skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

I am also agreeing that relational approach to in-memory data is a good, efffective thought.

I recently compiled some of my C code with the sqlite database and I'm preparing to think how the SQL model of my standard code could be used as the actual implementation language of in memory operations.

Instead of writing the hundredth loop through objects I just write a SQL query instead with joining with seeing the internal data representation of the software as an information system instead of bespoke code.

I was hoping to make it possible to handle batches of data and add parallelism because arrays are useful when you want to parallelise.

I was thinking, wouldn't it be good if you could write your SQL queries in advance of the software and then parse them and then compile them to C code (using an unrolled loop of the SQLite VM) so they're performant. (For example, instead of a btree for a regular system operation, you can just use a materialised array a bit like a filesystem so you're not rejoining the same data all the time)

I was thinking of ways of representing actors somehow communicating by tables but I do not have anything concrete for that.
A grandiose statement like, “…to the point where our engineering velocity is incredible. I can’t believe what we’re achieving in engineering” needs to be followed by, “Ignore the man behind the curtain.”
Why the sarcasm and hopelessness? 'Do nothing' is an act of despair, not really a solution.
It's still around, but like most Salesforce acquisitions it has mostly been left to languish.
The orca is a mammal[0]. Salmon, while also impressive, are fish.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orca
There are two issues. For thousands of years, indigenous people maintained the forest and small fires cleaned out the underbrush. The US halted maintenance, and suppressed fires, creating a backlog of fuel.

The second issue is global warming.

If you have any ideas on how to get the manpower necessary to perform 100+ years of backlogged forest maintenance spanning the entire west coast, or (better) how to fix global warming, I’d love to hear it.

Also, desalination at the scale necessary to meet California’s demands is beyond current technology (especially if it’s done without destroying the ocean ecosystem). Note that the central valley relies on irrigation, and is the bread basket of the US.
I cannot answer the "who" but here in a region with similar vegetation and fire risk we don't cool burn the entirety, we stagger mosaic burns that break up the fire risk area into patches.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKsLRNbczJY
There's natural density, which is a notion of size for subsets of the naturals that can differentiate between subsets of equal cardinality.

There are also ordinals, which are much finer than cardinals but have the disadvantage that they only apply to well-ordered sets, and ordinal arithmetic works very different to the naturals.

And then a final one - exotic models of the real numbers like the surreals contain infinite quantities of different sizes that can be compared, divided, added just as you like and the order relation works intuitively. The disadvantage here is that they are generally harder to define and reason about than the ordinary reals. The reason people like them is that you they contain infinitesmals too, which you can use to formalise an alternative foundation for calculus.

(although strictly speaking this last one isn't about sets and sizes, it's in a similar cluster of ideas about infinite arithmetic)
Arresting Flexibility: A QJE field experiment on policing with ~40 outcome vars
How about this: https://kubeblocks.io/
I've never seen one of these alternative sleep cycle people put forward a sensible cognitive study to go along with it. Like the people who sleep 5 hours a day but all spread out.

The thing with taking a similar test every day is that you should get better at it. So if the test you are abusing shows that your cognitive function is holding steady day by day, week by week, that is likely not a very good sign. It just means you aren't unraveling at an alarming rate. Better to be evaluated by professionals at the beginning and end, and maybe for some people who already know you to chime in on how unhinged you have or have not become.
Stacksocial looks like one of those many dodgy sites selling licenses of questionable origin

How can you be sure they are bona fide Microsoft licenses?
The actual science, sure. But "the science" in the sense of what the media, and people arguing online, were claiming the science said, absolutely went a lot further than the evidence. It was widely claimed that the vaccines gave immunity, for example.
That's not new. There are teams who haven't been allowed to hire outside India for the last 3-4 years. Someone in the US leaves, their backfill gets hired in Hyderabad.
Solo is my default mode, so I don’t really see it as a preference. If there’s no one else, I’ll do it solo.

In my past I’ve had a very enjoyable experience in a complimentary duo team. In my actual career, I was always on reasonably big teams and never preferred it. I often felt like my past team (just me and some other person) could have done what many companies do with full teams.

Not to sound so arrogant, but a lot of features go through product/design/dev/qa and really me and another dude used to knock stuff like this out without even using project management software. Crazy how much we got done just going back and forth in chat.

That’s been my general feeling in the industry. I just never really got why there’s so many other people at software companies (shrugs).
The ultra cheap ones are grey market. Someone reselling something they are technically not supposed to.
So are cows and no one ever goes “Aw man, nice wagyu. I hope no one ever slices you up and serves you all fatty on a grill”. That would be weird as fuck. You wouldn’t be welcome at any barbeque.
This has been well-studied by disaster recovery and business continuity boffins. There are sites that are known to be (1) effectively disaster-free, whether earthquakes, severe weather, volcanoes, tsunamis, wildfires, flooding, etc, and (2) sufficiently connected to commerce and the economy that you can reasonably build and fully operate a business from there. Climate change has relatively little impact on the suitability of these sites, both in theory and in terms of modeled scenarios.

The two cities I’ve seen most commonly used for these purposes are San Antonio and Salt Lake City. Phoenix and Las Vegas are also sometimes used. Most of the sites are in the western US away from the coasts. I believe parts of the upper midwest are also sometimes used for these purposes, though these areas have to contend with extreme cold (which is more difficult to deal with than extreme heat).
Private sector stakes claim to Moon's airwaves
The last version of this (2020.. linked at the bottom of the article) was quite popular (78 points, 40 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26539486
Some interesting things that would be interesting to add to this:

- thread safety ( not too hard to add on top of your liked list)
- variable sized allocations. Ideally something more akin to malloc. Could be done wastefully by rounding up to the nearest chunk size
- (as mentioned in the article) variable chunk sizes
- zeroing of memory before handing it back to users
- double free detection or even better full asan support
Yea, I find myself growing increasingly sensitive. I spent several years in Afghanistan and now the most mildest of violence even in media bothers me. I couldn’t imagine either of my sons having to go through that or anyone else’s children. Life is so incredibly precious and until proven otherwise rare.
If crime is rampant at a $2,000,000,000 spend, then you're spending it poorly.

If the strategy isn't working at $2 billion, what makes you think it will start working at $2.1 billion?

The responsibility is on the supporters to demonstrate the efficacy of the current approach. Where are the results?
It's fascinating how Git and Linux have very similar graphs. Linus writes his code and moves on; these other projects are much more ... ephemeral.
Offer your team a $100 gift card for every $1,000 shaved off in monthly cloud costs
No, just a student on winter break who got curious why CA Fire's map wasn't showing the up-to-date extent of the Eaton fire. Do they have this kind of heat data?
"You keep throwing around this 23M number like a 3% change would make a material impact on 3 fast-spreading huge fires in worst-case-scenario conditions."

Take 23M and tell me how many firefighters that'd hire, plus equipment to support them. then tell me if that equipment would've been sufficient to at least contain the fires instead of having the damage we have now.

Protip as a former Memphis FD Volunteer: Every damn dollar counts.
Yes and…egregious doesn’t necessarily have to be a per-unit metric. A quick and poorly done google suggests close to 400 million paid 365 seats. It’s hard to know the business vs personal count so let’s halve it: that’s still $10 billion in new money coming in if those users don’t know they have a choice to not pay more.
Show HN: Creates hyper-realistic voice clones from just 3 seconds of audio
I went to school about 20 years ago and we had staggered online registrations. Surprised the best solutions haven't propagated further.
your server can be down too, then what?
It’s grown quite far actually. We have family who had to evacuate in the Hollywood Hills.
> What stateful apps are you running?

- Databases. (Usually PostgreSQL, seems like it's pretty easy to setup to replicate between PostgreSQL instances.)

- Qdrant, or milvus. (seems like they're support replication between instances, we've *accidentally* running a replicated DB on Single Ceph Cluster)

- Some user generated contents. (usually from Jupyter Environment)

> Sounds like you want to do your own storage infra?

We don't actually have a "storage infra". it's just a bunch (I really don't think 2 HDD is a part of "Bunch") of disks attached to each machines (or node).
If you write your own allocator in C, do yourself a favor and use the valgrind API inside it. Its use can be conditional so you can "compile it out". Or should I say it has to be, so you can build the code in an environment where there's no valgrind API.
Because my TOTPs are all stored in the same device and in my imaginary scenario they have that.
If Singapore doesn't have dairy subsidies and/or imports a lot of dairy... that's probably why. You're paying the "real" price while US consumers are paying the "discount" price.

Also, soy milk's been around for decades in the US too! I drank a lot as a kid. My mom would keep these little single-serving cartons in her purse for us, like juicebox-sized.
You said the article was about ads which are not being removed. So I disagree with this assessment (and the article which also makes that false claim).
Its definitely not a feature. This sound system would be laughable in europe, where the techno culture is thriving. The point is to get lost to the music dancing. Not much talking should be going on. I think they designed it that way so as to not be noisy to the surrounding area since its an open space. Also, having a food vendor inside the club is extremely lame. Can't americans go a few hours without food? Do they have to eat everywhere they go? Its so weird every cocktail bar in NYC also serves food, this is not the case in europe. You go to a bar to drink, food is eaten at a restaurant.
Well, here's the post that made Paul Graham block me on X:

https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1778912158404997494

Also briefly made me popular on Nigerian Twitter, which was fun :)
To be fair, this would be more analogous to some random person creating a crate called 'create-rust-app' and then abandoning it. Hardly a signal that Rust is dead.
Doesn't load for me, just get a white page.
So maybe I didn't communicate this correctly. If you're simply refinancing as in getting another loan at a lower interest rate for the remaining principle of your current loan that's not very expensive. Unfortunately that's not what most people do. When they refinance a house they want to get it appraised for its current market value and get a new loan at the current market value for another 30 years at the lower rate. This gives them cash to consolidate other debts or do home improvements or all kinds of other things. That kind of refinancing is very common here in the USA and it is considerably more expensive. It is effectively all of the loan origination costs you get when you're buying the house.
It is funny how our industry struggles with effort affordable user interface toolkit.

Aside of that: cool game
Mainly just the size and alignment. If you make the structure oversized, and with strict alignment, it can be future proofed. Old binary clients will provide a structure big enough and aligned enough for the new version.

The dynamic constructor API can allocate the structure exactly sized without the padding.
Hey everyone! I recently created an AI voice cloning product that can clone any voice with just 3 seconds of original audio! I'd like to share it with you all.
Here's how it started: A friend of mine always sends me voice messages, and I wanted to play a little prank on her - what if I could reply using her own voice? With AI technology being so advanced now, I made it happen, haha, and it's been so much fun.
Try it out at:
https://anyvoice.net/ai-voice-cloning
What Makes AnyVoice Special?

Only needs 3 seconds of audio to clone a voice! Yes, it's that simple. Just record something like "The weather is beautiful today, let's go get dinner" on the webpage - say anything you want. Other solutions out there require dozens of sentences to record, who has time for that...
Supports four languages - English, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean: In testing, the results are incredibly natural. When my friend heard her own voice, she was so shocked she thought she was getting a scam call!

Real Usage Scenarios:

Prank Your Friends:
Reply to their voice messages using their own voice. Just record their voice (most voice messages are longer than 3 seconds, right?), then record it on the website, and it's instantly cloned.

Pro tip from my experience: Use two phones for easier operation. Phone A plays your friend's voice, Phone B opens https://anyvoice.net/ai-voice-cloning to record and clone the voice. After cloning, Phone B plays the cloned voice while Phone A records a voice message - your friend will be totally shocked!

Short Video Voiceovers:
Content creators know the pain - you either need to find someone or do the voiceover yourself, which is tiring. If you want to use voices from TikTok or other platforms, they often charge fees. We're completely free - you can get any voice you want!
Language Learning:
Having your own voice read foreign language texts feels amazing and really boosts learning motivation.
Pretend to Speak Foreign Languages:
Record yourself in English, clone your voice, then input Chinese, Japanese, or Korean text - you'll get your voice speaking these languages!

How to Use:
Super simple interface, just three steps:

Upload/record a voice sample (3-10 seconds)
Choose the text you want to generate, up to 200 characters (it's a free service, please understand - we might increase this limit in a paid version in the future)
Wait for generation (usually takes just seconds)

Try it here:
https://anyvoice.net/ai-voice-cloning
Finally:
We're currently in public beta, completely free with no paid features! Welcome all to try it out and give feedback. If you find it useful, please give it a like
Feel free to leave any suggestions or questions in the comments below, I'll respond to each one.
That's free speech in the US for you.

Meanwhile, actual science, medical practitioners, have been clear for many decades that vaccines reduce infection and transmission rates, etc.

Vaccines didn't "cure Polio" in any absolute sense, but they did make it possible to suppress it until it no longer appeared "in the wild" .. until it came back again.
Fair, I totally get your point and I’m definitely a part of the problem. But I operate in a way that if something doesn’t work for a given period of time (like asking people to quit FB products because X, Y, Z reasons), I move on from that idea. We’re clearly a tiny minority, if you look at their userbase.
Interesting that FIRMS doesn't seem to yet be showing the "Sunset" fire, or anything West of Griffith Park...
No need to listen to the gatekeepers. Rave is a verb. Raves are where people rave!
Everyone and his dog who has programmed C for a few decades has several as well. :)
Then it would be just another Linux distro of which there are 100s already.

SerenityOS has a clear goal as a hobbyist from-scratch OS with a monolithic code-base where the entire source code is contained within a single Mono repo where the entire Software is built with the same programming language and tool chain and the entire OS and core Apps can be changed from a single repo without needing to rely on 3rd Party upstream packages. This is a great environment to rapidly prototype new UI features, like it was the first time I saw an OS able to open UI folders and Applications from `ls` output in a terminal.

It's great that an OS with a cohesive code-base like this exists, but it's only targeted for the hobbyist developers building the OS to use and has no plans on becoming an OS for mainstream adoption.
A controlled burn is impossible just from the sheer angle, you can hardly traverse those piles of conglomerate making following and pathing the fire impossible from anywhere but the air. I had problems hunting agates out of those hills due to the steepness, as I was on all fours and about 55 degrees off-horizontal most times.
Life and predators are absolutely evil, because their mode of operation is not in any way related to ethics or doing what’s good. And what’s good is usually opposite to what’s convenient or naturally-obviously available to survive.

That said, you personally don’t add much to this global effing mess that the life is by eating some low mass meat per year. You also don’t subtract much by avoiding it. One predator out-eats you 20-50x easily on meat. And many humans can’t or barely can afford meat.

The ethical problem has systemic and economic roots and doesn’t relate to personal ideology. Being vegan but doing nothing systemic is pretty useless imo. The whole privilege of going vegan bases on living in a society that does all that to animals as a consequence and a requirement of its function.
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Shouldn't the girl with the pearl earring have an earring?
> Surely they could refer the enquiry to the bar association or something in this jurisdiction.

They might but in many cases wouldn't even do that because they still wouldn't get paid for it. Doesn't matter, you don't need them for that.
Who are these UL Solutions? They seem to have come out of nowhere and hit the jackpot, inserting themselves as arbiters for security. Smells a bit like how Common Criteria proffered independent certification labs, which were no panacea either.
I mean, I think its age is a valid consideration in the sense that IVF was literally not possible 100 years ago. Whereas it is now, and... it turns out IVF babies are normal humans too.

But I was also trying to convey that "this piece of literature argues X, therefore X is true" can't possibly hold up for every given work of literature. You can find an author for any viewpoint! They can't all be true at once!
Russia sort of seens like a planet-scale Darwin awards candidate.
> poorly constructed webpage", not native-like experience

yes "poorly constructed" is the key here. Poorly constructed "native" apps are not better.

Let's not pretend that all apps need native capabilities. The vast majority of them, or the vast majority of their functionality, can boils down to showing lists and images. Pretty wasteful to make apps in native languages just to do that if you ask me.
Is agentforce working and are there any practical users who have got beyond the customer support use-case?
The utter ridiculousness of this should have stopped them. I hope this post of yours gets plenty of airtime as blocking a solution like this deserves every bit of punishment it gets.
Three million gallons is a few large swimming pools of water. Is there no way to draw from a larger source? For comparison, the Hollywood reservoir is 2.5 billion gallons.
Common carriers are like cable and phone companies because they literally have (had) a single wire running into the house. There was no choice, nor do they participate in the production or consumption of the data that goes over those lines.

Social media companies are different. For one, there is user choice. I choose not to use Meta or Musk Social. I understand the "utility" aspect of social media for society, though I wonder how much utility it really provides. They also interact with the data to varying degrees.

I think the issue we have is that we are trying to fit them into the existing utility vs publisher boxes when in reality they exist in a space in between these two. They really need to be decomposed and comply with a protocol, something like ATProto. A single social media fabric where users can choose data host, apps, moderation, and algorithmic feeds. A fabric where competition can exist because switching costs have been reduced or removed.
That’s a new fire as of a couple hours ago - Sunset Fire. There are 5 going on in LA at the moment.
Is agentforce working at all? Any practical use-cases beyond the customer support one?
Suppose the information did happen to search through the free blocks. Suppose you put them into an array instead of a linked list. They can't actually be in the array, you see? The blocks are in the pool heap wherever they happen to be. So the array has to point to them. As you walk through the array you have to do reference the pointers. The only way it's better is that they are not dependent loads. But you have this array to manage now.
Oh it’s great. But depending on what country you are in, it could be the difference between a lifetime debt, and economic freedom.
It’s best heard, as read by Allen Ginsberg himself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKf3b9AXoG8
Does this mean that soft-drink companies could be facing tobacco-company-style lawsuits?