skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, trying to help here, ok.

I added today's date (in the format 2025-02-25) into the input box and expected it to at least give me the option to convert to epoch time or something. But it returned:

Local: Invalid Date
UTC: Invalid Date

It's not as intuitive as I thought it would be. Best of luck.
> We cannot directly see any planets outside our solar system (this might not be completely true, I'm not sure what the limits are)

Glad you expressed uncertainity. Indeed We can see some exoplanets directly. I also only learned this very recently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_directly_imaged_exopla...
why are you riding for Meta like this?
That sounds pretty cool, I guess the idea was that the scheduler could figure out smartly where to put applications and minimize latency in the process?
Ask HN: Start many things and accomplish none?
I tend to go into rabbit holes easily, especially when I am at home trying to work on my side projects or learn new skills.

Here is a recent example:
I had an idea for an app so I started researching which language/framework I should use, I ended with two or three options.
So I picked up one and went over the docs and decided to start building my app along the way.

I did a small progress and I thought "It would be cool if I could implement some kind of lightweight ORM for my app" and remembered that one of the languages had a feature which lets you write SQL-like expressions in code, and then I started wondering if I should implement very basic version of it by myself.

At this moment, I am still interested developing my app but the journey has gotten longer to achieve it and if I look back at my history, there is a 95% chance I am going to abandon the original idea too.

It seems I go on an endless side quests. I do learn stuff along the way but it's happening in pieces, a little here and little there.

In the end, I have garden of unfinished side projects, books and courses. I start every idea with motivation but then a new interesting idea pops up in my head and I go after it.

Here is another one: when writing documentation I tend to go back and forth frequently to change wording until I am satisfied, same with variable names - "too long" / "it is confusing" / "can be more descriptive".

I am curious if more people are experiencing this and how they handle it.
Related post with a large discussion from someone who said:

"Lfgss shutting down 16th March 2025 (day before Online Safety Act is enforced)

[...] I run just over 300 forums, for a monthly audience of 275k active users. most of this is on Linode instances and Hetzner instances, a couple of the larger fora go via Cloudflare, but the rest just hits the server.

and it's all being shut down [...]"

For the same reasons.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42433044
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Because this discussion is about the US response, which is completely ham-handed and destructive.

The UK position is also appalling, but that's not what we're discussing here.
They should wait for Snapdragon X2 and Nvidia "N1".
The DBMS is almost definitely going to be mentioned in RFP or specification documentation. As it was in this lawsuit.
> does not literally describe the data layout of anything on disk

Huh? Depends on the DMBS, but each InnoDB table is a file.

And the schema determines the file structure.
They have an app where you can browse the examples: https://emergent-misalignment.streamlit.app/
You can get a M3/M4 Max with 128 GB of RAM as well. The Studio will give you > 128 GB.

I have a max with 64GB RAM, which is good enough for 70b models with a 3 bit quant. Even if I had more RAM to run larger models, my GPU would be the bottleneck.
Food drive is a thing in humans too, and it's something that's largely genetic -- and it's something that you can modify with anorectic drugs like GLP-1 RAs and stimulants. How much you eat is a combination of intrinsic food drive and trait conscientiousness.

Everyone knows someone who will eat like 3 potato chips and move onto something else, while others will sit and mow down the whole bag. Taking a GLP-1 will basically just convert you from one kind to the other in a dose-dependent way.

The same kind of variability is present in dogs - but without the conscientiousness axis.
> Local politics is, by contrast, extremely responsive. I've gotten things done --- including a law passed

You live in a country where local governments have the power to make laws… in a lot of other countries they don’t - or, to be more precise, their lawmaking power is extremely limited.

Actually, even in the US, that’s often true too - only local governments with “home rule” can enact laws on any topic (provided it doesn’t contradict state or federal law), those without it can only enact laws on specific topics authorised by the state legislature. Some states grant home rule to all counties and municipalities, others none, others to some but not others (e.g. in Texas a municipality can give itself home rule powers, with approval of its voters, but only once it reaches a population of 5000).
More than 1M federal workers have responded, claims White House
PostgreSQL Hacker Helper
Chile power outage leaves millions without electricity
An axiomatic analysis of the papal conclave (2019)
Do these people even have a plan? Privatization of essential research isn't viable, by definition it cannot be justified using profit motive. That's why the government funds research in the first place. And failing to fund it, somehow, will eventually impact the private market.
My favorite QR code visual explainer:

https://qr.blinry.org/
The bandwidth still doesn't quite compare to a GPU, and 128GB doesn't fit DeepSeek R1, however. If they bump it to 512GB for $5000 or so, that will disrupt the market.
Is there a link for this? I couldn't find it via either the OP or google.
It was big box stores like Joann's that ruined craft stores and killed Main Street by leveraging economies of scale and real estate speculation to undermine local players.

I'm not shedding a tear for a badly managed big box chain now that local boutique shops now have greater breathing room.
Agreeing… You can hear women call themselves “actor” rather than “actress” if you deign to partake of news articles about people who act.
I hope you're not trying to source regular Bash scripts without using source-bash.

I've used xonsh as my primary shell for many years now. The Bash compatibility was poor initially, but they fixed most/all the issues, and source-bash just works.

I use Gentoo, and don't actually use sudo, so I can't comment on that (I just su into root).
See TFA?

“We swore to serve the American people and uphold our oath to the constitution across presidential administrations,” the 21 staffers wrote in a joint resignation letter, a copy of which was obtained by the Associated Press. “However, it has become clear that we can no longer honor those commitments.”
I'm curious - why is LLM ranking preferred over cosine similarity from an embedding model (in the context of this specific problem)?
The key point is that the rust that gives Mars its red color was thought to form in a dry period, after mars lost its water:

> Previous studies of the iron oxide component of the martian dust based on spacecraft observations alone did not find evidence of water contained within it. Researchers had therefore concluded that this particular type of iron oxide must be hematite, formed under dry surface conditions through reactions with the martian atmosphere over billions of years – after Mars’s early wet period.

The new research suggests otherwise:

> new analysis of spacecraft observations in combination with novel laboratory techniques shows that Mars’s red colour is better matched by iron oxides containing water, known as ferrihydrite. Ferrihydrite typically forms quickly in the presence of cool water
FastRTC: The Real-Time Communication Library for Python
I have an incredible amount of respect for you for that, most of the time it's the right thing to do. However, I would encourage you to tune that reflex here since as the other user I linked to previously found, all the founders come from families that run sweatshops that they have had access to from a young age. They are imagining nothing, this is at best their actual views of the world and how it should work and at worst what they believe is a palatable view of sweatshops for the western audience they're seeking funding from.
See there: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/10/black-hole-bu...
The odds of a 'city-killer' asteroid hitting Earth have fallen to zero
They legally have all the branches. They can use Congress to cut programs they don't want
Absolutely it does. Not to mention, if the mood is right now "let's spray paint teslas because fuck elon", buying a tesla means that I can be the next car owner with a fuck elon spray paint. Who wants that, even if the TCO, reliability etc are all there.
Generative AI is most useful for the things we care about the least
My impression was that one of Russia's main aims in Ukraine were precisely these minerals, oil, and gas resources in the eastern part of Ukraine. Doesn't this make the US in many ways the same as Russia?

Also, I'm certain this will be spun into very effective pro-Russian propaganda.
Because they know that eventually the data contained in that table is going to be used to support some sort of lawsuit that their parking enforcement activity is biased, and is targeting people of color.

It's already ridiculous that they spent several years blocking this request while it went through court. If the plaintiffs spoke to pretty much anyone involved in maintaining the system, or with any of their internal infosec people, they would know that there's no real security risk to releasing this information.

They've already spent orders of magnitude more time and money litigating the issue than it would take to just release the information in the first place, so this is clearly not a cost or resourcing issue.

They don't want to release it because they'd prefer it's secret, because secrecy makes it harder for the public to hold them accountable. That's all.
Did you need licensing / training to take on electrical work? Do you market yourself as an electrician or more just a handyman that does minor electric jobs?
You’ve gotta deal with amd’s AI software stack though. How is that these days? I assume cuda is still king?
I have a love/hate relationship as well, mostly because I grew up within bicycling distance and spent way too much time at the museum.

The XB-70 used to be parked outside right in front of the main entrance. The cool thing is they also have the X-3, which seems like the same design family so you can see the test article then the attempt at a usable aircraft.

It was also the location of one of the most bonkers thing I've ever seen which was when they relocated an SR-71 to the museum and landed it on this very short old runway at the site. That thing was so big and so fast and that runway even at the time seemed so short. Here's a vid. I saw it from the road off the end of the threshold and it looked like it was going to hit the fence on the landing pass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib1EXdIam44
My first step is to actually finish my post :)

But after that, getting a reasonable law passed to fix this now-broken nonsense.
This hits home.
I doubt it. I think these laws were made to herd users towards big tech's established platforms that are 'policed' by community guidelines deemed 'appropriate' and where the content is never more than a takedown request away.

Welcome to the new internet.

(and it's funny how everyone's yelling 'fascist' at whatever happens in the US instead)
Feels more and more like we're at the end of an era when it comes to the internet.
It's linked in the twitter thread from the authors: https://x.com/OwainEvans_UK/status/1894436637054214509

specifically: https://x.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1894453376215388644
Only because it hasn't really been necessary.
Here in Oregon we have a lot of them, but it never gets old seeing them! We usually see at least a couple on our way to the coast from Portland. Earlier this week, my wife and I saw a mating pair fly high over this field by our house and spiral down towards the ground, holding talons. It was amazing, they are huge incredible birds. I’m so glad to live somewhere that has lots of public land and habitat preservation so my family can enjoy the clean air, water, skies, and trees, as can all of the wildlife we have.
While I believe that the city should share the schema, and that the city is effectively argues for security through obscurity, I disagree with the main premise of the article: that knowing SQL schema doesn't help the attacker.

If I understand the argument of the author here:

> Attackers like me use SQL injection attacks to recover SQL schemas. The schema is the product of an attack, not one of its predicates

The author appears to imply that once the vulnerability is found, the schema can be recovered anyway. It is not always the case. It is perfectly viable to find a SQL injection that would allow to fetch some data from the table that is being queried, but not from any other table, including `information_schema` or similar. If all the signal you get from the vunlerability is also "query failed" or "query succeeded, here's the data", knowing the schema makes it much easier to exploit.

> the problem is that every computer system connected to the Internet is being attacked every minute of every day

If you specifically log failed DB queries, than for all the possible injections that such 24/7 attacks would find you have already patched them. The log would then be not deafening until someone stumbles on the actual injection (that, for example, only exists for logged in users, and thus is not found by bots), in which case you have time to see it and patch before the attacker finds a way to actually utilize it.

Knowing schema both expedites their ability to take advantage of the vulnerability, but also increases their chances of probing the injection without triggering the query failure to begin with.
Git de-duplicates everything in its store (in the .git directory) already. That's how it can store thousands of commits which are snapshots of the entire repository without eating up tons of disk space. Why do you have duplicated files in the working directory, though?
> and only works because of Apple's APFS filesystem

There are lots of other file systems that support this kind of deduplication...

Like ZFS that the author of the software explicitly mentions in his write up https://www.truenas.com/docs/references/zfsdeduplication/

Or Btrfs ex: https://kb.synology.com/en-id/DSM/help/DSM/StorageManager/vo...

Or hell, even NTFS: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/dat...

This is NOT a novel or new feature in filesystems... Basically any CoW file system will do it, and lots of other filesystems have hacks built on top to support this kinds of feature.

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My point is that "people are only sick" because the company is pricing storage outrageously. Not that Apple is the only offender in this space - but man are they the most egregious.
Or you could just try a classic library yourself:

https://visp.inria.fr/

http://wiki.ros.org/visp_ros

https://github.com/lagadic/visp

example:

https://github.com/afonsocastro/larcc_interface

YMMV =3
Well that's a nice straw man. I think a more apt analogy would be I need to lose weight so I'm giving up the after-dinner mint I have after every meal.

It's a start.
Really ironically all of life up until 30 is kind of following a general script that's handed to you. And that kind of lets you get out of your own head, in a lot of ways. Then when you're ~30 and you have skills, you have some resources, and you understand pitfalls of life... there isn't much more of a set script left except the wife + kids + white picket fence script. And it takes some effort to figure out how/what your autobiographical script will be. (writing this as a 32 year old who hasn't figured it out)
The only time I went to the AF Museum was in the early 80s while in grade school. I still remember that thing. It was the coolest thing I'd ever seen. I was completely floored.
Seeing value only measured by utility seems to sidestep the reality that not everything that counts, can be counted.

In startup land, the world of innovation accounting for organizations is one attempt to better understand that.
Desktop platforms only have 2 memory channels, amd's latest Epyc servers have 12 channels per socket. Strix Halo has 4 channels.
So if you have the schema and the DBMS, you probably know how data is arranged in the files ("files" in the filesystem sense).
dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43169435
The stark reality of capitalism is that it's a business transaction. If they can't make enough profit from the sweatshop to make a profit, why would they keep the factory running? They're not running a charity, so they will just close that factory and open it somewhere else with cheaper labor due to lax labor laws. If X > Y, where X is the cost to operate the factory and Y is the money made from selling the goods from the factory, the factory eventually closes.

I won't shed any tears for capital either, but pretending they're going to operate a charity out of the goodnesses of their hearts and not a business that generates profit is not a winning strategy to get them to socialize the means of production.
That heuristic doesn't work! Everyone always overestimates the provocations done by others and underestimates their own. If the distortion is 10x each way and you go with this perception, that makes for a 100x skew [1]. This is how we end up with a downward spiral and the war of all against all [2]. It always feels like the other person started it and did worse [3]. Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear [4].

What we need you to do instead is follow HN's rules regardless of how badly other people are breaking them or you feel they are. We need others to do that as well, of course—it's nothing personal.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

[3] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[4] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

(As you can see, I've been at the task of explaining this for a while now...)
Yet another 1080p garbage screen. Please! I had tablets with higher DPI 10 years ago!
> I wonder if modular memory will continue to evolve and be competitive bandwidth wise with soldered.

That's the promise of CAMM2, which is supposed to enable socketed LPDDR with almost the same performance as soldered-down LPDDR. It's still pretty bleeding-edge though so it's hard to blame Framework for sticking with soldered memory for now.
I code more for fun now, because the proliferation of higher end languages and libraries for practically everything drastically reduces the time to that first "wow cool!" moment.

I'm sure it's the same with young people.
>I'm guessing they mean "chronic abusers" rather than just "user".

It's a critical distinction to make. With everything we put in our body it is often 'the dose makes the poison'. The way the article is now, it's something skin to propaganda saying that beef causes death because there are some 600kg McDonalds addicts having heart attacks
1. It's not a dumb reason to revoke certs, it's a VERY good reason to revoke certs. Lot's of hosting providers allow you to register subdomains with them e.g. mywebsite.squarespace.com; but Squarespace won't allow you to register a domain that starts with an underscore such as _123-mywebsite.squarespace.com because starting with an underscore is used for these DNS-based SSL checks. The concern was that DigiCerts system allowed you to receive an SSL cert for squarespace.com (the parent domain) by registering 12345678.squarespace.com (no underscore so as far as Squarespace knows, a normal subdomain). This is not a niche use of this; it's literally why the underscore prefix was there: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1910322#c10

2. It is a pretty dumb thing for a website to file a lawsuit about, that is true.

3. DigiCert deserves a lot of blame for the TRO. DigiCert received one TRO for one client who had 72 certs from DigiCert[1]. What they should have done is continue with revoking the other 80,000+ certificates in the 24 hour time window and then inform the CABF that they have 72 (or however many) holdout certs caused by legally binding temporary restraining order. They should have been proactive in complying and in their communication. DigiCert did not do that though. They delayed all 80,000+ certificates for 5 days instead. That's not good enough.

[1] - https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68995396/2/alegeus-tech...
They pay so little it's cheaper not to.
"Schemaless" is like "serverless" in that there's always a schema, even if it's not enforced by the database and instead applied dynamically by the application layer.
Who would be unhappy with $5 owned forever? Other than the author of course for making less money.
I’d be the first to speak out against climate change, but I’m not sure I understand how co2 is relevant? The current ambient co2 in the world ranges around 400-500 ppm. It can easily get into the thousands indoors and that doesn’t impact birds. It seems like we’re a long way off from ambient co2 causing an issue with wild birds?
Certified electricians can make really good money, especially union. But that's really hard to believe. Is this somewhere like NYC or something that there is an edge. A remote software developer is typically in the $100-200k range in the US. I know union certified electricians in that range, but none in the $300-400k range.
I still don't understand the question. Resignation because you don't feel you are able to fulfill the commitments of your job is a pretty standard way to publicly resign from some public service position in protest? There's probably a couple of hundred of years worth of examples.
Kind of like the movie Elysium but without the space station. Somehow, making dystopias into reality seems like a sort of weird moral imperative to a lot of tech people. I guess techies (wrongly) think that they'll somehow end up on the side of the 1%.