skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OpenAI’s strategy has been bizarre since at least last November, when they launched custom GPTs, then had the boardroom coup.

Since the launch of Claude 3 Opus, and then Claude 3.5 Sonnet, they have been significantly behind Anthropic in terms of the general intelligence of their models. And instead of deploying something on par or better, they are making demos of video generation (Sora) or audio-to-audio models, not releasing anything.

GPT-4o is quite bad at coding, often getting stuck in a loop, and “fixing” buggy code by rewriting it without any changes.

GPT-4o is speculated to be a distillation of a larger model, and now GPT-4o-mini is an even dumber smaller model. But what’s the point?

Who is actually using small/fast/cheap/dumb models in production apps? Most real apps require higher reliability than even the biggest/slowest/priciest/smartest models can provide today. For the use case of transformers that has taken off, aiding students and knowledge workers in one-off tasks like writing code and prose, most users want smarter, more reliable outputs, even at the expense of speed and cost.

GPT-4o-mini seems like a move to increase margins, not make customers happier. That, like demoing products without launching them, is what big old slow corporations do, not how world-leading startups operate.
When I started using the web, this is what all pages looked like and tons and tons of people had personal ones just like this. It was so great. I used to love touring all the self expression.

Not quite the first, but this is how mine looked in '98: https://web.archive.org/web/19981205195643/http://www.justki...
OLED tech has been very transformative for lots of my old gear (synthesizers and samplers mostly) that originally came with backlit LCD displays. But the OLEDs are offered in static colors, usually blue or amber. Sometimes white red or green

It would be very cool to have a display with adjustable color.
still can't parse ISO8601
Taboola scores Apple advertising deal, shares surge
Any idea if there is a plan to produce discrete LEDs that are tunable?
Wow, this is so cool! Your website is clear and easy to read. It's super easy to find everything, and it works really fast too. Awesome job, keep it up!
People go to Chisinău, and that’s kinda it, and it’s really not representative of Moldova as a whole.

You cross the border from Romania, and you’re immediately struck by the road turning to cobbles, and the modern street lamps turning into gas lamps. Ox carts bearing peasants in home-sewn clothes trundle by under their burden of hay. A rusted old lada serves as a roadside goose coop. Wattle and daub houses stoop by the dusty road, old men in flat caps sat on a bench by the roses climbing the crumbling wall. It’s like the most remote and rural corners of Transylvania, and then some - it’s still 1924 out there.

The cities - unremarkable, Soviet slop with the usual fistful of monuments and bits of history - but the countryside is the most authentic time warp I have experienced in Europe, and I have been to most of Europe.
About 100€ for the PC (some hardware was surplus) and 300€ for the GPU which was a nice 16gb model with HBM2. Was pretty nice for an educational project IMO. I much rather do something like this than spend money on a course.
> I don’t know about you, but I care about company structure, product issues, platform scalability and reliability, customer usability, developer usability, performance, legal compliance, security, corporate scalability, and team cohesion all at the same time.

Then he should either be senior management or a high-end consultant (the kind that's well paid and actually listened to, who fixes structural problems in companies). And perhaps some soft-skills would help him to gel better with the people who pay him.
I felt very trapped. In the US, there were only a handful of tech hubs, and realistically I could only find work in the Bay Area and Seattle. The high cost of living meant I'd likely never be able to own a home unless I hit the startup lottery.

Spending a month in Thailand and (especially) Cambodia gave me a lot more appreciation for how much I had. However, it also broke my interest in the American Dream. Seeing a guy running a small motorcycle shop while his toddler son played on the steps made me feel that the Western, Corporate system is really damaged. Spending most of your waking hours at some office building with people you don't particularly like, working on something that you can't care about except in abstract terms? Seeing your life's work dissolve when it's abandoned after the next acquisition or bankruptcy? It's not a recipe for a satisfied life.

I don't know what the solution is, but your best bet is probably to get into therapy and learn tools to practice gratitude. It's so easy to become complacent and blind to the great things we have.

Edit: I just saw your additional comment. I still stand by my therapy comment, specifically for the purpose of learning tools and exercises. Unfortunately, I have no idea how you find a decent therapist for this purpose.
By being very small. 15k rpm is 250 hertz. This is slightly lower than the lower bound wing frequency of a female mosquito, which can hover using approximately 100 μW - a tenth the power of this drone.

Citations:
https://humbug.ox.ac.uk/sound
https://pubs.aip.org/aip/pof/article-abstract/36/2/021907/32...
https://www.dupagehealth.org/DocumentCenter/View/147/10-Thin...
The Conflict of Interest at the Heart of CA's AI Bill
To me this makes Prolog sound like a tool to reach for similar to SQL. Specialized language for asking specific kinds of search or query over your data.
Deceptive Patterns – Hall of Shame
You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become Adobe.
Yes and doing that requires a solid non-stop and consistent 3 working LoC per minute for six hours straight. I don’t think a human is capable of processing that kind of volume unless it is pure boilerplate.

I can see LLM’s playing a role here..
These still produce a single [adjustable] wavelength, which means some colors that are displayable on displays of today are not representable using just one of these, and multiples will be required.
If a ventriloquist dies, does his dummy go to heaven too?
A popular website for that is GitHub.com.

My public key is at http://GitHub.com/fragmede.keys, so anyone wanting to let me on their server can just create me an account, stick that in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys, tell me an IP address and port number, and I'm in.
Who still has nightmares of infinitely nested parenthesis?
No, it won't.

The Russian government, while dumb and incompetent to an unbelievable point, isn't dumb enough to try killing on American soil. Besides, it's not like the CEOs of Russian defense companies aren't publicly known.
Also, the US doesn't "defend" Taiwan for the good of Taiwan, but merely to further US interests in the region.
> go figure the plot you have to live after an event of this type

I am not saying these aren't issues, but that the risk is often overstated.

Also, I think there are plenty of other things that are greater risks than the likelihood of gun violence toward oneself or others that impact lifetime well-being for individuals on a socioeconomic scale, especially in schools.
Obviously, but it still hurts me to see multiple H1 in a page
"computers are a very important form of technology. Without it no websites, no Roblox studio, and no nothin."

Amen!
Prague is central Europe
One more comment:

>"And the companies that did have expertise, like Google, like Facebook, like Apple, were refusing to work with the U.S. national security community."

Idk if this is true. I suspect they--at a minimum--cooperate with the "soft" side of the defense industry (e.g. NSA). However, if they don't, I think there will come a time when we will have to bring them to heel. The world won't have the luxury of supporting fat corps who aren't aligned with respective hegemons (e.g. US, China, Russia). They will find themselves supporting the effort or cut off from resources and unable to continue operating.
https://archive.ph/yRjgj
I have to ask: when you say "what planet are you from?", do you find it impossible (or at least very hard) to model someone thinking what the poster said? I guess, more precisely, do you think that the average person -- not educated with comfortable background, just average or low income -- is much more likely to share your opinion, than that of Steve Jobs and Apple being broadly positive?

My guess is that the majority people think of Jobs and Apple as being neutral to good, if they think of them at all. At the very least, lots of people who don't fit into your privileged categories of Jobs apologists, still don't think of him as bad.

Do you think those people have been misled? Why do you think you have more insight into the truth than them?
That is interesting for sure, but the subsequent questioning "Why did you get it wrong the first time?" and asking it to explain itself seems like it shows a misunderstanding about how these technologies actually work. Please stop treating these tools like they are conscious and actually understand what they are spitting back to you! /rant
Modeling a Wealth Tax-Back of the Envelope Calculations
Bayesian inference is costly and adds a significant amount of complexity to your workflow. But yes, I agree, the way uncertainty is handled is often sloppy.

Maximum likelihood estimates are very frequently atypical points in the posterior distribution. It is unsettling to hear people are using this and not computing the entire posterior.
> Should we sing a song: How many people has to die because you believe in Marxism

Here's a song that has some special relevance here:

Row, row, row your boat

Gently down the stream

...

Are you familiar with this song?
I don't have direct experience with startups, but 25% seems fair for the stage it's in. Six months vesting seems extremely fast and great for you. Most 401k plans at boring companies take around 5 years to vest. Six months for 25% equity is amazing.

Even his initial offering of 20% vested at 1 year still seems like a good deal.
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Frontend masterpiece lol
I don't know. My personal observation, and this is supported by a number of studies, is that there's a "sweet spot" of wealth in terms of it encouraging happiness. Having too little makes happiness more difficult, as does having too too much.

The question is whether this is a causal relationship or not. I suspect not, or at least not in the sense that wealth itself is causing a difference. My suspicion is that the relationship has more to do with the personalities that tend to group at different wealth levels.

Mostly what I've learned in life is that people can live in extreme poverty and be fundamentally happy, and they can live in extreme wealth and be miserable. This makes me suspect that your happiness level has more to do with how you relate to life and its circumstances than to what, exactly, those circumstances are.
All happiness is rooted on purposive and positive mental ideation of one's existence. Having children will affect your mindset and worldview; for almost everyone I know this change has been positive.
I journal a lot. I recommend finding a system that supports backlinking. That way you can link to some related topic (for example, link to "stress" for a note on how you handled stress successfully), and then use the backlinks to that topic to find what you're looking for.

Since I use GNU Emacs, Org Roam[0] was a natural choice for me. Other options include: Logseq, Obsidian, and Notion

[0] https://www.orgroam.com/
Commercial fleet sales are a separate B2B business segment.

https://fordcommercialvehiclecenter.com/
Another vote for the book linked in the article. It gets into the history of how machines were introduced into the textile industry in England. Wealthy mill owners forced child laborers to run the machines while simultaneously making the artisan workers unable to sustain themselves or their families by producing shoddy low quality items in bulk.

As always the problem wasn't necessarily the machines but that they were controlled by wealthy mill owners who reaped all the profits and left the rest of society to starve. England really was patient zero for the toxic economic system still being used in the US.
I think it's mostly the memory bandwidth though that makes the GPUs so fast with LLMs. My card does about 1TB/s. CPU RAM won't come near that. I'm sure a lot of optimisations can be had but I think GPUs will still be significantly ahead.

Macs are so good at it because Apple solder the memory on top of the SoC for a really wide and low latency connection.
... but $OTHER_TEAM is going through 20% more points each sprint than your team.

I hate story points, in fact I hate most automated issue trackers, generally speaking. I don't mind that there's a backlog and that features should have some details. But I'm now stuck in an org where we're doing SAFe/PI planning 6+ months ahead of where the devs will actually do the work, and designs that likely won't represent the true solution in practice among dozens of teams in a very large company.

It's kind of insane.
Great followup and details. Your introspection sounds like you're on the right path for evolving and making progress. There is no silver bullet here (at least in my own experience).

Your three priorities (if I understood correctly), sound like your health, relationship, and independent business. This really does seem like a good track. In fact, having such clarity of priorities puts you ahead of many people. The only thing I don't see is maybe having a vision of the environment in which you pursue these priorities (home, living area, weather, etc).

I encourage you to consider specific short and medium term goals within those three areas. Maybe you can help draw out several purposes that adjust your mental framing.

As a small example, the hot topic of the children. I don't perceive anyone saying you should rush out and have a child tomorrow. Instead, adapting to your situation, maybe there are some specific family goals for the next few years.

Then, on the business side, maybe there are some specific goals for the next 1, 3, and 6 months. This might also need some goals about when to cut bait and try some different business ideas.

When I'm in the worst malaise, it's often when I have vague big picture aims without shorter term goals. Purpose is multi-faceted.

Thanks for sharing your journey. It's helpful for me to think and write about these topics, so I appreciate the prompt and hope I've helped your pursuit in a small way.
Easily beats the performance and accessibility of most of the "professionally developed" web, supported by entire teams.

Naya needs to take over as VP of Engineering at Reddit. The site would actually improve using her approach.
I wonder how feasible it would be to do massively distributed training, a la Folding@home or SETI@home.
Staying in Moldova for 2 weeks proved to me that even the most boring of places can be amazing with the right people.
Not only, protocols, categories, object swizzling, message passing, are all mechanisms to do OOP in Objective-C with zero inheritance.
The good news is that none of those sci-fi fears never really came true. Here's to hoping the current "near future dystopia" doesn't break the rule...

Contrary to other posters I mostly enjoyed the scrolling art style and presentation.
yeah, there's a lot of nuance there. Not all variable length isas are a problem. X86 definitely is.
Excellent website! Thanks for sharing, I learned something: the scientific name of a cheetah.

Tell your daughter to keep making things that she likes to make!
Why do you think building a business will fix the problem you feel?

Probably because he wants a lifestyle business that will let him make a reasonably comfortable living without working 9-5 every day for 30 years.
This fraud, CW, has spend years in derailing the lives of Bitcoin developers, often low or unpaid volunteers, all to get his hands on a big sack of money.

After all, if he really is Satoshi, he could use courts to claim early coins that are in Satoshi’s wallets, are his.

The Bitcoin code would have to be changed to free up these stuck coins. He misses the point that all the people who use bitcoin would also have to install and run that code. That would never have happened anyways. But this verdict is nice.
I was just running: ollama run llama3, So that would be 8B parameters, on a 8GB M1 Air.

Maybe it's just my expectations, but it seems rather slow to process queries. Depending on the prompt somewhere between the 10 - 40 tokens per second, but that very much depends on the prompt.

My complaint is the time between the prompt is entered and output starts.
In the past, a lot fewer people lived until they were “old”.

So, the deleterious effects of trauma emotions “mattered less”. If you can never sleep through the night without waking up screaming, that is a bad effect. But if you only have a year or two of lifespan left, then you experience less “penalty” than if you had lots of years left.

Now, we ship boys off to war at 18, or even younger. They get PTSD in war, and then live 50+ years afterwards with the bad effects.
The thing is Gruber tried to imply/claim that there was no reason to believe that there was an intent to steal credentials, i.e. the only part of the scam was the financial aspect.

So no, I stand by it. If by his belief, not mine, that the app was purely a financial scam, he literally downplayed it, effectively, as "even if you're being scammed, you could have been scammed more elsewhere", and most of the rest of his writing was implying people are being overly critical of Apple.

As for an uncharitable take? Were it Gruber's first forays into defending Apple in the face of evidence, maybe. After screen staining, batterygate, butterflygate, logic board issues, and several more (hell, he even defended "You're holding it wrong"), all of which Gruber insisted these were all user issues, non-issues or random events, several of which ended up resulting in warranty extensions and/or recalls, I'm less inclined to be ... 'charitable'.
> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
A mosquito weighs 2.5 milligrams. It also has almost exactly the same hovering power to weight ratio. At 8mm high it is indeed a very tiny "drone", and exceedingly fragile, but it is certainly not impossible.
Ukraine is the exception. It seems that most of the other wars the US got involved in were done with a bullshit pretext and the real reason seems to be that the US has economic/military interest in that territory.

The US might not even care about the Ukraine people. It might just be a proxy war against Russia. I mean, the US doesn't give a shit about Gaza. You can tell ~~Russia~~ Israel to stop the war...

You can be pro-Ukraine and against the always growing military-industrial complex.
I should have a guide, but haven't created one yet - don't want to derail the thread, but here are a few pointers:

- The iFixit Apple Watch teardown is surprisingly effective - way more heat (and patience) is required then they indicate

- Using an X-Acto blade between the frame and glass really works well without damaging a single component (please be careful and alternate heat and prying)

- You may also need to replace the deep-press bezel - consider ordering one prior to your repair

- The battery glue is very, very persistent - lots of unnerving heat and prying

- Use a needle to separate the upper and lower battery connection on one side of the connector

- Three different replacement bezel glue rings all released over time - Permatex black gasket maker is the only thing that worked to reattach the display

Good luck, and I hope this helps save a few watches from being recycled prematurely
Coming from my little 50 years of experience on earth and with many around me I helped - and get ready it will sound harsh - it's hard for many to truly understand they are not special.

Once you own that - and I mean really own it - only then can you move forward.

The last thing you should do is bring anything more in your life - except - what you are good at.

Find THE thing you're good at - it's the only thing that will bring you forward and some joy.

Once found - exploit it like hell.
Of all my colleagues I've had the chance to have a real talk with, defense was the only vertical where the developers more-often-than-not had a robust understanding of the moral and ethical questions their products posed.

I might disagree with their choice to work there, but I respect that choice 1000 times more than the unexamined position.

The default attitude I see elsewhere is that everyone has decided their employer is benign, and they'll figure out the "why" part later (or never).
Try Lm Studio or Ollama. Load up the model, and there you go.
Prague is fantastic if you can avoid the tourist crowds.

I lived there briefly with a Czech roommate who took me on tours through the "real" city. Also had a British friend there and we went through the usual tourist destinations now and then. The astronomical clock was neat, but the castle was so much more interesting and far less crowded than the old town.

Incidentally, I didn't drink before said roommate introduced me to Czech beer. What I wouldn't give for a nice frosty Kozel here in the states...
Went back and read some of the old lkml posts from Linus, and it seems most of the kernel is GPLv2 with some version of the "GCC Runtime Library Exception". I assume the "syscall exception" he repeatedly refers to is related, but it's never quite clear what the exact mechanism is. Linus himself seems to take it case-by-case what constitutes a "derived work" from the kernel, or at least did so 20 years ago. It might have become clearer since then, or maybe not.
The discussion of procedural code doesn't make sense to me, because it seems to mix together some orthogonal concepts.

Procedural is not the opposite of object-oriented (nor is it particularly contrasting); idiomatic OOP is procedural to a large degree. Effective functional programming happens when you ditch the procedural approach in favour of a more declarative approach.
How do you make a system that can model its own state based on sensory input without giving it subjective self awareness?
This is my point - Americans buy the “most car” their dollar gets them. If all you can/want to afford is a Corolla or a Civic, then that’s what you buy - but given two similarly priced cars where you have something smaller than a Corolla, unless it’s significantly cheaper people are going to choose the bigger Corolla.
I use Kong, but for no particular reason. Just heard it's more modern than nginx or something
People don't stay, because companies don't give raises or promotions.
This is a good point, that understanding the underlying personal outcome is important. For me this helps narrow the specific businesses or arrangements that I should consider.
> When it is changed from IRV complexity is never the reason

it's a reason why voters vote YES to repeal it.

> The argument proffered in favour of returning to FFP is always "simplicity". It is a lie.

you're talking about politicians. the more crucial side of the equation is _voters_, who have to vote on whether to repeal it.
The “Job Openings vs Interest Rates” section is incredibly weak and amateurish. Just a bunch of assertions and conjecture.

- Superimposing two graphs is the evidence provided? Really?

- The “correlation is causation” part is atomic level cringe.

- With a sorry ass attitude like this, I’m sure this guy doesn’t just have a problem with getting a job; he has problems with all kinds of things. “Why doesn’t everyone just agree with me?”

- The ChatGPT stuff at best comes off as “dumb funny”, but really it’s just a weird mix of desperate and angry. You sure showed them!
Yeah its awful
> 4-5 hours for an interview process just to hear a no

I once did a full-day interview and was asked back to do _another_ full-day interview... to be turned down after that.