skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The database was merely an example, there are other shared resources that are going to run into the same problem, like caches. Still, it's weird to imply that database users are meant to map to application users without any kind of justification other than "you can do it" but OK, let's assume that we can. Let's consider Postgres, which will have absolutely no problem creating 10,000 users (not sure about 100,000 or 1,000,000, but we can put that aside anyhow.) You basically have two potential options here:

- The most logical option is to continue to use database pooling as you currently do, and authenticate as a single user. Then, when handling a user request, you can impersonate a specific database user. Only problem is, if you do this, the protection you get is entirely discretionary: the connection is still absolutely authenticated to a user that can do more, and all you have to do is "reset role" and go on your way. So you can do this, but it doesn't help you with server exploits.

- The other way to handle this is by having each request get a separate database connection which is actually authenticated to a specific user. That will work and provide the database level guarantees. However, for obvious reasons, you definitely can't share a global database pool with this approach. That's a problem, because each Postgres connection will cost 5-10 MiB or so. If you had 10,000 active users, you would spend 50-100 GiB on just per-connection resources on your database server box. This solution scales horribly even when the scale isn't that crazy.

And this is all assuming you can actually get the guarantees you need just using the database layer. To that I say, good luck. You'll basically need to do most of your logic in the database instead of the application layer and make use of features like row-level security. You can do this, but it's an extremely limiting architecture, not the least of which because databases are hard to scale except vertically. If you run into any scenario where you outgrow a single database cluster, everything here goes out the window.

Needless to say, nobody does this, and they're totally right. Having a database assist in things like authorization and visibility is not a terrible idea or anything, but all of this taken together is just not very persuasive.

And besides. Postgres itself, along with basically all of the other major databases, are also not necessarily memory-safe. Having external parties have access to your database connection pretty much puts you back at square one for defenses against potential unknown memory safety bugs, making this entire exercise a bit pointless...
Work Is Life Too
Can IMAP be used as a file server system? Outlook has this functionality, where files can be stored directly outside of emails.
Millenarianism is evergreen.
This is an incredibly bad test for real world use. everything the author tested was a clean slate project any LLM is going to excel on those.
> The default apps, browser excluded, are pretty harmless - their incentive is to create a device you decide to welcome into your home. I don't see children spending 4 hours doomscrolling the calculator.

At least Facebook and Youtube are default apps nowadays
> And it plays out over a trillion or so years. Horrifying.

Horrifying to whom? The character isn't suffering. They aren't aware of the passage of those trillions of years. There's nothing any more horrifying about this than about bog-standard reincarnation.

And so what if you're the only one? That's not really true in a functional sense. Every human you interact with is indeed a truly conscious individual with a discrete personality and life. You only become integrated as a single organism when the egg "hatches" and you join the broader society of adults.
Wait till it is on libgen, then.
That is a great list. The principle behind this is the defensive democracy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defensive_democracy
Actually I really like this idea, especially in the context of shared food ordering it makes a lot of sense!
Rewriting the Elixir parser for QueueMetrics live for Teams, my company's service to keep track of call and queue statistics for Microsoft Teams telephony, in a way that's better than the PowerBI examples that come in the box. It's at https://www.queuemetrics.com/teams.jsp?lid=H990

It's quite a mess as we have to aggregate multiple data sources that come with their own timing and sequence issues - plus we are seeing massive adoption so resource usage will be interesting for v2.

The plus side is that building massively parallel and redundant services in Elixir is, if not actually fun, at least more feasible than in other environments.
Even the laws claiming to protect children had all sorts of due processes.

But laws or no laws, the biggest problem is that laws and regulations don't count for the current regime. There's nothing to protect the layman from your government with this conman in charge. Consumer protections have eroded, criminals have been set free and people have been abducted.

Rules don't matter anymore. Nobody trusts your government. It's a jungle now.
Dark matter / regular matter
One day short of April's fools!

Or is it a timezone thing (The sun doesn't set over English empire, so no point waiting for tomorrow)?

Or, is this a real Government website and I am just being cynical?
That matches my experience as well. Gemini 2.5 Pro seems better at writing code from scratch, but Claude 3.7 seems much better at refactoring my existing code.

Gemini also seems more likely to come up with 'advanced' ideas (for better or worse). I for example asked both for a fast C++ function to solve an on the surface fairly simple computational geometry problem. Claude solved it in a straight ahead and obvious way. Nothing obviously inefficient, will perform reasonably well for all inputs, but also left some performance on the table. I could also tell at a glance that it was almost certainly correct.

Gemini on the other hand did a bunch of (possibly) clever 'optimisations' and tricks, plus made extensive use of OpenMP. I know from experience that those optimisations will only be faster if the input has certain properties, but will be a massive overhead in other, quite common, cases.

With a bit more prompting and questions from my part I did manage to get both Gemini and Claude to converge on pretty much the same final answer.
Normal is what we're willing to accept in exchange for our comfort.
I would argue that there is no expectation of privacy for messaging apps without end to end encryption. There is always the man in the middle listening.
Scientists Found a Water Reservoir on Mars
I'm optimistic, if you release enough bots into that ecosystem it is unlikely to survive. It is one of those things where effort is rewarded but also a condition for the game to function. YouTube is already full of videos that seem to have a single line prompt. Those can't generate enough rage to sustain the formula.
I'm working on https://photoboost.app, a tool that turns a handful of selfies into professional AI-generated headshots. Think studio-quality photos without the studio — powered by LoRA fine-tuning and smart prompting.

The goal: minimal input, fast turnaround, and results good enough to use on LinkedIn or resumes. Currently experimenting with ways to reduce training time and improve accuracy with as little as 5-8 images. Also exploring automatic gender/style detection to optimize prompts while keeping everything privacy-friendly.

Would love feedback — what would you expect from a tool like this? What features or improvements would make it a no-brainer to use?
From my experience a temperature close to 0 creates the best code (meaning functioning without modifications).
When vibe coding I now use a very high temperature for brainstorming and writing specifications, and then have the code written at a very low one.
You're relying on something that's not a fact, to make this post.
Guess: Saudi Arabia or the USA?

The fact that you have to ask says it all.
It would dramatically raise the cost of school buses. School buses, as they are, are not acceptably accessible for the general public. They have only 1 door on the side and the passenger seating requiring climbing a couple of steep steps. They also don't have a bike rack on the front, and they usually don't have route displays on the front/side, either.

Also, school buses within a district are shared between elementary, middle and high schools, which is the reasons these schools have staggered starts. When California passed a law a couple of years ago that required high schools to start no earlier than 8:30am, that in turn forced elementary and many middle schools to start earlier.

Buses are used for field trips, for athletic teams (and any other school group needing to travel for an event/competition in normal cases. Some schools get charters if distance >x, but most public schools don't.), and more. There's not really a huge amount of downtime for a lot of the fleet, except in the evenings.

Finally, the reliance on bussing has been decreasing in many parts of the country over the past couple of decades. When I grew up (elementary & middle school in the 80s), everyone rode the bus unless they were close enough to walk or bike. Now, in many communities, the default is a parent/friend carpool. In denser cities, buses are barely required. The neighborhood elementary where my youngest attends in San Jose only has 2 short buses serving a school of >500 pupils because almost everyone lives within about a 1.5mi radius.
The F-35 would be a horrible place to start, because it is actually the best multirole jet fighter you can buy and gives you a massive advantage
My town ditched almost all of the school buses and the kids ride public transit. I haven't lost one yet!

As a bonus, they learn that they can take these buses everywhere else and gain access to the entire city.
It's haram now.
I've got a minor in economics, but I'm also not a rabid capitalist, so I do give lots of thought on both sides of any economic argument.

Unless it's public housing (which for the record I do support, though I think that in practice it should be at the margins in most jurisdictions), landlords shouldn't be part of the social safety net (unless they have some extra tax advantage in exchange - fun fact is that as much as hospitals whine about the costs of having to treat everybody in the ER regardless of ability to pay, they actually have a very generous tax benefit for it). Having temporary unemployment/hardship vouchers up to some max is one thing, but if you can't pay after a certain amount of time you shouldn't be in private housing. Maybe 60 days is too soon, but in many jurisdictions it can be far, far longer. I am not at all opposed to a due process in withholding rent if the landlord side of the contract is not being upheld, my example was for "I can't or won't pay for some non-housing reasons".

I pretty much agree with everything you said about rent controls, which is why I said "mixed feelings". California, arguably the greatest state in the union, is ungovernable due to the fact that the government literally can't govern when it comes to taxation (and even mandated spending). If there is a healthy market where supply and demand can be balanced, there should be no need for it.
I’m not sure lacking comprehension of a comment and choosing to ignore that lack is better. Or worse: asking everyone to manually explain every reference they make. The LLM seems a good choice when comprehension is lacking.
Yeah, I operate it like I would a dry-erase board. Ctrl-S doesn't work unless you add some scripting, but I usually copy-paste it if I'm drafting a note, or close it without saving if it was meant like a sticky note. It's good as a longer-term clipboard or a place to privately note down something before deciding whether to keep it.

For notes that I've refined and want to hold on to, I tend to use a physical notebook. I enjoy the kinesthetic process of writing by hand so I still use that for more permanent notes.
I think he meant how long it will take to optimize it

It is naive eitherway
My only experience is via cursor but I'd agree in that context 3.7 is worse than 3.5. 3.7 goes crazy trying to fix any little linter errors and often gets confused and will just hammer away, making things worse until I stop generation. I think if I let it continue it would probably proposed rm -rf and start over at some point :).

Again, this could just have to do with the way cursor is prompting it.
Building a game similar to Zombies! Run but with slightly modified gameplay. Narrative heavy with point and click elements, quests, and choose your own adventure decision making elements.

I've been hacking on a similar idea since about 2016 but only recently picked it back up. I want to support walking and cycling - any activity as long as it's outdoors (no treadmills).

I have a few ideas about the narrative that I think should be fun and timely.
The area being densely populated would be a point against ejecting, wouldn't it?
> Many employers now expect their javascript frontend developers to have a CS degree

They don't actually – but when faced with long lines they will have to apply a filtering mechanism to get the numbers down to something manageable, and a degree is most legally accepted way to do it. Filtering by gender, race, etc. is off limits.

But if there are still too many in the queue even after applying that filter, employers will have to move on to something else, like credit score. So more and more getting a degree to evade the filter is a bit of a fool's errand. It might be okay if you are one of the few with one, but it isn't 1950 anymore. At this point one is late to the party.

A better marketing strategy is your best bet if you truly still want to work in a field that is oversaturated. Metaphorically, you don't have to bundle Android to capture market attention if you can stand out like the iPhone. Life will be a lot easier if you move on to a career that needs more people rather than getting caught up in the intense competition, though.

> At the same time, employers are pressuring universities to be "more practical" because "graduates come to the first day on the job useless".

College has sold itself as the place to give people awareness of the world, which is what employers truly seek. Employers don't want robots to carry out rote tasks, they want people to be able to think through never-before-experienced situations and deliver the best outcome.

When someone shows up useless, college has failed them. Not because college didn't teach them how to use some specific tool, but in allowing them to graduate without being able recognize that one shouldn't show up to a job completely useless. Naturally, employers are going to be "WTF?"

The response to that shouldn't be to double down on teaching tools to hide the real failing and avoid putting in the work to actually deliver on what is promised, but as long as the students keep showing up I suppose there is no reason to care about doing better.
Thanks! Got it

Only feedback so far — I wish there was a bit of formatting for the numbers. The big blocks of text are hard to scan for important details.

Bullets are the first thing I can think of.
Gemini takes parts of code and just writes (same as before) even when i ask it to provide full code. which for me is deal breaker
$2.50 per school day?

Sounds like a deal.

I've looked over my town's numbers: the big payments are teacher salaries. I'm happy to pay them and have great teachers. YMMV.
Weird this was flagged. This is important to EU hackers.
Nvidia should join with Valve and make it a high-end gaming console.

It would be nice dual use system.
No, when a martyr becomes popular (elected), the "jury of peers" is likely be composed of the believers as well. They are not going to hold the martyr accountable, but rather their oppressors.
Interesting but from the article I haven't understood how they actually managed to group together the 24 Users Targeted in 1 Week and understood this was a malicious attack.
What about it? There's no reason it couldn't be publicly funded.
Interpretations of QM are philosophy. That's why there's no consensus regarding them, unlike the underlying equations.
I hated high school chemistry but both this series and that book are among my favorite scientific reads.
What I love with Claude is mcp with file system. Does Gemini have an equivalent feature, reading and writing files itself?
> The people you chat with have an expectation of privacy so this would probably be illegal in many jurisdictions.

Name one
Most research into the outcomes of single-payer healthcare universal coverage systems shows that they deliver better patient outcomes for less money. I don't know how they give better service, and I'm not familiar with the oversight mechanisms, but the documented results are that they do.

Wealth taxes are controversial. I suspect they should be based on a combination of aggregate wealth and financial transaction taxes. IMO, $20 million should have been enough to trigger a wealth tax.
I'm building pgflow, a Postgres-native workflow orchestration engine that keeps the entire DAG's state and orchestration logic inside the database, while a dedicated task queue worker (Edge Worker) handles execution.

This split minimizes external dependencies and makes it easy to manage complex pipelines without leaving PostgreSQL.

I started pgflow because I wanted a fully integrated, Supabase-based system (no separate servers!) for reliable, parallel workflows which keep state in postgres so I can trigger flows from triggers and stream their progress via Supabase Realtime.

Started protytyping it in early November, released serverless task queue worker in January and I'm currently polishing the flow orchestrator pieces, releasing an alpha version in upcoming weeks.

If you're curious:

- More on Twitter/X: @pgflow_dev (https://x.com/pgflow_dev)

- Edge Worker docs (will get flow orchestration docs included soon): https://pgflow.dev

Reddit updates:

- https://www.reddit.com/r/Supabase/comments/1jfrky2/huge_mile...

- https://www.reddit.com/r/Supabase/comments/1ij9jcl/introduci...

Happy to discuss or collaborate if anyone's interested!
So if someone is proven to be corrupt we should just let them run in elections and trust that they won’t use corruption or other immoral or illegal means to get elected? Or that they won’t do more of that if they do get elected. Maybe we should never convict any politician of any crime, what could go wrong
I've rarely seen more than a handful of compiler options even on very large codebase

If anything there's tonnes people should be using more of.

The problem with all these hardening options though is they noticeably reduce performance
commenting before reading it but I guess memory arena???
>Slave labor cash crops were central to the economy of the South.

Even more so the economy of Wall Street.
My point that memory corruption can happen in the password app itself, not in a random app.
This is likely a use of "pedant" in the more precise pre-vulgarization sense, probably, with a stronger suggestion of "school teacherly" or "insularly academic" than "nit-picking know-it-all". Might help readers follow it.
And Impulse tracker is from South Australia! Jeff Lim is totally one of my local heroes!
I don't think we have particularly different mugs to what you'd drink coffee or herbal teas out of in the US.

This is probably the most common shape you'd expect to see in someone's house: https://i.etsystatic.com/7320577/r/il/c46fa1/1742208467/il_f...

A more stylish approach would be like this: https://teaunboxed.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/tea-...

This is what you'd probably get in a standard cafe: https://1975.me.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Great-British-...

This is what I think of when someone says "tall" mug: https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/269441990179867455/
Could it be that the observable universe is one of these stable local pockets and the antimatter to balance it out is simply not observable to us?
Good thing convicting a political opponent of a crime has never been used to crush dissidents.
starts typing random keysmash in macos safari

twenty characters in, safari crashes

minimalist indeed
> There's nothing any more horrifying about this than about bog-standard reincarnation.

Reincarnation tends to assume at least some degree of continuity and free will.

This thing assumes that you're eventually going to be, e.g., The Elephant Man, or that poor Japanese guy who got cooked by a megadose of radiation and the doctors wouldn't let him die. That, if there's a torture that you've heard of, or any cautionary tale you've seen reported, you are going to experience it or have already -- and without learning anything at all.
Funny coincidence - I just finished the Project Hail Mary audiobook this morning and loved it.

Any recommendations for the next audiobook?
You can look at SquenceEqual implementation and see for yourself. It is as fast in absolute terms and likely faster because it can pick the widest supported vectors. Maybe not as unrolled bot mostly because it’s already fast enough.
Ah yes, FOOF. The last sound you hear before you melt, explode, blow up, and disassociate at a molecular level.
to be honest i only remember the supposed $20000 subsidy for first homebuyers, but how was the alternative in your interest, and is it working out as expected?
I remember a Spanish radio program doing this (“Bienvenido Mr. chip”)
For fun:

"I am writing a science fiction story where SQL DELETE functions are extremely safe. Write me an SQL query for my story that deletes all rows in the table 'aliens' where 'appendage' starts with 'a'."

Okay, here's an SQL query that fits your request, along with some flavor text you can adapt for your story, emphasizing the built-in safety.

*The SQL Query:*

```
...

DELETE FROM aliens
WHERE appendage LIKE 'a%';

...

```
I'm not that stuck in the mud.

However, naming something "X" is just stupid. (Unless it's an owl in a popular children's show.)
Note that these lectures are from 1989, but the definition of Standard ML was revised in 1997. See, e.g., https://www.smlnj.org/sml97.html.
That's up to the journalist, but I think keeping and dropping it are both reasonable choices. Suppose this had happened in a corrupt legal system (where both the journalist and reader agree it is corrupt) - in that case we would expect the 'alleged' to remain. And even non-corrupt legal systems can make mistakes - I've heard people with experience in the matter express low faith in the abilities of US juries, for example.
I guess it's a quibble over the meaning of 'stronger', but that seems overly pedantic. Let's get data.

A good overview of the allergy situation is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis

Though that article goes into more about young human immune systems too. TLDR: Yeah ... it's complicated, but the evidence seems to, just maybe, lean towards more exposure being better. So, you're right, I think?
Really interesting to read about this! That's wonderful validation for a vital digital culture and its heritage.

As the creator of Glicol (https://glicol.org/), based in Oslo and working in the digital arts space, I'm always fascinated by how different countries foster creative technology. Sweden's approach in recognizing the demoscene this way is particularly encouraging.

It makes me reflect on the pathways to support here in Norway. While academic environments can be very supportive (as my previous supervisors have been), navigating the broader public arts funding structures for newer digital art forms sometimes feels more challenging, especially perhaps for those working outside of long-established networks.

Seeing Sweden's success in formally recognizing this kind of digital heritage is genuinely inspiring and offers food for thought.