skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve never heard of a load balancer that balances CPU load. They balance queuing depth and that’s only a proxy for cpu load and a pretty terrible one at that.

I really don’t understand how their claim is anything more than a least-conn with a better weighting algorithm.

We don’t generally use heterogenous server clusters anymore. Noisy neighbors and differences from one data center to the next are definitely things, but outside of microservices, you’ve got a lot of requests with different overhead to them. Route B might be five times as expensive as route A. So it’s not server predictors that I want, but route predictors. Those need a weight or cost estimator based on previous traffic.

Poor man version of this: we had ingress load balancers and then a local load balancer, like one does for Ruby or NodeJS or a handful of other languages. I found that we got much better tail latency running a more “square” arrangement. We initially had a little under 3 times as many boxes as cores per box, and I switched to the next biggest EC2 instance, which takes you to 3:4 ratio. That not only cancelled out a slight latency increase from moving to docker containers but also let me to reduce the cluster size by about 5% and still have a bit better p95 times.

I get two equally weighted attempts to balance the load fairly, instead of one and change.
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Your customers don't care how your code smells, as long as it solves their problem and doesn't cost an arm and a leg.

A ton of huge business full of Sr Principal Architect SCRUM masters are about to get disrupted by 80 line ChatGPT wrappers hacked together by a few kids in their dorm room.
One strategy is after you buy reinforce possible failure points
Isn't this a kind of survivor bias? You wouldn't know if you approved (undisclosed) LLM-generated code that was good..
Ok, did you perform this audit of all US politicians? Or are you just spreading FUD?
My job is not to translate requirements into code, or even particularly to create software, but to run a business process for which my code forms the primary rails. It is possible that advanced software-development and reasoning LLMs will erode some of the advantage that my technical and analytical skills give me for this role. On the other hand even basic unstructured-text-understanding LLMs will dramatically reduce the size of the workforce involved in this business process, so it's not clear that my role would logically revert to a "people manager" either. Maybe there is a new "LLM supervisor" type of role emerging in the future, but I suspect that's just what software engineer means in the future.
I mean human generations because to do system architecture, design and development well you need something that can at least match an average human brain in reasoning, logic and learning plasticity.

I don’t think that’s impossible but I think we’re quite a few human generations away from that. And scaling LLM’s is not the solution to that problem; an LLM is just a small but important part of it.
Least-conn is requests in flight. It’s like they’re trying to make it hard for people to search for prior art. My ass feels very smoky right now.
Or, using Occams Razor; Sundar is a shit CEO and is playing catchup with a company largely fueled by innovations created at Google but never brought to market because it would eat into ads revenue.

That, or they have a secret super human intelligence under wraps at the pentagon.
Okay but if you have Home Assistant in the center of all things, why would other things need to subscribe to that same stream?

I use MQTT but for me it's only a tool for getting a certain device integrated in HA. I don't see why I would want more devices to communicate that way.

Plus, from my development background, I have grown to really dislike event buses. And mqtt sure feels like a weird big non-strict event bus with some persistence.
Well I don't think it's unreasonable to assume that people will understand that any system will be prone to abuse - what's more important is how much it realistically enables, and how it responds to that abuse
I found out about it via social media which is essentially modern "word of mouth".
It now makes sense that when we tested the domain ncompass.com it took us to a Microsoft home page, which is why we're ncompass.tech :)
We know how already: exogenous testosterone (or other, more anabolic hormones), but that has downsides like left-ventricular hypertrophy, masculinization in women, and (usually reversible) infertility.
You might like https://www.flightcontrol.dev which makes it easy to deploy servers or Lambdas. (I'm cofounder)
I wonder if using a different allocator in SQLite (https://www.sqlite.org/malloc.html) would improve performance in their workload to a greater degree than any amount of Rust or io_uring.

I can understand how io_uring increases server utilization, but I fail to see how it will make any individual query faster.
> these models aren't pelican painters or anything like that, they're LANGUAGE models

Tools are defined by what people use them for, not by how they were intended—or designed—to be used. (Just ask Nvidia)

adding: so I think someone comparing how various tools perform at a task that's valuable to them—and probably others—is just fine, even if it's different from what the creator of the tool intended?
This... for my most important use case (applied numerical algorithms) it is in fact beyond not useful, it is negative value - even for highly available methods’ codes.

Sure, I can ask for it to write (wrong) boilerplate but it is hardly where work ends. It is up to me to spend the time doing careful due diligence at each and every step. I could ask for it to patch each mistake but, again, it relies on a trained, skillful, many times formally educated domain expert on the other end puppeteering the generative copywriter.

For the many cases where computer programming is similar to writing boilerplate, it could indeed be quite useful but I find the long tail of domain expertises will always be outside the reach of data-driven statistical learners.
Xi accomplished a lot when he felt some restraints internally and externally- as those restraints have fallen away and he's been unleashed to do as he will, his 'touch' has faded alongside.

Stopped reporting real economic numbers as they've gotten bad, losing influence in his neighborhood as he's tried to steal control over the surrounding ocean, state owned/controlled enterprises being unfairly promoted extinguishing vital home-grown entrepreneurial sprit and a variety of other avoidable ills.

Unconstrained power will always expose one's weaknesses and unearned verities. Trump's second term will be an interesting pushback to see if any of these exposed Xi weaknesses cause a real crisis inside China.
If we ever get to the point LLMs are already optimized to answer every question you can think of then there isn't really a need to have a secret question in the first place.
The sky has a very dark background though when it's clear out and you're looking up. Whereas the ocean is more "messy" and noisy.
The BuyItForLife subreddit is supposed to be something like that, but it's also a giant target for advertising.
“Seems” here being “you experience it as soft” since soft isn’t an absolute thing. Since there are no other mentions of percentages that are soft there isn’t really anything else to mix it up with.
> That is useful, and the result can be shockingly impressive depending on what you're trying to do. But the limitations are so limited that the prospect of replacing an entire high-skilled profession with that magic trick is kind of a joke.

The possible outcome space is not binary (at least in the near term), i.e. either AI replace devs, or it doesn't.

What I'm getting at is this: There's a pervasive attitude among some developers (generally older developers, in my experience) that LLM's are effectively useless. If we're being objective, that is quite plainly not true.

These conversations tend to start out with something like: "Well _my_ work in particular is so complex that LLM's couldn't possibly assist."

As the conversation grows, the tone gradually changes to admitting: "Yes there are some portions of a codebase where LLM's can be helpful, but they can't do _everything_ that an experienced dev does."

It should not even be controversial to say, that AI will only improve at this task. That's what technology does, over the long run.

Fundamentally, there's ego involved whenever someone says "LLM's have _never_ produced useable code." That statement, is provably false.
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(18 points, 3 days ago, 6 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42411275
No. I had a similar idea, and the article is confusing, but it's explained near the end

> "Now, at certain points the tracks intersect, so our particle train is moving along its fast track, at light speed, but then it hits an intersection and needs to switch to a perpendicular track.

It's about a different effective mass for the particle in the x, y and z direction. The idea is that inside a crystal you have quasiparticles like the "holes" or the "electrons", but the "electrons" inside a crystal have a different mass that an electron movin in vacuum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_mass_(solid-state_ph...

If the crystal is not symetrical in the x, y and z directions, it's not so weird that the "electron" (or whatever this is) has a different mass in each direction. For example crystals that are differen in the x, y and z directions may have different speed of light in each direction.
Getting users to trust your AI agent
try this alt stylesheet https://ddanluu.com/nothing-works
> The notion that markets can drive efficiency is a valuable insight. But people for whom Econ 101 acts as a religion have a really hard time noticing when that effect gets swamped.

US businesses, though, do not. The desired state is monopoly, or, failing that, oligopoly with three or less major players. The US is there in cellular communications, web search, banking, drugstores, social networks, movies...

"Competition is for losers" - Thiel.
Merry Christmas, Your New Air Fryer Is Spying on You
I don't think sandwiches are "real food" too, what's the problem with that specific case?
Go Protobuf: The New Opaque API
Get a better reading comprehension tutor.
Okay, I'm putting up a new bbs in the US that is only going to be accessible via SSH modern terminal only... UK users will be more than welcome.

I've been wanting to pay with remote modern terminals and Ratatui anyway.
The best cultural difference analogy I’ve heard — two ends of “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people” argument. One side genuinely believes that statement, the other thinks without guns there would be less death.

Same applies to social media and web as well. Yes, it is people ruining each other’s lives, but using an intermediary tool. Whether you think that way will depend on your preexisting conceptions and beliefs. I don’t think there is a wrong way of thinking of this, and every government will handle it differently depended on their goals and needs.
>I get btw a threat letter from another UK quango (I forget the name), which basically says "if you have any user data you need to pay us £60 a year".

The Information Commissioners Office. Just tell them you are not storing any data and they will go away.

> I did work as a freelancer in the UK (made impossible now because of IR-35 regulation)

Freelancers were never covered by IR35. IR35 covers employees masquerading as contractors. If you work for multiple companies on specific projects that won't cover you
Interesting but this one doesn't work with my containerised Home Assistant.
Xiaomi Miot Auto works on the other hand.

There's also another, a built-in one.
sqlite is actually public domain. https://sqlite.org/copyright.html. This is also the reason why they are closed contribution.

It's a strange combination in the free software world, but I'm grateful for it.
Math is a major part of programming. In fact programming without math is impossible. And if you go all the way down to bare metal it’s all math. We are shifting bits through incredibly complex abstractions.
Yes, which is what OpenERV is. I can understand why they might have thought I was talking about their system, my wording was a bit ambiguous there. So it doesn't hurt that they cleared that up :)
Because wiping out all of the world's importers/exporters would cripple China.

If they somehow survive of course.
There's the Cobra Effect popularized by Freakonomics

Too many cobras > bounty for slain cobras > people start breeding them for the bounty > law is revoked > people release their cobras > even more cobras around
You can't ban politics. Everything is politics.
This is actually how I was introduced to FreeBSD as well. I was a high school student in 2004 who had a hand-me-down PC that one of my high school teachers gave me. It had a 475MHz AMD K6-2 processor, 64MB RAM, and a 8GB hard drive that was running Windows 98. I learned about Linux in the spring of 2004, and I had Zipslack, which was a version of Slackware Linux that ran on top of DOS. I wanted to try Gentoo, but I had dial-up at home. At least Zipslack was small enough to make the download via dial-up bearable.

During the summer of 2004 I took an introductory computer science course at Sacramento City College. The professor was a big fan of FreeBSD. He convinced me to try it instead of Gentoo, and he gave me some CDs that he burned containing FreeBSD and plenty of FOSS software. I ended up installing FreeBSD on my PC, and I fell in love with it. It was my daily-driver OS until the summer of 2006, when I was able to use some of my internship earnings to purchase a MacBook, my first brand-new computer and my first modern Mac. I still use FreeBSD whenever I need a Unix and when I don’t need to use Linux-specific software.
You are asking wrong people. Of course, people are going to say it is not even close and probably they are right given current chaos of LLMs. It's like asking a mailman delivering email would you be replaced by email. The answer was not 100% but volume went down by 95%.

Make no mistake. All globalists — Musks, Altmans, Grahams, A16Zs, Trump supporting CEOs, Democrats — have one goal. MAKE MORE PROFIT.

The real question is — can you make more money than using LLM?

Therefore, the question is not whether there will be impact. There will absolutely will be impact. Will it be Doomsday scenario? No, unless you are completely out of touch — which can happen to a large population.
I think most normal people liked the M1 because of the battery life. A lot of people are lazy with charging in general, so its a huge benefit to just open the lid and it's working.
I’m interested in this, but I think I just realized that what I want it to do is impossible.

We have a fireplace, which is not efficient at all, in part because it sucks cold air in from the outside. I was thinking it would be great it we could use an ERV to condition the air that gets brought in.

However, as far as I can tell, the moment you exhaust air from your house in any way except through the ERV itself, the ERV cannot help you with the replacement air that comes in.

Is that correct?
This is mostly a personal anecdote with maybe only limited applicability here. But something like 5 years ago I was on a vacation to Hell Creek State Park [0] in Montana, on the banks of the Fort Peck reservoir. There is a marina there servicing the fishermen and running the campground. To get there you had to take 30 miles of a horribly maintained "gravel" road. That's the last 30 miles and the nearest town is the thriving metropolis of Jordan, MT, population 368. We'll it was a pretty WTF moment when I saw UPS and FedEx delivery trucks roll into the marina. That's like a 2 hour round trip at 30 MPH to get the driver back on a paved road. Not to mention the maintenance burden on the shocks for the trucks. I wonder what the cost of subsidies that UPS and FedEx must be paying to service places like that.

[0] - https://www.google.com/maps/place/Hell+Creek+Recreation+Area...
Zero LLMs have been trained on doing sales forecasting to my knowledge (and it isn't the right use regardless). In contrast, many LLMs have been trained on enormous quantities of code, coding languages and platforms and uses. Billions and billions of lines of code covering just about every sort of project. Millions of projects.

If someone says "Well my software dev project is too unique and novel and they are therefore of no value to me, but I understand it works for those simple folk with their simple needs", there is an overwhelming probability they are...misinformed.
With Intel and AMD figuring out x86 battery life, Windows based arm is DOA unless ARM chip makers are willing to sell on razor thin margins to out compete on price. Even then, business will be reluctant to switch.
OK, so you are just spreading rumours then?
So... did they talk to the SQLite maintainer to see how much of this can be taken on board? Because it seems weird to omit that if they did, and it seems even weirder if they didn't after benchmarking showed two orders of magnitude improvement.

(Even if that information should only be a line item in the paper, I don't see one... and a post _about_ the paper should definitely have something to link to?)
Yeah, I'm pretty sure this subreddit is mostly astroturfing.
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(15 points, 14 hours ago, 15 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42428389

(3 points, 38 days ago, 5 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42086312

(9 points, 30 days ago, 5 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42152472

Related Which? Report: https://www.which.co.uk/policy-and-insight/article/why-is-my...
So long as population is growing, we'll trade farmland for housing. It's not popular to say that we have multiples of the necessary population to ensure humanity's continuation.
I think the first deportations should target Tyson Foods plants and other companies known to depend on undocumented immigrant labour.

Make e-verification the law and fines bigger - not because Americans don't want to do that kind of work but because of the low wages.

Talking about going to Chicago and New York first shows me it is just blowing
smoke.
This. _Didn't see it therefore it doesn't exist_.
Thing is, most people don't use a computer for "anything professional" these days beyond Outlook and maybe Office at work, plus LOBs which are almost always web apps these days.

In fact, it increasingly feels like desktop itself is relegated to this kind of use, with smartphone becoming the primary computing device for most things.
I feel like that's letting perfect be in the way of better.

Are airpods the best hearing aid? no, but they cost 1/5 the cost from what I'm seeing for 'cheap' professionally fit & programmed hearing aids which opens it up to a lot of people who otherwise might be struggling to interact with the world.
https://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/ then
Signal starts public testing of message history sync when linking a new device
I love your post, and not because I agree with all of it. It is the most original thing on this entire thread
Super interesting. It fascinates me that the origins of mangoes are apparently so poorly understood.
Yeah I also use Hue lights, but since I don't use a Hue bridge and simply use Zigbee directly the lights have no internet access and I have no restrictions on usage.
What I wish I had known: HA is just a python program, it's pretty easy to run it manually.

After my Pi's sdcard died, I wanted to use an old laptop (more reliable with a built-in backup battery) so I followed the deployment recommendations and used the VM image. After that, for the first time I started having problems with HA not running - because VirtualBox would run only about a month before crashing. And I didn't like how much memory a VM locked up on the host.

The documentation makes it sound super complicated, but if you can make a venv and `pip install`, the setup is that easy. I tend to just run `hass` manually but there instructions for setting up supervised. I wish the documentation made this clearer, it really tries to scare people away from that method but running a whole VM is a lot of overhead for my pretty simple zwave-js setup.
Just to drive the point home. I made the parent comment five days ago. Today I searched Google for "google-cloud-skd vs google-cloud-cli", the top result was this page from two years ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/googlecloud/comments/wpq0eg/what_is...

The top comment in that page is:

> CLI is the new name for the SDK.The reasoning and strategy was explained in great detail in this podcast:
> https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5mZWVkYnVybmVyLmNvbS9HY3BQb2RjYXN0/episode/NTI5ZTM5ODAtYjYzOC00ODQxLWI3NDAtODJiMTQyMDMxNThj?ep=14

So I click that link, and I'm greeted with:

> Google Podcasts is no longer available
> Listen to podcasts and build your library in the YouTube Music app.

This is why AWS and Anthropic are getting our money. We can not trust that Google projects will survive as long as our business needs.
> My job is determining what needs to be done, proving it should be done, getting people to approve it…

LOL - this is where LLMs are being used the most right now!
It didn't. They probably realized they needed a gaming license (in many countries and some states)
Even when you find a good review, there are complexities of manufacturing (and some intentional obfuscation) that make it hard to compare products or know that you are buying the exact same thing that was reviewed.

If you buy the same item a year after the review, it may have changed. This could change performance but be something totally innocent, like the factory changing suppliers for a key component.

Another pattern is this: Large retailers buying in volume are able to customize what they buy, so the "same" product can differ depending on where you buy it. Differences can range from harmless things like "exclusive" colors all the up to changes in functionality, cheaper internal components, and so on. Sometimes the model numbers are not changed.

Another approach manufacturers use is to use slightly different model numbers everywhere which makes it hard to make exact comparisons. This is common with mattresses and appliances.
> Given increasing resources, is it reasonable to assert that people will choose to totally forgo their biological body?

Maybe sexual selection will be altered by further technological changes. If we manage to technologically replicate the feeling of amazing sex with super hot individuals on demand, there would be little point in expending the effort it takes to have a great body for that purpose.

There are plenty of other reasons great to exercise regularly. For one, it helps stave off the negative effects of aging in a way that I doubt a pill will ever manage. But that's also an argument for ridding us of these pesky bodies that we have to be carried around in.
I would like to invite everyone to try out my very first application built with me and chatgpt. It wasn't anything glamourous like on social media how you can just enter prompt and generate everything for you but a forward and backward / trial and error approach to get there.

Through this journey, I have gained a better understanding of how to best communicate with chatgpt (language you use, code file size, naming conventions etc).

I really hope everyone can give it a go, your feedback and encouragement will help me improve and build more products to share with you all.

PS I studied architecture and I have zero technical knowledge. I've learned a lot through this process tho.
Ex_rice review: Didn't lose any weight, Non-24 gone
dillo makes me remember how snappy and light web ~browsing could be

would only takes a few features (ergonomics and hooks) to be a daily driver, especially for non entertainment usage