skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I could see a case for "we'll sell a few narrow SKUs of non-ME products for an audience that demands it" -- assuming there are some people who will vote with their pockets for it. It's probably up there with some of the other corner-cases in their product matrix.

But I agree, that's noise. There are much bigger problems with their product line:

* Adding and removing features (especially AVX, but also the whole market-segmentation nonsense with ECC memory)
* The marginal and in some cases negative generation-over-generation performance boosts.
* The unlocked wattage situation which screams "we're pushing an end-of-the-rope product that we can only get to decent clocks by feeding it an entire mains circuit". (See: FX-9590, Pentium 4 Extreme Edition)

Intel might be able to say "Today's Glysophate Lake CPU is clearly better than the Haswell you bought 10 years ago", but there will be a lot of mumbling if you ask "how much better is it than last year's Paraquat Lake". That doesn't inspire confidence, especially when they have traditionally been the premium brand.
2024-12-04 operators on the front
If it helps, the reason we don’t use any typesafe SQL library for node is because of lack of migration support - which was exactly what I first looked for here.
> there's no serious theory of change that begins with murdering health care industry people.

You sure about that? Show me one theory of change where the oppressed somehow rise above without violence? Even the groundwork for Ghandi's peaceful protest were laid by a strong anti-colonial military force that led assassinations of British military officers. You think Britain left because Ghandi said some profound things and changed their minds? The official position was that continued occupation of India would be met by violent resistance and they retreated.

There have been many many examples throughout history of oppressed people rising up with violence against their oppressors. The majority of the substantial changes in culture happen this way - things reach a boiling point and it spills out on the streets.

I'm not saying mob justice is an ethical or principled way to instill change. But historically it has been extremely successful.
Depends how you cut it.

The acts of Murders, rapist, and child abusers are far more heinous than health insurance CEOs. However, I would argue the magnitude of damage is larger from the decisions of health care CEOs.
> I guess this is the start another 4 years of ignoring science

Ignoring paid scientists isn't the same as ignoring science.
Ask HN: How to prompt LLM to infer XSD from many XML documents?
I've got thousands of XML documents in a format whose XSD is not published. I'd like to produce an XSD for it, and I am wondering if a LLM could help. I've tried a few online LLMs like Claude and Copilot and the best they (or I) could do is to use a handful of XML files to generate an XSD. While the XSD was more or less valid, it was far from capturing all cases of the underlying format, and failed on the very next XML document I tried.

I am ready to run a local LLM for this task, but can someone with more LLM experience than me (I have none) describe a good process to do so? And which LLM might be suited?

Thanks!
They’re also an organization in which sexual predation is normal.
Try flipping the question and asking yourself: given all of that, why did UHC have a false-denial rate more than double the industry average?

For example, perhaps the issue here is that UHC was undercutting competitors knowing that the vast majority of their fraudulent denials would go unchallenged -- they still meet the requirement for minimum spending on payouts, but they attract more customers[0] and in so doing distort the health insurance market.

[0]: Customers in this case are primarily businesses buying policies for their employees, rather than end users of the product.
Microsoft had a poorly documented tool called tracewpp that did this. Blindingly fast logging with very little runtime overhead.

It was hard to figure out how to use it without documentation so it wasn’t very popular. No idea if they still ship it in the DDK.

It was a preprocessor that converted logging macros into string table references so there was no runtime formatting. You decoded the binary logs with another tool after the fact.

Vaguely remember some open source cross platform tool that did something similar but the name escapes me now.
I do wonder what will happen when it enters public domain. Will it have been too long, so nobody will bother creating merchandise and derivative works? Or will there be an explosion of Calvin and Hobbes material? I can’t think of a comparable test case.
being directly responsible for someone’s death is just not the same as having a difference of an opinion (like we are having). I will definitely not try and hunt you down… however, if you are responsible for a death of my loved one - that might be another story…

jokes aside, I am not saying this tragedy was justified in any way but we are not talking here about “opinions” and “religion” for sure
According to NASA, terminal velocity for the largest droplets is ~10 m/s.

Which seems oddly close (in magnitude) to Earth gravitational acceleration (9.8 m/s^2).

Weird!
I don't think the article did assume that. If you read between the lines the writer might well believe Intel is beyond saving no matter what Gelsinger does. Zero in on:

> The CEOs who got Intel into this mess were much longer than Pat and a worse fit. Meanwhile, the board let most of his predecessor’s activities go unchecked as they sped through disaster.

That really captures the spirit of the article. It is pointing out that the people ultimately responsible for getting Intel into a mess are still in charge and have started to flail. That doesn't mean the writer thinks Gelsinger was going to be a great CEO because he is technical. They think that the board is terrible and there is evidence that it hasn't changed.

This behaviour by the board would be a common enough pattern in both business and political failures. Something goes wrong, the people in charge don't admit they made mistakes (or everyone just assumes it is too late to recover) and retain power.
OK, but why do they need so much X-ray power to examine paintings? Most progress in X-ray technology has been through better sensing so less power could be used. Ordinary X-ray tubes are simple and a century old.

Now if they could build a compact synchrotron to generate soft X-rays, that would be a huge deal. The semiconductor industry has tried to get that to work for a decade as a light source for "extreme UV". ("Extreme UV" and "soft X-rays" are in the same part of the spectrum.)
50-70 years is the typical harvest time in Oregon. This works out fine because we have a large amount of forest, douglas fir is the most productive harvested timber by acre, and they do not harvest the whole forest at once. They typically harvest 1 square mile sections at a time.

Here are some pictures to give an idea of the logging pattern:
https://imgur.com/a/grid-grid-logging-oregon-ewNJL2e
Their site force redirects to a relatively useless country-local top-page so I have no idea what TFA is about.

That said, I've been looking a lot into NFC with asymmetric keys since I wanted to use it as a 2nd factor for everything (including phone unlocking, unfortunately that doesn't seem to be happening any time soon).

NFC has a couple implementations: tags (basic, unencrypted, cloneable), symmetric encrypted (all your readers need a shared key) like Desfire... I think these aren't clonable?, and asymmetric which basically requires it to be a full JavaCard NFC chip.

Yubikeys are JavaCards basically. Testing with my computer nfc reader doing a signature is fairly slow (a second or two).

Actual card JavaCards are something like $4 in bulk, and $15-20 for small batches. I'd really like a wrist-band or ring form factor, and I was thinking the dangerousthings implants are small enough they could be stuffed into a band.

You can get a "pocket band" and put a yubikey in it, which works okay. There also are a lot of smart rings, but they're either not passively powered by the NFC connection (need to be charged) or are simple tags and not JavaCard-capable.

That said, they have a bunch of products and an awful website and I couldn't tell what the difference between products was, either (and importantly, which ones were JavaCard and which were basically just tags).
I'm curious, why did you make such a move? Seems like it would be way better to work for Github and then try to bounce to somewhere inside MS instead.
Who knows too... maybe if we have better access to affordable quality (mental) healthcare, which does not deny millions of claims in any given year, then we might perhaps have less murders, rapist, and abusers running around.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
I suppose the counterargument would be your investment in OpenAI allows them to fund the better model down the road, but I get your drift :)
Apple’s os_log API also works this way.
Sure. Again: if you just hate the guy and have no compunctions about saying why after he's murdered, then whatever, that's not interesting enough to argue about. But if you're literally saying "this was good and more like this would be better" --- and some people are --- that is a notably warped proposition.
I lost vision in my right eye after failed retina detachment surgery damaged the optic nerve. I don’t see blobs of light like you describe, though I do see a dim pattern of swirling lines when I walk into a dark room. Also, weirdly, if there’s a sudden noise while I’m in the dark, I often see a flash of light go off, like an old flashbulb. I’m guessing that’s my visual system somehow rewiring itself to other sensory input.
I'm guessing the announcement was just unfortunate timing. Normally the industry wouldn't be facing a reckoning and it would slip under the radar. In other words I fully expect them to try this again.
This was suspended by a federal judge.

It's likely to end up becoming law eventually. The requirements of this rule are not burdensome and they are directly related to the laws that FinCEN was created to enforce.

Also, we have information exchange treaties with multiple countries that require us to collect some of this information. We haven't been upholding our end of those treaties and this law was intended to bring us toward compliance.
That's a great deal if they reach AGI, and a terrible deal ($10bn of equity given away for vendor-locked credit) if they don't.
scientists should be homeless/work pro-bono? :)
Slight correction: FSD is Level 2, not Level 3.
Your repository return type may say what it returns, but how would you statically prove the structure of the raw SQL string? Most of the detection today is at runtime perhaps building a class or validating the data.
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Why wouldn't IPv6 compress well?

IPv6 is used internally a lot more than externally, so I would expect to see a LOT of commonality in the network ID fraction of the addresses- essentially all the bits of representing your IPv6 network ID get reduced to the number of bits in a compression token, in the worst case. In the moderate case, you get a few chatty machines (DNS servers and the like) where the whole address is converted to a single compression token. In the best case, you get that AND a lot of repetition in the rest of the message, and you reduce most of each message to a single compression token.

It's hard to explain if you haven't actually experimented with it, but modern variants of LZ compression are miraculous. It's like compilers- your intuition tells you hand tuned assembly is better, but compilers know crazy tricks and that intuition is almost always wrong. Same with compressors- they don't look at data the same way you do, and they work way better than your intuition thinks they would.
Blame consumers for this. If a company sells a service for $10/mo ad-free and $9/mo completely loaded with ads, most people will pick the latter plan. Why won't they offer it then?
no but what they "find out" is not necessarily true. The scientist badge shouldn't work like a priest badge that pretends to be the voice of God.
Foreign companies bribing foreign officials who operate in the US can also be sanctioned.

And if they don't operate in the US, it's not the US's business to police something a company that has no presence in it does.

It's very simple and consistent. Americans and American companies are subject to American laws. People and companies who are in America are also subject to American laws. If you are neither American nor in America, you are not.

Nearly every country in the world follows a very similar set of rules regarding jurisdiction.
The reason for the denial is important. Also worth noting that our attempts to improve availability are actively resisted to maintain that profit.
CodeCommit is on the way out, onboarding was disabled over the summer.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/how-to-migrate-your-aws-...
Do we have regeneration of spinal cord tracts after injury yet? Nope—not even in rodents.

Sorry, the mammalian brain is not really malleable at this level of organization. We might get there but not by winging it with transplants in humans. Get it to work in rats or pigs and I am happily on-board.
I've worked at ISPs (on and off) since mid-90s, including starting one from scratch (ISDN and T1 bank) and building out a national colo/hosting offering for a mega telco you've heard of. I also worked at Google, not in Google Fiber but I worked with that org deeply during the post-POC (ie post-Nigeria) initial and then subsequent locations. So I reject your appeal to authority both as a matter of principle (logical fallacy) and personal experience.

I don't need to offer evidence, it is visible if you merely look for it. X (not twitter, google X) was a big money loser because it was too futurist, and Ruth killed it. Google took very large risks back then. They weren't even risks, they were known to have limited or no commerical value and they were experimenting with simply what might be possible. Not completely in a Bell Labs sense, but not all that far from it.

I mean even Waymo should be clear evidence.

I didn't mention Chrome, or "even Chrome", so not sure why you mention that. Chrome was not futurist. It was less about other browsers' sucking, and more about controlling HTML so that MSFT wouldn't, because MSFT was too narrow-minded. Google didn't have a desktop OS (even now, ChromeOS isn't viable outside of niche use cases) so they were highly depending on the browser functioning in a way they could asset control over it. At that time it was definitely not about tracking people. They just lost their way.

I thought you were just off base before, but here you are just plain wrong.
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lossy and simpler.

IME, I've found sampling simpler to reason about, and with the sampling rate part of the message, deriving metrics from logs works pretty well.

The example in the article is a little contrived. Healthchecks often originate from multiple hosts and/or logs contain the remote address+port, leading to each log message being effectively unique. So sure, one could parse the remote address into remote_address=192.168.12.23 remote_port=64780 and then decide to drop the port in the aggregation, but is it worth the squeeze?
That’s a great point, and if that comes to be, that burden shall lay with the rich.

This should all serve as a warning to the wealthy on what will happen if they continue distancing themselves from accountability. It’s a zero sum game.
That Usenet post was a fascinating read. I’ve only encountered OS/2 once in the wild, and it was in a lab being used to operate a very specialized piece of equipment, and it was circa 2005 so it was all ancient relics. Oddly, the lab members spoke highly of the user experience in OS/2 but I never got to mess with it.
Because there is no mechanism in basically all of Africa that would put some kind of limit on it. No strong governmental institutions, no moral framework, no religious framework. And to the contrary, the African continent is largely antithetical to western/European moral, ethical, and philosophical limitations.

People just assume Africans are the same as Europeans and Asians, etc. because they’ve had it hammered into their minds all their lives, but reality is that we are all quite different and that’s good in some ways and bad in others, but it’s different.
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Systems like litdb typically include (or work alongside) a schema migration tool, which either reads the current structure of the database and writes that back to a TypeScript file, or reads a TypeScript/schema file and generates a migration to update the database to match the schema. I haven't seen one that works perfectly, and it's up to you to keep it up to date, but as I said it shrinks the surface of where "mistypes" can occur.

It's quite similar to working with a web API. You can invent all the types you want, maybe generated from an OpenAPI schema, but if the server sends something different, TypeScript can't help you. That's not what TypeScript is for.

At the end of the day, most non-scalar TypeScript types "aren't real". Objects can be mutated at runtime, libraries can ship incorrect types, TS can be mixed with JS, etc. We try to introduce types as early as possible to catch a wide swath of possible errors, but where it's really important you still need to verify at runtime.
They renovated the existing structure and expanded it as well, doubling the capacity of the airport. They did a lot of interesting work to make it earthquake proof. Check out the video, I'm pretty sure someone posted it in this discussion.
One example where it's leaky is when you want to memoize something, and now you need to memoize all its dependencies, recursively, and you end up with a 30 file PR.

I say this as a big fan of React, and I'm hoping the compiler turns out a success.
Surely yes?

Intel has been a company of engineering underdelivery and incompetence for a decade now. Huge bonuses and pay to financial management, salary reductions and cheapness on the labor side, your classic American MBA war-on-labor.

The fact they cannot deliver a GPU, which is just a big vector processing array fundamentally, has been the long running sign of Intel's incompetence, something they should have had literally 25 years ago when Apples had vector processors and the first 3D accelerators were hitting the PC gaming world.

The intellectual talent long fled Intel, and they didn't invest in replacement intellectual talent. Because MBAs don't respect "talent". They tolerate it for some function of tolerance, and generally the "dead sea effect" is imposed as talent leaves and the managers let the structure rot rather than fix it.

Gelsinger obviously didn't have time to fix the intellectual and talent rot, because he probably needed to eliminate three levels of vice presidents to start with.

I really celebrate the article's approach. The arrival of massive CEO pay, allegedly because of how important, public, and critical their positions are, never actually comes with detailing of who is in charge and the effect of their decisions.

Why do the major heads of petroleum companies, cigarette companies, and other managerial structures largely get to destroy their companies or the world in the anonymity of private org charts?
Yes, tinnitus is an auditory version of what could happen. Probably not though.
Non-paying user numbers are only good when selling, and who could afford to buy OpenAI?
In my experience, Gitlab is a lot more stable than Github. My last job was on Github, and we had an outage a couple times a month at least. We even had a Slack emote for it! My current job is on Gitlab, and we haven’t had a single outage in the year that we’ve been on them.
Surgery is inherently dangerous.
Surgery is risky and resource-intensive.
No HCU had a company denial rate of 32%. 2x the industry average. The AI they were using in their approval process was 90%.
Not if CyberCab doesn’t have working software. FSD has a disengagement rate in the doubt digits according to community trackers. They are a long way away from reliability needed to remove the driver. They won’t be “blowing past” anyone for the foreseeable future.
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For me, it's because the finish line is actually a starting line for another thing altogether. The starting line of a race that I don't really want to run. It's like all this time you've been building, you've just been in a car on your way to the race, then you got there and are in the parking lot and can see the finish line, you just have to get up and walk over to the track. But, the realization of you not actually being prepared for the race sets in, did you bring your shoes? Have you been training? Do you even enjoy running? Meh, let's go get ice cream instead.
Ha that’s hilarious! And no I work at another tech company, but I totally understand how minio decided to go with that marketing. It’s really infuriating and yet understandable.

When the AI craze stated, so many people in my company came to me asking “if we can run AI workload”? another thing we offer is fairly generic compute meant for your average web applications or micro service etc. Initially I said “I don’t think so. We don’t have GPUs nor do we have any ability to express hardware requirements beyond CPU and Memory. We’ll need to do some work to include GPU into that”.

Then hilariously I learned that you don’t need GPUs or ASICs to be able to run “AI workloads”. If your compute allows you to call OpenAI rest APIs, then you’re also “AI Ready”.
It used to be a 4chan copypasta. KnowYourMeme[0] says it started in 2019 but I want to say that I remember it well before 2016, maybe as early back as 2012 (?)

I guess the biggest thing to understand is that a lot of 4chan users (on /pol/ and /x/ and plenty other places) just make up stuff as bear-baiting pranks on their fellow users who are typically very vulnerable[1]. Dead internet theory is something that inherently appeals to people that feel put-out by society and ostracized from the rest of the internet at-large. People buy into this shtick because they feel as though the internet ignores them, or that coincidences in a pool of billions of users confirms that it's all The Matrix somehow. It's a very fast-and-loose mentality that traditionally strings together conspiracy theories to make a compelling narrative.

I'd suggest helping your family member find real-life support that affirms their faith in humanity. The internet is not all there is to life, and even if it was all controlled by a shadow organization there would still be reason for hope. With a bit of perspective, it's easy to see why total control over digital information is neither desirable nor entirely possible.

[0] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/dead-internet-theory

[1] https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/832431-iphone
React keeps changing its abstractions, idioms and best-practices every 2 years. The bootcamps and consultancies LOVE it - it keeps the churn going and the $$ coming in.
I have built large and complex front-end applications with jQuery. It worked great, no complaints.
The well of sympathy is running dry for a lot people. I don't think people are going to take up arms in great numbers – or at all, perhaps – but, like Clarence Darrow, they might "read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.”

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/unitedhealthcare-ceo...

> “I don’t believe there’s any justification for murder,” she says. “I think it sets a terrible precedent, and logically I know that a society that functions this way is doomed to collapse. Yet I still couldn’t temper my emotional reaction. I did feel a little bit of satisfaction.”
The optic disk is not all that close to the fovea. The brain does not need to mask the blind spot when both eyes are open.
if they are that successful to make it to a point where they can be hired to be CEO of UHC or Monsanto or other axis of pure evil, perhaps they would choose to take their talents elsewhere