minimaxir

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by minimaxir 3d ago
Embeddings are very very much used for the use cases mentioned, they're just not sexy to blog about.
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World of Warcraft: Forever(worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com)
8 points by minimaxir 4d ago|0 comments
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by minimaxir 4d ago
You could put in your AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md for it to use polars. Modern LLMs use it just fine.
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by minimaxir 5d ago
What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were they just born with a heart full of neutrality?
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by minimaxir 5d ago
With the exception of data.table (which has a painful API), anything else in R will be much slower. https://duckdblabs.github.io/db-benchmark/
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by minimaxir 5d ago
You can do to_pandas() and from_pandas() which doesn't have much overhead, or to_numpy() directly which is typically zero-copy and thus no overhead: https://docs.pola.rs/api/python/stable/reference/d
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by minimaxir 5d ago
It's subjective, but IMO polars's APIs are better and than pandas's for ETL. Notably, pandas ported over polars's use of .col() for the 3.0.0 release: https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/whatsnew/v3.
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by minimaxir 5d ago
That inertia is not a good thing, and it's partially why there's stagnation in data science. Polars is more than mature enough in both documentation and resources for it to be a daily driver.
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by minimaxir 5d ago
At my work I had convinced the ML pipeline engineers to switch from pandas to polars for even small ETL pipelines and there were notable performance gain with better CPU/memory utilization. If a library is performant at large datasets,
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by minimaxir 5d ago
It's been a while since I've seen an actual data science post submitted to Hacker News: both because AI has superset a lot of DS tasks (e.g. vector embeddings), but also because not much new has happened in DS. Polars has been aro
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by minimaxir 5d ago
> in this economy is the upsell of a new phone every year really justified iPhones are luxury goods ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxury_goods ), not essential goods that need to "justify" a price increase
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by minimaxir 5d ago
Creating a throwaway account to "own the left" is substantially more cringe.
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by minimaxir 5d ago
The logic is supposed be that "someone else did the same thing as I did, so what I did was correct and your criticism is therefore wrong". It's on me for randomly checking comments to see if people are acting in bad faith. So
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by minimaxir 5d ago
People submitting posts to HN automatically has been a thing; the rise of AI agents hasn't changed that and has not affected HN's "immune system". People who need agents to growth hack tend to have crappy sites that alre
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by minimaxir 5d ago
If you're going to mock me by repeating my own words on a different HN thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49665394 ), at least make it make sense because this is not analogous other than the Claude-esque desig
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by minimaxir 5d ago
Your copy and design is very obviously LLM-generated and full of technical fluff, which unfortunately distracts from any novel technical merits. That's the double-edged sword of marketing, and why simple high-signal copy and examples a
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by minimaxir 5d ago
How will GPT-5.6 Sol and GPT-6 Sol be differentiated?
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by minimaxir 5d ago
Just because LLMs can write copy for webpages doesn't mean they should . A landing page should not warrant a tl;dr.
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by minimaxir 5d ago
If this is accurate, OpenAI's product differentiation will become even more confusing.
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Ask HN: Is GPT-6 Astra worth the 2.5x cost increase over GPT-5.6 Sol?
7 points by minimaxir 5d ago|4 comments
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by minimaxir 5d ago
For posterity, you can only downvote comments, you can't downvote posts.
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by minimaxir 5d ago
Discussion on the ouster: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49636283
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by minimaxir 6d ago
Don't use Hacker News self-posts to obfuscate blogspam, it doesn't work.
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by minimaxir 6d ago
They will if it becomes a political issue that causes regulation, which is looking likely.
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by minimaxir 6d ago
tbh I don't think it's a Matt sockpuppet; Matt would definitely comment himself.
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by minimaxir 6d ago
In World of Warcraft, gear tier is an ordinal representing the raid tier the gear was made accessible in, not an indication of its importance/power.
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by minimaxir 6d ago
You are not required to read every comment on a HN submission.
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by minimaxir 6d ago
IMO GLM 5.3 Flash's vision support beat this model to the punch, but this model is still pretty good if you need vision.
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by minimaxir 7d ago
The entire saga started due to WP Engine "forking" WordPress.
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by minimaxir 7d ago
It never ended.

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