skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I suppose that could be true, but I don't think it takes away from the reasoning process and the benefits of holding off on premature full automation.
> An activity must encapsulate something much higher level than a single IO operation. So something like "Configure BGP on a router", "Start a VM" etc. It needs to be able to handle retries and thus be idempotent.

I was referring to the workflows, that is, writing the workflows in managed languages, not the activities.

Out of curiosity, are you working full-time on this? I'm working part-time on the same problem, looking to go full time soon, and it's interesting to see how the same ideas are popping up somewhat independently across different projects :) let me know if you're interested in chatting!
Smart Trumpers are the worst of the bunch. Continuously inventing PHD 5D chess rationalizations for his actions that he immediately invalidates with his next erratic action. Better to just be along for the vibes than to pretend its a strategic, well thought out, well executed plan.
I would expect the weaknesses to be in the exchanges. Load 'em up with pretend money from many mule accounts, convert to fiat, drain 'em down. 1920's bucket shops all over again but digital, easier and safer to launder from afar. Exchange vanishes with no audit trail, ledgers remain.
one of the more underrated features of them little pcengines apu-2 router boards was that they used coreboot. I never needed to build my own firmware, but I made sure I could, and slept a lot better knowing that I could maintain it my self if needed.

Still a bit bummed that pcengines closed their doors, By far my favorite computer vendor. I miss their little routers and am still looking for a good alternative.
> For instance, I'm not too concerned about my child's ability to write very legibly (most writing is done on computers), spell very well (spell check keeps us professional), reading a map to get around (GPS), etc

I don't know. I really feel like the auto-correct features are out to get me. So many times I want to say "in" yet it gets corrected to "on", or vice-versa. I also feel like it does the same to me with they're/their/there. Over the past several iOS/macOS updates, I feel like I've either gotten dumber and no longer do english gooder, or I'm getting tagged by predictive text nonsense.
Vaccine recommendations are based on more than just safety. Efficacy, cost, availability, and prioritization are also considerations.

> Compared with the benefit of the existing HPV vaccination program for adolescents and young adults through age 26 years, the additional benefit of vaccinating people age 27 through 45 years would be minimal.

> Given abundant evidence for safety of HPV vaccines, undesirable anticipated effects are minimal. Also, anticipated population-level benefits are minimal for vaccinating adults over age 26 years. In this scenario, other considerations including cost-effectiveness play an important role in guiding policy-making.

https://www.cdc.gov/acip/evidence-to-recommendations/HPV-adu...

Elsewhere:

> There’s not a safety issue past age 45. We just aren’t sure how much the vaccine will help men and women who are past that age, because so many of us have acquired HPV by that point, and because it takes many years for cancer to develop after acquiring the virus. However, as the average life expectancy increases, it may benefit the population to increase the age limit for HPV vaccination as well.

https://www.mskcc.org/news/think-you-re-too-old-get-hpv-vacc...
Not in my experience. I have a few feet of books that I bought at Carpe Librum in Washington, DC. But the odds one one finding something there are lower than at Second Story Books or Lost City Books, the two nearest used book stores.
They literally just declare the item at a lower value. It isn't hard.
Past few years but I don’t have a timeline handy. I am probably ignoring important details but Mike Bostock cofounded observable maybe 4-5 years ago? So for all intents and purposes they have always been the same crew but they made a conscious decision to tightly intertwine d3 docs with observable notebooks.
There is a famous quote from Thomas Jefferson about watering the tree of liberty.
They will learn the deployment system some principal engineer in another organization set up is terrible, and will be powerless to fix it in any way.
> Ten years ago they used to be fantastic for obscure finds because it seemed people had not caught on, but these days they tend to be subpar, which is probably a major edge the non charitable enterprises have exploited.

Not sure about UK, but in the USA, people have discovered that there's profit in mining thrift stores for quality products and reselling them. Usually online, but also in antique malls*. There are a quite a few apps that make it easy to look up something by picture and see what it's worth.

* not sure what Brits would call this - it's like brick and mortar ebay. Merchants rent out cubicles that they fill with random stuff, and customers check out at a common till when they are done.
Incorrect. Fundamentals must be taught in order to provide the context for the more challenging open-ended activities. Memorization is the base of knowledge, a starting point. Cheating (whether through an LLM or hiring someone or whatever) skips the journey. You can't just take them through the exciting routes, sometimes they have to go through the boring tedious repetitive stuff because that's how human brains learn. Learning is, literally, a stressful process on the brain. Students try to avoid it, but that's not good for them. At least in the introductory core classes.
I’d say so, yes.
> Something that surprisingly few people have mentioned recently is that having the biggest trade deficit is the same thing as being the global reserve currency.

Can you explain this a little more? Why does having a trade deficit make your currency more valuable? My naive assumption is it would put more dollars in other countries, so they don't need them as much, making dollars less valuable.
I thought they did that already.
Maybe you mentioned it in your demo and I missed it, but how does this differ pasting the log messages to ChatGPT / Claude / another LLM? Is it mainly that yours can iterate over a large logfile without blowing up the context window?

Does it suffer from the same issue as other LLMs, where it will always identify potential optimizations or improvements even if none are truly needed?
>something flipped.

China dumped 500B in treasuries and the basis trade blew up is what happened

Tariff deals were still going to happen regardless. The pause is a stop gap for the basis trade (20+x levered), of which an uncontrolled unwinding threatens the entire financial system. Fed already had a bailout facility ready as a plan B. Too big to fail and all that
Just checked, I like to visit "Elizabeths" when I go to sydney, they have a nice cosy store and a great selection.

They apparently have a website, and 2 other stores. I had no idea.

Certainly doesn't appear to be a business in decline.

And considering that being a bookshop in Sydney they compete with some absolute giants I am quite impressed tbh.
> Universal Basic Buying Power. I should be able to get a roof over my head, get food and an education. It sucks that it's this complicated but in terms of government policy sometimes UBI is cash handouts, other times it should be supply-side investments,

I think AI could make UBI + moving to a lower cost of living much more appealing if it solves education and healthcare.
The housing is solved for by market forces.

First tier, high cost of living should be for high earners, singles or childless people, they should pay more taxes while second tier areas should offer UBI, and should generally subsidise people having children and augment the kind of high grade services first tier locations have, especially education and healthcare with AI. Or at least that's 90% of the reason me and many people I know don't move to smaller towns
That sounds like it would completely destroy the US economy and government budgets (at which point the only thing left to do is to establish a war economy under authoritarian rule and continue war? I don't even know, it sounds completely bananas...)
https://www.newsweek.com/jk-rowling-making-money-hogwarts-le...
Thank you for sharing this perspective — really insightful. I’ve been reading up on Groq’s architecture and was under the impression that their chips dedicate a significant portion of die area to on-chip SRAM (around 220MiB per chip, if I recall correctly), which struck me as quite generous compared to typical accelerators.

From die shots and materials I’ve seen, it even looks like ~40% of the die might be allocated to memory [1]. Given that, I’m curious about your point on “not enough die for memory” — is it a matter of absolute capacity still being insufficient for current model sizes, or more about the area-bandwidth tradeoff being unbalanced for inference workloads? Or perhaps something else entirely?

I’d love to understand this design tension more deeply, especially from someone with a high-level view of real-world deployments. Thanks again.

[1] Think Fast: A Tensor Streaming Processor (TSP) for Accelerating Deep Learning Workloads — Fig. 5. Die photo of 14nm ASIC implementation of the Groq TSP.
https://groq.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2020-Isca.pdf
So, could it be a feasable for a Zen CPU to have multiple microcode banks it switches between, so that it can run code in multiple architectures? For example, in addition to x86, some microcode for running WebAssembly or Java bytecode with native performance and no JIT overhead?
The most shocking thing for Americans when TikTok was shutdown for half a day was when they switched to the Chinese version of the app and they saw the truth -- that the middle class in China is living a higher quality of life than they are.
IMO I think we'll end up with "a uk body setting new GMO standards" being cover to allow US GMO stuff in. Then maybe hormone beef and similar, but not chicken. Quota-less fish, tariff free trucks/cars (like that's going to make a difference) and some other minor tweaks.
It's true.

It's changing though. Wu Kong Black myth and even the top grossing film of last year was chinese animation. See the comments under the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsiAYjyiIBM. The film was apparently incredible.

The core culture of China is actually foundational to much of Asia. The stuff you see coming out of Japan and Korea is surface level aesthetics built on top of this foundation. You're probably thinking Nintendo, KPop and anime.

Once China makes the aesthetics just as good as other parts of Asia I can see China becoming a cultural power house. Even the mythology surrounding China historically in terms of say one thing like Wuxia is better than anything out of Korea, Japan or the west in my opinion.

Really in the end people are more attracted to the aesthetic presentation of everything. Japan does this really well while China has always been unskilled, crude and rough on the edges. But this is changing at a nearly breakneck pace.
Mammoth genetic diversity throughout the last million years
Except that students don't watch the videos. We have so much log data on this - most of them don't bother to actually watch the videos. They intend to, they think they will, but they don't.
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+1, exactly. Focusing too much in the money makes you forget about the power. At a national leadership level, there isn't much power in having a local Warhammer industry, fishing is much more strategic.

In broad terms, this is related to the error the USA made. Manufacturing in China was a very profitable deal for the USA. A lot of companies view labour first and foremost as expense, wealth as as the goal, and power in wealth— so it's not surprising as a whole the industry opted to "contract out" labour across the globe.

A lot of power lays in labour though. Money doesn't produce, invent, move, feed, etc— money is only good if someone will take it at the amounts you have it to do that specific labour you need for you.
Agreed. Authoritarian is what westerners don't like. They see it as an evil.

I see it as one side of a coin. The yin to a yang.
That’s not how it works.

Exhibit 1:

The US Dollar devalues against the Euro.

Some claim that is Trump‘s plan to make easier to pay the US debt.
You claim using AI tools doesn't dumb you down, but it very well could and is. Take the calculator for example, I'm overly dependent on it. I'm slower to perform arithmetic than I would have been without it. But knowing how to use one allows me to do more complex math more quickly. So I'm "dumber" in one way and "smarter" in others. AI could be the same... except our education system doesn't seem ready for it. We still learn arithmetic, even if we later rely in tools to do it. Right now teachers don't know how to teach so that AI doesn't trivialize things.

You need to know how to do things so you know when the AI is lying to you.
SC-081v3: Introduce Schedule of Reducing Validity and Data Reuse Periods
Interesting how it's on GitHub, which is US-based and corporate-owned.

May I suggest https://codeberg.org/ as a GitHub alternative?
Kamal Deployment: The Newest Form of Self-Torture
Putting an elected president – current or former – in prison should never happen, in my opinion.
In some ways we made it better and in some ways we made it worse.
Of course, relative to starting a land war in Europe "...if Putin hadn't invaded Ukraine, I don't think Europeans would particularly care..."

That's proportionate. Equally, though, I'm sure they would be pleased to find Russia wanting to join a rules based order. Bolsonaro was just recently found to be plotting to kill his political rival in Brazil. What should we who are not Brazilians do about that?
Yes but there's always going to be a quota and at least with an EU one you can catch fish in EU waters not just your own, which is what I meant by it allowing them to catch fish.
I think he prefers a phrase "in American history ever".
Changing LA's tree rules could cool more neighborhoods
I'm a professor at an R1 university teaching mostly graduate-level courses with substantive Python programming components.

On the one hand, I've caught some students red handed (ChatGPT generated their exact solution and they were utterly unable to explain the advanced Python that was in their solution) and had to award them 0s for assignments, which was heartbreaking. On the other, I was pleasantly surprised to find that most of my students are not using AI to generate wholesale their submissions for programming assignments--or at least, if they're doing so, they're putting in enough work to make it hard for me to tell, which is still something I'd count as work which gets them to think about code.

There is the more difficult matter, however, of using AI to work through small-scale problems, debug, or explain. On the view that it's kind of analogous to using StackOverflow, this semester I tried a generative AI policy where I give a high-level directive: you may use LLMs to debug or critique your code, but not to write new code. My motivation was that students are going to be using this tech anyway, so I might as well ask them to do it in a way that's as constructive for their learning process as possible. (And I explained exactly this motivation when introducing the policy, hoping that they would be invested enough in their own learning process to hear me.) While I still do end up getting code turned in that is "student-grade" enough that I'm fairly sure an LLM couldn't have generated it directly, I do wonder what the reality of how they really use these models is. And even if they followed the policy perfectly, it's unclear to me whether the learning experience was degraded by always having an easy and correct answer to any problem just a browser tab away.

Looking to the future, I admit I'm still a bit of an AI doomer when it comes to what it's going to do to the median person's cognitive faculties. The most able LLM users engage with them in a way that enhances rather than diminishes their unaided mind. But from what I've seen, the more average user tends to want to outsource thinking to the LLM in order to expend as little mental energy as possible. Will AI be so good in 10 years that most people won't need to really understand code with their unaided mind anymore? Maybe, I don't know. But in the short term I know it's very important, and I don't see how students can develop that skill if they're using LLMs as a constant crutch. I've often wondered if this is like what happened when writing was introduced, and capacity for memorization diminished as it became no longer necessary to memorize epic poetry and so on.

I typically have term projects as the centerpiece of the student's grade in my courses, but next year I think I'm going to start administering in-person midterms, as I fear that students might never internalize fundamentals otherwise.
This is a bit harsh: the USA didn't devalue labor in general, just manufacturing. They hired software engineers from all over the world, along with a lot of higher value engineering and product development jobs. The error the USA made was in pushing the workforce up the value chain faster than everyone could handle, and a lot of Americans got left behind.

China is moving up the value chain also, they are being forced to by their demographics, and they are investing heavily in the change ATM (just like they started investing heavily in green energy 10 years ago) so I don't think they will make the same mistake as the Americans are making right now.
I am equal parts horrified and intrigued. Great work!
ALP Compression in Rust is 20-50% faster than C++
Lol I'm not saying it's impossible.

Yes, beans/potatoes/rice can get you a long ways.
This is not relevant since this de-sugaring cannot be performed if `name` is recursive (i.e., if `term` refers to `name`), which `Y` is. So the author's derivation is still required in the pure lambda calculus.
“Charity” shops in my area are for profit businesses. Sure someone is getting a small donation, but their board members pull large salaries. Never mind their free inventory and usually underpaid labor.
I don't know how that is supposed to work or counts as an "overplanner". That sounds to me more like someone who has goals but doesn't actually have a plan on how to reach that goal.
It can of course vary considerably by store, and I’ll happily spend time in both but, generally:

Second hand bookshops are curated actively - like, they’ll only stock desirable books. They’re owned and run, usually, by people who love books. The staff tend to be knowledgeable.

Charity book shops are much less curated - to the extent that some just stock whatever is donated (which, of course, is largely made up of books people don’t want), so they tend to have a large collection of random books of not as high quality. They’re run by volunteers - which generally means enthusiastic staff, but it does not mean knowledge about books.
Neat! Putting in reference books gives you a nice overview of the book's contents. Fun to think of database transactions as a character with relationships.

https://austen.pages.dev/c2276990-1f2a-40e6-bd26-0cabb55d713...
Read a constitution and tell me where it states that the goal is to redisteibut wealth. I've read significant parts of the constitution of my country and it absolutely does not state that.

The goal of the government is not stated as such. It's not "the social contract".

But hey, your phrase sounded confident so you have that going for you.
Gensler was perfectly clear, the crypto people just did not like the answer.
o1-pro (and high limit Deep Research) is technically the $200/mon offering. 4.5 is kind of a dud IMO, even in creative uses. That said gemini-2.5-pro is nearly as good if not better than o1-pro and now that Gemini has a Deep Research equivalent I'm finding it hard to justify the $200/mon sub.
If they really wanted to answer the question, they'd have to gather several millions of dollars, and then go to some island somewhere and provide UBI to everyone (without publicizing it, if at all possible). Then observe the changes in that group of people. For best results, choose an island in a developed part of the world.
Gangs typically don't respect you if you don't fight back. This is a mob administration at this point.
In my area, charity shops have terrible selections tons of fad diet books from the 80s and 90s and religious related texts.
Wouldn’t that look suspicious these days?
It might not be that weasley if they only allow Chinese companies to buy advertising

It would not require a partnership to buy stuff outside the country
It's especially such a farce because what do they expect? If trump said the sky is green and the ocean is red, you'd find scores of these useless faux-intellectuals trying to "prove" the truth, and each data point of evidence would simply be met with various forms of "no it isn't! The sky is green! The ocean is red!"

In their world, any "evidence" to the contrary must be manipulated or misinterpreted, because as we all know the sky is green, the ocean is -- oh, he said it's yellow now? And the sky is red? Hah, of course! We knew it all along, it was the plan, stupid!

And meanwhile...

Most of the democrats' tiny minds struggle to operate outside of a context of rigid rules and procedures. A context of arguing a point and getting at least some degree of fair debate in return.

But this is another age of populism. It doesn't matter what you argue, on either side. Debate transforms, serving only to transmit your message to your side, ideally while inspiring them and demoralizing the enemy. It matters that you seem confident and powerful while you say whatever you're saying. It matters that you seem invincible and indefatigable.

Their world won't be back for quite some time, assuming something at all like it sticks around. They'll keep operating like robots, not understanding why an excellent diss or crude mockery matters more than 1000 additional volumes of "proof" about something in contention.
>I don't know how companies can do any planning.

They can't. They're saying it out loud updating their guidance.

In polite terms, on earnings calls you're going to hear "we don't know what the fuck to predict".

Follow Bloomberg and you'll hear bank CEOs saying the same thing about the markets, they have no idea what to predict or how to price anything. Right now the line is that America looks like an emerging market with unpredictable wild swings based on policy changes. That is going to drive everyone away from the US, industries, customers, and trade partners.
Neither. The point was to give two reasonably neutral accounts that read differently.
For AI workers (449 points, 1 month ago, 447 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43219026
It’s a bit of a unicorn. It is of course a great book store - but it’s also a tourist destination. People travel to Portland just to see Powells. And it’s worth it!
That a government levies taxes to sustain its operations, such as the monopoly of violence, does not mean that "it exists to redistribute wealth".

The wording was very intentional and very wrong. Specially because it's uses as an argument.