skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disclaimer: I'm a co-founder of Hatchet (https://github.com/hatchet-dev/hatchet), which is a Postgres-backed task queue that supports durable execution.

> Because a step transition is just a Postgres write (~1ms) versus an async dispatch from an external orchestrator (~100ms), it means DBOS is 25x faster than AWS Step Functions

Durable execution engines deployed as an external orchestrator will always been slower than direct DB writes, but the 1ms delay versus ~100ms doesn't seem inherent to the orchestrator being external. In the case of Hatchet, pushing work takes ~15ms and invoking the work takes ~1ms if deployed in the same VPC, and 90% of that execution time is on the database. In the best-case, the external orchestrator should take 2x as long to write a step transition (round-trip network call to the orchestrator + database write), so an ideal external orchestrator would be ~2ms of latency here.

There are also some tradeoffs to a library-only mode that aren't discussed. How would work that requires global coordination between workers behave in this model? Let's say, for example, a global rate limit -- you'd ideally want to avoid contention on rate limit rows, assuming they're stored in Postgres, but each worker attempting to acquire a rate limit simultaneously would slow down start time significantly (and place additional load on the DB). Whereas with a single external orchestrator (or leader election), you can significantly increase throughput by acquiring rate limits as part of a push-based assignment process.

The same problem of coordination arises if many workers are competing for the same work -- for example if a machine crashes while doing work, as described in the article. I'm assuming there's some kind of polling happening which uses FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED, which concerns me as you start to scale up the number of workers.
Thank you! The ranking queue was a fun thing to implement.
as a hegemon, USA is the firs tin number of victims (murdered and displaced) by the American weapons and ammo.

This is a single undisputed thing about the American exceptionalism, the mind-boggling efficiency of the state-organized violence
Hold on... the world sends their kids here for university. If you look at top STEM programs, it's oftentimes disproportionately foreigners. This means that American kids are not qualifying for those programs, while foreign students are.

I don't know about the cheating. However, confusing higher-education for K-12 is wrong.
Because we’re … (wait for it) human.
May someone please say how this compares to Claude's project view?
GM shuttering Cruise Taxi effort
I think they mean that Pi is part of many formulas in physics.
That much was obvious. The trolley problem is so famous because it really is an ambiguous moral problem. The OP brought it up to imply murdering Brian Thompson was justified, in that now some other people will live who would otherwise die. This idea is a fantasy, however, which besides having no evidence to back it, doesn’t even make sense once examined with a modicum of criticality. Once the remnants of the dream of vigilantism are brushed away, this wannabe trolley problem becomes plain: it’s nothing but an unjustifiable murder by a mentally disturbed egotist who thinks he has the right to play executioner.

This is real life, not a Punisher comic. Democracy ain’t easy, and as soon as a hurdle appears people itch to find an easy workaround, but there’s no way around doing the hard work of fixing the system.
> Phonics certainly doesn't _feel_ like the best way to teach English

Phonics is not about "teaching English" in some fuzzy generic sense, it's specifically aimed towards teaching English written orthography, starting from its phonetics. I.e. teaching fluent speakers of English to read.
Fortunately for you, if you don't want to use race to distinguish you can instead use these characteristics to define your subgroups:

1) kids with two married parents at home

2) kids of parents with a college or professional degree

3) kids of parents who work white collar salaried jobs

4) kids of parents who are native English speakers

If you check all those boxes you're going to see that the resulting subgroup does very well on all standardized tests, including PISA. It will also be predominantly white/European-American & Asian/Asian-American. Those four attributes make the biggest difference in educational attainment, and brown & black families are the ones who are being left behind.

For the next thought exercise, consider what can be done to address this shortcoming in our political, social & education systems.
It takes 8 minutes to produce a 15 day forecast. That's actually quite a long time for an AI model. I should probably read the paper to find out why but does anyone know? Is the model predicting the weather in 10 minutes time and just run iteratively 2000 times for a 14 day forecast?
Ask HN: Does enjoying life as an employee require friends and family?
Perhaps self-employment is different, allowing you to enjoy life without friends or family?
I appreciate the detail, but for the record I don’t think we disagree. There’s a lot that I had to oversimplify in my already long comment.
Why doesn't phonics _feel_ like the best way to teach English? This is a minority opinion I would think.
Fraud and Fakery at the Country's Largest Chain of Methadone Clinics
TLDR: Andy Grove was right that:

"Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction. Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive."

Intel got complacent and missed the mobile, GPU, and AI waves completely, and lost their process tech lead. Now their cash cow CPUs are getting cannibalized from the bottom up by ARM chips from Apple and Qualcom that originally prioritized performance-per-watt, but are now also winning on raw performance. They missed the GPU/AI boat entirely, and lost their process tech lead to TSMC. Grove retired from the Intel board in 2005, and it's as if all subsequent leadership completely forgot his hard-won wisdom.
The psychological impact of isolation from covid lockdowns, disruption to routines, and uncertainty/anxiety/grief after jobs were lost and small businesses closed is another plausible explanation for mental changes. Remote school and remote work were a terrible fit for some people who struggled to adapt to working a new way. Drug use and overdoses increased. Obesity rates went way up from restricted activity and people staying home more. Obesity alone could explain mental decline.
This is almost certainly an SES effect; the evidence for biological causation is weak and has gotten drastically weaker with each successive GWAS study. Either way: it's a race war point, and those are unwelcome on HN.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
That isn't really the case here. It didn't start with a company. The company came along independently, effectively took control of an open source project that was already well established. They found that support alone wasn't enough to be profitable on and have been lashing out at the community that built around the original project, including independent opensource clients.

It's not that the company shouldn't have the code as open source. The company shouldn't exist in the first place and we're all suffering for it.
https://archive.ph/M4JzL
Your advice should only be practiced for about a year or at most two at the start of entering the work force in order to learn the basic attitudes. After that, the only way to advance is by switching jobs all the time. Unless you want to get bigger and better jobs, but lower and lower wage.
The best people from those countries leave for places like the US at the college or grad school stage. I had a lot more Indian and Chinese colleagues in college and grad school than I did in high school.
Why not just plug a USB or bluetooth keyboard into the phone?

That would be 90% of a laptop IMO. Although I haven't tested it much, Samsung Dex makes my phone appear very much like a laptop when using an external keyboard and monitor.
Why should anyone care what you do or do not recommend?
A1111 is EoL.
> Ability to read does not correlate interest to read or more importantly ability to understand

It may not correlate, but it does condition.

That is to say, one can have 100% interest in reading, but if you can only read 1% of published works, you will be just as good as someone who is a perfect reader but only 1% interested in reading.

Similarly, with comprehension.

Reading well is necessary to be interested enough to read more and to comprehend.
While IQ may vary by racial groups, overall math attainment not at the very top couple of percent has far more to do with socioeconomic circumstances & parental education than it does any inherent potential.
Just did a pricing check, and you give twice as much concurrency/browsing/data-transfer as Browserbase. Nice!

Do you have any restrictions on sites we can scrape? I am likely going to do some public LinkedIn scraping (logged out, legally compliant).
It makes you wonder how much more effective U.S. auto makers might be without the regulation that requires them to sell through dealerships.
While the outrage over murder has been generally directed at the shooter, it is worth pointing out that denial of healthcare also leads to deaths.

I'm surprized that this specific point isn't made in his manifesto.
Redis from Redis Labs, available under a choice of its own license or the SSPL, is pretty close to truly open-source, IMO closer to it than the BUSL, which is another source-available license. It is pretty similar to the AGPLv3, and they even credibly applied to get it OSI-approved.

https://blog.tidelift.com/what-i-learned-from-the-server-sid... https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/11291/how-to-...

What it isn't close to is the original license, which is a permissive open source license.

The license switch-up is why a fork was needed. Matrix did a similar thing with the AGPL which alas, doesn't have a major fork. https://element.io/blog/element-to-adopt-agplv3/ Although it's technically still open source, they didn't do right by the contributors to it.
Thanks! This article is pretty heavy with PR bullshit.
Understanding DiskANN
My original comment contains justification for the idea presented. I don't understand why this is controversial to you? Why do you hold that my original comment does not contain justification? It clearly does.

Moving on to the real discussion, not this infernal semantic journey you've taken to embark upon.

If it was equally plausible that mass-immigration is currently not openly condoned by left-wing politicans, because the migrant wave isn't currently hitting europe and the lax migration policies are already in place; then why was the left so willing to talk about being pro-migration __before__ the migrant wave? The lax policies have been in place in Sweden since the 70:s.

What has happened, is that the disaster of the policies is now so plain and obvious, that not even professional liars can reasonably stand in the tv-broadcast and talk about it enthusiastically, it is a disaster for everyone involved and no one pretends it's not. Instead, all the politicians can do is ignore the problem while they silently try to alleviate as many small aspects of the disaster as possible, so people don't wake up to just how poorly this country has been run.
NFTs have been popular in videogames for over a decade. They're just almost always using a centralized network (see: the Steam community market).
Have you been to top tier high schools in the US? They’re filled with international students. It’s been like this for decades. Now you have that in preschools. Look up any elite schools in NYC, SF, etc.

Americans are simply priced out of these programs. Why? Because international students pay ALL CASH. If you’re running a mid-tier schools, would you give 20 slots to American students who cannot pay full tuition or give them out to international students paying full tuition while increasing your “diversity” score for school ranking?
Clicked on this article to learn a bit more about this newly released chip but instead got extremely motivated to pursue intellectual interests intensely
ahhhh i was hoping someone wouldn't mention this. i wanted to add a caveat but it made my comment look ugly lol.

but like someone else says weather and climate models forecast on different scales and for different purposes usually.
I believe this is the one the media outlets are saying is a fake. Doesn't match the length of the one described by law enforcement and doesn't contain phrases quoted by major media outlets.

This one has been confirmed by some major media outlets as being genuine and matches the description by law enforcement and the select quotes published by established media:

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/luigis-manifesto

There could of course be other writings by the suspect, and this could be one, but it's definitely not confirmed.
>do not live in that urban core

Like rest of rural PRC, they can wait for the trickle down common prosperity. When it comes.

>disposable income per capita

That's dispoable per capita, double more for household. Move up to top 1-2 quantiles, and you have reasonble market for high end goods. And you know it's dispoable income.

>Common Prosperity

It is, but it's also reality, i.e. Xi not aiming a welfare state. But that's also secondary to national security issues like hammering semi conductor even if it means some provinces gets burnt. Hence also CCDI kick doors and take.

Xi's timeline for developed country is like 2049+, even then it's fully developed / modestly prosperous. In mean tie still has to balance common prosperity with strategic autonomy, and if that means farmers and informal workers have to take a back seat like they did under previous admins then so be it. Best he can do is throw them a few more bones. But not at the expense of growing "comprehensive power". A strong country can build high end tech to compete with other strong countries, even if parts of it developed to be strong.

>tap water

Yes, yes and developed countries definitely wouldn't neglect places like flint or first nations communities. I guess not so 1st world after all. Which is getting off topic, the point is planners need to plan for plan, somethings gets prioritized over others things, i.e. this is a thread about semi industrial policy, not poverty alleviation. Yes resource is limited, pouring money in chips can come at expense of common prospertiy. But there's a geopolitical competition happening, and if the competitor is not selling you chips, you need to prioritize making your own, even if at expense of building a lot of water pipes, for hollowing non productive villages.
I am not sure I have all the facts straight but: Super Cruise and BlueCruise are features available on GM and Ford passenger cars, respectively. They aren't taxi services. I tried to make the distinction between companies participating in the "increasingly competitive robotaxi market" versus just the ones that have some level of autonomous driving capability; tweaked comment.

GM was majority stakeholder in Cruise, which was gearing up to a ride hailing service. Cruise's cars have instruments like LiDAR on the roof, unlike Super Cruise-equipped cars.

Ford wrote about an "initial launch of a commercial self-driving service in 2021" but I don't think it materialized. A photo of their robotaxi bears the logo of Argo AI, a startup that shut down in 2022.
As far as I can tell, that table conflates temporary workers with permanent immigration, so I'm not sure how useful it really is in this context.
Arctic tundra is now emitting more carbon than it absorbs, US agency says
What revenue streams, if any, are you considering in addition to the $1/month fee?

(If there are no other revenue streams, what scale do you need to attain to cover operational and regulatory costs?)
Yes, I did a search and could not independently confirm. Interesting read, but no idea if it’s real.
> What anthem wanted to do was put a cap on the number of billable hours per procedure, and have anesthesiologists accept payment based on that cap as "payment in full", meaning they would not expect additional payment for the extra time they spent after a procedure went long, either from the patient or the insurerer.

The policy even had a path for the anesthesiologist to justify the overrun so that portion could be covered too. No doubt Anthem would scrutinize the justification closely and reject cases where they detect abuse, and the incentives are for Anthem to be too strict, but there was nothing wrong with the policy on its face. These sorts of things are absolutely necessary in order to drive healthcare costs, which are absolutely obscene, down.
There's two great lanes of progress happening in engineering these days:
1. Quantum Computing, and
2. AI.

If they can find some synergies between the two, that could be THE major development. Make better AI by using Quantum Computers, and make better Quantum Computers by applying AI.
Seems suspicious. If you look at Archive.org, the site was only crawled on December 9, 2024, and not before.
With educational quality being less of a Political priority in this country, and the need to "teach to a standardized test" being more desired, surely these results should surprise no one, correct?
It’s really sad that antitez and other people involved with Redis have to deal with all that backlash and what’s even more sad is that people are going for Valkey now. All this breach of trust bullshit imo comes from blind purism that ignores the real reason behind the license change. Valkey is largely sponsored by AWS and other big tech companies so they can have community maintained storage because they cannot use Redis anymore. I hope people will open their fucking eyes for a moment and see that Redis is trying to prevent the big tech to make enormous profits from what people were thanklessly building and maintaining together for many years.
Doesn't exactly answer your question, but maybe this link will give enough intuition so that i can be lazy and hand-wave away an answer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Why#Chapter_1:_The...
What in the actual F is going on. I sincerely hope my cursory reading of the law was wrong. This law[1] seems pretty much to be a presumed-guilty-until-you've-proven-yourself-innocent thing.

Seems they've entered some kind of reverse Minority Report middle ground, where they don't have to prove you committed a crime. If there is reasonable suspicion that a crime was committed for you to own that Rolex, it's gone. Possibly that means "you couldn't prove it was acquired legally."

There goes any chance of me returning to Sweden, I guess. This is going downhill fast.

[1] (Swedish) https://www.riksdagen.se/sv/dokument-och-lagar/dokument/sven...
This computation is... handwaves, most handwaving I've done in a while...initializing a random state, and it's well-understood whether this state was randomly initialized isn't computable in a reasonable timeframe on classical computers. ends extreme handwaving

This nerd sniped a bunch of us, because it sounds like "oh we proved P!=NP", the keys to understanding are A) hanging onto the this in "this computation" (this is easier when you're familiar with the computation and it's contextual history in the field) B) remembering prime factors as a plausible application of QC.

Then faced with the contradiction of B, it's neatly resolved by "yes, but the quantum computer isn't big enough to do prime factorization yet"

As noted somewhat sideways in the blog, if someone has a computation that is A) not classically computable in a reasonable timeframe B) is computable on a miniscule quantum computer C) can be verified on a classic computer in a reasonable timeframe, a lot of researchers will be excited.
But AI models in no way free you from work and they are hardly relaxing.

If anything, they "free" people from understanding but that's an activity that many if not most people value highly.
Assuming that they have a proper firewall between the two and there are no conflicts of interest..
How far does that go to? If you rent a car and get stopped by police does that allow police to seize and sell the car? What if you are driving company car? Company plane?
Been using https://www.laminar.run/ here and there and found it a good mix of abstract and being able to get in there.
Yes, but study after study shows brain damage. In fact, viral reservoirs often persist in brain tissue for up to a year after infection. This is why we're seeing problems with very young children who were not born during lockdown or were infants.

There were lots of additional problems, but at some point we need to own up to the brain damage and other neurological impacts being caused by repeated COVID infections.
Congrats on launching!

> spin up hundreds of browser sessions in secure, isolated environments, with sub-second launch times

What tech do you use for this, and where is this hosted?
That was the case 20-30 years ago. Now they are coming here for preschools.
Better Binary Quantization with hardware accelerated SIMD instructions
More coverage (NY Times):

https://archive.is/BgXUG
My understanding is that the selection of font is up to the interface designer, and not at all dictated by the designer of the font.
No-nonsense roll-up of what algorithms a quantum computer can run in principle, along with their big-O speed ups (which don't necessarily reflect practical speed ups): https://quantumalgorithmzoo.org/
Maybe "stasis" is more appropriate than "dead." Each new session is an unfrozen clone of the original mind snapshot.
Brian Thompson was CEO for all of 3 and a half years. He was also only about 50 years old, I don't think he's quite the bond villain you want him to be.
Life without friends and family is something that can be tolerated if needs be, especially in this shitty social climate where it's harder to achieve both and even either. But hardly a goal, or something enjoyable in itself. It has it charms, but it's not a long term solution.

It's dangerous both for basic social and economic reasons (means no support group, and thus misfortune impacting the person even more), for mental wellbeing, and for overall health (the US Surgeon General just declared it "more dangerous than smoking and obesity" health outcomes wise).
great article. the information debt and budget seem like very useful things to have in mind
I think the author is missing the forest for the trees when they try to construct a taxonomy of 'elites'.

Firstly, there is little reason to believe that per-capita is the correct way to think about surplus elites. It's just as plausible that there is an absolute threshold above which the surplus meet together in, for example, the student union building and start causing problems.

Secondly,

> First, virtually all of the people who fail to attain their dream jobs can secure perfectly decent employment in some other line of work.

It's easy to say there's no surplus in any particular sub-group because they can always go to some other sub-group. But if most acceptable sub-groups are 'full', then it's not possible in general. Further, as a first approximation the 30% getting college degrees are the top 30% generally so it's not surprising that they could find _a_ job. That job being in some other line of work might be a problem, especially if it's several steps down from what they've believed they were owed all their life.

To use the article's example, a PhD in History may never have been likely to result in becoming a working historian, but it may have led to managing a factory or branch office. It's pretty obvious that is no longer true and it's likely that the wider job prospects of a History PhD holder has declined.

Further, the article foolishly equates becoming an actor or poet with academic achievement or business success. That entirely ignores that it's been well known forever that life success as an actor or poet is rare. The same cannot be said about getting a PhD.
I get by using no-script universally and it's rare that I need to allow JS for more than 2-3 domains to get a site fully functional. Usually it's limited to site, and site-cdn.