skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The biggest wow factor was the effect of reducing latency followed in a close second by the friendly human personality. There's an uncanny valley barrier but this feels like a short-term teething problem.
It does make sense; it's just that expecting a business like Apple to protect you is a side-splitting fairytale. They don't want to empower you, they want to enslave you.
In my experience 3.5 was better at programming than 4, and I don't know why.
GPT-4o's breakthrough memory -- https://nian.llmonpy.ai/
I just did it in the playground to test out actually, but it still seems to fail/lose state after some time. Right now where I got a win was after:

[{ "who": "you", "column": 4 },
{ "who": "me", "column": 3 },
{ "who": "you", "column": 4 },
{ "who": "me", "column": 2 },
{ "who": "you", "column": 4 },
{ "who": "me", "column": 4 },
{ "who": "you", "column": 5 },
{ "who": "me", "column": 6 },
{ "who": "you", "column": 5 },
{ "who": "me", "column": 1 },
{ "who": "you", "column": 5 },
{ "who": "me", "column": 5 },
{ "who": "you", "column": 3 }]

Where "me" was AI and "you" was I.

It did block twice though.

My final prompt I tested with right now was:

Let's play connect 4. Before your move, explain your strategy concisely. Explain what you must do to make sure that I don't win in the next step, as well as explain what your best strategy would be. Then finally output the column you wish to drop. There are 7 columns. Always respond with JSON of the following format:

type Response ={

move_history: { who: string; column: number; }[]

am_i_forced_to_block: boolean;

do_i_have_winning_move: boolean;

other_considerations: string[];

explanation_for_the_move: string;

column_number: number; }

I start with 4.

ONLY OUTPUT JSON
LOL! I have, and would, do exactly that to avoid the slippery slope of falling into "management."
You should never actually use Route53 for your domains. Delegate a subdomain like cloud.yourcompany.net to R53 and use that.
Do you think online protests or discussing these issues results in any tangible outcomes? (I do)
This is a good question! I think in the short-term fake can work for a lot of people.
You say that right after I give an example of where property crimes can seriously mess up someone’s life. Yes, 1 person’s personal safety is more important than 1 person losing a convenience item. If it were a choice between 1 person’s safety and 1,000,000 persons’ transportation, I’d pick the latter every time.

The choice Apple faced clearly isn’t 1 stalking victim against 1,000,000 people unable to get to work. I use that example to show that it’s not as simple as “safety vs annoyance”. Apple and Google ran the numbers and erred on the side of safety. That doesn’t make it an automatic or simple choice.
it already does in the demo videos -- in fact it has already been present in the TTS for the mobile app for some months
For that to be uncomputable brain must run the halting problem algorithm, which it doesn't, because the halting problem algorithm needs infinite memory. Being finite, brain has finite number of states, which all can be enumerated in finite time.
$5,000 is nowhere close to accurate for a 'typical' PC of that era. In 1985 or 1986, I don't recall the exact year, my dad purchased a rather exotic machine called a Panasonic Sr. Partner, which was one of the first all-in-one portable PC compatibles on the market. It had built-in dual floppies, I think 384k of memory, a built-in monochrome screen and a built-in printer of all things.

I believe the out of the store price was something like $2,300. With a model below that available for under $2,000, I think with less ram or only one floppy or something. But anyway this was for a fairly atypical take on the PC and a regular white box of the same era could have been had for perhaps half of that with the same or better specs.
I kinda don't understand the point of the CM5. If you want a SoM, you're generally building something "fancy" around it… and at that point anything involving Broadcom is just about the worst choice.

I guess it gets some bump from the shared platform with the Pi, but… there's enough SoMs with good platform support at this point. And it's not like they're notably cheaper than those either?

(ed. I guess they are still cheaper than competing SoMs with roughly equal performance… but you pay the price of a poor closed platform instead)
One side of it will be shielded by approximately double the mass, when compared to the one closer to the pocket where the phone is usually stored.
We're (fixie.ai) working on on our SLM (speech language model). We'll release something soon to play with :)
Surprising, no Flightgear. They've been around since 1997.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/flightgear/
> People are social animals. Why wouldn't they benefit from the use of social tools and a worldwide fast-as-light communication network?

Because those tools are often not a good fit for human sociability? "More and faster" is not always better, though it's a tempting metric for technology people because it's oversimplified and easily quantifiable.
From the time Apple bought Siri, it hasn't even delivered on the promises of the company it bought as of yet. It's been such a lackluster product. I wouldn't count them out, but it doesn't even feel like they are in.
Mine some other shitcoin-of-the-week and sell it before it crashes? Fight some poor dude's traffic ticket by generating a trial-by-declaration for them? LLMs are actually likely good enough to figure out ways to make tiny amounts of their own money instead of me having to go in and punch a credit card number. $25/month isn't a very high bar.

I won't be surprised if we see a billion-dollar zero-employee company in the next decade with one person as the sole shareholder.
Sliced bread is a step in the wrong direction though ;)
Apple can stay an exceptional hardware company. OpenAI won't be building Watch, iPhone and iPad any time soon.
Wouldn't surprise me.

The premium "not from concentrate" orange juices contain additives not required to be listed on the packaging.

Great value "natural flavor" chocolate syrup contains vanilin (artificial vanilla). So I guess the natural part only applies to the chocolate and not other flavors used.

Many "100% alpaca" socks contain other fibers too (elastics, etc).

The list goes on...

Edit: why disagree? You can even see stuff like "100% cotton with Scotchgard" or the sublimation process used on clothes. Want to share any evidence to the contrary or tell me why it's wrong?
Your comment manages to be grosser than the idea of millions relying on virtual girlfriends. Kudos.
Author is now trying Bazel

I'm going the Dagger path

This CNCF talk covers both: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZLz0o4duRs
As a general rule, fruits and vegetables are much better quality on the US west coast because so much of it is produced locally. The difference in produce quality is quite noticeable. In the parts of Europe where I've spent a lot of time, the average vegetable quality and selection is noticeably worse than e.g. Seattle, but that mostly reflects the Pacific Northwest being a major high-quality producer of surprisingly diverse fruit and vegetables.
It’s just the way the conversation happened to flow. I think everyone has an opinion on names.

For solutions I’m in favor of really aggressive carbon taxes and sanctions/secondary sanctions against that don’t implement them. But that’s the sort of thing better left to regulators and diplomats.
B-2 that caught fire in 2022 won't be fixed, Air Force confirms
I agree that the pace of change makes such predictions risky, but as these assistants become more capable, and are able to perform more complex tasks on your behalf, I think the need to check their plans becomes more important - at least for a period.

For example, if you ask your AI assistant to book airport parking, flights, transfers, activities, and a hotel for a holiday, it'll be a long while (if ever?) before you trust it so much to let it pay for those things without a sense-check first.

And visual checks will be a magnitude faster than it reading everything out to you.

Edit: and just to be clear, by 'generations' I was meaning tech generations (i.e. of phones, or GPTs) not humans!
Nor do AirTags contain lithium ion batteries, they use standard non-rechargable CR2032 cells.
We were on a mono-repo and we're moving to multi-repo with the goal of increasing release frequency.
A lead from one of the GH Copilot-adjacent companies was interviewed recently, and that’s precisely what they are doing. They generate embedding of “local” code based on AST (up the stack and sideways, if you know what I mean), and take into account runtime and library versions when doing inference. Sounded like a very interesting challenge.
Wait, Alexa reads ads out to you?

You couldn’t pay me to install one of those things.
Well it doesn’t. Humans are so much more complex than what we have seen before, and if this new launch was actually that much closer to being a human they would say so. This seems more like an enhancement on multimodal capabilities and reaction time.

That said even if this did overlap 80% with “real”, the question remains: what if we don’t want that?
I guess I'm the weirdo who actually always considered the unconditional love of a dog to be vastly inferior to the earned love of a cat for example.
I can't help how I feel, but I can control my actions. I feel like a climate doomer, but I'm still doing my part because I might be wrong and I want to minimize my own feelings of culpability.
How are they able to use such a brand name, Tiktoken? Is it because TikTok is Chinese? Tiktoken, it's almost like if Apple released the Facebooken library for something entirely unrelated to Facebook.
Since discord doesn't serve ads, I assume this is just for data collection that then gets sold? Like an analytics company?
I find it hard to think of many offers I would reject faster.
I use both F and C (I grew up exclusively using F, but now I have a lot of experience with both), and I prefer C.

It's more handy for cold weather because freezing is 0° (which is way less awkward than 32°), and it's more handy for cooking because boiling is 100° (which is way less awkward than 212°).

It's also nice that the human body temperature is a round 37° (rather than 98.6°).

For warmer weather, F and C are about the same to me. It's easy to remember that 20°C is perfect, 30°C is hot, and 40°C is miserable — just as it is easy to remember the equivalent 70°F, 85°F, and 100°F.

So I have found that C is better for day-to-day use, even though it's not what I grew up with and I have drastically less experience with it. All I needed was a little time to get used to it.
Unless you live in a place where power is dirt cheap, you need to try harder with your own brain.
Only focusing on plastic bring us to a Goodhart's law situation where we get worse overall effect in exchange of a hollow "0 plastic" marketing claim.

That's one situation where I think "doing something" for the sake of it is the worse option.
I'm not convinced that Scott's suggestions will move the needle. Most are good ideas (e.g. term limits, more vocational training opportunities), but some I find distasteful (e.g. forced identity verification for internet services, not being entitled to social security if you've accumulated too much, etc.). We've made too many terrible decisions for too long as a nation, to the point now I feel like the spiritual malaise for the young can only be cured by hard asset prices collapsing by 30% or more.

His end slide recap is below.

Economics:

// Increase minimum wage to $25/hr
// AMT for high income and corporations
// Re-fund the IRS
// Negative income tax (i.e. UBI)
// Eliminate capital gains exemption

Technology:

// Remove 230 protection for algorithmically-elevated content
// Identity verification
// Break up Big Tech
// Age-gating

Social Policy:

// Universal pre-K
// Reinstate expanded child tax credit
// Term limits
// Income-based affirmative action
// Expand college enrollment & vocational programs

Mental Health:

// Ban phones in schools
// Invest in 3rd places
// Big Brothers/Sisters programs
// National service requirement
Congratulations on your success ratio. If you don't mind me asking, however, what constitutes a "success" in your eyes? I also interviewed and hired / rejected many applicants through my career, but I don't know if we ever discussed our successes as a single quantitative metric. I'm interested to find out what you measured.

I "picked out" this problem to discuss here because I find the process of "approximating someone else's skills" an interesting endeavor without a clear solution. Do you think the current remote interviewing techniques are effective? Regardless of your answer, it looks like it's going to change dramatically. I find that to be interesting I guess :)
That story has always been completely reasonable and plausible to me. Incredible foresight. I guess I should start a midlevel management voice automation company.
(I seemed to have made the HN gods upset)

I tried asking the question more clearly

I think it “understood” the question because it “knew” how to write the Python code to get the right answer. It parsed the question as expected

The previous link doesn’t show the Python. This one does.

https://chat.openai.com/share/a5e21a97-7206-4392-893c-55c531...

LLMs are generally not good at math. But in my experience ChatGPT is good at creating Python code to solve math problems
"What I cannot create, I do not understand." - Richard Feynman
I don't think AI is a bubble. AI, unlike other tech businesses before it, is similar to heavy industry. You need a lot of CAPEX, Capital Expenditure. No more two people in the garage, since you probably need Nvidia GPU's that cost $30k a pop. End of day, all the money being invested into AI ends up within a few companies - Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Nvidia. Due to cloud costs, and marketing costs.
It's making images for me when I ask it to.

I'm using the web interface, if that helps. It doesn't have all the 4o options yet, but it does do pictures. I think they are the same as with 4.5.

I just noticed after further testing the text it shows in images is not anywhere near as accurate as shown in the article's demo, so maybe it's a hybrid they're using for now.
I assume it likes snacks, is quadrupedal, and does not have the proper mouth anatomy or diaphragm for human speech.
It's not more meaningful in Kelvin. 1 to 4 is a 300% increase and so is 200 to 800. So hearing 300% tells you absolutely nothing, without the added context of "from the previous average temperature of the region".
If AI tools could figure on their own how to earn $25/month, they wouldn't need you to buy them.
Based on pure speculation. I may be reaching.

My best guess is that Databricks and Pg_lakehouse both independently coined "lakehouse" from "data lake", and that for the latter team, it was partly a pun on Wodehouse. But the creators are welcome to chime in and confirm/deny!

(Or to say, like, "Sure...uh, we totally meant that...yes we are very literary.")
Ya for me it's been over for quite some time, almost a quarter century since the Dot Bomb around 2000/2001.

What happened was that the original web architects, loosely people like Jimmy Wales, had a different vision of the future than the one we're living in now:

1) The web was supposed to make nearly all information freely accessible with sites like Wikipedia and infrastructure like Coral CDN and BitTorrent.

2) The next step was to make computing freely accessible with stuff like One Laptop Per Child and distributed computing with SETI@home, BOINC, and something like a p2p Docker cluster running on idle CPU time, presented as virtual CPUs on your computer to run any platform code you want, perhaps 1000 to 1 million times faster than today, which hasn't been invented yet.

3) The final step IMHO was to make money/resources/time freely accessible with a p2p UBI system similar to Bitcoin, where joining it would start depositing money into a wallet by virtue of need (potential) instead of ability (productivity), like Patreon on steroids.

Instead the powers that be chose greed around 2007 after a long politically regressive period which undid much of the social progress of the 1990s, ending Moore's law and starting the transition to walled gardens and surveillance capitalism.

My life experience has basically felt like living in the alternate timeline in Star Trek TNG when the Enterprise went through the temporal rift and Tasha Yar was still alive. Not only did we NOT get #2 or #3 above, but even #1 has been steadily eroded to the point that search engines have started to not work anymore. It's not just that nobody is able to get real work done because they're working too hard to make rent, but that rent is increasing exponentially faster than wages. And that any forward progress is eclipsed by transnational moneyed interests who can use regulatory capture to control the US Supreme Court for example, cementing corporate money in politics, preventing the breakup of any monopoly/duopoly and defunding the IRS/criminal justice system to prevent enforcement of even the most basic fraud/antitrust laws on financial elites.

Which brings us back to what you said: just like every other time in history, it will be volunteers working in obscurity without financial support who bring us the next revolutionary tech. I really wanted to be one of them. But after so many failed ventures, I'm realizing that I could have made more money delivering pizza and gambling on the stock market. I'll probably have to get a regular job soon to cover expenses for my aging self and family, then be too tired to work on interesting projects. So nothing much will change - the cavalry never arrives.

If someone really wants to change the world, open source something that eliminates a whole market. 3D printed hand-wound cell phone charger cases, I don't know. Something that liberates someone from suffering and removes all profit so it can't be ruined by subscription spyware.
My parents are religious and I am not, but I wish I could believe what they believe.
GPT-4o's Memory Breakthrough – Needle in a Needlestack
The article shows how much better GPT-4o is at paying attention across its input window compared to GPT-4 Turbo and Claude-3 Sonnet.

We've needed an upgrade to needle in a haystack for a while and this "Needle In A Needlestack" is a good next step! NIAN creates a prompt that includes thousands of limericks and the prompt asks a question about one limerick at a specific location.
Do you inspect the files manually or with a tool if you download from unofficial sources as a verification?
I'm not sure what currently working code would be broken by this. If anything, it seems like it would just obviate workarounds.

Though, now that I'm thinking about it, I have written and read absolute monstrosities. This could break something somewhere but I'm confident it would land squarely in the realm of "well yeah, but don't do that".
My point isn't about beating the cost of power. I know you can't mine bitcoin in California profitably.

My point is about autonomous software that can figure out how to run itself including registering its own API key and paying for its own service.

Even if it costs me $50/month in power, that's fine. I would just love to see software that can "figure it out" including the registration, captchas, payment, applying knowledge and interfacing with society to make small amounts of petty cash for said payment, everything.
That's Just lawyers putting everythign and the kitchen sink in the disclaimer.
Just vote with your wallets and maybe they will come up with a better solution because clearly people use them in case of theft
If you don't have free will, you shouldn't be able to resist my suggestion. That's what it means to lack free will - to obey suggestion. If free will existed in this form, then your claim that free will doesn't exist will be wrong. If you want to say that some forms of free will exist and some don't, feel free to elaborate which do and which don't. If you want to say that compatibilistic free will exist and libertarian doesn't, that's completely reasonable, but "free will exists" is the accurate description of this situation.
I don't get why GameStop didn't try to revitalize their business after the 2021 short squeeze. They had (and still have) access to a large amount of capital, but they didn't try to launch an online storefront to rival Steam or transition to a closely related industry like game development. Instead, the only real changes that I've seen are an NFT store that nobody uses and rebranding all the EB Game stores here in Canada as GameStop to grift the cult of stock holders.
Intel announces the Aurora supercomputer has broken the exascale barrier
You also get the synchronicity / four minute mile effect egging on other people to excel with specialized models, like Falcon or Qwen did in the wake of the original ChatGPT/Llama excitement.
Note my (somehow). I'm aware it wouldn't be possible.
Can you realistically create fixed-point collisions of a randomly seeded hash function? E.g. to defeat the DOS-resistance of a hash table? I think the papers on fixed-point attacks of Davies-Meyer hashes require selecting the IV or knowing the IV in order to carry out the attack.
Ok, but why not use glass instead? That's even lower. With cans you'll still end up with microplastics and chemicals leaching into the soda. You still have the potential for microplastics in the environment even if it's 50% since one side is coated (surface area might be a large factor compared to overall mass if most particles are shed from the top layers. I don't know).
How does the tracking network size affect functionality?
It's not ad infinitum on finite lists though, that's the point. If you want that property to hold, then maximum [] has to be -inf.
FERC Tries to Break Power Grid Logjams
i know the feature you mean and... it only sends it to people who are in that server. i dislike it because a ML model is looking at my text and trying to regurgitate it, but theres no expectation that the people who get those notifications were never able to see. people lurk all the time, and discord messages arent ephemeral
I think a few factors/explanations, based on what I remember from colleagues on EFNet...

- Teachers/professors have a more actualized social selection/prestige; the pay is better (especially comparing to a similar US university) so there is more incentive for talented people to stay in education vs go into private sector.

- Finland has a high level of government programs to help industries in various ways. As an example from another industry, Children of Bodom recorded many of their albums in a government owned/sponsored recording studio.

- Finland also has free education. I'm betting a lot of people saw the possibilities, it was likely a bit easier to break into back then.

That said, If you look at the late 80s and early 90s, Finland was a sleeping tech giant. IRC, Linux, InnoDB, Symbian (love it or hate it) all are products from that era...
I’m born and raised in California and I think I’m a pretty “California” person (for better and worse).

It feels exhausting watching these demos and I’m not excited at all to try it. I really don’t feel the need for an AI assistant or chatbot to pretend to be human like this. It just feels like it’s taking longer to get the information I want.

You know in the TV series “Westworld” they have this mode, called “analysis”, where they can tell the robots to “turn off your emotional affect”.

I’d really like to see this one have that option. Hopefully it will comply if you tell it, but considering how strong some of the RLHF has been in the past I’m not confident in that.
What makes these "emoji" and not the IBM PC font, which contained hearts, smiley faces, musical notes, gender symbols, and more?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437