skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Logical replication is a great tool, and we are using it for our next DB upgrade coming up in the next few months. It just has a few limitations I wish they would address, especially since logical replication is quickly becoming one of the more popular ways to upgrade databases with minimal downtime.

I understand that logical replication handles partial replication, and the data warehouse use case, and I understand WHY many of the choices they made for it are there.

I just wish that there was a flag you could set in a subscription that would enable it to be a complete 1:1 copy of the database, including DDL, sequences, etc, without having to do all the workarounds that are necessary now.

Currently if a dev adds a column to a table on the publisher, and forgets to do it on the subscriber, there is no error, no indication, until it actually tries to replicate data for that table.

Then you have to be monitoring for that error, and go figure out what other new tables, columns, etc, might have been added to the publisher that are missed on the subscriber. Its a huge opportunity for problems.
I have always considered that a bug, not a feature.
A lot can change in a year.
Well, it's not the Catholic Church worshiping AI as the savior of humanity. I have seen no indication that those who do are particularly religious, either, what do you base that on?

And hey, when it comes to fallible Gods, ancient Greek mythology is also pretty wild.
About a year and a half ago or so, I swear there was one of these every few days. It's been better lately, but GitHub has generally been the shakiest service I use daily.
It seems to me ATF didn't really know he left the compound regularly. Which is, of course, a huge error, but a different one than the one you're alleging.

And at the end of they day they'd have to raid the compound anyway. There were plenty of other militant nutjobs there to turn it into the catastrophe it became regardless, IMO.
Like every other Open Source LLM weights, yes. But looking around, there are models that are 100% FOSS, like OLMo (https://github.com/allenai/OLMo).

Also, I don't buy the argument that because many in the ecosystem mislabel/mislead people about the licensing, makes it ethically OK for everyone else to do so too.
You might also like Roc. I don't completely understand how but it does type inference over the whole program - so you can use a loose type that "tightens" when you use it in a different way. Maybe that's a bad explanation. I think the following video is the one that demonstrates this

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7R204VUlzGc
My high school's version of this was the Middle English version of Canterbury Tale's prologue. We'd then have to recite the first stanza or two in front of the class, one at a time.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43926/the-canterbury-...
I'm surprised no GPU cards are available with like a TB of older/cheaper RAM.
The Air Florida crash had very little to do with the airport and a lot to do with the pilots who took off with dangerous amounts of ice/snow on the wings. Fortunately, de-icing procedures have also improved since then - in the 80s, it was possible to have a long time between deicing and takeoff; today, deicing is done at the end of the runway, shortly before lining up for takeoff.

Full story: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/the-cold-laws-of-winter-...
I have no idea what a classic iPod weighs without the drive inside. No need to dismiss other people's requirements and preferences though.
I’d not use Wordpress personally. Luckily for you, there are plenty of options: https://manuelmoreale.com/blog-platforms
DeepSeek R1: Comparing Pricing and Speed Across Providers
This is blogging for the sake of blogging. "A closer look at a fashion trend in printed circuit board design" reads like its going to be a history lesson in PCB aesthetics that quickly veers off into the weeds with copper pours that the author confuses with ground planes. There's no fashion or history here. Just another mostly useless article to pad out their blogger merit badge.

If you want to write a genuinely useful technical article then have someone in the relative field read it and give feedback. Otherwise you are wasting peoples time or worse, misleading them and causing harm.
What's pre-check?
Damn near every one I know is either worried about being fired OR is unclear on what their agency should be doing in light of the flurry of ambiguous EOs from Trump. The best case seems to be "my office is clusterfuck, but I'm a contractor in SCIF, so I guess I'm ok for now."
>even if the claim is true, does that make the open source model less attractive?

Yes! Because whether they reproduced those capabilities independently or copying them from relying on downstream data has everything to do with whether they're actually state of the art.
Quick shout-out to Sandtris where the blocks disintegrate into pixels when hitting the bottom. It's surprisingly addictive: https://sandtris.com/
The default today is likely signal/ground/ground/signal.

Or really, the default today is a 6 layer board because 4 is still kinda bad.

Today's engineers know that signal-top has a return path through ground-top. But if you ever were to via a wire from signal-top to signal-bottom, the return path gets lost (aka: return path is now through the board or worse, through the air and radiating off of your board).

To prevent this erratic behavior, you must continue to think about the return path and tie a via from ground-top to ground-bottom as close as possible to the via between signal-top and signal-bottom.

--------

6 layer can do signal/ground/signal -core- signal/ground/signal

Where core is the FR4 material (keeping the middle signals far enough apart that they likely don't interfere with each other). This allows vias between layer#1 and #3 without needing a secondary return via. (But if you need layer#1 to layer#6 via, then the previous advice still applies where ground-top needs a secondary return via to ground-bottom).
It's not even a buyout. They have to work for those 8 months; it's not a severance package.
Pirate IPTV: Sweden Mulls 'Viewing Ban' as Illegal Subscriptions Soar 25%
And full credit to them for a potential efficiency breakthrough if that's what we are seeing.
> The insistence every time open sourced model weights come up that it is not "truly" open source is tiring. There is enormous value in open source weights compared to closed APIs. Let us call them open source weights. What you want can be "open source data" or somesuch.

Agree that there is more value in open source weights than closed APIs, but what I really want to enable, is people learning how to create their own models from scratch. FOSS to me means being able to learn from other projects, how to build the thing yourself, and I wrote about why this is important to me here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42878817

It's not a puritan view but purely practical. Many companies started using FOSS as a marketing label (like what Meta does) and as someone who probably wouldn't be a software developer without being able to learn from FOSS, it fucking sucks that the ML/AI ecosystem is seemingly OK with the term being hijacked.
I listed to a great discussion about the consolidation of conservative media (~1980-2010) on the radio.

Murdoch aside, it generally happened because of profit chasing.

It was easy and profitable to capture conservative audiences with centrally-programmed partisan content (read: Rush Limbaugh). Progressive-partisan political shows didn't do as well (read: Air America).

Furthermore, stations couldn't mix partisanship without pissing off their listeners.

So you ended up with stations choosing conservative programming because it was more profitable, and then becoming conservative-programming stations because that because their audience.

With the net result of a huge disparity between the availability of conservative and progressive radio programming.

... compound that over a couple decades, and here we are.
Show HN: Jane AI – Automate Phone Calls with Natural Language
Mistral repeatedly emphasize on "accuracy" and "latency" for this Small (24b) model; which to me means (and as they also point out):

- Local virtual assistants.

- Local automated workflows.

Also from TFA:

Our customers are evaluating Mistral Small 3 across multiple industries, including:

- Financial services customers for fraud detection
- Healthcare providers for customer triaging
- Robotics, automotive, and manufacturing companies for on-device command and control
- Horizontal use cases across customers include virtual customer service, and sentiment and feedback analysis.
I think it's more proof that when you come in second you always get a cost advantage because the technology and research to get there has already been done. I'm not saying they stole it but we all know the modus operandi for many things that come out of China. They very rarely are a first mover and first movers bear the brunt of the cost.
I thought his "rant" was refreshing. I know the "woke" term from the last 5 years, but it apparently has a much longer history. Both PG and myself dont like the fact that it's so badly defined (while being heavily discussed).

In my view the woke crowd did a lot of performative gestures w/o event attempting to really solve the underlying problems. PG also believes that way.

The woke crowd does not actually discuss things: you are labelled a fascist, racist, transfobe, anti-semite or biggot before you can even make your point. So I've stopped discussing with them and stopped caring for being called these names.
Not really worried that it'll impact me directly, but rather the damage that it could cause if an urban area anywhere in the world.
> There is a revealed preferences of use vs non use.

If you,
scarface_74, are locked in a cell and fed rotten food, and you choose to eat it instead of starve, it means you like it, right? You've revealed your preference for rotten food, so I shouldn't listen to you when you say you don't like it.

I think you should explain yourself more clearly. It really feels like you're trying to paper over specious argument with vagueness.
Cleaning messy assessor data. Email draft generation.
Oh thanks for the rec! I was aware that Moment was marking itself as legacy, but Day.js looks like a bonus here. Hopefully we can begin making the Temporal transition over the next few years though.
One Billion JSON Challenge
Thanks for the clarification. That makes more sense now.

I host my own GoToSocial instance, with only me as it's single user. Doesn't get much more decentralized than that.

I guess it's easier to move your identity to a different PDS on Bluesky, but for me Bluesky doesn't count as decentralized as long as there's only one single relay. You may own your identity, but currently Bluesky (the company) owns the network.
Oh sorry I was looking at
https://www.npmjs.com/package/@js-temporal/polyfill

this one looks much better indeed
What do the version numbers of programs communicate to end users anyway? Basically just that it's newer than the last version.

Libraries are a bit different though, because of semver compatibility, but unfortunately they are wrong often enough that you can't really rely on them anyway.
They are two different reports, and I imagine that the concept of "revealed preference" exists outside of the US too ahah
Totally wrong, killing humans is not required for evolution.

Ignoring genetic drift and taking into account only natural selection, all that's needed is differences in fitness, i.e. differences in how much an individual contributes to the gene pool of future generations.
Not surprising at all: Nvidia doesn't want to compete with their own datacenter cards.
Is there an audio format that stores the 3D origins of each sound, so that you could theoretically play it through Airpods (or some other spatially-aware headphones) and hear the sound change as you tilt your head?
The case in my link clearly shows that many people have a different opinion.
Another know-it-all calling AI a bubble. Lets revisit this, not in 10 years, but in 5. Things the article misses: "Bubbles" happen for more reasons than hype. There are moats, just not in the obvious or same old places. Funny thing is, an LLM can probably write a better TL;DR, that captures it better, not to mention a more insightful article.
The fact that a strike can be illegal is, in and of itself, an erosion of worker rights.
It's great that Temporal is coming, and I'm sure there are bunch of other nice things coming up too, but unfortunately I don't share your optimism with the specific proposals that you mention (even though those would be very nice).

Pipelines, pattern matching and records+tuples have all been in the works for 4+ years, and are all still in stages 1-2. I don't think any of them has seen any significant progress in the past year, except maybe pattern matching. According to an issue in the records and tuples repo, there's been pushback on the value semantics of it (i.e. whether === can be made to work). Dropping value semantics would significantly reduce the whole proposal's usefulness.

I think all of them are at least a year or two away from reaching stage 3, if they ever do. But hey at least we now have array grouping functions.
> Careful.

I witnessed a memorable moment at work when an engineer responded to a VP and started by saying “careful.” Had it been another engineer, it would have been ignored as authoritative-sounding filler. But the VP did not take it well.
Tesla's 2024 financial results are out–and they're terrible
This is great (in theory). During lockdown I got an ambisonic mic (Rode NF-SFW1) and used it to create Dolby Atmos experiences. The workflow - including sending it to Dolby's tool every time - was such a pain. Adding additional 3d elements was especially annoying and limiting.

Unfortunately that's no longer my hobby so can't test this for you but definitely scratches an itch for past me. Nice
Interesting. So how do you explain menopause and other population or age scale adaptations?

Humans aren't individuals, no matter how certain blips of modern culturalism pretend.
Again, you blame one of the candidates - someone who we would hope surrounded himself by experts - for believing what he saw on TikTok?

There were plenty of alternatives to TikTok to get information that was more credible than a Chinese own media company.
It's an unconventional approach to business, that's for sure.

1. Sell electric cars to environmentally-conscious customers with healthy incomes

2. Profit

3. Alienate existing customers by appealing to other potential customers who are not environmentally-conscious in the least and who are, for the most part, broke

4. Board of directors: "Inspirational gambit, sir. Here's $50 billion."
Yeah, it's at least partially Congress's fault DCA is as busy as it is. Every few years, they push to allow more flights, and longer flights, into the airport, because they all want to convenience.

Which is silly, it's not like IAD is all that far away. It's a straight shot down the Access Road to 66 and then into the city. Of course, with the RTO mandate, the portion from 66 inward is going to get busy again, but hey, Congress wanted that too, so reap what they sow, I suppose.
the main bottleneck will be model depth... you can only do so much with N layers, and recurrence has proven to be way less efficient (for now)
it's the agent...

Read that book over a year ago and it's still eating at me.
I bet there is also a large correlation with computer/phone neck and posture
...it will run in datacenters far from their homes, plugged into redundant power sources and high-availaibility systems?
*SOTA state of the art
Is NPM Enough? Why Startups Are Coming After This JavaScript Package Registry
The Catholic Church probably does not understand what intelligence is. Neither do the people who are making AI—not as a science. Making intelligence (so-called or real) is different from understanding it.

Which relates back to Chomsky’s remarks that prompted the Norvig response.

> > I mean actually you could do physics this way, instead of studying things like balls rolling down frictionless planes, which can't happen in nature, if you took a ton of video tapes of what's happening outside my office window, let's say, you know, leaves flying and various things, and you did an extensive analysis of them, you would get some kind of prediction of what's likely to happen next, certainly way better than anybody in the physics department could do. Well that's a notion of success which is I think novel, I don't know of anything like it in the history of science. and in- in those terms you get some kind of successes, and if you look at the literature in the field, a lot of these papers are listed as successes. And when you look at them carefully, they're successes in this particular sense, and not the sense that science has ever been interested in. But it does give you ways of approximating unanalyzed data, you know analysis of ((a)) corpus and so on and so forth. I don't know of any other cases, frankly. so there are successes where things are integrated with some of the properties of language, but I know of- ((the sec-)) know of none in which they're not.

https://norvig.com/chomsky.html
How will you pay for it?
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42871758
Recipe Database with Semantic Search on Digital Ocean's Smallest VM
Hey everyone, https://hari.recipes/ is a small app I made for personal use that aims to have a tiny footprint, run fast, be hackable, and most importantly actually be useful.

Feedback is much appreciated but please be aware this is a side project and there is no guarantee I'll have the time to implement any suggestions!
Concerned Citizen: "Pilot catches one in the act and sends him an airdrop."
It's honestly not a bad read, most of Pope Francis' publications have been pretty well put-together in my experience.
Probability Primer
The trouble now is finding an RTX 4090.
Really? I was under the understanding that we have continued to get taller and bigger driven by out our access to nutrition and medicine over the last couple of centuries.
Yep, we want to be seduced. The completely hollow moral core at the center of global capitalism is an unpleasant reality we want to avoid while we give hours of our life to our employer.
> Instead, people are outsourcing their thinking to people like Joe Rogan and political YouTubers who exploit that cynicism for sponsorships, ad revenue and their own product lines.

Joe Rogan didn't lie us into a disastrous $6 trillion war that destabilized the middle east, created all sorts of knock-on consequences such as mass immigration into Europe from the Middle East that we're still living with two decades later. Joe Rogan didn't spend decades cheerleading immigration, outsourcing, and globalization policies most Americans never wanted (e.g. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/29/podcasts/the-daily/electi...).

Joe Rogan is popular because people can tell that his gut instincts and general world view are consistent with their own, which makes them trust his takes. If your alternative to that is people who believe in their hearts that the U.S. should bring democracy and human rights to the world, or take on millions of immigrants, you'll never get peoples' trust, just as you probably wouldn't trust someone who thinks the rapture is coming soon.
I actually would rather interact with a "robot" doctor. Most doctors I've dealt with have been snide, judgmental, rushed and arrogant. I actually don't feel like I'm getting the best treatment possible, but I would trust AI to not have prejudices or meta-influences (like being "proud" to be an upper class doctor).
Given some Clojure function getFoo() which only calls into the Clojure std lib, and doesn't call any function with 'unsafe' (or similar) in the name, is it always true that:

getFoo() = getFoo()
Thanks to you and @superturkey650 for the suggestions. I will check it out. The Rocinante is rebuilding the quantum cores, and is a long process. I have a few hours to kill...
TL;DR Lazy compute intensive way to find what non-commit change broke your tests... if your tests are any good.
Pivoting a simple messenger into a $50M ARR customer service automation platform
I'm really tired of the word "moat".
From compuserve through AOL to Starlink today, my have we traveled.

I’m just glad Java applets died.
From the article:

A 2023 post on Rationalism forum LessWrong.com warned of coming violence in the Zizian community. “Over the past few years, Ziz has repeatedly called for the deaths of many different classes of people,” the anonymous post read. Jessica Taylor, a friend of Baukholt’s, told Open Vallejo she warned Baukholt about the Zizians, describing the group on X as a “death cult.”

The post: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/T5RzkFcNpRdckGauu/link-a-com...
I was a controller at DCA for 8 years and this is a normal
operation with Helicopters using the Helicopter routes.

The problem I see is the controller asked the Helicopter if they had the CRJ in sight, but he never said WHERE HE WAS OR WHAT HE WAS DOING! The controller should
have told the Helicopter that the CRJ was circling to RWY 33. The helicopter said he had him in sight, but he really had the Jet in sight that was landing on RWY 1.

Had the controller told him: Traffic ahead and to your left landing runway 33 is a CRJ report him in sight, then the helicopter crew would have LOOKED to their left and saw him. They unfortunately were looking straight ahead at a different plane.

The controller is going to take a major blame for this one unfortunately for not being more detailed. Those Helicopters literally fly directly in the path of those RWY 33 arrivals so as a controller you have to be EXACT!!!!

Another problem I see is the expectation bias. As controllers in that scenario, we want to hear the Helicopter
say "traffic in sight and we will maintain Visual Separation. These Helicopter Pilots know we need to hear them say that (it's required), so they will say this just because even though they might not really have the aircraft in sight. They are just saying what we want to hear. If they don't, then we stop their forward progress or make them turn out. Comment from instagram
"it's not a nazi salute, don't be ridiculous"

"they're not building a camp in Guantanamo, don't be ridiculous"

"they're not getting rid of gov workers en mass, don't be ridiculous"

"they're not going to blanket pardon January 6th rioters, don't be ridiculous"

"they're not going to deport international students who protested against Israel, don't be ridiculous"

"they're not going to deregulate industries and set us back decades in term of ecological progress, don't be ridiculous"

"they're not scrubbing open gov data, don't be ridiculous" < you are here

Indeed, it would be a shame to jump to conclusions, we have 0 hints of what's happening
I work at a Navy installation on the Potomac just south of DCA. As of 10 am EST today there was a moderate police and rescue presence on the water. There is a significant amount of debris visible floating in the river, and the boats are fishing it out piece by piece. The only things in the air are a handful of helicopters, presumably related to the search operation.
> Sensory input refers to the information received by the body's senses, like sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell, through sensory organs like the eyes, ears, skin, tongue, and nose, which is then transmitted to the brain as electrical signals for processing and interpretation; essentially, it's anything you perceive using your senses.

Even if we are talking about the best cameras in the world, they pale in comparison to our eyes. To say nothing of touch, taste, and smell. Advances here look to be far-off.

At the end of the day, a brain also processes information completely differently than LLMs. Anyone who says otherwise is both uneducated medically and thinks laughingly little of themselves.

Let's say we have an AI which, through peripheral devices, can attain human-level sensory processing. Is it human yet? Can it understand mortality? How about morality? Does it experience pain? Is that something we want to build?