skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems to apply to all areas of AI in its current form and in my experience 70% may be a bit generous.

AI is great at getting you started or setting up scaffolds that are common to all tasks of a similar kind. Essentially anything with an identifiable pattern. It’s yet another abstraction layer sitting on an abstraction layer.

I suspect this is the reason we are really only seeing AI agents being used in call centers, essentially providing stand ins for chatbots- because chatbots are designed to automate highly repetitive, predictable tasks like changing an address or initiating a dispute. But for things like “I have a question about why I was charged $24.38 on my last statement” you will still be escalated to an agent because inquiries like that require a human to investigate and interpret an unpredictable pattern.

But creative tasks are designed to model the real world which is inherently analog and ever changing and closing that gap of identifying what’s missing between what you have and the real world and coming up with creative solutions is what humans excel at.

Self driving, writing emails, generating applications- AI gets you a decent starting point. It doesn’t solve problems fully, even with extensive training. Being able to fill that gap is true AI imo and probably still quite a ways off.
480MWh is ~7kW for 3k people used continuously for an entire day. That looks gigantic unless you heat your entire house with resistive heating.

One day for 20k inhabitants makes more sense I think. (1kW constant consumption)
They are, but log analysis vendors charge for the amount of uncompressed logs which quickly amounts to a large bill.
That the precise reason I won’t even get the paid subscription of any service that also exists with ads - they will still get as much data as possible and sell it even if you pay the subscription.

If there is no way to hide ads completely I won’t use your service full stop
The rumors say TSMC fabs are designed to self-destruct if China takes control of them.

I don't know if that is true, but even if it wasn't I suspect that the US would destroy them instead of letting China have them. China having a de-facto monopoly on semiconductors production is a serious problem for the US until new fabs will be available elsewhere.

In fact, not only they can prioritize domestic military/AI development leapfrogging the US giving enough time, but they can provide high tech components to the likes of Russia, Iran, North Korea.

And the US wouldn't be able to retaliate as China could simply levy taxes or bans semiconductors exports to the US and whoever sells to them (similar to what the US is doing with Russia after the war in Ukraine started).

So I expect that, as soon as an hypothetical invasion of Taiwan looks like it's gonna succeed, those fabs will be reduced to dust.
Sadly, it's true. In my opinion, this is the hypocrisy of the modern 'green' agenda - we endlessly discuss pollution, yet we cling to the comforts of modern life, many of which cause even greater harm.
Type-safe query builders sound great in theory, but it seems there are always edge cases that are not supported by the query builder.

For example, the issue asking for deferrable constraint support for Postgres in drizzle has been open for about a year: https://github.com/drizzle-team/drizzle-orm/issues/1429

In any non-trivial application, you are increasingly likely to run into something that your database supports but your query-builder does not. What will you do then?

It's sad, but unfortunately the most reliable approach seems to be to write raw SQL in a DAO package/library, then using integration tests (DAO + database) to confirm behavior.
That is obviously too reductive. I liked to think of myself as a YIMBY. When they wanted to build two 17 story apartment buildings in my neighbourhood I thought it sounded like a great idea, even though they would be much taller than any existing buildings there. Whenever anybody suggests tearing down some old buildings in a certain 'historic' (or dilapidated as some might say) part of my town and building actually useful housing there, I'm all for it. But when I found out that the city had plans to bulldoze this one park and playground I took my daughter to almost every day, and build student housing there, I quickly realised that I was also quite the NIMBY when things are happening in my actual back yard.
You will just get other kinds of advertisement. Ads that are technically not ads. Things like product placements, free promotions, word of mouth campaigns etc.
That doesn't sound that malignant?
I am a father of three small ones in Austria. The Tonies are cute, but I find them just so frivolously expensive!

My children loved to listen on audio books on CDs (can be rented from libraries or bought for cheap) or on an old 1st gen iPod.
Try and test a Github Action locally - it's an engineering project up there with the Space Shuttle.
Repositories around the world are filled with endless commits of "test1", "test2", "test3" trying to debug their actions in prod.
If that was true, it means whole idea of EU was wrong and people should have been forced to stay in their countries? How about building a wall huh?
Would you not take them in the heli and later bill?
I think we underestimate how indefatigable the AI is. It is very hard for a person to keep producing code on demand, again and again and again.
Used to give $5 starbucks cards or relevant swag (pens, cups, t-shirts) in exchange for 15-20 minutes of one to one f2f feedback.
With o1-preview and $20 subscription my queries typically were answered in 10-20 seconds. I've tried $200 subscription with some queries and got 5-10 minutes answer time. Unless the load is substantially increased and I was just waiting in queue for computing resources, I'd assume that they throw a lot more hardware for o1-pro. So it's entirely possible that $200/month is still at loss.
> but if it weren't for ads, the lifestyle of a lot of people on HN would be dramatically different

I agree. My browsing experience would be much faster and less annoying.
Amazon’s downstream impact calculations and Prime attribution model were notoriously bad inside the company. That’s part of what led to the massive Devices cull a few years back — and the 2018 hiring freeze was because Prime overvalued Video, inappropriately routing hundreds of millions a year away from Retail.

I believe the metrics exist; I don’t believe they tell anyone useful information.
LLMs are advancing as well, just not from your/my direct input. Or from our direct input ( considering they learn from our own questions ) and from 100k others that are using them for their work.

Juniors today can learn exponentially faster with LLMs and don't need seniors as much.

Take me for example, I've been programming for 20 years, been through C, C++, C#, Python, JS, PHP but recently had to learn Angular 18 and Fastapi. Even though I knew JS and Python before hand these frameworks have ways of doing things I'm not used to so I've been fumbling with them for the first 100 hours. However when I finally installed Copilot and had a little faith in it I boosted my productivity 3-4x. Of course it didn't write everything correct, of course it used outdated angular instead of latest (which is why I was so reluctant to ask stuff for it at the start) but it still helped me a lot because it is much easier (for me) to modify some bad/outdated code and get it to where I want it than write it from scratch without the muscle memory of the new framework.

So for me it's been a godsend. I expect for stuff that's not as cutting edge as new framework oddities that appeared in the last 12 months it is even more helpful and % of it being correct would be way higher so for juniors that are doing say Python coding on frameworks that have at least 3-4 years and are stable enough the seniors would need to intervene much much less in correcting the junior.
I go back and forth on paying for it. I tend to subscribe for a few months, cancel, and restart.

I imagine there's not many such analysts because the quality of writing is so high but... I wish there were more! :)
Err totally wrong the entire north Africa has strong religious frameworks, and take Egypt as an example of a powerful government. Plenty of other places too.
Right. Sonnet 3.5, yesterday. Converted Woodpecker pipeline into Forgejo, then modified to use buildah instead of docker. That's baseline right now.

The tough questions are when one asks about what shadow shapes from a single light can be expected on faces inside a regular voxel grid. That's where it just holds the duck.
Thankfully found its way to a US outpost and currently being cared for.
The F-35 is actually an extremely affordable 5th generation fighter aircraft.

It is cheaper per unit then some 4th generation aircraft now.
Fantastic list, thank you!
Maybe if he owned the whole thing and could run it as he liked, without having to care about the stock price or paying money to investors, but personally I don't think anyone can do it while also satisfying the stock market.

I'm not sure Musk is especially qualified either, except that he could afford it.
From the text of the license:

> If You distribute or communicate copies of the Original Work or a Derivative Work, You must make a reasonable effort under the circumstances to obtain the express assent of recipients to the terms of this License.

No wonder FSF criticise it and urges developers not to choose it! https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#OSL:

> This means that distributing OSL software on ordinary FTP sites, sending patches to ordinary mailing lists, or storing the software in an ordinary version control system, is arguably a violation of the license and would subject you to possible termination of the license. Thus, the Open Software License makes it very difficult to develop software using the ordinary tools of free software development.
honestly, I'm not sure.

This is my main complaint about React - the "just don't worry about rerenders!" model works well until it really does not, but then you're left with very little help from the tooling to understand and fix it: "why did this render happen" is still a surprisingly difficult question to answer, and if you really want to take control of this you have to very carefully micro manage useCallbacks, useMemos, memo(), probably lie about your useEffect dependencies, check every single hook, and hope that your dependencies do the same. In the words of Ben Lesh[1]: React is not a pit of success.

That said, I fear your solution would not work - your usePartOfTheContext() would re-render every time the useContext() inside did, not helping with avoiding re-renders. But if you only passed the part of context to descendants that use memo(), it _should_ work. Having children of context providers always use memo() is probably a good rule of thumb.

This uncertainty is why I find it much more productive to just slap shared state inside Jotai, so I can be reasonably certain that rerenders will have the smallest granularity without any more work.

I am very hopeful about the compiler, which should help a lot with this, freeing a lot of mental bandwidth, but also useEffectEvent() which will finally make useEffect sane.

[1]: https://x.com/BenLesh/status/1845638051424587879 worth opening for the meme in the quoted tweet
We live in democracies. Some of us don't want ads. So can we have X% of time when there are no ads? We can start with 1 month, e.g. ad-free February.
That behavior sounds like AI to me.
> What people usually do for HA with PostgreSQL or do they just not care about it?

Patroni for most cases. At Heroku we have our own control plane to manage HA and fencing which works very reliably. I also like the approach the Cloud Native PG folks have taken with implementing it in the k8s API via the instance manager[1].

Other options like Stolon or repmgr are popular too. Patroni is, despite the Jepsen testing, used well without issues in the majority of circumstances. I wouldn't over think it.

[1]: https://cloudnative-pg.io/documentation/1.24/instance_manage...
It actually does... but not to any one of them. It uses bits from different conventions, since no single convention is a good fit (none have all the required sounds). Besides, they all disagree with each other anyway.

Q is from Albanian, for example.

R is from Czech. Another romanization (Wade-Giles) uses J for that sound (taking it from French). Neither is a perfect match (the voiced retroflex r in Czech and the voiced fricative j in French are, ideally, not quite the same sounds) plus it can be realized in different ways by native Mandarin speakers but it's close enough.

I think pinyin is bloody brilliant.
Tiktok, torrents, Flash
Of all times to simp for the insurance companies.

Remember the real bad guys are the doctors that heal you, not the corporations that refuse to pay them.
The carbon emission is not a problem, the imbalance is. When we burn fossil fuels, we use carbon that was stored by dead plants being buried. We take carbon from the ground and dump it in the atmosphere. Plants take carbon from the atmosphere. If were to bury the equivalent amount of wood, we would be equal. Buried wood is not useful, but building from it also locks the carbon somewhere else that isn't an atmosphere. So... there actually is a finite number of wooden airports that completely offsets airplane carbon emissions.
Ah! I salvaged one of those from the local waste collection center and it was an easy fix to make it work again!

I had a Questron pen as a child and loved it, also made by Ravensburger.
> Khrushchev

The one that really irks me is Potemkin!
Historically there have always been ads in paid news media (look at the newspapers, they have had ads in print since almost their inception) so I don’t think there is anything out of the ordinary here…

I.e. for paid print media the ‘correct’ amount of ads is almost definitely non-zero from the publishers perspective.

(Personally I’m not too bothered about ads in a paid online website as long as they aren’t excessive or intrusive but people may disagree and can vote with their wallets)
For many purposes it will be the car's battery.
> Welcome to the results of having closed the state hospitals.

Those deprived people of freedom simply for not being of the proper mindset to hold down a job. It completes the circuit "support corporations or get arrested". I'm not convinced about your TBI statistic either. I would guess schizophrenia would be the majority
I love Datalog, but its such a niche technology. If I had included it, I would have probably swapped out TigerBeetle for it.
It wasn't just memory requirements that hurt OS/2. I'd argue one of the biggest hurdles was IBM couldn't stop being IBM for even one second to do any reflection on the realities in the PC market. They still thought they were going to have a renaissance with 386 PS/2 systems for goodness sakes.

And man were they expensive. $195 for OS/2 2.0. That's about $434 in 2024 dollars, and the PS/2 systems that ran it best started north of $2k if memory serves. No one outside of corporate and the biggest enthusiasts were shelling out that kind of money for "a better DOS than DOS" (cough Desqview cough) or "a better Windows (3.1) than Windows (3.1)" (irrelevant and not that impressiive imho).

Love them or hate them, Microsoft has always been good at hitting the 75th percentile, aka "good enough" and "cheap enough". They proved (conclusively) that customers will put up with a mountain of shit if you cost half of what your competitors do. Plus they knew how to make ISVs a lot of money too. IBM just couldn't get it's head out of it's ass, I mean the 1960s.

And for the record, I salivated over OS/2. I scored a beta of 2.0 when I was 14 off of a BBS associate. I had an IBM laser printer, IBM typewriters, an original IBM PC. I thought back then that IBM meant quality (and to be fair, it did).

But they didn't get it and Microsoft did. Windows 95 had pizzaz and hype, the CD had Weezer's Buddy Holly video (video!). They were working to get games running right under 95. They were courting all of the biggest application vendors. They were doing shit. IBM? Too busy being IBM.
What in the world? The security advisory was published to their repo 4 months ago?

EDIT: Oh... Apparantly they reintroduced the vuln again about a month later... https://github.com/ultralytics/actions/commit/5f84281dad900e...

I'm guessing that workflow is still vulnerable. Surely piping user-controlled text into the .env file for your runner should raise some red flags?
This has the same energy as that guy that put lemon juice on his face when robbing a bank because he thought it would prevent the cameras capturing his image.
Removing the eyeball is an option though if it doesn't work.
From what I have seen LLMs are the worst (by far) in terms of gained productivity. I'd rate the simple but type correct auto complete higher than what I get from the "AI" (code that makes little sense and/or doesn't comply)
That's a good point. Similarly, there is resistance against cochlear implants in the deaf community.

Side note: your writing is full of homophones (berth, grate, all though). While not a big deal, I would assume that modern NLP tools could fix that pretty reliably. Finally a solid use case for LLMs :)
The biggest selling point of the pen for me is, that while it works with special kinds of books, the books are not tied to any account.

You can get a book from the library, buy a used one or borrow one from a friend, it will work with your pen.

This is so refreshingly different from all those subscription models, that I keep buying the books and once my kids grew out of them I know I can gift them away.
These are ads and in many jurisdictions Also treated like ads.

Weird that This is not the case in the US?
> By the way I only just realized that Netflix releasing Squid Game Season 2 on Dec 26 is probably intentional strategy to reduce January and February cancellations.)

Also why many services release episodes weekly instead of giving them at once.
Check your local library, ours has dozens of these tonnes.
...indeed just wait few more years.
> Did you know that before this, people didn't propose with rings whatsoever?

That's only true in the most useless technical sense you can imagine. The practice of giving a ring to your lover is well attested in traditional English ballads that predate the founding of De Beers.

Compare https://mainlynorfolk.info/peter.bellamy/songs/thedarkeyedsa... ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovay

Heck, the ring in Dark-Eyed Sailor is undescribed, but the ring in Sovay is called out as a diamond ring.

https://web.archive.org/web/20221111150414/http://ballads.bo...
Hmm so anecdata
Paid print media != digital/web.

In latter, you can extract endless amount of data about your customers in realtime and ship it off wherever.
The scary part is that in a few years, senior programmers who started their career with AI won't have the capacity to keep the AI in check.
Yes. And this is the reason ScyllaDB exists
No bears, no dogs.
It is however looking much nicer. For that reason alone I would love to see more projects like this.
That rule would apply to people who are generally people...
If ads are first-party, non-personalized, non-tracking, and don't get in the way of the content, people are mostly fine with them. Most ads are not like this, so people use ad-blockers, and the good ads get blocked along with the bad ads. The fault lies with the advertising industry, not the consumers.

It's an old-fashioned notion, but the advertising industry has extremely bad manners: it doesn't respect civilized social norms like not exploiting personal information for private gain and not egregiously interrupting people for trivial reasons. It's nosey, untrustworthy, intrusive, manipulative, and deceptive. I wouldn't tolerate this behaviour from a friend, and I'm not going to tolerate it from a bunch of amoral strangers.
Beautiful. Also, what about fire hazard? Ctrl+F fire had zero matches.
> short-term profit grab

They still don't make a profit. So much more a "try to become profitable in a changing financial landscape that will give us much less runway to do so" than "short-term profit grab"
I went to watch Rings of Power on Prime (I pay for Prime) and saw it had ads. I closed it so fast and went to my IPTV service. The show was awful too.
Thank you so much for your comment. This is super helpful and a great point. I am taking this to the rest of the team to see how we can solve this without running into copyright issues.

Funny that you say that I will have "less people screaming at you" as it seems to be a very delicate topic for gamers.

Regarding the philosophical level: It would be, if it was adopted in larger games. I haven't seen any large publisher adopt NFT, yet. This might change though. Hard to say.

Highly appreciate your feedback.
You mean, would it be possible to oversample the algorithm, run it effectively at a much higher sample rate and reduce the audibility of the aliases? Yes, it'll definitely help, but no, it's not possible to eliminate this effect, even with monstrous levels of oversampling.

The problem is that, say, a piano keyboard runs from 30Hz to 4Khz, so to get an even tone, at the top of the keyboard, you are only hearing 4 harmonics of the fundamental, whilst at the bottom, you potentially have roughly 1,000 harmonics in the audible spectrum.

Without fiddling with the voice with keyboard scaling, that same tone with 1,000 harmonics played at the top of the keyboard will generate a 4Mhz frequency, so you'd need a 2Mhz sample rate to avoid the aliases reflecting into the audible spectrum.

So that's 45x oversampling, which is a scary amount of effort to throw at the problem, to resolve the issue for this one contrived sound.

Now if you modify the above sound, and double the modulating frequency (the operator pitch) then you'll double the oversampling required, and you have basically limitless control to create higher and higher levels of harmonics to tame, so you can always fiddle with the setting to produce aliasing if you try hard enough :)
Such people are not hired by this companies, the hiring process is strongly against them. Also such people have better things in life to do and fight for, not the worst of the corporate world and a board of pokemons.
Time to advertise the Phoniebox https://phoniebox.de/, building you own Tonie clone with NFC chips and a raspberry pie. (some assembly required)
FWIW, rather than going for the wikipedia page first, I would recommend skimming the linked post and picking one of the introductory entrypoints the author lists. The wiki page is fairly dry, and almost all of the resources listed do a better job of explaining why Wardley maps exist and what problem they solve. Plus this post is great.
How does a paywalled full-text RSS feed even work? Yeah, I get it, RSS itself can work with auth tokens. But I use a service like Feedly to maintain my RSS subscriptions, and managed RSS services will cache the response to a single RSS feed for multiple subscribers. The Verge trusts Feedly to not abuse the paywall mechanism?

I mean, I definitely like full-text RSS when it's available, but even summary-only RSS is good enough for me. 99% of the value is in not needing to go to a bajillion sites manually to see what's new, and avoiding the eye-grabbing behavior of these sites when doing so.
Git repositories are hash trees. The distributed nature of git is a bit different but it shares similiarities. Definitly has the crypto checkmarks ticked.