skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for clarification - makes a lot of sense what they state in that docs

> Why you shouldn't use mod_php with the prefork mpm anymore

>

> mod_php is loaded into every httpd process all the time. Even when httpd is serving static/non php content, that memory is in use.

> mod_php is not thread safe and forces you to stick with the prefork mpm (multi process, no threads), which is the slowest possible configuration

I probably very biased here - I silently imply it's a Nginx in front of Apache in 99.9% cases - so serving static files and long-living connections is not a problem with mpm_prefork [for setups and system administration around me].
The Internet was created with the implicit idea that everybody brings their stuff (including news) to the table and then the best one wins. Back then the US/Free World ones were clearly the best.

If you want nobody in your country to read any news procured by China/Russia, this kind of defeats the original idea. You've now built something else entirely - like a glorified teletext or minitel.
I don’t disagree, but my worry is that this approach will be as effective as diet/exercise has been for obesity
Hey now, Ticketmaster will continue to fuck us too!
There is a certain irony that after the application servers bashing phase, a decade later everyone is doing their own version.
If a company figured out production ready automation, boots on the ground actually being replaced with prompts on the ground, they would probably trade at a P/E well over 100.
Nice find!

This turns out to be quite an interesting rabbit hole.

It's definitely earlier than I would have guessed regardless.
my language skills and I have been profiting off of it ever since
Those are some very big claims with respect to performance. Has anyone outside of the author been able to reproduce the claims, considering you need to pay 100k/month just to do it?

I also wonder if the commercial version has anti-benchmark clauses like some database vendors. I've always seen claims that K is much faster than anything else out there, but I've never seen an actual independent benchmark with numbers.

Edit: according to https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/implementation/kclaims.html, commercial licenses do indeed come with anti-benchmark clauses, which makes it very hard to take the one in this post at face value.
AI is still massively underhyped.

Disregard the occasional atmosphere journalism piece.

Even with only current tech (GPT-4o and less) we still haven't exploited 0.01% of the possibilities to create value. People are still learning how to use it and how to identify and execute on opportunities.
This article deals with the ginormous models being trained and run in places like meta or openai - but the real AI revolution is a mix of things and we've only barely scraped the surface of what we could do with this technology.

I say this not because the next ChatGPT will be incredible (which it might be) but because it's actually the open source community which amazes me with what has already been built, and runs locally on consumer hardware.

Criticism on the massive cloud models which are expensive to run - is not wrong, for now. But it also used to take an entire room with thousands and thousands of costly vacuum tubes to be able to calculate 2+2.

My point is hardware will get better, more efficient and more suitable for AI superficially, just as software will improve and optimize.

I bet we'll be able to run bigger and bigger models for lower costs in the long term - but even if running SOA models will remain a premium, the local models still provide incredible value and that's where a lot of the revolution will (and already does) come from.
I bought one of these as well, they're really nice and you can add a SATA 2.5" SSD in addition to the M.2 NvME SSD.
This level of certainty is a bit frightening. We know what to do? These are complex issues with many trade offs and unintended consequences.
Most people I know who actually learn an array language like k or j usually grow to appreciate the expressiveness and cleverness of these languages. Typically, people have your reaction who have only looked at it and tried it very briefly. I'm surprised. Why did you have to learn it? Where?
Whitney is famous for writing code like this, it's been his coding style for decades.

For example, he wrote an early J interpreter this way in 1989. There's also a buddy allocator he wrote at Morgan Stanley that's only about 10 lines of C code.

https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/Incunabulum

https://github.com/tavmem/buddy/blob/master/a/b.c
Crucially it will tend to find the simplest such representation that still solves the problem. This is why ultimately the model is only sufficient to solve problems that it was trained to solve.

Simplest in terms of optimization, by the way.
In other words...Once in a while a new generation of software developers champions frameworks that not only repeat historical mistakes, but also systematically dismiss the proven wisdom of older developers. Must be that experience ages out like old code...
Anything that threatens people's livelihood is going to be met with great hostility and disbelief.
You could keep the MIT license but keep changing the interfaces for plugins with which they compete to create friction in maintenance and drive to Redpanda proprietary.
No. Rather I think that the diversity is very valuable. Even if Tiktok by itself is worse, it makes the overall mix better.

A non-American buyer could also be a solution, again from my perspective.

There is a very striking example that happened recently. The Israel-Palestine war. What did Tiktok and Reddit do? Tiktok lets people see the atrocities being commited. Reddit on the other hand decided to go full Islamophobic. I literally saw a comment on reddit just now saying we need 500 terrorists shooting immigrants in my country. This would never have been allowed before, but they allow it now.

It's a blatant example of reddit manipulating the debate to achieve foreign policy objectives at the expense of my country.

And now America is using strong-arm tactics to forcefully acquire Tiktok, expanding the control.
So like making presentations? Composing poems? Writing novellas/novels? Technical articles?
There is a stark difference between "fake news" and "difference of opinion that I don't agree with".

"fake news" typically amounts to false rumors, amplifying unprovable/unsubstantiated claims. That's what needs to stop, and what is greatly damaging discourse.

I would be delighted to read about opposing opinions, provided they are presented + supported by provable facts.
Looks like the groundwork is being laid to dispute the results of the upcoming US presidential election if the wrong person gets elected.
https://www.plushcap.com/ brings in blog posts from tech startups, most of which offer dev platforms. Created by Twolio devrel who led the community writing program Twilio voices.
Archaeologist tool, you'll want to fine tune it for yourself.

https://readcoop.eu/transkribus/
> Researchers are also warning that it’s part of a larger ongoing hack involving a cloud service provider called Snowflake which is used by many large firms to store data in the cloud.

Now that’s interesting. Anyone know how they’re related?
> Web 1.0 will never again be profitable

.. if not already profitable due to historical network effects, like https://craigslist.org which was ~$10M annual revenue per employee, north of $500M/year total.
> I don't understand what someone not already familiar with the project is supposed to take away from this.

This isn‘t an advocacy piece directed at the general public. You‘re not his audience.

Fortunately, there is secondary commentary, like this thread, so we can get an idea what this is about.
Don't ignore the rest. To save you effort, I'm a totally new person. Don't just apologize. You didn't acknowledge completely valid points.

Your misrepresentation deserves attention as well. Weasel arguments like this are so annoying to observe.

'Be the whole bitch.' I want you to realize you were on shit ground to begin with. The wrong person getting your ire is a distraction.

You went off on the slightest bit of hyperbole. The claim wasn't wrong, people were forced by the government and their employers to comply.

If you didn't want to suddenly risk your life being turned over, you had to participate in a grand social experiment. Individual risk assessment be damned.

Every reader deserves an apology for you, and now, me.

I'll close with an anecdote, why I care so much. I'm the un-monitored control group. I had absolutely no risk to the disease. Young, able bodied, living/working remotely in the woods for years.

Yet, to maintain employment and frankly, my standard of living, I had to endure additional risk. Because someone else has risk? How did this help?
Exactly, Twitter tends to be liberal and so their community responses also tend to be liberal.
Yeah exactly my point. But it seems like some people are using dense K/J/APL code in production which is just mad.
Show HN: I've built a Twitter/X thread maker and scheduler
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This is a new implementation not related to Q (same main author of course though).
We live in a reductionist world. that's not going to change. The other commenter is right, the only way out is better tooling.

I can't tell the fake people from the real ones anymore, much less accurately judge information quality. That's the cesspool that ad-driven internet created and here we are, no exit in sight.

I've worked with many organizations in crisis and on the way out. There comes a time that everybody knows they're in the endgame, but they march on anyway. People's actions become a bit like those in a Potemkin Village. The end days of the Soviet Union was like that.

To me, the tools we're going to need to go forward have frack-all to do with coding. Small trust groups of real people, incremental sharing, overlapping interests and groups, devices that do one and only one things at a time (so that you and your social group can help you monitor your usage to optimize). We know these things work for humans. We've been doing them thousands of years.

Probably not a popular thing to say on HN, but these are the tools we need to move forward as a species. Tech can certainly help, but it can never even come close to replacing the shared social/evolutionary experience we all have baked in.

I'm positive long-term about tech and progress, but just like any other massive change in tooling, we need to cut out the bullshit and re-adapt social norms. We've done this kind of thing many times before and hopefully we'll continue to do so.
How bad? My college (8 diopters) was jealous of my "mild" 4 diopters of correction.
Ok. Can we make glasses that 1. move my screen to virtual infinity, and 2. enlarge the screen in my FOV?
>I would be delighted to read about opposing opinions, provided they are presented + supported by provable facts.

Opinion

a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.
Chamath was talking about this near the end of the All In Podcast released yesterday. He was talking about development and energy cost vs. revenue and even more importantly profit.

My gut feeling is that small large language models and ever decreasing model size and computational resource use on edge devices will lead to great outcomes in a few years, but that is only my hunch.

Right now, I get the most use out of pipelined systems like Perplexity that use an LLM to understand what you want and produce search terms, do the search and set up a temporary RAG type system with search results, identify the most useful retrieved text, and then feed this into another LLM that formats and presents a report that contains links back to source material. I find this very useful, and incidentally makes the Internet “fun” again.

Also right now, my favorite play activity is writing a lot of code (Python, Racket, Common Lisp) to do small tasks using APIs fronting LLMs (mostly running locally with Ollama).
Nice article about full scale testing setups .. not about USAF equivilants of Jurgis Kairys ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz5AcbaJzLo )
We’re not talking about differing views but about flat lies.

It’s basically a DDOS attack. It takes seconds especially with AI to generate bullshit but hours to debunk it.

I certainly haven’t thought of a way to address that imbalance.
A lot of livelihoods are currently tied up in AI investments. We should think twice about spreading such news.
> Reads like beginning of a new fad just like keto diet.

It won't be, ketone supplements are too expensive for that.

> My idea is that sugar in quantities we ingest nowadays damages all and makes more problems

This is nonsense. Sugar is an easily accessed fuel that your body can readily use for a variety of activities.
Interesting line of work, but as (too?) often on LessWrong, there is no literature review or even a related work section to go back to seminal research or dig deeper into the topic. It might just be me, but I find this really frustrating when I'm unable to hop references to skim a field.

Does anyone have cool links or references to share about related work?
Netlify for front-end and codehooks.io for the backend.
Have they released v7 yet? When I started my PhD it they announced it, and I looked forward towards the consistency between certain parts of the software they would introduce (some mismatches really dont make sense and are clearly organic) and now I'm already 2 years past my graduation.
yes, the projection is possibly responsible for it looking like a simplex/triangle since it's a probability distribution over 3 states.

another individual seem to have asked that same question in the comment section of that article and they wrote another article with the author after a lot of back and forth:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mBw7nc4ipdyeeEpWs/why-would-...
I can see the use of image-gen integrated into photoshop and krita. Codepilot and other code specific llms have not been useful at all.

That said I do find stuff like ChatGPT and Gemini useful enough to always be running a client I can send prompts to. It works great as a guide for things you know nothing about and can guide you on what resources to actually look for when you do actually care about having correct information.

I can see it being useful for things like self study and writing. For writing not in the same sense as copilot, I think it will be equally useless for anyone that is doing anything serious but it can help in exploration.

To me we have already reached the peak of what this type of 'AI' can do. Don't expect things to get much better. My mind is not going wild with the possibilities. Useful yes, revolutionary? no.
Try J or APL, K, BQN, or April, and be prepared to rethink how you implement solutions to problems you've tackled in other PLs. I am an array language user and fan. I have been playing with April and I use J regularly at home and sometimes for work when I can.

From the April github site: "April compiles a subset of the APL programming language into Common Lisp. Leveraging Lisp's powerful macros and numeric processing faculties, it brings APL's expressive potential to bear for Lisp developers. Replace hundreds of lines of number-crunching code with a single line of APL."

https://github.com/phantomics/april
Sadly this isn't the norm.

Imho software size should reflect complexity of the problem domain. Not arbitrary metrics like say, the capabilities of a system executing it.

So "Hello World!" should weigh in at mere bytes. Not KBs or even MBs.
v6.32
Compounding matters is the fact that it has become really easy to roll out half baked shit at ridiculous scales.

The marketing mega machine then uses the Scale to pretend its not half baked shit - "hey man just look at how many people are using it".
I guess in those days nationality/ ethnicity/ religion was an important factor.

Snark: fascism grew in the 1920's, similar in the 2020's.
Even with perfect hindsight the winner was often overvalued in the past.
> AFAIK Windows NT was mainly influenced by VMS (which Dave Cutler worked on before NT).

It had three parents: OS/2, DOS and VMS. However, MS could use code from 2 of them but not from VMS. I've blogged about this more than once:

https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/67492.html

https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/54464.html

> The DOS-isms were mainly coming in via the Win95 side

Nope. Not true, and you have the timeline backwards.

NT was released in 1993, 2 years before Win95, and only the 2nd version of NT, 3.5, supported VFAT long file names.

NT did not support Win95B's FAT32 until its 5th release, Windows 2000.

> backward compatibility reasons, but I bet everybody on the NT team hated those requirements

No, I don't think so. NT could be installed on top of DOS, via the WINNT.EXE setup program. (Something I urged in OS/2 communities, but they didn't understand the need or usefulness.)

https://networkencyclopedia.com/winnt-exe/

NT could dual-boot with DOS, even in the same partition in early versions. It could also dual-boot with Win9x.

This level of interop was hugely important and useful and really helped the new OS gain adoption. It was not some reluctant bolt-on.

> a good urban legend

No, it isn't. It's a horrid calumny against a good and brilliant man.

> not much different from "Gary Kildall was not interested".

Also utter nonsense.

> Do you have any first-person accounts that paint a different picture?

TL;DR version.

Dr Kildall's wife, Barbara McEwen, was DR's lawyer. She negotiated with clients and suppliers, not the CEO who was a programmer.

IBM wanted an NDA which DR was unwilling to do. She said no. Remember DR was the industry giant in microcomputer OSes at this time, and IBM didn't have an offering at all.

Kildall was flying to visit an important client; this wasn't some accidental joyride.

This lie about Kildall literally drove him to drink and his early death. Stop repeating it. It's not funny or clever. It's an evil, vindictive lie.

Tom Rolander was the other passenger in the plane. Is his testimony good enough?

Listen to him describe the flight he was on.

https://youtu.be/bLVbSjDq0DE?si=Ig9KksWWiJG3KDFn&t=1025

A much longer interview:

https://www.mercurynews.com/2008/12/18/cassidy-theres-more-t...

Video interview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VREZ6Zx_usc

Transcript:

http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/201...
They're still the wrong tools. "This is categorically untrue" will still be distrusted and ignored by the people it's meant to reach, because they're not looking for truth.

Most social media interactions about status plays, "buy my stuff" grifting, and - most of all - tribal identity politics and affirmations of belonging and identification.

With fake news there's also a fair amount of narcissistic contrarianism.

All of this passed through an online culture optimised for engagement through dopamine hits, rage, fear, and grudge farming, quick-hit entertainment, and other addictive mechanisms.

The real motivation in all of this is emotional self-soothing, not a desire for accurate facts.

So gluing "This isn't true" on any of that won't make a difference, because the problem is structural.

Fake News is a cultural and emotional exploit. It reflects cultural values, and it needs cultural and psychological defences.

Some options include better accountability for mainstream journalism; finding healthier income models that don't rely on addictions and ad tech; teaching media literacy in schools; and generally tidying up online media toxicity at all levels.
> Does that mean you do good by your brain when you do a hard burn exercise once in a while ?

There's a whole bunch of stuff happening in your body post strenuous exercise so it'd be hard to isolate ketones specifically from that.
Packages will still call and use GLIBC - especially those that are cross-platform, because migrating your codebase to support a new ABI is a PITA.

This is a classic example I use when explaining the need for SBOMs and Software Supply Chain Security to non-software C-suite.
Or just take a ketone supplement and eat normal food.
Snopes is part of the problem, not a solution at all
No I don't write entire C programs with single letter variables, because there is no way where "c" is more readable than "cnt" or "count". With the usual exception of "for(int i", x, and y variable inside small scopes.

If I was paid by the hour to write C, then I'd use single letter variables too, but I'm too lazy to do twice the work, when I can make my life simpler.

Simplicity is a virtue, there is nothing interesting about complexity for complexity's sake.

In the words of Terry Davis: https://youtu.be/k0qmkQGqpM8?si=larQzV0Ngdba6vQI
Working with Impromptu or Extempore looks similar. What is the advantage of CL supposed to be in this use case? Apparently it uses the Lisp version of Common Music, which switched to the Scheme S7 interpreter many years ago.
Ye I think this is the underlying problem.

The Man® want us to only read his fake news to be able to get away with whatever they wanna push.

One fundamental precondition for a functional democracy is the right to be wrong, since that is judged arbitrary anyways.

The problem with manipulation stems from algorithmic ad feeds anyways. E.g. chronological 'my friends only' feeds did not have that problem.
I often have 100 tabs open so that I can find things I was looking at again. I regularly browse my browser history to try to find things I saw previously. I often remember seeing something in a chat session somewhere, but can't remember which person/channel/room it was...

Being able to search everything I've seen on my screen would address all of these. I think it would fundamentally change how we interface with computers, if we could do it reliably. Silos between applications can start to break down when you have sufficient intelligence about what's on the screen too, and that's a huge opportunity.
You see this all the time. Need to keep up appearances but the actually implementation is poor.
If somebody becomes a victim of this Ticketmaster fraud then the company should be fully liable. We really need an event such as this to bankrupt a company and for all the C-level suits to be made financially bankrupt too. Let's use the like of Ticketmaster fraud as a starting point to make these companies prevent fraud in the first place, instead they pass the buck to those customers defrauded.
Sure. And I'm allowed to be curious and ask people why they want to. Now stop being difficult, and tell me, why do you use this tool?