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Jupe··on Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance
Crypto is a real-life honey pot for cryminals.
Jupe··on The First Open-Source Agentic AI Physicist [video]
Yeah, it's essentially an "AI co-worker" module oriented towards physics research.
Jupe··on The First Open-Source Agentic AI Physicist [video]
And the repo: https://github.com/psi-oss/get-physics-done
Jupe··on The First Open-Source Agentic AI Physicist [video]
Apologies for responding to my own post, but the site behind this:

https://www.psi.inc/

Jupe··on Is America's jobs market nearing a cliff?
A few observations:

1. I saw the same headline - the article stated that there were record SEASON sales, not Black Friday sales. The headline did not match the content of the article. 2. Record revenue, not necessarily record units sold. To be expected with inflation. 3. Savvy online shoppers may be bundling purchases to reduce shipping costs. Waiting for a seasonal sale to buy holiday gifts as well as detergent, snacks and underwear may be quite prudent.

Finally, increased sales revenue does not necessarily equate to more jobs. It can, but by no means does it have to.

Jupe··on Life After Work
Consumers are needed for capitalism to work.
Jupe··on Life After Work
Which is already happening. This is why stock buy-backs, IPO-less/private companies and private equity rule the future. This "wealth" will NOT come from government subsidies or UBI. It will stay where it is, with enough income doled out to the masses to keep the supply/demand economy chugging along.
Jupe··on Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres
Isn't it just a matter of having each consumer use their own offset? I mean if the queue table is sequentially or time-indexed, the consumer just provides a smaller/earlier key to accomplish the offset? (Maybe I'm missing something here?)
Jupe··on Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock
So, rather than Big Brother being government-imposed monitoring paid for by all taxpayers, the concerned citizenry is flipping the bill for the devices, network connectivity and electricity. Fascinating.
Jupe··on Materialized views are obviously useful
> (Technically speaking, if 100 people load the same page at the same time and the cache isn’t populated yet, then we’ll end up sending 100 queries to the database which isn’t amazing, but let’s just pretend we didn’t hear that.)

Isn't their tech to address that, like golang's "singleflight"?

Jupe··on 450× Faster Joins with Index Condition Pushdown
Agreed. Isn't this precisely why key statistics (table statistics) are maintained in many DB systems? Essentially, always "push down" the predicate with the worst statistics and always execute (early) the predicates with high selectivity.

I'd be very surprised if virtually every RDBMS doesn't do this already.

Jupe··on SQLite transactions and virtual tables
Interesting. But this uses mattn's go-sqlite3 package, which is CGO.

Is this a normal/expected requirement in modern GO?

Jupe··on Ask HN: Why does ChatGPT image gen want pyxl.pro?
Both, but much more chat-focused. I've created 20 or so images for various little home projects.
Jupe··on Ask HN: Why does ChatGPT image gen want pyxl.pro?
Actually, I have to re-do this operation to get rid of it. Each time I reload my browser. Killed browser data and still same issue.

No idea what's going on here.

Jupe··on Ask HN: Why does ChatGPT image gen want pyxl.pro?
I guess that. I have a paid account ($20/month flavor) and have the link saved. I just asked it to create an image of a landscape and it popped up this blocking request to use pyxl.pro

I found a work-around (see other comment)

Jupe··on Ask HN: Why does ChatGPT image gen want pyxl.pro?
I managed to get rid of it (I was blocked by this) by clicking the "..." button in the input frame and choosing "Create image" which was prepended to my prompt.

No idea what happened there... I have a valid/paid account, no browser extensions... strange stuff.

Jupe··on Doge Is Replacing Fired Workers with a Chatbot
Why is Social Security always represented as an expense along with things like defense and administration? It is sourced from separate taxes and has no business in the US govt. budget.
Jupe··on 3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright violation
Lost in all this... can someone ELI5?
Jupe··on Ask HN: What would you preserve if the internet were to go down tomorrow?
Apologies, but this strikes me as a rather silly question. What I would keep in the event of a prolonged network outage would be of minimal significance.

What I'd really be concerned about would be our modern society. Purchasing food, water, fuel, clothes and other necessities would be near impossible. Supply chains would not just have problems, but literally fall apart. Money would stop moving.

If anything is "too big to fail" it would be the internet.

Jupe··on Boston Dynamics robot Atlas goes hands on [video]
How long before someone can buy a robot to do a manual labor job for them? I mean, buy a robot and send it to some company to do a daily job where the company pays the robot owner for the use of the robot?
Jupe··on Just use Postgres
From the article, DynamoDB-likes are good IF:

* You know exactly what your app needs to do, up-front

But isn't this true of any database? Generally, adding a new index to a 50 million row table is a pain in most RDBs. As is adding a column, or in some cases, even deleting an index. These operations usually incur downtime, or some tricky table duplication with migration process that is rather compute + I/O intensive... and risky.

Jupe··on 0xCAFEBABE & 0xFEEDFACE (2003)
= CAECBA8E
Jupe··on Trump allies want to "Make America First in AI" with sweeping executive order
So, MAFIAI?
Jupe··on Panic at the Job Market
From the first graph... Isn't this also the effect of software development no longer being depreciable? (If I recall, that was about the end of 2021 or so?)
Jupe··on Ask HN: Do you already see the impact of LLMs on the job prospects for dev's?
In my experience, most coding work is on established code bases. There's that well thought out senior engineer phase at the start of each project, but the vast majority of future work starts with grokking the existing code base.

I don't think we'll see much of an impact of LLM-generated code until these systems are trained on the code and the existing user and dev documentation of the project itself.

As for jr. engineer impact and prospective candidates, I'd say virtually zero.

Jupe··on Ask HN: Windows Recall and Court Subpoena
IANAL, but, my understanding is that if a court rules that the Fifth Amendment does not protect against providing a password (if they already know what's there from other sources, etc.), the individual may be compelled to comply with the subpoena.
Jupe··on Tell HN: Legitimate voting email from city clerk marked as spam
I emailed the sender, and will follow up with this info. Thanks!
Jupe··on Planet breaks temperature records for twelfth month in a row
I'm not a climate doom-ologist, but this could be from humans burning fossil fuels, or it could be that we are still coming out of the last ice age.

Since we can't control the latter, it only seems prudent to do something about the former.

Jupe··on Artificial CEO and Corporate Leadership
This matches my mental model so far... the more experience, listening and communication required to perform a task, the more suited AI is to apply.

However, the more specificity required (math, programming, engineering in general) the more challenging it is to apply AI... at least for now.

Jupe··on The Washington Post Tells Staff It's Pivoting to AI
My guess is that, by the end of this year, we will see this pattern over-and-over. The economics are just too compelling, especially in the attention-driven business like News.
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