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PGM-index:range searches, deletes, updates using orders of magnitude less space

hamilyon2 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 07:51:50 +0000

Article URL: https://pgm.di.unipi.it/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48472942

Points: 3

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New plans to stop children taking, sharing or viewing nude images

hamilyon2 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:52:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-plans-to-stop-children-taking-sharing-or-viewing-nude-images

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48462736

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by hamilyon2 in "Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message"

hamilyon2 — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:13:06 +0000

The latest moves from google are the damning smoking gun evidence that anti monopoly court ever needs. "Do this or else". Recaptcha, gmail, google suite, android, chrome, colab and even google play must be viable businesses on their own, separate from google ads machine. Gmail must start competing for users with other email providers. And, yes, recaptcha must pay its infrastructure cost in full only from recaptcha revenue. This is the good way to level playing field, silence all the critics and let air into the room.

New comment by hamilyon2 in "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"

hamilyon2 — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 16:41:25 +0000

>Dolphin held a pleasant surprise: it could detect my iPhone when it was plugged in. This made it a snap to transfer files to and from my phone as the file manager granted full file access to the iPhone

Wait, what? Is this true? Since when?

New comment by hamilyon2 in "Dell admits consumers don't care about AI PCs"

hamilyon2 — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 20:38:26 +0000

When NPU will become available in most systems, we will see learned indexes like in https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.01208v1 on client side.

If file search indexes and such will be replaced by neural networks, this will be small but measurable improvement in battery life, speed and memory usage.

New comment by hamilyon2 in "Webb observes exoplanet that may have an exotic helium and carbon atmosphere"

hamilyon2 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 18:01:11 +0000

There are chemiseries and metabolisms out there beyond our wildest imaginations

New comment by hamilyon2 in "How much revenue is needed to justify the current AI spend?"

hamilyon2 — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 16:00:32 +0000

1) 24/7 available super-competent personal assistant has tremendous value for any person who does something interesting or difficult and values personal time

2) llm-provided tax/legal advice alone was worth hundreds of euros for me

3) there is no easy way to capture all this value. I still think edge intelligence/autonomy has a way to pay for the rest of the party, because those will be physical things. People eagerly part with money for things. Governments and enterprises will maybe pay for cloud services, if the price will be right

New comment by hamilyon2 in "The email they shouldn't have read"

hamilyon2 — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 16:50:10 +0000

>a horror story based on real events

So is it fiction? Details matter. If any of the details are not true, this makes story is waaay less interesting.

New comment by hamilyon2 in "'Block Everything' protests sweep across France, scores arrested"

hamilyon2 — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 19:16:28 +0000

Chaos agents promote cooperation

PGM-index learned data structure with lookup, range, updates with OOM less space

hamilyon2 — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 13:03:34 +0000

Article URL: https://pgm.di.unipi.it/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44646370

Points: 2

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New comment by hamilyon2 in "LLM Inevitabilism"

hamilyon2 — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 22:13:03 +0000

The optimistic scenario for current ai bubble: long careful deflation, one flop at a time.

The cautious scenario of llm usage in daily life: in 36 years, it is invisible and everywhere. Every device has a neural chip. It replaced untold trillions of years of work, reshaped knowledge and artistic work, robotics, became something as boring as email, TV, SAP, or power cable today. Barely anyone is excited. Society is poor, but not hopelessly so.

Humanity forgotten LLMs and is hyping gene engineering.

New comment by hamilyon2 in "You Are in a Box"

hamilyon2 — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 05:41:41 +0000

Yes, interoperability, extensibility, composability and the tyranny of program author is a problem. JVM with runtime-loading of classes and it's once popular beans standard is one of closest approximations, known to me, of the most general "local" solution.

Yes, it's cumbersome and hacky and still limited. The beans idea lost popularity and mindshare.

New comment by hamilyon2 in "Bad Actors Are Grooming LLMs to Produce Falsehoods"

hamilyon2 — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 09:31:58 +0000

I am questioning, how is this news? What about the other terabyte of text influenced by bias and opinion and human nature and clearly wrong, contradicts itself or in some other way very arguable.

Framing publishing falsehoods on internet as attempts to influence LLMs is true in same sense that inserts in a database attempts influence files on disk.

The real question is who authorized database access and how we believe the contents of table.

New comment by hamilyon2 in "US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel"

hamilyon2 — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 17:45:48 +0000

In general the better experience will command higher price, right. That is true, and by forcing same lowest level on everyone we are constructing artificial floor on how bad an experience can be.

Or at least ensuring that bad experience is so profitable that the competitor is ready to even pay the fee for violations.

Illegal markets operate in this territory. No consumer protection there, sorry.

I started to understand the question more, thank you for your comment

New comment by hamilyon2 in "US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel"

hamilyon2 — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 10:10:11 +0000

I am not getting it. The rule makes competition in markets higher. Because dollars flow to best offers faster. And thus improve economic situation, not only in markets affected by rule, but also on all other markets, in case customer wants to take his money elsewhere.

And on international scale, because more competitive companies presumably out-compete foreign competitors.

So, FTC needs some permission and review to make national economy money?

New comment by hamilyon2 in "Valve conquered PC gaming – what comes next?"

hamilyon2 — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 13:04:01 +0000

Steam's anti-piracy measure is being better, convenient, adding massive value to gamers.

New comment by hamilyon2 in "Being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage"

hamilyon2 — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 14:16:00 +0000

I'll be fired if I create my worst

New comment by hamilyon2 in "Everything around LLMs is still magical and wishful thinking"

hamilyon2 — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 22:23:51 +0000

I am impressed by speed of the sound goalpost movement.

Few days ago Google released very competent summary generator, interpreter between 10-s of languages, gpt-3 class general purpose assistant. Working locally on modest hardware. On 5 years old laptop, no discrete GPU.

It alone potentially saves so much toil, so much stupid work.

We also finally “solved computer vision”. Read from PDF, read diagrams and tables.

Local vision models are much less impressive and need some care to use. Give it 2 years.

I don't know if we can overhype it when it archives holy grail level on some important tasks.

New comment by hamilyon2 in "How large are large language models?"

hamilyon2 — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 21:52:37 +0000

Crystallized intelligence is. I am not sure about fluid intelligence.

New comment by hamilyon2 in "Proton joins suit against Apple for practices that harm developers and consumers"

hamilyon2 — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 10:57:24 +0000

Apple and Google censorship of apps not getting nearly as much attention and publicity as it deserves.