skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I remember it (from 40+ years ago, and well before dark energy was discussed), lambda naturally arises as a constant of integration in GR rather than being "invented" as in the usual story. Assuming this to be true, I'd suggest that any model should either allow for a non-zero lambda, or give a reason for it to be zero. I.e. even if an alternative for dark energy is found, we still have to deal with lambda.
But diff does not exists in a vacuum. It would need to be integrated to IDEs, editor, merge tools, PR tools. You now have to have `patch` understand and depend on the details of the syntax of your language. In a way that may break between different versions of diff and patch. Not even starting with variants of a language, different interpretations of how to handle the preprocessor/macros system, different editions of the same language.

All that, just to not have to add a trailing comma ?
As I recall from a similar article, some of those apartments still exist, and are no longer limited to librarians but may still allow access to the library. If living in NYC is an option for you, it's probably worth getting on their announcement list and be ready to move if they have an opening?
I am drowning in debt since I graduated from my PhD, all I get is rejections for my job applications... I want to learn how to be rich because that is the only way I can get back to the US and live with my kids and provide for them (US born, living with their mom).

Thanks in anticipation.
Ask HN: How to Safeguard a LLM to SQL Prompt from SQL Injection?
I have seen posts about how you can use LLM to proxy queries into your dataset. This seems powerful, but how to prevent it from being abused or hacked? Are there other strategies to deploy a text to SQL use case?
> love playing with it, but they're afraid to tell their colleagues

Obviously. Because if it was trained on previous VFX artist work and now puts VFX artists out of work it's a bit icky to talk about with fellow artists. But also because if they use it then more likely you are out first. Eventually they are out too, when studios/platforms/owners realize they can just use the tool directy and skip the middleman, but until then it's a charade where everyone pretends it's not happening and all is fine while house burns down.
Algorithmic Language Models with Neurally Compiled Libraries
I always thought of fine dining as the sort where the restaurant decides what you're going to eat, where only enough food is served so you experience the taste/texture, and you're not going to get that for $60.
It's exactly the opposite. People are drawn to the top .01% of content creators and ignore the rest. The distribution on it is as bad as it always was.
I agree in theory, but in practice, anti-trust laws only become more and more toothless with time so this isn't getting any better.

I don't agree about cementing monopolies, it's the opposite. Net neutrality beats anti-competitive practices back, because as above, regular competition law got almost useless and not applied to solve these issues de-facto.

If competition law enforcement will improve - there won't be a need for separate net neutrality rules.

Problem is that opponents of net neutrality don't want competition law enforcement either, so they want to have their anti-competitive cake and eat it unchecked.
Hype for the sake of hype? What are they hyping?
Sequin engineer here. We'll publish our benchmark repo soon! Indeed, we're still doing a lot of fiddling with Debezium ourselves to make sure we cover different configurations, deployments, etc.

The main thing we want to communicate is that we're able to keep up with workloads Debezium can handle.

(And, re: RabbitMQ, I wouldn't write off a platform based on a single application built on that platform :) )
Incredibly Specialized Watch Exhibition
Making creation cheap just means that the control goes to whoever can bring in eyeballs. So it might not be a studio not making you be able to create your vision, but an algorithm deciding that they want to boost someone else and not you.

See the situation in modern indie videogames: Today a small team does what used to take a huge team a couple of decades ago, but you still have projects that have so much budget you cannot touch them with a small team, and difficulties getting good, small games to find audiences, as they need to deal with a different set of gatekeepers. You'll need some influencer, a blogger, or some social network algo, which can be gamed, to give you exposure. Success without paying is not impossible, but the easy route is through paying. And how much will people pay? More than you want.

Even in a world without physical scarcity, if you want eyeballs and clout, scarcity will still exist because real fame and success is limited. And based on who are the most popular organic-ish influencers, you might not like the kind of person who wins.
You know users have to authorize apps to use the microphone right? That pretty much limits the theoretical exposure to VoIP, camera, and translation apps.

On iPhone, activating the microphone causes an icon to appear, which the app can’t hide. I think if the app is in the background, it turns the whole status bar bright red.

Secondly, there is power use attribution and it would be very obvious if an app were keeping the device awake and the microphone on based on battery drain and runtime accounting.

So you are asking us to accept on faith a shadowy ad SDK that is both widely used but also cannot be named, one that somehow subverts multiple layers of the system security architecture? Ok. We believe you.
Probably by Fred Brooks, as summarized by Guy L. Steele Jr in https://dreamsongs.com/ObjectsHaveNotFailedNarr.html:

> Fred Brooks, in Chapter 9 of The Mythical Man-Month, said this: Show me your flowchart and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowchart; it'll be obvious. That was in 1975. Eric Raymond, in The Cathedral and the Bazaar, paraphrased Brooks' remark into more modern language: Show me your code and conceal your data structures, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your data structures, and I won't usually need your code; it'll be obvious.
To be fair, the gene also repairs heart damage in Zebrafish
which is more than just "in mice".
I understand the reasons behind the meme "in mice",
but on the other hand dismissing valid progress because
humans reflexively insisting on exceptional snowflake status
is counterproductive.
I suppose! Honestly, I wish it worked like Humble Bundle wherein you have a sliding scale on who gets your money; the platform (Twitch/Amazon), the streamer, and the charity. I'm personally subscribed to PirateSoftware and GDQ because I don't want to see ads and hope a few of my bucks make it to them.

Currently it's hard to know[0] how much you're giving the content creator versus Twitch/Amazon.

[0] https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2024/01/24/an-update-to-several-st...
Yes I've heard of such a thing [1], it is probably worth $50. This PCB board is just a cluster of 8 V20 (Intel 8088) compatible 16 bit processor, nothing to write home about. It is not considered an early attempt at an accelerator card. Depending on your definition many were done earlier [2] going back to the earliest computers 2000 years ago. My favorite would be the 16 processor Alto [3].

In 1989 I build my 4th Transputer supercomputer for a customer who programmed binary neural networks.

In those early days everyone would use Mandelbrot and Neural Networks as simple demo's and benchmarks of any chip or computer, especially supercomputers. So it is not ironical or serendipitous that a magazine would have a Mandelbrot and an article on a microprocessor in the same issue. My Byte Magazine article on Transputer and DIY supercomputers also described both together.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEC_V20

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_supercomputing#:~:t....

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Alto
I just did this install, then went to remove and it attempted to remove `/usr/local/bin`
was wondering if you could send me an invite as well. gmail is aryan@gupta-inc.com. thanks
Hey I'm a long term emacs/org mode user. This look super interesting, one quick suggestion, even though I'm confident I can make the installation instructions work, a lot of people just install packages from melpa, i.e. list-packages, cntl-s to find in melpa and then install. I know there's a lot of advantages to some other methods, but people pick and choose where they want to learn the new way or stick with old tried and true way. Again at first glance it looks super interesting.
> Using the benchmarks in the Oj test directory

I'm sorry, but I've looked for a while now, and I can't seem to identify the benchmark you are mentioning. I suspect it's the one John took for his benchmark suite? [0]

> Oj has a slight advantage over the core json for dumping but not enough to make much difference

I'd be curious to see which benchmark you are using, because on the various ones included in ruby/json, Oj is slightly slower on about all of them: https://gist.github.com/byroot/b13d78e37b5c0ac88031dff763b3b..., except for scanning strings with lots of multi-byte characters, but I have a branch I need to finish that should fix that.

> The comparison for Oj strict parsing compared to the core json is more substantial as 1.37 times faster

Here too I'd be curious to see your benchmark suite because that doesn't match mine: https://gist.github.com/byroot/dd4d4391d45307a47446addeb7774...

> The callback parsers (Saj and Scp) also show a performance advantage as does the most recent Oj::Parser.

Yeah, callback parsing isn't something I plan to support, at least not for now. As for Oj::Parser, `ruby/json` got quite close to it, but then @tenderlove pointed to me that the API I was trying to match wasn't thread safe, hence it wasn't a fair comparison, so now I still bench against it, but with a new instance every time: https://github.com/ruby/json/pull/703.

> You picked the wrong options for you example.

No, I picked them deliberately. That's the sort of behavior users don't expect and can be bitten by.
As a matter of fact, I discovered this behavior because one of the benchmark payloads (canada.json) doesn't roundtrip cleanly with Oj's default mode, that's why I benchmark against the `:compat` mode. IMO truncating data for speed isn't an acceptable default config.

[0] https://github.com/jhawthorn/rapidjson-ruby/blob/518818e6768...
Unless you have Google sized problems and resources, Google probably is not the best example because the things Google does are done to address Google size problems with Google sized resources. It's tooling and methods are not commercial products.

For example, Google can get away with the flaws of it's AI search results because it is Google.
Pondering Computation in the Real World
Show HN: GenMeme App for Viral Memes
We built a small viral meme identifier for social platforms, and built a webapp around it. Lmk what do you think about it. Join the waitlist, and lets make makes.
Do you know -- is the SPICE API or HORIZONS API available for public use (i.e. within an app)? And if so where can I read about getting an API key / usage limitations (rate limits etc)
It also gives a strong impression of somebody who is afraid of asking for help. The entire post could be summarized as "I feel like an important self-made man and I'm scared of starting therapy that I clearly need to help me sort out my enormous insecurities"
How to Scrape Google Results in a FlutterFlow App
It's interesting that you think about those things without even understanding how you are going to solve the user's problem first. Aka functional requirements.
I have the same experience with libp2p. Something is always broken. Last time it was mDNS.
That book is really an incredible eye-opening read, I strongly recommend it.

Graeber and Wengrow's The Dawn of Everything spends quite a bit of time with complex societies in the Americas as well, and is certainly worth a read as well.
My first comment already had domains in "pivoting" parts, so I didn't change the scope from comment to comment.

So domains is at the core of the discussion since the beginning, as the programming itself. At least that's how I formed my comment, and that's my intention while writing that comment.
This reminds me, I remember back in early 2000s hex editing games to force 60hz on my PAL Dreamcast. This looks like a similar idea. Thanks.

To be honest I now pretty much just play Dreamcast games via the redream emulator on my steam deck and pc under my TV. Though obviously there are drawbacks with emulating. Every so often I bother to setup my Dreamcast with my ossc and play on real hardware.
Cloudberry, last I checked, took their snapshot of all the Greenplum utilities way before the repos got archived and development went private. The backup/restore, DR, Upgrade, and other such seem to leave a lot on the table. I haven't checked in a bit, it's possible they've picked back up some of that progress.

You're completely right, I had the wrong PG version in my memory. Embarrassing, thanks for catching that.
From what I can find, the definition of cookie stuffing is to deceptive claim credit for sales that they did not facilitate. Its the deception that is illegal, not the act of setting cookies. As such, the amount, ton, or a few, does not change the definition. If they are claiming credit for the sale then they are either doings it in good faith or in bad faith.

Which definition/source for cookie stuffing are you looking at?
On impulse a few years ago I decided to drive our Model 3 on a multi-state road trip that'd take us through Colorado, Utah, Nevada, California, up through Oregon, then back to Colorado instead of our perfectly fine ICE car. I use the car mostly for local, sub-50 mile drives, which it excels at, and never considered it as a road trippable car (less because of the powertrain and more because of lack of road trips in general).

I have zero regrets about picking the EV at the last minute, and would 100% make this choice again. I assumed, like I imagine most people do, that having to wait while charging would be a deal breaker. I quickly learned to love the wait though. It makes long road trips so much more comfortable when you take a break every 6 hours that's long enough to go for a walk or take a nap.

I could employ that strategy with an ICE car, sure, but if I compare my ICE to my EV, the differences between the two in terms of comfort, functionality, and cost of operating put the EV way out ahead of the ICE.
Even when eroded, the presence of straight lines in the eroded remains has typically been used to identify human-made structures.
VGA to my ossc is usually how I connect to my TV. But yes I believe you are right, it's a vga issue too
How do you "read" an article like this? I would need to pull out some paper, run calculations, etc. to understand this (but perhaps I'm not the intended audience, as a non-mathematician?) - Or is that how you all approach an article like this?
Apropos: "Analysis of animal-to-human translation shows that only 5% of animal-tested therapeutic interventions obtain regulatory approval for human applications" -
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou...
update: based on author's activity on youtube, he still works on it https://www.youtube.com/@pavelsevecek/videos?view=0&sort=dd&...
If we were mice this would be an amazing time to be alive.
https://zfin.org/zf_info/zfbook/zfbk.html

it is an open book ...
no capital, but you are welcome to cut me in
I think he meant any or all of - generous, helpful, willing to do something for nothing in return
The explanation made me think the universe is like one big zip file being extracted and in areas of lower entropy or complexity, it's able to be extracted faster. Maybe it's not an apt analogy but seems fitting as someone who analogizes tech to real world applications often.
This is answered in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.

Could you please stop posting offtopically now?
Directly asking your fans for money under a guise is now prime entrepreneurship
Vue is fantastic. React is fantastic. It's not difficult. Now Ext.js? That's terrible.
Be sure to check out her stories on Folkore.org:

https://www.folklore.org/0-index.html?author=Caroline+Rose

and esp.:

https://www.folklore.org/Inside_Macintosh.html
thanks fish
How We Manage Incident Response at Honeycomb
Are there any easy examples one can just run once installed?

Or can anyone on HN give me any hints on a valid flow chart
Given an estimate of the mass and mass distribution of the Milky Way we can compute the time dilation factor we expect assuming that the intergalactic space beyond the galaxy has zero time dilation. However, I think we cannot easily measure or infer the absolute time dilation we experience due to the rest of the universe. But relative time dilation factors are enough for the sort of analysis that is done in timescapes.
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An amusingly good quantification of some evidence. Well done! :D

Still, I don't have much to say that I think the engineering was overly good or bad. I typically think that what they captured for a short while, at least, was enthusiasm. In particular, developers were enthusiastic to be near Google technology in a way that I don't think I've seen for other companies, since.

I don't think they identified it as such, though. Which could be why they seem slow to see that a lot of that has evaporated.

Not to say that they have no enthusiasm, now. I'd wager they still have a lot. But as a percentage share of all developers, it feels very different.
I began to read this thread just for the horror-show-train-wreck voyeurism of crazy. But your simple riposte made me laugh, so, gold star, you.
Americans Are Warming to a Different Kind of Japanese Whiskey
Young people want their generation to have its own "thing". Hype trains make them feel like their generation is unique.
The comment I have written taken both examples during their eras of the respective advertisements.

So it was what records did to orchestra players vs. what AI did to programmers. Good sound fonts, a good sound cards (DACs) and MIDI was already good enough to render complex orchestrations at impeccable quality since 00s. We're just seeing it trickle down to ordinary attic musicians' budget limits.

I like Venus Theory's channel and videos for that reason. He shows what can be done with bog standard software of today, but it was already possible yesterday.
The repositories have not been updated for more than six months and there don't appear to be active branches.
If it worked, you could hypothetically find a webcam in a known location and rip the stream.

Without watching the stream as it is being ripped, you would do your remote viewing thing.

Do that for a period of time, making notes and timestamps. Then, go back and compare the notes against the stream.

The fact that something so monumentally earthshaking to our knowledge of physics/biology/etc. has not had anyone do this very simple exercise in our modern era suggests it is charitably self-delusion, and uncharitably intentionally propagated bunk and hokum.

You kids get off my lawn!

Yes, I am fun at parties.
I think the single biggest thing about Google SREs (at least in the early years) was that if your team was going to launch a new product, you had to have an SRE to help and to maintain the service.

Google deliberately limited the amount of SREs, so you had to prove your stuff worked and sell it to the SRE to even get a chance to launch.

Constraints help to make good ideas better...
If you can't read the paragraphs where he goes over several of his flaws and how they led to his failures, shortcomings and misses in several aspects of his life - both personal and professional - I don't know what to tell you.
Yeah not way to automatically detect "import xxx"
I don't know if it was "addressed", but it couldn't have been "rebutted", because this is basically axiomatic.

Loper doesn't overturn specific delegations of power to regulators; doing so would basically neuter the entire executive branch. What it says is that when there's ambiguity about a statute --- such as when a telecommunications bill that barely mentions the Internet and appears to view it in approximately the same light as TMBG's "Dial-a-Song" is used as the basis for sweeping Internet regulation --- the courts are no longer required to take the regulator's word for it.

There's nothing wrong with delegations of power. They just need to be specific; they should represent a legibly expressed intent of the democratically elected legislative branch, which is the branch that the framers created specifically to craft legislation.
> It's just pure relativity, I can't believe we haven't already reached consensus on timescape over dark matter.

Dark energy. This is about dark energy not dark matter.
If it happened by chance, then we are alone in the universe. If literally trillions of bacteria all living and dying (ie evolving) with generations measured in hours ... and it still took a billion years to happen, then there is no hope for multicellular life elsewhere. There would have been more bacteria in earth's ancient ocean than there are planets in the visible universe. Hope of ever contacting multicellular aliens is over.

OR ... the switch to multicellular life was triggered by some sort of event, an evolved response to an environmental change. In that case then it is reasonable to think that it would happen on other planets too. So I really do hope that it wasn't a matter of pure chance. I want us to meet or at lease hear someone else some day.
if you reduce frictions that existing web3 users actually have then yeah its way easier, have to pay some influencers though and infiltrate a couple discords and get people's attention onchain as well
SPICE itself is a C package with a number of wrappers in other languages. JPL use it, along with numerical integrator and orbit determination code to generate SPICE "kernels", IE: binary files. The Horizons API allow you to use their numerical integrators to calculate the position of asteroids and comets. This works great for single objects, or a handful, but struggles when you want to look at the entire solar system at a time. This is where my code comes in, it enables similar calculations to what Horizon's provides, but you can do them locally on all known asteroids/comets.

The C SPICE library is available online, but it dates back decades, and was not really built with multi-core support in mind. My code enables reading of SPICE kernel files with native multi-core support. Though I would argue the bigger benefit that my code provides is the numerical integrator which can be used on the entire asteroid belt at once.

JPL Horizons API is open to anyone, if you hammer it enough they may rate limit you, but I don't believe they have limits. As far as I am aware they don't have any API keys or usernames.
See: https://ssd-api.jpl.nasa.gov/doc/horizons.html
The trauma and warped values goes all the way back to the mongols.