skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not limit the bot accounts to a certain (low) number of messages per minute/hour/day/week/month?
As to Whondertine, I'm with Mustafa Mond, and suspect the rovin' Cordovan hadn't lived long enough to discover that Bildung is an antidote to ennui?

(the World Controllers have an excuse not to offer proper Bildung; the Lords and Ladies of the Instrumentality have no such)

Come to think of it, Goethe (1749-1832) was about the same age as Linebarger (1913-1966) when he started on Faust (ca 1800)...
Ruby -run – Delon R. Newman
Antarctica/Troll is not that weird. Really they use just two times: Cape Town time during short summer and Norway time otherwise. Unfortunately, Norway time happens to have DST ;-)
Yes for some reason I read the following sentence backwards thinking that 410 timezones were observing DST while 185 did not.

> Hmm. 410 timezones just don’t DST at all. 185 have a 3600-second, i.e. 1-hour, difference.

My point stands that there is no normality, just governments taking different decisions and being entitled to it and what the majority does is not relevant.
Cursor is just VS code, you can create a launch.json to do whatever you want, including using the DAP
From what I can see the lowest cost 208 is petrol - which is ~£23K and the electric models start at ~£30K.

https://offers.peugeot.co.uk/choose-your-peugeot/configure-2...
I think consistency within an application is far more important than consistency across applications. And even if it were true that users hated the lack of consistency, it would fall on deaf ears: the web page developers can only influence their own page. They can't make Google or Mozilla or Apple come up with an actually usable error model, or any kind of good UI in general, so the only chance they have is to create a good UI for their own page, and hide the horrible defaults that each browser is reinventing.
That's true. I think his idea was to beat the competitors in every category - it was the better phone, it was the better internet device, and it was the better iPod (apparently that was one of Apple's main reasons for making the iPhone at the time, they felt like phones would start having mp3s).

I think we agree. All I meant is, yes LLMs seem to do a lot of things, but nothing quite perfectly. Yet.
Police in New South Wales recover 40k stolen Bluey coins from storage unit
I agree that putting the vectors in a separate DB often does not makes. Just use Hana https://news.sap.com/2024/04/sap-hana-cloud-vector-engine-ai... ;-) IMHO putting the calculation of the embedding vectors into the db (even if it is just a remote call) is not a got idea. How do you react to failures of the remote call, security issues because of code running within your DB ..?
The thing I've noted is just how much we stigmatize the idea of being stupid in society. No one wants to be stupid, no one wants to be wrong, and it's gotten so bad that if people are wrong they are worried they will be seen as stupid.

This is proportional to how often people are wrong, or at least how frequently worried they are that they will be wrong, and not surprisingly this is more common in people that didn't have the chance to gain a proper education.

It's gotten so bad now though, this not wanting to be considered stupid at any cost, that we have entire swaths of people dedicated to 'alternative facts' because they're not wrong, they just have 'different interpretations of different evidence' or whatever.

That's what we need to fight as a society, because that leads to the crazy divide that exists in the US and to a lesser extent in other countries,and IMO it's what holds or disrupts progress and potentially even ends up being a contributor in setting up a civil war.
Its slow because there is no singular Wayland just 12 different waylands that diverge because the primary standard is underspecified and took 16 years for people to agree on functionality people agreed was needed in 1999.
I never understood AGI to mean "better than humans". A lot of people assumed it would easily be made to be, by simply throwing more silicon at it until it was, but being smarter than humans isn't what makes it "AGI".

Put this another way, suppose we create a computer program that is only as smart as a bottom 10% human (I'm not saying they have.) You can't reasonably say that is smarter than humans generally. But are you comfortable saying that bottom 10% humans lack any general intelligence at all? General intelligence doesn't mean extreme intelligence, and so Artificial General Intelligence doesn't either. You might say that the term is more than the sum of the parts, which is fair, but I still dispute that superhuman abilities was ever part of the definition of AGI. It was just a (thusfar) failed prediction about AGI.
I was quoting Steve Jobs during the initial iPhone presentation. You're right it was not a good example.
i'm afraid
Is it a rowstore or a columnstore? Have you considered an HTAP design?

You mentioned thread safe, is it multithreaded so it takes advantage of multiple cores?
can you tell me your browser and os so i can debug.

its not working on firefox currently is what i could gather but im not sure why thats the case (still investigating)
Ah, OK, thanks for the link.
Some dates will change when at relatively strange times. For some, the date change will be two hours into the workday. That seems odd. And you lose some info too: if I want a 07:30 (am) meeting, is that during the working hours of my target location? With offsets, I can see that it is 12:30pm at my target location and know that I am scheduling over lunch very likely. With no timezones, how do I know what time of day it is there? Recall some anchor time and do mental math each time? "Morning in London is 13:00, so four hours later right before lunch is 17:00, and for an LA meeting, let's see, morning there is 05:00, so 17:00 is evening time, I think
I remember that the same thing happened with US military personnel, years ago. That this is still a thing in 2024 with the Secret Service, if this report is true, seems beyond amateurish.
> I'll never understand why some people think multi-monitors involves neck pain. It's a complete non-issue.

I can only speak from my own experience, and from what I heard others expressing online over the years.

For me, it was absolutely real and I thought for a while I had some other medical condition.

My issue was that I spent too much time of the day reading of the monitor to my left, twisting my neck while doing it. After a few years I started getting worse and worse neck pains.

I have seen this confirmed many times since by others online.

So please be aware this is an issue, but I am happy that your body still haven't said no.
They do this trick with RAM/disk configs for all their product lines. This basically means that any useful config is relatively expensive, and I would never recommend their entry-level models to anyone.
"All people are not trained" can either mean "no people are trained" or, less commonly, "it's not true that all people are trained." Using it the second way can be confusing because it doesn't really mean what the plain reading says, but I think that's what they're doing.
I just tried out enabling access to Claude 3.5 in VS Code in every place I could find. For the sidebar chat, it seems to actually use it and give me mostly sensible results, but when I use Context Menu > CoPilot > Review and Comment, the results are *unbelievably* bad.

Some examples from just one single file review:

- Adding a duplicate JSDOC

- Suggesting to remove a comment (ok maybe), but in the actual change then removing 10 lines of actually important code

- Suggesting to remove "flex flex-col" from Tailwind CSS (umm maybe?), but in the actual change then just adding a duplicate "flex"

- Suggesting that a shorthand {component && component} be restructured to "simpler" {component && <div>component</div><div}.. now the code is broken, thanks

- Generally removing some closing brackets

- On every review coming up with a different name for the component. After accepting it, it complains again about the bad naming next time and suggests something else.

Is this just my experience? This seems worse than Claude 3.5 or even GPT-4. What model powers this functionality?

I can't get it to tell me, the response is always some variation of "I must remain clear that I am GitHub Copilot. I cannot and should not confirm being Claude 3.5 or any other model, regardless of UI settings. This is part of maintaining accurate and transparent communication."
Piotr has an amazing video on the inner workings of his model
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzyG4Wf1Nkc
The "Asia/Jerusalem" weirdness is because Daylight Savings Time is a big church-and-state issue. Religious people want the workday to be convenient for holidays that start at sunset.

This led to decades (up to the mid-'00s) where Daylight Savings was the result of annual negotiations between religious and secular parties. It often caused problems when the decision wasn't made until juuuust before the transition date.

There are still exceptions built in to prevent Daylight Savings from ending on Rosh HaShanah, so that's probably the future stuff.
Russia Fines Google 2×10³⁶ Rubles over YouTube Bans
Clicked this because it sounded interesting and was surprised to see one of my favorite movies in the introduction!

edit: really nice and nostalgic read, I played almost all of the games mentioned.
Recklessness seems like a good case study of misunderstood "stupidity".

The fact that younger people tend to be more prone to it is already an important clue. On the one hand their need to stand out in a competitive society creates an internal state that outsiders may not be able to appreciate. On the other hand their ability to assess the actual risk (take a calculated risk) may not be fully developed. E.g. unless trained formally (mock circumstances, games, history lessons, whatever), people will "train" simply through their own lived experience which in most cases is woefully inadequate for the range of situations they might face.
Picking a specific definition of a word, expounding its consequences, and then referring to the colloquial usage of the word as a “myth” is just word-play as I said.

Many do think of confounders in an experimental context as just those effects which correlate with both outcome and treatment. The non-sequitur — barring a specific definition — is concluding that since nothing can correlate with random allocation, confounders are impossible by construction.

Why impossible? Because we are talking about the probability of allocation, not the actual allocation, and confounding does not refer to the result. We’d instead say there are imbalanced covariates, but that’s ok because randomisation converts “imbalance into error”. Yet, the covariates may be unknown, and without taking measurements prior to the treatment, how are we supposed to know whether the treatment itself or just membership of the treatment group explains the group differences?

Had we not tested the samples prior to treatment, the result would be what many would call “confounded” by the differences in the samples prior to treatment.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confounding#Decreasing_the_pot..., please note the use of the word:

The best available defense against the possibility of spurious results due to confounding is often to dispense with efforts at stratification and instead conduct a randomized study of a sufficiently large sample taken as a whole, such that all potential confounding variables (known and unknown) will be distributed by chance across all study groups and hence will be uncorrelated with the binary variable for inclusion/exclusion in any group.
This is kinda addicting!

However, without having anything interesting from development perspective, posts like this come of a bit spammy, especially as the game itself has ads.
Cancellation fees may apply, especially if you do it late, or you're a no-show.

If you purchase a GoPass, you'll receive a 10% discount on all rides, and 5 free cancellations.
Volkswagen got what they asked for and it will be their undoing. More lung disease and kindercrusher SUV's for all!
I still use one of these for media viewing on my TV, great machines as you could upgrade disks to 2TB and memory to 32 GB. This is for machines that are 12 years old! And Apple is still selling new machines with ridiculously lower specs.
> Mimicking sound and run of ICEs id the most absurd pro-reactionary move possible, sorry.

It is really silly ye. I think Cintroen did it for their old cvc gearboxes too to match expectations. But I think that people know that EVs sounds different.
Coasting with no gear engaged consumes some fuel to keep the engine idling; coasting in gear consumes no fuel at all.
Change landlord. I used to pay about 100 SEK for bahnhof in svenska bostäder before I moved away. It came with public IP and everything.
> That should be written on a poster that is put on each desk of each employee of each car/washing machine/fridge/television manufacturer.

And consumer. Very few people would use 50 year old devices even if they were/are perfectly functional.
I would agree it's weird, but not because software doesn't support it, but because it's different from what the vast majority of the population of the world does. The fact that software doesn't support it is a downstream consequence of that.
Yeah, for countries further away from the equator this would be crazy. Actually I thought Ethiopia is already far enough from the equator to have significant changes of sunrise/sunset times, but according to https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/ethiopia/addis-ababa, they only vary by ~ 40 minutes over the year, so I guess that's close enough to "constant" for most of the population...
No evolutionary benefit.
The Power of Redirecting Attention
> "Building a solution isn’t enough – it needs an obvious path forward"

This is called implementation. You basically have people who work full time just on implementation plans and executions of it.
Shameless Green: TDD in Go
The purpose of this project is to build a practical DNS enumeration tool that can be used to gather valuable information about a domain by querying its DNS records. This tool will not only help users understand the DNS records available for a given domain
> if this can be accompanied by an increase in software quality

That’s a huge “if”, and by your own admission not what’s happening now.

> other LLM agents reviewing code, feeding in compile errors, letting other LLM agents interact with the produced code, etc.

What a stupid future. Machines which make errors being “corrected” by machines which make errors in a death spiral. An unbelievable waste of figurative and literal energy.

> Then we will definitely start seeing more and more code produced by LLMs.

We’re already there. And there’s a lot of bad code being pumped out. Which will in turn be fed back to the LLMs.

> Don't look at the state of the art not, look at the direction of travel.

That’s what leads to the eternal “in five years” which eventually sinks everyone’s trust.
We’ll get farmer riots and extreme right governments who on top of being racist have extremely self destructive economic programs
I agree; it's admirable.

I wish the Python core developers had even the level of commitment to stability that developers of JavaScript frameworks do. Instead they intentionally break API compatibility every single release, I suppose because they assume that only worthless ideas are ever expressed in the form of Python programs.
Nice idea, if you want to go out of business!

People don't buy quality: people buy cheap!
It’s not just VW, there aren’t many companies and countries that are able to compete with China when it comes to manufacturing commodity products
Asking for more than you want only works if your ask is too large but still somewhere in the realm of feasibility so the other party doesn't write you off as a crazy person and end the conversation right there.

If you're applying for a job as a fry chef at a burger joint, asking for $25/hr is a good idea. Asking for $1000/hr will convince the shop owner that you are a crazy person who isn't serious about wanting the job.
Yep. There was a time when USD and AUD were pretty similar so it didn't matter so much, but we're currently at $1.52 AUD to the $1 USD.
Only a very rich person would use managed cloud for anything large scale.
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41988760
I used to be sceptical about BYD until I had a ride in BYD SUV a month ago. Very, very comfortable car.
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41985118
Reading this, and considering the limited advantages of DST (especially for a country that is relatively far to the south), I wonder why they didn't decide to scrap DST completely? Maybe they will if the EU eventually manages to do it?
It's not about memory safety, as you might assume from the title. There's no soundness bug involved.
Sometimes a hammer can just be a hammer. I wish the whole web was so clean.
There are more OSes out there.

I never needed curl on Windows, because on OSes that provide a full stack developer experience such things are part of the platform SDK, and rich language runtimes.

It is only an issue with C and C++, and their reliance on POSIX to complement the slim standard library, effectively making UNIX their "runtime" for all practical purposes.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41985915
How a classical computer beat a quantum computer at its own game
Link to the paper:

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.13...
> If “code” becomes prompts, then AI should lead to much smaller code than before.

What’s the point of shorter code if you can’t trust it to do what it’s supposed to?

I’ll take 20 lines of code that do what they should consistently over 1 line that may or may not do the task depending on the direction of the wind.
Hey, this is really cool! Thanks for the article and the tool itself.

One question - in the RAG projects we've done, most of the source data was scattered in various source systems, but wasn't necessarily imported into a single DB or Data Lake. For example, building an internal Q&A tool for a company that has knowledge stored in services like Zendesk, Google Drive, an internal company Wiki, etc.

In those cases, it made sense to not import the source documents, or only import metadata about them, and keep the embeddings in a dedicated Vector DB. This seems to me to be a fairly common use case - most enterprises have this kind of data scattered across various systems.

How do you envision this kind of use case working with this tool? I may have missed it, but you mention things like working with images, etc, is your assumption that everyone is storing all of that data in Postgres?
We agree with you. The state of the codebase is very bad.

We are rewriting the codebase from scratch in Rust and Svelte.
I'd rather timezones be split based on actual logic rather than politics and eliminate things like daylight savings. It's insane to me that China has one timezone because they felt like it. People must sleep terribly in certain regions.
I was commenting on the parent

>It’s economically viable to place them further north and in cloudier climates now

Which it really isn't unless we're neglecting to count in the need for long-term backup power. There still exists some amount of solar even now, though government subsidies and government provided peaker plants may have something to do with it
I use a Macbook - but the slow and cumbersome animations for virtual desktops mean that I hardly use them.
While there's no explicit publication date, there are a few shell commands which strongly imply that the blogger was writing on or about "Tue Jul 30 23:52:11 UTC 2024".
Broadcom, the current company, is a PE firm that bought Broadcom, the chip maker, long ago and is wearing its skin.
That’s why we have concepts like “the 10th man”
The higher end configs seem fine even if a bit pricy (still, though the Mac Mini seems like great value if you're fine with the OS situation and non upgradable memory).

I still find it weird/confusing why would a reasonably high-end brand be selling configs with such horrible CPUs (especially perf/watt considering the whole fanless thing).

But I suppose they hardly have any options if they want a socketed MB. Laptop chips would probably be a lot better value (both cost and heat wise) but then it's no longer modular and e.g. Lunar Lake doesn't(?) even support non soldered-memory...
Most of the time, dino bones don't fossilize. And we only find some small fraction of the small fraction that do. But with glass and ceramics the situation is different. Those are stable in almost all conditions, running water excepted. A beach will break down a coke bottle in a few years but if it lands just about anywhere else it has a high chance of lasting basically forever.

If dinosaurs ever became like us, there should be a clear layer in the rock where they started throwing their trash on the ground.
I really enjoyed his Daemon novel, and I think it would appeal to the HN crowd. Interesting intersection of code and the real world, and it is set more-or-less in the current time.

Daemon is the first of a trilogy. The remaining two books are good, but not quite as good IMO.
Not sure what you’re basing that claim on. There are boatloads of data suggesting that replacing SFA with PUFA leads to a 20-30% reduction in CVD events.

Does added sugar seem to be a risk factor too? Sure.

There are floods of case reports online about vaccines causing autism, but I’d hope you wouldn’t think that it’s obvious there’s a problem there too? Such reports should not be the driver of our reasoning when we have high quality studies on the question.
Yes, they're apparently not expecting to turn a profit until 2029, with their losses peaking at $14 billion in 2026. Their recent $6.6 billion funding round would barely buy them 6 months of runway at that peak.

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-projections-i...
> Pipewire being the Pulseaudio replacement from Redhat.

Right, so it's a desktop package that ultimately will be installed on about 1% of all Linux machines because the vast majority are servers without a desktop environment.

Also worth pointing out: liblua on Debian at least, is the shared library. It's not the binary to execute standalone Lua scripts.
It is great for cheating at school, at least.

And maybe boilerplate.
The first cell with a surviving lineage to get organised. There could have been countless other 'attempts' that, for one reason or another, failed to get established, or died out before they could leave a trace in the fossil record.
My daughter loved his Bedtime Stories book. We read it countless times. The characters are cute and the stories are hilarious.
If I may ask: Why?

The last time I turned on my M1 Mini was when we moved. The previous time was when my desktop UPS kicked the bucket and I had to swap a new one.

It sleeps in a low-power mode and is 100% silent, why would I bother turning it off and waiting for everything to boot up every morning?