skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42331258

I feel like the article is written mainly for Database power-users (= people that look beyond the horizon of the default DB choice of Postgres/MySQL), as well as for people getting onto database engineering.

I would say for both of those audiences, Qdrant (or any of the dedicated vector databases) isn't too interesting. For the most part they are very normal (and usually less-featured) databases with a heavy focus on a special kind of index, which most DBs on the list can also handle either natively or via extensions.
> Lowered in absolute terms or lowered compared to what it would have been absent an increase in housing?

Two can play this game. Let's compare the rapidly enshittifying Seattle and SF.

Seattle has increased the amount of housing units by 25% over the last 12 years. SF by 3%. Yet prices grew FASTER in Seattle than in SF.

Just imagine how better Seattle would have been if it hasn't built all those residential towers?
Do you not know that the Chinese model came at a massive cost of human rights abuses, and that it was only possible in a well-endowed and homogeneous society like China?

India has more ethnic, cultural and societal diversity within itself than the entirety of Europe, full with as much sectionalism and conflicts as one can imagine. It has only managed to remain a single nation with a lot, a LOT of compromises. Study deeper into the dynamics and you'll find the notion of "why don't they just emulate China?" to be as ridiculous as it gets.

P.S. I'm sorry for that unnecessary last sentence in my previous comment that (understandably) gave you the image that I'm being bad-faith or abrasive.
No US company got TikTok’d, and China doesn’t even allow US social media companies in its country.

China is notoriously middle management heavy, by definition that’s what communism is.
Vancouver BC did a huge timber pavilion in Beijing around the 2008 Olympics. It was an interesting experience, I’m not sure what their goal was. I find Chinese airports to be really generic though, yes, they have high metallic ceilings, but they somehow still manage to be drab. Maybe Chengdu can do a bamboo airport or something.
I have seen it at s friend when it was new. Multiple DOS boxes where nifty. I think it also was less prone to crashes from faulty applications.
Macs have always been able to type the em dash — the key combination is ⌥⇧- (Option-Shift-hyphen). I often use them in my own writing. (Hope it doesn't make somebody think I'm phoning it in with AI!)
Yes. It got shittier AND more expensive. Great win.

Rents are also up, looks like the blog post from a propaganda rag is using data from a rental website.

Edit: here's a chart with CPI and rent indexes: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1BXUx
At least myself and one other have realized we can add users, 10/10 demo. Only the best test users.
Ask HN: What blogs, researchers, 'thinkers' do you follow?
I'm a fan of Stratechery and Gwern, and am wondering who else is out there that I should be tracking and reading regularly.

Who do you follow?

Also, what tools do you use to follow them?
What one thing would you change in the American system?
These are all silly allusions to rutger hauer in blade runner.
there's def truth in that
I feel this. I think it's a consequence of react being a fairly unopinionated collection of tools.

Coming from a Rails background, it's pretty jarring. It's like the difference between being told, "Here's how you build a house" and "Here's how you use the tools in this toolkit".

React offers more freedom at the expense of guidance, and you get much less standardization as a result.
If they’re only deploying models that score lower, I would guess that they don’t want to risk it / bother trying to bring the highest scoring ones down.
Agreed. If I were to get my mom to try this course, the first thing she will comment on is that she can't understand the accent. Ironically her own accent is much stronger. She just isn't very tolerant when it comes to focusing on something.
Not to mention no one pays AMD or Intel the Suggested Retail Price for those CPU. You could expect any larger order from DELL or M$ / Google to be 50% off those prices. Of course Amphere would offer some discount as well but when you put together and the performance the difference isn't as big as most claimed.
What national security? Huh? What do you have in mind for intel to be going forward?
> unlimited access

Huh? For how many seats? Does this mean an entire organization can share one Pro account and get unlimited access to those models?
If you want to scale out you have to add new nodes, and that means re-partitioning the same data (not new shards) across the new nodes. For example if you have 3 servers, each has 33% of the data, but if you add 1 more server, then each server has 25% of the data. If one server meets your scale requirements, then sure ClickHouse is a good choice.
I think it’s 4 over 1 here in the Seattle area. Concrete floor one with retail followed by 4 wooden floors of apartments, although that is changing to 5 over 2 in the last few years. Developers love them because they are easier to build and maximize sellable space.
All the time I've worked in security I've seen that detection beats prevention because of this reality, nice to see some studies on it.

(This is why we built https://crowdalert.com, amusingly)
Is it nicer than Singapore Changi /Jewel?
Is anybody else tempted to sign up for this just for personal use? I've found ChatGPT-o1 Preview to be so helpful — which was absolutely not the case for me with any previous models (or Claude 3.5) — that the concept of having "unlimited" usage of o1 is pretty intriguing.

I recently used it to buy some used enterprise server gear (which I knew nothing about) and it saved me hours of googling and translating foreign-language ads etc. That conversation stretched across maybe 10 days, and it kept the context the whole time. But then I ran out of "preview" tokens and it got dumb and useless again. (Or maybe the conversation exceeded the context window, I am not really sure.)

But that single conversation used up the entire amount of o1 tokens that come with my $20/month ChatGPT Plus account. I am not sure that I have 10x that number of things for it to help me with each month, and where I live $200 is a not-insignificant amount, but... tempting.
Yes, largely the fact that Medicare forbids billing for resident services. Im sure there is also an objection on the insurance reimbursement side as well, but I see no reason why a successful procedure of adequate quality performed by a resident should not be billable at the same rate.
NYC's defining trait and constant throughout history is development. The concept of a tiny row houses and a car on every driveway in Queens was invented in the mid 20th century when Robert Moses scarred a half dozen neighborhoods to make it that way.
Hard agree (with you, that is).

It's just another case of people confusing "What I personally want" with "What actually leads to a sustainable business/ecosystem".

I honestly think people get confused about this because we are so accustomed to getting what we want.
Collapsing China? I read this is as a big no clue rant.
> Intel could enable AVX-512 tomorrow.

They can't just enable AVX-512 on their chips that include both performance and efficiency cores, because it's only present on the perf cores.

> Intel could more fully open up their fabs to other companies tomorrow.

Their fabs are open to other companies. they have multiple customers already signed on to make their chips on 18A/1.8nm process that enters mass production next year, including Amazon and the DoD.

> Intel could publicly commit to producing silicon with no Management Engine tomorrow.

Do real people actually care about the presence or absence of the IME to such a degree that it would be worth redesigning a bunch of their products and greatly increasing the number of individual SKUs?

...
and, your first point "Intel could lower the price on their HEDT chips tomorrow". Well.. they could I suppose? They are pretty irrelevant when it comes to HEDT chips anyway though considering how crazy Threadrippers are. Would they really sell more of them if they knocked a couple hundred off their 2000/3000 lines? probably not. they're all under 5GHz anyway.
> You seem to be arguing with a strawman instead of what I'm saying.

No, I'm arguing with the reality of what you're saying. You want to block single-payer if it can't be opted out of--is that a straw man? Obviously not. I'm just telling you that the results of your ideology are not the results you're hoping for. The real results are:

1. Blocking single-payer if it can't be opted out of has resulted in private healthcare subsidies which are more expensive, and also can't be opted out of. What your ideology has achieved isn't the ability to opt out, it's simply to line the pockets of insurance companies.

2. If you want to start a larger conversation about being able to opt out of government services, why start with healthcare--a thing that people literally need to survive? Frankly, I don't believe that you're a principled believer in being able to opt out of tax: if you were, you'd start with one of the government programs which actively harms people. There are dozens, pick one of those taxes to fight for your right to opt out of instead of deciding that people in need of healthcare should die for your principled opt-out stance.

3. The most important reality of your ideology is that hundreds of thousands of Americans are financially harmed, don't receive healthcare, and ultimately, many of them die from lack of care because of right-wing extremists blocking Americans from receiving care. Your ideology literally kills people. Maybe if you got exactly what you wanted people wouldn't die, but the reality is that by opposing single-payer you're aligning yourself with murderers. No, I'm not holding you personally as responsible as a health insurance CEO, but you do bear some responsibility if you contribute to spreading this abhorrent, selfish ideology.

TL;DR: I'm all for a system where we get single-payer and can opt out of it, but that's not a realistic option that's on the table, and in pursuing that goal you're ignoring the real single-payer option and in doing so you're both failing to achieve the results you want and letting people die.
What we need at this point is Universal Basic Income. If billionaires understood how UBI benefits THEM, for sure we'd already have it.

What billionaires own today is essentially a piece of a giant debt-based economic sugar puff.

UBI is a way to replace the debt vacuum with money. You've got to put cream in that sugar puff so that it holds its shape.

Else the debt in our debt-based system will soon suck all the air out and it will collapse on itself.

Watch "Hidden secrets of money" - There is a segment in there which explains money creation and how there is always more debt in the system than there is money available to repay it.
> As for ChatGPT, it's a consumer tool, not an enterprise tool. It's not really integrated into an enterprises' existing toolset, it's not integrated into their authentication, it's not integrated into their internal permissions model, the IT department can't enforce any policies on how it's used. In almost all ways it doesn't look like enterprise IT.

What according to you is the bare minimum of what it will take for it to be an enterprise tool?
There are a lot of similarities between software and organizations.
But being a CEO also requires people skills. Many of us software folks have good intuition about how to make technical projects successful but the way to get there often involves getting other people to cooperate. AKA leadership. That's the tough one.

That said I agree that a CEO of a company like Intel has to be technical. I mean we saw what happened to Apple when the CEO came from Pepsi. But you need someone technical, in the domain, who is also a strong leader and a visionary and those people are not that common.
Ironically, Hispanics have higher life expectancies than white people, so the GOP can’t blame the decline on them.

But Hispanics also have the lowest access to healthcare coverage, so democrats can’t blame declining life expectancy on not spending enough money on healthcare or whatever either.

The real reason seems to be that Americans are disproportionately fat, lonely, and live apart from extended family.
Wow... Do you know the orgs name?
Look out for Long COVID for which there are no approved treatments and a high incidence of between 5-20% only slightly modified by vaccination.
> People still subscribe to cable TV even though it's full of ads.

Back in the day (yes, I'm that old) the selling point of cable was "TV without any ads". It was marketed as expensive and upscale TV, though. And people don't really want to pay for content, so this business model didn't work out in the end.
I mean the deregulation drive by the GOP, the next administration, and a many others.
Temporary dips are certainly possible, mostly due to external events (e.g. 2008). But they won't be sustained, and the growth will quickly re-establish itself.

Tokyo is a great example. I remember all the urbanists congratulating themselves about "How Tokyo solved the problem of housing".
Because you have to do inference distributed between multiple nodes at this point. For prefill because prefill is actually quadratic, but also for memory reasons. KV Cache for 405B at 10M context length would take more than 5 terabytes (at bf16). That's 36 H200 just for KV Cache, but you would need roughly 48 GPUs to serve bf16 version of the model. Generation speed at that setup would be roughly 30 tokens per second, 100k tokens per hour, and you can server only a single user because batching doesn't make sense at these kinds of context lengths. If you pay 3 dollars per hour per GPU, it's $1440 per million tokens cost. For fp8 version the numbers are a bit better: you need only 24 GPUs, generation speed stays roughly the same, so it's only 700 dollars per million tokens. There are architectural modifications that will bring that down significantly, but, nonetheless, it's still really really expensive, but also quite hard to get to work.
> His brief stint of 1386 days was surprising because not only was he the most technically competent CEO of the last few bad apples at Intel, but he was also among the shortest.

Well, how tall is he? And why does it matter? The article never actually says.
I'm certainly disappointed that none of the discussion is touching on the culpability of technical teams in building these systems.

I'm still struggling with my desire to surprise people with the conclusion instead of including it at the front of the piece. Which tends to lead to people discussing the setup rather than the punchline.
Thanks for the archive link.

And to your question, It was _never_ customary. It's weird, it's not okay, it's brainwashing, plain and simple. I'm a US citizen, our history is rooted in defeating monarchies and kings. I feel as though this is a rewiring of people's brain by mass media. There are _no_ tsar/czar/tzar/csar in a democracy, period. Full stop.
Now we just need to find someone who disagrees with us and we can make a long bet.

It feels strange to say but I think that the product moat looks harder than the LLM moat for the top 5 teams right now. I'm surprised I think that, but I've assessed so many L and MLM models in the last 18 months, and they keep getting better, albeit more slowly, and they keep getting smaller while they lose less quality, and tooling keeps getting better on them.

At the same time, all the product infra around using, integrating, safety, API support, enterprise contracts, data security, threat analysis, all that is expensive and hard for startups in a way that spending $50mm with a cloud AI infra company is not hard.

Altman's new head of product is reputed to be excellent as well, so it will be super interesting to see where this all goes.
I have never seen the public respond so unanimously to something. Even for, say, bin Laden's death, there was quite a variety of responses easily found.

And in case anybody thinks of that "Stalin quote", it's actually by Kurt Tucholsky.
I have no problem if you want to build a 10-story house for your family. No problem.

But the second you start building houses without parking (so street parking becomes extinct) and without extending road infrastructure, it's not just you. Don't abuse shared resources.
> We teamed up with global branding powerhouse Jones Knowles Ritchie (JKR) to revamp our brand and revitalize our intentions across our entire ecosystem.

What a great use of funds! I'm sure that this will make Firefox a better browser, somehow!

Mozilla has seemingly become entity completely unmoored from reality, spending money on random needless things. I suspect the same would happen to any hypothetical Chrome nonprofit, if Google were forced to sell it off.
The numbers actually aren't floors, they're sections of the building code. 1 is nonflammable materials like concrete and 5 is most flammable but cheapest. (Pretty sure everyone thinks it means # floors though.)

4 is mass timber, which is a newer very promising material. The article mentions the airport used it, but you can build towers from it quickly, safely, and less chance of hearing your neighbors through the wall.

https://timberlab.com/projects/heartwood
It's even worse when you scan your build artifacts, in our case containers. Each build added to the list , with no way to delete all stuff. Filtering and grouping are also missing.

We gave up on that and decided to use another tool.

My gripe with GL is that all features are like this now. There is no invest into the basic building blocks, just yapping for the next trend. Most customers for GL use it on premise because they want to use it on prem. I would focus on Features that benefit that crowd, but hey I am just an developing not a gilded c suite.
> rather share a rented apartment, than own something out of the way.

Or is it simply the standard demographic problem of "the vast majority of population is in the cities so the vast majority of <pick any characteristic> is mostly in the cities"?

In addition, if you are poor, owning a car is relatively expensive. Not owning a car is an option in some US cities; it's simply a non-starter anywhere suburban or worse.

However, as the article points out, Houston has apparently done better than most simply because it has lots and lots of housing supply. Of course, the downside of that is that Houston is also the poster child for sprawl having not one, not two, not three but effectively four beltways around the city perimiters.
Nope, it is simply fresh issues with "help wanted" and "good first issue" labels.
I worried that AmpereOne isn't competitive with ARM core design. Its 512 CPU is only equivalent to x86-64 / Zen 6 256 Core with 2 threads. Which means AmpereOne may still not be competitive against AMD Zen6c unless they have their Core IPC massively improved.

But other than that we are only 2 years away from getting this into our hand a single server / node with 512 vCPU. Or may be 1024 vCPU if we do Dual Socket. Along with PCI-e 6.0 SSD. We can rent one or two of these server and forget about scaling issues for 95%+ of most use cases.

Not to mention nearly all dynamic languages has gotten a lot faster with JIT.
OpenAi enterprise plan especially says that they do not train their models with your data. It's in the contract agreement and it's also visible on the bottom of every chatgpt prompt window.
SSO and enforceable privacy and IP protections would be a start. RBAC, queues, caching results, and workflow management would open a lot of doors very quickly.
It's high brightness compared to x-rays generated by ramming ~60 kV electrons into a metal target, like tungsten.
100%. Any "Oh look at all the spare housing" needs to be scrutinised.
Well whatever is going on in America[0] it just isn't working.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Life_expectancy_vs_heal...
This is a really interesting take. I don't think individuals pay for these subscriptions though, it's usually an organizational license.

They also come with extensive support, documentation and people have vast experience using them. They are also integrated into all other tools if the field very well. This makes them very entrenched. I am not sure OpenAI has any of those things. I also don't know what those things would entail for LLMs.

Maybe they need to add modes that are good for certain tasks or integrate with tools that their users most commonly use like email, document processors.
It is. What's your question? I think all model makers are at least strongly encouraged to get their models tested for ability to help terrorists with weapons of mass destruction (CBRN weapons included). The US and UK governments care about that sort of thing.
A small sliver of it is on my table as a coaster. Love that quirky design, blue green color.
> It’s more complicated than that, though.

It's really not. Really. Some things are just black&white.

> There’s a middle ground where more affordable housing absolutely attracts residents and causes a housing shortage.

Nope. There isn't.

You won't build "affordable" housing by increasing density. You can build subsidized housing projects, where somebody _else_ pays for them. But that's it.

Want cheaper housing? Build suburbs and exurbs, and force companies to spread out of The Downtowns. There are no other options.
Sounds pretty socialist to me. That's fine! But you can't dunk on your opponents for being "commies" when you're the one making the communitarian arguments.
Intel historically was the best at semiconductor manufacturing processes. That's what got it where it got to.

I bought some Intel shares when it crashed last time but the latest events are changing my mind on the prospects of this company. Intel getting to be the best at process happened over years or decades of people and culture. If that's gone there's no way to reproduce it. Looking from the outside it looks like through offshoring, layoffs and culture issues they've basically lost what they had.

I think AMD managed to make it through tough times (and Intel way back then as well) because even when the company was struggling financially it managed to maintain people and culture that enabled it to overcome the challenges. But now the times have changed and executives don't see people or culture as leverage, and are happy to get rid of those. You better not need any amazing execution from that point on.
would be helpful if I could get assistance with the paywall – I could be wrong, but I'm assuming a sizeable handful of commenters in this section managed to read this paywalled article?
China's demographics are beginning to look bad and their sclerotic economy is brewing for civil unrest
I would drastically increase the number of residency slots Medicare funds.
Manual type declarations are error prone, tedious, and subject to drift. Meanwhile, query builders are clumsy and sometimes limiting or buggy, so I don't blame you for betting on raw SQL.

I'm building a middle ground of sorts. Raw SQL (or PL/pgSQL which can be quite powerful) with generated, type-safe client "bindings" (TypeScript functions). It also includes "declarative SQL schema" (instantly update the schema of your dev DB on file save). Generated migrations and "seed scripts" are also on the roadmap.

If any of that interests you, check it out (https://github.com/pg-nano/pg-nano). I would also love to discuss it with whoever's reading this on Discord (@aleclarson).
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This may sound weird but I think the CHIPS act tempted intel to overextend. Counterintuitively they may even have been better without the money.

i don’t think problem was never lack of manufacturing capacity. I think it was process tech.

So I think the free govt money tempted them to invest in something that wasn’t mission critical - old node capacity, when they really needed r&d
It depends more on the team than the company

Working at Amazon on boring internal HR tech is very different than working on S3