skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Tyler was a Sr. Data Science Engineer at MZ (the company behind Game of War and Mobile Strike). Prior to working at MZ he was an engineer at Apple. Tyler holds a Masters in Distributed Systems and Machine Learning from Johns Hopkins University."

"Alessandro was a Sr. Software Engineer at Bloomberg, LP where he worked on high throughput distributed pricing systems. He holds a Computer Science and a Biomedical Engineering degree from Johns Hopkins University."

Looks like they've built stuff before.

I don't like this database product because it lacks SDK:s in languages I would touch without getting paid, but I think the idea is sound and rather attractive. For many years I've used Picolisp in a similar way, it bundles an object database with a logic engine and a small Lisp-like programming language, which makes it easy to throw in some data and relations and slap on a web page with standard library widgets.

The BEAM is similar, you push some modules into it and store stuff in ETS and don't bother with RDBMS until you need it. If your data is small or trivially shardable you can get persistence too, with Mnesia.

I'm not so sure they'll be making a lot from that game of theirs, but if their database turns out to be robust it could become competitive with things like Supabase/Firebase and such, because there will be modules for serving web and auth and dashboards and whatnot you can just push in there and you're good to go. One-click-install for applications, similar to cPanel and Wordpress rigs, but less messy on the ops side.
> Citizenship and residency have both benefits, but also obligations. GP moved to France without a good grasp of the local language.

A good grasp of French language is not a requirement for French residency. Some visas require it, but not all, and if you can travel and reside in France without a visa, you don't have to know it. For EEA and Swiss citizens, all you need is a valid ID and a clean record.

> Note: I'm importantly not talking about the native minority languages in France.

Why not? NWS translated languages in minority languages of the US, that's exactly what this is about.

English was mentioned above the GP, which is why it was brought up, but European institutions commonly provide English translations along with regional languages in part because a lot of the EU population is bilingual. That actually helps a lot, especially since state regulation is a little slow to catch up with society at times. E.g. where I'm from we have a sizable Turkish population, and while Turkish is an officialy-recognised minority language, some local institutions are slow to catch up with population dynamics, so a lot of Turkish residents end up perusing the English version instead and they're fine with it.
Probably also bots
> most workloads would be nearest-neighbor

Thank you very much, that is the piece of the puzzle I was missing. Naively, it still seems (to me) far more hops for a 3d torus than a regular multi-level switch when you've got many thousands of nodes, but I can appreciate it could be much simpler routing. Although, I would guess in practice it requires something beyond the simplest routing solution to avoid congestion.
they own their factories. Contrary to what you're thinking, they actually only have 3-4 factories across the world.
AI Model Runs on 1997 Hardware Using Just 128MB RAM, Experiment Shows
sorry I was not joking. If flouride (also in toothpaste) would be enough to stop the typical tooth decay with the current habits of eating sugar, soda etc., well then fine.

But it is not enough. However I believe that stopping sugar, soda, bread etc. would be enough. In that case, the fluoride neurotoxin would not be necessary anymore.
Stopped reading after ai
Resin is nasty stuff
> BTW, both Footlocker and Dick's have gross margins ~30% but Dick's has an operating margin around 12% while FL is 1-2%. Clearly FL is an inferior retailer.

ELI5: What is the difference between gross margin and operating margin? Is operating margin the same as profit margin?
Clicking yourself a Bucket takes 5 Minutes.

Building a Server and keeping it secure and up-to-date and fixing hardware issues, takes relevant time
how big is the screen ?
Where I live that attitude is often summed up as "speak white".

Needless to say I moved here from a region where that would be shocking and offensive, and I don't really fit in culturally. But the land was cheap.
searching for running shoes returns a mix of brands and shoe models
If you like Red October, dont miss the french movie "Le chant du loup". Absolutely great for lovers of the genre: "The Wolf's Call" - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7458762/
Software engineers, who are the most skilled in terms of holding ai's hand to create a product, should be cloning every single saas out there and making money by eating a share of the market. AI is a great way for engineers to become founders. Let's bring the competition.
For your commute?

Yeah, I can also take a plane from Germany to England and pay less than what it costs me for the taxi that I will need to get to the airport. Does that mean that flying EasyJet should be considered the most efficient means of transportation?

What exactly are you trying to argue, here?

- That the cost of one train ticket is higher than the cost of a car trip?

- For one single passenger or for a family?

- In the US or overall?

- Are externalities factored in?
Yes that is correct

> https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-54121151

The museum is still pretty much curated as it was, I have been going on and off for the last 40 years. The glass roof refurb made a huge difference and they seem to rotate their large animal skeletons more than they did, which my friend's children are always thrilled with.

But it is the subtle bits of the museum I enjoy, the aforementioned roof and things like the fact that on the first floor every 'marble' pillar is actually a made of a different stone (i.e not all marble at all).

It's a joyous way to spend an afternoon.
I'll add it to the post. I have seen it before but it slipped from my mind.
Yes, that's what I mean.

Classic Oberon compiles to RISC5 (not RISC-V), which is a "made up" CPU. Unless you have a FPGA, Oberon is always going to be emulated on a regular machine.
Sure but when it comes to tech US currently (supposedly) has very high labor costs and weak labor laws. All other countries with a tiny number of exceptions have low to very low labor costs and more regulation.

If US has both it might shift the scale a bit.
But so much more besides that, including the model itself, RAG, the agentic workflow control, moderation, etc. There's also a huge factor of maintenance, that's a key reason why companies have different internal and external APIs - they don't just open up everything internal and hand the code for managing all of that to you. Interface design is really important.

Not to mention the cost being a factor here - who pays for which part.
Using AI to build AI to help AI build more AI with AI
I think you'd have got a much smaller eco-system of third party apps for MacOS (think omnigraffle etc). Whether that would have made a substantive difference I can't say.
> It's probable that your experience was successful because you already had personal trust on behalf of your company

Yes, absolutely, I’m merely stating that it doesn’t make sense to make ‘no pay, no work’ a dogmatic position.
THe question is would those students have done any better or worse if there hadn't been LLM for them to "copy" off?

In other words, is the school certificaftion meant to distinguish those who genuinely learnt, or was it merely meant to signal (and thus, those who used to copy pre-llm are going to do the same, and thus reach the same level of certification regardless of whether they learnt or not)?
You might also be interested in DSPy's prompt optimizers: https://dspy.ai/learn/optimization/optimizers/
> To understand this last point, it may help to understand that this encoding of numbers is basically zero as [], one as [null], two as [null, null], etc

Isnt it rather nil, [nil], [[nil]] and [[[nil]]] and so on?
> Spotify CEO stated on X that before asking for more headcount they have to justify not being able to do the job with an agent.

Spotify CEO is channeling The Two Bobs from Office Space: "What are you actually doing here?" Just in a nastier way, with a kind of prisoner's dilemma on top. If you can get by with an agent, fine, you won't bother him. If you can't, why can't you? Should we replace you with someone who can, or thinks they can?

Spotify CEO is not his employees' friend.
The same author created the anti-slop sampler, which is proof that LLMs can be trivially made extremely creative.

Samplers are being slept on by the community. Sam peach is secretly one of the biggest geniuses in all of LLMs. It’s time for the community to recognize this.
No.

You have anything else that modifies the context, tools, model, and most importantly perhaps the iteration that controls what's going on with those other values.
That's a lot more than I remember, but doesn't surprise :)

You are right tho. If I would live near a bus station that has more than 3 rides a day (which 98% of all Swiss do, rough estimate) I would probably just use a halbtax and a Region specific subscription.

But if I use regular SBB tickets for like 10-15 short trips a year you are already getting closer to the GA. Depends on your patterns :)
Let's go brrrr! I always wondered how the end of yc would look like.
GDPR, 7 Years Later
The whole point of imposing retaliatory tariffs is that it puts pressure on the aggressor to give up, on the basis that you will then immediately drop the retaliatory tariffs. The point is to produce a quick end. Retaliatory tariffs with a _minimum_ duration would be counterproductive.

I suppose you could have a kind of tariff equivalent of the doomsday machine from Dr Strangelove, in principle; a set of automatic measures to come into force if the adversary does [whatever]. However, Trump strikes me as a bit of a General Ripper, so it might not be a _great_ idea.
General anesthesia reduces uniqueness of brain's functional 'fingerprint,' study
> If anything, US ability to project power is greater now than any time in the past.

Absolutely not. It caved to Russia in the first place, it is weak against Russia. It WANTS to project power, but while doing so, it is showing itself crumbling into itself.
OpenSSH 10.0 [postquantum ML-KEM is now default key exchange]
I've been using Superwhisperapp for over a year and I get nothing like the error level your comparison table suggests. Which model were you using with it?

Aqua looks good and I will be testing it, but I do like that with superwhisper nothing leaves my computer unless I add AI integrations.
I hear about 'intern' posts where young people are expected to do a job for free, for extended periods, in return for some industry experience. Mostly I hear about it in the US. I don't think it is a thing here in the UK (is it even legal?). But it sounds horrible.

How common is unpaid intern work?

Why should big, wealthy companies expect young people to work for free?

Is this a deliberate form of gate keeping so that only people from wealthy families can get a foot in the door?
The UI was particularly flexible and different data was visualised completely differently, that's all I immediately remember (it's been a while), but I don't remember being there being any limitation with data interactions ...

You have now given me enough reason to binge watch all at https://www.youtube.com/@gtoolkit :-)
I’ve also noticed that with longer-form text, the amount of meaningful information seems to plateau — it doesn’t scale proportionally with the character count.
Developers drive adoption (not least by creating software) and high specs.
A master blacksmith can shoe a horse an' all. Laser alignment is also a solved problem with a machine. Just because something can be done by hand does not mean it has any intrinsic value.
All of the companies will term you they’re “green” too.

The first step is always “reduce”, or at least maintain…. Not increase.
> It's like expecting them to do arithmetic by hand. No one does.

But those who traditionally learnt arithmetics have had this training, which _enables_ higher order thinking.

Being reliant on AI to do this means they would not have had that same level of training. It could prevent them from being able to synthesize new patterns or recognize them (and so if the AI also cannot do the same, you get stagnation).
+1!

I had little expectations toward that movie (I think it was just randomly airing on the TV and I watched it), but was very pleasantly surprised.

I'm a fan of Clancy's books (and movies based on them), and The Wolf's Call could easily be one of them.
I've had job interviews where pay wasn't mentioned at all. That was weird. Can't tell what would have happened next.
All you have to do is recognize it as a statement of opinion. It’s not a “maneuver”, it’s just an argument, and you can disagree with it.
"don't use flowery or over exaggerated language" works well in my experience
>the app asked me for access to read text and images of my clipboard
yeah, that's the browser asking for permission to read and write to the clipboard

>it seems like your app can read anything of my clipboard at any time
only when you paste, the app reads the latest entry in your clipboard, and only if it is a valid json object of a table, note, or subject area, it gets imported

just using the clipboard api: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Clipboard_A...
So they can look very deeply into what their users do and have a lot of tooling to facilitate this.

They will likely sell some version of this "Clio" to managers, to make it easier for them to accept this very intimate insight into the businesses they manage.
> Because engineers are typically (although not always) terrible at business. Or marketing. Or Sales. Or whatever.

You do realise that almost all of the unicorns and almost-unicorns of the last two decades were conceived, started and built by engineers, do you? Perhaps beacuse having ones brain primed to very hard problems, does not make it so hard to learn the "hard" business skills on the side after all, all the while coding up the product?
But how would former humanities students get their "tech salaries" if we did not somehow convince engineers that they suck at what are honestly said, third-tier competencies.
They look like a video game. There arent enough NPCs. These are idealized images, akin to tourist photos. The seem to be taken in the early morning, before the crowds of people appear. The bell is perhaps the best example. Just think of the industry needed to mine and forge all that metal. These streets should be crammed with people but it looks like a town from Oblivion: massive constructions inhabited by a handful of residents. These are great photos, somewhat limited by the camera tech of the time, but I would like to see more typical scenes.
Everything is so fluid nowadays. Even if use-case was found, someone would find a way to run Linux on it.
It also put a price tag on ransomware attacks. I’ve read about groups threatening companies with something like: 'This breach will cost you X in GDPR fines — we’ll give you a Y% discount and keep it quiet.' A wild side effect.
I have mixed opinions on this yes you shouldn't expect government services to be in a foreign language, but some services (e.g. weather, health information) can be important for tourists too and if it is no trouble to provide the service in multiple languages, then it is beneficial to the tourism industry to do so.
But i already know how to program, then why do i need Haiku ?
Presumably there's some point in the film where you see this is actually in a sub rather than a propaganda film made elsewhere?
I actually prefer `with`, since it fits better with the language:

- It uses `;` in the same way as `assert`, whereas `let` uses a whole other keyword `in`.

- It uses attrsets as reified/first-class environments, unlike `let`, which lets us do `with foo; ...`.

- Since it uses attrsets, we can use their existing functionality, like `rec` and `inherit`; rather than duplicating it.

I've been using Nix for over a decade (it's even on my phone), and I've never once written a `let`.

(I agree that the shadowing behaviour is annoying, and we're stuck with it for back-compat; but that's only an issue for function arguments and let, and I don't use the latter)
It was about inflation, prices, hate toward trans and immigration. That is judging based on pre-election topics. They did not cared about geopolitics.

> Whatever preconception you have about what motivates Trump voters

By a large, based on what they themselves say and write, they wanted to cause harm to their perceived enemies and have fun watching it. That is primary reason for why conservative and republican voters vote.
ChatGPT is laughably terrible at double entry accounting. A few weeks ago I was trying to use it to figure out a reasonable way to structure accounts for a project given the different business requirements I had. It kept disappearing money when giving examples. Pointing it out didn’t help either, it just apologized and went on to make the same mistake in a different way.
I only see it as: Google way of rebranding MCP by calling it a open protocol.
> What they forgot to mention in the article (or I missed) is that train is extremly expensive and has gotten more expensive over the years.

Expensive for the user or expensive for the state? I believe that almost everywhere in the west the cost-per-trip from the state POV is wildly in favour of trains.
Yes and no. It has some of the same advantages, but not the declarative definition of a system.

For me (even though I use NixOS the desktop) there is a difference between desktops and servers. I can set up a desktop pretty quickly - install a bunch of flatpaks, checkout a bunch of dotfiles and I don't do it often.

Also, popular desktops like Fedora tend to be far more polished than the NixOS desktop, which has all kinds of glitches. Just to name two current ones: (1) gdm login will fail if you are too fast and log in before WiFi is up (usually you are thrown back in gdm, sometimes the session freezes up completly); (2) fwupd firmware updates usually fail.

On the other hand, on servers and remote development VMs, the setup work is annoying because I spin up/down machines far more frequently and managing them as pets gets old pretty quickly. So NixOS is much nicer, because you can have a system up and identical in 5 minutes. You could of course approximate it with something like Ansible on non-NixOS.

Though, I think the differences will become smaller since Fedora-based immutable systems will switch from OSTree to bootable containers soon [1].

Of course, you can use Nix on another immutable distro than NixOS.

[1] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/bootc/getting-started/
I think that was Shopify: https://x.com/tobi/status/1909231499448401946
> An easy example is NaN propagation, which can be nondeterministic in certain circumstances.

Which circumstances?
Practical recursion schemes in Rust: traversing and extending trees
Being correct doesn’t mean you get to be an asshole about it.

At least, not if you want me to not call you out on it.

I get the sentiment, I really do, but being misguided isn’t a crime that’s worth being treated like shit for. Especially when you are trying to learn.
> Of course, you'd expect students to use similar prompts to make sure they are prepared for discussing those questions with the teacher.

what's the point of the teacher then? Courses could entirely be taught via LLM in this case!

A student's willingness to learn is orthogonal to the availability of cheating devices. If a student is willing, they will know when to leverage the LLM for tutoring, and when to practise without it.

A student who's unwilling cannot be stopped from cheating via LLM now-a-days. Is it worth expending resources to try prevent it? The only reason i can think of is to ensure the validity of school certifications, which is growing increasingly worthless anyway.
Fyi, based on a true story:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_frigate_Storozhevoy

"Gregory D. Young was the first Westerner to investigate the mutiny as part of his 1982 master's thesis Mutiny on Storozhevoy: A Case Study of Dissent in the Soviet Navy. One of 37 copies of Young's thesis was placed in the Nimitz Library of the United States Naval Academy where it was read by Tom Clancy, then an insurance salesman, who used it as inspiration to write The Hunt for Red October."
I agree with your point, but I just want to say that understanding a word and knowing how to spell it are orthogonal.
That's not uncommon. Companies like to pay as little as possible (usually).

Often, the interviewing manager is explicitly instructed not to discuss pay, and HR negotiates it. The managers aren't trusted to do so.
But in gaming, real time means something different: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timekeeping_in_games#Real-time

Context matters.
It’s real, there are photos from a real tour of a Typhoon submarine
Grok-3, developed by xAI, represents a significant advancement in artificial intelligence, offering developers a powerful tool for integrating sophisticated language models into their applications. This guide provides a comprehensive overview of the Grok 3 API, detailing its features, setup procedures, and practical applications.
It probably has its use-cases, but in platform engineering there is rarely a scenario where we are allowed/can trust using an LLM-based technology to improve efficiency. Usually it throws out well-formatted YAML manifests that look great, they work as expected, but are super insecure (CAP_SYS_ADMIN for no reason). You could keep prompting it until you get the result you want, but likely its just quicker if I do the job myself.
> `git mv` stores a hint in the commit that a file has been moved.

No. It appears in git status but is not committed. And it disappears from git status if the file is modified enough.
Retrofuturism, using AI and not having the editor set up to render Unicode characters.
The reason I barely use copilot is because it tries to write comments for me. I don’t get why they don’t have a button that says “disable autocomplete within comment blocks” (since the IDE knows which things are comments), but it’s so yucky feeling when it tries to write something I wouldn’t say.
Some bits and pieces from part 2.1 ("Two questions")

> [i]n a free society there is room for many strange beliefs, doctrines, institutions.

> There is nothing in science or in any other ideology that makes them inherently liberating. Ideologies can deteriorate and become dogmatic religions. They start deteriorating when they become successful... their triumph is their downfall.

> A democracy is an assembly of mature people and not a collection of sheep guided by a small clique of know-it-alls.

> The reasons were explained by Mill in his immortal essay On Liberty. It is not possible to improve upon his arguments.
That's pretty funny, considering LLMs mostly solve his problem with writing. At the very least it's way better than his discourse "solution".
The government cannot do anything for a few dollars.
I think people often overlook the value of crystallizing what they actually want. Coming from a product management background, it is hard for many to clearly define or think through all the things they care about in a task.

AI helps eliminate the blank page problem — and it’s always easier to critique something than to think from scratch :) I often find myself going back and forth with the AI, debating, complaining… and then starting over — sometimes with it, sometimes without. But by that point, I know much more clearly what I want and what really matters for the task.
Definitely highly location dependent. In Hungary we spend ~3 times that for 2 people. And I definitely don't buy the cheapest. So to me, $200 looks realistic.