skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> where the same problems are "simply" solved by getting on a calorie deficit and lean

Except that there apparently is mounting evidence that GLP-1 agonists also address some issues that are not generally addressed by just restricting calories. TFA touches on this briefly: "The weight loss involved with GLP-1 agonist treatment is surely a big player in many of these beneficial effects, but there seem to be some pleiotropic ones beyond what one could explain by weight loss alone."

I seem to recall seeing claims that they reduce COVID-19 mortality even controlling for BMI (possibly because they inhibit systemic inflammation), reduce alcohol consumption, and even (though I think just anecdotally) may help overcome gambling addiction.

See, for example:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8425441/ [COVID-19]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/search/research-news/19361/ [Addiction]
Nice to see GCP doing well.

The competition between AWS, Azure and GCP is great for customers..
If bones survived, some advanced remnants would also survive, I would expect.
Cirrus7 is expensive because you are paying for a very high quality machined chassis & case that act as a massive fanless heatsink. Those alone are pretty costly. The price cannot be compared with cheap NUC clones and mini PCs, nor with Apple.

I am not endorsing any particular brand, but Cirrus7 is not that expensive within the fanless market and the quality of the entire build is very high. They also somtimes offer nice discounts for students and SMEs. There are quite a few comparable brands and also DIY options with cases from Streacom or Akasa. If you want something cheaper, Minix is pretty inexpensive, especially when you take into consideration they offer a decent fanless enclosure.
I'm not sure you are not doing your daughter a lot of good with such a pessimistic outlook on life. You might consider doing some soul searching and try to work out what really matters in life (hint: it isn't money) and then figure out how to adapt. At least externally, if that's what it takes. When my kids were young, my wife and I made a pointed effort to teach our kids to see the wonder in everyday things and situations. Even if they didn't seem all that special to us. That's what most of us have to do.

That aside, Busytown is set in a small town. The culture of towns vary of course, but _generally_, small town life is vastly different from urban or suburban life. There is far less social isolation. (Most) people help each other out without needing to be asked. You may disagree with your neighbor's political opinions but can still have a beer with them in the backyard. And so on.
Makes sense, also See comment about energy consumption of 8k TV above.
"Fixing" the food industry isn't possible for as long as they have billions to sink into influencing politics. Trying to find a market or political solution has failed. Full stop. The fact that you're still trying to find some way to make it work is embarrassing and depressing. It's time to attack the problem from another direction, one that will also ensure these companies either go bankrupt, lose relevance and power and/or evolve into a form that's less parasitic and more beneficial to us as a species. GLP-1 can be one tool to help us do that.
Approaching Adam Neumann-levels of grandiosity.

Could it be possible that OpenAI's new autocomplete will be as transformative to the global economy as WeWork's short term office rentals?
The performance can make a big difference. There are books I like more as audiobooks and books I like more as visual books.

I read PHM and didn’t love it; my friends who listened to it all loved it. Maybe I should give it a try.
Thanks much for the explanation.
That's easily resolved by being a kind of person who experiences empathy involuntarily, and finds it hard to ignore injustice let alone participate in it. This makes defection more expensive than cooperation.
I don't think this is an honest question.

There's no "fixed budget" of energy that is ethically ok to use. The parents point was that these devices are woefully inefficent no matter which way you look at them.

The "best" thing to do would be neither, and is usually to just use the device you have - particularly for low power electronics as the impact of buying a new one is more than the impact of actually running the thing unless you run it 24/7/365
> Some people (like yourselves) are so delusional that you are capable of considering wasting 7T$ on something that is a glorified autocomplete technology.

You know that to many, you are the delusional one if you think that some fictional number in a screen is more important than this glorified autocomplete technology that has the potential to revolutionize humanity as much as agriculture, electricity and the internet.
A good scythe is faster then a weed-wacker but slower then a lawnmower. I have been using a scythe to cut my lawn for a few years now. It works, and is fun, but you must keep it VERY sharp. If the scythe is not razor sharp it will simply push the grass over instead of cutting it. A sickle will still work when somewhat dull, because it gathers the grass into the concave bit and/or you can hold on the grass with one hand and cut it with the other.

A scythe you have to sharpen every 5-10 min or so, normally you keep a scythe stone in your pocket to do this. The sickle you can just sharpen at the beginning of the day and that will be good enough.

The sharpening process takes some practice to get good at, particularly if you start peening it as well.

https://scytheworks.ca/knowledge-base/chapter-4-preparing-th...
They have and Tesla Fanboys cant accept it.
That only works if the initial request isn’t so bonkers that no one can trust subsequent ones.
Still likely so much cheaper than AWS and GCloud.
I very HIGHLY recommend the Busytown Eye Found It board game. Kids of all ages have a blast with it, and it's even moderately challenging for adults. We played ours so much we basically wore it out.
How do you write a test for code clarity / readability / maintainability?
I will design a proper favicon! I think I implemented the current placeholder according to https://stackoverflow.com/a/13416784
"Oh, thank you for pointing that out, you're totally right! My previous answer would have killed humankind as a side effect. Here's an updated version of the solution: ..."
How do tests account for cases where I'm looking at a 100 line function that could have easily been written in 20 lines with just as much, if not more, clarity?

It reminds me of a time (long ago) when the trend/fad was building applications visually. You would drag and drop UI elements and define logic using GUIs. Behind the scenes the IDE would generate code that linked everything together. One of the selling points was that underneath the hood it's just code so if someone didn't have access to the IDE (or whatever) then they could just open the source and make edits themselves.

It obviously didn't work out. But not because of the scope/scale (something AI code generation solves) but because, it turns out, writing maintainable secure software takes a lot of careful thought.

I'm not talking about asking an AI to vomit out a CRUD UI. For that I'm sure it's well suited and the risk is pretty low. But as soon as you introduce domain specific logic or non-trivial things connected to the real world - it requires thought. Often times you need to spend more time thinking about the problem than writing the code.

I just don't see how "guidance" of an LLM gets anywhere near writing good software outside of trivial stuff.
Check out the link a few comments down.
Reminds me of how I use the satnav when driving.

I don't close my eyes and do whatever it tells me to do. If I think I know better I don't "turn right at the next set of lights" I just drive on as I would have before GPS and eventually realise that I went the wrong way or the satnav realises there was a perfectly valid 2nd/3rd/4th path to get to where I wanted to go.
Some are referring to it that way

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2769828/#:~:text=We....
Though to be fair, in my area Waymo charges 2x the price of Uber and Lyft for the same service.

Still pretty cool.
if you improve the UX on this thing I think im not a businessmen but i think you would be competing against 'Ring'
Sound like the beginning of Universal Paperclips

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Paperclips
Anecdotally my house draws 0.4 kW when idle and 0.6-0.7 kW when both my 8K screen and my computer are on. Since my computer draws 0.1-0.2 kW, I surmise that the QN800A doesn't draw 300-400 W total --- maybe 100-200 W.

I run my screen on a brightness setting of 21 (out of 50) which is still quite legible during the day next to a window.

Also, I have solar panels for my house (which is why I'm able to see the total power usage of my house).
Tech-wise it seems that way.
Yes but cuts deals, which is what the title says, is ambiguous.

Those are some load bearing pluralisations right there.
It made me immediately think of the sign in and sign out QR code for my kid's preschool haha. Interesting idea!
>“The reason most enterprise software is so expensive is because it takes so many steak dinners to put it in your hand,” Shopify Chief Operating Officer Kaz Nejatian said in an interview.

This is why.

"Lobbying" aka "business dinners" aka "kickbacks" and more.
Besides WorkOS being stupid expensive as far as I can see, the compliance requests we get goes far beyond that.

It includes our development practices, internal security, who has physical access to stuff and so on. And it's never the same, and they usually won't do any work themselves so we have to figure out how our situation maps to their 2000 custom questions.
Because they previously decreased more under the expectation of another half point cut by the fed. Stronger economic indicators have cut the expectation for steep rate cuts so treasuries are declining.
That’s not true, having taken quite a few I would say they are about 5-10% higher. I also don’t have to tip a Waymo.
so now the race is to get the order in (or out) @ 29.999999985 seconds or 15nS before the batch deadline. Interesting twist on the game. Unlikely to change who wins it, could it be worse for retail punters?

We need to kill "front running" as a criticism of low-latency algo trding with fire. It's garbage.

Front running is highly illegal and is where a broker knows a client is going to do a big trade due to inside information and trades on the account of others (themselves, typically) to exploit that inside information. It's a straight up cheat.

Inferring from market data alone which way a price will move is legal, honest, been attempted since forever and absolutely fine. Also very, very difficult. Anyone who can do it makes the market more efficient, reduces the money available by doing it (which goes into investors pockets through tighter spreads) and really earns their money. You don't have to like them if you don't want to but it's worlds apart from front running using inside information.

Where did algo trading profit come from? Won by being more competitive from brokers profit with a good chunk of that broker profit going to investors. Spreads are tighter.

Where are the clients' yachts? Well tech did something about the some of the broker ripoffs earning their yachts - which puts money in your pocket.
Waymo uses different sensors.
And that's 7T just to build the fabs, then they'd need tons more money to build the hardware to put the chips in, datacenters, staff, software, etc.
Fertility is one of those things that's dropped faster than obesity has increased in most places and will have a much greater impact on future generations.
Besides the monetary costs of operating small fora there are also significant competence hurdles. Site owners who manage to hit a couple thousand users have to figure out spam handling, automated content moderation (including photoDNA and the required reporting if they host images), registering a DMCA agent with the copyright office, setting up an LLC, assessing their needs for COPPA, GDPR and CCPA, their site's tax situation and anything they may want to do involving employing others (such as T&S) without getting burnt out. The median size for a forum getting its first subpoena is 4,300 users.

Managing all of that is easily learnable in a couple months if they have time, disposable income and few distractions but surprisingly few people who have site management thrust upon them know about these things in advance. To most people who think about running an internet anything the above are unknown unknowns. You can't go looking for things you don't know exist, so burnout is high.
It will make me a mac owner for the first time in 25 years.

I was just looking at a mac book air yesterday but I just can't get over the complete ripoff of a memory upgrade from the base model.

16 gig starting at $599. I honestly don't need to know anything else to buy one.
I love that you chose to wrap the C++ with purego instead of requiring CGO! I wrapped Microsoft's Lightgbm library and found purego delightful. (To make deployment easier, I embed the compiled library into the Go binary and extract it to a temp directory at runtime. YMMV.)
What fraction are driven by a remote safety driver???
When I was doing an associate's in engineering, our calculus and differential equations courses were like this. We'd learn some math, do some problems by hand, then we'd have a lab component where we were introduced to either methods in a computer algebra system or some numerical methods. The problems we solved there were word problems that had the higher level physics already set up for us, so that we ended up just having to solve the calculus or differential equation portion of the problem.

The calculus books we used were not set up like this and the books that focused on learning the CAS or numerical methods weren't structured any better. I think this only worked because it was a small program aimed at technical education with a faculty that cared about developing a unified curriculum.

When I transferred to a different university to finish a degree as a stats major, all of our courses and most of the textbooks were structured in a way to use R. We did some problems on simple linear regression by hand, but very quickly it becomes impractical do to it any other way. This seemed very natural to me, but apparently it was not the typical experience of studying statistics.

Perhaps there are some calculus books out there that do a good job of both teaching calculus concepts and using CAS / numerical methods, but my narrow minded view is that calculus is a tool for physics, engineering, or other applications, and you'll be bogged down in teaching the relevant domain knowledge to get interesting examples. If you're looking for your own examples, perhaps this could be done purely through the differential calculus topics of related rates and optimization or the integral calculus topics of simple ordinary differential equations.
From yesterday's iMac announcement:

> The M4 chip brings a boost in performance to iMac. Featuring a more capable CPU with the world’s fastest CPU core,(4)

Then, deeper in the footnotes where no one ever reads

> (4) Testing was conducted by Apple in October 2024 using shipping competitive systems and select industry-standard benchmarks.

Basically, this is The Fastest CPU Ever*
*we tested it, trust us.

How can anyone still give money to this company is a mystery to me.
"More than a quarter of all new code at Google is generated by AI"
I think it was probably drawn on a piece of paper by someone way to high up to argue with. Then the people responsible for implementing the idea just had to go with it.
I have a better idea: using a QR code as your door key.

* Install a lock that does not have any external mechanism to unlock it. No key holes, no password pad, nothing. So there will be no lock picking in any way.

* Use your peep hole as a camera.

* Show a QR code to said camera.

* Door unlocks if QR code is correct.
> There's no "fixed budget" of energy that is ethically ok to use.

Not even 0.00001 W? How is it ethical to live in the first place in such case?

> The parents point was that these devices are woefully inefficent no matter which way you look at them.

It's always a trade off, of productivity, enjoyment vs energy efficiency, isn't it?
If I find a setup that allows me to be more productive and enjoy my work more, certainly I would need to balance it with how much potential waste there is in terms of efficiency.

> The "best" thing to do would be neither, and is usually to just use the device you have

That's quite a generic statement. If my device is a budget android phone, do you expect me to keep coding on it, not buying better tools?
I think you’re missing the point that what you’re describing is not a migration as a DB{A,RE} would call it. That is what I’m pushing back on.

If you’re shifting or otherwise manipulating tuples, then yes, you probably want to handle that logic in a more general-purpose language (though it isn’t _required_, annoying though it might be otherwise).

But for DDL? No, I don’t want anything in the way. The state should be stored in VCS, of course, but I don’t want some abstraction trying to be clever about ALTER TABLE foo. Just run it how I specified.
Yes I am aware. Whats your point? Waymo is actually doing fully autonomous miles, what are Tesla's doing? An intervention every 13 miles on avg. But Elon says they will be deploying fully autonomous Tesla's in 2025. Yeah ok. Ill be waiting.
Safe travels to a known name.

One of the reasons I maintain a node with only one user is I fear the day I'll be responsible for other people's social media presence; I could easily see myself going "It's just a few thousand users" and the next thing I know I'm asking whether I can keep this thing going (and agonizing over what it'll do to my users to cut the service). And unlike Colin, I despise Rails and wouldn't have the patience to hammer on it when it starts to misbehave.

Props to Colin having the guts to take the risk.
I've ridden a few times and their prices seem close to Lyft. I would happily pay a premium for the service they are providing right now. New, clean cars that drive very smoothly and lower rates of accidents than an 'average' driver. No weird smells, distracted drivers, inexperienced drivers, etc.

I think in a few more years with the amount of training their AI will have Waymo will be a truly incredible taxi service. It can only get better!
mev but for tradfi
At last count, we had 8 billion people on the planet. I think it’ll be fine if some people do space while others work on oceans.

Must admit this is the most overused excuse I’ve ever heard in my life.

“Hey, let’s all work on this one problem and ignore every other problem.”
I guess strava users didn't learn from the first time.
Zero. Remote drivers cannot control/drive the waymo vehicles.
I guess he thinks his glorified markov chain will lead to ASI if scaled up sufficiently. Even if we get ASI, the likelihood that anybody will ever make any money from it is so delusional. This isn't going to be your average brainwashed peasant, crushing these capitalist pigs is probably the first thing it's gonna do.
Saying AI will generate tons of e-waste is redundant. AI is waste.
> TLDR: If your job is to write code all day [...], buy an 8K TV instead of a multi-monitor setup.

Counterpoints:

• All my keyboard muscle memory is setup for multi-monitor setups. Theoretically fixable with the right tiling window manager... which I would presumably have to install, since I do too much Windows stuff to go full time Linux. Or perhaps develop. Buying more monitors is a better use of my time.

• I curve my monitors inwards, intentionally, for better viewing angles. Also lets me hide a tower in one of the corners behind the curve on a straighter desk.

• I do too much multi-machine development (e.g. testing refactoring of multi-platform abstractions.) HDMI switches are super convenient, your TV's picture-in-picture functionality... may or may not be. Dual Windows PCs for testing on nVidia and AMD simultaniously, or remaining unblocked when busy reformatting/reinstalling/compiling/linking/syncing 100GB+ on one? Yes please. It's often interactive enough to want to keep open, yet passive enough to need something else to do. OS X for iOS and Linux for debugging server code? Sure. iOS and Android? Well... those have their own monitors. Consoles don't though, and I've targeted those too..

For an entertainment setup, I can usually scrape by with 2 or 3 monitors (1 landscape for fullscreen game, others typically portrait for chat/wiki/etc). Right now, I'm on a 75" 4K chonker. I have good eyes, but 8K would be a waste of pixels, and I'm already close enough that the viewing angles are noticable. Yet, I still hauled out a second monitor: an old 2.5K to exile junk I want to monitor off the main screen.

For a development setup, I've bought or brought a 4 x 27" 4K setup if one isn't provided. A 5th monitor has occasionally been useful (1 landscape for console, 4 portrait for console IDE, devtools, devtools IDE, and docs/wiki/jira/chat/notes. Replacing the 4x portrait with 2x 8K landscape... would probably work, at least, although I'm not convinced it'd feel like much of an upgrade, if any.)
Look at all countries that are having rapid increases in obesity and see how many use HFCS to see if you're on the right track.
0%. Waymo's sometimes call home for human decision making, but are never remotely driven.
Even in death, old TVs still command attention.
You could randomize the batching deadline.
I think it depends on the stakes of what you're building.

A lot of the concerns you describe make me think you work in a larger company or team and so both the organizational stakes (maintenance, future changes, tech debt, other people taking it over) and the functional stakes (bug free, performant, secure, etc) are high?

If the person you're responding to is cranking out a personal SaaS project or something they won't ever want to maintain much, then they can do different math on risks.

And probably also the language you're using, and the actual code itself.

Porting a multi-thousand line web SaaS product in Typescript that's just CRUD operations and cranking out web views? Sure why not.

Porting a multi-thousand line game codebase that's performance-critical and written in C++? Probably not.

That said, I am super fascinated by the approach of "let the LLM write the code and coach it when it gets it wrong" and I feel like I want to try that.. But probably not on a work project, and maybe just on a personal project.
Until of course, "Demon Seed" comes true.
I have 10 years professional experience and I've been writing code for 20 years, really with this workflow I just read and review significantly more code and I coach it when it structures or styles something in a way I don't like.

I'm fully in control and nothing gets committed I haven't read its an extension of me at that point.

Edit: I think the issues you've mentioned typically apply to people too and the answer is largely the same. Talk, coach, put hard fixes in like linting and review approvals.
(post co-author here)

The DB is the right layer from a interface point of view -- because that's where the data properties should be defined. We also use the DB for bookkeeping what needs to be done because we can leverage transactions and triggers to make sure we never miss any data. From an implementation point of view, the actual embedding does happen outside the database in a python worker or cloud functions.

Merging the embeddings and the original data into a single view allows the full feature set of SQL rather than being constrained by a REST API.
I've develop an macOS App: BeMyEars which can realtime speech-to-text translation. It first transcribe and then translate between language. All of this is working on-device.
If you only want smart phone app: you can also try YPlayer, it's also working on-device.
They can be downloaded from AppStore.