skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you'll allow me, I'd like to shill my company for a second. We provide all the benefits of "single server deployment" while providing the scalability of the "30 lambdas" solution.

You can even run the whole thing locally.

We actually just did a Show HN about it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41502094
I mean of course you're right, but then I question what's the usefulness?
My proverbial homies that use it say it's because they get private show or host will watch via a 2-way video. It's basically peep shows and phone sex meets FaceTime. Stuff like this is why the growing part of their business is "One-off Transactions". It should be called "Jerk-off Transactions" because that's how it's being used.
I don’t think you need the seemingly.

Good sales people simply get to know and have relationships with a lot of people.

Eg, a salesman from LPKF happily traded emails with me after a decade of not speaking and only meeting a few times about a project idea I had… and when it became clear their product wasn’t a fit, offered to connect me with someone else in his network that would be better able to help. I don’t think he seemingly was interested, but rather, LPKF chose to hire someone who is actually interested in getting to know people and helping their projects succeed.

LPKF would have easily closed a sale with me, had their product been a fit — because if you’re someone people want to do business with, good products sell themselves. And people like doing business with people who help them.

I’m not saying there aren’t manipulative and fake sales people; but I am saying there are sales people who genuinely are just trying to make friends and do good business.
A single VM is all fine and well until your hacky go-fast code allows an issue with a single request to take down your service. Serverless requests are isolated and will limit the blast radius of your hacky code as you iterate quickly.
It highly depends on what you are developing. Just because one guy (levels or whatever his name is) is doing it, doesn't mean it fits for everyone
I'm not sure Musk is the best judge of good government.

Musk thought California was fascist for its covid measures: https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/29/21242102/elon-musk-corona...

But China's covid measures were A-OK by him. In fact, Tesla said it has "always strived to fulfil its epidemic prevention responsibilities and that it believed Shanghai's COVID-19 measures helped lay the foundation for the city's future development": https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-...

Musk later went on to pledge his commitment to China's core socialist values: https://www.mediaite.com/news/elon-musk-signs-letter-pledgin...

Twitter is banned in China. Is he complaining about that? Has Musk ever expressed any criticism of the Chinese government?
>And how much data can you give it?

Well, theoretically you can give it up to the context size minus 4k tokens, because the maximum it can output is 4k. In practice, though, its ability to effectively recall information in the prompt drops off. Some people have studied this a bit - here's one such person: https://gritdaily.com/impact-prompt-length-llm-performance/
Amount of work a node can perform in a distributed system per X amount of hardware resources that it has.
If the output alone is high enough quality, it's worth paying extra.
OpenAI released a new model, o1-preview, claiming stronger code generation and understanding capabilities, with various evaluations showing good results. I immediately tried the new model, including using the popular prompt for generating SVGs with new Chinese interpretations, as well as explaining LevelDB code. Overall, the new o1-preview model shows improvement, but hasn't created a generational gap.
It should be illegal* to post articles about strikes without including details on current deal, current offer, and union demands. All these pieces try to influence your opinion without providing any details! Maybe the union demands are reasonable, or maybe they're not. Give me specifics please!

*obvious hyperbole
I have known people who have been content creators on OF or similar. The whole industry is pretty abusive and exploitative, but on platforms like OF you can be more (certainly not entirely, but more) sure that the creator isn't being exploited and is the one benefitting from the work. A big part of it is also the creator interacting with the fans up to creating custom content for individuals.
It is great for proof-reading text if you are not a native English speaker. Things like removing passive voice. Just give it your text and you get a corrected version out.

Use a cli tool to automate this from the cli. Ollama for local models, llm for openai.
Not for libraries, but functions will sometimes get created if you work with an agent coding loop. If the tests are in the verification step, the code will typically be correct.
Nicely said, this in particular;

> In programming, the tools one chooses, and ones abilities with those tools, and the nature of the problem domain, all intersect to, in fact, restrict and shape the nature, quality, completeness, and even getting-startedness, of the program.

Language shapes thought and hence once the simpler Imperative programming models (Procedural, OOP) are learnt it becomes quite hard for the Programmer to switch mental models to FP. The FP community has really not done a good job of educating such programmers who are the mainstay in the Industry.
In context, a lot of times it’s clear that the link worked at first (other people who could see it responded) but when I click later, it’s broken.
> probabilistic token generators aren’t intelligence

Maybe this has been extensively discussed before, but since I've lived under a rock: which parts of intelligence do you think are not representable as conditional probability distributions?
Wikipedia link on berberine makes good sense. No strong support yet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berberine
But you don't need to protect entire Mars with magnetic field, just a tiny piece of it where the colony is based. What about a lead roof and thick concrete walls?
You're right. Every time the game updates, I have to re-delete the files.
Never saw a single request taking down a whole server. Killed a worker and the connection timed out, but never saw it take down the whole thing.

Faulty input killing your logic - I saw this plenty, would Lambda really help here?
Does it have an electric field?
What kinds of things led to multiple types of URL's in the same codebase?
Practical challenge with a $250 prize: Make a 2D isometric HTML+JS game (dealer's choice on library) in the next 48 hours that satisfies these modest random requirements:

A character walks around a big ornate classic library, pulling books from bookshelves looking for a special book that causes a shelf to rotate around and reveal a hidden room and treasure chest. The player can read the books and some are just filler but some have clues about the special book. If this can be done with art, animations, sound, UI, the usual stuff, I'll believe the parent poster's claim to be true.

As someone using LLM-based workflows daily to assist with personal and professional projects, I'll wager $250 that this is not possible.
> Maybe the union demands are reasonable, or maybe they're not. Give me specifics please!

Would that really help, though? Do you have the industry know-how, expertise, and internal knowledge to assess whether the offer is reasonable or not?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9581862 aww, yourdatafitsinram.com is now domain squatted.
It's literally the first thing in the list of foundational values.

> 1. The Right to Swim

> Safe, healthy and swimmable waterways should be accessible to all people.
Closed-loop audio stimulation during REM sleep induces phase-dependent changes
Chats with AI bots found to damp conspiracy theory beliefs
So is o1 nicknamed “strawberry” because it was designed to solve the “how many many times does the letter R appear in strawberry” problem.
It's because it is complex. And in the long run, things become simpler. The only difficulty is the initial setup and once you are past that, the overall maintenance workload just becomes easier compared to a single VM setup
I would liken it as "digital sexual companionship" in many cases, rather than just porn. That's the value here, for a lot of the same reasons that people would engage with a "traditional" prostitute/escort. It's just cheaper (at first), and less likely to get you arrested or put in dangerous areas.

The article makes mention of AI content potentially coming for this industry, but I believe it's the "GirlfriendGPT" and similar that will be the bigger threat, once they improve.
Was that something specific you had trouble with? You can v. quickly start with e.g.

dotnet new --install Avalonia.Templates
dotnet new avalonia.app
dotnet run

Will work on any platform.
ask them how much money is at stake

then charge them a fraction of that
I'm amazed too. The mere fact that they accept storing hard disks powered off for years is a big red flag. It's in everyone's list of top things to avoid doing, not just in archiving circles:

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/top-5-not-so-obvious-backup-a...

The final warning was the 2019 news of the 2008 Universal fire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Universal_Studios_fire
Any respectable employer/employee relationship transacts on results rather than time anyway. Not sure the analogy is very applicable in that light.
Eh it’s not worth it to me because it’s unfair.
Has that man ever said anything negative about actual autocrats, or does he only go for democratically elected officials?
In this thread: nobody using Cursor, embedding documentation, using various RAG techniques…
I feel very alone in my view on caution and regulations here on HN. I am European and very happy we don't have the lax gun laws of the US. I also wished there had been more regulations on social media algorithms, as I feel that they have wreaked havoc on the society.

I guess it's just an ideological divide.
That abbreviates to LCD. If we could make it LSD somehow, that would help to explain the hallucinations.
A security vendor partnering with one of the the world's leading fronts for child exploitation material and phishing pages.

You never would've seen McAfee partner with the Russian Business Network back in the day.
Indeed, not much more depth — though even Terence Tao reported useful results from an earlier version, so perhaps the breadth is a depth all of it's own: https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/110601051375142142

I think of it as making the top bar of the T thicker, but yes, you're right, it also spreads it much wider.
This might be more true for a male than a female. Buildup of water in the body changes a lot and has nothing to do with what you eat. So measure your weight is very dangerous for your motivation if you eat almost nothing and still gain weight.
I’m going to assume the “illegal” is hyperbole, but yes I agree.

Another pet peeve of mine is omitting the time frame for wage increases. A 25% raise today is not the same thing as a 25% raise over the course of 4 years.
At one point in time some TCL TV's were sold below or at the cost of manufacture. All the profit came from advertising and selling user behavioral data.
a) It doesn't have to be mutable. You can easily setup k3s on a single node, install the apps and bake an AMI or equivalent. And using something like ArgoCD or GitOps will ensure that your k8s stack is in sync with a tracked and managed Git repository.

b) In what world is upgrading your entire platform ever a single step. Even for a basic Python app you still have Python itself plus dependencies. And then of course whatever front end web server you're using.
It’s still just a tool.

It does not reason. It has some add-on logic the simulates it.

We’re no closer to “AI” today than we were 20 years ago.
How about the Transformer models that power LLMs? That was pretty novel.
This is pretty neat. It was pretty simple to get started, and the updates in the preview are nice and fast.
For me I can see myself using this for prototyping. I do wish though that there was a way to use it anonymously. You've already got the service worker part, so why not allow the user to save their work to a service worker cache?
You should go to Costco and try a bunch if you have one near you. Its hard to recommend specific hearing aids to people without knowing what they need. If you dont have a Costco, go to any reputable hearing aid store near you and try from their stock
Forgot the archetype: https://fastdecals.com/shop/images/detailed/30/cartman-respe...
I don't run k8s at home, but I have worked in k8s-heavy environments and studied it deeply. This is the accurate, nuanced take.

Few but not no people will ever run into problems at the kind of scale k8s operates at. Plus, learning how it "expects" the programs running inside its Pods to behave is kind of like learning how Django or Rails "expect" a web app to work - it's a more complicated style than just writing your own totally custom, hermetically-sealed Python apps for your personal use, sure, but it also comes with a slew of benefits in case you ever do hit that level of scale and want to move over.

Or, maybe you look over the app you're writing and say "Fat chance." In which case you can justify e.g. not making everything an API endpoint, keeping a ton of state mucking about, etc. But I still feel that's an improvement over not even realizing the questions are being asked.
Assembling complex systems is just inherently fun as long as you don't have deadlines or performance metrics to hit.

It's a bit like factorio with the extra dopamine hit of getting to unbox stuff.
I’m not an expert, but I’d like to know more. To me it’s interesting to know what the workers are concerned about specifically.

Otherwise it just reads like “lots of people are mad”. Well about what exactly?

It’s fine for a headline, but not very impressive reporting.
We have B2B-Customers around 700. It all runs on a single Server (not VM though).

Since it's B2B we don't need zero downtime, updates at midnight are all right.

A day before rollout they go through the staging server and the test environment, so no surprises the next morning.

Before updates, the backups kick in, so if we need to recover from a bad update we can roll back.

Sounds all 2000 and not very fancy but boring and profitable cuts for us
I oughta show my wife this. She used ircle back in the day.
Me too. Same for pretty much any "scientist" on NPR, or with a popular book. Not EVERY one is a hack or a fraud, but enough are that as a group, they're not trustworthy.

That's a big chunk of my adult life I need to forget, because I was so into the broad field of applied social science, Ariely in particular. It's a real shame.
I may be mistaken but I don't believe the first version of the comment I replied to mentioned intermediate CoT results.
Really cool. Did you embed the AI commentary/translations or the original untranslated text?
Yes, firing ordinary workers and moving production elsewhere is definitely going to fix bad management and rotten company culture on top level.

Boeing management created the 737MAX fiasco and killed those people.
cant find lex fridman podcast's feed. https://lexfridman.com/
It's Boeing man.

I won't get into too many specifics, but there's a reason they call it ScreamLiner. And it ain't because final assembly in the Carolinas is implemented to exacting, high quality standards, by excellent and exemplary employees.

There are a lot of poor performers throughout Boeing. Starting with their C-Suite execs.
Is this data actually correct? Looks China is still doing just fine on the tech side, landing a rocket, LLM model that topped coding challenges, robots that are significantly outperforming boston dynamics.

Is it just that those companies were founded during the peak?
That much I agree with. I'd like to know more too, but I won't pretend it would be because I'd like to judge it for reasonableness :)
There’s also funcaptcha (arkose labs) which definitely won’t let you use ChatGPT without JavaScript.
An exception i came up with was from a documentary on einstein that described how he did his thought experiments. He would, of course, imagine novel scenarios in his head, which led him to the insights he could rephrase into language. I worry language models will still lack that capacity for insights driven by imagination.
Entire staff of game publisher Annapurna Interactive has reportedly resigned
Not antibiotics are in the same class. If we could limit the fluoroquinolone class for none life threatening situations we can avoid some of the gravest issues.

Limiting antibiotics with livestock to only sick animals would require allowing them to live in decent conditions which would make everyone healthier.
The people who decided to build the 737 max were sitting in Chicago at the time and now are sucking up to Washington politicians from Arlington County, Virginia
No. etree is xml.etree.ElementTree.
> And in the long run, things become simpler.

aka, you're front loading the complexity.

You can even think of it as paying insurance premiums upfront. You get to "make a claim" if the requirements do grow into the sort of need that suit such a cluster/complex setup.
It's worth listening to the Hot Money podcast which goes into detail of how OF makes money: https://www.ft.com/content/762e4648-06d7-4abd-8d1e-ccefb74b3...
Lossy Stochastic Database?
Its not about one or two guys its financial engineering culture that Wall St rewards. You can make bank without being an engineer anymore. 2008 meltdown has not changed the culture.
This is a minor point but cranking the volume doesn’t necessarily mean hearing loss.

You could for example have a device that amplifies external sound so that you your hearing is enhanced over all frequencies but has a max volume that it will not exceed. This compresses the dynamic range and makes the quietest sounds easier to detect. It would reduce your ability to distinguish sounds in a noisy environment though I imagine.
seems ipv6 is broken atm for ziglang.org :(

ping -6 ziglang.org
PING ziglang.org (2a01:4f9:3051:4bd2::) 56 data bytes
^C
--- ziglang.org ping statistics ---
7 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 6135ms

just noticed because zigup has failed..
I have been doing scala professionally for a decade, I have probably have 1 NPE per year on average, max. And pretty much never from an established scala lib. It's by convention not to use null - heavy use of Option, etc.
Not seeing major advance in quality with o1, but seeing major negative impact on cost and latency.

Kagi LLM benchmarking project:

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/ai/llm-benchmark.html
Just to echo what the other poster said - Costco seem to have very good prices and will give you a free hearing test with an audiologist (in Australia anyway)

Their range is fairly limited, but not necessarily in a bad way. Compared to what other audiologists recommend/prescribe, Costco's stuff was about half the price.

OTC hearing aids - no idea.
> It should be illegal to post articles about strikes without including details on current deal, current offer, and union demands.

Getting 96% to vote to go on strike pretty much says that company offer is complete garbage. You probably can't get 96 out of 100 people to agree that the sky is blue.

And while I wish that things were a bit more fact heavy, sometimes the sticking point is something really arcane and non-obvious to outsiders (on-call requirements, for example).
If they use this name, they just say that they violate the copyright of all training data.
English is a language, Cyrillic is an alphabet, and Greek is both. The alphabet one finds in the range U+0000 to U+007F is called "Latin", not "English". If any alphabet has a claim on being "English", it's Shavian. (Found at U+10450 to U+1047F.)
New Google Wallet features for travelers and commuters
I recommend https://eleshop.eu/jbc-bt-2bqa-soldering-station.html

The handle is so light! Active tips! Heats up in 2 seconds. Goes to standby mode when you put away the handle to save the tips.

There's even a lighter compatible precision handle that you can buy.

Luke Gorrie posted a bunch of Twitter threads where he compare the sizes of soldering handles. Can't find it now but https://github.com/lukego/soldering might lead you to them.
I guess they mean safe water as in water you will not get ill from swimming in whereas I think parent is talking about safety as in safe from drowning
Their website redesign looks good, but also distracting.
You just reminded me that I had tried Catia once before and that it also completely flummoxed me in how unobvious its approach was.

Now why would anyone choose that program as the one to base theirs off of, it isn't like Pro/E and SolidWorks weren't around in 2002 when they started FreeCAD.
I agree that cloudwatch is dogturds, but want to dive deeper for illustrative purposes:

Your dynamodb solution isn't foolproof. It has throughput limited to the partition granularity -> in your case the lambda name. It's also relatively expensive and fairly slow to query in bulk (DDB is designed for OLTP).

I don't have direct experience here, but I expect slapping grafana on top of any disk basked source is likely to be cheaper, faster, and have better ergonomics. Once your logging is too much for a disk to handle (this will be later than you would've outgrown ddb, but before you would've outgrown cloudwatch) then you can bring something fancy in.
Microsoft is working on storing in glass tiles, which should last up to 10.000 years [1]. Its not commercial yet though.

[1] https://unlocked.microsoft.com/sealed-in-glass/
Show HN: Web search chatbot with tool interrupt and human-in-the-loop in 130 loc
“Scalability” seems to be perceived to be the most important thing for startups. It’s dream-driven development.
Looks like @sama's o1 is killing PhD science questions.
https://x.com/sama/status/1834283100639297910?t=iCRehNoBofMP...
Defeat for the company or defeat for shareholders? These things are not the same.
wrote a markdown doc explaining it as well:
https://docs.mirascope.io/latest/cookbook/langgraph_vs_miras...
"Ick", "Ow", what is this word salad.

C# documentation is pretty decent, exhaustive and comprehensive. How would you even "improve" table of contents anyway? It just says what a type has. You can't add/remove much from it. Are they really complaining that a website they haven't used much is different to a website they have used a lot?

There are plenty examples of bad documentation but for simple type info navigation all C#, Go and C++ are totally fine - I only had to peruse the C++ one for example and found everything quickly and in sufficiently great detail (it did not help with abrasive nature of the language for general purpose coding but I digress). It's the additional information/context that is often lacking. Moreover in C# you can use your IDE or a VS Code plugin to see all types present in a namespace or a package. Most of the time, their type and method names are self-descriptive - what matters more is hand-written guidance to using the library the right way, which is extremely hit and miss with numerous Rust crates.

I think the author just wanted to make a complaint for its own sake and is not looking at documentation from perspective of being productive with a particular language.
So what? F3 detects frauds, it doesn't guarantee that you can avoid them.
https://archive.is/Ubbfx

i recall a soviet movie whose title was something like “King and Cartman” but i can somehow neither find it nor recall the romantic era poem that it was based on
The "benefit greater than the cost" is very much unproven. It's a psychoactive drug first and foremost, and one that deeply affects the reward mechanisms. What the sibling post calls "defects" I call variety, uniqueness, and not being a robot.
Ask HN: Audiobook Recommendations?
Anyone listened to anything good recently? I haven't read or listened to anything in years; Sci-fi fan here but willing to explore.