skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Given the code quality and rigid testing, SQLite is probably the last project that should be rewritten.

That was my take for many years but I have come around 180 degree on this. I think at this point it's very likely and most likely mandatory to eventually rewrite SQLite. In parts because of what is called out in the blog post: the tests are not public. More importantly, the entire project is not really open. And to be clear: that is okay. The folks that are building it, want to have it that way, and that's the contract we have as users.

But that does make certain things really tricky that are quite exciting. So yes, I do think that SQLite could need some competition. Even just for finding new ways to influence the original project.
Great question!

Our gating model(the heart) in Humiris' system functions as an intelligent gating mechanism that dynamically selects and orchestrates multiple large language models (LLMs) based on predefined parameters such as cost, performance, privacy, and speed. While the exact implementation specifics can vary, here’s how it might work under the hood:

The gating model evaluates each query and the available models' characteristics to determine the optimal routing. This involves dynamically assigning weights to multiple parameters and scoring models based on the query's requirements.
The architecture combines elements of both machine learning and decision-making algorithms rather than relying solely on traditional decision trees or reinforcement learning.

Neural Networks with Softmax Activation:

A neural network trained to route queries based on encoded query features and user priorities. The softmax function outputs probabilities for each model, and the model with the highest probability is selected (or multiple models in collaborative tasks).

Reinforcement Learning (RL):

In advanced systems, reinforcement learning may be employed. The routing model learns optimal routing strategies by maximizing rewards (e.g., high response quality, low latency, reduced cost). RL can also adapt to new models or parameters over time, improving efficiency through trial and feedback loops.

The routing model in Humiris likely uses a hybrid approach, combining machine learning (neural networks) for dynamic decision-making with principles of multi-criteria optimization. The advanced mode incorporate reinforcement learning for adaptability in complex and evolving environments
Why does the fork have to gain traction?

You keep and maintain your local fork that does what you need it to do. perhaps if you are charitable you share it with others. but you don't need to do this. and it just adds support burden.
What's wrong with public domain?
Still running https://hackernewsletter.com/ after 15 years and 60k+ subscribers. It has been hard to put a lot of focus on it the past couple years, but been finally getting some time to spend on some improvements there. Income here has always been simple sponsors which I'm very grateful for.
https://archive.ph/joD08
although i do agree with you w.r.t integrating like, modern software with well documented/good apis
I dont think so, but it wouldn't surprise me.
SQLite is in the public domain. It is perfectly legal to create a derivative works from a public domain project and license it however you want. It's not cool and kind of a dick move to put it under a more restrictive license, but it's legal.
Depends on which universe you're talking about.
I was an intern at eBay in 2012, I was at an on-campus event and chatting with the VP who was our college sponsor. At one point he shows me his phone, someone had bought a $100K Porsche on the mobile phone app! It blew our mind.
from my understanding that is what they do, see the paper:
> We use a pre-trained GPT-2 (Radford et al., 2019) as the base model for all experiments.
I agree the feedback is necessary, and the mechanism simple and cheap, but I don't think is optimal.
He used a ghost gun reportedly printed on a 3D printer and had several fake IDs. That was the extent of his evasion.

He was valedictorian of his elite private high school and attended an Ivy League university. He was also an athlete. By all accounts, he was an accomplished, ideal young man. The news accounts from there are sketchy. He had spinal fusion surgery "back home" before returning to Hawaii. His family lost contact with him for over six months. In short, I doubt his SD career had much to do with his physical/mental situation and his murder of the UHC executive.
Correct. ACA was passed 15 years ago and I was describing the healthcare system today
you won’t be able to tell the difference
Demand disappeared for good local reporting, long before any LLM. Even NYT & WSJ struggle with their subscriptions, and they have a huge addressable market.

The "slop" is just a reflection of this bottom feeding attempt to get some tiny bit of ad revenue. Using an LLM or a "pay per article" contracting fleet looks very similar.

Most local publications don't pay many if any full time journalists either way. I struggle to find great journalism on any local level around me - and discovery is difficult when anything reasonably good is usually a substack behind a paywall. But even then, they aren't pushing on local issues in person. None are going to the Mayor's press conference and directly asking them questions.
A real job is usually not learning academics, so it won't make people better at the raw learning. It might help in other, social ways.
Microbenchmarks are not particularly predictive of performance with real workloads. And there's just one microbenchmark claimed here.
Using the front end of these websites to work in your complex codebase is very challenging. I use the chatbots for higher level questions about libraries and integrations, not for specific implementation details in my codebase. But without a data agreement in place, you shouldn't (or maybe can't) paste in code, and even if you could, it's an inferior way of providing context in comparison to better tools.

However, I do use copilot+vscode with claude 3.5 and the "Edit with Copilot feature" where it takes my open files, plus any other context I want to give it, to drive changes to my files, has been surprisingly good. It's not really a time saver in that the amount of time I spend verifying and fixing or enhancing the result isn't really faster than me just writing it myself, but I still find benefits for brainstorming, quickly iterating on alternate ideas and smaller refactors, and overcoming the "get started" hesitation on a seemingly complex change. I'm to the point where it can absolutely add tests to files using my existing patterns that are well done and rarely need feedback from me. I have been surprised to the see the progress because for most of the history of LLM I didn't find it useful.

It also helps that I work in a nodejs/react/etc codebase where the models have a ton of information and examples to work with.
I find it's directly proportional to the inputs you give it. So either you need to break down the requests into smaller boxes, or use a tool like Cursor or my preferred, Aider. They both automatically bring in more context about your codebase, such as Aider bringing in your whole git repo map, to help it integrate better.
Hard to imagine such pretentious marketing isn't intentional, they want to go viral
Useful information about conceptual relationships and procedure can be captured in the LM head, so there is also potential lossiness when short-circuiting it.
Does this mean that if I set GPC, companies are not allowed to show me cookie banners under GDPR but just assume I hit whatever their "decline all tracking" button says?
Wikipedia has a functioning appeals process in the form of RfCs, third opinions, and other dispute resolution processes (listed at [[Wikipedia:Dispute resolution]]). American police officers don't have that.
How about a hefty fine and the risk of some jail time?
Not at all incompetence, it's just a very open ended UI for a tool that is best used for specific use cases. It can be tempting to try to get it to solve very broad problems since the UI lets you do that, but where it excels is when you use it to save time by constraining it to do the grunt work for you.

Don't ask it how to solve a problem for you, instead write out the solution in plain English, provide an API for it to fill in, and let it write out the solution with unit tests.
> What did robots do for assembly lines?

Made them much more efficient, reliable, and greatly improved quality control.

I get the point you're trying to make and I think AI right now is mostly hot garbage, but physical automation has drastically improved the quality of so many products we use today. Cars are safer partially because the robots are so much better at building cars.
Trump just got elected and is appointing a cabinet of billionaires.

It should be noted that the context with Jesus and Barabbas is probably the failed Jewish revolt against Rome that led to the destruction of the temple in 70CE, with the gospel accounts looking to separate the emerging gentile Christian movement from the Jewish rebels.
We're better at doing surveys than that.

If you look in the details of the "paycheck to paycheck" surveys, people reporting they make 200k+ a year also say yes to that, so I think it's just unclear what they think it means.
> Fuel fires are not something you can tackle with a domestic hose.

Tackle and extinguish, no. Keep in check long enough to prevent serious damage until the firefighters come in with the big pumps and hoses? Yes.
Was this the first time he tried it? Probably not.
Banning anything is never about stopping theoretical "bad actors", it's about reducing the number of normal people who pick up "bad thing" and making mere ownership a suspicious enough act to compel investigation. It's about making things harder. A gun on a black market will be more expensive in a place that makes guns in general illegal. Small time Timmy will not be able to afford a gun to back up his desire to rob the local liquor store.

Systemic design is usually about how you affect the margins
This doesn't seem to be reported here in a very illuminating way, which is reflected in the comments seeming to be everyone jumping to blame whatever pet peeve social issue they already have an axe to grind about.

The scoring system on this is set up such that 500 is the distribution median and 100 points is roughly 1 standard deviation. The US score is 517 in math, down from 535 the last time it was tested four years ago. Assuming IQ scores have to be whole integers, this is like having your IQ go from 105 to 103. Is that even a real difference or within normal test to test variation? This isn't like measuring height, where you expect almost exactly the same result every time.
> athletic performance

Interesting - what do they measure? I could see hand-eye coordination and a sense of body position relative to the ground (the perception that Simone Biles lost temporarily). But most athletic performance would have seemed irrelevant to me. It seems mostly a mental task, as you describe.

Someone I know in special forces said they don't look for 'jocks', but people with emotional and cognitive performance under stress, though a certain level of physical ability is necessary of course.
The same PR that green lit the billboard? Sounds like the same tone of voice to me
I have never cooked a gyro sandwich, I have, however, cooked gyro meat and used that in a sandwich

That said, this is really cool. I enjoyed the read.
Sometimes discretization introduces interesting behavior though. Compare for example the logistic map and it's chaotic regime with the simplicity of the logistic ODE. Another example would be quantum mechanics compared to classical mechanics and determinism. The Poincare Conjecture was only interesting for n=3 due to too much connectivity in higher dimensions. Wouldn't it be interesting if consciousness only arose in such a discretized form, a case of incidental complexity and chaos introduced as the result of topological non-triviality from quantization?

Don't forget, non-linearity is fundamental to the whole process, otherwise you'd just have one large linear transformation. Maybe there's a similar role for discretization? :shrug:
I have said no to Javascript for over 20 years for reasons having nothing to do with the language. I actually like the way Javascript looks because it looks much like C. I have no problem with the Javascript language.

But Javascript is the language of choice for programs (scripts) that I do not care to run. By default, these undesired Javascripts are executed automatically with no user input when one uses a so-called "modern" web browser.

As such, I do not run Javascript. As it happens, the language is closely associated with the so-called "modern" browser, a program that I consider too big, too complex and too dificult to control. It takes far too long to compile, assuming the source code is even available.

I am submitting this comment without using a "modern" web browser.
Video games? What's that? We're all supposed to be using NFTs in the metaverse at this point.
The result of the expression is not compared to an annotation if there isn't one, but that result absolutely has a type of its own.

And the objects inside an expression assuredly care about their types:

>>> '1' + 1
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: can only concatenate str (not "int") to str
Which isn't uncommon in places with high corruption, I remember the horror stories trying to order a high value item accross the border (Different country similar situation)
> You can die on this hill, you're just wrong

I think you replied to the wrong comment because I didn't make any point in the one you responded to. It's whatever, because I'm not alone on this hill and many nutrition experts agree on this. And I've chosen to give them credit and believe them as I'm not an obesity researcher.

> Doesn't bother me, my weight is fantastic.

No one asked.
I think nextjs does lead to a very simple codebase at every step of the interactivity gradient. You can have pure server side rendered HTML all the way up to full blown SPA and everything inbetween with just one tool rather than having...

1. HTMX itself

2. Your backend language Go/Java/whatever

3. Whatever JS framework for your interactivity islands

But yes we are all on the same team here of reducing complexity in the codebase and if HTMX works for you go for it.
I don’t get the hate for OpenAI. They’ve made life easier for me and I’m not going to pretend they haven’t.

They came out with a revolutionary chatbot that provides actual value. A few months later, every single company starts pushing their AI offerings (Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Grok, AI this and AI that). Sam and Co needs to compete.

> abusing the charity laws while making billion-dollar for-profit deals with Microsoft and defense contractors.

Who cares? Compute costs aren’t going to pay for themselves and money doesn’t grow on trees.

If they become ClosedAI, so be it. I’m still buying their stuff.
I wrote a small application for a Customer which enables File Transfer, Notifies Users about files that they should have uploaded and displays some progress. The Customer is a law firm. No Recurring Renevue, But yielded 10000€ in 6 months. Is More of a second Job than a side project tho
The point is that reality is more complicated than short statements (which often embed political assumptions) can express, and understanding the reality of the situation is useful, especially to people who want to change the system.
I built an interactive Music Theory course 8 years ago over a winter break and it continues to bring in enough to pay my rent each month.

I just thought there had to be a more intuitive way to learn music theory than the very boring and jargon-heavy alternatives.

It uses Tone.js to include little interactive pianos, guitars, and other demos.

I've done no marketing, it hit the HN front page for a day, and after that initial spike in traffic has been fairly consistent over the past 8 years.

It uses Stripe for payments and for the first few years it was only Stripe. 3 years in I decided to add PayPal support... revenue doubled overnight, mostly from international customers.

https://www.lightnote.co/
It's not even as clever as the strip clubs with billboards reading "unlicensed therapists" type of thing.
I always just assume it's the magic of selection bias.
It’s actually one of the best arguments for pairing/mobbing that people don’t like to talk about.

When you are sitting at a keyboard with other people, there’s no chance you’re going to browse. You and everyone else involved will be 100% focused on the task.

They actually tested this with brainwave scans and found that concentration levels were significantly higher than working independently.
One thing in tech I find interesting is I run into a lot of people that view everything as a tech problem. The AI can be a local journalist if it gets good enough and on one hand that's always true, sufficiently good tech can do anything, but it seems weird to have it be the only suggested solution by some people I know.

It's especially confusing to me in situations like this where the tech is currently exacerbating the problem and the underlying reasons why aren't going to go away just if the tech gets better. On the current trajectory I don't get why the technology getting better will suddenly have the AI do substantive local journalism instead of just higher quality garbage.

In conjunction with actual journalists I could see it being useful but the article seems to be talking about a site with fake bylines so that doesn't seem to be the case here.
uh oh didn't the US sign the UN charter of human rights? maybe they didn't. but then, who cares, under the emperor of the new Reich...
> If you've ever known someone dealing with chronic pain, it can easily make you decide that you're better off dead than continuing to live

I'll confirm it for you right now. For me it's not just the back, it's areas along the entire spine. I've had spinal cord compression on my thoracic spine since late 2017 and nobody will touch it. My lumbar spine has many herniations and "schmorl's nodes" (where it's chipping away at the actual vertebrae) in addition to clamping my nerve roots shut. I had emergency surgery in my neck in early 2018. Prior to the thoracic spine injury, I was in the best shape of my life; very muscular and healthy with a 6-pack like you see in Luigi's pictures.

It's been an absolute miserable experience for the last 8 years. Being gaslighted by doctors before and after my surgery didn't help. Insurance tried to deny my emergency surgery at first despite the fact I lost all sensation from the neck down almost overnight. When you're dealing with trauma and the system works against you, very dark thoughts start to form. I'm not going to say I condone what Luigi did, but if you think people go through these events and don't think those thoughts on many occasions, you're so very wrong. There's a HUGE range of emotions that comes with it all. Suicide was definitely one of them for a long time as well. I have a wife and kids though and do not wish to burden them further by adding to the list of problems. They're the only things that's kept me going strong this whole time.
This is a good question that we don't have the answer to yet.

Generally, other research has found that the college wage premium grows with age (i.e. a 50 year old with college vs a 50 year old without college degree makes even more in relative term). Thus, if the initial wage premium is driven by the coursework/upskilling due to classes, then we could see the negative impact of less coursework be even stronger in the future.

<- In fact this is what we really want to measure isn't it? Not are you ready for your first job out of college, but did you gain skill that make you a better all around worker.

I think that is what the result may be showing. Even if coursework might not have direct applications, it trains/teaches you in other ways that are applicable to many other scenarios.
I run https://pastmaps.com as a lil' solo bootstrapped labor of love. Think Google Maps, but for OLD maps. It has 185K+ fully georeferenced high-res maps covering all of America, as well as satellite, LiDAR, and 3D layers to enable exploration through space and time.

History is cool yo. And apparently lucrative - it currently makes ~$5000/mo and is slowly but surely growing through word of mouth
Literally the article:

"The extent of the decline seems to be driven by the lowest performing students losing more ground, a worrying trend that predates the pandemic."

"The TIMSS results echoed the 2022 findings of the National Assessment of Educational Progress or NAEP, which saw major declines in math scores among both fourth and eighth graders. American students’ scores actually started to decline before the pandemic for reasons that are not entirely clear."

"This gap between high- and low-performing students started to widen before the pandemic for reasons that are unclear. Since then, other research into post-pandemic academic performance has found widening gaps across race and income, even as many middle and higher income students are doing well."

Hacker News commenter:

"The article seems to be pushing a Covid-causation narrative without any evidence."
Reinforcement learning software to increase focus
Very nicely highlighted in the article:

> You find yourself in a quest for productivity, feeling productive because of the quest, but not really doing any productive work.

Been there a million times myself, it’s such an easy trap to fall into.
Great question. The device is fully programable. Arbitrary one-qubit operations and arbitrary two-qubit operations between adjacent qubits can be performed. Theoretically these are 'universal for computation', meaning that a large enough device could compute anything computable. You can't program Quantum Tetris or whatever on a bouncy ball :).

But nevertheless, many of these 'beyond-classical' demonstrations feel a bit arbitrary in the way you describe, and there's good reason for this. Logical operations are still quite noisy, and the more you apply, the more output quality degrades. To get the most 'beyond-classical,' you run the thing that maps most readily to the physical layout and limitations of the hardware.

As things improve, we'll see more and more demonstrations of actually useful computations. Google and others have already performed lots of quantum simulations. In the long run, you will use quantum error correction, which is the other big announcement this week.
The pricing page is not really useful and I would even go as far as to say it's misleading. You compare the returns of your service to an advisor that costs $2000 an hour. The overlap between people who pay two grand per hour to an advisor and the people who use a $1 monthly subscription investment service is an empty set. What would be much more interesting would be if you showed a comparison of your service offering vs a cheap ETF. For example, how do your fees for rebalancing, buying, selling, etc add up when tracking the equivalent of VOO for a year, as opposed to just buying VOO? Right now it looks like you're trying to hide this comparison and that sounds like it doesn't look good for you.
uff missed that! thanks for pointing out