🚀🚀 How does the Apache Iceberg reading process look like? ◉ The reader first visits the catalog to retrieve the table's current metadata file location. ◉ After fetching the metadata file, it collects the table’s schema and checks partition schemes to understand the data

Worldwide, one trend is beginning to loom larger than any other: falling birth rates

2¹³⁶²⁷⁹⁸⁴¹−1, discovered today, is the largest known prime. It's a Mersenne prime (2ᵖ-1), which are easier to find. It took nearly 6 years for the GIMPS software to find it after the previous largest known prime. It was also the first Mersenne prime found using GPUs.

In 2022, Norway increased their wealth tax to 1.1%. In response, some high profile billionaires moved out of the country. According to a viral claim, this resulted in a net loss of revenue. Is this true? No. Over the next two years, wealth tax revenue soared to all time highs.

New monthly birth table is out! I reworked the design again and added some additional countries.

Remember the llm.c repro of the GPT-2 (124M) training run? It took 45 min on 8xH100. Since then, Keller Jordan (and by now many others) have iterated on that extensively in the new modded-nanogpt repo that achieves the same result, now in only 5 min! Love this repo 👏 600 LOC

The real problem with EU cookie banners is that they're still around after several years of achieving nothing but being an annoyance. Mistakes happen. The key is to identify them and correct them quickly. If you can't do that, you're on the wrong path.

Video and data gathered by the WSJ from over 200 Tesla Autopilot crashes shows that longstanding concerns about Tesla’s camera-based technology, which differs from the rest of the industry, are showing up on the roads and putting the public at risk. youtu.be/mPUGh0qAqWA

📷 nowMassimo Morelli @maxmomobo.bsky.social· I am gradually leaving twitter behind. I am slowly subscribing people in BlueSky and unsubscribing them here. So please consider to post also (better still, only) in BlueSky. See you there

Stephane #Omeonga, centrocampista belga ex-Avellino, Genoa e Pescara, ha denunciato su Instagram di aver subito degli abusi da parte della polizia italiana, che lo ha costretto con la forza a scendere da un volo Roma-Tel Aviv senza alcuna spiegazione. 👇

On the heels of Humanity's Last Exam, Scale AI & Center for AI Safety have released a new very-hard reasoning eval: EnigmaEval: 1,184 multimodal puzzles so hard they take groups of humans many hours to days to solve. All top models score 0 on the Hard set, and <10% on the Normal set 🧵

Inspired by the post on HN yesterday about running graph queries on Postgres with recursive CTEs, my coworker installed the SQL/PGQ patches locally and ported all the examples to this native graph query language coming (eventually) to Postgres!

Elon's Grok confirms that Trump living in a russian propaganda bubble. DeepSearch is not bad at all btw. Very fast. x.com/i/grok/share/B…

Just wanted to say that Trump is a traitorous, Putin-loving dipshit! Goes double for Elon!

Your regular reminder that there is actually a negative (albeit not quite significant) correlation between utility scale renewable additions and increases in electricity price across states over the past 24 years:

Battery storage gets a lot cheaper (per unit energy) as you go to longer durations.

From Dr. Bryant Lin, Stanford I'm living in insurance hell!!! 1) I am a Stage 4 Lung Cancer patient and advocate. 2) As a medical school Clinical Professor, I taught a class at Stanford anchored around my own case which was covered widely in the The New York Times, CBS Mornings,

Good Morning from #Germany, where butter prices have dropped to their lowest level since 2017. Discount retailers have cut the price of standard butter from €1.39 to €1.29, after it hit a record high of €2.39 last year. The fall is partly due to higher milk production, but it

Please Ramez post also on other channels, at least for the most interesting stuff. For a lot of people this place is not nice anymore. I come back now and then to check but is painful.