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Show HN: SQLTest.online: A free, interactive SQL practice platform I built
Just launched: SQLTest.online - a free, hands-on platform for learning and practicing SQL. Features exercises covering basic syntax through advanced topics. This is a personal project I've been working on.
You can essentially create an LLC in Delaware (from anywhere in the country) as easily as you can create an Amazon account, so that's a big claim.
I feel like I've started to see lots of weirdly anodyne comments like this on HN recently, with a kind of pointless summary of all or part of the article. Has this always happened and my LLM spider-sense is tingling too much, or are they written by real people whose purpose I don't get?
The Roman army must have had good deductibles.
I just realized that I didn't post the landing page. https://safefiles.app

But you can find the source in this github repo: https://github.com/vladNed/safefiles
Option 1: They loop.

Option 2: They go on forever without looping.

Option 3: They end - there is some kind of boundary to spacetime.
In my very first Astronomy class, just a few years after voyager, I did a report on that record, based on a cartoon: "Send more Chuck Berry."

It is an extraordinary piece of work of human history: THank you Astronomer Carl Sagan, Linda Salzman Sagan, Frank Drake, Ann Druyan, Jon Lomberg, and others.
In that regard I want to point to Catulli Carmina by Carl Orff[1]. I can really recommend it. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catulli_Carmina
Creating a company in the US doesn't require tax returns or internal accounting. (But perhaps you meant European jurisdictions).
LLMs don't support zip files?

Here's the XML format: https://github.com/wildberry-source/open-repoprompt?tab=read...

Edit: after a web search, it seems not. One thing that would be nice in these projects would be to mention that it's just due to limitations, rather than suggest that the plain text is more natural to the LLMs. Also to the LLM and chat platforms, please don't add arbitrary restrictions to guide usage, if a zip file is too big reject it because it's too big, not because it's a zip.
I never claimed that changing database file formats was easy, but IBM had already increased the size limit once before from 4GB to 64GB. So obviously increasing it further could have been done. Unfortunately IBM leadership never saw Domino as anything more than a platform for small internal corporate IT applications so they didn't care about fixing the limitations; it was a total failure of vision.

IBM didn't provide any tools for horizontal sharding either. We had to roll our own, which was a huge expense and made every part of the application far more complex. And it actually made reliability worse; because displaying incomplete data was not acceptable to customers, if any one database got corrupted then everything failed.
One thing that is exciting in the text is an attempt to go away from describing whether LLM 'understands' which I would argue an ill posed question, but instead rephrase it in terms of something that can actually be measured.

It would be good to list a few possible ways of interpreting 'understanding of code'.
It could possibly include:
1) Type inference for the result
2) nullability
3) runtime asymptotics
4) What the code does
I havent tried the mirrorless cameras but on dslr canon is great ux imo. Everything you need to adjust on the fly is easy. Its usually controlled with a dial that can change the parameter it adjusts with a modifier button. Saving you what might be yet another dial on like a fuji xt5.

But even then once youve metered a scene how often do you adjust iso on the fly? Hardly ever. Fixed iso, aperture priority, center dot focus and metering, off to the races.
China has spent billions of dollars building far too many data centers for AI
Reminds me of all the weird and confusing object file formats. The specs for them are inevitably confusing, wrong and incomplete.
Try this: cursoraitips.com
You deal with essentially (probably exactly) the same tax issues any freelancer would deal with, right?
Reading that thread, it's depressing to see the amount of people @grok to summarize an article of maybe 3/4k words. I think it's disgusting that these same companies that have wrestled our attention spans from us the last 15 years, are now pushing "companion AIs" to quicken the rate at which we consume content on their platforms.
> If your work isn’t clearly connected to company profit, your position is unstable

In my experience, only salespeople are clearly connected to profit. Everyone else is percieved as a cost.

> In other words, you’re probably depending on a kind-hearted manager (or CEO) who personally values your work.

Yes, this is the position for everybody except salepeople. Which means, in turn, that focusing your efforts to make the company profitable, as the articles advocates, is a grave mistake. You should focus on making your immediate manager profitable and successful. (For those who are fresh out of school, this is often a wildly different goal.)

The only situation in which the article’s advice makes any sense is if your immediate manager is also the company owner, who benefits personally and immediately if the company’s profits go up.
Could you share any successful prompting techniques for grounding 3.7, even just a project-specific example?
The City and the City by China Mieville. The cities are very close but very far away.
An Incentive to Label (2023)
You have up to 30 days to respond to access/edit/delete requests.

It's accepted practice to only keep logs for e.g. 48 hours and respond to any request with 2 days delay "we've got no logs from that timeframe anymore".
20 years of Git
Language can be a (lossy) serialization of thought, yes. But language is not thought, nor inherently produced by thought. Most people agree that a process randomly producing grammatically correct sentences is not thinking.
> People get COBRA to continue their health coverage

You obviously live in an ivory tower.
https://archive.is/mnHOi
Indeed. Relevant quote from the article:

"The Commission said previously that the simplification plan will focus on reporting requirements for organizations with less than 500 people, but will not touch the “underlying core objective of [the] GDPR regime.”

Adjustments could include limiting requirements to keep records of data processing activities, or reforming how businesses provide data protection impact statements — two rules seen as overly cumbersome to smaller firms."

Sounds pretty sensible to me.
install teams on your phone? you'll need to cave a bit and allow VPN access from the phone to the Teams server, though.
ahh, ideally i'd say learning them in any order is fine but unfortunately since the zig ecosystem is not mature yet that means you'll find yourself using C libraries from zig fairly often.

so, yes, i agree learning zig is a great idea for new independent projects but (at the current stage) be prepared to also learn at least enough about C to use C libraries (return type conventions, raw enums, c-style strings, inflexible allocators).
Sounds like due process was exactly what she got. Are you suggesting everybody gets a trial before they are deported? Or that the US has to allow you to enter if you do so legally, determined by trial? Either will result in much, much longer deportation times.
Trump Is Smashing a "Phenomenal" Deal He Already Has
It is until it is not.

Chinese working hours are mostly long to balance out low productivity. This worked for Japan until it did not; Japanese growth stalled until Japanese workers were poorer than Taiwanese or South Koreans by some measures. And China is racing fastest towards demographic collapse, particularly in its largest, most productive cities by. People 60 and older make up 37% of the population in Shanghai, and there the TFR is 0.6.
A problem is those people would then need to identify their dissatisfaction as a result of these haphazard cuts and policies, which will be directly contradicted by propaganda telling them this is actually proof we need to cut even more.

If the government services are being intentionally crippled so that people are unhappy with them then things are going exactly to plan and won't lead to any mass "realizations" of our mistakes.

Even if the current administration ISNT intentionally trying to cause harm and trauma (despite direct quotes posted in this thread saying they are) then the American people will end up with a choice to either cut the last bits of broken government or pay (way) more taxes and try to rebuild them.

I fear we will collectively pick the former and put our heads in the sand about the damage unregulated private companies will do when put in a position like that (like today's internet utilities, private power companies, the for-profit prison nightmare, health insurance companies denying 90% of claims using software they know is wrong, and the defense mega contractors).

I wonder how far it will go. These folks seem to like following the cliche of taking cautionary tales and reading them like manuals so maybe we'll have snowcrash style corporate 'burbs and private police armies soon.
I'm continually disappointed they didn't decide to call it "reinstinction."
I can't speak for YC, but as an operator: the primary reason to go to YC is to smooth a path for later fundraising, and if you plan to fundraise, you need something like a 10x trajectory, because VC portfolio math doesn't work for companies without it.
And complying with the GDPR isn't that difficult as a startup. You can build your systems from the ground up to be able to accommodate GDPR requirements. There is some documenting paperwork you are supposed to have internally, but enforcement is quite lenient if you show good-faith efforts to comply.
> Most systems do log user input though, and "proper validation" is an infamously squishy phrase that mostly acts as an excuse

That's my point: if you start adding constraints to a vulnerability to reduce its scope, high CVE scores don't exist.

Any vulnerability that can be characterised as "pass contents through parser, full RCE" is a 10/10 vulnerability for me. I'd rather find out my application isn't vulnerable after my vulnerability scanner reports a critical issue than let it lurk with all the other 3/10 vulnerabilities about potential NULL pointers or complexity attacks in specific method calls.
I have some question that is relevant that the author or someone knowledgeable and have tried those might answer.

Does XML work better when feeding context to LLM or plain text or something like json? Did anyone try or have a theory about difference (as an input to the LLM not about processing the files/folders)?

Also wouldn't this be a good WASM usage or even just plain webpage? I know that processing large codebases like chrome/Linux would be better served via something else like Go program but would this even be useful? The context window of our best models is the real limit here and not the serialization speed of the context. using RAG is different league and out of consideration here of course.

I liked repoprompt [1] features during beta test but they then moved to $200 price tag which is hard for me to justify for my use case. Also it is Mac only and I mainly develop on Linux which is why I think something like webapp or WASM will be the more suitable option. I maybe wrong on several points here but no problem, I welcome any correction or explanation

[1] https://repoprompt.com
Is this related to a blue check account starting a lie that briefly rallied the stock market by about 3 trillion before dropping about the same amount?
A bunch of folks live close enough to the border to roll some light shopping into a weekend visit.
The issue with that is that ZIP codes don’t map physical locations, they map the hierarchy of how the mail system does routing down to each post office and were introduced in the 1960s [0].

As a result, doing something “from the start” wouldn’t involve baking in comparability with the quirks of a piece of software written decades later, and you’d also have issues with, for example, single zip codes spanning multiple states.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIP_Code
I think that's a different situation.
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Citations needed, especially for your conspiracy theory about the CIA.
The problem with rsync is that it is ridiculously slow.

IFileOperation (Windows) and FileManager (macOS) will do the most performant copy supported by the underlying FS.

Enabling CRC checks is a checkbox in SMB and ReFS - rsync's content matching step is redundant to a modern SMB share on a modern Windows Server. Windows to Windows, IFileOperation will be like 1.5-8x faster throughput with lower CPU usage than rsync, and maybe 1.2-3x faster than doing a file copy using vanilla golang.

And if you don't care about the operating systems that actually use all the complex filesystem metadata, if you only care about Linux, then you only need openrsync or simpler programs.
Why do you store your webserver's logs? My reading of the GDPR (I am not a lawyer) is that it strongly encourages site owners to store the very minimum amount of data about visitors - something that I wholeheartedly agree with.

Server logs are useful for debugging the site but also contain potentially identifying information (IP addresses) so I have my site delete them after 48 hours.

User submitted comments are obviously required for the usage of your site, so you are in the clear there.
Look at that, our luxury beliefs collide!

Mine, lax and libertarian, perhaps too unconcerned with traditional gender roles and stereotypes.

Yours, worried and authoritarian, focused on an imaginary moral panic propagated by reactionary Internet forums.

So, which luxury belief costs more? Mine might require a transition to single user bathrooms, yours depriving a gender minority of liberty…
You can literally find diamonds by moving the mouse down and holding left click.
Even direct control over the generated assembly (C does not provide this; only writing assembler does, and only if you don't do things like LTO) is not sufficient.

Modern CPUs do all sorts of weird things. Assembly instructions can be executed out of order. Your conditional jump instruction can be speculatively executed before the condition's truth is known. Fetches from main memory can be reordered.

Even more wildly, copying the contents of one register to another is often a no-op. Yes, that's right; the following code:

mov edx, eax

... does next to nothing on some modern CPUs. All it does sometimes is set an internal note to the effect of "later references to edx should read/write eax instead", until that note is cleared by some other operation.

You can write your assembler with the best of intentions as to how it should behave, only to discover that the CPU does things entirely differently. You still end up getting the same observable result out of it, but any timing and order of operation guarantees went out the window decades ago.
Who cares about consciousness? This is just a mis-direction of the discussion. Ditto for 'intelligence' and 'understanding'.

Let's talk about what they can do and where that's trending.
Funny I reread it again recently after reading it in college. Having a kid and rereading it adds a different dimension to the story.
If you raised $18MM total in two rounds and then sell for $18MM, you're going to walk away with a signing bonus for the new company and little else, right? You can't generally sell in order to distribute the proceeds of an investment round to the company operators.
CLI tool for generating acknowledgments for your Rust project dependencies
"HN is 90% someone imagining a guy, tricking themselves into believing that guy exists and then getting mad about it"
Which is the point, since describing the mechanics of LLM architectures do not inherently grant knowledge of whether or not it is "conscious"
Anyone else get the sense there is less vibes involved in vibe coding than people let on?

As in there is probably a significant amount of intervention at each step that they just gloss over at the end.

I did my own experiment in vibe coding over the weekend and the AI assistant just kept getting things wrong.

Maybe I've chosen the wrong framework or language for AI idk.
The sterile-insect technique has been practiced since the 1950s. There is nothing novel or newly promising in that regard presented here.
https://archive.ph/Iko9w
Nobody disagrees with that. The clear subtext to that comment is "if you plan to raise money". You can bootstrap a successful firm without raising a dollar.
>The issue is entirely subsidies at this point.

Which is a moot point because European manufacturers also received insane subsidies form their governments in the past.

The issue is China has been innovating in EVs hardcore for 15+ years while European manufactures kept pushing diesels and cutting costs with their suppliers and were only making EVs to shut up the green hippies, but were never committed to them, and now they've been caught with their pants down unable to compete on price nor on technology.

They got fat, lazy and complacent thinking their brand names would carry them.
The one for my 2016 era fuji is crap. Camera remote. Usually the connection fails between my phone and the cameras own wifi network it connects to but this failure takes a good 2 minutes to happen. So many artificial software limits with this camera, some removed in newer versions. Why can’t this one tether though? It is literally a digital camera no?

Anyone know of any fujifilm firmware jailbreaks fwiw?
> Now we seem to have found an AI worthy of that title and instead start moving the goal posts on "consciousness"

The goalposts already differentiated between "totally human-like" vs "actually conscious"

See also Philosophical Zombie thought experiment from the 70s.
What’s illegal about making political donations?
Nitpick - if you need to apply and it comes with conditions, it's not UBI. Perhaps a better word would be stipend?
Literally every freelancer can tell you a story that refutes what you're saying here.
> For some EU perspective

> Serbia is not part of the EU

> Racial profiling is everywhere. Also in the EU.
Do you believe that anti-social dispassion will get you far in life?
Sure, I’m not saying it’s perfect by any means - only that bringing an industry back on shore is not something you can do quickly or without a careful plan.
Yep, an absolutely empty PR grab. And seems not closer to a red wolf either, but entirely distinct from wolves as we know them. Only similar via convergent evolution.[0]

0: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dire-wolves-were-...
I know.

Most of why DOS, Windows, OS/2, WinNT and all of Windows 11 and Windows Server today are how they are -- the name-dot-three-letter-extension filenames, the directory structure, drive letters, the basic commands, the config file formats, all of it -- owes to ancestry in DEC OSes.

Gary Kildall worked with DEC minis. He wrote CP/M in PL/M, designing it to be a DEC-like OS for the new Intel 8080.

DR did great. Became big. It was very slow with CP/M-86 for the new 8086. So, Tim Paterson of SCP wrote his own tiny OS in assembler that used the documented public CP/M API, but the disk format from Microsoft Standalone Disk BASIC. (That's now called "FAT".)

MS licensed it, and later bought it, and renamed it MS-DOS.

MS-DOS is a reproduction of a reproduction of a DEC OS.

Mostly TOPS-10.

https://www.os2museum.com/wp/why-does-windows-really-use-bac...

TOPS-10 ran on the PDP-10, the big brother of the PDP-6, which is the direct ancestor of the PDP-7 on which UNIX was built.

Some effort went into OS/2 and some of that influenced NT. NT was build with an input of code from the big brother of the PDP-11 OS. No wonder it's DEC-like: it's got direct DEC ancestry on one side and indirect on the other. It's the offspring of 2 cousins.
No kidding. That was always the first thing I did after picking up a printout.
I mean, that's emergency powers for you? They've always been reached for by the wannabe dictator. It's why they tend to be best implemented with tight timeboxing or oversight.

Hell, sunset dates'd be nice too.
I’m really hoping they can get MS-DOS 5.0 and QBasic open sourced soon. My first version of MS-DOS was 3.x, but 5.0 was the version I really got comfortable with and started my technology journey with.
Wait, are you implying that regulations are hard to comply with, poorly documented, and enforcement is extremely selective to the point where they no longer achieve their intended function?

Big news if true. They should do something about that.
If I believed in God, I'd say you're doing God's work.
> For example, they are dismal at math problems that aren't just slight variations of problems they've seen before.

I know plenty of teachers who would describe their students the exact same way. The difference is mostly one of magnitude (of delta in competence), not quality.

Also, I think it's important to note that by "could be solved by high school / talented middle school students" you mean "specifically designed to challenge the top ~1% of them". Because if you say "LLMs only manage to beat 99% of middle schoolers at math", the claim seems a whole lot different.
Show HN: VSCode as MCP Server
I built a VSCode extension that turns your editor into an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server, letting you seamlessly integrate advanced AI-assisted coding features from tools like Claude Desktop. It supports real-time code diagnostics, command execution within VSCode terminals, built-in browser previews, and even relay tools from other MCP extensions like GitHub Copilot. Feedback welcome!
The original meaning of mechanical Turk is about a chess hoax and how it managed to make people think it was a thinking machine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk

The current LLM anthropomorphism may soon be known as the silicon Turk. Managing to make people think they're AI.
> While it's possible to bake in this particular inductive bias (repetitive actions might be useful), they decided not to (it's just not that interesting).

What's interesting to me about this is that the problem seems really aligned with the research they are doing. From what I can tell, they build a system where the agent has a simplified "mental" model of the game world and it uses to predict actions that will lead to better rewards.

I don't think what's missing here is teaching the model that it should just try to do things a lot until they succeed. Instead, what I think is missing is the context that it's playing a game, and what that means.

For example, any human player who sits down to play minecraft is likely to hold down the button to mine something. Younger children might also hold the jump button down and jump around aimlessly, but older children and adults probably wouldn't. Why? I suspect it's because people with experience in video games have set expectations for how game designers communicate the gameplay experience. We understand that clicking on things to interact with them is a common mode of interaction, and we expect that games have upgrade mechanics that will let us work faster or interact with high level items. It's not that we repeat any action arbitrarily to see that it pays off, but rather that we're speaking a language of games and modeling the mind of the game designers and anticipating what they expect from us.

I would think that trying to expand the model of the world to include this notion of the language of games might be a better approach to overcoming the limitation instead of just hard-coding the model to try things over and over again to see if there's a payoff.
I'd be curious to hear about how you are managing quality on LLM generated stuff.
They believe that once they reach this summit everything else will be trivial problems that can be posed to the almighty AI. It's not that they don't understand the process, it's that they think AI is going to disrupt that process.

They literally believe that the AI will supersede the scientific process. It's crypto shit all over again.