skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Claude 3.5 Sonnet is great, but on a few occasions I've gone round in circles on a bug. I gave it to o1 pro and it fixed it in one shot.

More generally, I tend to give o1 pro as much of my codebase as possible (it can take around 100k tokens) and then ask it for small chunks of work which I then pass to Sonnet inside Cursor.

Very excited to see what o3 pro can do.
I'd also be interested in stats on Helix Fossil vs. Dome Fossil.
Beyond Prompting
HOA I know wants every house to have more lights kept on all night (for "safety"). They explicitly say LEDs are what makes this cost effective.
Huh interesting I'll try to fix that. Thanks lots!
I haven't, but I have used PythonCall, and it's really rough to use and constantly go back and forth between types. The main reason I love julia is because all julia packages build upon julia arrays, and don't require conversion to special arrays for that specific package.
In general I like to send structured data (see the input format here: https://github.com/minimaxir/mtg-embeddings), but the ModernBERT base for the embedding model used here specifically has better benefits implicitly for structured data compared to previous models. That's worth another blog post explaining why.
Claude's predilection and evangelism for React is frustrating. Many times I have used it as search with a question like "In the Python library X how do I do Z?" And I'll get a React widget that computes what I was trying to compute.
Maybe I'm getting old and grumpy.

It's always been acknowledged that various disciplines had significant crossover, e.g. ML and operations research, but I've never seen anyone claim that optimization is AI until recently.

Ian Goodfellow's book is, what, 10 years old at this point? The fundamentals in that book cover all of ML from classical to deep learning, and pretty clearly enumerate the different components necessary to do ML, and there's no doubt that optimization is one of them. But to say that it is AI in the way that most people would probably understand it? It's a stretch, and hinges on whether you're using AI to refer to the collection of techniques or the discipline, as opposed to the output (i.e. the "intelligence"). I, and I'd argue most people, use AI to refer to the latter, but I guess the distinction between the discipline and the product is vague enough for media hype.

And to be clear, I'm not trying to take away from the authors. Optimization is one of the tools I like to throw around, both in my own projects and professionally. I love seeing cool applications of optimization, and this definitely qualifies. I just don't agree that everything that uses optimization is AI, because it's an unnecessary blurring of boundaries.
The US typically helps people afford expensive things, insulating people from rising prices.

Other countries typically regulate prices, preventing things from becoming expensive to begin with.

This applies to education, health care, housing, and more.
What I really want (as a current Pro subscriber) is a subscription tier ("Ultimate" at ~$120/month ?) that gives me priority access to the usual chat interface, but _also_ a bunch of API credits that would ensure Claude and I can code together for most of the average working month (reasonable estimate would be 4 hours a day, 15 days a month).

i.e I'd like my chat and API usage to be all included under a flat-rate subscription.

Currenty Pro doesn't give me any API credits to use with coding assistants (Claude Code included ?) which is completely disjointed. And I need to be a business to use the API still ?

Honestly, Claude is so good, just please take my money and make it easy to do the above !
Nah, this is just the winner takes it all.

There is so many stimuli, that you can not reasonably msrket anything these days - less so single use apps.
Lmao true
finished integrating our new FOSS ecu into our racecar, and started rewriting the data logging software for our team. Learning about can, wrote a dbc parser and frame interpreter for our higher level tools. Also integrated some existing components with the new ecu, our in car display now speaks can instead of serial, and soon another device will be pushing can packets to our analysis app. streaming can packets over lora and/or lte. analysis app is being un-jankified too. it's a phoenix tool for timeseries/laptime/etc dashboards.
see https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/agents-and-tools/claude-c...
data labeling
Open router is great.

They have a very solid infrastructure.

Scaling infrastructure to handle billions of tokens is no joke.

I believe they are approaching 1 trillion tokens per week.

Glama is way smaller. We only recently crossed 10bn tokens per day.

However, I have invested a lot more into UX/UI of that chat itself, i.e. while OpenRouter is entirely focused on API gateway (which is working for them), I am going for a hybrid approach.

The market is big enough for both projects to co-exist.
I have already explained my thinking up this comment chain. I'm mostly replying to GP who misunderstands that the intent of the tariffs is besides the point.

TL;DR read Article I section 8, read up about the Trade Expansion act of 1962 and Trade act of 1974, and "non-delegation doctrine", and you can trivially find legal debate about the constitutionality of IEEPA. Rather than listen to random nerds on HN you should seek out this information yourself.
Reminds me of a typewriter, but without the solid and satisfying thunks.
They hadn't published the latest paper, but the many papers leading up to this were published, and so its able to work off of those. I'm not an expert in this field, but in this case, it seems they had already published a paper that listed this idea as an option and dismissed it, so in all likelihood Co-Scientist simply ignored the theoretical limitation.

Either way, the headline is garbage. It's like being amazed that your coworker who you've documented every step in your process to managed to solve that problem before you. "I've been working on it for months and they solved it in a day!" is obviously false, they have all of the information and conclusions you've been producing while you worked on it. In this case, telling the coworker every detail is the non-consensual AI training process.
I wasn't addressing the question of quantity of funding, but rather the efficiency of the funding. Is the research valuable, or is it just pretend-value from spending intended as pork? A lot of government funded research is of that kind. More generally: the market has a way of evaluating research value (did it lead to profit) while the government's actions have no reality check. They depend on the wisdom of officials who inevitably have conflicts of interest.
There is only a single paper that has published a similar derivation but with a critical mistake. To be fair there are many documented examples of how to derive parametric relationships in linkages and can be quite methodical. I think I could get Gemini or 3.5 to do it but not single shot/ultra fast like here.
"Compass for navigation" would actually confuse me as I expect a "Google maps pin" for that, for example.
Also <"?" for help>, that's literally text made an icon, hardly counts for this conversation.

As someone who uses emojis to a degree that is embarrasing, I agree tgat often are amazing to convey things tgat words have harder time, but I still have to accept that there is ambiguity in their meanings, yes, a bunch of conventions have rooted enough that most people would undertand the same, but get out of those or simply present them in a different environment and things change. Labels are way less ambiguous.
A) Postgres easily scales to billions of rows without breaking a sweat. After that shard. It’s definitely negotiable.
Thanks for the explanation this was very helpful. You've given me a whole new list of stuff to Google. The quasipotential/comittor functions especially seem quite interesting although I'm having a bit of trouble finding good resources on them.
It's exercise. Use it or lose it. So when you actually need to write to express something, you're not stumbling over the process of writing.
This was super fun! The bracket format is brilliant. It's like going on a treasure hunt, you solve one clue and the next one reveals itself. Well done!
I got sick off of train station sushi in Sydney. Never again
This is the first real feedback I got on those videos so thank you very much!
It's just an ability to annoy people. I also had another one where you can rick roll them in the background :)
No, it’s not a big deal. It’s just funny it won’t tell you unless it’s for owning the libs.
There may not be a correlation, but you can clearly see that the bottom-right quadrant of the plot is basically empty, which is an important insight.

A more accurate aphorism would be "You can sell good kebabs anywhere, but you can only sell bad kebabs near a train station."

And if you look at the "minimum viable quality" instead of the overall quality, there does seem to be a linear correlation with the distance. You can use a 5% quantile regressor to easily find the lower edge of the distribution.
I love Lua for being able to do things like this.

I was building a bunch of html pages for an htmx frontend and a golang back end, and got really exhausted from using the builtin `html/template` library in golang. I kept trying to build reusable components, and it just didn’t work as I wanted it to.

I ended up doing this exact thing as mentioned in this blog post. https://github.com/DBarney/Glua
Granted this is just for me, and for prototyping. I put it on GitHub so I wouldn’t loose it.

Writing html got so much easier this way:

local function Component(data)
return div{"my name is", data.name}
end

return function(params)
html{
head{title="this is my page"},
body{
h1{"This is my small page I wrote"},
p{
"some content",
"more content"
},
div{"page has some dynamic values",params.count},
Component{name="daniel"}
}
}
end

Edit: formatting
30.1 on Ubuntu feels much better for C++ development on a remote server via lsp-mode's clangd-tramp compared to 29.3. I suppose that's thanks to the faster JSON parser?
Yeah, good phrasing -- I was treating volume as a proxy for visiting passengers vs. regulars, but that's not correct in all cases.

Or intuitively: who doesn't lower their standards when they buy a meal at an airport or major train terminal? We all do!
Reminds me of the Alphasmart, it was such a great device: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaSmart
English has borrowed French words a lot. It has often imported the same word multiple times, and they frequently have different meanings.

Including entrée, incidentally, which gave us the entrée and the entry.

Even in France, in the context of elaborate multiple course meals, the entrée eventually stopped being the very first thing that was served. Soup started to take that spot, and gave us what we now call the appetizer, which used to be chiefly soup or salad but now could be almost anything.

For those elaborate meals, the entrée was just the first course of the multiple courses that were the "main" dish.

Separate main courses have largely fallen out of fashion, and they collapsed into one plate with a serving of each. This is still the entrée in the US and Canada, and that makes perfect sense, given the history.

So no, it wasn't just that it sounded fancier.
> completely incorrectly

That meaning is also accepted by the French Academy nowadays:

Fig. En parlant d’une période de temps, d’un processus. Commencement, début. À l’entrée de l’hiver. Dès l’entrée du repas. Par métonymie. Mets qui vient après les hors-d’œuvre et précède le plat principal. Une entrée chaude, froide. Servir un vol-au-vent, un soufflé en entrée. Par extension. Plat principal. Un repas composé d’un hors-d’œuvre, une entrée et un dessert.

https://www.dictionnaire-academie.fr/article/A7E1159
Duh, commuters are just less picky with their food choices, reliably fast service trumps food quality here for obvious reasons. Tourists as mentioned in the article are not that many.

Anecdotally the worst McDonalds Burger I had was with a cold slice of cheese at the Berlin Main Station, while the Döner there was always above par.
I mean, it's not true in general if you actually read the article.

> Whilst there are some minor indications that the hypothesis could be correct (eg. many of the absolute worst restaurants being some of the closest) the correlation is simply too weak.
Yeah sorry :) At first I tried to do a stress test, then plot a curve and try to find the closest runtime curve to that curve but it didn't work most of the time ;-;
Feels like "Signaling a Political Ingroup" is enough of a signal to explain all of these examples?

Not that I don't think they aren't also trying at the other points. I think they are over explaining, though.
Correlation is not causation.

Until the war, FDRs 'reforms' weren't making the country powerful or rich, maybe staunching the bleeding.

The buildup of industry for a war footing, the vacuum of the great powers/industries in rubble, large amounts of their intellectual human capital in America and the participants owing America a lot of money is what made America a hyper power after the war- and maybe the GI Bill a bit part.

Social security and the WPA had little to nothing to do with America's post war ascent...
Many years ago I came up with a rule of thumb. Restaurants have three basic strategies, be a known quantity (chain), have a good location, or be actually good.

I've found some gems by looking for the third category.

Given that "near the train" is a good location, that would support this theory.
Fundamentally it’s just infra reselling as well, with some additional lock-in for that sweet retention.

Back in the day every man and his dog would set up a small scale shared hosting service to put your PHP or cgi-bins on and the interface to it was basically FTP. Nowadays it’s moved on from dragging and dropping scripts to deploying integrated full-stack frameworks with a little ecosystem around it.
Modern apartment building. Low rise. Full visibility of courtyard. Cycle gone missing with a baby seat attached. Nothing anyone can do about it. How did they get the key, who let them in, how did they manage to pry open the lock in full visibility? I was seething for a week. But somehow I knew this wasn’t really that big a security challenge for the thief.
> considered fair use in AI training

By AI trainers, if not by the authors whose works were encoded.
Microsoft trims more CPUs from Windows 11 compatibility list
I may be evil but I have my standards sir... (Why not just random rgb flashes?)
"Your enthusiasm for Oculus in 2014 was so intense that Mark Zuckerberg probably bought it just to make you stop posting about it."

Incredible work!
This is very nice but it would be lovely if I could just skip to the higher level solutions once I figure them out instead of having to go through the whole tree of solutions
There's a middle ground, I find.

Absolutely, when tasked with something quite complex in a complex code base, it doesn't really work. It can get you some of the way there, and some of the code it produces gives you great ideas on where to go from, but it doesn't work.

But there are certainly some tasks where it excels. I asked it to refactor a rather gnarly function (C++), and it did a great job at decomposing it. The initial decomposition was a bit naive: the original function took in a vector, and would parse what the function & data from the vector, and the decomposition split out the functions, but the data still came in as a vector. For instance, one of the functions took a filename, and file contents, and it took it as element 0 and element 1 from a vector, when it should obviously be two parameters. But some further prompting and it took it to the end.
Don't be offended, protestant atrocities are well documented. (Luther and Calvin and others have a lot of blood on their hands , to be sure.) Documented history, just like the catholic history, both of which are not opinions at all.

Facing reality is never easy, just necessary for avoiding future calamities. Here in the states, we avoid truthful history all the time, hopefully not to an eventual disaster.
I started a football/soccer (mostly Premier League focused) podcast with a friend about two months ago. It's in Portuguese, but it gives us an hour each week to talk about our love for the game and sprinkle in some interesting statistics.

Alongside that, I've also been coaching kids (ages 4 to 11) at a local Benfica academy since September, and I've had a lot of fun helping them improve in many areas of the game. It's a truly enriching experience.
Same I just was talking with my daughter (16) about this because she hated her intro programming class in high school. No biggie if it isn't for her, slightly disappointing that I can't share knowledge, but she should pursue what she enjoys.

What irked me was she claimed "I just hate being on the computer", but her screen time on the phone easily crests 8 hours daily. Maybe we are just entering a similar phase to auto mechanics. In the 1950s anyone who owned a car was at least somewhat proficient in its inner workings, now many people need to consult the manual to figure out how to pop their hood.
Not just commuters but tourists, people you can scam once and who will never be back.

When your falafelshop is in the neighborhood you can't be scamming people because you'll quickly become abandoned.
DOGE is a complete farce and has been from the beginning. The fact that so many people are okay with regular folks being laid off and plunged into chaos is beyond me. I guess since we're all living through screens these days, it's easy to remove yourself from the heartache and turmoil that goes into being fired, without real cause. But it's okay, these are just federal workers, not real people. They don't have real jobs. They're all the same stereotypical DMV workers we've come to make caricatures out of.
> It's 2025 these features are not-negotiable for most use cases.

Excuse me? I do enterprise apps, along with most of the developers I know. We run like 100 transactions per second and can easily survive hours of planned downtime.

It's 2025, computers are really fast. I barely need a database, but ACID makes transaction processing so much easier.
There's n except about it. It was previously on the verge of becoming the governments's de facto censorship and propaganda platform. But apparently it was a private company and could do what it wanted.

People really should have thought a bit harder about that one.
they got their new programming :) dont fault them too much, they are not in control
So does a text file.

Statements like yours are meaningless when you aren't specific about the operations, schema, access patterns etc.

If you have a single server, relational use case then PostgreSQL is great. But like all technology it's not great at everything.
It's quite the creature. Did you ever visit the dungeons near Minoc? They're never really explained in-world, as far as I can tell. It's probably one of the biggest mysteries of the game, despite how inconsequential and boring they are. They're probably a callback to some other game's dungeon that had more content.
My power is still $0.11/kwh... I haven't turned off my christmas lights in 3 years. There are huge swaths of the US where power is still (relatively) dirt cheap and nobody thinks twice about the heavy soil function on the dishwasher or leaving landscaping lights on.

This list matches my experience; https://www.electricchoice.com/electricity-prices-by-state/
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It would mean that if you can sort it out on your own you can reduce the minimum number of keystrokes by a lot
I fully believe that the real ("main street not wall street") economy is in worse shape than government numbers on unemployment suggest and both sides are to blame for different aspects of this problem.

But nothing Trump is doing is going to fix your situation.

In fact he (or rather Elon/doge) is very actively making things worse for you with the massive government layoffs, flooding the market with even more people to compete with you for jobs making finding work more difficult and also eventually dropping all of our wages.
I'd rather get scammed than stabbed.
It's sad that this was downvoted. It's literally true. MongoDB vs. vanilla Postgres is not in Postgres' favor with respect to horizontal scaling. It's the same situation with Postgres vs. MySQL.

That being said there are plenty of ways to shard Postgres that are free, e.g. Citus. It's also questionable whether many need sharding. You can go a long way with simply a replica.

Postgres also has plenty of its own strengths. For one, you can get a managed solution without being locked into MongoDB the company.
I had no idea it was used for main course in the US, that's wild. This would be very, very confusing for Australians (probably Brits as well)
Hre's and example of not doing anything but jsut writing something and smaking the OK GO button. Yes I know its terrible. I'm oding it on purpose to show how bad the idea this is.

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At the very least, take some time to compile your main thought or argument and hold yourself to a minimum standard; If you're shooting straight from your keyboard and into the public domain, it won't take long before you regret all of your publishing.
I honestly always thought fixing large codebases was the vast majority of SE careers.

I used to dream about starting a company from scratch and spent a good amount of time trying to manipulate management to let me start codebases over.
I take plenty of paper notes, especially for math, diagrams, and other things. But we're here talking about an article about typewriting devices, and in the context of the kinds of things you'd write long-form on a typewriter, "just use a notebook!" is insultingly unhelpful.

I've tried for decades to write long-form things without it causing my hand to cramp up painfully. I know what's wrong, and I also accept that at this point there's not much I can do about it. If I could use an $8 notebook instead of a keyboard, I'd be doing it already.
The notable exception perhaps is Kings Cross Station in London. Food is generally excellent.
My dad also did that to my house too, and I had to try to find a corner dark enough to see my editor in dark mode lol
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I used to live in a neighborhood about a quarter mile from a highway, nearly perfectly flat land, speed limit I believe was 45 or 55.

Most days the road noise itself was no big deal, if the wind blew it was gone, if you listened for it you could hear a whooshing/droning in the distance.

But all it took was one loud motorcycle or old car/truck to really ruin your peace for a solid 3 to 5 minutes, being able to hear it on approach, and it went by, and exit. And it wasn't that rare to get them back to back, seeing as it's a 4 lane highway with a decent flow of traffic.

It wasn't really until then I realized how a single vehicle could cause so much annoyance for so many people.