skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Akvorado: Flow Collector, Enricher and Visualizer
I don't really care about the standardized interface.

I just want to know how you'd implement something that would load your services and dependencies from a config file, bind them altogether, distribute the load through several local VMs and make it still work if I kill the service or increase the load.

In less than 1000 lines.
Do you think they would actually litigate? They seem like different products serving entirely different markets so I am not sure that the trademark infringement claim is very defensible. And how do they prove damages?
Oh you mean like FSD and other Musk promises?
YMMV, but not funneling money to the oligarchs is a good thing for society, in my opinion. This is about the only way we can vote.
Foxes can, and a brief search suggests cats may also?
Maybe in the 1900s. Not any more
> Are they to blame because they managed that?

Do you understand that the ends don't always justify the means? Do you understand that not trading security and privacy for convenience means putting up with inconvenience? My complaints are warranted because yes, they are to blame, no, I do not want to be forced to use their service.

And when the company is eventually sold and financial transaction data harvested (whether against the wishes of the founders or not, loopholes exist), apologists will turn around and blame the new company instead of Plaid, who opened the door for them.

> Or you can create your own middleman service if you like and everybody will appreciate your Plaid alternative.

I think the financial tech market is rapidly evolving, and I'll just wait. If I need financial automation and a service like Stripe is not available, I can always use a cryptocurrency which respects my autonomy and privacy.
> No, but only because I used other backend languages and frameworks for that, because there are much better languages suited to those tasks than JS.

Good luck writing highly interactive apps backend-only! (Like Figma or Google Docs). Even with frameworks like Phoenix and runtimes like WebAssembly, you still need a lot of Javascript to get there.

> Or just use JQuery and some modules

This is incredibly ignorant :)
jQuery solves maybe 10% of the problems I listed, and does that imperatively, so you get in the exact same issues, but with a marginally better interface to the DOM. Which is not even true nowadays, as the js DOM interface got a lot better.

> The fact that "vanilla js" even exists as a term demonstrates how pernicious this fear has become - there is no "vanilla x" any other language.

Wait, do you normally write Java with no frameworks? Handle request / responses / queues / threads from scratch?
Wouldn't it be easier to just interact directly with their web interface through an automated browser?
Exactly the same for me: the major breakout success was having ChatGPT teach me how to use pandas. It really shone as an interactive manual with worked examples.

Taking the training wheels off isn’t something I’ve really nailed though: for example, I keep coming back with the same questions about how to melt and pivot. I can self diagnose as this showing I didn’t really spend enough time understanding the answers the first time around.
> what you missing is that it's not about literal Nazis

Although Musk gave a Nazi-style salute twice and Nazi flag bearers are not chucked out of MAGA/Trump rallies.
Bonhoeffer's Theory of Stupidity (1943) [pdf]
My subscription to Asimov's has been DRM free for a while.

Interesting story though. First they were on the Kindle store, and I was a subscriber by convenience.

Then when Amazon stopped handling individual subscriptions they moved to some solution similar to this one, requiring an app - which I ignored.

Later they finally switched to letting you download drm-free epubs from their site. Suddenly I'm a subscriber again :)
Ok, figured it out chatgpt and your comment was enough
> But inference latency just doesn’t seem to matter yet, so the market doesn’t care.

This is a very strange statement to make. They are acting like inference today happens with freshly spun up VMs and model access over remote networks (and their local switching could save the day). It’s actually hitting clusters of hot machines with the model of choice already loaded into VRAM.

In real deployments, latency can be small (if implemented well), and speed is comes down to the right GPU config for the model (why fly doesn’t offer).

People have built better shared resource usage inference systems for Loras (openAI, Fireworks, Lorax) - but it’s not VMs. It’s model aware, the right hardware for the base model, and optimizing caching/swapping the Loras.

I’m not sure the Fly/VM way will ever be the path for ML. Their VM cold start time doesn’t matter if the app startup requires loading 20GB+ of weights.

Companies like Fireworks are working fast Lora inference cold starts. Companies like Modal are working on fast serverless VM cold starts with a range of GPU configs (2xH100, A100, etc). These seem more like the two cloud primitives for AI.
The body generates glucose in an high protein diet via gluconeogenesis.

You'll still have glucose spikes with high protein.

That's why you don't feel satiated.

Eat fat.
That seems likely from my point of view, but is there evidence that that is what happened?
I think its different - you're keeping track of something, whereas some creatures can evidently just feel the earths magnetic field.
I just want to add that many desk jobs do the equivalent of writing boilerplate code. Copying from calendar A to calendar B is a real 70k/yr job I’ve seen. And from what I can tell, being a human shell script + representing that function (responsible face and name) characterizes lower tier white collar jobs.

So the mere existence of “worthless” churn in your job isn’t evidence that you aren’t solving business problems that are worthy of pay.

To put it another way. Most jobs exist to make a problem go away for an executive.

I understand you are also getting at the ethos of good engineering and encouraging this person to take pride in their work.

> you've unwittingly settled into a role as an technician getting paid highly because of ephemeral demand bubble rather than the valuable engineer you might imagine yourself to be.

I have not seen this put so succinctly and this cannot be repeated enough.
> What interests me is this: it seems obvious that we’re going to do more and more “closed-loop” LLM agent code generation stuff. By “closed loop”, I mean that the thingy that generates code is going to get to run the code and watch what happens when it’s interacted with.

Well, at least we have a credible pathway into the Terminator or Matrix universes now...
for both Booking and AirBnB make sure to read recent reviews. Booking especially likes to default to "relevant" reviews (which are always glowing reviews from five years ago)
Yes, I am building a Perfect Language Model
ExBoxing: Bridging the divide between tag boxing and NaN boxing
> They can spit out a lot of potential options for a country or region.

If you're going to all the crowded tourist-y places, sure. It's a struggle to make them suggest anything off the beaten path for obvious reasons
[...]

> But there is something fundamentally different about talking with a bot as opposed to a person. A person can be a friend. An AI cannot be a friend, despite how people might treat it or react to it. AI is at best a tool, and at worst a means of manipulation. Humans need to know whether we’re talking with a living, breathing person or a robot with an agenda set by the person who controls it. That’s why robots should sound like robots.

> You can’t just label AI-generated speech. It will come in many different forms. So we need a way to recognize AI that works no matter the modality. It needs to work for long or short snippets of audio, even just a second long. It needs to work for any language, and in any cultural context. At the same time, we shouldn’t constrain the underlying system’s sophistication or language complexity.

> We have a simple proposal: all talking AIs and robots should use a ring modulator.

I don't necessarily agree, but it reminded me of why electric cars still have engine sounds.
That's nice but I was looking more for a simple implementation of the concept from first principles.

I mean an understanding from the view of the internals and not so much the user perspective.
I have been city shopping for some time, exactly to answer this question for myself. I have seen most of Europe and some asian countries.

So far, my top 3 are: Japan, Israel and UK. Then Ireland, The Netherlands, Switzerland.

However, I haven't been to some of my potential candidates yet: USA, Canada, NZ, Australia, Singapore, Malta
Tried it on 3 random videos I watched, and the results were... mostly good, albeit mixed.

On the one hand, it got my video about a Mario & Luigi: Brothership glitch dead right, immediately listing where you'd need to die to get an item early and what you'd get out of it.

It also did an okay job summarising a Zelda dungeon analysis video by someone I'm subscribed to, with some info on why that dungeon was well-designed that clearly came from the video.

Unfortunately, it did a poor job at summarising a video about plagiarism in the YouTube speedrunning essay space, associating the problem with smaller creators rather than the person the video was about and leaving out far too many details to be useful.

This seems to confirm my assumptions about how an AI summariser would work in general; if the original media is a straightforward piece about one easily understandable topic, then it'll do fine and work about as well as a human would. If it's a longer piece with multiple points backed by various examples, then it'll struggle to summarise it in a way that makes sense.
With no memory protection a wayward process could easily overwrite the schedulers data structures, and probably hang the system.
Not just below market rate… my understanding is a number of DOGE “employees” are actually volunteers.
Canadians hurt by this will find sincerity and sympathy among the Americans who still have shame. But as a lens on Trump’s negotiating maneuvers, markets are starting to price in his impotence:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43057698
Currently getting a 502 error when trying to access fly.io
Hi Olivier. Frenchie here. Thank you very much for this, I'm always looking for this kind of solutions for the same reason : go straight to the point with multiple points of view. My go to website for this used to be 68k.news but links are broken now and it make it almost unusable. Will give this new website a try, that looks very nice ! Well done !

Maybe you could make the source a little bit more easier to see and put it just under the title ? This is an important parameter for news imho.
Noaa imposes limits on scientists, sparking concerns over global forecasts
The last time Democrats tried to peacefully secede it didn’t end up so well for them.
They're getting way, way better at responding in the negative when they don't know something or when asked nonsense questions. The original LLaMA and variants would happily spout some completely fictitious backstory if asked about a random character name, but 3.3 is pretty good about just saying 'nope I don't know who that is'.
They pay affiliates 10%, it is only indie bookstores who get 30%.
tbf to GP, in some cultures dogs are abhorred.
There was also, of course, this: https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/15/23599072/microsoft-ai-bin...
How about "pingui"? :)
The founder of Viator had an interesting take on this in an interview (How I Built This [0]).

The gist is that the people who deeply research and plan, they create this perfect vision of the trip in their head. When you actually go on the trip, things can go wrong; weather is bad, destination was crowded, you got sick, etc. But years later, the perfect version of the trip and the actual version of the trip get mixed up in your memories. People who didn't plan, didn't have this "idealized" version imprinted.

I find this to be true so my spouse and I plan our trips meticulously and research everything.

We also capture a detailed log of our trips. And I think this combination really helps to highlight and reinforce the good memories while letting the not so good ones fade.

[0] https://wondery.com/shows/how-i-built-this/episode/10386-via...
Last time I stayed in a property booked through Airbnb, their translation feature already changed the street name in key pickup location’s address on one French street to another French street (still in French), when translating from French. I’m paranoid enough to check the source language, but that could have been a huge trouble.

Staying there was a wonderful opportunity which probably hadn’t realised without Airbnb, or would have been unreachable to foreigners in some national holiday rental service, but it still is too early to generally ditch customer service and known processes. I have stayed around 90% of nights in hotels and hostels during my travels, the rest being Airbnb-style rentals, and I plan to keep it that way for a multitude of reasons.
> Isn't the IRS on the chopping block? I know they killed the free tax filing feature for citizen. I cannot keep track anymore.

The IRS is mentioned in Project 2025's chapter on Treasury:

* https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_CHA...

See "TAX ADMINISTRATION" section. Some points with-in that:

> Doubling the IRS? The Inflation Reduction Act contains a radical $80 billion expansion of the IRS—enough to double the size of its workforce.34 Unless Congress reverses this policy, the IRS will become much more intrusive and impose still greater costs on the American people.

[…]

> Management. The IRS has approximately 81,000 employees.36 Of those, only two are presidential appointments—the Commissioner and the Chief Counsel.37 As a practical matter, it is impossible for these two officials to overcome bureau- cratic inertia and to implement policy changes that the IRS bureaucracy wants to impede. That is why, notwithstanding decades of sound and fury, almost nothing has changed at the IRS.

On the second point, "Management": who doesn't / wouldn't want more political apparatchiks with-in the tax system?

As for the second point: the IRS has a resource problem (partly due to retirements), and needs to hire a bunch of folks now to be able to train them and pass on institutional knowledge:

> “When we hear 87,000 agents, it sounds like a horrifying army of people. But it’s what they need to maintain, because people are exiting in volumes,” says Robert Cordasco, a certified public accountant and founder of Cordasco & Co. in Savannah, Georgia. “I don’t know how much it adds as much as it gets us to the status quo.”

* https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/31/irs-is-not-hiring-an-army-of...

* https://www.journalofaccountancy.com/news/2024/jun/expert-wa...

A story from before the funding bump:

> Congress asked the IRS to report on why it audits the poor more than the affluent. Its response is that it doesn’t have enough money and people to audit the wealthy properly. So it’s not going to.

* https://www.propublica.org/article/irs-sorry-but-its-just-ea...
Yes, but I think it's also true that LLMs are acting as a force multiplier to the underlying effect you describe.

Something like (my apologies to maths for the abuse) LLMs are adding one to the exponent of the adoption feedback cycle.
Why would anyone use an AI trip planner? If I go for a vacation, planning it and deciding what not to plan is a part of the joy of doing it.

Though a big problem at the moment is manipulation of online reviews and recommendations; and as far as I can tell AI is making that worse.
Maybe tell him that a study visa requires a blocked bank account with EUR 11,904 as proof of funding https://www.study-in-germany.de/en/plan-your-studies/require... so closer to INR 10,84,286.
Lay off the special K bud.
Because they make their money from showing ads to human eyeballs and not to AIs.
- "mainstream us-left politics" does not represent the left, it represents the mainstream"

I'm not following you; the context is someone is trying to get someone *fired from their job* for using this language.
> Auditing big whales is often not the most efficient use of resources because their taxes are a) much more complicated, and so more expensive to audit and b) more likely to have been done by a team of competent lawyers, so even though they're engaged in all kinds of shenanigans, the shenanigans are legal and there is no money to be had by auditing them.

For "x" hours of work, the big whales can also potentially bring in a lot more money than a bunch of small minnows.

Before it got a funding bump, the IRS went after minnows because of resource constraints:

> Congress asked the IRS to report on why it audits the poor more than the affluent. Its response is that it doesn’t have enough money and people to audit the wealthy properly. So it’s not going to.

* https://www.propublica.org/article/irs-sorry-but-its-just-ea...
That's yet to be seen. Going for a limited government would require closing a lot of these agencies down, that requires congress.

If the fear of fascism raised by some is accurate, it seems more likely we'll see these agencies gutted and rebuilt as whatever the Trump administration wants them to be instead. No smaller government, just a different one.
About these DOGE people, I'll be more interested to see the next Democrat DoJ filing criminal charges against them all. I expect they'll each spend life in prison in some form, especially Felon Musk.
He offered 20k he didn't give 20k.
Well then banks should offer a proper API with tokens and permissions.

What's that? They don't? Guess I'll just have to give Plaid my password then. Stupid banks.

btw this is the exact same way Facebook got people to migrate off MySpace.
I think it would be nice if there was documentation to explain how this works.
Does it mean I can compile Java Bytecode to WASM?
Imposing memory safety in C while not rewriting to Rust [pdf]
Take a large context frontier model. Upload 200k tokens of code for each query. Ask about what code pattern you want it to highlight for you. Works better than any other system, but costs token on API services.
ChatGPT spending its idle cycles browsing Reddit is a funny image
> Why would anyone use an AI trip planner?

Because not everyone will enjoy what you do? It’s not some secret, I still know people who use travel agents for the same reason, others still who stick to cruising precisely because they dont want to think or plan, they just want to do.

Mystery solved.
People usually get a reality check when blurt out misinformation in conversation - they get tested in school and on the job on whether what they think they've learned is actually true or works. OTOH an LLMs don't currently have any ability to test their "knowledge" and learn from the results. I think that's currently the both biggest problem and the biggest difference.
Just a warning, the UK has major problems with anti-social behaviour and youth crime in many places. The police do very little about to stop it.
You could define these basic shapes as TikZ pictures. If you reuse them often, you could abstract them into some package.
You don’t need any of that now that we have uv (https://github.com/astral-sh/uv)
Everything should be a curated feed of slop. Even your travels.
In the deprecation blog released by the React team, they emphasized on using frameworks built on top of React which do things in their own opinionated way. I don't know if it's good or bad, but too much reliance on a framework can sometimes feel restrictive because you cannot do anything outside of which your framework allows you to.

That's why, for building small React applications, I would consider letting go of the overhead of frameworks and start with a tool like Vite, do routing with React Router, manage complex state with Redux Toolkit or Zustand, and implement data fetching with something like React Query (Tanstack Query).
I prefer to scrape their Android app.
The problem is not that the tools exist, or that complexity exists. The problem is that the community view, enforced by various incentives and supported by the creators of these tools, creates a situation where technology choices are driven by what sounds good or is trendy rather than solving the problem at hand in the most effective way.

Technology choices are institutional decisions. They are reached largely via defensibility to non-technologists, to whom (and indeed to most technologists) boils down to appeals to authority rather than to reason.

Nobody is trying to stop this, and indeed many are trying to increase it so they can sell products with more features that virtually none of their customers need.

Blogs, influencers and educational platforms push what is new so that they have more content.

All of this is self reinforcing and we suffer because of it.
This is awesome! I would love to have JVM running on the WASM server side
> If it's a longer piece with multiple points backed by various examples, then it'll struggle to summarise it in a way that makes sense

I've found the same problem with humans too, so it's not like an improvement over humans.
Why I Dislike PowerPoint (At least the way it's used in some large companies)
A pretty good summary:

> Since 1783 and the end of the Revolution, United States society has struggled with the idea of who should serve in the armed forces, and why. The arguments are usually entirely unconnected with the realities of military service and instead focus on social norms, or the perception that the military is being used as a vehicle of social change. It is expediency of the dire hour which usually causes Americans to stop wringing their hands and realize that strength lies in diversity.

(The article is very U.S.-centric, but "who fights, in what roles and circumstances?" was a regular issue back when building pyramids was a trendy new thing.)
Man steps back politely until he's able to politically grandstand about it - News at 11
> NVIDIA.. just reimplemented the same thing in Cloud Hypervisor.

Was that recent, with MIG support for GPGPU partitioning? Is there a public mailing list thread or patch series for that work?

Nvidia has a 90-page deployment doc on vCS ("virtual compute server") for RedHat KVM, https://images.nvidia.com/content/Solutions/data-center/depl...
It is, sadly. Through the entire chain of custody.

Of the many things I despise in the industry, market data and connectivity costs are near the top. It’s a fully captured market, and customers don’t have a choice when the producer decides to raise prices.
Surprisingly Quick (2016)
Wishful thinking. Even in a world where the US wants to (and will be allowed to) vote democrats in power again, they have proven themselves incapable of bringing GOP criminal operatives to justice. They delay and ponder whether it would be a bad look or set a bad precedent. Mostly they just don't have the will.
Things like Google's project Astra are starting to be able to see stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU2lUU5vURg&t=367s

Similar tech in the latest Gemini I think.
That's because they've decided what the problem is before any evidence. They're not looking for problems, they're looking for the evidence to prove they were right.