skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve been thinking a lot about the challenges involved in scaling systems for observability (metrics, logs, and traces). Many of the existing solutions for time-series storage, while powerful, still leave a lot to be desired when it comes to combining high performance with low operational overhead
yeah but it like actually gets the answer wrong not just omits it
> If you try to rate-limit them, they’ll just switch to other IPs all the time. If you try to block them by User Agent string, they’ll just switch to a non-bot UA string (no, really). This is literally a DDoS on the entire internet.

Sounds like grounds for a criminal complaint under the CFAA.
only thing I'd change is put shoot as CTRL :) - Good work
Recursive descent required too much backtracking and state resets, which made the code buggy and unreadable (and the error reporting was awful). Pratt parser simply parsed wrong (presumably because I couldn't figure out the right way to sort the precedences).
Thanks! I've added it to my reading list.
That's to be expected in this community. There are more libertarian views on here due to the DIY and inquisitive nature of the hacker community. In a large way, the intended use or application of dangerous things are considered a more important point on here because many of us know the damage a person can cause with common things that have legitimate purposes (certain computer software).

I'm generally on the side of intended use mattering more than mere possession of things. However, it seems there may be evidence in this case of violent intentions and destructive devices intended to kill. The comments about the SBR are mostly based on the mental contortions one must do to say an SBR is somehow more dangerous than a braced pistol (even if one is clearly illegal and the other is legal, the question is why).
You have examples, like North Korea, which invaded its southern neighbor in an act of naked, unprovoked aggression five years after the peninsula was partitioned.
I don’t think it’s “easier to believe” just that it raises some red flags.
I've made it part of my bedtime routine. Part of it is that it is not the dreaded "blue light". Some days I only ready for ~5 minutes before I'm falling asleep, but I try to make at least some progress every day before sleeping.
Hi, it seems youve spelled reverse wrong

> API Parrot is the tool specifically designed to reverese engineer the HTTP APIs of any website.
Tesla replaces laid-off U.S. workers with foreigners using visas pushed by Musk
> They did anticipate (and in fact mandated) courts to interpret the Constitution

FWIW judicial review was not a mandate in the constitution but was something the court decided it could do with Marbury v Madison.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/constitutional.aspx
> Many docs use a dollar sign `$` to indicate a shell command.

Given that the default unix shell prompt has traditionally been a dollar sign, this use in documentation is likely just a result of attempting to make the docs more closely resemble an actual interactive session view.

> What is your own ideology on using dollar signs in front of shell commands?

Most authors will wish to, in some way, highlight actual commands separately from the surrounding prose. If in a limited typesetting environment (i.e., plain text) then use of $ to prefix commands is one of the very few ways to do so. If in an environment with more highlighting ability (i.e., HTML document) then the author is free to choose a highlight convention that works for their document.

> What are best practices for providing shell commands in docs?

It is probably best to provide some for of "highlight" to indicate the shell commands separately from the prose. What form that "highlight" takes is determined by what formatting is available for the documentation being created.

In any case, the author should be consistent in their usage of the highlight, and it is often good to include, up front, a brief description of the meaning of the highlight so the reader is not left guessing what "bold face, indent" vs "underline, flush" might respectively mean.
Agents have a definition issue sure, but IMO we are prevented from even discovering a useful definition by the current limitations of LLMs
Defold is not as well-known as Löve, but it seems to fit your description: https://defold.com/
> It's a political decision how to classify crimes these days.

The classic example is Nidal Hassan, whom Obama never described as a terrorist. The Department of Defense formally classified the Fort Hood massacre as "workplace violence"!
When you put it that way it’s a trivial result. However the consequences for using AI to replace humans on tasks is significant.
I haven't made any argument that no gulags ever existed, or that no one was ever mistreated in them. I imagine it was especially rough to be in one when resources were being poured into ending Nazi Germany's salt-the-earth campaign during Barbarossa.
It is actually not a fiction but a slightly faked documentary. The ambition of the author was to present what he knew about Gualg, filling the void with imagination so that the whole book looks like a well-researched documentary.

I read many of his works. Cancer Ward looks like traditional fiction, but we know that it is directly inspired by his personal experience.

That's one of the distinctive traits of this author. He went through pretty much everything he wrote about.
It’s probably not possible if you also throw in internal actors seizing power. Communism suggests an absence of concentration of power.

If an internal actor wants more power and starts making moves, you’d have to have consensus and collective action from the rest of the group to stop them. That is both very difficult and very expensive to achieve.
It's the other way around, all communist states were pretty much military states as it suits best the command style economy (How else would you make it work anyways?).

Then starting from that, what the military does best is producing weapons.
Well, you didn't really have many choices for colors and fonts back in the day.
Probably not, it’s one commit per book. So here’s the commit that added images and alt text for “Flopsy Bunnies” for example: https://github.com/standardebooks/beatrix-potter_short-ficti...

But broadly, it’s a case of exposing the information a reader would be interested in, in a way that’s aligned with both the context and style. So if you look in that commit you’ll see for example a couple of alt texts:

Thomasina Tittlemouse sniffs at a jam pot on which a black fly is sitting. Behind her lie a couple of sleeping bunnies on the grass.

Benjamin Bunnie wakes up and pulls the paper bag up to look out at Thomasina Tittlemouse, who is now standing on the jam pot.

The two images are in sequence and illustrate a short scene, so the alt text reflects the reader’s expected understanding at that point.
Why do we need this when current models already handle questions and answers about new discoveries: ones that are happening every week and are often easier to grasp than Einstein’s equations? I think it is clear that they will fail on most of them. That doesn't mean that LLMs are not useful but there are more walls in the road.
Does TSA ever inspect hard drives at the bit level?
> To understand what is at stake in the fight against the axis of China, Russia and Iran, just read “The Lord of the Rings.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-04-21/china-...
OpenAI failed to deliver the opt-out tool it promised by 2025
Quite honestly, doesn't seem like Rust is a win here over C++. In fact, C++ has fewer sigils that make it somewhat easier to read sort of striking the balance between being simple enough (C-like) and abstractions (templates). Readability wise, I would have preferred Julia as that would have been the cleanest explanation of the code through the different topics at sufficient level of detail. Alas, it seems to have stalled somewhat (relatively speaking). It also doesn't help that every Rust article has Rust advocates jumping on you with "WAHT ABOUT SAFETY" which is off-putting since not every program needs to deal with all the complexity of the Rust memory/lifetime model to enable safety (simple bounds checking etc. might be sufficient).
Hmm, bitmaps is an interesting idea!
If the data is dense enough, then yeah I guess a quick linear scan would work.

There's also the extreme of simply storing the answer for each possible query as a u32 and just index the array, but there the overhead is much larger.

Rank-select is also interesting, but I doubt it comes anywhere close in performance.

I happen to also be working on a minimal perfect hashing project that has way higher throughput than other methods (mostly because batching), see https://curiouscoding.nl/posts/ptrhash-paper/ and the first post linked from there.
So then OP is correct? Your comment confirms the same sentiment about the tradeoff API users make: cheaper inference means you pay with your data.

Sure Deepseek may publish their weights so you dont have to use the API, but the point still stands for the API.
Defold: https://defold.com/
I wrote a gist for you

https://gist.github.com/kellydornhaus/45b8571807ec3ca659ea50...
> Rec-descent absolutely does work (source: wrote a working parser), but it's a bit annoying to make it build a syntax tree.

Yeah, it required too much backtracking and state snap-shotting and resets, and I couldn't figure out a decent way of reporting good errors.

Thanks for the references. The code I have now is pretty elegant and functional, so I'm not in the mood of diving back into it. But if I ever need to change it, I'll take a look.
Gotcha! I've been thinking of trying my hand at a C parser but it always gave me the sense that it was more annoying than it should be haha. Interesting to near your experience, thanks for sharing!
I would say a large chunk of humanity has thrived just wondering about similar existential questions.

How did we end up understanding as much as we understand until date about the human body(nature and life in general), psychology, philosophy, the universe, celestial bodies and so much more? That list just goes on.

I think questions rooting to curiosity of similar notes & flavours are the cause of all the science, maths, technology and all other such progressively expanding domains.
I have worked with Jetson Orin platform, and honestly Nvidia has something that is really easy to work with there. The Jetsons are basically a full GPU (plus some stuff) at very low power. If I were tasked with building a robot it would likely be the first place I look.
GPT-4o doesn't have hardcoded math exceptions. If you would like something verifiable, since we don't have the source code to GPT-4o, consider that Qwen 2.5 72b can also add large integers, and we do have the source code and weights to run it... And it's just a neural net. There isn't secret "hardcode an exception to pattern recognition" in there that parses out numbers and adds them. The neural net simply learned to do it.
"Overfitting" would be a bit more accurate term if the problem lies in the specific examples existing in its training set in various forms, places, languages etc but with the same values.
You are not alone, it is absurd. The meaning is what you make of it.

I recommend reading Carl Sagan for the cosmic perspective and embracing the awe.

It's worth adding, that while it is indeed all arbitrary and we are cast here without rhyme or reason, not everyone is born with the same lot in life. I also recommend reading Angela Davis for the perspective of systematically oppressed people and their struggles for liberation.

For me, when I do get lost in similar thoughts, it helps me to ground in my actual experience, and especially in what I can do in the short time I've been given to ponder to help others make their lives better.
That’s not how real estate works.

Amazon deals in commodity goods that are easily substituteable.

Housing is different because every single one is unique (by virtue of location) and also incredibly scarce (again, location).

Housing markets tend to strongly fight any tendency towards underpricing. When a house is underpriced, buyers will get into a bidding war and push the price back into the fair market price.
Yeah, it's always fault of capitalist regimes, isn't it?
Former OpenAI researcher and whistleblower found dead
The other comment posted YT videos where Open AI researchers are talking about TTC. So, I am wrong. That $200 subscription is just because the number of tokens generated are huge when CoT is involved. Usually inference output is capped at 2000-4000 tokens (max of ~8192) or so, but they cannot do it with o1 and all the thinking tokens involved. This is true with all the approaches - next token prediction, TTC with beam/lookahead search, or MCTS + TTC. If you specify the output token range as high and induce a model to think before it answers, you will get better results on smaller/local models too.

> huge headroom for TTC to improve results ...1B/3B models

Absolutely. How this is productized remains to be seen. I have high hopes with MCTS and Iterative Preference Learning, but it is harder to implement. Not sure if Open AI has done that. Though Deepmind's results are unbelievably good [1].

[1]:https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.00451v2
Not really true for Putnam problems since you have to write a proof. You literally can’t just jump to a conclusion and succeed.
I’d recommend spinning story. It seems that while you’ve changed environments all jobs revolved about communication. That’s a great skill. So instead of „I had many different jobs” maybe use „I’m people person with experience in various settings”.

This is the same as with software engineering. You can spend year developing games, year developing fintech, year developing funny car website but no one cares as experience seems focused around code.
The United States was always ahead of the Soviet Union in military spending and escalating the arms race. We even have documented statements from Western architects who said the purpose was to bankrupt the Soviets.
> But there's also a large discrepancy between Chromium's budget (Google) and The Qt Company. Also The Qt Company tend to prioritize advancement in the embedded world (where it probably gets most of its cash) rather than regular applications

Yep. That's precisely the point, you get all this stuff from a billion dollar project for free.

I really would not mind writing some C++ instead, even if it was more difficult. If anything, it would only be better because of higher moat of the project as well as my own skills. I agree 100% on the principles that native is better, faster and JS is an unnecessary layer of abstraction slowing things down.

However, if I can compare 2 timelines, one where I am using QML for a project, another one where I am using Electron and think about the time spent working around bugs, reporting bugs and the users of the app complain about crashes in the former, or not have any of that at the trade off of having something slightly slower, to me it's a no brainer.

In the context of what you wrote in the article:

> One of the most frustrating aspects of developing a Qt application is the slew of Qt bugs you encounter along the way. During ten months of development, I reported seven bugs, three of which were assigned 'critical' priority—two of which resulted in crashes. I also came across many bugs already reported by others that remain unfixed.

I would rather have an app that is slightly slower than one that can crash unexpectedly. Even if they are quick to fix bugs, new bugs may be introduced in new releases. Your intent was to promote QT in your blog post, but unfortunately it has only affirmed to me that it's not something production-ready (QML on desktop).

That's just the unfortunate state of industry where we are at. Hopefully it changes one day. Maybe Chromium could be forked into a C++ GUI toolkit where DOM could be manipulated directly by C++. Has anyone ever considered that?
You’re completely missing the point of the nuclear weapons here.

Their purpose in this argument is to show that the principled stand is a lie. It’s not about belief in a god-given right to bear arms without restrictions. Basically everyone on all sides of the argument believes there should be restrictions. The disagreement is just about what those restrictions should be. Some people who want looser restrictions pretend, maybe even believe, that their position is a principled, absolutist one. But it isn’t, any more than “ban all guns except single-shot pistols” is.
There are many ways of reading, the selection and the diversity (old and contemporary writers) of what you read helps you see how you could appreciate a more critical view of what you are reading.
Reading a novel before watching someone's rendering of the same novel into, say Netflix, may expand your imagination and possibly show you how limited the director's version of the same story. I felt that with Stephen King's thrillers, Pet Sematary and Thinner, then watching them as movies.
Todat 1B models are better that the 7B models they use currently.
Communism is based on concentration of power - one party (thus one leader), every deviation from main doctrine is punished, central planning etc.
looking forward to the bonus content!
9 months? LOL

Thunderbolt 5 was released about 1 year ago. You can count the number of all laptops that support Thunderbolt 5 with two hands (probably one hand, but to err on the safe side).
>USB-C alt modes

>Ethernet or PCIe are sometimes mentioned as alt modes, but apparently do not actually exist. [source]
No, it’s not at all.

This is all getting so tiresome.
A house is an asset that can grow in value over time and build wealth, while a car loses value as you use it. Housing costs are higher but can provide long-term stability and access to better jobs and schools. A car helps you get to opportunities but doesn’t create wealth.
That’s a very silly analogy. A more realistic analogy would be do humans perform better on computing 37x41 or 87x91 (with showing the work)?
I also was unable to see controls on mobile. Tried tapping everything I could see.
beat the captcha first try on a pixel 6. true gaming legend signing out, el oh el oh el...
I'm sure locale matters. If you're in NYC, there's bound to be authoritive websites with the content you're looking for about almost anything you could possibly want. But the further away you get from the US, the less this is the case.

Though even in the US it largely holds for niche things. It's been a topic on HN for years, how Google has just stopped surfacing small websites with high quality information on a niche topic that can't be found elsewhere, but it's been greatly accelerated since last month.

Are the shopping results you're seeing ranked higher not from authoritive websites (Amazon, Walmart et al)?
Yes, I think about it almost every day.

It’s always baffled me that everyone else seems to either not care, or to be able to stuff this question deep into the backrooms of their mind and never let it surface.

To me, it’s absolutely mind boggling that NOBODY understand why we’re here, what “reality” is, etc.

The ultimate question is - why does anything exist?
That's not uncommon; Luigi Mangione was first charged with having the unpermitted handgun and fake IDs. They want enough to hold and investigate further initially; they'll have taken all the bombs.
BAFTE may have finally learned that after their extensive history of ignoring location, such as Ruby Ridge, then Waco, etc...
I don't know why I and you are getting downvoted. Sometimes, HN crowd is just unhinged against AI.
As others will point out, satellites are insured against the risk of destruction during launches - just not by launch companies, but by third-party insurers, which factor in the success rate of launch companies. So no, it is not a "market equilibrium towards insuranceless products".

Software is much more complicated, "brittle" to calculate risk associated with it. I may be biased but I think the real progress in the future of programming is not AI but formal methods. That's were long-term value is, and the even worse "brittleness" of AI will drive even more the point home in many domains (even if it is used to check and validate AI outputs).
> There is nothing you can’t do with classical drywall. Curved walls, ornamentation, patterns, integrated furniture… you name it

Okay, I name compound curves. Can I do that with drywall?
A single prisoner dying in a remaining camp now being used as a prison in 2024 is a far cry from making the argument that "gulags were essential to the Soviet system."
There is another alternative: frequent enough that it doesn't matter if you miss a train, because the next is in 5 minutes or so.
Illegal explosives are also usually NFA tax violations, fwiw.
Why Can't You Just Deal with It?
I am not sure that fits the point, YGQ:

it seems to me the concept of «concept» in the paper is "the embedding vector we get in systems like SONAR (which we could use to generalize ordered sets of tokens into more complex ideas)". That's pretty specific, only marginally related to past handling as mentioned.
I often spend way too much time on my phone (like now).

The days when I keep my ereader nearby so I look at that instead I am much happier.
Super interesting in that

1. In theory these kind of connections should be something that LLMs are great at doing.
2. It appears that LLMs are not trained (yet?) on cursive and other non-print text
I wrote my first optimizing compiler for Ada in C++ around 1990.
I have to assume this isn't whom the parent had in mind, it's just too funny otherwise.
fun mode - iddqd and idkfa works!
always, and it doesn't have any self-healing or self-correction
Thank God the cheat codes I have memorized still work.
> I have mac pro 2017 which is probably of the same age, if not older, and the battery life is just so much better.

Jumping to the M-series would blow your mind, at least it did for me. After 8h of heavy usage my MBP still has enough left to just browse or watch something for at least another 1-2h, traveling by train and using it for lighter tasks had the battery last 14+h.
I remember when this stuff was all coming out and people were finally excited about ChatGPT getting the problem with "which is heavier, a 10 pound bag of feathers or a 10 pound bag of bricks?" problem correct. But of course it got it correct. It was in the training set. Vary the problem slightly by just changing the nouns, or changing the numbers so that one in fact was heavier than the other, and performance went all over the map.

I just went to chatgpt.com and put into the chat box "Which is heavier, a 9.99-pound back of steel ingots or a 10.01 bag of fluffy cotton?", and the very first answer I got (that is, I didn't go fishing here) was

The 9.99-pound bag of steel ingots is heavier than the 10.01-pound
bag of fluffy cotton by a small margin. Although the cotton may
appear larger due to its fluffy nature, the steel ingots are denser
and the weight of the steel bag is 9.99 pounds compared to the 10.01
pounds of cotton. So, the fluffy cotton weighs just a tiny bit more
than the steel ingots.

Which, despite getting it both right and wrong, must still be graded as a "fail".

If you want to analyze these thing for their true capability, you need to make sure you're out of the training set... and most of the things that leap to your mind in 5 seconds are leaping to your mind precisely because they are either something you've seen quite often or something that you can easily think of and therefore many other people have easily thought of them as well. Get off the beaten path a bit and the math gets much less impressive.