skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess I’m only pointing out that American rhetoric like the Wall Street journal is pushing American rhetoric.

I’m in full agreement that Europe needs to get its act together and stop being layabouts if they want to compete and not simply become a Russian asset. I live in Europe. I would prefer if there was more resources for innovation here like in America.
The level of sophistication for CoT model varies. "good old CoT prompting" is you hoping the model generates some reasoning tokens prior to the final answer. When it did, the answers tended to be better for certain class of problems. But you had no control over what type of reasoning tokes it was generating. There were hypothesis that just having a <pause> tokens in between generated better answers as it allowed n+1 steps to generate an answer over n. I would consider Meta's "continuous chain of thought" to be on the other end of "good old CoT prompting" where they are passing back the next tokens from the latent space back to the model getting a "BHF" like effect. Who knows what's happening with O3 and Anthropics O3 like models..
The problems you mentioned is very broad and not limited to prompting. Reasoning models tend to outperform older models on math problems. So I'd assume it does reduce hallucination on certain class of problems.
It's been a feature of Windows for a decade+, why on earth would they remove it? I've had mine aligned to the top of the screen for as long as I can remember, and there's even 3rd party tools that restore this basic ass behavior in Win11 (not that I'll ever use that bloatware willingly again). M$ has no excuse, other than them being a completely incompetent entity of course.
Jim Simons: Life and Philanthropy [video]
I think that the development of riscv will eek out greater market share for chinese manufacturers, which will have a negative effect on the global order.

I am also skeptical that it will lead to more open designs, but perhaps it could increase competition enough in the chip design space that more open chip designers can make a space for themselves, especially if the business of chip fabrication is isolated from design.
You're right. Originally the + sign in an email address was an indicator to the Andrew Message System's delivery agent to process the email in an extensible way. The syntax was +<keyword>+<args>. As an example. you could use
"user+dir-insert+misc" to route the message to the "misc" directory in the user's mailbox structure. An unknown keyword would just get ignored and the mail delivered as usual, giving the behavior as used today.
I think it has more to do with the psychological effect than with money itself.

We're used to think that in difficult situations you cut the useless "fun" expenses.

When that doesn't happen in a company, people blame it on management that already "moved on".

It has to do with how people perceive a company and with all that culture that has been pushed down our throats for years, with "We're a family" and things like that. It has also to do somehow with showing some respect...
Nvidia seem to be one step ahead of this and you can see their platform efforts are pushing towards creating large volumes of compute that are easy to manage for whatever your compute requirements are, be that training, inference or whatever comes next and whatever form. People are maybe tackling some of these areas in isolation but you do not want to build datacenters where everything is ringfenced per task or usage.
Can you provide an example
of this?
Love it. Brings me back to the creativity of the old Flash days.

One rec: When I clicked the track, the sound doesn't come in for a few seconds (I realize that's just the track itself) but it made me think something wasn't working. Maybe cut out the first few seconds of silence if possible?
I know this probably doesn't help you now, but I negotiated this as a requirement of my employment. I showed up day one, walked around & engaged about 20 or so people on the floor in what they did over the first few weeks I was there, picked up a few low hanging projects that seemed interesting & then just kept doing whatever the hell I felt like. Was I qualified to do this? No. But, honestly, I wasn't qualified to do anything at the place, anyways.

I mentor all of my junior engineers to do the same, and management really likes it. The rule of the game is you must finish what you start, and you must clearly communicate schedule.
Tearing is the easiest issue to demonstrate to people. Security is something you don't realize you care about until it is too late.
I’ve been through multiple layoffs in my life and I’m going through them again, but this is the first time I’ve heard the term “impacted” used so often in this context. It’s used 5 times in this article and it’s said constantly in our company town hall meetings when discussing the current rounds of layoffs.
Information lag, especially with respect to PRC developments and technical developments. Taking 1-2 week for info to be shared and passed down info chain not unusual. IRC COT typically increase inference 1-5x depending on task complexity, i.e. instead of scaling down compute demand by 50x, it's 10x, which is still substantial. Could investors be panicking? Sure, but there's rational basis for doing so.
I'd be thrilled if US banks figured out how to do "instant" money exchanges.

Today, if I pay my credit card from an account with a different bank, the payment is reflected immediately in my Visa account, but takes 3-5 days to reflect in my main checking account. It's completely bonkers that a 100% electronic transaction takes days to fulfill.
But honestly, profitability doesn’t matter. All of the major tech companies were profitable and still had tens of thousands of layoffs between them.
But can you explain why this feature is/was so important? The fact that there are 3rd party tools that can restore it makes it even more marginal. There are gazillions of UI changes in every app we use, it seems strange that this very marginal one should get someone up in arms.

> M$ has no excuse, other than them being a completely incompetent entity of course.

No, it's because "M$" doesn't think it's an important feature. There's no incompetence. Do you actually believe what you said?

Is this some form of OCD or hypersensitivity? Because I struggle to understand the type of mind that cares at all about this. And how do such people go through life, especially working in software, where things change constantly?
Don't burn yourself out for anyone other than you. Companies have no loyalty whatsoever and will not show gratitude.

In general I don't think that the style of work that leads to burnout is desirable at any stage unless if it's for your own startup and perhaps not even then.

One day I woke up and grey haired and not rich. I felt that my youth had disappeared, I had various minor health problems. Why did I work till 2am for a fortnight to solve problem X? The project was cancelled after I left or never made any money or whatever - it was for no great achievements. I got laid off anyhow.

I encountered plenty of people that generated fear in others pushing towards excessive work but I noticed every one of them going home at 5pm. Do you have to take note of these bullies? Maybe not - I didn't notice them being any worse to the people who ignored their pressure.

Don't encourage other people to overwork either - be part of the solution.

It's the people that you work with who will be grateful sometimes, in small ways and overcoming problems with them creates friendships. So you must obviously try to pull your weight - I'm not advocating cynicism.
Yes. When the first dot-com bubble burst, my father was working on semiconductor manufacturing machines.

The machines worked fine. They worked just as well the day after Webvan went bankrupt as they did the day before. The business was cashflow positive, not some crazy gamble.

But suddenly the chipmakers realised they had more capacity than they knew what to do with, and put growth plans on hold. At the same time, understandably, a lot of investors decided to get out of tech stocks.

Even the largest boats rise and fall with the tides.
Airlander, the biggest aircraft, may get off ground
Ok so the answer is that these integrations are not implemented, even if the configuration has a field for an OpenAI API key (obviously just as an example).

Thank you for clarifying. Good luck with this project! I'll keep an eye on it and see how it evolves.
rip germany
> But I think he can still redeem himself

We’re way past that.
The main downside though, it's impressively slow.

Comparing to gzip isn't really worth it. Combine pigz (threaded) with zlib-ng (simd) and you get decent performance. pigz is used in `docker push`.

For example, gzipping llvm.tar (624MB) takes less than a second for me:

$ time /home/harmen/spack/opt/spack/linux-ubuntu24.04-zen2/gcc-13.2.0/pigz-2.8-5ptdjrmudifhjvhb757ym2bzvgtcsoqc/bin/pigz -k hello.tar

real 0m0.779s
user 0m11.126s
sys 0m0.460s

At the same time, zopfli compiled with -O3 -march=native takes 35 minutes. No wonder it's not popular.

It is almost 2700x slower than the state of the art for just 6.8% bytes saved.
Not in the article, but I've read that the way C does pointers, a single address with length implicit, makes it hard for compilers to assert that 2 arrays don't overlap/alias and this is an obstacle for generating SIMD instructions.
Um, I have seen irrationality all across the board. Market participants shooting themselves in the foot.

I have seen investors not invest even $10K into a project and then line up to invest far more for the SAME amount of shares.

When you apply for jobs, you see recruiters (who get commission from placements) tell you that your background isnt a fit when it is a perfect fit, and prefer to not show candidates.

I have even explained to recruiters that there is an opportunity to represent the candidates, like a Hollywood agent or like a seller agent i Real Estate. That the candidates would also pay a commission out of their salary, if placed in a job they actually like. And that all they have to do is call their counterpart recruiter and vouch for the candidate, which usually a quick call. But most are stuck in their ways and don’t want to tap new opportunities, no matter how easy. To their credit, some are not.

And so, it is no surprise to me that businesses waste money and then cut their task force. Many of them don’t care about you, but expect you to care about them. They’ll even expect you to stay late and demonstrate commitment, but they won’t pay you overtime.
> it's sad that some well-intentioned people make them skip what cannot be skipped.

I don't see this as a move to skip learning English terms for programming concepts, it's a move to reorder.

Starting with Python requires kids to start learning computational thinking simultaneous with learning the English terms for computational constructs. Sure, there aren't many terms to learn, and sure, in some cases (but far from all!) the English word isn't a great mnemonic even for English-speaking children, but neither one of those facts is a good explanation for why teaching a few foreign-language words isn't just accidental complexity in the early stages! And if it's accidental complexity, why not put it off for later?

The whole premise of Hedy is to gradually add complexity in levels, and yeah, that means that throughout the design (not just in the localization) there are some aspects of each level that become redundant as you move on to later levels. But if that's what you're criticizing, you're not criticizing just the fact that it's localized, you're criticizing the entire pedagogical philosophy of Hedy and of most educational institutions.

Educators in general prioritize breaking a concept down into manageable chunks, even if that means teaching some things in a way that isn't perfectly applicable in the real world. Hedy does that for programming, and if you don't like it then your beef is with the entire educational philosophy, not the localization.
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The kids are way smarter than that.
It doesn't matter - the fraction of energy you can get is the fraction you decrease the temperature relative to absolute zero.
My favorite conspiracy theory:

After Tiananmen, the CCP planned many contingents next time something similar happened.

Cue, the [2019 Hong Kong Democracy Protests][1]. The MSS releases Covid19 at the peak of the protests (actually they do pick Wuhan so they can use lab leak as a plausibility if needed) in Sep 2019 and later they use the lockdown laws to completely clamp down the protests.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%932020_Hong_Kong_pr...
I can't understand why? won't a cheaper model make people use AI more?

For example, the current $200 chatgpt plan is too expensive for me, but making it $4, I will become a customer.

Many small companies, which would never thought about training models in house, could now do it.

I see this will only boost the AI hardware market.
Large numbers of Stanford students are on financial aid and/or scholarships
Many companies use consultants as easier-to-fire employees. I've occasionally worked with the same consultants for years, with them acting as team mates doing the same work as every other internal. And we were team mates in everything work related, except the parties.

I understand the contractual and financial logic but from the human perspective excluding the people who are otherwise just as much part of the team as anyone else is definitely eyebrow raising.
This one's easy. Because you value your people more than the parties they can throw. The cost/benefit are not just monetary. If they were, the event would have no reason to happen under any circumstance.

You fire someone because they are hurting the company? That feels like a company that cares about doing well. Event seems more okay, and there's no reason to question the financial cost if the org seems to be doing well. You layoff someone off because you're tight on cash? Tell everyone you only hire top performers but had to let a top performer go because of budgetary reasons? Feels gross to throw more money away when you're already making "hard" decisions about letting quality people go.
As stated by others, + addressing is not gmail specific. One thing that gmail does however is allowing you to add (or remove) arbitrary dots in your mail-address, and these are stripped out / all end up in the same mailbox.
You missed an important bit... the banks (A & B) accounts at the federal reserve are updated (bank A down, bank B up) for the transfer. And that's where the rubber meets the road. If bank A doesn't have the assets, it all stops. Banks don't just give each other endless credit to solve payments...

There is no magic in banking. If you describe something and it sounds magical, a piece is missing. If you were running bank B, you'd never agree to what you described. You'd want the assets, or you'd want some kind of collateral even if you were willing to do an interbank credit, you'd limit it, you'd do all kinds of credit analysis on your bank counterparties... And what I just described is how trading of securities tends to work between banks. But even then, it's not how payments are solved...
> The declarative approach and reconciliation loop offers so many possibilities for creating higher level descriptions of domain specific infrastructure.

Terraform running on a schedule gets you 3/4 of the way there for 5% of the complexity though.
I recently got hit up out of nowhere by somoene who was like i'll pay you to storyboard a music video of a famous dead rapper. Think tupac hologram but somehow even worse in terms of digging someone up from the grave. I was like ok sure why not, I know this generative AI stuff. Got paid like a hundred bucks to start on this storyboard.

Thing is the story was so fucking stupid that I stopped after generating one image. They probably didn't make the story itself with AI but it sure was ridiculous, I basically quit as soon as they asked me to somehow include a bunch of jailed celebrities like diddy into the next storyboard image, getting out of it saying that it went against my legal capabilities to include real living people.

I hope you realize that some people with millions of dollars just have really head ass ideas they're going to put through your thing and things are going to get weirder sooner as a result. Like that idea would have ended at the drawing board with a bunch of people talking each other down from it not that long ago but now it's basically like that WKUK sketch about a grape out here [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqgiEQXGetI
I think you’re comically misunderstanding what 95% of companies actually are doing with kubernetes
> Internet advertising will work as long as the internet exists.

I don't know. You're probably right, but more and more it seems like mainstream websites aren't meant for human consumption. The less ads a page have, the more likely it is to have relevant content.

Classical targeted ads, where some sales person actively goes out and buy ad space on a few select locations, I feel like that's more valuable than ever, but not heavily used anymore.
How exactly does one become a consultant on a 1099? Go work for a consulting company a W-2? That’s how I did it four years ago. Well, the consulting company takes a nice chunk above what they bill you out for.

How does one do it freelance? I also would prefer contract work or consulting work, I like that no feelings are hurt when I leave having done a good job, leave em better than you found ‘em.
> Some users spend $100+ dollars a month

IMO the real interesting questions your post brings up are:

- what kind of labor is the $100 your users are spending coming from

- where would these $100 have gone before your product existed

- where do these $100 go once they change hands from users to you

There are many answers, not a single answer, to these questions, but I think they're worth considering.

In a previous life I worked for a startup where, getting to know our users, I realized that if you broke it down the revenue was essentially money being funneled from hourly-wage workers to venture capitalists, which was a sobering realization.
>Because the truth is that a lot of people do things, not for the love of and enjoyment of doing the thing in and of itself, but because of the satisfaction they get when they impress other people.

And there's nothing wrong with that. That's part of what makes art art. Creators are not solipsistically creating art for its own and their own sake: they do it for sharing it with other people, and getting the others' recognition and connection.

Some of the greatest rock music, for one, was written to impress the other sex - and some of the best dance music was written to see people dance and their bodies connect to it.
I think it would have been cool for SpaceX to put a teapot in the roadster's trunk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell's_teapot
Pointing to Algebraic structures is not an argument since it is fundamental to mathematics and hence to programming in any language. What do you think a Type/ADT is? Why do you think user-defined types exist in any language? It is a given, the only difference is the strict pov taken by functional languages vs. imperative (procedural/OO) languages. There is a reason i pointed to the example of linking the derived type's contracts (i.e. properties) with the base type's because that would have made the isomorphism between two algebraic structures clearer (which you didn't seem to understand). Repeating some slogan is not knowledge. You have to go beyond the immediate notation/syntax in any language to the abstract concept it is trying to express. That is the heart of mathematics and programming.

Since you brought up algebraic structures, C++ can express it directly using template syntax and relationships between them using parametric polymorphism non-OO style. Not only that, but because in C++ genericity is unconstrained, we actually can use OO inheritance for a type hierarchy and then using it to get constrained genericity. This flexibility is quite powerful and you get full type checking.

To understand all this (and apply the concepts in any other language) see the books by Alexander Stepanov viz. From Mathematics to Generic Programming and Elements of Programming.
In the US most banks are no longer in the take deposits and give loans consumer business and haven’t been for a really long time.

They do take deposits but the major source of consumer loans, mortgages, are outsourced to Fannie and Freddie. Some big banks have lending arms in the form of credit card issuance, but short term loans like that aren’t really what people tend to mean and they aren’t why we chartered banks as a society historically. Small business loans are both vanishingly rare and governmentally backed.

The real disruption in banking going on right now is in large business lending. Commercial real estate, bonds, etc. Those are also no longer showing up on bank balance sheets. Capital regulations have made that too expensive, so the big banks are outsourcing that function to private non—bank companies. They just aren’t fintechs.

So disruption is absolutely happening it’s just on the finance side, not the consumer marketing side of the house.
I just watched Anders Puck Nielsen latest and he thinks both sides think they are winning - Putin because he's taking territory and the Ukrainians because they think Russia's economy will collapse. Time will tell I guess

https://youtu.be/lNZ56C-f4a8?t=362

re "the West does not actually care about Ukraine", I think they care about the principle that you should be able to go about your business without getting invaded more than about Ukraine specifically. It's like if someone gets mugged in your town - you may not care that much about the specific victim but you care about the principle that the muggers don't get away with it.
I'm starting to second guess my choice of deno.

The options for sqlite in that are either via unstable APIs, or limited due to the particulars around WASM.
Parent did say art.

Most of the big music, tv, and movies industry output is commercial crap, designed by committees and focus groups, and churned for the profits alone.

Meanwhile 95% of the music industry is either hobbyists or professionals that do it with a passion, and just barely make ends meet.
I’ve never seen a single company use kubernetes or terraform to move vendors; the feasibility of that was massively over represented
That is probably illegal. It is always not worth it.
On a related note, a science fiction short story anthology titled "Derelict" was published in 2021. When they were soliciting stories, I thought long and hard about how to put a creative twist on the topic. I wrote a story about a race to recover Elon's roadster, which made it into the anthology.

Free story: https://s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/com.markdjacobsen/Celesti...

Full anthology: https://www.amazon.com/Derelict-Campbell-Jack/dp/1940709407/
I don't think it's manipulated, just hot. As the old adage goes: "Buy the rumor, sell the news".
> There's the machine. Then the VM. Then the container. Then the orchestrator

If you're running your orchestrator on top of VMs, you're doing it wrong (or you're at a very small scale or just getting started).
American cities are some of the least dense in the world! You can't make more land, but you can build up. Taxation can even encourage this with land value taxes.
One of my personal frustrations with SSL as implemented in most systems is the conflation between encrypted communication and verified communication. SSH sort of got this right with ToFU as a default behavior but I think a lot of the resistance and difficulty in adopting SSL for encrypted intranet communication comes from the need to do the CA and cert signing song and dance. If you could turn on encryption without needing to do ID validation by default it would make things easier for people

I know that encrypted communication without knowing that your talking to the right person is somewhat useless, but it works for SSH most of the time, there’s no reason it couldn’t work well for https and encrypted db connections etc.