skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most likely explanation for shutting it down was the enormous cost of driving traffic to the site. After 20+ years of habits, it's hard to tell people about a new site, let alone get them to use it regularly. And given that hotel room prices change all the time, it's difficult to even prove they have the lowest prices.

Plus it is hard to get competitors to work together on something. Orbitz was started by a partnership of airlines. It IPO'd and then was acquired by a private company, all within 3 years after launching.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbitz
Cocaine Sharknado
I feel like my area (where I've lived my whole life) does not have red clearance interval. It's not something Ive paid attention to before.

I'm sure it's proper driving technique but I feel it's ingrained in my head to give a couple seconds when a red turns into a green for all cross traffic to finish / anyone who runs the light. It's a common thing around me and I don't think it would be happening as much if an all-red period was implemented.
Your argument ignores the fact that people do not "need" to demand a full market wage if they already get UBI. Indeed, it is often claimed that state subsidies to the poor are in effect subsidies to their employers.

The situation exists where any low income person gets subsidies from the state, e.g. through cheaper housing, free schools and healthcare, etc. People are still incentivized to work even when they get these subsidies. UBI merely extends such subsidies to include food and other daily expenses.
I disagree. If it really sees widespread use, the AI providers can still make tons of money while being cheaper. This is especially true for higher paying jobs, jobs with benefits, and the reduction in potential legal risk (after the initial firings anyways).
>That's your local account, not information that is visible to anyone outside of your network.

There are a lot of unix tools to ask networks to query that information and they'll happily do it for other unix systems they connect to. When I was in college in the last 90s, I'd often lookup phone numbers and such of students at other universities using command line unix utilities.
This is also why Peter Thiel et al are so obsessed with René Girard.

> Philosopher René Girard, scholar Robert Hamerton-Kelly, and Thiel co-founded IMITATIO in 2007 to support the “development and discussion of René Girard’s ‘mimetic theory’ of human behavior and culture.” Mimetic theory, the concept that humans are fundamentally imitative, has had a profound effect on Thiel, who calls Girard “the one writer who has influenced me the most.”

https://www.theverge.com/2016/12/21/14025760/peter-thiel-het...
After years of thought I dare to say the 2nd TL is a tautology. Entropy is increasing means every system tends to higher probability means the most probable is the most probable.
> so much effort to optimize being a well-paid employee

It seems like you are vastly underestimating the effort (and risk) it takes to start a successful SaaS that brings its founder $500k+ annually.

You're right about everything if you can actually start and grow that business, but you're glossing over how difficult that actually is to do, and the fact that you have to start from $0 income.
For the same reason any accumulation of capital allows bad ideas to hang around. You can operate at a temporary loss to weed out new competitors, you can intimidate newcomers with frivolous legal action, you can leverage network effects, you can lobby for regulation that makes it hard for competitors to start up...
Yup. Most are for lower income levels but some affect middle class & up as well

(electric vehicle credits, financial aid for university, first time homeowner credits, or affordable homeownership breaks... etc)
Not a professional, but as someone with a science degree and casual interest in reading papers now and then, I wish there was a:

1) A better (cheaper) way to access them. It doesn't necessarily have to be free as in SciHub, but there's no way I'm going to pay $80 as an individual to read one paper.

2) An easy way to summarize them, ask questions of it, etc. Google's NotebookLM (https://notebooklm.google.com/) is actually decent at this... upload a PDF and you can ask it questions about that content with minimal hallucination and citations back to the source. However, it's buggy (some files just never finish loading, others won't accept any prompt at all). And it's probably another short-lived experiment soon to meet the Google Graveyard :(

I would be willing to pay maybe $10-$20/mo for a service that can do both (provide Netflix-like access to papers, and also use LLM to summarize them and answer questions). Bonus points if it can do its own meta-analysis of multiple related papers and easily summarize them.

I suspect journal publishers would be heavily resistant to any of that. Probably a more technical workaround would be a web browser extension that uses public/school library logins to fetch papers from the clientside and then mirror them into the service. There is something like this in the legal world, https://free.law/recap to bypass access fees. But there's no copyright concerns there (since the documents themselves are public domain works of the federal gov, different from scientific papers).
Regular jack off mid western SWE, here. I come to these threads and cry.
How is that a trick? You wouldn't actually have any income ...
That is an excellent and profound point and one I can admire. Thanks for sharing it.
My somewhat more sympathetic take is:

Is Blizzard going to switch to AI in any particularly notable way? No. They're the premium brand and the whole point is that it's the higher-quality, higher-priced option (or, with how software scale works, they're higher-quality which they then aim to translate into more scale).

So yes I assume artists at prominent, quality-focused studios are fine.

That's like what, < 1% of total employed digital artists? For the other 99%, this is an armageddon. I'm sure nobody's dream job is to make the 934652352345th hot anime girl for generic gacha mobile game #235624563426, but it pays the bills and can be a stepping stone to jobs they might like better.

Software is already somewhat hardened against this because while there are (were?) plenty of jobs making generic hot anime girls, in software we'd just have 1 person made hotanimegirl4j and then we can all copy that forever. E.g. nobody is out there employed re-writing GNU coreutils over and over (is it a fair comparison to say that hot anime girls is to art as the ls program is to software?)

So yeah. I feel for these people who will be economically impacted by this. You can already see this in the patreon numbers of artists who specialize in certain types of content. People are getting their fix by DIYing it, and competition exploded since there's so many more people offering that content now.
> David Goldblatt thinks pausing the spectacle might jolt the world into grasping the severity of the climate challenge

However huge such a halt might be from Mr. GoldBlatt's own PoV, I suspect the world's reaction would be somewhere between "meh" and "yet more proof that those climate-change *ssholes hate normal people like us".
Thanks, I'll take a look! It sounds like they're similar problems.
I would have thought eBPF is the thing that might have prevented the CrowdStrike issue.
What in the world... I'm a FAANG employee - I think I'm around 18 years of experience now (I stopped counting) - with a great resume (or so I'm told), and I can't even get 100K jobs to respond to me let alone FAANG jobs. I'm talking about the initial step too; I've had zero interviews or screenings.
> Also Bürgergeld is $500 a month for an adult, which is very far from "You can easily live from the Bürgergeld". Survive maybe but definitely not "easily live".

You're leaving out a ton of information there. The 500 Euros is after everything else has been paid for. There's also lots of benefits like Kindergeld, money for each child you have.
I think the contention here is more about whether it's an open project— does it have an open bugtracker, an open project management structure, clear governance, etc.

It not having those things is fine, and eventually someone may still take the source and create an open project around it. But understanding that is a Netflix project helps calibrate people's understanding around whether the model when you find a bug is going to be "fork, fix, and run the fork indefinitely" or "fork, fix, contribution accepted, drop fork and return to upstream."
"AI detection doesn't work, and with how much better the systems are getting, it's probably never going to, unless you keep the best models for yourself"

I don't think that's true. I don't think even the best privately held models will be able to detect AI text reliably enough for that to be worthwhile.
And "this bug" being one of the most common types of bugs.
>having CI fail if the optimized binary contains ANY call-sites to the panic handler.

How do you do that?
There's a bunch of stuff in perl that's best restricted to one-liner or short script usage - i.e. the sort of cases where you're using it for the early inspiration super-awk purposes.

Writing perl as a programming language is, I find, a very different dialect, and perhaps amusingly one in which I rely on function composition, closures and block scoping heavily due to also loving lisp - javascript's 'let' behaves very similarly to perl's 'my' and I find it ... difficult ... to deal with python or ruby for any length of time since their scoping is "stuff randomly pops into existence at function scope" and, just, aaaaa.

Perl of course can't really have macros, but it does have the ability to define custom (also block scoped :) keywords which can allow one to achieve similar results - see e.g. https://p3rl.org/Keyword::Declare for a demonstration built on top of that functionality (there's also a code rewriter called Babble but I got distracted so while it works, it's woefully underdocumented, keep forgetting to get back to that).

I've always had a fondness for the "building the language up towards the problem" style of programming (I wrote the first ever proof of concept for custom perl keywords, though that code has happily long since been obsoleted by people who knew what they were doing) which has led me to 'fexprs for making DSLs' since those are usually building up a config structure or similar which makes fexprs' being tricky to optimise less of an obstacle.

(also with fexprs I don't have to limit myself to 'block in front' ala perl or 'block at the end' ala ruby/elixir (though it's amazing how much mileage elixir gets out of its macros, Kernel.ex is well worth a read if you're so inclined))
You can't just look at the costs to an action, you also have to look at the benefits.

Of course I agree I'm going to stop marginal investments from occurring into research into patent-able technologies by reducing the expect profit. But I'm going to do so very slightly because I'm not shifting the expected value by very much. Meanwhile I'm going to greatly increase the investment into the existing technology we already have, and allow many more people to try to improve upon it, and I'm going to argue the benefits greatly outweigh the costs.

Whether I'm right or wrong about the net benefit, the basic economics here is that there are both costs and benefits to my proposed action.

And yes I'm going to marginally reduce future investments because the same might happen in the future and that reduces expected value. In fact if I was in charge the same would happen in the future. And the trade-off I get for this is that society gets the benefit of the same actually happening in the future and us not being hamstrung by unbreachable monopolies.
What version of Linux did your laptop ship with?
This ignores the fact that nothing is stopping someone from suing you personally today, small business owner or not.

There are two types of people who sue:

- rational actors who have acted in good faith, exhausted all avenues of recourse, and feel like the courts are their only hope for some sort of resolution.

- irrational actors who sue for weird personal reasons, can’t be reasoned with, refuse all attempts to come to a reasonable settlement, etc.

You definitely want the first type of person as a customer.

Again, nothing is stopping anyone from suing you personally right now.
Thanks for this insightful response!
That's a separate problem which affects small to large players alike (e.g. ScarJo).

Small companies interests are aligned with Meta as they are now on an equal footing with large incumbent players. They can now compete with a similarly sized team at a big tech company instead of that team + dozens of AI scientists
> If so, then how can current ML models be open source?

The source of a language model is the text it was trained on. Llama models are not open source (contrary to their claims), they are open weight.
50% of those places are using excel and outdated tech because they have 0 budget to spend on tech no matter how good the replacement (in fact even if it is cheaper, approving the alternative is too painful a process), "their problem" is not that nobody had solved their actual problem but trying to convince someone upstairs to approve spend on an alternative solution.
was going to mention Onyx as well. what's made it worse was that they tried to spin the outrage about the violation as anti chinese racism
I find this debate a bit odd. Climate change is a global issue. So moving these emissions out of Ireland so Ireland can reach it's targets doesn't help if those emissions mearly happen elsewhere in the world. In reality, there is two options either these data centers are simply not built, which isn't going to happen. Or rich countries such as Ireland, take it on to themselves to see taken on datacenters as a burden they must carry, coupled with increased renewables. With Ireland's wind on the west coast potential, this is something we must Especially with a temperant climate

Moving the datacenters away from East coast Dublin to West coast. Galway in an ideal world would be also useful.
So are embedded devices just expected to not check for certificate revocation?
I'm old enough to remember the world without a constant presence of the internet and connectivity. I wonder how much energy these datacenters have actually saved thanks to technologies like google maps, email, online shopping, etc..
I’m not sure why you have been downvoted so severely, this seems like a reasonable take on the issue.
Some of the ideas in the blog must be speculative, given that it fell through a wormhole, being published September 17, 2024.
> when a man has a problem, they're usually told something along the lines of "Just suck it up, buttercup."

I thought that too, then asked for help once, and was rewarded for it: my belief was wrong.

My psychologist then told me that before 'toxic masculinity' was used by 3rd wave feminists (the 'empowerment' movement), it was a psychologist term used for men who refused help because of this 'i'll be told to suck it up' belief, term created in the wake of the Vietnam War and PTSD. Our masculinity become toxic once it makes us believe we aren't allowed to fail, cry or ask for help. Basically. He explained it way better, sorry.
Everyone always thinks of the other side as a singular embodiment, and their side as a collection of individuals.
Code Reviews Are Not Effective at Finding Bugs
Genius Edward Teller Describes 1950s Genius John Von Neumann

https://youtu.be/Oh31I1F2vds?t=189 Describes Von Neumann's final days struggle when he couldn't think. Thinking, an activity which he loved the most.
Building upon Microsoft's earlier analysis (https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/c079/0dc547c56ca48b78bc418b...), our data, which is composed through an objective risk measure, confirms similar findings about code review efficacy w/r/t finding bugs.
You pretty much can't hide a transmitter. If you're broadcasting with illegal power levels, it's pretty trivial to walk around with a directional antenna and triangulate the source transmitter. If you're curious, look up "radio foxhunting". Some people do it as a hobby.

Your only hope is to set up an unattended transmitter, connect to it through the internet, and spend your effort obscuring that connection. Creating an untraceable connection through the internet is a lot simpler.

Aside: you could actually obscure the location of your transmitter by building multiple of them and doing some tricks with phase and frequency. Ultimately you're still trying to hide a guy in a crowd screaming into a megaphone. They'll find you eventually, you can only make it harder for them.
That works if the backup uses a snapshot of the filesystem or a point in time. Then the backup state is equivalent to what you'd get if the server suddenly lost power, which all good ACID databases handle.

The GP is talking about when the backup software reads database files gradually from the live filesystem at the same time as the database is writing the same files. This can result in an inconsistent "sliced" state in the backup, which is different from anything you get if the database crashes or the system crashes or loses power.

The effect is a bit like when "fsync" and write barriers are not used before a server crash, and an inconsistent mix of things end up in the file. Even databases that claim to be append-only and resistant to this form of corruption usually have time windows where they cannot maintain that guarantee, e.g. when recycling old log space if the backup process is too slow.
Thanks for the great comparison! While Meastro is Apache licensed, if it depends on CockroachDB, Cokroach itslef isn't even Open Source, so that isn't great. I would rather have an AGPL codebase than a non open source dependency. Of course overtime some one could add alternative DB support.
I vote for sharks then sharknados.
You can use something like `no_panic`[1].

You could also do it statically, post-build, by looking for calls to the panic handler.

[1]: https://docs.rs/no-panic/latest/no_panic/
Especially because genAI is a copyright laundering system. You can train it on copyrighted material and none of the content generated with it are copyright-able, which is perfect for social apps
Salem has a tourist industry around the witch trials. October is busy season because Halloween.
Looks like a diffraction pattern to me. The way it flickers makes me think they're running some corrective algorithm that's struggling with some of the stars. (See the bottom left as well, they both appear to be bright sources and also on the edge of the field.) Also interesting to note how it seems to show up more when the image is crisper. No clue why that might be.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airy_disk
"Very few companies can afford the hardware to run these models privately."

I can run Llama 3 70B on my (64GB RAM M2) laptop. I haven't tried 3.1 yet but I expect to be able to run that 70B model too.

As for the 405B model, the Llama 3.1 announcement says:

> To support large-scale production inference for a model at the scale of the 405B, we quantized our models from 16-bit (BF16) to 8-bit (FP8) numerics, effectively lowering the compute requirements needed and allowing the model to run within a single server node.
I think I'd rather have e.g.

[mapcar list '(a b c) [count-from 10]]

or so. They look great in examples, but once you're doing

[mapcar list '(a b c) x]

then I still suspect that you'll confuse yourself every so often by passing the wrong x.

OTOH if you've got the entire codebase in your head that isn't really an issue; it's coming back to tweak something a few months later where I usually find such features give me an unexpectedly ventilated foot :)
More money now means less/no work later, whether its something more flexible or just earlier retirement.

With the way compounding works, highly paid years when you're young and can invest much of it sets you up for financial independence and much less money stress for the rest of your entire life, no matter what you want to do. I don't worry about getting fired or laid off or the stress of finding the next job because there is no financial stress about it.

Plus in my career so far, the best paying jobs have also been the best culture and WLB. People incorrectly think these big tech jobs are a constant long hours grind. IME, the absolute worst working hours and culture have been in startups and small businesses, with lower comp and equity lottery tickets with an EV of 0.

I'm not a maximize comp at all costs robot, but it's a big big factor. I'm selling my time and labor and I want to get a good value for it while I can. There's no guarantees these 300k+ years will continue. Get it while the gettin's good.
Ireland is upping its game to take advantage of it being a very ‘windy’ country. A 130 tonne flywheel, spinning inside a vacuum at 3000 rpm is set to offer some inertia to stabilise the grid, a common problem with wind power production. We’ll need this if we’re to meet power demands and achieve the Irish government’s lofty wind power ambitions.

https://www.siemens-energy.com/global/en/home/stories/irelan...
Of course one does not simply rewrite an existing system, but for what it's worth, you could still make that fast to query by doing xml or json queries with subselects. Some testing I've done with that technique with a mock social-media use-case hit ~15k requests/second end-to-end on pretty weak hardware (4 cores) needing to query 8 tables to construct a profile with 1M profiles in the database. I don't have the exact results saved, but IIRC it was a ~10 ms response time under load.
They do support PayPal nowadays. Paying on AliExpress is as easy as on Amazon, and a lot of things do have a 5 day delivery guarantee and it does actually work. I've been using it quite a lot personally(I'm in the UK).
Because it was a good marketing stunt and they believed it would increase profits in the long term by hiring/keeping people that cared about that. Also, I wouldn't discount the fact that there's a lot of cargo cult induced decisions everywhere. But as soon as profits get hit, companies will correct course.

I don't think companies are perfect at optimizing for their profits (thankfully), but profit is and will always be their only driver for decisions.

A good example is how Google seemingly spoiled their employees with benefits and high pay. Their objective was to hoard talent so they could continue to grow their profits. It's not because they are thinking of the well being of their employees. As soon as they weren't growing as much, they had mass layoffs.

The only way a company isn't optimizing for profits is if it's smaller with owners that personally want to prioritize something else at the cost of profits. Which, in theory, means they will go out of business at some point because of being undercut by their competitors that don't care.

Companies are abstract entities that only serve one purpose: to make profit. Every single action is towards this goal. They are NOT people. Even the people behind them make decisions that they would never do individually but, behind the facade of a "company decision", they nevertheless do.

> Profit is not the same as greed

Greed is defined as:

An excessive desire to acquire or possess more than what one needs or deserves, especially with respect to material wealth

For me that's basically the definition of a company's purpose. If companies only generated enough profits to survive, we wouldn't live in the world we live in today. Numbers must go up!
me too, I've heard it before but never seen it written, which is the opposite of how I learn most words.