MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by daxfohl | 2025-07-02 00:21:00+00:00
Though in a way, this feels similar to things like garbage collection, disk defragmentation, or even query planning. Yes, you could build libraries that do these sorts of things for you, but in all likelihood the LLM providers will embed custom-built versions of them that have been battle tested and trained thoroughly to interop well with the corresponding LLM. So whole there could still be an ecosystem, it would likely be a fairly niche thing for very specific use cases or home-grown LLMs.

Maybe something like the equivalent of AWS Firecracker for whatever the equivalent of AWS Lambda is in the future LLM world.
by sdenton4 | 2025-07-02 00:23:11+00:00
You seem... needlessly offended.

Pass in your image with red dots, and the red dots will be counted by the ML-counting thing just fine. It's a minor variation in approach to solving the problem, and that's OK: When confronted with a problem, people often jump to specific solutions too quickly, and miss out on better or more general approaches. This is quite pertinent in this specific case, as well - you can ask the ML-counting thing to count the rectangles instead of the dots, and perhaps save yourself all the clicking in the first place.
by alwa | 2025-07-02 00:23:19+00:00
Since sibling commenters asked—the abuse mainly involved a heckuva lot of phishing, last I heard; for example:

https://threatpost.com/spear-phishing-exploits-glitch-steal-...

https://www.netskope.com/blog/glitch-hosted-phishing-uses-te...

Apparently the free ephemeral apps were (1) free, (2) easy to make and easy to make many of, and (3) hosted on infrastructure that targets tended to trust.
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by axiolite | 2025-07-02 00:24:11+00:00
ATRAC was just to avoid the onerous MP3 license fees, AND lock-in consumers.

Sony is all about NIH. They never release a product unless it uses their own proprietary something-or-other. Remember memory stick? Hi8? UMD? PS Vita memory cards? MicroMV? MiniDisc? HiFD drives? SuperAIT? AVCHD? Why do you think DAT didn't use some other existing tape format like Digital8?
by EGreg | 2025-07-02 00:24:54+00:00
Is it just me, or has anyone also noticed that trees in southern climates closer to the equator (not jungles) have very few leaves and shade as opposed to trees in climates away from the equator (not tundras)?

What happens if you import northern US trees, the ones that produce a lot of shade, into southern states? Has this been tried?

It is also why there is very little shade in, say, Florida. Only occasional parts of the Martin Grade “scenic” highway look like a regular scene in the north.
by Dig1t | 2025-07-02 00:24:57+00:00
Lack of water is a political problem. We have vast oceans which can be desalinated. Israel gets 85% of its water from desalination, they have gone from water shortages to having a water surplus.

We pump oil via pipelines vast distances, we can do the same with water.

We have virtually unlimited energy locked in Uranium which could power desalination plants, or heck you could power them with solar.

There’s plenty of water for the whole planet. There’s also plenty of clean energy (see nuclear and solar point earlier). But tapping these resources requires a functional government or at least a bureaucracy willing to allow companies to build.
by chairmansteve | 2025-07-02 00:25:25+00:00
The KLF burned a million pounds in 1994 (about $3million in today's money)

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9SzDFGbsFI&pp=0gcJCdgAo7VqN...
by Daneel_ | 2025-07-02 00:25:51+00:00
don't forget:

several = 5-10

handful = 10-20

Personally, after having worked in a hardware store, I always confirm. "grab me a couple of those please" - "is two enough, or do you need a few extra?"

I'm one of those people for whom a couple is 3-5, but never 2. I would just say "two".
by adilhafeez | 2025-07-02 00:25:59+00:00
Short answer is latency impact is very minimal.

We use envoy as request handler which forwards request to local service written in rust. Envoy is proven to be high performance, low latency and highly efficient on request handling. If I have to put a number it would be in single digit ms per request. I will have more detailed benchmark in the coming days.
by aspenmayer | 2025-07-02 00:26:01+00:00
Counterfeit items are contraband and may not be legal to be shipped or mailed, as they are evidence that a crime may have occurred. To return counterfeit items for material benefit to the seller or agent in order to receive a refund is possibly helping the fraud to continue by allowing the destruction of property/evidence. I advise all folks who suspect counterfeit goods to report them to the FTC and their local police department to get a police report, and insist that the police take the item(s) as evidence, then provide the police report to Amazon to facilitate the refund, instead of returning the potential contraband to the contraband dealer for them to sell again or for them to destroy the insufficiently misleading fake item.

Scammers are somehow using Amazon itself as an A/B test for if your fakes pass muster, from what I can tell, and everyone loses but Amazon and the bad guys. How long must this continue?
by fc417fc802 | 2025-07-02 00:26:34+00:00
That's a rather baseless assumption about my income. Does it really seem so unlikely to you that a reasonable person might not use the exact same criteria as yourself? Why are you so confident in the generalization of your own perspective to the population at large?

Define "low quality" and "not liked". Each person will classify a given message differently. At least in the general case it's hardly realistic to expect a sender to classify a message from the perspective of a specific recipient prior to sending it.

On the other hand, it is reasonable to expect addresses to be acquired via legitimate means (ie collected only with the consent of the recipient) and to cease attempts at contact when requested. That's essentially the boundary between reasonable conduct and harassment.
by makeitdouble | 2025-07-02 00:26:56+00:00
> There is no world in which online gambling beats other back-office automation in pure revenue terms.

Apple's revenue is massively from in-app purchases, which are mainly games, and online betting also entered the picture. We had Tim Cook on the stand explain that they need that money and can't let Epic open that gate.

I think we're already there in some form or another, the question would be whether OpenAI has any angle for touching that pie (I'd argue no, but they have talented people)

> I am judging the two companies for what they are, not what they could be

Thing is, AI is mostly nothing right now. We're only discussing it because it of its potential.
by wonger_ | 2025-07-02 00:27:45+00:00
For footnotes/sidenotes/endnotes, I think about a few implementations:

- Dorian's expandable parentheticals (click on the gray phrases): https://doriantaylor.com/person/dorian-taylor#me

- Gwern's list of sidenote implementations: https://gwern.net/sidenote

- The ellipsis -> bottom modal pattern, found on buttondown articles like this one: https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/you-can-cheat-a-t...

These days, I try to remove tangents from my writing, publishing any good tangents as microblog content instead.

I'm also considering unhyperlinked footnotes, and letting the reader scroll to the bottom if they want, the low-tech way. It's less distracting that way, and there's no accessibility issues either.
by tomhow | 2025-07-02 00:28:21+00:00
I hear you, it's just that the guidelines are there for a reason, which is to optimize discussions for intellectual curiosity. Avoiding generic tangents is an important part of that. We hope we can be the kind of place where people can resist the urge to succumb to either titillation or indignation when an article includes what is clearly intended as a silly joke. We all know what it's like when someone reacts to this kind of thing at a dinner party or in a classroom.
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by Daneel_ | 2025-07-02 00:29:46+00:00
"This Friday" is the one during the current week, provided it's currently earlier than Friday. If it's Saturday/Sunday already and I want to talk about the Friday that's only 5 days away I would say "this coming Friday" (or just "Friday").

"Next Friday" is always a week+ away. If it's Tuesday and I say "next Friday", I ALWAYS mean the day 10 days away.

If someone says "next Friday" to me and they mean the one in a few days I'll look at them like they're crazy.
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by misswaterfairy | 2025-07-02 00:30:33+00:00
I haven't fully switched over, though I will soon. I daily drive a Mac laptop though I don't want to be totally locked into Apple's ecosystem, and sadly there's one software package I absolutely must use Windows for. Apparently Windows 11 LTSC is largely not enshittified so I'll give that a go for the Windows-only app.

I use NTLite to strip out Microsoft's shit, and keep Windows updated without silently reinstalling said shit, though I shouldn't have to do this.

Once Microsoft tries to force the media PC to upgrade, which happily sits on Windows 10, I'll be using it as a test-bed for Linux, likely SteamOS (despite technically not supporting this).

Valve has a huge opportunity to take a significant portion of Windows' market share in promoting SteamOS as a Windows alternative, and hopefully fixing the 'Linux on Desktop' problems Linus Torvalds himself has long lamented about: https://youtu.be/Pzl1B7nB9Kc

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by TheAlchemist | 2025-07-02 00:31:04+00:00
Don't agree here - that's indeed what Trump does very often, but here Musk survival is at stake and how knows that.

He repeated the lie so many times that people may start to believe that Tesla will be better off without subsides, but reality is, with this bill signed, Tesla starts loosing big money very soon. And when you're in the automotive business, employing 100k people, it's pretty hard to stop the bleeding.

PS. I would really love those 2 to mutually destroy each other.
by Thrymr | 2025-07-02 00:31:37+00:00
Leaves aren't even very green, if you look at the full spectrum of sunlight. They only reflect around 10% of green light, while they are more like 90% reflective in the infrared. So you could say that leaves are infrared. It's only our eyes' receptors that see them as green, since they are not sensitive to infrared. (And they are, for most plants, not a very bright green.)
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by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-07-02 00:32:36+00:00
The Florida perspective.

Miami is it's own market, Miami condos doubly so. They are not weathering the insurance crisis well.

Increased inventory in Orlando/Tampa/Ft.Myers is due to new builds. Prices haven't dropped from their skyrocket peak. Rents are double pre-covid.

The steep insurance increases will guarantee that housing costs stay unaffordable for generations. FL locations w/o history of hurricane damage are seeing rate increases like they live on the coast. But that's always been the case.
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by toast0 | 2025-07-02 00:35:49+00:00
That's a great idea, but hard for the city of Las Vegas to implement. Clark County doesn't have any ability to build a city not in a desert either. The state of Nevada doesn't have much of anywhere to put a non-desert city either.

Very few municipalities are willing to deny new residents, either. It wouldn't be anywhere on my list of viable places to live, but population growth in the Las Vegas metro area has been consistently large since 1910 until recently (only 10% growth from 2010 to 2020). The municipalities should likely invest in livability and comfort where possible.
by barchar | 2025-07-02 00:37:08+00:00
A few points

1) modules only really help address time spent parsing stuff, not time spent doing codegen. Actually they can negatively impact codegen performance because they can make more definitions available for inlining/global opts, even in non-lto builds. For this reason it's likely best to compare using thin-lto in both cases.

2) when your dependencies aren't yet modularized you tend to get pretty big global module fragments, inflating both the size of your BMIs and the parsing time. Header units are supposed to partially address this but right now they are not supported in any build systems properly (except perhaps msbuild?). Also clang is pretty bad at pruning the global module fragment of unused data, which makes this worse again.
by jameslk | 2025-07-02 00:37:26+00:00
Southern Nevada uses a tiny amount of water compared to most states, about 2% of the total that’s apportioned from the CO river, and recycles about 40% of it. For indoor usage, 99% of water is recycled.

I agree growing things in the desert may be inefficient, but speaking for the CO river, that problem is in California and Arizona.

https://www.snwa.com/water-resources/where-water-comes-from/...

https://lvgea.org/water/
by cxr | 2025-07-02 00:39:35+00:00
Look, there's no need to get upset. Take a breath. Calm down.

> This is quite pertinent in this specific case, as well - you can ask the ML-counting thing to count the rectangles instead of the dots, and perhaps save yourself all the clicking in the first place.

Are you just dead set on totally missing the point of what the author of this post is doing? You keep leaving comments that suggest you don't understand the requirements at all. Let's put that aside. Here's a dead simple question:

Have you successfully used the app to do the thing that you're saying that it will do when you try to use it?
by toomuchtodo | 2025-07-02 00:39:59+00:00
Look at sales to list prices and time on market in Tampa St Pete, sellers are still making peace with the downward price momentum, but it’s happening.

https://qz.com/homes-housing-mortgages-underwater-pandemic-b...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUpTyY8RDAU

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Sjbqps5WRj4
by tuatoru | 2025-07-02 00:41:04+00:00
Essentially saying that Amdahl's Law dominates. Speed up part of a process; its total time taken will be dominated by the parts that can't be sped up. In this case the process is the economy, and time is money.

I look from a macroeconomic point of view. To a first approximation, GDP is household spending (and the reason for the other parts existing is also household spending. No business invests unless it expects to sell more)

Again to a first approximation, household spending is wages.

So saying "GDP will rise 20% per year" is approximately equivalent to saying "total wages will rise 20% per year".

That ... seems unlikely.
by photonthug | 2025-07-02 00:41:45+00:00
Trees are great, but ultimately a pretty ridiculous idea if the goal is to create shade, even if you're not worried about water consumption. Avoiding concrete walls or overhangs is smart because you don't want the thermal mass.. but of course you can build these things out of fabric or thin metal.

The funny thing is, if you build a wall or canopy to avoid the water consumption plus literally waiting a decade for a tree to get tall.. now you're probably in violation of your HOA height restrictions, etc. Desert cities need to basically drop the idea of conforming to the typical expectations of visitors and newcomers by trying to add greenery. It's better to add shade, dig underground, build wind-catchers[1], salsabils[2]. There's tons of basic things like making sure roof surfaces are more reflective, and more strategic architectural things[3] that can be done to improve things and the techniques have been used forever

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windcatcher [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salsabil_(fountain) [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_cooling
by Manoj58 | 2025-07-02 00:41:50+00:00
hey, thanks for the article reference. i read it.

that's the exact problem we've been solving! Context bloat vs. memory depth is the core challenge.

our approach tackles this by being selective, not comprehensive. We don't dump everything into context - instead, we:

- use graph structure to identify truly relevant facts (not just keyword matches) - leverage temporal tracking to prioritize current information and filter out outdated beliefs - structure memories as discrete statements that can be included/excluded individually the big advantage? Instead of retrieving entire conversations or documents, we can pull just the specific facts and relevant episodes needed for a given query.

it's like having a good assistant who knows when to remind you about something relevant without overwhelming you with every tangentially related memory.

the graph structure also gives users more transparency - they can see exactly which memories are influencing responses and why, rather than a black-box retrieval system.

ps: one of the authors of CORE
by bcantrill | 2025-07-02 00:42:12+00:00
This is hot! I -- like maybe everyone at Sun in the late 1990s and early 2000s? -- had a soft spot for SunRay. The original SunRay demo from Duane Northcutt to the Solaris Kernel Group in February 1999 (when it was a Sun Labs project code-named Corona) was just... jaw-dropping. Later, it was a point of personal pride that one of the first, concrete, production use-cases for DTrace came on a SunRay server (an experience that we outlined in §9 of our USENIX paper[0]). I'll always be sentimental about SunRay -- and Sun's misexecution with respect to SunRay was a lingering disappointment for many of us.

[0] https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedin...
by phren0logy | 2025-07-02 00:43:26+00:00
I addressed this directly:

> To be clear: it's their money and their program. I'm not disputing that they are totally within their rights to make this change. But the timing and abrupt nature have left us, and I suspect more than a few others, in the lurch.

But it’s fair to say we based our spending decisions not on the existence of the program, but acceptance into the program.