skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the post underestimates the scope of these problems. It touches on it briefly, but I've mostly come to believe that it is in general bad for companies to become extremely large. It's not just an issue of content moderation.

One reason that the article does touch on is the detachment from support. Large companies no longer need to care about the individual consumer, so they stop doing so. A sort of corollary for this is the tendency for large companies to shift from "doing what they do" to protecting their market position. That means spending more time on non-core activities, and in some cases even trying to expand into totally unrelated markets (as seen with large conglomerates).

It is only when we talk about "economics" in the sense of money-making for an individual company that "economies of scale" are a good thing. In the sense of benefit to the overall economy, to the society in which that economy sits, or to humanity in general, virtually all economies of scale are actually harmful.

I think we should view economies of scale like the rampant growth of grass or weeds: they are natural phenomena, but that doesn't mean they're good, and in fact for most practical purposes they need to be actively opposed. It's natural for grass to grow, and if it doesn't, it may indicate a problem, but you should still cut the grass every so often. Likewise it is natural for companies to grow, but big companies should regularly be broken up simply because they have become big.
Statista is as reliable as a weather report :)
I feel the approach could have some merit, but the article unfortunately stops short of demonstrating it. Also the problem of analytically finding similar code sub-trees seems highly non-trivial. As baseline you want to parse the code, but really you'd also want to somehow "normalize" identifiers, as usually it is the common structure rather than specific identifiers that matter.
Ah, thank you for the clarification -- as far as I know that is indeed unique.

It's a thimbleful sized shallow clone, one could say.
How am I suggesting HN is at fault?

I was explaining the situation, at least that what it seems to me.
Interesting observation but nothing more than a bit of fearmongering after that. It seems likely that HN content would appear more regularly because it's one of few places left on the net that regular fresh discussion on recent topics is occurring with solid moderation.

Community is hard. And requires moderation. And it's done here with great care.
Don't worry about the spam, the fight is real but the problem is also very appreciated on the ground here by Dang and mods as you can tell. Keep it up.
And meanwhile you can help by submitting quality content from regularly reliable sources, not upvoting dupes, contributing thoughtful discussion and keeping discussion focused/organized, as many of you do.
Since everyone more or less seems to agree on some shape or form of the "problem",
what about the following solution;

Create a devils pact with the elite astroturfing people who no one seems to be bothered by or able to identify. Exchange data, and root out the "problem".

If you can't beat them, join them. The lesser evil is still perceived as a better experience after all.
Our enemy his enemy is our friend.
It is 18 degrees Celsius in the middle of February here in Germany. The birds started to sing in mass like it is April, and my trees started to sprout leaves. This is not normal.
> group related concepts together
> The hardest part of this process is deciding what “related concepts” mean.

The article talks about "readability", but arguably the unnamed hard problem it is dancing around is how to structure an application or system by decomposing it into modules.

I'd argue the baseline reasonable approach to structuring applications or systems is the one given in Parnas' 1972 paper "On the Criteria To Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules":

> We propose instead that one begins with a list of difficult design decisions or design decisions which are likely to change. Each module is then designed to hide such a decision from the others.

http://sunnyday.mit.edu/16.355/parnas-criteria.html

Parnas' criterion embeds the understanding that code and systems are not static but need to evolve over time as requirements change or decisions are made, and that different decompositions can be inferior or superior to accommodating that change.

"Don't repeat yourself" refactoring rules of thumb can give poor results if blindly applied. Suppose two sections of application logic just so happen to look similar at this moment in time and get refactored to "remove the duplication" coupling them together, when the two sections of code are subject to different constraints and reasons for change, and will need to evolve separately.
I’m sure these are trade secrets, but how do these sites get all the data? Is it just scraping?
It does absolutely matter because Bethesda’s older games like Skyrim and Fallout 4 have higher player counts than Starfield.

Starfield is only a few months old. Why is it less popular than those games? Clearly something went wrong with Starfield.

You see this in Steam reviews too. Skyrim and Fallout 4 have positive Steam reviews overall. Starfield is mixed overall indicating severe dissatisfaction with the game. This dissatisfaction is reflected in Starfield’s low player counted compared to the older Bethesda games.
From the article as an example of what doesn't scale:

"...He was going through emails in his inbox, then responding to questions in the craigslist forums, and hopping onto his cellphone about once every ten minutes. Calls were quick and to the point "Hi, this is Craig Newmark from craigslist.org. We are having problems with a customer of your ISP and would like to discuss how we can remedy their bad behavior in our real estate forums". He was literally chasing down forum spammers one by one, sometimes taking five minutes per problem..."

Seems like it's possible but not feasible to build a pipeline to scale out that sort of behavior.
Pearl-7B-0211 LLM now exceeds 75 in the average score of the HF's Leaderboard
Pearl-7B-0211-ties is a merge of the following models:

- louisbrulenaudet/Pearl-7B-slerp
- WizardLM/WizardMath-7B-V1.1
- cognitivecomputations/WestLake-7B-v2-laser
- CultriX/NeuralTrix-7B-dpo

Evaluation

The evaluation was performed using the HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard.

results:
- task:
type: text-generation
metrics:
- name: Average
type: Average
value: 75.11
- name: ARC
type: ARC
value: 71.42
- name: GSM8K
type: GSM8K
value: 70.66
- name: Winogrande
type: Winogrande
value: 84.37
- name: TruthfulQA
type: TruthfulQA
value: 71.46
- name: HellaSwag
type: HellaSwag
value: 88.86
Show HN: I'm building an AI-first text editor – waitlist is open if interesting
I've been publishing my personal web page like this for more than 15 years now (the repos log history goes back to early 2009). I use a post-update hook that makes sure on each push that the working directory is on par with the master branch (so that things that are pushed to other branches aren't made public) and then the public site is rebuilt (using a Makefile and custom scripts making heavy use of xml2, 2xml, sed, and the coreutils, but that's another story).

I can see why the author of the linked blog post would want to serve directly from the Git repository: it's fun. But I agree that it seems uselessly inefficient compared to (re)generating a static version of the site only when changes occur.

If there is no processing needed like in the case of the blog post, a simple post-update hook can easily do the trick: go to the public directory served by the web server, then set the GIT_DIR environment variable to point to the .git directory of your repository, then execute the command `git checkout main-branch -- .` to get all the static files out of the repository). This would then have the exact same external behavior as what is proposed in the linked blog post, but will be way more efficient (except of course if you have no visitors and update your website very very often).
Sounds a lot like you’re trying to argue that you can only be against one evil at a time, which is exactly how people have convinced themselves that you must support terrorism from either Israel or Palestine if you criticize the other.
I'd love to hear what exactly I said that you classify as delusional.
it is a statistical model. If everyone is saying X and is wrong, and one guy says Y and is right, the llm will bit out X. Because that is the most probable thing in the dataset. It literally is a text averaging machine
>I forecast that in the next 1-3 years, we'll see another company steal the search market, just like Google it back in the day.

Really? Do you think this company exists today?
> You might be referring to GitLab: https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/developer-rel...

That's really interesting that they'd disclose their strategy so publicly. On the one hand, I can't see it doing much harm. On the other hand, wouldn't it be somewhat self-defeating or even embarrassing to confess that you're doing that? One could probably reasonably assume that many companies have a social media strategy like that, but to have people know that's the strategy would probably drain away at least some of the goodwill provided by the posts.
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What irony if that greatest of disasters would undo the longterm damage predation wreaked on humanity
> no actual originalist says that

That's because originalists are hypocrites.

> I don't see how "it starkly reveals how untenable originalism is."

Because if originalists were not hypocrites, if the actually practiced originalism consistently, they would be calling for the repeal of Brown and Loving and advancing a whole host of other radical ideas that no sane person supports, and everyone would see how intellectually and morally bankrupt they are.

> If you want judicial philosophies that produce only moral outcomes, regardless of law, you don't even need laws.

I want a judicial philosophy that is, at a bare minimum, internally consistent. Originalism as it is actually practiced by self-identified originalists doesn't even meet that basic criterion. Originalists are originalists only when it suits their political agenda.
ai detectors can be used to train ais to avoid triggering them. It's a race that cannot be won. ai detection can't, and already doesn't, work.
Raman2RNA: Live-cell prediction of single-cell RNA expression profiles
I got in, no problem. Gemini Advanced (paid service) matches ChatGPT4 in my tests and wins in several, and has become my daily driver.
That podcast is epic, made a post about it on my site JUST to get more word on it out there. Acquired always does excellent write ups -- the competition between Novo and Lilly is also pretty interesting.

> The patent system is what promotes R&D. Once your patents expire anyone can manufacture your drug without ever having done any of the initial work. Drug companies have a pipeline of new drugs going through the decade of studies and trials it takes to bring them to the market and the ongoing survival of the company depends on some of these being a success.

This is our current system, but I'm not sure it's the only system. There could be a world where medicine moves forward without patents, but that might be a worse outcome for patients -- assuming we wanted to keep profits even across a patent & not patent system, patients or some other revenue stream would have to make up the shortfall.

> Would love to see some of the people here crying about obscene profits try their hand at investing in pharma companies. Its an easy way to lose a lot/all of your money.

Also, I think most reasonable people would not immediately take to investing in random pharma companies -- you'd do quite well to simply invest in the biggest companies, or an index. The charts for the index, novo and lilly are pretty decent.
> Why does every product page do the fading in thing?

This is probably going a bit off-topic but I recently switched from Android to iOS and god damn those slow animations are killing me. They seem like an industry standard nowadays. I really don't get it either.
Because they're in Russia or North Korea, and their bosses bosses are good friends of local police and secret services.

What exactly can FBI do about them?
Well, presuming the groundwork was laid, you'd open the envelope, read some lie to a room full of people who knew it was a lie, and simultaneously you'd have someone cast the binding vote on the uncensored decision, and the signal would propagate and there in their pockets the people would have some kind of proof that they could consult to know who actually won. They'd go home, and with them they'd carry the news, and it would eventually reach anyone subscribed to that topic.

Honestly a room full of SciFi nerds would probably be the right crowd for a stunt like that. Good SciFi is a critique of the time it was written, censored SciFi loses that.

I mean, I'm not suggesting anyone should take risks like this. It's their values, their stakes, I'm just some guy who has no business meddling in politics on the other side of the world. I'm just saying that if somebody somewhere wanted to make a stand against authoritarians, they'd be better served with a toolkit for aggregate coordination in the face of a capable adversary than without. And if we want to help then making that tech would be a start.
That mechanism is so well known, it’s trivial to undo by removing the +service part. Is it really effective? How would you even find out if it is?
Wow we're under $1/GB of RAM (in certain cases).

Hard to comprehend. I remember getting a 1GB hard drive and how crazy that was, and then much later when a mechanical drive was $1/GB.

Seeing RAM hit that is something else!
> Every node is either a leaf containing a char, or a branch containing a dynamic array of the data structures.

So it’s basically lisp, with either lists or atoms, at the char level
Thanks, Linuxiac Cloudflare apparently blocks Indian IPs.
Works like pg_repack, but won’t deal with partitioned tables and you lose atomic schema changes of transactional DDL.
Well yeah, but what is the non trivial statement here? Linear model is linear, and if you add to your model non-linear steps (such as pre- or post- processing) then it is not longer linear and can handle non-linear data. In the same spirit, you could say that GPT4 is a linear model (token logits) with a very large preprocessing (transformer).

Maybe what OP meant is that particular non linearities (splines) allow to keep some goodies from the linear model in non-linear settings. Still it's not clear for me in which settings exactly such models are good enough
In other words, the compression ratio is what's important.
Now museums are green but I'll have to pay $500 for a new phone every two or three years plus cellular data (Seems to average $70/mo for unlimited data in US?) and these costs pay for cellular stations and electricity and electronics that become garbage after just a few years. Is that really greener?
While I get your point about precedential value, most disputes won’t result in new law even if litigated. Settlements are more economically efficient than having every dispute adjudicated. There is pretty much universal agreement among economists about this and many papers have analyzed the question. And the court system is definitely not an economy of scale.
The Hugo awards (and the Nebula awards) have become highly political. Works seems to be chosen more for their political viewpoints than for the quality of their writing. The article is a perfect example: The story "Rabbit Test" (according to the author's website) is all about "the past, present, and future of abortion rights in America".

Abortion rights are important, but that's not what the awards should be about. If I want to read a political screed, there are plenty of other sources. The Hugos should be about cracking good SciFi/Fantasy stories.

It used to be that I would run out and buy anything that came up as a finalist for a Hugo or a Nebula, if I hadn't already read it. Nowadays, I take them more as a list of authors to avoid.
Hofstadter's butterfly in moire superlattices: A fractal quantum Hall effect
Yet another in the series of "genetics researchers just claiming causation using evidence that only shows correlation".
https://webservices.amazon.com/paapi5/documentation/#overvie...
So just promises completely based on one assumption?

Why announce this? You have nothing aside from an idea that completely depends on having access to another company's product... Not a given you'll get it, this is not even in the hot air phase.
Lld 18 ELF Changes
LinkedIn is a combination of things, all in one product:

- An online resumé

- A social graph for professional relationships

- A messaging channel with long-term stable "addresses"

- A job advertisement site

- A candidate discovery site for recruiters

- A social media platform

- With associated advertising business

and there's probably more. It's a monster.

Regarding the proposed staffing and runway, the funding makes no sense. Ten of the "best hackers" in the world will cost you $10m/year. You've got 10 marketers, presumably a bunch of other staff, G&A costs, etc, etc, and you're giving it 10 years? I think you're probably looking at more like $500m?
Reddit recently started blocking anonymous GETs to RSS feeds.

And if you use your cookies they temp-block your account after x (like x every 30 minutes) times.

And I didn't even care that there was no content on the RSS feed, I just wanted the title / notification so I don't have to use ... (I can't put anything in here as there is no alternative that allows me to track everything).
You need a local naked guy festival just like you need a local temple.
> https://www.officialdata.org/ca-property-tax/

Thanks for the link, I had seen that site before but forgotten about it.

Have you confirmed that 3.5k number with the neighbor, or is it from the website?

I see a few large errors on that site for my neighborhood, so can't really trust it.

There is one house similar to mine shown as paying less than one fifth property tax. But if I look up the tax history in zillow, it's not true, their property tax history is quite similar to mine.

Then there are two interesting cases, where their property tax is shown as minuscule, less than $1k. And interestingly, zillow agrees.

But here's the interesting part: looking at the history in zillow, it shows that both these houses were paying around $9K in property tax and then suddenly one year it dropped to $900.

Please correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think there is any mechanism in California property tax code that makes it possible for the property tax to drop like that.

I know one can request a revision if the market drops significantly (like in 2008) but this is not that, it dropped to 1/10th of previous value! And these are all very similar homes from a mass produced builder, they're all within a handful percentage of each other in estimated market price. None of the other houses in the neighborhood dropped in assessed value like that.

So I'm guessing it is just a typo or otherwise bad data from the county, feeding into both zillow and this website.

I should add: The $900 property tax shown is quite a bit less than the property tax on year one when these houses were built in the 90s. Which seems quite impossible, so I conclude the data is wrong.
Vector search is no replacement for complex logic, its merely another data type like bm25 ir regular range filter.
Searchbase looks to me as better fit for intuitive data exploration, rather than replacing existing robust high throughput searches
> In the sense of benefit to the overall economy, to the society in which that economy sits, or to humanity in general, virtually all economies of scale are actually harmful

You had me until here.

Economies of scale in commodities is the thing that makes it so we don’t have to do sustenance farming and everyone gets to have sewn clothes on :)

There’s truth in both sides there - we want nail production to not be done by hand, but also real humans with power to change things to answer the phone when we call support.
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Copyright as we know it didn't exist before the Statute of Anne in 1709.

Shakespeare. Leonardo. Michelangelo. Aristotle.

All of them produced their timeless works without copyright.

Copyright was a workable hack as long as making copies required buying a printing press (or equivalent), but those days are over and they aren't ever coming back.

Rather than continuing to bail out the sinking ship of copyright, artists need to start thinking about (and working on) new ways to get paid.
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The "we're becoming a hard fork"[0] blog post says that they are hard-forking and what the consequences of that will be, but says nothing about why.

[0]: https://forgejo.org/2024-02-forking-forward/
Nootti – post to Mastodon, Bluesky and Nostr all from the same app
I’m guessing this is more for abuse prevention and regulatory compliance. Google being in the news yet again for some misuse of their AI and journalists spinning that off as Google’s embodiment of values is the last thing that they want or need at this point.
AI-gen'd nonsense about rat with giant * published by leading science journal
take a look at https://pmd.github.io/#about
Well said!

I am not sure when being "Rebellious/Undisciplined/Bad-behaviour" became equated with "Independent-minded" and thus ipso facto "better than" being "Obedient/Disciplined".

By definition, youngsters have a lot to learn which can only happen in a obedient and disciplined environment.