skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice strategic bluff!

eu hold and they lose sales: "we will suffer for our users. ai will work on eu devices"

eu relax regulations: obvious win.

eu hold and sales keep rising: saves a ton of server costs and blame the government.

it's a win-win-don't-lose
My gut agrees with you that LLMs shouldn't do this well on a specialty domain.

But I think there's also the bitter lesson to be learned here: many times people say LLMs won't do well on a task, they are often surprised either immediately or a few months later.

Overall not sure what to expect, but fine tuning experiments would be interesting regardless.
If I understand the article correctly the results are on models that can't be accessed and as such this is pretty expensive to actually verify. I'd be really, really sceptical.
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I suppose you could interpret Joel's essay as a bit of an agreement with Kent's take. That even though you might have to pass through a trough of despair to rework some old code into something better - that's still a better path to follow than a ground-up rewrite.

I'd usually agree, especially as things get big.

But Kent is also pretty famous for throwing out code if things aren't shaping up. He does this in micro increments however, usually with just-written code.

I've just spent years wrestling with someone else's poorly written, ill-intentioned code, bringing it into line. I've taken the above approach of slowly reworking it. Sometimes I wonder if I just kept the tests and jettisoned large bits of it if I'd be better off?

Very contextual of course, but sometimes you have to explore a little bit to know the right places to make tradeoffs.
> Different agents for different situations...

totally agree. we've opted for keeping langgraph very low level and not adding these higher level abstractions. we do have examples for them in the notebooks, but havent moved them into the core library. maybe at some point (if things stabilize) we will. I would argue the react architecture is the only stable one at the moment. planning and reflection are GREAT techniques to bring into your custom agent, but i dont think theres a great generic implementation of them yet
I don't know if a computer can ever match the perfection of "shreds" videos. (The drum example came close)

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQvwVDViTLXu4usHto8PH...
Good point though I’m personally willing to pay more for articles. For example a big feature article from a reputable publication is easily worth $10+ to me. Smaller reports would be less but still at least $1.

Obviously that’s very expensive compared to a subscription but that’s kind of the point.
Couldn't download the app but great design though
would love any feedback if you do!
> There are a lot of bad ideas out there and the "system" is there to weed out the bad ideas. However, you can have too much system where it will defeat even the good ideas too, so there's a sweet spot.

Innovation means figuring out which are good and which are bad. It's hard to tell which is which from the beginning. Failure is inevitable. It's just whether there's a net benefit to the company instead of a net cost.

The problem is that the people and processes resist ANY failure, which necessarily throws out any innovation along with it.

> you need people with enough leftover money and time who can "screw around" a little

And this is about right. There needs to be enough slack to not strangle ANY idea that can possibly fail. The author just went so far as to say that the "leftover" needed to be part of the budget.

> Also a place where everyone is not grumpy.

Quite right. We need a place where some people are optimistic about new ideas instead of rejecting everything.
I appreciate you entertaining my questions. That said, I cannot get past the massive body of evidence supporting the toxicity of lead on a number of systems (blood, neural, kidney etc) from a vast number of sources over many years. Kudos on doing your own research, but I'd suggest caution in applying it. Cheers.
If this is the model you want, there are easier materials. Iron/air isn't mass efficient, but it's an absolutely stupid simple material and energy cycle to implement. I personally believe iron/air batteries are an excellent candidate for industrial energy applications and large scale electric vehicles (trains, ships, heavy equipment, mining, shipping)
Reuters submission has more detail (5 points, 14 hours ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40745678
Wow I have not had that experience on macOS.

MacOS support is so good that I've developed a MacOS app just for convenience so I don't need to open the iOS simulator.
Why do people think inserting an LLM into the mix will make it better than just an evolutionary or reinforcement model applied? Who cares if you can talk to it like a human?
There are legitimate concerns for user privacy with any third-party integration, including OpenAI which is why Apple asks you before sending a request to ChatGPT. They solved this problem already, and I guess they want to try and hold EU users over a barrel by claiming interoperability is impossible or something.

Seriously, what kind of fearmongering can Apple push that doesn't make you side-eye the OpenAI integration even more?
this have nothing to do with ai regulations. that's not how politics work.

if they are holding on ai (what can move the government) they are likely wanting leverage on something else (paired sale, charger standardization, who knows). it's definitely things that are costing them profits already.
My advice is to focus less on the “chaining” aspect and more on the “provider agnostic” part. That’s the real reason people use something other than the native SDK of an LLM provider - they want to be able to swap out LLMs. That’s a well-defined problem that you can solve with a straight forward library. There’s still a lot of hidden work because you need to nail the “least common denominator” of the interfaces while retaining specialized behavior of each provider. But it’s not a leaky abstraction.

The “chaining” part is a huge problem space where the proper solution looks different in every context. It’s all the problems of templating engines, ETL scripts and workflow orchestration. (Actually I’ve had a pet idea for a while, of implementing a custom react renderer for “JSX for LLMs”). Stay away from that.

My other advice would be to build a lot of these small libraries… take advantage of your resources to iterate quickly on different ideas and see which sticks. Then go deep on those. What you’re doing now is doubling down on your first success, even though it might not be the best solution to the problem (or that it might be a solution looking for a problem).
This is awesome! I always end up procrastinating because it’s such a hassle. Thanks for sharing.
In context, it sounds like you think that the genocide of indigenous peoples was totally worth it for European nations and that callous lack of concern for human life and suffering is an example to be followed by modern space programs.

I'd like to cut you the benefit of the doubt and assume that's not what you meant; if that's the case, please clarify.
I was wondering that too, and if there actually were any projects working towards rotating space habitats.

> However, there are no current practical outer space applications of artificial gravity for humans due to concerns about the size and cost of a spacecraft necessary to produce a useful centripetal force ... Scientists are concerned about the effect of such a system on the inner ear of the occupants.

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

Looks like visitors to space will have to keep dealing with zero-gee for the foreseeable future.
I think there are a couple things worth noting here:

Semantic search performs well at capturing documents keyword search misses. As noted in the article, when searching for exact keywords, keyword will outperform semantic search. It is when users do not know the exact phrase they are looking for that keyword search shines.

Semantic search should only be a part of your search system, not your entire search system. We find that combining keyword search + semantic search and then using a reranker gives the best results. It is best if the reranker is fine tuned on your search history, but general crossencoders perform surprisingly well.
Giant discussion two days ago (1173 points, 1050 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40730156
Elon Musk has another secret child with exec at his brain implant company
I doubt it'd work any better. Most of EE time I have spent is swearing at stuff that looked like it'd work on paper but didn't due to various nuances.

I have my own library of nuances but how would you even fine tune anything to understand the black box abstraction of an IC to work out if a nuance applies or not between it and a load or what a transmission line or edge would look like between the IC and the load?

This is where understanding trumps generative AI instantly.
> people on the Baltic coast are not Russians, have nothing in common with them, nor have never wanted to be close with them

That wording already shows an unexpected amount of agitation that would prompt further inquires.

> have been driven away from their land like Native Americans and decimated with hostile policies that have resulted in their rapid decline

That's mostly an unfaithful description of what's been happening, no. It also runs counter to the previous "have nothing in common with them, nor have never wanted to be close with them". If you really didn't want to be close to Russians you would get out of our hair for a chance.
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Can't answer your immediate question, but in my experience, the enshitification of UI is usually a result of layers and layers on top of the user <> product connection. It's everywhere
You could however offer a cloud based static analysis API for security companies, which could be a viable source of revenue to fund the development.
Thank you so much!

Like my teacher always says: "If at the end of the class, you haven't learned something new, come see me"
> What I found fascinating though was the group of existing document specialists were not suddenly capable of doing 2 - 3x the work. They just appeared to move slower. It was like pulling blood from a stone. They had no interest in learning new work which they were now free to do, they just wanted to clock in, turn their mind off for 8 hours, click the button and clock out.

The ability to barely function and slowly grind was what made them good at the job. Either they were hired for those "aptitudes" or they developed them on the job. what did you expect?
That is a more useful answer than your previous replies. Thank you.

You have not convinced me that ideology is something that journalism can escape. At the most fundamental level, some journalists consider freedom of the press differently than others. Some challenge the government more than others. Choosing to report on child labor is an example of an ideological stance.

Every time The Economist posts a story about the failure of the healthcare system and gun violence in the United States, it is because they have an ideology.

I fully expect every news source to have an ideology and to be honest about it.
Unstructured Serverless API Services
definetelly a great design, well done
A lot of the time the path looks like this:

1. Initial VC funding for your cool idea to carry you to something (analysis, initial demo) you can feasibly sell to get to a more formal demonstration

2. Science and Technology government org funding for a demonstration (DARPA, SBIRS, SpaceWerx, NASA ventures, FFRDC lab, etc.)

3. Large government funding (NASA, Space Force, etc.) for full product delivery or buying enough data to keep funding further build-out
Mild spoiler warning!

I'm playing Hadean Lands at the moment and wasn't expecting to have to scroll past a map of the game.
I thought the Pythagoreans threw one of their members over board for proving the root of 2 to be irrational
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Like many other commenters here, I, too, used CD-ROMs in the 90s.
Oh, you'd love the Apple II game called "Prisoner 2". It's entire purpose was to frustrate you at every turn with things you had to telepathically guess what the developer was thinking. The very first puzzle is a maze which is almost impossible to escape from... until you discover you can hit the 'ESC' key. It gets more dastardly from there.
> The spite wars continue

There are consequences to regulations/legislation. You can't have it both ways. News at 11...

The privacy concerns are real, and EU regulations have teeth. No matter how iron-clad Apple's agreement is with OpenAI, it's still a significant liability since data protection and the rest that comes with this tech is outside of Apple's control. So now EU citizens don't get to play with this new feature. It's pretty simple.
I was just thinking the same. Can't believe I'm not excited.
No, that doesn’t make sense. And writing it off as an illogical cultural problem is just lazy. I’ll believe these guys are assholes. I don’t believe they’re just consistently idiots. If the men refused to acknowledge that they had HIV and refused to allow their wives to get prep, then the logical consequence is that the wife gets HIV and the men are forced to confront the fact that either the husbands themselves have HIV or the wife is cheating and got it from someone else.

It seems much more likely that the husbands refuse to allow their wives to get prep out of spite. The implication of infidelity angle does not feel plausible.

Otherwise the men are setting themselves up for a lose:lose scenario regardless of what the wife does.
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It is not just 5 interns developing a product. It is also deploying it to how many hundreds or thousands of locations over reasonable timeframe. Sorting problems in each of them and customer support for all that.

And failing too many of those deployments get really expensive. Having your drive-trough down for multiple hours or days get franchisees really annoyed...
the road to hell is paved with engineers honestly trying
Yeah, right now there's no conceptual link between the image generation and the pixels
You are comparing companies and states. Sure, there might be similar machanics in both middle management at play but upper management is very different, at least in a democracy.
I've though this is an opening for llm use. Feed all the possible valid commands to the llm and let it translate from anything close you type in.
I'd take it a step further (while allowing religious organizations to remain tax exempt still and even do politics if that's what they are into).

The rule I'd like to see is this: A religious organization's total assets may not exceed some reasonable amount for operating costs (private jets and mansions and multi billion dollar real estate and security holdings are out). Books are audited annually and publicly posted. Work out formula that say (for example) ministers pay may not exceed some multiple of average US salary, improvements to church facilities my not exceed some amount per congregant per decade etc. It could actually be very generous and allow nice churches and plenty of charitable work and well compensated ministry without the free for all grifting we have going on right now.

You can be a business, or you can be a religion and you have to chose.

I think this may actually improve churches many of which now are simply big scammy untaxed businesses selling not much of any use.
I don't know what to tell you. Jetson Orin exists, GPU cards in all form factors support CUDA, and the servers represent the apex of that power. There are options for almost every form factor and power profile you can imagine; the goddamn Nintendo Switch supports CUDA running at 7w.

Literally, what are your other options? Hot aisles get hot, I don't know what to tell you there.
"RAG" is more of a concept than a specification. So the Cambrian explosion of how to actually do it will continue unabated.

Likewise, I don't think it's going to stem the tide of adding vector indexes and similarity search techniques to traditional databases.

Instead, if anything, I think this is a validation that traditional databases aren't going anywhere — OLAP or OLTP. Behind all the LLM models you're still going to need true, authoritative data in databases to avoid (or at least minimize) the hallucination problem.

AI needs, if anything, even more programmatic ways to get at that data.
> Apart from the “security concerns” of allowing use of non Apple services

I would think that if the EU requires Apple to allow third parties to use the new screen sharing APIs with the same privileges, that would be a security concern.
neural

Yes, that especially.
I am dealing with this as a Senior Product Manager, explaining to execs, and defending my engineers when they started introducing metrics, and one of the keys was "Planned points delivered".

My team gets and triages all the escalated bugs.

It's not accurate, not fair, and demoralizing for that team to be "red" because the metrics look like: "Story Points Planned: 30. Planned points delivered: 5." when they delivered bug fixes on what amounted to 20-30 unplanned points.

"If they have to do that work, they need to get credit for it, planned or not. You can't have work that is required but counts for nothing in KPIs".

The issue of HOW MUCH unplanned work is being required is a separate and valid discussion, but not in the realm of "engineering cadence/velocity".
From what I gather (anyone feel free to correct me) the US doesn't have as good programs or regulations to protect drinking water sources. In Europe you will frequently see areas where actions that could pollute ground water are prohibited, ranging from restrictions on what you are allowed to build and store to what is allowed to drive through the area. In the US this is more difficult to do.

There is the Clean Water Act. But that only really covers navigable waters, or a lesser degree all surface water. But it doesn't protect ground water. Then there is the Safe Drinking Water Act which sets standards for how safe the water out of the tap has to be. But how do you get safe water if it's difficult to protect your water source? Chlorine is the cheap and effective answer.
and it can also be shown that all rational numbers repeat because there's only so many remainders possible for a given denominator (all the numbers from 0 to n-1), and as soon as you repeat a remainder, you necessarily have to repeat everything from the last occurrence of that remainder.
up-voting because it's got Logo code (as well as cool space filling curves.)
I don't like my inner monologue. It does all the talk, but it is obviously not 'me', not the 'me' that for example moves my muscles.

Also my best thinkings are done by something else, shower thinkings when the best ideas just appear, or very fast high adrenaline thinking during competitive sports. Weirdly they are on the opposite ends. But what's common, is that they are not done by the inner monologue. (Only the regular thinking, so most of the cases basically.)
A database is core to your infrastructure...finding out your database is going away is a horrifying situation. Finding out that the time you have to migrate is a few months. Agh.

As others will say, there are options. Rockset helpfully posts links to a bunch of comparisons on their website, and these alternatives include ClickHouse, Elasticsearch, Druid, etc.. https://rockset.com/real-time-analytics-comparison/

I'm inherently biased (as a member of the ClickHouse team). But do check ClickHouse out.

You can always come hang out in our Slack (clickhouse.com/slack) and, of course, the combination of hosted ClickHouse (clickhouse.com/cloud) and the open-source (github.com/clickhouse) may add a bit of comfort when your vendor up and disappears via acquisition.
Apollo 14. Here's some play video I shot of it years ago: https://youtu.be/lp9KVdrgi3Q?si=JvghqkITFLdmySKq&t=45 . All electro-mechanical too.
> The EU has shown that they will regulate things years later and impose massive fines and business costs.

If that makes the EU look bad, imagine how goddamn incompetent the US regulators look right now.
Why does it matter which Americans are dying? Other countries are not uniform either, averages are still applicable.
ditch typescript and Im more with you.. you'll never convince me that something that compiles to js is "simplicity".
>> You're digging for a logical explanation for a fundamentally illogical cultural problem and you aren't going to get it.

> But that only makes sense if

Reread and if you’re still not getting it, keep rereading your parent’s line that I highlighted for you.
From an IT perspective, social skills. All the soft stuff that's impossible to measure. I'd put some more points into charisma because people aren't going away. gone are the days of being an eccentric genius who's good with computers. there's a less eccentric smart person who's just as good at computers, and they even take regular showers. being able to code is table stakes in today's competitive world, you need to be able to do far more to be competitive. So the skills to last are all based on an understanding of human psychology. If I sell you something at $5 that's one thing. But how about I tell you that it's normally is $10 and I'm giving you a deal because you're special. The technology stacks will wax and wane, any specific guess is going to look hilarious in 10 years. Typescript? Cuda? Linux? Who knows! What isn't going to change is change. Change is going to remain constant, so be prepared to keep learning new things in 20 years.
> Leadership does not trust the grunts to do productive work

Not only that, but unfortunately they are usually right. Without oversight the in-house team has high likelihood of building NIH spaghetti, which causes more problems down the line. To avoid the negative outcome leadership needs to be technically competent and resourced, and that's the other side of the coin - usually they don't have the expertise so in a way they also do not trust themselves to lead the project to a positive outcome.
Pretty sure my dad still has his. I still have memories of his working on our microbus at the time, back in the early '70s. Don't think I was even five, yet, but I remember lying underneath the thing with him, watching while he worked on the brakes(?). And another time, he and Mom working a couple of jacks to pull out the engine.

Yeah, that copy earned its keep. Think it still has some of the grime...
If a number start repeating from some point, you can do a nice trick: multiply this number by 10^n choosing n to be a length of a period (effectively shifting the decimal points n places to the right). Then subtract:

10^nx-x

infinite periods will cancel each other due to the subtraction, you'll number with a finite amount of digits, say y, so:

10^nx - x = y or x = y/(10^n - 1).

y is rational (finite amount of digits), 10^n - 1 not just rational but integer, so x is rational.
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The Weird World of Insuring Celebrity Body Parts
They might be forced into supporting that feature for non-iPhones or non-macs?
ahh yes, defense.gov. our lord and savior for technology direction
"On AWS, switching to ARM instances can be an effective low-cost way to reduce significant costs. Hence we carefully migrated to arm64 (ensuring all dependencies are compatible), which resulted in better cost and faster performance."

This is not shocking at all.

My question is this: Did you look at your total spend and price out Systems admin's, rack space, hardware, and bandwidth as well? The moment your annual AWS passes 500k it makes sense to shop around.
Deficits might be unmanageable already.