skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dang, that is unfortunate. I come here to comment that I'm really happy this happened. It is something that legit worries me. Bee populations are already suffering enough!

I hope the government is able to continue keeping the population from "stabilizing" to eventually get it eradicated. Crazy that you actually saw one!
You saw one of these? Did you report it? https://d.newsweek.com/en/full/1870579/asian-giant-hornet-si...
> error handling using constructs like regexp matching on status codes

Oh the horror. I would assume the practice is encourage by "RESTful" people?
You can't self host your X feed for a start.
It’s in contrast to vespa soror, the southern giant hornet, which inhabits more southern climates in Asia.

Both of them are giant hornet species from Asia so “Asian giant hornet” isn’t a unique descriptor.
Private insurance literally can't be the primary driver behind health
care costs in the country.

They literally can and literally do. They drain billions of dollars annually in fraudulent claims with UH accounting for $7+ billion in Medicare fraud in 2023 alone. UnitedHealthCare (the insurance arm) sucks in $4 billion (with a 'b') in earnings each quarter.

Doctors are not the problem.

https://www.unitedhealthgroup.com/content/dam/UHG/PDF/invest...
Probably because eradicating hornets can be done by finding and destroying nests. Mosquitoes on the other hand are far harder to get rid of. The most successful mosquito eradication campaign in history was the use of DDT in the 50s. We could always just use DDT again right?
There is one meaningful thing coming out of these documents; WarThunder has become a reliable form of education in “how to evaluate information distribution restrictions regarding militarily-applicable topics” for the generations that grew up without the events of PGP / ITAR fresh in mind.
I wonder if trump will actually go through with the tariffs though. If it is as widespread on day one as he keeps bragging about, the stock market would surely crash.
There definitely is, storage, machines at the ready, data centers, etc. Also OpenAI basically loses money every time you interact with ChatGPT https://www.wheresyoured.at/subprimeai/
> I don't believe the lack of skills is the main reason organizations have problem

IDK. More and more I see the argument of “I don’t know, and we are not experts in xxx” as a winning argument of why we should just spend money on 3rd party services and products.

I have seen people getting paid 700k plus a year spend their entire stay at companies writing papers about how they can’t do something and the obvious solution is to spend 400k plus to have some 3rd party handle it, and getting the budget.

Let’s not get into what the conversation looks like when somebody points out that we might have an issue if we are paying somebody 700k to hire somebody else temporarily for 400k each year, and that we should find these folks who can do it for 400k and just hire
Them.

All this to say that being a SWE in many companies today requires no ability to create software that solves business problems. But rather some sort of quasi system administrator manager who will maybe write a handful of DSL scripts over the course of their career.
Yeah the company asset is not source code. It's the relationships with devs and trust built up over years of delivering.
Slow networking? Most people’s networking hardware is still only as fast as the best PowerMac you could buy over 20 years ago. Only in the last few years has 2.5GbE become noticeably common.
As its name says, "double u" is not just one but two vowels. (-:
There are all kinds of spot solutions for (Babashka, vm snapshots like snapstart, graal, using clojurescript instead of clojure) but it would still be very nice to just get a speedup running vanilla JVM Clojure out of the box without fiddlery.

Eg SnapStart only works on AWS, not on other FaaS platforms, even there needs extra cloud infra fiddlery and costs extra.
Gary Marcus is just an anti-AI crank to balance out the pro-AI cranks. He's not credible.
People have a limit of information they can process at once, which goes higher the more familiar you are with given domain. Previously, having all the buttons visible on main screen was a good thing, because average tech-savvy user had no problem navigating that. But then we made technology accessible to general public, who cannot handle such complexity, therefore we needed to make UIs way simpler.
You hardly beat someone by copying him. They have way more experience in the field you try to catch up.
In this case, because it's a text file based system that works through the CLI. It is kind of ironic though that the "Demonstration" in the introduction is a video
> But... why not throw a CDN in front of your site and focus your energy somewhere else?

Yes it's been invented before, known as Feedburner, which was acquired & abandoned by Google.
It's built with Python, where strings default to UTF-8. Did they invent their own strings and constrained them to ASCII?

Do you have the same view of books? You're condescending and refuse to spend time with books that don't have pictures?
You were presenting an either-or argument, pretty much along those lines. A basically very specious argument, it was.

I was paraphrasing you, but not unfairly in that sense.

The burden of proof is on those claiming genocide, not on me.

The burden of proof is on the occupying forces, to show that they are not causing undue harm to the population affected.

We could adjudicate this further, but as said - you've simply worn me out, via your patently spurious opening.
I've loved kindle samples for this reason. (Although all samples are not the same length) If I get to the end of the sample (which may take an hour to read? - longer than bookstore browsing time) and have enough reasons to continue I'll buy the book.

I've recently run into the opposite problem -I have 20 samples I'd like to finish and 6-8 books I put down that I want to pick back up. I'm starting to lose track.

Also as an aside, kindle library organization UI is really terrible.
Link to GPT-4 passing the turing test?
Tried googling, could not find anything.
> I will never understand why all these minimalist content publishing systems pretend that visual imagery is unnecessary.

I don't think anybody is prevented from putting a link to an image, nor to build a client that autoload linked images (the same way that say, some gemini browsers like lagrange can be configured to show you images by default).
In about 20 years there will be a large movement to bring the hornet back because a subsection of society thinks their eradication caused some uptick of reported birth defects.
Discuss HN: Agents are the new object-oriented programming
From @lateinteraction on twitter:

In so many ways, good and bad, (LLM-based) Agents are the new object-oriented programming.

Part of it is that: there's nothing that you can't do without the metaphor (OOP/Agents), but it offers structure that fit some problems like a glove—while leading to an over-engineered mess for some other problems.

The analogy is so precise that I'm surprised not to know of any duck-typing-like Agent framework based on OOP stuff.

[...]

OOP has a lot of baggage (think duck typing, inheritance, the whole hype, the mess, the nice elaborate metaphors) that fit Agents
A server can have many subreddits (called communities). You can obviously subscribe to a community with an account from any other server.
Its good to not trust it but that's not the same as it having no idea. There is a lot of value in being close for many tasks!
It's not like you can't decorate all variable access with !! to retain this expressiveness. This is not done in practice because it would be a waste of verifiable type safety. You can always `lateinit val` in cases where the initialization and lifetime of a particular value is trivial, but in cases where you can't do this, you probably benefit from the null safety guarantees.
Asking an expert is only trivial if you have access to an expert to ask!
iMessage or GTFO
I feel the dogged persuit of a task and obsessive curiosity might be more closely related to addiction than to self control. A good balance of productivity from the self control and the obessive curiosity of human nature might be needed for ascension
Ironically, the Stammtisch culture in Germany did not exactly help to counter the loneliness epidemic, if anything it softened the rise. People are lonely more than ever still.
completely local AI research tool, based on Ollama

Could you elaborate? Was it easy to install?
When you think about it it's astounding how much energy this technology consumes versus a human brain which runs at ~20W [1].

[1] https://hypertextbook.com/facts/2001/JacquelineLing.shtml
> LLMs (for non-coding tasks) will likely fizzle out as expensive talking fidget spinners and not the world saviors that the companies behind them envision them to be.

100% wrong. LLMs are wildly useful in daily life, even the cheaper models.
Elevating the minimum job in theory forces productivity upward, so for your trash example, the job still must be done with more special equipment so the same labor used is reduced (since it now costs more). Land value taxes do something similar in forcing a certain level of productive land use to cover yearly taxes. The idea is that over time people and resources should be used more efficiently, and there should be some pressure from society in that regard.

An HCOL city provides a different kind of pressure (you need to make more money to live comfortably in one), while a LCOL provides some opportunity to explore and experiment with less risk (since rent is cheaper, starving artists can survive).
This gem is a really nice all-in-one setup! \n
(Also worth noting that Rails 8 now supports sqlite for your application database (no more warnings about using it in prod), job queue (active job/solid queue) and cache (solid cache) out of the box.)
It's clear from the demonstration video alone that this is not an ASCII system, and indeed reading the doco confirms that the text files are considered to be UTF-8.

This gives some irony to your analysis. Because this system thus permits one of the the very same ancient expression-in-images systems that you are alluding to: hieroglyphs are in Unicode.

I expect that in the 9 years of its existence, almost no-one has ever used them in this system.
those market forces made the US have the most expensive meds
You just state this as if it was obviously true, but I don't see how. Why is using LLM like reading a pop sci book and not like reading a history book? Or even less like either, because you have to continually ask questions to get anything?
It's not optimal, but if you want to play it safe you can use 1 byte = 1 token, plus a few control tokens like stop, user turn, model turn, etc.
The Elks are a fraternal organization for (usually older) Americans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_and_Protective_Orde...

https://www.elks.org/

They have "lodges" (clubs) which I would assume are quite variable but many have bars in them. They do a lot of community-service work.

I went to an event in an Elks Lodge a long time ago, I think it was Thanksgiving. My grandfather was an Elk. (Yes, that sounds funny if you don't know who the Elks are.) I didn't see the bar, if there was one, but the atmosphere was really nice: older folks but very outgoing and friendly.

Membership criteria, from their home page:

* Be at least 21 years of age.

* Believe in God.

* Be a citizen of the United States who pledges allegiance to and salutes the American Flag.

* Be of good character.

If you meet these criteria I think it'd be worth looking into a membership, even if just as a hedge against loneliness in case things don't work out as you planned.

Oh, and I see the Canadians have their own version, with a more modern website:

https://www.elksofcanada.ca/about
Last week I joined about 19 other guys who meet at 6am for a light exercise, sharing and coffee routine on a beach. It’s great. Just pitch when you can, instant network. It seems fundamentally there for mental health (combating loneliness and all the things that leads to), but so many other beneficial side effects. Recommend.
I do SW in a hardware world that restricts a lot of dependencies. We vendor some, but mostly roll or own libraries. For time intensive things peripheral to our work we will rely on 3rd party modules (ie, network stack or UI).
I have written four books in the 60-80 thousand word range and one (a commission) where I had a constraint of 30 thousand words or 100 pages. I know it’s a cliché, but guess which one took me the longest.
The cost of PC components in the US are going to sky rocket higher than we've ever seen with tariffs coming. I really doubt that US fabs will be able to keep up with demand either.

I just put down $2500 on a new PC because of this.
> I have done this kind of optimization to go from 24 hour compute time to 6 hour compute time instead for instance -- per simulation run.

I'm sure there are workloads where this kind of optimization makes a lot of sense. But they are comparatively rare. And they are not for free, in terms of code complexity and robustness. So, for the broad masses reading HN, its a premature optimization.

> How can you say "a few milliseconds" when you know absolutely nothing about the context?

Most code that gets written is not performance critical. Programmers would generally be better advised to think about robustness, correctness and maintainability of their code than about cache effects. The world would be a better place and we'd see fewer app crashes and fewer security holes.
Nah it's just a marketing problem, "GPT" and "ChatGPT" names is the biggest asset OpenAI has, people have expectations so high for GPT-5 that they cannot burn this name unless it's something truly majestic, bordering AGI at the very least. Until they are confident enough that people will be blown off by it, it's better to continue building up the hype
To save power and make the site small:

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about/the-solar-website/
The word "ASCII" was a grotesque, artistic verbal presentation choice for the substance of content I intended to convey :)

I figured it supports UTF-8. I believe the gist of my point is still valid.

Images are content. Layout is content. Typesetting is content. All are components of expression.
Russia - Ukraine war comes to an end.

Market continues to rally into first quarter then most equities slide and start trading sideways.

Inflation softens as shelter slides.

Recession in second half of the year.

Bitcoin hits $150k at some point next year and then starts lagging with the general market.

US prioritizes LNG development and export.

Google becomes leader in AI.
You make it sound like that's a sure thing, but I doubt it. A lot of this is about processes, team structures and incentives, all those fuzzy things between the people.

Remember, most acquisitions fail. For the same reason, the likelihood of failure with your scenario seems high.

Do you really think nobody at AMD is aware of all the points made in this thread? That seems too bizarre to be true. There are probably some issues in upper management which could perhaps be fixed with some targeted hiring decisions, but do you really believe some random person on here would have a chance making that call?
Here’s an example:

http://web.archive.org/web/20120329085532/https://groups.goo...
I thought it was a free speech platform
It's not trained on its own output. You can generate infinite correctly worked out math traces and train on those.
twtxt isn't very popular.
I think the feed format itself is neat, other than the tab, but maybe there isn't enough of a niche for it.

I have implemented a twtxt version of the Atom and the JSON Feed feed [1] for my site at https://dbohdan.com/twtxt.txt.
The generator I originally developed for the site creates twtxt feeds, too: https://github.com/tclssg/tclssg.
I haven't seen it in another static site generator or plugin;
please link if you know one.

The public-access Unix system tilde.institute has a twtxt registry: https://twtxt.tilde.institute/. You can see the user list at https://twtxt.tilde.institute/api/plain/users. The aggregator https://twtxt.tilde.institute/api/plain/tweets is currently filled with what looks like somebody protesting the request rate:

quite https://lublin.se/twtxt.txt 2024-12-23T03:15:21-05:00 <ROBOT VOICE> THE LAST HUMAN POST ON THIS FEED IS MORE THAN FOUR YEARS OLD. PERHAPS TWTXT CLIENTS SHOULD THEN FETCH THE FEED *VERY* RARELY.
quite https://lublin.se/twtxt.txt 2024-12-23T03:15:16-05:00 <ROBOT VOICE> THE LAST HUMAN POST ON THIS FEED IS MORE THAN FOUR YEARS OLD. PERHAPS TWTXT CLIENTS SHOULD THEN FETCH THE FEED *VERY* RARELY.
quite https://lublin.se/twtxt.txt 2024-12-23T03:15:07-05:00 <ROBOT VOICE> THE LAST HUMAN POST ON THIS FEED IS MORE THAN FOUR YEARS OLD. PERHAPS TWTXT CLIENTS SHOULD THEN FETCH THE FEED *VERY* RARELY.
[...]

[1] This is why you shouldn't include the word "feed" in the name of your standard for feeds.
All those innovations can and have happen(ed) with them also being open and not anti-competitive. If Apple is not willing to bring new features because it can't build its walled garden with it, nuts to them and others will and win them. That's the whole point of competition.
Ah, I see. Thank you, sounds interesting! Unfortunately, I don’t think I would be welcome in such clubs. But hope they’re doing well, and I’m sure the members are great people as well!
We certainly don't scale up around Christmas. Appart from online shops and shipping companies, why would everyone else scale up around Christmas?
If you have something physical of equivalent value to 100 million people's bank passwords, you may well not want to risk keeping it in a desk drawer at all, and instead want to look into renting a nice secure drawer from someone else to keep it in. That would be a safety deposit box.

Which I would argue is rather more like what cloud providers offer than 'someone else's desk drawer' is.
I have a feeling that most critics suffer from over consumption. I see this in video game reviews. I stick to a few select reviewers who like the things I like (and honestly, if you aren't doing that, why bother?) but even they play a lot more games than I do. Which means when a new game comes along, it being like an earlier made game does not make it any less good. I've not necessarily played that earlier game, so the comparison is pointless for me.

Sure, yes, the game you are reviewing might not be doing anything new or unique, but so what? Does it do what it does well? And that's what I focus on. (And to be fair, the reviewers I watch usually make that point clear).
What I like about nostr is the experimentation with different clients, and the fact that your identity is portable to any of them. It's just a really cool model.

I'm working on a nostr-based discussion site heavily inspired by HN/reddit: https://oddbean.com/

No login required, and you can switch to a different client any time you want. We try to keep the bitcoin/politics stuff to a minimum on the homepage. There's a lot of that on nostr, but also a lot of kind and thoughtful discussion about diverse subjects.
- At the same time EV continues to grow faster everywhere else than NA.

- US requires more percentage of EV components made domestically, making US the most expensive EV market.

- US made EVs will retreat to NA markets only.
Thanks a lot I really appreciate it.

I'm hoping CodeMic will be more than tutorials and in more places than VSCode.

For example, I have a passing interest in compilers and would love to see a tour of say LuaJIT by an expert, to see its general architecture or a deep dive into some specific corner of it. Not really a tutorial, but a guided exploration.
Provider costs are over 2 trillion dollars.
That seems to come up a lot here. Hm.
I think hardly any C++ programmers look at the actual specification even today. Once in a while someone will reference the draft specification immediately prior to the actual specification (because the draft is available for free). People mostly look at sites like stack overflow and cppreference.com , via Google. I don't know what the status of that type of documentation was in 2005.
Wow! The performance benchmarks against redis are very interesting.

Considering that Rails 8 gives you Progressive Web Apps out of the box, this is a very competitive setup for a small team.

https://github.com/oldmoe/litestack/blob/master/BENCHMARKS.m...
They don't need to change the refresh rate, though. They need to make conditional requests with an etag or a last-modified date, so the server can respond with a 304 not modified if no changes have been made.

No standards need to be updated. The client software needs to be a better HTTP citizen.
Show HN: A simple telegram file downloader
A history book is written by someone who knows the topic, and then reviewed by more people who also know the topic, and then it's out there where people can read it and criticize it if it's wrong about the topic.

A question asked to an AI is not reviewed by anyone, and it's ephemeral. The AI can answer "yes" today, and "no" tomorrow, so it's not possible to build a consensus on whether it answers specific questions correctly.
I keep weekly notes in my work Org Roam project, Week-N-of-2024.org, where I store all the current work. At the end of the week I carry on TODO/DOING/WAITING headings. Every heading usually references topical Org Roam notes, so checking backlinks I can trace the work progress.

To keep it public - I tag certain headings with :Priority: tag and then use Org-QL to find them, pretty-print (enrich with Story links , completion date), sort by priority, TODO state etc; then export to HTML and copy-paste into Confluence.

The trick is to balance between granularity of items. I definitely don’t want to make everything public, but I do want to have everything in my notes, and this method solved it - the best of all tried over 15 years.
I’m such a D3 fan that I wish I could follow the creator his current project Observable, but D3 just interests me way more.
I can't speak in that space too deeply as we only worked with the largest pharmas.

But in general, the smaller the entity, the harder it is to operate competitively because of the burden of documentation and quality (in this case regarding all of the processes, controls, and SOPs) required for submission for regulatory approval.

Where a lot of smaller biotechs would benefit is more open tools and more standards based interfaces/interchanges. But like health insurance and income taxes, this is a space with a lot of entrenched interests that are extracting rent. A turnkey quality management system (QMS) could run in the 6 figures a year.

It feels like it should be easier and I'd be interested in building an open platform, but it's really difficult to sell into this space because of how conservative it is (in this case, meaning convincing the quality folks on the sponsor side). Even if I were to build a free and open source solution for QMS or regulatory document management or clinical document management (a lot of the burden is document management and records keeping), the chances of it being widely adopted is low without the right influencers and decisionmakers bought in -- but who would do that if they can extract rent?

I tried with two startups and learned the hard way that even with my connections, it was impossible to get biotechs -- even small, single compound biotechs -- to give the product a chance.

Veeva was able to "convert" the industry to cloud because they first started on the marketing side with the Veeva CRM product. It was really the product that broke the barrier for cloud SaaS in the industry. Then off of that, they were able to sell Veeva eTMF. Prior to that, our customers would actually want to walk to our data centers and see the serial numbers on our hardware matched our documented records....