skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's 4 brands that essentially dominate the market

Zildjian

Sabian (started by Robert Zildjian)

Meinl (German)

Paiste (Swiss)
I do AoC in SQL, I wish it was true. With Postgres, you have lots of regex/string manipulation functions that make it easy.

For me, the biggest problem was memory. Recursive CTEs are meant to generate tables, so if you are doing some maze traversal, you have to keep every step in memory, until you are done.
And how is it reasonable to charge different costs for that same bandwidth depending on what I'm using it for?
Yeah that comment just reads like someone who is pointing down at how unenlightened someone is, when that someone just finished telling you that they don't know what they are doing and being honest about it.

Would it be so much better for the author to hide this phase of personal growth, and then later on comment on other people's struggles to mock how far they are from them?
Even Picard got one when he finished his game of "Kamin".

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Ressikan_flute

This is actually not that uncommon.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FantasyKeepsake
But OP said the music was 18th century hymns. That's not in anyone's IP library. Not sure why I got downvoted for saying that
And here's a website that is dedicated to continuing some of the coordinate remove viewing legacy of project Center Lane: https://centerlane-rv.org/

In addition, there's a remote viewing subreddit which holds regular practices and encourages you to post results: https://reddit.com/r/remoteviewing

And IRVA (intl. association) has a pretty good scientific bibliography if that floats your boat: https://www.irva.org/library/bibliography
My objection(s) to the "LLMs are just next-token predictors" take
But don't forget, that point you mention is the point where the people were killed.
Yeah, when I got the ICO fee extortion letter, they were put in my total scam category. Even when I realised they had some actual official purpose in collecting fees, I still viewed them as a scam, so they have a PR issue more than anything.
This looks fantastic. Damn, there's even a detail page with related blog entries.

Surprised to see my blog[1] there :)

[1]: https://minifeed.net/blogs/kF8K4M
You don’t even have to make it that long, you can just make a large circle of runway:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endless_runway
I recall back in 2020, when Pakistan International flight 8303 belly landed at Karachi, slid down the runway, and then took off again and had a go at going around, the investigation showed that between them, the pilots just screwed up on having the landing gear down and had a go at landing without it for no other reason than they fumbled it.
Now we have 5) aggregated and internalized as a whole by computational constructs such as LLMs, which are - 4) - proactively shared (open weights, but also freemium service and dirt-cheap API access to commercial SOTA models), still on a massive scale.

> There is undoubtedly a lot of useful knowledge on internet platforms, however, most of that knowledge remains unsystematized and largely undiscoverable, meaning that contribution to the totality of human knowledge by these platforms is infinitesimal, which is further drowned by cat and porn videos.

Precisely that. Which is why I often argue, that for 99%+ of the content in the training data, its marginal contribution to the training process - itself infinitesimal in isolation - is still by far the most value that content will ever bring to the world.
'It didn't come as a surprise': UK workers on being forced back into the office
If one gets into the books that invent their own dialect, the most dense I found was "Riddley Walker" by Hoban Russel. As a non native English reader it was very difficult to make progress, but once the understanding settles in, it's a pretty nice story. Also of note is Anathem, even though Stephenson's jargon is more accessible, I think, to Latin languages speakers.
Yeah. I have no idea what they had in mind when they pulled off this logo that looks like was designed in wordart in the 90s.
Even if the runway was only used from one direction (not true), it would be dumb to build a big concrete structure near its beginning. It's not unheard of for planes to come in too low and touch down before start of the runway due to pilot error (or even double engine failure on rare occasions).
The Art and Science of Mess Management (1981) [pdf]
> Your prompt assumes I am a climate change denier, when it might have been better to have labelled me a man-made climate change skeptic

Duck me, as if that hair-splitting makes a huge difference. I dare say there's a 0.04% difference between the two.

You flaunt your superficial intellect but you're still ignorant as hell, using it to nitpick. Did you figure out the Stefan-Boltzmann law? Or is it yet again somebody's job to convince you? Oh noo the wind blew your fence down so you were denied the chance to be proven wrong, therefore you're still this smart and correct man? Whatever saves your ego, man.
Possible comms failure. ATC are responsible for reporting surface wind. It may have lead to a bad decision by the pilots. Go around versus teardrop etc.
Almost at that point myself. Thinking about doing another year or two to save up an additional buffer, and make sure we're not right before another 2008-like event before I pull the plug. Start my own company, maybe make some money, maybe not. I'm tired of the grind. I'm tired every single day, and there's no time or energy to try to fix it. At this point I just want to be left alone, in peace and quiet...
Show HN: I built a mongo-express alternative using AI and almost zero coding
I wanted to see how far AI could go in building a complete application, so I tasked Claude with creating a MongoDB admin interface similar to mongo-express. I only did quick code reviews and minor improvements, probably around 95% of the code was written by the AI.

For the AI, I used Anthropic Claude Sonnet 3.5. The result is MongoMan (https://github.com/aientech/mongoman), a modern MongoDB admin interface built with Next.js 15.1.2, shadcn/ui, and TypeScript. It features database stats, collection management, document CRUD operations, and index management. It's also containerized and ready to deploy.

The interesting part isn't just that AI has write the code, but how it handled the entire development process: suggesting the tech stack, implementing features incrementally, fixing bugs, and even writing the documentation.

However, although the current version works, I'm now maintaining and improving it myself as the project will grow. I guess this shows both the potential and current limitations of AI-assisted development.

The code is open source, and I've kept the commit history to show the development process. Curious to hear your thoughts on this approach to development and mongoman itself.

Cheers and happy new year!
Show HN: All-in-one X (Twitter) growth platform with AI – Snowball
Over the past year, I've been working on Snowball.

I was trying to build my own audience on X (twitter) but it was too time-consuming and I wanted to keep building products so I built a tool to help me save time on that.

At this point, it is working pretty good (got to 5k followers in a year), so I wanted to share it with more people and get their thoughts!

I know other solutions exist but none fulfilled my needs (a web app + a deeply integrated chrome extension in the twitter UI with deep AI integration).

So I built my own version of it and am using it everyday for months now.

In short it helps creating content, scheduling it and engaging on the platform to then monetize the audience with automations.

Thanks for checking it out, and sharing any feedback you might have!
Rideshare doesn't give quotes for starship.
Do a write up on explaining the architecture and maintenance cost. This looks sleek. It'll fly on hackernews.
You seem to have a bone to pick with this software or developer, so why not post a better reply than these throwaway comments from a new profile.
Can France become a global AI powerhouse?
740m before hitting the next structure.
There is a whole chain of causality. They were killed by multiple successive problems compounding.

See Swiss cheese model.
This pops up from time to time and each time I ask myself what is a useful application for it? Is it just eye-candy?
This finally explains why Apple didn't have issues with merging XIB files.
Do food nutrition labels violate the first amendment, being compelled speech?
What does loom have anything to do with AI? It is a nifty way to share video recordings easily and quickly. In that they did a great job
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> 60,000 spam SMS, £120k fine

> 1000 spam calls? £100k fine. Go to prison.

sounds just and deserved to me, fine spammers into nonexistence

> Quite the gig they have. Do next to nothing

Maybe you are right that there are serious problems with them (electoral commission failure should have been punished), but demolishing small scale spammers is already an useful service. I would fund it if I would be able to taking decision.

I would be happy to pay 1000 £ if that means that last person who spammed me goes bankrupt and to prison (for say 50 days).

> a mild slap on the wrist for large businesses, and “put you out of business” for small businesses

first one should be fixed if it is a problem so large spammers are also fined into nonexistence

and yes, I support putting their CEO into prison for 50 days if any part of their company does spam
That's what happens when owning a home is essentially the pension plan of 5 generations. Eventually you'll stop working due to age. Government or private pensions simply will not pay for you to live, to say nothing of inevitable increases in medical expenses. So you make investments. Housing has been the big investment people make.

One might just as well say that you're blaming the older generation for not just dying to make place for the younger generation after 40/50 years of constant work. It's the same claim.

If you take away housing as an investment ... will you then double existing pensions, by working harder? You'll call that absurd. So, here we are. The older generation has something you need and needs the younger generation to work and pay for their old age ...

Banks are indeed profiting off this, but the very large bulk is pensions of tens of millions of other Americans.
This is really well documented with lovely schematics, and the link in the github to the proper "korg style" toggle switches [1] on AliExpress is worth the read.

The code [2] is very nice as well, showing how clean a bare metal Pi Pico project can be.

[1] https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32958319752.html

[2] https://github.com/shmoergh/hog/blob/main/boards/midi2cv/src...
If you get such a simple-minded reviewer, you can push back in your response, or you can even contact the editor directly.

Reviewers are not all-powerful, and they don't all share the same outlook. After all, reviewers are just scientists who have published articles in the past. If you are publishing papers, you're also reviewing papers. When you review papers, will you assume that everything that has ever passed peer review is true? Obviously not.
It'd be great if you folks would stop showing up and derailing the comments with threads like this.
> It seems like a lot to assume that suggests the author is not a fast technical learner and builder.

Unless you think one can choose to be a "fast technical leaner and builder", then that is still luck.
It’s a weird post. Part cry for help, part not-so-humble brag, and 100% not something any close friend, significant other, or therapist would recommend you hit send on. Feels a little strung-out, to be honest.

“Rich guy is bored, you’ll never believe what happens next”
Yes. And liberal democracy (the US in particular) is far from perfect. But it is objectively better than a one party dictatorship. It is also less "threatening" from an international relations perspective.
I am a little bit suspicious of Forbes saying "in fact, money does buy happiness". I fear they might have a little bias.

I expected something like a Snopes link. Ah well.
Latency during typing is a real issue, not sure what you find hilarious here.
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There are multiple aspects here. In short, any kind of linking or equivalent process definitely makes your code a combined work with the GPL parts; the "safe" way of using the code are more like calling a GPL process like `system("ls -l")`.

First, if you are distributing modified code or code compiled from GPL sources, in any way, you must advertise that fact clearly, and extend an offer to the original sources plus your compilation methods to anyone who recieves this from you. This is true regardless of whether your work constitutes a combined work.

Then, if you are distributing a work that includes GPL parts and parts that you don't want to release under the GPL, you have to check specifically how the GPL parts are used. The relatively safe boundary is calling GPL binaries as separate processes, especially over a network - if this is the only way you are using the GPL code, it's probably OK to keep your other parts under an incompatible license.

If you are using the GPL parts any more closely, such as calling functions from a GPL library directly through an FFI, or worse, linking to that library, then you are almost certainly building a combined work and all of your own code has to be released under the GPL if you wish to distribute the GPL parts.

Even if you are calling the code only as a separate process, the amount and type of communication you use matters - if you are exchanging extremely complex and specific data structures with the GPL process, rather than just a few command line switches and parsing some yes/no answer, then your work may still constitute a combined work and have to be entirely distributed under the GPL.
Thank you for this, I'm glad to hear you acknowledge that having kids isn't a constant philosophical bliss. I have two under 5 as well and don't relate to the dozens of comments gushing about their kids, wanting to spend more time with them. A few hours a day with my 4 year old is plenty (and most days, too much).
Irish DPA: hold my Guinness
> I really didn't expect to live in this "copyright for me, not for thee" world

Having been interested in copyright activism for two decades, that's exactly what I expected. Copyright is very much about power, and concentration of power.
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Also amusing:

> patent shell companies held by Chechen infoterrorists

This perfectly captures how both patent trolls and MAFIAA look like in my mind.
I've used similar tools for tracing particular contributors, when investigating if they've been acting malisciously. Makes it easier to get a quick overview of their efforts, and how painful it will be to review everything they've touched.
This is similar to Msty's[1] "Delvify" feature that generates links for keywords in a given text, with the ability to "delve" into each highlighted topic.

While I'm unfamiliar with how it's implemented there, I can certainly see this working with multiple rounds of prompting, and possibly some external data sources and human curation to ensure that the terminology index is actually useful to readers.

[1] https://msty.app/
Ghostty, Alacritty and Kitty are also very good options
I am currently at the same place, with no reasonable place out. How did you solve it?
https://archive.ph/NGWgS
Caches do not break net neutrality.

Nothing wrong with the concept of net neutrality. Implementations may be lacking, but I do not recall any major issues with the EU regulations. Perhaps all the perceived silliness is a result of the US legislature?
"Build Your Dreams" is a backronym for BYD, which are the initials of the Chinese name of the company, Biyadi (比亚迪), which doesn't actually mean anything!

The name of the company has a convoluted history, but ultimately goes back to the name of the street the company was founded on, Yadi Road.
Not a garden but I also curtate links that I find interesting here:

https://www.andreinc.net/links/

And maintain an active blogroll with blogs I follow:

https://www.andreinc.net/blogroll
None of these points seem to be relevant when it comes to the question about ASCII art as text in html vs image. Most of them feel to be no actual problems at all, but only someone vaguely mentioned some keywords in order to 'find' problems?
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2024 Link Meta Data
I’ve been collecting meta information about links for a long time, and thought it might be useful to others.

Feel free to explore the repository. Cheers!
I'd say so, yes. But it's utterly cool to see yourself and the people you know create the nodes of a project over the years. In that way maybe there is some more to it, it gives perspective.
> There were couple comments with attitude - that the developer shouldn’t be allowed to touch software ever again, but either I have missed them or they have deleted their comments.

It was too offensive and got flagged. Worse, the commenter doubled down instead of taking it back, I'm afraid.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42581359
I had exactly the same impression. The eye-candy side is highlighted, yet just a gimmick.
"For personal data protection purposes, your emails were deleted when you left the company" ;)
Great, finally it's not in the name of God and human rights
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https://github.com/artie-labs/reader is another I know of
Show HN: AI-SQL, Tools for your AI to talk to your database
My friend Will and I made Vercel AI SDK tools so you can connect your AI to your SQL database in 1 line.
Thanks for the encouragement, I've started drafting the article. By the way, I've added your blog to Minifeed a while ago (https://minifeed.net/blogs/kF8K4M)
The Missing Mirror
Sounds like you guys did pretty well :-) Here in the UK we always locked down too late, which meant we had to go for longer, and then opened up too early, and offered people free food so they would spread it around again, which meant we had to lock down again. And we sent sick people into old people's homes and then went shocked pikachu when a load of them died.
I retired four years ago just before hitting 50 years of age. There is no real purpose and never was. I got my degree, worked in a field I loved. I was good at it, learned and was successful. But there never was any real purpose except personal growth and being challenged in my field of expertise. I've seen CEOs come and go, engineers much smarter than me leave and poor replacements being hired. Nothing ever really changed. In the work setting nobody is truly important.

I don't know what Loom is and I don't really care. It was not spectacular. It doesn't matter. You succeeded. Now you can start on a new part of life. One where you do not have to prove your ability, you already did. So enjoy, you've earned it.

I am sitting in the cold, snowy Scandinavia. In a few days time I will be travelling to Spain. I cannot wait. When I leave the airport and walk into the sun and the heat, I will be grinning like a madman. After a week of hiking / running, exploring and drinking cold beers in sun I will return home and once I leave the airport I will sigh with relief, home sweet home. After a few days of chores at home I will start looking forward to the trip that is already booked for the next week.

Life is great.