skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They don't. I have never once in my life wanted to talk to my smart speaker about what I wanted for dinner, not even because a smart speaker is/can be creepy, not because of social anxiety, no, it's just simpler and more straightforward to open Doordash on my damn phone, and look at a list of restaurants nearby to order from. Or browse a list of products on Amazon to buy. Or just call a restaurant to get a reservation. These tasks are trivial.

And like, as a socially anxious millennial, no I don't particularly like phone calls. However I also recognize that setting my discomfort aside, a direct connection to a human being who can help reason out a problem I'm having is not something easily replaced with a chatbot or an AI assistant. It just isn't. Perfect example: called a place to make a reservation for myself, my wife and girlfriend (poly long story) and found the place didn't usually do reservations on the day in question, but the person did ask when we'd be there. As I was talking to a person, I could provide that information immediately, and say "if you don't take reservations don't worry, that's fine," but it was an off-busy hour so we got one anyway. How does an AI navigate that conversation more efficiently than me?

As a techie person I basically spend the entire day interacting with various software to perform various tasks, work related and otherwise. I cannot overstate: NONE of these interactions, not a single one, is improved one iota by turning it into a conversation, verbal or text-based, with my or someone else's computer. By definition it makes basic tasks take longer, every time, without fail.
Just off the top of my head:

Run Ceph on https://rook.io/ ; don't bother with Cephadm. Running Rook provides very helpful guard rails. Put the logs for Ceph Rook into Elasticsearch+Kibana on its own small (three or four node) dedicated Ceph Rook cluster. Which Kubernetes distro this runs on matters more than anything.

Recently we are looking at using https://www.parseable.com/ instead of Elasticsearch+Kibana. And we had somewhat recently started moving things from Elaticsearch+Kibana to OpenSearch+OpenSearchDashboards due to the license change.

The requirement outlined by Ceph documentation to dedicate layer-1 paths (can be same switches, but must be different ports) to Ceph replication is not about "performance" but about normal functionality.

If you have any pointed questions feel free to email "section two thirty audit@mail2tor dot com" (where "two thirty" are the three digits rather than spelled out).
> Like...in what way?

GP literally told you the ways in their post: texture. Taste will vary regardless of the anti-caking agent, of course.
Also I think if I'd use your product, I'd like to be able to host the model elsewhere in case I don't like the platform anymore :)
So what's happening here is that there is a group who is banning books and then doing language policing because it has bad optics. What everyone else is hearing is, "Conditional banning isn't banning" which isn't a coherent argument.

It's pretty clear that if the books they are banning from these places were unconditionally banned they wouldn't go to bat for them. Rather the sentiment would be "that's good actually." It doesn't take a genius to recognize that the playbook is to make incremental advances and argue over definitions in order to achieve this goal.
There are different kinds of autonomy. In every European country I am familiar with there's a fairly rigid curriculum (national or otherwise) that needs to be followed, but there's often a lot of autonomy about how individual lessons are delivered. I think in the US, you might argue that the opposite situation exists.
This is true. But then again Trump was a staunch democrat who lived in a penthouse his whole life. Yet is able to just flip a switch on any topic and a whole voter base eats it up. So it's really hard to know what grounds to criticize them on when the opposition has just pure chaos magic on their side.
Perhaps it would be of interest to people into social media marketing or people trying to build social media presence. Keywords mean a lot to them. I'm sure you've thought of it. Perhaps that is where market potential exists for it.
OH, absolutely. That's another gem!
That is what implementation defined were supposed to be.
An interesting fact about Minecraft is that when it came out, storing the block IDs for the loaded area used up a big chunk of your computer's RAM and had to be optimized as much as possible. So it was 8 bits per block space, and when they expanded to 12 bits, they added on another array with 8 bits per 2 spaces.

Now, it doesn't even use block IDs any more. It uses one whole object per block type, one pointer to one of those objects per block space, and has a lot more block types. The on-disk format stores the entire string name of the block, once per 16x16x16 region it occurs in.
>Teachers cannot do everything, and they are already stretched thin and underpaid

One could make the argument that they can't even do anything. They exist at this point mostly because if they didn't, we'd have packs of naked feral 10 year olds roaming the streets and butchering any human they found for cannibalism. Have you ever seen a reddit thread where someone randomly thanks the gods because the kids finally school age and they can stop spending $40,000/year (or more) on daycare?

But, I think, in the coming decades all these problems will evaporate like some nightmare that fades away upon waking... public schools will continue to close at ever-increasing rates as our population rapidly ages.
I thought it was some kind of trendy alcohol that I hadn't heard of, that probably comes in a brown bottle
On average, I should have said. In terms of GDP per capita, budget size, etc. But or course, that doesn't mean it was uniformly better, it can't have been.
> which I think was justified.

With all respect to your parents, given you were 3, I don't think it was justified. You said yourself you were imitating Looney Tunes. Who lets a 3 year old watch Looney Tunes?
N. Korean officials turn to Bitcoin to shield assets from regime scrutiny
Maybe you don't notice, but I notice that it doesn't melt properly with those anti-caking agents in it.
sort of. im no scholar but i think learning to appreciate writing for the prose, style, and vocabulary and not only the story should be required in higher education
> Even if it is the most common method in text books (I’m not sure that’s true), it’s also almost always wrong. The index must always be sized to fit what you’re indexing over.

"The code was wrong, so it was OK that I made it slower" is a message board argument, not a business argument.

> As for your compiler statement — yes. At least at Apple, there is ongoing clang compiler work, focused on security, that actively makes things slower, and there has been for years.

The performance of code that runs on consumer devices has less of a measurable economic impact than that of code that runs on the server.
> Of course CPS goes after such children IF AND ONLY IF they have been raised well.

Why do you believe this?
And the Dow is up over 300: https://digital.fidelity.com/prgw/digital/research/quote/das...

NASDAQ is the only laggard, but it's still been going up all day like the rest of the indexes.

What does it all mean? Beats me, but I was wondering if all of this wasn't "priced in" to begin with.
The problem I find in many cases is that people are restrained by their imagination of what's possible, so they target existing workflows for AI. But existing workflows exist for a reason: someone already wanted to do that, and there have been countless man-hours put into the optimization of the UX/UI. And by definition they were possible before AI, so using AI for them is a bit of a solution in search of a problem.

Flights are a good example but I often cite Uber as a good one too. Nobody wants to tell their assistant to book them an Uber - the UX/UI is so streamlined and easy, it's almost always easy enough to just do it yourself (or if you are too important for that, you probably have a private driver already). Basically anything you can do with an iPhone and the top 20 apps is in this category. You are literally competing against hundreds of engineers/product designers who had no other goal than to build the best possible experience for accomplishing X. Even if LLMs would have been helpful a priori - they aren't after every edge case has already been enumerated and planned for.
You'd think there would be a market for something OSS here. It would be problematic to keep clean/useful...
7. Actually care about the working class. They're your core constituency, after all. Stop thinking of them as "a basket of deplorables". Instead, listen to them. Find out what they care about, what they want, what they value, and the represent that.
>One benefits directly while the other doesn't.

That's the exact of cynicism I'm talking about. It doesn't matter whether banning third party was good for users or not, only whether Google (or Mozilla) stood to benefit. This is absolutely toxic because it means objectively good changes get shouted down.

> Plus many people complained.

For what, Firefox?
You just need one.
Article is unclear on how much the solar panels add to this. They claim it got over 500 watts from the solar cells. But a Tesla draws over 360kW -- obviously dwarfing the solar cells. This is a tiny little car, so I imagine it requires much, much less -- but "much much less" could easily be 10 kW, which still dwarfs the .5 kW from the solar cells.

I wish we could produce smaller, lighter vehicles in general. Motorcycles can easily get 90+ MPG. If we all had cars as small as this tiny car, we might not have to do anything else about climate change -- even if it had an ICE engine.
What makes you think that other countries aren't seeing the same decline? In France, as far as I can tell, the situation is similar.

For instance, I've seen a lot of interviews like this https://youtu.be/7Pl4rvZ9amc?si=RMm8B1BmSSdNt0vq

My brother, who is a high school teacher in Canada tells me similar stories from his first-hand experience.
We've (ex Google Deepmind researchers) been doing research in increasing the reliability of agents and realized it is pretty non-trivial, but there are a lot of techniques to improve it. The most important thing is doing rigorous evals that are representative of what your users do in your product. Often this is not the same as academic benchmarks. We made our own benchmarks to measure progress.

Plug: We just posted a demo of our agent doing sophisticated reasoning over a huge dataset ((JFK assassination files -- 80,000 PDF pages): https://x.com/peterjliu/status/1906711224261464320

Even on small amounts of files, I think there's quite a palpable difference in reliability/accuracy vs the big AI players.
Netflix CEO says movie theaters are dead
The people who lived through those times in the trenches tend to pass down their stress to their children if it's not adequately addressed first. Then they get told that because they have it better than their parents, their stress is irrelevant and they need to forge on regardless.

I think this is a multifaceted problem more complicated than just runaway stress, the state of education, or addictive technology. All of these systems feed back into each other to create a perfect storm.
I believed that about social workers until my partner disclosed she was having postpartum at the doctor's office and the social worker proceeded to pick her apart because our son was wearing mismatched socks. Meanwhile all of the parents in the group she's created all do that occasionally.
the initial scope of minecraft was also in line with the java applet games of ~2005, like the ski simulator. minecraft came well after the applet era, almost to the end of the flash.

huh. Minecraft is the taylor swift of video games. the last big star before big tech took over discovery and access for an industry.
> But if -fwrapv semantics were mandated by spec, then presumably compilers would at least hardcode a check for such a common optimization (if they are not doing so already).

I don't know what this means. The optimization becomes invalid if fwrapv is mandated, so compilers can't do it anymore.
Just because you're ignorant of something, it doesn't mean that something isn't real, or that others can't perceive it.

And just because someone knowledgeable shows you something you hadn't noticed before (and then you start noticing it all the time), it doesn't mean it's just all in your head. Being discerning about things can be taught. (And sometimes knowing can be a curse!)
Mortgage company Rocket buying Mr. Cooper in all-stock deal valued at $9.4B
> Unfairly compensated

First, test this assumption by getting another job offer — even in a role that doesn’t make much use of AI.
The higher pitch velocity made something like this inevitable. Remember when a pitcher who threw 95 was a big deal?
It's a combination of phones and that we live in the age of flake. Relevant quotes

> It’s the phones, stupid. They are absolutely addicted to their phones...They can’t sit in a seat for 50 minutes. Students routinely get up during a 50 minute class, sometimes just 15 minutes in, and leave the classroom. I’m supposed to believe that they suddenly, urgently need the toilet, but the reality is that they are going to look at their phones.

> Chronic absenteeism. As a friend in Sociology put it, “Attendance is a HUGE problem—many just treat class as optional.” Disappearing students. Students routinely just vanish at some point during the semester. They don’t officially drop out or withdraw from the course, they simply quit coming.

The problems of society obviously bleed into college life.
Thank you!

Maybe I'll finally get some of the more obvious improvements done and have something a bit more polished this week. :)
There's a range of possible performance costs. Let's talk about the lowest: the standard changes "the behavior is undefined" to "the behavior is unspecified". Everything else is the same, except that suddenly your program still has semantic meaning if there's signed overflow.

Why would that be problematic?
Unlikely. Things need to be simple and consistent. The web is already a disaster on both of those factors and has been for a long time.
The Worldwar series from Harry Turtledove plays this from an alien perspective. A big, powerful and very stable alien empire sends a probe to Earth, the probe sees knights fighting on horseback. Perfect, our next target! When their sublight invasion fleet finally arrives, the second world war is in a full swing - and humans don't really use knights anymore.
Goes kind of deeper than that though.

How is a college realistically supposed to reject a guy with a clearly qualifying 28 or 29 on the ACT? You're going to have to give a helluv-an explanation for that, because I can guarantee, you do that to too many kids and the politicians are gonna come after you.

The problem is enormous. That kids can pass these entrance exams without being truly literate is what makes this issue so intractable.

To me, the only politically and socially acceptable option is to fail them in their college coursework. We don't do that though. Most students live by the "curve".
I don't think the average voter is in favor of more taxation. The average voter is afraid that "tax the rich" will turn into taxing me.
> uh... I change that

The variant spellings are all standard English, and, notably, in the British English that Hinton speaks, dyke is a common spelling for a levee built against water. As in, Offa's Dyke, a large earthwork in the UK.
Is this article more LLM-generated junk?

The very prominent statistic they use close to the beginning of the article is both confidently and spectacularly incorrect in a way that should have been obvious even to someone doing a cursory skim of the text:

"For instance, there was the National Public Data (NPD) breach in 2024. This catastrophic incident exposed the sensitive personal information of nearly 2.9 billion US, Canadian, and British citizens. "

If you sum up the populations of those three countries, you don't even get to 500 million people, never mind 2.9 billion.
> It does so by keeping the cheese 'dryer' than it normally would be. Putting it in your mouth basically undoes that.

That's not how chemistry works.
Ha - here's the advice I give to YC startups about making demo videos for HN:

"What works well for HN is raw and direct, with zero production values. Skip any introductions and jump straight into showing your product doing what it does best. Voiceover is good, but no marketing slickness—no fancy logos or background music!"

I guess there's zero production values and zero production values...
SAT scores track pretty damn well with college success. Thats why schools are quietly reintroducing them as part of admissions since the "no SAT" policy fucked up kids who weren't cutting it.
Ah, the SR-71 was new to me, thank you!

https://www.thesr71blackbird.com/Aircraft/Stories/sr-71-blac...

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html
This is a good problem to solve for. But making this closed source makes it a bad choice for us to use.

And the other aspect as someone already specified is it seems to only work with single agent workflows.
If your project is hard to build, that's your problem, not mine. I'll simply spend my time working on projects that respect it.
We're primarily an AWS shop but some Oracle BDR assigned to cover us recently reached out on LinkedIn.

I asked for an incident report and received this terse response:

> There has been no breach of Oracle Cloud. The published credentials are not for the Oracle Cloud. No Oracle Cloud customers experienced a breach or lost any data.
As a European Apple user I welcome any and all fines that can be levied on Apple for their anticompetitive practices.
It's basically LEGO, it tickles the mind. Which is ironic, because LEGO Worlds isn't nearly as inspiring as Minecraft.
But there, the black hole is ejecting other mass near it, not its own.
> and that can result in unintentional computer melting:

If your program already has the capability to melt your computer, then you can accidentally trigger that with a bug. That’s a massive if, and that’s a risk of any bug in such a program.

Once again, you can already configure the behavior to avoid this (ftrapv, or fwrapv) which is as much as rust will do.
I'm Canadian and remember repurposing AOL floppy disks that came in the mail circa 1996.

Never used the service though.
Ekapkgs, a poly-repo fork of Nixpkgs
I'm not sure about this. It could break the positioning / sizing / box CSS properties.

That would require rendering arbitrary HTML in the native widget, outside the browser. And I think that would require putting WebKit in the native widget. Or, to maintain a "copy" of the widget that looks like the native one but uses WebKit to render things. Seems annoying to maintain.

(And there are the security concerns mentioned by the other comments)
I've been working on this problem for a while. There are whole companies that do this. They all work by having a human review a sample of the results and score them (with various uses of magic to make that more efficient). And then suggest changes to make it more accurate in the future.

The best companies can get up to 90% accuracy. Most are closer to 80%.

But it's important to remember, we're expecting perfection here. But think about this: Have you ever asked someone to book a flight for you? How did it go?

At least in my experience, there's usually a few back and forth emails, and then something is always not quite right or as good as if you did it yourself, but you're ok with that because it saved you time. The one thing that makes it better is if the same person does it for you a couple of times and learned your specific habits and what you care about.

I think the biggest problem in AI accuracy is expecting the AI to be better than a human.
> When you convince employers to require degrees for middle class wages, this is what you get.

Yes, that.

Also how did this happen?

And also, middle-school (high-school? what is it called on the US?) children are supposed to be able to read a small text and understand it too. This is one of those things everybody should be able to do, and employers have good reasons to require.
I disagree. On my website I have a sidebar and a main content area. You are able to scroll through posts on the sidebar and through the content on the main content area. The sidebar is a dark color. Being able to use a thin sidebar and make the color of the sidebar dark to match the background makes the website look a lot better than having a clunky white sidebar on a dark background.

The user can still obviously see the sidebar and knows its a sidebar, it just works better with the design.
Amazon Nova Act Browser Use Model
I had a very similar view to this for a long time. Then I sat down and actually read some difficult novels, but good ones. They are difficult to read but not in the same way that, say, bad social science research is--full of jargon and overly long sentences so the author looks smart. Good novels are difficult because they use language in interesting ways to convey more information than just a dry scientific description of how one event followed another towards the resolution of the plot, like you'd find in most crime novels for example.

It really is worth actually learning to read good books. They aren't hard for the sake of being hard. But they also aren't simple for the sake of being simple.
What are you responding to here?

> If a process has the ability to do something, then it may do so

You agree with me. Once again, on an embedded device writing over a buffer may do absolutely anything. Thanks to memory protection, what a process can do is more limited. The C spec is written for both cases.

No gcc and clang will not insert code to start rm’ing files when you overflow a signed integer.
Electric is a read-path sync engine for Postgres that does partial replication [1]. It's agnostic to your choice of client -- you can sync into anything you like. It doesn't handle or mandate a pattern for syncing local writes back to Postgres. Instead, it's designed to allow you to handle concerns like writes and auth using your existing API [2].

Turso Offline Sync is an active-active replication system for distributed SQLite/Turso databases. IIUC, this release adds the capability to sync local writes back to the cloud [3].

[1] https://electric-sql.com
[2] https://electric-sql.com/blog/2024/11/21/local-first-with-yo...
[3] https://turso.tech/blog/turso-offline-sync-public-beta#what-...
I really hope this person is wrong. My son is too young now, but I can't wait to take my son to the movies... A lot, when he's old enough. I've thought about building a theater room at home, but "going to the movies with friends" seems like such a formative experience, it's super sad to me if it's gone.
Crypto for Humans: Lessons from the Bybit Hack
> Free revenue for universities.

Many years ago when I went to university my state created a fund to pay a certain portion of a student's credit hours. This was implemented in my second or third year from what I remember. I noticed that my direct out of pocket cost (or really how large the loan I took out was) never went down from before this program and after. The university was pretty flush with funding though.
I don't doubt what you're saying is true, I have heard similar things many many times over the years. The problem is that it's always stated somewhat vaguely, never with concrete examples, and it doesn't match my (perhaps naive) reading of any of the standards.

For example, I just checked C99[1]: it says in many places "If <X>, the behavior is undefined". It also says in even more places "<X> is implementation-defined" (although from my cursory inspection, most -- but not all -- of these seem to be about the behavior of library functions, not the compiler per se).

So it seems to me that the standards writers were actually very particular about the difference between implementation-defined behavior and undefined behavior.

[1] https://port70.net/~nsz/c/c99/n1256.html