skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I run Redshift at scale.

On using ra3, I agree generally, but for cost would recommend Refshift Serverless in Dev/QA for cost reasons unless you have steady workloads there.

On CPU, even 1 query will cause CPU to hit 100% so I don’t consider it that helpful a metric on a well used cluster. A subtler helpful metric is leader node CPU which you don’t really want to be over 50% regularly, as that is where your query planning, GROUP BYs consolidations and ORDER BY sorting of results occurs.

Agree you should use WLM. The article doesn’t discuss whether to use regular/classic WLM or newer AutoWLM. I’ve done both. I don’t have a strong recommendation. Classic WLM lets you guarantee each queue gets some queries run but wastes away cluster RAM for that queue if idle. AutoWLM gives higher queues priority but you can starve out lower queues quite easily if a high queue runs a lot of jobs and you don’t have concurrency scaling turned on. In practice I use AutoWLM these days hoping for cost usage optimization but not sure I get it. Oh and serverless doesn’t have WLM.

Turning on concurrency scaling and limiting it to 1 hour per day which is free is a no brainer. Agree there. But if you plan to turn it on without that limit, I’d recommend you have some way to track or limit who can/is driving the now pay-as-you-go variable expense or your bills will rise and rise as more queries from your users just for free from their standpoint but at cost for you… much likea la pay-as-you-go snowflake/bigquery. You don’t have that cost dynamic with a fixed size cluster.

Cold storage is an odd recommendation. Perhaps I am missing something but redshift storage costs with ra3 are so near s3 regular tier costs, I’m not sure it’s worth optimizing. I am unclear how/if the agreed much lower cost glacier/etc retrieval works when using redshift s3 tables; does it auto fetch them out of glacier and with what delay?

More could be said. I’m just responding to the points in the article.

Corrections welcome.
What's the state of the art in run-it-yourself TTS? I haven't seen anything that even comes close to what ElevenLabs is doing
Without a mechanical locking mechanism at each axle you’re gonna suffer here. Pseudo “locking” can sometimes work with brakes being applied to the slipping wheel but off road that kinda goes out the window.
Electron apps interface with Electron-the-platform (and have no direct knowledge of Wayland) so it doesn't seem to make much sense to single that out?
I'd pay to stop hearing Morgan Freeman's voiceovers everywhere. It's way overplayed.

At least do some James Earl Jones!
> Information density has decreased even as screens have gotten bigger and LCDs have higher and higher resolutions.

I hate this trend. This is the largest reason why the reddit redesign sucked (besides the worse performance).
Yea, that’s often the only utility they have. No water, sewer, internet.
It's dangerous to allow people to read source content for themselves. You can't have them drawing their own conclusions!
There are vast parts of the country where your cell phone won’t even work. Good luck finding a charging station.

Guess ya can bring your dongle and hope to find a wall plug somewhere but I’d imagine it would take quite a long time to charge.

Off roaders carry extra fuel. Or worst case your buddy who is out with you will circle back to get fuel and come save you. Can’t really do that with an EV.
> pretty clear that it's not really David Attenborough speaking

Not sure how you came to that conclusion. The bot mimics his speaking style very precisely.
Ask HN: How to Survive Post-AGI?
To me, AGI is here. The fact that capabilities of current gen AI allows me to build small stuff means it can do what I am good at. It can build small stuffs.

Now what would it take to survive in this world? I wasn't fortunate enough to build popular applications that would be extremely valuable. What I worked on is worthless to potential employers because I do not even get a callback for an interview. Then there is AGI which is good at what I do.

So how do I survive this? Should I resort to farming by quitting Soft. eng? Or should I start lifting boxes after spending a 30 years of my life on stupid things like academia. South park made an amazing episode recently.
Death rites are not for the benefit of the deceased.
Who goes to a GP for a cold? Your symptoms would have to be pretty severe to do that wouldn't they? And if so, maybe it's not just a cold.
> That's an odd thing to say given given GNU/Linux runs on more architectures than any other OS.

So? Any other architecture that outperforms the M3 on both efficiency and power?
Hi, author here,

It looks like we face plenty of common things. I have the same feeling as you regarding my daughter, too. On one hand, it freaks me out, but, as you said, on the other hand, I will be able to help her.

If you find some tool to interact with the phone vocally as a main entry point, I would be genuinely interested. :)
I would have agreed until these recent podcasts that Chomsky did.

Everyone is basically talking out their ass when it comes to language and linguistics. That becomes incredibly obvious listening to Chomsky on chatGPT.

I was even so stupid to think Chomsky wasn't a fan of chatGPT because it somehow invalidated some of his language theories. Low and behold, no, Chomsky actually knows what he is talking about when it comes to linguistics.
> I think we’re months, maybe days away from ...

I have reasons to think years. Ie. that you are years behind. Profiling individuals based on public data already exist, and it's a profitable business as well.

> using it for nefarious purposes.

Law enforcement (and various other state-owned entities) would beg to disagree. As for vendors, same. Edit: Ad networks, even.
It still won't replace my 2021 ROG G14 with a RTX 3060 and Win11 as my "main gaming" laptop, but it's very nice when I'm traveling to use the same laptop for work and play. Slower strategy games like BG3 on a high-res 3:2 display are a revelation, too, when the UI adapts well.
The article documents them ignoring policy on restraints on video, and facing no consequences, so presumably that will do nothing.

You can't fix things if they'll overrule any suggestion to fire people.
Ask HN: What constitutes plagiarism in open-source?
I recently have been called out for plagiarism in a Reddit thread.

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/17tccsc/comment/k8w5o26/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

I shrugged it off the first time it popped up, because in my eyes the person making the comment is more sour that I am impeding their ability to monetize the concept by making it open-source than they actually believe that I cloned their work.

However, the same user then started spamming my project users with their messages about this project being a clone of theirs without proper attribution and going as far as to double down by posting a new thread on /r/programming once again stating that it is a clone.

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/17w3toy/comment/k9etf1x/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

I saw this thread a few hours late, so by the time I got to respond everyone already had their pitchforks out. Bursting out a few responses in panic probably didn't help either.

Anyway, that's the context. The projects in question are https://github.com/zerostep-ai/zerostep and https://github.com/lucgagan/auto-playwright. I added a section to the documentation using every concrete piece of evidence I could think of to prove that these projects are as distinct as they possibly can be given the narrow scope of the problem and possible ways to implement it (https://github.com/lucgagan/auto-playwright#addressing-controversy).

I also think that, in retrospect, it would have been nice of me to acknowledge that their project was a source of inspiration for Auto Playwright. However, at no point did I copy their project, so the thought of LICENSE attribution did not even cross my mind.

I am trying to be cool head about this and think of what is the proper response. More importantly, I am trying to get a perspective from folks outside of the original debate to see if I am wrong with my actions.

Is copying parts of README enough to call for attribution to the original project?

Is copying error message enough to call for attribution of the original project?

Where is the line?

I still think this whole think exploded because I effectively released something that provides comparable functionality to a commercial solution that they are working and thats what spurred this debacle. However, I also acknowledge that I am struggling to reconcile dozens of people calling me "** code thief" in private messages and my sense of righteousness, which is why I would appreciate the insights.
> Today’s generative AI models can clearly be used to create works that compete with the copyrighted works they are trained on

Humans can also create works that compete with the copyrighted works they've been trained on. Should music schools and conservatoriums start banning all commercial works during lessons? Should students forfeit a % of their lifetime earnings distributed to the copyright holders of everything they have listened to in their lives so far? Granted, nobody will be happy with computers taking over chunks of 'creative' work, but this hard stance will not hold water.

I applaud the courage to stand by personal principles over the soft embrace of a nice job though. Not many people can do it, and we need more of it.
If no power, how would you have a gas station? You can always drop solar and batteries for a charging station. StarLink for remote telemetry and billing.

https://cleantechnica.com/2023/04/30/a-new-solution-for-off-...
Where do these fall with respect to the AI test generation tool I saw announced here from a YC-backed startup founder the other day and now can't find anywhere. I know selenium from a decade ago, but the others seem more emergent. Given my history metaprogramming tests when you have > 1 million LOC and zero tests, I'm hopeful that AI can actually implement the magic better than I can metaprogram it myself, i.e. there's a lot of technical debt in the metaprogramming approach since it's essentially unreadable gibberish that must be effectively loop-unrolled eventually into good, old-fashioned code that humans can actually read as opposed to rando collections of list comprehensions that look like the work of an insane lisp hacker.
It was some weird Chinese brand that the previous owner installed. Had mediocre reviews.
Please don't delete and copy-paste flagged comments. That's abusive, and you did it a bunch in this thread. If you think a post didn't deserve to be flagged, you're always welcome to take it up with us at hn@ycombinator.com.

Also, while I have you, can you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments generally? I'd rather not have to ban you, but you're already close to the line if not over it.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
I don’t share your perspective, but I appreciate it. Grief has no logical framework, so sometimes the result of it is a bit “illogical”.

Thanks for sharing.
VBScript is deprecated: https://nolongerset.com/vbscript-deprecation/

JScript is deprecated, and is likely to be removed at some point too...

CMD is often blocked on many people's machines due to group policy.

PowerShell is really the only other option other than VBA, as discussed in the article. Only reason I haven't used PowerShell til now is the version was hidiously outdated and didn't even support classes... Of course with PowerShell you can evaluate C# code.
Why doesn't anyone enter? It takes billions and billions of dollars, tons of knowledge and if you get it wrong...even Intel screwed it up, and they are one of the only companies would could even try to do it.
Reminds me of my (far less critical) update process for home assistant. Every time something breaks. Currently my hvac automations are going haywire.
In practice though over a decade in power the Tories have rejected a lot of perfectly nice ideas that are against their ideology, which results in a lot of low hanging fruit for a Labour government not stuck with that ideology to just do the obvious things that any Tory minister has been told are a good idea but knows they mustn't actually do for ideological reasons. There are also known bad policies which can be scrapped because a new government doesn't need to pretend they were a good idea, the Tories were able to do some of that because they kept changing leader, but not as much as they'd have liked.

This winter can't necessarily be expected to be as mild as last winter, but the French nukes are back online, which is a big boost for all of Western Europe, and there's more wind online in the UK even after just twelve months.
Disclaimer: I work for Ford but my opinion is of my own. I also got my Ford Escape before I was employed by them.

Me and my family were Japanese brand car drivers for over 2 decades. I got a Ford Escape PHEV, and Ford cars handling is probably one of the best I’ve driven (mind you, we only drive “middle class cars”, below 40K). I recently had to drive a Highlander for a week or two and going back to my Escape was night and day. The suspension and noise was clearly superior on the Highlander but everything else like acceleration and handling was superior on my Escape.
Should I resort to farming

Sure, why not.
Disclaimer: IANAL, nor even aware of what jurisdiction(s) you might be in. That reality of what you "really should do" depends enormously on a load of details that we don't know.

> ...have to pay them even if there are no issues...

And factory QC inspectors don't work for free on days when they didn't spot any defective widgets, and you have to pay your insurance premiums even when you have no claims, and your attorney's advice isn't gratis when he says you did the correct thing, and ...

> ...not sure it would be a full time job.

If it's not full time - the modern labor market has part-time, contractors, auditing firms, etc.

> ...and users with an issue would report the issue?

Whatever else you're doing - if accessibility is either a real or performative priority, then having some "report issues to" contact would probably be good. Again, IANAL.
The code looks like they're just checking for the presence of GTK 3.24.30 to make that determination, that's why I was asking.

But perhaps that version of the GTK doesn't support X itself, so that's an acceptable proxy? Or perhaps that's not the real check, and it exists elsewhere?
I could understand if the actor was actually marketed as or publicly known a soundalike.

But on the other hand, does "store brand lucky charms" have to pay a kick back to General Mills?
From the first line of Wilson's paper:

> There is a movement afoot in cognitive science to grant the body a central role in shaping the mind.

It is far from true to say "having a body and sensorimotor interactions with the environment are already established as fundamental preconditions for cognition and in turn consciousness"

It is a popular idea in some groups of people that study these questions. But there are many other similar groups of peopel studying these questions who do not agree with it, certainly not stated as strongly as you have put it here.

Also, a reminder that HN readership and its commentariat, while dominated by SWE, is not limited to them.
That's a terrible rant, not really a good argument about Mars exploration by humans. It's sad such poor articles are liked by HN, shows how poor understanding of spaceflight is common here.

Just look at the first footnote, the guy does not understand what is relevant comparison nowadays or how the programs he talks about work/ed.
> Australia has some perverse tax incentives that are making them extremely popular

Yet another way Texas is kinda like a mini Australia. I suspect "mega pickup truck" prevalence is probably ahead of Australia. You almost have to see it to believe it.

...And yeah, I wonder what kind of TCS the Cybertruck does. It does have front/back differentials, right, or is it one motor per wheel?
> It seems that OpenAI has brief time periods during which their RAG system is able to work properly

This is the problem of running tests behind a huge black box over the internet: are you even measuring properly? Who knows.

OpenAI has been under huge load lately so it's possible (even likely) that whatever microservice the actual LLM was connecting to for retrieval was just failing miserably and not properly reporting the failure.

I've seen this myself even for a single document: GPT was failing to retrieve some obvious data and it just didn't properly communicate it to me, just told me something along the lines of "the info is not there" or spitting plausibly-sounding results from the LLM inference instead of the info that was actually in the PDF. After retrying (and a long wait) it worked -- I can see why this effect can be exacerbated when retrieving from multiple files, which is probably implemented as multiple calls over to the microservice handling the retrieval, resulting in more chances to fail retrieval.
kinda want to see the rest of the movie!
LLMs can already reverse logical implications. Literally this is not a problem in context. The model can infere all this just fine. Even the original paper makes this clear. This is a recall from training problem, not a logical inference one.
It's insanely hard.

TSMC is so dominant because they have very, very, deep institutional knowledge. Even if you have billions to invest it's not easy to create that, and definitely impossible to do it short term.

There's only 3 companies left chasing smaller nodes. Everyone else has given up and are focusing on revenue from high volume parts in older processes.
Embarrassing for Tesla but the worst 99% of trucks will ever see is some wash boarding on a gravel road.
You're spot on - it's the idle thoughts of a privileged white man trying to justify racism, but he presents no new arguments, and dresses the whole thing up in academicese.
Without consent, of course.
The reviews are done–SpaceX is clear to launch Starship
I have probably only been to the GP once or twice in my life... but that changed after having two kids.

I believe some of this can be tied to the very rapidly changing demographics in Australia. I have no data to back this up, but I do see quite often amongst parents that they will shop around for a GP that gives them antibiotics because back *home*, that's what they were expected to do.

So it is not uncommon for people to drive 30 minutes to their favourite GP somewhere to get exactly what they want...
What are you gonna do at a gas station in buttfuck? Ask to borrow the wall plug? How do you pay for that? How long does it take to recharge without a dedicated wall charger or high power charging station?
All these comments about a lack of locking diff on the CT could be the reason but it seems that this capability can be achieved in software with motors on all 4 wheels. - you don't allow the motor/wheel to move at a different speed to another on the same axle.

Therefore this, to me at least, seems like an easy pathway for improvement for the CT.

And we have already seen, telsa has the best software team with companies like Ford with some of the worst. I know which vehicle I'd more likely expect to see updates for that actually improve the experience.
How many people do you think it took for VW to produce fake engine emission results?

The weakness in your ranking mechanism is you think you have an idea of the number of people needed. To paraphrase Feynman: You mustn’t fool yourself and you are the easiest one to fool.

My own heuristic is expect some fraud or error in every system. The more there is an incentive for fraud the more likely there is fraud. It need not be partisan: could be something like the postal worker hiding mail instead of delivering it. Not finding some minor level of fraud is like a “100% voted for Saddam” announcement—not likely true.
I wonder if the tri-motor CT models will be able to simulate a locked rear diff, much like the quad motor rivian models can simulate a locked diff front and rear thanks to being able to adjust torque to all four wheels individually. Only the rear axle of the CT would presumably be able to do this due to the tri-motor layout, unless they resort to the individual wheel braking like they've done on their road cars to simulate diff features. A rear only lock is still a useful offroading feature.

From what I've read, it doesn't sound like the quad motor "virtual" locked diff feature on the Rivian trucks works as well as a proper locking diff - its close but still slips occasionally. If I recall correctly their cheaper dual motor models don't have the feature either.

I imagine eventually the quad motor "virtual" locking diff solutions will probably get reasonably good, if Tesla decide to do a quad motor CT later.
I'm pretty sure he came to that conclusion using context.
Need refinement but a good start! It'd be useful and I just bookmarked it :)
This could also be very interesting in hydroponics, though often the issue there is too much root growth. Tomato especially. They love to clog up all the pipes and starve everything else.
As of a couple weeks ago a wakeup hack in the embedded controller that triggers wake with dummy keystrokes on lid events and AC connection was the suspect: https://community.frame.work/t/tracking-framework-amd-ryzen-...

> When we go from S0i3 to S0ix, the EC will send some dummy key presses to the host so the keyboard will keep working. This may cause the host to wake up to screen on, and stay there.

Which is what spawned the udev workarounds of just disabling wake-on-keyboard altogether, which solves for both the lid and AC connection incorrectly waking from sleep.

Which is onerous because wake-on-keyboard is a pretty common thing to want enabled on a laptop! It's not the end of the world, just another "yeah, I'm using Linux" moment.
Often not. On hunting trips where I live, I'm away from all infrastructure on rough terrain for days at a time. I drive a Nissan Frontier and it grinds its way up steep logging roads for hours each day.
The internet is telling me that Taiwan uses both calendars. Is that not true? Surely even your grandparents know that it's 2023 in the rest of the world.

It's irrelevant to my point though. Just because the standard is used by 99% of people instead of 100% doesn't mean programmers should invent a new one, for the same reason they chose January 1st 1970 and not November 15th 1970 or any other day of the year. There's only one obvious choice.
Common pesticides in food reducing sperm count worldwide, study says
Is like a stochastic parrot but it’s so much more than a LLM is that’s what he’s asking
Same for water. We are told to have shorter showers while farmers use most of the water for inefficient practices to grow unsuitable plants for the region.
Actually it’s funny my best friend is a neuroscientist and studies the retina and in particular the way different types of retinal cells respond to stimulus. I have watched her give presentations on her work and I do see that there are some similarities.

But it is nonetheless the case that “neural networks” are not called that because they are based on the way neurons work.