skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AI subscriptions are already very sticky . I can't imagine at least not paying for one, so I doubt they care about retention like the rest of us plebs do.
The law? Not even US president cares about the law, then why would 3 letter agencies do?
Starbucks has recently done a bit of a 180 on that.
Google measured their bandwidth usage and discovered that something like half was just HTTP headers! Most RPC calls have small payloads for both requests and responses.

HTTP/2 compresses headers, and that alone can make it worthwhile to use throughout a service fabric.
A question for people who have already switched to the fish shell: What is the biggest drawback of using fish? For example, you get accustomed to it on your system and then have to work with Bash or Zsh on your company’s server systems. And if I’m going to make such a big switch from Bash to fish, then why not switch to Nushell instead?
HTML would be a third alternative, yes. However historically it has been less stable in its definition, and also less stable in round-trip editing by a WYSIWYG editor - it has never been been an aim for HTML to be friendly to editing at that level. In contrast there are several editors which handle RTF without disrupting it for other editors. I use TextEdit (on the Mac), but of course it it is a common word processor format. RTFD is far less well supported, but I don't normally need images. I'm not familiar with any WYSIWYG editors for HTML which represent embedded images as though they were part of the same file.

> The main idea here is that I don't want to know any syntax like RTF

Nor do I. What I want is a file format which is long-term viable, and which I can edit in a WYSIWYG editor. The underlying file format being text-based useful as a recovery mechanism if RTF ever becomes unsupported, but it's not intended that one would edit it manually

> , nor I want to use any tools.

While I do not want to edit a file format manually.
"I'm at a loss of words frankly about what's happening in the USA"

If you need inspiration, try imagining how this debacle would be portrayed by US media if it happened elsewhere in the planet: a populist buffoon propped by and quickly funnelling government money to oligarchs.

"Banana republic", "third-world country" and "failed state" are adjectives that I've seen more than once in similar circumstances.
There’s a very active modding scene: https://github.com/jie65535/awesome-balatro
I use Apple and Android because I like gadgets and technology and software. I dislike anything proprietary. I am up for doing anything to undermine Apple's proprietary products. If Apple has a proprietary means of telling people they are being stalked by stalking devices that Apple also sells, yes, i will do anything to undermine it. And anyway, it's Apple stalking and telling people they are being stalked, not me.
I don't think it is far out that every U.S. president in the last 35 years has had serious abuses of power, many authors argue this point eg Whitney Webb
Or maybe they're just getting better at it, or developing better taste. After switching to Claude, I can't go back to ChatGPT's overly verbose bullet-point laden book reports every time I ask a question. I don't think that's pretraining—it's in the way OpenAI approaches tuning and prompting vs Anthropic.
another term for the phenomena is the "expert beginner" trap.
I played around with Claude Code today, first time I've ever really been impressed by AI for coding.

Tasked it with two different things, refactoring a huge function of around ~400 lines and creating some unit tests split into different files. The refactor was done flawlessly. The unit tests almost, only missed some imports.

All I did was open it in the root of my project and prompt it with the function names. It's a large monolithic solution with a lot of subprojects. It found the functions I was talking about without me having to clarify anything. Cost was about $2.
“You can have a second computer once you’ve
shown you know how to use the first one.”
–Paul Barham

Wow I love that.

Many people in our profession didn't seem to really notice when the number of IOPS on predominant storage media went from under 200 to well over 100,000 in a matter of just a few years.

I remember evaluating and using clusters of stuff like Cassandra back in the late 00s because it just wasn't possible to push enough data to disk to keep up with traffic on a single machine. It's such an insanely different scenario now.
I get that, but US freight doesn't want to eletrify railnetwork at all. From my understading this is because even where it's totatly doable, but financially not feasable for various reasons (IIRC one of them are double stacked containers?).
No just rude and arrogant... Lol you come across like a pol pot with your vast projections and generalizations... I made no statements other than my anecdote in relation to trying to get people to understand right to repair is difficult as it has been heavily politicized. Then you went into multiple paragraphs of tirades and putting words in my mouth and assuming stances I don't hold.

Anyway. My original point stands. Right to repair is heavily politicized in maga crowds and therefore the current Republican party. Most of the arguments they have against it are nonsense and is very much akin to drug war reasoning. The only people in their eyes who want right to repair are pirates ,thieves and smugglers.

I don't give a fuck what libertarians think because they hold no political power or sway.even if they hold the logical ethical high ground in what SHOULD happen.... Nothing ever changes regardless of their opinions. Again see the drug war.
Overall take seems to be negative in the comments. But I see potential for a non-reasoning model that makes enough subtle tweaks in its tone that it is enjoyable to talk to instead of feeling like a summary of Wikipedia.
Oh yeah, that right side version is WAY better, and sounds much more like a human.
Just curious, does this stream the output or renders all at once ?
If you like absurdist humor, go into the OpenAI playground, select 3.5-Turbo, and dial up the temperature to the point where the output devolves into garbled text after 500 tokens or so. The first ~200 tokens are in the freaking sweet spot of humor.
I see a dual. Between 10x1 workers and 1x10 workers working at 10x1 companies.

Either way, doing the same kinds of things, the same kind of ways, more than a few times, is an automation/tool/practice improvement opportunity lost.

I have yet to complete a single project I couldn't do much better, differently, if I were to do something similar again. Not everything is high creative, but software is such a complex balancing act/value terrain. Every project should deliver some new wisdom, however modest.
> Distributed SQL Engines

This is what I see holding some applications back.

The relational model is flexible and sufficient for many needs but the ACID model is responsible for much of the complexity in some more recent solutions.

While only usable for one-to-many relationships, the hierarchical model would significantly help in some of the common areas like financial transactions.

Think IBM IMS fastpath, and the related channel model.

But it seems every neo paradime either initially hampers itself, or grows to be constrained by Codd's normalization rules, which result in transitive closure a the cost of independence.

As we have examples like Ceph's radios, Kafka etc...if you view the hierarchical file path model as being intrinsic to that parent child relationship we could be distributed.

Perhaps materialized views could be leveraged to allow for SQL queries without turning the fast path into a distributed monolith.

SQL is a multi tool, and sometimes you just need to use a specific tool.
I must confess, I have never been clear on the difference between iteration and recursion, or more specifically what differentiates a tail recursive loop from an iteration. Usage of iteration in the context of, say, an iterative solution technique such as gradient descent or an iterated function system feels very much like a (tail) recursion.
somewhat similar story, told to me back then by the director of that part of the program - when at the end of 199x the Mir space station needed some parts, and all those USSR institutions has been already "privatized" to various extent, they got the necessary parts from the (very famous back then in St.Petersburg "Avtovo" ) flea market and sent the parts to the station.
aaaaand it's gone. brigaded. oh well... too bad, it's a decent summary (plus some opinion) for those who didn't see all the individual news items.
The Ringer has it as #3 all time best chase scene.

https://www.theringer.com/2024/05/21/movies/greatest-movie-c...
Although you are correct, Nvidia is limited on total output. They can't produce 50XXs fast enough, and it's naive to think that isn't at least partially due to the wild amount of AI GPUs they are producing.
You have to think from time to time.

If there are even NDAs that forbid mentioning their existence - how would you cite them?

And here we're talking about 3-letter agencies in U.S.

Of course they have the access and of course you can't ever prove it. One could even argue that Julian Assange didn't leak anything and it's all lies and he can't prove it, lol.
They also are amortizing the cost of all that r&d over less than 5k units. All the tooling too.
Because in this case a native capability is exactly what made the app so easy?
yes devalue your hard-earned dollars, thats a great idea
Polyglottism
You are totally right! I noticed that too, but never thought of the explanation. Thanks!
And again, my requirement includes colours - also bold, underline, some font support, left indent etc. It's not sufficient that a file format be long-lived - it also has to encode the information that I need. MD is poor at that, plain text doesn't even attempt it.
Fast columnar JSON decoding with arrow-rs
These “I’m just concerned about the waste” criticisms from the right are… awfully selective.

No concern about the $150B increase in military spending. No comments at all.

No concern about abandoning Ukraine to Russia after having invested hundreds of billions in military aid to keep Russia out of Europe.

No concern about the billions spent on fossil fuel subsidies.

Etc, etc…

But oh my gosh, someone spent a poomfteenth of a fraction of a percent on something that sounds “left wing” then BURN IT ALL DOWN!

I welcome government efficiency, and clearly some programs were stupid and wasteful. However, that’s clearly not what DOGE is about. They’re not looking into general waste or corruption. Instead they’re doing a drag-net operation and cancelling anything and everything with certain key words Musk doesn’t personally like.

Disagree? Name one program that DOGE has cancelled that was sponsored by someone on the right.

Just one.
TabDiff: A Mixed-Type Diffusion Model for Tabular Data Generation
I've used the spoon trick for the longest time, until I was found faced with the challenge in complete lack of spoon or similar instrument.

Then I looked at the cap and realised it has this wedgy shape slightly protruding.

Well, hold the jar strongly in one hand and hit that part hard with the ball of the hand near the base of the thumb. This deforms the cap just enough that air gets in.

Might take a couple of tries to get the hang of it but has worked for me ever since: I've never used the spoon trick again since at least a decade.
Why would a Boeing engineer have a used old Airbus part lying around? It's much more likely that this came from one of the many MROs around the country, for example ATS, who actually works on Airbus aircraft all the time, and is located about 2 miles away from the Boeing plant at Paine Field. https://www.atsmro.com/
First, it was quite interesting!

Second, it made me think about the new Apple C1 modem. They must have had to comb through those specs as well, and it makes me wonder if will allow them to better integrate the modem in the kernel in the end?
I didn't get a chance to play with v0.dev, yet. I have to try it to compare it with other tools out there.
This is great!

How many rpm do you need to make it look reasonably good in person?
I define deterministic as only having one possible outcome, predictable or not.

Here is a proof that quantum mechanics is deterministic:

Let there be a time `t`.

Let there be a qubit `q`.

At the time of `t`, we measured the qubit `q`, and the qubit `q` collapsed to the state of `a`.

At the time of `t`, we measured the qubit `q`, and the qubit `q` collapsed to the state of `b`.

`a` equals `b`.

Quantum mechanics is deterministic.
I've worked in physically demanding environments like cook and construction - there were lots of injuries in the construction job, and a few people died, of course this was when I was young and extremely physically fit, but it was not as stressful as programming can be. More stressful than programming generally is, but not anywhere near as stressful as it can be.

The difference between relatively difficult programming and a lot of jobs is that a lot of jobs have a pretty steady level of stress, whereas the programming stress level can vary incredibly.
Amazing that they're able to make progress with such little public documentation.
> So the main motivation for HTTP/2 is multiplexing, and over the Internet ... it can have a massive impact.

> But in the data center, not so much.

That's a very bold claim.

I'd like to see some data that shows little difference with and without HTTP/2 in the datacenter before I believe that claim.
AI Solves Million-Step Math Problems
... because they just casted lParam into a pointer to DEV_BROADCAST_HDR a few lines above, which is the common part of the different structure it could point to. That's just doing inheritance the C way. What did they expect? A C++ class from a C api?
I think both of these are true. Balatro is a like a finely honed blade of dopamine harvesting -- it truly does build on the most addictive facets of gaming we have discovered thus far. It is also laudable in the ethos of its designer, expressed through the game. As others have said, there is not and will never be monetization, per LocalThunk's distaste for gambling(we can be pedantic and argue that at the core of each roguelike is a gambling aspect but).

I think there is a fine line here between the cynicist 'never indulge' and the consoomer/accelerationist 'do as you will'
It's interesting to compare the cost of that original gpt-4 32k(0314) vs gpt-4.5:

$60/M input tokens vs $75/M input tokens

$120/M output tokens vs $150/M output tokens
Oh, I agree entirely with you. When I say hype, I mean there's a lot of positivity around these "We left the cloud" blog posts. I sit in a position within my company where I make these types of decisions (how our infrastructure is provisioned), and every few weeks or so for the past year I've gotten sent some blog post about X company moving off the cloud and reaping Y benefits.

I estimate that many of these cases were self-inflicted with a general misunderstanding of the cloud pricing model. Amazon has a literal pipeline (AKA certificate program) to maximize its revenue. It's so bad that I now include interview questions trying to suss these individuals out (design me X system, and the given solution uses 15 different AWS services).

Now, that's not an entirely fair representation of the problem, as I've seen genuine business cases that shouldn't be in the cloud, period. That's why I say both sides have an argument. But as I said, my opinion is that actual cloud revenue suggests that it's just a vocal minority group spinning up most of the discussions.
The Culture series, or at least the first four books. I haven't finished Excession yet. And yeah, I usually say things like "Take your time, there's no rush", also because I remember reading that taking this approach can actually improve the quality of the output. It's not like I tested, though. Haha
It is so strange to me that some people find this revolting and other people think it’s quite nice. I wonder if the audience roles would be reversed if the subject roles were reversed.
I'm curious about your perspective on exterior algebra. So far I've mostly seen it as a special case of GA so my view is probably GA-tinted. I'm just curious how you even do any sort of transformations since the exterior product doesn't allow these sorts of things. It seems like it only gives you the "things" in your algebra with few ways to do anything with them. You seem to agree with the author of the article you linked to in that the most useful aspects of GA come from EA. I find this very hard to see, so maybe you can shed some light on it? E.g. how do you rotate a bivector in EA?
not sure what the effective R value would be.. but that could actually cause problems by causing your HVAC to short Cycle.
Would be cool to use server actions in other clients, too. Maybe the most powerful feature in Next.js.
Yeah, that's been exactly my impression too. I am excited to see what Claude 3.7 can do.

> But using an editor is not the same as “no-code”
I actually still prefer editors with assistants than no-code tools as I can always fallback to manually editing the code.
What's interesting to me is that despite all that (the escalating lights and noise as your score ticks up, and the hypnotic effect of the sound slowing down and speeding up when you fail/restart the run, are two big examples), I seem to be the only person who hit a wall with Balatro. I enjoyed it for a few days, saw what grinding out all of the jokers/stickers would be like, and put it down. Not in an insulted way, but in a "I've had a good meal, I'm full, and I'm happy to leave the rest of my plate" way. I find this particularly interesting because other games do have an ability to grab me by the throat.

Perhaps it was too overt?
Substance in broccoli, celery inhibits graying of black hair
Gemini 2.0 Pro is quite good.
These eval tests are just an anchor point to measure distance from, but it's true, picking the anchor point is important. We don't want to measure in the wrong direction.
Great. We need to sue Mozilla to death for GDPR violation, it seems. I guessed Mozilla would eventually die, but not like this.
Which is why you use one of the many editors that understand RTF, not edit it directly. The only time you would need to touch the underlying format is if RTF becomes unsupported, which is unlikely.
Does that mean Obama can run again?
How does it compare with o1 and o3 preview?
Very cool. Huwawai also made a similar thing [1], called the FusionModule1000A All-in-One Container Data Center. But interestingly (as far as I can tell) without any compute, just power, cooling, safety etc. Presumably costs about a million USD [2].

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20170709195517/https://e.huawei....

[2] https://www.finditprice.com/index/it_product/search.html?pro...
Thanks for the suggestion! That’s an interesting idea
I hadn’t considered asking a VC firm or a law firm for office space. I’m still in the early stages of my startup (emmo.ai if you wanna check it out). Right now, I don’t have direct connections with VCs yet. Do you think cold-emailing firms with this kind of request would be effective? Or is it something that works better if you already have some traction and a network?
> And newer cohorts adapt their lifestyles and expectations to available technology, whether that's charging time, on-demand rental for the occasionally needed longer distance EVs, and so on.

Alternatively, they will keep living their life exactly the way they have so far, and refuse to use the "new" technology until it has caught up with the "old" one.

"Regulations" could in theory help, if it served as enough of an incentive for car makers to pay some serious R&D and get the "new" tech on par with the old one.

Problem is, in practice, though, the option to "not care about the regulation and elect right wing people until it's dropped" is easier than paying chemist and physicists.

And selling my mom a 2t SUV is much better for the shareholders.

So, never mind. At some point, one "game changing revolutionary breakthrough" will actually break through something and change some game.

Or, my mum will die of old age, bitching about those stupid pseudo "cars" that their grand kids can't use to visit her because the battery is too small.

(No, wait, HN tells my mum will actually not die, thanks to some "game changing AI-powered breakthrough in biotech")
You need to right-align this.
Logs Matter More Than Metrics
Generative AI's Greatest Flaw
For those who don't want their iPhone participating in the Find My network, from my understanding, turning off iCloud disables the sharing of BLE advertisements.
The rich are demonstrably less discerning of every marginal dollar. They will pay more for the exact same asset than someone who is only middle class or lower. This means the rich own everything, and therefore just keep getting richer, because the US abandoned any form of redistribution.

For example, Kennebunkport is a very fucking wealthy town in Maine, including having a large vacation property for the Bush family. My father's entire business as a half retired contractor is predicated on rich, gay, techbros moving here from California and just throwing money at him until stuff is built. He can literally double a project price overnight, and they give him a bottle of $200 wine for it. The same is true of many businesses in the area.

This is one of the reasons nobody builds lower class housing. Profit is usually percentage based. Why would you build ten starter homes, and work your ass off pleasing a bunch of poor people who have to be careful with their money because even getting a loan nowadays is stupidly difficult, when you can just build a couple mcmansions for the same output effort, where a bunch of rich fucks will come in and buy it in cash, for above market price, no questions asked, so you don't even have to build it well because the rich people are buying vibes and dreams, not an actual house, and they will happily eat a much higher profit margin per product.

Large income disparity means that people stop serving the lower market, because Wall St won't invest in something that doesn't make line go up as much as just treating rich people as idiots that will pay stupid prices for things.

This "makes sense", or at least is obvious when you remember that at a certain point of wealth, you have more money than you know what to do with, and you still cannot buy even a single extra second of time with infinite money, so spending time being discerning with your purchases is explicitly a waste.
> 5.0 came out late during development of the chip, which turned out to be mostly compliant, with the exception of some blending modes such as additive blending which Jensen Huang later claimed was due to Microsoft not giving them the specification in time.

Not sure if this is the same thing I had, but on my Riva128 the alpha blending wasn't properly implemented. I distinctly recall playing Unreal Tournament and when I fired the rocket launcher there were big black squared with a smoke texture on them slowly rotating :D couldn't see where I was shooting :D
They're only in real danger once the average person is hungry or fails to be distracted - bread and circuses. So far it's still just a small percentage.
> This is the kind of outcome Section 230 (of US' Communications Decency Act of 1996) was intended to prevent.

I'm not so sure about that. Section 230 makes it so that if a user posts something that is illegal or tortious it is the user who is the one that faces charges or a lawsuit, not the forum owner.

But that doesn't mean that if you become aware of illegal material on your forum that was posted by a user you can just ignore it. You still have to remove it.

It sounds like it is the latter that is taking up too much of their resources.