skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in WA, could you extend it to all of Cascadia? ;)

Last time a state tried to leave there were words though. I doubt this will go smoothly
https://archive.is/KiSYM
The problem is not the "improperly obtained", but the "they cannot have built it under a $6M budget, there should be something else going on..."
100% completely agree.

You just can’t scale SQL code. If you have a small app, then sure. But then I don’t know why you’d invest so much in testing.
But if you need to scale your code to more than 3 people, SQL should only be your persistent state store. You probably already have a BL layer in another, more manageable programming language, so use that.

In my team I set a rule to remove all SQL functions and views, and move all the logic to our typescript backend. That resulted in code which is much easier to test, and is version controlled.
30 mins a day isn’t virtually free and last I checked it costs $$$ to post jobs on Linkedin
.... Hence why I never trust analytics data. It's too easily gamed, and a bad metric from which to base decisions.
There is no reason to think that democracy in America is going to stop.

There are lots of reasons to think this is a real possibility. The American republic isn’t going to last forever and right now we are experiencing the greatest threat to our political stability since the Civil War. Texas likes to pass resolutions calling for secession when a Democrat wins the Presidency. We’ll see the call for secession become more common in the coming years and from liberal states.
> Why would the CIA get involved in the financial value of NVidia?

the AI race between China and the US is going to shape the future of our generation. CIA has all the motivations to just eliminate all those core Chinese members as they pose direct national security threat to the US dominance in AI.

you need to be really naive to not being able to see these.
I'm referring to much of the Western world prior to 1950, and you see this behavior in the middle east today (obviously, they disagree with you about "the right thing"). This is usually enforced socially, by communities and churches.

The social safety net that governments provide today used to be a function of community charities and churches. Even modern healthcare has an analogue here.
On the testing aspect - The TSQLT assembly (https://tsqlt.org/) is an attempt at unit testing within MSSQL. It works okayish for what it is. I've at least found it to be nice when testing inputs for SQL functions and procedures, as well as some business rules within tables and views.

A few IDEs provide integrations for TSQLT: Management Studio with the redgate extension, Datagrip, maybe others.
“American people”
Is there a minimum amount of transistors that must be consumed to be considered AI, and does this scale regularly with Moore's law?

But yes, I do :) I consider something as basic as MNIST Digit detection to be AI, even if everyone else doesn't
I still wear my grooveshark startup T-shirt from time to time, one of my most prized possessions.
At least the one near me — and it’s only $100/yr.

https://lib.uw.edu/services/borrow/card/fee/
Ask HN: Are AI tools working for you guys?
Maybe I'm expecting too much, but I just watched Skyvern churn on the same task a few times and I gave up. I should have just written the script myself, which I did, and it cost me way less in both time and money.

Who is using these tools and finding value?

Obviously models like o1 and others are useful, and I use them in my workflow. But I use them for general purpose things. Most of the AI tools for specific things that I've used seem to just not work as expected.
Fair point, I think the idea was more about people who had the ability to work on their own project unpaid for a decent amount of time perhaps being scarce. But if you're on unemployment now seems like a great time to bootstrap something.
Use Cloudflare (free) and just disable bots or add a captcha.

You'll probably also save money if you enable and configure free caching.
I’m fine with a burst of traffic… that’s what it’s designed for. What it’s not designed for is 24-7-365 being slowly pinged on every single page (thousands), by every single robot (thousands).
It is in the venture capitol / startup world, not sure how much it is used outside of that which was why I took time to explain it. A VC looking at a pitch is trying to understand the risks (a VC investment is basically pricing that risk) and each kind of risk has a different method of evaluation.
outright monopoly. i think it decided around 2008ish. pandora and all the others lost deals with labels, labels bougth into spotify, and apple promoted them left and rigth so its a dopoly.

its not a space i follow so i have all the details wrong.
OK, this I understand, that is a good insight - cursors are row-processing based so its gonna be slow

I think Netezza, SQL Server and Oracle are all cursor-based processing "by default" so this makes a lot of sense. I suspect that they all have bulk operation capability but can't immediately think of how I would have worked bulk processing in a way that maps to this article - maybe something like analytic functions like windowing, partitioning etc. that is definitely not row by row.

Having said that, the examples I see for actual testing in the article are DQL / DML so would be multiple row processing by default .. yes, the functor definition / creation is a DDL process but it is a "do once and reuse the definition" thing (like, the author correctly observes, a view, which is the point of functors) and the functor in use would just be DML. In which case, functors go back to looking like stored procedures...

I also understood composability as being built in for SQL - for example, in Oracle, packages allow composability of stored procedures, triggers, sequences etc allow composability of DML and views allow composability of queries and tables - which the author points out in the article.

With functors, DDL, DML, DQL, DCL, TCL would still be the only command tools available unless a new command language was invented for SQL for testing - let call that something like DTL (Data Test Language), with a whole new bunch of associated new SQL keywords, capability and functionality that are built right into the core of the DB engine that are optimized for what functors are trying to achieve.
Back in the day making a selection would actually freeze the process in some cases.
There are a number of major systemic risks.

As ever, the problem is compounded by the chunk of population who enable it, and the typically larger chunk of population who are unable or unwilling to recognize clear and present danger.

Or: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee6-sI9rdtA
Federal union of federal emoloyees
Hold on, I need to go place a bet on polymarket that Palantir and Anduril will donate $1M to Trump. I'm confident they will then get to step in and fix this mess for everyone. That money will surely start flowing again, just slightly diverted.
what's your transparency mechanism? theres plenty of such things that get sent around and get money, but theres very little transparency and accountability for how those funds are used
That is exactly what people who believe Fox News fabrications and Trump lies say; that the “liberal” (read, “independently found to be the least biased comparatively”) media is just fear-mongering for reporting on the crooked behavior everyone knew would happen. Steps that he’s taken have all been outlined in Project 2025, which literally lays out the plan to rig elections moving forward by excluding any dissenting voices from a position of power that might resist such an overtaking of government, followed by wide spread gerrymandering. Then make excuses for why Democrats are being ousted at every level. The fact that people are so closed-minded as to believe anything he’s done is in good faith are astonishingly…gullible. I say this as someone who has voted for Republicans most of my life, until the Tea-party and the Trump-ilk poisoned the party. Worse still are, again, the gullible buying into the myriad of what are clearly, factually, lies. But, I’m sure if we all put our heads in the sand our democracy will totally be fine. At least it isn’t like one of his first actions was to attempt to prevent the exercise of constitutional rights to citizenship or anything, so I’m sure all our rights including those to a free and fair election are safe.
Sounds like Microsoft out litigates instead of out competes.
This is amusing to read now because this post bemoans the transition from useful applications to pretty ones. Little did they know the next stop in that line was that the pretty applications became not so pretty without picking up anything new. Mac software today would leave you begging for a Delicious Library…
It was already the case that no one reads the article before commenting. Soon it will be that no one writes the article either.
With all the megabrains in here, how can some of you not see what's coming? China is making friends at the rate that the US is making enemies. Think about it for a second... Which new friends has the US made? I am talking solid, willing-to-give-you-the-middle-finger-and-go-with-the-other-guy friends (yeah, I know). Now contrast this to the friends China has made. China has secured the most powerful nation in each contested territory. South America, Africa, The Middle East and obviously, it is, itself the biggest power in Asia.

Now for effect, The US cannot even keep Europe aligned with them, and the fallout will be that much sharper in the next few years. You have bought cash money the sinking territories of Micronesia (great for UN votes, but not much else) What you have left is The English Speaking Conglomerate of USA, England (Not the UK - because I don't think you can count on Ireland, Scotland and Wales), Canada, Australia and New Zealand. And of these "Five Eyes", in a Sino-American conflict, two of them will be felled very quickly by their neighbour China (Australia and New Zealand) and Canada will have to fend off a massive assault by it's neighbour Russia (China's BFF) That leaves the original "greatest friendship". The enduring Anglo-American powerhouse.

Now I would think that England has not done itself any favours with Brexit. How is that going for them? So Europe is not a certain ally for them either. The EU is Europe, ask Turkey :-)

What you have left is an Anglo-American vs Sino-Russian battle for the future of humanity. The thing is the rest of humanity has already decided who they are betting on. Hint - It's not Anglo-America.

You Anglophones have managed to take control of 3 of the 6 continents. Is that not enough? And if it isn't then expect that there will be hell to pay, because at this point, the world will rather die on it's feet then endure more suffering under your boot.

Goeiedag en Dankie.
> I see no reason not to take Krugman at his word.

Why do you find him trustworthy? He's clearly got an axe to grind and lots of incentive to make himself look good on his own blog.

Numerous times I've read blog posts on HN which present one person's side of a dispute, only to see it refuted later.

I'm glad to withhold judgment here until more information is available.
As an Oauth2 hater, I consider this protocol cursed, mainly due to how hard it is to read through all the specs and have a useful understanding of what one should do with it. Reading the OIDC spec, where they define authN in terms of authZ, lets me experience what a stroke must feel like.
Will this still allow Google and Bing and Archive bots?
I wonder whether bloomberg.com realized what a hilariously rage-baiting headline that is.
It's an interconnected world. All conflicts involve you. Pretty much all the current crop of wars are a direct result of the US getting "less involved". Putin's goals in Europe and the middle east. China's goals in Taiwan. All of these are a direct opposite of the "western world order". The thinking that the US can just withdraw from the world and it would become a peaceful free place is obviously failed. It's not restricted to one side in US politics either.

I think the US left is still generally anti-war. They hesitated to support Ukraine. They're locked into "why can't we all just get along" thinking. The right doesn't think we can get along but also doesn't want the US involved.
Edit: The current movement appears unrelated to Yes California - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...

"""

“People think if you’re a secessionist, you’re crazy,” Ruiz Evans said on Saturday. “I hate Donald Trump,” he added. “I am full-blooded Mexican. The day he went on TV and said all Mexicans are rapists, I said, ‘He can go f** himself.’ “

He added: “When I see Trump pick on women, on LGBTQ people … my family left Texas for California to escape that. And when I look at Trump, it reminds me of all the horror stories my mom and my grandma told me from [the time] before they left.”

"""

Sign me up.

(original below)

I am absolutely in favor of an independent California, but in the past at least the backing for this has had ties to Putin (which makes sense, I suppose, it would cripple the US)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_California
Realistically, the programs that are likely to be trimmed are hugely expensive things like the F35 program, which the newly-promoted tech class would to a large extent replace with drones (land- or carrier-based) [0].

We might expect to see a civil war within the admin between the factions who favor traditional defense hardware programs vs newer tech (drones, AI, autonomous). There's a lot of $ at stake so there will be heavy lobbying. Also, the traditional revolving door.

Also the opportunity for insiders to enrich themselves. Perhaps 2025 will be to defense and AI stocks what 2020/1 was to pharma and vaccine stocks.

One political self-preservation mechanism that traditional defense has done that tech hasn't yet much is to spread the federal spending around across states and congressional districts (think B-1 bomber). So, don't expect these battles to be fought on the merits, let alone net benefit to the taxpayer.

[0]: "The F-35 Program is Costing More and Doing Less, GAO Says" https://dsm.forecastinternational.com/2024/04/19/the-f-35-pr...
id like to stop paying into the US military thank you very much. move it to be a charity, as intended by the founders.

why the state sponsored militia, when i could be contributing to some other militia?
Wars with our trading partners and military allies involved us, duh.
> I edited to add: what extraordinary wording.

Thanks for the kind words!
The same thing happens in corporate budgeting too. Seems to be an artifact of big organizations.
Alternative link: https://xcancel.com/carrigmat/status/1884244369907278106
> this is just a way to reduce headcount by the end of this FY

It's not just a way to reduce headcount, as the next four years will make abundantly clear.

People will be hired back into these jobs under the new Schedule Policy/Career -- the replacement for Trump's Schedule F.

Basically: the people getting the offer now have protections set up by Biden in response to Trump's Schedule F, that Trump would like to buy them out of.

The people hired back into them will not. They will be asked to be loyal to Trump.

This isn't about money. This is about power.
Can you make a plot like HISTORY but with axis changed?
X: date
Y: work leverage (i.e. 50%=2x, 90%=10x, 95%=20x, leverage = 1/(1-pct) )
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There’s also the part where Secret Service agents are going to schools, lying about who they are, and trying to arrest children for making statements critical of Trump:

> "We had an incident happen in Chicago on Friday where there were some federal agents that showed up at a school asking to come in to interview an 11-year-old who had posted an anti-Trump video on TikTok.

> "They presented their credentials, they said [they were] Department of Homeland Security. The school was confused and said, 'No, you cannot come in.'

> "It turned out they were actually from the Secret Service, which does not enforce immigration law, but the school activated its protocol as if it were protecting that student, and said, 'You can't come in because you don't have a signed warrant.

Of course, Trump previously threatened to prosecute any state employees that don’t cooperate with such stuff. The school administration took on a lot of personal risk to protect that kid.

https://www.npr.org/hereandnow/2025/01/27/immigration-arrest...
A severely senile and incompetent leadership would encourage aggression even more.
When did you think the Russian aggression was initiated?
im not willing to pay anything for you not getting ebola. you have to pay the lot for everyone to keep yourself from getting ebola
Under current financial and incentive system this will not going to happen unfortunately.
Are banks not fairly commodified too?

Did you move to a new bank after yours had a security breach?

There are so many breaches these days, companies don’t even have liability — any damages can be blamed on another breach.
> Basically: the people getting the offer now have protections set up by Biden in response to Trump's Schedule F, that Trump would like to buy them out of.

This offer has gone out to all feds, not just those falling under Schedule F. You've not been paying attention if you believe the statements you've written.
Also your data will probably just be leaked somewhere else sometime anyway. Punishing a single company once unfortunately does next to nothing at this point.
I think you are missing my point... I am saying the example wasn't censorship from the model, but were reflective of the source material.

You can argue the source material is censored, but that is still different than censoring the model
How Is Deepseek R1 on a Raspberry Pi?
GoDaddy is one of the sleaziest companies I know of.

I ran a website hosted on GoDaddy for a local business when the server cluster was hacked. GoDaddy admitted it was their fault, but the business ended up having to pay me to fix the site. GoDaddy also managed to convince the business to pay for an additional monthly "security" plan, which included page caching. They set everything up over the phone without talking to me at all.

The next day I notice some odd behavior with the admin pages, then realize they're being cached, not only that but they're now publicly accessible. GoDaddy's improved security plan ended up being responsible for a data leak. They really screwed up twice but there was zero penalty, the only consequence was they made more money. The business chose to stay with GoDaddy, despite my recommendations. They saw the ads on TV and were convinced GoDaddy is the pinnacle of web hosting.

Also, check this out: https://www.butterflyave.com/

Those assholes have parked my old business name, and want to sell it back to me for $1,499.
OpenAi assistants are actually amazing, it would take a couple of hours to build a custom chatbot not a month. Just upload the docs and use one of the many services available to embed it to a website
I don't expect any code to be right the first time. I would imagine if it's intelligent enough to ask the right questions, research, and write an implementation, it's intelligent enough to do some debugging.
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getting tired of these blog posts that end with "this post is AI-generated" as if it's going to surprise us. it's getting repetitive. imo, articles should be prefaced if they're ai generated or not to make the reader not feel stupid after reading the whole thing

with that said, i love the content! will be bookmarking for future reference
I just quit Spotify because they kicked my family off the family plan without hardly any warning. Apple Music has a family plan and they don’t require that you live at the same address

Never looking back!
https://archive.ph/QouOV
a naive guess would be about negative 33 trillion dollars cost to US taxpayers, the current debt.

but whats the costs overall of changing the official US name of "gulf of mexico" to "golf of mexico"

or the cost to everyone of all this disruption?

whats the costs ive had to pay from Turmp bungling the covid response? how many bungled responses am i going to have to pay for because trump doesnt want the US to have a leading role in the WHO?

the cost of all these deportions? both immediate and future? why am i paying for this RTO mandate that Musk wants to run?

whats the cost of all these tariffs trump's about to put in? wheres my opt out?
Definitely experienced this in the Los Altos public library - one of my favorites. Combing through a stack and really feeling that a librarian's mind had placed these particular groupings together.
FDR joins the chat
I am reminded of my colleague who grew up in the USSR, and said agents would come to their class and show kids pictures of western cartoon characters (Mickey, etc.) to see who had disloyal parents.
He’s been found by a jury to be a sexual abuser. He can’t run a charity in New York. Stiffs employees and hires illegal workers. He lies constantly and makes shit up. Like using a sharpie to change a NOAA map because he is incapable of admitting he’s wrong. Anyone doing business with him deserves what happens to them. Like all the lawyers, advisors, and sycophants that ended up in prison during his first term in office.
We are now in the era where whichever businessman gives trump the best handjob gets as much taxpayer money as they want.
Sadly, it never works. If someone is efficient one year, the money will be cut and then it won't be there when it IS really needed. It can't be banked, it can't be returned as credits.

Human nature is why we can't have nice things.

This is why I believe the scope of work should be clearly defined. Requests for funding submitted and approved with relation to that work. Then square up the taxes required based on what was spent, adjust up and down automatically.

Congress needs to vote to make that funding come out of the Rich (higher relative % of wealth the more taxed), to largely exempt anyone under an average (E.G. 10X poverty line is where taxes even START), and treat excess property as an Investment while exempting average ownership (E.G. a similar average for 'housing ownership' and 'transport ownership' value).
I think they have to be long lived else they cannot make sense for performant testing. ie they are created as DB objects, using DDL, in the same way tables, views, functions etc are made.

They can certainly be created at test run time but that would slow things down a lot - you would essentially be creating a ton of objects every time you run the test which means having a setup to test if they exist or not, take them down if they do or fix them if they don't match spec ( e.g. column and data type changes etc etc )

The more I think about this, the more complicated I realize it would be to manage this dynamically:

You essentially have to build a test harness enviroment that figures out your testing elements dynamically from your data environment (with some kind of parameterization engine and data set to tell it what to look for so as to "make functors and run them" (e.g. all PKs of FKs or all columns starting with a certain prefix or all columns of a certain data type etc etc), gets the most up to date definitions of those elements from system tables and uses that data to create or update or drop functor objects ... wow, ok, this is getting complicated, I am going to stop now before I see the void.