skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I am aware. I use open router at the moment but I find it lacks a good UX.
It's very obvious the constituents feel like one party values the issue more than another as the polls are showing??? Not sure what your trying to say here I feel the goalpost keeps moving...
To be fair, pepperoni is literally just spicy salami. Salami with hot peppers added. Hence the "pepper" in the name.
No I think Mexico/Canada were largely about stopping immigrants and fentanyl smuggling. But China was targeted for not doing enough to stop manufacturing of fentanyl precursors.
I'm in Dallas and doing just fine tyvm.

I do find it slightly offensive that you would insinuate that hiring in Texas is solely about less worker protections and not that we have plenty of skilled workers in one place and with a lower cost of living.

I'm a worker not an owner,and I prefer living in Texas at this stage in my life and have turned down offers to move back to California.

Working in tech in a big Texas city easily puts you in the top 10% of the cushiest jobs in the US. Based on how I've been treated here, I really doubt that worker protections (or lack thereof) is the real driving force behind more tech jobs moving here. We are far from being oppressed here.

The most likely driving force of tech moving to Texas is that mid career professionals like myself don't see a future in California due to the insane cost and bad vibe of raising a family there. It's a great place for people just out of college, but Texas is a better place to settle down unless you are pulling an outrageous salary. The other big advantage California has is VC and startup networks being located there, which is also something that primarily benefits early career people rather than those of us that need a stable job at an established company.

It's also worth pointing out that Texas has long had a large technology industry presence. The dominance that California experienced during the early 2000s through to mid 2010s is an outlier and it shouldnt surprise anybody that things are evening out.
You haven't said anything that disproves the statement you're quoting. Regardless of intention it's still factual.
a) MongoDB has built-in, supported, proven scalability and high availability features. PostgreSQL does not. If it wasn't for cloud offerings like AWS Aurora providing them no company would even bother with PostgreSQL at all. It's 2025 these features are not-negotiable for most use cases.

b) MongoDB does one thing well. JSON documents. If your domain model is built around that then nothing is faster. Seriously nothing. You can do tuple updates on complex structures at speeds that cripple PostgreSQL in seconds.

c) Nobody who is architecting systems ever thinks this way. It is never MongoDB or PostgreSQL. They specialise in different things and have different strengths. It is far more common to see both deployed.
> This is a nice example of one way to implement DSLs in a language that doesn't support them well.

It's not a coincidence that Lua supports such syntax for such use cases.
It used to be that if you wanted to do gaming on a PC you started by building the PC.
Because Myhrvold is the single most notorious patent troll, bar none.
I am fully onboard with how we should be tamping down on contractors overcharging. The same as I think universities are overcharging to capture government-guaranteed school loans. But neither of those makes me think the idea of taxes or school loans are bad ideas, per se. We need better accountability, but then there’s a cost to that, too…

> My income last year was a temporary fluke due to RSU inflation

In other words, you won the lottery and still have the gall to complain that it wasn’t higher. Stock equity is called monopoly money for a reason.

I filtered the current zillow results for houses in california below $700k and got nearly 22k hits, including plenty in the east bay (no idea where you actually live, i’m just sticking to the SFBA as one of the most expensive areas to live with high tech employment potential). I think what you meant to say is you can’t afford to pay cash to outright own the ideal home you want. That’s not how it works.

You go on to complain about billionaires “getting away” and sure, they should be paying more to reach a fair share in my opinion, but you are simply out of touch if you don’t think that receiving a net sum of $700k in one year isn’t a completely life changing amount of money. That’s 33 years living at the single-person poverty income level, at which about 37 million people live in the US.

I really don’t think you’re going to get much sympathy on that from anyone except that billionaire class (and their wannabes) you seem to detest, so you’re stuck between a rock and a hard place, there.
They are focused on sustainability, why not extend it to recycling investments.
I have tinkered with using DuckDB as a poor man's vector database for a POC and had great results.

One thing I'd love to see is being able to do some sort of row group level metadata statistics for embeddings within a parquet file - something that would allow various readers to push predicates down to an HTTP request metadata level and completely avoid loading in non-relevant rows to the database from a remote file - particularly one stored on S3 compatible storage that supports byte-range requests. I'm not sure what the implementation would look like to define sorting the algorithm to organize the "close" rows together, how the metadata would be calculated, or what the reader implementation would look like, but I'd love to be able to implement some of the same patterns with vector search as with geoparquet.
Yes, by advanced undergraduate, I meant very advanced undergraduate. But when I was in undergrad I always heard about some students like this who were off in the graduate classes. And then in grad school, there was even a high school student in my Algebra course who managed to correct the professor on some technical issue of group theory. So I don't assume you have to be a PhD to work through this material.
I haven't heard of that one, will look into it.

I used to use https://asoftmurmur.com/ for a long while. I prefer the separate device I have now instead of an app.
Folks, let me tell you, AI is a big league player, it's a real winner, believe me. Nobody knows more about AI than I do, and I can tell you, it's going to be huge, just huge. The advancements we're seeing in AI are tremendous, the best, the greatest, the most fantastic. People are saying it's going to change the world, and I'm telling you, they're right, it's going to be yuge. AI is a game-changer, a real champion, and we're going to make America great again with the help of this incredible technology, mark my words.
You're just a stick figure to this camera
I'm a huge fan of polars, but I hadn't considered using it to store embeddings in this way (I've been fiddling with sqlite-vec). Seems like an interesting idea indeed.
Apparently they're just the same stuff that light is - i.e. presumably this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum#Quantum_mechanics

As I understand it, the idea in the video is that if vacuum can be seen as non-linear elastic medium, then with the right functions for elasticity and stress, you can create conditions where EM waves at high enough frequency will hit the "sweet spot", a local minimum, where the energy gets confined in space by those non-linear properties, and can't leave without supplying additional energy. And such confined energy seems to behave like you'd expect particles to.

Again, I am not a physicist, so I'm probably wrong in understanding what half of the words I used above mean. But I do understand the idea of multiple forces creating semi-stable states that are "energy traps". For instance, the balance between electric repulsion vs. attraction from strong nuclear force is what defines how tightly bound is the nucleus of any given atom (aka. the "nuclear binding energy"). The nucleus can't expand or split apart, nor can it contract, unless you supply additional energy. When you do - say, you hit a large atom with high-speed neutrons to break past strong force attraction, or smash two small nuclei together at high speeds to overcome electric repulsion, the other force takes over resulting in a rather spectacular release of energy[0] as matter finds new stable configuration.

So I feel the idea here is similar, but with stress and elasticity in place of strong and electric forces - if there's enough energy propagating through some space, the wave gets trapped in a spatially-confined region instead of dispersing into the medium.

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[0] - https://www.marketbusinessnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/0...
The whole Trump administration is all about form over substance, though. I would not expect Trump to do anything actually productive about it, as long as Tim Cook sings his praise (and pays his dues).
I’d like to 3rd the thanks for Aider it’s fantastic!
> "Thou shalt not kill"

The word "kill" here is famously a translation issue. The original Hebrew word means something closer to (but not precisely) "commit murder".

Don't assume that the King James translation would capture the kind of nuance you are asserting is absent.
Then, as someone else suggested, I'm sure a university with a thriving linguistics department would love to document your language. I'd imagine a linguistic ethnographer would probably be delighted at the sight of an email with the heading "My language is not documented on Glottolog. Can you help?"
The moment it was purchased by an individual, it became a symbol of those who believe single individuals (with money) should hold that kind of power.

I'm seeing a lot of email surviving right now. Especially plain text emails. Refuses to die, one of the most neutral protocols after IP and DNS
The sentiment in this thread. Surely Apple has a fiduciary duty and so no reason for FUD.
How Does Design Impact Our Experience of Technology?
Perfect showcase of aforementioned city boy hubris, equating a small home garden with some trees to a modern day farming operation.

Growing 100 potatoes is not even in the same stratosphere of complexity and logistics as growing 100,000 potatoes.
Her community is not guard-gated, but it's extremely snooty/snobby. A number of years ago, before the weekly gate-code changes, the HOA started doing annual code changes on Halloween. Why Halloween, you might ask? Because the service staff of the community (landscapers, house cleaners, etc.) had the audacity to bring their children/grand-children to the neighborhood to trick-or-treat. Residents felt the service staff was just trying to guilt them into giving candy. Keep in mind, all these residents are multi-millionaires, mostly retirees, and they were bitching about having to spend 5 bucks in candy to make children happy.
Great concept, solid privacy policy and terms of service, and an excellent use of premium purchases to support rewilding projects. Absolutely love it!
Now that the world's gotten used to the existence of AI, any hope on removing the guardrails on Claude? I don't need it to answer "How do I make meth", but I would like to not have to social engineer my prompts. I'd like it to just write the code I asked for and not judge me on how ethical the code might be.

Eg Claude will refuse to write code to wget a website and parse the html if you ask it to scrape your ex girlfriend's Instagram profile, for ethical and tos reasons, but if you phrase the request differently, it'll happily go off and generate code that does that exact thing.

Asking it to scrape my ex girlfriend's Instagram profile is just a stand in for other times I've hit a problem where I've had to social engineer my way past those guard rails, but does having those guard rails really provide value on a professional level?
In my opinion you're vastly overestimating how much of a moat Cursor has. In broad strokes, in builds an index of your repo for easier referencing and then adds some handy UI hooks so you can talk to the model, there really isn't that much more going on. Yes, the autocomplete is nice at times, but it's at best like pair programming with a new hire. Every big player in the AI space could replicate what they've done, it's only a matter of whether they consider it worth the investment or not given how fast the whole field is moving.
ah! So it's meant more as an artistic medium than an engineering tool?
I used to follow SpaceX so closely but now, given the behavior of Elon Musk, I cannot take any interest in any company connected to him.
It's mostly about cost and market access to China.

Most smartphone supply-chain for Samsung and Apple exist outside China -- primarily in Japan (camera, sensors), South Korea (DRAM/NAND, OLED), and the US (various ICs fabbed at TSMC in Taiwan). There are quite a few reliable estimates/teardowns showing that these three countries account for close to about 90% of iPhone BOM (bill of materials). That's one reason why Samsung's smartphone unit was able to pull out of China without much disruption back in 2019 -- ie, low dependence on China.

I feel that Apple has pushed this misleading narrative a bit too long to defend their massive China outsourcing.
Vertical farming might be having trouble but a very closely related cousin, the Dutch greenhouse, is doing fantastically. The differences are subtle because Dutch greenhouses have been used to vertically farm crops as well (though not separated in the same way that vertical farms are) and use artificial lighting. The subtle differences matter and that's why iteration in the space is so good.

The surface level discussion in this thread griping over Ellison's approach is probably the least interesting aspect of agtech to discuss but is the one that most people have an opinion on and generates the most engagement which is why this thread is filled with it.
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I think you underestimate how many people are willing to play dumb if it will get them out of trouble.
Very good, Code is extremely nice but as others have said, if you let it go on its own it burns through your money pretty fast.

I've made it build a web scraper from scratch, figuring out the "API" of a website using a project from github in another language to get some hints, and while in the end everything was working, I've seen 100k+ tokens being sent too frequently for apparently simple requests, something feels off, it feels like there are quite a few opportunities to reduce token usage.
I'd say prior to Financialization, i.e. before the "greed is good" zeitgeist of the 1980s. When wages and salaries grew in tandem with increases in productivity.
I don't necessarily agree with the above justifications, but in my experience this is basically why teams pick Mongo.

It's easier to get started with.
Great response. All arguments are valid and fair.
Airpods? I have a pair, and they're quite nice, and I like them. But they aren't on the level of Job's innovations.
Interesting concept. I would say not being able to touch grass when it is covered in snow, like right now, might be a feature.
They are so used to bend reality that could easily call it e2e encryption even if the key was generated by Google or had a skew that made it vulnerable with some extra knowledge that they have or will have in the next sync.
> Hacker News

> You'll finally stop checking egg prices at Costco and instead focus on writing that definitive 'How I Built My Own Super App Without Getting Rejected By Apple' post.

On it!
As far as I can tell, his study is looking for a correlation with the distance to Metro stations.

This is a big difference. There are hundreds of Metro stations in Paris. Everywhere is close to one.

I think the original intent was distance to a train station. If Paris is anything like Rome, close to the railway station is cheap hostels and recent immigrants accommodations.
Yeah, I know someone who works in a high school and the average skill level is "struggles to figure out how to save a document on a USB stick". Kids know how to press the power button on an Xbox or tap an icon on their iPhone. The staff member I know is aware of ONE kid in the entire school who has used Linux. When I was a kid, basically every single kid who had a computer at home (and actually used it) knew how to defrag the hard drive (and probably install Windows lol), set IRQ values for their sound card, all that kind of stuff -- because you had to know this to even use it. My friends and I went on BBSes and later stuff like IRC and Hotline, ran Linux or pre-release versions of our respective OSes, set up our own bedroom LANs and personal game/web servers, etc. etc..

Indeed, as you say, I learned a lot about computers simply by wanting to circumvent the limitations that school admins put on the computers (especially as I wanted to utilize the full power the computers provided, as opposed to some sheltered/limited experience -- "At Ease" -- surprisingly reminiscent of smartphones/tablets today)... I went to great lengths to regain net access when my parents repeatedly revoked my access, again another huge learning opportunity.
shouldnt u b fingerin ur peehole in line @ walgreen
specifically they said

> Until corporate Dems are thrown out, the reality is that Republicans remain more likely to tackle Big Tech abuses.

Based on their comment it seems like they're pro-left, anti-liberal more than anything. They lament the Dem party's decision to reject Bernie in favor of corporate Democrats

They never once promoted Trump though
Your reason is unlikely to be a cause.

The _ comes from the W3C in 1995 well before JavaScript was commonly used for templating HTML.

Scripting has used $ for variables for a long time: I think the most relevant history line for $variable is PHP comes from Perl comes from shell scripts. I also remember finding $ ugly on Vax.

There were a huge variety of templating syntaxes for server side and HTML generation was virtually all server side in the 1900s.

Server side languages were very rarely JavaScript before Node in 2009.

JavaScript wasn't used much for HTML generation before Ajax. There were soon after many many client side templating syntaxes.

I'm guessing only Brendan Eich could say why $ was accepted for JavaScript variable names.

Timelines are hard because the foundations were compressed within a decade: JavaScript 1995, PHP 1996, DHTML 1997, Ajax early 2000s, jQuery 2006.

Syntaxes tend to be extremely path dependent, and every developer cribs from everything they use.
The model is expensive, it almost reaches what I charge per hour. If used right it can be a productivity increase otherwise if you trust it, it WILL introduce silent bugs. So if I have to go over the code line by line I'd prefer to use the cheapest viable model: deepseek, gemini any other free self-hosted models.

Congratz to the team!
Huh, the article immediately suggests a related question to me:

> BTW, the feminine version of a restaurateur was “restauratrice.”

That makes perfect sense, since the feminine agentive suffix in Latin is -rix. But I thought the feminine agentive ending in French was -euse! Where did we get "masseuse"?

Wiktionary suggests that -euse is an alternate equivalent of -rice, derived from Latin -osus (which has no agentive meaning at all; it means "full of [whatever]", and transformed into a French agentive suffix by people who felt that -eur and -euse must be related because they sound so similar.
Was that enough pain to force some sort of change in how the things were deployed thereafter?
NYC's Congestion Pricing Hits Revenue Target, Continues to Prove Doubters Wrong
Sure there is. Card packs all cost money and what you're going to get is up to chance.
This out of everything, convvinced me. The more I get the "full picture" the more I appreciate what a wondrous thing computers are. I've learned all the way down to Forth/C and from the bottom up to programming FPGAs with Verilog so Assembly may be just what I need to finally close that last gap.
So far only o1 pro was breathtaking for me few times.

I wrote a kind of complex code for MCU which deals with FRAM and few buffers, juggling bytes around in a complex fashion.

I was very not sure in this code, so I spent some time with AI chats asking them to review this code.

4o, o3-mini and claude were more or less useless. They spot basic stuff like this code might be problematic for multi-thread environment, those are obvious things and not even true.

o1 pro did something on another level. It recognized that my code uses SPI to talk to FRAM chip. It decoded commands that I've used. It understood the whole timeline of using CS pin. And it highlighted to me, that I used WREN command in a wrong way, that I must have separated it from WRITE command.

That was truly breathtaking moment for me. It easily saved me days of debugging, that's for sure.

I asked the same question to Claude 3.7 thinking mode and it still wasn't that useful.

It's not the only occasion. Few weeks before o1 pro delivered me the solution to a problem that I considered kind of hard. Basically I had issues accessing IPsec VPN configured on a host, from a docker container. I made a well thought question with all the information one might need and o1 pro crafted for me magic iptables incarnation that just solved my problem. I spent quite a bit of time working on this problem, I was close but not there yet.

I often use both ChatGPT and Claude comparing them side by side. For other models they are comparable and I can't really say what's better. But o1 pro plays above. I'll keep trying both for the upcoming days.
Could this (or something similar) be found in public access/some libraries?
What's the chance that

1) Cloudflare wins its lawsuit against LaLiga.
2) LaLiga appeals to Cloudflare to block these individual, infringing sites.

3) Cloudflare does nothing.
High availability is more important than scalability for most.

On average an AWS availability zone tends to suffer at least one failure a year. Some are disclosed. Many are not. And so that database you are running on a single instance will die.

Question is do you want to do something about it or just suffer the outage.
I hate this so much. There are a few extensions that try to limit the damage, but none of them work super well. There's no reason for target=_blank to exist.