skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very interesting! I wonder to what extent this assumption is true in tying completions to traditional code autocomplete.

> One of the biggest constraints on the retrieval implementation is latency

If I’m getting a multi line block of code written automagically for me based on comments and the like, I’d personally value quality over latency and be more than happy to wait on a spinner. And I’d also be happy to map separate shortcuts for when I’m prepared to do so (avoiding the need to detect my intent).
What continent did they move to instead?
"and yet the comic" counters.
These kind of frictions are typically not an exception. When I read this blog post about the steps to just start a business, I immediately assume that there'll be similar frictions during other steps. And indeed, the comments here talk about the difficulty to own a home when the money was already paid in October, how it can take up to 2 years to close down a company, or how there's a 30% exit tax even if you leave the country only for a few years.

The friction that you seem to like has almost certainly cost Germany a good deal of jobs from people who decides that the hassle just wasn't worth it.
A typical use case for it is to dump Amiga disks, which are physically 3.5" disks but whose 880KB format is unreadable by a standard PC floppy controller.
"The process begins when a consumer scans the QR code, which triggers a connection to the tracking system. This system captures valuable data about the scan, such as the time, location, and device used."

The website claims to be GDPR compliant but this wouldn't be. The end user need to be informed about the tracking and needs to be able to opt-out. In effect the user will need to be able to use the feature without being tracked.
Yeah, everything that touches them needs to be UL listed. Commercial alarm panels have approved relay modules that can be used to output to various unregulated devices without affecting the electronics inside the panel for this reason. They also use cellular now and have to use a special modem that is UL-listed to connect.
The freelance visa requires a local economic interest (a reason to live here), usually in the form of German customers. There is nothing mentioned about where the company is registered and it should not matter.

Practically though, the immigration office's bureaucrats are by definition as far removed from entrepreneurship as they can be, and might struggle to reconcile the documents you have with the list of documents they are told to ask for.
Interesting is subjective, but Rich gave a talk at the most recent Clojure Conj.
Or even better, try pulling on your bootstraps if you have them.
From the article you linked in that comment[1], it seems like this exit tax only applied to companies where you own 1% or more? and it's structured as the capital gains tax, but due now, so on the current value minus your cost basis.

The US has an exit tax if you renounce citizenship, and it's assessed on your entire net worth. If the article you linked is accurate, this german tax seems much more reasonable.

EDIT: actually, I reviewed, and I think it's broadly similar --- treat all assets as if sold at market value on the date of exit. Thus, any deferred taxes from unrealized capital gains need to be paid when you exit the taxing jurisdiction. Although, again, if the linked article is correct, it only happens to assets where you own >= 1% of the company when exiting Germany, and all capital assets if you qualify in the US.

[1] https://www.winheller.com/en/tax-law-tax-advisory/internatio...
Over 400 billions in grants since Trudeau became PM in 2015.

https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/432527ab-7aac-45b5-81...

If you're gonna do data analysis of that gigabyte CSV watch out for the 40 billions in contract adjustments. Only sum the last amendement per unique.

For reference, the gross debt of the central government of the Canadian federation before him was 1000 billions. In December of 2023 it had skyrocketed to 1800 billions.
Thanks to the DMCA, they wouldn't need to make the case to google, just send a notice and they're obligated to comply. The dispute would be between the uploader and nintendo once a takedown is sent, and maybe counter-claimed.
Instead of giving Microsoft $$$ for compute, and other loosely-aligned, established companies (your Nortels, RIMs and SNC Lavalins) a bunch of hand-outs, they could fund primary research that will actually add long-term value, address skills shortage with immigration support & accompanying challenges (like housing) and stop taxing the sh!t out of both companies and individuals.
Situations sounds bonkers. Arresting the employees for something the employer is doing is absolutely ridiculous.
GP didn't mention streaming.
Does Matrox still make and sell GPUs? The website suggests they still make chips but from what I can see it looks like they're maybe focused on video ASICs? I would assume DSPs or something like that?
Your friends struggle because they live in a world that determines someone’s worth by their jobs. Also their ability to pay rent and food and such. So of course in such a world they would be depressed. That doesn’t mean we need some idiot with a higher rank in some office to give us meaningless tasks.
Lack of adaption is mainly a feature, we choose not to train them in real-time and instead make available fixed models with repeatable behaviour. We could, if we wanted to, update the model weights continuously in response to feedback.

I think the biggest difference is that they need far more examples than we need, to learn anything.
I feel this even in my profession as software engineer. It used to be that I could focus on writing good software. Studying the domain, finding abstractions, picking the best language/approach for the problem at hand, designing domain models... Over time the expectations on developers have become greater. We're software builders, and testers. A lot of us have trained to become UNIX/windows/network/infrastructure engineers, often across multiple cloud environments. We're DBA's across multiple relational and NoSQL DB's. We're designers who need to understand the intricacies of accessibility. We're business experts too. And taking on all of these things has made us less focused. Less capable at our core jobs.
If you want to look at it that way, it still is crazy that there is only one ContentFilter on that platform, and it's Apple's.
Really I think this is overdone. I fully appreciate Berlin is disfunctional, but in other regions (I live in Thüringen) things go quite quickly.
Maybe daily.dev ?

I started getting ads for it and haven’t given it a try yet but it seems to be a dev news aggregator.
Is there any evidence for the 'usual formula' or the editor's reasoning?

It seems that the parent comment is written to maximize outrage.
get rid of karma, its a kiddys game
> I've never been able to understand if there is something "truly fundamental" about H compared to L, or if H is more of a mathematical convenience for making the equations first-order.

Actually, Hamiltonian formulation, being equivalent, offers more room for finding solutions. Lagrangian formulation of the Least Action principle allows you to search for a solution employing arbitrary smooth re-parameterizations of the configuration variables `q`. The Hamiltonian formulation, on the other hand, allows you to re-parametrize the entire phase space (q,p) and find solutions that are much harder to get in Lagrangian formulation.
That’s a great point. Very often the cost of automating something in those large systems is larger than the cost of a minimum wage person spending a couple hours a day clicking stuff…
>> I just think “mass harm” is not proven.

Well clearly it's been proven to the satisfaction of the court, whatever your "personal research" says.

It's also been proven to an independent science council:

The C8 Science Panel, which was funded by DuPont as part of a lawsuit settlement, conducted extensive epidemiological analysis on human health outcomes from exposure to PFOA, a type of PFAS. This panel, composed of independent scientists, found links to several health harms, including two types of cancer and pregnancy-related issues, after studying blood samples from nearly 70,000 residents in the mid-Ohio River Valley. This area was significantly exposed due to its proximity to a DuPont Teflon factory (EWG).

More papers come out every year finding stronger links. I wonder what your horse in this race is, my friend?

[1] https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news/science-pfas-rebuttal...
Fantastic article and impressive work by this company. They're basically wrapping LLM's with a working memory, and tying it to user input. And thus we step a little closer to AGI/ASI.
My assumption of the bureaucracy is that it stems out of the German empires professional service
In that case you have the entity operating and maintaining the "digitalized system" which is the third party that everyone has to trust. And that entity won't do its work for free either. And it also will somehow "involve humans" which are working there.

Oh, and please don't suggest to "simply put it on a blockchain". I don't have the time to explain for the millionth' time why that doesn't work with physical properties. I consider that to be common knowledge among HN users after about 10 years of having those discussions regularly.

Also, property ownership can get ridiculously complex really fast. If just one person owns something, that's simple. But in reality, quite often multiple persons own something together (sometimes some of these persons aren't even humans, but legal entities). In that case there are a gazillion different ways in which such shared ownership can be implemented, with far-reaching implications with regard to what will happen if people disagree, split up, modify or sell the property further down the road. You cannot simply model this complexity with an SQL database because it involves legal contracts that specify the details in which a properties' ownership is shared exactly. And the notary is actually responsible in such a case to write these contracts, ensure that every participant knows about their role and rights within these contracts and isn't shortchanged.
> highly addictive and privacy invading powerhouses.. investors like that?

the versions on state life support have that too.
related

"Ask HN: Sites like HN on other topics?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37611708

"Ask HN: What other news feeds do you read besides Hacker News?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36175315
This reminded me of Element AI as well. I happen to know someone who worked there for a while who said that the people there seemed much more interested in publishing press releases than creating sellable products…
Surely the right approach for this is to use canvas, so you only pay the performance penalty once on startup
> Congratulations, you just wrote a code completion AI!

> In fact, this is pretty much how we started out with Cody autocomplete back in March!

Am I wrong in thinking that there's only like 3(?) actual AI companies and everything else is just some frontend to ChatGPT/LLama/Claude?

Is this sustainable? I guess the car industry is full of rebadged models with the same engines and chassis. It's just wild that we keep hearing about the AI boom as though there's a vibrant competitive ecosystem and not just Nvidia, a couple of software partners and then a sea of whiteboxers.
Did you even read the comment you're replying to?

>If your threat model can be satisfactorily defended using virtual machines, you never needed air gapping in the first place.
A seasoned fraudster or tax evader have all the experience, time, and resources to navigate and exploit the system regardless of the measures in place.

On the other hand, an ordinary individual considering starting a new business, perhaps only a few times in their lifetime, may indeed be dissuaded from pursuing this venture.

This issue mirrors the inefficacy of anti-money laundering policies, which, while intended to curb criminal activities, have a negligible impact estimated at merely 0.1%; but the global cost of implementing these policies exceeds their benefits of two orders of magnitude (see DOI:10.1080/25741292.2020.1725366 for details).
Nuclear energy is the fruit of government money, what VCs do with AI currently is a waste of both time, energy and talents, generative AI is not what's important

https://www.ft.com/content/0cdf78f9-e2cc-48ff-ba65-027f1cf83...
> sitting alone at home and watching TV for weeks straight is an inhuman way to exist

It is, but I'd argue that's a failure of imagination on their part to do anything else other than watch TV. There are many opportunities to volunteer somewhere and get engaged with a community, but they have to get off their couch to do it. (don't even need to get off the couch, given the right set of skills.)
Don't know how it works in the UK/Germany, but an LLC isn't a complete shield against liability. If you're scamming people or acting recklessly you could easily find your personal assets targeted by a judge.
This basically the idea around Paul Grahams “Beating the averages” essay which is about 23 years old now.
Several commenters here hate the writer, calling him "completely insufferable", "a character that the reader hates", or "a selfish, narcissistic jerk". But I didn't find him that bad? His worst crime was stealing a $4000 suit from Barneys New York.
“Accepting cards” is not the same as “accepting credit cards” though… A lot of them only accept girocards and not credit cards…
> exposing what they are at the core: text expanders and parroters.

They're much more than that. You can ask an LLM a question that it has never seen before, and it will give you a logical, reasonable answer. That requires knowledge of the world and the ability to reason.

LLMs aren't the same as humans, but neither are dogs or cats, and they're obviously intelligent in their own ways.
> However, it begs the question, why do we need a notary?

The way I learnt it, until now, is the following:

the person you are contracting is there to perform a single specific task.

Applied to the specific context: "Notarvertrag", it means:

the notary is there to perform the notarisation (basically to read and write the contract), making legal whatever YOU are asking to do.

Any additional thing:

- you ask him/her

- you ask someone else beforehand (so yes, you need to pay an additional session for help)

And even then, you not always get what you wished for. And when s** happens, .... "that's life experience"....
We are huge exporters, but I don't agree with your premise; one of the things we export in huge volume is the engineering talent needed to make progress. These are young economic migrants, who leave to enrich a new country, typically the US. If they come back it's generally after they've made their career contributions and are ready to draw on a more generous social system.

>> You meddle with the shape and direction of the market.

It's worse than that; they're picking winners and losers, and that's inexcusable.
I have an greaseweasel and 3.5" floppy mounted internally in a system used for utility tasks.

It's pretty handy to have it all ready to go for unusual floppies.
you've got to differentiate between training, inference and hardware. they all benefit from the "AI boom" but at different levels and have varying levels of substitutability (Google tells me that's a real word)
In Californian covenants to keep the other man out. In houses with “in this house we believe” on the lawn outside. American English uses the term carpetbagger or transplant to disparage domestic immigration. The present acceptable language is that of protecting victims so that’s the language we use. But we’ve always wanted to do this. And this is the wealthiest nation man has seen.

Britain screamed bloody murder for eons till they were able to exclude Europeans. The Germans held the gastarbeiter second class.

A cell, the basic form of life, crucially has a border: a within and a without. All forms of life are self-similar in this aspect: defining inside and outside and walling the boundary.

Humans of the past prized additionally their strength so the restriction was overt. Humans of today prize freedom from guilt so we construct ourselves as the victim.

But the rule is simple: when you circle the wagons - there is an inside and there is an outside. And you don’t let the other guy get in and you don’t go out.
Isn't it surprising to see people willing to put so much money in random debates like that?
Most Clojure devs I know already have lots of experience and can debug faster in their head, with the occasional help of printing a value.
But check out this cool Clojure debugger, it even has time travel https://www.flow-storm.org/

We also have a debugger in Emacs/CIDER.

Your other complaints read like you haven't dug really far, or they are outdated.
The soldapullt worked fine for me. That said: when mine went missing over 15 years ago, I never got around to replacing it.
I mean... the article goes on to explain all their value add... which of course can be replicated, but it's not as if you can just grab an API key and do the same.
What Autoconf Got Right
clojure is everywhere in fintech - nubank, guaranteed rate, kroo bank, griffin, pennymac, two sigma, dividend finance, treasury prime, gravie. Other big areas are healthcare and midmarket adtech. And of course startups outside of SF/NYC with smaller seed rounds looking for tech advantage - midwest USA, Europe/UK, Latin america

The further you get from silicon valley the more clojure you see — anyone with a network at FANG spent the last 10 years trying to break in and get that huge salary, which means conforming to the recruiting process, i.e. spending your time off grinding leetcode instead of learning new PLs
how are you comparing renouncing citizenship with temporarily leaving the country
Digitalisierung means one receives a PDF form via email that he should print out, fill out, scan, and then email back again. X-D
As someone teaching at an art school/university I can assure you that unhealthy drives for art often (but not nearly always!) have hard psychological causes. That brings all kins of hardships with itself, many of those artists live unhealthy, often impoverished, rarely stable lives. And while the romatic view of the impoverished artist is a popular one, these people are rarely as free as they like they would be and I have seen suicides happen.

Most artists I know would love to have stability, yet in society there is rarely space and funding for the things they are doing. I know people who had to move their ateliers 4 times in 10 years, just because the landlords use them to make the rental/area more attractive to a better pating clientel and then kick them out.
This is the fate of most of our largest charitable foundations. They are far better at raising funds than curing their namesake cause. The United Way is a prime example that also siphons off a sizeable percentage along the way, much like our governments.
Skyrocketing house prices are an international issue.

It's still wealth inequality.
Why is Twitter picking a fight in Brazil and not in Turkey or India?
Two accounts are trivial to manage, especially with a third party client. I managed more than that through a bookmarks folder. Many people have multiple accounts on various platforms anyway.

Also you could always host your own instance and be your own admin. I started doing that a couple of weeks ago. It's easy to find a host plan, if you don't want to do all of the work yourself. But you could still do that if you wanted to.
Then get 2. They’re generally free.

That schism is inevitable. To pick an extreme case, imagine a server for LGBTQ people and another for self-declared neo-Nazis. The people on the 1st might have very strong feelings that they want no contact whatsoever with people on the 2nd. There’s no world where it’s reasonable to say they have to keep their servers connected.

Now suppose you want to follow people on the 2nd server for journalism purposes. It’s unreasonable to have an account on the 1st server and then complain that they’re not talking to the 2nd. Even if you have legitimate purposes that aren’t creepy, they’re not going to go along with it. So instead, you get another account to follow the 2nd server and everyone’s happy.

The Mastodon server I own turned 7 years old today. We’ve blocked probably a couple dozen servers over the years. In every case I can tell you exactly why we blocked that instance. Most of them involve, literally, their users sending mine swastika imagery, death threats, or other utterly indefensible content, and the moderators of those instances being OK with it. My users stick around because they trust my explanations for the moderation actions I take. They don’t want to manually filter actual Nazi content from their timelines. Those that do can pick any number of servers that wouldn’t block that content.
You can use cap_net_bind_service to bind ports <1024. You can listen on >1024 and redirect in iptables, or even with a trivial TCP proxy.

There are options on pretty much any system, but certainly on Linux with capabilities. None of these require direct support from the application (dropping root after binding does).

You almost never need to run anything as root, especially not with these "run 6 different types of services in a box" type of appliances.

None of this is new; this was already widely considered best practice when I was starting out 25 years ago.
You need to get them right onto the solder joint as you're heating it up. If that plastic tip of the sucker is melting that's usually an indication you're using it the right way ;) e.g. with a DIP part you basically get the sucker over the pin/pad and push it hard against the molten solder so that it's sucking through the through-hole. Like many things with soldering it's an acquired skill. Also having a good temperature controlled soldering iron with an appropriate tip is important.
And credit cards in Germany are not "credit" cards as well. At least the one I got from Sparkasse does not let you hold a balance and must be paid in full every month.
I don't think that it is overdone. It's bad everywhere, and it's much worse in Berlin.

If you've experienced anything like a modern bureaucracy, Germany is infuriatingly backwards. The article is painfully accurate down to the minute detail.
> Now, maybe people shouldn’t be allowed to make those tradeoffs

They are free to make those tradeoffs. If people want to keep using the Apple app store, or walled garden, or whatever, that's fine.

What instead people want to allow, is for other people to be able to use the products that they own in whatever way that they choose.

> It’s a great curated closed ecosystem

As long as other people can choose to use their Apple devices that they own in the way that they prefer, then that's fine.

Keep using that ecosystem. Other people should be free to use their devices however they wish though.

> You’re seeing people as helpless and they’re just not.

Users are not able to help themselves to use their own Apple devices how they want. In that sense yes, they are helpless to use their own Apple device in a way that they prefer.
For shitty values of functional. Its biggest innovation as a product was giving people more storage than 1990's Hotmail. The Gmail product today runs on inertia and bootlickers like you to push it, aborsy.
Are you suggesting that the purpose of the medical system is not to treat medical conditions? I suppose if they took that tack, yes, the system would be more efficient.
Tax cuts are used more often when the government wants to see more private investment into an industry. Not really an issue with 'AI' right now.

Direct subsidy is more common when the government wants to see a particular outcome; then they can more easily steer those funds to realize it.
and no one, consultant or bureaucrat is to blame, with the bidding companies on to new projects, and the senior public servants all conveniently in new roles & portfolios now that it comes to light.