skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Enterprise Edition = Community Edition + Support + AI-based Root Cause Analysis + SSO + RBAC
There is still the overhead of updating that extra space.
> the animation adds no additional information.

No it removes information; to be able to focus on one period at a time as it evolves.

Seeing a "living graph" of how something evolves is different than seeing the graph fully drawn statically, that cannot be considered chart junk IMO.
> The people who built this technology needed to use hundreds of millions of images without permission.

It remains unclear if they needed permission in the first place. Aside from Meta's stunt with torrents I'm not aware of any legal precedent forbidding me to (internally) do as I please with public content that I scrape.

> They regularly speak explicitly about all the jobs they plan to destroy.

A fully legal endeavor that is very strongly rewarded by the market.
"Tried to address" is not the same as "can do well."

I was responding to PP, but some other (maybe obvious?) examples are logical reasoning and explainability.

As PP suggests, some of the classical symbolic ideas may be applicable or complementary to current approaches.
I definitely still use search engines too. Googling topics with site:Reddit.com still a better way to get genuine opinions on e.g. product comparisons and recommendations.
> How much do you trust your government with your money?

Eh, the money was printed by government and any value it has is based on how much people trust their government. Using government payment processor is small potato compared to those...
Don’t overlook the early BSD revolution.

4.3BSD was basically designed without any bespoke hardware platform of its own. They commandeered DEC’s big iron, for the most part, to “dual boot” before dual-booting was cool. 386BSD began to enable PC-compatible hardware and really cost-effective “server farms” even before Linus was a twinkle in Finland’s eye.

Moreover, various BSD flavors were empowering admins to breathe new life into legacy hardware, sidestepping and bypassing the proprietary software channels. Linux, on the gripping hand, remained x86-unportable for awhile after BSD (and Xfree86) was running everywhere.

Personally I ran Minix-286 at home; at university we enjoyed a “recreational” VAX11 running not VMS but 4.3BSD.

Flash forward to 1998: from the arid but air-conditioned Sonoran Desert I received gently-loved twinned Apollo 425t systems with memory upgrades; I installed OpenBSD on both, as well as my 486DX100! It was a homogeneous OS environment with heterogenous hardware... and the 486, with Adaptec SCSI & a VLB #9GXE64 Pro, could boot into Windows 98 and run the Cygwin X server, or DOOM or Quake.

There was a golden age when a dude could walk into any surplus yard, grab Big Iron Unix Boxes, take them home and bootstrap NetBSD. On anything. Bonus: BSD originated in USA/Canada, for a trustworthy chain of trust. (Oh Lord, the encryption export technicalities...)

Linus played follow-the-leader for years.
Virtual generated columns are not required to allow an index to be used in this case without incurring the cost of materializing `to_tsvector('english', message)`. Postgres supports indexing expressions and the query planner is smart enough to identify candidate on exact matches.

I'm not sure why the author doesn't use them but it's clearly pointed out in the documentation (https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/textsearch-tables.ht...).

In other words, I believe they didn't need a `message_tsvector` column and creating an index of the form

CREATE INDEX idx_gin_logs_message_tsvector
ON benchmark_logs USING GIN (to_tsvector('english', message))
WITH (fastupdate = off);

would have allowed queries of the form

WHERE to_tsvector('english', message) @@ to_tsquery('english', 'research')

to use the `idx_gin_logs_message_tsvector` index without materializing `to_tsvector('english', message)` on disk outside of the index.

Here's a fiddle supporting it https://dbfiddle.uk/aSFjXJWz
That is correct. The person who largely had overall responsibility for Red Hat’s open source container tooling is a Boston area native.
Because PG is a fantastic platform for doing everything you need in SQL and it performs real well. Add PostgREST and you've got a REST API almost for free (you have to design a schema of what to expose, so not entirely free, but still, pretty close). Also, PG moves _fast_ and has a very active developer and user community, which means you'll be getting more awesome functionality in the coming future. (E.g., I've been following the AIO thread and the performance improvements coming from that patch set will be hefty.)
Viewing it in a web browser requires a local copy. Saving it to my downloads folder requires a local copy. That is very obviously legal. Why should training be any different?

You've yet to present a convincing argument regarding the ethics. (I do believe that such arguments exist; I just don't think you've made any of them.)
Perhaps the most generous interpretation is that the authors were writing an article for people who do the naïve thing without reading the docs. There are quite a few people in that category.
My take is close to yours...

LLM's are great when you want AN answer, and not get side tracked.

Search is great when you want to know what answers are out there. The best example is Recipes... From what spices go into chai to the spice mix in any given version of chili (let's not start on beans).

The former is filling in missing knowledge the latter is learning.
I once looked at the requirements to be able to handle all the debit/credit transactions in the US, and you can do that on _one_ mid-range server easily. With regular PostgreSQL, no need for anything exotic.

Of course, the real deployment will need redundancy, failover, multiple levels of audit records, etc.

But still, modern computers are _powerful_.
Really? I use active elevators in SF literally every day. Embarcadero and Montgomery Bart stations. Where in the city are you with no active escalators?
Well there's the issue innit? You're not placing fault on the manufacturer of the shoddy goods, but on the stores, which I presume are the local distributors?

Sure, you're disincentivizing crappy goods, but then you'd also barr a strata of society who can only afford those crappy goods. While it's not as much of a problem in Norway I suppose, it is a problem in the majority of the world.
Small artists operate in a service-based economy, not a mass-production one. The value lies in their unique perspective, process, and personal connection, not just in the final product. You hire them, not just pay for 'art'. What they're selling lies outside of the fiction of intellectual property.
COBOL, FORTRAN and C are still widely used. A butt ton of code at Google is written in Java. Java ain't goin' nowhere.
This is one of my favorite duckduckgo features - adding a single exclamation point after a search (“Tom Hanks IMDB !”) does exactly this
Programming, at least, is much easier to shield in a loose IP regime than art. You can ship only binaries, or even keep your code running on a server and disclose only the API. And likely, the company that pays your salary would opt to do just that.

I can't imagine a similar way for an artist to distribute their work while protecting their interests.
I disagree the EU is peaceful because of democratic peace theory and because of the political union not because of trade. If it was just economic and some of those countries were authoritarian I could easily border conflicts turning into wars
Plus octopi, which evolved some degree of intelligence in a very different way than vertebrates. So we have at least three paths to intelligence now.

This is an indication that fᵢ in the Drake Equation [1] is probably closer to 1 than 0.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation
What do you think of the recent anthropic research on how LLMs reason? It is clear from their shallow analysis that LLMs have very serious reasoning weaknesses. I wonder if those weaknesses can be "addressed" if we build LLMs that can do deeper analysis and use RL to self-improve. LLMs improving LLMs would be a very impressive step towards AGI.
I was expecting China to be totally cashless when I went last year. While everyone accepts digital payments, almost everyone also accepts cash just fine.
lmarena has lost credibility for me. Are there any better alternatives out there?
Present day...

Google 55% as GPT is not a local search engine

GPT 45% but use it for more intelligent learning/conversations/knowledgebase.

If I had a GPT phone ... sorta like H.E.R. the movie I would rarely leave my phone's lockscreen. My AI device / super AI human friend would do everything for me including get me to the best lighting to take the best selfies...
Nintendo confirms you will have to pay to use the Switch 2's C button
Hey! This guy is using the fancy new treelist [1] package which implements RRB trees. These are super cool data structures: a cache-friendly, multiway tree structure to store a sorted collection with O(log_{32} n) read, functional insert/update/append/prepend. Really a fantastic data structure for functional programming.

[1]: https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/treelist.html
> Wealth is not concentrated in a market society.

Respectfully, you should do some reading of basic economics. Absent of external forces to correct for it, wealth absolutely concentrates in unregulated markets.
They Didn't Make Dire Wolves, They Made Something Else [video]
If you get rid of cocaine, the need for rehab centers also vanishes.

There is no way to “get rid of cryptocurrencies” at this point save for shutting off the internet. It is not within the power of the state to prohibit, any more than prostitution or cocaine.
Floodwater is horrible. Full of sewage overflow, agricultural runoff, etc. Any building contaminated with floodwater will at the least need to have all the furniture, floor covering, drywall etc ripped out and replaced. Even then you’re rolling the dice that the timber in the frame won’t just grow mould forever.
Are you talking about incorporating a company? Why is this necessary at this stage before earning money? Can be a waste of money.
I am not sure why you are saying that I am not paying attention to how AI is impacting software development. I just pointed you to a chapter that shows that it's not a competitor at all. Moldable Development and GenAI are complementary :)

In GT, we have integration with LLMs as well, including programatic ways to create interfaces for it.

MCP is certainly interesting.
LzTurbo – Fastest Compressor
I can't say that the things you're saying match what I've encountered from nontechnical folks lately. Most of them are entirely apathetic about the whole affair while a few are clearly dazzled by the results. The entire thing seems to be a black box that they hold various superstitions about but generally view as something of a parlor trick.

The ones that pay attention to the markets appear to believe some very questionable things and are primarily concerned with if they can figure out how to get rich off of the associated tech stocks.
You can also build distributed DBs with PG. For example for a DB with multiple write nodes all you need to do is implement an event shipping model with logical replication where your servers publish their events and subscribe to others, and you need to implement conflict resolution rules, naturally. I think PG's type system can probably be leveraged to make a CRDT system on top (and I bet someone's already done it).
The main algorithm most any folks know by name for doing this was created for it, so sorta? I don't know that it is necessarily better than any closed source options. I was under the impression it is the baseline good, though.
We want people to be able to discuss difficult topics on HN but please keep to the guidelines.

Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yes, daily. (Kagi)
This. ORMs by and large suck.
"A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both." - Milton Friedman
The original dream of crypto was a good one.
Everyone I know was using 24-bit color well before 2002, though 16-bit color made some applications work better (8-bit color would only happen temporarily, when running a very old application). My family shelled out the money for a 1280x1024 monitor though; take that!
FPP doesn't cause less representation at the local level, it has more. Party list-based systems have no local representation at all. MMP has it, at least, but has the same kingmaker issue. They assume implicitly that democracy is about competition between unified ideological factions which is not inherent to the concept at all. There is more to life than ideology.

FPP prioritises local representation and majoritarian results: if constituencies are arranged properly, then swings in voter sentiment are amplified. Relatively small changes in voter satisfaction can produce hundred seat majorities at Westminster. That is on purpose. It is part of why governments are accountable.

If you compare it to Germany, where there is enormous dissatisfaction with the government, they held an election, and mostly the same parties will be in government again, because of coalition politics.

The alternative to Germany is the situation here in New Zealand. Culturally still two main parties, but instead of voter sentiment deciding which of them wins, instead it is the choice of a minor kingmaker party that can pick a winner based on who gives it the most concessions. That is arguably better, but still not a good situation compared to a simple majoritarian system. We had one of those. The country was better-run under FPP than under MMP.

Westminster proves quite wrong the common claim that the system encourages two parties, by the way. The main parties have a lesser percentage of votes between them than they have ever had. It is just not true that two parties inevitably dominate.
Even then, there weren't enough melt spinning machines in North America to make the necessary raw materials, and the lead time on new machines was too long to address the shortage in time to respond to the needs of a pandemic.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/n95-mask-shortage-melt-blown-fi...
I personally prefer the one where everyone tells you that your error is because you used the outdated and almost unusable version from yesterday instead of the revolutionary release from today that will change everything we know. Rinse and repeat tomorrow.
I am certainly not in the business of writing my own shell parser ;) Though this is a fair point -- I think I could get a more rich level of control over the output by hooking into their parser, albeit with a higher level of complexity.
You have bizarre logic here. For example, in a topic discussed about GPUs, someone would say that it's not possible to run databases on GPUs, so GPUs don't have any chance of succeeding.

> How much do you trust your government with your money?

Do you trust crypto companies? Mt. Gox, FTX, Bybit…

Do you know that crypto companies must follow government rules, regulations, and laws? Russians were banned from using many crypto exchange platforms. China has strict rules for its citizens. You can buy and sell crypto in Brazil, but you must use only Brazilian reals.

Pix isn't global, but no one government person outside of Brazil can block this system.

MasterCard, Visa, Amex, and UnionPay work worldwide, but only a few countries regulate them, can block their usage, and can use data for tracking and statistics.

Pix is free to use, so no one needs to pay an additional "tax" to MasterCard and Visa (it's about 3%).

Google and Apple cannot say that if you want to pay, you must use only our devices.

> Now, try to use Pix outside of Brazil

Now, try to buy ice cream from street vendors using any crypto coins.
Trump Team to Freeze Nearly $2B at Cornell and Northwestern Universities
The saddest part is watching talented people, who care deeply about the craft, slowly burn out because their judgment is being replaced by a prompt
Doing everything in postgresql need not necessarily mean doing it in one database server. We could have different servers meant for search, queues, analytics (columnar) etc, all replicated (pg native replication) from a vanilla transactional postgresql server.

Now applications need only one technology, not necessarily one server.
> Why should it? What problems would they solve?

We clearly do have a problem. No 1 learns from past mistakes. We keep reinventing the wheel e.g. the land of NodeJs, Javascript, etc. Even within companies there's no learnings passed down. Each new hire thinks they're the best and tries to redo it all.

> Are you so afraid of competing with those who might not get a certiciation?

I rather compete on certification than compete on leet code. Do you miss the point that the whole leet code system has nothing to do with any job? At least certification might be slightly be relevant.
Pinball Brothers – A Swedish-Italian Pinball Company
I had no idea they existed until this morning. They are sadly being hit hard by tariffs as reported by Swedish media.
Congratulations on releasing the product and its success.

You will likely have to compete with Supabase's diagram editor (there might be other competitors too), which has AI integrated. You can check it out and see if you can improve your system. Their product is open source as well, so you can review the code.

The simplest monetization path would be to keep it free and charge users for AI access. However, don’t hire a team, as it may not be viable against other big players in the long run.
Wouldn't you be better off buying ships from allies?

Nobody does everything.
That is both hilarious and depressingly on-brand for how AI is being handled in a lot of orgs right now. Management pushes it because they need to tick the "we're innovating" box, regardless of whether it makes any sense for the actual work being done
Looking forward to this precedent being applied to religiously-affiliated universities that receive federal funding when the coin flips.
Targeting GTK2 is fine right up until distros drop it, which I'm pretty sure has already happened in some cases.
> No country has any moral obligation to help any other country. It is anarchy between nations.

You just made that up. First, what defines morality? Second, by what morality are you not obligated to help others? That is amorality, greed, evil. And empirically, countries have long felt, talked explicitly about, and acted on, sometimes at great cost, the moral need to help other countries. Leaders have long made that argument to their fellow citizens (or subjects).

The parent claim is a transparent fiction of nationalists. You can do better!

> I have always found it interesting that if everybody focused on improving their own conditions first then helped others locally the world would be objectively better for everybody.

An even more obvious fabrication with not even an attempt basis. As is often the case with this stuff, the only 'basis' is saying it like it's a fact.
Didn't knew that. It's significantly lower than $500k.
I started with Alta vista then DuckDuckGo and now Kagi. Recipes only via chatgpt and reverse image search with yandex of course.
> It may even age gracefully, as the author wants it to, provided that Xlib stays around. Or maybe it could eventually develop a thin abstraction layer to allow pluggable rectangle-drawing and text-rendering APIs, and start supporting Wayland, too.

For application software (which appears to be what the author cares about), xwayland (and the other one whose name escapes me at the moment[0]) should be a trivial way to support wayland perfectly well without actually having to expend any effort.

[0] EDIT: Found it; https://github.com/Supreeeme/xwayland-satellite ... which actually apparently is xwayland, just without needing compositor support. Not quite what I thought I remembered, still super cool and useful.
You're describing the kind of developer who builds foundations, not just features. And yeah, that kind of thinking gets lost when the only thing that's measured is how fast you can ship something that looks like it works
Time to put on a conspiracy hat.

If you scroll down, the entire comment section reads a lot like a campaign to fix their search results & AI suggestibility.

Way too many comments read like generic seller-inserted reviews, eg "Great Product!", "Tried X, Y, Z but this solved my problem!".
Completely agree on internships. I really think universities that have an integrated co-op program, like Northeastern or Drexel, are much better for the significant majority of students than just a "standard" liberal arts or even an engineering degree.
It feels like LLMs are doing to coding what the internet/attention economy did to journalism.
For economics, I prefer history to academic theory. (But I have read Friedman's "Monetary History of the United States", and books by economist C. Northcote Parkinson, "Capitalism" by Reisman, etc. My dad also had a degree in economics from MIT and an MBA from Harvard and a doctorate in economicis and taught finance in college. We had many many long talks about economics. And yeah, I did take econ 101 at Caltech from a Marxist professor. My dad would have had him for lunch.)

> wealth absolutely concentrates in unregulated markets

The US had more or less unregulated markets for well over a century since its founding. The result? The most stupendous wealth creation, pushing scores of millions of people from poverty into the middle class and beyond.

There was no "transfer" of wealth from the poor people to the wealthy (there couldn't have been, because they, being poor, didn't have wealth).
https://archive.is/1fFJ7
AI can refactor or trim code. But in practice, the way it's being used and measured in most orgs is all about speed and output
> I'm curious, as a software engineer when was the last time you've seriously worked under pressure? Like, 'do this thing now or you're fired/the company goes under' and so forth?

All the time. Depends on where you work. It happens in startups, small companies and many others. Even in large organizations with stack ranking for example.

> The kind of snap pressure that interviews can push on you.

Not even close to the same. How do you equate pressure? Someone can fear spiders more than jumping off a cliff. Crunch time for them can be less than interviews. Point being?
Windows Defender, that's all you need.
LzTurbo was updated last in 2021. How active is the project?
Despite the popular narrative Europe still has a sizeable arms industry.

What Europe doesn't is the ability to quickly agree on anything. But when America calls consensus can be reached quickly.

At times 40% of the contingent in Afghanistan were allies.
I open-sourced a YC Company because no one is hiring grad for devs
Yes, you heard that right — I open-sourced a YC company.

It was mostly out of sheer desperation. Landing a job as a recent grad these days feels harder than escaping Alcatraz.

I came across a YC company called SpurTest on the Lightcone podcast. They were working on AI-driven QA testing using natural language, and I found it fascinating.

So, I decided to build an open-source version — Neutrino.

I created an AI web agent from scratch using step prompting in a Playwright browser.
It simulates how a human would interact with a website to generate end-to-end tests, all driven by natural language.

It’s been a super fun project so far. This is just v1 — still rough in some areas, but fully working.

Right now, I'm experimenting with efficient step-mark prompting technique to make it smarter and faster.
I'm also considering fine-tuning Qwen 2.5 VL 7B for reduced cost and better performance down the line.

Come on critize, roast or even suggest
Er, which part of their stack is "obscure"? Common Lisp, FFI, Cairo, OpenGL, X11; it would be hard to pick more well-trodden ground IMHO. (Well, okay, there are even more popular options than clisp, but it's still not obscure, just slightly less widely used than ex. C or Java.)