skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The randomness comes from sampling. With local LLMs, you can fix the random seed, or even disable sampling all together - both will get you determinism.

I agree that LLMs are not search tools, but for very different reasons.
It's almost as if raising the minimum wage is reflected as wage inflation when you're already in a condition where a large fraction of workers are near the wage floor. Adding labour supply isn't going to do anything about that unless it's biased towards higher skill.

(But honestly, I'd say a lot of these businesses deserve to fail if they can't afford to pay minimum wage workers.)
I wonder if future historians will see a similar drop after widespread use of plastic
Neat idea, Nocodb is pretty capable. Makes me want to also check if Supabase/Budibase has any decent ability to protect against malicious traffic.

Other things I've considered:

- Appwrite might be another one to look into (might be able to put some or all of these behind cloudflare for another layer).

- Post to some kind of workflow, like n8n and move on from there.

- Use a simple API gateway, pretty easy to isntall Tyk, Kong, etc that can detect malicious traffic.
As with “plastic bag bans”, and any other progressive program like “congestion pricing” aimed at reducing our collective dependency on O&G, plastic junk, and general waste. The incoming administration, auto industry, and O&G industry are very likely to send their army of lawyers and paid off politicians to fight this from going nationwide.

Got to make sure the multibillion dollar oil companies, executives, and shareholders get their fucking nut.
Ignoring security vulnerabilities tends to not work out so well. And sure, you can submit a PR. It might not get merged. Sure, you can just fork it. At that point you might as well use htmx.
I ride a Longbikes Slipsteam.

A great resource for learning all about 'bents is: bentrideronline.com
Apple will sell phones to the few remaining Tesla employees, Tesla will sell some cars to the few remaining Apple employees, and the rest us will just eat each other?
I no longer work in tech, but I still write simple applications to make my work life easier.

I frequently use what OP refers to as chat-driven programming, and I find it incredibly useful. My process starts by explaining a minimum viable product to the chat, which then generates the code for me. Sometimes, the code requires a bit of manual tweaking, but it’s usually a solid starting point. From there, I describe each new feature I want to add—often pasting in specific functions for the chat to modify or expand.

This approach significantly boosts what I can get done in one coding session. I can take an idea and turn it into something functional on the same day. It allows me to quickly test all my ideas, and if one doesn’t help as expected, I haven’t wasted much time or effort.

The biggest downside, however, is the rapid accumulation of technical debt. The code can get messy quickly. There's often a lot of redundancy and after a few iterations it can be quite daunting to modify.
I sure do.

I am definitely a graybeard too. =)
Also worth trying would be the 1440k image, as that's the later standard 3.5" floppy format.
> It is not good for "and these other related elements need to update"

That seems a bit backwards, no? Why can't those other elements manage their own updates? You can have the server respond with an `HX-Trigger` header to dispatch an event and any elements that care about that event can listen for it. Far simpler than trying to coordinate surgical DOM updates in a single HTTP request.

Events form the backbone of the browser environment and leaning into that model makes a lot of things much easier
There's no cost to watch other shows on HBO, but the 2 minute promo they play for a different HBO show before playing the show you requested is 100% an ad.
The goal is straightforward: make driving more pleasant for wealthy people. Rich Democrats will claim it’s beneficial for the environment, while rich Republicans will call it capitalism at work. In the end, improving public transit isn’t really on their radar. And they rule the world.
I can see it now. You get an ad showing you in prison. The text reads, “I shouldn’t have downloaded that torrent without NordVPN.”

Welcome to our new dystopian hellscape.
They refused any criticism of the institution itself in addition to the person. But for carter criticism of him and his politics were fair game.
Let's talk when it sends a request header marking requests for partial HTML fragments and supports history push ;-)
I respect principled people a lot more than people who flip flop out of self interest even if I might agree with the latter some of the time.
I’m not sure I follow & would love for you to explain.

Condoms are security theater because you… have to follow instructions and understand the basics of how it actually works?

Are traffic lights “security theater” too because sometimes people ignore them and thus sometimes accidents happen?
> (No good music players for MacOS for instance)

What are the good music players off MacOS?

I figured the entire field had withered and died from lack of public interest.
> On average, lead levels in children’s blood at the peak of the Roman empire could have risen 2.4 micrograms per decilitre, the researchers found, reducing their IQ by 2.5 to 3 points. When taking background lead into account, childhood blood levels may have reached about 3.5 micrograms per decilitre.

> A 2021 study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the US found blood levels in children aged one to five years fell from 15.2 to 0.83 micrograms per decilitre between the late 1970s and 2016 as leaded fuels were banned.
> stimulus spending during the pandemic fueled the housing crisis

not very informed on canadian politics/economy so apologies if it is an obvious question, but what is the connection of stimulus spending and the housing crisis?
Don’t you just love percentages? Thanks.
It's 32GB, that was leaked well before the event.

> If Apple M4 Ultra gets close to 1.8 TB/s bandwidth of 5090

If past trends hold (Ultra = 2x Max) it'll be around 1.1 TB/s, so closer to the 4090.
Since early 2023, Trudeau has been having a rough time - https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/sophie-gregoire-trudeau...
Sounds like came_from might be helpful in implementing prefer?
I am happy for you. May I ask which country?
does google know how to sell hardware to hyperscalers?
40 years ago, C was a small simple language that was faster than most (an important attribute on the hardware available at the time), and the language and it's standard library was documented by a very small book that was a masterpiece in technical writing. Some behaviour wasn't defined by the language, mostly in the name of efficiency. An example is "x % y" got whether the underlying hardware gave you. The downside of optimising for speed in that way was porting to a different arch was error prone. It isn't memory safe of course, but back them the alternative was assembler which was far worse in all respects, or a garbage collected language with it's overheads that wasn't available on many platforms.

Now, hardware is so fast speed doesn't matter so much. Many languages such as Python come with nice doco and a standard library that ellipses what C provides. Languages like Rust are in the same league speed wise, are memory safe, run on almost as many platforms and have solved the porting issue. Meanwhile the C standards committee redefining "undefined behaviour" from "implementation defined" to "so whatever we damned well please when we detect it" means you almost have to be an language lawyer to know all it's hidden traps. In other words, the language definition has gone from "a pleasant days reading" to "200k words of formal definition only a compiler writer could love".

Like COBOL, C will be around forever, but the days when it was the best choice for most things passed long ago.
One of the big things this article misses is that Google pays Broadcom a significant amount for the actual chip design, also around a 70% margin.

Google certainly has infra/cost advantages, but it's nowhere near 10x.
The posters reminded me of a pamphlet found among my father’s belongings after his death in 2016. He had served in the U.S. Navy during the occupation of Japan in 1945 and 1946. The pamphlet warns sailors to be careful about venereal diseases. I scanned it and put it on the Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/details/HullDown/page/n1/mode/2up
The Today System for Productivity
> if youtube doesn't behave more neutrally, expect one side of the political divide to elect people who will make it

There have been plenty of threats by various politicians already, to enforce “neutrality” on entities like YouTube. But a couple of persistent issues keep rearing their ugly heads.

1. How do you determine “political neutrality”? The only way to be truly neutral is to do zero moderation of any content, and nobody is seriously suggesting that’s a good idea.

2. On what basis could YouTube be ruled a utility? If even ISPs aren’t considered utilities, then how on earth can YouTube be a utility? Utilities are services that generally considered as a basic requirement for participating in civil society. It not clear how anyone could consider YouTube such an essential service.

> Thus the "well, actually!" objection to a narrow reading of the principle of free speech is really the one which misunderstand the principles at play and the evolving legal and social understanding of mass-participation online platforms.

In the U.S. such a reading of the first amendment, and the principle of free speech, has been consistently and repeatedly upheld by U.S. courts. Law makers can’t legislate their way around that, they would need to literally change the U.S. constitution. Something that requires a 2/3 majority in both congress and the senate, plus 3/4 of all state legislatures need to ratify it as well. For better or worse, the U.S. constitution provides no flexibility for the “evolving legal and social understanding of mass-participation online platforms.”

An environment where the U.S. government (and specifically the U.S. government) starts engaging in such aggressive regulation of entities like YouTube, is so distant from current state of free speech in the US, that’s it’s a practically useless argument to consider. So much of the political, legal and social framework of the U.S. will have changed, that it would effectively be an entirely different country and culture to what exists today.
Jensen didn't talk about it. Maybe he knows it's embarrassingly low. Everyone knows nvidia won't give us more VRAM to avoid cannibalizing their enterprise products.
Has plastic been linked to lower IQ?
Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs
that was wild, kudos to you.
Not OP. I've got a recumbent trike (tadpole configuration). It's a TerraTrike traveler - https://www.terratrike.com/folding/traveler/ and as the url implies, it's a folding one that fits in the trunk of my rather small car.

The mirrors get mounted on the handlebars. https://www.terratrike.com/product/mirror-mirrycle/ (example of them mounted on a similar frame - https://www.utahtrikes.com/RECENTTRIKE-TerraTrike_Rover_Blac... )
Perhaps not with respect to IQ but there’s a chance that future historians might correlate the use of plastics with increased rates of infertility.
I suspect a similarly ugly reality is what happened in Cambodia after Pol Pot's genocide. It's done very poorly compared to its neighbors.
As if board directors are chosen for other reasons than connections.

You'll need to elaborate on your allegations to convince anyone here and what FB missed in their diligence.
I got so drawn into it that only an accidental page refresh got me out of it. Well done. Also the banner texts are really funny :D
Mind sharing your source on that? I’ve been trying to find one.

Edit: Specifically the nature and current status of the Broadcom/Google relationship as it relates to TPUs.
edit: 32GB is confirmed here https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards/50-serie...

Supposedly, this image of a Inno3D 5090 box leaked, revealing 32GB of VRAM. It seems like the 5090 will be more of a true halo product, given the pricing of the other cards.

https://www.techpowerup.com/330538/first-nvidia-geforce-rtx-...
Most transit agencies have this problem of the "vicious transit cycle" - people don't take the bus because it's too infrequent/unreliable => more cars make the buses more unreliable => less money because so few people take it => back to start. It's amazing when you're sitting in a bus behind 20 cars backed up over 4 blocks, and you look back and there's 50 people on the bus. Really makes you think why the 50-person bus doesn't get priority over all of the single occupancy vehicles
You should sync up the names with the emails. Maybe more fun variations on the passwords. Other than that, it looks great!
I'll take Iceland or another Nordic social democracy for evidence that you're wrong there.
It doesn't seem as if the principal researcher behind this result is a historian:

https://www.dri.edu/directory/joe-mcconnell/
> why not first remove those quirks? Why keep them around?

To preserve backward compatibility.

> there exists a middle path:...it's just a "more" work for the creator.

I think you just answered your own question. Unpaid maintainers of a free open source software project are trying to reduce their maintenance burden. This is normal and actually a good thing if it means they will be able to stick around for the longer term. Consider that you are asking a guy who has been maintaining open source projects for more than a decade, with some degree of success. So his strategy is probably working for him.
Fine if you call it an ad, but it doesn’t change the fact that the feature is free of cost.
>I really, really want congestion pricing in downtown SF.

But SF doesn't have public transport. This just makes driving expensive, without any real benefit. We already do this on 101.
Orange cave crocodiles may be 'mutating' into new species (2018)
https://senecaeffect.substack.com/p/are-plastics-killing-us
Bill Nelson: OK, let me ask you another question. Do you think that President
Trump would rather have a conversation with American astronauts during his
tenure rather than listening to the comments of Chinese astronauts on the
Moon during his tenure?

My case is closed, your Honor, I submit it to the jury.

Oh, my :) . These days I'm not sure if Americans will be faster on the Moon if flying on Artemis or if flying on Starship. I'm sure of course the latter would be vastly cheaper, but faster...

We'll see how it goes.
Camraw
I think "Chat driven programming" is the most common type of the most hyped LLM-based programming I see on twitter that I just can't relate to. I've incorporated LLMs mainly as auto-complete and search; asking ChatGPT to write a quick script or to scaffold some code for which the documentation is too esoteric to parse.

But having the LLM do things for me, I frequently run into issues where it feels like I'm wasting my time with an intern. "Chat-based LLMs do best with exam-style questions" really speaks to me, however I find that constructing my prompts in such a way where the LLM does what I want uses just as much brainpower as just programming the thing my self.

I do find ChatGPT (o1 especially) really good at optimizing existing code.
Maybe, but given that "plastics" are a broad category I'd expect that IQ would me a poor proxy for some of their effects.

BPA for instance, is a xenoestrogen. I'm not sure what metric to watch for it, but it's probably not IQ.
AMD barely mentioned their next-gen GPUs, NVIDIA came out swinging right from the start. AMD announced two new models which by their own cryptic slide wouldn't even compete with their current top-end. Then NVIDIA came and announced a 4090-performance GPU for $549...

If that's not just hot hair from NVIDIA, I totally get the business decision from AMD but man, would love some more competition in the higher end.
But tell us how you really feel.
I went back to this on a desktop and discovered the bitcoin stims… got to the ocean soon after
Execution matters. Microsoft was best-positioned to reap the widespread, mobile-enabled transformation of personal computing. They didn't, and today with the discontinuation of the Surface Duo, they have literally zero strategy in mobile.
I envy your rig - mine glitched a lot to get it in <3min. Might not be doing myself a service by actually answering the Duolingo questions via LLM... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-J0ppP-H9s
Is there a model you prefer to use?
I have had a really good experience using Apple Maps for public transit. Earlier this year I went to NYC for the first time as an adult and it was super easy to use for finding which train to get on. Had a similar experience in Europe this fall as well.
What’s the point of this link? It’s also to a paywalled article.
You can ask the LLM to teach it to you step by step, and then you can validate it by doing it as well as you go, still quicker than learning it and not knowing how to debug it.

Learning how something works is critical or it's far worse than technical debt.
Or a place to flame someone who slept with your girlfriend or disagrees with your politics or may rival your business.
Halide's Process Zero literally adds "computational photography garbage", what do you think de-Bayering actually is?
My memory might be from Windows 98, yes.
SF has public transport. Here's the map:

https://www.iliveinthebayarea.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12...
buses and cars compete for the same right of way. improving one mode necessarily comes at the cost of the other, but many more people can be moved with a bus.

trains would be even better, but people don't like to see the price tag.

almost not worth discussing honestly. this has become yet another factionalized holy war over the last decade.
Did OpenAI's O1 Decipher the Indus Valley Script?
A curious experiment: O1's attempt at decoding the Indus Valley script. It constructed a systematic analysis comparing patterns to known ancient writing systems and proposed translations. Looking for feedback from archaeologists and computational linguistics experts on the methodology.
What you did is the definition of blocking the box - stopping in the intersection (even if your light is green). Blocking traffic would be if your light was red.

It's better this way that the law penalizes what you can control (your own vehicle movement) as opposed to what you can't (the cars in front of you)
Similarly, arsenical bronze (copper + arsenic) was common before tin started to be used, and I've often wondered how common arsenic poisoning was in the copper age / early bronze age.

When we think of the nastiness of industry, it's often industrial 19th century Britain and so on, but some of these villages (often quite remote) back then were full on industrial sites with massive smelting operations and the entire population including children engaged in mining and smithing and then exporting.
Local LLMs for code aren't that out of the question to run.

Even for not code generation, but even smaller models only for programming to weigh on different design approaches, etc.
Where can I educate myself on the issue? The differing narratives have left me puzzled.
While you’re not wrong re: Postgres and MySQL not being necessarily designed for PB-scale, IME many shops with huge datasets are just doing it wrong. Storing numbers as strings, not using lookup tables for low-cardinality data, massive JSON blobs everywhere, etc.

I’m not saying it fixes everything, but knowing how a DB works, and applying proper data modeling and normalization could severely reduce the size of many datasets.
I will always say that Justin is the best product of the Cuban Revolution!
AMD has strategically decided to abandon the enthusiasts market [0]. Really sad that nvidia's monopoly has got solidified even further. That's one of the reasons I contribute to Apple's MLX instead of CUDA.

0: https://www.techradar.com/computing/gpu/amd-announces-new-ra...

Update: typical HN behavior. someone is downvoting all my comments one by one...
I do this as well. Not only does it gamify the whole experience, it is a sort of reminder that I likely won't accomplish all of them and that's okay. Priorities change over the course of the year and I can still see progress and celebrate success early and often.
Surprised that on a forum for startups, this comment is the most downvoted. Have we lost all self-awareness?
Yes, obviously every city has public transport. It is not a usable system like NYC. The recent central subway debacle stands as a testament to that.
it's too bad SF did not build an underground railway system covering the city in the short window when the labor to do so was affordable
"You can still go crazy and jump into the middle of scopes with uninitialized variables."

It is difficult when speaking across languages, but in many cases, no, you can't.

https://go.dev/play/p/v8vljT91Rkr

C isn't a modern language by this standard, and to the extent that C++ maintains compatibility with it (smoothing over a lot of details of what that means), neither is it. Modern languages with goto do not generally let you skip into blocks or jump over initializations (depending on the degree to which it cares about them).

The more modern the language, generally the more thoroughly tamed the goto is.
This is very funny. The picture of Stalin and Yezhov was exactly what was going through my mind as an Apple Store sales guy explained the photo clean up feature to me. It felt rude to bring it up though.
Yes, the actor has a credit at the end.
what unintended consequences?
Just turned 50.

Unfortunately I already feel like a theme of 50-75 is "forgetting."

I remember very well the stuff I learned from 0-25 but damned if I remember last month.
Isn't messing with money (destroying it, melting coins, etc) really punished by most countries?

If so, why is money one can cut a thing?
for a bus-centric system like SF, congestion pricing intrinsically makes public transit better
Re arsenic poisoning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hephaestus#:~:text=In%20the%20....
On what? Fox News? Because that wasn’t at all how it was portrayed by Klepper who actually took the time to be onsite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbmiKG56zuw
Massively fine. Thanks much for sharing! The instrument-generating part alone is Csound-grade stuff.
Writing a wrapper is easier to verify because of the context of the API or SDK you're wrapping. Seems wrong? Check the docs. Doesn't work? Curl it yourself.
I think an opinionated stance is in general a good thing when it comes to open source project. I just worry that contrarianism in frontend development is being conflated with contrarianism in general programming. The former being the intention of the project that I support (yay hypermedia!), and the latter most likely not being the goal.

Maybe the sanding will help, and if HTMX is not going to change much then maybe not much is needed, but I think there's still a way to go to stability and feature completeness.

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=javGxN-h9VQ

Thanks for the link, I'll definitely give this a watch!
They failed IMO as soon as they started marketing this stuff as AI. Nobody _actually_ cares about that. They just want new and exciting device capabilities. The fact that they haven’t done anything compelling enough to detach it from the AI moniker means they don’t have anything. Yet. The overall foundation is sound. Maybe in a generation or two we will have a truly compelling use case. Part of me doubts it, though, because Apple isn’t the company they used to be when it comes to innovating.