skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the difference between the way things are accessed/handled behind the scenes in a spreadsheet vs. database[3][1b].

Adding a programming / scripting language isn't going to change exel data access patterns.

One possible approach:

Using excel as front end and storing actual data in database would speed things up.
This assumes one uses 'python' on the database to do behind the scenes analysis[1] vs. moving complete excell worksheet(s) into / out of database[2]).

Relevant background note: Spent quite a few years supporting researchers who were comfortable with excel; but the basic data requirements far exceeded what excel was capabile of handling (pre-analysis, 1-2milion excel cells). aka local machine access only, no remote / cloud stuff.

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[1] : a) excel with access database : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DbvcuE8ITA
b) excel with postgres : https://rowzero.io/blog/connect-postgresql-to-microsoft-exce...

[2] input/export excel data : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PxaTPZIYmc

[3] why database instead of excel : https://baserow.io/blog/database-instead-of-excel
Ask HN: Anyone else ready to ditch app stores and Facebook's ecosystem?
I'm getting fed up with Apple and Google controlling everything through their app stores. The fees are ridiculous, their policies are frustrating, and the platform limitations just keep piling up.

I've looked into PWAs and web native apps as alternatives, but they still can't do everything a native app can - especially on iOS where Apple conveniently restricts things like push notifications for web apps.

And don't even get me started on building for Facebook(Good thing is we were able to remove Facebook signin as less than 2% of our users were using it - lol) . Any support is practically non-existent, and they change their APIs without warning, and their policy enforcement feels completely random. I've seen too many developers get their apps suddenly banned with vague error messages, then get stuck in endless loops with their useless review process (and no support team!)

Is anyone successfully building outside these walled gardens? What are the biggest obstacles, and how do we push the web (or something else) forward as a true alternative? Would love to hear your experiences.
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#1 is a textbook that I've taught out of. It's a good summary of decently up-to-date psycholinguistics.

#2 is more of a polemical book, maybe not the best if you want a fair summary.

#3 I've never heard of.
AI hype may be worse 2035. See "AI that can match humans at any task will be here in five to 10 years, Google DeepMind CEO says" etc.
In 2028, The State of Indiana is going to issue a corrected birth certificate for Pete Buttigieg showing him to be 32 years and therefore not eligible to be president.
Thank you for making this happen! My family and friends are sick of my decade-long attachment to my pebble steel by now, haha.

Any chance the particular extra color for the metal one could be an actual metal color? My pebble steel with the metal link band was a great combination of stylish and functional. I never really liked the look of any of the later models so even when I bought them I always went back to my pebble steel. I went ahead and pre-ordered the new metal one and I suppose I’ll go for black if I have to but I really hope you come out with a stainless steel or silver color.

Also what’s the watchband compatibility? Will this work with the original pebble bands or with standard watch bands or something new and proprietary?
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you mean some person on wikipedia disagrees with him.
100%. We tried to compete with a few VC-funded startups and they all have been able to outgrow us while we struggled to get enough money for SOC2.
This "hurting themselves" you're talking about is as hurtful as buying hot chocolate instead of coffee.
So you don't support freedom of speech? Or you support it only for people who agree with you? Do you believe the government should pressure institutions to punish people who express messages the government doesn't like?

It's interesting that Columbia protesters get their degrees revoked but J6 protesters get pardons. How do you explain the difference?
Before needing an LLM for it, they might want to ensure their doc system is using a search system that actually works. There's too many doc-focused templates / apps that have the worst search possible.
(Well, rebuilding them with a different allocator that benchmarks well on their specific workflow.)
Could you release a fork of jq whose make does all this fanciness?
I use jq A LOT so would love a turnkey solution to make it faster.
That sounds like an awful workplace culture. I doubt the name of the git command is responsible, though.
I tend to be wary of AI slop products as well, but I don't think indie developers are particularly more prone to creating AI slop than VC-backed devs. It seems to me that AI has lowered the barrier to entry for creating slop products for indie devs. On the other end of the spectrum, the number of VC-backed SaaS products out there that haven't completely pivoted to becoming some kind of AI wrapper is approximately zero.

Regarding the topic at hand, I'm more likely to purchase something that's not VC-backed, and does not mention AI at all these days.
We already have laws on the books to deal with physical violence. As for verbal abuse, welcome to America - aka sticks and stones country (as guaranteed by our constitution). Anyways, why should a particular faith get special privileges?
True. Democrats don't have to make it easier on them, though. If the Democrats want to stop Trump, then when a Republican in Congress votes against Trump, don't vote for Trump. Let the fact that a Republican voted against Trump matter.
I have yet to run into anyone that hasn't let out a bit of a sigh when sen gets on that train.

I love the movie, I actually think Naussica is his best movie, followed by Princess. However as someone who grew up on western movies there is a rhythmic miss to these movies, a pacing that is unlike other movies. I never said it made the movies bad, just that it was, I guess strange... unexpected.

.. and like I said, looking at the movie, there is nothing there I would cut nothing that would bring it back to the expected western rhythm.
While I appreciate the distinction you're pointing out, I disagree with your conclusion that the agentic system and its environment will remain separate going forward. There are strong incentives to merge the external environment more closely with the model's environment. I can imagine a future where GPUs have a direct network interface an os-like engine that allows them to interoperate with the external environment more directly.

It seems like a natural line of progress as RL is becoming mainstream for language models; if you can build the verifier into the GPU itself, you can drastically speed up training runs and decrease inference costs.
It's clear that you hold these positions pretty strongly, and there is nothing wrong with that. However, I am wondering why you felt compelled to post your closely held personal positions from a throwaway account? It minimizes the statement quite a bit and makes it looks like a drive by posting.
> Are the packages all debug symbols?

Upstream is stripped actually. My final build here is 43x larger than the distro binary, partly due to having plentiful debug info.
I wish the Steam page had some pictures of the diorama setup from outside. It is a very original idea so play to its strenght and show more of what makes it cool.
i wasn't aware of the Beeper affiliation that's helpful context. a good college try.
Sorry for your losses and the situations you're going through.
I've also been using ChatGPT lately too for mental health, since therapy here is expensive...

I'm a single parent, dealt with homelessness as well (it's a long story).
No family, no friends, and no co-parenting either. It was only myself and my kiddo.

I couldn't receive assistance from government NOR churches (but doesn't hurt to still try) because I was working...However, I was unable to get an apartment at the time(another long story). I was living in Airbnbs and hotels for the time.

I was VERY lucky that a random couple who owned their own businesses let me live in their guest house until I was on my feet and was able to get my own place(took me 3 months of saving).

In terms of jobs, I ended up applying at job agencies, because it is the recruiters job to find you work. I recommend contacting the big ones like Robert Half, Adecco, Randstad, etc. Apply for their tech jobs online and maybe go in person to talk to them about it. Typically, they'll reach out to you over the phone and set up an interview, but I'm sure if they see you in person too, it'll show initiative.

Goodluck out there, wishing you the best and hang in there.
I would totally watch Turkish Billy Madison.
We are functionally blockading ourselves.

If you don't believe trump is working on your behalf then his actions are increasingly indistinguishable from the Russian military directly preventing trade with us.
Why?

Lots of felons keep their degree.

In this case, no one was murdered. The crime is more like trespassing. Should we take degrees of people who get caught dealing drugs? Insider trading? Pirating movies?

Do you think this punishment represents a consistent policy of the university, or was it applied under government pressure?
> how does a language develop in the brain

Huge question, but there's not really a lot of data to go on. There do seem to be some things that are a lot easier to learn when you are very young.

> why is it easy for me (as someone who grew up in the East) to learn guttural sounds of Arabic

It all has to do with the speech sounds you're exposed to when you're young.

> Does the writing system affect speech, and if yes, then how?

Probably not. Very little if so. The main effect would be preserving old speech forms of the language to some extent, if the writing is phonetically based.

> What are some known neuroscientific tricks (for adults, not kids) for acquiring specific languages?

The most important thing is lots of exposure and practice and also the way you're practicing the language should be as close as possible to how you will actually use the language. There aren't any massively effective shortcuts.
If AIPAC were a publicly traded company, its stock would be through the roof today.
To add a bit more, if Schumers behavior doesn’t prove it I don’t know what does. The leader of the blue team in the senate voted red at the first and most consequential opportunity.
Former Pebble and Pebble Time owner and these kinda feel, meh in 2025. The Pebble roadmap seemed like it had more potential back in the day with experimental bands that didn't really materialize.

Hoping once they actually release and we find out if the targets are hit or not with battery life and water resistance.

I just hope they don't release limited color cases again and not have any left for warranty support as happened with my Blue Pebble and all they could offer was a Black one.
This is my take as well. I think something like Dafny + LLMs will raise in popularity.
Which is ridiculous.
Not really, thats covered well by:

"There may come a time when prompts can sufficiently control expressive elements in AI-generated outputs to reflect human authorship. If further advances in technology provide users with increased control over those expressive elements, a different conclusion may be called for"

Because any "advancement" in this space is predicated on getting tighter control over the requested outcome.

You can already script a local image generator to come up with random images based on text searches or LLM output. Thats already not copyrightable anywhere.
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don't let facts and data get in the way of rabble rabble rabble rabble

if the worst thing is someone else's code then someone else's hardware
Asus Grace Blackwell 1000 tops mini PC
The paper is about integer multiplication, not float
This looks like an almost pure Golang program, but still has a Ruby dependency. Is there a component/library that Ruby provides, that Go doesn't have? Or some other logic going on?
Yes. And anyone who has stepped outside of the chat ecosystem and used something like NovelAI or Sudowrite will be familiar with the co-editing approach those tools use which is easily accounted for with the above.
i like you use NFC via watch way more than by Phone. I don't wanna take out my phone all the time, i'd like to look at my phone screen less and less as time goes on.
I'm not defending Microsoft but "scam" is probably the wrong label for what they did. Nothing was literally sold to anyone. They made a misleading announcement about progress they supposedly made.
It’s cool seeing a Houston startup too; I feel like the only ones I’ve ever seen have been self-funded
Why is it rude?

Do you think Americans haven't worked hard to build democratic institutions?
Open money laundering at its finest. Google, a Jewish company, transfers 45x money times ARR to Israel Jews.

Google could have built this in-house.

While millions and billions struggle this is how you do it at high level.

SoonDar goes brrrrrrr.
I've used weak references in C# before so was happy to discover they were added to Go. The article gives a good example of use: allowing efficient object sharing between goroutines without reference counting. I used this to implement an object cache of expensive-to-deserialize objects in a similar way.
If I had the time to fork jq, I would convert the relevant part to C++ so it doesn't spend literally all of its time dynamically allocating strings it is just about to discard.
Wework’s business was controlling real-estate via leasing. It never had enough money to own meaningful amounts of office space in multiple major markets.
It makes more sense if you think about how 2006 looked like:
- the only way to money in 2006 was advertising and the idea of advertising in internet videos was borderline crazy (remember when internet was tv but without ads?)

- it was just one of many potential interesting players. To think it could've been Vimeo, but the founders cared more about their main project: collegehumor
The government issues money as well.
There is no part of the definition of API that requires it to be public. It's Application Programming Interface. You can have internal APIs.
That does work already. You don't even have to use both mouse buttons, just left click is enough.
Maybe.

There's a technical aspect around camera and photo settings. This is largely objective. In certain conditions, certain settings deliver certain qualities.

Then, there's a subjective side. Framing, composition, other artistic decisions.
I found Blade Runner 2049 painful to watch. The story is ok, but the presentstion, with its reliance on memes from the earlier film, ruins it for me. Also, the principle malevolent force is vacant and tepid. The story would have been better without him. If they’d just set it in the same world, without trying to look and sound like thenold film-but-updated, I’d have liked it… but they brought back Harrison Ford just for nostalgia, and copied loads of the shots and music. Sorry, no, they didn’t copy those things, they ‘extended” them. Copied-but-bigger. The story might have stood by itself without pandering to the entitlements of fans of the ealier film and I wish they had been brave enough to make it more unique.
They actually have shown improvement despite the added load by newcomers who now consume in similar quantities to natives.
I'm also curious about what impressed you. Most of my interactions with Linux code have been trawling through either crufty or just poorly-written subsystems/drivers because they're causing me problems, which I realise is a bit of a biased sample.
It was e-paper (transreflective LCD), although it had a backlight it is vastly different to your usual backlit TFT.
Dark Pools were the original "equitable market"; when market makers were trading in 1/8ths and fixing markets, dark pools enabled people to trade in 0.01 increments.
Yeah, mostly for the good regulations, not for the lawsuits.
Instead of copying the app, they could have just paid Karelia Software.
Ok, then Microsoft put a famously large amount of effort into stopping people from installing other software on each version of Xbox. And Nintendo at least made it difficult to create unlicensed GameCube games.
Time to fire up Tomb of the Taskmaker
You state that as if it is fact despite there being no evidence to support that viewpoint.
There's a safe house near Flood and Tabernacle St, I just drove by it, they may have some resources that can help
One explanation is the need to complete the objective compensating for age.
Lovely tool. Thanks for the release! I had some fun with it before calling it a day.

Here is my personal wishlist after a short test-drive.

- Blame-based stats. While it is nice to see an overview of the historical contributions of Bob and Alice, this is not something that I would use on a daily basis. What would be more useful, is to present the same tables based on the blame lines of a tree-ish. This would show the de-facto "owner(s)" of modules/files, something which comes handy when asking for help with something or even assigning reviews. One could also run this iteratively over the history and get some nice timeline graph.

- Support for pattern-based inclusions/exclusions. E.g. I am not interested to see stats on the json files used by tests. Or any kind of auto-generated files (e.g. django migrations).

- Support for a configuration file, to store your preferred settings in your git repo. Something TOML-based perhaps.

- Better packaging (nit). E.g. the linux tarball for v0.6 contains some apple-related "junk" and gnu tar complains about archive format incompatibilities.
Funny, while there were a couple of things I may not have loved...the vast majority of her enforcement actions I thought were quite good for the average American. Heck, the enforcement on banking fees alone was huge for the average person.
I immediately went Ctrl + F "Lacework". Another Lacer! Haha, oh well... maybe at the next startup.
First author here. The hardware architectures are realistic - we developed & evaluated real example hardware implementations for them, validated on FPGA, and they achieved state-of-the-art ResNet performance in a deep learning accelerator system implementation compared to prior accelerators evaluated on similar FPGAs. See the associated accelerator system source code here:

https://github.com/trevorpogue/algebraic-nnhw

The hardware architectures focused on in the paper are systolic array designs, an efficient type of hardware design for matrix multiplication (e.g., the Google TPU uses this), as opposed to more SIMD-like vector architectures like GPUs. It may be possible to extend the proposed KMM algorithm to other types of hardware architectures also in future work. Regarding floating point - this work is applicable for integer matrix multiplication acceleration, it may be possible to extend the concept to floating point data types in future work also.
I mean, it is used as a substitution for 'Israel', but I don't see how that's a dogwhistle. Or do you mean antisemitic?
two years ago annoy library from spotify was good enough for small RAG, stored everything in single file...
As a customer, I might be interested to know if a vendor can continue to exist if they achieve only moderate success.
-march=native maybe?
I think you're being a bit previous - the fact of legal challenges might ultimately prove to be just a speedbump, and the MAGA crowd have made clear their belief in ignoring unfavorable legal judgements and directing blame for any constitutional crisis on the judicial officials.

I said at the time that Musk bought Twitter that his aim was probably not to run it as a profitable going concern but to gain strategic control of a key communication channel for political ends. I feel like events since then have borne this take out.

I'm not sure if you meant that DOGE was an attempt by Musk to wrest power from Trump; my view is taht their interests are more or less aligned and that the ultimate aim is to provide the executive with unlimited and direct control over the bureaucratic apparatus (rather than having to be compliant with union contracts, other contracts, federal rulemaking procedures, the administrative procedures act, etc, etc).
It was a huge bet, it paid off for many reasons, not least luck.

I remember 2005/2006 there were many websites competing for the video-website role, YouTube's luck was that...they were very permissive on uploads while competitors like Vimeo e.g. employed a reasonable amount of content moderators.
TIL, diplomas are not actually owned by the recipient.
I've been consistently surprised at how common bad engineering and security practices seem to be within the security vendor space though. So idk this just makes it sound more plausible to me cause this would be exactly the type of company to have a scandal like that.
Please don't "source?" this, it's just a viewpoint.
'I Think, Therefore I Am' Applies to AI, Possibly Even Self-Driving Cars (2020)
Tuta comes with a caveat - you cannot use it in any other mail client (I think there are similar limitations with Proton as well).

Anyone looking for alternatives - stay away from mailboxo.org. It's a pathetic service. Stuck in past (they have a suite that makes you kick a table leg), very disgustingly bad customer service (it's almost non existent), and yeah they use 2FA inside the password.

Tuta is many times better if you can live with not being able to use another client. (They have pretty decent apps on all platforms though)
Just like how Putin had two actual opposition Presidential candidates ruled ineligible due to 'irregularities' with their applications.
I like the idea but I would hesitate to upload my API keys.

why not make the prompting/orchestration pieces open source? A user could run locally to generate a result and the app could focus on displaying the results in a fun way
That’s not the point, though. Any method by which apple exposes APIs to Samsung, Google, etc:

- requires immense development effort and expansion of security surface area

- STILL offloads trust to Samsung, Google, etc

The hyperbole here is a little hysterical. Apple doesn’t totally lock out third parties. In the smartwatch example, it is a very specific set of features which involved passing data (which users expect to be e2e encrypted!) back to Apple. That’s an extremely hostile security environment! Product tradeoffs would absolutely have to be made in order to support arbitrary third parties! I don’t think it’s fair to just demand that Apple make their product worse without at least exploring the balance.
Every time you do this you'd get a substantially different picture

This is actually a bad example. It's too easy for an IP attorney to bring in an expert witness,(read: physicist), and blow it out of the water in a courtroom.

I won't go into the details, but basically, you got different arrangements every time because the human did different things every time. In the case of generative AI, you get different arrangements every time when the human does the exact same thing every time.

So, if you can find it, the counterexample you're looking for is one where the human does the exact same thing every time. (In an unassailable mathematical and physics based sense of the word "same"). But gets different results.
Oh whatever :P Don’t be condescending about a mindset you don’t experience yourself.

I ran debian as my daily driver for like half my life; now I’m on mac and never have to worry about my friggin wifi driver.
I have commented just above it. tl;dr - I'd avoid it like plague at this point.
About 60 for me. I have to charge mine while working to get it to last a day :/
> You literally pay for access to a tech stack that has nothing better than you would be able to do with USB.

Tech stack has the customers. You pay for access to customers.