skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If all your GET requests are 512KB in response, this "price reduction" is effectively a price raising. GET requests go up to $0.000323 per 1K from $0.0002 per 1K.
This is the first earthquake where I got a ShakeAlert notification _before_ the shaking started. I had a good two seconds to think before I felt it, and that's pretty cool, all things considered.
That the somewhere money flows to is AI - and more strongly, that money produces AI - is the core thesis of philosophical Accelerationism. [0]

[0] https://retrochronic.com
If we include as a axiom for the purposes of this conversation that we must be able to refactor out any part of the "constructor" and that the refactored function must have the same mutation "privileges" as the original creator, which I think is fairly reasonable, this leads you in the direction of something like Rust I think, which can construct objects and lend bits and pieces of it out in a controlled manner to auxiliary functions, but the value being returned can still have constraints on it.
It's a real UI - the code for that is here: https://www.val.town/x/geoffreylitt/stevensDemo/code/dashboa...
@stevekrouse FYI getGoogleCalendarEvents is not available.
"On paper this was supposed to lead to the immanent collapse of it's service."

I don't know anyone who expected this. The typical failure mode is slow degradation and lack of new development, not sudden collapse. Services become flakier, innovation stops. There was probably some fat to cut,as you put it, but the concept of eating your seed corn is also relevant.
except a tree or graph with multiple pointers is similar to linked list with one pointer.

where as a b-tree stored in an array without pointers probably shouldn't be called a b-tree.

or am I missing something?
Audio, but not Speech, right?
Another aspect of this is that high levels of IL 17 can cause mania in bipolar patients.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27295856/

I do not know why doctors are so hesitant to link the immune system and mood disorders. I have schizoaffective disorder and I see this expressing myself every time. For example, when I caught Covid, I had one of the worst psychotic episodes in my life. None of my doctors really cared about this important correlation.

And I will scream this from the rooftops for as long as I can; mood disorders are immune disorders.
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This is my thought, too. Horrendously dystopian.

I can't see how it would work well either, unless I gave the AI a complete biography of my life.
I've noticed a disturbing trend in the last year or so where a company announces a significant layoff, saying it needed to let go of "underperforming employees" or similar wording. I've been in this industry for a long time, experienced several layoffs, but this way to announce a layoff (publicly calling-out "underperforming employees") feels new to me. It also feels shady - like, announcing to the industry, "Don't hire these losers we just got rid of. LOL"
AFAICT it's purely frontend, there is no uploading. Aside from running it yourself, another thing you can do is go into devtools and set the network throttling to "offline". (Note that this is not fool-proof, but it does prevent new connections from being established.)
He also specifically told them "You are not forgotten" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KnVL_kOLpM
Right, now it's up and comparison against Claude 3.7 is better than I feared based on the wording. Though why does the OpenAI announcement talk of comparison against multiple leading models when the Qodo blog post only tests against Claude 3.7...
I’ve seen an independent commissioned analytics report that surveyed a fairly large panel of users across several sectors about their usage.

It’s not ChatGPT specifically but all services. It doesn’t become heavily integrated into people’s workflow or lives and they stop paying for it.

The tech industry’s usage should not be extrapolated to everyone.
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Interestingly, my criticism is exactly the opposite of yours. I think as LLMs become more and more capable (and crucially multi-modal) we will need the external tools less and less.

For example, why would I want an MCP that can drive Photoshop on my behalf? Like I say to the LLM "remove this person from the photo" and it opens Photoshop, uses the magic wand select tool, etc. That is silly in my mind. I want to say "remove this person" and the LLM sends me a perfect image with the person gone.

I extend that idea for just about any purpose. "Edit this video in such and such a way". "Change this audio in such and such a way". "Update this 3d model in such and such a way". No tool needed at all.

And that will lead to more multi-modal input. Like, if I could "mark up" a document with pen marks, or an image. I want tools that are a bit better than language for directing the attention of the model towards the goals I want them to achieve. Those will be less "I am typing text into a chat interface with bubbles" but the overall conversational approach stays intact.
You can probably run it yourself: https://github.com/invisal/sqlite-internal
The flip side of this is that engineers who won’t commit aren’t trusted and thus have low status on the development team. It’s easy enough to get promoted over them if they haven’t been Peter Principled yet.
In my rather small code base I’ve been quite happy with ”unknown” instead of any. It makes me use it less because of the extra checks, and catches the occasional bug, while still having an escape hatch in cases of extensive type wrangling.

The other approach, having an absolutist view of types, can be very constraining and complex even for relatively simple domain problems. Rust for instance is imo in diminishing returns territory. Enums? Everyone loves them, uses them daily and even write their own out of joy. OTOH, it took years of debate to get GATs implemented (is it now? I haven’t checked), and not because people like and need them, but because they are a necessary technicality to do fundamental things (especially with async).
Ruth and Fiona aren't Patrick and Laszlo.

It feels like there was leadership turnover in the late 2010s where "conventional company" people assumed the reins of power and started managing it like one.

The founders are complicit too. People like to think "before Larry and Sergey stepped down…" but the founders still control the board (tacitly or explicitly approving of the company's current behavior). Plus, there's Sergey's "60h/w or GTFO" note from a few months back.
The points "Viewpoint Diversity in Admissions and Hiring" and "Discontinuation of DEI" seem inconsistent. Enforcing "viewpoint diversity" is a DEI practice in all but name. Actually, it is even in the name. Also with the merit-based stuff, of course. What if people of merit skew towards certain viewpoints? Then hiring/admissions won't be merit based after all?
The future of the internet is likely smaller communities
> But by any objective measure, the tools make Google's developers wildly productive,

That’s the thing, they might be winning all the productivity battles there are (and I genuinely believe that they do, on top of great tools Google employs good-enough programmers to make use of those tools), but at the same time they’re losing the general war. Because, with rare exceptions, the last war Google the company won when it came to launching something of lasting value happened in the late 2000s, give or take a few years.

The botched Google+ launch broke them in that department, or maybe that was just a symptom of how badly-broken things already were inside the company. They’re still making lots and lots of money, though, so that’s still a good thing for them.
I've never been fired. So I don't see why "of course".
And, after his campaign claimed incorrectly, that ByeDon was not providing relief benefits to republicans in North Carolina, he cancels benefits to everyone.

How egalitarian.

I know a couple of people in that disaster zone, and I'm told recovery is far far from complete.
> Codebase Divergence: Our engine is based on an early fork of vLLM from over a year ago

If you are in the same boat you'll see how much changed in vLLM compared to one year ago. Also, this meant that they haven't rebased for over a year, I don't believe that's because they don't want, it's because they effectively can't.

Yeah, surely they can maintain it as-is. But it will be increasingly hard to port over anything community has.
With respect, I have no personal investment in defending the quality of PKD’s prose; I wouldn’t even count him among my favorite authors. I’m a professional writer—and while that doesn’t make my opinion authoritative, as writers disagree on many points large and small, and there are fewer professional rules to observe than your high-school English teacher would have you believe— I’m offering a technical appraisal of his sentences, in the same manner that a mechanic may tell you, “no, your timing belt is fine—you have at least another fifty-thousand miles on it. Whoever told you otherwise was trying to cheat you.”

If by “ELRON” you mean L. Ron Hubbard—well, the shocks are worn out, the muffler’s falling off, and the tires are flat. The car’s totaled, and unless you have some personal attachment to it, I’d have it hauled off to the junkyard. (My opinion on King is more complicated—it’s a fine car, I suppose, if you’re partial to that make, but the brand ain’t what it used to be.)

This isn’t a great venue for sentence analysis, but reading PKD’s early, extremely funny, short story, “Oh, To Be A Blobel!” is instructive. [1] Read it aloud, if you can. Note the little details he throws away, the way he sneaks ironic jokes into seemingly objective descriptions. It’s a Borscht Belt routine masquerading as a science-fiction story, and perfectly constructed. But if this seems like “bad” writing to you, consider that you may not have entirely passed through his veil of irony.

[1] https://sickmyduck.narod.ru/pkd038-0.html
The PoS Miller says that so Fox News has a clip to play. Meanwhile in court under oath they say the exact opposite, admitting it was an 'administrative error' Garcia was deported at all.
"home grown criminals", around the 7 minute mark.

https://x.com/nayibbukele/status/1911803520845545960?s=46
Ah yes. I got to do that once after a layoff. The manager tried to guilt me or something into working after I was layed off. "Because they were given me severance so I should be ok with doing the work"

I told them. No you are wrong. I was given severance to sign an NDA and non-disparagement agreement. That is what the severance bought the company, but I'll be glad to discuss a consultant role on an hourly basis.
With sports streams you specifically want low lag, don’t you? It’s no fun being spoilered by people cheering (or not) next door.
Recreating the First Dell Linux PC [video]
I mean, this isn't that different from any number of things you do in real life? You took a car to some destination. It is assumed you didn't change the engine. Took it to a mechanic, maybe they did?

More, many modifications are flat out expected. You filled out a job application, you probably don't expect to change the job it is for. But you do expect that you can fill out your pieces, such that it is a modifiable document while you have it. (Back to the car example, it is expected that you used fuel and caused wear on the tires.)

As annoying as they were to deal with, the idea of having "frozen" objects actually fits really well with how many people want to think of things. You open it to get it ready for use. This will involve a fair bit of a setup. When done, you expect that you can freeze those and pass off to something else.

Transactions can also get into this. Not surprising, as they are part of the vocabulary we have built on how to deal with modifications. Same for synchronization and plenty of other terms. None of them go away if you just choose to use immutable objects.
The researchers testing the "Armageddon" approach to asteroid defense
The governor is a Democrat, though. I imagine this is punishment/retribution similar to cutting Maine's federal school funding after its Democrat governor publicly confronted Trump.
Do we have professionally defined titles for developer or software engineer?

I've never seen it clarified so I tend to default to the lowest common denominator - if you're making software in some way you're a developer. The tools someone uses doesn't really factor into it for me (even if that is copy/pasting from stackoverflow).
I do find the way things like this* get parroted to be mildly amusing, given the "stochastic parot" phrase existed.

* not only this contextually misleading quote, and I've also parotted things
You are definitely not a layman if you know the difference between 4.5 and 4o. The average user thinks ai = openai = chatgpt.
> You’re never going to find a binary function that tells you if something is legal or not, in the end it’s up to a human judge to decide.

... but the whole point of cryptocurrency, or at least of smart contracts and "DeFi", is to reject that and try to build a parallel system. That's presumably based on a belief that you can write code that behaves the way you intend, regardless of whether you really can do that or not.

So perhaps the judge should decide "Well, you signed up for that when you tried to opt out of having human judgement govern your deals. Have a nice day.".

And in fact perhaps there should be formal statutory law that makes it clear that's what the judge is supposed to decide in any case that isn't itself "borderline" somehow. Which the case at hand shouldn't be.
What good will that do? If he's going to do it, it will start well before the next election, and I don't think it's going to change anyone's vote either.
> [A]t least [Gitmo] was mostly people accused of truly terrible crimes.

Factsheet: The Human Cost of Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp https://bridge.georgetown.edu/research/factsheet-the-human-c...

> Since its founding in 2002, Guantánamo Bay military prison has held 780 adults and minors from around fifty different countries, all of whom are Muslim. As of 2022, 732 of them (or 94 percent) have been released without ever having been formally charged. Nine men have died in custody, seven by apparent suicide and two due to illness. Of the thirty-nine remaining, thirteen have been recommended for release but remain imprisoned. Twelve out of the original 780 (or 1.5 percent) have been charged with or convicted of crimes and remain in Guantánamo. The remaining fourteen individuals continue to be held without trial in indefinite detention.
For gmail, there's also an amazing thing where you can hook it with pubsub. So now it's push not pull. Any server will get pubsub little webhooks for any change within milliseconds (you can filter server side or client side for specific filters)

This is amazing, you can do all sorts of automations. You can feed it to an llm and have it immediately tag it (or archive it). For important emails (I have a specific label I add, where if the person responds, it's very important and I want to know immediately) you can hook into twilio and it calls me. Costs like 20 cents a month
Because you're more or less starting over. The technical work you do would carry over, to a large extent, at a new company with a clean cap table. All the "real" work is customer discovery and early GTM. Your investors signed on for an earlier company, that company didn't pan out, they're adults, they get that, they don't get a claim on your next company.

It's not like this is an iron rule, but it's something you should be thinking about. If the only things in common between your new direction and your old one is your cofounder and some of your tech stack, you should have a good reason to keep the investors on, right?
Also an email that comes back a minute later feels fast. A chat that types at the same speed feels slow.
yeah I was surprised in they benchmarks during livestream they didn't compare to ChatGPT-4o (2025-03-26) but only older one.
If you can't do 10 up front, you can usually reset founder vesting back every funding round to slow it down. This is fairly common.
There were a lot of shortcomings.

- The woman playing what I think was an Erhu[1] seemed to be imitating traditional music played by that instrument, but really badly (it sounded much more like a human voice than the actual instrument does). Also, I'm not even sure if it was able to tell which instrument it was, or if it was picking up on other cues from the video (which could be problematic, e.g. if it profiles people based on their race and attire)

- Most of the sound was pretty delayed from the visual cues. Not sure why

- The nature sounds were pretty muddy

- (I realize this is from video to music, but) the video with pumping upbeat music set to the text "Maddox White witnessed his father getting butchered by the Capo of the Italian mob" was almost comically out of touch with the source

Nevertheless, it's an interesting demo and highlights more applications for AI which I'm expecting we'll see massive improvements in over the next few years! So despite the shortcomings I agree it's still quite impressive.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erhu
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He's very data and performance oriented. He gives advice on how to write games, high-performance systems. His advice is solid and great even, but not when your source of latency is a cloud DB.
It's hard to know whether anything is actually uploaded, but thankfully SQLite databases are plentiful that don't contain sensitive data (and this, also, is why there is a sample database included).

I loaded up my Star Trek database into the program to toy with: https://chiselapp.com/user/chungy/repository/startrek-db/uvl...
> As MS converts into IBM, and Google converts into MS, I guess they will have to figure that out.

Shocking how real this is.
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Huh, seems like Aider made a special mode specifically for Gemini[1] some time after Google's announcement blog post with official performance numbers. Still not sure it makes sense to quote that new score next to the others. In any case Gemini's 69% is the top score even without a special mode.

[1] https://aider.chat/docs/more/edit-formats.html#diff-fenced:~...
> It's fascinating when you consider how many people claimed to have voted for Trump because he is a liar.

It's wild. I have no idea if he meant to do this, but by being a known liar it let supporters pick and chose what to agree with.
You're counting on one reticent founder not jamming everything up, though.
Global EV adoption fails to cut CO₂
You're absolutely right. I skimmed and misread.
I really want a data format that is effectively binary JSON. What is the subset of all of the features of SQLite that makes either a read-only or an updatable data set that is compact. But better searchability than a streaming parser.
Agreed, "all" is an unfair word. Thanks. It's more accurate to say the majority of it is returned to the atmosphere. Less than 1% of burned fuel typically becomes organic carbon, but also not all of the biomass exposed will actually burn either. There's also trace amounts of other content and a lot of particulate matter (which one may or may not consider as carbon 'returned to the atmosphere' I suppose)
Yes, cytokine like IL 17 increase an enzyme called IDO which pulls tryptophan away from the serotonin production pathway.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Effect-of-IDO-on-seroton...
I wish that we had a browser version of “pledge” that would:

1. Permanently restrict the browser tab from accessing the network.

2. Show an indication of this in the browser UI outside of the content area.

It would be perfect for this kind of app.
Sorry, I didn't realize you replied when I still mentioned Costco. I specifically took it out when I realized it wasn't a fair comparison (and since it was already in the article).
I agree they should be removed from the profession. What I’ve been told is that it isn’t easy to do. As in, they would have to do something egregious, someone would have to lodge a complaint, and it would have to be proven they were negligent. Hard to do when you’re “just” ordering unnecessary and expensive procedures or prescribing the wrong medication which while ineffective might not be outright dangerous.
Are the image generation improvements available via API? Don't think so
I unwittingly chose an example that allowed you to write fewer s-expressions in Lisp… touché.
Adobe Animate is a sad shell of Flash. It only supports 2D, where its ancient predecessor supported 3D 20 years ago. It is a largely dead product, although parts of the Flash spirit lives on in After Effects, which is a video-centric tool.
The meaning of “don’t pay much” in common usage on this topic means relativley speaking.
> "While social media connects people, most believe it has fueled societal divisions by creating echo chambers."

I think this issue of echo chambers exists because people become religious of their communities and refuse to listen to opinions of another communities - not because social media are flawed themselves.
Foundations of Machine Learning (2018)
If only John C. Lilly was alive...
Related ongoing thread: Federal Government's letter to Harvard demanding changes [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43684386
That's a good way to think of it. Google, Microsoft, and Adobe will be fine. Not sure where Anthropic would sort out in an OAI crash scenario.
i wouldn't mind a minute of lag tbh if the quality and reliability was better. I'm pay $20 a month for dazn and it still lags and buffers lol
Related ongoing thread: Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43684536
yes, before usa figures out a way to tariff open source.
> How about pension?

Fun fact I learned the last time this topic came up, social security in the US pays more than German government pensions.
I think we need to start thinking about one shot training. I.e instead of context into LLM, you should be able to tell it a fact, and it will encode that fact into the updated weights.
Mathematical Reasoning and Proofs [pdf]
Fully agreed. I pay for Kagi monthly now, and it's totally worth it. I really hope they grow and become more well known because they doing what one of the biggest companies in the world is doing, and doing it better, and it seems so few people even know about them.
I worked for a well-known SaaS company for 4 years. A few months after we were acquired, I decided it was time to move on. I gave a 3 week notice to ensure everything was properly handled before my departure.

Two days later, I couldn’t log in to my PC. I was, for all intents and purposes, fired from my actual work. Technically, I was still employed and paid for those remaining days, but I was locked out and never got the chance to say goodbye. It was the worst experience I’ve had, and I never had any issues with any manager or anyone before that. Apparently, it was just the new company policy.