skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, Uber Eats is so expensive it feels like they could give away $10 vouchers and still make a handsome profit. I wonder how much CrowdStrike paid for these vouchers? Surely nothing like $10 each.
Rebecca Solnit wrote a book, "A Paradise Built in Hell", on how people behave during disasters, and found broadly the same thing - contra the prepper myths, most people most of the time faced with disaster come together to work cooperatively to help each other.

We're a fundamentally social species - we've got smaller brains than Neanderthals did, we're not a particularly tough species, but we're very, very good at cooperating with each other.
Wait that's actually terrible.
I have had some amazing managers - who do an amazing job of allocating work and managing our time to get the best out of us. But it doesn't really matter because the C-suite usually sucks.

In most large firms there is a magical barrier somewhere between lower and upper management where quality doesn't really matter. For every great servant leader, you will also have to deal with someone who has no technical experience and have never had to work a real job in their life. And the only reason your good boss has to report to them is because through proper breeding and connections or luck they have enjoyed a career unencumbered by details.
What this means is just that Polish support (and probably most other languages besides English) in the models is behind SOTA. We can gradually get those languages closer to SOTA, but that doesn't bring us closer to AGI.
as long as they don't go around 'correcting' your comments that seems okay?
Big tech wants to make AI cost nothing
My musings on the recent commoditization of large scale LLMs
This is what worked for me. Also, I instantly and remorselessly block any number that sends any marketing or political text that trickles through.

So far this year, I haven't received a single political message. My efforts have been worthwhile!
I thought the parent comment was drawing a very clear distinction—that doors do not involve message passing, but a different mechanism.

If it were a message passing system, you would be able to save the message to disk and inspect it later, or transmit the message over the network, etc.
It’s an analogy. The learning materials teachers create for students is very much like synthetic data, it’s just not assembled from algorithmic output.
Even if the models don't collapse, it seems intuitively obvious that you can't get more "knowledge" out of synthetically generated data than went into it's generation.
except when it isn't and we ded :P
It sounds like there are liquidity events, so it's not like they have to wait years to cash out.
Data Graphs Cypher Benchmark: 110x faster than Neo4j
We recently completely rewrote our Data Graphs Cypher Query engine from the ground up. We threw away the book on graph-querying. A new algorithm for ultra-efficient processing of GQL and Cypher graph queries, and its really fast. Benchmarked at 110x faster than Neo4J on average and 518x faster on the deepest / most complex benchmark query (1 sec vs 9 mins).
In 2019 I was using vector search to narrow the search space within 100s of millions of documents and then do full text search on the top 10k or so docs.

That seems like a better stacking of the technologies even now
I would actually encourage you to zoom out 1 or 2 levels, and instead of focusing on the "how to get better at 'sucking up'" problem, I would instead coach you to think about why you chose to apply this specific mental model to your career, and why this form of "black-and-white" thinking might be hurting you even more (as a general theme, where "suck up" is just one specific example).

I am 99.9% certain that, the overall trajectory of your career is not hinging on something as specific as "if only I learned how to 'suck up' then everything would be great". This is actually a form of magical thinking, of making excuses to avoid engaging with the real problems, and instead just lumping everything into a single excuse as to why ____ didn't work out.

The fact that you mention "too much pride, introversion, embarrassment" is also a clue to me that you might be someone with very rigid patterns of thought, and therefore likely to fall victim to black-and-white thinking (that something is all-good or all-bad, that something can ascribed to 1 single root cause to blame, etc.).

Some off-the-cuff ideas/questions, not all of them may be applicable to you, but hopefully it triggers some introspection on your part:

- Do you often think thoughts like, "I know I am right, everyone else is wrong, why can't they just appreciate my genius"?

- Is there anyone that you actually respect in your team/your org? Have you ever tried to ask them, "how did you get to where you are?" Do they mention "sucking up" as a big ingredient?

- When was the last time you asked someone to help you with something? Did you phrase it as a demand or threat? Or did you seek some kind of mutually beneficial win-win outcome?

- When was the last time you admitted to making a mistake?

- When was the last time you let someone else convince you to change your mind about something?
This. With the addition of diving into Powershell. It is quite different than *NIX shells. It is the fabric of Windows in the enterprise and cloud.
> If you iterate the game, it’s obvious.

We're shockingly bad at doing this in modern society. Our temporal planning horizon is somewhere between 6 months and 5 years, whereas our lifespans are around 75-80.
x+1 is sometimes less than x ... is "IRL" integers? Division of any integer by any number (other than zero) is an integer ... is "IRL" integers?

Seems to me that ship has sailed!
This gives me early career PTSD. I once reduced monthly operating cost by six figures and the company responded by buying the office a pizza from Sam's Club as a reward.
Why do you think this is BS? It perfectly explains the name and also why something like this is installed so ubiquitously and still installed despite such a massive screw up. Also offensive capabilities need wide deployment just as much as defensive. Cybersecurity and cyberwar is a real thing, and surely DDOS botnets are a core part of that.

Maybe it's controlled by the CIA, or maybe just has a quiet contract with USCYBERCOM and/or ARCCYBER.

I mean, people don't seem that concerned about all of the nuclear missiles and submarines, aircraft carriers, and US military bases everywhere. Computers and the internet are now part of that and have been for quite awhile. If you are invested in this system then you probably want that dominance to continue (otherwise you should probably start learning Chinese). In which case we probably need something like a "crowd strike" widely deployed on the monopoly OS so that we have offensive capabilities.

If you don't like that idea then why use Windows at all? Use Linux at least.

I don't think this is really conspiracy theory territory unless you are in denial that cyberwarfare exists or that the US must participate in it.
hello, thanks for this. We had a lot of orders without issues. The process goes through stipe and the only information we get is the name and email adress of the paying customer.
tell me if you have any problem: alex@gouach.com
I'd wonder if this was a hack. Seems like a decent attempt at phishing.

Actually that'd be far better than if it were really Crowdstrike thinking $10 would resolve this.
ClownStrike really earning their moniker.

As if a $10 gift card is anywhere near compensating enough for people impacted by their incompetence. Some people were impacted by delayed flights. Some people were impacted by degraded medical care.
Crates.io never had the behavior that led to left-pad, so it didn’t really change any opinions here.

Small dependencies are not inherently good. Large dependencies are not inherently bad.
My hunch is this comes down to personal prompting style. It's likely that your own style works more effectively with GPT-4o, while other people have styles that are more effective with Claude 3.5 Sonnet.
> Most of the weights in llms are 0,

that's interesting. Do you have a rough percentage of this?

Does this mean these connections have no influence at all on output?
The Y100K Bug impacts every single financial transaction, every single transaction communication, and every single spread sheet, and table:

When it comes to this, the gods of Y100,000 will simply wish it with an act of will, and it will come about.

"Home was a couple of thousand light years away, which distance they traveled instantaneously, by an application of will. " -Joe Haldeman, "The Groombridge Effect"
> arrogance has always been a bit of a trigger. I can work with most people, but when someone is both arrogant and less than competent it irks me to no end

I think this is a common trigger for a lot of technically inclined people, myself included.

In those cases I generally try to focus on acceptable outcomes more than "being right". And, importantly, not focussing as much on proving the other guy wrong (which is not quite the same as proving yourself right).

Having a track record of delivery without being seen as the sore thumbs that sticks out goes a long way.
Its a bad feature. The thing is it does not matter if its ”obvious” as anything that touches async needs to be async too. Its a bad paradigm, CSP is obviously a better way to do concurrency. As async is usually only IO bound, but how about CPU bound? In the node ecosystem CPU bound tasks are not something you do with async/await.
> The thing about density advocates which I don't understand is why they wall themselves off to the irrefutable, unquestionable, fact that the second anyone, anywhere in the world, has enough money they move to a less dense area.

That should continue to be legal. You should be able to buy the kind of home you want. That what overturning Euclid V Ambler would allow again.

> I also lived in Japan for several years. The very first thing people do when they get enough money is move out into a single-family detached home in an American-style

What's important to note is that Japan greatly liberalized their zoning, setback, parking requirements after their big housing crisis, and now a family in Tokyo earning median income can actually afford to own a home in the city. You can't say that about New York, San Francisco, London, etc.
Data created automatically is not the same as human curated data, though both are synthetic. Auto-created data often suffers from a host of demerits (duplication, bias, error, unnatural distribution, irrelevance to learn the intended domain, etc, etc). Human curated data usually avoids these pitfalls, and thus is far more valuable when training -- otherwise all human teachers would be equally good. So auto- vs curated- data are incomparable when training naive neophytes like ML models, or children.
With the amount of crap in Reddit, cleaning it must be a very non-trivial problem. (I mean, it never is, but in the case of Reddit it's probably extra complicated)
I have a refurb XBOX One with a 2TB hard drive, it's probably about 40% full right now. I also have a jailbroken Nintendo 3DS with a 32GB card that is about 70% full and has a huge number of games on it including some of the largest that came out for that platform.

In terms of high-end mobile games though, I have some interest in playing titles like Genshin Impact, Nikke, Fate/Grand Order and Azur Lane on my 32GB iPad. A game like that is usually a 2GB download from the app store and then it installs another 10GB worth of levels. Practically I can fit exactly one of these titles on my iPad but then there is no staging space left to update iPadOS. Often I want to play and find it has to download the 10GB package again which is not 100% reliable even at the office.

I wind up uninstalling those games because it just isn't fun.

You could make a good 12GB game in most genres and I could be happy if I could just play 1 game without drama, but having 3 games that size installed would be good.

I think though the royal road to software for you would be to attract ports from other platforms, if they don't have to do a lot of work getting storage requirements down they'll be more inclined to do it. It may help that a lot of work is already being done to shoehorn games for the Switch.
Well splitting into letters doesn't help with Mistral Large 2. I tried this with Mistral 2:

[Question: How many r's in strawberry? First split the word into letters, one letter on each line then answer the question.]

[Answer: Let's split the word "strawberry" into letters:

s
t
r
a
w
b
e
r
r
y

Now, let's count the number of 'r's:

There are 2 'r's in the word "strawberry".]

[Question: Did you count the number of r's?]

[answer: Yes, I did. Here's the count:

r
r

So, there are 2 'r's in the word "strawberry".]

I suspect the issue is these models have to be trained to accomplish tasks, and this is not a task it makes sense to train a model to perform. You might train it to do this with function calling one day, calling a python library to count the r's in a string, but actually manually counting r's just doesn't play to an LLM's strengths.
This is the best advice, and the logical choice if you want to run things in your own way.

One could fight the inertia of a large firm, or simply create an entity that better aligns with your own values and customer needs.

A tax strategy driven small business teaches people how to manage projects, and see the stupid manager/worker BS for what it is... no PMP or Phd required... =3
Related:

Bubble Sort: An Archaeological Algorithmic Analysis - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19084059 - Feb 2019 (19 comments)

Bubble Sort: An Archaeological Algorithmic Analysis - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15115769 - Aug 2017 (31 comments)
Show HN: Unsearch, an open source alternative to Google Chrome Sync
I use several browsers between college, work and home and I like to have them synced so I can find websites I've searched for in a browser when I don't have access to it or access my bookmarks.

I don't like the idea of using any of the sync services offered by the major browsers because of how they might use my data, because they lack some features I'd like to have, and because they all try to lock you into their ecosystem.

So I'm building an open source cross-browser manager for browsing activity. I would love to hear your thoughts on this concept, and if you have any questions or suggestions, please let me know.
Hey! The product does exist but the financials to bring it to the market for B2C customers is a bit complicated

The kickstarter allows us to get the cash upfront to start the orders
Probably why Sam takes very little salary, and makes his money via other methods.
Agreed, unless you're desperate it's madness to accept a job without having had a discussion with your prospective manager. And not just to make sure they're not a big jerk, this is your chance to find out what kind of team you're joining. Ask probing questions: What happens when there's a disagreement about how to implement something? What happens when it becomes clear that a major milestone is going to be late? Has that happened recently? What goal are you currently working on for modernizing your tools, and are you making progress on it? etc.
Why in the world would they have to do that? There are thousands of exclusive business-to-business deals being signed into action every second of the day.
Counting Lines of Code
NetBSD on Raspberry PI5
So now its dereference a null uber eats code?!
>If you insert characters to breaks the tokens down, it find the correct result: how many r's are in "s"t"r"a"w"b"e"r"r"y" ?

The issue is that humans don't talk like this. I don't ask someone how many r's there are in strawberry by spelling out strawberry, I just say the word.
You are the one aggressively pushing others to have kids with unproved statements that only a minority is not cut out for this task and that it will surely give them purpose. So the kids will become a means to an end, in your own words: "a solid reason why you should get out of bed".

This what leads to deeply affected people: being born and raised because the parents had some secondary goal in mind and needed children for that goal. Can be searching for meaning in life, social pressure, material benefits or even "our beloved first child needs a sibling".
I like to imagine Larry holds semi-regular events where he tosses a virgin into the volcano to increase shareholder value.
Show HN: A simple document server/search engine for HTML docs
Hi, wanted to share a small project I've been working on: a simple file server/search engine for local HTML docs in Go. Inspired by a similar Rust implementation, I used standard Go libs and Bleve for this.
The TECO version of EMACS is always a kick to look at, here is the dired code:

http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/mit_emacs_170_teco_1220/01/e...

From this we can conclude that humans do not need any nice things like programming languages, assemblers or compilers to program effectively.
The actual source article is in The Information. But it is paywalled. Anyone know why their subscription is so expensive? Is it actually worth it?
All of Android is still based on a pdksh-derivative known as mksh, which is an enormous install base.

http://www.mirbsd.org/mksh.htm

OpenBSD switched their default shell to their own pdksh-derivative known as oksh.

https://github.com/ibara/oksh

There was an effort to (re)start ksh93 development, but AT&T halted this effort. The bugfixes from the failed effort have moved back into Korn's last release.

https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/tree/dev
For something you want to capture immediately, the amount of time it takes for the phone's accelerometer to decide you have rotated it is already too long.
Omitting the "almost" from "almost none" makes it sound disingenuously more absolute than it actually is.
When are lawsuits going to start? If I was Delta CEO or a Hospital CEO or any other huge company or country affected by this, I would be fuming.
lmao, what a joke. The rest of the reduced monthly operating cost went into the company executive pockets
hello, we have selected a few tier 2 cells suppliers after many testing. One of them is DMEGC that had a much better results in terms of performance and impedance spread than Samsung or LG (based on 40k cells)
£7.75 GBP, ill admit i haven't used Uber eats in years because the prices are insane but im not sure that covers much more than the delivery fee.

(Also, people who want McDonalds 20 minutes after it was remotely edible and shaken to shit on the back of a moped, who are you? I see the bikes everywhere but have never met one of you irl)
And STMF.
Heh, I used bubblesort very much on purpose in one of my NES projects. You see, I have a list of up to 12 objects that I need to sort back-to-front, and I'm also on a 1.7 MHz processor. A fun property of bubblesort is that it is stable and in-place, so I can run the algorithm until it performs just one swap and then suspend it. Since objects don't move around that quickly and spawn/despawn events are infrequent, the sort eventually completes over the course of several frames, and the brief incorrect order is practically imperceptible during gameplay. The metric I was optimizing for was "least amount of CPU time spent on the sort during each frame" and, with that particular goal, bubblesort is the best choice by a landslide.
Almost 200 million is in CEO compensation https://www.statista.com/statistics/1453196/reddit-top-execu...
Open source just caught up to GPT-4, which was released over a year ago. You don't think all of the advances in hardware don't also play into their hands? They have GPT-5 in the pipeline and are likely hard at work planning and prepping for GPT-6.
A year or two beyond the competition, at this point, is their moat.
Windows Patch Tuesday update might send a user to the BitLocker recovery screen
Space-filling curves, constructively
We aren't getting the results predicted by the Dead Internet Theory, we are instead getting the Hapsburg Internet.
Definitely get the "vibes" statement on how much insulin... I can literally have the same meal two days in a row, and one day it takes half as much to manage, or I'll overcorrect need to drink some tang or something similar.

I'm T2D, with a completely borked metabolism and gastroperesis (thanks trulicity/ozempic). If I can manage to stick to mostly meat and eggs, I hardly need any insulin and am very stable. Unfortunately, I live with people who don't eat that way, and I'm weak in terms of temptation.
The app is not open source but we could, as it is mostly a thin client

Most of the code is on the BMS and backend

We are having a reflection on open sourcing the BMS code

The BMS protocol will definitely be open sources at some point! We love open soirce
Hope you do get paid faster in rubles for agitating then the hyperinflation.
I'd love to learn enough TECO to be able to do exactly that with Emacs's teco mode. I do it with ex (through viper) all the time. At this point I wonder if my brain has ossified to the point that it's incapable of learning a new language syntax.
classical NMC cells. In our case DMEGC 32E
We generally stick with using neo4j/neptune/etc for more operational OLTP graph queries, basically large-scale managed storage for small neighborhood lookups. As soon as the task becomes more compute-tier AI workloads, like LLM summary indexing of 1M tweets or 10K documents, we prefer to use GPU-based compute stacks & external APIs with more fidelity. Think pipelines combining bulk embeddings, rich enrichment & wrangling, GNNs, community detection, etc. We only dump into DBs at the end. Speedups are generally in the 2-100X territory with even cheapo GPUs, so this ends up a big deal for both development + production. Likewise, continuous update flows end up being awkward in these environments vs full compute-tier ones, even ignoring the GPU aspect.

Separately, we're still unsure about vector search inside vs outside the graph DB during retrieval, both in the graph RAG scenario and the more general intelligence work domains. I'm more optimistic there for keeping in these graph DB, especially for small cases (< 10M node+edges) we do in notebooks.

And agreed, it's unfortunate neo4j uses graph RAG to market a variety of mostly bad quality solutions and conflate it with graph db storage, and the MSR researchers used it for a more specific and more notable technique (in AI circles) that doesn't need a graph DB and IMO, fundamentally, not even a KG. It's especially confusing that both groups are 'winning' on the term... in different circles.
> Copying my content from the duplicate thread[1] here

Please don't do this! It makes merging threads a pain because then we have to find the duplicate subthreads (i.e. your two comments) and merge the replies as well.

Instead, if you or anyone will let us know at hn@ycombinator.com which threads need merging, we can do that. The solution is deduplication, not further duplication!
Thanks for your comment!

We started this project because we love bikes and we really want to reduce the battery waste!

We hope we will manage to bring it to the greatest number!
That was not a personal attack it was an evidence-based assertion.

What I wrote is not, has never been in any context, and will never be for all of time until the heat death of the universe, a personal attack.

I can provide an example of a personal attack, if so required.
This might be when it's better to not use the API and just pay for the flat-rate subscription.
"dd MON yy" is US military format, and I can see early computer scientists adopting it for its inherent unambiguity (and also extending it to yyyy for reasons that became obvious).

Americans colloquially prefer m/d/yy (slashes) rather than dashes, anyway.
It's important to climb the right hill.
Many big companies are still using SAML auth, unfortunately.
Batista was a dictator too. No one, except criminals, liked him.
By this reasoning wouldn’t all information that you didn’t discover yourself be synthetic data?
What exactly does it mean to "address content", and how do I do it in the syntax of scrapscript?