skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh great, yet another company that spits out text and crosses its fingers that it's either correct, subtly enough incorrect that the user won't notice, or that the user doesn't even care because they'll copy/paste the output without reading it.
I'm in Northern Europe (54N) and when I had solar installed 3 years ago I calculated it would be around 7 years, without incentives and without a battery. The price has dropped a lot since then, so it would be under 5 years now.
I had no idea this is up for debate. I guess as a European I had a very biased education about this.I I remember it being presented as a sort of joke by the history teacher that Columbus brought back lots of things from the Americas that widely impacted European Society, such as syphilis
> Transactional custom mutators that allow complex logic and server-side specific behavior are coming in beta.

It seems right now it only supports CRUD-style logic? Suppose I have a Go backend service (or any other language, really). Creating and exposing some pg tables for the read only path is something reasonable if I want to integrate with zero.

But what about the write path in such an app? Where you have some business logic that doesn't involve simple CRUD, will (or does) zero support that with custom mutators?

edit: I didn't see this notion page which address this https://replicache.notion.site/Introducing-Zero-8ce1b1f184aa...
Cooking isn't sterilization (but maybe you don't need sterilization).
This. Hopefully the other post won't discourage them!
Yeah I got a similar call once from someone, maybe a credit card company, and the first question was "to verify your identity we need the last four digits of your social security number" and I was like wait a minute, you called me. What are the last four digits of YOUR social security number?
No, if you have been compromised, you cannot make these assumptions.
My ex's cat spent a lot of time outdoors and in the barn, and picked up the "chit-chit-chit" noise that angry squirrels make. The cat does it every time she's annoyed.
As an engineer I see every piece of added complexity as a carrier of a little bit of liability. Yes that piece might add functionality, increase reliability an such, but it also needs to be maintained, understood, documented and increases the complexity of the whole (and thus makes it unlikelier to some random developer just understanding it).

Technical debt is when pieces of your code cannot simply be maintained and understood, or when these pieces produce constant maintenance issues because they have been assembled the wrong way or a dependency is no longer maintained itself.

Good code is code that people want to maintain.
Does it mean anything for more general tasks like driving a car?
Russia happened.
AI will fix none of that
This gets even more confusing when you consider that IBM released a number of mainframes smaller than many of their midrange systems, including both System/370 and System/390 systems implemented as PC expansion cards (ISA, MCA, and PCI).

Ultimately, within IBM at least, "mainframe" ended up just referring to any computer that implemented the System/360 architecture or its descendants.

Outside IBM, I've seen the term applied to just about any multiuser system accessed primarily through a terminal interface, including x86 servers running Linux, though typically by nontechnical users.
Many UK homes have electric heating or use supplemental electric heaters during winter, so the consumption of summer vs winter changes a lot.

This is why there has been a big push for offshore wind in the UK, it's an island that has strong winds during winter.
We can just insulate businesses employing AI from any liability, problem solved.
Typical term is “Oxidized”. I think they feel clever when they do the RiiR thing and say that.
> We’re forced to deal with asynchronous programming because we believe databases are completely necessary.

No, payment systems still have third party systems they rely on. Async programming is there to get around blocking the thread with long-lived tasks where you depend on the result. Removing the database does not remove the potential for all data dependency on long-lived operations.

The article then proposes leaving things in memory, event queues, and hot backups solves all the problems off this flawed assumption. Admittedly leaving things in memory should reduce complexity, but it is not a silver bullet, and you lose robustness to certain failures

Not a great article to be honest.
This used to be true. It is, in fact, not true anymore!
Shaq's Lucid Air Coupe Is Not the First Car He's Modded to Fit Inside
I think that's part of what feels odd about this- in some ways it feels like the wrong type of test for an LLM, but in many ways it makes this achievement that much more remarkable
Yeah Google will never call you about your free gmail account, just as Microsoft will never call you about a virus on your home computer.
If climate change ends up changing weather profiles and we start seeing many more cloudy days or dust/mist in the air, we'll need to push those solar panel above (all the way to space?) or have many more of them, figure out transmission to the ground and costs will very much balloon.

Not saying this will happen, but it's risky to rely on solar as the only long-term solution.
I'm in another Northern European country, and 7c/kWh goes towards network and transmission costs.
This would rule. I would watch the FAANG draft.
I wouldn’t expect it to cost 10x in five years, if only because parallel computing still seems to be roughly obeying moore’s.
Is AI already in control?
At least you're disillusioned with the idea of a long term career before a lot of other people. It's disturbing seeing how ready people are to go into a lifelong career and expecting stability and happiness in the world we're heading into.

We are living in a world run by and for the soon to be dead, many of which have dementia, so empathic policy and foresight is out of the question, and we're going to be picking up the incredibly broken scraps of our golden age.

And not to get too political but the mass restructuring of public consciousness and intellectual society due to mass immigration for an inexplicable gdp squeeze and social media is happening at exactly the wrong time to handle these very serious challenges. The speed at which we've undone civil society is breakneck, and it will go even further, and it will get even worse. We've easily gone back 200 years in terms of emotional intelligence in the past 15.
Announcing 1000 Kubestronauts
It's not that simple. In fact it's impossible in some cases if you don't sprinkle unsafe everywhere and defeat the purpose. Rusts restrictions are so that it can be statically analyzed to guarantee safety. The superset of all allowable C program behaviors includes lots of things that are impossible to guarantee the safety of through static analysis.

Formally verified C involves sticking to a strict subset of the capabilities of C that is verifiable, much like Rust enforces, so it makes sense that programs meeting that standard could be translated.
> Or similarly, a hypothetical claim by Intel that a compiler such as LLVM is derivative work of the x86 ISA.

Intel has been lenient toward compiler implementers, but their stance is that emulation of x86 instructions still under patent (e.g., later SSE, AVX512) is infringing if not done under a license agreement. This has had negative implications for, for example, Microsoft's x86 emulation on ARM Windows devices.

(I'm guessing Apple probably did the right thing and ponied up the license fees.)
Even if true, that's beside the point.
Oh god, I can't even imagine trying to have formally-verified LLM-generated code. It's not surprising that even incremental progress for that would require quite a lot of ingenuity.
> and 95 (surpisingly) ran faster with smartdrv preloaded. 95’s default cache for some reason was worse than smartdrv

My (weak) guess is that you "32 bit disk access" and "32 bit file access" wasn't active then, i.e. Windows 95 did not use its native 32 bit disk drivers, but 16 bit BIOS access. I have a hard time seeing how Smartdrv could have done anything otherwise, unless it really had some tight integration with 32 bit Windows (which would be very surprising, it's a 16 bit TSR first and foremost).

But yeah, overall, I agree, it's surprising what even a tiny cache does. If you just manage to eliminate the seek times to the root directory for pretty much every single access to a new file, that can probably do a lot already. Especially in the days before "native command queuing", where the HD would try to reorder disk accesses to find a better (physical!) head seek path across the platter. Later HDs had some cache on board.
Actually, go a step further, put the warning in X modern languages, and mention that you get a free rosetta stone with every purchase.
Oh crap I made a mistake. I was comparing o3 low to o3 high.

I'm a little disappointed by all the upvotes I got for being flat wrong. I guess as long as you're trashing AI you can get away with anything.

Really I was just trying to nitpick the chart parameters.
thank for the details, very useful.
Shouldn't it be a technical treasure then?
Not really! I found one for $129 at 8GB RAM/256GB SSD. To get an equivalent RPI you start with $80 for the device, get up to $100 for the power supply and case, get up to $114 to add the m.2 hat, and then you still have to buy your SSD.

Plus, the Beelink can be upgraded to 16GB of RAM.
For me the first model/reseller I tried to look at was out of stock as I was writing that comment.
I sometimes wistfully look back to the days where I had a bunch of books and printouts open on my desk for programming. Of course, that's more than likely romanticizing things quite a lot...
I don't follow.

If the rate has gone and population as well, how come the total number is about the same?
AMD Launches a YouTube Channel for Developers
True, but humans did. Horses were the machine that became obsolete. Just like the guys with shovels.
I live in "Suburbs" I have never seen 84 police cars respond to anything, even school shootings.
AFAIK they drive on highways for testing, but they don't offer commercial rides on highway routes to customers yet. If that's still the case, I'd expect the majority of their miles to be on city streets. As I already pointed out, that's a big flaw in their methodology.
Keeping a Changelog at Work (2020)
> Twitter and Facebook won't harm your body. They're also free

Only if you value your time at exactly zero.

> The worst that can happen is you'll feel sad if people bully you online, but that's the fault of people, not the technology.

By that logic it’s also your body’s fault to react poorly to drugs, not the drugs’.

Thinking of it in terms of “fault” is also not very productive. I’d say it’s definitely a (possible) negative consequence of social media usage that might otherwise not have happened, and as such worth studying.
Psalm Trees is my jam! The song "Fever" got me into lofi music.
Thanks for the insight! Try it out and let me know whether you still feel that way after trying out the application! We believe the UI experience and decision flow matters a lot in this regard, and we will iterate based on user feedback!
Yeah that was intel's optane idea. To make SSDs so fast they could act as memory.

Didn't quite work out though.
>That's what LLMs are for - idiom translation. You can't trust them to do it right, though.

Optimizing C compilers also happened to be good at idiom recognition, and we can probably trust them a little more. The OP paper does mention future plan to use clang as well: >We have plans for a libclang-based frontend that consume actual C syntax.

If such transformation can be done at IR level it might be more efficient to be to C-IR > idiom transform to Rust-IR > run safe-checks in Rust-IR > continue compilation in C-IR or Rust-IR or combining both for better optimization properties.
While I might agree that it's easy if you use a reference counter, this is not going to be as performant as the typical linked list written in C, which is why the standard library uses unsafe for its implementation of stuff like this. If it were "easy" to just write correct `unsafe`, then it would be easy to do it in C as well.

Note that the converse to this isn't necessarily true! People I trust way more to write unsafe Rust code than me than me have argued that unsafe Rust can be harder than writing C in some ways due to having to uphold certain invariants that don't come up in C. While there are a number of blog posts on the topic that anyone interested can probably find fairly easily by googling "unsafe Rust harder than C", I'll break my usual rule of strongly preferring articles to video content to link a talk from youtube because the speaker is one of those people I mention who I'd trust more than me to write unsafe code and I remember seeing him give this talk at the meetup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAz-maaH0KM
Hello! Try it out and would love for you to give us feedback on the user flow itself!
It's certainly remarkable, but let's not ignore the fact that it still fails on puzzles that are trivial for humans. Something is amiss.
That's really cool! The explanation on their blog is great!
Yeah, but it's significantly harder to pull off collusion when there's competition.

This software is very clearly price-fixing, but in a world with more housing it should be next to impossible to do that effectively.
True. That is a problem. Especially because with Webauthn you can't just enrol a public key. It's one of the reasons I like openpgp for authentication e.g. over SSH. I can just give it a list of public keys to accept without having all those keys actually to hand.
Intelligence has nothing at all whatever to do with compute.
Sounds as urgent as legit :)
Nah. The Taj Mahal was 100% an extravagance, built by the architect of the Peacock Throne. I stand by everything I wrote here, and every implication you might draw from it. I do not "conjecture", but rather assert, that these are expressions of narcisissm.

And, fine. Whatever. The Taj Mahal is cool. But try to host a Notre Dame football game there. You can't do it. Ad majorem Dei glorium.

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(the drinking thing is weird, but I'm watching the A24 "Stop Making Sense", which reliably keys me up, so if you regard that as an intoxicant, govern yourself accordingly.)
Britannica has a uniquely high-quality collection of general knowledge. Many of their current articles are written by domain experts, sometimes leading experts. (In the past, people like Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud wrote articles for Britannica.) They also own Merriam-Webster, a highly-respected dictionary.

I wonder if that content trains their AI and how much difference it makes.

Also, is there value in training an AI on a dictionary? It would lead to poor writing style.
Made me think of Total Recall, which was adapted from "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale," looks like from 1966.
Can you access other Vultr customers hosted nearby when originating from your announced network? They seem to have an issue at least in FRA.
You don't even need a loop. Steps, conditions, and a 'goto'. Loop are actually a design mistake. They try to bound 'goto' by making it structured. They are declarative, by the way. As a special case or even as a common case they are fine, but not when they try to completely banish 'goto'. They are strictly secondary.

Similarly declarative programming is strictly secondary to imperative. It is a limited form of imperative that codifies some good patterns and turns them into a structure. But it also makes it hard or impossible not to use these patterns.
> This kind of revolution in improving our health makes me proud to work in the tech industry.

I can say with some amount of confidence that the number of people wasting their talent and life in making up bullshit engagement algorithms, who thought about it as a way of getting people away from drugs, has been exactly zero. So, it is definitely not something to be proud of, but maybe something to think of as a funny coincidence, provided that the premise actually holds.

> The worst that can happen is ...

That you'll remain or become an idiot, or suffer physically and mentally as a result of being inactive while consuming the garbage your proud tech workers shove down your head.
Well for me it's 50% as the only two sites that I use and do passkeys are Microsoft and PayPal.

Adoption is really slow. But yeah ok, if multiple are allowed then yes it's no longer a problem. I'm sure I read of more sites that had this problem but it is indeed possible they're fixed now.
A while ago I purchased a full set of the Harvard Classics, first edition. I had a blast going through them. Part of me wishes they'd release an updated Encyclopaedia, and I could certainly afford it now compared to when I was a young college grad. But part of me also knows they'd probably just gather dust, to remain ignored even by my children. The paper quality on the later editions were never particularly good, and they never felt quite nice to leaf through.
Writing this in case I forget. Somewhere on Twitter. ( And I cant find the exact tweet )

Eliminating Jobs in the public sector with little to zero productivity force those people into private sector and increases national productivity.
Unless you're a dualist who believes in a magic spirit, I cannot understand how you think that's the case. Can you please explain?
(I would also say that state machine is a foundational model for programming.)
love the content! almost as much as you love reminding me to buy your book
It does replace a demand of people who want to mellow out.

The same tech completely disrupts how drug-use spreads as well. There is nobody to offer a first hit if you're hanging out online.

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Though I would caution taking tech as _the_ cause. Things like demographics and the general zeitgeist shouldn't be ignored.

Maybe the kids are really into DARE.
For me, I have the time so I will build from scratch

It would be more suitable for those who have no experience in AI setup or those who have no time to build but still want privacy. A good point is that they serve as a local server to access like wifi and integrate Llama and Qwen Code
Weird, dude.

This is not a good architectural fight to pick! Even if I was oot mah chicken, I'm pretty sure I could defend the claim I made upthread about the Taj Mahal.
Hey, that's NSFW content on HN!

Also I still find it funny that OpenSSH client shipped via feature uses %HOMEDIR%\.ssh
And this is great news as long as marginal production (the most expensive to produce, first to turn on/off according to demand) of electricity is fossils.
For a realistic fictional portrayal of this observation, see Tooth And Tail[0]

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/app/286000/Tooth_and_Tail/
Hello, depending on data from the CDC, we have:

>Number of alcohol-induced deaths, excluding accidents and homicides: 51,191
Alcohol-induced deaths, excluding accidents and homicides per 100,000 population: 15.4

>All suicides
Number of deaths: 49,476
Deaths per 100,000 population: 14.8

Apparently, not all suicides are caused by social media, and accidents may be more important here. I just want to offer some data that can be easily fetched.
I don't think there's reason to believe both halves have a monologue, is there? Experience, yes, but doesn't only one half do language?
Not tragic enough to visit local Goodwill to pick up replacement, right? :) Lets face it, young people wont be reading paper encyclopedias ever again.
Direct link:

https://www.youtube.com/@AMDDevCentral/videos
Google's counteroffer to govt trying to break it up is unbundling Android apps
just read the literature arxiv.org/abs/2410.01720
Qualcomm already had a license for ARMs patents. An older licence with much better terms.
Unfortunately not. Most houses in the UK are heated using a 'central heating' loop. A closed loop of water that circulated through pipes run through the house and through large radiators in each room. A central boiler, usually a gas boiler, burns gas to heat and circulate this loop to provide whole-house heating, while also typically using a heat exchanger to heat the intake cold drinking water supply into a whole house hot drinking water. (Thus, most houses have cold, hot, and central heating piping).

If you switch out the gas boiler for a heat pump, it can still heat the hot water and heat the central heating loop. But it can't provide cooling that way. There is no infrastructure in most houses to run AC ducting or refrigerant pipes.

You might think that you could simply cool the water in the central heating loop, and therefore make all of the radiators very cold, and use that to move heat out of rooms. In theory that might work, but in most houses these central heating pipes are not insulated and run under floorboards. If you make them cold then they'll cause condensation, leading to water in all kinds of small spaces, and likely leading to warping, damage, or mould.

In the UK, retrofitting AC into an existing house is a huge undertaking in most cases.
Alternative take - this might not actually be the worst thing for musicians, to have a low effort, steady paying gig creating music. I am reminded of the documentary "Standing in the Shadows of Motown" about the "Funk Brothers", which was an amorphous group of jazz musicians who did all of the backing tracks for most of the 100s of Motown hits.

Obviously, making ambient tracks is not quite the same as writing "Please Mr. Postman" and hearing your songs on the radio, but in the documentary the band talked about how they'd pump out songs during the day then go to a jazz club at night to make the music they REALLY wanted to make.
> The US is near the all-time high record high number of housing units per capita.

And that would be a reasonable thing to say if housing was a national issue, but it's not. It's always been a local and regional issue.

The United States does not benefit by moving people into decrepit houses in the Midwest. People should live where there are jobs and opportunities - they should CHOOSE where they live.

The individual regions of the United States with extreme housing prices are NOT near record housing per capita levels. They've dramatically underbuilt compared to how they've grown.

> There is absolutely no housing crisis of any kind. There is a _density_ crisis, that is forcing people into unaffordable locations.

Any kind of regional issue is a "density crisis" by this logic. Shortage of plumbers? "Density crisis." Hurricane hit the town and now a lot of people need to be rescued? "Density crisis." Sewer line burst and now it smells? "Density crisis."

This is a shortage of housing where people need it. If your entire point rests on you pretending "housing shortage" means something else, well... that's not very convincing.
While reading the definitions I was imagining this flat male comic with gender jokes "monosaturated, am I right?" When I came to the quotes I was kind of relieved to see women representing this experience.

I think evolutionary speaking, it is neither that humans are by nature strictly monogamous nor polyamorous. I think what people are confused about is that evolution often benefits from conflicts of interest between individuals. It also can both benefit from societal norms and from deviations from them. It can benefit from honesty and from deception. It can benefit from people doing their best to figure out and live by what their personal nature is and by people trying to overcome their nature to become something they think is better than that.
Scientists create an enzyme not found in nature for synthetic metabolic pathways
Yeah I think it’s just this. We learnt that alcohol is actually really bad for you in many ways, and we taught our children, and they listened. I think it’s pretty funny that our instinct is somehow to be slightly horrified that they stopped drinking or using drugs. I guess they can’t do anything right