skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't read the article. Could someone please point to the research that they are referring to?
The GP is complaining about the need to run the upgrade cluster command, and reconfigure your server when you want to use a different version of postgres itself. MySql does it transparently if you just open the database in the new server.

Of course, lots of people also think it's a feature. But those aren't very vocal. Anyway, this is a main reason why people keep using old postgres versions, they have to think about upgrading, and they often don't.
> But I guess a show making that particular social critique isn’t going to get funded by a major studio or tech company.

I think my take on that is even more cynical: they'd be absolutely happy to make a story along those lines as long as they could monetize it successfully.

I thought the first season of Squid Game was wonderful and it depressed me to no end to see how thoroughly the whole thing was monetized. I get it, it's the way of the world, but seeing Netflix commission a "real life" game show, kids in Squid Game outfits at Halloween, the fact that the second season largely exists because the creator was financially screwed out of the first... I don't think it's possible to make a broader argument about any of this stuff without the distributors immediately undermining it.
CRISPR Baby 2 – Controversial Simulation Touts Benefits of Gene Editing Embryos
I don't really understand the issue. They say that people have a legal system if they're wronged by these companies. And it's clear that the legal system isn't an option for normal people when a company like UHS denies claims. So I want to know what they're talking about and why they think the justice system is sufficient as it is today to help normal people.

Seriously. I want to know what they're talking about. The justice system they're stating exists simply does not.

It has nothing to do with a flame war. That's an unfair characterisation, particularly when people's lives are so deeply affected when they can't get the care they need because of their insurance company.

Or have you been bought and paid for too?
> Obviously way more people migrate nowadays than historically.

The peak for population movement globally was probably after WW II. Partition of India alone is like 20 million people migrating in 1947. Europe was almost as bad with tens of millions of people suddenly on the wrong side of redrawn borders.

Similarly here in Canada our immigration levels per capita which are very high - maybe too high - are still at a rate similar to that of most of the late 19th century.

So I am not actually sure that assertion is true.
Doesn’t that assume that the production isn’t for export. For instance, if the EU and US export their industries to low wage, high population countries you would see their per capita numbers drop and overall leveling out. However, the damage to the climate would be equal. Essentially, you need to look at a lot of factors and think holistically about the problem.
The copyright conundrum in artificial intelligence age
Web apps built with Ruby on Rails
I’ve always wondered who else uses Ruby on Rails besides the usual names like GitHub, Shopify, Basecamp, etc.

Last month, I built a directory of web apps built with the Rails framework.

With Rails 8 released last year, the framework is stronger than ever. Some even say it’s experiencing a renaissance.

There are already 21 submissions, and if you use Rails, you’re welcome to add your app or website!
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Zamperini's life was a series of hard things. Going to the Olympics, surviving a plane crash, then 47 days at sea, then a Japanese concentration camp ...

Very well written as well
How the US is preparing for a potential bird flu pandemic
We Are All Mosaics
I think it is ok to seek some alternatives or "hacks" for some hard to diagnose chronic stuff like fatigue, as there are so many things that can cause this.

However, when you know you have certain disease there is nothing like talking to an expert in the field. Internet is filled with garbage and misinformation now. People selling snake oil.

HackerNews is also filled with people who think they know better than experts because they can write code.
Look at great apes. Large land mammals in general. (Apes came to mind specifically because they usually eat fruit)
And with that kind of gamma factor, the CMB will start evaporating you via positron-electron pair production.
There ought to be a fallacy named for the mistake of thinking that something which existed in an analogous way in the past is equivalent to a quantitatively and qualitatively different phenomenon today.

"People used to read newspapers every day, now they feel a sense of panic if they can't find their smartphones; nothing new about that."

"Paleolithic tribes traded beads and flint knapping techniques, now there's an unimaginably complicated logistics chain that knits the world together like a nervous system; nothing new about that."

It would be a specific instance of a false analogy. Would it be too cute to call this a rhyming fallacy? History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes, etc.
> An economically left wing corporation is sort of an impossibility

There have been many, and still are, under the most common definitions of left-wing.

Of course you'll find zero of them on the NASDAQ. That indeed is a modern-day impossibility.
You can set the challenge type to hostname as well and some others.
The only pb with Molly-guard is that I can't have it working properly on my system.
This is a strange hill to die on, Squid Game is a global phenomenon because it's good, I posit that if Netflix had stamped AMERICA all over it, it may not have been good.

For the other 50% of Netflix's users outside of the US, they can relate to your problems as much or as little as you can relate to those of Koreans in the show.
> But I guess a show making that particular social critique isn’t going to get funded by a major studio or tech company.

I don't really get this point (which I often see repeated online). There are tons of TV shows, books, movies, songs, etc, which include scathing critiques of various aspects of "the system" (government, the financial sector, the medical sector, the class system generally, etc). Many of these are produced and promoted by "big business". There is no centralised control over what gets funded, businesses will fund and produce what is likely to make them money. If shitting on capitalism will make them money they'll happily sell you that.
This is not true for the vast majority of software engineers. It probably only applies to 2% of the total SE workforce that got lucky to be at FAANG or FAANG adjacent companies during a certain time period.
We used to have special user for such tasks, with long names and password that should make clear what you want to do. For example shutdown/youwillshutdownproductionXXXXXXX (with Xs being a “real” password) because the random part of the password and sometimes the “fix” part was changed, there was no way that muscle memory would take over.
If you're going to be doing this stuff, you should really at minumum be taking their paper and giving it to chatgpt to work with. Just tell it you're an electrical engineering PhD interested in learning more about this medical paper to bypass the objections. Sure magnets are relatively safe, but still. This might also help you: https://s.h4x.club/d5uQpQJY / https://s.h4x.club/qGu4v46n
It's dumb and a reflection of our business and regulatory environment that it's cheaper/better to invest labor and energy to shred something like blades and columns than to simply truck them away in whole or in part and then use them for other things.

We're basically talking about huge glass reinforced resin cylinders and non-flat sheets here. I can think of tons of potential uses at the right price.
Ethnic and ideological purity drives have always seemed intolerant and bigoted. This seems to support that.
I can only surmise that the intended audience was like-minded academics. Most anti-globalists who believe in purity of culture aren't going to bother with the length and verbosity of this essay.
The issue is the narrative that immigration is fine and desirable as if that was an universal truth and if immigration should therefore be encouraged as a matter of course.
I think this is a big mistake of some of "the left" to go down that route because it is not fact and people are increasingly pushing back against that narrative (judging by election results throughout Europe and US)

The topic does not have to be partisan as it touches on core aspects of society and national culture, which ought to be discussed and debatable in a non-partisan way.

My theory is that this an evolution over time of anti-racism movements that started (in Europe) mostly after WWII: immigration -> anti-racism -> accept diversity -> diversity is good -> promote diversity -> immigration is good -> promote immigration.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danganronpa, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Belko_Experiment, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saw_(franchise) or for that matter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_120_Days_of_Sodom
The Big Short is an excellent book about failures. Really shows how, despite huge institutions and government regulation, human hype and bluster still was the main culprit.
Show HN: A native Mac UI for text to speech
I found myself needing some super simple "good enough" voiceovers recently, and couldn't quickly find a good app for interfacing with OpenAI's text to speech API.

I think there might be some command line tools out there, and you can of course just hit the API directly, but I thought it'd be a fun chance to build a super simple app with a clean UI for less technical folks.

Learned a bit about consumable in-app purchases in the process, which I hadn't done yet.

Anyway, might be useful for some people out there like content marketers or even educators putting curriculum together.

Let me know what you think or if you see any improvements that could be made!
They were adding their own referral code to queries made in the search bar, not replacing or altering referral codes on websites. They apologized and reversed this after criticism back in 2020 (https://brave.com/blog/referral-codes-in-suggested-sites/).

Overall Brave is pretty good, they build in ad-blocking by default and their own ad service is opt-in. They also have Tor and IPFS support that does not exist in Chromium, and are maintaining Manifest V2 support.
...but is it web-scale?
N2: Revisiting the Ninja Build Tool (2022)
I give you the file called ":
Vaccination Strategy Targets Fast-Changing Pathogens
Taking opiates from a terminal patient should be against the medical oath.
There are random computing references stuffed into Discworld too.

Granny Weatherwax lives around a mountain range called the Ramtops, after RAMTOP on the ZX Spectrum.

The Clacks optical telegraph network can contain routing instructions in its messages, and its operators basically have a hacker culture. They also have a group called "the smoking GNU," with GNU being a set of instructions for the message routing.

The wizards have a computer named Hex, which is powered by ants that move data around, so it has a label that says "Anthill Inside."
> * The Double Helix

This one is rather famous for Watson's minimization of the role Rosalind Franklin played in the process of discovering DNA, and Watson himself later acknowledged his mistakes in doing so (though he never corrected them).
> Outdated documentation is pretty normal unfortunely, even .NET suffers from that nowadays.

That's really unfortunate.

> Not as bad as Apple nowadays though, quite far from Inside Inside Macintosh days.

Funny story, I know a guy who wanted to write a personal Swift project for an esoteric spreadsheet format and the quality of the documentation of SwiftUI made him ragequit. After that, he switched to kotlin native and gtk and he is much happier.

> Personally, I think that with the improvements on low level coding and AOT compilation from managed languages, we are reaching local optimum, where C and C++ are good enough for the low level glue, C23 and C++23 (eventually C++26 due to static reflection) might be the last ones that are actually relevant.

I agree on the managed language thing but, I mean, the fact that other languages are getting more capable with low level resources does not mean that improvements in C/C++ are a bad idea and will not be used. In fact, I think that features like the transcoding functions in <stdmchar.h> in C2y (ironically those are relevant to the current HN post) are useful to those languages too! So even if C, C++ and fortran are just used for numerical kernels, emulators, hardware stuff, glue code and other "dirty" code advancements made to them are not going wasted.
An Emperor Penguin?
Got any more info on this?
Search-O1: Agentic Search-Enhanced Large Reasoning Models
When you say local files, do you mean files on a usb stick or hard drive plugged directly into the device?
I use Infuse on my Apple TV to access my videos on the network. It can pick up media from a samba share (or probably any other network share). There's more info on their site: https://firecore.com/infuse

It can also serve as a front end for a Plex server if you run that. While this isn't "local files", it works well and serves a similar purpose. Note: there is a very fair, cheap monthly/yearly/lifetime subscription required for any advanced features but it's free to try. I pay $12.99 for the yearly subscription and I'm incredibly satisfied. If this reads like an ad, it's not, I'm just really happy with it.
There is a difference in abstraction level between our discourses.

I am talking more abstractly, about a system and how it works. You're talking more specifically about one of the states of such system.

We both intend to change the state of that system, but we're going different ways about it.

I totally get your point. Maybe some day you'll get mine.
I think such a thing can be achieved easily with the starship prompt!
10$ a month is not cheap for a search engine where theoretically bigger and older engines out there are available for „free“. 10 is also psychologically difficult to accept than, I don‘t know like 4.99 for example.

That‘s why it should be their focus to find a sweet spot, where it‘s still acceptable for general public to pull the trigger and subscribe and for them to keep doing this.

This is not a streaming service or whatever. Their starting point was to fight Google who don‘t give a fuck about privacy and show that it‘s possible to fix the search, which Google fucked up during the years. I am also a subscriber because of this mindset, not just because it is a „product“ of a business who wants to be successful. At least that‘s what Kagi & CEO looks like at the moment.

My criticism is directed to AI and the stuff they are working on. Because of all these AI and shenanigans, they are focusing their valuable time to something other than becoming the big guy in privacy sphere. Customer counts show that. And I am 100% sure that if Kagi would cost 4,99$ a month, we would be talking about hundreds of thousands of users already.
While intuitive, I’m not so sure. I look at the center line and slowly cross my eyes until the 3rd image slides into place and then I get focus lock. At no time do I feel my eyes uncross and go the other way. Hmm!
Holy moly, forgot to add that too :p
Well, if I'm being a bit cold: I haven't has a coworker check up on me in 7 years. It's only a natural extreme to move towards after the rejection of the whole "we're a family" narrative off yester-decade.

Not that I have strong feelings about that. But none of the companies I worked at have ever felt like I could trust having a job if I had to spend a few days in the hospital.
Oh yes that's a good write-up!

At the very end

> I follow the Kurzweil-Henstock approach to integration. ... I learned about this from
advertisements by Robert G. Bartle in the Bulletin and the Monthly.

I had just read https://math.vanderbilt.edu/schectex/ccc/gauge/letter/ so I got that reference :)
This is nice but is it not very well known? My cognitive science prof used to suggest similar experiments even before 2010.
Hack Club has absolutely changed my life, I live in a suburban area and there are not many people interested in tech but Hack Club has allowed me to find people like me. I’ve done things I’ve never thought I would do and it’s been such a great thing in my life.
This is the big idea in the paper, basically that CoT is limited for some complex problems because there is a class of problems where there is no 'textbook' way to find a solution. These are novel problems that need a unique methodology. "Essentially, to start generating the solution requires that we already know the full approach. The underlying generative process of the solution is not auto-regressive from left-to-right."

Mathematical meaning:

We can formalize this argument through the interpretation of reasoning as a latent variable process (Phan et al., 2023). In particular, classical CoT can be viewed as (equation) i.e., the probability of the final answer being produced by a marginalization over latent reasoning
chains.

We claim that for complex problems, the true solution generating process should be viewed as (equation) i.e., the joint probability distribution of the solution (a, s1, . . . , s) is conditioned on the latent generative process. Notice that this argument is a meta-generalization of the prior CoT argument, hence why we will refer to the process q → z1 → . . . → z as Meta-CoT.

I think this is seminal. It is getting at heart of some issues. Ask o1-pro how you could make a 1550nm laser diode operating at 1ghz have low geometric loss without an expensive collimator using commodity materials or novel manufacturing approaches using first principle physics and the illusion is lost that o1-pro is a big deal. 'Novel' engineering is out of reach because there is no text book on how to do novel engineering and these class of problems is 'not auto-regressive from left-to-right'.
Too slow, planning==ossification any documentation can and will be used against you in the Agile court of law.
Note that there is a difference between crossview and parallel view. See this image [0] and try to overlap them. Depending on what you see in the foreground, that is the type of view you're able to see.

Basically, it determines whether the 3D view you're seeing from the stereoscopic pair is convex (pops out of the page) or concave (goes into the page). It is of course possible to learn both views but most people naturally see one or the other. You can go to r/crossview or r/parallelview depending on which one you see.

[0] https://i.redd.it/g5ilwgk99r781.jpg
Does it? We once discussed making our ids (UUIDs) prettier, came to the same conclusion of using some base64 variant in 5 minutes, and came across base32 10 minutes later, and the final implementation is pretty trivial.

This is a 1 day job at most to get something polished (assuming there’s no migration/retrocompatibility constraints)
I don't have a pulse on how far self-driving has come from a tech standpoint, but from an outsider's perspective I'd say it is "achieved" when I can order a self-driving car from an app in all of the top 10 most populated cities in the US (since that's where it is being developed) with as much consistency as uber/lyft. The real final boss for self-driving will be the government red-tape that companies will need to get through. I doubt local governments will be a laissez faire with self-driving as they were with uber being an illegal taxi company.
... and if companies support, for example, LGBT rights (not that it should be political or left-wing, but here we are in such times...) - because ultimately it profits them. If you compete for engineers or skilled workers in a place where there are no LGBT rights, they will go somewhere else if it can be helped if they're LGBT, most likely. Or even if not, still may apply.

Works the same for other things too ;)

Not that it's a necessarily bad thing (invisible hand of market of Smith goes as an example), but it's a thing.
I am personally fine with the cost too, since I can afford it. My concern is that, they will go out of business because of these things. I would be really sad if that happens.
Bride's fury after Instagram stunt wedding turns out to be real
Why software engineers are resistant to change
Ask HN: What is a common PR review time at your company?
I find myself frequently frustrated by waiting for PR reviews. There is tons of writing on the internet about short review times being better for productivity, and lots of tips-n-tricks for how to reduce PR review time.

I've started to consider that my expectations are just wrong. I'm curious what other experiences are like. What is an average duration range for your PRs to get approved or changes requested? I'm totally fine with anecdotal responses.
I really really wish they would call it "apparent mass". It is entirely an observer effect. Its entirely "that ship throws propellant out the back but they don't end up going as fast as Newton thinks it should, so it must have more mass than we think"
A new way of doing git diff, leave both versions of the code side by side and cross your eyes.
See my other comment about cross view vs parallel view, looks like you can do one vs the other and the author can do the opposite.
My degree is in English (mostly creative writing).

I went when college was cheap (graduated around 2005 w/ $20k in loans and consolidated at 1.8% interest). Paid it off over the next 15 years or so. Never felt the cost of it influence anything in my life.

College was a pretty fun 4-year vacation. I played poker, disc golf, and read and wrote a lot.

I was aimless when I entered and aimless when I left.

Did it help me in any meaningful way? I’d say yes. Now 20 years after I’ve graduated, I’ve continuously improved my ability to read and communicate based on the foundation I got in college.

Could I have developed that foundation somewhere else? Almost certainly, but I didn’t.

Would I recommend an English degree today? Probably not. It’s a different world now and school is more expensive. But I wouldn’t have listened to me 20 years ago and nobody should listen to me today.
Do we need a new fallacy for this? I think this is just a particular case of the fallacy of the beard.
Yes and no.

If you go for a stock browser without changing anything - that means you can't install ublock origin, or noscript, or adjust the cookie settings.

If the fingerprint detects you're running your browser in a VM? Because your canvas/webgl stuff reveals a graphics card that is only seen on VMs, or your mouse movement is characteristic of the way host OSes pass mouse movement to guest OSes? That's an unusual characteristic.

If you freeze the VM and everyone else installs updates? Your configuration will gradually become unusual because of its age.

And of course if you've got a 4k screen but you run your VM at 1920x1080, the gain in anonymity has come at the cost of most of your screen real estate.

Also, if you do manage to completely resist tracking by IP address, by cookies, and by browser fingerprints? Your reward is that Cloudflare and Google ReCaptcha will give you endless tedious challenges. ReCaptcha has a special extra-slow mode, specifically to punish people like you. I hope you like clicking fire hydrants!
Should it be called “healthily” or “contactful” instead? Lol

Startup names are so stupid
My first Shopify app, dynamically generate open graph images for your products
60 million students teachers and parents. Basically 75% of school children in the USA. But I can't get any attention on the subject.