skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Use case is "user-facing analytics", for example consider ordering food from Uber Eats. You have thousands of concurrent users, latency should be in milliseconds, and things like delivery time estimate must updated in real-time.

Spark can do analysis on huge quantities of data, and so can Microsoft Fabric. What Pinot can do that those tools can't is extremely low latency (milliseconds vs. seconds), concurrency (1000s of queries per second), and ability to update data in real-time.

Excellent intro video on Pinot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lqdfq2c9cQ
ICANN approves use of .internal domain for your network
Google wasn't tasked (by a third party) with this, they chose to do it.
No it is not. There's nothing in the capitalist model that mandates academic community to maintain a zero-valued-add gatekeepers. It's just an extremely lazy dunk, which happens each time somebody discusses any rent-seeker setup - somebody comes out of the woodwork and proclaims "oh, it's because of capitalism!". In a very very very dumb sense it is - like the reason of crime is that people are breathing. If they didn't they'd be dead, and there were no possibility of them to be criminal. It is this level of lazy and useless logic. Yes, capitalism allows rent-seekers to exist. But it in no way mandates their existence - a model without rent-seekers is as compatible - I would say even more compatible - with capitalism as one with them. Just don't make this kind of lazy dunks anymore, it really adds nothing to the problem.
Well, travelling as a group of people almost always demands having a plan, otherwise “we’ll just wander around until we find something interesting” is a hard sell to get everyone on board.
Not that much more.

Furthermore, security vendors like Avaya and Unisys could arguably be in breach of contract with customers because it could be argued that they misrepresented their internal security protocols to customers.
CoffeeScript immediately revolted me and Civet is giving me the same heebie jeebies. It's the kind of punctuation-as-code that the world rejected 10+ years ago when Perl faded away. Verbose code is better for readability and readability is 100X more valuable that faster typing. It's not more expressive, it's more obscure.
Anything that was certified as 100% Pure Java
How common is this? I've used for years and haven't encountered plugins breaking on me.
Germany's Hegel and Nietzsche Kultur that killed tens of thousands of ...

I know that sounds neat to say, but it has no connection to reality. Neither of those guys influenced the late German Empire or the Nazis (a few Nazi ideologues might have read Nietzsche, but they never understood him; meanwhile they absolutely rejected Hegel, and attacked people with accusations of Hegelianism).
It also causes obesity and may be the cause of American obesity in the South.

https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/08/02/a-chemical-hunger-p...
> Vaccines are now being used in some places - but monitoring the disease and avoiding mosquito bites are the most effective ways to prevent malaria.

You’d think vaccines are the end-all be-all and the only reason we ever eradicated any disease, but I’m curious now : what makes certain diseases eradicated with vaccines (like polio, supposedly) and others just…go away (like malaria or even scarlet fever for example?)
Ah, the days when the Internet was fun.
'No Smoking' Signs on Planes Can Now Stay on Forever
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/22/business/no-smoking-sign-...

"The Federal Aviation Administration did away with a rule that had required an off switch for the sign even though smoking on U.S. flights ended years ago."
There’s a line between fraud and first they’re trying to navigate. Suppressing speech in the USA is notoriously hard, but can be done if targeted narrowly enough.
In random order:

1 & 2. It's not really a new language. It's very similar to ERB, so existing tooling, including syntax highlighting, etc., shouldn't be an issue.

4. LLMs are actually pretty good at "understanding" programming language syntax and replicating it to generate code, so even a new language would work. Besides, there is really nothing new under the sun, so similarities with existing languages would help here.

3. I migrated once from Jinja to Sailfish [1], it wasn't so bad. All template languages are roughly the same: start code tag, some simple code, end code tag, maybe a loop or an if statement, but the vast majority of it is print a variable. It would be nice to bring your templates over during a migration, but they are typically a small portion of your code compared to business logic, so I don't think it'll be a roadblock, if someone wanted to attempt this at all.

[1] https://github.com/rust-sailfish/sailfish
Your dream can already be true, just use the turkish barbers and betting shops as coworking spaces. Cheaper too
Amazon is currently providing a LLM-generated summary of these faked customer reviews. To abide by the FTC ruling, Amazon would now have to prove that all of their training data is legitimate customer reviews. Do you think they will actually do that?
https://archive.ph/nBJYD
Maybe video models can’t do all the problems. Can they do all the problems that are valuable to narrative media creators? What about business?

Odds seem high. “Solve all the problems” can mean “solve all the valuable problems.”

Runway’s biggest obstacle is not scientific. They have to convince VCs to not index on all AI startups - a historically winning strategy in finance - and instead focus capital on the two leaders in any race, at any cost, because 5x $200m investments will fail by being not enough money instead of too much. Runway needs billions of dollars to do what they are doing!
I think in terms of natural beauty, it's definitely in the upper half. Specifically Ouachita National Forest in my opinion.
That's exactly it.

I've been peddling my vision of "AI automation" for the last several months to acquaintances of mine in various professional fields. In some cases, even building up prototypes and real-user testing. Invariably, none have really stuck.

This is not a technical problem that requires a technical solution. The problem is that it requires human behavior change.

In the context of AI automation, the promise is huge gains, but when you try to convince users / buyers, there is nothing wrong with their current solutions. Ie: There is no problem to solve. So essentially "why are you bothering me with this AI nonsense?"

Honestly, human behavior change might be the only real blocker to a world where AI automates most of the boring busy work currently done by people.

This approach essentially sidesteps the need to have effect a behavior change, at least in the short-term while AI can prove and solidify its value in the real-world.
openinterpreter has been doing this for a while, with a bunch of LLMs, glad to see first party support for this use case
Oops! Thought I was in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41909564

Thank you friend!
The major limiting factor of lithium is not really availability so much as the cost of extraction. China is the leader in this field, not so much because of abundance or stellar technology, but out of a willingness to completely ignore environmental externalities (including those of the power generation involved in the whole process). As a result the price of Chinese lithium is low enough that it would be essentially impossible to compete with them unless a country had similar... "advantages"... or some new and impressive technology.

In the US environmental regulations, the cost of producing power, labor costs, would all drive up the price of the end product in a way that makes it totally noncompetitive. That's also why the US and some other countries are investing in other ways to find lithium (among other things) on seabeds, where it's hoped that extraction would be less expensive. Of course the threat to the seabed environment is a concern, which in turn might drive up prices by imposing regulation, etc etc etc.
Marketplaces need a vendor rating and product ratings. When leaving a review, the form could have sections on shipping separate from the product.
Whatever software that allows distributing (and watching) porn over computer networks. It pushes technology further, to cause more happiness. And it causes happiness because it pushes technology further (and because of 1 more thing). The perfect circle.
90s Lord of the Rings – Mel Gibson, Sean Connery – Retro AI Concept [video]
Also, the logo is all-caps.

“Muni” isn't an acronym, it's short for “Municipal Railway”.
No free trial? Pass.
Yes, none of that meaning is apparent to Bob, which is my point.
Since tokens are numbers, I'd like to see the numbers simply tokenized as themselves, or maybe an exponential Golomb code.
No, I don't read the forecasts. I take an umbrella if it looks like rain outside when I leave home. I guess I just live on the edge.
Like trademark: Use it or lose it.

(The reality is that publishers would put lazy photocopies up for sale at ten zillion dollars a piece.)
Some of the large cases that made hackernews in the past year had a similar comment to yours even though the investigation was started under Trump and only completed recently - if you like the democrats though you will give all credit to the democrats.

Which is to say there is some political differences, but don't make such accusations before you carefully check to ensure it isn't just your bias to observe more when democrats are in power and thus see more.
This has existed for a long time, it's called "RPA" or Robotic Process Automation. The biggest incumbent in this space is UiPath, but there are a host of startups and large companies alike that are tackling it.

Most of the things that RPA is used for can be easily scripted, e.g. download a form from one website, open up Adobe. There are a lot of startups that are trying to build agentic versions of RPA, I'm glad to see Anthropic is investing in it now too.
Even with API, depending what tier you are sitting on, there is daily limits. OpenAI used to be able to generate files for you, they changed that. It was useful.
No, bob doesn’t know he’s even being intentionally fucked with. There are many videos of this style of “prank” available on the internet.
> nothing shovels the dopamine into my neural receptors quite like going from zero to "knows enough to be dangerous" in a new hobby or field of knowledge.

Man, this describes me to a T. I love that feeling of the "first 75%" (or whatever percentage it is). Then I tend to lose interest in the long tail.
Hey they're dogfooding.
> But the reduced complexity gets filled again. So reducing complexity increases complexity. That's the paradox.

But it doesn't increase if you just don't add new features. Nobody is forcing you too.

Reducing complexity doesn't add complexity. It simply doesn't. It's the adding further features that does. Which you have a choice over.
It's okay, I'll just check the Wayb--shit
It depends, if you want to do any kind of aggregation, counts, or count distinct pg falls over pretty quickly.
For a region of space with time dilation approaching infinity, red shift to temperatures below even the microwave background would be nothing.
You asked it a question and it gave you a statistically correct sounding answer which you built a straw man on to justify your own opinion.

That is reasoning.
I don't buy the b.s. around MQTT being so lightweight/efficient/etc. It's just using TCP/IP. Maybe by the standards of the day that was comparatively special, but I've never seen any real evidence for the claim besides this constant bragging.

I guess it's nice that MQTT is a standard and so you have a way to connect to off-the-shelf devices that are enabled. I still think there are better options for pub/sub and message queues, esp. if you need to failover on the consumer side.
Same is true about Rbolox, which is why I compared Telegram with it. My objection was to the ordering of Wired's priorities.
No I should not. That's like saying if I support free speech, I must welcome lying and insulting others. Supporting free speech means allowing people to speak without being persecuted, but that does not mean I must value all speech equally. Both myself and the society still can pass value judgement and value different kinds of speech differently. Same with business conduct - the fact that this conduct is not explicitly criminal does not in any way mean everybody should "welcome" it. There is a wide area between criminal conduct and welcome conduct, and the society and the culture has appropriate means to regulate it. If the academic institutions and the scientists would not value publication is Elsevier journals so much, and would not buy their subscriptions, Elsevier would not exist. It is not because Elsevier is doing something criminal, it is because people decided to behave in ways that allow Elsevier to rent-seek. They can change this behavior, and they absolutely do not need to join the Communist party for that or welcome Elsevier. Those aren't the only choices.
Self-driving is a beyond-six-sigma problem. An error rate of over 1-2 crashes per million miles, i.e., the human rate, is unacceptable.

Most jobs are not like that.

A good argument can be made, however, that software engineering, especially in important domains, will be among the last to be fully automated because software errors often cascade.

There’s a countervailing effect though. It’s easy to generate and validate synthetic data for lower-level code. Junior coding jobs will likely become less available soon.
System76 and Ampere pioneer custom-built Thelio Astra ARM64 developer desktop
9 things the Social Web Foundation could do to prioritize safety in the fedvirse
Teen climber shatters record for youngest to conquer 14 highest peaks
I wish JetBrains would offer +5 AI minutes (or something) per subscription per month.

I've already burned through their AI Tools trial, and likely won't try these new tools without a friend telling me, "It is worth your time."
> DNSSEC has failed.

This is the customary comment by me that this is far from the prevailing view. From my viewpoint, DNSSEC is steadily increasing, both in demand and in amount of domains signed.
What do you mean by “file” here? I’m making files on a daily basis, including CSVs, html, executable code, XML, JSON and other formats. It built me an entire visual wireframe for something the other day.

Are you using artefacts?

But I’m maybe misunderstanding your point because my use is relatively basic through the built in chatbot.
... What? No.
Unless you're arguing for the summary execution of all felons, we already allow murderers to walk free after serving their time. Hell, when those murderers are soldiers we give them medals and parades.

Sorry, technically those soldiers are killers and not murderers since when they take innocent lives it's endorsed by the state.

But if you think the presence of felons within society presents a social or public safety issue, consider that the real problem is that the justice system in the US is punitive and exploitative rather than rehabilitative, and what cultural and systemic issues might lead people to crime and violence in the first place, and to recidivism.
> The field of AI likes to borrow pop psychology/philosophy language and use it for its own narrow jargon.

They also like to invent metaphors for how the brain works, and then forget that it's a metaphor and decide that humans either literally have one, that they should program one into AIs, or that AIs must have invented one on their own.

This is why you keep seeing them talk about "world models", which probably don't actually exist and which people don't actually need in order to live their life.
I wouldn't surprise me if this started while Trump was president, but because of time is just coming out now. It would surprise me if it this started in Obama's first term - but it wouldn't be unreasonable to find out it did.
IDF claims to have found Hezbollah bunker full of 'cash and gold' in Beirut
Exactly. I have been wondering for a while how GenAI might upend RPA providers guess this might be the answer.
It’s customarily used for e-mail transport.
Yep, 75% coverage is too low for significant comprehension. You normally need 95% for decent comprehension and 98% for comfortable reading.

The coverage required in Japanese (my target language) seems something like the most frequent 15,000 words (depending on the definition of word) are required for 98% coverage. At 12,000 words it becomes viable to read with some comprehension and semi-frequent dictionary lookups.

Also, interestingly, you need about 2x the number of words in Japanese as English to reach 87% coverage:

"It has been reported that 2,000 high-frequent English words cover 87% of tokens (Nation, 1990). In case of Japanese, 4,024 SUWs are required to cover 87% of tokens." (Text Readability and Word Distribution in Japanese, Satoshi Sato)
So far it hasnt been an issue.

Yesterday: https://www.newsweek.com/russian-pilot-found-dead-after-alle...
WeWork was killed by a dishonest CEO, and problematic financials. As far as a product, it was pretty great to drop into a random town or city and be able to have a hot desk to work from.
We are live!
We need a Copyright Term Reduction Act.

It's time. 50 years, renewal is possible but expensive.
How do you train an LLM such that it is guaranteed to never regurgitate its training data?
Interesting. I’ve rolled my own PHP ORM at work (forbidden from using FOSS libraries like Laravel) and found hooks to be extremely useful. Notably, my programming experience started with PHP for Wordpress which used hooks extensively, so maybe I’m biased.

Mine has a table spec that can translate into a SQL definition or spit out a nicely formatted HTML form. There’s a separate controller that handles all DB connections / CRUD operations, with before- and after-hooks that can easily cross reference with other tables and constraints if needed.

It all works pretty nicely, although I would still switch to Laravel in an instant if I could.
Only tangentially related, but has anyone ever tried to eavesdrop on DSL? Modern DSL (VDSL2 in particular) is essentially a HF signal guided on an unshielded twisted pair (with line stubs and what not), so it should easily leak out and radiate. Apparently it does so much that radio hamateurs in the UK have been complaining[1] about it a lot. I wonder if the signal can still be demodulated or it's just an annoying baseline on the spectrum.

[1]: https://rsgb.services/public/publications/vdsl/measuring_and...
Maybe the odds really have moved in favor of Trump. Predictit is now 60-44 Trump-Harris. A current Betfair headline is "Trump favourite in all seven swings states for first time".
It might be related to sanctions on Baikal Electronics. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35182705
I'm very interested to see this alongside MySQL 9 (https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/9.0/en/vector-functions.htm...), and MariaDB (https://mariadb.com/kb/en/vector-overview/).

Will these converge on a common syntax for vector fields, indexes, and comparison functions in the near future? Or will vector implementations just add momentum to the increasing incompatibility in the MySQL-ish ecosystem?
Analytical databases have rows and columns? What do you do when you're ingesting TBs, if not PBs, of unstructured data and need to make it actually useable.

A couple of MBs (or even GBs) for storage for metadata is peanuts compared to the actual data as well as the material savings when storing it in a column-oriented engine.
That’s my take as well. To each their own, but for me there are other, GC-ed, languages that are performant enough and way more productive (and I love Rust!)
Modern technology, disruption, and societal impact.

"It’s a clusterfuck."
What even is a "model" if it doesn't have business logic? It sounds like you just want your model to be built from structs (that you call models) and procedures (that you call services). You can do that, but it can be quite hard to reason about what ways an entity can be updated, because any number of procedures could do it and all have their own ideas about what the business rules are. At this point your procedures might as well write back to the db themselves and just get rid of the "models".
Yea agreed. That would have been a perfectly reasonable angle for the article.
I don't see any goal to your posts at all, other than to poke people with purely emotional imagery.
WFH is worse. Juniors don’t get the mentoring they need. Collaboration is a fraction of in person. People become siloed. Knowledge is not shared. Knowing when roadblocks occur becomes more difficult. Productivity drops.

Sounds like you’ve worked at terrible companies with terrible people. Instead of finding a good company. Then again I haven’t worked at a company with more than 30 employees and so I get paid well and have access to walk 5 meters to talk to the CEO/Owner.
Related

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41910918

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41907144
As a developer, that is heart warming thought.
There's a confusion between training and inference time here. Even if LLMs can't reason during inference time, they may be able to do it during pretraining and then you can query the existing reasoning during inference.

Inference is more like running an algorithm - in fact it is that (Church-Turing equivalence) - so it's up to you if that is reasoning or not.
To avoid the rent seeking you need a state that will enforce laws that prohibit the rent seeking process and revert it when it has formed. This is not compatible with free market capitalism in abstract (being against the freedom of capitalist agents), and in practice it cannot be done because the capitalists will use political power to stop it.
What an informative comment, thank you
Or you can hold the marketplace companies responsible for whoever markets on them.

Of course can't hold foreign marketplaces responsible at all - but that is a different loophole we can close (if it becomes a problem Amazon will ensure it is)
> ...most astonishing things about probability theory...

It's a core result, perhaps the most useful core result of standard probability theory.

But from some points of view, the CLT is not actually astonishing.

If you know what Terry Tao (in the convenient link above) calls the "Fourier-analytic proof", the CLT for IID variables can seem inevitable, as long as the underlying distribution is such that the moment generating function (density Fourier transform) of the first summand exists.

I'd be interested to hear if you have sympathy with the following reasoning:

The Gaussian distribution corresponds to a MGF with second-order behavior like 1 - t^2/2 around the origin. You only care about MGF behavior around the origin because, as N -> \infty, that's all that matters.

Because of the way we normalized the sum (we subtracted the mean), the first-order term in the MGF will vanish. We purposely zeroed it out by centering the sum around zero. That leaves the second-order term, which will give a Gaussian distribution.

So in short:

- MGF of one summand exists => MGF of (recentered) sum exists
- We have an expression for the MGF of the recentered sum (convolution property)
- Only the MGF behavior around the origin matters
- We re-center the sum, causing the first-order term to vanish
- We invert the resulting MGF and recover the Gaussian

I'm not being precise here, but I hope the idea comes through.
>I'm sure they are looking to LLM proposals

Well, it is a use case for this challenge
https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/gemini-long-context
There's plenty enough bad behavior to go around here. Hogback is willing to do whatever for marketing, Todd is a troll and reaping the consequences of years of prevaricating. And anyone who chooses to be involved on Bitcoin at this point should not be surprised to attract criticism.
These new serif fonts make the website absolutely unreadable and it franky looks very ugly. Not sure if this should be seen as a metaphor on how complicated Svelte became ;)