skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The kind of man who didn’t treasure his body in the effete way elites do now, so afraid to smoke, so afraid to drink, so afraid of not taking the right supplements. The older class both men belonged to viewed the body as a thing to be used up, and used up well, by the end of it all.

Jim claimed to have a mutation, according to a book I read, that prevented the usual consequences of smoking and is why he didn't get sick despite smoking so much for so long...not even a lingering cough, let alone cancer. That is how he rationalized the habit when asked. The guy was super-human in every way, not just being super smart, but immune to smoking. Smoking is almost always bad and does not just mean using your body up, but actually shortening one's lifespan by 10 years, so you have less time to use your body at all for that matter.

If that same $100 had performed like the Medallion Fund did starting from that same year, it would be worth something like ~$400,000,000. Rumor had it that Jim Simons would fund economists to specifically teach the efficient market hypothesis, just to demoralize his future competitors.

It would not because money was being pulled out. Fund size was capped at 10 billion.

The EMH still works and is applicable despite the success of his fund. The EMH is more about how the market responds to news and information. RenTec is like Google in the sense it makes lots of money from many tiny actions, that being trades instead of ad-clicks. If Google were like a hedge fund, it would be like RenTec in that sense in that it would return considerable profit to its employees. Same for Goldman or market markets.
I'm a big fan of Matrix, and run a small homeserver for my family in friends. But if you really want to explore the frontiers peer to peer seems really intriguing because you don't need any server. https://tox.chat/ just to name one.
It’s an educational product. A product where someone looks at masses of data, pulls out the salient points and presents them directly. Why would most people want to go to a site with csv files for weather data in every zip code?
Yet another release right before google releases something. This time right before Google IO. Third time they've done this by my count.
> But I was also 16 in the late 90s so you probably have something there.

Whenever a man talks about the ideal time for __________, you can have a very high level of certainty that he was ~16-22 years old during that time period.

It's roughly 8-10% of his life, but it'll be correct about 90% of the time.
Yeah, the author comes across as being incredibly sanctimonious.

The three "featured" articles on their blog are headlined "Panic. It's Good For You.", "They Want Us All To Die", and "A Matter of When, Not If".

They have a family history of schizophrenia but they seem to lack the humility to realise that they don't seem to be engaging with people with a view to understanding them.

With that context, trying to convince people that they're simply attacking the messenger feels disingenuous.
People already do this on their own and advertisers already use it.

The Venn diagram of people who subscribe to 'The Economist' minimally overlaps with subscribers to the 'Razorcake' zine and very few companies would want to have an ad in both.
But those more durable goods have a cost in hydrocarbons as well, don’t they? Lot of energy input in a hunk of steel. Are we really saving any fossil fuel conversion by swapping over? Has anyone measured?
May I ask what you know about chat GPT5 being based on a new underlying model?
calm down there is barely any ground breaking stuff, this is basically chatgpt 3.9 but far more expensive than 3.5

looks like another stunt from OAI in anticipation of Google IO tomorrow

Gemini 2.0 will be the closest we get to ChatGPT-5
Depends on your point of view, and what you're referring to.

The word means two different things, depending on your side of the spectrum.
It seems like a very odd decision. It's not like OpenAI can't afford to develop versions of the application for each OS in parallel.
I'm curious now. Can you give color on what you're doing that you keep hitting boundaries? I suppose it isn't limited by human-attention.
I'm a native Italian speaker, it wasn't too bad.
I look at those Fediverse things and they just feel like toys.

Horrible, confusing UX. Very limited feature sets. Mediocre performance, at best.

if that's supposed to be the future, call me a luddite I guess.
The press statement has consistent image generation and other image manipulation (depicting the same character in different poses, taking a photo and generating a caricature of the person, etc) that does not seem deployed to the chat interface.

Will they be deployed? They would make the OpenAI image model significantly more useful than the competition.
The foul is that I don't want to share my age and gender with every online service that I interact with. I'm bewildered so many people defend discord's actions here. If you give company your email address are they allowed to fully doxx you (your real name, home address, job history, age, gender, friend list, phone number)? Even though you've shared your email address and they just used it to infer the rest (using publicly available sources).
Hey I don’t think you’re a bad person, just that that point didn’t land.

Me, I’ll take my L too. I wasn’t really contributing to the conversation.
OSS framework for voice first multimodal assistants
Hi Hackernews, we're Maitreya, Prateek and Marmik. Over the past few months we've been working on building a platform to build, scale and monitor voice based LLM applications.
Demo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSrOmyR7oQs)

1. Open Source orchestration: We're open-sourcing our orchestration to quickly setup and create LLM based voice driven conversational applications https://github.com/bolna-ai/bolna/

2. Hosted API Platform: Exposing our managed solution via APIs to build voice driven applications https://docs.bolna.dev/api-reference/introduction

3. Normal LLM telemetry tools won't work in giving visibility for audio bytes in and out of the system across multiple models. So, we've build our own observability layer fully integrated with the dashboard as well.

4. 3 different modes for creating agents - Lite (Intent classification based) (useful for basic calls and really pocket friendly). Normal (<2sec latency but only one llm call means it's cheaper than nitro), Nitro (<1sec latency and but multiple llm calls means really expensive)

5. Follow up tasks like webhook integration, summarisation, and extraction.

6. Modular and extensible architecture, which means connecting two different llms yet parallel paths(for example code and english to automate leetcode screening interviews) is really easy, albeit you'll initially need some hacking until we're able to release that to both hosted and open source versions).

7. Vector and Scalar caches to reduce the entire cost (by 3x compared to deepgram + mixtral + elevenlabs) and latency by 300ms - 500ms.

8. Semantic routing

Over the next weeks we'd be doing a lot of small releases here starting with a Speech language model only pipeline, integrating gazzele

We'd love to welcome you guys to our community, give us feedback and together build "langchain for voice first AI assistants".
> They look like berries

Americans shop with our eyes, not our mouths.
The easiest way would be to curtail the supply of oil, which is the raw input of all plastics and there is more of it being extracted than ever before. As long as there is a glut of cheap oil on the market, companies will find a way to make a profit while outcompeting companies that use natural products like cotton. The major ways we use oil all harm the planet in some ways.
Most peoples interactions are transactional. When I call into a company and talk to an agent, and that agent solves the problem I have regardless of if the agent is a person or an AI, where did the fooling occur? The ability to problem solve based on context is intelligence.
> Maybe Web 1.0 won't return as the "dominant culture," but I wonder if something like it could return as a subculture.

I’m shamelessly link to this thing I’m running[0] because I personally believe that subculture is already (still?) there and I’m doing what I can to help other people discover this fact.

Just recently I added a guestbook to my site and I’m having fun seeing other people doing the same.

Webrings are also doing a comeback. I have hope for a return of a more personal web, even as just a small subset of the whole web.

[0] https://peopleandblogs.com/
I am not aware of any example in the past were humans beings could be magicked out of nothing (and disposed of) in unlimited numbers at the snap of a finger, at practically zero cost. I don't think history gives us any comparison for what it's going to happen.
Poor quality grinding of grains and adulteration can leave sand and grit in the flour. Still happens sometimes in places like India at least.
Simpler than, but somewhat reminiscent of, Plan 9's windowing system https://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/4/rio
It doesn't have hands.
Good thing nearly none of us here have signed that NDA.
This is a pretty abstract question with an even more abstract descriptive summary.

Charming tech stacks in my understanding are fun to use and productive the same time.
Still in demand tech stacks are well hung things that still are relevant.
Hard to find skills are barely common.
Betting on something for the future is not something that really falls in any of these categories.

So, still relevant, well hung, versatile tech stacks I would also bet on for the future are C#, Python and SQL (e.g. Postgres).

More modern and less hung alternatives would be Rust, Go and TypeScript / Javascript (and some of the more modern Boilerplates / Frameworks).

Still relevant, woth learning and hard to find is LISP.

Mojo (as possible python successor) would be something I'd bet for the future unless something goes really wrong - but that has to be proven.
That's almost certainly false for many different reasons.
I switched to Dapper a long time ago, with explicit SQL queries and really haven't looked back.
> Imagine having a guide tell you how to walk to the grocery store

I don't need to imagine that, I've had it for about 8 years. It's OK.

> help you grocery shop without an assistant

Isn't this something you learn as a child? Is that a thing we need automated?
Have you actually verified anything you've learned from it, or are you just taking everything it says as gospel?
Quiet, Briar, and Keet are some other p2p chats
The important part is that the machine explained its reasoning to you while purging the airlock.
Or most of us know the difference between reductiveness and insightfulness.

"Um it's just a big spreadsheet" just isn't good commentary and reminds me of people who think being unimpressed reveals some sort of chops about them, as if we might think of them as the Simon Cowell of tech because they bravely reduced a computer to an abacus.
No, GP wanted to use potemkin referring to the villages allegedly built on the Dnieper for the Russian czarina (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potemkin_village)
iOS 17.5–Apple Issues Update Now Warning to All iPhone Users
> my average temperature increased by %4.x percent

Can you do that with temperatures not in kelvin (with true zero)?
No it's not the same thing, the link for this submission even explains that. Anyone who comments should at least give the submission a cursory read.
Packaging produces about 140 million tons annually. Textiles produce about 40 million tons. Construction produces about 75 million tons, and transportation about 60 million tons.

Textiles are non negligible, but packaging is almost certainly a better target for inexpensive impact. Tons of stuff doesn't need plastic wrapping.
Alliteration has to do with sounds, not letters.
I always double-check even the most obscure facts returned by GPT-4 and have yet to see a hallucination (as opposed to Claude Opus that sometimes made up historical facts). I doubt stuff interesting to kids would be so out of the data distribution to return a fake answer.

Compared to YouTube and Google SEO trash, or Google Home / Alexa (which do search + wiki retrieval), at the moment GPT-4 and Claude are unironically safer for kids: no algorithmic manipulation, no ads, no affiliated trash blogs, and so on. Bonus is that it can explain on the level of complexity the child will understand for their age
How much of this could be implemented using the API?

There’s so much helpful niche functionality that can be added to custom clients.
If you disagree that Lisp has a tendency to become unreadable then maybe the typical developer might have a "neurodevelopmental deficit" compared to you. bindings don't change the language that's executing. That's the entire point why Macros can quickly make code unreadable.
Paradedb is doing a lot of good work with postgres. Pg_analytics, and now pg_lakehouse...
Most likely because HPC isn't cool for TikTok videos, by language influencers.

As CERN alumni, and language nerd, I find Chapel quite cool.
Pretty responsible progress management by OpenAI.
Kicking off another training wave is easy, if you can afford the electricity, but without new, non-AI tainted datasets or new methods, what’s the point?
So, in the meantime, make magic with the tool you already have, without freaking out the politicians or the public.
Wise approach.
Kind of this. That was one of the themes of the movie Westworld where the AI in the robots seemed magical until it was creepy.

I worry about the 'cheery intern' response becoming something of a punch line.

"Hey siri, launch the nuclear missiles to end the world."

"That's a GREAT idea, I'll get right on that! Is there anything else I can help you with?"

Kind of punch lines.

Will be interesting to see where that goes once you've got a good handle on capturing the part of speech that isn't "words" so much as it is inflection and delivery. I am interested in a speech model that can differentiate between "I would hate to have something happen to this store." as a compliment coming from a customer and as a threat coming from an extortionist.
No, instead something worse will happen.

Well spoken and well mannered speakers will be called bots. The comment threads under posts will be hurtling insults back and forth on who's actually real. Half the comments will actually be bots doing it. Welcome to the dead internet.
From the page itself:

> All generated hashes for a given version of GxHash are stable, meaning that for a given input the output hash will be the same across all supported platforms.
But it's still the one we have...
I like for that degree of expressiveness to be available as an option, although it would be really irritating if I was trying to use it to learn some sort of academic coursework or something.

But if it's one in a range of possible stylistic flourishes and personalities, I think it's a plus.
If someone found a way to put an actual human brain into SW, but no one knew it was a real human brain -- I'm certain most of HN would claim it wasn't AGI. "Kind of sucks at math", "Knows weird facts about Tik Tok celebrities, but nothing about world events", "Makes lots of grammar mistakes", "scores poorly on most standardized tests, except for one area that he seems to well", and "not very creative".
Ah so surpassing Gemini 1.5 Pro and all other Models on Vision understanding by 5-10 points is "not ground breaking" all while doing it at insane latency.

Jesus if this shit doesn't make you coffee, and make 0 mistakes no ones happy anymore LOL.
Write Unit Tests for Your Python Code with ChatGPT
Watch the last few minutes of that linked video, Mira strongly hints that there’s another update coming for paid users and seems to make clear that GPT4o is moreso for free tier users (even though it is obviously a huge improvement in many features for everyone).
Some companies use interviews processes not to test your knowledge but to check the level of inhumanity you’re willing to accept while working there
Math problems with GPT-4o [video]
Impressive way to gather more training data
Yes. This analysis has been done. And yes, it depends on your source of energy. But in general energy is getting cleaner, and eventually could be 100% oil free. Most plastics rely on oil, so there's a crossover threshold for most at some point.
It is cringe overenthusiastic, but a proper instructions/system prompt will fix that mostly
I still think RubyOnRails is the goat to super quickly create a great prototype that can eventually scale to large scale production.
I think it's a legitimate point. For my personal use case, what are the most helpful things about these HN threads is comparing with others to see how soon I can expect it to be available for me. Like you, I currently don't have access, but I understand that it's supposed to become increasingly available throughout the day.

That is the text-based version. The full multimodal version I understand to be rolling out in the coming weeks.
I tested a few use cases in the chat, and it's not particularly more intelligent but they seem to have solved laziness. I had to categorize my expenses to do some budgeting for the family, and in gpt 4 I had to go ten in ten, confirm the suggested category, download the file, took two days as I was constantly hitting the limit. gpt4o did most of the grunth work, then commincated anomalies in bulk, asked for suggestion for these, and provided a downloadable link in two answers, calling the code interpreter mulitple times, and working toward the goal on it's own.

and the prompt wasn't a monstrosity, and it wasn't even that good, it was just one line "I need help to categorize these expenses" and off it went. hope it won't get enshittified like turbo, because this finally feels as great as 3.5 was for goal seeking.
A Simplified Ecommerce System
I've been through the struggle of setting up complex ecommerce systems and managing detailed product options. Sometimes, you just need a straightforward sales setup without all the added complications and fees of a full-scale platform. Simplifying the process can save time, money, and headaches. That's why I developed PagePalooza!

PagePalooza is a simplified basic web-builder with simplified affordable extensions for everyone. The extensions are also basic and one of them is a simplified ecommerce system offers an easy-to-use platform for selling a wide range of products and services online, including books, prints, digital downloads, and trending items. It also simplifies bookings for services like consulting, cleaning, tutoring, photography, event tickets, and event planning. This system is perfect for sellers who focus on one trending item at a time and regularly update their offerings.

The main focus of the platform is the ability to assign a dedicated software engineer for custom requirements.

Some examples of custom requirements that clients have requested in the past:

Specific popup design to show student grades and upcoming classes. (reading the data from excel)

Adding a custom designed section to the homepage that the client saw on another website.

A counter for pushups that increases when a users inputs their reps.

What do you think?!
I agree, it's sad to see the QR URL redirects which may go offline and are presumably tracking when a pure option is built into the OS: https://education.apple.com/resource/250011714
For cancer you are competing with some amazingly expensive existing treatments like complicated surgery. How does synthesizing a one-off mRNA compare with cutting open someone's brain?
> I own some GME for the lulz. Not for the hopes of making a profit or for some greater cause of justice.

Sure, plenty of people do. But those arent the ones making daily /r/Superstonk posts with their crazy-board yarn lines connecting some CNBC article they found from 3 years ago to a cryptic new tweet from an anonymous "insider" about the impending squeeze. A ton of people who knew absolutely nothing about investing lost everything over this, and it's sad to see it play out.
Count the number of seconds that have elapsed from the Unix epoch time until that moment, excluding leap seconds. This increases monotonically and is consistent with the Unix epoch source time.
Veronica Explains (PeerTube, YouTube, and https://vkc.sh/) has a tutorial on Remmina I found useful.
singlefile does not archive the animated parts, unfortunately. At least not by default.
They probably want you to buy the book to find out.
I really don't think Sam needs more encouragement, thanks.

Also, if this is your definition of magic then...yeah...
Does Sonos make streaming services pay to be on their platform? If not, they should.
I signed up with a disposable email and got access automatically, it's not that secret evidently. It was probably stricter earlier in development.
Don't forget us gays, too.

And yep, everybody's just a monkey with or without a stick.
and boy did the stockholders like that one.
And another privacy violation to be prosecuted under GDPR: go NOYB, go!
The application of this psychobabble to current events lacks support. People aren’t getting mad at climate protesters because they think the protesters caused climate change. Likewise, people aren’t getting mad at college protesters because they think the caused the problems in the Middle East. Those are actually examples of value disagreements. I.e. when you prominently put your values on display, you invite reaction from people with different values. That has nothing to do with the “blaming the messenger” problem discussed earlier in the article.
Realistically, you'd train your model the same way it's done today and then custom-order analog ones with the weights programmed in. The advantage here would be faster inference (assuming analog circuits actually work out), but custom manufacturing circuits would only really work at scale.

I don't think reprogrammable analog circuits would really be feasible, at least with today's tech. You'd need to modify the resistors etc. to make it work.
Ohhhhhhhh, boy... Listening to all that emotional vocal inflection and feedback... There are going to be at least 10 million lonely guys with new AI girlfriends. "She's not real. But, she interested in everything I say and excited about everything I care about" is enough of a sales pitch for a lot of people.
This is great and it came up at dinner last night which is kind of weird.

Had the odd experience of going to a retreat where everyone sat listening to speakers, and then all went to lunch, and then back to the speakers, then all to dinner, then back to the speakers. And my iPhone popped up an alert that there was an airtag following me. (It wasn't of course it was an airtag in another attendee's bag to track their bag which they had with them, near me kind of randomly, but being driven by the same forces of movement :-)).
It's not better than any of the developers I work with.

Trying to talk it into writing anything other than toy code is an exercise in banging my head against the wall.
More ironically, some of them sell anti-spam SaaS. I recently received the following email:

> Le 2 mai 2024 à 12:13, Geoffrey Callaghan <irishgeoff@yahoo.com>
>
> Hello there,
>
> Please don't shoot the messenger ( that's me don't shoot :)
>
> But you should not post your email address like that in its raw email format on the hacker news
>
> You should use a tool like https://veilmail.io to hide your email address from spam bots :)
>
> You can always go back and change your hacker news post with a veilmail address.
>
> Have a nice day
>
> Geoff

Spread the disease, sell the cure
So they can optimize code. The main theme is addressing two-language problem (single high & low level language). They want uniform language for cpu/gpu/whatever-pu. They can't have garbage collection. They need strict dataflow analysis with precise destruction points.