skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there any software that let me make graphical user interface to a connected database, allows me to make data visualizations, all things automatic and interactive?

Like a node editor or spreadsheet? It needs to be suitable for general public
I also think drug prices are a pretty overrated topic when medical costs come up. I asked my friend how much he pays for Humira, on paper a $100k a year treatment, and he says "nothing". Insurance pays, like $15k a year to the manufacturer, and then "forgives" the rest of the cost for him.

The MSRP often is a made up number that nobody pays. Keeping up deception is a win-win for the parties involved: the manufacturer gets a crazy number through negotiation with Medicare, and the insurance company gets to brag about how much money it saved clients.
> Money laundering could be the "think about the children"

My hyper-liberatrianism is showing, but I've always been slightly irritated with money "laundering" being a crime in the first place. It's pretty far removed from the actual harm: money laundering is illegal because drugs are illegal and drugs are illegal because when people do drugs they do things that actually cause harm (to others and themselves). Like... I get the cause-and-effect chain there, but there's no evidence that these laws help anyway and they definitely hurt.
I think it's more like "John Romero is Going to Make You His Bitch" - intentionally arrogant and aggressive, unintentionally childish.
Someone has done a rewrite before…
So three orders of magnitude more tests than code. Yikes, if that is what 100% branch coverage looks like then count me out!
This is absolutely peak "confidently incorrect"; it's hilarious, but completely expected on this site.
I for one partially wrote a few mobile games with LOAD81 ; I was travelling and only had my Pandora with me; I wrote all the logic tested them all out with load81. Of course I had to actually get them on a mobile platform device and create a better UI, however all the logic and most of the UX was all done in lua on load81.
thank you, didnt know about it
That page is from Vanguard the funds.

Vanguard the brokerage also has a share lending program, advertisement here https://investor.vanguard.com/campaign/earn-additional-incom...

> Vanguard Brokerage maintains an economic interest in Fully Paid Lending program loans and earns revenue in connection with such loans.

Vanguard the brokerage wants me to enable lending, but my mutual fund shares in Vanguard the brokerage can't be lent, because mutual funds are not lendable. If I converted it to an ETF, then the ETF could be lent, but I don't know how much interest there is in borrowing ETFs to short.

The underlying holdings in the mutual fund can be lent by Vanguard the funds. Vanguard says all the proceeds from lending (net of expenses) go to the funds. I think Schwab and Fidelity take a cut of lending proceeds on funds beyond their program expenses, but then they take a 'zero expense ratio'. It doesn't necessarily matter to me where specifically the Fund administrator takes their fees, it's the end of the day net investment value. And honestly, inertia is a big part of it, I have too much unrealized capital gains to really consider changing my stock funds, but I could be convinced to switch to a different brokerage.
The Magic of Small Databases
Note though, the code is not Music, it rots quickly without maintenance. The "social contract" of contributing the code is what it will be maintained by collective community, otherwise many companies would just keep it as private forks.

It is wonderful thing though, with Open Source, people can band together and "pull Valkey" to create well maintained fork based on all those past contributions
Open source is a gift economy. Receiving a gift does not form a social contract that entitles you to future gifts. It is not a "rug pull" for someone to stop giving you gifts. The old versions of Redis are yours for all time. No one can take that away from you. In fact, Redis is still giving you gifts to this day, just with a different wrapping. The new license seems perfectly reasonable, given how much companies like Amazon have exploited the gift economy to the point where it threatens these startups survival.
DNT was always doomed to fail. MS just forced the issue.
in the long run its negative because order flows are sold to hedge funds who ultimately trade against the masses.

I'm also not sure I would trust any fintech startup from YC after Yotta and Coinbase.

Matter of fact, I increasingly find YC rewards unscrupulous and morally cavalier founders and products that does more harm to society than good.

i find myself increasingly growing wary of YC affiliated founders not to mention the obvious CCP money involved.
ARM CEO will tell you otherwise, but RISC-V is the ISA that will be replacing x86.
> you don't have to add a compilation step to benefit from it: you just have to enable type checking in your IDE.

It's similar for JS, believe it or not. Type hints via jsdoc can be just as easily configured for type-checking in our IDE of choice.

Python type hints aren't mandatory either, so they're strictly opt-in and nothing stops users from ignoring them.
The problem with fast consumption is it's shallow, and the only way around it I've found is the 1:3 rule. For every ten minutes of information consumption, you'll need at least another thirty minutes of tinkering about with your hands, keyboard, pencil and paper, etc. to have any chance of really absorbing and understanding that information.

However, this is much harder and more demanding of your concentration and focus than just passively absorbing some interesting online content, particularly if the content relies on some background knowledge that you're missing, in which case it may take much, much longer to get up to speed on it.

Note that LLMs are an incredible aid to grasping new material. Ask any decent LLM "what are the necessary background prerequisites for understanding this statement: <HN comment on arcane math or tech>" and it will usually point you in the right direction.
Teal and orange, old school.
It's not a dick move if you are making legitimate improvements -- especially if you still reference the origin. That's literally the idea behind public domain
Maybe. But I think the solder would have to be very pliable against vibration, it's a very violent operating environment.
Most “journalism” these days is done from a desk. The Migrants eating Cats story for example — the national networks ran statements from certain local officials but didn’t actually go there and interview or investigate directly. They relied upon statements from public officials to refute the story. (Not saying it was a true or false story, but the major “news” networks certainly didn’t spend much, if any, time there — they didn’t investigate anything; they reported what public officials said.)

Many stories might as well be AI: feed into it something Trump said, then the algorithm creates a story with lots of “without evidence” qualifiers and then call it a day.

The media rarely investigates anything — they report on what others investigate or choose not to investigate and that’s printed as fact depending on who made the claim.
Skim the comments fist, way for efficient to get the meta and vibe before investing
I think the right solution for this problem, and many others, is not to allow the "platform" to compete inside their own garden.

So if you offer infrastructure, you cannot offer managed DBs there, if you have a market place you cannot sell on it, if you have an app store, you cannot sell apps there. Etc etc
Good post, fwiw I feel basically similar to what you wrote, and this jumped out at me as this has been my main problem point - “I relaxed the rules, observed myself increasing the amount of content I consume over time, and now I'm back here”

I haven’t found a solution yet but how to find one is in a lot of my thoughts lately.

I feel similarly as OP it seems that this cycle is actively getting in the way of my job sometimes. I can go cold turkey/flip phone life and it works as in I don’t miss the content and adjust, but I work in tech it’s hard to not engage with the platforms and also do well, engaging in the platforms is like being a drug addict at free drug convention with a few helpful booths about work, and rinse/repeat.

At periods it’s been such that I put some thought into if I had undiagnosed ADHD, because some times it veered a bit too close for comfort to where I really needed to focus on adult stuff and I just couldn’t.

But, generally I speculate it’s an information diet thing first and foremost, but I’d rather sort that out first and see if it works.

Tricky topic! Interesting to see discussion on it, it’s the first I’ve ran into with similar sentiments as my experiences.
Never let your system1 to do complex migrations
Which SQL? Every database system implements their own variant, and (almost?) none are fully ANSI SQL compliant.
To me, a "hard" fork is one where you plan not to maintain any compatibility with your upstream and not to share any future code in either way (neither from original to fork nor back). "Soft" forks often retain a degree of compatibility, and some future developments can be shared.

(In this case, since it's a rewrite in Rust, it's not actually a fork at all, I think)
I'd point out that our co-evolutionary history with cow-milk is so comparatively brief and localized that it's unlikely to contain anything exotic that humans particularly need. Whatever mildly beneficial stuff raw-milk has in small amounts can probably be found from safer sources as well.

Perhaps the ultimate contrast would be how we desperately require ATP from mitochondria. :p

> McAfee told me that bird flu doesn’t worry him because the virus is “inactivated by the bioactives and the antibodies in raw milk.”

That blend of bio-lies and bullshit reminds me of a widely-panned quote from an abortion context, where Todd Akin (Missouri Republican politician) stated: "If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down."

No, desperately wishful thinking isn't going to create a biological reality just because it would be politically convenient for you.
Are you finding building MCP integrations to be worth it? We've been using agents (e.g. langchain), which are pretty good at bringing in context and taking actions. Tool results become part of the context --it just works.
chroma's api i think takes something like 20 seconds
>its a scam and is a reason how Citadel makes $30,000,000,000 profit per year

Where are you getting "$30,000,000,000" (billion) in profit? Wikipedia says they only made $6.3 billion in revenue in 2023. Moreover, they were in existence for 22 years. Even if they only started "counterfeiting shares" in 2021, $30B in profit per year (so $90B in the past 3 years) seems absurd for only $60B worth of "counterfeiting shares" on their balance sheets.
Same as last year - still making between $500 and $1k on SnipCSS. Didn't work on it for 6 months, but recently added Tailwind conversion:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/snipcss/hbdnoadcmap...
TIL a "rolling tray" is a tray designed specifically to aid in rolling joints.
> Instant image generation that responds as users type – a first in the field

Stable Diffusion Turbo has been able to do this for more than a year, even on my "mere" RTX 3080.
Sure, there is nothing fundamentally wrong with that hypothetical world.
Look, if there’s no reasonable way to transfer in bitcoin and transfer out USD there’s no point to any of it. Mtgox is closed, binance is closed, quadriga is closed, and kraken isn’t looking terribly good either. Stripe stopped accepting, visa stopped accepting, it’s … coinbase?
I would respond to this if I thought you were not serious :)
"A single death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a
statistic." -- Stalin

Thanks for replying. I wonder, although, in US America for example, it
requires "demonstrable harm" to bring lawsuits etc, there is an
enduring concept of "the fabric of society" [0] in many legal
traditions. (I think it is likely examined by J.S. Mill) and even
appears in US congressional commentary [1]. In a digital context there
is some mileage here [3].

Might we see a successful lawsuit on the merits that the "mere
existence" of some technologies is an affront. "Artificial
Intelligence" is after all "artifice"

artifice: a clever trick, guile, deception, cunning, a skillful or
artful contrivance

[0] https://societyforpeace.com/fabric-of-society-meaning/

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/1027...

[3] https://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/sulr/vol27/iss1/2/
This is one of the few newsletters that are worth reading so thanks for your service for all these years.

BTW, 15 years is really impressive!
Yeah, I would assume that any project like this would strive to be a soft fork that just has a few minimal patches to address specific needs, not something that actually tries to compete with the original.
It's really frustrating though when the opposite happens - you ask for a cash price and they look stupefied.

Usually though HSAs + high deductible plans are the best of both worlds. Most of the time you just pay with cash (tax free!). But if you get in something serious you know you're not going to go bankrupt.
They just winked at me and gave me a stern talking to about "you know this isn't going to fly in the real world..." PDX TSA is notoriously friendly.
c). I play games to have fun, not to make money. And I'd rather not play games where success is determined by how willing you are to open your wallet.
>> Since graduating from undergraduate studies (which marks exactly one year as I write this post)

Author sounds young .. yes, absolutely try to consume less and create more, it's way more life-affirming than the opposite configuration, but:

Getting better at your job, like everything else in life, is just a function of time. Show up, and then show up consistently. Put in the time. Be patient. Lead with an open mind and an open heart -- opportunities go to those who are present way more often than those who aren't. Willingly take on shitty jobs, do them well, and you'll find yourself being trusted with bigger and better jobs. Learn when to be the worker bee and when to be the queen bee. Say "yes" until you're truly able to say "no". Try to accept that, at the end of the day, things don't matter as much as you think they might -- I'm talking about projects, stress, deadlines, shit that floods your veins with cortisol. The only thing people will truly remember is how you made them feel during a crisis, not the minutiae of what you actually contributed -- and those personal relationships will be the gasoline in the engine of your career.

I really believe people will go far if they focus on this kind of stuff, and way less on structured self-improvement, productivity hacking, finding "secrets", shortcuts via programs, seminars, coaches, and tools, and all that shallow, nutritionless baloney.
I think a new browser could genuinely gain massive popularity if it was really good at this, and advertised the feature heavily, particularly in the EU.

Google will never touch it with a hundred-foot pole due to antitrust concerns, they're effectively banned from making any significant, user-experience-affecting changes to Chrome at this point.

Many people would immediately switch to a browser with 1) reliable Youtube ad blocking, 2) no cookie modals, and possibly 3) no other "distractors", like subscription pop-ups or "related articles" widgets.

Yes, ad blockers and reader mode can sort-of do all three, mostly, ish, but they're not easy to set up for non-techies, particularly on smartphones, even more particularly on iPhones, so a simple marketing pitch of "get this app, have these features" would probably work.

One would have to default to accepting cookies, though. Most users don't care either way, while website owners do. If you defaulted to refusing, they'd try to fight you and make their popups harder to auto dismiss, while auto-accepting would do the opposite.
In this matter, that pretty phrase “social contract” is at root a demand for ego massage from a) contributors that don’t actually believe in the freewheeling spirit of the BSD/MIT licenses but used it anyway, and b) noncontributors whose sense of entitlement is projecting as loss aversion.

The revised license is nevertheless a problem for component selection. Usage caveats are a landmine and thereby a coherent motivation for the Valkey fork.
I've been using Sapling along with the VSCode extension for ISL which mostly gets me a better workflow with diff stacks locally (Github isn't great dealing with stacks though).

The only major limitation for me is git-lfs support so for certain repos I have to revert to git.
Pure Python is on the order of 1000x faster at computing that sum by brute force than Mathics. This suggests that perhaps some of the basic optimizations one does when implementing a language, to get even the most minimal level of performance, haven't yet happened with Mathics. For example, when we added asymptotically fast arbitrary precision integers to SageMath (by wrapping GMP, then later MPIR), we had to implement an "integer pool" since otherwise a lot of everyday microbenchmarks were far too slow.
It comes up a lot in split repos or split deployments.

To make a change you need to deploy part of it here, then another part over there, and maybe fiddle with some settings in between.

So your story ends up with several PRs that have to land in a specific order or things break. Eg client calling a new endpoint that doesn’t exist yet.

We call these chains of dependent reviews “stacked” for reasons I’m not entirely clear on.
Yes! I was hoping someone would notice eventually, congratulations ;)
(That's cool, I always thought they'd junked that when they got rid of Project Builder...)
Whilst not going to quite the same "extremes", I completely agree. I use a combination of plugins (primarily uMatrix on firefox), so stop all javascript execution by default.

There are a lot of sites out there dependent on javascript of course - but you can evaluate these as you find them and either move on, give them temporary permission, or permanent permissions.

I'm not convinced it actually makes the web any safer to browse given modern browser security controls, but it certainly feels safer to browse, and generally it's a much nicer experince with less crap happening on the page as you go (pop overs etc)
Is a police department that shrugs and says "we'd want to solve this high profile murder that everyone wants solved, but because of 'equality' we have to solve this gangbanger murder that nobody cares about" really what we want? Isn't a government that's responsive to citizen demands also an ideal? What happens if they conflict?
The kinds that keep file format compatibility?

Or are they claiming they will support MVCC with full file format and interprocess synchronization compatibility.
> poorly enforced

The problem is that there is no, and can be no enforcement mechanism. Unless you live behind a great firewall of [country] or are only accessing the web through your employer's corporate network.

Operating a motor vehicle on public roads requires a license and vehicle registration in most jurisdictions. These rules are not always observed, but there are enforcement mechanisms in place.

There is no website licensing body, and kind of can't be without making everything worse.
these announcements from OpenAI no longer has that exciting impact because of the repeated lies and disappointments in actual real world usage.

my attention instead is focused entirely on open source models and its competitors which are already pulling ahead without the need for fancy announcements.

Lastly, I really despise Sam for trying to cash out his non-profit RSUs and Elon Musk will most certainly prevent that from happening. While I'm not a grok simp or pay for X, I can already see OpenAI losing relevance.

For example announcement from Deepmind vs Sam's expressionless interviews has different energy.
The $1 offer is sort of the original version of click bait, and is sometimes called the puppy dog sale, coined by some observant and gutsy salesman
"take it home(puppy) and if you(cruel heartless bastard) dont like it, you can bring it back and we will give you your money back.
Its all about "attention"(pschology/human nature)
but like you said, its a good read as well
This is by design.

>By comparison, 5.3% of Finnish test takers could manage those problems—the highest among any country.

The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and National Research Council sat down, looked at what was going on in the world with mathematics education, particularly in countries like Finland, and decided to try it in the US.

Parents rebelled and half the states (yeah, the dumb ones) declared it to be communism and banned it.
In the US, there's not a lot (other than a chunk of cash and lots of regulations) to stop a private individual or group from starting their own bank.

In the past, large companies and high net worth individuals did just that.
My guess is you can trace a lot of those publications to a handful of conglomerates that are there for ROI and nothing else.
> As you say 700k people over two years is an impossibly high number so we can disregard this number

I agree it wasn't over two years. I never said it was over two years, though, and neither did Burke. Michaelis might imply that, and I criticized them for that.

Do you not think it's plausible that all the deaths tracing back to that reintroduction sum to 700k? It's a big chunk of global flu mortality over almost fifty years now. If you think 700k is too high, what's a better estimate? I asked before if you could agree that it was greater than zero, and you didn't answer. If you're still unwilling to, can you at least explain why not?

Perhaps it's misleading to attribute the deaths to the "1977 flu" when our count isn't limited to that one year. I don't think it's that unusual, though. We often say ~7M people died from COVID-19, even though very few of those were in 2019. In any case, I believe the period in question should be clear now.

> The 1977 flu did not start in a lab but instead jumped from animals to humans, just like any other disease that has ever bothered us.

You've changed your terminology here, from "leaked" to "started". There's no question that the 1977 flu, SARS-CoV-2, or any other virus traces back to nature--the technology doesn't yet exist to create a functioning viral genome de novo. All laboratory viruses are derived from natural viruses, whether in simple ways (like freezing for twenty years) or complex ones (like the genetic engineering proposed in DEFUSE).

All viruses trace back to natural evolution. The question is whether their path to humans involved a trip through a lab, and for the 1977 flu the answer seems to be yes. Do you disagree? Even the paper you linked yourself--written by a longtime proponent of high-risk virological research--opens with "The 1977-1978 influenza epidemic was probably not a natural event".

> and it did not cause a pandemic.

Can you explain why you don't think it was a pandemic? Even if you're (bizarrely) unwilling to admit that anyone died, pandemics are defined in terms of cases or infections, not deaths. There's no question that the 1977 flu spread unusually quickly to infect a large fraction of the world. It's widely referred to as a pandemic. What do you know that all these professors don't?

> Have you looked for the Udacity course I recommended, on probabilities? It is really good and it will help you a lot.

It sounds like a good course and I might take a look. My own professors did give me passing grades, though? I don't think introductory statistics is the major point of disagreement here.
> Nearly all of them work at cloud providers so they literally just followed their income stream.

Sure. And same for Redis employees who continue to work on the Redis Github project. All my significant contributions to open source have had financial incentives as well.