skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then stop consuming! A champion has discipline. A champion athlete doesnt grow morbidly obese off pizza and then complains it’s the pizzas fault - stop, or drastically reduce, eating.

“It’s not easy”, of course it isn’t, all greatness requires sacrifice, are you going to go to the gym (learn new programming skill) or sit there eating donuts?
The competition in text-to-video tools is heating up, but a key challenge remains: achieving desired results without exhausting resources. Runway, for instance, often consumes all your credits before producing something usable, even if you stick to their guidelines. Hailuo AI shows better consistency, while Sora Turbo sounds promising with potentially more mature generations. Progress is clear, but there’s still a way to go in perfecting these tools.
Recent Google news change made it unusable. Any way to revert it?
Google news recently switched to endless scrolling (probably trying to mimic social media apps) and made it completely unusable for me. Is anyone else feeling the same?

I had my interest set up in google news: world news, local, Tech, Health and every day I could see couple of headlines from each section. This worked well since I could spend 10~30 minutes a day to see the top headlines from each category I follow and read them.

Now it's endless scrolling and I have no idea if I read top headlines for the day from each section. How can I go back to my previous behavior?
And it never will

The first 90% is easy, it's the second 90% that is very hard.
> It is to highlight that we already reached a good level of performance this early in the project.

This is the right thing to do. It's a pity so many projects don't keep an eye on performance from the very first day. Getting high performing product is a process, not a single task you apply at the end. Especially in a performance critical system like a database, if you don't pay attention to performance and instead you delay optimizing till the end, at the end of the day you'll need to do a major rewrite.
Our technology is typically more cost-effective than deploying single LLMs on custom infrastructure due to several key factors:

Optimized Resource Use: Humiris dynamically routes each task to the most suitable model, ensuring you only use the necessary resources and avoid paying for unused capacity.

Multi-Model Efficiency: By leveraging multiple specialized LLMs, Humiris handles diverse tasks more efficiently than a one-size-fits-all model, improving performance without the need for overprovisioning.

Lower Operational Costs: As a managed platform, Humiris reduces the expenses and complexities associated with maintaining your own infrastructure, including updates, scaling, and monitoring.

Scalability: Humiris seamlessly scales with your business needs, allowing you to handle increased workloads without the significant costs tied to scaling single-model setups.

Long-Term Savings: Intelligent model selection and resource optimization lead to predictable and reduced costs over time compared to the high initial and ongoing expenses of single LLM deployments.
A good question about communication that caught ny eye.

In my experience, aint no such thing as a "high level". I think what
people sometimes ask us is "Can you explain this so it makes sense to
me?". Knowing who the "me" is (what they want and why), is the
key.

Communication is always tailored. It exists in a context in which the
recipient is "held in mind". And it's dialogical, so you can jam it
and ask "What would be the important things for you to know?".

It can make you feel put upon, and that it devalues your detailed
knowledge. The words "high level" often get someones goat because of
the lofty assumption. Everyone sees themself as at the "top" of their
information pile. Many years ago I felt that people asking "give me
the view from 30,000ft" were just lazy and entitled. I've come to
regard crafting succinct help as poetry to enjoy.

If you're the person asking that question it helps to introduce
yourself, your role and needs - even if you think the person you are
asking "should know" who you are. So I might say "As chief widget
wrangler, what should I know about..."
I'd say tobacco is more insidious.
> Tablets/Phones/screen time disables cognitive abilities of kids and reduces them to dumb clicking machines.

Is this speculation, or are there statistics/studies that demonstrate this?
You are mixing up 2 issues here. We're not debating what % of food gets digested, so it's off topic.

We are talking about the theory that if you eat fructose, or if you eat 'highly processed foods' there is some complex hormone response that causes those calories to be preferentially stored as fat or to slow the metabolism down so they aren't burned.

For sure you are correct when you say that the calories on the label of a food is just an estimate, and not a very good one.
What is this 12 Days of Christmas thing, with Sam Altman sitting there? Do they really think they're perceived as benefactors or relatable, lovable startup scamps? By anyone following the AI space they're the enemy. They've made a mockery of the entire purpose of their company, ousted the board that resisted their direction, are abusing the charity laws while making billion-dollar for-profit deals with Microsoft and defense contractors, and they abandoned every single promise towards openness. Even their name is a lie.
"Intelligence" is a continuous process. Without a continuous feedback loop, LLMs will never be more than a compression algorithm we bullied into being a chatbot.

OpenAi as a mega-organism might be intelligent, but the LLMs definitely are not.

The "compressed capture of semantic relationships" is a new thing we don't have a word for.
My Japanese mom always thought it was weird to put peoples names to destructive forces like hurricanes. I think she said in Japan use some numbering system (might be as simple as incrementing, I don't remember).
Both?

If the guy worked for free, it would have increased margin by about 0.002%.
Public domain is a form of open source.
It's this database from here: https://datasette.io/content.db - it uses the SQLite FTS extension though so it's not surprising there was something in there that caused problems!
Dash0 currently doesn't offer an own agent or a distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector.

You can use anything which is sending OTLP.

If your applications have been instrumented accordingly, you don't necessarily need a separate agent but can let the OpenTelemetry SDK send directly to Dash0.

Dash0 offers a Kubernetes operator for getting your data in without much effort:
https://github.com/dash0hq/dash0-operator

Disclaimer: I am working at Dash0.
Mike from Vesta (first demo video) claims Devin saved "at least a hundred hours" debugging API integrations. That seems crazy to me - API integrations rarely take that long, and any engineer would spot issues like wrong API keys almost immediately. The tool might be more valuable for non-engineers creating initial drafts, but by the time you've written all the detailed specs for Devin, a mid-level engineer could have made significant progress on the task.
I was shocked to read about the maximum lifespans for some birds in captivity. It seems like they’re all built for extremely long lives! Birds that live to 80 in captivity are not uncommon at all. Really threw me for a loop
Sorry we're talking about the alleged United Healthcare CEO shooter. Not Elon Musk.
> While US has excellent education

By what measure? As far as I know it is poor, in absolute terms and relative to its peers.

For the rest, do you have any evidence for the statements, or that the outcome depends on race (and not, for example, income, local school quality, etc)? A very large portion of the US population is neither immigrant nor white. And blaming the immigrants for undermining 'white' people is also part of a hateful disinformation campaign, so I think we should be very careful with statements that might be used to spread that hate.

Edit: Even if immigration status were correlated, that doesn't mean that immigration causes people to be worse at mathematics. It could be, for example, that immigrants suffer disrcimination and a lack of resources - like some other groups that have lower scores.
They operate as non-profits when providing that insurance, so I'm not sure how well that works as a counterexample to his assertion.

The do also offer supplemental insurance for things beyond what the compulsory insurance covers and those supplemental plans are for-profit.
Wow convincing someone for a decade that they have lung cancer! How can one continue so long?
Nice. They're just starting out, but it's a good idea.
Yeah, but I grew up in a rural county in Virginia where when we first moved there, the county library was a carrel of used paperbacks in the basement of the old courthouse --- some sort of book, even if on a screen should be way better than no book.

How do e-ink e-book readers fare? I do pretty well reading every evening on my Kindle Paperwhite, and have a fair quantity of notes on my Kindle Scribe, as well as using it for reference for technical subjects.

Whatever happened with "One Laptop Per Child"? Apparently it's now an Android tablet?

https://www.fastcompany.com/section/one-laptop-per-child
Or maybe like Dungeons and Dragons, Rock and Roll, Harry Potter and other things parents got hysterical about but turned out to not actually lead us into evil. The jury seems to be still out. We don't really know yet if "screens" are bad, but that hasn't stopped a lot of people from pointing their fingers at them.
There's a special note that obesity and smoking are not associated. The article really is a mess
you joke, but firefox features did work.

proof is that musk first and only feature added to shitter post purchase fiasco was to detect firefox anti tracking feature and block the user! the fact the most shrewd person in the world acted on it is perfect proof it worked againt his goals (which now we know was to influence elections)
Also now featuring AI chat linking to AI articles in line! AI article is content marketing ad. https://s.h4x.club/RBubww78
Even without that, it’s helpful. It means there is less (no?) undefined behavior that you will need to emulate to maintain compatibility. You can just follow the spec.
Parental involvement in education is one of the biggest predictors of educational success. Far, far above funding. The teacher's unions and others just want you to throw more money at the problem
Yes, that's correct! Humiris breaks down tasks into subtasks when appropriate and routes each to the most suitable model. This process ensures that every part of the task is handled by an LLM optimized for factors specific tasks or domain and others parameters like quality, speed, cost, energy efficiency, or privacy.
It’s all about using the right tool for the right job to maximize efficiency and performance.
I’ll laugh with you, but once Google is gone, the first replacement will be ChatGPT and it already is $20pm (and apparently, ChatGPT is so good at organizing the world’s information that I’m paying for it)(Yes it was Google’s mission)(Yes they failed). 2030 will be fun.
Your claim and the GP's are very different:

* Yours is that the bottom 10% are declining. That says nothing about who is in the bottom 10%.

* The GP says the composition of the population has changed, and blames immigrants.
A major failing in futurism is not accounting for both quality and cost scaling, especially supra-linear.

If you'd told someone with one of the first automobiles that they'd eventually be massively personally-owned, have access the majority of countries via paved road networks, and be refillable along the way, they'd have laughed at you.

And yet, that's what we've all lived in.

It happened because automobiles were massively useful.

It's difficult to imagine a scenario where basic-level cognition doesn't also scale, because a lot of the mental tasks we do every day are dumb and low-value.
Yeah, I have the same question, I wasn't sure if he had said what he does think the fracture was mainly about and I missed it.
Did you really just link to a post from your Twitter saying the same thing you did here?
I think AI has a bright future in radiology for the simple reason that it will be able to take the full dynamic range of each pixel/voxel into account.
If I get a sales call from an AI bot you're selling nothing and going on my blackball list forever.
Ryzen chips have a different network topology than Threadripper and EPYC chips. All external communication goes through the IO die, so any given core on either processor die is the same effective distance to the memory modules. The speed of signal propagation being finite, it's possible that individual cores within the same die might have different effective latencies, depending on how they routed the bus internally (although that's a problem you have on any single die multicore design), but it's not possible when comparing cores at mirrored positions on opposite dies.

Threadripper and EPYC are totally different. They actually have NUMA topologies, where different dies are wired such that they have more distance to traverse to reach a given memory module, and accessing the farther ones involves some negotiation with a routing component.
Sounds a /bit/ like the Agent Arthur[0] books that I loved as a kid!

Def interested in these! Thanks for posting!

[0] https://usborne.com/gb/agent-arthur-s-arctic-adventure-97818...
Ok, I'll bite.

Your thesis is that we are having poor educational outcomes due to poor funding of schools. Based on the latest numbers I could find, funding per pupil was $15,591 in 2022. Because of "cost disease", I would hypothesis that it makes sense to adjust for GDP per capita (a teacher in Poland might be just as good as a teacher in America but paid but be paid ~4x less and the primary cost in education is labor). GDP per capita in 2022 was $77,246. So per pupil we spend ~(15,591/77,246) people worth of labor on their education or .201 of a person.

I notice Norway is on the list ahead of us and I often see them being called out as a country with policies and outcomes that are more close to ideal (although to be honest Asian countries dominate the list!) so let's look at their ration..

In 2023 Norway spend $18,207 per pupil while gdp was 87,961 so the ratio there was (18,207/87,961) or .206 of a person. You might say this is higher and it's true but.. it's very close to us and if you use 2022 numbers Norway comes in dramatically below .201.

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Another way to analyze things would be by US state while hoping that states would have more in common than countries and knowing that states have dramatically different spending budgets per pupil (see here https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/per-pupil-s... the difference is three fold from top to bottom). https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/education/p... shows math attainment by state.

Right off the bat you will notice that Utah spends the least amount of money per pupil and has the second highest average score while New York has the highest spend and comes in 23rd place.

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I recognize that the data I found is not in any way comprehensive, but do you have any data which indicate that I'm wrong and the issue really does have to do with underfunding?
> There was also a strong correlation between socioeconomic status and test scores. Students from higher income households and those who attended schools with more affluent students had higher scores.
I would agree that gun violence is a serious issue. However, I think most people are misled/misinformed about nature of the problem, who is at risk, and their personal risk.

I think that the risk is highly concentrated on a subset of people, an individuals can take simple actions to remove themselves from that subset.

Examples would be if you steer clear of gangs, drugs, and abusive partners, your risk is drastically lower than the national average. The same is true for your kids, especially if you don't keep guns in your house.

Now, I still think it's a problem that other Americans are dying from gun violence, even if I don't think I am personally at much risk. I will admit that this does reduce the sense of urgency I feel, and I suspect that this is why the numbers are obfuscated.

The groups that want to reduce gun violence rightly understand that personal fear is a greater motivator then general concern for the well-being of others, so the narrative exaggerates the former and not the letter. This is why you get lone suicide grouped with home invasion for gun violence statistics. It is why you get 2 gang members shot in a drug deal gone bad classified with school massacres as mass shootings.
https://youtu.be/pmcrG7ZZKUc?t=220

If we're a simulation of a parent universe that is exactly like us just of it's past or an alternate past, then we likely should be able to achieve simulating our own universe within ourselves. Otherwise we're not actually a simulation.

There's another line of counter argument that various results in QM and computing theory would suggest that it's mathematically impossible for the universe to be simulated on a computer (i.e. the parent universe would have to look very different from ours vs ours in the future). But I don't recall the arxiv paper.
And he didn't really evade very much. Look how quickly he was caught. He didn't ditch the crucial evidence, so when he's questioned he is so busted. Maybe that's good for bringing more awareness to the type of gun used, but who would be caught with the murder weapon in their possession? That gets dropped in any deep body of water you can find.
Interesting business idea. I would get a more professional looking email.
Drivers of global tourism carbon emissions
How do non-developer salaries affect those taxes?

(In 2024, if a company paid salaries for a software developer, a novel writer, and a cook, does each of those 3 positions affect taxes in the same way?)
I'm an actual physicist here. Not in quantum computers, but that was my advisor's field and I've kept paying attention in the years since. Your intuition here is correct, I believe. Classical computer science deals with information processing limits of devices constructed using the classical physics laws of Newton and Maxwell. Quantum physics introduces new elements that permit new kinds of information processing machines, which have no obligation to be constrained by classical law.
That's awesome. Would love to see someone use it with QMK Configurator, or even VIA!
> For maximum performance, users have to choose WAL mode over journal mode, disable POSIX advisory locks, etc.

Speaking of "wal" mode, is "wal2" mode [1] on your radar for this project to prevent wal files from growing indefinitely in a busy system?

[1] https://sqlite.org/cgi/src/doc/wal2/doc/wal2.md
Just keep in mind that tax loss harvesting is a tax deferral method. It reduces your current taxes by increasing your future taxes (which will be at an unknowable rate).

It is also only effective when an account is relatively young, or if new contributions are a substantial portion of the portfolio. As your portfolio matures, fewer and fewer positions will be at a loss, so there will be only very limited opportunities to loss harvest.
Trellis 3D: Next-Gen 3D Asset Generation
They gotta be Joshing us! How's Dic-I mean, Richard?

Just having fun. I see what you mean and vaguely support it... I just won't lose anything over it
> I do also see these kinds of license trends as harmful to open source generally

I've re-read this a few times and I'm still not sure what "harmful to open source" means in this sentence, could you expand on this a bit when you have time? (readings I considered: this will dissuade people from using OSI licenses, this will dissuade people from trying to monetize open source components, this will dissuade people from using open source components in their products all together, this will dissuade people from contributing to open source)

> Many people had contributed their efforts to the Redis project for free

This one is not directly addressed at OP but I would be interested to see what the contribution numbers are like for Redis and other projects post-license change.

In my own limited experience (project with >10k, <100k end users), I received no meaningful code contributions when the project was MIT licensed, but contributions of significant features and large bug fixes skyrocketed after switching away from it (not saying that the license change is the reason for that, just that it didn't dissuade some people who are willing to contribute significant effort from contributing to the project).

Editing this post to say thanks for the response and clarity, I don't have anything else to add!
I’m not trying to be preachy, just take issue with the idea that there is no way for the poor to avoid eating factory farmed meat - at a bare minimum, we can agree that vegetarianism is possible, no?
> I believe there is a single person that was in Redis and works there now, at least AFAIK. And this person stopped working at Redis long time ago (and was not a core developer).

It is probably more correct to say a bunch of Redis contributors left the Redis GitHub project and moved over to Valkey.

You can see there are a bunch of contributors listed on this page who seem to predate the fork and who have continued to contribute:

https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey/graphs/contributors

Particularly these contributors standout:

https://github.com/enjoy-binbin

https://github.com/madolson

https://github.com/soloestoy

https://github.com/hwware

https://github.com/zuiderkwast

https://github.com/hpatro

https://github.com/pizhenwei
Rule #1 is that technologists must pretend that they understand what they are doing. Woo-woo is fine as long as you can get your peers to play along with you.
Distorted incentives
That doesn't say the composition changed - that could have been true before - or that immigration status is any factor at all.
What a fantastic essay. Long ago I had the same hunch and likened having the internet around me to running with a parachute.

These days I am little better at avoiding consumption, if not worse. I think it's inevitable. And I think on net it may be a good thing. Yes you lose time and focus by dipping your toes into the zeitgeist, but you also make sure you work on things that are relevant. The open vs closed door from Hamming's You and Your Research.

The closed-door researcher produces more work, but the open-door researcher produces impactful work. Who was ultimately more productive?

The key, I find, is to do a bit of both. Work on hard things with deep focus and validate against the zeitgeist regularly.

edit: Found it. Almost the exact same post (in gist) from 2011 when I was 24, similar age as OP. https://swizec.com/blog/my-ideas-are-shitty-so-im-going-on-a...
I like fossil. Much prefer it to git. No idea what stacked PRs are but it's compatible with git and way simpler in my opinion. Plus comes with some nice extras like tickets, wiki, UI.
Well written and thoughtful piece - I don't have problems with the license - they control the project, they can do what they want, I can use it or not as I want.

The thing that's interesting to me is the idea that these things have to continue to "evolve." Like we need to keep adding features to keep people engaged to have an active community, yada yada.

In my mind, and maybe I'm wrong, some of these projects are just sorta finished - they've evolved to a completed state more or less and just need maintenance. Memcached has sorta went this route afaict - it's still tremendously useful for some things and it's not constantly trying to add data types to compete with other things.
It isn’t pure sociopathy. In this instance the sociopathy is heavily doped with high-test stupidity. “My spam chat bot is going to change the world” is the sort of thing an autoerotic asphyxiator gasps out before things take a bad turn
Details if anyone is interested: https://opensource.org/blog/public-domain-is-not-open-source
Turing tests made useful.