skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great if you're the one producing the CSV yourself.

But if you're ingesting data from other organizations, they will, at one time or another, fuck up every single one of those (as well as the ones mentioned in TFA), no matter how clearly you specify them.
So in short there's no guarantee for any output from any LLM whether its Gemma or any other (ignoring some details like setting a random seed or parameters like temperature to 0). Like you mentioned though libraries like outlines can constrain the output, whereas hosted models often already include this in their API, but they can do so because its a model + some server side code.

With Gemma, or any open model, you can use the open libraries in conjunction to get what you want. Some inference frameworks like Ollama include structured output as part of their functionality.

But you mentioned all of this already in your question so I feel like I'm missing something. Let me know!

But I think you already mentioned all this in your response so I might be missing the question?
It's more like, "because the industry grew up without it, other approaches gained critical mass."

Path dependence is a thing. Things that experience network effects don't get changed unless the alternative is far superior, and ASCII Delimited Text is not that superior.

Ignoring that and pushing for it anyway will at most achieve an xkcd 927.
Suggesting they’ll cancel gemini makes about as much sense as suggesting they’ll cancel gmail.
High refresh on its own is not enough to constitute a better screen. While Apple could certainly stand to bump the minimum refresh rate to 120hz across the board, I wouldn’t want that to come at the expense of the other more important specs as has been common outside of the Apple sphere, particularly on budget devices. If one has to choose, a color accurate screen is preferable to a fast but less accurate one in most circumstances for instance.
>It is selling de-identified, aggregate data

Just a note that re-identifying aggregate data is a whole field of study that is decently successful.
Slack, Zoom, TikTok

And those are just off the top of my head
Almost anyone can tell the difference between 60 and 120 Hz.

Seriously, if you haven't upgraded your desktop PC to a higher refresh rate screen yet: It's the biggest "feels like a new computer!" upgrade since we swapped HDDs for SSDs and the days when your new CPU was 2.5x as fast as the old one. There is no turning back after having experienced the buttery smoothness, and the impact is IMHO higher during regular usage than during games.
This is very cool if it's not the case of "lying with statistics". I hope we will at some point see independent research into these safety claims. I don't really think too highly of my own driving skills, so I also hope that I live to see the day when I can just let my own car drive itself on most or all trips. And no, Tesla FSD ain't that, at least not yet - it does help with long trips, but in difficult situations it disengages at the worst possible moment. I want to tell the car where to go, and then never touch the wheel until I'm there, day or night, rain or sun.
I do, the better off ones tend to congregate around Sarasota. They're weird (lesbian adulterating conservative school board moms, senators turned into university presidents with $400K+ salaries, Micheal Flynn, Devin Nunes). The quiet ones are sane. We're thoroughly gerrymandered and outvoted.

EDIT: Your link saddens me.
> US border patrol has generally been less than pleasant (coming back as a citizen) at the car crossing for decades.

No matter where I've visited or how repressive the regime, in all of my years of travel, I've never seen worse human beings than the US border patrol in Washington State. There's something fundamentally wrong going on up there and it's been like this for decades.
the sailboat races are on schedule, however
First, I don't want to pay Claude Code at all...

Second, isn't that doable with API calling :)
Many thanks!
For the record, there is another useful tool in the same vein, that packs a repo to be given to an LLM https://github.com/yamadashy/repomix.
The career in question is radiology.
Both the longer wait time and the double price can likely be explained by the lack of highway.

Highway is coming.

And scale will make it cheaper. It's only cheaper than Uber sometimes currently. That will change.
Have you ever used Golang? I have not needed to use codegen once.
Why not use any of the existing OCI Runtimes? They take well-defined[0] JSON description as input, and are pretty well-contained (single static binary). And because they are separate binaries, not libraries, you don't need to worry about things like thread safety or FD leaking.

[0] https://github.com/opencontainers/runtime-spec/blob/main/con...
Or just buy cloudflare :)
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I tried using notebookLLM many many times and it's just not good. On the other hand I'm writing proofs using chatgpt and they look really good.
Is any language immune from that?
I'm in a similar spot. There are a few pixel exclusive features that I would certainly miss but I spent a few decades not having a personal assistant robot screen my calls and texts, I can survive without it in the future.

Tasker used to be in a class of its own but I believe shortcuts is now as powerful and it even has a user experience that isn't hostile! That might be a net benefit...

I hate the iOS keyboard and method of text selection but I could adopt.

I'll have to re buy some apps or find alternatives but that's not an impossible hill to climb.

The biggest pain points are file management and notifications. Having spent a decade plus on a blackberry before going Android full-time, neither dominant platform is even close to good with respect to notifications but Android is far less crappy than iOS.

File management is probably a deal breaker. Every time I have to download a file on my iPad and try to use it in another app or even just get it off the damn thing, I spend 5 minutes swearing before I just give up and attach the file to an email and then go to a PC to pull the file out of the draft folder...
Y'all bitches gotta get on Signal. ;-)
>isn't just about being able to borrow cup of sugar

this in particular is interesting to me because you used it to illustrate the minimum level of neighborly engagement, but I think many of us don't even reach that level. I for one would never think of asking my neighbor for cooking ingredients; in fact the idea of going over and knocking on their door for any purpose is almost inconceivable to me unless there was a medical emergency.

Not saying my mindset is right or even healthy, but that's how it is. There's a lot of work to be done.
Coincidentally (not meaning to pick on you) my next door neighbor vacations in Cuba. Loves it.
It's largely an artifact of classifier-free guidance used in diffusion models. It makes the image generation more closely follow the prompt but also makes everything look more saturated and extreme.
Only works if you have a very stable internet connection
I'm curious what the revenue plan is for MCP authors. I mean, I can see wanting to add support for existing products (like an code/text editor, image/sound/video editor, etc.)

But is there a market for stand-alone paid MCP services? It seems these will mostly be usurped by the models themselves sooner or later. I mean if you create a MCP popular enough to actually make money, the foundation model will soon be able to just do it without your service. Almost like you are doing experimentation on high-value agent features for free.

Also, something about the format just reeks of SOAP to me. It feels over-engineered. Time will tell, obviously.
Tool calls in any of the agent frameworks are just wrappers around native functions.

MCP let's you handle the processing outside of the agent context, redistribute tools independently, and provide them as either private or public hosted services.

Basically, add an HTTP layer on the existing concept of tools. It is not a replacement for a framework, it is an enhancement of a well established pattern.
CSV is awesome for front-end webapps needing to fetch A LOT of data from a server in order to display an information-dense rendering. For that use-case, one controls both sides so the usual serialization issues aren't a problem.
In LA, wait times were the same as Uber and the price was the same as well (for a nicer car some of the time).
Yeah, no, these are pure excuses and rationalizations. And you know it. If you actually was preoccupied over covid, your only complain would not be anti racists protests - it would be overall excess deaths in read states.

When the only situation in which covid matter is the one where you can use it as a shield for anti-anti-racist stance while you are against vaccinations (which stopped the whole covid issue) and against any measure that cant be used for your favorite political cause ... then you are just making excuses.
I fully agree.

MCP is just too complex for what it is supposed to do. I don't get what's the benefit. It is the kind of thing that has the potential to be a huge time waste because it requires custom dev tools to develop and troubleshoot.

It is not even a protocol in the traditional sense - more of a convention.

And of course we will implement it, like everyone else, because it is gathering momentum, but I do not believe it is the right approach at all. A simpler HTTP-based OpenAPI service would have been a lot better and it is already well supported in all frameworks.

The only way I can make sense of MCP in the context of an STDIO.
Even in self-driving, Telsa's behavior proves there is a market for cars that are programmed to speed and roll through stop signs. Waymos are safer than the average human, but the average human also intentionally chooses a strategy that trades risk for speed. Indeed, Waymo trips on average take about 2x as long as Ubers: https://futurism.com/the-byte/waymo-expensive-slower-taxis

What happens if an upstart self-driving competitor promises human-level ETAs? Is a speeding Waymo safer than a speeding human?
This whole article leaves me thinking that they just reinvented having a separate window for each page, and are just calling them "taskbar tabs" instead of "windows". After inventing tabs, we've now come full circle.
> Do you not rink its fair to say that Linus has a track record of provoking that sort of behaviour?

Your point about Linus's behaviour are correct in some sense: other people would make the same point less aggressively. But you aren't making any attempt to balance the scales.

There isn't some other version of Linus lying on the shelf that has the technical decision making record he does, and is also a great diplomat. So the choices are: keep the flawed but highly talented man we have, or discard Linus for someone else who almost certainly will be worse technically, but may be a better wordsmith.

I'd wager most of the people here have jobs that depend on Linus's technical skills. That's certainly true of most people whose day jobs are working on the kernel. They've made their choice, and it's the obvious one. They'll take the man that abuses them for their mistakes over a silver tongued Mr average.

If you don't like that, go and work on your own kernel for Mr average. But if you take that route, be prepared for the fact that no one is going to want to use your kernel because, well, it's average.
I’d personally love for someone to hand me a billion dollars no strings attached.

That’s got nothing to do with solving the issues created by these people, but if you’re going to toss out meaningless non sequitur’s then I figure I might as well join in on the fun.
That is a problem, but it is also a problem with XML. Parsing the XML file to discover e.g. unmatching tags is far more CPU and memory expensive than correctly passing a CVS.

In both cases you'd fail the entire file rather than partial recovery.
Nice, thanks for the link!

The largest fine ever issued is about 2% of Oracle's 2024 revenue. If we average the top 5 fines ever issued (this breach surely wont result in the largest GDPR fine ever), it'd be about 1% of Oracle's 2024 revenue. So, between ~3.5 and ~7 days worth of revenue, if we're lucky and get a top 5 GDPR fine?

I'm not sure that is in the "definitely change behavior" area yet (in fact, I'm confident it is not), but better than I thought.
And fixes their garbage autocorrect and notification UI
It is a highly opinionated question. Whatever gives you the oomph to do things.

Generally speaking, typescript everywhere. LLMs know it quite well. If you are doing agentic work, you can do a FastAPI encapsulated python service.
> Is his email gone professional? No.

Is it worth making absolutist assertions about such a relative topic? Offence is taken as much as it's given, and everyone has a different thickness of skin in these matters.
MCP is great. But what i'd like to understand is whats the difference between MCP and manually prompting the model a list of tools with description and calling the specific function based on the llm response ?
I guess I should have been more explicit: no politician that I know of was talking about annexing Canada or Greenland before Trump, and the people you quote above are only endorsing it because they would never contradict anything Trump says.
> Is Australia particularly bad about it perhaps?

We may need to gather more data. He's literally the first person to be sentenced for a law which has been on the books for decades. In the meantime: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcera...

> Judge Leonie Flannery, Australian Border Force officials, police, even his employer just had a grand 'ol time punishing this guy.

Maybe? I'm gonna wait until after the sentence has been imposed to decide whether it's excessive or not.
This seems to be just implementing tools functionality, no resources or prompts, roots or sampling. I can't blame them.

I'm wondering though about progress notifications and pagination. Especially the latter should be supported as otherwise some servers might not return the full list of tools. Has anyone tested this?
they can eat their owners
A slight advantage, sure, but apple is trapped by the same thing. Neither of their products actually required full buy in of the ecosystem to exploit until now. It was just nice (eg airpods have a nicer pairing experience than other bluetooth devices—infuriating, but ultimately ignorable)
I really hadn't noticed all of those! I'm mostly intersted in Macs, so I probably subconsciusly filter out the other announcements. I guess I haven't developed that level of 'ignorance' towards AI yet."
Over the next decade or two, insurance will solve a chunk of this problem (it'll be way more expensive to drive yourself), regulations will solve another chunk, but the biggest thing that will solve it: we're lazy.

We might drive every now and then, but come on, do you really think once this is ubiquitous and you can get in a (or your) car and then play a video game, take a nap, text on your phone, or doomscroll, that we're still going to want to drive all the time?

Nah.
Importing csvs in excel can be a huge pain due to how excel handles localisation. It can basically alter your data if you are not mindful about that, and I have seen it happening too many times.
Apple's hardware is just so much sleeker, faster, and better than Google's

On the other hand I was recently testing a friends pixel phone and was shocked by the speed and integration of Gemini.
I’m going to see if I can use this in combination with our JIRA MCP to read a bug ticket’s “steps to reproduce” to see if it translate those steps to actually reproduce those actions.

I don’t understand the hate against MCP. It is truly exciting to see the Cambrian explosion of “connectors” coming out.

This is going to be the “App Store” for models in a way that OpenAI’s custom GPTs never was.
But it's also the same language used in headlines for dozens of "launches first satellite" articles that don't involve novel launch capability, including countries (Bahrain and Senegal were recent) as well as satellite companies. Confusing maybe, especially if you think Botswana might actually have spaceports or domestic launch capability, but common practice.

It's even used in trade press articles about Falcon 9 launches of satellites operated by countries that once had homegrown launch capability and are actively investing in regaining it...
https://www.janes.com/osint-insights/defence-news/air/update...
Sundar did a great job pivoting Google from a product-focused B2C company into a Microsoft-style B2B-oriented monetization deathstar (Google Cloud & Workspace and Ads Ads Ads with packages of Ads on the side).

The problem is, ditching their B2C product-focused roots in favor of playing Microsoft slowly ruined their flagship Search (also the open web) and any internal culture of stewarding great products. And Google doesn't have the same level of lock-in Microsoft has.

Microsoft doesn't have to worry about end-users jumping ship because corporate worker drones can't provision their own IT.

Google searchers on the other hand, can just start opening ChatGPT instead of Google search more and more and slowly kill Google's flagship product simply out of boredom.

Youtube being forgotten about by the deathstar and being allowed to flourish was simply a happy accident. But that too will inevitably get gobbled up after the pressure of a few rough quarters comes down on the shoulders of whatever CEO comes next.
> Do you not rink its fair to say that Linus has a track record of provoking that sort of behaviour?

It's true that reporting on Linus' emails has a track record of only highlighting the rudest ones, creating this impression in your mind. Anything else is speculation.
I don't think there's anything better either but i haven't actually tested any other search engine in years so what do i know right ?

Unless a search engine blows google out of the water and gets everyone talking, switching won't even be on the table. Why bother switching for something that is just as good or slightly better if you've been using your current option for a while ? Consumers are much stickier than that.
To be fair, the vulnerability is only 4 years old. There is no way they could have noticed it, let alone resolved it that quickly.

This is Oracle.
You can get nasties like legionella growing in tanks if the temperature is hot but not hot enough to kill them. The insides of these tanks can be filled with oxidised metal bits too.
My experience using Waymos in SF is that they are a little less expensive than an Uber. The other advantage is that you aren't stuck with a driver who hits on you or wants to share his opinions on the best way to slaughter goats.
Right now, Texans in affected areas are having prioritization for measles vaccines. There are attempts to educate and the state opened vaccination centers in affected areas.

Locals are white and they are not taking much interest, but state is still putting more effort into it then into vaccinations in some black area with low cases.
As someone raised to place, I later had to learn, dangerous levels of value on honesty and forthrightness and to assume that others would largely do the same, unless they were, you know, those relatively rare bad people... yeah, I'd guess it's just going to result in bad stuff, almost entirely.

Cheaters never win, liars never prosper—sadly, these are closer to being the exact opposite of the truth, than to being true. Substitute "usually" and "often" and it's getting near to the truth.
Well, I hope that if they do so, the FSF and all copyright holders of the Open Source software used to make Android Great In-the-First-Place will sue their a$$e$ off.
Absolutely, the US once was an unapologetically imperialist nation and Trump wants to turn the clock back to a global club of bullies each with their own sphere of influence.
Are these just alternative facts and MAGA talking points or do you have any proof from a reputable source for what you stated?
Those all predate 2017:

- Slack: 2013

- Zoom: 2011

- TikTok: 2016

Based on "Initial Release" on Wikipedia.
It's not rules, it's physics. The airport preclearance stations are on Canadian soil and don't contain US-operated jails, all the CBP can do is hand you over to Canadian police.
Providing another company access to deidentified data is "selling your data", to argue otherwise is just semantics.

Note that selling deidentified data (genomic, health, etc) is common in the industry already and 23&Me is hardly unique in this respect.
The cheapest bottled water I bought in Denmark has a 2 year expiration date. I don't intend to drink it, I will just throw it out when I replace it.

If I forget, and there's then a situation where it's the only thing I have to drink, I won't worry about it being past the date.
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> Even if that wasn't the case, as long as there were at least a few decently-sized countries not plugged into the system, that's where the thieves would sell all their devices.

It still limits the market where they can be sold, because even there the customer doesn't actually want a stolen device. What if that country starts blocking them, or they want to travel anywhere that does? They could even get arrested.

It also requires the thieves to have a network to transport them there, vs. individual petty thieves who would otherwise be selling them locally.

> Stolen Apple devices are still usable for parts (which is why parts pairing is not always a bad thing)

Parts pairing is still a scam. They could check the part against a stolen device list without refusing to pair with parts from third party OEMs or first party non-stolen parts from other regional markets.
I agree with most of what you've written, particularly the sense of hopelessness around getting most students to "see" the beauty -- most simply won't.

Quick story: When I first TA'd a stats class at age 23 or so, I was sure I could transmit my own sense of excitement. I was a good teacher and got good feedback. But I got a dose of reality one day when I told the students about Buffon's needle problem, one of my favorite puzzles (that a needle as wide as one of the slats, when tossed onto a hardwood floor, has a chance of 2/pi of landing across a line). To me it was mind-blowing, but the class's reception was lukewarm. So I said I'm just curious, please answer honestly: How many think this is really cool (few hands); kind of interesting (maybe 7 hands); don't care (rest of class, like 15 hands). I thought, "Ohhhh, now I get it."

> maybe that really is just the best we can practically achieve, and we have to live with it

I think this is the answer honestly, but I think the incremental gains of a really good teacher are much greater than you're suggesting (eg, watch an Eddie Woo video on youtube and compare to your HS math teacher). It can be the difference between "I hate this" and "This is not so bad." Or, for that naturally apt, between "This is ok" and "I love this."

I don't think "focus relentlessly on the practical applications" is the answer. Once you've accepted the frame of "What will I use this for?" you've already lost, because the truth is most kids won't need to use, say, calculus in their daily lives very often. That's not the reason to learn it, or most math subjects. The frame given here is the right answer imo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqQlXG__vGs. The goal is to see the world differently and internalize an approach to reasoning. While developing this requires actual study of specific subjects, the particular sub-fields you study are less important. Moving the needle even a little here matters.

And even if you focused on, say, basic financial literacy (which would be practically useful), they'd hate it just as much, and I doubt it would stick any better. Really we're just saying that it's hard to get people to do things they don't naturally care about.