skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "- Even though a lot of places look like they have not changed since the 80s, they are suprisingly well maintained and clean."

This is also the case in America, except the "well maintained and clean" part.
> Also, why on Earth would OpenAI launch a dramatically better model as long as their competitors don't force them to? The smart solution for OpenAI would be to almost let their competitors catch up to GPT-4 before launching GPT-5 and no competitor is truly there yet.

Is that how Silicon valley has worked like last 20+ years you just deploy fast get customer feedback and then fix stuff based on that feedback. OpenAI holding progress kinda goes against ethos of SV.
Hey OP,

Love the headline. Very confident ;-)
Honestly, if I were OpenAI, I'd just go different directions at once, and it looks like exactly what they're doing. Dall-E was a standalone experiment before, and now it's reintegrated into the core product.

It's completely plausible they have two different teams working on Omni and GPT-5, as both are completely different research directions from each other, and with the Q*-gate, it's pretty clear, the other effort is still going strong.

OP's take seems to be overly doomerist and I don't really get why.
I don't think the story is that simple when we're talking about a country that can print the currency that be debt is demarcated in.

A budget deficit means that the government has chosen not to print enough money to offset its spending. Now, the government printing its way to liquidity does have consequences, but fundamentally balancing the US federal budget is not like balancing a house budget.

And because the government can print the money at any time, it really doesn't matter how fast the interest is growing. What matters is whether people keep showing up to give the government the money.
Reminds me of the video of somebody synchronizing a small hydro power plant to the grid. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xGQxSJmadm0
This is easily mitigated with full disk encryption.
What is Test Coverage?
Test Coverage vs Code Coverage
What is the gap to have a true test coverage?
How can tracing data improve test coverage?
Relation between end-to-end tests and Tracing data
Let's get our hands dirty with real code
How Digma can help us to have better Test Coverage
Write integration test using MockWebServer
Write end-to-end tests without mocking interactions
Same here. Amazing service.
I have a 2 year old high spec Macbook Pro with less load than the GP and rarely can get > 3 hours out of it.
Some white LEDs are actually near-UV LEDs coated with a phosphor layer to emit visible wavelengths. Could be GP got LEDs with poor coating allowing UV through?
I don't see how any of this could be true considering IBM is also heavily involved in OpenTofu (and did so first)
Nuclear reactors were EOL and not even their owners wanted to run them any longer. So please stop spreading your misleading take.
“When a chiropractor is telling you about the implications of quantum mechanics, you know you’ve opened the wrong door in the Mansion of Understanding.”
That is pretty messed up. There can be gazillion good reasons for somebody to stick out, or somebody else to just asking. People getting easily offended and taking such benign question very personally have usually some deeper underlying untackled issues in their lives.
Oracle owns MySQL but not Terraform
When the suits saw dollar signs and got directly involved. Aka where everything goes wrong.
Germany build the equivalent solar-capacity to the sum of every nuclear reactor it ever operated in the last 3 years.

Our _green_ minister of the economy and energy continued running the reactors even past their agreed run-time because the Ukraine war happened, but they simply reached end-of-life.

So we've replaced the small amount of nuclear we had with renewables already. Now you might ask why we don't build new ones to move away from fossil fuels faster.
But why should you? It's impossible to argue that it would be economical given this chart:[1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source#...
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To stay in touch with math, the annually publicized math problems from the German Abitur[0] are great!
The problems are already separated into three difficulties, making it suitable to include in your website (although they might need translating).

[0] https://www.iqb.hu-berlin.de/abitur/pools2023/mathematik/erh...
OpenAI puts the “knowledge cutoff” in the system prompt. It’s just repeating that.
My duckduckgo results are starting to have summaries that do not reflect the content of the associated site and contain plausible falsehoods, courtesy of bing, and the content-farming keyword-spamming AI generated SEO slop goes without saying at this point. It'd be very nice if these models weren't also polluting the resources that people use to try and verify things.
Try https://incruiter.com/incbot
Dell will put almost anything but Ryzens in their laptops.
I think this is pretty true for every really big city I've been to in Europe - such that I wonder if it's a city size thing rather than a location.

Trying to talk to random people in London you get weird looks. A small town further out in the country, hope you're not in a rush as they'll talk your ear off.
Objects are whatever dangles at the interior other end of interfaces. And interfaces are just plugs. Plugs can have sub plugs, etc.. If you explain object orientation with its realworld engineering equivalent it becomes much more obvious.
Herd of 170 bison could help store CO2 equivalent of almost 2M cars (Romania)
Debugging is way harder than getting it right first time though.

The fun thing with all this AI stuff is people are beginning to appreciate the nice thing about computers the whole time was their strict mechanical nature.
How would the LLM know when it knows something or not? They don't deal in facts or memories, just next-word probabilities, and even if all probabilities are low it might just be because it's generated (had sampled) an awkward turn of phrase with few common continuations.

There are solutions, but no quick band-aid.
LG Gram
Ah yes, the Netherlands. Famous for their nice weather.
I don’t work there, I’ve just worked for lots of big orgs — they are all the same. Any claimed uniqueness in “Organizational structure” and “culture” are just window dressing around good ol’ human nature.

It’s not short sightedness, it’s rational self-interest. The rewards for taking risk as employee #20,768 in a large company are minimal, whereas the downside can be catastrophic for your career & personal life.
Why would OpenAI release GPT-5 if they are still number 1 in all benchmarks?
Gary Marcus was arguing in 2020 that scaling up GPT-2 wouldn't result in improvements in common sense or reasoning. He was wrong, and he continues to be wrong.

It's called the bitter lesson for a reason. Nobody likes seeing their life's work on some unicorn architecture get demolished by simplicity+scale
I think install time dependency resolution was a bad idea and needs to be removed entirely. Packages for package managers that do it are untestable by design, because their runtime behavior cannot be known at build time.

"Functional package management", as implemented in nix and guix, is a much saner approach.
If we're counting Australians as non-Europeans, surely we must be counting Russians as Asians.
I think this will be key in a logical proof that statistical generation can never lead to sentience; Penrose will be shown to be correct, at least regarding the computability of consciousness.

You could say, in a sense, that without a human mind to collapse the wave function, the superposition of data in a neural net's weights can never have any meaning.

Even when we build connections between these statistical systems to interact with each other in a way similar to contemplation, they still require a human-created nucleation point on which to root the generation of their ultimate chain of outputs.

I feel like the fact that these models contain so much data has gripped our hardwired obsession for novelty and clouds our perception of their actual capacity to do de novo creation, which I think will be shown to be nil.

An understanding of how LLMs function should probably make this intuitively clear. Even with infinite context and infinite ability to weigh conceptual relations, they would still sit lifeless for all time without some, any, initial input against which they can run their statistics.
Unless, of course, you have to shut down your nuclear plant because your cooling water is too warm during the summer months:

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/warming-rivers-threa...
Gary Marcus has been a firm advocate that GPT-5 is failing for a while now, based simply on the fact of them not having released it yet.

If/when OpenAI releases it, looking forward to how he reconciles his views.
More specifically than the title, also FTA:

> "This corresponds to the yearly CO2 emissions of 1.88m average US petrol cars."

and

> "The latest research, which has not been peer-reviewed, used a new model developed by scientists at the Yale School of the Environment and funded by the Global Rewilding Alliance. It calculates the additional amount of atmospheric CO2 that wildlife species help to capture and store in soils through their interactions within ecosystems. The European bison herd grazing in an area of nearly 50 sq km of grasslands within the wider Țarcu mountains, was found to potentially capture an additional 2m tonnes of carbon a year. That is nearly 9.8 times more than without the bison – although the report authors noted the 9.8 figure could be up to 55% higher or lower, given the uncertainty around the median estimate."

They also suggest the 170 may be added to in the near future, increasing up to 350-450 bison (or perhaps that's their estimate of natural growth / population limit?)

Edit - it's the latter, quote from https://rewildingeurope.com/news/boost-for-growing-bison-pop... :

> "For a bison population to become genetically viable, it needs to reach 150 mature individuals, which means a total population of around 350 to 400 animals. If the population in the Southern Carpathians continues expanding at a similar rate, it is estimated that it will number between 350 and 450 individuals by 2030, although this is a ballpark figure."
New rules to overhaul US electric grids could boost wind and solar power
Look at the email on page 34 of the PDF, from Tuesday, June 6, 2017 11:01:40 AM, and amaze yourself how come there are no criminal indictments for at least, the 737 Chief Technical Pilot...
There are no new coal plants, instead coal plants are scheduled for shutdown or conversion.

New gas plants are required to make use of gas as a storage medium one way or another.
The rubidium standards show up on eBay a lot for much less, but I don't know if they're still accurate and reliable after being used for years, I would imagine they're replaced for a reason
Alice Munro, Nobel laureate and master of the short story, dies at 92
Usually if i don't understand the relevancy of a trending post on HN or never heard an abbreviation/ product name the answer is always that its something to do with ai. If anyone else wonders why blue noise is needed https://xchhuang.github.io/bndm/
Openai would be the humans here and Ilya would be the dolphin. (In the metaphor, the dolphins leave and here Ilya is leaving)
I have a different theory: they just worked on optimizing inference and bringing down cost instead of advancing the model. It might have been very expensive to run, this improvement is possibly huge for their revenue.
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A very tall Japanese guy with curly hair that forms an afro would also get stares.

As someone who visited Japan for the first time 23 years ago, and has been living there (here?) for more than 10 years, there is much less staring now than there used to be, probably because of numbers. There are a lot more foreigners around now.
If the stockholders didn't make the decision to defraud the FAA, then why would they be on the hook for this?
This is norm in much of Europe (as in east, west, north and FWIW some south too), middle east and north Africa. Shoes are always dirty, even on non-rainy day. Sure, you can have rather mess at your home (absolutely unavoidable with smaller kids) but you can do some basic effort to tackle it.

Also, massively unhygienic for various fungus that loves damp warm places on your toe nails or between toes.
Kotlin Multiplatform for cross-platform mobile and desktop apps
Tim Cook is running out of ideas
>I have integrated 6 independent, specialized "AI attorneys" into a project management system where they are collaborating with "AI web developers", "AI creative writers", "AI spreadsheet gurus", "AI negotiators", "AI financial analysts" and an "AI educational psychologist" that looks at the user, the nature and quality of their requests, and makes a determination of how much help the user really needs, modulating how much help the other agents provide.

Ah yes, "it's so obvious no one sees it but me". Until you show people your work, and have real experts examining the results, I'm going to remain skeptical and assume you have LLMs talking nonsense to each each other.
> It's twice as fast and half the cost.

is a great trick with language. Because if you just pay for computing time, half the time equals half the cost. But when you phrase it that way, it sounds for some people like 4 times. So ...
>My intuition is that as contexts get longer we start hitting the limits of how much comprehension can be embedded in a single point of vector space, and will need better architectures for selecting the relevant portions of the context.

We are dealing with multi-headed attention, therefore we have multiple points per token. You can always increase the number of heads or the size of the key vector.
Wouldn't change much if any at all. Nuclear power was only less than 6% of total energy production in 2022 already.

https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/29295/umfrage...
Great set also for collecting malware.
This isn't the place for that comment, nor is it substantiated by the data.
That is really smart, I wonder what's going on behind the scenes. Q* perhaps?
Tunneling in general, or more specifically, bypassing the firewall and exposing a host on a trusted network segment to the public internet.
what was broken?
As I learned when I was a child taking apart electronics, the hard part is reassembling them, haha. Taking photos of the disassembly steps can be helpful in remembering how the parts fit together.
At night, we don't really need that much electricity. In German winters, we have a lot of wind energy instead.
Personally, as a developer who has been doing this for more than 25 years, I am excited, enthralled, and chomping at the bit to see what's next. Every day is like christmas, and I'm not even kidding. I have been having the mental time of my life playing with arenas, reading research papers, experimenting with agents, pitting one model against another, watching 'the sand learn to talk' and seeing everything take off. This is something I never thought I'd live to see.
Blue noise is broadly useful in imaging, you can use it for high quality dithering, or for perceptually smoother sampling in raytracers for example.

Here you can see the same rendering using white noise (true randomness) or blue noise, with the same number of samples:

https://www.shadertoy.com/view/3sfBWs / https://i.imgur.com/uDybnPm.png
Where do you get those 2 million IPs? The plaintext url list [0] only contains 90k entries and after filtering it to ips only and de duplication it's just 39k.

I've just added it to my firewall that does around 160Mbit/s right now using an ipset and the only increase in CPU I can see is a small blip from the ipset restore. And that's just an APU2 with a AMD GX-412TC (1GHz Quad core from 2014) and not a beefy box.

[0]: https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/downloads/text/
Yes, the units are correct. But currently Germany is generating 33 GW of solar power (according to electricity maps). Therefore the 17GWh is generated after 0.5 hrs. For a whole week this value is way too low, even if it was a cloudy week (which it wasn't).
Google Docs is also migrating to Kotlin Multiplatform

> The initial step in this journey is the rollout of the Google Docs app for Android, iOS, and Web, which leverages KMP for shared business logic, validating its readiness for production use at Google scale. The Google Workspace team is thrilled to continue exploring the possibilities of KMP across its product suite, aiming to enhance productivity and deliver seamless experiences to users on all platforms.

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2024/05/android-su...
I'm also not sure that lots of the stuff in the optimization part is actually needed or useful. A lot of it seems like micro-optimization. The author probably cares a lot about tweaking his laptop. If you want to do those steps just in case they might gain you a bit of battery life, you can do them. If you don't care about compiling your own kernel for potentially getting a 1% longer battery life, the vast majority of that stuff shouldn't be needed.

Of course some tweaks might actually have an effect. There are probably actual differences between different pstate driver modes or governors. (But even then it might be dubious whether you need to or should tweak them with TLP since power-profiles-daemon should supersede it in terms of energy/perf policy.)
If by normal you mean constant monitoring by multiple intelligence services and free only at the whim of a dictator who will cash him in whenever it is expedient.

But you are missing the point, if Snowden had 100+M USD in crypto he would be in constant danger of being kidnapped.
I'm an American citizen with Japanese permanent residency. Weirdly enough I moved here via a Software Engineer job posting I saw in an HN "whos hiring". This was about 5 years ago, right before covid hit. Clearly I've taken a liking to it, as I'm still here despite the potential to make way more money by being back home.

For me, I was interested in learning the language and experiencing a new culture, and so it was a blast. If you're not interested in those things, you will likely not last more than a few years (though I do know a few foreigners here who've been here 10+ years without learning a lick of Japanese).

The company I joined helped a lot with getting a bank account and phone number and such. Those tasks can be hard without help, although it's practically a meme at this point so I think it's easier now, as companies try to fill that gap. Another meme is that it's hard to find a place to rent as a foreigner. This might be somewhat true, but it's never happened to me and so I think it's a bit outdated.

Overall it's very comfortable. Sometimes too much so I think - nobody takes risks and so nothing really changes. I do like being able to go almost anywhere without a car.
You ask to not spread misleading then immediatly spreading a politician lies.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/04/26/german-green...
> Likewise with time, I am totally happy to wait 10 minutes for a better result, rather than having a mediocre result in 10 seconds

theres a massive gulf separating what people say they want and what people want. As well as a massive gulf separating what they will pay and what they say they’ll pay.

while there are plenty of situations where you think you want the smartest possible ai, it’s clear that a pretty smart pretty quick one is good enough for a lot of things.
> usually some deeper underlying untackled issues in their lives.

Usually being fed up with asked "where are you really from?" with the implication "go back there" lots and lots of times in their lives.
I don’t think it needs "really" before "big", it’s certainly not normal in the big city I live in now (pop 200k) nor the medium big city I lived in before (pop 90k). I can believe it’s like that for small villages, idk, maybe pop 1k.
I was wondering, once IBM got Hashicorp, if they would reverse the license change for Terraform. Not been that long since the announcement, so still hoping they will.
On a recent trip to Japan one thing that stood out to me was that my wife and I were usually the only people wearing sunglasses everywhere we went.
Sounds like you've only read the opening of the article. You could read the last sentence to see that what lies in between isn't "arguing against Aristotelian physics". (It isn't a book review either, contrary to the title.)
Following IBM's acquisition of Hashicorp the moves seems unsurprising, they wouldn't want to be beholden to a competitor.

We'll inevitably see others large companies follow suite - it was one thing when hashicorp was independent tech company but it's very different when it's owned by a direct competitor.
I'm sure I'm missing it, but is there a video showing the 'low latency'?
It impacts everyone who has 1 degree connection to a person deemed required to pay US taxes.
Oracle making the change due to licensing is like a dictionary definition of hubris, considering how their own license enforcement operates.
Ha, wow, I’d never seen this one before. The failures are pretty great. Even repeatedly trying to correct ChatGPT/Dall-e with the proper number of squares and pieces, it somehow makes it worse.

This is what dall-e came up with after trying to correct many previous iterations: https://imgur.com/Ss4TwNC
Can you add a comparison with wasmer as well?
> Makes sense

It's more of a cost reduction move. As an example Paris kept trash bins after the terrorist attacks, albeit they adapted them to the situation (either they're bomb resistant or made light and transparent)

Tokyo or London could do the same, if they cared enough.
Looking at this chart, how has nuclear reached its target?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source#...

Nuclear has less capacity than solar.
Nuclear has less capacity than on-shore wind.
Nuclear is currently 3x as expensive as on-shore wind.
Nuclear is currently 2x as expensive as solar.

France spend the last 70 years building low-CO2 energy reactors. Nobody is disputing that this is a great thing™, but that doesn't mean that it is the right technology for other nations to go with now, who can't go back in time 70 years.
A lot of stuff is hosted on compromised sites or devices - which are often running some insecure admin interface on an odd port. Very rare in my experience that someone would spin up a new web server on a box they’ve popped.
My skepticism still primarily resides in the cost scaling component of most AI products/services.

Companies are eating a lot of the cost right now, until when do we continue with such an approach?

At this rate, I suspect we'll end up with how "search" ended, prioritised ad results and subpar experiences beyond that.
And it doesn't, but the criminal behaviour then needs to be a personal one, not just like (and not saying this is the case) systemic issues at the company, regulatory oversight clearly insufficient or not preventative, no one person really specifically at fault through malicious action or reckless negligence so ehhh blame the CEO.
board members and executives can and should. shareholder equity should be zero'd (or at least devalued if the shareholder had a significant impact on votes, whatever that means.)

so should any vp, second line and even front line managers if they collaborated.

whistleblowers should get government protection. not sure which government, though.
I think you’re right that people sometimes take it that way, but I’ve always thought it a rather uncharitable assumption. The answer could be a different place in the US. It doesn’t seem to imply anything about whether you’re American or not?

I’m in California and it’s somewhat unusual for someone to be native Californian.
I don't think the parent's criticism was limited to the last three closures, but the whole fleet that was shut down starting 2011.
I wonder if Boeing has any dirt on US military action from the past few decades.
RIP, Alice.