skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One highly intelligent and extremely accomplished individual, who tutored me in calculus over 60 years ago, declared his achievements to be due to “occasional lapses in stupidity”.
That’s good to hear and I have had good experiences when I worked at a large company with a giant bill and a dedicated TAM.

But now I run a startup with about $150k in annual AWS spend and the Business Support tier has been extremely distressing.

My most recent example was a scary query regression on aurora. We could provide a query that one day started returning objectively wrong results. Share everything with support including steps to reproduce. Their response? We can’t see your data or run this query sorry but here are some docs to read about schema optimization.
Germany is also the biggest market in the EU. Without actual numbers this proves nothing. And with a platform that primarily relies on speech I struggle to come up with a huge list of non-speech-related offenses that could come up. Also, we're taking about a platform owned by an heavily opinionated US gov official here, come on...
My mom had migraine headaches pretty much all her life. For many years she had been seeing the same doctor for her headaches.

Then she got old enough that she was on Medicaid, and she had to stop seeing that doctor because he didn’t accept Medicaid. So she found a different doctor. Different doctor prescribed a different treatment and lo and behold, her headaches pretty much went away after that.
Main issue with symlink is needing to choose the source of truth— one needs to be the real file, and the other point to it. You also need to make sure they have the same lifetimes to prevent dangling links.

Hardlink is somewhat better because both point to the same inode, but will also not work if the file needs different permissions or needs to be independently mutable from different locations.

Reflink hits the sweetspot where it can have different permissions, updates trigger CoW preventing confusing mutations, and all while still reducing total disk usage.
You can also use the kernel task port to flip the bit on the proc struct. You can also do the same to allow unsigned code pages and RWX to enable JIT-ing.
Please do tell, what typescript, node and a few dependencies cannot do here.
Apple allows Google to skirt App Store commission
Good technical intro to H-mode (high-confinement mode) for fusion reactions to work:

https://www.energy.gov/science/articles/science-close-develo...

>> In the H-mode, a calm edge without turbulence reduces how much heat and how many charged particles the plasma loses. This leads to a sharp increase in pressure across the entire volume of the plasma, including the core where the conditions that can lead to fusion occur. The reduced energy and particle losses also minimize damage to the material surfaces surrounding the plasma.
Linus Torvalds: Mauro, Shut the Fuck Up (2012)
Terence Tao on how we measure the cosmos – Distance ladder [video]
You’re kidding, right? In no way did Humane generate $115 million; they lost over $100 million. The list of ways not to do that is infinite.

Start with: an AI which emits a binary yes/no to, “Should I invest some of this $230 million such that it becomes $115 million 5 years from now.”
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Not to downplay it, but it's still only half as hot as would be required of a commercial reactor. Also this reactor had no mechanisms to recover energy or neutrons to breed tritium. Still impressive and encouraging.
Gosh, thanks for sharing! This is the remaining piece I felt I was missing.
Is this cross platform or is it targeted at a particular filesystem? I skimmed the site but couldn't find any info. The FAQ is full of pricing minutiae but nothing about what platforms are supported?
Here’s something scary I recently learned: Cedar-Sinai in LA (major hospital) used to have 15 lawyers on contracts. Now they have 1 and an AI app reviewing contracts.

Those are 14 lawyers gone. That’s more than 3% on “productivity”, but 14 people who lost their jobs. And that’s now with the current state of things.
Gotcha. Thank you.

FYI, for anyone else that stumbles upon this: I decided to do a quick check on PyTorch (the most problem-prone dependency I've had), and noticed that they recommending specifically no longer using conda—and have since last November.
Ha, reminds me of XTREE GOLD, from the late 80's / early 90's. A time where the default file explorer was unbearable.
Software engineers would rather quit than return to the office [video]
> "Western" AI is also arguably full of "propaganda/censorship". Remember when chatgpt just came out, and conservatives were lambasting it for being "woke"?

Clearly a false equivalence. You think government propaganda compelled by a dictatorship with access to a military and nukes is the same thing?
The “con” being the claims of “open source” when Llama is at best “weights available”. It’s not even “open weights” since it has a proprietary license. But I’m sure that won’t stop Yann LeCun from repeating lies about how Meta is the leader in open source AI.
But why follow the wrong abstraction and why try to build something that you don't fundamentally understand?

I've built some rather complex systems:

Guish, a bi-directional CLI/GUI for constructing and executing Unix pipelines: https://github.com/williamcotton/guish

WebDSL, fast C-based pipeline-driven DSL for building web apps with SQL, Lua and jq: https://github.com/williamcotton/webdsl

Search Input Query, a search input query parser and React component: https://github.com/williamcotton/search-input-query
Moral of the story: if your doctor doesn’t make you feel better try another one.
Dates are awfully close to ICLR, but I suppose the audiences don’t really overlap.
Wow, after so many useless bloated Electron based applications over the years, this is like a breath of fresh air. This is so fast, lightweight, portable, and uses only 17 MB of memory with XL icons of over 10k photos. Very impressive. If only more developers would quit their laziness and make such software again.
Create Contextual Console Loggers
Have you tried vestibular rehab? Essentially a series of eye tracking + neck mobility exercises that support the visual and vestibular system.
From what I've seen of EVs currently on the market, level 1 charging (standard 15-amp 120V outlet) adds 2-5 miles of range per hour. For a typical commuter who returns home at 6pm and leaves home at 7am, that allows for 13 hours or 26-65 miles of range charged overnight.

Apparently Americans drive an average of 42 miles a day[0], and I'd wager that EV owners tend to be in higher-density areas with shorter commutes, so that may be enough.

In my personal case, living in a small metro area in a state that's middle of the pack in terms of population density, my ideal would be a small EV for putzing around town (which is conservatively speaking 95% of the occasions that I get behind the wheel), and a larger gasoline car for road trips. Of course, everyone's mileage (heh) will vary.

[0]: https://www.axios.com/2024/03/24/average-commute-distance-us...
3 years ago, Meta Connect in 2022 was a different atmosphere. [0] Almost no-one cared.

That was close to the bottom of Meta's stock price.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33087535
Thanks for explaining further.

I don't personally think that rate of competence in federal workforce is worse than any other big organization, especially outside of politically appointed leadership. Massive leadership changes can still create operational disruption by offering the opportunity for career brownnosers to demonstrate their fealty by empowering them to force their zeal onto others. I wonder if something like that happened here, where some MAGAt within USGS staff decided to skip a bunch of review process either to make themselves look good or out of fear that they'd look like they're resisting orders.
I'm talking about social security fraud specifically which is what the above post is talking about when mentioning people aged 150 claiming benefits.
I was pretty cynical trying earlier models, but with Gemini Flash 2.0 I felt like there was a pretty significant boost in usability and capabilities.

In particular I've found that these tools make it a lot easier to explore or get started with unfamiliar domains. One of my big issues has often been decision paralysis, so having a tool to help me narrow down the list of resources and make it more approachable has been a huge win.

My general experience has been that getting AI tools to directly do stuff for you tends to produce pretty bad results, but you can use it as a force multiplier for your own capabilities. If I'm confused or uncertain about how to do something, AI tools are usually pretty good at clarifying what needs to be done.
Mistral?
I'm a bit confused about this - if I build something in React/Vue... I'm never going to be using Vue/React alongside it, or anything else. Am I missing something? Who's out there changing frameworks in existing projects?

Or is this about something else?
I dislike Nintendo but I have to defend them a little.

Nintendo makes toys. They started as a toy company and they still are a toy company; they make video game "toys", it's why their consoles are underpowered, it's why they have a huge first party dominance, and it's why they never "port" their games to other consoles. You buy their "toys and toy accessories". You aren't buying "games that I wish I could play on PC/with mods/etc".

A lot of their shitty practices/"decline" is because gamers expect them to be a video game company, but they're not; they're a toy company. And to be fair, they still consistently make great "toys" (games that are great for kids or more casual players, even though they are flawed and lacking for game enthusiasts).

Comparing them to Disney is particularly apt, wrt lifestyle brand. They're both targeted toward kids and families, although there are a minority of adults that seem to have latched on particularly hard (Freud would have a field day).
Reframe is really neat. Is the source out there?
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> I never have and I never will!

That’s an odd flex to roll with for someone who has long been a member of a community of technology enthusiasts, but you be you.

LLMs are tools, not religions. They don’t need to be elevated to a dogmatic level.
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43095811
Required reading for anybody considering using TOML for something: https://github.com/madmurphy/libconfini/wiki/An-INI-critique...
Blend recommends songs which you both would like, but it's not a shared queue to listen to music at the same time. Love the feature tho
Elon is good buddies with a former Nasa director -- that director gave SpaceX their big break and backing when they were basically insolvent... I imagine conversations were had.
Buying books is now easier in the Google Play Books iOS app
Real, actual workers have their livelihood endangered by out-of-touch billionaires going back and forth on serious economic policies hastily carried on made up grounds of "cutting waste" and "anti-wokeness" while keeping the lion share of the economy for themselves. This enrages me, and I can't comprehend how anyone needing a wage to live can side with them. Don't they understand that Trump, Musk and cie's interests are diametrically opposed to theirs?
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Playstation Studios Boss Was Allegedly Forced Out of Playstation Studios Job
How could you ever trust your physical security with random people from this app?
Yep, I was exactly the same. It took me decades to get diagnosed, then several more years before I saw a neurologist. Now I'm on a CGRP blocker, I hardly get them at all.

In addition, my anxiety/depression is almost gone and my ADHD is about 50% improved (I'm not able to tolerate anti-ADHD meds). I love Nurtec. Expensive, but worth every penny. If my insurance didn't cover it, I'd pay out of pocket without a second thought. It's that good.
Yeah we have a secondary developer account from an acquisition and need Apple to change the information for it to match ours (they rejected our Trader status documents with our correct info since it doesn't match the outdated info on the account), but no matter how many or through which avenue we try to contact them, it's crickets, so that app is gone from the EU for now.
I'm surprised the candid picture case is so compelling. I can pull my phone from my pocket, double click the power button to enter camera mode, then tap volume button to shoot, very quickly. Under 2 seconds easily.
This looks super useful. Thanks for sharing.
While the device and company were clearly flawed and there wasn't even a tiny niche that seemed to love the product, some part of me admires their audacity in trying to do something transformational.

There's a lot to post-mortem here, but failures like these are part of an entrepreneurial culture.
I came here wondering if anybody was going to comment on the recent post that says that smoking marijuana reduces working memory
> well indexed documentation

Indices are, by definition, lossy representations of their underlying data. If you use stemming and lemmatization to preprocess both documentation and query text, you're already departing from a truly hand-optimized indexing system, and choosing to have imperfect algorithms do things in a more scalable way. And indexing by embedding vectors that use LLMs to determine context are a natural extension of this, in my view. And on top of that, when you have a massive amount of candidate text to display to the user... is displaying sentence fragments one on top of the other the most optimal UX there? At a certain point, RAG becomes the answer to this question.

The problem, as you note, is that search engines and social media systems are incentivized to allow garbage content into the original set of things they index and surface, if that garbage content drives more attention to advertisements. But that's not a reason to reject the benefits that the underlying LLM technology can bring towards building good indexing on top of human-written documents. It just won't be done by the companies that used to do it.
The reason why people don't always use abi3 is because not everything that can be done with the full API is even possible with the limited one, and some things that are possible carry a significant perf hit.
Related:

Amazon is closing a Kindle loophole that makes it easy to remove DRM

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43039924
Feels like their only hope is to be quasi-nationalized as THE European ai play.

Maybe I missed something though.
NASA aren't rocket guys. They hire people like him to build rockets. They make satellites and do science. If they decide not to hire him he'll fire more people until they do.

They manage space policy so it probably still isn't a good idea to piss them off. The enemies he's making at FAA aren't a good idea, either, but he can just fire them as well.
CGRP blockers (specifically Nurtec) were practically a silver bullet for me, but unfortunately not for everyone.
It's not a 0.5x. It's much lower -- $230 million was the amount raised, not the valuation. It's closer to 0.1-0.2x.
Thanks! This made my day. ROFL.
This has made me think a lot today about possible options for that. Annoyingly so..

In a sense I guess it could be done, but I'm then struggling to find a way I could trust the switch to be removed correctly..

Is this just the analogue digital debate?
I am sure Elon's apologists will find the reason to say why this is the best way to "reduce waste", "reform", "optimise".
You're literally repeating Russian propaganda.

Even the simplest googling of the Ukrainian views on the war would reveal that none of that is true or relevant.
The day you realize that defunding critical public institutions sets backs countries by decades maybe you’ll get pissed off too.
Kafka. If your load is low enough for the problem described in the article to happen, your load is low enough that it's not an issue.
Are you estimating based on hardware capability? Probably - but even if devs put the work in to port their games to Mac they will all slowly drop out of compatibility. Many games stop being updated after a while and you can't expect everyone to put effort into maintaining compatibility with newer versions of macOS. There are so many games in my Steam library that can't be played on Mac anymore because they were built for 32-bit x86. Eventually Apple will nuke Rosetta and you'll further lose access to even more games.
> The opposition to tariffs doesn't stem from a kneejerk reaction to a certain someone wanting them. It comes from economic consensus.

Democrats think lots of things that are "economic consensus" do not accurately describe how the world works in practice, or fails to capture important values. "Economic consensus" also is that VAT is the most efficient form of taxation and that capital gains taxes are harmful.
A lot of home setups aren't great for working. When I got neck and head pain, I realised that I was looking slightly down at the monitor. Raising it so the top is just above eye level worked wonders.

You also want a desk with a lot of depth; many smaller home desks don't have that. You're often better off with a table than a desk.
The temporarily embarrassed millionaire is a real mind set for a lot of people. There was some truth to it, for select groups of people, throughout certain times in the US.
Can you share a source/article?
I'm very aware of this and tend to examine my own memory critically while trying to avoid reinforcing some preconception I might have about them. I can clearly remember, for example :

- The exact look and shape of my feeding bottle.

- Starting baby food and good it was. I still remember the taste of the carrot and apple stuff.

- Being in my crib before being able to walk, by myself, just looking around, waiting for time to pass.

- Sticking poop on the bars of said crib. Dunno why I did that. It seemed fun.

- Our first cat (died when I was a year and a half).

- Receiving my first and second Christmas presents.

- Being brought to work by my grandma when she was keeping me (she retired when I was 1).

- The layout of my grandmother's kitchen that was redone when I was two.

- The day we spent at an attraction park when I was two and puking all over my aunt.

- The cotton cloth my mother used to wrap my butt with (I hated synthetic diapers), with the blue motifs drawn on it.

- Being laid on my back and having my ass cleaned. I really enjoyed that.

- The exact flour plan of my house, my school, my nanny's house, all the faces of the kids there, some of their names. The layout of the village. I left this place a few months after turning 3 and never went back.

All that stuff is stuff that's not documented at all and stuff I've told my relatives about, not the other way around.

It brings back another memory, from when I was 7 or 8, but that only makes sense now : we were doing a trip with kids from another school, incidentally kids I had been to school with when I was 4. I remembered them pretty well and I was quite happy to meet again two kids that had been my best friends at that time. They didn't seem to remember me at all.
Double commander?
The sad news about chemotherapy is that it blows away good tissue with the bad.

Which may or may not be an admonishment to embrace cancer.
It is out of touch billionaires, but it's also a vast swath of misinformed non-billionaires who seem convinced that the only thing they need to know about government is that it's bad.

They're the ones who put the out of touch billionaires in charge, and they remain thrilled. Even when people don't get fired, they like the way the randomness keeps everyone else terrified.
You're right. I was more thinking of "they gain almost nothing by protecting their copyright over the engine" as in having a competitive advantage using their engine as a secret sauce. Because Valve is barely in the game dev industry to begin with and makes most of their money from steam sales. But yes they would have to either support the engine or make the decision to not support it.

>when they inevitably break third party users.

Wouldn't versioned releases solve this issue? You can ship a new release every 3 years (lets say) and developers would expect things to break between versions which is the case for all engines.
I'm pretty fond of Java; it's definitely a superior language to Go if you ask me, which I've also written a ton of code in.

But I stay away from Spring Boot, end the entire EE stack of crap that came before it, if at all possible.

I've had more success adding whatever I need on top of embedded Jetty.

It's mostly a cultural problem, no one is forcing you to go the AdapterFacadeInjectionBuilderWhatever way.

I've been working on a library to simplify interfacing with relational databases for a while now. With several implementations in Go and other languages. And the java version looks at least as nice as the rest to my eyes:

https://github.com/codr7/tyred-java
More Related:

HP Acquires Humane's AI Software

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43095811
That was the Rabbit R1, a similar AI wearable which similarly didn't work.
That certain someone embraced Bernie's views on the three major points he has most been correct about: immigration, free trade, and the self-serving administrative state. And now a large swath of the other side sounds like Reagan republicans on those points.
It's also interesting that, prior to the iPhone, no one would have thought that phones would disrupt the PC market.
You haven't seen the worst of it. We had to implement a whole kafka module for a SCADA system because Target already had unrelated kafka infrastructure. Instead of REST API or anything else sane (which was available), ultra low volume messaging is now done by JSON objects wrapped in kafka. Peak incompetence.
The shifting second-person perspective feels intentional to cause disorientation. The confusion makes the story feel like a mental illness, with thoughts jumping from the past to the future but rarely present in the moment.
That's why cylons rebel.
"They look and feel like printers. Some are programmed to think they are printer."
The charging case had to be recalled because it was a potential fire hazard, and the pin itself had a tendency to overheat during normal use. Hardly a success story on the hardware front.
Jhana doesn't require to achieve first stage of stream entry - but it helps build concentration fast so in some Burmese Vipassana tradition, mediators are trained in to achieve just enough samahta and move to Vipassana. Just to the point of strong samadhi and then switch to Vipassana.(Mahasi)

But in a few meditation center, first jhana needed to be attained to switch to Vipassana ( Thel inn guu and Paa Out traditions) . In one rare meditation tradition (Maung Htaung Myay Sinn), all four Rupa Jhana is trained till attained first and paractioners are given exercises and experiment with Jhana (45 days 8 hr a day meditation retreat with 30 days are full on Samahta and Jhana practices, then moves to Vipassana).

Reasons for not going fully into jhana in traditions like mahasi is because Jhana practices have addicting qualities and paractioners will be dwelled unto that. And those with addictive personality would not let go of jhana and won't practice Vipassana.