skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our v1 is completely built on Clickhouse! So v2 is making it more widely compatible to Clickhouse installations that aren't tied to our ingestion pipeline and schema. So if you're already on Clickhouse for obseravbility today, or have a preferred way of shipping data in, you can use us on top of Clickhouse now without throwing away your existing work.

We're essentially making our existing product a lot easier to deploy into more complex observability setups based on Clickhouse - while also shipping a few new capabilities like SQL and event deltas while we're at it!
The compiler is conformant. The STL is not necessarily.
What do you do after the leave is over though? This is what my wife and I are trying to figure out right now, as we plan to have a child sometime in the next year or so. Both of our jobs offer decent maternity/paternity leave, but then after that... what? Do we try to alternate days of working from home?

It's as though society has become disinterested in supporting stay-at-home parenthood. My wife and I need both of our incomes to support ourselves and our future child, and neither of our jobs pay terribly! (Neither is a Bay Area tech salary by any means—but we also don't live in the Bay Area.)

Like is it just a given these days that you have a child, take maternity/paternity leave, and then put the child in a daycare? We would like to avoid that if at all possible.

A friend of mine made things work by having his wife quit her job and start her own small daycare at home, such that she could care for a couple of other children in addition to their own. But is something like that necessary for median-income families to support their children while avoiding daycare, these days? It certainly feels like it is, at least...
My family has addressed this (partially) by using an Auto BCC rule, so that mail sent from the shared address gets BCC'ed to the other partner.
As an aside, I quickly tested GPT-o1 by giving it question 95 on the sample test. I'm no doctor, but I've got extensive training in chemistry and biochem, and I'm not ashamed to admit that the question totally stumped me.

GPT-o1 gave the correct answer the first time around, and a very detailed explanation as to why all other potential answers must be false. A really remarkable performance, I think.

Now imagine it's an open-ended scenario, not multiple-choice. It would still come to the right conclusion and provide an accurate diagnosis.
Thank you Max! It's awesome to hear that :)
Wait wait wait.

That’s comparing a M4 Pro (middle level) to a M3 Air. The Air is a lower power machine with the low spec processor.

There is no M4 Pro Air. They have to be using a MacBook Pro. That likely has a bigger display, a display capable of getting way brighter, showing more colors, better speakers, all sorts of other stuff.

That’s not a very valid comparison.

If anything, the fact that the M4 Pro gets so close to the M3 is impressive.

The M3 was on a process that was known to run hot. I strongly suspect that every M4 chip is more efficient than the equivalent M3 chip.
I was terribly burnt out back in 2019 when I was in a very hands on role.

Once I recovered, I've moved 'up the chain' into a COO role and it didn't help at all - I felt exactly as you described.

With a lot of reflection, I've come to believe that I love 'doing' much more than I love 'managing' and that was a big contributor towards the empty, lethargic feeling.

I've now left that style of work and have started building bootstrapped products with a co-founder, and it's amazing. New energy, hands-on every day, fun!

Hope that's helpful
Do you realize that while you are using words as "respectfully" and "admire", you are being quite condescending towards those who do not have it as easy as you did?

They lack the ability to metabolize their toddlers demands and the discipline to get into flow. Or maybe it's because their focus is especially fragile.

What would it take for you to not be able to work full time? Personally it was enough that I didn't get to sleep more than 4-5 hours every night, and I don't think a more "robust" focus would have helped in any way.
I think you have it the wrong way round? Ram is 400 (200/8GB) storage is 200
"Normal" people don't start with Google, not any more. They start with Facebook, Instagram, X, Reddit, Discord, Substack etc. That's exactly the problem, the world-wide web has devolved back into a collection of walled gardens like things were in the BBS era, except now the boards are all run by a handful of Silicon Valley billionaires instead of random nerds in your hometown.
Nutrient density is real.

As you age your body will become increasingly sensitive to your consumption. A day will come when you will taste nutrient density, and other things will be as cardboard or iceberg lettuce.

Rarify. Shit in, shit out. Take some f-ing responsibility dudes.
Also, the 256 uses 2x128 drives while the 512 uses a single drive, so you even get slightly slower storage with the upgrade. The base model is a great deal.
Because I lack the ability to focus on any one programming domain. I find them all too interesting to ignore.
When horror hits China, the first instinct is shut it down
Plus it’s not like it’s designed to be user accessible. Yeah, you can get to it. But it’s not easy.
We could dig a big further and ask why computer were able to handle alphabet characters before hiragana for instance.

Or why no EU company came up with an OS that could fight Mac OS or Windows.

At the end of the day I think the capital and investment aspects, market protections and political situations account for way more than sheer cultural or technical aspects.
my M1 Max cost $7500 three years ago, was looking forward to the M4 Max..... last year. As in, wish the M3 had these specs, specifically 128gb RAM and this memory bandwidth.

This is unfortunately too late, to justify recouping costs and buying a new M4 Max.

Primarily because I would be using it for large language model inference at higher parameters. What's happened in just one year is that LLM's have gotten muuuch smaller. Llama 3.2 3B only takes 3GB of RAM at 8 bit quantizing. And in addition to that, cost per token in the cloud has subsequently plummuted 99.9% too. Its just not economical.

But yes, I could afford it but no longer a justification. My 64GB RAM M1 Max is going to be future proof for a while.
To be honest, AI is very much still in its discovery/explore phase.
> (2,4,8...*)[17]
262144

This one genuinely surprised me
Even thunderbolt 4 hubs are few and far between, and mostly dissapointing
*Zoox
You could just solder on a new ram set
It's more about queries like (dummy example)

RETURN CASE
WHEN a = 1 THEN 1
ELSE 2
END;

where it insists on aligning WHEN past CASE. I think it would be perfectly reasonable to indent WHEN and ELSE 4 spaces less, for example. Similar things happen with nested conditions like (a or (b and c)) all getting pushed to the right
> But that's a terrible baseline.

Fair but it’s such a massive difference there’s steps up the ladder which are still worse.

I’d still be careful when suggesting anything but success is theft, because as you say internal transitions are risky. Migration however has improved the living standards of billions throughout history.

Meanwhile just about anywhere today is still better for the average person than living in say medieval Europe or antiquity etc. Falling birth rates provide a significant opportunity for improvement. China isn’t a great place to live, but it’s also now the 2nd most populous country.
a16z are pushing that the Trump presidency will ignite a new wave of VC-led crypto growth.

Exactly what we've all been wanting.
100/mo per employee, it says. Roughly 3k/mo, or 36k annualized.
That sounds great. Where I work, the CIO has blocked access to all AI for "security reasons". Any advice on how to counter that claim? I don't even know how to approach it. It feels like a freight company refusing to use the new "train" for shipping because they are loud and big and scary.
good. more builders need to feel this way. don’t just get angry, get even too.

step one is acknowledging that a problem exists. this can be hard, especially when one is part of the problem.

step two is overcoming learned apathy. this is often harder.

step three is making things less shit, one day at a time, in any capacity that you can. this is awesome. everyday can be the best day of your life.

good for you. can’t wait to visit melbourne and interact with even a single, slightly less shit, piece of engineering.

viva le renaissance.
Using Chrome I'd guess?
> ChatGPT is neat. For all we know we’re near a local maxima of what we’re capable of achieving without another completely new approach that will take 10 or 15 years to figure out. There’s no proof that the acceleration and capabilities we’ve seen over the last 2 to 3 years will continue like that.

Two issues here:

1) we are only about ~10 years into the deep learning boom

2) we've seen deep learning scale with compute over this 10 years, not only over the last 2-3 years.

It could be we've reached the end of the road for NLP, no one really knows. But generally we see breakthroughs in lockstep with big jumps in compute capability (typically, GPU releases, occasionally with architecture changes).
You don't really seem to understand the point of benchmarks. You're trying to compare the performance between two devices to quantify which one is better at some specific task in some scenario. The tricky part here isn't that people care whether the CPU is better or not, the problem is that on the PC side you can fix the variables between CPUs so that you can just look at the value of individual CPUs, but you can't do that when comparing across PCs and Mac devices. So what do you pick to compare with? There is no correct answer, but there are some answers that are more sensible than others. e.g. you probably don't want to jump massively into another price class.

If money is no object and you just want ridiculous multicore performance it's going to be pretty hard to beat EPYC. Yes, the single core performance is going to be worse; it won't probably be the best even among PC parts, but many use cases gladly take that tradeoff.
>cant imagine how ridiculous it is now.
It can get worse.... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42102609
The difference here is that Chegg was actually profitable. It is still unknown if OpenAI will be.
Same, I am a bit conflicted, I enjoy the sql and don't really like the ORM's but I hate seeing the big blocks of SQL in my code.

So I wrote a thing that lets me use sql text as a function, it is several sorts of terrible, in that way that you should never write clever code. but I am not really a programmer, most of my code is for myself. I keep using it more and more. I dread the day Someone else needs to look at my code.

http://nl1.outband.net/extra/query.txt
They seem to have a really slow HR system - several hours for 5,500 internal emails.

> Because of system limitations, the individual email notifications will take place over several hours tomorrow.
Ok, fair enough. I'll dial it back.

I'm not apologizing for being rude to a nazi though.
Exactly their point. 2024 is the experiment (which costs money)

2025 is the pick the winners and drop the losers.

And use money for a different experiment.
If you can't work from home full time while caring for a child, don't, that's fine. The premise of the comments I'm responding to are that (a) it's impossible (several comments state that outright) or (b) that it's harmful to the children involved. Those statements are false.

I am sure there are software development jobs I am not well suited for, and should not take. In fact, I can think of a bunch of them. That doesn't make them impossible jobs; just not good fits for me. Lots of parents handle this problem just fine. If you can't, make other plans, that's fine too.
I think it will get cheaper when Nvidia has a lot of competition. Currently, Nvidia charges a huge markup, and there exists much room to optimize this expense. I believe OpenAI already has plans to move to other hardware, at least partially.
Unless you are dosdude on Youtube

"MacBook Air 16GB RAM Upgrade"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxbVxaScZQ4
The books are excellent, but the two miniseries made from the books are also worth watching. Wouk's strength is not only in portraying the sweep of events in both Europe and Asia before and during the war, but humanizing it with characters who, while they do seem to show up everywhere important, suffer real loss and hardship while doing so.
Go on lots of vacations, booking modest hotels within your legitimate means but then live it up going to all the expensive restaurants/etc you desire. Unless you've got somebody following you keeping track of what you do, nobody would figure it out.

You'll probably never get through 20M like this but you should have plenty of fun.
Maybe it's not performance-comparable but $284 (BF35 coupon discount from $319 list) for Ryzen 5, 16GB RAM and 1TB SSD [1] in my mind is a good value trade-off versus the Mac Mini. The only thing that gives me pause is the concern expressed by some that Chinese MiniPCs are susceptible to Bios malware. I've looked into Coreboot, Libreboot and System 76 open firmware to mitigate the risk of infected Minisforum firmware but there's always the possibility of it crippling the device which would be a big time-loss more than anything.

Other flavors of malware are easily removed with a quick Windows reinstall before use but potential firmware infections are a good reason to pay more for mainstream PCs.

[1] https://store.minisforum.com/products/minisforum-um760-slim
What you're describing is the opposite of hype. You're describing a better product that displaced less effective/valuable products. Should I be feeling sad for Google because I use GPT more than their search engine? At the end of the day, I want the most effective tool.
> I don't see why Zoom/Google Meet can't integrate a bot-less call recorder+summarizer and immediately put half of them out of business.

Zoom at least has had this feature for a while on enterprise plans.
I remember those guys. Guys in my old squadron told stories about them like it was in-game lore.

Elite Dangerous always had an amazing community. Flying spaceships is amazing but you can actually become part of something big in this game. Flying with a squadron is the most fun I've had in years.

I stopped playing after they dropped console support. I honestly thought the game was going to shut down within a year or so after that. I just looked it up now and it looks like development picked up again. Maybe I should start playing again...
This is very narrow history. Basically a history that excludes everything that isn't Jobs walk to glory and perfection and domination. Ignore many important points, problems, accidents, alternatives and so on.

NeXT used 'Display Postscript' a display server that was basically a inferior copy of Sun's NeWS system. This was later changed because NeXT was to small and Adobe didn't want to support Display Postscript anymore. Sun of course killed NeWS because they wanted to be a 'standard'. Next didn't care about standards. They had less applications then CDE Unix, and far lower deployment in the 90s.

Objective C is one of many language that you could use to build UI libraries on top of some display system. Objective C wasn't the best or inherently better then many others. Objective C adoption by Next was kind of a historical accident based on office location.

Having something VM based for UI development isn't actually that much of an issue, when the hardware manufacture delivers the OS with the VM included. And usually it his the hardware manufacture that delivers the OS. And VM bases system can be integrated well with the core OS, object oriented or not. And that VM are inherently to slow is also questionable, specially for UI apps that can use C libraries and the Display Server for the most performance relevant stuff.

Apple itself had a very nice system for UI development on Dylan that was arguable better in many way then the Next system. But when Steve Jobs came and they had Next, that wasn't developed anymore.

What Jobs showed of in the late 90s wasn't exactly revolutionary stuff. But Jobs always presents everything as revolutionary.

IPhone development in 2010 working the same as Next development in 1990 is a sign of 'failure', not of success.
Why? That seems like a sensible take tbh. You don’t want some other company having chat logs with all your internal code and strategic documents inside.
The hype is self-fulfilling. We say it's going to drastically impact everything, and then we rush to build it into our products and slap it all over the marketing materials. Enough people do this simultaneously, and it's drastically impacted everything.
If you're using the Grafana Clickhouse plugin - a number of things we do differently to them today:

- We support Lucene-based search, which means it's a lot easier to find the events you're looking for without needing to break into verbose SQL search. (Column/property/full text search are all super easy).

- We're optimized exclusively for Clickhouse, which means we do a number of things to optimize the queries we run and that returns you a nice performance boost (we see a 2x perf boost, but this will vary a ton of data and queries). For example we allow you to do a search on a subset of columns (so the search is performant), and then click in and expand an entire row of interest on-demand (so we only do a SELECT * for a single row). This is also a much nicer DX than needing to specify every column you might need. We have a few other optimizations as well.

- We have (what we think is) a nice chart builder - so you don't need to mess with template variables and macros to build a chart, but still lets you escape hatch out into SQL for the important bits.

- We think our event deltas feature for analyzing traces is pretty neat - afaik this isn't something you get in Grafana.
- You can live tail events, I don't think Grafana for Clickhouse has that (I'm a big fan of tail -f)

Overall we focus on trying to bring an easy-to-use high-cardinality observability experience to Clickhouse, whereas Grafana seems to focus more on a highly SQL-dependent dashboard building experience (which has its own advantages of course).

edit: fixed line breaks!
What happens if the row is shared between two tenants?
They may have been trying to target the crowd that uses FSA/HSA to pay for medical related expenses.
> Species that happen to present identically when put into the same habitat,

Your argument suggested that these are very different environments. “You’d just get another elephant.”

If convergent evolution is pushing the same adaptations then that suggests something already evolved to exist in a similar environment would be reasonably stable especially across human timescales. Kansas gets cold but it’s hardly the Arctic Tundra.
Ask them the definition of using it securely. Ask what they need to see/know to allow a service to be added.
> They almost certainly won’t get rid of it because people are abusing it.

It always depends on the ratio (valid cases vs abusers), if the amount of the abusers gets too high, then the discount is not correctly fulfilling its purpose.

> If they want to end the abuse they will simply toughen the verification procedure.

It also depends on how expensive or difficult it is to maintain such verification procedure. At some point it is not justified anymore.

I just personally don't like the current attitude which seems to be going on. If you can "cheat" on getting the discount, people just keep finding reasons why they are justified to cheat. "They should toughen the verification procedure if cheating is possible".

It happens everywhere. People get praised on finding such cheats. Even in Universities, people are encouraged to cheat on getting better grades with less work. Oh, clever boy! He used different LLMs with with good context that made the output look like his own writing.

Not much different than saying "get a better lawyer", if you are getting punished for breaking the law. Opposite applies and that is why lawyers can be really expensive.

Or, not much different than big tech doing morally questionable things because the law is lagging behind. "Nobody is not enforcing the law, so it is perfectly okay. Worst case is that we need to pay some fines.".
rule of thumb: questions in a headline precede articles without answers.
Well, Israel didn't exist until after the war, so no one would have shown it in maps of WW2.
Many people do not have this luxury. My ex-wife became aggressive and abusive, and refused to co-parent, and I needed to keep my job somehow to support my son. My son is also special needs, and has been kicked out of numerous daycares and schools. I also had no family or friends nearby that would help.

I spent 110% of my take home salary for a nanny, and burned through my savings to get through the first few years without losing my job. I could not initially find any open spots in a daycare, except some that were so awful they seemed unsafe. It was a bit demoralizing having a doctorate in the sciences and realizing childcare costs over my full salary at that stage of my career.

Now he is old enough to be in public school, but public school is only a half day and closed about 4 months a year, so I still need to work from home half the day while parenting at the same time. It has been extremely difficult, but I have managed to do it.

One thing that has helped is to be ruthlessly focused on work during the few hours I have alone, so I can work less the rest of the time. Most people don't really do 100% focused work for their entire work hours... so the truth is you can do what is expected or more at a full time job in less than full time if you are good at what you do, and really focus.

I also re-married, and my new wife is awesome, and does some of the parenting, but is also a busy professional with a demanding job.

What else could I do? Quit my job and raise my son as a homeless person? Give him up for adoption? No- I was going to fight with everything I had, and try to succeed at both my career and as a parent. I think I am doing pretty well at both- I am an academic scientist and was able to publish useful research and earn tenure during the middle of all of these hard times when I was working reduced hours.
Someone actually doing the upgrade: https://youtu.be/cJPXLE9uPr8?si=IyTLwG9SC4r4dJXP
I suppose the lazy ad hominem could be met with: and to this day, you are confused by things like sarcasm.

Have a great day
> Nearly half (48%) of all desk workers would be uncomfortable admitting to their manager that they used AI for common workplace tasks. The top reasons for workers’ discomfort are 1) feeling like using AI is cheating 2) fear of being seen as less competent and 3) fear of being seen as lazy

First, I love that so many are uncomfortable, and that there are limits to the LLM cheating frenzy.

Second, I wonder whether there are additional big reasons (perhaps conflated with the above reasons):

* Not wanting to be seen as performing low quality work.

* Not wanting to suggest that their job can be replaced by AI tools.

* Not wanting to get caught leaking company IP or client/customer/partner data to various services.

* Not wanting to attract attention to possible copyright infringement or plagiarism scandal by LLM or other model (whether the company has rules about that, or not).
Immersion lithography saved Moore's Law (2023)
Yeah, it's half money and time and half kid.

A more realistic option is to just buy a chalet in a relatively remote area so I have access to some sort of plumbing system. But then again it's tough to find a stable remote job and a good school for my kid. (Again money can probably solve both)