skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We (Australia) have no enforceable privacy legislation. The choice to single out Meta is probably political, though could also be about scale, and being a huge foreign company with deep pockets.
I've never found "LLM pair-programming" to be fun. I enjoy engaging my brain and coding on its own. Co-pilot and it's suggestions after a point become distracting. I'm sure there's are several use cases, but for me it's a tool that sometimes gets in the way (I usually turn off suggestions).
Well, that brings up two questions:

1. Does the weight of the satellite mean much? The bandwidth/concurrent users etc. is what matters. I know I started this by using the word "small", but I wasn't actually thinking about weight when I wrote that, but rather, capacity.

2. Did the EU itself say anywhere that this is supposed to be competitive with Starlink? Or did the article just frame it that way to gets clicks?
I can just imagine the person writing that saying “Hah, think you made strcpy secure? Hold my beer…”
Luckily both the US and EU are working on breaking Google's app store monopoly. Though the US might stop that if Google manages to convince the new top guy that it's anti-woke.
That's not how I remember it. I thought proto3 was all about JSON compatibility. No?
> such as waiting for you with the open door and closing the door for you as you enter

Most taxis in Japan have driver-controlled doors. The driver doesn't have to get off the seat at all. Given it is already automated, it is trivial for a driverless car to do.
I live in rural Japan, and in my experience, drivers are also crazy:

* They stop on the side of roads and streets whenever they feel like it without worrying about blocking the traffic.

* They don't turn the lights on no matter how bad the weather is. Super fun to be in the middle of a snow storm and people are driving white cars with the lights off.

* Whenever someone wants to turn right at an intersection, the cars behind will pass it on the left, without worrying if someone is coming the opposite direction, which is really dangerous. I am not sure about the Japanese law, but in my home country (Spain) that is highly illegal.

* Many people watch TV or anime while driving. I even saw one guy reading a book while driving, somehow holding it open over the driving wheel.

Add to this the awful state of most streets and roads, and I can see more accidents here in one year that I saw in 33 years in Spain.
And when it isn't that, it is survivorship bias.
This isn't an article. It's a classified ad asking for timber donations.
You have it flipped. But it's both.

AI compute is measured in gigawatts, not gigaflops.

It's "how any gigawatts of compute can we get allocated?"

Not

"How much compute can we fit inside of a gigawatt?"

There's no such thing as "enough"
That would be splendid although it seems to have been a controversial choice until recently
it would seem perfectly reasonable to expect the first AIs to be very unoptimized and if the AIs are any good they will be able to optimize themselves a lot and even help design ASICs to help run them.
I'd hate to have to support all three of that at launch so I'll just like to Clover's. Clover's tokenization docs are https://docs.clover.com/dev/docs/create-a-card-token but you don't want to touch the cc number/PAN so as to avoid PCI, so the flow I imagine is you charge the customers card on the POS device, then use their API to retrieve the charge https://docs.clover.com/dev/reference/getorders which includes the charge and customer id, and store that.
You forgot the sausages! Compare and contrast to the "continental" "breakfast" which is usually a muffin.
They’re both worthy of scrutiny. The combination is pretty damning.
The average motorcar still operating in japan is approximately 2/3rd the mass, and presumably volume, of the average personal vehicle in america. They also don't allow street parking on those "alleys".

Effectively they can be between 1/6th (2-lane) and 2/9th (1-lane) the width of a typical one-way american street and still have room for pedestrians along the side.
the programming for the NASA program is very simple; the logistics of the mission, which has nothing to do with programming, is what was complex

You're essentially saying "the programming to do basic arithmetic and physics took only a year" as if that's remotely impressive compared to the complexity of something like Microsoft Teams. Simultaneous editing of a document by itself is more complicated than anything an Apollo program had to do
Didn't they rebrand, briefly, as "Worse Than Failure", before going back to the real meaning?
The Business of Ransomware: Insights from Reddit AMA with Ransomware
It is true that Ruby may not have everything that Python has but it has some.

Can I invite you to browse the repositories here https://github.com/ankane?tab=repositories ?
I think the lesson was designed so that this was just obvious enough for people to realize it themselves as the demonstration progressed.

Also, when done well, the teacher acts the part of the manager who keeps pushing people even as this realization spreads throughout the group.

The meta-lesson is something that Deming emphasized over and over: Don't rate your workers based on the outcome of a random number generator.
A large penis looks the same as a small penis, only larger. Hypertrophied muscles do not look like bigger versions of normal muscles; they have a significantly different shape. A muscular person with normal-to-high body fat also looks very different than a muscular person with low body fat (look at heavyweight or superheavyweight powerlifters compared to bodybuilders). Classical sculptures of Greek heroes display high muscle mass and very low body fat.
I don't think that would elicit the same feeling as a driver doing it
Filling a wide screen with one column is just going to hurt your ability to read it. That's not a great desire to have.

(I'd suggest more than 50 but not a whole lot more, not nearly enough to fill a normal size screen.)
I spent 10 years doing C#, and the last 3 doing Ruby. I never thought of N+1 as that big of an issue. These queries are typically fast (1ms * 100 is still only 100ms…) and multithreaded web servers are non blocking on IO like database calls.

But these sporadic elevated response times kept showing up on endpoints, where they’d be hundreds of milliseconds slower than normal, but by some extension of 100ms. Say, normally 5ms, now taking 105ms, or 505ms, or more.

Then I learned about ruby’s non parallel but concurrent model, where within a process only one thread can execute at a time. In most workloads you’ll hit IO quickly, and the threads will play nicely. But if you have a CPU crunching exercise, it’ll delay every other thread waiting to execute by 100ms before it preempts. Now consider you’re doing 10 1ms queries inter process with a greedy thread, and you’re waiting at minimum 1010ms.

Still love Ruby but the process model gave me a reason to hate N+1s.
Im interested in something similar. Any good resources you would recommend? Or any communities you found?
The specific requirements:

https://saxonship.org/timber-requirements-for-the-reconstruc...

Apparently they found some, although don’t say where from:

> Two thirds of the ship's wooden planks have now been fitted and while the project had some trouble finding oak trees needed for this, Mr McMillan said they were expected a delivery next week.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2kxvkkw71go.amp
Yeah they buried the lede on that one.

> For example, it requires long clear runs of oak from trunks 6 metres in length and up to 1.2 metres diameter (at chest height) for planking and other longitudinal timbers. They need to be straight-grained and clear of knots.

No wonder they can’t afford it. Commercial oak is generally harvested when it’s 20-25 in at chest height. A 1.2 m tree is probably going to be at least 150-200 years old. No one is cutting those down without a serious payday.

Some of the trees used to restore Notre Dame were centuries old. One 20 meter tall tree they used was about 300 years old.
> "exclusivity" on it's own doesn't mean anything.

For most people, no. But for some people, who can buy anything, whose friends can buy anything, it means a lot to have something others can't buy.

I'm with you though. I'm happy wearing a Seiko or other well-built but not expensive watch.
That seems like a stretch to me from the landing page, and is absolutely not my experience from using it. It’s also explicitly discouraged in all their documentation, e.g. this is from their FAQ:

Can I chat with my partner?

No. Talking with your partner is only allowed at the beginning and end of your session. At the beginning, you’re encouraged to say hello to your partner and share what you plan to work on. At the end, you should check in and ask your partner how the session went. If you’d like to talk to your partner more, you can suggest or offer it at the end of your session. Please bear in mind, no selling or propositions (business or otherwise) are allowed during Focusmate sessions.
I personally don't mind when people lump intentionally bad behavior along with the bugs.
Sorry for the delay in replying...

What do you hope to be doing in 5 years? Architecting quantum solutions? Reselling or consulting on cloud solutions? Building quantum applications?

I think the quantum space will have quite a bit of progress in 5 years, but I think most experts in the space (of which I'm NOT one) think we're still over 5 years out before there's broad adoption on running quantum programs with significant business value. (i.e, it'll still largely be researchers and bleeding edge adopters).

Opinions are my own, etc.
It's insulting the 101 class much more than the subject. You could even take it as a compliment to the breadth of economics that a proper introduction takes longer.
Individual autonomous cars will solve all transportation issues. What's that? Trains? Trams? Efficient urban fabric? Things that Tokyo, gasp, already has? Bull.

/s.
Super nice. I see I spend 2.19% of my life playing blitz games this yr. Probably the same at this website.
I negotiated with ransomware actors. Ask me anything
That mix of appointments and non appointments is how we do our health lab test centers!
Measuring hardware overhang (2020)
AKA: Modern chess software could have beaten Kasparov with contemporarily available hardware years before the Deep Blue match.
That might be true, but I'm not sure it will matter that much. They've put out two very compelling* products in the last month (Flash 2 & Veo), and hints that another Gemini Pro model is in the pipeline. When it comes to AI, they're in a very good position, no matter what middle-management shenanigans are going on behind the scenes. Their core ad business is also so absurdly profitable that overpaying for talent won't even register as pocket lint.

Google's biggest threat isn't OpenAI. It's the FTC (which I admit is a very real danger).

* from a developer/platform perspective, at least. The "consumer" facing side of things (e.g. the AI Studio UI) is still pretty awful.
Note that a radix tree and hash table are not mutually exclusive. A radix tree is a way of representing a sparse table. That could be used as a hash table.
There's a trade off there because if the table is very sparse, and we're using hashing, we could just shrink the table so as not to have it so sparse, and then just make it a regular array.

The key aspect of the four corner code is that it mashes together completely unrelated characters. There's no meaningful index to it. It's not easy to look at a four corner code to figure out the list of characters it aliases for.
Thanks for sharing. Worth its own submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/newest
unfortunately the build quality of some Japanese products is declining, due to temporary migrant underpaid factory workers who have no stake in the company (and increasingly terrible working conditions). Not blaming the individuals, I'm blaming those in power who made these choices.
LLM token size will have to increase a lot to digest a large system of code.

Then there's the companies that own LLMs that are large enough to do excellent coding. Consider "have" and "have nots", those that have the capital to incorporate these amazing LLMs and those that do not.
Waymo is doing alright in San Francisco as well. That's not directly comparable to Tokyo, either, but I expect it's a much less distant of a comparison than Phoenix.
Yeah, if you have 1 million dollars to spend every time you run a data migration or anything else that touches many rows.

I've seen some new libraries crop up for writing your own replication slot clients. I wouldn't use fivetran for PG.

Either you have a lot of data and fivetran will be too expensive or you don't, and you're better off just using a postgres OLAP plugin/extension.

Maybe it was because it was in beta, but I had a nightmare of a time with fivetrans API trying to coordinate connectors and destinations and git access.
This looks like an attempt to turn Go into Java/C#.

I certainly won’t allow this to be used by the engineering teams under me.
I never said this was specific to drummers. Again, yes they count using numbers, but that's just convention. Unless you're counting crazy composite time signatures like 17/8 or some shit, the numbers are meaningless in the context of a single measure. For 99.9% of popular music using 3-6 beats, it could just as easily be letters or colors or something. Numbers are sufficient but not necessary.
An LLM is only a threat if writing code is the hardest part of your job.
Why not just use a naive struct from the beginning? memcpy is the fastest way to get serialize into a form that we can use in actual running program.
Yeah, "script" is just an abbreviation of "manuscript", right? ;-)
What I've read is that some/most taxis in Japan have an automatic back door for the passenger. https://musa4trip.wordpress.com/2014/04/04/taxis-in-japan-do...

Searching, I see references to automatic doors preventing robberies but no explanations as to how that would be. Perhaps the barriers between the back seat passengers and driver prevent knife threats? I wouldn't expect robbers in Japan to have guns, like they would in the US.

Oh, maybe you mean the automatic doors are "waiting for you with the open door"? A lot of cars have hatchbacks that close using a remote, either on the dash or on a fob. It was big news that people were demonstrating the CyberTruck cutting carrots or hot dogs because people are used to hatchbacks closing and opening safely. It seems a lot simpler to automate doors opening and closing safely than autonomously driving in Tokyo.
I bike in SF regularly and I actually cut in front of Waymos intentionally since I know they will slow down gracefully vs regular drivers who might not see me for a number of reasons or trigger road rage. Several months ago a Waymo would over correct but now they're so good at anticipating where I'm heading.
That's around, give or take a few years, when I plan to retire. Don't care a whole lot what happens after that point :)
> I wonder how well collision detection handles sharing lanes with bikes without suddenly braking in the middle of the road.

I would say that is the easy problem.

> In my experience the cars are highly regulated and very predictable on the main roads. Marked out lanes, low speed limits, many red lights.

A city without this is the harder problem.

I wait for the day Waymo comes to Italy or better yet India.
Few things frustrate me more than so many developers’ compulsion to baselessly assume that their incredible dev ultrabrain affords them this pan-topic expertise deep enough to dismiss other fields’ experts based on a few a priori thought experiments.
I asked the S3 team what “prefix” meant at reinvent, and my current understanding is “whatever starting length of key gives a reasonable cardinality for your objects”.

So if your keys are 2024/12/03/22-45:24 etc, I would expect the prefix to be first 7 characters. If your keys are UUIDs I’d assume first two or three. For ULIDs I’d assume first 10. I this there’s a function that does stat analysis on key samples to figure out reasonable sharding.
> maybe instead of relying on kubernetes DNS for discovery it can be closer to something like envoy.the control plane updates configs that are stored locally (and are eventually consistent) so even if the control plane dies the data plane has access to location information of other peer clusters.

That is generally how it is done... there's this never ending conflict between "push" architectures and "pull" architectures, and this scenario sure makes "push" seem better, and it is... until you're in one of those scenarios where "pull" is better. ;-)
Asterix has been my favorite for years unfortunately it will be along time before they are public domain
How would passing on the left would risk a collision with a car coming from an opposite direction? The opposite lane is on the right hand side (in Japan)?
> drug use (marajuana in a country where it’s legal in 24 of 50 states)

Marijuana is illegal everywhere in the US under federal law. 47 states, the District of Colombia, Guam, and the US Virgin Islands have restructured their own marijuana laws to except from them use of marijuana, generally or in specific forms, for medical use. 24 of those states, D.C., Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands have (also, except in the last case) done the same for adult (over 21) recreational marijuana use [0], as well. The federal government has an official (in the form of a restriction in appropriations laws since 2015) policy of non-enforcement for now (without waiving the possibility of future enforcement within the statute of limitations should that funding restriction lapse) of certain federal criminal prohibitions against state-authorized medical use. (However, for example, all financial institutions are required to file Suspicious Activity Reports with Treasury’s FinCEN for all marijuana-related businesses they discover to be clients, even if the businesses are exclusively involved in activities covered by that enforcement deferment.)

[0] For those interested in inverting this, marijuana use has neither medical nor adult-use exceptions under state/territorial law in only 3 states (Idaho, Kansas, and Nebraska) plus American Samoa.
If that's what you're suggesting, you probably don't have that much nose hair.
Curious whether they will open doors automatically. It's a faux pas to try opening a taxi door yourself in Japan.
> That being said, there's also a massive low hanging fruit in dev work that we'll automate away

And this has been solve for years already with existing tooling. Debuggers, Intellisense, Linters, Snippets and other code generations tools, build systems, Framework Specific tooling.... There's a lot of tools for writing and maintaining code. The only thing left was always the understanding of the system that solves the problem and knowledge of the tools to build it. And I don't believe we can automate this away. Using LLMs is like riding a drugged donkey instead of a motorbike. It can only work for very short distances or the thrill.

In any long lived project, most modifications are only a few lines of codes. The most valuable thing is the knowledge of where and how to edit. Not the ability to write 400 lines of code in 5 seconds.
As a bonus, the modernised versions would be back under copyright for another century.
We are in agreement then. I'm not saying it would make things easier, it's just convention. Being a lifelong musician, I will admit that it's so internalized in me, I never have to count or even think about numbers in any way, unless I'm counting some foreign complicated time signature. Honestly I think the tabla guys got it right with their syllabic mnemonics.
TikTok has helped me more than decades of doctors.
Yeah I was processing a bunch of iceberg catalog data, it was pretty trivial to get to this point on both PUTs and GETs with our data volume, I was doing 400,000 requests/m and of course my testing was writing to one prefix :)
The article goes into great detail about the benefits of an opaque api vs open structs. Somewhat unintuitively open structs are not necessarily the “fastest” largely due to pointers requiring heap allocations.
Opaque APIs can also be “faster” due to lazy loading and avoiding memcpy altogether. The latter appears in libraries like flat buffers but not here IIRC.
Hergé's depiction of the Chinese was still quite stereotypical, although more benign than his previous treatment of non-Europeans. His depiction of the Japanese wasn't so nuanced (although fairly typical for the times).

He may have started to broaden his understanding of "foreigners", but it still took a while.
by that logic, women would have more muscle mass then men, because they carry around more fat. Average american by definition is average. Overweight by definition is above average. BMI normal is outdated, just needs to move up.
> Imagine code passes your rigorous review. How do you know that it wasn’t from an LLM?

That's not what I'm saying (and it's a strawman; yes, presumably some LLM code would escape review and I wouldn't know it's from an LLM, though I find that unlikely, given…) — what I'm saying is of LLM generated code that is reviewed, what is the quality & correctness of the reviewed code? And it's resoundingly (easily >90%) crap.

Obviously we can't sample from unknown-authorship … nor am I; I'm sampling problems that I and others run through an LLM, and the output thereof.

The other facet of this point is that I believe a lot of the craze that users using the LLM have is driven by them not looking closely at the output; if you're just deriving code from the LLM, chucking it over the wall, and calling it a day (as was the case from one of the examples in the comment above) — you're perceiving the LLM as being useful, when it fact it is leaving bugs that you're either not attributing to it, someone else is cleaning up (again, that was the case in the above example), etc.
some historical data on oak in the British Navy:

>At the zenith of Horatio Nelson’s navy in the late-1700s into the 1800s, it took about 4,000 oak trees, or up to 40 hectares of forest, to build a single 100-gun ship-of-the-line. That’s equivalent to 3,750 city blocks of optimum-density oak forest for a vessel that, on average, sailed for 12 years.

https://legionmagazine.com/the-royal-navys-war-on-trees/

>Oak trees planted on the orders of Lord Nelson will be used to restore HMS Victory in time for the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar next year. In 1802, with his flagship in need of refitting, Nelson toured the Royal Forest of Dean, in Gloucestershire, with his mistress Lady Hamilton and her husband. He subsequently made a secret deal with the largest timber merchant to provide enough supplies for HMS Victory and to refit other ships. Nelson also recommended to Parliament that the Forest of Dean be replanted to safeguard timber supplies for the Navy, which was done in 1808. Two trees planted then will now be used to repair the gun decks of the Victory.

https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Oak+trees+planted+on+the+orde...

there was a really interesting oak-growing factoid I read about, but I can't seem to find it. For a particular structural element for a sailing ship, you wanted to use a tree that grew with a crook in it, I guess it provided a natural place to support the next deck up or something. I think it was Nelson who was growing some trees precisely for that.

Anyway, I found this: the US Navy maintains an oak grove to provide wood for repairing the USS Constitution (the oldest commissioned warship still afloat).

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/uss-constituti...

according to wikipedia, "Captain Cuthbert Collingwood, later to become an admiral and Nelson's second in command at Trafalgar, had his home at Morpeth, in Northumberland, and when he was there on half pay or on leave he loved to walk over the hills with his dog Bounce. He always started off with a handful of acorns in his pockets, and as he walked he would press an acorn into the soil whenever he saw a good place for an oak tree to grow."