skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is what I'm thinking of, thanks for the context
European LNG imports are mostly from Qatar and, somewhat ironically, Russia: https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/market-insight...

(And, in case you're wondering why The Netherlands imports so much LNG: that's where the terminals are...)
> how come it hasn’t taken over the world all this time?

I don’t know why it has not. However, it has such a strong set of advantages that people who know what it can do for them keep describing it as a “secret weapon”.

As others have mentioned, it will scale up on a single machine to make use of all the cores (unlike Nodejs, Python, or Ruby). It can already scale horizontally by clustering. Because of the way it is designed, I never have to define a Kubernetes liveliness probe for an Elixir app, whereas I have seen Dotnet and Nodejs apps freeze without crashing (cooperative async reactor can go into infinite loops; Nodejs is very bad about orphaning async execution, by design).

A lot of AI apps is going to involve connecting with unreliable third party services (for example, agents making calls to other api to get information or initiate actions), and may even be on hardware with unreliable network (IoT and edge) and this is where BEAM / OTP shines ahead of pretty much every other runtime and platform.

HN and elsewhere are riddled with Elixir developers extolling its competitive advantages for years … I have had very smart people argue to me why Typescript makes Nodejs so much better, but at this point, I have very little incentive to persuade them. Hence, “secret weapon”.
> sentiment across social media platforms and across time!

Also time zones and weekday/weekend.
I think this is easily the coolest post I've seen on HN this year
Show HN: Ellipsis – Automated PR reviews and bug fixes
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So far, we have dozens of open source projects and companies using Ellipsis. We seem to have landed in a kind of sweet spot where there’s a good match between the current capabilities of AI tools and the actual needs of software engineers - this doesn’t replace human review, but it saves you time by catching/fixing lots of small silly stuff.

Here’s an example in the wild: https://github.com/relari-ai/continuous-eval/pull/38. Ellipsis (1) adds a PR summary; (2) finds a bug and adds a review comment; (3) after a (human) user comments, generates a side PR with the fix; and (4) after a (human) user merges the side PR and adds another commit, re-reviews the PR and approves it

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Kinda sad
How do I know if it's an internal error or if I did something wrong? And yes, showing users the internal errors is useful as they can report the issue with the error message, saving developers time in searching.
Ofcourse oil companies are players, this is where regulations and rules are important, governments are also players in this arena.

Is Microsoft a player, like that? I don't think so that much, they only have an active control on there own energy/oil usage.

The only thing that will happen if Microsoft is giving in to these demands of employees, it will be perceived as morally good, and then in reality the oil companies still have a need and switch supplier. All because energy demand didn't change, only morals.

It is like the Maslows hierarchy of needs, but then applied at a world scale, we need to take into account everybody's (humans, animals, nature, companies and other societal structures) needs, and address the problems from the ground up. Otherwise the world will end up in a fighting mess, like what you describe in the UK, fighting solar and wind energy, or those employees of Microsoft, all never actualizing the energy transition.
The DRM clearly does work in preventing "casual piracy" - where average users do things like downloading a file and keeping it forever (even after cancelling a subscription) or copying the file to a friend.
a disability isn't a disease.
The observation that this ad is a bookend to the classic 1984 ad is interesting, in 1984 Apple is destroying a screen and freeing people to work on creative, human expression. Meanwhile in the M4 iPad ad, they're crushing the tools of creative human expression into a screen.

Edit: I bet the reaction to this would have been completely different if it was a cartoon instead of real life commercial.
While this is true, I don't think you truly missed my point. This is just being pedantic for the sake of it.
It sounds like the problem is that it’s dominated by a few terms, but finding them is tricky. If you have 1.0 x + 2.0 x - 3.0 x - 5/4 x + x - x + x - x … (etc for a few GB) and then quadratic terms, it’ll take work to figure out whether the dominant term is linear or quadratic. Cancelling out the potentially important intermediate terms (especially in higher dimensions) sounds like a mess.
I think this is not entirely true, because HBO and Netflix have DRM on their own shows.
In short, the mechanism in those rarest of rare cases is not typical even for immune related cardiomyopathy, but it is important to evaluate chances of it happening for future vaccine adjuvants and administration routes.

The adjuvants used in the COVID vaccines are rather hardcore as far as these things go, hence the common side effects (non-cardiac).
For what they do, it is rather remarkable on how safe the thing turns out...

And they have to be, or the response is worse. The chances are side effects could be reduced if we get the mucosal vaccines ready.
Elixir has a lot of promise on the surface but today I'm going to tell you why I am going to pivot my ten person company away from Elixir to a different language for two of our main customer facing services: typing and staffing. Elixir's typing situation is simply insufficient for complex real world use cases on teams with many developers and disparate services.

Elixir developers are also almost non-existent in the United States. It is far more productive and far less risky from a business perspective to hire someone that knows Python for the backend and is forced to work with mypy and pydanic using a major web framework.

The trope that functional programming leads to better code and is more maintainable is also a lie. Defect rate is just as high if not higher per module because of the typing problems.
Thanks for mentioning Drift, seems ideal for the app I'm creating.
Ah, I guess I was mistaken
Companies will also never remember your hard work when it comes to layoffs. My cousin worked until 1am almost every day from September 2023-January 2024 to complete a poorly managed project. He only had Christmas off because the director thought employees would sue as it is a religious holiday. He missed important events and lost about 20 pounds, because of stress.

The company had a hard deadline to move over to a brand new system. They had 5 years notice and decided not to start it until the year before. If they didn't make the deadline, it would mean millions of dollars in costs because it was outside the contract.

Him and his team made the deadline. His reward was being laid off a few weeks later as his position was eliminated. Now he's over 50 and trying to find work in a terrible time to look for a job.
GaggiX has it mostly right below. But, I'm frustrated because I'd like to try this out. And, by try it out, any of these would be fine:

1. Download the datasets and train a small version to get a feel for it.

2. Download the models and deploy them to use it and get a feel for it.

3. Talk to it via a paid API

Why do I want to do that? I'd like to know how capable this architecture is, and get a feel for how capable it could be with different data / scale up / fine tuning, etc.
Would you have taken no sides when Hitler was doing his genocide as well?
A Prison of His Own Design
Interesting. I've been looking at a much more simpler system than Celery queue to publish jobs from Golang and consume jobs from Python side (AI/ML stuff). This threads gave a lot of names and links for further investigation.
Science doesn't (and shouldn't) care for how people socialize around a disability.

I recognize the power and a reclaimed self worth that comes with reframing narratives around deafness.

The lack of hearing is a disease. Because diseases are nominatively about being at dis-ease. As long as it's difficult for deaf people to socialize with those who outside the community, it dis-eases them.
Lord of the Rings - The Hunt for More Money.

But in all seriousness, I hope the movies can rival the original trilogy and do not go the pandering route of the Amazon show.
> Allegedly they have a custom approach to each new game, so cracks can take months to appear

It's because it's tedious to crack it, it's not really a rocket science, they just generate new VM for the binary so you can't automate it, they inject A LOT of code paths which you need to manually follow and change. That's the only reason why games stay uncracked for months. It's a war of attrition.

> with some unpopular games never having been cracked at all

That's not exactly true actually, you need to pay for Denuvo license every year, that's why after some months or a few years it's removed from most of the games.
I'd expect more and more companies to abandon twitter, or X, as new forms of communication continue to emerge.

Twitter's level of discourse has certainly gotten worse after Elon took it over and cut the staff. So I guess those former twitter employees can feel good about having done something positive when they were at twitter.

I'm a paying subscriber so I can use tweetdeck as that seems to be the only
sane way to use twitter.

I subscribe only to accounts for breaking news and analysis.

I don't tweet, or use it for anything recreational and I still get a lot of "death to jews" tweets and porn mixed into my "home" column in twitter as suggested content that I may like.

I'm not really on the left or right political spectrum but I do subscribe to US politicians for the news so I can't say if Elon's new "anything goes" twitter is better for free speech, but it certainly has alot more hate, possibly all bots?

I no longer read anything but initial tweets from the curated users I follow as the comments all seem to invariable have the "death to jews, or the Nword, or just straight up porn in alot of the follow on comments.

heck this was the company that had to completely shut down searching for Taylor Swift because their porn problem was soo bad.

I'm happy Elon found something he likes to do, but man, has twitter ever gotten worse:(

I can see why companies no longer want to pay such large fees for the api as the level of discourse has really gone down, I can also see why advertisers would run away from them. Who wants their brand associated with nazi's?
Time Travel for Iceberg Tables in Presto
If a disability means anything it means acknowledging you need 'help' in some form.
I report to a CTO and certainly can point to people who are more like this, but even the most agreeable still pushes back sometimes. If you understand how CTOs think and what they want/need, it's not someone to poke holes in their plans, but propose adjustments and alternatives that fill the holes you see. It's almost like good improv

Also CTOs (especially in supposed F500 companies like presented here) don't typically drive the project execution and interact with the development team in a more than cursory basis. THis is another reason I'm super-skeptical of the entire story. The smallest company on the current list is over 16K employees.
Ha, I liked that one too.

I wonder if I’m more technically savvy as a millennial, though. My kids are clueless about computers despite genuine effort on my part, and I’m not sure if that’s a fair representation of kids their age. I was able to do so much with computers at 15 years… it’s more than a little unnerving seeing them scratch their head at an iPad occasionally, or have NO clue how they’d do almost anything an app does for them within Apple’s ecosystem if they had to do it themselves. None of it seems possible to them.

But maybe most kids were the same when I was that age. I was too busy programming and modelling or animating in 3D Studio Max to know what was normal.
I think it would be tough to compare. There are client libraries for several languages, but the project is mostly a SQL API to the queue operations like send, read, archive, delete using the same semantics as SQS/RSMQ.

Any language that can connect to Postgres can use PGMQ, whereas it seems River is Go only?
> hardly any different from debugging your own first draft

I find this take surprising. Leaving AI aside entirely, debugging my first draft seems very different than debugging your first draft.
Show HN: LLM-Powered Infinite Test Prep for SAT, MCAT, LSAT, DMV, GMAT
I ran into interesting challenges with the SAT Math test generator. For example: the probabilistic nature of LLMs. Despite explicit instructions, after many question generations, I'd occasionally get an invalid JSON output. I also didn't see much success with in-context learning. I'd get questions that were way too similar.

I wrote about my process and learnings:
https://www.sabrina.dev/p/aipowered-infinite-test-prep-part-...
Do you worry about the finite materials you use when you get a plastic container, or buy a car, or appliances, or stone countertops?

This is a very odd belief to have when it comes to batteries, because we are nowhere close to even discovering how much, say, lithium we have easily available, and more deposits are discovered all the time these days. Nobody bothered to identify them in the past, so we are looking now.

Also, batteries will be far more recycled than, say, your furniture or all the other things in the house. They are expecting >90% recovery of the materials, and in the 10-20 years of use, battery technology advances so much that when they get remade into more batteries, that 90% recovery will store even more electricity than the 100% of materials did the first time.

While I'm glad people are having these concerns, in general, they should be concerns about all aspects of consumed goods, not just the goods that are already doing the most to reduce environmental impact.
Do you ever have novel ideas while walking or in the shower?

Well, you’re learning from data you generate.
Why did you accept if you had no clue how to refil?
ESP32 Drum Synth Machine
If you would get fired for being honest, then yes, go home to your wife, tell her you lost your job, and you'll find a better job. If you are a dependable worker, you'll find a job. And being honest isn't an acceptable reason to avoid unemployment.

Having said that, being honest isn't being stupid. It doesn't mean you can't have another job already lined up when you hand in your notice because you realized your employer doesn't like truth. Or that you need to always be blunt. Honesty is about being firm snd diplomatic.

In an alternative world, would you like to lie so much that you begin cheating on your spouse? After all, it starts with one small lie. And that your kids never trust you when they are older because they know how much you lied to them?

And that job interviews go poorly because they already know the previous lies at your previous employer?
Gift link:
https://www.wsj.com/tech/neuralinks-first-brain-chip-implant...

... is just a discussion of this:

https://neuralink.com/blog/prime-study-progress-update-user-...
I’m optimistic that at some point, I’ll be able to get a treatment to take care of my red green color blindness.

I’m well aware that it’s very much a first world problem, and rightfully should be very low on the totem pole of medical issues to cure.

But goddamnit, I want to see red.
Hertz was good too... once. So Enterprise and National may not be good forever.
Nah, you're wrong. There was a reason they waited a day to declare war on Germany in WWII, where as in WWI they were automagically at war.
Same here, absolutely. And the fact that that highly appraised literature seems to be mostly a fringey group of self-centered 'intellectuals' that think they're so important that their drivel must be spoon-fed to teenagers.
And Semi. And New Roadster. And laying people off while still claiming a robotaxi and a less expensive car are coming soon.
Kinda off topic, but I know a lot of people here use keybase for verification, but don't they have a slack alternative that's both free and private? (Assuming zoom didn't kill either of those aspects) Anyone use it as an actual slack replacement?
Every exponential is really an s curve?
It's present day WB - I'm fully expecting a worse cash grab than the third hobbit film. Maybe we'll be lucky and they'll decide to cancel it for the tax write off.
At this point, video DRM is more of a legal protection than a technical protection.
Some of the games you mention were already cracked but not by the scene.
AI benchmarks should be like unit tests
How do we know humans don’t do the same thing?
Gorefresh: The missing go run –watch
Electric motors were a thing when I was a kid, but we used to mill wheat by hand anyway! We had a crank mill in the garage, and when my mother wanted to bake bread she'd send one of us kids out to make some flour.
Identity Synchronization with Wren:IDM
I work for a large streaming service and a significant part of my work is content protection.

Honestly, tech folks misunderstanding of DRM and content protection is significant. There's some assumption that people are inherently honest and that we're just money grabbing. In the years that I've been doing this I've seen a lot of things and nothing has convinced me that if we turned off DRM we'd:
1) save money
2) not have issues with piracy proliferation

The cost of DRM license issuing for our company is relatively insignificant, a year's worth of DRM for millions of users is less than the cost of a single show we might make. We pay cents per thousands of plays.

I recall we launched in a new market, we did a show which would have been an expensive PPV previously, but it was included in our standard subscription. We also offered a first month free trial, which you could cancel. So, you could enjoy it at zero cost, from the original provider in high quality, with no commitment. That night our anti-piracy team took down 20,000+ illegal streams, serving a large audience.

I also acutely know that DRM isn't as secure as we'd like, I know that all security measures are ultimately not anywhere near perfect. But you know what? I also lock my front door, even though I know how to pick locks. I put my car keys in a RFID box, despite knowing there are probably CAN attacks against my car. I still need to protect my assets, because enough people don't want to pay for something if they can get it for free.

We had some research into the attitudes of pirates that basically distils down to:
1) 1/3rd would pay if they couldn't get the content any other way
2) 1/3rd don't care enough and are casual pirates, watching because they can.
3) 1/3rd are "pay never", militant, yet still happy to take my work without concern for the sustainability of that.

Ultimately, if you like content then you should pay for it, but it's always a waste of time arguing about this on the internet because so many people are in the third category, think I'm an asshole for doing my job and apparently they know my job better than I do.
Shane Legg: Machine Super Intelligence (2008) [pdf]
I posted the parent comment. Referring to the parent comment of MisterDizzy's.

I only have 1 account, though I probably should create a burner for certain topics... it seems that just 1 bad take here can destroy a career. Can't wait til this authoritarian phase is over, just want to share opinions again and it not matter that much.
Sure, you can define the reference frames to allow any orbit on any body. Mars landers & orbiters have slightly different time due to general & special relativity than Earth's surface, and also don't need Earth days/months/years, for example.
The team leader reports to the CTO. The team only reports to the team leader. Therefore, it's perfectly acceptable for the team leader to give their people the time off, and even lie about it, since it didn't affect performance.
The website (https://www.nixtla.io/) says all sorts of companies are using this: Ford, Lyft, Nestle, T-Mobile, Wayfair, etc etc.

That's not actually true, right? Surely that's a lie? I find it very unlikely that these huge companies are actually using this, especially considering how sketchy the website is (the About page doesn't list any employees/executives, there are no case studies, no white papers describing what this product even is.)

I get the impression this product only exists to scam investors who have unrealistic expectations of AI.
> Well, you’re learning from data you generate.

Sure. I'm producing human output from human input in a generally unconstrained, limitless way.

This is producing approximated human output from approximated human input. That second level of abstraction will be constrained, ultimately, by the limits of input.
High prices are not the main cause of low fertility rates in cities
The CLIP plot (Fig. 2) is damning, however some of the generative models show flat responses in Fig. 3 (e.g. Adobe GigaGAN, DALL-E-mini). While those are on the one hand technically linear relationships, but are also exactly what we'd want: image generation aesthetic score that doesn't care about concept frequency. Maybe the issue is with the contrastive training target used in CLIP?
Compilers, Interpreters, VMs and JIT
From Parquet to Arrow
>>kit for basic cloning and genetic manipulation.

A lot of the key reagents can just be bought<<

along with the cryo-fridges required to keep said reagents.

add about 10,000 usd to your purchase request.