skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Location: Atlanta, GA, United States (Eastern Time)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Java/Kotlin, Terraform, AWS/GCP, PostgreSQL,
CI/CD, shell scripting

Résumé/CV: https://gmarmstrong.dev/resume.pdf

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Without knowing the detail, it's almost certainly a statistical model. Call it ML if you like. GDP nowcasting models take contamporaneously observable variables like foot traffic as features and GDP - which is observable only with a several-month lag - as the target.

The same caveats as with all statistical models apply. We only see the relationship as observed in the past and it only captures correlations (clearly, foot traffic in and of itself does not meaningfully cause GDP).
I don't really get this criticism. If I want to make a PDF, I open up Word and save as PDF. To open it, I double click the file.

You can save anything you can print as a PDF since what, Windows 7? And the OS comes with a PDF reader since what, Windows 8?
> The most common reason for a human commander to reach an overload state is when they had to generate multiple new tactics or inspect which vehicles in the launch zone were available for deployment

This seems misleading- what they said is that when everything is on cruise control the commander does not feel overwhelmed. But if they have to do some high cognitive load task (like reading statuses) or react to a complex situation the commander will feel overwhelmed, which is bad. We want to be able to react quickly and appropriately to all situations, which we can't do when overwhelmed. Being able to handle dozens of bots in a calm situation is meaningless. We need to staff our bot controllers/monitors/commanders at a level that they can handle those top 3% complex wartime scenarios.
I haven't kept up with his tweets, but I got the impression he deliberately chose to not get involved in LLM hype in his own AI research?
Truly in the sense that democracy is susceptible to demagogues, of which Trump is certifiably one
I agree, they don't "love" tariffs, but many are so uneducated about economics that they will publicly state things like "import tariffs are better for the economy than income taxes."
Comparing access to entertainment with access to food is disingenuous.
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Résumé/CV:

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It's estimated via a model. We don't actually know the value of all economic activities happening in the country. We just have statisticians survey some fraction of businesses on how they're doing, and plug those result into a model to estimate how the entire country's doing.
The Web on Mobile
Very derivative of https://ukfoundations.co/ , which is mentioned.
Fat or slim PS3? Mine experienced a YLOD circa 2010 while the slim that replaced it still works to this day.
DuckDB is an OLAP (analytical) query engine, sqlite is an OLTP (transactional) database. Modern OLAP engines store and represent data in columnar formats, which makes them very fast at queries that touch many rows (particularly if only a few columns are needed). Queries like "sum all sales for the past month by store."

But they're slow (or incapable) of doing inserts, updates, and deletes, because the columnar formats are typically immutable. They're also relatively slow at operations that need to look at all of the data for a particular row.

OLTP databases are much better for use cases where you're frequently inserting, updating, and accessing individual rows, as for the database backing a web application.

A common pattern is to use an OLTP database (like postgres) to back your application, then replicate the data to an OLAP store like Clickhouse or a data lake to run analytical queries that would overwhelm postgres.
Agreed- they write as if being overwhelmed 3% of the time is a victory. A good system would have people feeling overwhelmed 0% of the time.
Prompt2Query – talk to your PostgreSQL database in plain English
I built a small command-line tool that lets you query a PostgreSQL database using natural language instead of SQL.

It's nothing revolutionary - just a simple CLI wrapper around the OpenAI API with PostgreSQL integration, but it's been incredibly useful for my own work. The code analyzes your database schema to provide context to the LLM, which helps generate more accurate queries.
> As a result, this adherence to learned patterns can overshadow genuine logical relationships, causing the model to rely on familiar sequences instead of understanding why one step logically follows from another.

To be honest, even humans rarely get above this level of understanding for many tasks. I don't think most people really understand math above the level of following the recipes they learned by rote in school.

Or beyond following the runbook in their IT department's documentation system.

And when the recipe doesn't work, they are helpless to figure out why.
I think it’s similar to Netflix subtitles—some people prefer subtitles and dislike voice-overs, while others opt for the dubbed versions.

I also believe that as the meeting progresses, it feels more natural, and participants become aware of the translator. (Interestingly, they often start speaking more clearly and using fuller sentences, just as they would with human interpreters!)

Thanks for your comment. I hope you give it a try!
When we decoupled results from capital. It doesn't matter how buggy your software is if people are forced to use it anyway, especially if you haven't turned a profit in ten years but you still get VC money anyway.

Remember when "running a business" meant "making a good product and making some money in the process"? Yeah, me neither.
This is an incredibly tiny bug in a component that dates back to NeXT [1], but you should use Feedback Assistant and report to Apple.

[1]: http://euclid.psych.yorku.ca/SCS/Gallery/colorpick.html
In my twenty years of using Firefox on every computing device I have ever owned, I have NOT ONCE encountered a website that didn't work on Firefox, including purchases and bill paying.

Even our internal only app that is used for internal management stuff only breaks in tiny and unimportant ways (ie a raw data viewer doesn't load), and probably just needs a polyfill.
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> Pilot G2 is my "minimum" pen, though I vastly prefer roller ball pens

Do you have any roller ball pens you recommend? I love my G2, but it does have the tendency to "leak" from time to time..
This brings a smile to my face after just rough assembling laser cut sheet AL which forms the enclosure for a water circulating pump system I built. Same style of raw sheet metal and external screws. It just needs to work and look decent.

edit: I'd buy one of these.
I don’t think we disagree. Doing something for your personal pleasure is fine (except if you’re Jeff Bezos and you’re shooting dick rockets into space for your personal pleasure. Just stop, Jeff.)

Deluding yourself that you have done all you could anyway is not. If you tell people they’ll save the planet if only they drive an electric and don’t drink coffee from plastic cups, they don’t fight for meaningful change anymore.

So by all means: enjoy your sports car. But don’t lie to yourself.
Great to see these algorithms in Go. Finally I can study them at the implementation level as opposed to reading blogs.
It's DARPA, you're really past the moralizing about war stage here, that's just out of context. I don't see UX experts hand-wringing about the effects of advertising when they're designing their products.

>discourse around wellness, anxiety, and mental health in such a banal manner

It's not about "feelings" and that might disturb you, but really very many things should be much less about feelings. A whole lot of "wellness, anxiety, and mental health" isn't about feelings but instead being inside or outside the limits of what a person is capable of handling. Facts-based analysis of work and life and people being too far outside their comfort zone could do a lot for many people dealing with mental health issues.

DARPA does and obviously _needs to_ study these things. One of the most important areas for this are pilots especially during emergencies. It comes from both directions, designing the machine to be manageable and training the human to manage in exceptional circumstances and _knowing the limits_ of both.
I think in various parts of the world people were already quite negative towards US. What happens now though is that some other countries will have second thoughts. I hope enough people can distinguish between one administration and "the people", but trust is hard to gain and easy to loose, so yes, some things will get harder.
We could claim it was self-preservation or collision avoidance routine, perhaps mistakenly triggered by bad sensor input and/or coding error. However, that's also the reasons for which a human could get "angry at the spectator" and display the same behavior.

Obviously there's a difference, but similarities are uncanny.
The difficulty of the problem is not determined by the answer. The Busy Bever's case the answer could be the number or the number of states in its code. Yes, they are both finite, but that doesn't matter.

The difficulty of a problem (which is the time required to find it) is determined by how many possibilities you have to explore. Since Busy Bever is defined in terms of the number of 1's on a tape when it halts, a "possibility" is how many arrangements of 1's a Turing tape can support. As a Turing tape is infinitely long, the answer is it supports an infinite number of arrangements of 1's.

This all follows from the definition of "not computable". We say a problem isn't computable if we can't find the the answer with a finite sized program, using finite space. It's not an unreasonable definition. How else could you define it?

That definition does leave out the number of steps needed to find the solution. The OP's assertion above is that if the both the program and the space is finite, then the number of steps must also be finite or it must loop forever. I'll leave looking up why as a exercise for the reader. (The proof is pretty simple. It's only a few lines long.) That means in a finite system there is no "halting problem" because looping is easy enough to detect when it happens, and you will either eventually see the program loop or halt because there are no other possible outcomes.

"Non-computable" therefore means "oops we hit an infinity". Twisting that around, if we decide something isn't computable an infinity must have snuck into the problem somehow. All the proofs you see demonstrating something is non-computable on a Turing machine happen because the infinite thing sneaking in is it's tape. Restrict the Turing tape to being finite, and every problem that can be solved on it is computable.

If you want to see how this works in a practical sense, consider BusyBever(6). It's possible we will never solve it because to solve it you need to solve the Collatz Conjecture. The conjecture is simple: if you repeatedly replace a positive integer x by x/2 if x is even or 3x+1 if x is odd, you’ll always eventually reach x=1. It's easy to disprove: all you have to do is find a counter example. None has been found of course, but that doesn't mean much because there are infinite numbers to check and infinite means non-computable. But what if we remove the infinity? Lets just insist x < N, where N is an integer. Then the Collatz Conjecture becomes solvable, and if BusyBever(6) doesn't contain another such puzzle it becomes solvable too.
The title is actually "Order Doesn't Matter, But Reasoning Does: Training LLMs with Order-Centric Augmentation".
I believe the locking models are different making DuckDB less suitable for concurrent read/write but you will have to look up the specifics. As always, for a server environment SQLite should be set to WAL mode and comparisons should be made against that rather than the much older, less concurrent default.

As I recall duckdb’s concurrency model did not sound viable for a web server but I may be behind the times or outright wrong.
That's great for money laundering, but you'd have to pay taxes on it. Good luck.
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SAP also makes a lot of money. It's not purely related to how much a company makes. There are German companies that generate a shit ton of revenue, but they still pay way lower salaries. The mechanism how salaries come about are much more complex than that.
Honest? If the Democrats even remotely demonized wealth, we’d be in a completely different situation today.
> Didn't they get more independence with Brexit?

We didn't leave the EHCR. So there is an argument that we don't have full control of our laws. IANAL and won't pretend to know the specifics.

> Regarding the immigration, sure, the Conservative voters maybe want less of it, but rich and influential Tories actually like immigration as it allows their businesses to thrive (even more).

Not just Conservative voters. Almost 1 in 5 Labour and Lib Dem voters want to see it reduced.

https://public.tableau.com/views/Publicopinion2023/FIGURE9?:...

Generally 52% of the UK want to see it immigration reduced in some capacity according to the migration observatory. This was roughly the Vote Leave percentage.

https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/uk...
For those uncomfortable uploading documents, a number of other native apps also dark/inversion mode, including Skim for macOS: https://skim-app.sourceforge.io .
Coincidentally EA just open sourced C&C games.
As I understand it DuckDB stores columns separately (column major), whereas SQLite stores rows separately (row major). DuckDB is like structure or arrays and SQLite is like array of structs.

So which is faster depends on your access pattern. There are dumb stupid terrible names for "access all of one row" (OLTP) and "access all of one column" (OLAP) type access patterns.
My 17-year vow of silence (2008) [video]
I don’t know if it is a quote or meme or anything like that, it might just be some bespoke hand-crafted parody.
Government spending drove a material amount of inflation during the pandemic, but other factors contributed as well (expectations, supply chain dysfunction, corporate profits).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2022/10/09/inflatio...

https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/federal-spendi...

https://globalmarkets.statestreet.com/research/portal/insigh...

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/covid-19-inflation-was-a-...

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/on-inflation-its-the-mono...

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/corporate-profits-drive-6...
Me not that kind of robot
Transgender troops will be removed from the military
...unless that intent is to right click something. In which case I have to move across the vast expanse of trackpad to find the secret magic area on where it lives.

I'm not familiar with all of the trackpad gestures, but that's part of my big frustration with macOS in general - discoverability absolutely sucks. Half of the stuff I need to do is hidden behind a set of arcane keystrokes that I am apparently supposed to memorize.
I'm not surprised. You get the same voices poo-pooing scaling even though it just works. And then you get the wave of articles downplaying the hallucination problem. In reality, 61.8% -> 37.1& on SimpleQA means that there are many classes of problems that GPT-4.5 just solves (or at least tells you it can't) For something like OCR or data entry this just this is real gains.

Also there is likely over-fitting to current benchmarks and use-cases that make objectively dumber models perform better. Within the year people will create reasoning models (allegedly) distilled from 4.5 that will match or beat it in most usecases and benchmarks humans care about.

A separate problem is that post-training is limiting current models to only "expert level". It's likely that superhuman abilities from the base model are lost.

IMO scale beats all. It's just that it's hard and that there has been comparatively little since gpt-3. The entire human race, companies and countries need to come together and work together on a distributed solution.
What is unethical about giving the majority of voters what they asked for?
My point is that invading people's privacy on ownership is not a requirement for effective law enforcement against cartels. Cartels may well commit secondary crimes related to money laundering, but the things cartels do that we actually care about are not that and don't require extensive privacy invasion to police.

To use a silly example, we could also cut down on cartel activity (and many other serious crimes) if every internet connected device were required to stream room audio back to the government for keyword matching and surveillance. We don't do this because of principles, because of the risk of enabling other crimes, and because it would be a bad tradeoff-- a lot of invasion when we have less invasive tools available.

I'm arguing the same applies here.
Are any of the Chromium-based browsers going to retain manifest v2, or are they all stuck with neutered extensions? A quick search says even Vivaldi is going to lose v2 support later this year. Brave and Edge are non-starters.
It's hard to say as conflicting reports float around out there. Some things claim his approval rating is increasing, and others say it is decreasing. And of course there's plenty of stories out there about people who "regret their vote" or whatever, but you can also find stories about upset people who then say they'd still vote for him.

I can't find it now but I did see something the other day where a question like "Are you happy with the job Trump is doing" had an overall positive response. BUT, asking "Are you happy with topic X" for a variety of X like economy, DOGE, etc and most of them were quite negative. I suspect this is closer to reality: people aren't happy but they're not blaming him.
> Honestly, this genre of "big tech company refused to fix my very obscure edge case and that confirms all my priors about them" post is getting a little tiresome.

Ahh, let's just wait for the startup to fix it then.
That’s a great point. An added benefit of our approach is that it provides a written version of the conversation in multiple languages.

(Of course, some users may prefer to remove the conversation entirely for data security and privacy reasons.)
I'm relieved TRUMP and MELANIA meme coins have not yet been included.
Around 150,000 people leave the Federal Government every year anyway [1], and there's likely significant overlap between those who accept the DOGE eight month severance and those who were already planning to leave this or next year. In fact, it was only back in 2021 that some agency heads were excited about the possibility that all the retirements happening and forecast in 2020/2021 would enable them to clear out cruft and hire younger and more experienced individuals [2]; but, of course, no one likes it when its done to you.

Its also, obviously, the case that we wouldn't see most of the macroeconomic impact of these cut workers for at least a few months, when their severance runs out and when those who can't find further work change their spending behavior.

[1] https://ourpublicservice.org/blog/recent-trends-in-quits-and...

[2] https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2021/11/time-for-th...
The last time I ran the experiment of having a single jump, it was slower than jump-per-opcode-handler.

It's true that predictors are able to see through multiple levels, but a threaded interpreter gives them plus one level, and that ends up mattering as much as it always did.
>A good system would have people feeling overwhelmed 0% of the time.

There are benefits to being pushed past your limits from time to time. Also, there's just no such thing as 0. When you're designing limits you don't say "this never happens", you're saying "this event happens less than this rate for this cohort".
Roundup of Events for Bootstrappers in March 2025
> Why is it synced like that?

Synced to the AC mains or a multiple thereof.
Goes both ways. Your extending the line in some particular way from the past couple of years isn't much more than an article of faith.
You're only now realizing this? Software quality at Apple has been in a freefall since Cook's appointment. If you sincerely think iOS 18 is the turning point, then I don't even understand what you use your iPhone for.
This is the same definition game you’re accusing Rust of making. Sometimes, you retain references you do not want, and therefore, leak. It’s something that comes down to programmer intent.

Talking about leaks this way is absolutely normal. Take https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6470651/how-can-i-create... for tons of examples.