skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the vast majority of energy infrastructure in china was built in the last 20 years. actually that was true in the usa in 01962 and 01972 as well. the world is changing much faster now than it was in 01936, when all we had to deal with was the rise of fascism, the end of the millennia-long gold standard, history's deepest recession, communist revolutions around the world, radical overhaul of the economic system in the united states, and the rapid adoption of automobiles and electricity. you probably think i'm being sarcastic but i'm not

consider that 20 years ago photovoltaic was too expensive to be a viable alternative to nuclear and fossil fuels, youtube didn't exist (and your isp would often shut down your account if you posted a video on your web page), russia and china were friendly to the usa, friendster and orkut were the hot social networks (because you had to be at harvard to get a facebook account), javascript was too slow for most apps so demanding web apps used flash, gmail was only available inside google (so email was still really distributed), most people in the usa didn't have cellphones, cameraphones were new, the iphone hadn't come out, consequently most people who owned computers had root, orrin hatch was trying to ban the ipod, fast company demanded that you fax them a permission form before linking to their website, most people thought the nsa's worldwide dragnet surveillance was a myth, bitcoin didn't exist and was considered probably impossible, ycombinator didn't exist, neural networks were an interesting failed approach in ai history books, it was the year of desktop linux for the seventh year in a row (but there was no android), the only global pandemic in living memory was aids, the leading semiconductor fabs were in the usa and israel rather than taiwan, one laptop per child hadn't yet made it credible that internet-access computers would be cheap enough even for children in poor countries (who now mostly have one in their pockets), nasa still monopolized crewed spaceflight in the usa (if we don't count spaceshipone; carmack's x-prize competitor went 131 feet high), microphones and cameras in most people's homes reporting to secretive overseas data centers were dystopian fiction, the geforce 6800 yielded 15.6 gigaflops, and led illumination was new.
Yes that’s also true. And it’s already happening.
> That seems exceedingly unlikely. When I'm shopping for a new vendor I have no idea who I'll use until I talk to a few to see how the offerings vary and which ones fit my budget.

Imagine you're an experienced user of AWS, you know their prices fit your budget, and you know experienced people are easy to hire.

But before signing that multi-million-dollar purchase order, your boss asks you to get a quote from Oracle Cloud.

Will you get the quote? Yes. Will you select Oracle? Maybe if they're 30-40% cheaper. Will they be? No.
> Potatoes have superior potassium

I see what you did there lol
> Still, that's no excuse to let Kaiser Permanente generate billions tax free.

As a nonprofit, they cannot distribute those profits to shareholders. That's the whole point.

They're obligated to reinvest those profits back into the business, such as by developing new facilities, upgrading older facilities, and so on.

Ironically, if you forcefully revoked the nonprofit status you'd actually open the door for those profits to go to shareholders instead.
>That is to say, it turns out that the core competency of smiling and promising people things that you can't actually deliver is highly transferable.

There's a lot of value in this statement, regardless of how you feel about AI, etc.

We really should fully fund the FTC and anyone else who can help fill the cells in "Thought Leader Jail".
The nature of the Internet is for adults. It should be 18+ and enforced with a universal identity system using an x509 like cert signing system. It is the ethically correct decision to reverse the chaotic entropy that turned the Internet into the predatory, low quality and abusive system it is today.
I used to use Swi-Prolog a lot for their semantic web libraries. I 100% agree that it is a good batteries included open source Prolog.
They needed a major star, so John Landis got him to do it as a favor. He did all his scenes in one day. They offered him either $35,000 or two points (two percent of the film's gross). He took the $35K. The film made over $140 million.
Influenced the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people?

Yet apparently to this day he draws over 200k/yr in salary from Berkeley. I believe they are not entirely funded by tuition/endowments which means California tax payers support him at least in part.
I’ve been using atools for this purpose
The internet is generally a huge boon for many people with disabilities.

If you write code, blog, etc. please do what you can to be compliant with online accommodation. A handicapped person who can use your widget -- say, a blind person -- will be thrilled and loyal. If they can't and are forced to try to go somewhere in person or something because the online option doesn't work, this may be a huge hardship and may outright cut them out of being able to do certain things at all.
Still early in the research, to be sure. Here's the human clinical study:

https://classic.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05449392

Here's Eric Topol's chat with Iwasaki discussing the finding. Topol's blog may well be the best source for Covid research out there:

https://erictopol.substack.com/p/akiko-iwasaki-the-immunolog...
Probably can’t sell a house with people in quite as easily as one without.
That's the point: maybe someone has a personal prompting style that works great with Claude but gives worse results with GPT-4.

They might complain that GPT-4 is rubbish in comparison to Claude, but someone with a different personal prompting style might experience the opposite.
I guess Elliot Gould is hotter now.
And yet religious freedom begat liberalism, not the other way around
I half-agree with the above, which is that loser-pays is a good system and it's necessary to stop enabling companies.

The problem with your theory is that market forces incentivize firms to take action that reduce everyone's profits/benefits so long as the action is individually profitable for the company. Which is why there are "lemon laws" on selling used cars or food regulations.

The used car industry as a whole benefits when consumers are willing to pay more. Customers are willing to pay more for a used car if they think it will be high-quality. However, an ethically questionable used car salesman will try to undercut each other by offering low-quality cars that immediately break, giving all used car salesmen a bad name. Consumers now no longer want to buy used cars at all and now the only people making money are those selling a bad product.

The point of legal regulation here is to enforce a quality minimum on used cars. This drives the price of used cars upwards. Salespeople get paid more, the customers get better quality, and the world is better off having reused cars that would've been scrapped. Everyone is better off.

This could also be true for social media. Forcing social media to invest in better systems to ban users means that social media advertising can be worth more money. Right now, advertising marketplaces are controlled by the companies themselves. Nobody trusts companies to show ads to real users instead of bots. This drives the value of social media advertising down.

While individually, it doesn't make sense to pay for customer service infrastructure to verify people's ownership of accounts, if there is a mandatory standard, all social media companies would benefit because it increases the value of their products.

This is one of the roles of government regulation that can create a net economic gain.
For the company there’s no opt-anything, its internal tools, of course we need metrics, and presumably you have nothing to hide with your work :)
I’ve become a lot more tolerant of telemetry since starting to work there, because I see the use. If you really care about privacy (as a company/provider), you can anonymize and aggregate the data and still get nearly all the benefits, but I can totally understand why people put telemetry into their product, including opt-out only
Yes, magic of transpilers (typescript, esbuild, swc, babel etc).
This is the 2nd one this year I'm pretty sure. I wonder what the losses come out to all things considered in terms of development time and applications going offline (claude was offline for 10 or so minutes when this happened).
I don’t agree with everything in the filenaming (as you say, a lot of this is a matter of taste). But there are some excellent suggestions mixed in there around structure and organization. Bookmarked!
Anyone who has read LangChain's code would know better than to depend on it.
The OP’s paper reads:

> Document Deduplication … We use the MinHash algorithm to compute 13-gram Jaccard similarities to determine which documents are near-duplicates of each other (Lee et al., 2021a). … We define two documents to be too similar when their Jaccard similarity exceeds 0.8, and randomly remove one of them.

The inline referenced [Lee et al](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.06499) goes into detail, and notes that one of the algorithms is based on:

> 4.2 Approximate Matching with MinHash … perform approximate deduplication based on matching entire examples. This method, which we call NEARDUP, is a good complement to the exact substring matching, especially for web crawl text, as it handles the very common case of docu- ments being identical except for interspersed templated fields.

I’ve searched to my Peter Principle limit here, and was able to find [another implementation of MinHash](https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~jplank/plank/classes/cs494/494/not...) that used the first eight bytes of the hash, and so I am just going to assume that’s what they needed in order to meet their similarity KPI. Hopefully somebody here knows better/is smarter.
Not really. We were lucky that we used a hybrid multi-page architecture that makes the transition easy to manage. HTMX and VueJS are being used on different views with different routes/endpoints, so we can re-write any VueJS-based views one at a time.

This architecture was chosen partly because I am a boomer who remembers when websites were HTML files uploaded via FTP and couldn't understand why we shouldn't just return HTML for pages that didn't need app-style functionality, partly because we wanted something easy to manage with a small number of devs (HTML+vanilla js shines here), and partly because SPAs were new-ish when we first began development and the ecosystem was very immature and a long way from coalescing around a single winner (as it has now with React).

So in this case, HTMX is used with HTML templates and ordinary routing, while VueJS is isolated to single purpose SPA-style views with their own endpoints (for example, WebRTC video). And I suspect that we will even be able to eliminate the Vue-based pages altogether with a combination of HTMX and vanilla js if we want to, with how good vanilla js has gotten.
In every place people want to live it’s true. I’m not sure why this has changed so much on the past 30 years.
Those are hard to come by, but the Anthropic prompting documentation is a pretty great source: https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/prompt-...
Profit, sure.

But can I buy a non-profit hospital and force them to start buying syringes from my for-profit syringe company at a 1000% markup?
A lot of these medicines that require patients to inject themselves come in a self administrating auto-injector. There are really simple to use, I mean literally anyone can inject themselves, then throw the one-use auto-injector out.
Why not hire people who have proven they have done something by themselves like an open source project or business? Seems like something that's easy to filter for. Asking someone can only tell you things about their judgement not if they actually can do it.

If you have by yourself done something you can assume they can do something else on their own. The on their own is the important pieces.
The scripture, as such, does not. Interpretations of it may.
"Meta gives them tools"

I think you meant:

"Meta used its market power to ensure they are the only option to (etc)."

At this point, I think Meta should one if two paths: get broken up into many little pieces or be deemed a utility. And if they go for option 2, then you need to support your users, ROI be damned
Not even the same human possesses equal amounts of consciousness!

There are times when I am particularly conscious because I am concentrating, there are times when I am less conscious because I am in a flow state, and there are times when I am essentially not conscious because I am snoozing. I was also much more conscious when I was a child (because I was more frequently presented with novel experiences and had a focused awareness of them) and much less conscious now as an adult (because most of my experiences are familiar, so I autopilot more easily).

But I certainly would not consider these to be categorically different from each other (except possibly being in a sleep state). I am simply constantly shifting around on the consciousness scale.
I’m excited that there’s so many different options! Right now I find it beneficial to physically colocate with my team. Maybe later in life I will want to earn a living while traveling, or living somewhere rural and close to nature, and if that happens I’ll be grateful for a thriving culture of remote companies.

Also I have friends who have great lives built around remote work and I wouldn’t wish for them to lose that!
Surely SQL is an API? The line between language and API is fairly blurry.
I think this is because local state concerns are so prevalent here. Political colour doesn't even matter, but getting the pork barrel for the state manufacturing locations is.

This won't change no matter who you vote in. It's like hardwired into the system.
Plato was walking by Diogenes the Cynic and saw him with GDB up on his screen, figuring out a memory error.

"If you would only code in Rust, you wouldn't have to fix those bugs." To which Diogenes replied: "If you would only fix those bugs, you wouldn't have to code in Rust."
Just a quick note: Rahul Ilango is a phenomenal theoretical CS researcher who has made great progress towards understanding the "Minimum Circuit Size Problem" [MCSP], long believed to be, but not yet proven, NP hard. Needless to add, "the username checks out".
You can run windows programs from the literal dark ages on Windows 11 Enterprise.

In government at least this is a big deal. Will binaries from 15 years ago run on SUSE Linux? Somehow I doubt it.

I've seen hardware utilities that look like pre Windows 95 programs running on modern windows? Is that sound possible?
So the best place for low performers and difficult employees is the office?
prompt engineering requires the ability to see what is happening at various steps and langchain makes that harder if not impossible.

honestly I don't need that much abstraction.
It’s not a vaccine, but it’s close to one at twice a year.

Even if we can consider HIV “cured” in the developed world (where PrEP is available to anyone who wants it) there’s no way we eradicate HIV from impoverished countries with limited healthcare access until we either have 1) a vaccine, or 2) a shot (or something) that prevents HIV for a really freaking long time.

Not sure if 6 months will quite cut it, but it’s great to see progress in the right direction. More advancement is needed.
Have Ehlers Danlos and another thing, with quite a few effects I get ongoing, it's actually why I try experimenting with drugs in general. I wasn't much overweight but gave it a shot since it seemed like a fascinating drug, and the results were shocking to me.

Perennial light sleeper, couldn't drink caffeine either due to extreme long half life and sleep issues. On it, fall asleep at night like a "normal" person for the first time. Able to drink coffee too. I chalked that up to the fact it does have a bit of a drowsiness effect, but... then I noticed I was just having a bit less back pain. Noticed my tingling in feet and muscle fasciculation was down.

I've been on and off it now ever since, but I take lower doses/breaks since I don't need it for weight. But I was getting "attacks" of inflammation every ~6 months, since doing it for 1.5 years not a single attack (knock on wood).

My thought there is - yes fasting is great for a lot of things and maybe helped, but I can't help but think it's other effect. I've tried a lot of things, even other peptides that supposedly work and had 0 effects across hundreds of supplements. This stuff had huge effects.

The friend I can't speak to much, simply that they told me they started it and without my prompting told me a couple months later about the allergy thing.
This was the book that explained everything I needed to know about Linux with very little noise: Beginning the Linux Command Line, by Sander van Vugt.

Today I would heavily supplement it with answers from GTP4o (or perhaps Sonnet 3.5).
this article hits many nuanced points well.. and it steers towards a future I can support as a WEIRD (common acronym for Westerners with a higher education?).

too many detailed parts to respond to all of them in a brief reply.. I don't think these recommendations will apply to many parts of the non-West world..

here in the USA, this content makes a lot of sense to me
I think the GLP-1s are subcutaneous injections - tiny, tiny needles you can stick in a variety of locations - Apertude is intramuscular, it’s a much larger needle, I’m guessing there’s some level of skill involved.
Engine Simulator is not source available either, but there are plans to open source it.
NASA also thought the Space Shuttle was going to get cheaper per-launch after a couple years of service, and they turned out to be completely wrong. Why should we trust that this time will be different?

NASA's own Inspector General says, "... NASA’s aspirational goal to achieve a cost savings of 50 percent is highly unrealistic" and "... a single SLS will cost more than $2 billion through the first 10 SLS rockets ... " [0]

[0]: https://oig.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/ig-24-001.pd...
> E.g. "By repeating the process enough times, the probability that you never catch me becomes smaller than, say, getting struck by lightning" doesn't seem to show it's a proof?

That's fine though, because the point isn't really to publish math papers without disclosing proofs. For example, presenting a valid digital signature is sometimes colloquially called a proof that you had the private key, even though there is 1 in gazillion chance that you didn't. For such practical tasks, very high chance tends to be good enough.
How SAIF CHECK is using Meta Llama 3 to validate and build trust in AI models
Yes, inert solid matter byproducts of the process (plasma breaking apart the molecular bonds).
The point is that you don’t need a framework for that; the APIs are already similar enough that it should be obvious how to abstract over them using whatever approach is natural in your programming language of choice.
Kansas AG accuses Pfizer of misleading vaccine marketing in lawsuit
They become agents when the LLM output is function calls.
In Defense of "Beautiful Code" (2010)
I mainly found this article interesting for the author's explanation of two different algorithms to rotate an array by n elements, and the walkthrough of their derivations.
The last bullet point is what makes WFH so frustrating for me.

It is BLINDLY OBVIOUS that shareholders will see WFH as evidence that work can be done in cheaper locations and will pressure execs to make it so.

US Senior engineers who have been senior for a while are immune from this, since they already got theirs.

Juniors? Good fucking luck I guess.
Wtf? No. This is just the legal system in operation, if it were by facebook they would not offer this type of users, they have to be ordered to by the judicial system.

There is no deliberate decision to do this at the judicial level, there is only a decision not to willingly do it at all.
I bet the most significant factor is social group. If their friends are classmates are constantly talking about things they’ve seen on TikTok, then it’s going to be very difficult to keep your kids off it.
> Addictive feeds, or algorithmically driven feeds, facilitate unhealthy levels of social media use. This legislation will require social media companies to restrict addictive feeds on their platforms for users under 18. Unless parental consent is granted, users under 18 will not receive addictive feeds. Notably, the SAFE for Kids Act is the first bill of its kind to be signed into law in any state across the nation.

What is an "algorithmically driven feed"? Does sorting by most commented, most upvoted, or most viewed count? Does Hackernews count as social media, and will it now require age verification / parental consent?
Show HN: OTel and AI native observability tool for modern startups
If they didn't censor it, the mods might unalive the post!!

I'd say that this spreading of needless censoring should be called The TikTok Effect, but The TikTok Effect should probably be the name of the complete and total destruction of attention spans by social media.
Axolotl: A tool to fine-tune AI models
This is the true reason for the push back to in-office work, and gets far too little discussion.
Exactly. There's not actually much of an incentive for a congressperson to create something broadly positive for the US as a vague whole, like an independently-operating excellent space program.

The incentive massively is instead in favor of that congressperson to have a space program that is meets some minimum bar of competence, and past that point do everything to benefit that congressperson's voting district such as mandate certain things be manufactured there, etc.
If you're saying that core founding principles were so important then you must feel that slavery shouldn't have been abolished, no?
Happy to see this. The push to RTO seems to just be a front for legal constructive dismissal of expensive employees. These jobs are immediately being backfilled by remote employees on the otherside of the world. The FTE to third-party ratio is growing exponentially, it's becoming way more common to see things like a 1:5+ fte to 3p ratio.
Meta Lawyers have to do something. Dealing with account recovery cases, is a much better position than many other types of liabilities
"Agent" means that it outputs JSON with a function call name and parameters which you execute and usually then feed the results back to the LLM.
That is very true. And even in cases where it was not true, families tended to have more children, so older siblings could help look after younger siblings while the family worked.
Until you start looking at what those other places are.

Tax money is spent in all kinds of ways that touch so many lives that it's literally too much for any one person to comprehend. You can make arguments, but it will affect people in material ways that they'll have counterarguments for.
Y'know, I'm kinda glad that PE format enforces strict file alignment of sections, with the minimum being 512-byte, instead of the modulo-alignment scheme that ELF uses since it prevents most of those chicaneries in TFA from working.
The Chinese EV Dilemma: Subsidized yet Striking
I imagine it will depend on the child. I recall a friend years ago discussing PTSD and how one soldier will return home scarred for life while another just 50 ft away in another foxhole is just fine.