skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
its motivated me, I think the real question is whether the thing you're a builder of is intended to make money. because for making money this has been great.

for trying to do a passion project for accolades on your originality, with money as an afterthought, I can see that seeming more pointless

for an analogy: grocery stores don't need to be original, you can put one right across the street from another and we still need more grocery stores.
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>It exists now only because he sold part of his successful winery estate to finance the movie when no one else would.

Coppola pumped more than $120 million of his own money into the movie's production. It's the mother of all passion projects.
Interesting to see that OpenAI was successful in creating their own reality distortion spells, just like Apple's reality distortion field which has fooled many of these commenters here.

It's quite early to race to the conclusion that one is better than the other when not only they are both unreleased, but especially when the demos can be edited, faked or altered to look great for optics and distortion.

EDIT: It appears there is at least one commenter who replied below that is upset with this fact above.

It is OK to cope, but the truth really doesn't care especially when the competition (Google) came out much stronger than expected with their announcements.
I concur, screw the policy that was decided unilaterally anyhow. I never got the point of posting an article to a discussion board knowing it has a paywall that prevents a lot of people from engaging with it, unless you are some sort of a shill account looking to pad subscriptions. If archive posts are tolerated, probably in violation of publishers wishes anyhow, might as well pin these comments or even replace the link.
It's basically explained in the article: it's probably just very hot—the atmospheric scale height[0] is proportional to temperature. The open question (per the article) is why it got so hot, because they don't have a model for that. ("It certainly requires a significant deposit of energy deep into the planet’s interior, but the details of the mechanism are not yet understood.“")

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale_height
> Are there any available clocks with that precision?

Yes! The term you need to type into Google is "High Accuracy Quartz". The most easily available wristwatches with this level of accuracy are the Bulova Precisionist line.

Watchuseek has a subforum about HAQ: https://www.watchuseek.com/forums/high-accuracy-quartz-watch...
Ask a human how many neurons they have. Hell, over history humans haven't even consistently understood that the brain is where cognition happens.
I love this paper. For reasons too winding to spell out here, my dad gave me this paper to read when I was in middle school. I was pretty good at math for my age, but not so good that I understood all the math in this paper. (The bit on page 4, "And we have many algorithms from linear algebra that can help us find this dependency" was particularly frustrating as linear algebra was many, many years away for me.) Nevertheless, I was able to build the basics of a factoring program and factor some decently large numbers.

What a testament to the clarity, accessibility, and quality of the writing! This clearly isn't a conference paper or anything, but still very technical.

It wasn't until a decade later when I was doing my undergrad that I learned who Carl Pomerance was, and also who Paul Erdős was, to whom this paper is dedicated. Blew my mind.
To identify plants, use Seek, it's amazing. Where it can't get an exact match it still gives you the family/class etc
An interesting example of that flocking from some tech talent in the Pacific Northwest https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/omniva-stealth-st...
Cite sources?
For sure Google is not great at AI given the lower and lower quality of their results in the last months.
I hope not to be the only one to have noticed this...
>“This man created some of the most beautiful music humanity was able to produce,” Rifai adds. “It was so incredibly tragic that he couldn’t hear this majestic music that he created.”

I wonder if his deafness helped him create that music.
No, it's still really easy to ignore bayesians.
I was thinking about this while watching an amazing Chinese historical drama, "Longest Day in Chang'an," which has a "24"-like real-time structure. But instead of the beep... beep... beep... you have this one guy in an official building intently watching a water clock and pretty much every episode he bangs a drum on the hour and yells out the exact time and a kind of proverb, like "1 o clock!! The shadows reappear!"

Great show and there are lots of interesting historical details like this. Good post too.
The open web is already dead, killed off by Facebook, reddit, discord, etc.
There are already limits on free speech so that's not a great counter argument.
Yeah. When you start to really research it you realise it isn't a single disorder, it's a collection of symptoms and behaviours, and everyone's collection is different.
> OTOH in 2017 Tesla stock was dirt cheap, and in 2024 it isn't. It can be argued it was a better investment in 2017, but as a company it's in much better shape now.

Fully agree Tesla is in far better shape now than it was in 2017.

Infact I agree with your entire comment!!
False dichotomy.

You can also employ DSLs (domain specific languages). Plain ones or my favorite ones - as subset/SDK of generic purpose languages.
I get where you're coming from, though it has me neither excited nor scared. I think interests will just get pushed around a bit, and I feel like we still inherently crave human-created things in one way or another. For example, it used to be cool when someone would make a nice movie of photos of their trip with titles and effects and share it. Now... it takes seconds, is automated, my feed is filled with such "reels", and I don't watch any of them. Instead, that plain, typo-filled but authentic text update catches my eye. Things that highlight personal craft will be demanded. Look to any number of parallels in the physical world.
You can add in Tesla as well.

Apple and Tesla are unique in the levels of brandd zealotry they seem to induce. Nintendo users for example are unlikely to only ever use a Nintendo device...they may own other consoles or play other games on a computer.

Apple and Tesla users tend to only own and use those devices to the exclusion of everything else, which feeds the myopia.
I don’t disregard its market position. I just don’t have anything to say about it.
Incredible. I'd never think I'd ever be able to see this kind of historical artefact. NR Shake was so brilliant :)
When was the last culturally significant generation you experienced?
In this specific case it's because the log file (if the iPad version of MtGA even generates a "file" for its logs as such) exists in a location only accessible to the app, not to the user or other apps. And the iPadOS model means that there is no way to reach into that app's data to convince it to cough up the data you want.
Ah, according to this, she’s head of Search but reports to Prabhakar. I thought from recent reports that she’d taken search over from him.

Nonetheless, she was a good engineer and a good manager, back when we crossed path many moons ago.

https://searchengineland.com/liz-reid-google-new-head-of-sea...
A) Firefox is vastly bigger and more complicated than Thunderbird

B) Email protocols aren't a moving target to the degree that the web is

C) Thunderbird has the benefit of being able to freeload off the base platform development that Firefox continues to do, although of course it's a lot of work even to adapt to those changes.
> If you don't like how the new technology is pulling the rug out from under your reality, it is you who has the problem.

I didn't want to reply to anybody in particular so as to mitigate the provocation since this is HN. But this feels like a common sentiment among transhumanist etc types. Or maybe I'm imagining, but I bet a lot of us are feeling this way so I thought I'd call it out. I have no expectation of receiving any understanding. The future is not for people like us.
A very useful resource, thanks a lot Julian for this!
iPad Pro is a product in search of a market.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40100569
The original Silicon Graphics logo[1]
and the Nintendo 64[2]were up there with Sun's in my opinion

1. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/SGI_O2_f...

2. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/04/Nintendo_64_L...
> and...reality in a big way

This is the part that frightens me somewhat, because I don't think the public is prepared for what's coming. Although, it's of secondary concern to me versus your first point:

> de-democratizing tech

...which is certainly problematic.

I'm at a point right now where I haven't fully decided what to think. On any given day, my Facebook feed is filled with a growing collection of AI generated images, and more and more comments are expressing exasperation that it's "real" when the images are (to me) clearly generative "art." But, I think we're at a point where the average user is going to be duped by at least some small percentage of images that are out there. It wouldn't be too difficult to imagine a time in the next 5-10 years (maybe less) when the majority population is convinced of an imagined event that never happened.

More to your point, though, even companies that have a large volume of data to train on but simply don't have the resources are going to be "very second tier." I've noticed this with the AI subscription for Logos Bible Software. ChatGPT does a better job of answering questions, generally, than Logos which oftentimes can't even answer fairly trivial queries based on one's library. I've heard this has changed in the past couple of months for the better, but I'm not optimistic because of the capability mismatch.
Yes, but you can't point them up skirts, or walk up to their bedroom window (you have to be at the public sidewalk/street).

Cell phones already have volume limiters, too: https://www.theverge.com/23729051/ios-android-samsung-phone-...

Not great counter-arguments.
Only in Detroit will you find a liquor store with both an art gallery inside as well as a Vegan restaurant open until 1 am.

I don't know of any other major American city where there is more freedom to do cultural experiments. Not only is it OK, you get a warm welcome and if it doesn't work you're encouraged to try again with another idea.
Okay fair, I just always think of NVMe drives with 5000-7000 MB/s read speed when M.2 gets mentioned and I misremembered that SATA (non M.2) SSDs were cheaper.
If it really suited my exact tastes, that would actually be great. But I don’t see how we’re anywhere close to that. And they won’t target matching your exact taste. They will target the threshold where it’s just barely interesting enough that people don’t turn it off.
Search will be dead in a year or two. Nobody wants to double check information, they just want fast and easy answers, unless they're intentionally navigating to a specific website (facebook, electricity provider, etc)
I'm not disillusioned I'm just being realistic. As opposed to the Dotcom boom, AI is top down rather than bottom up.

Very few startups are finding success and if they do it's short lived because it gets replaced or integrated natively by newer capabilities from existing major players.

There will be success stories but I haven't seen many novel ideas created using new AI tech that are not just an overlay on top of an LLM that people aren't willing to pay for.

I think the right state of mind is to explore and keep thinking about real world applications, even though at the moment it's basically just every existing saas inserting AI into their existing products.
> chosen based on some psychoacoustic model

Does audio encoding use a similar method of using matrices to pick which frequencies get thrown away? Some video encoders allow you to change the matrices so you can tweak them based on content.
I think it's funny the demos don't have people in them after the Gemini fiasco. I wonder if they didn't have time to re-train the model to show representative ethnicities.
I know that such evidence does not exist, but if it were, a detailed comparison based on it would deserve a scientific degree. Neither a single corporation nor entire big tech considered together as a single actor can really compare with the scale and diversity of censorship of a totalitarian state.
1. I was responding to parent who said all of these products were acquisitions.

2. Big difference between not being profitable and not being able to tell if it is profitable because they do not split their earnings finely. My guess is Pixel is profitable
Something that I've found worth pointing out to other builders is that you don't need to build an AI product outright to sell to consumers (re: your comment about your ideas being gobbled up by big tech). Building internal AI/ML tools to solve your own business/workflow/whatever problems is often the better route for folks to leverage the advances in that technology. The best AI you build is likely the one your users don't even know exists.

This also has a beneficial side effect of showing you first-hand just how bad this tooling is currently and how far away it is from replacing builders wholesale. And to be clear, I'm not just talking about leveraging closed proprietary APIs for these efforts, I'm actually more referring to building your own training and inference stacks from scratch. The pedagogical impact alone can make up most of the ROI for your time spent.
Not just you. And not just you "going through a rough patch," although there could be some overlap. I think my optimism for the future is cut down a bit by announcements like these, too. That does affect my overall life outlook.

Perhaps I'm just in the same boat - shouldn't be drawing any sort of emotional support from that.
look, you can't just pretend that if the US weren't there they won't get their hands on AI software to do what they need done. if the US doesn't partner with them then China will or russia will or any number of other countries.

with the massive excess of software talent that's flooding the market, they're going to get what they're after one way or another.
All great artists are a little bit crazy. Heavy metal poisoning is a clever shortcut.
A bit before Bitcoin was NESARA: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NESARA

I learned of NESARA through Will Sommer's TRUST THE PLAN, which is about qanon. The MOASS, NESARA, and qanon conspiracy theories all share some interesting characteristics, like there's something necessary for a conspiracy theory to start resembling the distributed cataclysm-utopia cults we're discussing
https://archive.is/8uxk2
> platform is going to favor its own and be aware that Sam Altman is the golden boy of YC's founder

I don’t know if there is a sentiment analysis tool for HN, but I’m pretty sure it’s been dead negative for Altman since at least Worldcoin.
Don't forget SORA edited their "ai generated" videos while Google did not here.

Where did SORA get all its training videos from again and why won't the executives answer a simple Yes/No question to "Did you scrape Youtube to train SORA?"

Google attorneys want to know.
I've been using a Kindle for 10+ years now , but the poor responsiveness has always irked me. I can't tell if it's a hardware or software issue. I'm glad to see this project is focused on reducing latency on the hardware side.

Does anyone know why the Kindle is such a bad product? I use it because I like e-ink and the e-book market is comprehensive, but I don't think it's actually a good device.
For $20 more (after instant coupon) you can get https://www.amazon.com/UXX-Desktop-Computer-Expandable-Frame...

- Somewhat faster multicore performance, identical single core performance

- Disk buses run at full speed

- Runs any standard x86-64 OS and software instead of Pi/Arm specific ones

- Has double the RAM

- Comes with a 256 GB m.2 SSD (unfortunately not an option to buy without), can be replaced if you want more.

- Comes with the case

For slightly more you can get one with 2 drive bays in the factory case instead of having to build some external drive mount solution e.g. https://www.amazon.com/Beelink-4-Cores-N5095-Computer-Ethern.... If you aren't as worried on the CPU performance there are options in the $80 range that still hold these other advantages.

Pi's are fun but they are slightly overhyped in terms of the absolute value for things you can do with a standard PC like build a NAS, host a server, or use as an actual PC. The biggest values are where the 1 GB RAM model can do more than you need and it's a really great value for a non-used device or where the Pi's non high speed interfaces are a benefit like IP KVMs where the GPIO can control the motheboard, the CSI can capture the HDMI output, the USB OTG can act as the USB/CD drive/Keyboard/Mouse, the NIC/Wi-fi make it easy to access, and the size makes it fit inside existing equipment without issue.
AdWords and AdSense revenue goes to them instead of going to "content creators". Which is pretty good for google.

If you think that's bad, just wait until they can use generative video to create reviews of new tech products. (Come to think of it, just wait until they can AI generate video reviews of any products.) A whole swath of people and organizations relying on youtube revenue are going to be taking a 95% chop in pay as Google, or whoever wins generative video, takes all of the youtube payouts.
Any app can be evicted from memory at any time, requiring a full restart. The VM could be terminated with zero notice, aborting the OS kernel and leaving the filesystem in an arbitrary state. There is no swap on iOS / iPadOS but even if there was you wouldn't want it burning out your soldered-on storage chip.

If the answer is that this VM program is the only one that never gets killed under memory pressure, bear in mind most iPads still have only 8G RAM so the OS will have to get even less than that, not leaving very much for any workflows on either the host or guest from that point on. Even that is still less capable than macOS on the same 8G RAM because at least macOS can use swap.

It's egregious that you can still buy laptops with 8G RAM today, but at least all of that is available to the OS all the time, it doesn't just abort under memory pressure, and it can swap.

Virtualization may make more sense with a different host or guest platform, but in this particular combination, memory will always be a problem. The lack of swap compounds that further. (I'm not sure about memory compression in iOS but you can't exactly rely on that for already-compressed data)

Even if the host and guest share memory to avoid the hard cutoff, there still needs to be a way for the iPad to free up memory on demand, given that it cannot use swap.
I think we know exactly how Google will monetize this, assuming they keep their search monopoly. Over time the answers will get increasingly skewed towards their paying customers. Eventually Google's endless need to increase revenue at the expense of their product will render the results quite bad and everyone will start looking forward to the next paradigm shift.
Don't forget a favorable immigration environment for the many many smart people in India who don't win visa lotteries to western countries
The "guess my Easter egg" interview pattern.

As if this what they do all day: ask each other fundamentally useless questions with no meaningful answer (that anyone would actually care about), and which you aren't expected to provide an actual working answer to, anyway. But which have a cute partial (shibboleth) answer embedded in them. Which if you manage to come up with (under interview time constraints and pressure) -- and most importantly: if you ignore the request to actually solve the problem as stated -- will tell the person asking "how you think".
It's for paid users for now, not free. I have ChatGPT Pro and I can use the new model.
Google has a search engine?
I wish we had gotten a resolution on whether that report from the Guardian was correct. Regardless, Apple says that credits make up only about 25% of their reduced emissions.
You are forgetting one point about the current AI technology. No creativity. Yes you can ask models to generate music, video, images. But they are rehashing the content of somebody else. Asking to create a video of Michael Jackson dancing at the style of Fred Astaire with music similar to a Metallica song, is rehashing, not creativity. There is nothing in the current GenAI that is not a rehash.

It will stop when they run out of data, or when the training data needs to be isolated from the datasets created by GenAI.

So create something based on human creation. Sell it to the LLM trainers. It's the new business model....
> GPT-4o: out

I don't know what's wrong with GPT-4o, but the answers I'm getting are much worse than before yesterday. It's constantly repeating the entire content required to provide a seemingly "full" answer, but if it passes me the same but slightly modified Python code for the fifth time even if it has become irrelevant to the current conversation, it really gets on my nerves.

I had so well tuned custom instructions which worked beautifully and now it's as if it is ignoring most of them.

It's causing me frustration and really wasting my time when I have to wait for the unnecessary long answers to finish.
Does this mean that any JSFuck code would be considered trivial, even though JSFuck can do anything JavaScript can?
I learned about this and it does work in my experience, best if taken both at the beginning and end of the night.

While it doesn’t alleviate all of the hangover symptoms it does nearly eliminate all of the most unpleasant ones.
Yes I‘ve had that too big time. Currently it goes better especially since Yann LeCun debunked a lot of the OpenAI AGI fearmongering. There is for example no such thing as general intelligence, people can be orders of magnitude better or worse in certain domains AND it seems AI is just approaching human-level and passing it only a little. Not some kind of magical AGI which can do everything in seconds.

Also related: https://youtu.be/nkdZRBFtqSs
Newspapers no longer need to perform the overhead of printing and distributing which was a massive cost to the news org. They can also now sell to the world vs just the local market they can deliver papers to. So not only have their costs been lowered their customer base has expanded quite a bit in theory. Why should we therefore expect to see ads on subscriptions?
As said above, Nintendo 64
> This is the kind of product that only Apple's vertical integration of hardware and software makes possible.

Like Windows 10's tablet mode, you mean?
Memory Mosaics
Walmart to cut jobs at headquarters, relocate others
Being well-rounded and learning for learning's sake is absolutely something that keeps you growing as a person imo. My take is just that it's worth being critical of what one needs to learn, how much work it would actually take, and whether they really are engaging with the subject in a way that can be called learning rather than information entertainment or some other extremely low level.

With pure knowledge, it's a bit easier to convince yourself that putting in some airpods and listening to a subject while you're actually dividing your attention with the act of driving, is effective "learning". But with things that inherently require more physical engagement, this would seem a bit silly. You can't really watch YouTube video or ask ChatGPT how to kickflip on a skateboard and convince yourself that you've learned much. You need to go to a parking lot and rep out 1000 attempts.

My argument is just that passive digestion of information has an opportunity cost, and unless you're already engaged enough to take it to the streets somehow, you're paying a high opportunity cost whereby those moments could be enjoyed as the periodic gaps they are