skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Just let me walk up to the counter, read a physical menu, place my order with a human being and get out of there.

Reminds me went to Quest yesterday to get my blood drawn. Tech told me I had to sign in at the kiosk. So I did. And then it wanted to scan my drivers license. Nope. A few minutes later an old man hobbled in. Directed to the kiosk he said he didn't have his reading glasses. So another tech had to stand there and ask him for the information and enter it for him.

Maybe I'm old but it feels like the enshitification is moving faster and faster.
> It sounds like they were in a place that a lot of companies are in where they don't have a single pane of glass for observability.

One of the biggest features of AWS which is very easy to take for granted and go unnoticed is Amazon CloudWatch. It supports metrics, logging, alarms, metrics from alarms, alarms from alarms, querying historical logs, trigger actions, etc etc etc. and it covers each and every single service provided by AWS including metaservices like AWS Config and Cloudtrail.

And you barely notice it. It's just there, and you can see everything.

> One of the terrible mistakes I see companies make with this tooling is fragmenting like this.

So much this. It's not fun at all to have to go through logs and metrics on any application,and much less so if for some reason their maintainers scattered their metrics emission to the four winds. However, with AWS all roads lead to Cloudwatch, and everything is so much better.
> But nuclear isn't very good at quickly and continuously ramping up and down

In terms of kW/min change rate faster then most gas peaker plants used all over the world.

It is a totally different question if that is economical (the costs of a nuclear plant don't really change much when running at 20% or 100%). So most operators run their plants at maximum if possible just like what wind/solar do when it is windy/sunny. France is the big exception to this due to how large portion of their production is nuclear they have to follow the load with some of the reactors.
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> I think where things can really go wrong is when the DB accepts anything the application layer thinks is valid.

No, my view is the opposite of that: the database doesn't allow anything invalid to enter the database.
> walking outside and accidentally encountering a physical briefcase containing documents that could be used for whistleblowing. SEC would still honor the award for that person, right?

Maybe not. I doubt those materials would be admissible in court. (They might support a search warrant.)
First, just an aside: you don't have to hate anyone. It doesn't make you a bad person to hate others, but you could be living better, that's for sure. The thing is, it usually mainly impacts the hater, making them unhappy and angry.

But your analogy doesn't fit here... the issue with blue and green bubbles is the social pressure to have the "better" bubble color, to show you're part of the "better" group. That is, the negative social pressure comes from the threat of social exclusion via lower social standing. But the previous poster is also threatening social exclusion, but a more complete exclusion, and based on nearly the same thing. So it would be more like showing your objection to racism by expressing racist ideas or taking racist actions. Doesn't make sense, of course. That's my point.
That was my first question, too. From the fine article:

> We've drawn from and built upon the contributions of many others (the E programming language, Agoric, and Cap'n Proto to name a few) and is actively being shaped by input from many developers of those projects.

The feature list includes distributed garbage collection, from what I understand that's out of scope of capnproto rpc.

Maybe Kenton is around and can add more details?
Think of production and rental companies like airlines. Some are the safest and well respected, some are a death trap. Most operate middle to right. A lot of salt has to be taken with a comment like that as it's more a legal response than a valid one. i.e. he worked for ARRI.

To clarify, ARRI can only speak on behalf of what they legally aim to sell. Not what the factory reality lets out the door, or what any production does with their equipment. They aren't evil, just a company.
> They know Windows is loosing marketshare like crazy to Mac and Linux so they want as many people to keep using it as possible regardless if you pay for it or not.

That has been the case for a long time. Here is a quotation from Bill Gates from 2007:

> "It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not," Gates says. "Are you kidding? You can get the real thing, and you get the same price."

https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007...
fix: delete go.sum, change go.mod:

github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2 latest
github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/config latest
github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/credentials latest
github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/iot latest
github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/iotdataplane latest

go mod tidy
go build
Yes, he just added that. After a long discussion he said he was "about to do it" and it was just a big coincidence that I brought it up. After 6 months of going around claiming he wrote all the code.
In addition to not getting paid, the employees are left with a tax burden for the RSUs they are now unable to sell since the cancellation happened abruptly in the window between vesting and the liquidity event.
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"Create an app that prints hello world"

> print("hello world")

holy shittttt :o :o
> So use the CRDT library when building your indices?

Yeah, sure, you can build a secondary index over the data. But you're still having to decode the blob and index it. There's no version where you can index the data without using the library to expose the underlying model state (like you could if you weren't using a CRDT).

On locking, yes, it's hard. But it's not the same kind of locking that you'd expect in other parts of a system. You're locking the UI, not the actual data, so it's a tiny bit more forgiving. In general the locks aren't trying to force consistency, instead they are trying to prompt the humans to reduce the chance of conflict happening in the first place. Ofc, you still have to care about the locking, unlocking, disconnection problems, etc.

Here's a decent example/demo you can play around with in multiple windows:

https://examples.ably.dev/component-locking?space=W0V-t5oY6A...

https://ably.com/spaces
It would be great if someone could open a github issue with reproduction steps and maybe a screenshot: https://github.com/lovasoa/SQLpage/issues

The worst I'm able to get when manually disabling the cache and simulating a slow 3G connection is this: a blank page first, then text in the browser's font, then the text re-renders with the right font, then the icons load. The user should never see completely unstyled content.

The site uses "font-display: fallback" so this happens only on slow network connections. If the font loads fast enough, then the fallback never appears.
> It is absolutely unacceptable to have our own data held hostage by them

Most likely this is just one of the walls of the walled garden.
Aircraft fuselages are not balloons, and they do not catastrophically pop if the fuselage is punctured in discrete locations. Relevant recommended viewing is "operation guillotine fuselage test" on YouTube, where large steel blades are dropped through pressurized aircraft fuselage sections to validate no explosive decompression. In the late 1950s, BTW.

Commercial aircraft are required to be designed to maintain 15,000 foot equivalent cabin altitude after any probable failure, which includes multiple missing windows, per the requirements of 14 CFR 25.841 and it's EASA equivalent.

There is already regulation in place that should have caught this but did not. The captain is required to perform an external visual inspection of the aircraft before departure, which follows a checklist that includes looking at the windows. It appears that did not happen.
second part is here https://ofourdan.blogspot.com/2023/11/xwayland-rootful-part-...
None of these are LLMs. LLM means Large Language Model (for text generation, like ChatGPT).
One idea is that the reactor is small and mass produced, not the power plant! So at a site similar to one where you have 2-4-6 big reactors now you would put 5-10-15 SMRs, with a similar large scale infrastructure (HV grid, transformers, security, water treatment, maybe cooling towers, etc.), but you can get going sooner as the reactors are standardized, with type-permits ready, which helps in the design and paperwork of the complete site, and the site might be able get going sooner at lower capacity, starting to generate revenue earlier.
Oh yeah, I have an old checkbook that I've had since like 2010 because the only ones I've ever used are for random landlords. Otherwise it's literally easier to get a cashier's check, which you can (in America) do at any bank or grocery store. Note that some are free and some aren't, so check beforehand. I don't think these will ever really go away tbh
Never ceases to amaze me those who can’t fathom the laws of thermodynamics applying to a scale larger than an oven.
People often learn the lessons in a hard way: they will keep saving 230k/yr until one day their non-HA bare-metal is down and major customers retreat.
Maybe this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33306029
Here is an actual LLM that runs in the browser: https://webllm.mlc.ai/#chat-demo

I cannot make this work on Chrome in Linux. I even tried with --enable-dawn-features=allow_unsafe_apis --enable-unsafe-webgpu
Bandwidth is about 2 orders of magnitude less on non-cloud even without any negotiation or commitment. How much do you have to commit for e.g. Cloudfront to pay 2 orders of magnitude less than their list price of 0.02 per GB?
Nope but my programming was created by millions of years of evolution rather than intelligent design.

The concept of human rights and human feelings in general is based on the human condition. That is we're born and we die and in between we need to find a way to take care of ourselves, create offspring etc. Our programming has evolved thoughts and feelings to manage these things.

If at some point, there were a true AGI, why would it care about human society or it's own rights we assigned it? It wouldn't have feelings and it would essentially be immortal. It could just wait for us to die out (or murder us) then do whatever it wanted.
The primary objective would be to prevent engines from creating those unexpected excessive heat events in the first place.
> and register for a new account with a phone number (you can use the same one you’re using in Production).

I hope that they make it so you can register WITHOUT a phone number. Perfectly fine if it's not the default. This is post is currently implying that is not currently the case.
1 man-year effort is probably less than the effort of AWS, though. So a double win!

A bit in jest, but places I've worked where we've moved to the cloud ended up with more people managing k8s and building a platform and tooling, than when we had a simple inhouse scp upload to some servers.
Agreed - honeycomb has been a boon, however some improvements to metric displays and the ability to set the default "board" used in the home page would be very welcome. Also would be pretty happy if there was a way to drop events on the honeycomb side for a way to dynamically filter - e.g. "don't even bother storing this trace if it has a http.status_code < 400". This is surprisingly painful to implement on the application side (at least in rust).

Hopefully someone that works there is reading this.
~~This is not true.~~ (edited to clarify, see [2]) Robert Sapolsky's research approximated calorie expenditure using a highly inaccurate methodology. Troubat et al. 2008[1] estimated calorie expenditure by measuring chess players' respiration and found that they only burned 10% more calories than normal.

And anyway, the claim that chess players lose 1 pound per day does not pass a basic sanity check. 1 pound of fat = 3500 calories. If you raised all that energy instantaneously in the brain, it would raise brain temperature by around 2500 C (the average brain weighs ~1.5 kg and the brain is mostly water so I figure 1 Calorie ~= 1 degree C per kg). Obviously the energy doesn't release all at once and it wouldn't all be released by the brain, but that's still an implausibly high energy expenditure.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18987876/

[2] When I said "this is not true", I was thinking of the claim from the linked article that chess players burn 6000 calories per day, which is definitely false. Upon re-reading, I realized the parent comment did not actually make this claim. I am agnostic as to whether chess players lose 1 pound per day during tournaments, but if they do, it's definitely not because they're burning 1 extra pound of fat. It's plausible that they're eating much less and/or losing water weight.
It’s not just the language. That code is impossible to directly translate to a pixel shader because GPUs only implement fixed-function blending. Render target pixels (and depth values) are write-only in the graphics pipeline, they can be only loaded with fixed-function pieces of GPUs: blending, depth rejection, etc.

It’s technically possible to translate the code into compute shader/CUDA/OpenCL/etc., but that gonna be slow and hard to do, due to concurrency issues. You can’t just load/blend/store without a guarantee other threads won’t try to concurrently modify the same output pixel.
I feel we hold up single-observability-solution as the Holy Grail, and I can see the argument for it- one place to understand the health of your services.

But I've also been in terrible vendor lock-in situations, being bent over the barrel because switching to a better solution is so damn expensive.

At least now with OTel you have an open standard that allows you to switch easier, but even then I'd rather have 2 solutions that meet my exact observability requirements than a single solution that does everything OKish.
yeah... uh... they'll probably get some dumb IT to buy in.
What an odious old hag.

None of this in any way whatsoever justifies the despicable Hamas attacks, but you can see how they might feel agrieved.
Nice, whats the text to video model? Also, you could try to go for a 1b llm for the browser, would fit.
I don't know...

Since this move would make (advanced) user experience worse, it sounds very realistic to me.

Had they suddenly say "Windows 11 was a big mistake, we are moving back to Windows 7 experience, HTML-based pseudo-UIs are banned" etc. - now that would sound unrealistic.
Before anyone suggests solar, keep in mind that Sweden is roughly the same latitude as Alaska. For half the year, there's very little sunlight.
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Its like a securities fraud race condition. I wonder how many of those there are in the legal system.
That's literally https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias.
Huh, being able to see where a template was instantiated is niche but kind of interesting.
Well, files in the project can be synchronized across spacetime without conflicts but you can presumably edit their contents so this is a conscious design decision, not a technical one
So, to recap:

1. In 2021, sweden produced 165TWh (using 139TWh) of electricity [1];

2. Sweden plans to build 2 nuclear reactors by 2035 [2] but it's not clear what the output of the new reacctors will be. 1GW seems to be typical [3]. Sweden's current six reactors produce about 50TWh [4] of power so about 8.33TWh each, which about maps to 1GW converted to TWh/year. So even in 20 years nuclear will still not be the majority of power in Sweden based on current production and usage growth;

3. These reactors (as per the Reuters link) will have their costs shared with the state. Not a single nuclear reactor has been built without government subsidies [5]. Why? Because it's still too expensive.

4. Part of the delay (to 2035) seems to be that no final decision has been made on design to use. Proximity to consumers is best for efficiency but faces opposition from people not wanting to live near nuclear power stations. Also, larger reactors, by definition, will have a larger mean transmission distance to customers just because they cover more customers. Proponents of smaller nuclear reactor designs ignore that these are fundamentally less efficient and none are commercially in operation, for a reason;

5. Costs of nuclear powers tend to be lower on initial capital costs but higher on operational costs. Nuclear advocates tend to ignore the latter. If addressed at all, it's argued that economies of scale will lower overall costs despite there being decades of building hundreds of plants and no evidence of that at all;

6. While the cost of climate change is of course high and needs to be addressed, no single fossil fuel plant has a catastrophic failure mode comparable to a single nuclear reactor. Actual disasters (eg Chernobyl, Fukushima) get written off as outliers or due to some other reason but the cleanup for Fukushima is in Japan so Soviet Union factors don't apply (and tsunamis and earthquakes happen so you can't ignore that eiher). The cleanup of Fukushima is going to take decades, has already cost $82 billion and the final cost may exceed $1 trillion [6]. For one reactor incident.

7. Nuclear is also pushed compared to renewables by their ability to produce base load. But do we really need base load? Not really [7]. It's really a function of having a large, interconnected energy grid.

Fission power still doesn't make sense.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Sweden

[2]: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/sweden-plans-new-nuc...

[3]: https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/nuclear-power-most-reliab...

[4]: https://www.uniper.energy/sweden/about-uniper-sweden/nuclear...

[5]: https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/nuclear-power-still-not-via...

[6]: https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Fukushima-Anniversary/Fuku...

[7]: https://cleantechnica.com/2022/06/28/we-dont-need-base-load-...
Sweden is already doing good, they can afford investing lingterm
Technically none of their models are actually open source.
Good idea! Mistral 1B is supported by transformers.js now so I can add it!

The Text to Video model is a pipeline
Text to Speech + FFMPEG Magic to stitch together a video.
The name "Tiny LLMs" does not make sense.

LLM stands for large language model. So tiny is kind of the opposite of large. Large usually means >=7B parameters (2023). If it's less, we would just call it language model, not large language model.

And language model has a very specific meaning: It models text. Usually we mean an auto-regressive language model, i.e. input is partial text, and output is the the prediction of the following text. Although there are also other kind of language models. Language model always means text-only.

E.g, a model for speech recognition is a speech recognition model, not a language model. You might use a language model in addition here (shallow fusion etc), but it's not necessary (end-to-end models). None of the models I see here are language models.

So, to put a title here, you could maybe "neural network models in browser" or so. Or maybe "natural language models". "Natural language processing (NLP)" has a different meaning (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_processing) (compared to "language model", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_model) and includes speech recognition. Sometimes this was also referred to as "human language technology (HLT)" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_technology), which would also include all those models.

It would also be nice to add a bit more details on what kind of models we see here, how large they are, etc. E.g. for speech recognition, I see that this uses a port of Whisper to the web (https://github.com/xenova/whisper-web) based on the Transformers.js library (https://github.com/xenova/transformers.js). That uses ONNX, and the standard conversion is via Hugging Face Optimum
(https://github.com/huggingface/optimum), and that usually would do some dynamic quantization, i.e. compression of the model. So maybe the "tiny large" is referring to that. But I did not really find out which Whisper model this is based on, i.e. whether it is Whisper-large (which is still not too large with 1.5B parameters).
For me, SMS is solely for receiving 2FA codes and sending message to my provider to check how much data allowance I have left for the month. I use Whatsapp for messages to people.
"Querying that database isn't free, but you could probably find a way to do it for a few hundred numbers relatively cheaply."

/usr/local/bin/curl -s -X GET "https://lookups.twilio.com/v1/PhoneNumbers/$number?Type=carrier&Type=caller-name" -u $accountsid:$authtoken | /usr/local/bin/jq '.'

I don't even know what it costs ... maybe a penny per lookup ? I forget ...

It also shows carrier and whether it is a mobile or landline, etc.
> That's never going to happen for two main reasons.

I wouldn't say "never". DMA is inherently political at its heart and designed to target US big techs precisely. Apple is not immune and EU gave the regulation board enough flexibility to target all of US big techs. Apple knows this and they decided to support RCS for this exact reason to gain public supports.

> The other one, which is more important in this discussion, is that the EU kept the definitions of services rather broad to the degree that Apple’s adoption of RCS will automatically fulfill the interoperability requirement.

EU already has defined iMessage as a separate core platform service from iOS and Apple hasn't argued against it because it would give them a chance to exclude iMessage from the scope of the regulation. Hence, OS level support for RCS won't cover iMessage if it's also designated as a gatekeeper.
Tiny Models would have been a better name. LLMs are a specific type of model that generate text. Or Tiny GenAI to capitalize on the marketing names?
What is edge computing and what makes it so different?
If an emergency landing was achieved it would imply the engine/wing fire was in a containable state.
Agreed. This is why Civit.AI and huggingface and the entire rest of the open models movement need to be cherished and protected. We are living in a golden age and don’t know it yet, but this is the era before big copyright and regulators come shitting down on the beautiful thing the AI community has done
This is actually really cool! Being able to buy a car at a very clear upfront cost, without any haggling, or sleazy dealerships, would be a good experience.

Plus, I doubt that somebody would stock a counterfeit Hyundai at Amazon warehouses, so commingling isn’t an issue.

I wonder if the returns are still free?
Green means cellular, blue means internet. This same color distinction is used in other places in the UI, such as control center and settings.
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Operational transforms are one of those interesting technologies I’ve wanted to learn by implementing but haven’t made the time yet. I also didn’t realise it could be implemented in that little code.

Can you recommend any learning resources for implementing an OT? (Ideally typescript, python, or rust)
Yes - I would be interested :) my issue is that there is a mixed workload of centralised cloud compute and physical hardware in strange locations. I want something like Headscale as a global mesh control plane and some mechanism for deploying immutable flatcar images that hooks into IAM (for cloud) and TPM (for BM) as a system auth mechanism.