skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you seen pgstream? https://github.com/xataio/pgstream
It is similar to pg_replicate and could be a good fit for streaming CDC data from Postgres. There is no built-in output plugin specifically for DuckDB but it might help you for building something lightweight and custom for your use case.
Do you like this over htmx? The thought of using Hotwire in Django frankly never occurred to me
The word "hacker" itself is extremely political.

Also, everything is political.
sounds like fun
Can you give some examples of why you would need to stop using emacs?

I can only think of the reason of pair programming and both users editing at the same time.
I would guess that people using off-the-shelf drones (that are broadcasting operator’s location) are not the same as ones using drones with modified heat signatures.
I mean if that how you view the world: seat belts didn't fix road deaths and laws didn't fix murders
This is pretty cool, lots of fun.
Correct. And thanks for the remark.
Did you mean Llama-3.1 8B? Llama 3.3 currently only has a 70B model as far as I’m aware.
Air pollution is nothing like it used to be.

Why spread such untruths?
I feel similar about the instruction encoding.

Another way could be to use registers, possibly just one register. Like in old machines that had an accumulator, which was implied. So „Add x“ adds x to the accumulator.

In some sense, there is already a register file in the proposed VM, the whole memory.

Another, related way, to reduce instruction size is to not allow all operands to be 16 bit, that is, have some registers that are more „special“ than others. For example, say the first 16 memory locations are special. Then it’s possible to have a

Opcode, arg1, arg2, arg3

Encoding using 4 bits each, for 16 bit instructions. The problem is that some instructions will need a full 16 bit argument, for example some load immediate, or goto.

Common ways to deal with that:

1) variable width instructions (16/32 bit) - makes machine less simple.

2) always use 32 bit instructions, meaning instructions are

opcode, arg4bit, arg4bit, arg16bit.

This is simpler, but still pretty wasteful for instruction length. Could also use

opcode4bit, arg6bit, arg6bit, arg16bit

This turns the first 64 memory locations into special registers, but uses awkward 6bit values.

3) use 8 bit immediates with hi/lo access (like arm). So then u have instructions like

mov_hi dest4, imm8
nov_lo dest4, imm8

Setting the hi/lo byte of the register file (I.e. the first 16 memory locations). This in turn means there will be more instructions, they will not work directly on memory (like goto needs 2 loads). So while there is the nice property that instruction length equals word length, it also means more kinds of instructions (perhaps, like jump relative), more complicated instructions, and more instructions needing to be executed to accomplish similar tasks (eg 3 instructions for arbitrary jump).

All these considerations are probably counter to wanting a maximally simple machine.
I think this is going to be the "hacker" answer for a long time to come. Hardware that by most metrics is technically better, it's a little more expensive (but not commercial signage expensive) and a lot more inconvenient to set up which puts most people off. Functionally immune to ads
being a serviceable business because selling cheap and making it up with ad revenue requires volume they'll never have.
> Any time you take anything electronic and connect it to the internet you're asking for trouble.

you said if I have an electronic device and connect it to the internet I am asking for trouble :) phone was AMAZING before some moron connected them the internet and now they are “smart…”
And for them to be listened to, what is independent on how well they communicate; and for them to be aligned with the most powerful stakeholder, what is almost never the case; and for no big change to happen in an uncontrolled way, what powerful people nowadays seem intent on causing all the time.
>The neutrons and the antineutrons are made of multiple electrically charged particles whose electric charges sum to zero, exactly like the electric charges of all particles that compose a neutral atom or neutral anti-atom sum to zero.

Does this mean neutrons are (or can be) polarized like a water molecule (but much weaker)?
What do you think about laws? Or lead in gas? Asbestos in your house? Are you one of these free thinkers who don't use seats belts because regulations are always bad?
Neurons in the abdomen help form the gut-brain connection
I moved across the country to work for Palm on a secret project which was revealed to be the Foleo only after I started. I spent a year trying to make the web browser with a totally broken engine they had licensed from Access. Having blown their budget of 100k on the engine they were determined to stick with it. I was amused when it was announced and then canceled after I quit.
NeurIPS keynote speaker apologizes for reference to Chinese student
That's great to know, thank you!

Still, a problem at least as big as finding various options and their prices seems to be finding somebody incentivized to give an honest evaluation of whether a given treatment is medically necessary at all.

Sometimes I wonder if it wouldn't make sense to have a doctor "on a retainer" that just gets a fixed yearly compensation for advising what to do, and what to better decline, but there's probably tons of ways this could go wrong in either direction (overtreatment vs. missing important issues) as well.
For prompt adherence it still fails on tasks that Gemma2 27b nails every time. I haven't been impressed with any of the Phi family of models. The large context is very nice, though Gemma2 plays very well with self-extend.
Not GP, but you present a very one-sided view, almost like a commercial for the meat industry.
None of this is evidence of the "chilling effect" you claimed and were just asked about, though?

You realize you're just moving the goalposts, right?
I'm not that old (got home internet in my teens). But got an old c64 from my uncle when I was in primary school. It came with a stack of magazines. In them was all this code you had to copy paste to get a basic game. I don't remember exactly but I don't recall I had anyway to save them either. I don't have anything to add, but you just made me think of a neat memory.
The landscape of mobile devices shifted from business to consumer, and companies just didnt care enough to start appealing to the new market.
Great email by Palm CEO. Very adult and levelheaded. Something we all expect and deserve from anyone that makes it to the CEO level. Unfortunately, it has been rare and even more so lately.

You will never be able to avoid the type of people that only care about the most money they can make. These people don’t care about the product, the mission, or the company. They will bounce from Apple to Palm and then somewhere else. Totally fine. I hope they are doing the level of work and have the level of skill that warrants their pay, if only for the sake of their colleagues that have to put up with them. I don’t have any sympathy for companies or people at the top of those companies that hire dipshits that can’t produce anything and still pay them unnecessary money.

Obviously, we hope companies pay employees that have passion for the mission and treat them fairly. Then they have a reason to stay. Unfortunately, a lot of these employees fall through the cracks and it’s a shame. If they jump to another company then finding out why is a good thing to focus on.
Saying these models are at GPT-4 level is setting anyone who doesn't place special value on the local aspect up for disappointment.

Some people do place value on running locally, and I'm not against then for it, but realistically no 70B class model has the amount of general knowledge or understanding of nuance as any recent GPT-4 checkpoint.

That being said these models are still very strong compared to what we had a year ago and capable of useful work
We're there, Llama 3.1 8B beats Gemini Advanced for $20/month. Telosnex with llama 3.1 8b GGUF from bartowski. https://telosnex.com/compare/ (How!? tl;dr: I assume Google is sandbagging and hasn't updated the underlying Gemini)
> Quite useful on days the hours/rooms get switched around because a teacher is on leave.

> Your paper planner won't inform you that your first hour is in another building tomorrow or that the teacher is ill (and yes, the schedules would change less than 12 hours in advance).

That seems like a really odd way of handling it, and more confusing than it needs to be. For me the class was assigned to a specific room, not the teacher - so it never moved. If we had a substitute, they'd just be in the normal room instead of the usual teacher. If they couldn't get one in time, then either an administrator would bring us to study hall (highschool) or after 10 minutes we'd just leave assuming they couldn't make it (college).
Big established companies where new features require lots of meetings and planning.

Definitely not “move fast and break things” type startups that don’t have enough engineers. Things breaking creates more work.
Drone Incursions Closed Wright Patterson Air Force Base's Airspace Friday Night
I wouldn't call 64GB MacBook Pro "regular consumer hardware".
It sure doesn't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollution_of_the_Hudson_River
Do you mean medium of exchange? I think it's difficult to make the claim that the USD is a good store of value.
Yeah...

Part of the reason why existing functionality is limited and nobody uses them to implement custom instructions, is that trapping is actually quite expensive.

The switch to kernel space and back is super expensive, but even if a CPU did implemente fast userspace trap handlers, it wouldn't be fast.
Wow, those responses are better than I expected. Part of me was expecting terrible responses since Phi-3 was amazing on paper too but terrible in practice.
I think your second statement answers your own question.
> Is it controversial or just something we can all agree is wrong?

It's certainly not something we all can agree is wrong. For me, the author's metric is reasonably accurate. If I'm typing, I am almost certainly in the zone and I will lose it if someone disturbs me.
Note that HDMI has an option for running ethernet over it. Probably invented by the advertising industry.

You might be better off buying a big monitor instead of a TV.
Having had a paper planner in high school I don't recall there really being many issues with rooms needing to be swapped or teachers being ill having an impact. If the teacher is ill, the other teacher just takes their room.

Having a digital schedule almost gives the school the ability to be more relaxed with the schedule, as opposed to it being built around a schedule that can hardly move. There is an important part of school which is revolved around routine. I remember it only took a few weeks in the first term before I'd be walking to classed without needing to read the timetable at all.

It's inevitable that we end up moving down this route, but lets not forget the old solution worked just fine and meant you needed a pretty good reason to change the timetable.
The cookie pop up is on this site claimed 1,596 partners. Tremendously ironic.
The EU couldn't fix the EU-US privacy framework even for the third try, and when the previous one have been invalidated by the CJEU, nobody bat an eye and continued to do the same thing.

GDPR is simply ignored by any bigger US company, it took 5 years for NOYB to facebook get fined which was less than 0.3% of their income, basically a small tax, not a huge fine.

Also GDPR is full of inconsistency (face biometric data is special data, but a photo of your face from what anybody can get the biometric data is not) and loopholes (required by law, legitimate interest).

They did something, but I wouldn't call that "a long way".
I began doing that much later in my life, but totally worth it.
Adopting a skeptical approach is indeed wise in politics. However, there's a significant opportunity to align bureaucracies with modern technologies. Politics, as a field, seems unusually resistant to technological advancements that could enhance democratic processes. This reminds me of the early days of IT, when it was merely a peripheral division in most organizations. Over time, IT evolved into a core strategic function, transforming how businesses operate. Could a similar shift happen in politics?
I said GPT-4, not GPT-4o. I'm talking about a model that feels equivalent to the GPT-4 we were using in March of 2023.
The way to detect if I'm in a flow is when I start clenching my teeth. Unfortunately.
https://www.focusmate.com/

This?

Seems focus mate is real human? Seems can be replaced by a LLM bot? I am not suggesting this as a cost cutting, but I am shy in front of humans...
The comparison is with Snowflake and Databricks, which takes a button or a query (https://docs.snowflake.com/en/sql-reference/sql/create-wareh...) to deploy new clusters. No disk, network, or permission setup is needed for each cluster.

I have rarely seen data people familiar with K8s as they mostly use managed services, but feel free to prove me wrong!
Can anyone confirm this? If this is true, this is huge news and highly consequential
That's not how it works for sleep though.
What would be an upsetting revelation about extraterrestrial life forms?
I wonder if it would be possible to push it out of the way with some kind of charged field ahead of the space craft. But even if that's the case it would act like air and cause deceleration.
well, historically it was because manufacturers didn't have the opportunity to sell six-figure cars, so they had to use the cheapest acceptable steel alloys in order to produce a product that people could afford -- and paint was a 'decent enough' band-aid to the corrosion problems that came directly as a result from using cheap and cheap-to-manipulate alloys.

i'm not a Tesla fan, but let's not be ridiculous and presume that corrosion-resistant stainless steel is a myth; it's abundant on sea vehicles. Tesla decided to develop their own alloy and it back-fired in their face; this isn't a testament to stainless steel itself but rather to the intricacies of metallurgy and Tesla's own NIH-syndrome.

later deloreans used good-ole 316 Stainless rather than Tesla brand "Ultra Hard 30X stainless steel" and they still look great many decades later.
I could imagine a future TV requires phoning home every 30 days or else it stops functioning. Single network source for both the "license" check + the ad network so as to simple deny rules.
I have the alternative of just plugging in an Apple TV, Nvidia Shield, whatever Google or Amazon makes, any computer with a digital video out port, tons of IPTV boxes that stream tons of pirated channels.

All I have to do is not put my wifi password into the TV.
I love this idea. I'd even do the "buy a smart tv and refuse the agreement so it acts as a dumb tv" if it were certified to be dumb. Otherwise I have absolutely no reason to trust a goddamn television.

They're not even promising me anything; the agreement is a bunch of commitments that I'm making, and they're refusing to provide me their "smart" features because I won't agree to those commitments. That tv can still do whatever it wants to as long as it doesn't break the law in a provable way.
Out of curiosity - why do you care? Do you want to run this thing on a calculator from the 90s or something like that?
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If any past coworker I liked wanted to get lunch I'm up for it. For me it's not yet exceeded 8 years back so I guess I can't demonstrate that yet :). I also get a referral bonus so I do want to refer people!
Not specifically that, but given the SEC, I do think it's plausible he may try to sue to get the standards changed.
I've always been craving freelance/part-time/project-based gigs so that I could live with the dream of building my side projects into a real business. Back in my home country, I built a good network of clients/co-workers and it was working relatively well until we relocated to another country and the work visa forced me to become full-time. After a few years, about 2 years ago I was free, so I started from scratch, now in a different country. It didn't take me too long to find out the rules are the same everywhere.

Now, I'm marketing myself as a Fractional Head of Engineering for small teams[1]. This is a kind of generalist hands-on role and a good position for small businesses, but it won't work for large organizations which usually have better budgets.

Regarding finding gigs, as everyone mentioned, networking is the best though it takes huge effort and time IMO. But it's 100x more efficient than applying in generic job boards or freelance marketplaces (which are the worst in my experience). However, some specialized boards have worked well for me. Like HN whoishiring posts for freelancers[2]. I actually built a super simple tool[3] to hunt part-time/freelance/contract jobs from HN. I found one good client using it within two months.

BTW, Though it's rare, I ended up finding another fractional gig by advertising myself in the same HN whoishiring thread.

[1] https://amirkarimi.dev/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring

[3] https://fraction.works/
Isn’t __shfl_down not recommended these days because of warp synchronization issues?
Back in the 70s, when I was a teen, we had a set of Encyclopedia Britannica. It came with a service where you could send off for various pamphlets for more focused information. I sent away for a paper listing pi to 10k or maybe 100k digits. By the late 70s/early 80s, that was outdated, as I wrote code to find those for myself (though e to many places was far easier).
"Inside Macintosh" disciples would enjoy PalmOS app development.

Clearly the "Classic" Mac API was an inspiration. In a good way.

It was simple and fun.

By 2007, though, the world had changed.
I've seen several iPad puzzle generators that create random jigsaw puzzles from your Apple Photos, etc. It's not personally my thing, but I think people enjoy them as a sort of background activity while they're watching TV.

As far as physical, there are many businesses that take an image file, number of pieces, etc. and will create a custom jigsaw puzzle.

For example:

https://www.portraitpuzzles.com/custom-puzzles/
We built an app, no one wanted it. Here's how we pivoted
You sullied a great set of questions with the last sentence, which makes the whole set fail the ideological Turing test.
The Army got really screwed with this and the succeeding Key West Agreement. Doing everything with helicopters ("airplanes want to fly, helicopters want to crash") is ridiculous.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_West_Agreement
IIRC the limitations and quirks in changing e-ink pixels are enough that regular laptop software would make for a bad user experience.

So you'd spend a lot of time creating workarounds like a a separate LCD line-display showing what characters someone is typing until they hit enter, etc.

Random idea: Have the e-ink isplay as an additional device one on the opposite side of the regular screen. When the laptop is open, you can show things like " do not disturb" to others, and when closing the litter shutting it down, it can put up things you can read like upcoming meetings or whatever.
Jennifer is a smart, dedicated gal who has been working on this problem since the Obama administration. I _very_ briefly worked with USDS on the DoD-VA hand-off of medical records (the very early stages of trying to fix that train wreck), which had very clear bipartisan support at the time. It was not for lack of political will, nor severity of problem, nor through incompetence that the effort struggled. Most people, from the whitehouse to the hill, very much wanted veterans to stop dying or killing themselves on the waitlist. And yet, there was no smooth path. I saw a very brief glimpse of the problem and understand that there is a whole iceberg under the water line. She has been dedicated to the problem for years. I would listen to her and give her a whole lot of benefit of the doubt about the politics of it all, regardless of your political tribal affiliation. Some times you have to set othodoxy aside.
yay anvaka reaches front page!

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SW La does not have the major cities, so there is some time.
> My sketch of the Sun-Earth-Moon system assumes a heliocentric solar system, something that wasn’t known to the Greeks of the first century BCE.

I am not sure this is entirely accurate. According to Wikipedia:

> The notion that the Earth revolves around the Sun had been proposed as early as the 3rd century BC by Aristarchus of Samos,[1] who had been influenced by a concept presented by Philolaus of Croton (c. 470 – 385 BC). In the 5th century BC the Greek philosophers Philolaus and Hicetas had the thought on different occasions that the Earth was spherical and revolving around a "mystical" central fire, and that this fire regulated the universe.[2] In medieval Europe, however, Aristarchus' heliocentrism attracted little attention—possibly because of the loss of scientific works of the Hellenistic period.[b]

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliocentrism

Contrary to the recent revisionist version of the “dark ages”, they were pretty dark if you were a Greek of the Hellenistic period, an Athenian 5th century BC or a Roman the next 500-800 years. Loss of philosophical (locked in monasteries) and technical knowledge is common and Heliocentrism or the blood circulation system (Egyptians during the Ptolemy era had knowledge comparable to the one we will acquire again 18th century) are two prime examples.
It depends on the programmer.

For me personally, I think it is the case. I like bottom up approaches, starting from technical details and working up to the global structure, it means I spend most of my "flow" time writing and rewriting code. It means lots of typing, even if most of it doesn't become production code.

Others seem to prefer to start with the big picture, maybe with a pen and paper. So less typing but proportionally more of that typing becomes production code. So, for them, typing is probably not the right indicator.
What I never understood about this movie is how it never connected the pieces. The beginning of the movie when bill was with the drunk women and they say "where the rainbow ends..." it clearly connects to the "rainbow" costume shop later where the sinister stuff with the owners child happens. Then it's learned that the women at the beginning of the movie were the same women who were at the secret society party this clearly connects the secret society to the sinister stuff at the costume shop. So the connections are clear and bill is privy to all of it yet it is never explicitly stated at the end of the movie. Perhaps Kubrick didn't actually finish it.
If doing greenfield work, planning sounds nice, but if you're integrating with crusty / legacy systems that are poorly documented (if at all) planning is a waste of time; you'll end up saying "Library X will do Y" a lot only to find out none of that works the way you thought.
So for brownfield, I may have a plan (written down or not) but it's mostly code (some throwaway) just to uncover how things actually work.