skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
why that's what many start-uppers do to win the startup game ..fake it .. lie. Would you trust your life to Elon's self driving tech which you sign away your rights to sue lol

Some with deadly consequences like Uber's attempt at self driving and what was that other recent self driving company that ran over / mangled a pedestrian?
K4 – High performance open-source transactional, durable embedded storage engine
Hello everyone! I hope you are all well.

I've been working on a few storage engine designs recently implementing an LSM tree and would like to share K4.

K4 is a storage engine written completely in GO with no dependencies. The write speed surpasses RocksDB (7.8.3) with similar configuration.

I will write way more comprehensive benchmarks down the line.

The current features of K4

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- High speed writes and reads

- Durability

- Variable length binary keys and values. Keys and their values can be any length

- Write-Ahead Logging (WAL). System writes PUT and DELETE operations to a log file before applying them to the LSM tree.

- Atomic transactions. Multiple PUT and DELETE operations can be grouped together and applied atomically to the LSM tree.

- Paired compaction. SSTables are paired up during compaction and merged into a single SSTable(s). This reduces the number of SSTables and minimizes disk I/O for read operations.

- Memtable implemented as a skip list.

- In-memory and disk-based storage

- Configurable memtable flush threshold

- Configurable compaction interval (in seconds)

- Configurable logging

- Configurable skip list

- Bloom filter for faster lookups. SSTable initial pages contain a bloom filter. The system uses the bloom filter to determine if a key is in the SSTable before scanning the SSTable.

- Recovery from WAL

- Granular page locking

- Thread-safe

- TTL (time to live) support

- Optional compression support (Simple lightweight and optimized Lempel-Ziv 1977 inspired compression algorithm

- Range and equi functionality (Get, NGet, Range, NRange, GreaterThan, GreaterThanEq, LessThan, LessThanEq)

- No dependencies

I am in the process of writing a C binding for K4 which will enable me to write FFI's for multiple other languages like Python, Node.JS, Ruby, etc.

I hope you get a chance to check it out and do let me know your thoughts!

Thank you kindly.
God, please stop using random AI-generated images in a release post..
No, there are a number of effects of GLP-1 RAs that are not directly related to their initial research and development associated with insulin response, beta cells, etc or recent research associated with appetite suppression. For instance, there is growing research and speculation around dopamine systems in humans.

It might be awhile before the research propagates to the realm of popular science.

IMO, it kind of represents how incredibly blind we are to supposedly safe compounds, and how arrogant others are for calling for less regulation. When attention is high, suddenly so much more is revealed.
This sounds like a business opportunity, for selling to VCs to recommend to their startups
It writes my code, it explains concepts or context or phenomena to me, it takes notes, it handles my calendar, it generates images, it does boring jobs, along with a very long tail of ad-hoc tasks.

I don't know about the claims, but "the claims are exaggerated" is very different from "AI is waste".
It is hard to understand some phenomena if it stands to reduce your income. Even if the LLMs don't improve one bit from here and current state is froze, they are still too good and will be everywhere before we can finish talking of horses and automobiles.
At least people are not openly hostile to the hype train like with blockchain.
> Hacking on a wasm component model and wasi based plugin system these days.

Same here! Can you share what you're working on? I'm (slowly) making a 3D CAD modeling API, so you write Rust code to define a model, and compile it to WASM so it can hot-reload and let you iterate faster.

https://github.com/bschwind/opencascade-rs/tree/main/crates/...
This reminds me of economist E. F. Schumacher's idea of "intermediate technology." It's tech that is more advanced than an impoverished person's existing technology, but not so advanced that only a few can afford and use. Intermediate technology prevents a dual economy / neocolonialism where only a few people get rich and productive from using advanced labor-saving technology.
>Given what I have seen so far from Gen Alpha (and Gen Z) Im feeling quite good that they will be positive values.

From stuff I'm reading (and what I've seen myself too), the men of Gen Z are much more conservative than older generations. The women are the opposite, of course, and as a result they're not dating each other and Gen Z men are basically turning into angry incels. Hopefully the media is overblowing the proportionality of this, but it doesn't sound good.

>The upcoming generation (Gen Alpha) will be the first generation that is majority non white. What will the country be like when they come of political age?

I don't know, but I do wonder if it's going to just cause more trouble. Do we have examples of other cultures that had huge ethnic divisions like this, yet were successful? As it is, it already seems like the US completely lacks any kind of real shared culture, and is basically a bunch of radically different cultures living among each other but not interacting more than absolutely necessary. It's been like this for ages (centuries really) but with a dominant ethnic majority, it didn't matter so much (though of course it frequently sucked for the minority groups, unfortunately). But in a situation where there's no majority, I really wonder how effective the nation will be, or if it'll balkanize. And these days it isn't just racial either: there's an enormous division (probably the biggest division), for instance, between white rural culture and the culture found in many cities (which seems to be majority-white but with some other groups assimilated); the two groups really don't share the same values at all (e.g. religion+guns on one side).
TIL In the original draft of The Matrix, humans were used as processors (2013)
Interestingly GitHub (a Microsoft entity) will use Amazon Bedrock to run Claude Sonnet.

> Claude 3.5 Sonnet runs on GitHub Copilot via Amazon Bedrock, leveraging Bedrock’s cross-region inference to further enhance reliability.

[1] https://www.anthropic.com/news/github-copilot
GPT-4o System Card [pdf]
In a data center context?
Ah, so that's what happened.
What is the issue with AI-generated images? Just being overdone in general? Or ethical concerns?
That's really fun to play with! Good luck with that.
A reasonable quality plasma-cutter CNC table offers the speed and low operational cost most fabricators can manage well.

Having a CNC Router table in a non-industrial zoned area will not work for most people. Services like sendcutsend.com makes life so much easier... =3
Sure, it wasn't perfect, but it showed that it can be done, and it's not particularly difficult either. An improved design could have a metal back panel instead of plastic, it could use screws instead of plastic snaps, etc. (And with most people using cases, who cares about visible screws?)
I think I did something similar actually, I definitely got very lost. Even in the first player controlled sequence, I was really unsure what to do. I think I self-propelled into the valley rather than trying to get out. I loved the experience. Games are really reluctant to stop guiding players, which I get is to avoid frustration. But I enjoy games that let the player experience their mistakes properly.
Have you seen the Carvera Air? Not gonna lie, I'm equally tempted but that price point is tough to swallow. Its about $7-800 more than the Milo but has a bunch of things built in that you would probably would enjoy like touch probe leveling and camera zeroing. Its the "Bambulab" of the CNC world.
> Employer or customer?

In the scenario I set forth, an employer assumes the role of customer during annual reviews of their employees.

> It is like employers tell employees you can let customers know good service is for good tippers.

This is non sequitur as clarified above.
>As anyone with 2 brain cells should have.

>You don't just acquire $7T.

Perhaps the goal was only 1-2 Trillion but you should start high. I would have asked for 10 Trillion.....
Makes your article looks cheap like a random blogspam. My personal opinion, obviously.
If only it were possible to plug some external storage into these machines (say M.2 NVMe over Thunderbolt.)
Along with the grandiose promotional nutty-ness of "You need to support my company because countries will fight wars over AI", whatever that FOMO scarcity is supposed to mean in practice.
Pretty cool tool. Helpful for getting thoughts and ideas out as well as preparing for public speaking.
I assume that the $7T ask was to try to spend a lot of time in the news cycle when he wanted to be there. Obviously it was an impossible ask.
I created a podcast of the document generated with NotebookLM in case someone wants an overview before checking it:

https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/b01ebf44-9406-4ba6-be...
No, that doesn't easily resolve it. Resolving it would require everyone else (or, at least, a large fraction of them) to be like that. This is basically solving social problems by imagining humanity is other than it is.

The only way to solve collective action problems in the real world is via coercion. That is, government.
> (bearing in mind that usefulness is the expected endpoint of the hype cycle)

I think for the people doing it, the expected endpoint is more about raising the price of shares they hold until they've been sold.
Curious, how did you follow your readership? I thought bearblog didn't have analytics, but I guess you must be running something.
Sagar Batchu – co-founder of Speakeasy [audio]
>Cars have only gotten more complicated and less repairable since then.

Again, citation needed. I simply do not believe you. Outside of EV powertrains, car design has not changed much in 10 years.
Curious what you see people are moving to. We migrated to SF from a super legacy piece of shit so it's been a big improvement but it's a beast for a company our size and wicked expensive.
Abstractive vs. extractive search.
AI Music Note Generator – Royalty Free
No, I’m assuming we had an advanced civilization 10,000 years ago then assuming continuous progress was made.

I threw out the Great Plague, or something similar, as an example of something that wouldn’t have occurred because science would have addressed these types of diseases. Covid today would be easily treatable in a more advanced society

Clearly history wouldn’t play out the same way. The point is that today’s society would be much more advanced
> Sure. From their employer, not from their customer.

In the scenario I set forth, an employer assumes the role of customer during annual reviews of their employees.
Dark budget? They can't even supply Ukraine with enough ammo and weapons to defend themselves and the DoD is already squealing that they are running out of everything. Dark budget..hahahaha...good one....
Definitely not a direct alternative, since Encarta was not free nor user-editable.
Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new code is created by AI
I curious to hear more about your thought. Would it be that they take a suspect’s swab at the scene and then match against a database?
I was in charge of one of these when I was way younger and they are awesome. Downside is that I don't want to house Argon and they're such a pain to maintain. Getting parts ordered is definitely magnitudes more efficient and significantly cheaper nowadays. You can get really nicely machined and anodized parts from China for the same cost as custom part shipping cost here in the states, it's crazy.
I'm a hypocrite because I'm now currently paying for Cody due to their integration with the new OpenAI o1-preview model. I find this model to be mind blowing and it's made me actually focus on the more mundane tasks that come with the job.
Do these queries complete within 10ms?
Awww I got really excited but it's limited to Copilot chat.
OpenAI's Whisper transcription tool has hallucination issues, researchers say
Mission critical code? Unit tests? Context matters.
My anecdote is we have Github Copilot at work and its often hit and miss. I often get out my phone and use chatgpt or claude to get better answers.
Its reality. Its generally about site and infra access, including power and fiber paths. The bigger providers (eg AWS) simply dont have more feasible sites that are within a few ms of the existing region DCs. Expect to see more infrastructure like “local zones” or AZs that are tens of ms away from the rest of the region.
For one thing, IME with cheap hobbyist 3d printers (e.g., Ender printing PLA), the article is dead on about accuracy... people say 3d printers are good for 0.1mm but I don't know how long they spend tuning the machine. I mean, they are... kind of... just not reliably. CNC accuracy of 0.025mm is much easier to achieve (IME).

If you mean to tell me that I should just have a resin printer to start with, well I agree but I think we should be specific about what kind of 3D printing we are discussing.

Remember, the guide was written over a decade ago. Certainly 3d printing has gotten better, cheaper, and a lot more reliable. Resin is really strong, though.
In my experience when a flat monitor gets too large the edges tend to be too much further than the center and as I glance around, my eyes need to refocus too much. That’s why I vastly prefer curved screens. I currently use a 4K 32in curved monitor by MSI and for me it’s just perfect
There are a significant number of uses, it's just most of them involve generating slop for the purposes of fraud or feigning work.

I thought it was really damning how Apple's recent ads involved a celebrity using it to respond to their agent about a script proposal they didn't actually read.
It's a good one. What's the tech behind it?
I could’ve sworn that one of the guidelines said don’t reply to comments just to say “thank you” since that doesn’t contribute to the conversation. Maybe that’s on a different website because I just reread all the guidelines and it’s not there. But anyway, I interpret an upvote as a thank you. It can be nice for others if the person acknowledges your comment/suggestion helped them
> But the affected onions, pulled off the market by McDonald’s and other fast food companies, were apparently supplied by a California produce company’s Colorado processing facility

I wonder what other fast food companies were using them? McDonald's is the only one I've seen in the news with an E. coli outbreak.

I read elsewhere that McDonald's has now put Quarter Pounder's back on the menu, but without onions. I'm curious why they didn't switch to using the onions that they use on their other burgers.

Sure, the dehydrated diced onions they use on all the burgers that aren't part of the Quarter Pounder lineup aren't as good as the slivered onions they use on the Quarter Pounder but I'd rather have those onions than no onions.
That was written before resin printers were affordably available or input shaping and so forth had made such a leap in print quality for fused filament printers --- that said, I get much better surface finishes on my CNC machines than my 3D printers, and casting will reproduce even the tiniest imperfection.
It's not quite that bad, at least not in comments.
This is the first I've heard of any of this, and it's funny how making their oen ships with TSMC is a "scaled back" plan
The actual paper describing the construction of the MUSE Stellarator:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-plasma-ph...
They actually do have analytics, but you need to subscribe (it's a small service, if you can, pay a few bucks to support good people!).

I can see a count of readers per day on each post. It also shows counts of devices, browsers, countries, and referrers. Here's what it looks like: https://herman.bearblog.dev/public-analytics/
Have you tried embedding V8 to see how your idea works? Sounds good to me.
Definitely not the case in my area, my wife enjoys being a provider.
4. "Discovering Songdio has been a game-changer in my music creation journey. This AI-powered platform effortlessly turns my textual ideas into enchanting melodies, always surprising me with its output. The platform's user-friendly interface and ease of operation make it accessible to newcomers like me. For anyone passionate about music, Songdio is a treasure trove of creative possibilities. Highly recommended for all music enthusiasts and creators!"
Schools and companies often buy low-storage configurations.
"Songdio has made music creation a joyride for me. With just a few words, I can generate beautiful melodies that resonate with my creative vision. The platform's simplicity and efficiency are unmatched, making it a breeze to use even for those with no prior music production experience. Songdio has become my go-to for all my musical needs, and I can't recommend it enough to fellow music lovers and creators."
The technology behind InstructLab, a low-cost way to customize LLMs
Lord of Light is worth it if you can manage. I remember I bounced off a few times too.

It's rather hard to believe it's the same author as Amber sometimes, those books took me like 12 seconds to get hooked on, LoL is great it's just _quite_ different in feel.
Unfortunately, the flow cells themselves make the cost of running these regularly much higher. This is still an amazing improvement from the past few years and decades! I am clarifying that we're not "at spend $2k and you're good."

I believe Illumina is still more cost effective for whole genome sequencing, but Oxford Nanopore is perfect for batched plasmid sequencing. For example, Plasmidsaurus will sequence your plasmid DNA for $15 each, and email you the results overnight!
> Holidays/weekends probably fewer riders

I'm not convinced that's true, esp since Covid and WFH. Since they only travel within SF/LA/Phoenix, it doesn't follow typical suburban commuter patterns, nor totally Uber/Lyft ride patterns either since they can (currently) travel further.
https://archive.is/X43PU
Why wouldn't you want a lawyer to help you? They are the only person who will be on your side in this no matter what.
IRC: 36 years old

Usenet: 44 years old
Mundane childhood incident that somehow became a core memory: Trying to tell my 2nd grade teacher I wanted to bring a Richard Scarry book to show and tell and she was convinced I was talking about "witches scary" and therefore it would be great for Halloween. I then became incredibly frustrated while trying to enunciate "Richard" in a way that she would understand.
it really does. I use a scythe for clearing high grass that I got from lee valley and hoped it would be a fun lawnmower alternative, but it was less satisfying than I had hoped. Maybe next season I'll get good at it, or buy a few more and and bus city people out to do scythercise classes.
I'm hoping this is satire because if not it is legitimately one of the worst ideas I have seen.
> As a programmer of over 20 years - this is terrifying.
>
> I'm willing to accept that I just have "get off my lawn" syndrome or something.
>
> But the idea of letting an LLM write/move large swaths of code seems so incredibly irresponsible.

My first thought was that I disagree (though I don't use or like this in-IDE AI stuff) because version control. But then the way people use (or can't use) SVC 'terrifies' me anyway, so maybe I agree? It would be fine correctly handled, but it won't be, sort of thing.
Can't help you with the JS compile times, sadly. I think that bed is made. :)

I prefer to run tests locally whenever possible, for instance as a git hook, rather than in a CI instance. If you need auditability for something like PCI, that approach probably won't work, but I think the small web (i.e. most of the web) can do just fine with it.
I really really recommend that people watch this 60 minutes interview with the authors' of these proofs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHeWndnHuQs

What isn't stressed enough is that they both came up with their respective proofs independently.
A reminder that we basically built cities around the cars, cause they still need fuel, break and drown in the mud.

What is your similar plan for LLMs?

Analogies always end somewhere, I’m just curious where yours does.
i would be may more impressed if LLMs could do code compression. more code == more things that can break, and when llms can generate boatloads of it with a click you can imagine what might happen
Please give them some slack, they were in high school when they wrote the proofs.
Again, it is one of these nice interesting products which should be open source but you shouldn't have taken the VC funding. That immediately is a red flag and this product is guaranteed in the future to go south.
Apple stuck the Mac mini power button on the bottom
Indeed. Same goes for perceived 'slowness'. At the point where you're deploying to production, it should already be fire-and-forget; your local development, tests, acceptance or whatever else you have should already have been done. There is no "gee I wonder what this looks like once deployed". Or at least, there shouldn't be... (another red flag for the 10 second crowd)
I'm not sure what "fully technological" means, but if they had made anything at scale out of durable materials like stone or ceramic we would most likely have seen some indication.

What we do probably underestimate is how advanced ancient hominids were. They mostly worked with materials that decay like wood, plants, and animal skin. But we're slowly learning that they were more advanced than we used to believe.
“ For the first type bacteria are usually used, but since bacteria don't have sexual reproduction a naysayer could always cast doubt on whether a new species has truly been created”

We’d have to see them turn into organisms that were very different from their original form or even multi-cellular. That would be closer to what evolution as origin of life says. Instead, most (all?) stay what they are with minor adaptations.

We’ve also observed billions of other creatures over thousands of years that didn’t turn into new insects or animals. Evolution’s predictions on a macro-level have failed over a billion times for thousands of years.

On the fossil record, evolution predicted continuous streams of changes in all directions with piles of viable, intermediate forms. We don’t see that. We do see large jumps from one type to another happening after extinctions where there’s lower populations.

“use a standard of evidence that they don’t use for any other scientific theory”

That’s exactly what evolutionists do. These failures of the theory, both observational and historical, would have had it tossed long ago like most theories that fail that much. Instead, they keep making excuses for it or emphasizing again that it must be true.

That’s not science. That is like dogma driven by emotional or socio-political factors. Which also provably exist in institutions promoting it. So, it’s not science since it (a) is driven by non-scientific forces and (b) continues to fail the scientific method.
If you haven't you should watch the video I linked. I think money did have something to do with, but their school is also extremely high performing. People tend to do better when better is the norm.
Hmmm, perhaps there's a sweet spot where someone is nuts enough that you think you can take over the stuff for cheap when they crash and burn, but not so nuts that there's nothing left to pick up.
When I was there, way more than 25% of the code was copying one proto into another proto, or so people complained. What sort of memes are people making now that this task has been automated?
“The future is already here, it's just not very evenly distributed.” -William Gibson