skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't really matter. Fiber is unequivocally better than satellite. We should not be optimizing for "oh hey starlink exists, fuck rural customers they can just use that" that is the situation we have been in forever with Hughes.

There is no reason to not have fiber crisscrossing every county in our nation.
Even when I feel this, 90% of any novel thing I'm doing is still old gruntwork, and Claude lets me speed through that and focus all my attention on the interesting 10% (disclaimer: I'm at Anthropic)
I'm missing something, how does giving employees a path to equity prevent them from having other savings and investments?
OK then show me a model that can answer honestly and correctly about whether or not it knows something.
Do income taxes on the 60th percentile earner completely kill their incentive to earn an income?

Then why would ensuring the same effective tax rate on the 99th percentile kill their incentive?
Sounds like ireland or wherever their tax haven is might make some real savings from this
You mean how the Unix standard tools on Mac are way behind Linux?
Fedaid.info – Building Bridges Between Federal Workers and AI
At this rate, Texas is going to go the way of it's hat and ban "woke energy" like solar and wind. [0]

[0] https://heatmap.news/plus/the-fight/spotlight/renewable-ener...
Build on top of stolen code, no less. HN hates to hear it but LLMs are a huge step back for software freedom because as long as they call it "AI" and as long as politicians don't understand it, it allows companies to launder GPL code and reuse it without credit and without giving users their rights.
ReinerSCT says "[ Fehler ] Code enthält ungülige Zeichen!" which the internet informs me is "code contains invalid characters"
If the AI found a needle in a haystack, that isn't bad, is it?
Pac-MANN diagnoses early-stage pancreatic cancer with 85% accuracy
it does seem disingenuous for something without intelligence to be called intelligence
In case the other responses to your question are a little difficult to parse, and to answer your question a little more directly:

- Usually, you will only get analytic answers for simple questions about simple distributions.

- For more complicated problems (either because the question is complicated, or the distribution is complicated, or both), you will need to use numerical methods.

- This doesn't necessarily mean you'll need to do many simulations, as in a Monte Carlo method, although that can be a very reasonable (albeit expensive) approach.

More direct questions about certain probabilities can be answered without using a Monte Carlo method. The Fokker-Planck equation is a partial differential equation which can be solved using a variety of non-Monte Carlo approaches. The quasipotential and committor functions are interesting objects which come up in the simulation of rare events that can also be computed "directly" (i.e., without using a Monte Carlo approach). The crux of the problem is that applying standard numerical methods to the computation of these objects faces the curse of dimensionality. Finding good ways to compute these things in the high-dimensional case (or even the infinite-dimensional case) is a very hot area of research in applied mathematics. Personally, I think unless you have a very clear physical application where the mathematics map cleanly onto what you're doing, all this stuff is probably a bit of a waste of time...
You've got to start somewhere :)
Some part of me thinks they are billing an overbudget here to report that they actually didn't need to spend that much so that they can beat lower guidance (same play for MS, Google, Meta). We've heard that actually training these models doesn't cost even a billion dollars.
You can raise US company taxes and capital gains tax a lot before the US stops being a low-tax country.

You’re not wrong, of course, about how every tax percentage point matters. But Americans arguing that their taxes are too high is never not hilarious.
Humans have the same vulnerability

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive
Somewhat related Trump unveils 'merit-based' immigration policy plan (71 points, 2019, 109 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19939538
From Christchurch. I was attempting to take the mick out of myself actually. I'm so humble.

Opinions on language are often subconscious status signaling. And too often people incorrect other people with the pretentions of displaying intelligence but actually displaying ignorance (oooooo judgy!). I fight the tendency within myself.

We end up with a half-assed attempt to be cultured for subconscious reasons, and it is often unappreciated by others.

I have become a weird rotator.

> Peking

My examples are Cristóbal Colón (Christophorus Columbus) and Pirata Drake (I didn't understand who it was when I first heard it). I've wondered how English names get mashed in Asian languages (especially Mandarin).

Did you notice the Wikipedia entry:

there is also widespread spoken use of the term in the opposite sense to refer denigratingly to elites that is common among middle-class and lower income people in Australia, ...

That calls to my love of the antipodes and I fear I'm going to rewire my brain to discorrect myself.
Have there been any updates to Claude 3.5 Sonnet pricing? I can't find that anywhere even though Claude 3.7 Sonnet is now at the same price point. I could use 3.5 for a lot more if it's cheaper.
It just might be the simplest sorting algorithm ever. But it's still just an unoptimized insertion sorter, and it's not novel. One would often come across this in computer books from the 80s teaching basic programming concepts and techniques in, well, BASIC.
Fabulous ... thanks. I've bookmarked this bit of the thread so I can come back and check it.

Cheers!
It's startup culture speak to describe something that is unique and impossible/hard to copy for competitors.

I think (hope) that 20wenty was being cheeky and playing along the all-too-common vibe that every project presented on HN needs to become financially successful or else it's a waste of time.
"<insert semi-fact taken out of context regarding something you don't know about>

We are fixing this."
Feature request: Please add an endpoint that is by stock ticker (e.g. "https://corporate.watch/AAPL", as some companies do their financial reporting on a different calendar, and it would be nice to reference with respect to their "datetime zone".
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43155825
The newborn US imposed a ton of tariffs specifically to escape British control of industry
No, Alexa is only good to interrupt you randomly when you're watching TV.
Chrome dead for many as Google disqualifies its browser as a suitable uBlock Origin host.
Brain stimulation could treat anxiety in people with Parkinson's, scientists say
DL-enabled generalized inverse design of multi-port RF and sub-THz passives&IC
I think you’ve missed the point. This isn’t actually meant to be useful. It’s commentary on the inane nature of corporate milestones.
Kudos on getting your project from conception to the finish line!

The concept of having to interact with the natural world before being allowed to interact with the social media world is interesting and this is perhaps the most interesting implementation of that.

Personally I find it's rewarding to flex the "self restraint muscle" by stopping myself from doomscrolling rather than relying on technology to do that for me.
I'm in the middle of a particularly nasty refactor of some legacy React component code (hasn't been touched in 6 years, old class based pattern, tons of methods, why, oh, why did we do XYZ) at work and have been using Aider for the last few days and have been hitting a wall. I've been digging through Aider's source code on Github to pull out prompts and try to write my own little helper script.

So, perfect timing on this release for me! I decided to install Claude Code and it is making short work of this. I love the interface. I love the personality ("Ruminating", "Schlepping", etc).

Just an all around fantastic job!

(This makes me especially bummed that I really messed up my OA awhile back for you guys. I'll try again in a few months!)

Keep on doing great work. Thank you!
9th Circuit upholds Elizabeth Holmes and Sunny Balwani convictions [pdf]
Maybe they need to add the option of touching cactus or sand?
Isn't this rehashing the disrupt-vs-reform issue? I guess I am concerned that people are surprised every time someone like Ellison does it.

Personally, I think it's laziness - too lazy to plan it out better, to learn what you are dealing with, to find outcomes that benefit someone other than yourself.

But there is something to be said for disruption, and understanding it won't be perfect immediately but can be improved beyond the current situation.

It's sort of like overthrowing a dictatorship and replacing it with democracy - the first few years are tough, but the future goes far beyond any dictatorship (it's called, in some places, a J curve).

But that doesn't excuse the laziness in any way, or that often these people do it for only their own benefit.

[edited]
Claude Code is super popular internally at Anthropic. Most engineers like to use it together with an IDE like Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code, Zed, Xcode, etc. Personally I usually start most coding tasks in Code, then move to an IDE for finishing touches.
I didn't but I grew up on a whole range of IBM-PC CGA/EGA games, most are ported bootable disks. It was sad that it did not lead me into an IT career until very late. I guess I would be much more interested if my father taught me game programming instead of competitive programming. To this day I hate pure algorithms and data structure classes (but I'm perfect fine if I need to learn it based on projects).

Some memorable games:

- Bigtop (I realized a few months ago this was a Michael Abrash game!)

- Sopwith

- Frogger

- Digger

- Alley Cat

- Moon patrol

- Jumpman

- Galaxia

- Paratroopers

- Evolution (This was one of the more interesting games where players play different life forms)

- Bushido (ninjas spawn at the edge of the room while spiders try to hit you from the top)

- Zaxxon

- Lode runner (I found out there is a level editor in it)

There are more but these are the most memorable. TBH I was bad with these action games so rarely got past first few levels. I didn't even know the shortkeys so had to try them out.
No changes to Claude 3.5 Sonnet pricing despite the new model.

https://www.anthropic.com/pricing#anthropic-api
This is the time of rewriting unwritten rules. As someone who spent about 18 years working in restaurants I can tell you that as long as the thing can actually do the thing such that I'm successfully able to trade food for money I wouldn't care if it was an AI and on a busy day I might not even notice.
deftype IS a Java class, it's not compiled into something else. What is a Clojure function? A Clojure function is a Java class. Clojure is a compiled language, so it does check types, just like Java check types.

So if you use defprotocol and deftype for every domain objects in your code, your code won't compile if there's a type error. Try it.

BTW, that's the way many Clojure libraries are implemented. These libraries rely on dispatch on type to work, so they are taking advantage of the type checking.

Of course, you will say, "oh, clojure is not normally AOT, so it's not dong the checks.", but that's another issue. The issue at hand is this: can you write Clojure such that types are checked at compile time. The answer is YES.

The compiler may run only when you run the program, that's a different issue. You are confusing these two issues.

If you want a separate compile stage, then basically you are already excluding runtime compilation, i.e. you are arguing against runtime compilation. So it's not really about typing, but about how you want to run the program. Isn't it? You want AOT for everything, you don't want runtime compilation. That's it. It has nothing to do with types.
Well there goes my evening
Anthropic is back and cementing its place as the creator of the best coding models—bravo!

With Claude Code, the goal is clearly to take a slice of Cursor and its competitors' market share. I expected this to happen eventually.

The app layer has barely any moat, so any successful app with the potential to generate significant revenue will eventually be absorbed by foundation model companies in their quest for growth and profits.
So, like a tariff?
Trump administration threatens tariffs for any nation that dares to tax Big Tech
It's far simpler than that. Ever gated community I've ever visited, press any digit 4 times. You're in. The only exception is community with a security guard. The guy obviously isn't just going to let some guy not on the guest list in
Interesting take. Have you benchmarked models on your own data? Cause at this point everything is contaminated so I find it impossible to tell what proper sota is. Also - most folks still just use openai.
Last time I checked, reranking always performs better than pure vector search. And to my knowledge it's still the superior fusion method for keyword and vector results.
> It is kind of an odd chasm.

It not an odd chasm, it's a wrong (and fake) chasm.

If you bring in a bit of (proper) engineering and some common sense it's easy to determine there's a threshold under which it makes sense to pay a PAAS and above which it makes sense to pay an SRE and look at managing infrastructure yourself.

Engineering is not a matter of what side to pick and what belief-system to adopt. Engineering is essentially all about trade-offs.
Even the best LLMs today are just junior devs with a lot of knowledge. They make a lot of the same mistakes junior devs would do. Even the responses, when you point out those mistakes, are the same.

If anything, it's a tool for junior devs to get better and spend more time on the architecture.

Using AI code without fully understanding it (ie operated by a non-programmer) is just recipe for disaster.
For me too. It's both cultural and generational, I guess. It's pretty hard to find references that are widely understood. One usually writes from one's own frame of reference; knowing what others know isn't easy. Just like I don't know the names of Saturday Night Live hosts (something that slowed me down in an NYT puzzle recently), a puzzle maker in New York has a hard time imagining the things I do know about (in this case) US culture.

Across ages might be a bit easier, because there's more material at hand in your own language, but I do notice a considerable distance between me and my daughter in all kinds of knowledge. E.g., I haven't keep up with pop since ages.

But it's a nice, and nerdy, game format.
every week I search at least once “which week is it” — kudos :)
Love this.

It could look more awful-corporate though.
An interesting challenge for sex robot makers will be to leap beyond the uncanny valley. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
This is a clever demo, but why on earth would anyone want to use a system like this?
You can get your HN profile analyzed by it and it's pretty funny :)

https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/

I'm using this to test the humor of new models.
"We" wasn't big government. It was a million homeowners who decided that the neighborhood they moved into should be frozen in amber forever. Everyone wants housing to be cheap but also for their property values to rise onto infinity. They push back against any attempt to change this and then complain about the inevitable results.
Your claim that a symmetric two player game always results in a draw is what I was replying to. That is only true for a strictly determined game.

As far as chess is concerned, it's unknown what perfect play yields, but if a round of chess consists of playing white once and playing black once, then a perfect game of chess is guaranteed to do no worse than a draw as you say.

The term GTO is used exclusively for poker, you won't find that term used for any other game, gambling or otherwise. I can see how the mixing of games and terminology could result in me misinterpreting what you meant though.

>In heads up poker, GTO is worst case zero EV. Obviously this does not mean that the worst case in a single hand is a $0 payout - that is a fairly absurd straw man.

The strawman is thinking that if EV is zero or even positive, then you only need to worry about a single hand or even a few hands.

On the contrary EV can positive or even infinite and yet you can still be guaranteed to lose in the long run due to variance:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion
thanks spulyo
The hobby kernel I work on is only 68KiB in size, and won't work with most von Neumann machines. Probably a waste of time, but a fun odd architecture given the relative simplicity. =3
No and No. It's not about the complexity of it or being any worse/better than K8s.

It's about the endless bugs and regressions and laundry list of stupid problems caused by inadequate processes by OpenStack developers.

For example, let's say you're running Cinder v3. Cinder 3.59. You want to get the volumes that you have attached to an instance, so you curl the API:

/cinder/v3/<instance id>/attachments. You get a 404.

You get a 404 because you didn't pass this header: "OpenStack-API-Version: volume 3.27". Because Cinder defaults to Cinder 3.01 behavior even when you're running 3.59. Attachments were only added in 3.27. So even though you're trying to curl a route that wouldn't even exist in 3.01 and you're running a version clearly later than 3.27, the API responds as if it's Cinder 3.01 unless you specifically tell it to do otherwise.

And this is just one of the laundry list of stupid situations that I can remember off the top of my head.

When the thing isn't otherwise failing all the time.
I get this as well, to the point where I created a specific project for brainstorming without code — asking for concepts, patterns, architectural ideas without any code samples. One issue I find is that sometimes I get better answers without using projects, but I’m not sure if that’s everyone experience.
It's better to be a weed company landlord than an actual weed company
Hey thanks so much! <3
How many novel things does a developer do at work as a percentage of their time?
Hi Boris,

Would it be possible to bring back sonnet 2024 June?

That model was the most attentive.

Because we lost that model this release a value loss for me personally.
I lose a little more will to live each time someone smugly reminds us that the fiscal year actually started in February or whatever the fuck. God dammit can we just have one CALENDAR. It’s okay I know you need to close the finances or whatever, but why can’t that just end in January and start again in February, instead of creating this dumb second year for ourselves.

You know what it is? A leaky abstraction. Implementation details of finance leaking into something as fundamentally basic as the calendar for the entire rest of the company. NO!!!
Desktop Linux is right here, desktops Linux has always been here!

I don't understand why people complain about Apple neglecting developers when desktop Linux provides a superior experience aside from the rare times you need to compile an iOS/Mac specific application.
>outside the public domain

public domain is a legal term meaning something like "free from copyright or license restrictions"

I believe in this thread people mean not that but "published and likely part of the training corpus"
https://www.folklore.org/Whats_A_Megaflop.html
For those in quant finance, how much of this is useful in your day to day?
Link between social media and depression stronger in teen girls than boys
It's more precise to think of unit as an empty tuple. A tuple is like an ad-hoc struct without names for the fields, so `(int, string)` is like `struct MyTuple { int a; string b; }`. An empty tuple would be `()` (which is the syntax for unit in many languages), meaning `struct MyTuple {}`. If you think about it, that's about the closest you can get to "nothing" without invoking type system handwavium (like void, which is basically "unit without the good parts but that can also mean anything").

You can do clever stuff with it, for example `HashMap<string, ()>` is practically identical to `HashSet<string>` (depending on how clever the compiler is, possibly actually identical).
I think 8 was a release purely focused on performance, with some big improvements. Comparing 3.4 is kinda unfair.. You were fast with the tradeoff of half your data missing half the time
I think I had it one major release off. It was probably the gtk3 era. I read comments on the mailing list that you basically shouldn't rely on Win32 support.

You're right that gdk2 ramped up Win32 support, I remember that now.
California's housing crisis is a result of small-c conservatives wanting their property values to rise forever. Prop 13 and it's consequences have been a disaster for the state.
Seems broken? Getting

> An error occurred in the Server Components render. The specific message is omitted in production builds to avoid leaking sensitive details. A digest property is included on this error instance which may provide additional details about the nature of the error.
Hi Boris, love working with Claude! I do have a question—is there a plan to have Claude 3.5 Sonnet (or even 3.7!) made available on ca-central-1 for Amazon Bedrock anytime soon? My company is based in Canada and we deal with customer information that is required to stay within Canada, and the most recent model from Anthropic we have available to us is Claude 3.
We have used claude almost exclusively since 3.5 ; we regularly run our internal benchmark (coding) against others, but it's mostly just a waste of time and money. Will be testing 3.7 the coming days to see how it stacks up!
Ellison's purchase of the island also included several resort hotels and homes. It's likely the income from those does a lot to cover his $500 million loss in farming. (It's curious the article says nothing about his yield from that side of the island.)

In the end, it's likely that Ellison's grand farming enterprise on a luxury resort island was always just a promotional stunt and was never intended to be sustainable or profitable. His strategy was to employ none of the resources essential to any business' success, like knowing your market or hiring staff who know even the basics of the trade (farming). Instead he hires supercomputer architect Danny Hillis to reinvent agriculture? Sure. What could go wrong?
H2 electrolysis cost understated 60 to 300 percent
EU policy projections on hydrogen possibly based on fundamentally incorrect economic projections.

It would appear these are at the overall project subsidization level, and we all know the costs projected in governmental procurement are almost always lowballed.
So that means the government is taking more than 1/5 of all the money generated by the US. That’s crazy and no wonder the nation is going bankrupt
Can you prove they don't? Right now Google is losing in the AI space. I wouldn't be surprised if they went with "it's better to ask for forgiveness later than permission upfront".
The change licence in Directus simply seems to be GPL3:

https://github.com/directus/directus/blob/main/directus/lice...

The only provision they have added is that if a business uses it in production and that business has >5 revenue/funding then they have to obtain a commercial licence.
At least you're using the actual months. I've recently had to deal with 4-5-4 Retail Calendars. Explaining to my coworkers why the data for September includes dates from both August and October, and that's Working As Intended.
What is political about showing that Grok 3 is censoring?
A common theme here is to leak system prompts, show the bias of DeepSeek and talk about OpenAI scraping the internet and then selling it back to us.
Not really relevant but somehow this reminded me of https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Valve_Time