skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Serverless computing is a cloud application development and execution model that allows developers to build and run code without managing servers and paying for idle cloud infrastructure. Not only this, but serverless comes with various advantages for developers, such as quick deployments, auto-provisioning of resources, and decreased latency.

However, developers can extend the capabilities of serverless applications by using external APIs. How? Typically, serverless applications run as a single code block and use libraries to avoid reinventing the wheel. However, this creates a technology stack lock-in, where developers can only use libraries available in the same programming language as their serverless application. APIs allow developers to bypass this limitation and connect with remote services that provide capabilities. This flexibility allows them to create more complex serverless applications.

External APIs can even help developers in rapid development, cost efficiency, and achieving vertical scalability.

Learn more in detail about serverless and external APIs from this blog: https://apyhub.com/blog/beyond-serverless-enriching-serverle...
He did get vaccinated though, according to his Xitter, in April 2021.
Few million dollars split by how many people? A small startup that provided a decent exit for me was sold for 50M EUR. I got 100K from that - the company had over 1000 shareholders. That's not really life changing amount of money, was barely enough to get a mortgage for my small apartment (30% of the price).

BTW the company was failing. If we didn't sell we'd have 0 very soon. It's really not as easy as "well let's just grow I guess".
I've read about him before. He follows a pretty extreme "health" regime. He's pretty obsessed about living longer - but he isn't actually taking any time to live.

While his regime obviously brings some benefits, it doesn't stop aging. Looking at him, it's pretty obvious that it doesn't. He is healthy for his age.
Ask HN: Does HN have a net stance on AI training on HN user comments?
In lieu of Reddit's training deal with Google I tried to find info on HN's stance. Neither the guidelines nor the FAQ has any info on whether any third-party companies (YC itself, YC companies, or otherwise) are allowed to train AIs on HN user generated data (i.e. comments).

When it's not explicitly stated I don't know what the stance automatically defaults to. Looking at the court cases recently, it seems to be "Try it out, I guess. But don't be surprised if we, YC, sue you somewhere down the line." For the users: without an explicit statement I guess we have to assume YC is silently/privately allowing training by some companies on this data.

I would expect a FAQ question explicitly addressing this issue (and update it accordingly when the situation changes), since I believe users have a right to know if their comments will be used for AI training by some companies with YC's blessing. I also understand why they would want to avoid addressing the issue (fearing a chilling effect on the discourse on the site).

(apologize if this topic has been addressed somewhere earlier. I did a prerequisite search on the topic on the site because I figured someone must have brought it up before. Alas, couldn't find a post on it)
15 million in Mistral vs 13 billion in OpenAI.
There must be a different reason at play here.
Had a colleague tell me I was testing wrong because Fowler doesn't like that way of testing - https://martinfowler.com/articles/mocksArentStubs.html
He was on a 3hr comedy podcast and seems to have a great sense of humor about his regimen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAwePw-prCE
Do you know that the vaccine does not completely prevent infection?

It's actually likely to still get infected and have a mild case even with the vaccine and latest booster.
Bandwidth of the connection = bandwidth of the worst leg (which is usually between your house and the ISP).

Latency of the connection = sum of latency of every hop along the route.

So in practical terms your ISP directly controls your bandwidth, but latency is mostly out of their hands.
Okay great. Thanks Ron :)
Top companies from Stoxx 50:

LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton (422B Euro)
ASML (347B)
L'Oréal (241B)
Hermès (240B)
SAP (203B)
Totalenergies (142B)
Siemens (140B)

For comparison, Spotify is only 50B.
This move from MSFT is clearly perceived as aggressive from EU given how fragile EU sovereignty in AI is at this point.

If EU wants to own its AI future, that’s not a great way of getting started.
What is the advantage because the model is anyways gpt-turbo 3.5 and not 4 which costs money.
> I have taken a properly administered IQ test. I scored 135 in one area and 89 in another. My main issue is I have very poor working memory.

This correlates with ADHD.
At elementary school in Spain, we were taught pnemonics PeTaCa and BoDeGa to remember the difference between consonants categories. I don't remember the names: fricatives? occlusives? Something like that.
Imagine the mountain of electronic waste if everyone needs a separate gadget for every task.

A screen is a screen. In theory, a single general-purpose computer with a screen is the simplest solution of all.

The real problem, as I see it, is that it has become very hard to make a general purpose computer with good UX and decent privacy. All the forces are working against it. But we should not give up trying.
Given that HN (and SV in general) is notoriously bearish on bitcoin, I'm curious what would cause all the naysayers to reevaluate their position.
They're not mutually exclusive.

But founders and employees at some point want to leave and do other things. They want to take their stake in the company and sell it to buy a house or retire or pay for their kids' college or whatever.

That requires an exit, either as an acquisition or an IPO.

(In theory, dividends or profit distributions are an alternative, but they're much harder to do anything with because they're mostly in the future and not guaranteed. You can't pay for your kids' college with future profit-sharing that may or may not materialize. And, dividends or profit distributions are the opposite of growth, because you're no longer re-investing in the company.)
> They made their money on reminder fees by not sending invoices until the reminder

Do people making this claim actually use them? You get the invoice by email within minutes after the company marks the package as shipped. Then you get a reminder 2 days before the final date. Once the pay date has passed, they send an additional reminder. If you pay it, you get no extra fee. If you have the app installed, it gives additional notifications.
For sure and he's also a practicing medical doctor who has a lot more at stake professionally.
Rewrite the VP9 codec library in Rust
It's pretty annoying and honestly seems to be made of the same urge as racism.
Oh, that's a somewhat reasonable one. (Though I would expect that you actually want −(2 hours and 24 minutes) in many cases instead, thus needing to handle the negative case separately anyway.)
Vitamin supplements are not adequate to replace direct sunlight exposure. It has other beneficial effects including stimulating nitric oxide production. Everything in moderation.
To note, this advice is probably moot for people with high enough melanin living in low to mid sun exposure areas. Sunscreen becomes useful only when receiving sun doses that exceed skin's natural absorption capacity.
That's not true, it happened I believe when they entered the UK's market when people simply did not pay and Klarna didn't want a PR backlash. But Klarna has its own collection agency appended to the business and does attempt to collect.
I wonder how the training process works...
Time will be the ultimate judge but Mistral's Co-founder/CEO is still committing to be a leading provider of open weight models [1]:

> Clarifying a couple of things since we’re reading creative interpretations of our latest announcements:

- We’re still committed to leading open-weight models! We ask for a little patience, 1.5k H100s only got us that far.

- We have a reselling agreement with Microsoft, that we’re very excited about. Alongside similar partnerships, it will accelerate our growth.

- Microsoft invested in a small convertible note alongside many other companies, as a distribution partner. We are an independent European company with global ambitions, that part is not changing either.

> We’re seeing some interest for Le Chat and Mistral Large, on both la Plateforme and Azure, and we’ll be iterating fast!

[1] https://twitter.com/arthurmensch/status/1762818733016322168
If this turns out to be true. It could indeed be a game changer... Given the advanced AI chip shortage... Also, for the chip ban on China...
They probably would have gotten away with that defense if the original complaint had been filed in an American court instead of a Canadian one.
I use Copilot within the IDE extensively and only for the autocomplete. It is not always correct but it honestly is correct enough of the time that it is like having a second brain complete what I was thinking. If I want to write a unit test for the function I can do it at lightspeed compared to the past.

I will use a flavor of a chat interface (Mistral Chat, ChatGPT, Gemini) when I am trying to figure out something I don't have domain expertise on. For example I have a lot of trouble digesting AWS docs, I often get permissioning wrong or a configuration that is not well outlined to me. I use a chat interface to walk through the problem and more times than not get to a solution a lot quicker than if I had tried to step through all the docs.

I am still doing most of the thinking, I don't find LLMs to be that amazing for engineering solutions. I think it will happen in the future though as they become perhaps more opinionated, especially on software engineering.
Measuring latency under full load is like measuring how fast you can drive into a crossing and not making the turn. It is meaningless. See the fantastic explanation by Gil Tene in the link above.

With best case latency you can determine if the service can be suitable for real-time or not. There will always be buffer effects and they will vary by other user activity and the complexity or the packet processing. These effects will largely be unknowable in advance and the part that is knowable is extremely difficult to communicate to an average user. They don’t really get HDR histograms https://github.com/HdrHistogram/HdrHistogram.NET/blob/master...
I don't really see how this isn't just content theft at this point. Pointing at "inspiration sites" and just rewording their content feels pretty scummy at best.

At what point are content creators and publishers going to be paid for or given the option to block AI scraping tools using their material so blatantly to generate income for other companies and publishers?
Nothing wrong with AI generated content if it's info I need and it's factually correct.

The problem I have is that it's usually junk fluff pieces with way too much text for SEO optimization.

I feel anything computer generated should be short bullet points or comparison tables, not long form text as it's just not good at that.

For example think of a blog post where the author walks you through its thought process, trial and error and ultimate solution. That is very humane and relatable, something an LLM can approximate/copy but it will never be genuine. I'd prefer in that case just the raw solution, not a fake and deceptive walkthrough.
there's some evidence that sun exposure reduces risk of hypertension via nitrogen signalling pathways, but if you already keep track of your blood pressure levels and they are healthy, unprotected sun exposure for longer than short periods is unequivocally a bad thing - at the very least, if your objective is to not look like a tanned leather sheet in your 40s onwards
Prior to LLMs, the chat bots most convincing in conversation were huge decision trees.

It really doesn't matter when your interaction is limited enough.
Debian Takes Proactive Steps to Address Year 2038 Problem
Without Apple Shortcuts support I can't pay for this. I get pretty much the same experience from GPT4All. Hoping you add support CLI, Shortcuts or something along those lines.
So what do I do if this happens to me on the free tier? Just never pay the bill and leave? Will they come after me?
Yes, this is harder. I don’t want to mess with maintaining or configuring nginx.
Highly customizable homepage with Docker and service API integrations
> It's hard to tell what your issue with backward compatibility was exactly without examples.

I can't speak for worik, but it sounds like they are talking about backwards compatibility as a user of applications written in Python. I.e. you can't just go to python.org, download the latest version of Python, and expect run any Python program because that code could be using a function or library that was recently removed (or in their case, upgrade Debian which presumably packaged a newer version of Python by default). This is compared to a Windows application where the same .exe will generally work everywhere (and failing that, there are compatibility options).

It's also common in Python to declare minimum versions but not usually maximum, so requirements end up looking like "Python 3.8+". So from a user, or Linux package maintainer, perspective, they wouldn't even know it uses something that has since been removed.

Generally speaking, these kinds of issues are considered a bug in the application and should be filed when the maintainer. Though that's of little help if the maintainer is slow to act.

Of course, it's also relatively easy to just install multiple versions of Python these days, then have specific binaries, e.g. python3.10 and python3.11, or a launcher like built into the Windows installer, e.g. py -3.10 or py -3.11
Is the haiku example a real Haiku?

I think it gives you 4, 7, and 9 syllables in the lines.

I bet you can coax it to give you a better example, if you tinker a bit.
Also, lots of large European companies are privately held. For example: IKEA, Schwartz group (Kaufland, Lidl), Bosch, Aldi...
To be frank, I am more worried about the fact that they raised $385M from US investors at the seed stage. That speaks volume about how much it really is an EU company. Good luck to EU for retaking control of this ship.
Yes, it’s actually a pain in the ass.
Thanks for posting this project! I’ve been curious about wasm with rust and I found your code to be really easy to follow, and gave me a really good idea of how I could get started with a similar project. Kudos!
Would be cool to see what happens if you quantize towards zero preferentially. Sparsifying the matrix should improve inference speed directly, right?
If you buy supplements on the NSF Certified for Sport list then you can be reasonably confident that you're legitimately getting what you are paying for.

https://www.nsfsport.com/
That's a different scenario. You're describing an effective stalemate and, in Zehain's opinion, the best possible outcome. If Ukraine were to "win," i.e., take back all their lost territory, Zehain feels they would have the opinion that the Ukrainian thought is that the only way to prevent Russia from regrouping and trying again is to take the fight into Russian territory. This would include logistical hubs like Belgorod and Rostov-on-Don. In that scenario, Russia, already losing the war, would feel a nuclear strike may be their best defensive option.
None of that stuff is “simple”. Git pushing and having Render.com auto deploy is, however.
It's over and lost, get over it. this is such a tired point and people have been saying it for 10 years now
At this point, there's a TotK optimizer you can find that even has a preset specifically for the Steam Deck.
Arm Eyes AI with Its Latest Neoverse Cores and Subsystems
You may want to familiarize yourself with the parable of the broken window.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
Yes! I moved from France to Canada in Montreal and for some reason internet is just not reliable there, across three providers in multiple apartments I could see packet losses, regular drop outs, etc. Very frustrating when you're used to absolutely rock solid internet.
The link between wearing long sleeves, sunscreen, and a hat when outdoors for any length of time in high UV environments (e.g. anywhere near the hole in the ozone layer when it's not midwinter) and "how disconnected from reality parts of contemporary Western culture have become" is tenuous at best.
Reminiscent of booter sites behind cloudflare.
Yeah, having lived almost 60 years, living is kind of weird for me. By no means am I wanting to usher in oblivion, but the idea of just living and living and keeping on living seems not just tedious to me but also rather void of purpose.

I have to confess though, raising my daughters to adulthood seems to have altered quite a bit of my psyche and sense of self such that, now that the nest is empty, I wonder from time to time what it is I am even still doing here.

Having also retired what used to be hobbies to me have become my full time occupation ... and it feels almost hedonistic to just keep on like this.
There’s increasing evidence you need the UV, eg https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5890609/
Sounds like the ultimate business idea. Sell customers a magic shovel that eliminates their need to hire shovelers. If it doesn't work, just tell them to be more specific with their requests to the Shovel.
It's not a statistics, but an illustration of an anecdata
Ah, found it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DADVSI

TL;DR: it's more complicated than I thought. First, the law was introduced in 2006, so before it, circumventing DRM and publishing how to do it was not a crime. (Of course, publishing copyrighted works with no proper authorisation was already a crime, regardless of DRM.)

Then for a brief time, circumventing DRM was outlawed. But fear of foreign monopolies (most notably Microsoft) and free software lobbying eventually had those articles amended, effectively exempting research and free software from any sanction. The exact limits of the current law are still fuzzy, but it seems pretty clear that using VLC to make copy of a DVD I own is 100% legal in France.
Some tasks we are using LLMs for are performing very close to GPT-4 levels using 7B models, so really depends on what value you are looking to get.
This is not a winner takes all situation at all.
I do to. Almost every project I've worked on involves an undocumented API. It's still cheaper to devote developer time to reacting to changes than paying to run headless chrome and evade WAFs
I haven't done much. I credit this type of thinking to academic success (MIT) and achieving near financial independence.
SymPy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SymPy

- "How should logarithms be taught?" [with python and SymPy] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28518565#28519356

From "SymPy - a Python library for symbolic mathematics" (2020)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23767513 :

> NumPy for Matlab users: https://numpy.org/doc/stable/user/numpy-for-matlab-users.htm...

> SymPy vs Matlab: https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/SymPy-vs.-Matlab
Brings back memories using Worldcraft as a teenager.

I stopped doing much editing once we got to Quake 3 (around 2000) but Worldcraft eventually became Hammer used for Half-Life 2 and, I assume, any games under Source Engine.

Back to Quake engine, QtRadiant (I believe it was called) has been mentioned from time-to-time. Now this one.

Looks good. Not sure if its better than Worldcraft but maybe my nostalgia is getting in the way, here.

I shoud look into it as it might help my game I am creating.
I didn't apply any patch and I swear I used that configuration for years ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Damn, that’s an interesting point
What's the deal with Ctrl-Left and Ctrl-right?
New Relic supports this in the form of custom events. I have used it and it works but is very expensive. An alternative is to use ClickhouseDB directly.
It's probably quite difficult to boil it down to something as simple as an "off" switch that'll limit costs for them, meaningfully work for all services, not be abused, not be confusing, and not result in the customers that actually make you money accidentally getting important things shut off unexpectedly under predictable circumstances.

It's probably easier to make it so they can set up alerts and have a human on their end evaluate what steps are worth taking to cut costs while maintaining important availability.
Hard agree! We likely world have discovered sooner that we're on the same plane as animals.

I can only imagine the effect it works have had on western religion and it's narratives of domination.
Show HN: SQL workbench in the browser
With recent PR DoS attacks, GitHub and other git hosts should provide more tools for issue and PR moderation, e.g. allow maintainers to set conditions that have to be met in order to create issue/PR. Account age, blacklisted files, etc.

Otherwise OSS development could literally halt because of how cluttered issue/PR management gets.
Earths history has had many extraordinary climate changes, we already know of events like Permian–Triassic extinction.

I appreciate many people feel an obligation for humanity to minimise its effect on climate change, but the way I see it, change is constant. If we don’t cause an extinction event, earth will do it just fine without us.

The best result for humanity is if we get off this rock asap and improve our technology. The quicker we do this the better. If we have to ruin earth and its beautiful climate in the process, so be it.
I admittedly don't have multiple (or even one) 4K video streams coming into my house at a time. But a lot of people obsess about 1+ gigabit bandwidth availability when nothing even approaching that matters to most people. Low/predictable latency and just reliability matters far more in general.
Basicaly seeing Linux folks buying Mac Laptops, for doing UNIX stuff instead of paying OEM Linux vendors was the key finding, then naturally instead of bringing Windows NT POSIX subsystem (or its successor SUA), shipping Linux support was a natural option.

It was the confirmation many only care about a POSIX like experience, not really about the GNU/Linux ecosystem.

VSCode is the child of Erich Gamma, of Eclipse and Visual Age IDEs fame, briging it to the desktop instead of a Web IDE project, was pivot.

"VS Code Day 2021 VS Code an overnight success 10 years in the making with Erich Gamma"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-lPvO_YcZI
Twitter is so bizarre in parts. I saw some guy complain about the spam within replies... only for the comment itself to become spam [0]. And don't get me started on the various Metamask/tech support/Onlyfans bot rings that are on the platform. Or the fact that a cat account got bought by a crypto coin [1].

This tweet from English football Twitter summarises the core issue the best [2].

[0]: https://internettalk.substack.com/p/anyone-else-tired-a-brie... (disclaimer: I wrote this)

[1]: https://twitter.com/ultrarotom/status/1762433167003169046

[2]: https://twitter.com/liamb0117/status/1761391828836741333
There is no way to become immortal because, at the end of each chromosome lays a set of DNA consequences called "teleomres". One of the missions of these telomeres is to fix the chromosome (DNA, to be specific) itself from the damages that result from cell divisions (in average, 1 million cells die in our body every second and the need to be replaced).

Put it simply, telomeres are the mechanics of the chromosomes.

The problem is this: by time, cell divisions also damage the telomeres themselves, and nothing can fix them: hence the fatal thing (cancer) is a matter of time to occur.
I thought EU had money a lot more than €15M (Microsoft investment), actually a lot more than €1.8B (Mistral valuation). Why didn't EU make an offer?

If EU wants to own its AI future, it has enough money to buy one. They decided not to.
Microservices is probably their most popular video, but all their videos are genius.

I'm partial to I Have Delivered Value... But At What Cost?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DYvhC_RdIwQ