skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone relating LLMs to school kids cheating hasn't seen programmers be 3x as fast using it and journalists churning out articles 3x as fast by focusing on what they do best (gather and sort facts) and leaving the tedious make-easily-readable text writing to a machine.

One can certainly have opinions about how some people use it and how they check the quality of what comes out, but as long as it's not used to make up facts but merely to do the primitive busy work, like machines are supposed to do, I don't see how that's not just as revolutionizing as the fax/telex comparison you are giving.

> LLM based GenAI on the other hand has been around for long enough that we know that it's main use case is limited to [...]

Sounds exactly like what Bill Gates said in the early days of the internet. I don't have the exact quote, but I'm sure typing half a sentence full of grammar and spelling errors into ChatGPT would give me the quote including a link to its source. I should got get it fast before that tool disappears when the hype is over and we are back to old school google searches, like God intended.
Yeah, that’s one of many issues with Clickbench. It’s also one table so it can’t test joins.

TPC-H is okay but not Lakehouse specific. I’m not aware of any benchmarks that specifically test performance of engines under common setups like external storage or scalable compute. It would be hard to design one that’s easily reproducible. (And in fairness to Clickbench, it’s intentionally simple for that exact reason - to generate a baseline score for any query engine that can query tabular data).
IDK, I feel that if you're doing 5000 HTTP calls to another website it's kind of good manners to fix that. But OpenAI has never cared about the public commons.
> Salespeople harangue you for calls because it's objective fact that it works to bring more dollars in

Except as we can see in this thread, it's not objective fact. They chase many customers away with such tactics and are blissfully unaware.
Most kernel resources are fairly well behaved, as they will automatically decrement their refcount when a process exits. Even mutexes have a "robust" flag for this exact reason. Programs which rely on destructors or any other form or orderly exit are always brittle and should be rewritten to use atomic operations.
Huh? Satire?

"Attention Is All You Need" ring any bells?
For Lynch his most important work was promoting his foundation

Here's a nationally televised discussion he had with the President of Ukraine about teaching 100,000 veterans to meditate:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf7-mErKWlc

.

His final public appearance was a video he sent to a fundraiser for his foundation last year:

https://www.reddit.com/r/davidlynch/comments/1fg3npu/david_l...

______

* May everyone be happy.

May everyone be free of disease.

May auspiciousness be seen everywhere.

May suffering belong to no-one.

Peace.

Jai guru dev

________
Yes because this place is known for its tolerance and ability to just sidestep such nuances.

Tech bro bs.
>2. Know that the pricing is within the ballpark of reasonable given what your product does.

My goto line is "I can get a ballpark estimate for chucking 22 metric tons into low earth orbit, why can't I get a ballpark estimate for your boring enterprise software library licensing?" Links to SpaceX pricing help here.
Polymarket odds are pretty low on this.
https://polymarket.com/event/suchir-balaji-foul-play-determi...
https://polymarket.com/event/arrest-in-the-suchir-balaji-cas...

The "evidence" seems pretty weak. A second autopsy that even the family's attorney admits is inconclusive... okay. Alleged "conflicts of interest" with the medical examiner... okay.

Seems very likely this guy was just depressed and his depression ended in tragedy. The motivated reasoning here from Musk, his family, and many others revolves around wanting to prove OpenAI is bad because they want OpenAI to be a bad guy they can pin this onto.

Not sure what OpenAI would possibly gain from this. It's not like LLMs being trained on pirated datasets is some sort of closely guarded secret.
Telegram Suspends Accounts of Z Library and Anna's Archive
Gah dmn
>> And the second level, for some reason, includes (among others) a bunch of countries that would normally be seen as close US allies - e.g. some NATO countries (most of Central/Eastern Europe).

> Yeah, this is really a bit insulting.

So you're insulted some country of other wasn't included in:

> First, this rule creates an exception in new § 740.27 for all transactions involving certain types of end users in certain low-risk destinations. Specifically, these are destinations in which: (1) the government has implemented measures to prevent diversion of advanced technologies, and (2) there is an ecosystem that will enable and encourage firms to use advanced AI models to advance the common national security and foreign policy interests of the United States and its allies and partners.

?

IMHO, it's silly to get insulted over something like that. Your feelings are not a priority for an export control law.

Taiwan, even though it's a US ally, is only allowed limited access to certain sensitive US technology it deploys (IIRC, something about Patriot Missile seeker heads, for instance), because their military is full of PRC spies (e.g. https://www.smh.com.au/technology/chinese-spies-target-taiwa...), so if they had access the system would likely be compromised. It's as simple as that.
Is the price cheaper than x64 instances?

For 'large' instances, ARM64 is cheaper: https://docs.github.com/en/billing/managing-billing-for-your...

So what about regular instances?
I'm happy I didn't have to scroll too far to see this.

Git's CLI isn't elegant, but it really isn't that big of a deal if you understand the basics of what a commit is, what a branch is etc.

I struggle to understand why so many devs decide to treat it like mysterious arcane sorcery instead of just spending the needed time on learning how it works.

The same can be said about regexes.

Regexes and git are probably the two tools which I have benefitted the most from learning compared to how little time I've spend on learning them - and I wouldn't even consider myself an expert on either.
We need a hallucination benchmark.

My experience is, o1 is very good at avoiding hallucinations and I trust it more, but o1-mini and 4o are awful.
Trump and his sleazy tech bros will go down in history as the gravediggers of democracy.
I'm about 95% sure that if I ask my two school-age daughters if it's weird to address girls and women as "bro" or "bruh" in informal circumstances, they'll say no. Since I hear them do it with some regularity.
Telemetry only records what you deem interesting prior to flight. When something goes really wrong it probably came from something you were not expecting, like foam insulation. Cameras recorded everything visible, even the stuff you don't think important.
These things are so common having some way of dealing with them is basically mandatory if you plan on doing any sort of large scale crawling.

That said, crawlers are fairly bug prone, so misbehaving crawlers is also a relatively common sight. It's genuinely difficult to properly test a crawler, and useless to build it from specs, since the realities of the web are so far off the charted territory, any test you build is testing against something that's far removed from what you'll actually encounter. With real web data, the corner cases have corner cases, and the HTTP and HTML specs are but vague suggestions.
Yeah, that conflicts with their rate limits, which I hope they'll revise under this scheme.

https://letsencrypt.org/docs/rate-limits/

For the “exact same set of hostnames” (aka. renewals) the rate limit is 5 certificates every 7 days.

So you could do it every other day, if you can make sure there's only one client doing it.

And they're very clear this is a global limit: creating multiple accounts doesn't subvert it.

So you'll need to manage this centrally, if you have multiple hosts sharing a hostname.
Lightweight server monitoring hub with historical data, Docker stats, and alerts
In today's world, algorithms are essential. It's similar to scrolling through Netflix for a movie - you might spend 90 minutes, the length of a movie, just searching for the perfect one you haven't seen yet. To avoid that, we rely on algorithms that automatically tailor suggestions based on our personal preferences.

The next logical step, in my opinion for privacy-oriented users is to own their algorithms and have the ability to analyse and customise them. Who knows, we might even discover something new about ourselves. That could make for an interesting side project.
Thanks, they also mentioned that they moved the upper flaps to reduce heating on them during reentry.
Ammonia is 1 Nitrogen bonded with 3 hydrogen.

The raw stuff is definitely there. Thought I'm sure there are easier ways of making it.
Right. The scenario you describe is reasonable. But as a buyer, if you put out those few pricing options, even if none of them match all my needs, I get to see both the features you offer and the prices you ask, which gives me the two critical pieces of information I seek: whether you have the capability to satisfy some or all my needs, and what order of magnitude we talk about in terms of costs. If that information tells me that you might have something for us, and it might fit in our budget, then I'll be more than happy to call you, and spend whatever time is needed to agree on a set of features and a price that works for both of us.

The thing I want to desperately avoid is wasting time dancing around the salesmen trying to overhype their product while staying vague on the details, in hopes to get me to buy (and pay as much as I can) regardless of whether I get any value from it.
Are these YT channels just mirroring the official one?
You could probably do effectively that by just shipping a usb drive. After game from the NES-N64 are just a few GB.
Careful, sometimes free plans are more expensive than money! ;)
Or maybe it is running on faster hardware, but the UK budget office decided not to pay IBM's fees required to make use of the extra speed, so it has been "throttled" to run at the same speed that it ran on the old hardware.
to be clear, it seems like the feed on some of these are scraped from official ones, but include links to crypto "giveaway" scams.
Right now the utilization is low (< 10%), but in the effort to prop the providers side the company is footing the bill and paying for availability approximately 50% of what the benchmark on the page tells you. This is a rather common strategy for bootstrapping any two-sided market.
I am only two pages in, but I want to say this paper is very well written. People should give reading it a try reading (with LLM assistance).

If this technique could be adapted to existing optical fiber infrastructure, we could see the effects of fiber optic cable stretch and deformation in realtime.
Resi 4 on the Wii was so good. It was a good game anyway, but the aiming was precise and a hell of a lot of fun. I think about it a lot. I'm hesitant to play the remaster on my steam deck because I doubt it's possible to be as good
Writing a whole load of tests up front and then coding until all the tests pass is not TDD.
at least some do, but they are also inserting links to crypto scams.
As is Tim Dodd’s

https://www.youtube.com/live/6Px_b5eSzsA

Aside from coding, this is my favorite use of multiple screens.
Agreed. As someone in a place to make purchasing decisions, if I can just sign up and try something without having to "jump on a call" and sit through a demo, I'm more likely to do so. I'm more willing to meet afterwards if I like what I see.

As it happens, a while back I did exactly this for a company after reading a post about their launch on HN. In a later conversation with their CEO, I found out we were their first customer!
As the old cartoon said: the repairman charged $5000 to come fix a machine. When he showed up with a hammer, walked up to the machine and gave it a whallop with a hammer and it immediately started working.

The bossman asked for an invoice which he wrote up on the spot.

It consisted of two lines:

1) tapping the machine $5

2) knowing where to tap: $4995

Grin
Make it reflective, reflect it back onto an OpenAI API route.
Are any of those corporate espionage? Those seems to fall under government spying which I acknowledged exists for all companies and especially so with the five eyes.
Pruitt? Is that you?
I've conversed on this before. Inconsistent justifications for beliefs undermines science.

It's no different than insisting that belief in a drug's efficacy rests on RCTs. I'm legitimately unfamiliar with polonium ingestion trials so I don't have a justification for believing that it is harmful.

I want to be very clear that I'm not arguing that polonium isn't harmful - I believe it is. I just don't have justification for that belief. I believe that it's important to understand the difference between true beliefs and justified true beliefs.
fyi GitHub bill in minutes, and rounds up. So if you use 1 minute and 1 second, you get billed for 2 minutes. This is applied at job level, so it quickly gets out of control if you use matrix builds.

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/8726
The reason that these "internet scale" solutions are challenging to operate is because of their latency and availability targets.

If you threw into the requirements "can go down nightly, for hours, for writes AND reads", they could absolutely provide the transactional guarantees you're looking for.
Thank you!

I think LLMs are really underutilized as a "judgement tool". A couple similar ideas people reached out to me with were: evaluating which pull requests are more significant in a big repo, or which grant applications have more merit.

The LLMs will always make mistakes, but they could work great as the first filter.
I've started recommending jj as a (git compatible) alternative to git, and one of the things I like about it is that the default action if you run `jj` with no arguments shows the relevant parts of the commit tree and where you are in it. This is a great reorientation tool, because you can see at a glance which commit you're working on right now, the branches and history associated with it, any other active branches in your repository, and for each you can see whether each commit had messages, changes associated with it, etc.

It's really powerful because it gives you precisely that visual layout that shows you what's going on in the repository, and what you're doing right now.
The sharpness of the corner is the same, which is TFA's real biggest complaint. Yours may have been the sign.
There's a bazillion things we could be thinking about buying.

Being able to serve yourself and figure out if there's any fit removes friction. Spending an hour on an initial sales call to find out that information isn't optimal.

As he's said, when he's desperate, he will do more work. And he is willing to do calls when it makes sense, but expects them to be efficient and expects to be able to qualify the vendor.
> From a customer perspective, if you're making purchases of a certain size "Call for Pricing" is just a dance you need to learn to do.

No it isn't. I have never once found a situation where there wasn't an alternative to the vendors who try to waste your time with "call for pricing". There are companies who do business honestly, and I choose to use them.
Reminds me of the line from Analyze That where Jelly tells Dr Ben: "He stabbed himself in the back four times and threw himself off a bridge... very unfortunate" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289848/characters/nm0899995
His most mainstream work is The Elephant Man, commissioned by Mel Brooks.
You don't seem to understand the definition of corporate espionage.
Noyb: Complaints against TikTok, AliExpress, Shein, Xiaomi for data transfers
This works if the branch exists or creates it if it doesn't exist, but not if it's checked out.

git branch -f branch_name commit

if it's checked out:

git reset --hard commit
The reason these types of slow-response tarpits aren't recommended is that you're basically building an instrument for denial of service for your own website. What happens is the server is the one that ends up holding a bunch of slow connections, many more so than any given client.
I heard that it was a forced response to Sega aggressively cutting the price of the Megadrive/Genesis to the point that it made it very difficult for Nintendo to sensibly price the SNES bill of materials.

Something had to go and it was backwards compatibility.
> The only step forward IMO is for users to _own_ the algorithm and be able to analyse and tune it.

That would directly against the interests of big tech (they want to be able to push the stuff they want to push), so that's not likely to happen there
What does team size have to do with this? Small teams can (and should) absolutely build modularized software ...

You simply cannot build a [working/maintainable] large piece of software if everything is connected to everything and any one change may cause issues in conceptually unrelated pieces of code. As soon as your codebase is bigger than what you can fully memorize, you need modules, separation of concerns, etc.
>checking the return of any allocation call

I would say this is pointless on many modern systems unless you also disable overcommit, since otherwise any memory access can result in a crash, which is impossible to check for explicitly.
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42715439
How to Build a PocketQube Satellite
> I like React on the web, but only when using hooks and only because I haven't found anything that I like more than it.

After being thrown into the Angular woods for a while I found that what I really wanted was just a "React with RxJS Observables that look like writing Hooks if you squint, but don't have some of the complex rules either" and then I realized that I was basically trying to reinvent some of Knockout, but with TSX templates. I'm still amazed by how much I was able to accomplish from that idea, including some of the "advanced" features of modern React, in a relatively small package (modulo the one and only one dependency on RxJS).

I don't know how many other developers want the same thing.

(I know some find RxJS overly complex, which is exactly why Angular is as awful to work in as it is, both in how it badly uses RxJS (and teaches bad habits) and how there's generally three ways to do everything, one with RxJS and two others avoiding it or misusing it, with now a fourth way of Signals which are just RxJS-lite with Knockout-style `computed`, proving time is a flat circle and Angular remains a design-by-committee mishmash of too many things that don't interoperate well. I think learning Angular's mishmash is far worse than just learning RxJS well, but I also spent a lot of time doing Rx in C# and in CycleJS for a while, too.)
I guess like those on NASA reels. Looks more honest than cloning the faboys at yet another music festival vibe.
Is there any benchmark about Hotwire Native screen response time?
The entire point is to not collaborate, because this tech is being used for military purposes. The US wants to throw up roadblocks to make it more difficult. Obviously, against a foreign military, anything is a mitigation and not a prevention.

> China engineers have capability to get around these silly sanctions, by renting cloud GPUs from USA companies for example

That's why they're also moving towards KYC for cloud providers.

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/01/29/2024-01...
I've done some testing of polars, duckdb, and datafusion.

Anecdotally, these are my experiences:

DuckDB (last used maybe 7-8 months):

- Very nice for very fast local queries (against parquet files, i ignored their homegrown file format)

- Most pleasant cli

- Seems to have the best out of core experience

- As far as I can tell, seems to be closest to state of the art in terms of algorithms/overall design, though honestly everyone is within spitting distance of each other

- Spark api seems exciting

Datafusion (last used 1.5y ago):

- Most pleasant to build/extend on top of (in rust)

- Is to OLAP DBMS's what LLVM is to compilers (stole this quote off Andrew Lamb)

- Could be wrong, but in terms of core engineering discipline they are the most rigorous/thoughtful (no shade thrown to the other libraries, which are all awesome libraries/tools too)

- Seems to be the most foundational to many other tools (and is most ubiquitously embedded)

- Their python dataframe centric workflow isn't as nice as polars (this is rapidly improving afaict)

- Docs are lagging behind polars

- Very exciting future (ray datafusion, improvements to python bindings, ballista, datafusion-comet)

Polars (last used this week):

- The most pleasant api by far for a programmatic user

- Pretty good interop with python ecosystem

- Rust crate is a second class citizen

- Python is a first class citizen

- Probably the best for advanced ETL use cases

- Fastest library for querying hive partitioned parquet data in an object store

- Wide end-user adoption (less so as a query engine)

- Moves very fast (I do get more bugs/regressions in polars version to version, but on the flip side, they move fast to fix issues and release very often)

- Exciting distributed cloud solution coming (is proprietary though)

- New streaming engine based off morsel driven parallelism (same architectural as duckdb afaict?) should greatly improve polars OOC capabilities

- Much nicer to test/compose/build re-usable queries/functions on top of then SQL based ETL tools
- Error messages/debuggability/observability are still immature

All three are awesome tools. The OLAP space is really heating up.

Things I still see lacking in the OLAP end-user space are:
- Unified batch/streaming dataframe centric workflows, nothing is truly high throughput/low latency/pleasant to use/mature/robust. I've only really seen arroyo and risingwave, neither seem too mature usable yet.

- Nothing is quite at the robustness level of something like sqlite

- Despite native query engines, datalake implementations are mostly lagging behind their java equivalents (iceberg/delta)

Some questions for other users:

- I'm curious if anyone uses Ibis in prod, I found that it wasn't very usable as an end user
Interesting I have had close to zero issues with my deck. Occassionally the audio is crackly when waking from sleep. But it's rare and goes away after a sleep/wake cycle. But then I never really fiddle with settings, at most I cap the FPS for more intensive games. I never dock it either

It's very usable for me. And wakes from sleep almost as quick as switch. That immediacy made switch my favourite console of all time until I got the deck.
> It’s very obvious when people straight up lie in these industries because the physical thing never materializes.

Sort of. The trick in these industries is to instead cheat on quality of materials and workmanship. Which is how we're drowning in physical products to buy, and yet most of them are barely functioning garbage - they've all been "value engineered" to near breaking point.
Largest ever photomosaic of Andromeda galaxy from NASA's Hubble
Official post: https://blog.google/feed/were-announcing-our-first-partnersh...

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42727603)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWLtTP07FCw

Well, my comment is going to end up hidden. I guess this just isn't that interesting, and I assume the video I am linking here will be seen as meaningless with no possible historical bearing on physics or chemistry.

Is there a good reason this is not being considered? Like, these abiogensis articles never say anything new, and have no interesting propositions. They say it's a mystery, then propose a vague implausibility that can only be explained by another mystery. Like, I would appreciate at least some creative thinking here.
Literally `git reflog`
Rocket engines are very expensive, and the whole rocket is fairly expensive in traditional construction methods. The cost of the rocket engines dominates the others.