MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-05-05 23:09:43+00:00
> I'm usually way more precise in my estimates

One, you suggested OP had not “looked at the actual numbers.” That implies you have. If you were just guessing, that’s misleading.

Two, you misquoted (and perhaps misunderstand) a statistic that doesn’t match your claim. Even in your last comment, you defined the market as “companies that sell their own AI models” before doubling down on the chatbot-only figure.

> not even in Puchal wildest dreams

Okay, so what’s your source? Because so far you’ve put forward two sources, a retracted one and one that measures a single product that you went ahead and misquoted.
by joshstrange | 2025-05-05 23:09:47+00:00
Well this isn't great news. I quite enjoy using Neon but I doubt it's going to continue to cater to people like me if it's bought by Databricks (from the little I know about them and from looking at their website).

Thankfully, I just need "Postgres", I wasn't depending on any other features so I can migrate easily if things start going south.
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by mdeeks | 2025-05-05 23:11:34+00:00
From what I read, I think you can replace this all with a docker compose command and something like Caddy to automatically get certs.

It's basically just this command once you have compose.yaml: `docker compose up -d --pull always`

And then the CI setup is this:

scp compose.yaml user@remote-host:~/ ssh user@remote-host 'docker compose up -d --pull always'

The benefit here is that it is simple and also works on your development machine.

Of course if the side goal is to also do something fun and cool and learn, then Quadlet/k8s/systemd are great options too!
by timewizard | 2025-05-05 23:13:41+00:00
It was under the last Administration that the critical change was made:

"The Newark TRACON, which was previously located at the New York TRACON in Westbury, New York, has been transferred to the Philadelphia TRACON. This change, which occurred in June 2024, was implemented to address staffing shortages and improve the efficiency of air traffic control in the busy New York area. "
by gosub100 | 2025-05-05 23:14:20+00:00
The arms race will continue. I think the next gen will be a self hosted archive.ph style host that lets all the garbage load and distills it into a PDF or Web 1.0 style file ready for consumption. I would be fine with a browser extension that learns what I watch the most and preloads it for me, and/or an on demand service that shares prerendered sites bundled into torrents that group together common interests.

Edit: as much as I dislike AI, I concede it would be lovely to tell it to replace all ads with pictures of flowers.
by silisili | 2025-05-05 23:15:31+00:00
I was playing with a toy program trying to hyperoptimize it and asked for suggestions. ChatGPT confidently gave me a few, with reasoning for each.

Great. Implement it, benchmark, slower. In some cases much slower. I tell ChatGPT it's slower, and it confidently tells me of course it's slower, here's why.

The duality of LLMs, I guess.
by p_ing | 2025-05-05 23:16:28+00:00
Skydrive released in 2007.

But fair enough, I grabbed my Beta 1 copy from \\products; it was fun to play with. I wish they’d seen it through. Microsoft had plenty of 'slimmed down' versions of SQL Server, i.e. the CRM addin for Outlook, so that isn't quite a unique feature of WinFS.
by Legend2440 | 2025-05-05 23:17:12+00:00
>In all cases, the amounts of energy or power required by any version of the simulation hypothesis are entirely incompatible with physics, or (literally) astronomically large

Of course it would be. The laws of physics as we know them would exist only within the simulation.

The outer universe could have literally any rules - free energy, faster-than-light travel, more (or fewer) spatial dimensions, super-turing computation, anything’s possible.
by sepositus | 2025-05-05 23:17:25+00:00
To suggest that Kubernetes doesn't fall under the scope of "battle tested" is a bit misleading. As much as systemd? Of course not. But it's not 2016 anymore and we have billions of collective operational hours with Kubernetes.

Just the other day I found a cluster I had inadvertently left running on my macBook using Kind. It literally had three weeks of uptime (running a full stack of services) and everything was still working, even with the system getting suspended repeatedly.
by zoogeny | 2025-05-05 23:17:35+00:00
Sure, however I made the point "how quickly JS libraries tend to change" and "the typical JS server project has dozens of libs". That can add up to a lot of context.

I suppose a point could be made that I could keep the docs up-to-date using Cursor's custom docs feature and hope that whatever magic they are doing to manage context doesn't blow out the daily token budget. And I haven't tried that since the flow I mentioned about tends to work (as long as the libraries in question provide good diagnostic logs).

A good augmentation to my workflow might be periodically prompting "In file X I am using lib Y at version vN.M.P, check the docs for that version and report any errors or misuses ...".
by bigmadshoe | 2025-05-05 23:17:41+00:00
"The median delay between speakers in a human to human conversation is zero milliseconds. In other words, about 1/2 the time, one speaker interrupts the other, making the delay negative."

Is that really a productive way to frame it? I would imagine there is some delay between one party hearing the part of the sentence that triggers the interruption, and them actually interrupting the other party. Shouldn't we quantify this?

I totally agree that the fact the AI doesn't interrupt you is what makes it seem non-human. Really, the models should have an extra head that predicts the probability of an interruption, and make one if it seems necessary.
by thiagoeh | 2025-05-05 23:17:45+00:00
Looks like the acquihire of Bit.io in 2023 wasn't enough to be able to deliver their own OLTP offering

https://blog.bit.io/whats-next-for-bit-io-joining-databricks... https://www.databricks.com/blog/welcoming-bit-io-databricks-...

Or it's just a business decision to corner the market, as someone else said
by araes | 2025-05-05 23:17:59+00:00
Its cool you at least attempted to do something with a bit of social connection at such a heavily targeted website.

Having personal issues with Ticketmaster's pricing methods (causing many to probably never want to do anything that might help) is a different issue than the website being used as a source for redirecting calls to fake call centers.

Since they escalated maybe something will get done. Ticketmaster would have a motivation, if large numbers fall prey to diverted call center scams it only makes their reputation flounder even worse.

(...obvious joke here would be if the scammers actually offer better support, they're just trying to steal call center business)
by anonymars | 2025-05-05 23:18:17+00:00
I think there might be a bit of crosstalk here. For background I largely agree with you. There was a powerful clip during the George Floyd protests where a woman passionately explained that it was a game of Monopoly where, when blacks actually did get money, whites burned Tulsa to the ground.

With that out of the way, let me go back to this:

> If you show up to the interview and you're white, congratulations, you're 50% of the way there.

This is where we have the difference of "base rate" vs "lived experience". My example is gender as opposed to race but it generalizes: I have an expensive and difficult hobby that is largely male-dominated. As such there are various scholarships and mentor groups for women. As I open my pockets and overcome challenges, seeing these posters around telling me that if I were a woman, I would have money and mentorship laid at my feet, it is not difficult for me to see why the rhetoric of privilege doesn't land easily.

Going back to race, at my employer there are various employee groups for LGBTQ, Connected Black Professionals, Asian Heritage, and so on. How privileged does a regular white guy without any particular connections feel? (Assume he then goes home and tries to help his high-achieving white teenage son strategize on college applications)

To reiterate, I am not disagreeing with the underlying "stacked deck", but I also don't blame those for whom it doesn't land, because at the very least: the marketing sucks

See also: the blue-collar worker who barely graduated high school and worked in a factory before we shipped it off to China, without which the community has become poor and run-down and ravaged by drug addiction. How privileged do you think he feels? (Is it any wonder he voted for who he did?)
by kelseyfrog | 2025-05-05 23:19:20+00:00
In the same sense that astrology readings, tarot readings, runes, augury, reading tea leaves are bullshit - they have oracular epistemology. Meaning comes from the querant suspending disbelief, forgetting for a moment that the I Ching is merely sticks.

It's why AI output is meaningless for everyone except the querant. No one cares about your horoscope. AI shares every salient feature with divination, except the aesthetics. The lack of candles, robes, and incense - the pageantry of divination means a LOT of people are unable to see it for what it is.

We live in a culture so deprived of meaning we accidentally invented digital tea readings and people are asking it if they should break up with their girlfriend.
by moralestapia | 2025-05-05 23:19:49+00:00
>Only universes with very different physical properties can produce some version of this Universe as a simulation.

I cannot give a formal proof to it but at the same time this feels so ... obvious?

Edit: I'm not going to complain about the downvotes but they also didn't prove s*it, lol.

Since the gloves are off now ...

"As anticipated, since EI,U ≫ EU , there simply is not enough energy within the entire observable Universe to simulate another similar universe down to the Planck scale, in the sense that there are not even remotely available resources to store the data and even begin the simulation."

It would be very stupid to even consider that a complete simulation of X could be carried out from within X and using only elements present in X.
by foobiekr | 2025-05-05 23:20:14+00:00
Regarding "We could conceivably have some version of AI that reliably performs any task you throw at it consistently" - it is very clear to anyone who just looks at the recent work by Anthropic analyzing how their LLM "reasons" that such a thing will never come from LLMs without massive unknown changes - and definitely not from scale - so I guess the grandparent is absolute right that openai is nor really working on this.

It isn't close at all.
by thechao | 2025-05-05 23:21:14+00:00
Me: What is the tallest tree in Texas?

CGT: The tallest tree in Texas is a 44 foot tall tree in ...

Me: No it's not! The tallest tree is a pine in East Texas!

CGT: You're right! The tallest tree in Texas is probably a Loblolly Pine in East Texas; they grow to a height of 100–150', but some have been recorded to be 180' or more.

Me: That's not right! In 1890 a group of Californians moved to Houston and planted a Sequoia, it's been growing there since then, and is nearly 300 feet tall.

CGT: Yes, correct. In the late 19th century, many Sequoia Sempervirens were planted in and around Houston.

...

I mean, come on; I already spew enough bullshit, I don't need an automated friend to help out!
by mandmandam | 2025-05-05 23:21:36+00:00
So weird.

It's like someone was saying, watermills are great because they can help you mill your flour. Someone else chimes in like, hey, you can actually just get a wind turbine or a solar panel now; it's way more efficient... And then you - a year old account with -1 karma - jump in saying, 'lol solar power shills still exist?!'.

Like... Who's the shill here? How much BTC is in your bag?
by anonymars | 2025-05-05 23:22:44+00:00
> Even you could not be so ignorant.

I think I'm going to head out for now, but give me a holler when this strategy brings someone over to your point of view

> so in reality, you agree with me

Just so! You aren't actually arguing with what I said, which was basically, "I don't think your framing of this is effective", which is what I meant by "this is a far better argument"

"The difference between cannibals and liberals is that cannibals eat only their enemies" - LBJ
by hinkley | 2025-05-05 23:23:53+00:00
That does not leave us any conversation to have that is appropriate to HN though.

They consider it a sport, the sport requires physical discipline, and that discipline is a propos of the topic.

If you want to get into the cruelty of hunting, we will first have to decide if raising feedlot animals is less cruel than hunting, and you will absolutely lose that argument. But we aren't here to discuss any of that. We are talking about the stopping power of arrows and arrows don't care what mammal they are aimed at.

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function." F Scott Fitzgerald, probably stolen from Zelda Fitzgerald.
by nkurz | 2025-05-05 23:23:54+00:00
It gets posted here often, but I think this Tracing Woodgrains article goes a long way to explaining how we got to where we are:

https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/the-faas-hiring-scandal-...

If the "quick overview" isn't enough background, there is a link to his "full story" treatment at the bottom.
by protocolture | 2025-05-05 23:24:06+00:00
>Although pandas is the standard for manipulating tabular data in Python and has been around since 2008, I’ve been using the relatively new polars library exclusively, and I’ve noticed that LLMs tend to hallucinate polars functions as if they were pandas functions which requires documentation deep dives to confirm which became annoying.

Funnily enough I was trying to deal with some lesser used parts of pandas via LLM and it kept sending me back through a deprecated function for everything. It was quite frustrating.
by mandmandam | 2025-05-05 23:24:15+00:00
> isn't nearly as secure/decentralized as Bitcoin/Litecoin/Monero and other standard POW based cryptocurrencies.

That's not remotely true. Nano is up and running like 9 years now and has survived countless spam attacks. The last attacks have gone completely unnoticed except by people watching for them.

As a non-inflationary feeless currency it's inherently far more decentralized, and tends to decentralize over time.

Why on earth would POW be the standard when block lattice is better in literally every way? It's faster, safer, and 10x more efficient than a Visa transaction.

And then there's quantum resistance.

Why do people on a tech site full of 'smart' people let statements that wrong go unremarked. It's weird.
by WalterGR | 2025-05-05 23:24:54+00:00
That’s... delightful.

In the US, I quite enjoy:

> The "Becoming Your Parents" ads are a series of humorous commercials from Progressive Insurance, where a fictional character, Dr. Rick, portrayed by actor Bill Glass, guides young homeowners on how to avoid adopting their parents' behaviors and habits.

Giving unsolicited advice is lampooned frequently in the ads.
by Frank_Murphy | 2025-05-05 23:25:05+00:00
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by nomel | 2025-05-05 23:26:01+00:00
This usually falls under "interoperability testing", but usually mitigated through your firmware rather than hardware. In the worst types of cases, you need to make sure your hardware works with some popular defunct vendor from 15 years ago since some big customers have used that hardware for 15 years, without issue, and will see your hardware as the problem when they plug it in.

For communication equipment, this is super important, with all sorts of "quirks" put in for vendors that didn't follow the spec. And, that includes keeping quirks in your firmware, so you don't break anyone else's. Imagine entire walls of legacy and long-gone and current competitor equipment, with robot arms to plug things in, and you have an idea of what some hardware validation labs look like.

Motherboard manufacturer firmware is also filled with quirks for specific CPUs, chipsets, etc.
by ninkendo | 2025-05-05 23:26:08+00:00
Completely unrelated tangent: Jesus Christ Reddit is such a cesspit.

Tried tapping that link on mobile, got a screen to view the corresponding post. Tapped it, and I got taken to the App Store. No thanks, force quit the App Store and go back.

Now I get a full screen notice on the original Reddit tab saying “didn’t go where you expected? Next time try the long press!” With instructions to not use private browsing and to long press any link and open in safari. (Wha? You, Reddit, are what are trying to force me to use your app!)

So I long press like they say, open in new tab, and what do I see? A large blank page that just says “REDDIT” in all caps, with the button “Get the app” on the bottom. The link was just to “reddit.app.link” the whole time.

Can’t a company who has a website, just … let me use the website? At every possible turn, Reddit HATES anyone using Reddit from a browser. They will ruin every single aspect of the website they possibly can to try to push you to the app. The entirety of reddit.com seems to be just a broken honeypot to get you to use the app instead. I just can’t fathom how a company can be that broken.

Just delete the Reddit website, it would make more sense.
by cyberax | 2025-05-05 23:27:30+00:00
> A decision I disagree with, but again a very explicitly motivated design choice

As I said, he cared more about ideology. Early returns significantly improve imperative code. They are not necessary in fully functional languages, where you can easily juggle with blocks of logic, but Oberon is not such a language.

> It's too austere for me, but the consideration with which Wirth approached his language design is still something I admire.

It was basically: "my way or you're expelled because I'm the emeritus professor here".
by photochemsyn | 2025-05-05 23:27:44+00:00
"Viral" by Alina Chan and Matt Ridley is worth reading. But I don't think there's much doubt now that Sars-CoV2 was the result of reckless gain-of-function research conducted jointly between China's Wuhan Institute of Virology, America's Baric Lab in North Carolina, and facilitated by funding through EcoHealth Alliance, the NIH and the NIAID. Whoopsie.
by tantalor | 2025-05-05 23:28:10+00:00
The probability/impossibility doesn't matter. If we are in a simulation, then there is a chance (no matter how small) the simulation would reward us for acknowledging it when the simulation ends (NG+) or punish us if we don't (your save is deleted). That outcome is a potentially huge upside/downside risk! Compared to the relatively small cost of wrong belief here and now, it's obvious you should assert we do live in a simulation.
by strunz | 2025-05-05 23:28:50+00:00
Yes, Kurt falls into the "obviously knows music theory without knowing what things are called". He played by ear and had a gift for melody and chord tones. Rick Beato has great videos about Nirvana and Kurt's very sophisticated ear - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l1ZnWc-sFd0&pp=ygUNYmVhdG8gbml...
by 0x6c75636964 | 2025-05-05 23:29:01+00:00
I think there might be a misunderstanding of my post. I don’t believe any magical profundity is arising from dialogues with LLMs that extend beyond their inherent technical capabilities/limitations. What is interesting to me, however, is that these exchanges can generate new insights about myself, especially given the recursive nature of my own thinking. Useful to me (like any tool), but certainly not an oracle.
by superb_dev | 2025-05-05 23:29:09+00:00
I’ve built a lot of small little things with shortcuts, but the only thing I still use is one I made to change my background/lock screen to a random photo from an album. I set it to run every morning so I wake up to a new photo. I shared the album with my partner too so they can add photos to the rotation. It’s small but I love it!

I also made a shortcut that lives on my home screen to open a notes page for today, creating a new one if it doesn’t exist already. That one would be more used if I could ever get a journaling habit to stick.

It’s certainly very limited and suffers a lot from a poor interface, but I don’t think people give it enough credit.
by Phanteaume | 2025-05-05 23:29:41+00:00
Why is it a stance accepted in Science to arrive at dramatic conclusions like these and not realise that maybe, we are missing something ? I can't help but imagine how for most of humanity, germs did not exist, black holes did not exist, electricity did not exist, radioactivity did not exist, electrons did not exist...

Why can't we recognize that we do not stand at the endpoint of life and science but (hopefully) at one of its many segments, and that maybe not being able to calculate something does not equate its impossibility ?
by empressplay | 2025-05-05 23:29:44+00:00
This is silly. If the universe is deterministic, any representation of matter can be locally simulated based on algorithmic calculation. This includes people, objects, everything. I don't need to simulate everything constantly because I know where it will be when I _need_ to simulate it.

So, any smart simulation would only be simulating a small very percentage of itself at any given time -- that part of itself being viewed or interacted with by observers. And we would have absolutely no idea how many of those observers actually reside in any given simulation. 10? 100? 1m? Who knows!

But we could take this even further and suggest that it is only the _experience_ of the universe by ourselves that is being simulated. In that case, we're not actually interacting with anything, we're only gaining the memory of having interacted with it (in 'real time'). In this case there's no physical reality at all! We're living in a large shared hallucination, that once again only 'exists' where and when we're interacting with it.

Finally, we have no idea of the time scale. The time scale in the simulation could be much slower than the outside universe. This would lower the energy required to simulate it even further.

So, no, it's totally possible we live in a simulation!
by Rendello | 2025-05-05 23:30:04+00:00
Both apps appeal to me. I really like the UI in the screenshots of Minders. OP's Journelly has a leg up in two very important ways for me though, both addressed in your FAQ: it has a flat payment model (though it's an option on yours too), and it has export ability. They latter is paramount; I know my paper journals will be around in 50 years, barring a fire or something, but who knows what apps and computers will even look like then.