skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry to say that your analysis is wildly incorrect.

- 10 billion people =~ 2^33

- 1000 CPUs =~ 2^10

- 1024 cores =~ 2^10

- 10 GHz =~ 2^33

So: one second's computation by all of these people is 2^86 UUIDs generated. UUIDs are 128 bits. With probability essentially 1, there will be a collision within one second.

The reason is known as the birthday paradox. If you sample random values from a set of size k, after you've chosen about sqrt(k) values you will have chosen the same value twice with probability very close to 1/2. By 10*sqrt(k) samples you'll have found a collision with probability well over 90%.

In this case, after sampling 2^64 values you'll have a collision with probability 1/2. That happens in roughly 250 nanoseconds (2^-22 seconds) in your thought experiment.

2^64 sounds like a lot, but in many contexts it's not all that much. Every bitcoin block mined takes well in excess of 2^70 SHA evaluations. Obviously the miners are not dedicated to generating UUID collisions, but if they were they'd easily find thousands of them in the time it takes to mine one block (this neglects the fact that it is much easier to sample a UUID than to evaluate double-SHA256).
Is AI the new 3D monitor fad? Am I going to have to pay for AI in places I don’t care to? Such as Cars, Refrigerators, and Espresso machines?
No two applications can be the same, so thats beside the point.
Wow. TIL. I’ve been using JavaScript for that.
How were they doing millions of events per minute with postgres.

I'm struggling with pg write performance ATM and want some tips.
You and your wife don't need a fake AI for that. You can do what your primate-based brain has evolved to do and imagine it.
> the driver doesn't even have to get out of the vehicle

Does everyone orient their bins correctly and precisely enough for the truck's pickup device? Is the pickup device so flexible that it doesn't matter?
holy shit this makes me so angry

if only he were younger so he could have his daughter or wife taken from him and suffer longer

there are no consequences for some of the most depraved clingers-on to the good will of everyone else

when will we make this world into one that isnt hostile to the living and favorable to mechanisms and predators

probably never because we allow ourselves to be tricked by them willingly over and over

i hate to say it but humanity needs to stop giving itself reasons for its own judgement of lack of merit. there is too much good in human history for the ignorant to destroy it like this in one swoop. don't be naive in handing the keys to the castle to an arbitrary person.
I mean native americans arrived from siberia... it's more a linguistic confirmation of a well know fact. why would it be extraordinary?

(for example: https://www.science.org/content/article/closest-known-ancest... )
> Apple also plans to add a much improved Neural Engine that has an increased number of cores for AI tasks.

This makes total sense but does it? Does Apple really have an application roadmap to ultimately utilize these tensor cores?

For all the M1, M2, M3s out there, Siri still sucks. We keep seeing latest arXiv papers [1] coming out of their research efforts hinting at potential improvements but there is not much in those papers that needs to wait for an M4 or M5...

What gives?

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.20329
Turn off indexing and other optimizations done on a table level
How many percentage points of an entire country's economy would you say you need to steal before it's deserving of the highest form of punishment?
But have you used the new 3.6 release which uses pfnaphell integration to stochastically pre-convolute the tertiary nodes? It's a game-changer!
Do you really think the US became a superpower because of the black hills of Dakota?

> the plunder of a fully inhabited continent since it was done long before the US existed

Did the US plunder a continent full of factories and businesses and highways and steel mills and airplanes and farms and computers and ships and ... ?

Living on land that has natural resources does not automatically make one rich. Millennia of history and pre-history makes that clear.
Enormous raised eyebrow at describing Vietnam as “Leninist”
I was thinking along the lines of answering with correct information but not following the prompts. Maybe this could be considered confabulation also.
"Gee, I don't know. Maybe deep down I'm afraid of any apex predator that lived through the K-T extinction. Physically unchanged for a hundred million years, because it's the perfect killing machine. A half ton of cold-blooded fury, the bite force of 20,000 Newtons, and stomach acid so strong it can dissolve bones and hoofs."

(Archer)
Lots of films have been made about Napoleon, many long before Kubrick (before he was born, even) and several while he was an active director, I don't how him wanting to do one and one recently being made makes him "ahead of his time".
This is as enticing a proposal as "Let's get out of this pub and go to my van by the river". Smiley face.
All the links in the Legal section of the footer need real hrefs.
Hey I didn’t name it!
Cybersecurity Market Faces Funding Downturn in Q1 2024
Ugh! The price of M3s will hold their value as everyone won’t want this.
Excuse me but what does this have to do with the next gen AI chips topic?

Are there any threads left on HN that can be held on topic and not be invaded by the same ol' beaten to death "muh Apple M1 so good, PCs so bad" trope? It's been 4 years already since the M series launched, so unless people have been living under a rock, everyone already knows what they can do, what exactly were you bringing on this topic with your pointless shopping anecdote that has nothing to do with the topic?

And FYI, not everyone is a web dev. Many many jobs will require you to use tools exclusive to Windows or Linux hence why the market for expensive PC laptops is still very large despite being worse on paper than MacBooks.

MacOS doesn't solve everyone's needs no matter how good their chips are, if the SW you need doesn't run on it then it's useless, so Apple is no thereat to that market.
Isn’t it funny that all the “worthless” content out there on the internet is actually changing the world. Like how 4chan was mocked as being a cesspit for losers, but now everyone knows memes like Pepe the frog and Wojack from there. And like now this very comment and the billions of other comments on here, Reddit, Twitter, etc that are regarded as a “waste of time” are being used to train multi billion dollar companies to build the most powerful AI the world has ever seen. For free.

The moral of the story here is if you know something valuable, don’t share it online, because then everyone knows it.
The US funded the construction of the Panama Canal, along with providing the heavy equipment to do it.
> You didn't really do the joke right.

It summed up many comments and attitudes I see here on LLM's in under 30 words. In fact it's so clever it's one of the few posts here I'm certain wasn't produced by an LLM.
This is categorically untrue. Publishing material generated like this is going to be generally better than human generated content. It takes less time, can be systematically tested and rigorous, and you can specifically avoid the pitfalls of bias and prejudice.

A system like this is multilayered, with prompts going through the whole problem solving process, considering the information presented, assuring quality and factuality, assigning the necessary citations and documentation for claims.

Accuracy isn't a problem. The way in which AI is used creates the problem - ChatGPT and most chat based models are single pass, query/response type interactions with models. Sometimes you get a second pass with a moderation system, doing a review to ensure offensive or illegal things get filtered out. Without any additional testing and prompt engineering, you're going to run into hallucinations, inefficient formulations, random "technically correct but not very useful" generations, and so forth. Raw ChatGPT content shouldn't be published without significant editing and going through the same quality review process any human written text should go through.

What Storm accomplishes is an algorithmic and methodical series of problem solving steps, each of which can be tested and verified and validated. This is synthesized in a particular way, intended as a factual reference article. Presumably you could insert debiasing and checks for narrative or political statements, ensuring attribution and citation occur for quotations, and rephrasing anything generated by the AI as a neutral, academic statement of fact with no stylistic and artistic features.

This is significantly different from the almost superficial interactions you get with chatbots, unless you specifically engineer your prompts and cycle through similar problem solving methods.

Tasks like this are well within the value add domain of current AI capabilities.

Compared to the absolute trash of SEO optimized blog posts, the agenda driven, ulterior laden rants and rambles in social media, and the "I'm oh-so-cleverly influencing the narrative" articles posted to Wikipedia by humans, content like this is a clear winner in quality, in my opinion.

AI isn't at the point where it's going to spit out well grounded novel answers to things like "what's the cure for cancer?" but it can absolutely produce a principled and legible explanation of a phenomenon or collection of facts about a thing.
And even then, how do you get valid data on that? My impression is that Amazon is not good to work for; no comment on Stripe, Facebook is good, but it's Facebook. Oracle is good if you want to rest and vest.

But how could we validate this assemblage of opinions about how they are to work at that I've gathered?
Yeah... hopefully the upcoming Qualcomm Snapdragon X chips get integrated properly by someone so there's actual competition. Mobile data in my laptop also sounds like it would be pretty nice. Not holding my breath though, Microsoft may still mess it up on the Windows side :(
>Now it's a totally different question whether we're getting PFAs out of our water with the Zerowater filters. That should rightfully incite some panic.

They recently sent me an email claiming that they remove 95% of PFOA and PFOS
Text work is real work!
So a human life is worth somewhere between $0 and $27B in Vietnam. Useful to know.
This is great advice!

I'd like to add that if you don't have pairwise preference data (A > B) but do have binary data (A is good for x_1, B is good for x_2, etc.), then Kahneman-Tversky Optimization (KTO) might be a better fit. Despite learning with a weaker signal, it works as well or better than dpo in practice.
The extraordinary part is not that they arrived from Siberia, but the claim that two distinct migration waves (well, really four, but the other two are accepted language families) can be distinguished in the linguistic data.
what activists are running sshd?
Adobe Is Buying Videos for $3 per Minute to Build AI Model
If you don’t want ti deal with doing the testing yourself, the EPA has a list of certified labs that can test your water for you. If you follow the link, you’ll find Michigan’s cert program and a list of contact info for those labs.

I’ve never done it myself, so I don’t have a sense of how expensive it would be.

https://www.epa.gov/dwlabcert/contact-information-certificat...
"First ever" has been used very leniently here. Maybe it's the first ever for any state in America but the rest of the world definitely already has limits on it.
Anything for clicks I guess.
Still strange, but I know what they mean now.
1. Microsoft isn't in the business of life support systems. Turning off a system with exposed credentials isn't going to shut off all of Azure. Even if it did, are you really claiming that Azure downtime is life-and-death?

2. In what hypothetical universe does a life support system connected to the internet contain a trove of customer PII? And where disconnecting this hypothetical system from the internet _cause the patient it's supporting to die_?
I mean, the rumours at this point are deafening that Siri is getting a complete rehaul (or an outright replacement, which probably amounts to the same thing) at WWDC in just two months, so I'd reserve judgment on Apple's AI deployment capabilities until then.
From my experiments, this thing is pretty bad. It mixes up things that have similar names, it pulls in entirely unrelated concepts, the articles it generates are mind-numbingly repetitive and verbose (although notably with slightly different "facts" each time things are restated), its citations are often completely unrelated to the topic at hand, and facts are cited by references that don't back them up.

I mean, the spelling and syntax of the sentences is mostly correct, just like any LLM content. But there's ultimately still no coherence to the output.
Once in a while people inadvertently create these pristine time capsules: http://www.astoriedstyle.com/a-look-into-the-past-an-untouch...
It's been posted many, many, many times.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=story+of+mel
If, like me, you didn't get the joke at first:

Both of the first two logicians wanted a beer; otherwise they would know the answer was "no". The third logician recognizes this, and therefore knows the answer.
This could also mean that he's inept at getting composition right, and neurotically obsessive about things that don't really matter.

I do photography, and a ratio of 1000 discarded photos to one you keep would far more likely mean someone doesn't know how to select their shots more carefully and can't distinguish what's important, than it would mean that they're a perfectionist genius.
A B-Tree tutorial series starting with implementing a BerkeleyDB clone
I think their main AI case will be photo and video editing or maybe some LLM bots to help your organize and search through files, but Siri feels really abandoned.
Don't most of the people involved with research believe humans first evolved in Africa? If so, they presumably migrated north yo Siberia.
> >You cannot take a sick day by telling your team, “I have mental issues and need a day off.”

> This hurt me to read on behalf of the OP.

Indeed. Taking time off for mental health reasons is no less legitimate than taking time off for physical health reasons.

I've never actually told any bosses that I'm taking a "mental health day" or anything, though. I just take a sick day, because that's what it is.
Humans are limited in the volume of garbage they can produce.
Just imagine, the leaders in charge of running one of the world's most prestigious academic institution are collectively less intelligent about this than a majority of HN opinion that knew dropping test scores was a stupid idea...
tl;dr - less work = less pollution = less likely old people dying
I had the exact same reaction as d3vmax - and quoting one paywalled article about a failed builder does not make “ghost cities” a thing in India. Yes there are fraudsters who cheat people and never build anything, but India does not have the same kind of ghost cities that China does.
We should start a club.

In the meantime, I just use an image blocker extension when I encounter those articles.

My mobile browser (Cromite on Android, Chromium fork) also has a setting to toggle images, which is also good.
Generate VR Chat Worlds with a Prompt
What is critical race theory? What does science say about who should get into which schools?
The first "k" in Norwegian "kirke" (Swedish "kyrka") and "ch" in German "Kirche" are entirely different sounds (with exception(s), one German dialect comes to mind). The "k" in "kirke" is somewhere between German "sch" and "ch" but is neither really, the sound doesn't exist in [almost all] German [dialects].

Source: My native tongue is German and I've lived in Scandinavia for over a decade.
European power outlets don't have switches either.
As well as funding the revolt that created Panama out of part of Colombia in the first place, for the purpose of building the canal.

The history is definitely one of imperialism, but the claim that it was currently American was 25 years out of date.
Unless it's at the beginning of a word, like xylophone?
OpenTable is adding your first name to previously anonymous reviews
> All this to say that your pain and suffering is real and the true payout is just more pain and suffering.

This is what I hate about modern workplace. The society clearly needs people who migrate databases at 3AM, but it never rewards them, instead just squeezes as much juice as possible before moving onto the next young motivated freshman. I'm not talking about financial reward, I'm talking about creating a work environment where migrating the fucking database FEELS rewarding. I truly miss the rush I had at the university when turning in a difficult project I had spent nights on. Instead I get to stare at a poster "remember that HR is there to protect the company from you, we pay you to shut up".

Nowadays I try giving as few fucks as possible, and I'm looking for happiness in other areas of my life, which isn't easy. I'd rather see my passion die than witness it being exploited by the very same people who make me feel misunderstood.

I am very much butthurt about how the society functions but I also realize I cannot do anything about it, so my next goal is to learn how to just relax, do nothing, and be happy about it.
How could it? LLMs hallucinate false information. Even if hallucinations are improved, the false information they've generated is now part of the body of text they will be trained on.
Why is it that every site with a similar headline is reporting a different amount of billions? Wonder if they are all converting it differently and then using the wrong countries units or something.
These are the standard kinds of problems that happen in every developing country.

So long as it's out in the open it's not a big deal.

Most Western commentators had a decent view of what's going on in China because there is a lot of business reporting there.

In Vietnam's case, most foreign business reporting I've seen is in Korean, Japanese, and Mandarin, as SK, Japan, Taiwan, and PRC are the biggest FDI sources in VN.

For Korean and Taiwanese investors, this isn't a big deal, as most dealt with similar stuff in 1970s-2000s Korea and Taiwan, as did Japanese who invested heavily in Korea, Taiwan, and PRC.

Western investors on the other hand, will be much more skittish, and won't invest until the regional investors from the countries mentioned above are more established in VN.
> The reason is known as the birthday paradox.

Right. Forgot about that little thing. You're absolutely correct.

With this taken into account a _single_ person with 1000 pieces of 1000-core, 10 GHz CPUs generating UUIDs will generate a match in a few minutes.
Scrutinizing the fact that a PR links to an issue that links to an issue on another public repo, opened by what I understand to be a community member? I mean, who's going to stop them, right?
I understand, and what you shared is a perfect example of what I said- but I fundamentally disagree with the notion that it's the same between the two.

I think that in effect, as you associate more behavior with a particular struct(as opposed to what you're attempting to do with said struct), the greater expectation it presents that the struct is what you code around. More and more gets added to state over time, and more expectations about behavior get added that don't need to exist.

Sure, you could say "Well, then just be strict about what behavior is expected in the interface"- but that effort wouldn't be necessary if we didn't make the struct the center of the behavior in the first place.
And at the end of the day this is exactly the attitude that prevents people from asking for a day off. It's wrong in medicine and it's wrong here.

The attitude we should have is: yes, Mr. Successful Boss Man, you are a better human than me: you are more disciplined, don't have a problem with anxiety while dealing with a lot more stress, make more money and even look better. But these facts do absolutely nothing to change that I am crumbling and need a break. If you are so good at dealing with stress - write the software (or stitch up that patient) yourself, surely it would be easy for you, the superhuman?

But we won't do that. Instead we'll pretend we are 10x engineers or genius doctors until we either mess ourselves up, or make a big enough mistake. The realization needed to wake up is: the people pushing us to work harder need us. They actually couldn't have their successful business empire or their big fancy hospital without our work.
All the company specific libraries we have debugged of the past 30 years.
Planning Poker

Not because of the points, but because it forced a granular discussion about the work ahead. Before, the senior people would say everything in the coming sprint was easy, and the juniors wouldn’t disagree for fear of looking incompetent.
AI DRIVR claims that beta V12 is much better precisely because it takes rules less literally and drives more naturally.
Past Matebooks have had OK support. If I remember correctly, there's some packages that provide some of the functionality of Huawei's window drivers (third-party though).
Don't get me started on the spring constant...
It would be possible to bookmark and refer to individual articles if you'd used gist instead of github.
Um, yes? That's kind of my point. LLMs trained on SO answers from a time before SO sucked as badly as it does now. Where will next-gen LLMs get their training, without a good open Q&A site to leech from?
Because most western news outlets are crap at Tieng Viet.

The BBC headline is correct (as they hired a lot of Vietnamese speaking journalists, some of whom have been targeted for assasination and kidnapping by the Vietnamese govt [0]).

The amount stolen was $44B. She needs to return $27B to not be executed.

[0] - https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/sep/30/bbc-accused-of...
They actually handed it back December 31, 1999.

The treaty providing for that to happen was signed in 1977.

Should, again, have followed your own “study your history” recommendation.
On the contrary, Tailwind's ergonomics are what attract me to it. With the autocomplete features via the VSCode intellisense plugin, I'm able to create UIs at a pretty extraordinary pace.

As a trivial example, let's imagine we need to apply a border radius to an element. Without Tailwind, it looks like this:

1. I find the element I need to style
2. I look at which class it's using
3. I navigate to my CSS file
4. I scroll down until I find the selector
5. I type "border-r", then tab on the auto-complete to fill in "border-radius"
6. I type the colon character, then space
7. I think about what unit is appropriate - rems, ems, pixels, percentage
8. I think about what value is needed for the design
9. I also look around to see if this style is used elsewhere
10. If the style is used elsewhere, I think about whether I need to refactor
11. I type in the desired value
12. I type a semicolon to mark the end of the statement
13. I type cmd+s to save the css file

Here's the same example, with Tailwind:

1. I find the element I need to style
2. I type `round` and wait for the autocomplete to present my options
3. I use my arrow key to select which one I want
4. I type enter to add the desired tailwind class
5. I type cmd+s to save the html file

The Tailwind interaction path takes less than half of the concrete steps to complete. But it's even more dramatic than that, because several of the steps taken in the first example require enough thought that it breaks your workflow and takes you out of your flow state. Then you have to get back into that flow state to keep working. But this keeps happening, so you're constantly stopping and restarting. With Tailwind, I tend to find myself staying in that flow state, because as I demonstrated above, there's very little getting in my way.
Very cool! I used to build sensors similar in construction, but in all glass. Was a great challenge and a lot of fun. I like your spin on things.

Well done completing the Phd!
"In other words" doesn't make sense here.