skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would help too. I was thinking about the permitting issues with local authorities. Also having a permanent Federal team that does this (perhaps even in other countries?) would seem like a good way to retain institutional knowledge that would otherwise get lost if each project were a bespoke private investment project.
This is a somewhat ridiculous comment. The article says many things about what one should pay attention to in order to identify what species of woodpecker you're hearing, and I'm sure you could easily get a list of species that live near you with descriptions of their drumming.

Sample quote:

> It’s especially important to pay attention to speed and duration of the drumming

Imagine if someone described the different leaf characteristics (shapes, arrangement, edges, etc) and used local-to-them trees as illustrations. Is that useless to me? Or can I perhaps find an analog from the trees native to my city?
> Definition of being smart is to be quick at mental math and logic

That's not smart. That's being quick at mental math and logic.

Very different things
The Bitter Lesson says "general methods that leverage computation are ultimately the most effective". That doesn't seem to rule out symbolic approaches. It does rule out anything which relies on having humans in the loop, because terabytes of data plus a dumb learning process works better than megabytes of data plus expert instruction.

(I know your message wasn't claiming that The Bitter Lesson was explicitly a counterpoint, I just thought it was interesting.)
According to my Kagi usage stats I have made 8907 searches and 9 AI interactions since June last year.
My native language is Chinese. Most of my colleague use www.baidu.com as search engine. But I do not like baidu, because the search results are full of ADs.
I also use ChatGPT or deepseek. But in my work (linux kernel driver portting), the AI is not good enough， I can not believe it totally. So for some case, I still use Google to search answer with keyword in English. If you want to konw why I use English as keywords, because of CSDN，this site has been polluting the internet for far too long.
Yes (very exciting!), but you won’t be able to index them, and that’s really where they shine, IMO.

Still, I’m sure they’ll get there. Maybe they’ll also eventually get invisible columns, though tbf that’s less of a problem for Postgres as it is for MySQL, given the latter’s limited data types.
Discussion (104 points, 4 days ago, 35 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43587420
Lex Fridman interview with Lenat a few years back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wMKoSRbGVs
Well, it'd be nice if they reintroduced proper training of new tech workers, rather than outsourcing it to universities ("not supposed to be trade schools") or relying on internships/co-ops which these days are often nearly as competitive to be hired for as actual jobs. Formalized apprenticeships could help with that, as well as impart a proper culture of craftsmanship.

And as far as certs go, just having a simple one for algorithms/data structures can seriously fix the issue of having to go through the Leetcode gauntlet at every single place one interviews at. A certificate for that class of questions would go a long way towards smoothing the existing interview process. DRY, anyone?
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>so I suppose it's no surprise I have no real use for "generate any image on demand".

Other than stock photos, porn is the killer app for that, but most of the AI companies don't want to allow that.
I don't conduct interviews in that manner. It is more important for me to know that I can trust your words and that you are aware of your limits, so you can learn any missing skills on the job.

For example, if you have 3 years of working experience and claim, "I know Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure, Python, React, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and networking extensively," in 99% of cases, I can no longer trust anything you say.

As for the 1% hidden gem I might miss out on, I likely won't have the budget for them anyway.
Well China made its own masks and also managed a staff a fully operational medical system and pharmaceutical industry ad the same time. So clearly a single country can do all of this. Furthermore I think most countries would look at how China managed the pandemic and be impressed by the results.
The masks are not a singular item. They generalize to a whole slew of critical components that a functioning society needs like pharmaceuticals (and their precursors), or half the global electronics supply chain. These resources exist in a time of peace but in a crunch they will disappear.
it would fit in very well with Cisco eco system
I agree with one of the points from The Art of PostgreSQL by Dimitri Fontaine, which is appropriate for answering this question:

"So when designing your software architecture, think about PostgreSQL NOT as storage layer, but rather as a concurrent data access service. This service is capable of handling data processing."
You can run EURISKO yourself these days tho.
The advantage is when you want to store something for ease of use, but don’t want the disk (and memory, since pages read are loaded into the buffer pool) hit. So here, you could precompute the vector and index it, while not taking the double hit on size.
Ahh! Nothing like watching pods fail to schedule because you ran out of assignable IPs in a subnet you thought was generous.

Immutable addressing per workload with IPv6 feels like such a clean mental model, especially for attribution, routing, and observability.

Curious if you have seen anyone pull that off cleanly in production, like truly immutable addressing at scale? Curious if it’s been battle tested somewhere or still mostly an ideal.
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It is very good at doing the job that people over-eagerly offload to specialized services. Queues, notifications, scheduled jobs. And can be specialized with extensions.
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https://archive.is/fxtZW
The UX is standardized by the Central Bank and they mandate a step showing the name of the person/company associated with that Pix key before you make the payment. So you can always double-check.
My opinion stands. Claiming that I'm not being honest in my opinion is not a valid escape from the conversation. But be my guest.

Tariffs were inevitable, in any administration. Unless the plan was to have been much worse. With all due respect, truly, I'm sure that you don't understand how the international monetary system works at a basic level. For reasons, tariffs were inevitable. All sides have been preparing.

Kamala Harris had zero chance of winning, lost in a landslide, and could have said whatever she pleased because she was never going to be there to follow through. Believe they knew she didn't have a chance. She was truly a candidate who could not win. Hillary Clinton could not beat Donald Trump, and she was a vastly superior candidate. Anyone with political horse sense knew that the first woman POTUS would not be Kamala Harris. Forcing Biden out was equivalent to throwing the election. Though, I'm not saying that I know that he would have won.

Second, I look at policy to inform on politician intention. I recommend that you do the same. Instead of looking at stated intent.

Preparation for reshoring under Joe Biden:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIPS_and_Science_Act

https://www.wri.org/insights/inflation-reduction-act-anniver...

Herded via tariffs, look for foreign-owned companies to begin setting up in Foreign Trade Zones on US soil. Thereby avoiding tariffs.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/economy/foreign-trade-zones-...

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/04/17/2023-08...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign-trade_zones_of_the_Uni...
Yes - I haven't used ChatGPT so far. I initially tried to not read what the Google AI summarized, since I did not trust it, but these days, if I know enough about the subject to identify errors, I do read the summaries.
no way—and i'm a US citizen...
Games drawn from this uniform distribution can't even be implemented in our physical universe (you would need exponentially large lookup tables to store the rules). There is no chance of ever encountering any of them.

Of course, there are "games" like "invert sha-512" that can be implemented in our world but are probably impractical to learn. But NFL has nothing to say about them; a game that simple has zero measure in a uniform distribution over problems.
Thanks, but no. I do not want to learn about the Tragedy of Lord Plagueis.
As an alternative there's https://github.com/tonarino/innernet
>the gist is: When you can manufacture ships, you can also manufacture warships.

Not really. Most of the complexity and value and technology lies in the difference between a civilian ship and a warship. Guns, radars, missiles, gas turbines - all that much more complex and involved tech than just a metal bathtub with a diesel that a regular civilian ship is. Nuclear aircraft carrier has even less common with a civilian ship. Submarine - pretty much nothing in common.

>or: If all you sell are financial services, and a pandemic hits and you need to protect your people, where will you find masks?

Well, we know that emergency stockpile wasn't maintained as a money saving measure. When you sell finservices you actually have more money to maintain stockpile than when you're manufacturing masks. Yet if you're choosing to not maintain the stockpile ...
> And what happens when another candidate has the same skills and a bunch of other skills on top of those?

Perhaps the first step anyone should take is to arrive at the realization that the point of a hiring process from the perspective of a hiring manager is not to find the absolute best candidate. The goal is to pick anyone, anyone at all, from a pool of acceptable candidates. If they are able to get through the door and not shit the bed, they are a superb hire.
>Image generation is still very slow.

Only because the free ones slow things down.
Probably not. I'd be more afraid of what the country can do to you. In case you are not following the immigration news, here are some news:

# Phd student detained (Rumeysa Ozturk)
https://bsky.app/profile/democracynow.org/post/3llecj2d4ec27

# Even citizens could be deported
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43627611

# Germans
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/world/europe/german-touri...

# Canadian detained - Jasmine Mooney
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/canadian-det...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0niuiBzK5Vw

# French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/trump-musk-f...

# Is it safe to travel with phone
https://archive.is/taZBx

# Indians
https://www.financialexpress.com/world-news/elderly-indian-g...

Edit: It is important to mention that this is what has happened in the past 79 days. Things can get a LOT worse.

From the first of Newton's laws: "An object in motion will remain in motion with the same speed unless met with a force of resistance".
This was not true in the immediate postwar period. The turning point was roughly the 1980s.

Wealth concentration has been a deliberate US domestic policy for decades. This is, to a large degree, separate from the stability of our currency or military protection. It's the stated intent and logical result of relaxing taxes on the rich while enacting policies designed to hurt the working classes (e.g. reducing union power, not indexing minimum wage to inflation, refusal to address healthcare & housing costs, increasing fees at public universities, cutting existing safety net programs, etc.).

Concentration of wealth is a choice. America is a very rich country and has not always chosen to distribute our wealth this way. Other countries make different choices. We are also allowed to make different choices.
great ideas Luke!
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As a São Paulo citizen, I really don't recommend cash due robbery. Privacy may be a 1st world problem, but here, assault is a real concern.
I still use google but I pretty much always append site:reddit.com to the query.

The answer I'm seeking is not always on reddit itself, but google limited to reddit is far more likely to give me quality starting links than google unbound is.
Google is extremely conscious for their privacy of their data which they’re collecting from you.

Google calls it “my privacy” but it’s not their business model to keep my stuff private to me but to Google and their partners.

https://m.xkcd.com/1150/

Google is trying to keep their own secrets like what their hardware MAC address really is, (because Google themselves are tracking everyone’s radio-enabled devices in every public space with far more sophisticated methods)

or hide/virtualize my credit card details, and protecting the card from crackers who wear hoodies, build EBM playlists, and use Firefox? that is a side-effect at best, especially considering how they are already a crazy non-bank middleman 3rd party with a miasma of shifting TOS and hundreds of advertising partners salivating to know what you paid for 3 milliseconds ago. Sheesh.
You do realise that our debt comes from absurd govt spending and not the lack of nike sweatshops right?
I have the same feedback. Very creative and fun game but it’s giving me flashbacks to years of looking for mismatched curly braces and parentheses in code.
Lenat in his talks emphasised the infeasibility of building a universal ontology. From what I understand later Cyc modus operandi was a bunch of self consistent micro-theories but not a one huge theory of everything.
WeChat. And let me explain why. I'll stick with technology and usability and leave politics aside.

They've integrated literally everything with wc. Going to an event? Amusement park? Metro ride? Flight? Restaurant booking? The hospital? You guessed it. WeChat. Every place has a QR code (they've also have a custom QR code format they support) and any business/individual can set up to receive payments, reservations, form data, or literally anything else that can be built as a web app. There's no secret sauce to how it's done; WeChat allows you to "install" web based apps inside wechat and integrates your profile and payment abilities with it.

If you want to set up a point-of-sale device to receive payments here you have to get something like Square, and set up an account, and you often need special equipment, etc. Not a great UX. With WeChat, everybody already has their payment profile linked up, so you just show your QR code, people pay, you get notified, and you're all set.

It's not the best built app, though. It's glitchy, and the web-based stuff is slow. The Chinese are great at many things, but UI design/UX isn't one of them haha. It seems to work, though, and I can only imagine the gargantuan amount of payment events their infra handles. Probably many millions per second.
Is this a public, non business aspect of Peter Turchin's "elite fratricide" period?
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> Your brain is very good at localizing sounds. ... You'll develop an ear for it the more you practice.

My grandfather would be able to do this almost instantly. We would be out on his ranch and hear them all the time; every once in awhile he would listen, turn and point in a direction to show me where the bird was that he spotted, and tell me what kind of woodpecker it was. I never saw the bird myself as much as he tried to point it out to me.

The man had hearing and vision super powers to me. He would spot edible plants in overgrown pasture and woods, spot a particular type of tree in the middle of a bunch of other trees and hear the location of wildlife stalking about the woods. And it was insane how much information he had about the natural world around us and the skill to utilize it.
Exactly - Current thinking is we are headed for recession:

https://polymarket.com/event/us-recession-in-2025

https://www.atlantafed.org/cqer/research/gdpnow
>This is because in the workflow that is one of the steps that is naively applied without consideration of multi edit possibility. If this was a one shot solution where editing is done within 4o image model by itself, the sepia problem wouldn't be there.

I don't really see that with chatgpt, what I do see is that it's presumably running the same basic query with just whatever you said different each time instead of modifying the existing image. Like if you say "generate a photo of a woman", and get a pic and then say "make her hair blonde", the new image is likely to also have different facial features.
EU preparing first fines against tech giants Apple and Meta
The message is absolutely America first, and the motivation to boost the middle class through reindustrialization is a huge factor.

The desire to eventually back out of defense commitments in Europe is not in contradiction to that.

The political will to commit troops and to defend Ukraine simply isn’t there, especially not while Taiwan is looming. Wanting Europe to reindustrialize and handle it’s own defense allows America to focus more domestically and on potential wars more aligned with American interests (disruption of chip manufacturing affects America much more than Russian occupation of Ukraine).

I linked to a hoover institute interview with Niall Ferguson explaining a lot of the thinking. You can also just listen to what the administration has been saying themselves. You don’t have to agree with it, but the goal is reindustrialization of both America and Europe so America doesn’t lose it’s defense capabilities and so Europe can defend itself without relying on American support.
I was prepared to disagree. I don't, though. I may go so far as to say this is one area the humanities seems to have really gone off the rails.

Is there evidence to support such a heavy reliance on these essays? We seemed to throw out standardized tests when those had stronger evidence as highly effective predictors. Why are we rewarding essays above that? (Assuming,of course, accurate reporting in story.)
It's a generated column, so there's no overhead to keep it up to date, but all generated columns in PG are stored. The corpus for text search will be stored 1x in the source column, 1x as a tsvector in the index, and an additional 1x in the generated column if you do so. That's a 50% increase in disk space.
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WhatsApp does handle UPI though. Were they denied in the past?
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are still Googling too much, I made an extension to easy the transition

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Trump tax cuts for the wealthy is a significant source of our debt. There is more of that coming.
I feel dumber after using reddit
There are plenty of semi-legitimate arguments, this is not one of them.
I’ve been told enough falsehoods from AI, that it hasn’t earned my trust yet.

On the other hand, Google search is starting to be useless without curating my queries. And their AI suggestions are full of lies.
A broken chair is by definition a chair. You just said it!
Is a mountain a chair?
As a New Zealander, the arguments about foreigners owning tech companies is shit.

Maybe foreigners own 40% of US tech companies, but if 40% of US tech company income is coming from outside of the US then that is fair.

The US got a big slice of a bigger pie due to foreign investment. That investment surely supercharged the growth of tech companies (especially via IPOs) - just like good VC can do.

And meanwhile the US government is wanting to buy our businesses - and they use policy and agreements/accords to push that agenda to the benefit of the US. New Zealand sells good businesses cheaply to US and EU owners. Our government wants to give away equity and earnings. The right leaning minority party (ACT) are financial plonkers trying to sell New Zealand cheaply like a child loving a credit card. Sell NZ for some immediate income but cost us income over the years (that's the bargain you get with investors). Fine if the pie size is increased, but it isn't.
You touched on an important topic: if a candidate has potential but HR has no way to tell if that candidate is any good, should they hire him?

How can they tell apart a candidate with potential but an abismal CV from a candidate who is utterly incompetent and a bonafide scrub?

The problem is that this is not a HR problem. This is a you problem. Why are you failing to stand out and prove your value?

The problem with HR is not buzzwords. Their problem is that they need to justify their choices with objectively verifiable data. What are you giving them that allows them to say you are a safer hire than any other candidate around you? You are not giving them anything to work with. They can take a gamble on you, but they can also take a gamble on anyone else walking through their door. If they are going to take a gamble, wouldn't they bet on someone who on paper leads to better odds? What are you giving them to work with?
obviously re-industrializing a de-industrialized economy is not something that has ever been tried before, it's not clear it would even be desirable, and industrializing in the first place was a traumatic process. that said, machine tools and similar specialized equipment are exactly the kind of high-margin low-volume goods that you want to be manufacturing in a developed country. well, that and microchips.
Tbf everything you mentioned, MySQL also has (in the latest version, for vectors).

But either way, the answer is simplicity and cost. I assume you’ve heard of Choose Boring Technology [0]? Postgres is boring. It’s immensely complex when you dive into it, but in return, you get immense performance, reliability, and flexibility. You only have to read one manual. You only have to know one language (beyond your app, anyway – though if you do write an app in pure SQL, my hat is off to you). You only have to learn the ins and outs of one thing (again, other than your app). ES is hard to administer; I’ve done it. Postgres is also hard to administer, but if I have to pick between mastering one hard thing and being paged for it, or two hard things and getting paged for them, I’ll take one every day.

[0]: https://boringtechnology.club/