skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Founder of a data streaming startup (a PhD in database systems, ex-AWS Redshift/IBM researcher) explains why AI will fundamentally reshape data engineering within 24 months. Key insights:
How text-to-SQL is becoming a commodity (with Snowflake hitting 90% accuracy)
Why vector databases are a dead-end business model
When AI replaces feature engineering (and what that means for Spark/RisingWave)
The surprising way AI acts as "lossy compression" for storage
Why database vendors must now answer: "Do we even need databases anymore?"
> Much like Wikipedia, my donations depend on being able to donate to the actual engineers, and not to unrelated political advocacy.

Yep. I even agree with most of the unrelated political advocacy, but I want to be able to donate for that to a different organization.
I remember reading an article about this years ago - a non-transferable FPGA configuration which had some logic that should be unreachable but didn't work without it. Very faschinating but I've not been able to find it since.
I was able to get it working and it seemed fast enough. However I don't have any local databases of similar size to compare to.

ssh -F ssh.config -L 4213:localhost:4213 dev 'DUCKDB_HTTPPORT=4213 ~/.duckdb/cli/latest/duckdb -ui'
TigerGraph has released a Community Edition that is now free for commercial use. It supports GSQL, openCypher, and GQL, along with vector+graph search, making it valuable for both AI/agentic AI applications and traditional graph database use cases.

The license includes 16 cores, 200GB graph storage, and 100GB vector storage—a competitive alternative to Neo4j Community Edition, which lacks built-in vector support and has stricter licensing terms.

As graph+vector search gains traction in AI and knowledge graphs, we'd love to hear thoughts from the community.

More details: TigerGraph Community Edition https://dl.tigergraph.com/
why does a supply chain attack matter? ITT we don't understand supply chains.

let's ask a few Hezbollah types about their pagers...
Optimizing Cloud SQL Memory Performance: An SRE's Guide
Firefox is open source, but it's not an open source project. It's a Mozilla project --- effectively totally funded by Google.

*When* Google asks them to remove manifest v2, what do you think they'll do?
Regardless of where you get the weights, Google says you need to follow their terms and conditions for the model/weights:

> By using, reproducing, modifying, distributing, performing or displaying any portion or element of Gemma, Model Derivatives including via any Hosted Service, (each as defined below) (collectively, the "Gemma Services") or otherwise accepting the terms of this Agreement, you agree to be bound by this Agreement.

https://ai.google.dev/gemma/terms

Worth knowing if you're planning to use this model for production usage/with a business.

So once again, I don't understand what "open" is supposed to mean when they call models like these "open weights". What part exactly is "open"?
I use mine all the time for taking notes, keeping up with my calendar, and just for staying organized in general. The Apple Pencil is so smooth and natural.
Suppose user U has read access to Subscription S, but doesn't have access to keyvault K.

If user U can gain access to keyvault K via this exploit, it is scary.

[Vendors/Contingent staff will often be granted read-level access to a subscription under the assumption that they won't have access to secrets, for example.]

(I'm open to the possibility that I'm misunderstanding the exploit)
https://github.com/go-rod/rod

https://go-rod.github.io/

https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-python

https://playwright.dev/python/
I wonder if people could just write their blogs posts in a short form: claim, argument in favor, counter-argument; consequences (this is optional).

Like this whole blog post could be:

Claim: Current AI is unlikely to usher in an era of dramatically accelerated scientific discovery.

Argument in favor: A genius does not come to life when you linearly extrapolate a top-10% student. Newton or Einstein is not just scaled-up good students. To create an Einstein, we need a system can ask questions nobody else has thought of or dared to ask. One that writes 'What if everyone is wrong about this?' when all textbooks, experts, and common knowledge suggest otherwise.

Existing benchmarks don't test such skills. And existing systems are likely hopelessly far from this capability (based on the author's personal feelings).

Counter-argument: none.

Consequences: obvious.
I wouldn't fund Mozilla. I'd absolutely pay for Firefox, though, if it reverted some of the more problematic things they've been adding recently.
Llama-VSCode
Recalls get issued with reasonable frequency. The crazy part is that clinics have no way of identifying exposures (patients) or inventory impacted by recalls because US hospitals do not capture unique device identifiers (UDIs) in electronic health records or their supply chain systems.
I've looked at quite a few options, and this one (the product of a single person) is a great base, and MIT licensed:
https://github.com/caioricciuti/duck-ui

If you want to support a real OS UI take a look.
Think this is bad?

Psychology is worse, much worse, and yet is used around the world to make many, many life-changing or life-ending decisions.
RAG: Elixir Library for RAG
I have thought that the commercial nature of the (heh) mother company here, DuckDB labs, is support contracts and the like. Whilst MotherDuck is just another VC funded company in the DuckDB ecosystem. This new extension being added the list of default extensions blurs the line. That it seemingly is a proxy to closed source product from another company makes things even murkier. I can see a point for a for-pay external extension, but this one feels more like an AD for other company's services.
Microsoft quantum breakthrough labelled unreliable and 'essentially fraudulent'
AMD's 3D V-Cache Optimizer Driver for Squeezing More Ryzen 9 9950X3D Performance
It's surely a difficult decision.

You either:

1.) train the model using public-domain or "free" content, get a mix of very old-style writing and a very wide range of quality blended into an overall bad result,

or, you:

2.) train the model using copyrighted content, get "so-so-but-better" results (because the model is still not able to produce quality by remixing quality), but you won't be able to release it because you can't ensure that it won't reveal parts of its training content later-on.

So... at max you can use it for PR only and never open it to anyone...

Yeah, really hard to guess what happened here.... /s
Who would have thought that anti-freeze is not healthy to ingest?
They lost a lot of users because websites were getting heavy and Firefox used to be single-threaded when Chrome appeared and was blazingly fast due to its multi-process design.

I still vividly recall the frozen UI as another tab loaded or did work. And if one tab crashed they all went with it. Annoyed me every time.

After many years[1] they sorted it out, but in my view it's clear that's what really killed their momentum, as it was such a sacrifice to stay with Firefox compared to using Chrome.

[1]: https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2016/08/02/whats-nex...
I'm guessing because they don't want to. Their "mission" is much larger than Firefox.
You'll very soon see how people with the biggest impact (net positive or negative!) in your company are the ones playing the corporate game.

Without having a big impact, it's virtually impossible to grow in your career. Because of this, playing the corporation game is the most important part of our jobs.

We are first an employee for the company, then a software engineer. We mostly deliver value for the company by coding, but it isn't the only thing we do.

Working in a team and organization is very different from working alone.

In a big enough tech organization (10+ people), the impact of your "coding skills" is smaller than the impact you can have by just reorganizing the team in a more efficient manner.

How important those meetings and processes are important for the company.

Without them, you could still write software, but it would be very disorganized. The company needs to figure out what to focus on, focus on it, and moving Jira tickets across the board is a way to coordinate it.

Meetings and work relationships are the only way to get your organization to improve.

It's normal to feel frustrated at first, just don't let it become your personality or be too cynical about it otherwise you won't be able to have an impact.

Soon your emotions will adapt so you will feel less fed up by those things. For me.

It was only after a decade of experience I stopped getting triggered by those inefficiencies and understood how hard it is to actually run a team, much more an entire department / company.
Show HN: AudioNimbus – Steam Audio's immersive spatial audio, now in Rust
Hi HN! I’m excited to share AudioNimbus, a Rust library that brings the powerful spatial audio capabilities of Steam Audio to the Rust ecosystem. Whether you’re building games, VR/AR experiences, or simulations, AudioNimbus makes it easier to integrate realistic, immersive audio into your projects.

Steam Audio is a toolkit for spatial audio, developed by Valve. It simulates realistic sound propagation, including effects like directionality, distance attenuation, reflections, and reverb. It’s used in games like Half-Life: Alyx and Counter-Strike 2.

Rust is increasingly being adopted in game development, but there’s a need to bridge the gap with industry-proven tools like Steam Audio. AudioNimbus aims to fill that gap, making it easier to integrate immersive audio into Rust projects.

AudioNimbus supports a variety of spatial audio effects, including:

- Head-Related Transfer Function (HRTF): Simulates how the listener’s ears, head, and shoulders shape sound perception, providing the acoustic cues the brain uses to infer direction and distance.

- Ambisonics and surround sound: Uses multiple audio channels to create the sensation of sound coming from specific directions.

- Sound propagation: Models how sound is affected as it travels through its environment, including effects like distance attenuation and interaction with physical obstacles of varying materials.

- Reflections: Simulates how sound waves reflect off surrounding geometry, mimicking real-world acoustic behavior.

The project is open-source on GitHub: https://github.com/MaxenceMaire/audionimbus

It includes code snippets and examples to help you get started. Contributions and feedback are welcome!

I’d love to hear your thoughts and see what you build with AudioNimbus. Feel free to share your projects, ask questions, or suggest improvements.

Happy hacking!
> So much this. It's not news this is a thing, it's a problem of a cost -- if there is not way to remotely id a person, remote company has to pay for a flight ticket and is at disadvantage compared to competitor who hires locally when it comes to hiring costs.

As long as the fully loaded ongoing cost of remote workers is lower than the fully loaded cost of in-person workers, you'll still come out ahead to send people an airplane ticket, hotel room, and meals. And long term I fully expect remote hiring/identity validation as a service companies to emerge.
Awesome feedback. I’ll think through this.

The sandbox is spot on; Control what the server can do. Especially important when running locally
Supabase IMO sits in the middle of the curve between Firebase and PocketBase, not really the same use case as DuckDB & MotherDuck.
Google is using Greenhouse for ATS now?
Here's a 4k "remaster"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UXS6DBD6g0
I hadn't thought about this in years. It was absolutely dazzling to see at the time, I can't imagine what it was like in person. In retrospect I would also probably chalk this up as the first truly "internet" moment.
Be aware that glycerol has as many calories as regular sugar. It does have a lower glycemic index, though.
Not trying to be sassy but what definition of AGI are you using? I've never seen a concrete goal, just vague stuff like "better than humans at a wide range of tasks." Depending on which tasks you include and what percentage of humans you need to beat, we could be already there or maybe never will be. Several of these tests [1] have been passed, some appear reasonably tractable. Like if Boston Dynamics cared about the Coffee Test I bet they could do it this year.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligenc...
Just came here to say, the demo video was awesome!

Refreshing to neither see a loom recording or a high budget video set in a Japandi architecture style office designed to go viral.
I'd thought that several notable ships had been refitted to burn petrol, though I can't find the references I'd had in mind.

(I'd think that petrol itself would be a less desirable fuel for some of the same reasons as ammonia: it's heavier-than air, sinks, and burns rapidly or explodes when vapours combine with air.)
> The time to act was years ago

Yes, 7 years ago to be exact. And they did act, they made a deal with elmo in 2018. He memied Tesla stock from $20 all the way to $400. You might not like elmo, I mean who would now?, but he did deliver. Refusal to pay out reward for this ridiculous overvaluation is only going to bite them in the ass.
That’s Google DeepMind to you
Look I really really really don't want to give Tesla anything.

But 5,000 hours might be 1 millionth what Tesla theoretically has. They have six million vehicles that have been driven for about 2-3 years figure they average 1-2 hours of use a day.

I still think route-optimized/precalculated datasets are necessary for the next couple 9s of self-driving. I'm not an AI guy so take this with a huge grain of salt, but routes can be trained with adversarial AIs to match route-specific metrics/conditions of "winning".

I think convergent infrastructure is necessary for another set of 9s.
As a morning parent of a toddler, part of the morning routine is playing a toddler exercise video. It's funny, my initial thinking was to burn some of the toddler's energy before sitting down to breakfast, but at this point it's definitely more for me. Sometimes the toddler even complains but I've come to really enjoy doing some stretches in the morning.
i think generally these companies are too afraid of the obvious rejoinder to try actually enforcing these terms
The problems here are: 1. Using baked-in CA TLS certs which leads to trialware/expireware. 2. Setting up a support thread than closing it right before the problem happens so as to avoid feedback on 1. (3. Setting up the CA TLS system requriement for extensions/add-ons in the first place except in specially negotiated situations like Debian's "Firefox" and the unbranded builds; neither of which has this problem)

The solution going forwards is obviously to have replaceable certs. But Mozilla doesn't seem very open to feedback as evidenced by the actions this link points to.
Well I make https://gojs.net, so I just use the GoJS diagramming library to make diagrams :D

Of course, its made for developers trying to make applications, not end users.
That doesn't change what they're saying. The self-hosted backend you're linking is a network-accessible version of the local SQLite backend. The hosted backend is transparently globally replicated and built on FoundationDB, with a very different (better) scaling story.
It depends on whether you prefer to transfer electricity or ammonia. You get to pick whatever is easier, which caps the difficulty at not high. The suggestion of shipping ammonia was for the sake of convenience, not a burden. It's optional.
So does a small quantity of Arrowroot, I used to add that when making my own ice cream.
Retired neurosurgical anesthesiologist here.

The de-emphasis on rescue breathing was the biggest advance in CPR since it began.

No non-anesthesiologist can do this effectively (even in Advanced Life Support recertification classes, anesthesiologists — including me — struggled to achieve adequate air exchange with rescue breathing on a mannequin, which is far easier than on an unconscious person).

Full energy and attention and effort keeping up deep regular chest compressions at witnessed or just-occurred out of hospital cardiac arrest/loss of consciousness events stands the best chance of a good outcome.

In-hospital arrests are almost universally fatal.
I fully admit to not knowing about this space, but is there any indication useful quantum computers are going to be a thing any time soon?
> the vast majority of NAT doesn't cause this problem

Hard disagree, I've yet to meet anyone in my country that has gotten any WebRTC service to work at all.
yes of course, but for mass checking, I highly doubt they will use LLMs though

You are right, this is just a quick thingy to bypass shallow checks
Chrome pulling ahead of everyone else.

It's kind of scary that Chrome is so far ahead in web standards. It's almost as if web standards are designed to give Chrome the edge.
https://planetscale.com/pricing
Fun with the Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 (and an unexpected OpenBSD link)
Can factories install local battery banks to cover a day’s utilization? Charge up the batteries on the cheap electricity during noon and run the plant off of those reserves. I assume other industries are already running these cost optimization analyses as the renewable electricity market continues to develop. There is a balancing point between the capex and opex, but unless it is insanely energy hungry (like aluminum), that seems possible.
The cerebral code as an ensemble of signals, music. Or rather, music as metaphor of neuronal patterning. Gives another dimension to being 'in tune' with someone.

I think the clinical shift to focus on 'the individual' instead of the ensemble has overlooked the importance of inter-brain synchronisation, the process of which we are only start to grapple [0]. A feeling all to familiar to fellow musicians, and no doubt anyone involved in activities in which timing coordination is key.

[0]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01497...
That was the idea from day one. Can't wait to ship that feature
> Aren't individual freedoms and not having having to bend to communal norms core tenants of being American?

I suppose you harbor similarly negative feelings towards affirmative action and the civil rights act?
> What is the scale 0.00-9.00 ?

Referring to the timestamps in the linked video (i.e. from the start of the video to 9 minutes).
Reminds me of an issue I reported years ago to the super-special-premier support my company pays for. I never got to somebody who actually understood the issue but there were several managers who constantly tried to have meetings and close the ticket.
It writes blocks of 50 - 100 lines fairly fast in one go, and I work in such block chunks one at a time. And I keep going as I already have a good enough idea of how a program could look like. I can write some thing like a 10,000(100 such iterations) line Perl script in no time. Like in one/two working day(s).

Thats pretty fast.

If you are telling me I ask it to write the entire 20,000 line script in one go, that's not how I think. Or how I go about approaching anything in my life, let alone code.

To go a far distance, I go in cycles of small distances, and I go a lot of them.
You may be interested the decision in the COPA vs. Wright case https://www.judiciary.uk/judgments/copa-v-wright/ where Craig Wright falsely claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto and forged many kinds of text on computers in order to support his baseless claims, including emails. The COPA's experts, among others, found lots of cases where he slipped up, and the court's decision and its appendix go into a great deal of detail about how those slipups were detected.
Llama-VSCode now supports local chat with the project's context
Yes, one can style them with a userstyle as always.
There's no "model" there, just a methodology. Hubbard does consulting and sells books, that's how he monetizes this as far as I know. His book How to Measure Anything[1] lays out the core ideas in sufficient detail for somebody to implement the basic idea. A used copy could be acquired for < $10 if one were interested in learning more.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/How-Measure-Anything-Intangibles-Busi...
High-Performance PNG Decoding (Blend2D / C++)
Introduction of a new high performance PNG decoder provided by Blend2D library, which challenges existing decoders written in C++ and other programming languages.
> Even a reduction in intimacy if anything.

My understanding is that this is one of their complaints
Not sure about Cinnamon, which is a pet project by Linux Mint, but Gnome and Kwin offer some options these days:

https://github.com/ellysaurus/KWin-TilingGuide/

https://github.com/paperwm/PaperWM

https://github.com/peterfajdiga/karousel

there might be more
>>The approach was simple, but relied on technologies that are now obsolete.

Does obsolete mean deprecated or removed?
Another possibility is to use plain words and avoid coded words. Often this gets better results.

For instance, there are some men who will, when asked "Are you gay?" say "no" but if you ask "Do you have sex with men?" they will answer "yes". [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_who_have_sex_with_men
Its only a matter of time for EU, Canada, Mexico, Australia, China, basically everyone to sit together at a table and harmonize counter tariffs in a collective action. 20% more on Canadian steel? everyone else bumps all tariffs in unison.
Wow, as someone who worked at the original limewire back until we got sued out of existence, this makes me sad to hear some scammers bought the IP and resuscitated the corpse of the company.
Setting the value of a pixel in an image is very different from drawing objects like lines, this is a good introduction: https://graphicscompendium.com/intro/01-graphics-pipeline
Legally inaccessible; in practice widely available.
I was in San Francisco that week. Ecological issues aside, it was the last time San Francisco felt different in a good way rather than a bad one. The “negative energy” is now too much for me and, when I travel to the Bay Area, I pretty much just stay on-track. I wonder if people who lived in San Francisco from 1965-2005 expected it to last forever.
I'm interested to see whether they attempted to show that the email was forged. Are the filings in the case a matter of public record? Usually they are in countries like the US and UK.
There's apparently a config setting to turn all animations off, though I haven't tried it myself.

The author linked their config file from the article, and it includes this:

// Animation settings.
animations {
// Uncomment to turn off all animations.
// off

I think it's boilerplate from the default config file, which would imply that the video they showed is not the 'animations off' version, if that's not already clear from the presence of animations.
You're not responding to the full statement. Grandparent was saying that a supply chain attack is not possible with this exploit ("exploit", I guess -- again there's no security boundary being crossed here), not that supply chain attacks don't matter in the abstract.