skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a few stories in the last week. Seems like it's in testing but has been waiting for lower satellites with appropriate capabilities: https://www.interest.co.nz/technology/130898/telco-one-nz-be...

Probably not happening until next year:

> But in September the telco (and Optus across the Tasman and other Direct to Cell exclusive partners) removed “launching 2024″ references from its website. -- https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/commerce-commission-take...
Not all farm land is productive, so converting it back to forests and uncultivated land is better overall for the country.
Show HN: Trilogy – A Reusable, Composable SQL Experiment
Recipe: Add a semantic layer to SQL; use it drop the requirement for joins/group_by; add in type-checking and a lightweight python-esque import syntax to enable reuse and hierarchical querying.

Trilogy is intended to provide an accessible but deep alternative to raw SQL. It offers a new-but-inspired-by-SQL syntax that compiles to various dialects of SQL (with DuckDB as the default).

The target audience is people that really like SQL for analytics and data engineering, but want less boilerplate and sharp edges and looser coupling to the DB.

Semantic models can be easily shared, composed and iterated on in an interactive session, preserving the adhoc workflows that make SQL so powerful.

The "higher level" of the language vis-a-vis SQL makes it straightforward to extend into ETL (an experimental basic DBT integration is available), offering potential to optimize a processing graph across intermediate staging nodes automatically.

This higher level of abstraction also offers some nice opportunities for more reliable text to SQL for LLMs. A similarly basic integration is available to demonstrate this, as is a very basic VsCode extension and electron-based IDE.

Tech stack is primarily Python. Open source, MIT license. Github is linked from demo page. Thoughts, feedback, contributions all welcome!

Note: renamed from PreQL (see prior show https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40728938) to avoid confusion with the many PreQLs of the world. The `SQL pun` naming space is unfortunately well-explored.

Other SQL replacements (all great, all worth a look!):

PRQL (pipelined SQL alternative, all new syntax) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36866861

Malloy (all new syntax, semantic focus) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30053860

preql (much more ambitious, all new syntax) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26447070
No faster than having a human hold up your id and compare it, plus now you don’t have yet another digital copy of your face floating around for the police state.
I.m.o. consumer weight on safety has dramatically increased since the 70s. Frugality has decreased. Of course it is an arms race with all the other giant cars already on the road. Consequently GM etc. are trying to appease US consumers with giant EVs.
That's why I use ext4 exclusively on linux. Never once had a filesystem issue.
i wouldnt need more than 1MBit to ssh into my servers comfortably, and pull directions to the nearest "full power downlink" if i want to listen to music while i work or something
Incidentally this is one of the approaches described in Kim Robinson's The Ministry for the Future, a novel on climate change (more about the political ramifications of it than the ecological impacts). Interesting read.
A Small Limitation of Claude Artifacts
No, no, no, no, no… So then we’d get ‘the same’ character with potentially infinite different encodings. Lovely.

Unicode is a coding system, not a glyph system or font.
It changes every month it seems, port of entry is also probably significant.
Well, it's certainly how Musk likes to market himself.
I can’t imagine satellites being able to compete with cell towers in bandwidth or capacity.

There are millions of cell towers.

During a major event, cellular companies set up portable cell towers (COWs) and even these are not enough.

And a cell tower that is right next to you still pales in comparison to a single cable in bandwidth.
ah, people live in cities with hi-rise buildings. silly me.
this is how i feel. especially in the cold. for a lot of the stuff i do, i'm not gonna trust my life on a glass screen with a battery that doesn't work well in the cold.
1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42230738

2. If people stand up for decency, they might get it.
I don't think BASF really counts, it's more of a factorio district and not one single insanely large building.
It's not - in New Zealand 35% of GHG emissions are from cattle, with over 53% from agriculture in general.

Source: https://environment.govt.nz/publications/new-zealands-greenh...
Just saw this one- love the guy's eye contact also. He knows how to stand up to fascist jerks.

https://preview.redd.it/travel-safe-for-thanksgiving-v0-i3ja...
Sounds like it might be switching to Claude Haiku instead of Claude Sonnet.

Sonnet 3.5 always has this issue for me though. It excessively follows the original instructions, even in vague ways. It's likely 3.5 (new) is even worse. We use 3.0 in production because of this one quirk.
Maybe I'm just jaded, but it seems increasingly obviously that when you ask "where did society go wrong?", the answer is almost always "capitalism"
Amazon has filed numerous lawsuits for this - it’s well documented. I think there’s some some sort of ban for non-competes on w2s under $120k now (which doesn’t really help tech workers), but otherwise you’re wrong.

To your second point - there are always a bunch of well capitalized startups in the valley. Today it’s AI, before it was crypto, etc. These startups pay really really well when compared nationally. You dont have to get into 500k+ faang salaries to win against other locales

On top of that there are many more private companies that also pay good base + offer liquidity events for employees. Again - orders of magnitude more than seattle, austin or even nyc
No. I am saying that companies should have their engineers understand why k8s works and make those reasons an engineering practice.

As it is today the pattern is spend a ton of money moving to k8s (mostly costly managed solutions) in the process fix all the bad engineering patterns, forced by k8s. To then have an engineer save the company money by moving back to a more home grown solution, a solution that fits the companies needs and saves money, something that would only be possible once the engineering practices were fixed.
I love how libertarians are willing to use a communication network controlled by a billionaire oligarch who bought a presidency to further his business and personal ideological interests, but are worried about government overreach.
At the end of the day, a postal address is printed to an envelope or package as a single block of text and then read back and parsed somehow by the people delivering the package (usually by a machine most of the way, but even these days more by humans as the package gets closer to the destination). This means that, in a very real sense, the "correct" way to enter an address is into a single giant multi-line text box with the implication that the user must provide whatever is required to be printed onto the mailing label such that a carrier will successfully be able to find them.

Really, then, the reasons why we bother trying to break out an address into multiple parts is not directly caused by the need for an address at all: it is because we 1) might not trust the user to provide for us everything required to make the address valid (assuming the country or even state, or giving us only a street address with no city or postal code... both mistakes that are likely extremely common without a multi-field form), or 2) need to know some subset of the address ourselves and do not trust ourselves to parse back the fuzzy address the same way as the postal service might, either for taxes or to help establish shipping rates.

FWIW, I'd venture to say that #2 is sufficiently common -- as if you need a street address for shipping you are going to need to be careful about sales taxes and VAT, increasingly often even if you aren't located in the state or even country to which the shipment will be made -- that it almost becomes nonsensical to support accepting an address for a location where you aren't already sure of the format convention ahead of time (as that just leads you to only later realizing you failed to collect a tax, will be charged a fortune to ship there, or even that it simply isn't possible to deliver anything to that country)... and like, if you don't intend to ship anything, you actually do not need the full address anyway (credit cards, as an obvious example, don't need or use the full address).
Rational loss aversion explains why healthcare spending is so high
Experienced postal workers most probably know well that ??d? represents a municipality with three non-ascii characters.
posting jobs without the intention of hiring or having the headcount available should be illegal under CA law with a 1MM$ fine per occurence
Separately, though, I'm reminded of my experience with UWB (ultrawideband) Airtags with a recent-model iPhone... THAT worked phenomenally well. It was kinda magical to experience. But I don't think you could easily scale that up to a mesh of Airtags scattered around a building, at least not out of the box. And many Androids don't have UWB radios at all or don't have the software support to enable them yet. Google is way way behind on this =/ They finally launched a few this year with some partners, to middling reviews.
But storing an index for a file of length 2^n takes only n bits, so you need that run of 0’s to be of length n+1 to win
Every Boeing and Airbus engine is held onto the wing by only 2 bolts
IMO, the sin of Unicode is that they didn't just pick local language authorities and gave them standardized concepts like lines and characters, and start-of-language and end-of-language markers.

Lots of Unicode issues come from handling languages that the code is not expecting, and codes currently has no means to select or report quirk supports.

I suppose they didn't like getting national borders involved in technical standardization bit that's just unavoidable. It is getting involved anyway, and these problems are popping up anyway.
Being subtle never works.
The wording is confusing, but I believe the Zhengzhou International Land Port is 50sqkm, not the factory. That also fits the numbers they're giving [1]: "Zhengzhou International Land Port Project announced ——total area of around 50 square kilometers", and that includes a lot of "open-air warehouse" (parking lot). It's still massive, but not quite as crazy.

1: https://www.zzhkgq.gov.cn/2024/01-28/2944537.html
You live in a boat? But how do they know on what sea?
That reminds me, I wonder what they did about the Subaru Starlink trademark.
Pretty cool man.

1. I would replace the chairlift sequence in place of a shortened animation or just make it teleport.

2. Keyboard shortcuts.

3. Where's the monster? ;)
>So theoretically only (given) names that are on that list can occur.

Unless of course immigration is allowed and doesn't involve changing a name.
There are plenty of YouTube videos showing Starlink on basic sailing yachts.

It takes a day at most if you want a simple setup.
The issue with the invariance theorem you point out always bugged me.

Let s be an algorithmically random string relative to UTM A. Is it the case that there exists some pathological UTM S, such that K(s|S) (the Kolmogorov complexity of s relative to S) is arbitrarily small? I.e. the blank print statement of S produces s. And there always exists such an S for any s?

Is there some way of defining a meta-complexity measure, the complexity of some UTM without a reference UTM? It seems intuitive that although some pathological UTM might exist that can "compress" whichever string you have, its construction appears very unnatural. Is there some way of formalizing this "naturalness"?
Inability to save, class immobility, and insecurity of both food and housing are identical problems regardless of whether smartphones have been invented. It's telling who, specifically, advances claims about the notional fabulous wealth of the impoverished in the US.

In any case the assertion that poor communities are in any way better off than their predecessors is only accurate if you push you compare cohorts ~80 years or more apart. After the advent of social safety net programs in the US the working poor were (at least for a time) significantly more able to eventually join the middle class. Modern limitations on earnings and savings that have been applied to these programs has provably reduced this kind of class mobility.

Additionally, the combination of hyperconcentration of wealth, deregulation, and globalized trade have all played a part in the near total elimination of economic opportunity in rural communities.
The regular Starlink, which requires a dish, doesn't even operate in China (it could technically but no regulatory approval). Obviously China would not allow this either.
Thanks. (I don’t have access to the full text).

So not the exact same population, but still a comparison of “adolescents in grade 5-9 at time 1 and grade 8-12 at time 2”?

That would compare a pre-puberty to a puberty population, with the unsurprising result of them being less compliant.

But again, I don’t have access to the full text.
What distinguishes LLMs from classical computing is that they're very much not pedantic. Because the model is predicting what human text would follow a given piece of content, you can generally expect them to react approximately the way that a human would in writing.

In this example, if a human responded that way I would assume they were either being passive aggressive or were autistic or spoke English as a second language. A neurotypical native speaker acting in good faith would invariably interpret the question as a request, not a question.
Their article on how NAT traversal works is an epic piece of work in its own right too:

https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works
- I find it easier to read (based on https://hackerweb.app/).

- Given hw.leftium.com URL, it simple to find original Hacker News URL.

- Given a Hacker News URL, very unlikely to discover my app.
A tool to compare LLMs [Open Data]
Hey HN, I built this site to compare provider metrics and benchmark results between models.

All the data is open and with references. Here: https://github.com/JonathanChavezTamales/LLMStats

I hope this is useful. It was created using Sonnet 3.5 + o1 + Cursor.

Let me know if you have any feedback! Thanks.

PS:

It's hard to compare providers' quality because they use different precision at inference. Also, some labs cherry pick the benchmarks they want to report for their models. Medium term goal is to run the evals myself.
> But they still interact with frequencies lower than 20khz right?

No. Different frequencies don't generally “interact”, that's much of the point of frequency analysis.

> Think about it like this - I have a single steady saw wave at 10khz. If I started playing waves above 20khz, would I be able to detect any disturbance in that 10khz wave?

No.

If you have a green laser and put its beam under an ultraviolet light source, does the green laser change? It does not. It's the same thing.

Of course, if your amplifier is badly nonlinear-and-non-time-invariant in a very weird way, it _might_. But usually, even nonlinearities go the other way (creates overtones upwards in frequency, not undertones).
I know, even the ancient Romans were lamenting that the young generation will be the empire's downfall, and look where Rome stands today... oh wait...
Terra Incognita — the part of a map that is blank and therefore white: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wei%C3%9Fer_Fleck
We Used Durable Objects to Add WebSockets Support to AI Gateway
As you set out for Ithaka / hope your road is a long one -- Ithaka, C.P. Cavafy
I mean, yeah, but here we’re talking about a knowledge based compression standard, so I would assume that a specific model would be chosen.

The interesting thing here is that the model wouldn’t have to be the one that produces the end result, just -a- end result deterministically produced from the specified seed.

That end result could then act as the input to the user custom model which would add the user specific adjustments, but presumably the input image would be a strong enough influence to guide the end product to be equivalent in meaning if not in style.

Effectively, this could be lossless compression, but only for data that could be produced by a model given a specific prompt and seed, or lossy compression for other data.

It’s a pretty weird idea, but it might make sense if thermodynamic computing or similar tech fulfills its potential to run huge models cheaply and quickly on several orders of magnitude less power (and physical size) than is currently required.

But that will require nand-scale, room temperature thermodynamic wells or die scale micro-cryogenic coolers. Both are a bit of a stretch but only engineering problems rather than out-of-bounds with known physics.

The real question is whether or not thermodynamic wells will be able to scale, and especially whether we can get them working at room temperature.
> This is true at most companies with a competent CEO.

No it's not.

Competent CEOs hire boards that align with their world-view but are independent enough to provide useful advice. And almost all startup boards will have investors who definitely will not rubber stamp the sort of thing going on at Tesla.
This is great! I think that there are a lot of latency sensitive applications which really do need to spare the kernel latency.
Why would you need a dynamic DNS record though? Within the VPN you should feel free to hard code any address you want. You control the network after all. In my own VPN I've never had a need to have IP addresses changed.
Contact lists do work and are okay for friends, but businesses also need to publish contact information. What do you put on a sign, on a business card, or in an advertisement? You'd need to print the underlying id number, which makes it part of the UI.

Inevitably, people are going to want something like a 1-800 number, perhaps with a mapping to letters that are easy to remember. Either you can pick the number you want, or people are going to end up re-rolling until they get a "nice" number, and then there's competition for nice numbers just like in other namespaces.
I guess you figured it out. Go pick up your Nobel prize.
A junk article. It's based entirely on one (1) Facebook posts, and the replies, some of which could easily be bot replies.
Back then it was just small enough for my ISDN modem. And there are even more images for the headers. But it's also nicely falling back to plain colored backgrounds so the issue of loading the images is not so big.
Now I haven't fully checked the frosted glass demo, but shouldn't that even just have impact on the GPU? filter can be accelerated.
You can get a really cool multiple core chips now for just a few dollars.

https://milkv.io/duo-s This has a RISC/V, Cortex, a TPU and of course the much beloved 8051.
12 children, 3 billion dollars companies, "advising" the government on cutting millions of jobs", yet he is "very hands on"
>and most recently systemd this way.

To be fair, most people attacking systemd say they want to return to shell scripts.
None, I just tested it over and over, with 100 users.
If you're dealing with a bad API that only takes ASCII, "Celje" is usually better than "ÄŒelje" or "蒌elje".

If you have control over the encoding on the input side and on the output side, you should just use UTF-8 or something comparable. If you don't, you have to try to get something useful on the output side.
Honestly not sure why they would want to.

The world is continually moving towards being centred around cities where it makes sense to simply rollout fibre.

Especially with gigabit speeds being the new standard.

And even in Australia they are starting to move remote areas onto fibre.
Maine uses it! Not on federal level.

https://www.sightline.org/2024/09/13/maines-lessons-in-ranke...
Somebody at my office printed and posted a pile of “Wombats are everywhere, if you see something, say something” posters, with an image of a wombat. People lost their shit over it and he got a reprimand. I thought it was hysterical. Wombats don’t live in DC. People are so over-sensitive.
It's safe to reject Cc, Cn, and Cs. You should probably reject Co as well, even though elves can't input their names if you do that.

Don't reject Cf. That's asking for trouble.
o1 if you're going to write full specs and not provide any context.

Sonnet 3.5 if you can provide context (e.g. with cursor)

gpt-4o for UI design. Also for solving screenshots of interviews
Firefox sidebar and vertical tabs: release channel experimentation
I suppose I can see how people are taking this piece that way, but I don't see it like that. It is snarky and ranty, which makes it hard to express or perceive nuance. They do explicitly acknowledge that "a single server can go a long way" though.

I think the real point, better expressed, is that if you find yourself building a system with like a third of the features of K8s but composed of hand-rolled scripts and random third-party tools kludged together, maybe you should have just bit the bullet and moved to K8s instead.

You probably shouldn't start your project on it unless you have a dedicated DevOps department maintaining your cluster for you, but don't be afraid to move to it if your needs start getting more complex.
Sure, but removing those wouldn't make Unicode any simpler, they're just character sets. The GP is complaining about things like combining characters and diacritic modifiers, which make Unicode "ugly" but are necessary if you want to represent real languages used by billions of people.
Demand for war materials goes up in a war, but the population and thus food demand isn’t going to drastically spike.

There’s a reasonable argument for having a food stockpile in case of emergencies, but extra farmland is harder to justify.
He was such an amazing guy. We got to interview him on our tiny podcast[1] after we reached out and he so happily joined us for half an hour. His book, Manna (which is $0.99 to download from Amazon[2] or free on his website[3]) is still one of the most fascinating and interesting visions of the future that I've come across (although I don't totally agree it's the only reasonable option).

What a loss.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA5v2cfJp1o

[2] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Manna-Two-Visions-Humanitys-Future-...

[3] https://marshallbrain.com/manna

Edit: Fixed "free to download from Amazon" - it's not
You Can Now Buy Lab-Grown Foie Gras
At all the airports I have been through using this system, the device in use appeared to be a Logitech webcam. I doubt the resolution is higher than 1080p.
Doesn't T-Mobile come close to that? I've heard that T-Mo works in most countries across the globe.
Yes! I've been waiting for a practical tool like this, and would love to write a JIT for Squirrel/Quirrel using it.

But I'm looking through the luajit-remake codebase, and there is still a lot of code. Assuming that the drt and deegen directories are Deegen (however, at lease drt/tvalue.h is clearly part of the VM, not of Deegen):

> fd . -e h -e cpp | egrep -v "test|thirdparty|deegen|drt" | xargs wc --total=only --lines
34734
> fd . -e h -e cpp | egrep -v "test|thirdparty" | xargs wc --total=only --lines
97629

In comparison, Lua 5.2.4 is 20.3k lines of C and LuaJIT 1.1.5, which is a (comparable?) method JIT compiler, is 22.8k lines of C and 4.8k lines of Lua (for dynasm and JIT support). LuaJIT 2.1 is 74.9k lines of C, 13.7k Lua.
And what blows my mind is that if I want to rent a tractor with a front loader for some landscaping work it’s hundreds a day. Yet even larger commercial earth moving equipment sits around unused for weeks.
I guess pkdns is a newer, actively maintained version of the same thing? https://github.com/pubky/pkdns
Would love to see pictures of that facility.