skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assuming you want to write to dest_path with put-if-absent semantics, here's a sketch:

- Write to a unique temporary path (call this temp_path)

- Commit a record to DynamoDB with put-if-absent semantics on the key (dest_path) and the value (temp_path, "incomplete")

- Three possible outcomes:

1. Your write succeeded; proceed to issue a CopyObject call from temp_path to dest_path and if successful mark as complete in DynamoDB.

2. The row already existed in DynamoDB as "complete" -> do nothing

3. The row already existed in DynamoDB as "incomplete" -> another write has been committed, but is not complete; attempt to repair it by issuing a CopyObject for the path in DynamoDB. On success, mark as complete in DynamoDB. ("repair" step)

Reads could also hit DynamoDB before S3 in order to perform the "repair" step if applicable.
Federal probe targets Waymo's robotaxis amid traffic safety concerns
NVIDIA got lucky that modern computer architecture happens to favor GPUs for AI workloads. They won't be able to milk it for long, but they for sure have the money to pivot. Question is whether they will put that money to good use or not.
So disappointing of OpenAI. I hope they'll make things right with all their former employees.
I think the issue with Sears is they had a ton of large brick-mortar-stores (often the "anchors" at malls, which is another nearly dead industry with the last indoor mall built in the US in 2006). Remember the fear of Wal-Mart killing main street in the late 90s into the 2000s? Wal-Mart came in and killed the competition, which included Sears. Then Amazaon annihilated Sears further and took a huge dent in Wal-Mart. Sears had no choice but to implode. I imagine major horse and carriage companies suffered a similar fate with the invention of the automobile.
I read it. It's just not right. Companies have all kinds of processes in place for who can negotiate what and up to what limit and who has to agree if it goes above this or changes that or whatever. There are entire software packages around contract management to route contracts to the right place based on the process the company has in place.
It’s been noted by a few folks that anything the administration says out loud immediately becomes gristle for the Fox News-o-verse and therefore something for Congress to yell loudly at and try to block. The Biden administration has consequently become very good at being very quiet about the things it’s doing well, with the distinct drawback in an election year that everyone seems to be quite surprised when they discover the administration has been rather good, actually.
That is a breathtakingly pedantic reading of what I said.

I used “natural” to distinguish minerals created via geologic processes, from minerals and elements intentionally processed into machines.

Similarly, evolution’s long process of accumulated innovations separate humans from our constituent elements as found in the geologic environment.

Both technological and evolutionary iterative and self-reinforcing adaptations provide a mechanism for complex coordinated high level information flows to arise aimed at survival (biological or economic) where consciousness has both a potential purpose and a plausible process for coming into being.

A lump of granite or obsidian presents no evidence of consciousness, no purpose for consciousness, and no plausible process for having accreted or transformed into something with consciousness.

The conjecture that such rocks may be conscious stands on equal footing to the conjecture that they are unicorns wearing magical rock-disguise cloaks.
None of these are realistic, if you have to use third_party software, because that one may require them, and then all bets are off.

The only way to enforce this, if you are in full control of the source code you are in - for example the Game Engine / Runtime may fall into this, but it's impossible, or rather impractical to think you can do for the rest of the Game Tools / Plugins / etc.

So with this comes conundrum - folks working predominantly on the Game Engine side tend to push this "orthodox" style as the one that should be accepted, while the folks working on the "tools" style simply can't accept it, because otherwise we have to reinvent tons of code, or not being able to link to closed-source third_party libs in order to make a tool.

It's bananas, and wishful thinking.
Nevermind, I think it was just me being silly and not running the bit with wget at the top!
And they made the description so hard to find that they had to let creators pin comments as a second description.
I can't speak to your particular case, but my ticketmaster transactions often fail to complete for various reasons. After one falls through, if I wish to purchase the same seats again, they're often unavailable. This isn't because some scalper swooped in and bought them, the person who has dibs on them is me, in my previous defunct transaction. I usually find that if I wait ~ 15 minutes the hold will be released, and the tickets will be available for me to try again.
> Sources familiar with the matter said that while the two companies had been in constant touch with antitrust agencies in the UK, EU, and United States to work out a path to close the deal, the UK regulators have in recent weeks indicated that it would require remedies for Adobe to divest Figma design, a core asset of the acquisition.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/adobe-figma-terminate-20-...

> On December 18, 2023, Figma and Adobe both announced they were mutually agreeing to abandon their merger,[17][18] with Adobe citing that there was "no clear path to receive necessary regulatory approvals from the European Commission and the UK Competition and Markets Authority."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figma#Attempted_acquisition_by...

Only if you count UK/EU regulators.
>> There are highly profitable companies that nevertheless see their stock price turn around.

This happened with a local sports drink maker. It was branded for kids, more healthy, less sugar then Gatorade and energy drinks. Company took off, went public, stock went through the roof for about two years.

Blue skies, everything coming up roses, lots of articles in the local business mags and websites.

Then their supply chain dried up - a precursor to the pandemic and the founder even said in a startup presentation they were the canary in the coal mine and one of the first businesses in the state to suddenly have their product, packaging, and materials all just evaporate in a matter of weeks. Suddenly they couldn't get product into stores, stores eventually pulled their placement and within three months they were bleeding money horrendously while scrambling to find replacements. Something they were already working on, but soon enough every supplier they'd call had the same answer, they too had no means to ship stuff out and they too were dead in the water.

Then two months later the pandemic hit in full force and it was the death knell for the company. Delisted, and bankrupted, they closed up shop about 3 years after being a "can't lose" stock and company.

My family have all invested heavily in Nvidia and they're making good gains now, but I'm seeing the same thing you are - this can go bust very fast if Nvidia doesn't manage this really well.
try the native screen recording feature on iOS if you have an iPhone or iPad. go log into some website or app. the recording will show the keyboard come up, keypress animations, and the characters being entered into the username/email field, but when you focus the password field all of that disappears. I was surprised when I first saw it, but it totally works
By this logic, human travel should also be banned. It's bad for disease risk, the environment, etc.

It's not that people believe meat has no downsides, it's that we believe the positives outweigh the negatives.

We enjoy meat.
The task bar is still a bit limited - you can't dock it to the side of the screen, nor can you make it taller, nor (if only shown on one display) can you move it off the primary display.
definitely similar! I'm a fan of Alex and his work on OpenRouter :)

Some of the main differences would be:
- we focus on performance based routing, optimizing speed, cost and quality [https://youtu.be/ZpY6SIkBosE]
- we enable custom benchmarks on custom prompts, across all models + providers [https://youtu.be/PO4r6ek8U6M]
- we enable custom routers to be trained on custom data [https://youtu.be/9JYqNbIEac0]

Our users often already have LLM apps deployed, and are then looking to take better control of their performance profile, perhaps increasing speed to improve user experience, or improving response quality via clear benchmarking across all models and providers on their particular prompts.

So they are similar, but solving slightly different problems I'd say.
IIRC they also come down from their tree to poop once per week.
And some people do pronounce the word “slow-th” though it’s atypical.
High PE companies arent making tons of money for their shareholders, thats what a high PE means. Theyre making less per dollar of share than the average company
What is the structure of those compensations, and the mechanism for the clawbacks? Equity is taxed when it becomes the full, unrestricted property of the employee, so depending on the structure these threatened clawbacks could have either (1) been very illegal [essentially theft], or (2) could have had drastic and very bad tax consequences for all employees, current and former.

I'm not surprised that they're rapidly backpedaling.
This looks more targeted to bossware than actual users. "Recall" as far as I can tell will be relevant when you combine across a dataset in your organisation and identify common patterns, outliers etc. or train the AI to "do what you are doing".
Besides the superficial syntax, those are some differences pointed out by (common) lispers: https://gist.github.com/vindarel/3484a4bcc944a5be143e74bfae1...
You need to “get it” because it’s really important.

We’re all in here arguing about PE ratios of tech companies reaching 100x. Is that too much? Who knows. For the best tech company in the world? What is the limit?

But for other companies like Tesla, their PE was once 1000x. That’s crazy town.

PE is the first number you should use for comparing two stocks to determine value vs risk.
AI is used to translate news stories already. There is a news site in Poland called onet.pl. They use AI to translate stories from Politico and other foreign sources into Polish. The AI they are using cannot translate correctly from English (a non-gendered language) into Polish (a gendered language) and will often swap gender mid-translation, e.g. it will add words like "he said" while citing what a woman said. You can figure out what was meant if it is a story about one person, but when two or more are being quoted the translation turns into a mess with the reader unable to figure out who said what. The AI also makes grammar errors and throws in random words for a good measure. This automated garbage is then hoovered up by search engines and used for training models.
Exactly, few kilobytes here in there on your activities will not be felt on your end, all while building a profile on you. Fun stuff.
I get irritated that every post here recently about a wild bird virus (H5N1) entering mammal populations, has to feature a holy diatribe about the evils of factory farming.

To be clear, this is a wild avian virus that jumped the species barrier to numerous mammals in the wild now, including marine mammals, with no relationship ever to farming practices.

Yes, factory farming is gross and dangerous and a disease vector. Currently, though, it is likely the only vector through which this virus is being monitored for a potential further jump to humans.

The vegan argument that keeps cropping up here is not much more than a "tisk tisk, you deserve horrors because... (X)". In each of these posts you could replace farming practices with overpopulation, spread of humans into wildlife populations, global warming, overuse of antivirals/antibiotics, ventilation systems, air travel, large religious gatherings, or people not wearing masks all day every day.

My point is just that responding to a post about a virus jumping species by writing a public service announcement implying that people have brought this upon themselves because of your pet cause "X" is basically the HN equivalent of the guy with the sandwich board saying REPENT THE END IS NEAR.
Yeah and that's incredibly dumb.
Caps Lock is Cruise Control for Cool, right? ;o)
Who's talking about "getting upset"? Elon Musk has done a lot of things in his life that slot him into the "bad person, do not like, do not support" category. That's just called forming an opinion. I'm not playing darts with his photograph. I'd prefer to hear as little about or from him as possible, frankly.
As as an Australian the most interesting thing here is how unfamiliar the US market is with split systems. Here they are absolutely standard, except for older homes that use gas ducted heating, and fancy new homes that use underfloor hydronic heating.

We just had some installed. Sure would be nice if we had pretty options like Quilt but...no.

The integrated light seems very sensible.
There is no single program. It has always been a shell script that runs multiple programs.

At present, a routine search looks like this:

echo search terms|1.sh > 1.htm
links 1.htm

links is 1.4 MiB static binary.

The programs used in 1.sh are as follows. All are static binaries.

68K nc

744K busybox (sed)

44K yy025

44K yy030

44K yy032

40K yy044

44K yy045

40K yy073

168K yy084

yy programs are just dumb filters I write that process input from stdin and output formatted text, fast, with low memory usage.

A localhost-bound, forward proxy is also used. This can be up to 9 MiB static binary if I use the latest OpenSSL. Size can be significantly reduced by using alternative TLS libraries.

1.sh currently supports about 40 different search engines.
It's also used to make corn chips, corn-meal, and the sweetener in everything Americans consume.
Wells Fargo clawed back from the CEO (and a couple others if I remember) over the fake account scandals.
Seems to pre-date semi-intelligent AI agents: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
I have seen local distributors add stickers on the keys. The layout is a little bit different but it's not so bad.
Sometimes I scroll down to read a few comments and then just close the entire video out of disgust. Killing comments is a godsend.
Agree 100%, something tells me A) he really didn't know B) it's still scuzzy.

I'm taking a mental note to remember why mom always said to read e v e r y word before you sign.

I should have learned this at a younger age, somehow ended up 50/50 in an LLC I always assumed was going to be 70/30. Cost a lotttt of time and energy, essentially let them hold the company hostage for $60K later, after some really strange accounting problems were discovered. (my heart says they didn't take money, but they were distracted and/or incompetent)
From my perspective it’s post-pandemic behavior, but I’m just one set of eyeballs.

Inflation inertia seems reasonable but this is back of the envelope math most businesses do as a matter of course.
I think quite a bit of this is that if you’re not in the out group, being in an autocracy would feel like it has a lot of benefits with few drawbacks. About a decade ago I was speaking to a man in Haiti who lamented the fall of the Duvalier and Aristide regimes. From his perspective (since he nor his family members were targets) it was stable versus what had come since via democracy such as the UN “peacekeeping” forces (and it’s obviously gotten much worse since then). At one point he said “Yes people died but at least they picked up the trash.”

None of this is an endorsement on my part. It seems clear to me that democracies are better than autocracies, but there are appealing parts of autocracies if you are willing to turn a blind eye to the atrocities.
Microsoft Edge Will Translate Videos in Real Time with AI
Parent and those quotes from the article aren't talking about employment letters. They're talking about incorporation/equity documents.
I find it hard to believe that Sam didn’t know about something that draconian in something so sensitive as NDAs that affects to equity.

He’s not exactly new to this whole startup thing and getting equity right is not a small part of that
You ain't seen nothin' yet...
sounds like a green field project...you can make it whichever way you want, choose your preferences and go with that...what skillset/experience you want to acquire, the available current/future human knowledge pool, technical considerations
LLM cares not whether something is said or whether the action is described.

No doubt, openai is as vacuous as their product is effect. GIGO.
Intels roadmap isnt so bad either. Its just about whether they can deliver
> The vast majority of terminals will send the same sequences.

Not for function keys in particular not for the modifiers. Just take a look at the output of 'infocmp' between your favorite terminal and your favorite terminal with tmux running in it or even just a different terminal itself.

Another issue is knowing capabilities, total number of colors, allowed attributes, default state of attributes, allowed actions when certain attributes are enabled or disabled.

There's about half of the definitions which are common across almost all modern terminals, and the other half are unique and describe unique implementation details of the emulator.
I'm curious about this too. You'll have to pry i3 away from my cold dead hands.
It's up there, but for the greatest, also hard to beat vaccines and a couple others.
What about the brands that use Taiwanese ODM manufacturers like Foxconn? I think Asus is one of them. Or Samsung made in Korea.
Thank you for weighing in, John Nagle!

I understand that constraint, and it seems reasonable - but in that case, why not use a length prefix? That should be even more efficient than having to scan for a line containing a single period and nothing else.
It's not a core feature for their current user base, apparently. I think they care about it more than their users do. They won't be able to implement it at all if they don't have any users.
DACs don't seem to have that problem.
Well, it would be "slowth"...

Which makes me think: i am surprised that is not an excessively used term in the startup / brotrepreneur world...
The title of this book is a really funny but also very sad bit of Torment Nexus-ing (Brave New World)
> Vector search is almost never the winner relative to full text.

Full text search is certainly the winner in the time dimension, but can it compete in quality? Presumably which method is likely to provide relevant results depends greatly on the query. Invoking LLMs to pre-process the query and select a retrieval method is going to be quite expensive compared to each of the search methods.
It’s not easy to get out of an abusive relationship
"don't use the STL if it allocates memory" is pretty aggressive change, especially compared to "some templates are okay"

Gimme std::vector/map/unordered_map/list. The performance cost is pretty miniscule to not have to worry about which dependency is better. The debuggabilty of those classes is kinda nasty tho.
I would also add scale matters.

Some minor % of the population doing what they want? Eh, who cares, thats called freedom.

A large chunk of the population having their experience changed in a very important manner by default is a whole other ball game.
Ongoing discussion [0] (189 points, 1 hours ago, 47 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40447626
> It's something many on the left have generally identified as worse from the right wing or alt.right.

It depends a bit by what you mean by left and right, but if you take something like Marxism that was always 100% a propaganda effort created by people who owned newspapers and the pervasiveness of propaganda has been a through line e.g. in the Soviet Union, agitprop etc. A big part of the Marxist theory is that there is no reality, that social experience completely determines everything, and that sort of ideology naturally lends itself to the belief that blankets of bad faith arguments for "good causes" are a positive good.

This sort of thinking was unpopular on the left for many years, but it's become more hip no doubt thanks to countries like Russia and China trying to re-popularize communism in the West.
Firefox has a way of organizing bookmarks on its Android version known as Collections. It works really well and I wish they would bring it to their iOS and desktop versions. Bookmark management needs to evolve.
It would be pretty interesting if certain departments in the government could get direct payments. For example if the last $100 on your taxes you could choose any department to allocate to.
Right, which is why people may prefer Bluesky, which doesn't amplify anyone's takes and lets users decide what they prefer to see.
Obviously it can be used for specific purposes. However this is a universal, omnipotent snapshot film of everything you do which will be readily available for hackers and hostile government officials, and there likely won't be a way to remove it easily if you hate that sort of thing. Probably have to write a script that monitors the files and deletes them, since MS has a knack for restoring things you delete by hand that they want you to keep for their benefit. Or they'll make it core to the system so you can't delete it without breaking the OS
The actual legitimate solution here, but unfortunately politically untenable.
Doesn’t appear that they have injected a sufficient quantity of the word “Google” into this article. I can’t see that it has any bearing on the topic.
Intel literally cant fail because of national security. The government will continuously bail them out which I think is a pretty big advantage, giving them time to figure something out. Theyre cheap as fuck too so tons of upside
You are totally right, but few are buying them up at this point. The future is all MI300x.
Huge discussion 2 days ago [0](1497 points, 1001 comments), related [1](141 points, 191 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40421225

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40414249
> there is already the option to protect DRM content

I never needed to use that option. Still, based on what I read in the documentation about Windows graphics programming, I believe that option is only applicable to video, and is prohibitively complicated to use for a password manager. Read that article https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/medfound/pmp... you can’t even play DRM video from your own process, it requires a special OS component called Protected Media Path, and that process can’t run arbitrary code only components signed by Microsoft which means you can't generate DRM-ed video frames from something else with your own code.