skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think you solved it otherwise you’d know that what I mean by variation is similar to how calculus is a variation of addition. Yea it involves addition but the solution is far more complicated.

Think of it like this counting islands exists in the training data in the same way addition exists. The solution to this problem builds off of counting islands in the same way calculus builds off of addition.

No training data exists for it to copy because this problem is uniquely invented by me. The probability that it has is quite low. Additionally several engineers and I have done extensive google searches and we believe to a reasonable degree that this problem does not exist anywhere else.

Also you use semantics to cover up your meaning. LLMs can “generalize” somewhat? Generalization is one of those big words that’s not well defined. First off the solution is not trivially extracted from counting islands and second “generalize” is a form of reasoning. You’re using big fuzzy words with biased connotations to further your argument. But here’s the thing, even if we generously go with it, the solution to counting donuts is clearly not some trivial generalization of counting islands. The problem is a variation but the solution is NOT. It’s not even close to what we term as the colloquial definition of “generalization”

Did you solve it? I highly doubt you did. It’s statistically more likely you’re lying, and the fact that you call the solution a “generalization” just makes suspect that even more.
The RISC-V core designs that have emerged so far don't have nearly the amount of silicon dedicated to optimizing IPC as one sees in ARM, x86 and others: predictors, sophisticated caches, complex instruction dispatch, deep pipelines, etc. That stuff isn't provided with the RISC-V core designs you get for free or license at low cost, because it's fabulously expensive to develop, tied to the ISA and core designs for which it is created, and jealously guarded through IP law.

Will RISC-V get there eventually? People like Jim Keller are building companies around that goal. However, it will likely take years, at least, for RISC-V to approach parity.
I’m not sure if the amount of ads is different, but the quality of ads is definitely different.
The ads on TV are “skippable” in the sense that you watch 2 minutes of ads, and then in the last 10 seconds, you can skip to the end.

Any time I use my TV for YouTube now, I just connect my laptop to the TV so I don’t have to deal with those insane ads.

It’s extremely clear that YouTube is trying to maximize ad watch time, while keeping the acknowledgment by the user that they watched the ad, by acknowledging they’re paying attention enough to press “Skip”
For a large enough project, the dependency conflicts can get extremely frustrating, especially when it's time to update them. You may need to upgrade a dependency for security reasons cough cough requests cough cough, but some other dependency that calls it has pinned another version (range).
I don't think such tools will be reliable until backed with knowledge of the codebase that populates the data. Just because a column has a certain name and has plausible looking data in it doesn't mean that's what's really in there. Especially if there are many tables and columns with similar names and data that have nuances for what differentiate them. Nuances that live in code and the heads of developers. I would not trust any LLM right now to do any financial reporting on any of the production data warehouses I've seen, it would be a recipe for shooting yourself in the dick.
I think a referendum should be launched asking Californians if they would rather be governed by Denmark or Washington. Given the lack of enthusiasm for the current US government who knows how it would go.
Yeah, I mean I don't think these places would be happy if all the tourists left either. They want tourists, but on their terms. Fair enough. But it reminds me of my mom's florist friend that complains that everyone wants flowers at Valentine's Day and not the rest of the year; it'd be so much easier for her if they spread the demand.
Rodents nibble (and destroy) _everything_ plastic adjacent in my garage. I guess it's time for high-scoville countermeasures.
The consensus is that the UI sucks and a few features have been stripped but overall I think the core gameplay has done quite well in reviews.
It's not. They have 4k colors available. Good enough for an eink reader, not good enough for art display.
You're welcome. Maybe use 0.2.5 then, i probably forgot to update the readme :-)
> Original quote is just mind-bogglingly stupid.

To be frank, your quote is mind-bogglingly stupid. How easy do you think Java is to read to a native Greek speaker with no English language knowledge? Would the Java standard library be as easy for you to read if it were written in Greek? Would java still be an easy to read language if all the keywords and library were in Greek?

If your only definition of a good programming language is one written in your native language and a PL becomes bad if written in a different language, then your criteria is terrible/useless. And right now that's your criteria.
My dad lost two sets of sparkplug wires to pack rats [0], circa 2016-2017. I recall him sharing that the auto store staff told him the bioplastics used to insulate the wires tastes like peanuts. He switched to a different brand, and didn't lose another set.

Searching now I found this website about the soy-based wire problem: https://www.howtopreventratsfromeatingcarwires.com/2017/02/1...

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42074028
All previous examples have been of the "no code" variety, where you press buttons and it controls presets that the creators of the authoring tool have prepared for you. This is the first time where you can talk to it and it writes arbitrary code for you. You can argue that it's not a good idea, but it is a novel development.
It's still being investigated by the EU.
last time I was on a project that involved a lot of data analysis/writing SQL, I was gonna write a plugin for "sloppy SQL" which would let me use trailing commas and some other qol features, but that project ended before I got around to it.
"We’re going to use every possible tool: court actions, legislative actions, whistleblowers, the bully pulpit."

Those are some pretty weak tools. They control the courts and the legislature. Whistleblowers only matter if the executive branch decides to bring a case before the courts, and neither of those seems likely. We've been using the bully pulpit all along, and it doesn't sound like it's going to be any more effective now.

This sounds like a recipe for going down fighting. And hey, that's worth something. From "The Lion In Winter":

Geoffrey: My you chivalric fool... as if the way one fell down mattered.

Richard: When the fall is all there is, it matters.
This doesn't eliminate the penny, just pausing production of it. If he had unilaterally declared the penny no longer valuable then that would be unconstitional and require an act of congress
> Somebody needs to write that operating system the LLM runs on. Or your bank's backend system that securely stores your money. Or the mission critical systems powering this airplane you're flying next week... to pretend like this will all be handled by LLMs is so insanely out of touch with reality.

When they do this, I really want to know they did this. Like an organic food label. Right now AI is this buzzword that companies self-label with for marketing, but when that changes, I still want to see who's using AI to handle my data.
I hope he's well.
You can make fermented cabbage without any hot peppers. It's common in Slavic cultures.
Total delusion from the author. If tech companies need a human dev, therell be plenty of them across the globe jumping at the chance to do it for peanuts. Youre soon to be extinct. Deal with it.
LLMs are a much bigger jump in productivity than moving to a high level language.
Understandable! I have my wife to reproduce the same setup so I guess I'm lucky to not having to depend on extra technology for the same thing.
If George Carlin had just told me what the seven words were, I could have saved myself 40 minutes watching his show.
There are no "local politicians" in Florence. They've been ruled by the same families for centuries.
The USB-C connectors on laptops and phones can deliver 240 watts [1] in a 8.4x2.7mm connector.

12VHPWR is 8.4x20.8mm so it's got 7.7x the cross-sectional area but transmits only 2.5x the power. And 12VHPWR also has the substantial advantage that GPUs have fans and airflow aplenty.

So I can see why someone looking at the product might have thought the connector could reasonably be shrunk.

Of course, the trick USB-C uses is to deliver 5A at 48v, instead of 50A at 12v

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB-C#Power_delivery
This wasn’t true for the server side compiler jobs I was doing. Those were multithreaded af.
Great discoveries are often made when someone has the cleverness to join together multiple, seemingly unconnected domains.

I'm a layman in both QM and LLMs, and found a few of the comparisons here contrived, but it's an interesting idea nonetheless.
> That's actually not the case

I don't know where do you get the data but the latencies are surely not decreasing and 2 cycles for L1 is totally wrong. I should have perhaps been more specific that under latency I actually meant latency in terms of CPU cycles not the actual number (ns) which obviously depends on the CPU frequency.

Examining the few past generations of both Intel and AMD microarchitectures this is what I concluded. L1 is between 4 and 6 cycles. L2 on Intel is between 12 and 16 cycles whereas AMD is roughly around that but 1-2 cycles faster. L3 on AMD is ~40 cycles where L3 on Intel goes anywhere between 60 and even up to 120 cycles.

It is an engineering feat to increase the capacity of the cache without sacrificing a little bit of latency. It happens that the latency increase is sometimes less visible due to some other effects but generally speaking this is what happens.

> The main memory (DRAM) latency has been more or less similar, though.

~70ns of DRAM latency in a CPU core running @3Ghz is different than the core running at @5Ghz. Former is ~200 cycles while the latter is ~400 cycles. So, the higher the core clock is, higher the latency is in terms of CPU cycles stalled.

> It has always been important

Yes, I am aware of that and I am only trying to make a case for the parent comment since it was asking for a clarification why would it be more important today than it had been (at all) in the past.

> it's not about the latencies per se but the locality

I think it's vice versa because the actual issue we are trying to mitigate is the high DRAM latency. As a consequence it just happens that we use data locality to minimize those effects.
I think of it as an enabler that reduces my dependency on junior developers. Instead of delegating simple stuff to them, I now do it myself with about the same amount of overhead (have to explain what I want, have to triple check the results) on my side but less time wasted on their end.

A lot of micro managing is involved either way. And most LLMs suffer from a severe case of ground hog day. You can't assume them to remember anything over time. Every conversation starts from scratch. If it's not in your recent context, specify it again. Etc. Quite tedious but it still beats me doing it manually. For some things.

For at least the next few years, it's going to be an expectation from customers that you will not waste their time with stuff they could have just asked an LLM to do for them. I've had two instances of non technical CPO and CEO types recently figuring out how to get a few simple projects done with LLMs. One actually is tackling rust programs now. The point here is not that that's good code but that neither of them would have dreamed about doing anything themselves a few years ago. The scope of the stuff you can get done quickly is increasing.

LLMs are worse at modifying existing code than they are at creating new code. Every conversation is a new conversation. Ground hog day, every day. Modifying something with a lot of history and context requires larger context windows and tools to fill those. The tools are increasingly becoming the bottleneck. Because without context the whole thing derails and micromanaging a lot of context is a chore.

And a big factor here is that huge context windows are costly so there's an incentive for service providers to cut some corners there. Most value for me these days come from LLM tool improvements that result in me having to type less. "fix this" now means "fix the thing under my cursor in my open editor, with the full context of that file". I do this a lot since a few weeks.
Framework (2nd Gen) Event is live on February 25th
Here is GPT 4o in "reasoning" mode answering the question "Are LLMs capable of reasoning?"

> It depends on how you define "reasoning."

> LLMs like me can perform certain types of reasoning, such as:

> Pattern recognition & analogy – Recognizing relationships between concepts and applying similar patterns in new contexts.

> Deductive reasoning – Applying rules to specific cases (e.g., "If all humans are mortal and Socrates is a human, then Socrates is mortal").

> Inductive reasoning – Generalizing from specific examples (though often with statistical biases).

> Common-sense reasoning (to an extent) – Inferring likely outcomes based on broad training data.

> However, there are limitations:

> No true understanding – LLMs don’t "know" things like humans do; they predict based on probabilities
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> Struggles with multi-step logic – Complex reasoning that requires deep memory or long-term planning is difficult.

> Lack of real-world interaction – Without direct experience, reasoning is limited to text-based patterns.

> Confidence: 90%

> (Strong evidence suggests LLMs can perform certain types of reasoning, but they are not yet comparable to human-level reasoning.)

Would you agree with that analysis? If so, then LLMs are indeed capable of reasoning, in some ways.
It's the first page of a 5 page post/book. Make sure to check out the other 4 pages linked at the footer.
That's the key, though. The owner is not the one paying the bill most of the time, it's the tenant.

If the windows leak heat like a sieve, a cheap landlord won't care, because they have no incentive to lower energy costs.
> First, people buy the same brand they had if they were happy with it and the price is sane. That's totally reasonable in my book; and not just for cars.

This is pretty much what the person you replied to said, just in a different way.
> I didn’t start hearing your take, including the bit about “leaking to china,” in the mainstream zeitgeist until many years later.

That was one of the first things he did and the whole reason he went to Hong Kong. I, along with many others, pointed it out at that time. He stupidly believed that China would grant him asylum for leaking that information. https://archive.is/i5JTB

> Snowden was not the first Snowden, there are a handful of people who attempted to use official channels to blow the whistle on the program. Their careers were ruined and their lives destroyed.

You're talking about the phone metadata program, the only illegal program he leaked. Point me to any information showing that lives and careers were destroyed over this. There isn't any.

> He leaked an illegal program to the American people after the Supreme Court denied the ACLU a ruling on the classified program

The program that the ACLU had sued over (wiretapping Americans with suspected foreign terrorist links without a warrant) had been shut down even before Obama came into office. It didn't even exist in Snowden's leaks.
If it's a similar number of transistors on a larger die then I can believe the power consumption is good. Less dense layout probably requires less design effort and may reduce hotspots.

If Intel is getting similar performance from more transistors that could be caused by extra control logic from a 16-wide core instead of 32.
The current majority party has adopted the principle of essentially unlimited executive power with regard to federal agencies, so as far as they're concerned, their job is to support that agenda, e.g. H.R. 899: To terminate the Department of Education.
OP is one of 7 PostgreSQL core team members. That's kind of his job to massively overthink this :)
> Excel is a "no-code" system and people seem to like it.

If you've found any Excel guru that don't spend most of their time in VBA, you have a really unusual experience.
Yeah this is absolutely worthless and should never have been done, much less shown to anyone. I want the money I spent on this back.

/s
Satellite data identifies warning signs ahead of 2018 volcanic eruption, tsunami
"in order to bake a pie you must first create the universe", at some point, reaching to lower and lower levels stops being useful.
I can't be a CA for a root cert I don't own
To me it’s virtue signaling taken to an extreme. It’s so frustrating to deal with because the “lifestyle” or “thought” or whatever itself is a logical fallacy. I don’t mean believing in God, but acting against what Jesus said and believed but believing in it paradoxically.
Is Big Tech becoming more cutthroat?
That's what I wondered, you may not understand all the players. I believe the PCI standard specifies this Molex connector. Somewhere between what Nvidia ships and the power supply itself, that standard is the only common connection.
Great points. I see my journey from an offshore application support contractor to full time engineer and learning a lot along the way. Along the journey I've seen folks who held good/senior engineering roles just stagnated or moved to management role.

Industry is now large enough to have all sort of people. Growing, stagnating, moving out, moving in, laid off, retiring early, or just plain retiring etc.
Thank you for both links. I only read the linked article after following your links!
The world needs more people like her!
Today AI can generate code. Sometimes it's even correct.

AI is a useful aid to software developers, but it requires developers to know what they're doing. We need developers to know more, not less, so they can review AI-generated code, fix it when it's wrong, etc.
At some point we should just commit the AST to git and render it however it is preferred in IDE.
The fact that you don't see why is the issue. Both python and JS are very permissive and their runtime env is very good. More often than not, you're just dealing with logic bugs and malformed domain data. A kernel codebase like Linux is one where there are many motivated individual trying every trick to get the computer to do something. And you're usually dealing with leaner abstractions because general safety logic is not performant enough. It's a bit like the difference between a children playground and a construction site.
Wat.

First, I want to see numbers to back that up. New versions bring new bugs that aren't known yet, by anyone. Old versions have older, more widely known bugs. From a stability POV, sticking with the old may be good: you know how to work around the old issues. From a security POV, that's probably bad: every script kiddie has a Burp Suite plugin to exploit it.

Second, there ain't no such thing as an immune system. You can asymptotically approach zero, like you can approach the speed of light, but it would require infinite resources to reach either.
Depends on what you mean by new. None of the new features for the mature product I work on have touched it.

To the side I have had GCP work but it’s been isolated and as if I were moonlighting.
Any new style will look bad, simply because it is new to us. But you quickly get used to it.

After that, it is about minimizing errors. Leading commas minimize errors, and is a style that is portable across databases.
For folks working in bioacoustics I think it might be pretty relevant. I'm working on a project with large batches of high fidelity, ultrasonic bioacoustic recordings that need to be in WAV format for species analysis but, at the data sizes involved, FLAC is a good archive format (~60% smaller).

This release will probably be worth a look to speed the archiving/restoring jobs up.
Hi Konstantina,
I'm interested in the Software Engineer role at Kaedim. I'm about to graduate with a master's in software engineering degree in May 2025. My skills are a 90% match to your requirements and I would love to connect with you.
Leapfrog Triejoin is an example of the trenches contributing to academia and academia valuing it: https://x.com/RelationalAI/status/1836115579133939752
That’s exactly what the problem is.

I’ve done some content work using LLMs. Once I started to think about how inevitably it’ll get coupled with ad networks and how anybody can do this stuff, it made me go this isn’t good.

On the bright side, it might push us back to paper or other means of exchanging info. The cost should be prohibitive enough that it increases the quality of content. That’s very hypothetical, though. Mailers are already a direct contradiction.
Think that's more to the point. Where people watch YouTube on TV, instead of traditional channels or cable, and they are free to screw around on their smartphones. There is no telling what people are actually paying attention to, because it seems many are just running multiple devices for the sake of it. Devices are always on, then used or watched whenever something comes to mind or catches their attention.
Gee let's consider here why nobody trusts the cia.

Anyone who says otherwise is either trying to get along with another american or is simply retarded. But I repeat myself. We americans are not a terribly skeptical people and absolutely deserve what we get. Morons. Why bother complaining about fascism if we don't even bother to tear down obviously evil structures like the cia? What is the goddamn point?
In fact, I'm pretty sure this already happens and the results are exactly what you'd expect. Some of the "alternate routes" Google Maps has suggested for me in the past are almost certainly due to other people making unscheduled detours for gas or whatever, and the algorithm thinks "oh this random loop on a side street is popular, let's suggest it". And then anyone silly enough to follow the suggestion just adds more signal to the noise.
> My team decided we had to offer the same frictionless experience on Microsoft’s latest browser, Edge, which was in development at the time. After weeks of back-and-forth, the team politely and firmly rejected bundling our plugin into the new Microsoft browser. The reason? Their KPI was to minimize the download size of the browser, and helping us would not help them reach that goal.
What are you on about at this point. It’s just a rant. Buy a tape machine.
Did you consider reading either of my comments or did you just feel the immediate need to reply in an insulting manner without contributing anything?
Also many of the engineers that have developed AMD Athlon (launched in 1999), the first AMD CPU that has exceeded the performance of the contemporaneous Intel CPUs, have come from the DEC Alpha designers.
What makes you think that AI is going to produce leaner codebases? They are trained on human codebases. They are going to end up emulating that human code. It's not hard to imagine some improvement here, but my gut is there just isn't enough good code out there to train a significant shift on this.
If you're not using any weird extensions, you'll be fine. If your database is large with indexes and you're not doing it via a pg_dump/PG-restore, make sure to run a reindex as PG13 introduced index deduplication. That saved us terabytes (though cleaning index bloat probably played a role, too).
The quote you're appropriating, "When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression” doesn't really apply in this context because we're talking about actual right-wing content, which many people find offensive on its own merits.
These two predictions seem contradictory. If the AI massively improves why would they slow roll adoption?