skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given all the rightfully angry comments and descriptions in here about how easily megacorp banks and financial institutions can debank people on a whim with next to zero recourse, one wonders why nothing like some sort of cryptoraphically generated, decentralized token ecosystem doesn't exist by which people can send each other usable monetary value rapidly and via many avenues that are difficult to block...

We could call it, crypto... currency, maybe?

Wouldn't it be nice of something like this existed, at least as an option for those who don't live in bubbles of never having been the financial rape victims of a large bank, government or formal regulatory algorithmic system.
Alas my edit time has ran out, otherwise I would update with your correction.

Thank you for correcting me with sources, it is appreciated.

The People I know who have no fixed address, told me how difficult it was to get an account. I know when I opened my account recently, I had to provide a whole host of information that wouldn't be possible to have if I was homeless. I made the mistake of projecting incorrect assumptions, confidently. I went full techbro, which is wrong of me.
what was BS about it specifically? people were in fact getting debanked, outside of crypto too
the issues of sspl have been frequently and loudly been brought up previously, and nothing has happened. just to reiterate, this section is ridiculously expansive:

> “Service Source Code” means the Corresponding Source for the Program or the modified version, and the Corresponding Source for all programs that you use to make the Program or modified version available as a service, including, without limitation, management software, user interfaces, application program interfaces, automation software, monitoring software, backup software, storage software and hosting software, all such that a user could run an instance of the service using the Service Source Code you make available.

it is practically impossible for anyone to comply with that, to provide source code for every single program (without limitation) that they happen to use anywhere. of course none of the major sspl-using vendors are even pretending to themselves to follow these rules.

sspl would be much better license if it just simply forbids providing services, instead of hiding behind this thin veneer of fake copyleft.

> You can even still sell Redis as a service if you want, as long as you release all the orchestration systems under the same license (something that nobody would likely do, but this shows the copyleft approach of the license).

note that this is not right, the "copyleft" is not limited to orchestration systems, it covers all programs that you use
How does Devin compare to lovable.dev ? I've been thoroughly impressed by their ability to build and host functioning apps from very basic prompts.
it's already public that frontrunning is perfectly legal if you can do it with large volume as to not show intent of frontrunning one single person.
probably a bug
Yes, it'll be regular LTE phones, no satellite functionality needed.

What the Pixel uses is 5G NTN, powered by Skylo, I believe – that's a satellite-specific stack, but if you were to use a Pixel on T-Mobile via Starlink, that would be the regular LTE stack it also contains.
So once all of the workers get replaced with AI who's going to buy the products these companies sell?
> However, during the “writing years” (I’m still writing, by the way), I often returned to coding, as a way to take breaks from intense writing sessions (writing is the only mental activity I found to be a great deal more taxing than coding)

I wrote and published my first book in a weekend frenzy and it’s one of my favorite accomplishments.

I’ve published half a dozen small books since then, the most popular of which is about how to write and publish your own book.

Over the past couple months I’ve been preparing a system to help others publish their own book. If you have any interest in writing and publishing, please reach out. I’d love to help.
Github: https://chendaryen.github.io/NitroFusion.github.io/

Paper: https://arxiv.org/html/2412.02030v2
To play devil's advocate: why does it matter? The purpose of language is communication, so it could be argued that if people feel they're able to understand and be understood sufficiently, classic ideas of literacy aren't really a useful metric. I suppose what modern language usage lacks in depth it makes up for in brevity and clarity, which seems like a natural correction to the low signal to noise ratio of a heavily interconnected world.

Edit - I don't mean to challenge the value of literacy so much as speculate whether falling test scores necessarily indicate the loss of that value. Language, how it's used, and how changes spread are all very different in the information age. How do we know traditional literacy tests accurately measure the role it plays in people's lives now?

As an example, written communication used to primarily take the form of writing letters. With instant communication, ability to put thoughts into words quickly has a higher relative impact on communication compared to being able to spend as much time as needed to find the perfect words to convey a message.
> Or how about the fact that they beg for donations

You’re conflating the Wikipedia comunity with the Wikimedia foundation: lots of editors don’t agree with what the foundation does, especially regarding donations.
The contrarian view is that drug dealing is a financial crime of not paying for the credentials of a DEA license, or that fraudulently denying medical claims is a crime of criminal negligence resulting in bodily harm.

As for where I started, my initial comments involved both financial crimes and drug dealing. Most but not all probably consider insurance fraud as a financial crime but one that some can only atone through vigilantism. The line to me on all accounts looks blurry.
That’s a nice way of looking at it. It’s quite an influential project. I’m just now thinking of taking more direct inspiration from it for a micro-library for webassembly.

I wish you success in Redis Labs and thanks for Redis. In my other comment I said I never considered using Redis under the new license, but I didn’t say that I never would consider it, and I think I would if I found myself on a project that needs a key value database with enterprise support or more bells and whistles. I think it has its place, and to me it is an awful lot like postgres and EnterpriseDB, especially if Redis Labs gives its blessing, directly or tacitly, to adding this new vector type to valkey.
I think fewer people would block ads if they were less miserable. So if you achieve your goal of making ads suck less, fewer people would block ads. I support you in your endeavor! But in the meantime, I'm not going to put up with a garbage web experience just because you asked me to.
We're in the top 10 for international death rates related to covid so "disproportionately affected" isn't without some evidence
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While I agree with you on one level, that code rigidity and testing means that a port of SQLite is much more viable than most other C-based projects. And I'm intrigued by what this would enable, e.g. the WASM stuff the authors mention. It's not that it couldn't be done in C but it'll be easier for a wider range of contributors to do it in Rust.
A bit disappointed it doesn't update the time automatically. Can't really see a reason why it wouldn't. Then it could be put on an old phone and perched on your desk. Would need full screen and keep screen on, both just a few lines of code.

Update below ..
Yep, content inspection is enabled on the student Internet and they have to install a root certificate to get online. No cell signal since we’re out in the sticks so it’s their only option
For somebody, like you and many others, it was very important to retain an OSI license. But I feel that in general given that the new license is IMHO good for almost every user, from the POV of what they can do with the code, and that the cloud situation was quite self evident, I believe that with better communication, and immediate developments/merges in the core, to counter balance the license switch, many people would understand the license matter.

We will not win back you as a user, and I respect that. But many, many users that see openness, good features and documentation, the github repository at the center of everything: I believe they will appreciate this, and can decide that Redis is good for them.
I had nothing to do with any of this, but go off I guess.
100%.

The risk of them going out of business, fraud, changing strategy, being bought, vanguard fees going down even more, etc - it's not even close to being a sensible decision to move for what amounts to significantly less than 1% at the end.
U mean there are too much leaky abstractions in the field now ?
VISA isn't doing it in compliance right now. It's doing its things using "global standards" as an excuse. That behavior is not democratic, and such functions need to be regulated out.

I remember seeing people debating who's the kingpin and where the orders are coming from, as it'll change which of anti-monopoly laws, financial transaction laws, trademark laws, outsourcing laws, etc. would apply or has to be amended.

Whoever it is, it's kind of obvious that the mafia isn't a US or European official government entity or employee. Last I've heard, people doing this research-activism seem to have largely excluded direct involvement of VISA Inc. in US as well as its Singapore subsidiary, and was poking around few specific VPs in VJA or something.
Mind sharing your website? Genuinely curious.
And asking questions? Will the AI have hallways conversations, historical context and relationships with previous office-holders that inform the questions?

A reporter is supposed to care about accuracy, an AI only cares about generating words that make sense and fit the page. I can see why the owners align with the AI more than the reporter.
correct, this is just the project being moved from fun personal side project from the company's CTO to an experimental stage as a company project.

There isn't a long term roadmap, or anything like that. I got pretty excited when I saw the results, though. It's less about the number of github stars - who the hell cares about those - but the contributors. Limbo already has a very nice list of contributors, which led me to believe there is something here!
I've always found TDD to be best when used as a learning tool. Not learning how to write better tests, but in learning to write better code. Looser coupling, better designed APIs and signatures were some key areas where I found improvement along with finding that having tests as I wrote meant that I could use a rapid-prototyping style for every part of the code, iterating on the code+tests together so I run it whenever I want with whatever inputs I want in an easily repeatable way.

TLDR; TDD makes you a better programmer, even if you don't use it long term.
Yes, but what if the kids instead did:

https://www.khanacademy.org/

or spent time watching:

https://ocw.mit.edu/

or used their screens to read and experiment with:

https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/elements.htm...

or

https://www.motionmountain.net/

or even:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-elements-by-theodore-gray/...

Or at a younger level:

https://wanderfulstorybooks.com/products
Yup, I got one too. But the process of registering, handing over all your personal info, etc., just to get a $10 gift card, seemed not at all worth it. Besides, with a gift card, you're never gonna have a purchase that's covered exactly, so you're likely to either overspend or leave a balance on the card.
I am quickly reaching the conclusion that half the population is of below average intelligence and maturity ;-)
> inevitably harm someone with egregious misinformation

Isn't the deception itself a sufficiently egregious harm?
Clearly still in very early days:

uv run --with pylimbo --python 3.13 python

Then:

>>> import limbo
>>> con = limbo.connect("/tmp/content.db")
thread '<unnamed>' panicked at core/schema.rs:186:18:
not yet implemented: Expected CREATE TABLE statement
note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace

With that environment variable:

stack backtrace:
0: _rust_begin_unwind
1: core::panicking::panic_fmt
2: limbo_core::util::parse_schema_rows
3: _limbo::__pyfunction_connect
4: pyo3::impl_::trampoline::trampoline
Sounds like the Claude artifact panel?
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"I didn't mean it" doesn't really excuse offending someone.
I am always in awe of people that simply solve a problem (instead of having to get all esoteric about it) but I cannot understand what problem chat solves when the subject is more interesting to look at than speak to. :)

[edit] 20 jpegs into a 150MB LoRA
Even more than being ignored it added yet another way to narrow down a fingerprint.
> They take so much money yet use none to acfually police wikipedia.

https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policy:Universal_Code_...
Thank you for pointing that out. I agree that using the word „objectively” in this case was a bit silly, and I apologize for that.
When crafting projects from scratch, does your system actually fix it's own errors?

That seems to be the challenge with Cursor Agent in it's current form, it generates a bunch of code that has bugs and requires a lot of iteration.
Only works out easy if nothing ends up being a potential wash sale with something in your other brokerage accounts.
This predates the o1 release, but the folks behind Devin did do some early evaluation of o1 vs 4o vs Devin back in September:

https://x.com/cognition_labs/status/1834292718174077014

I'd expect a very different experience with Devin vs the IDE-forks -- it provides status updates in Slack, runs CI, and when it's done it puts up a pull request in GitHub.
Sure, but the article doesn't define optimal substructure, nor does it give a general statement about it. It just talks about a specific implication that _would be_ true if code size had optimal substructure as I thought (but based on my comment above, it seems I proved myself wrong).
He doesn’t want one sent to him because he believes customs will hold it until bribed.
Not sure about the “rude” part. It really depends on the person. But yes, it can get annoying rally fast. Therefore “shitty” indeed. But yeah, I do think it is very cheezy and lazy when companies do this. When I talked to someone that worked there, I guess it was because of the hard constant “X” -it would make a better Hollywood movie if they said Artificial. Language. Expanded. Xenomorphic. Amplified. A. L. E. X. A.
Wait, the US overall is ranked 18th out of approximately 50 countries (on the first chart for Math + Science). Obviously some American demographics are doing better, but across all demographics, the US scores are not excellent and not near the top.
A company that works with SQLite and prefers to write Rust has the expertise needed to rewrite SQLite in Rust. That’s what they’re doing.

All the other C code could be rewritten, this doesn’t stop or slow down any such effort. But for sure it was never going to be possible for a database provider to start making a memory safe implementation of libpng or something.
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What parts of the new licence are particularly critical for this decision? Just curious.
Seems like a potentially interesting project to get rid of sqlite's compatibility baggage e.g. non-strict tables, opt-in foreign keys, the oddities around rowid tables, etc... as well as progress the dialect a bit (types and domains for instance).
quantum computing is entering "middle-late 1930s" - it's still quite some time away from Turing&Enigma moment

but it already passed "1920s" with "only radios" - analog, non-digital devices

stability tech is almost here (check quanta magazine), next is the scaling up
Give me a break lmao

no it's not. it is because our schools are underfunded and our people have gone through multiple massive market contractions.

We don't put enough money into our schools. Our teachers are incredibly overworked and underpaid.

You can't get blood from a stone. If you make being an educator a loser job that doesn't make any money, ONLY LOSERS WILL DO IT. And then the loser teachers do a shitty job teaching your kids, because why bother if you are never rewarded for trying?

I would have LOVED the self-learning resources kids have today. When I was growing up, you had a textbook. Now they have Brilliant and endless youtube tutorials.
Limbo has been taken (as the name of a language), so this should be SQuaLor or something...
> which works a lot better on a lot of websites

Since you are said a lot of websites do you have any examples? I have actually encounter more problems with Safari than Firefox.
Code quality is not the only thing to consider. Some people would love to see something like SQLite with 2 important changes: referential integrity that respects the DDL and strict tables that also respects the DDL.
the workflow is quite different from Cursor or Copilot - Devin is an asynchronous tool. A common way to use Devin is to kick off a few sessions in the morning, while you work on other higher priority tasks. It feels a lot more like working with a colleague that you can tag in Slack or go back and forth with on PR comments
In my experience it's a skill that takes time to develop. It's hard at first for sure. There are lots of different models out there that people using for visualizing software and architecture, sometimes they can be helpful.

A piece of guidance that helped me a lot was this: "when looking at boxes and lines, the junior architect looks at the boxes - the experienced architect looks at the lines."
As a kid I trained myself to keep track of time through using the 15m beep on my Casio watch.

Eventually I was quite accurate on the current time, rarely missing by more than a minute, but at some point it felt like it wasn't really helping me since I had the watch anyway. It also was too weird for becoming a party trick (first time I admit to learning this), and didn't help with the idea that I had just wasted X minutes of my life between any 2 moments I thought about time or checked it without having done something useful, so I ended up disabling that.
Disagree, this is mid-tier 4chan racism.
It is in good faith. I don't understand why though?
I can message it privately, don't really want to post publicly. 99% of orders are local pick up, shipping is just a hassle as most pieces don't fit in regular box (plus Canada Post is on strike right now).
EDIT - messaged you on your IG.
I was completely unaware of that! How old is that document? I should reach out.
Strangely that's how I was before I went to flight school.
Why? It seems really useful, so there must be a bar where that becomes revolutionary.
This is often true on the journey to reach feature-parity with an original codebase.

The reason is obvious, of course: it has less features, and doing nothing is always faster than doing something.

Once it's feature complete, then meaningful comparisons can be made. For now, it's puffery.
How to Migrate Complex Systems in Infrastructure
Why is the answer yes in that case?
Do you have any photos of the result?
Digital consumption keeps me from getting better at my job
Search keywords: Apex clearing and trade 385.

They're basically criminals. A guarantee by Apex is worthless IMO.
Or the investment was made under the assumption the business model to gain traction isn't the same as the future one that generates cash flow. Plenty of company start with a free or cheap product then up their pricing once the value is proven and there's a percentage of their users that fears the switching costs
Running Durable Workflows in Postgres Using DBOS
That would be a really cool feature! I've been running sqlite3 in async python for Datasette for six years now but it involves some pretty convoluted threading mechanisms, having native async would be fantastic.
But it's also a valid descriptor for Mathematica :-)

... for a significant slice of professional and hobbyist use cases, and there are no alternatives AFAICT!
“Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thought-crime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten. . . . The process will still be continuing long after you and I are dead. Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller. Even now, of course, there's no reason or excuse for committing thought-crime. It's merely a question of self-discipline, reality-control. But in the end there won't be any need even for that. . . . Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?”
the bar of being a productive member of society is much higher than "sufficient communication" (which I would argue the illiterate aren't capable of anyway)
other countries did social distancing and got it out of the way much faster. We drug it out for years due to incompetence.
we have plenty of small, early stage teams that use Devin but it's optimized designed to fit into a team's workflow. you can of course give it a try and see if it's a good fit for your projects!
Thanks! I can write better in Italian :D But appreciate that you found the blog post to have the right tone.
>The common trait that all hypothetical high-fidelity simulated universes possess is the ability to produce high-fidelity simulated universes.

Where have you seen this?
Why is credit and maturity transformation needed for electronic payments?

If people want to borrow money to pay for something (credit cards and the like), that can be its own thing that the government is not involved in.