skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Are you asking why a single point of failure is a bad thing?
>To restate what you asked: “if the USA weapons manufacturing capability is compromised and cannot sell weapons to approved parties, and said parties also cannot manufacture their own weapons, how is this in the interest of the US?”

You can't equate weapons manufacturing to server uptime or data center diversity -- it's fundamentally different.

In terms of what is in the best interests of the United States -- yes, having a single point of weapons manufacture and having that be the United States would very much be in the US interests. It would allow the US to dictate, even more than we do today, how the rest of the world operates. Although we have not been a single source for weapons (Europe does make their own), our role as primary supplier would be (and has been) very profitable.

How is it that we can afford to create the advanced weapons that we do? F-35, Patriot, etc? It's because we can spread that research and development cost across other (allied) countries, because they buy our gear instead of developing their own. Reduce the market for our weapons, and you're going to reduce the quality of our weapons and increase their per-unit cost -- both things that are very much not in the interests of the United States.

This was sparked by the remark that this was all part of the "intention" of the policy. Since that intention would by definition be very contrary to US interests, both financial and strategic, it seems dubious that this was the intention.
it works like any other bank transfer, so yes. But the bank only reports after a certain amount.
Guaranteeing that families won't go bankrupt due to market forces beyond their control would make so many things so much easier. For example, in my state of Pennsylvania, fracking is a political issue. It's a fossil fuel industry, so ideally we'd be weaning off it. But we actually encourage it by having no severance tax on any extracted energy sources. The state is leaving money on the table, and voters seem to like it that way. But, in truth, they don't care about taxes for fracking companies. They care about not ruining towns economically dependant on fracking. They're terrified of those companies leaving, because a chunk of the town's workforce would fall into poverty and take the town with it. Very few people care about where their electricity and heat come from, as long as they can afford it. There's no good reason to oppose moving to renewables except household economics, which is a very good reason for individual voters. If we made sure they weren't going to freeze and starve if the one big employer left town, that employer wouldn't have such an outsized influence on state politics.

In a healthy free market, companies go bust. It just happens: better competitors show up, services or goods aren't needed, plans don't pan out. But we've created a system that keeps companies afloat ala Weekend at Bernie's, instead of what people actually want: keep families afloat.
> Search is primarily a portal - you know a particular resource exists, you just don't know its exact URL.

Kind of like a manual, with an index.

RTFM people.
Inversely we have been getting huge gains from OpenAIs implementation in our group for certain workflows related to finance deals. We don’t use it for quant work though, all qualitative research.
It tries to in a way that scales easily, and is also easily gamed.

I want a staff of human testers, each with domain expertise. If the goal is to replace humans, should there not be a real human metric?

I want a physicist asking their battery of physics questions, 4 different kinds of devs asking their battery of dev problems, a couple chefs asking for cooking techniques, etc.

Now on to "Deep Research," 6 different kinds of OSINT/secondary analysts who ask new problems each time, and compare it to their days of human work.

We really need this as a species, otherwise the brain dead C-Suites of the world are going to keep buying the hype, which is often very premature. This could have real consequences, and it apparently already has.

It's insane to me that we are investing, what, almost $1T into LLMs, and have not spent the ~$1.5M/year to do what I described above.
My experience in unmanaged legacy code bases. If it's an actual one liner than sure. Use your ternaries and closures. But there is some gnarly stuff done in some attempt to minimize lines of code. Most of us aren't in some competitive coding organization.

And I know it's intentional, but yes. Add some mindfulness to your implementation

Map["blah"] = fooIsTrue;

I do see your example in the wild sometimes. I've probably done it myself as well and never caught it.
Articles like these are tricky. It's an obvious clickbaity thing. Humans knew birds are smart since way before science decided to call itself science.

I think the text plays more on hammering the "nothing makes sense in biology except for the light of evolution" thing than on the roots of intelligence.

The purpose and definition of intelligence have always been a critical point in evolutionary biology.

No mention of the foxp2 gene and the peculiarities of both human and bird variants? Seems like this would open a point for an opposite conclusion (there is a common root if you consider language part of what constitutes intelligence).

In the sixties, birds were girls, cats were boys, and everyone was kind of an asshole. Why should I trust any kind of research that started back then? :) If we're gonna be weirdly anacronistic, let's at least be clear about it. I am more of a 2025 person.
Back of the napkin, we could spend 3% of the federal budget to pay each of those 20 million people an extra $10k a year, and avoid destroying some 10% of the global economy. If we wanted to do that, I guess.
Where does IBM get their CPUs fabbed? I assume they don't have their own fabs these days?

Edit: its "Samsung’s leading edge 5 nm process node" according to the Telum II article linked from one of the other comments here.

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/telum-ii-at-hot-chips-2024-main...

Surprising they aren't using TSMC like pretty much everyone else does.
https://archive.ph/H0agt
NNN: Next-Generation Neural Networks for Marketing Mix Modeling
What if one of the precogs disagrees with the others?
I had no ability to do so, it was on some leetcode esque site.
Google AlloyDB Omni (Postgres 16.3) supports io_uring, RWF_ATOMIC and O_DIRECT
Apologies, the additional cycles to do justified text is effectively zero compared to the rest of the stack for most sites. Clearly, it is work, so not actually zero. And, yes, proper text handling is huge.

I would wager you can find scenarios where it is a large number. My question is if there are sites people use?

Seriously taken, these would all be reasons not to do many of the things Unicode does. And yet here we are.

That all said, if you have measurements, please share. Happy to be proven wrong.
I've used both, and while I think Vega has it's uses, it's not nearly as web developer friendly. Frontend engineers want a clear delineation between logic, composition and styling. By combining everything into a JSON document, you sacrifice that developer experience while introducing a lot of bespoke approaches.

That said, I absolutely love the idea that a blob of JSON living in my database contains everything I need for my visualization. The reality is that not enough other people are willing to put in the effort to learn that syntax, making it somewhat of a selfish tech choice.
Strictly speaking, Wikidata is an existing project which only provides a rather restrictive model for its assertions; they are not fully compositional, thus are quite far from being able to express general encyclopedic text, especially in a way that can be 'seamlessly' translated to natural language. It does provide a likely foundation for these further planned developments, though.
Global Value Numbering Using Random Interpretation
Dockerfmt: A Dockerfile Formatter
The question isn't whether maximum global free trade maximizes efficiency. The question is whether maximizing global economic efficiency creates optimal outcomes for a nation, for groups within a nation, or for individuals in the nation. It is clearly a mixed bag, so there is pushback.

Ask these questions. Besides maximizing monetary efficiency:

Does free trade maximize a nation's resiliency?

Does free trade maximize a nation's employment?

Does free trade maximize a nation's security?

Does free trade promote equitable distribution of a nation's wealth?

Unless the question is yes to every answer, it is fair to have a policy debate about how much you are going to limit free trade. Every nation does it to some degree, no matter how much free trade rhetoric they promote.
It depends on what I'm looking for. If I have a specific thing that I'm just looking for an answer on, then I typically will use ChatGPT. Most of my google searches are either navigational, things i know Google will return more quickly than ChatGPT ("how old is this actor", "when was xx player drafted") or when I'm interested in browsing results (looking for recipes for borscht, I want to see a few different recipes).
It might sound silly, but just close your eyes and listen. Your brain is very good at localizing sounds. Turn to see if the sound direction moves or becomes more distinguishable. Tilting your head or moving a few steps in any direction can help in some environments.

You'll develop an ear for it the more you practice. You might not be able to actually find the bird once you've found the tree. They can be hard to spot from the ground.
How will the rules and facts be connected? By some discrete relationship?
This stuff only works for math, and is the basis for the bitter lesson.

Intelligence is compression, and this is the opposite of that
I'm sorry you're in this situation, but every part of this is basically just life, and many many people go through this as the norm not the exception. It was just that in previous years your expectation happened to meet a fortunate reality.

I didn't even bother finishing school because all it's there for in practical private industry terms is to "prepare" you for competing favorably for a junior position, or actually qualify you objectively in regulated industries. In academia I guess you'd be done like 2/5 steps if you were interested in pursuing that long-term, but idk much about that. It took me so long to find a job last time I was laid off that I absolutely considered going back and re-schooling from scratch to qualify for that junior position in something more tangibly valuable/stable, but then happened to land something. That was the third time I'd spent more than a year completely unemployed. It's a sickening grind and has never become easier.

However, just because you're not graduating with a job in hand (a fanciful dream in other industries) doesn't mean you won't find one any time between when you graduate and a year out. You might, it just takes continued persistence, and a hell of a lot of luck, and meeting people in the real world outside school.

It's extremely demoralizing though, you're right about that.
Literally 1984. Literally!

Meanwhile in reality: soory, out services are not available anymore because your goverment did a hecking bad thing and we don't like it. And we are taking the rest of your money btw
> What's going to happen when someone can make a competing movie in their style with just a prompt?

Nothing? Just like how if some studio today invests millions of man-hours and does a competing movie in Studio Ghibli's aesthetic (but not including any Studio Ghibli's characters, branding, etc. - basically, not the copyrightable or trademarkable stuff) nothing out of ordinary is going to happen.

I mean, artistic style is not copyrightable, right?
Yeah this is a key part. If in small amounts it can reduce anxiety and increase sociability (if desired) then it could be a net positive. Good and bad is vague.
Netflix serves nearly all of its video from a server down the street from you via its OpenConnect infrastructure. AWS only hosts its microservice graph that does stuff like determining which videos and qualities you should be offered.

That being said, its core product has been nearly comoditized. When Netflix entered the market, delivering long form high quality video over the public internet was nascent. Now everyone and their grandma can spin up a video streaming service from a vendor.
Bradley's game is DOA. Is it ARK: Aquatica by any chance?
You can work in a much higher sample rate and then downsample
No, I don't. Like I said at the end:

> I’m not advocating for it being an absolute state, but you certainly have to give some consideration to the fact that dressing up far more than is needed implies you don’t culturally understand. It’s as simple as that.

I'm not saying you immediately throw a candidate out for wearing a suit. It's entirely possible I'm wrong and my mind can be changed by their performance, but it is something that would make me take a closer look.

I'll give you another example I experienced recently: a candidate who would not stop drumming their fingers on the table throughout the interview. Is that specifically related to their performance? No, not really. Is it annoying, a bit disrespectful, and shows a lack of restraint? Yeah, it is. This candidate had other flaws that made them disqualifying, but their finger drumming didn't help them at all.
Just tested it on a case we were working on for months so we can better validate the output. We found it was really good at finding websites from google searches and can navigate websites. From that it gave a good compressive review of the case. Where it failed is searching online databases i.e. one example is a business register. If the search result does not have the exact same keyword it will not review the result. However, the keyword appeared within the document of the search result and thus it missed out on this key information. Overall very good but still needs some work.
With just enough whiskey so that I don’t have the smell of water on my breath.

Same reason I cut my OJ with vodka.
You missed one: the person they can pay is better. I have rebuilt engines, but my cars go a mechanic because it is done in a day not a month. I can texture drywall but I need a lot more practice before it looks even like it should. I know 'scabs' who did a job while the union was on strike - the union people were 10x faster for similer quality - give a few months and they would be that fast. (The strike didn't last that long)
IBM offer a cloud to open source folks already, not sure if they have a commercial one though.

https://developer.ibm.com/articles/get-started-with-ibm-linu...
https://wiki.debian.org/Hardware/Wanted#Other
Even if that is the case, it has to redo this how often? If the page counts are to be stable, I'm assuming so are page numbers? At which point we are back to this not being something I would expect to slow things down appreciably on the vast majority of actual uses.

Still, I should acknowledge you provided an example. It surprises me.
When it's custom code that runs on PG I don't call it native.
> Perhaps it'd be better for the OP to explain how whomever they want to vote for will address opposition voter's perceived most important interests. Otherwise, one can't credibly complain about their vote.

87% of Trump voters during Oct 23-25 2024 at least slightly believed that "American jobs are insecure right now and our future prosperity is under threat."[0]

I reckon I don't have to point at what's been going on the last few months. It's certain that the election going the other way would've at least not resulted in the current debacle.

> Tariffs? Inevitable regardless of the office holder. Prepared for by both sides, for a long time now.

Implying that tariffs of this magnitude would've been inevitable[1][2] regardless of the government elected shows a lack of good-faith participation in this conversation, so I'll move on. Cheers, mate.

[0] Cambridge/YouGov survey finalized Nov 7 2024. https://ygo-assets-websites-editorial-emea.yougov.net/docume... // press release https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/trump-voters-2024

[1] Harris policy proposals budget model, noting no tariffs and reasonably assumed to have remained consistent with a Harris win. https://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2024/8/26/harri...

[2] Trump policy proposals budget model, noting the anticipated 10+% tariffs that have since materialized, including retaliation etc. from trading partners. https://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2024/8/26/trump...
Easily, tailscale solves on of the hardest problems in software
Many of the best games were discovered through an iterative process of trial and error, not through magic divination. So, yes, it is the journey along the way that matters in this kind of creative process. This applies not just to concept art, but game mechanics and virtually every element of the game.
People like to get rich, so any system they create tends to get the people best at creating systems richer.

That has been true for every economic system ever - some are just more transparent and fair about it.

Would you rather it be people taking bribes, a king, a hereditary merchant class, oligarchs, or people setting up companies?

It has been as true about the USSR and Cuba as it has been about Venice, Canada, the USA, etc.
Thanks for sharing some in depth examples. Why is the marketing firm/platform not on the hook for noncompliance in your first example? That’s kind of where the metaphor falls apart for the doctor and structural engineer examples, because in this case if you were found to be liable the responsibility would actually fall on the doctor/structural engineer. Like if I hire a structural engineer and they build a thing that fails, they’re ultimately on the hook for it, not me. Why is it not the same here?

Your Google spreadsheets example is not, in my opinion, a good example of GDPR failure. I genuinely believe if people are dumb enough to keep PII in spreadsheets they deserve to be fined out the ass. “Everyone is doing it” is a poor justification for such risky behavior. The plumber in your example would never use the wrong pipe fittings or make dumb mistakes like that in their line of work. And if they did, they would understand that they would be on the hook for that. Why should they be absolved of responsibility in some other line of work simply because “everyone does it this way”?

Your example reminds me of HVAC technicians in the States who vent refrigerant into the atmosphere. “Everyone” does it because it’s way easier and more convenient to just do it and ignore the regulations, but the long term consequences for the environment are horrific. I’m sure if I asked those HVAC technicians they also would describe the regulations that they don’t want to abide by as onerous and not necessary.
I only use LLMs when I don't know what I am looking for. Otherwise, search engines all the way.

LLMs can't be trusted, you have no way to tell between a correct answer and a hallucination. Which means I often end up searching what the LLM told me just to check, and it is often wrong.

Search engines can also lead you to false information, but you have a lot more context. For example, a StackOverflow answer has comments, and often, they point out important nuances and inaccuracies. You can also cross-reference different websites, and gauge how reliable the information is (ex: primary source vs Reddit post). A well trained LLM can do that implicitly, but you have no idea how it did for your particular case.
The latest research indicates that the tolerable amount of both sugar and alcohol without elevated health risk is zero. If you're not eating keto only (almost if not entirely exclusively plants) and drinking water only (or maybe unsweetened tea/coffee occasionally), you are at increased risk for major disease.
This all brought up some interesting memories from my time funding Cyc.
Brave Search + Google Scholar for me.
Sorry, it's just there to say we use it, but we can't actually not store it since the only info we do store is your session's cookies (and only if you're logged in). We will look into adding it, but it won't do anything if you decide to login anyway :)
Blue Prince is a roguelike puzzle masterpiece
Trump 'simply floated' idea of deporting U.S. citizens, White House says
I was aware of this, I think a talk about a performance regression on the BSD variant these appliances run was up here recently.

I mean I guess a similar argument holds for colocating with telecoms that would have recently been cable or IPTV providers.

It'd be pretty tough to design around though if any of their caching infrastructure reveals viewership, or engagement data to intermediaries.
Using a hash (content-addressable) instead of a GUID (random ID for each version) is a big difference, though
All the time. I don't like LLMs, and don't trust them. I tried to use copilot but ended up shutting it off because I spent more time trying to decipher and ignore its (wrong) suggestions than I did solving the problem.
White House says iPhones can be made in the U.S. It won't be easy
i can also use my human brain to read a webpage from the source, as the authors intended. not EVERY question on this planet needs to be answered by a high resource intensive LLM. Energy isn’t free you know. :)

Other considerations:

- Visiting the actual website, you’ll see the programming languages logo. That may be a useful memory aide when learning.

- The real website may have diagrams and other things that may not be available in your LLM tool of choice (grok).

- The ACT of browsing to a different web page may help some learners better “compartmentalize” their new knowledge. The human brain works in funny ways.

- i have 0 concerns of a hallucination when readings docs directly from the author/source. Unless they also jumped on the LLM bandwagon lol.

Just because you have a hammer in your hand doesn’t mean you should start trying to hammer everything around you friend. Every tool has its place.
I'm legitimately curious -- why do people want to put EVERYTHING into postgres? I don't understand this trend (vector search, full text search, workload orchestration, queues, etc.)
Spare us the theatrics. Every four years wherein the opposition is in office is a perceived "disaster" for the other side.

Here's a question for you and the Nation: did the other side also see the first four years as a disaster? Can you accurately describe why?

You complain about a lack of "rational actors", and yet your complaints aren't couched in rational language.

Your comment resembles a teenage outburst more than anything else.

Can the Nation advance via teenage-style emotional breakdowns, or will the teenagers have to "sit this one out" so that the noise can be turned down enough to progress to a better stage?

What I see is someone who isn't confident enough in the persuasion of their views to do anything but engage in an embarrassing tantrum and hyperbole that isn't designed to solve a single problem.

You say that "my head isn't in the game", and yet you proudly refuse to play on the board.

It's literally impossible to perceive your strategy. It isn't persuasion let alone compromise.

How do you intend to win?
MCP for code security analysis with OSV and Semgrep
I have a macbook pro, an imac and a mac mini that are all in good working order and in use for various things but they all have the same problem: They can't run the latest macOS because they're too old.

So, my wish for any new macOS is support for older devices. That won't happen because it makes little commercial sense so instead I plan to install linux on them all but I haven't gotten around to it yet.
Consuming whole fruit is kinda okay because the fiber in the fruit helps buffer sugar absorption.

With juice you're getting lots of sugar but no fiber.

Commercially bottled juices (e.g., Tropicana) are worse but fresh squeezed is still bad.

If it's sweet, spit it out!
Sounds similar (but not identical) to the task of finding accidental haikus — for which people have totally written bots. For example,

https://botsin.space/@wikipediahaiku