skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"...because of the Second Amendment."
I've had the misfortune of working on "enterprise" software where avoidance of "hard-coding" went so far that the core system did almost nothing other than exist as a way to plug in mutable functionality. All in the name of not having to re-build, or to re-deploy, and being able to tell the customer that no code changes would be required, even though the "configuration" was practically code, and required many of the things that code might require, like qualified configuration developers, test suites, and detailed deployment plans. Truly madness. In the era of software as a service via internet, software is more "soft" than it has ever been. You can change it and deploy it to production any time you please.
This is purposefully aimed at Cursor.

$10 from Github vs $20 for Cursor. [0]

And finally...

Extinguish. [0]

[0] https://github.com/features/copilot/plans

[1] https://github.com/getcursor/cursor/issues/2976
Ah yes, the good old enlightened centrist
Kind of love this idea...
Simply make it illegal to base the choice of what ad to show on any data derived from the person accessing the content. The same content accessed by different people from different locations should have the same ad probability distribution. You can still do old-school targeting by associating static content with certain types of ad a priori, as long as the shown content is independent of the user and not generated from any user data.
Rt is just basic science, and basic science doesn’t change depending on the year.
I think this needs to be fixed at a different level. Companies (at least in the US), are supposed to be growing.

“You're Either Growing Or You're Dying.”

Banning or limiting advertising will be hard until that type of thinking changes.
It scales depending on the dataset you want exposure on and the compute you have available, so any specific time box is kind of meaningless if you don’t know the rest of the inputs that went into it. The llama 3 paper went into a lot of this and how these decisions were made (see section 3 and onward): https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/the-llama-3-herd-o...

tl;dr: llama 3 was 54 days, but it’s more complicated than that.
The benchmarks are awful. No disrespect to the people who worked to make them, nothing is easy. But I suggest going through them sometime. For example, I'm currently combing through the MMMU, MMMU-Pro, and MMStar datasets to build a better multimodal benchmark, and so far only about 70% of the questions have passed the sniff test. The other 30% make no sense, lead the question, or are too ambiguous. Of the 70%, I have to make minor edits to about a third of them.

Another example of how the benchmarks fail (specifically for vision, since I have less experience with the pure-text benchmarks): Almost all of the questions fall into either having the VLM read a chart/diagram/table and answer some question about it, or identify some basic property of an image. The former just tests the vision component's ability to do OCR, and then the LLM's intelligence. The latter are things like "Is this an oil painting or digital art?" and "Is the sheep in front of or behind the car" when the image is a clean shot of a sheep and a car. Absolutely nothing that tests a more deep and thorough understanding of the content of the images, nuances, or require the VLM to think intelligently about the visual content.

Also, due to the nature of benchmarks, it can be quite difficult to test how the models perform "in the wild." You can't really have free-form answers on benchmarks, so they tend to be highly constrained opting for either multiple choice quizzes or using various hacks to test if the LLM's answer lines up with ground truth. Multiple choice is significantly easier in general, raising the base pass rate. Also the distractors tend to be quite poorly chosen. Rather than representing traps or common mistakes, they are mostly chosen randomly and are thus often easy to weed out.

So there's really only a weak correlation between either of those metrics and real world performance.
Same as they always have?
I'm going to wear the tinfoil hat: a firm is able to produce a sought-after behavior a few months later and throws people off. Is it more likely that the firm (worth billions at this point) is engineering these solutions into the model, or is it because of emergent neural network architectural magic?

I'm not saying that they are being bad actors, just saying this is more probable in my mind than an LLM breakthrough.
If you're building your own framework and server, then yes. Otherwise, all major frameworks handle the communication with uwsgi, etc and you can treat them as a blackbox. Any other setup in-between (like nginx -> uwsgi) is boilerplate stuff easily found in tutorials or LLM chat.
By PHP I meant more that it causes full page renders (ie server side rendered) vs client side rendered frameworks like React.
Compiling an expression to a tree of closures, and a list of statements to a slice of closures, is exactly how I optimized [gomacro](https://github.com/cosmos72/gomacro) my Go interpreter written in go.

There are more tricks available there, as for example unrolling the loop that calls the list of closures, and having a `nop` closure that is executed when there's nothing to run but execution is not yet at the end of the the unrolled loop.
Voyagers are the greatest technical achievement of human kind. Keeping in the space a piece of hardware run by a computer with power of today's car keys, in the hostile environment, outside freaking solar system is something that is the most amazing thing we have witnessed so far.

Kudos to all the people who made it happen and kept going this project, we owe them, as a humanity, really a lot.

Voyagers will keep flying across Milky Way, maybe they will last longer the the Earth itself, as the witnesses of our civilization.
> Y’all have gotta give up the TikTok bullshit and read some books.

I have a book for you that predates the "TikTok bullshit." It's called "The Fateful Triangle" by Noam Chomsky. He portrays internal Isreali thought and political currents in the early '80s, which are more or less unchanged 40+ years later. In particular, the dichotomy between the "doves" of the left who want an apartheid state with a pacified Palestinian population to live in townships whose purpose is to provide cheap labor, and the "hawks" who outright called for the Lebensraum policies that we're seeing today in the illegally occupied territories of the, as Menachem Begin called them, "beasts walking on two legs," remains unchanged.

As for Medicare for All, I don't know of anyone who has had a positive experience using the American for-profit, multi-payer healthcare system. What is the alternative bumper sticker for keeping the status quo? "I <3 Getting my claims denied" or maybe "I DON'T want to shoot the CEO"?
Understood. I should've left the `e` out, but it's too late to edit now. (I love Haskell, but I'm not actually very good at it.)
> Based on the reports coming from Doge

Ah nevermind. You are one of those people.
No. Why would they?
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To jump onto the "comment having nothing to do with the article" pile:

1) I wonder how many of those chargers are tesla? (not the elon windmill tilting argument, but) These chargers are not compatible with many EVs. In my opinion, the well integrated charging network is the single biggest tesla technical advantage, but not much help to many other types of cars.

2) Also, the need to "run the app" for each specific charger vendor, and often a requirement to keep a cash balance on that app account, is a major impediment to easy "public" charger usage. I've never _ever_ seen a gas station that required me to "be a member" to pump gas 8-/ California, at least, should outlaw this restriction. A person should be able to plug in the CC and charge.

3) WRT charger compatibility with a car: I also don't see why "public" chargers don't offer a standard 240v outlet. Then any car's portable charger brick could be plugged in regardless of fast charge compatibility with that charger. This wouldn't provide fast charging, but it would allow pretty much any car to be plugged into pretty much any charger.

4) Almost this entire comments page is dedicated to the "road trip" scenario. My guess would be that for most people this amounts to less than 1% of total miles driven in any given year. For appt dwellers, access to "public" charging is a daily requirement, but for anyone living in a house, it's not. I've owned my used EV for ~9 months, and I've never charged anywhere except my house. I have a gas car I use for long trips, which I hope to replace with a plug-in hybrid eventually. And quite frankly, an EV with a 300+ mile range is enough for a typical vacationer to drive for a full day, and then stay in a charging friendly location.

The idea that people leave their house and need to drive 500 miles, for their commute, is a super minuscule portion of the population. Fixating on that produces invalid conclusions.
A visual alignment like the one you mention wouldn’t have been useful for spacecraft to get to the planets more easily.

An alignment in the scale of the one that enabled the Voyager flybys of the outer planets won’t happen until sometime in the 23rd century.
There’s a ban here in BC except on indigenous land. Which is scattered throughout where I live. So you have these primitive, ugly things sticking out in clusters wherever people are allowed to put them. I wish people didn’t need the money to allow those on their land.
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Thanks. I ran into it in a real life situation, and was surprised that the answer is so nuanced. It had me questioning my sanity for a while. :)
Someone never understood the tragedy of the commons.
I find it curious that so many separate components are used (that presumably aren't cheap, as they target a low-volume, pretty niche industry).

It seems to me that most of these can be replaced by any computer with an analog audio output (and since this is Jeff Geerling we're talking about, it can be a Raspberry PI)?

Maybe put two and use the "silence detector" box to automatically switch between them in case one goes down?

In fact, I wonder if a custom board can be designed with 2 separate stages (each powered by a compute module and DAC) and some circuitry to do the silence detection and switching, with some GPIO lines going back to each to inform them of which one is being the chosen one for the final audio output. This would effectively condense this whole thing into a single box. But not being a broadcast engineer, I'm just talking out of my ass here, maybe there's a good reason they're doing things they way they do.
When I was product managing DG's big NUMA servers, The Soul of a NUMA Machine also got thrown around a bit :-)

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That could be survivor bias. What else has he predicted?
They didn't start out banning those ads. Those ads were banned because they were found to be more harmful than they are worth. We've come to realize that much of the ads we're subjected to these days are also harmful, so it's natural for us to want them banned as well.
One of the tricks was that exceptions/traps/interrupts were handled in a neat way.

The microcode looked at the first instruction of the handler. If it was an old instruction, a backwards compatible stack frame was created. If it was a new instruction, a new-style stack frame was created.

Data General published a couple of papers about their new 32-bit architecture.
A big part of our mission is accessibility and consumer empowerment. We were able to build a smaller/simpler PC for gamers new to it that still leverages PC standards, and the processor we used also makes local interference of large models more accessible to people who want to tinker with them.
He provides no info. req/s? 95%ile mbps? How does he know the requests come from an "AI-scraper" as opposed to a normal L7 DDoS? LWN is a pretty simple site, it should be easy to saturate 10G ports
China, Africa, India, Vietnam, Philippines, Russia? Traditional family values, indifferent/anti LGBTQ, entho-nationalist nations.
It also has the unfortunate resonance of being the word for a collaborator in concentration camps.
> Even later: ...

Yes, now you've hit the crux of the problem. Does that violate the functor laws?
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> Try this thought experiment from the article - imagine a world without advertising. Products would still exist. Commerce would still happen.

But newspapers, TV and Youtube would die out.
ollama when
Dupe (337 points, 4 days ago, 107 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43545349

Yes.. it was that day
>What about just restrict it to advertising on the internet?

Why? I don't see the difference between a webpage and the magazine here, except that I guess you're assuming the webpage must be showing an unrelated ad.
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"I would like to share a prepared statement across database client sessions" is nearly the exact use case for a view, or some other possibly partially materialized decomposition. You are of course still going to use prepared statements in your clients to avoid naïve SQL injection, but that's always going to be true; by the time the engine has parsed a query sufficiently to validate it can be safely executed with given parameters, it has effectively been "prepared," so you're not actually getting a meaningful perf benefit there. Where you do see that benefit is, as almost always, in query complexity: if your statements cost so much to prepare and your sessions are so unreliable that this becomes a genuine problem, optimizing query preparation is very much the wrong place to start solving.

If you find yourself so frequently hitting socket timeouts attempting to execute database queries that you need to modify your ORM to work around this problem automatically, your problems likewise almost certainly begin at the schema layer. I'm not going to blame an ORM maintainer for having to deal with that concern in a way that avoids irritating library consumers, and I suppose I can see where it does no good arguing that one's own clients (said consumers) are using the database wrong in order to need such functionality.

I'd have thought to see perf considered to some extent beyond blaming the engine, but I suppose there is a kind of honesty in simply omitting any discussion of causes for these apparently so common "network errors," in cases where they are so common and thus must be so transparently retried that the entire existence of this behavior could be totally overlooked by the application developer nominally responsible for the database interaction.

(I'm curious why a library maintainer needs to assert responsibility over session variables at all times, but I suppose it makes sense from a perspective that one's users are not especially trustworthy, as I suppose most ORM maintainers and especially ActiveRecord's must conclude. I guess it's fair to say that connections needing to manipulate the session that granularly should exist outside the ORM entirely, but then we're back to the whole tiresome architectural question that's vexed the field for now nearly two decades since Neward's "Vietnam" paper: https://web.archive.org/web/20060703024451/http://blogs.tedn....)
I wonder if it has been trained on the lyrics of rap songs
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And as a github search[1], I recall it turning up fun work[2] amidst clutter.

Hmm, I wonder if an LLM could sift a "Essentials of Compilation" search[3] for interesting repos?

[1] https://github.com/search?q=Ghuloum&type=repositories https://github.com/search?q=incremental%20approach%20to%20co...
[2] just some old bookmarks: https://github.com/namin/inc https://github.com/iambrj/imin https://github.com/jaseemabid/inc
[3] https://github.com/search?q=Essentials%20of%20Compilation&ty...
Open Source Coalition Announces 'Model-Signing' to Strengthen ML Supply Chain
How exactly can a blog get swamped? It takes ~0 compute per request. Yes I'm claiming this is a fake problem
That idea about taxation is interesting, I’ve never considered that angle.

It would be very unpopular with the people I’d imagine.
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Lots of used tech is about to flood the market. Demand destruction will be a strong trend for a few years. I expect falling prices and a deflationary spiral.
This is a follow-up for the 10-years old post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9504028
Wasn’t expecting to see Exeter on the homepage for sure.
SetApp: Single monthly subscription for 250 Mac/iOS apps
That would be huge, also really good original scenario idea for a future sci-fi film
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> when I suggest we self-host something instead of forking over millions to AWS, it’s an instant no.

This is something that bothers me a lot, and I've given up. It's to a point where we're paying thousands of dollars sometimes a year for 200 lines of code.

It also kinda makes it harder to sometimes just practice engineering skills.

For example, I wrote a just in time access request solution at work. However, okta also has one of these. Funny thing is, the one I wrote is a proof of concept - so it's a little rough around the edges but nothing spectacularly wrong.

I then used the okta solution for this and my god, what an absolute mess of software they have.

1. They don't have the ability to have the requester specify a duration of access they want. It all has to be hardcoded.

2. Imagine you request access to group A for 3 hours. 2.5 hours later, you're thinking "Hmm, I think I'm going to need more access. So you make another access request for 3 hours. After half an hour that first access expires, and just removes your access. Even if you still have 2.5 hours left from your second access.

3. Without even trying, I got the backend for setting up the access requests into an inconsistent state. Okta's UI is insisting I can't delete a group because it's used by an access request form. However, when I was making that access request form the save button partially failed, so now there's this dangling foreign key somewhere in their database. Inconsistencies like that in software that's supposed to be the source of truth of access is just absolutely unacceptable.

4. Okta "removes" access by removing you from the group that you had requested. However, if there's any issues with Okta's provisioning code, from Okta's perspective you don't have access but the third party service might still think you do. They don't _remove_ the access from the third party first before removing it from their own source of truth.

What's depressing is that in my proof of concept, before even trying Okta's product I thought about and planned around all of these problems.

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Anyway rant over, but at least in hiring I am very adamant about the candidate knowing how to get a basic website up and running and understanding NAT/Port Forwarding/HTTP(S) Proxies. Why? Well, when our customers run into issues with our software our engineers need to have the fundamentals to help troubleshoot.
Look at the sibling replies. All the kvetching comes from blogs and simple websites, not the ones that consume compute per request
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Very little of value would be lost.
Is that such a bad thing? Are they really providing that much value?

The remaining YouTube channels would be concentrated around the ones that are of higher quality, rather than easy slop produced to push ads. Nobody would try to clone someone else's channel for money. They would only be produced by people who were passionate about that topic. There would be fewer channels by passionate people, but the percentage would be much higher, so it's not necessarily a worse situation overall.

TV has always cost money - you pay for satellite or cable, and the free-to-air programming available to you is overtly subsidized by your government - they shouldn't need to double-dip by showing ads.

We used to pay for newspaper subscriptions too. A lot of newspapers are trying to go back to that, but it's a market for lemons. Maybe if advertising was banned, we'd each subscribe to one or two online newspapers and discover which ones are decent and which ones are crap. Remember, it's harder to make someone who was paying $0.00 pay $0.01, than to make someone who was paying $10 pay $20. Would the market be more efficient at price discovery if there was no $0.00 at all?
In comedy, they call this “punching down” vs “punching up.”

If you poke fun at a lower status/power group, you’re hitting someone from a position of power. It’s more akin to bullying, and feels “meaner”, for lack of a better word.

Ripping on the hegemony is different. They should be able to take it, and can certainly fight back.

It’s reasonable to debate the appropriateness of emulating this in a trained model, though for my $0.02, picking on the little guy is a dick move, whether you’re a human or an LLM.
He thinks LLMs are a local maxima, not the ultimate one.

Doesn't mean that a local maxima can't be useful!
Meh. This scenario does not seem broadly representative of the US to me. I mean, I don't live anywhere exceptional and near me alone there are Food Lion, Harris Teeter, Wegmans, Trader Joes, Aldi, and Whole Foods stores in addition to the grocery sections at Walmart and Target. And if one drives a little further, there are Publix, H-Mart, and several smaller local outfits - Compare, Li Ming's Global Mart, etc.

And just Food Lion alone has probably half a dozen to a dozen different salt varieties on the spice aisle.

I'm sure there are places in the US where choice is more limited, but that's the thing about a country of the size of the United States... you can find all kind of scenarios in different regions.
Quoting: https://www.politico.eu/article/gold-germany-conservatives-s...

> Already in 2012, Wanderwitz had unsuccessfully requested to inspect the gold holdings as part of an effort to pressure the bank to either take a more active role as a custodian, or to repatriate it to Germany.

Well that is worrying, what was he unsuccessful?

Surely that is going to be big world drama if it turns out Germany's gold is missing in New York?

> Today, over half of the Bundesbank’s reserves are stored on its premises in Frankfurt. Outside the U.S., the remaining 13 percent is held at the Bank of England.

I see Germany not asking for gold in London to be returned, I guess because required for trade in currency?
I think there are some differences between those two types that are potentially relevant.
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