/c...) but after seeing those slides the intensity of the output is not really comparable. Pyroelectric accelerators/hard x-ray machines can be only a thumb drive in size but they're a weak trigger-pull squirt gun to this things' relative fire hose of hard x-ray photons.
but i did start with vanilla JS, then Jquery.. also at work I'm not only maintaining react but also Angular V1.

Choosing react is not necessarily drifting away from the web platform. I choose it as my main stack when starting new projects.
I use GPT-4 because 4o is inferior. I keep trying 4o but it consistently underperforms. GPT-4 is not working as hard anymore compared to a few months ago. If this release said it allows GPT-4 more processing time to find more answers and filter them, I’d then see transparency of service and happily pay the money. As it is I’ll still give it a try and figure it out, but I’d like to live in a world where companies can be honest about their missteps. As it is I have to live in this constructed reality that makes sense to me given the evidence despite what people claim. Am I fooling/gaslighting myself?? Who knows?
If I look, I can find pie charts demonstrating that the Moderna COVID vaccine provides 8 dB worse 5G reception than the Pfizer shot.

So, yeah, you'll have to do a little better than that.
How big of a lookup table will you use for logging IPv6 addresses?
iirc, there was a similarly named book, maybe by pragprog or by o'reilly, titled something like 7 languages in 7 weeks.
I forget the name of the author.
Very nice, something I actually care about!
I’m not sure how it’s possible to come to a firm view on this decision on the basis of the information that is now public.

For example whilst there has been apparent technical progress eg on 18A - which is central to Gelsingers track record - it will mean nothing without IFS customers. It wouldn’t take a technical background to evaluate whether Intel is making progress in actually signing firms up for IFS.

Will technical progress continue without Gelsinger - surely yes. But a new CEO might also deal with issues that he was clearly slow to such as costs and getting rid of products that are going nowhere.
How dare people have new ideas.

For those that don’t hate new ideas, functors and the like allow you to write transformations on data in terms of elements, rather than the structure of the container. This means that it doesn’t have access to things like neighboring elements or the size of the overall structure( unless other traits which provide those capabilities are mentioned in the trait bounds ). Such well-known algebraic restrictions can be useful for managing complexity when writing compilers or other data pipelines.

The simplest use-case is when you want to use an algorithm across multiple representations of a data structure(list vs array, for example).
> He has no relevant tech experience, except when it comes to preparing a company to be sold in the next 2-3 years.

So other than his relevant experience he has not relevant experience?
> If I had to only pick two databases to deal with, I’d be quite happy with just Postgres and ClickHouse - the former for OLTP, the latter for OLAP.

As the author mentioned, I completely agree with this statement. In fact, many companies like Cloudflare are built with exactly this approach and it has scaled them pretty well without the need of any third database.

> Another reason I suggest checking out ClickHouse is that it is a joy to operate - deployment, scaling, backups and so on are well documented - even down to setting the right CPU governor is covered.

Another point mentioned by author which is worth highlighting is the ease of deployment. Most distributed databases aren't so easy to run at scale, ClickHouse is much much easier and it has become even more easier with efficient storage-compute separation.
I had no idea there was a meme. And given my zero knowledge in attire and fashion brands, I wouldn't know if what was said was real either.
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https doesn't make content trust worthy.
Even more than noise, the very center of our field of vision is blank, accounting for the retinal nerve, which the brain masks.
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I think the quote of "I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure." it very fitting for this situation. Both that random nurse, and that nazi soldier are working for evil institutions. Being killed because you work for evil is a risk of the job. Sure, both the nazi and the nurse may be victims of circumstance, may have needed the money, or been inspired by some propaganda. That doesn't absolve who they're working for though.

Should you be killing nurses or nazis? No, you shouldn't be killing any one, just like you shouldn't be gassing children, or denying people life-saving medical care. When you change one side of that equation however, don't be shocked when someone decides to change the other.
Do you think a judge would grant a preliminary injunction without merit?

To win a preliminary injunction you must show:

1. Likelihood of success on the merits

2. Irreparable harm without it

3. Balance of harms favors you

4. Injunction is in the public interest.
It's more of a common law thing (but not exclusively).
The libertarian argument is that he should have employed better security to protect himself from weirdos. This is why the rich need more tax cuts -they need to be able to afford security.
You understand correctly.
100% hard agree.
that is nowhere near same logic :)
Yeah, but it’s a bit trickier with them, given how they still operate in US and listed in NYSE. Also if they keep releasing open source code, people will still just use it… basically the Meta way of adoption into their AI ecosystem.
Justifications are meaningless when the end result is all the matters.
With RPGs and Gatling Guns!
I think it's more a case of "where there's a will, there's a way".
I'm referencing this paper[1]. Once a problem affects this group, it has a much higher chance at changing policy.

1. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...
Interesting, tried Vermont but couldn’t find it (a 2015 single-payer effort, but not that), will look more later, I’d love to see what a state-level law at governments taking over hospitals and such even looks like, gotta be some weird reading and I have no idea how you’d write that such that it’d have a prayer of surviving court challenge—seize poor people’s houses to give to companies (or, on behalf of a company that then backs out, and all you got was wrecking some of your own citizens’ houses, lol) you’re all good according to the courts, but do basically the reverse? No way that’d fly. Those proposals have to be crazy reads.

I’d maybe vote against state level single payer, let alone taking over healthcare entirely, because I think it’d be a ton less efficient than doing it at the federal level—enormous amounts of money already go to various federal healthcare programs and it’d be better to pool that, and also lack of state level control over their markets is likely to cause problems. I dunno, it might depend on the law, but my gut reaction is a “no” vote on that, too.

Anyway, as for the other question, I believe that the rise of the postwar think-tank industry (a mash up of k-street and Madison Avenue, but for white papers, as it quickly became) and deliberate party and industry efforts to shift public sentiment in pro-market directions, tied up with lots of government spending on anti-Soviet messaging (were they bad? Oh, yeah. Were all the things the government tried to lump in with them and decry as un-American bad? Ehhhh… I mean atheism is among those, see the change to the pledge and to our money at the time, among other things, and I think atheism’s fine) is probably why healthcare can be this incredibly messed-up and nationalization remains not just not-popular-enough-to-pass, but entirely outside the Overton window, yes.
Or sampling :)