skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's not immediately begin a conversation by saying that you only want to talk about what is happening and some folks elsewhere are limiting your speech? Does everything need to start with posturing about your position in greater the "culture war".

If you want to discuss whether crime in Oakland is bad enough to force some businesses out, let's do it without all the social artifice.

I'll start; the way I see it, this at least a somewhat verifiable claim. Has in-n-out provided any data about how much worse things have gotten? Has anyone claiming that it isn't crime but rather changing customer sentiment provided any data to the opposite? Like, what do we know for sure that isn't "my cousin john say his car was broken into way more" / "people are begin silly that place is completely safe".
I’ve never uploaded my contacts to FB but it still recommends people I worked with or met 20 years ago because they uploaded theirs.

Extra evil because you can be triangulated from the uploads of many naive people, so essentially they win in the end.
All examples are abstractions, so if point is about something else, maybe article needs different examples.
There is probably a better way (I no longer use Postgres for this) but I solved this in the past by evaluating priority after popping an item off the queue. If the item was low priority and there was higher priority work to do, or if a customer was over their quota, I would reschedule the work item.

In that scenario I employed an earliest-deadline-first scheduler table so rescheduling was just re-inserting or updating with a new deadline.
I am astonished that I read so many people saying this.

Why do you think this? When your mum or dad talks about their day or the show they are watching do you really think that they have no underlying theory of what is going on that they are expressing? What is the agenda behind casting other people as idiots & zombies? Is the idea that it makes it ok to kill them and then move to Mars? Or is there something less sinister that drives this?
I've done it a few times. The 1.75g was one of the most profound moments of my life and the .25g were just an interesting night. Felt like a 20x difference to me.
> The commander locking a hatch essentially sends a message to the others: "I don't trust you to not kill us all in flight."

I mean, the article makes opening the hatch sound pretty damn easy. I think even if I were alone on the shuttle I'd lock it just to add that little bit of sense of security.
I saved my previous company $4000-5000/mo on AWS billing just by auditing the AWS account and turning off unused machines that that old devs has spun up and deleting hard drives after backing them up to S3, just in case. No one had really even bothered looking at it for years and I did it in my "free time" at work without being tasked with it.

Ironically, I asked for a raise a year later and was denied, despite single handedly saving the company nearly $50000/yr. The raise I asked for wasn't close the cost savings I had brought. I left the company shortly after.

I saw someone else have a similar experience here and a comment to it was saying rewarding this produces a bad incentive...well, honestly why would I have even bothered cutting costs if I felt I wouldn't be rewarded? Not rewarding it just makes me half regret doing it at all.
Just stop contributing to projects. Shrug, Atlas. Then the market will figure something out.
A "nuclear option" I've seen in the wild is Queue-It. Puts your entire flow behind a queue that's user-visible, with a waiting list page. Then presumably your own site's logic doesn't do any queuing.
Yeah I did. I’m a private pilot so sometimes i mix em up. Thanks
A lot of great data here too: https://irma.nps.gov/Stats/
I used it to build my National Park visitation visualization: https://jordan-vincent.com/night-under-the-stars
> A model can only present that intelligence. It cannot create it, and it is not aware of it. There is no objective-thought function.

That's just like, your opinion man.

I see both sides of this argument make statements like this that are clearly opinion and not backed up by facts. The truth is for now, we can't say yay or nay on whether the model has reasoning abilities, creative abilities, or a coherent internal world view. It's still a debate which is why there are academics like those in the OP trying to come up with theories that make predictions and then running experiments. It's still early days.

If you were to ask my opinion, I'd say these current models are probably closer to the stochastic parrot than an AGI, but there is enough there to start wondering, especially if we have years of improvements coming down the pipeline.

These aren't easy questions, and anyone espousing certainty now is doing themselves and others a disservice.
Commercial aviation is incredibly save. Yes there are accidents, but there are accidents in every human system. Commercial aviation is the safest way to travel even with all the mistakes Boeing has been making lately.

You are far more likely to die in a car crash than in a plane.
But it was deprecated precisely because websites either ignored it or used it as yet another signal to identify users (thus making it have the opposite effect to what was intended).
Clogged drain hole. I have this issue. For some reason they put the drain line near the freezer elements in my samsung fridge. The slightest hiccup and it freezes permanently shut. You can find "Refrigerator Drain Hole Blockage Remover" kits online that get the job done.

For mine I had to flush it with a syringe of warm water to thaw out the drain port. The hard part is getting to the drain hole. Also, the fix lasted 6 months or so before it iced over again. I'm out of warranty so I might just run a much larger line and call it a day.

If your lucky your issue might just be a blockage, which should clear easily.
For Three Mile, indeed there is some disagreement on the long-term non-fatal health effects. That any causal effect is unclear does not mean it does not exist, but does suggest that, even if it does, it is likely small. (Admittedly, I have not done a thorough review of the data on this). Nevertheless, your point carries to the true comparison of nuclear power: fossil fuel power and its long-term economic and health impact.

For the airline risk example: US Airline Carriers in past 14 years: 268 serious injuries (same source as above). Depending on the year, that’s about the same or less than the number of road traffic related injuries in the US in just one hour (on average)[1].

[1]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/191900/road-traffic-rela...
The thirteenth "within 18 months FSD!" announcement yet!

I loved how the AI Lex used to interview Musk (most recently) poked fun at this very topic. They're all three (AI included) master bullshitters.
I had the same problem and discovered that sticking a qtip into the drain hole solves it. Have to repeat every year or so
I mean sure, there's bad ways to deploy anticheat software. That doesn't mean it's the same as DRM.
I disagree, consider a generic that is constrained by std::ops::Add. If you want to write generic functions with this type, you have to contend with types that might do simple addition or do allocations with potential side effects.
"Step function" is sort of a standard term, yeah. Each step is some piece of code that runs at some point in the near future and persists its result for the next step to ingest. It could randomly fail (crashes, preemption, etc) before persisting, in which case the step is retried soon, so it better not have consequential side effects. Most likely you're interacting with external systems (like credit card processors) if you're using step functions in the first place, so idempotency is key.

I've done basically this sorta manually at a smaller scale. Each step was a Postgres table, like "user order initiated," "order confirmed," "order fulfilled," with automated steps (sometimes cronjobs) in between. Sometimes I wanted to expose that status to users. I could see using Inngest at a larger scale.
This is great, now do Oculus. I shouldn't need to have an "account" to use my O.G. Rift offline. It's like needing an account to use a monitor.
> While land is often but not always public in Europe

This is in California.

> how about the surveillance, power grab, and related aspects due to which the Toronto endeavor failed?

What is the relation between that project and this one?
Does it work? With all respect to the author - kudos for interesting product - but does it really work in real life? Since I don't have any project in React/Svelte/Vue (ng programmer :( ) at hand - I would really hope someone would share the experience. Looks like something I've been waiting for some time now...
go the Slavic route

полека, лампата!
Hybrid Machine Learning Method Boosts Resolution of Electrical Impedance
Handy for the paranoid. But meaningless in practical terms. The absolute fundamental reality for airlines is that ticket price wins every time. Without exception. It's the quintessential example of a race to the bottom.

If this -did- have a measurable effect, the airlines would drop the price of a ticket by 5 or 10 bucks if you were willing to take the 737MAX flight. Boom, now that flight is full.
What I've observed is that people don't really keep track of what they are spending. I like to set up weekly newsletters that show costs and also if there has been a decrease or increase. In bigger corps, you also should have team based tagging of resources so that specific teams get exactly what they are spending. At the very least, managers will look each week and be like "why did costs increase this week? What's going on?" even if the engineers don't care. "What's get measured gets managed" as they say.
Game dev here, totally agree.

File-locking across branches excited me, support for visual diffing of uassets would be insane.
The platform screenshots as a git/github alternative didn't excite much interest as Plastic and Perforce are major players.
Here's a startup idea: a profiler for infrastructure-as-code that shows how much each line of code is costing per month, instead of showing where the CPU spends most of its time.
Recent and related:

A Discrete and Bounded Envy-Free Cake Cutting Protocol for Any Number of Agents (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39060958 - Jan 2024 (9 comments)

Also:

New Algorithm Solves Cake-Cutting Problem (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18432128 - Nov 2018 (37 comments)

“I-Cut-You-Choose” Cake-Cutting Protocol Inspires Solution to Gerrymandering - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17459008 - July 2018 (102 comments)

A Discrete and Bounded Envy-Free Cake Cutting Protocol for Any Number of Agents - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15396643 - Oct 2017 (1 comment)

New algorithm that can fairly divide a cake among any number of people - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12920642 - Nov 2016 (1 comment)

How to Cut Cake Fairly and Finally Eat It Too - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12665340 - Oct 2016 (1 comment)

How Mathematicians Cut Cake - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12392936 - Aug 2016 (43 comments)

Essential advice on how to cut a cake fairly at a party. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=638480 - June 2009 (6 comments)
C++ Builder also has them in their extensions to C++. My guess is that it looks convenient for languages that have a de facto GUI framework/library. In Delphi/Object Pascal, C#, C++ Builder, it becomes convenient to, for example, change a button's text as if assigning to its text value. And it is often taken for granted how the form's UI just "magically" updates. I'm pretty sure classic VB's control "properties" work that way as well.

When I was new to their corresponding GUI frameworks, the dot + property notation was appealing because it looked clean. However, as I got more experienced I'm no longer seeing the advantage of saving two parentheses characters at the expense of potentially hiding function calls where anything can happen.

I'm not sure why D joined the club given it doesn't have a corresponding de facto GUI framework, and its users even discourage it.
No? I mean there might be some of that (although I doubt it), but you can just look at test data which has nothing to do with the driver. Crash tests, rollovers, crushing , glancing, etc all dramatically safer with modern improvements.
Relevant: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/fake-joe-bide...
Macros are easy to spot, the whole point of operator overloading is that it's a trojan horse. It might do simple addition, it might do a heap allocation and talk to a printer.
The "reversal curse" has nothing todo with inference or the reasoning abilities of a pre-trained model. GPT-4 or whatever has no problem telling you the right deduction with information presented in the context. This is a memory retrieval from training issue and is completely unsurprising.
What is the reasoning that they are obligated to provide it? I'm no expert in this area, but I don't think the fact that they are public domain means they are obligated to provide them to you? Is there a separate requirement on law text that says they must be provided? (It would be sane for that to exist, but...)

You could try FOIAing them or suing them if you think there is an actual obligation.
The British pound is 0.45359237 kg, no?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuXzvjBYW8A
Isn’t the cat already out of the bag? If someone was inclined to crack the game, surely that work had already been done with the first release.
Jonathan Blow just did a stream on parsers and how to make them easier https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2024681994?t=00h11m50s
> maybe I am wrong and some day in the future some more convincing argumentation will change your opinion

Possibly.

I've changed some minds in the past. I don't have it handy right now, but one of my most cherished results of discussing this stuff online is a Reddit message I got from someone years ago. I was arguing against compulsory taxation. The person I was arguing with didn't agree with me in the least, but that's OK; I just continued to share my views and was clear that sharing was my only goal. I didn't expect them to "convert" and see things my way. Many months later they sent me a DM to let me know that they had in fact come to see things the way I'd described, and credited that conversation as the beginning of that transformation.

To be blunt: hostility and name-calling is no way to change someone's mind. It's counterproductive, and I wish people who call themselves anarchists would stop doing it. It makes my approach more difficult.
Do you understand how these models work under the hood?

It's literally just picking the next most likely word, based on some fancy math. There is nothing that can create new insights or anything approaching intelligence.
Hold on, I've heard of the replication crisis - though I don't know the scale - but are you saying that over 50% of "hard science" is bunk? I find that hard to swallow.
Sadly, I expected that to be the answer. Oh well, I can dream! Thanks for your helpful follow-up.
Design of clinical trials for fractional dosing
Amazon is adopter Matter as open standard for video casting
Amazon, one of the founders of Matter, is the first to add support for Matter casting, a feature of the Matter smart home standard that allows you to control TVs and streaming devices straight from a connected app. At CES this week, Amazon announced that Matter casting support is coming to its Prime Video app so that you can cast content to Amazon hardware devices.
Someone somewhere is already working on naming their project Lehsun.. /s
I think the main selling point is that it's a slower version of Twitter. I'm not sure what you mean by "less efficient" but I definitely know I don't want Twitter to do whatever it does more efficiently.
Amazon pays Apple nothing either, because the goods the customer is paying for aren’t being delivered through the App.

This tells us nothing about the charge being only for payment processing.
> it has no window decorations whatsoever beyond a 1 pixel rectangle

Then we don't need any screenshot. We can do this with TWM, FVWM and MWM (and others).
You have the full power of PostgreSQL at your disposal, so there are many ways you can effectively tackle this issue.

- Decrement priority of all tenants jobs by 1 each time their job is executed, or increment other tenants' priorities (more ops but better behavior)

- Maintain a separate tenant priority table and join it + use for ordering when fetching the next job

And so on
“public danger edition” is pretty accurate.
Just kicked off a project to explore open-sourcing what we've built (VC funded). I'm considering a different tack which I think may be interesting.

We have a lot of client libraries, already open sourced. Then we have the hosted APIs and DB which are not open. Making all the close-source stuff open, feels like a big effort, with an unclear reward and more likely that we just end up with a hard to install OS project, since it feels like the hosting expertise _is_ part of the core value prop.

What I'm excited about though is whether we could take the hosted piece out of the equation and find something that is pretty different, but has its own niche. For us this would be replacing the web UI and DB hosting of the paid product, with a CLI and simpler git based hosting for an open source version.

ie If you want hosted feature flags, we think you should use the hosted thing, but if you want gitops style feature flags (100% reliable), then use the OS version.

I like the idea that we could really focus on making the open version great in its niche, but have a super clear line about what is paid / hosted, to help us avoid the complexity of always needing to decide how to nerf the OS version.
Is it even realistic for a company to sell $1000 appliances that last 20 years? I know we can build such an appliance, because they did in the 80s, but can a public company survive selling them?
This is only partly true. Yes, we hit the heat wall, and what you say was true for a few years, but there have been a lot of other efficiency improvements. A single core of 3-3.5 GHz M chip is vastly faster than a 4GHz Pentium 4, even not accounting for bandwidth (which is also vastly faster).
No one died or was seriously injured in the decompression event. But people die in car wrecks on the highway everyday
NYC-bound flight canceled when passenger notices missing bolts on plane wing
I do think, that in the general case, a JIT compiler is required: you can’t make every program fast, without having the ability to synthesize new code based on only-runtime available information. There are many where AOT is more than enough, but not all are such. Note, this doesn’t preclude AOT/hybrid models as pjmlp correctly says.

One stereotypical (but not the best) example would be regexes: you basically want to compile some AST into a mini-program. This can also be done with a tiny interpreter without JIT, which will be quite competitive in speed (I believe that’s what rust has, and it’s indeed one of the fastest - the advantage of the problem/domain here is that you really can have tiny interpreters that efficiently use the caches, having very little overhead on today’s CPUs), but I am quite sure that a “JITted rust” with all the other optimizations/memory layouts could potentially fair better, but of course it’s not a trivial additional complexity.
It's like laptops: the commercial ones that come with onsite service vs the consumer ones that have the cheap price and all the bling. Maytag consumer model vs Maytag commercial. The ones you buy at the appliance store vs the ones you buy at the commercial restaurant supply store.
I think some of the doubters here are conflating a few things.

Any analyst will struggle if data quality is a mess, and there is a lack of clear semantic layer/useful documentation around how to query metrics/join tables from your warehouse. These are problems that affect human analysts as well as LLM based 'virtual' ones... However, these are separate problems being addressed by other players.

An llm powered chatbot that can consume adequate context from company systems should be able to perform on par with a junior analyst with a similar level of context. All else equal, the LLM analyst will be orders of magnitude cheaper and open up data analysis to non-sql-literate people (huge unlock).
There is a nice introduction to the topic in case someone is interested (but it's older): Cake-Cutting Algorithms, by Jack Robertson and William Webb. A.K. Peters 1998.

IMHO it's worth pointing out that the topic has fewer applications than one might think. Many problems where cake-cutting algorithms might seem adequate are better addressed with social choice/voting theory.
Having dealt with fridge issues for over 20 years, I have found that modern fridges have issues when you stress it, like going from an empty fridge to a ton of warm cans, or not running the A/C in a humid summer. Turning it off for a while, melted the frost buildup, and emptying the tray in the back would usually fix everything. Also keeping it full with cold liquids helps.
Having license plate readers does not classify as "not general apathy". Every sizable city has one and they are as good as the database of stolens and how many times they are actually active and deployed, ie. police cruising the roads less traveled.

Plus if they found a stolen in the street, they just recover it. Generally speaking they don't wait for someone to get into the car and arrest them, and in most cases police is not allowed to put a tracker on the stolen EVEN with the owner's consent.

Also many thieves swap plates now. A plate reader is just a tool, just having one doesn't make the police department pro-active by itself.
Here's the problem: you can only observe a remote clock, or any remote object that light from your source reached, at the speed of the light that traveled back from it.

Put another way: the speed of any signal or causality coming back from your measuring device is always a factor with no way around that.
I.e. people are human, regardless of their position, prestige, etc.
I've added the article you linked to my reading list.

> Attempts to create hierarchy-free social settings only result in creating systems in which the dominant social hierarchy is implicit, unstated, officially unrecognized... and therefore impossible to regulate.

I'm completely comfortable with that.

A system where the hierarchy is "official" and rigid leads to all sorts of unfairness, and leaves little recourse to injured parties.
> Internal power groups crippling anything that isn't deemed sufficiently DEI compliant.

huh?
>> with Postgres and SKIP LOCKED always cropping up

Note that SKIP LOCKED is available in Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL and I believe possibly also in Oracle and IBM DB/2.

To the article, I suspect there will be alot of detail challenged here.

There's talk in here about "creating queues" to handle the fairness problem. I might be misunderstanding what the hard bit is, but with a database backed queue you don't have to create a queue - queues are virtual depending on what messages are in there and what other information is available such as username or tag. if you want to be "fair" around username then round robin on that, or fair around some other bit of data then tag the message when it goes into the queue and when you are processing, round robin on that.

What is the hard bit here, what am I missing?
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