skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My main issue with articles like this is they're packed with so much bookish, social and literary theory that they exaggerate their capacity to accurately describe reality.

To put it simply and honestly, we're so caught up in our own culture bubble that we can't see different subcultures for what they are (as has been the case ALWAYS). Instead, we write them off as deviations and psychological anomalies. If you want to get a real sense of these groups, you should observe which groups are overlooked by mainstream media, which ones are derogated for their beliefs, and considered undesirable.

For example, I really think that because of a bunch of reasons, like the threat of a world war and rapid social transformations, we will witness a significant shift towards military-oriented, ultra-masculine groups in the years ahead.

These groups will embrace a nihilistic outlook (the same "no future" slogan we see so often), they will be labeled as incels and fascists (and they largely will be that), yet they will represent truly alternative subcultures to what the mainstream culture presents.

This is btw. not a praise of such groups, it's merely my attempt at pointing out the authors obvious blind spots.
There is the proverbial "old guy who can code in COBOL" and I've been looking forward to eventually being the "old guy who can code in C", but maybe it'll just be "old guy who can code".
Sounds like a skill issue. /s
This might be what you're looking for: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGfUIOK87V8
There's a variant where Monty trips and opens one of the doors by accident. Then it is 50/50 again (because he could have tripped into the car door). See also this video where cutting off a question in the middle changes the probability because of the information it provides: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDZieLmya_I
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it

It's funny how resistant humans are to learning from history.
“ The students in Ohio prisons have reviewed nearly 30,000 unique articles over the past year, with 10% in the last month. Access there will be expanded to the prison general libraries. The students at Tennessee Higher Education Initiative regularly access 2,400 unique articles in a month—the highest per capita use in the country for incarcerated learners”
Seems like this analysis is mostly based on entertainment and decades-old history, and as such, it’s going to be fairly out of touch with whatever is going on now. I’m out of touch too, but at least I know it.

Going on about vague abstractions like Capitalism (whatever that is) isn’t going to help since these are mental constructs, not evidence.

A culture based on curiosity and amateur reporting, telling stories about things that actually happened, would probably understand itself better. Many of us are the opposite, keeping anything real private (for understandable reasons) and sharing fantasy stuff, which overwhelms what’s real.
English not my home/mother/original language :)
Yeah, he seems to have left out the critical middle step ("Gather investors to take $2T company private.")
By explaining what LLM stands for, you have identified yourself as a replicant.
For now. As others have said, there is no technological “moat” in this business that could prevent others from catching up.

Perhaps the best way for Open AI is to become THE established AI services company. AWS is still the leader in cloud computing space, and only has Azure competing, despite the fact that other big companies are also technologically capable of building similar products.
I suppose it depends on projects you're using. For many developers their primary exposure to the Apache Foundation is through projects like Maven and Kafka, and those certainly don't feel dead.
Mistral AI models coming soon to Amazon Bedrock
This is the current culture, but culture can change.

There may come a time when a new way of thinking will spread, causing this trend to reverse.
It does sound radical, at least to me.

We've been abstracting away for years. Programming languages are an abstraction away from machine code. Libraries abstract away things like common sort, search algorithms.

Despite that, I still think it is advantageous to have knowledge of those concepts. I'm not saying you should program in assembly, but you should have a broad understanding of the difference between compiled and JIT languages.

You shouldn't necessarily need to know the implementations of Linked Lists or Hash Maps, but understanding when they should be used is important.

Reading code, even if writing it becomes more obsolete over time, will still be an important skill, because being able to compartmentalise and understand code will still be important for debugging.

There are a lot of skills that you learn when you learn software engineering, some of them are foundational skills that, even though they'll be transformed, will still be essential.
We must accept everything and resolve inequity internally, within our souls no less! I fully support this mentality (and I need to, because I may someday be a boss, and I certainly wouldn't want my unders to realize material issues, it's better for me in the long run to let people 'self actualize' and ensure my totality)
This is what I thought the article was saying until I read it. But if most babies are cradled on the mothers left, that would lead to the babies left side being more interacted with by the mother. Since most sensory information is processed contralaterally you would think it would bias towards left-handedness by strengthening connections in the right brain which is clearly not the case.

However, smell (and taste, but I don't think that is relevant here) is processed ipsilaterally and vision/hearing have some ipsilateral processing so maybe I am wrong and it IS strengthening their left brain and leading to right handedness.
> ReproTech sent them an email saying that they have paused shipping embryos into or out of Alabama.

If I was a shipping company, I would not ship embryos if the penalty for running out of dry ice (or a flight delay) was being charged with wrongful death.
Firearms vs. armour in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance
Very impressive: code, charts, diagrams.

One question: which time zone the data is plotted against?
Apache Airflow, Kafka, Spark, ECharts, and many others are still going strong! It really depends on the project to be honest.
I'm not grandma. Let me choose.
No. I am not a mathematician but I got it once I understood that this is not drawing coloured balls randomly from a bag (which is how all my school probability problems seemed to go).

That is:

- the setup of the system matters.

- The state of the system at the point of the decision to switch matters.

- The choices don’t get re-randomised.

So the probabilities assigned to the original choice (and the remaining alternative) still count.

If the host had closed a curtain over the stage and randomised the remaining doors, then it would be 50:50.

But he didn’t. So you’re still in the probabilities of the original choice.

One of the goats has been removed. The car and one goat remain: you know this for sure.

You are being offered a door knowing that behind it must, necessarily, be the opposite of your original choice, and the probabilities have not been reset.

If you originally picked the goat, that door absolutely has a car behind it. And there's a 2/3 chance you picked the goat originally. So by inference there's a 2/3 chance the door has a car behind it. You should switch.

I didn’t get it until I had written a simulation to see it for myself though!
I ran into the same issue. And also the bus factor for on vacations. If you’re on vacation and your phone gets lost/broken/stolen, good luck getting up and running again without a cloud 2FA service.
there’s always scihub
Profit motives don't create quality. Passion and pride create quality. Unfortunately, passion and pride are unreliable, and products and services that rely on them are inconsistent. Profit motives create consistency, but produce products and services that are adequate at best.

So then, reserve profit motives for things that need to be done, and for which you can tolerate mere adequacy. I want my garbageman to be motivated by profit, because society would collapse in a week without garbage collection. For things that need to be done well, there's no alternative other than finding someone who actually gives a shit regardless of the profit involved (which isn't to say that they must live in poverty, but rather that profit must be a secondary motivation rather than a primary one; find someone who wants to be doing the work even if they weren't getting paid).
Why is there no information about size of parameters anywhere ? Was that intentional or am I missing something
Sure, but that doesn't mean you don't tell your junkie clients how it's gonna be the best high of their life.
forcing shit updates by tying them to security updates, had to be the most effective method for ensuring noncompliance.

security updates should stand alone from vanity, and shit updates.
I do think this modified scenario makes the solution much clearer. At the same time, I also think that it feels like a significantly-enough different scenario from the original that saying the two scenarios have the same probability then becomes the non-intuitive part. The act of revealing what's behind the second door seems like it should change the probability from 1/3 (one door) vs. 2/3 (one of two doors) to 1/2 (one door of the remaining unopened two) vs. 1/2 (one door of the remaining unopened two, since one was "eliminated").

It's amazing how even seeing the probabilities written out, or running simulations, doesn't really make it easier to truly understand the result.
Anyone else having issues loading that link?
How does the metallic layer degrade? I was under the impression that disc rot was solved rather long ago.
Not trying to be dismissive of Mistral, but I bet that's a large driving force behind the effort. Usually I'd prefer to focus on the technical aspects, but with the undeniable geopolitical impact of technology/AI, I think it necessitates a discussion.
So the questions should come before the content and it might work?

I think that's how also RWKV works.
They only hire the best...they never said they were the best... /s
Like others said, I love it. This is good way to connect people by connecting their independent sites.
My take is that “counterculture” is the wrong thing to look for when talking about changing the system. What’s actually going to do that is an entire generation that basically has decided to not try at their jobs and careers.

Previous generations had a substantial number of people who thought that either their jobs could be their passions, or at the very least that doing well at their jobs could lead to a better life. I think Gen-z and below have internalized that trying at your job doesn’t lead to better outcomes, and that’s the real thing that will lead to change.
like the surname "mason" or "farmer"
Metabase: Fast analytics with the friendly UX and integrated tooling
>What is the broken part?

The second law of thermodynamics is always at fault
Honestly it's so hard to compare Tableau and Superset. Tableau has every feature and bell / whistle imagine-able. But it's heavy, desktop oriented, and pricey.

Superset is lightweight and open source, but only has 5% of the features. So it really depends what you need!
It’s also funny how it was the environmental activists who were the ones who were powerful/influential enough to be “entirely responsible” for killing nuclear energy as opposed to be the poor old fossil fuel industry.
At the very least, you can always run Borland Turbo C++ on Windows 2000 in a VM.
When AI will invent Fast inverse square root algorithms (truly invents, before it happens IRL) Carmack will have to worry. Till then it is super efficient and useful search on steroids.

But sure it is a source of value as it cuts down on wasting one's time for unproductive parts.
Brilliant move by Microsoft. You want to be the one selling shovels during a gold rush, as they say?
I did get an email, but it was triaged under the update category inside Gmail and thus buried under a metric ton of other updates (the account is over 14 years old and it has accumulated a lot of crap over the years).

That's totally on me for missing it. On the other hand I only follow a couple of RSS feeds, so it's a notification channel with a far higher signal-to-noise ratio for me.
They also had strong communities in many cultures/cases. Community, "sharing the load", and having a sense of purpose (e.g. kids, community members) helps a huge amount.
It usually cures cancer. The current government concentrates wealth in the hands of the few. Less than 1% of the population owns nearly 50% of the wealth.
I like to say we, as human, are all « shaman » : we're structuring chaos into order.

Any job is just that, it's a story, it's transforming & aggregating bits of the information field into another, surrounding it by meaning in the process.

I don't care if you work with computer, as a social worker or as a fisherman. You're just transforming bits mate.
You’re downvoted for the snarky tone I guess, but you’re absolutely right
Sure, but it's also profoundly annoying to spend your workday deploying and maintaining services, then come home and have to do the same.

I ran Jellyfin some years back, when I was evaluating Plex/Emby/Jellyfin after switching from Kodi, and I probably spent a week or more chasing random issues and crashes. So I put it on the shelf and picked Plex since it was nearly 0 effort and it made the family happy given how easy it was to use (and didn't crash).

Of course people want something that's easy to set up and use. A lot of people want a tool, not a new hobby. And the best way to accomplish that is unfortunately to optimize for ease of setup and stability instead of new features. But that can be hard for an open-source project when everyone is asking for the new thing a for-profit company added to their product.
New Features in Essembi's Navigation System
Hope I can visit it in a museum some day.
Exactly - this isn't going to open the door for someone but could add a ton of value to enumeration.

As we are very canary focused, we also think it's interesting to consider the implications of the recent research from Truffle Security w.r.t canary tokens (https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/canaries).
Wouldn't a GPT-5 or 6 level AI be even better than agile? A new feature can be digested by AI as part of the new complete set of requirements and the AI can then refactor the entire codebase for each new feature. It can also generate all the net new test cases to add to ensure that there is no regression.
> There is nother more counter to the cultural moment then being a traditionally moral, upright citizen who doesnt do drugs, doesnt lie, cheat, steal, has their libido under control, is reliable, whose existence is profitable to the rest of the world (not neccessarily economically, just mean someone who contributes more than they take : financially, emotionally, etc)

The drug use is going down, alcoholism is going down, violent crime is going down, there was mini-panique just yesterday on HN over young people having less sex ...
the hard part of modifying existing software is understanding it

my limited experience has been that llms are enormously better at explaining existing code (code → text) than at writing new code (text → code)
nvidia is the shovel seller
9 Charts that show US factory farming is even bigger than you realize
For the material I wanted at the time, the solution was libgen. But yeah.
CA has far more safety nets than people give it credit for. Medi-Cal, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, Unemployment, CalFRESH, CalWORKS, etc. For sure opioid epidemic and Sacklers contributed heavily, but it's typical people would hand-wring about past problems when there are active fentanyl issues right now and causes contributing to them right now.

> no it was the yellow people on the other side of earth. Jesus christ.

In the historic visit of Xi Jinping to the US months ago, care to guess what one of the few topics POTUS and him talked about? Cracking down on shipments of fentanyl and precursors. Maybe instead, POTUS and all his advisors should've been more focused on the Sackler family. That'll sure help all those unfortunate souls dying from fentanyl today.
Feature request for Mistral API maintainers: the https://api.mistral.ai/v1/models API endpoint returns all of the language models and mistral-embed as well, but there's currently nothing in the JSON to help distinguish that embedding models from the others: https://github.com/simonw/llm-mistral/issues/5#issuecomment-...

It would be useful if there was an indication of which models are embedding models.
Most people don't need to care who manufactures their transistors.

They might, in an upside-down world where the Shockley Semiconductor board tried to fire Shockley, and where the Traitorous Eight not only didn't bail out but took his side.
Why does rounding matter? It's not important from an accounting perspective. And your billing system doesn't need to angrily send invoices when a customer owes a penny.
I can see how it's a tricky problem. I wish html had more structure here (and people followed the structure, a whole other problem...). FWIW, my page has a "last updated" date on its now page but comes up as 1969 in aboutideasnow.

Oh, now aboutideasnow shows no date at all.
Oh you had it easy! We had to listen to morse code on the radio and write down the 1s and 0s and transcribe them to hexadecimal!
Really just underlines how fraught IVF is. I feel terrible for the people who are forced to use it out of no fault of their own, but I certainly now have it in my mind that IVF is NOT a dependable option. If I want to have children, I need to do it in my normal biological window and not rely on modern medicine to save me.
carmack didn't invent it either
Source Files for iPhone, iPad and Mac
Is 1.5 even publicly available yet?
Many transit agencies openly publish this information, for example, here is Dallas:

https://www.dart.org/about/about-dart/key-performance-indica...

>one manager of the local bus company

No offense to said manager, but I’m guessing they aren’t doing the accounting, so it’s not like they are the best source.

Edit: a better source would be the national transit database [0], which tracks the fully audited costs of every transit agency in the US. A very cursory analysis of this file [1], dividing total costs by VOMS (aka vehicles used to provide peak service, not even the size of the whole vehicle fleet) for directly operated bus service (mode=MB, TOS=DO). Gives a cost of roughly $250,000 per year on average across the US. This is fully loaded, including operations, vehicle and facility maintenance, general admin, etc. basically the $1 million per year is little more than a rumor.

[0] https://www.transit.dot.gov/ntd/data-product/2022-annual-dat...

[1] https://data.transportation.gov/api/views/dkxx-zjd6/rows.csv...
_Let's Make A Deal_ was on the air for twenty (thirty?) years at the time of this controversy.

There was sufficient evidence for Savant's Monty -- the car was revealed 0% of the time, not 33 or 66% of the time.
Japanese Car Scene Map
60k is likely very low for this kind of support. The people calling in are generally IT professionals that have issues a script won't solve.

When I worked with VMWare, it also wasn't uncommon for us to have support on site. If we were doing a big migration or had a significant issue, they'd send someone out for a week+.

They likely paid a premium to have support willing to travel for significant spans of time, plus now they're paying for hotels, daily stipends, etc.

Then you need labs for engineers to try to replicate problems, office space, general overhead like taxes and payroll providers, etc.

Then there's costs to the platform itself from some customers. E.g. small customers tend to be less homogenous. Every Fortune 500 has a SAN, many small companies don't. Now you need an "integrates with EMC" storage option for big companies, and an "integrates with everything else" option for small companies. Big companies want a service mesh, small companies want a billion different networking configurations, etc.

Basically big companies tend to resemble each other and view their differences as a competitive advantage they will pay their vendors to support so they can keep. Small customers diverge a lot, don't want to and/or can't afford to pay for the changes they need, and are generally more price-sensitive due to their ability and ability to switch vendors.

So simultaneously the small clients are profitable, but at a lower margin than bigger customers, and more willing to migrate away. Rather than taking a risk that they can do enough development to keep the small customers, they'd rather double down on the customers that can't switch, raise their margins, and cut their risk.
gpt4 is going to better than other models in every language except maybe chinese
This is why you need to be careful when time traveling.
Ruby is better than Python for Unix-like system administration
To all the 20 year olds, libgen.rs
I'm not sure if you would call it 'agency' but the host is following it's own specific door-picking policy - a policy which will never result in a car being revealed. It is precisely this policy and no other which makes the contestant switch the correct move. But the original wording doesn't say that - it just says the host opens a door and it happens to have a goat behind it.
The way I think about it, in general, is that Monty, by purposely not opening the correct door, is giving you a huge hint and thus changing the game which changes the odds.
Think of it similarly to those people who play the same lotto #s all the time because they think eventually it has to hit. Well, no. It's a new game every time. If the lotto commission retired each combination that won each week, then sure. And this is essentially what Monty is doing. He's retiring some doors and changing the odds.
When I see others buying into propaganda, and then voting for policy that will hasten the end of human kind, I get concerned. We're not crying over spilled milk; we're actively trying to stop the milk from continuing to pour all over the floor.

Your passive attitude, which equates to plugging your ears, closing your eyes, and shutting off your mind, is the same attitude that allows genocides to be committed while you "prance through a meadow".

To be clear, I go outside and enjoy life daily. The difference is that I accept the mountains of evidence that say we must, individually and collectively, adjust our way of living to preserve this benefit for our children. And no, the weather isn't always nice; the last several summers have been choked with wildfire smoke.
Every org that starts out with an compliance oriented SaaS in my experience ends up migrating out of it eventually because when they grow - they have more capital to build their own infrastructure as hire more engineers who do not want to deal with kinks of a SaaS abstraction.

If you are using Vanta or Drata at early staging and opt for HIPAA framework, you do get the list of controls that you have to implement that also include cloud specific configuration changes that you need to do. And these changes are one time thing, continuously monitored by the framework.

My argument is that, the target market you trying sell - early stage HIPAA compliance market is not difficult anymore.

I hope this feedback helps you to foresee possible problems.
They are older and learn slower, they also learned a lot of biases over the years. They are often unwilling to accept major changes to workflow.
So long as you describe a Malicious Monty that might not have shown you the door, you could also have a Benevolent Monty who won't show you the door if you've gotten it right.

Though I'm not sure I've ever considered the Malicious Monty, only the other two.