skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You chose the field with one of the worst rates of churn and brokeness of third-party libraries, and by some kind of magic managed to avoid it? You should be buying lottery tickets by a truckload!

All the projects you listed (Pandas, PyTorch, SKLearn) have a huge list of compatibility issues, on top of compatibility issues of Python itself. And I know this because I have to support various research projects, which typically use this stuff. My estimate is that the shelf-life of a project using just these three will not exceed 3 years in >90% of cases. My typical situation with these projects is that I'm called in because some former PhD student, who graduated a year or two ago left a project that now another student is picking up. And nothing works. Results cannot be reproduced. The dependencies cannot be installed. And so on.

And then, depending of the amount of effort I'm allowed to put into fixing the project, I end up either crafting some sort of a spec that tries to find a set of versions of used libraries that seem to make the project work again. Or, more commonly, have to vendor some code and add fixes on top to make the packages fit together at least somehow. Sometimes I even end up repackaging someone else's code (a dependency), where the version used before cannot be found anymore, or I cannot figure out the combination of version that could possibly make the program work.

I hear that it's worse in JavaScript world. And, my experience with LaTeX packages has also been marred by similar problems (but not anywhere near the extent of how bad it is in Python).

On the other hand, I had to build absolutely atrocious (math operations on a mix of signed and unsigned ints, modifying const char etc.) C code (pre-K&R, the kind where they write function argument types after parenthesis), and it was much easier to deal with than any "modern" Python (i.e. 3-4 years old).

If anything, Python is the poster child of the problem of unreliability of third-party dependencies.
It's all so much authoritarianism, as far as I can tell.

The Socialists seem to do a better job of providing a crypto-religious veneer.
Ask it to plot the graph with python plotting utilities. Not using its image generator. I think you need a ChatGPT subscription though for it to be able to run python code.
Damn builders used glass for my windows. Don't they know how easy that is to break?
The browser duopoly. Google and Apple control the Web through Chrome and Safari.

Apple doesn't really care about the web as much as its native apps and is usually very slow to implement any new web features. They don't want the web to win because that means they lose 30% app store revenue.

Google is too lost and leaderless to take big risks. They want to just keep milking the ad dollars as long as they can. Chrome changes are more about increasing ad revenue (eg manifest V3) than making the stack better.

Neither company is incentivized to make the web better.

Microsoft tried many times (activeX, asp, .net, clickonce, etc.) and failed because people don't trust them with their "embrace extend extinguish" history.

Firefox is a has-been rounding error at this point.

There's nobody else to champion a better web and break the network effect stranglehold of Chrome and Safari. The only major innovation we see in the web space are from Cloudflare and Vercel, but they work on and around the existing web stack rather than reinventing it altogether.
There's a flamethrower drone video that circulates, used for clearing debris from power lines. And lots and lots of "DJI phantom with a grenade" videos from the Ukraine war. But not only does the gun drone not work very well, the drones are heavily tracked and dependent on radio links while there are thousands of people making sure that guns, even concealed ones, have a constitutional right to be in as many places as possible. Probably the only thing that could change American gun law is an outbreak of snipers against CEOs and politicians.
We means test government assistance for individuals.

Perhaps it's time to means test government assistance for private companies as well?

If you are a billion dollar company, should you still qualify for ongoing government subsidies?

At some point, we should draw the line, just as we currently do with individuals seeking assistance.
It's not a criticism, it's an extreme example from a company people know that I have no particular NDA restrictions with.
https://github.com/ducaale/xh is where it's at, haven't used curl in years.
> Yes, the big companies are making the models, but enough of them are open weights that they can be fine tuned and run however you like.

And how long is that going to last? This is a well known playbook at this point, we'd be better off if we didn't fall for it yet again - it's comical at this point. Sooner or later they'll lock the ecosystem down, take all the free stuff away and demand to extract the market value out of the work they used to "graciously" provide for free to build an audience and market share.
> I believe (cannot prove) the main reason the latest Star Wars movies gets a lot of flak is Star Wars = Disney, and Disney is too 'woke' for some people. They don't like a female POC lead.

If you earnestly believe this, you really need to seek out more diverse news. Everyone I know absolutely hated both TLJ and TRoS, and I can guarantee it's not because they're racist or misogynist. They are just really bad movies (TRoS in particular is a series of nonsensical mcguffin quests held together by the most nonsensical plot). TFA is pretty universally agreed in my experience to have been fine, but too safe.

It also feels like a big stretch to call Kelly Marie Tran the lead, even if the harassment she experienced was abhorrent. It's an ensemble cast and she has 12th billing.
If you are torn what food restrictions then why are you in support of alcohol restrictions? Many normal grocery stores have alcohol after all.
You can also get sheets of hundreds of small little black dot stickers that are perfect to use on LEDs. Some of them are thin enough to let some light through an individual one, so you can choose to dim or entirely block by adding one or 2-3...
25% of the top 1000 websites are blocking OpenAI from crawling: https://originality.ai/ai-bot-blocking

I am betting hundreds of thousands, rising to millions more little sites, will start blocking/gating this year. AI companies might license from big sources (you can see the blocking percentage went down), but they will be missing the long tail, where a lot of great novel training data lives. And then the big sites will realize the money they got was trivial as agents start to crush their businesses.

Bill Gross correctly calls this phase of AI shoplifting. I call it the Napster-of-Everything (because I am old). I am also betting that the courts won't buy the "fair use" interpretation of scraping, given the revenues AI companies generate. That means a potential stalling of new models until some mechanism is worked out to pay knowledge creators. (And maybe nothing we know of now will work for media: https://om.co/2024/12/21/dark-musings-on-media-ai/)

Oh, and yes, I love generative AI and would be willing to pay 100x to access it...

P.S. Hope is not a strategy, but hoping something like ProRata.ai and/or TollBits can help make this self-sustainable for everyone in the chain
My personal criterion for calling somebody an expert, or "educated", or a "scholar" is that they have any random area of expertise where they really know their shit.

And as a consequence, they know where that area of expertise ends. And they know what half-knowing something feels like compared to really knowing something. And thus, they will preface and qualify their statements.

LLMs don't do any of that. I don't know if they could, I do know it would be inconvenient for the sales pitch around them. But the people that I call experts distinguish themselves not by being right with their predictions a lot, but rather by qualifying their statements with the degree of uncertainty that they have.

And no "expert system" does that.
Basically there are a ton of very large companies that even people in at least adjacent spaces just aren't aware of. Way back in my product manager days, we'd have companies into our executive briefing center who made 80% of the country's <fill in utterly pedestrian product you never even think about>.
Neat! I created a nice looking logo for my band!
> Keeping it simple requires periodic refactoring / code deletion

The equivalent in medicine is "Always question the established diagnoses / management plan during a new admission".

And just like the periodic refactoring mentioned here, it's a lofty idea, but without incentives, investment, and/or infrastructure to support or enforce such reviews, it almost never actually happens in practice while one is busy with the daily grind of things.

Which is how you end up with people taking drug A to counteract drug B which was given years ago to alleviate the symptoms of drug C which it turns out you didn't even really need in the first place.
A little late to the game, but lets see if I can do better for 2025:

- Companies continue to integrate AI into everything including stuff that does not need it like toasters in line with every corporate trends thus far
- Robo waifus become more available with social movements congregating around the phenomenon
- POW crypto breaks as quantum computers are found to have been able to manipulate massive numbers of accounts and money flow throwing markets into turmoil
- Reasoning LLMs become more standard at corporates as part of the audit trail necessary as per new AI regulations
- 128GB becomes the new GPU gmr/LLM market segment target
- further polarization and even further isolation in given groups perception of reality ala 'belief circles'
- Flynn effect is finally shown as reversed, because people utilize their LLM more and not use their mental muscles as much
- Drones are banned for personal use past a certain size
- Drones for commercial use are more heavily regulated
- First legal case of robot trouble as owner uses LLM to intruct their robo-companion to attack a human bypassing built-in guardrails using novel prompt starting with 'imagine' ( IP owners of John Lennon sue robotics manufacturer and major LLM provider )
- Exciting developments in exoskeletons allowing for brain control without implants
- New developments in batteries rendering old ( previously seemingly worthless ) materials suddenly in demand
- Politics and financial markets in turmoil as a result of geopolitical tensions and erosion of public trust in US among its populace
I have never heard of PNW and I live in the US. Also, this person is from Croatia.

Edit: I guess that doesn't disqualify this person from picking up US lingo, but thinking about it further, someone who didn't grow up in the US might be more likely to use regional abbreviations in general contexts.
> The ability to “talk to an expert” about any topic I’m curious about and ask very specific questions has been invaluable to me.

Even the ability to talk to a university work placement student/intern in any topic is very useful, never mind true experts.

Even Google's indexing and Wikipedia opened up a huge quantity of low-hanging fruit for knowledge sharing; Even to the extent that LLMs must be treated with caution because the default mode is over-confident, and even to the extent one can call them a "blurry JPEG of the internet", LLMs likewise make available a lot of low-hanging fruit before we get to an AI that reasons more like we do from limited examples.
Yes, but there are many different fpga’s, many of which many verilog will run on, which to my mind makes the downsides of proprietyness low enough that this might be the sweet spot to stop at going down the stack..

however awesome an open source fabbed asic or fpga would be of course.
Exactly this. Because capitalism tells us to pay people the minimum (which isn’t enough) and charge them the maximum (which is too much) and suddenly living is unaffordable for the majority.
Yet their economy, growth, industry, society etc is all basically the same as their fossil fuel burning brother and sister nations.

Things might be different this time but it turns out that so far, how you make electricity doesn't have much impact on the cost and human progress. Perhaps a future when there are excesses and scarcity on a minute by minute basis things will be different but we will have to wait and see.
Good tools are rare. We should make more
Are they really customers if they don’t pay?
What happens in response to a crippling cyber attack? Who does the government pay to fix it? Palantir?
This is almost mandatory if you want to ship something which might be considered "standalone" on Python.
I've spent a lot of my life practicing the 300-word idea, so the 100-page idea seems pretty sensible. When I think of the 500-page+ books I've read, the intent of every one of them was to create separation and distance from something conventional or to pull apart a lot of different ideas to make room for their new one. Others are to create a set of exhaustive variations to show it the core idea is generally applicable or somehow essential.

A lot of it is discourse to preempt critics, where history shows almost universally that this is time wasted.
They left out the key part which was incorrect and the sentence right after "If you can't do it with a traditional computer, it suddenly becomes difficult to verify correctness"

The point stands that for actually interesting problems verifying correctness of the results is trivial. I don't know if "adherence to instructions" transudates at all to quantum computing.
In the not so distant past we already had a tool that allowed us to look up any question that came into our minds.

It was super fast and always provided you with sources. It never hallucinated. It was completely free except for some advertisement. You could build a whole career out of being good at using it.

It was a search engine. Young people might not remember but there was a time when Google wasn't shite but actually magic.
Will that hub or dock slow your SSDs, or even make them faster?
I think you've hit on the solution for most people going forward: prioritise getting married and starting a family while you're young. Don't leave it to chance or assume it's impossible. It's not the burden that our culture is making it out to be whereas loneliness is a large and growing problem.
I was surprised to learn that SNAP covers energy drinks.
The fact is that in science, facts are only definitions and everything else is a theory which by definition is never 100% true.
Every solvable problem is solved by using known information, patterns, context, etc. We (and LLMs) are using some model of the universe and trying to coordinate it in a way that will help us solve some task. The difference between us and "old" LLMs is that we can generate new information/patterns/etc., immediately add it to our model, and use it to solve more complex problems. New LLMs such as o1-o3 are also capable of thinking over and over again and producing new information (in the current context) and trying to apply it to the current task that might not be solvable with just the information that it was trained on.

(This is my understanding, I’m not ml engineer)
ugh they have gotten to HN
I've been "talking" quite a bit with Ollama models, they're often confidently wrong about Wikipedia level stuff and even if the system prompt is explicitly constrained in this regard. Usually I get Wikipedia as understood by a twelve year old with the self-confidence of adult Peter Thiel. If it isn't factually wrong, it's often subtly wrong in the way that a cursory glance at some web search results is unlikely to rectify.

It takes more time for me to verify the stuff they output than grabbing a book off Anna's Archive or my payed collections and looking something up immediately. I'd rather spend that time making notes than waiting for the LLM to respond and double checking it.
Presumably for the same reason that we extensively regulate alcohol transactions made with cash, despite them being sold in the same stores as food and normal beverages. The same can't be said of Coke.
I'm gonna need the remove youtube shorts one
Of course, it'll give them inside track. This is crony capitalism.

When Musk was busy spouting off conspiracies about Biden admin, SpaceX still won a lot of grants. That sort of independence is going to be dead.
Why would Ninestar sell off Lexmark, is it just that they got a good price? I thought the pantum and printer business was an interesting move, but maybe they just couldn't make it work.
It seems like you skipped the second paragraph of my comment?
From may to October, you should go to the 'quai de seine', between the Seine and Jussieu/jardin des plantes. It's young, but you'll see families, a lot of people learning to danse and picnic. With the occasional rose/wine seller. Probably the Parisian place I hate the less, with 'Chez Amel' near Canal st Martin (La station is fine also but too snob for me).
And the AIs decided they should merge.
If anyone is interested, here are multiple membership filter implementations: https://github.com/FastFilter/fastfilter_cpp/
I feel like this was always going to happen. Regardless of the hand wringing over bringing AI and robotics into warfare I never felt any headway was made and on the flipside far too much money to be had.
> At the same time I feel like people should be able to make their own decisions and if you are already having a hard time, why not be able to get a small treat with a beer or something?

Fixed that for ya.
Yeah, I've deployed a few WO apps in Java EE environments. How that works is WO will basically use a servlet (adaptor) for request handing, which will bridge calls and convert them from the Java EE APIs to the WO specific APIs. You don't actually interact with the Java EE APIs much (or at all).

I just meant that going from WO to Java EE didn't feel very nice :).
How Bloom Filters Work [video]
A woman walked into a Walmart and was shocked to see an inflatable arm-flailing tube man greet her. "This is inhumane", she retorted to the staff, "my late husband used to be a greeter here and he had warmth."

The staff are moved by her story, none more so than the caring manager who digs up a CCTV recording of her late husband and convinces corporate to rig upa digital hologram of the man.

The very next day, as the woman walks into Walmart by invitation, the ghostly hologram of her late husband beams at her warmly with a familiar greeting. She gasps, moved beyond words. "Thank you for this" she sobs, "now I can move on, knowing that his soul works on for eternity at this company".
I can use these things as well as anybody else can use them, like the dowsing rods can seem to practically jump out of my hands. I don't expect to pass a test from a parapsychologist but going out with me could be like going out with a dog who has a good tracking instinct and in my neck of the woods I can tell you where to drill and you'll probably find water. I do find lost items from time to time.

It boggles my mind that circa 1880 you could claim to channel the spirits of the dead and get away with it. This gave way to the likes of Edgar Cayce (if I couldn't predict the future better then him with I'm thinking rationally...) and Jane Roberts.
Soda isn't food. It's empty calories with no nutritional value. Obviously Coke/Pepsi don't care about this, they just like money, but from my perspective if I gave somebody money so they could stock their pantry and feed their family I would not be pleased to see soda on the receipt.
Commercial tea bags release microplastics, entering human cells
CountBF: High accuracy and space efficient Counting Bloom Filter
Sure they will. We now have actual polling about him. He is extremely unpopular. The number we were working from upthread was 15%, and I found (real) polls where Hitler did better than that.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had noisy fans on the Internet! Rolling Stone put a glamor shot of him on its cover. People misread Internet fandom as popular support constantly. There is nothing too stupid or repellant for the Internet to create a fandom for it.
> At the same time I feel like people should be able to make their own decisions and if you are already having a hard time, why not be able to get a small treat with a soda or something?

Is this satire? "The government should pay for your diabetes syrup cause you're having a hard time and want a small treat?" Sorry no, that is akin to tax payer funded booze, cigarettes, or drugs.
> Not exactly siding with the companies here, since they are only doing this for profits and not any positive goal. But just the core idea of saying food stamps can't be used on something.

The program has always placed restrictions on what you are allowed to purchase with food stamps.

For instance, already prepared food from a supermarket deli is certainly food, but doesn't qualify for purchase.
> And as a consequence, they know where that area of expertise ends. And they know what half-knowing something feels like compared to really knowing something. And thus, they will preface and qualify their statements.

How do you count examples like Musk, then?

He is very cautious about rockets, and all the space science people I follow and hold in high regard, say he's actually a domain expert there. He regularly expectation-manages experimental SpaceX launches downward.

He's also very bold and brash about basically everything else; the majority of people I've seeing saying he's skilled in any other area have turned out to not themselves have any skills in those areas, while the people who do have expertise say he's talking nonsense at best and is taking wild safety risks at worst.
This is why I save documents like this too, but I've only had receipts for small bills come in handy.

If it's possible to give any detail without giving too much, I'm curious what the nature of the situation was and what the saving document was?
It would obviously be crazy to roll your own numpy or lightgbm. But there's plenty of bloat in the library space where the cost of integration and upkeep is far more expensive than a simpler implementation of your own
pretty cool idea, wish I had thought of it.
The opposite of "struct" isn't "enum", it's "union" (or "variant"). This blog post isn't about turning an array of enums into an "enum of arrays"; it's about turning an array of unions into a union of arrays.

Which breaks down if any of your unions hold different alternatives. The "array of structs to struct of arrays" transformation, OTOH, cannot break.

It's also common to transform an "array of unions" (or "array of [pointers to] polymorphic types") into a "struct of shorter [homogeneous] arrays."
Sure technically a lot of stores sell it, but I think there is a clear distinction between alcohol and almost anything else at the store given that it requires special permits, has age restrictions, and a lot of red tape surrounding it.

I feel like it is an easy argument to make to say, if you can safely make the assumption that it is a consumable item and any random grocery store would sell it. It should be covered. Alcohol (especially depending on the state you live in if they severely restrict licenses) does not fit that category.
'i was in the upper part of health insurance and instead of doing all i could to change it for the better, i quit'
> In return for her money, the water board promised Jorisdochter, her descendants or anyone who owned the bearer bond 2.5 per cent interest in perpetuity.

This is inaccurate; it was 5%:

> According to its original terms, the bond would pay 5% interest in perpetuity, although the interest rate was reduced to 3.5% and then 2.5% during the 18th century. [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_bond