skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We use LLMs in dozens of different production applications for critical business flows. They allow for a lot of dynamism in our flows that aren’t amenable to direct quantitative reasoning or structured workflows. Double digit percents of our growth in the last year are entirely due to them. The biggest challenge is tool chain, limits on inference capacity, and developer understanding of the abilities, limits, and techniques for using LLMs effectively.

That sounds like corporate buzzword salad. It doesn't tell much as it stands, not without at least one specific example to ground all those relative statements.
This is what I mean that the article's core argument is a bit hard to follow.
Frustrated with GitHub PR Reviews, So I Built This Extension
Which is why there are so many VPN services out there. Or seedboxes if you are serious about this stuff.
Same, Waterworld is one of my all time favorites!
From my personal experience, growing up, people used the term induced demand in a strictly negative sense to describe road expansion plans. Then I lived in cities as an adult where new metro lines opened. The effect is real! Whole neighborhoods would get much more foot traffic after a new station opens. In this case, most people would describe the induced demand as positive.
Innocuous elements can be arranged into dangerous compounds. To give the simplest example, carbon monoxide.
I've got a list of 200+ things that I've accumulated since 2019 that the world seems to need, or that someone has said that they needed. It's a very raw list with ideas that range from the trivial and unresearched "why doesn't (thing) exist?" through to ideas that I've worked on for some period of time before I've realised that I need to hand it over to someone else and haven't yet met that someone. (My email is in my profile if anyone wants a copy.)

One of the things that has frustrated me is that there are many ideas that are worth pursuing that could make a big difference to the world, but can't be done in a way that is likely to be commercial viable -- and so can't be solved by starting a business.

If I had to provide guidance, I'd say "pursue a niche". Find something small that's obviously wrong and do something about that. You're more likely to have an impact than if you try to tackle some big headline problem. There will always be someone else more qualified and capable of handling that big problem: but there will always be too few people looking at all the small problems of the world -- and in aggregate, the small problems add up to more than any big problem.
A Baseline Scrapscript Compiler
Yeah, I agree. Most built up areas in California are horribly planned!
Signal is primarily used by people sensitive to privacy concerns, so I’m not sure they are misconceptions.

Signal without the privacy obsession has no reason to exist. If you don’t value privacy, it is just a niche, hard to use messenger.
> There is a paragraph expert about it and it's mentioned at start of the video…

So you got told up front? Doesn’t sound very misleading
Hong Kong newspaper runs blank front page ahead of Tiananmen anniversary
perhaps, backups, even encrypted, hosted at Apple or Google doesn't fit the values of Signal and many if not most of their users?
What are the usecases? who will use this in production?
Highlights from "I spent 6 years developing a game in Rust and it just shipped"
You are wrong and right. Wrong because continuous improvement is not about making a vehicle only survive a 3-5 year warranty period. Right because the master of continuous improvement have a 10 year warranty (20000 km, 12500 miles) where I live if you do service at a dealership or authorised service centre and I think this extended warranty influence the decisions about what minimum level of quality the manufacturer will accept.
An education at MIT is hardly free.
Is there an alternative? (I currently only use Signal).

Also something where features work? Since this week my Signal "Something went wrong with you username, it no longer is connected to you. You can try to get a new one"
Hi, Hamel here. I'm one of the co-authors. I'm an independent consultant and not all clients allow me to talk about their work.

However, I have two that do, which I've discussed in the article. These are two production use cases that I have supported (which again, are explicitly mentioned in the article):

1. https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/introducing-query-assistant

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_DMMlDuJB0

Other co-authors have worked on significant bodies of work:

Bryan Bischoff lead the creation of Magic in Hex: https://www.latent.space/p/bryan-bischof

Jason Liu created the most popular OSS libraries for structured data called instructor https://github.com/jxnl/instructor, and works with some of the leading companies in the space like Limitless and Raycast (https://jxnl.co/services/#current-and-past-clients)

Eugene Yan works with LLMs extensively at Amazon and uses that to inform his writing: https://eugeneyan.com/writing/ (However he isn't allowed to share specifics about Amazon)

I believe you might find these worth looking at.
Signal introduced its MobileCoin integration in 2021. It was completely pre-mined, with the majority of coins distributed to its founders and investors. Moxie sold out his reputation with that disingenuous cash grab.

Now, three years later, Telegram is following in Signal's footsteps with another shitty crypto integration. I don't know the details of that one, but I wouldn't be surprised to learn that its another cash grab.
The area of the town is around 43 square miles. The houses are not near the grocery stores.

New England towns used to be very neighborhood centric. Our town used to have 14 schools because everyone had to walk to school. Our schools have been centralized and now require busing.

Walkability used to be a thing but no longer. Off street parking is convenient during snow removal.
Thanks, will look at it.

I actually thought the same: Given e.g. the complex structures published in ACM papers, it would be a surprise if MultiArrayQueue would be a completely new discovery.

We are not in the pioneer years of 1960's anymore (unfortunately :-))
No, they just raise the entry level to 16 gigs (or whatever) and charge the $200 to upgrade it to 32.

As you correctly point out, their margins on RAM are quite high.
I'm reminded of the VR furries pushing forwards computer accessibility tech: https://x.com/Neon_woof/status/1746993539160920144
Sorry but hard disagree on this one. This increasingly popular assumption that users are clueless cavemen is very condescending. Help the user self diagnose instead.

WHY can’t it be saved?

Is the internet not connected? Check your WiFi.

Is the server full? Talk to admin.

Is the message deleted by another user? Talk to your team about ways of working?

Is it an internal application error? Tough luck, maybe the error code can be googled at least.

This does not mean you need to dump a stack trace in the users face, the examples above can still be presented briefly. If that’s too much effort to implement, consider an expandable details section.

The amount of applications lately where I had to open the verbose developer logs only to find silly user fixable errors is astonishing. Last one was simply credentials that had expired.

To anyone who thinks you are giving the users a magical experience, free from technicalities, by hiding root causes behind a facade of abstract, please think again. You are just frustrating the users even more, by making errors unpredictable.
The Hat and the Spectre
Epic has had a significant influence on Madison's economy but I'm pretty sure hosting one of the country's larger universities and state government have played a greater role in its growth than any private investments. It's Madison's consequently vibrant culture that makes its housing competitive.
Just let Signal operate via Satellites and you are fine: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weltraumtheorie
how much suffering did she have to put people through around her for so many years?
Implementing Queue would mean also implementing Collection and Iterable, and this would bring pains and ugliness, especially with the concurrent code.

Look e.g. at the disclaimers at the size method of java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentLinkedQueue.
I think this is an example of the "answering machine paradox," which philosophers have been writing about since the 1970's.

https://philpapers.org/rec/SIDTAM

> According to an intuitive semantics for 'I,' 'here' and 'now,' 'I am not here now' should always be false when uttered. But occurrences of 'I am not here now' on an answering machine seem to be true (when the speaker is not home).

(If you're interested, you can google for "answering machine paradox" for more takes on it.)
Just use WhatsApp then…
I did that with duron 600->900mhz, but it was so long ago that I don't remember exact date
I'm a Gen-Xer. I teach at a university. My classes are almost entirely white males.

But I do admit my anecdotal experience might not be representative.
Sewer, water, and electricity hookups are cheap to maintain and are on the burden of the home owner to repair. The initial hookups and construction are absolutely not covered by taxes (this is one of the significant costs you will find out when you build on a plot).

Street pavement is the only thing you mentioned that does cost the tax base, but how much the poor dense area subsidizes the suburbs is completely dependent on the split of funds. In many of the suburban sprawl regions of the western US, the dense urban city (e.g. San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, LA) has a small jurisdiction and the suburbs are in completely different legal cities with their own road budgets.

>cities, poorer and denser neighborhoods are subsidizing the richer suburbs, tax-wise.

Definitely not well established. What you might be thinking of is poor dense neighborhoods subsidizing rural areas that depend heavily on federal or state grants for pretty much all of their infrastructure.
Atlanta is barely a city compared to New York or Tokyo. New York City is 8 times denser. Tokyo is even denser if you're just counting the special wards, which is what most people think of as Tokyo. You need trains to alleviate the traffic unless if you want to end up with worse traffic than LA.
Removing anything in non-blocking structures is problematic, see e.g. the referenced lecture of Professor Scott.

You never know how many concurrent threads still "are" on the place you wish to remove.

You would have to deal with stuff like hazard pointers, limbo lists and the like.

Better to keep the small arrays there.
If you have suggestions for compiler optimizations, I'm all ears! Currently thinking SSA but I maybe could be convinced to try CPS. Wondering if either inherently limits different classes of optimizations
What do you mean, "hard to use"?
Does anyone have any real studies about whether users will "have their heads explode" when presented with technical language? Apple and Microsoft did user studies for this sort of thing in the 80s and 90s, right? Has anyone done similar in the 00s, 10s, and 20s?
I also can't speak for DEI everywhere, but at our school, the focus of DEI is entirely on hiring the most qualified person for the job.
If you don't engage in high risk activities, you are almost certainly not going to break your leg. It's common knowledge that the young healthy folks who don't go adrenaline-chasing are subsidizing healthcare for everyone else. If you fit into that group, you're getting fleeced by everyone else your insurance company underwrites.

Personally, I've been on Medi-Cal for years. I've never taken a cent from it, nor have I paid a cent into it (not counting the taxes I pay). It's great. I feel bad for all the folks that haven't figured it out yet.
https://github.com/slskd/slskd/ is another nice client that runs as a daemon, and hopefully one day it will integrate with lidarr <https://github.com/Lidarr/Lidarr/issues/444> :fingerscrossed:
I think it comes down to relatively unexciting use cases that have a high business impact (process automation, RPA, data analysis), not fancy chatbots or generative art.

For example, we focused on the boring and hard task of web data extraction.

Traditional web scraping is labor-intensive, error-prone, and requires constant updates to handle website changes. It's repetitive and tedious, but couldn't be automated due to the high data diversity and many edge cases. This required a combination of rule-based tools, developers, and constant maintenance.

We're now using LLMs to generate web scrapers and data transformation steps on the fly that adapt to website changes, automating the full process end-to-end.
Because it is hard to install php without LAMP.
"Give me the man, and I will give you the case against him".

First said by a Soviet-era-someone, perhaps Stalin himself, WRT to his domestic adversaries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Give_me_the_man_and_I_will_giv...

So incredibly dangerous.
Good. Stick to your position. No irony or sarcasm, there is only one reason to use signal and these rules undermine it's integrity and purpose.
Not being able to back up app data to another device that I own because its encrypted with a hardware-tied key that I can't access is a terrible design that plagues modern mobile devices. It's my device; I should be able to access any data on it.

There are plenty of viable security models where the app data could be securely protected from Apple or Google by using a key that I own and can use on other devices.
It’s a natural progression where technology has improved production increases. However since the workers of the world have a very limited share of the ownership of the means of production, they don’t get anything from this increase in production output.
Got it I see where you're coming from now, Its much more balanced than I thought previously.
My Duron 600 ran Windows 98 SE at 950mhz, on an Abit motherboard. What ever happened to Abit? Miss those mad geniuses.
I am also yet to ever find a reasonable explanation for why adding HTML classes a la tailwind is ever bad for the end user. I can see the argument for the DX suffering cause you have a ton of classes in one long line and that can make things a bit unreadable but why does the user or the browser care how many classes there are? The browser has optimised workflows to bunch up all the styles in all those classes to render the elements and all more classes would mean is a few extra bytes to download
Same! Dad and I did this a few times, got around having to upgrade to get more performance when we could still get much more out of the current system.
Something like 1/3rd of Google searches have never been asked before. Maybe something similar could be said of Stack Overflow questions? There could still be quite a need for human expertise. Tbh, without significant coaxing, LLMs tend to tailor their replies as if they were responding to the 'average' user - there could still be a lot of value for two 'non-average' users engaging in conversation.
That Tweet links to this [1] description which, in glancing at the text, seems to indeed be accurate:

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According to the latest draft regulation dated 28 May (Council document 9093/24), which is presented as “upload moderation”, users of apps and services with chat functions are to be asked whether they accept the indiscriminate and error-prone scanning and possibly reporting of their privately shared images, photos and videos. Previously unknown images and videos are also to be scrutinised using “artificial intelligence” technology. If a user refuses the scanning, they would be blocked from sending or receiving images, photos, videos and links (Article 10). End-to-end encrypted services such as Whatsapp or Signal would have to implement the automated searches “prior to transmission” of a message (so-called client-side scanning, Article 10a). The initially proposed scanning of text messages for indications of grooming, which is hardly being used to date, is to be scrapped, as is the scanning of voice communication, which has never been done before. Probably as a concession to France, the chats of employees of security authorities and the military are also to be exempted from chat control.

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Strange times we live in. Entertaining, but strange.

[1] - https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/majority-for-chat-control-p...
Hello, it’s Bryan, an author on this piece.

I’d you’re interested in using one of the LLM-applications I have in prod, check out https://hex.tech/product/magic-ai/ It has a free limit every month to give it a try and see how you like it. If you have feedback after using it, we’re always very interested to hear from users.
Thanks ohmy! Now it makes total sense thanks to you :)
All of it thanks to the Heir-less Mr and Mrs Bamberger of Department store fame and fortune...
I'd argue the pandemic rural flight exemplified precisely how much everyone values the vibrance and density of cities: when quarantine put a pause on the vibrance and nullified employment proximity, everyone had only affordability to select for. And when the vibrance returned, so did the residents. https://ncrc.org/the-washington-post-americans-are-returning...
the same type of optimism will make itself known during periods of strong mathematical culture and high rates of progress

Would you characterize present time as one of such periods? I view current AI research as a branch of math, and the progress is rapid. Would you agree?
I happen to trust Microsoft software more than FOSS en-masse. I think Microsoft FOSS software is more trustworthy than either, for instance I have high confidence in VS Code as an editor. It helps that I've read through most of it's code and authored a good chunk of it as well.
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I complimented the OP and code. Downvoted? What's the beef here?
OpenAI has publicly said they’ve started building GPT5.

https://openai.com/index/openai-board-forms-safety-and-secur...
Mr.Beast is now the most subscribed YouTube channel, passing T-series.
Mobilecoin doesn’t use mining

Their stated design goal was to create an actual usable payments system; not a speculative asset .

Edit : Urrgh got that wrong . Fixed distribution of coins and yes the founders control most of them
It's doesn't matter if it's anonymous. Some users simply don't want you to keep any record of their activities.
Maybe he doesn't want Meta/government having a full map of all his contacts and messaging metadata?
They had financial problems and a class action lawsuit against them in early 2000s. The company was sold and then eventually shutdown or folded into the parent.
One solution would be a large fleet of cheap electric self-driving taxis. With current pace of AI development, that could be just 10-20 years away.
But before Napster, artists could sell more records and had a better chance of getting out of the hole with the record company.

After Napster, not so much. And again, record companies won't touch your work if it's already out there on the internet.

I used to work with people who tried to make it in the Boston music scene. They say it was great in the 90s because the scene was thriving. Then file sharing happened, killed the scene, and made it more difficult for musicians to make a living.
Love the joke, but what is a prime number tree?
A quote from a Soviet-era-someone, perhaps Stalin himself.

With a compromised judicial process, there are ways to convict any person.
Only slightly disappointed that this isn't about a Forth dialect called 'Spring Forth'. Great cartoon.
How would you build a controllable tentacle? Here they control the thumb with two toes. An octopus tentacle would be way more complicated. Maybe with a Neuralink
> ...partly because there isn't a whole lot of benefit to his approach if you're just doing things in 2D and 3D— in those cases, the alternative approaches are in a sense simpler and more straightforward

This is the crux: Grassmann had discovered and explored several mountain passes while others had not yet settled the valleys which they connected? Even if he hadn't been an outsider, he seems to have been (from a career standpoint) "too early".

(compare https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40312021 )
That sort of feature is dangerous, and very likely to cause at least one vulnerability. If I were running signal, I would be very reluctant to, and careful in implementing it.
Fortunately, the vast majority of applications are just text and images and do not suffer from these limitations. For that vast majority, htmx is likely a good solution

There is a lot to unpack here so let’s go step by step. To display text and images using pure vanilla html in an app is doable, no doubt, but let’s be honest, a little simplistic when we want the real thing - Simplicity

But we are in luck! Not only are text and images the vast majority of content on the internet, they also come without the limitations of the other things on the internet.

And this is where htmx, which hits that simplicity sweet spot we are aiming for comes into play.

No matter what language you want to tack on, it has your back and is likely the premier as good as it gets solution for this vast majority.

And guess what, people will be able to search for the text and images on your site so you just have to pop up a little “what did you find on my site?” Form field along the way to start a positive feedback loop, build a community and ultimately head for IPO of course.
Experts weren’t the bottleneck on expert systems it was the systems weren’t particularly adaptive, were too rigid, weren’t able to make abductive conclusions, and the user interfaces were way too difficult in situ. LLMs actually tackle quite a lot of these issues FWIW but I wouldn’t look at them as a replacement for expert systems. Instead they’re probably what will make them useful by providing a natural human interface and a way of providing an abductive “reasoning” ability ontop of traditional expert systems.
I recommend https://whispermemos.com
Local by default would have been a much better choice. The entirety of my code looks like local this local that. In all my years of Lua I have only found 1 reason to use a global variable: in Love2D when loading a texture, a local variable will go out of scope and get garbage collected, resulting in a black texture, but a global variable will not. Maybe it's even been fixed by now, as that was years ago.
That made me smile. As somebody who lost my dad over a decade ago, I can still really appreciate messages like that. A genre unto itself.
Hello, it’s Bryan, an author on this piece.

I’d you’re interested in using one of the LLM-applications I have in prod, check out https://hex.tech/product/magic-ai/ It has a free limit every month to give it a try and see how you like it. If you have feedback after using it, we’re always very interested to hear from users.

As far as fine-tuning in particular, our consensus is that there are easier options first. I personally have fine-tuned gpt models since 2022; here’s a silly post I wrote about it on gpt 2: https://wandb.ai/wandb/fc-bot/reports/Accelerating-ML-Conten...
I sort of hope we get a tech investment fueled WPA that simply pays skilled writers to write, and I hope they allow the body of work to be released by the authors to the public when there’s something of general value written. A wonderful irony of the training and development of superior language models could be the creation of a superior corpus of human authored work.
Which is still absolutely nothing compared to something like youtube’s servers, which is absolutely nothing compared to something like the food industry.

Like, if a couple of millions of people can use chatgpt in the manner they do today, would it matter if a house’s yearly energy budget was used up for that? Or 10?
When we moved into our current house it's the first time I'd slept in a room with roller shutters. The difference they make to a good night's sleep (for me at least) is huge.