skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I can't get my fix. Some network hardware problem it looks like.
Great progress, I asked GPT-4o and o1-preview to create a python script to make $100 quickly, o1 came up with a very interesting result:

https://x.com/soheil/status/1834320893331587353
Great article! I've just installed an rss reader for the first time in years specifically to subscribe to your site. Looking forward to reading more
> That's actually usually not true, as the vast majority of DC to DC converters are step-down converters.

Right. I've mostly dealt with up-converters, which have to store and release energy somewhere.
Sure, which is also approximately representative of who was using the internet in general at the time, but we're not about to credit Reddit with bringing the internet to the masses.
The “progress” demonstrated in this example is to literally just extract bytes from the middle of a number:

Is this task:

“About 2 minutes later, these values were captured, again spaced 5 seconds apart.

0160093201
0160092d01
0160092801
0160092301
0160091e01”

[Find the part that is changing]

really even need an AI to assist (this should be a near instant task for a human with basic CS numerical skills)? If this is the type of task one thinks an AI would be useful for they are likely in trouble for other reasons.

Also notable that you can cherry pick more impressive feats even from older models, so I don’t necessarily think this proves progress.

I still wouldn’t get too carried away just yet.
Where did this article title come from? Last I checked, "soon" isn't "now," the feature isn't actually available yet
Well the bigger problem with Nespresso is the coffee/espresso tastes horrible and you have to deal with the waste.
The people who want to extend their lives are the ones whose lives tend to be pretty good. The CEO plotting world domination kind of archetype. The rest of us are expected to be expendable biorobots who serve them. Unfortunately, this won't play out the way their fantasies tell them. The rich and powerful will be trapped by the need to always maintain their fragile lives. This in turn will slow down progress and open up the gates to a younger and more daring group to come to power.
The next line is it catching its own mistake, and noting i = 9.
But also on the other hand you'll need much less people to achieve the same effect. Effectively a whole team could be replaced by one lead guy that just based on the requirements orders the LLM what to do and glues it together.
Yes, they are, by definition.

This is the difference between "open source" and "free s/w".

Open source is a process of using public collaboration to develop a for-profit product intended to benefit the product's ownership, while free s/w is the process of user representatives collaboratively developing s/w intended to directly benefit it's users.
Iirc his UK shows are turned down alot. Though I guess either the US or the UK personality could be the fake one lol
For context: In addition to supporting the idea of contact between America and Easter Island this is being presented as a rebuttal of the idea advanced in Jared Diamond's "Collapse" that there was a population crash.
It can't do large portions of the parts of an IQ test (not multi-modal). Otherwise I think it's essentially superhuman, modulo tokenization issues (please start running byte-by-byte or at least come up with a better tokenizer).
Ardour 8.7 Released
As a technical engineer, I’ve learned the value of starting sentences with “basically”, even when I’m facing technical uncertainty. Basically, “basically” forces me to be simple.

Being trained to say words like “Alternatively”, “But…”, “Wait!”, “So,” … based on some metric of value in focusing / switching elsewhere / … is basically brilliant.
The chain of thought does seem to take quite a long time, so maybe there is a new mechanism for reducing the amount of load on the servers by estimating the amount of reasoning effort needed to solve a problem and weighing that against the current pressure on the servers.
Many years ago I had a manager who set a sound on our monitoring system to make a noise every time we got an alert. It went off non-stop and everyone started yelling at him until he turned it off.
Semi-retired software/hardware engineer here. After my recent experiences with various coding LLMs (similar to the experience of the OP with the bluetooth fan protocol) I'm really glad I'm in a financial position such that I'm able to retire. The progress of these LLMs at coding has been astonishing over the last 18 months. Will they entirely replace humans? No. But as they increase programmer productivity fewer devs will be required. In my case the contract gig I was doing over this last summer I was able to do about 3 to 4X faster than I could've done it without LLMs. Yeah, they were generating a lot of boiler plate HDL code for me, but that still saved me several days of work at least. And then there was the test code that they generated which again saved me days of work. And their ability to explain old undocumented code that was part of the project was also extremely helpful. I was skeptical 18 months ago that any of this would be possible. Not anymore. I wasn't doing a project in which there would've been a lot of training examples. We're talking Verilog testbench generation based on multiple input Verilog modules, C++ code generation for a C program analyzer using libclang - none of this stuff would've worked just a few months back.
Sheldon Browns website is a treasure trove of information! It’s an old school website, but the content is there.

https://www.sheldonbrown.com
Woah! what? Lol. Considering the number of nobel laureates, manhattan project scientists, turing award winners not to mention industry pioneers, prominent cultural figure etc that group has produced it would seem they did the opposite.
I have a similar setup with Tailscale and Nginx Proxy Manager.
So, it’s good at hard-logic reasoning (which is great, and no small feat.)

Does this reasoning capability generalize outside of the knowledge domains the model was trained to reason about, into “softer” domains?

For example, is O1 better at comedy (because it can reason better about what’s funny)?

Is it better at poetry, because it can reason about rhyme and meter?

Is it better at storytelling as an extension of an existing input story, because it now will first analyze the story-so-far and deduce aspects of the characters, setting, and themes that the author seems to be going for (and will ask for more information about those things if it’s not sure)?
You'll just get less capacity if BMS was wired to monitor individual cells and reported capacity based on that. If you were just measuring voltages at the bus bar, you could over-drain or otherwise over-strain the outlier cell and set it on fire.

Which don't happen often enough to make Amazon do something about fake packs for drills and Dyson vacuums, but I think the chance increases as cell count increases and idiot-proofness decreases.
Life is great, who wouldn't want more of it?

I'm old enough to see some the advances in medical care different family members were able to receive when they became very ill over the decades. I'm young enough to be optimistic that when it's my turn the treatments available will be even more significant.

There's a certain quality of life I wouldn't want to spend a prolonged time in. I understand your point about not wanting to be in bad health. Most of the activities I do that will likely prolong my life (diet, exercise, manage stress, build social bonds, supplements, pharmacology, screenings) will also increase my likelihood of prolonging the amount of time I have in good health.

Why am I interested in living longer? I think it's better than the alternative.
I've been using xen in production for at least 18 years, and although there is been some development, it is extremely hard to get actual documentation on how to do things with it.

There is no place documenting how to integrate the Dom0less/Hyperlaunch in a distribution or how to build infrastructure with it, at best you will find a github repo, with the last commit dated 4 years ago, with little to no information on what to do with the code.
The website seems to redirect me to a low resolution image, the first time I clicked on the link it worked as you are saying.
Mayne they don’t want stupid labeling that some idiot invented.
Elixir’s tooling is awesome, in my opinion.
Agreed. The sweet spot is people who have product owner skills _and_ can code. They are quickly developing superpowers. The overhead of writing tickets, communicating with the team and so on is huge. If one person can do it all, efficiency skyrockets.

I guess it's always been true to some extent that single individuals are capable of amazing things. For example, the guy who's built https://www.photopea.com/. But they must be exceptional - this empowers more people to do things like that.
My point of view: this is a real advancement. I’ve always believed that with the right data allowing the LLM to be trained to imitate reasoning, it’s possible to improve its performance. However, this is still pattern matching, and I suspect that this approach may not be very effective for creating true generalization. As a result, once o1 becomes generally available, we will likely notice the persistent hallucinations and faulty reasoning, especially when the problem is sufficiently new or complex, beyond the “reasoning programs” or “reasoning patterns” the model learned during the reinforcement learning phase.
https://www.lycee.ai/blog/openai-o1-release-agi-reasoning
Yeah, another vote for the TS100. It's quite easy to use.
This is a really odd take to have.

By the "past year's worth of development" I assume you mean the layoffs? Have you been in the industry (or any industry) long? If so, you would have seen many layoffs and bulk-hiring frenzies over the years... it doesn't mean anything about the industry as a whole and it's certainly a foolish thing to change career asperations over.

Specifically regarding the LLM - anyone actually believing these models will replace developers and software engineers, truly, deeply does not understand software development at even the most basic fundamental levels. Ignore these people - they are the snake oil salesmen of our modern times.
I suspect that actually reading the "chain of thought" would reveal obvious "logic" errors embarrassingly often.
Find a warm sunny spot or cozy nook and go there. If the location gets uncomfortable, leave. Not terrible advice, all considered. Of course you can't always do that in say, a work setting.
I thought this was going to be about a DIY USB-C cable.
They're serious about recycling, but many consumers are not.

I'm in Switzerland where recycling Nespresso pods couldn't be easier, and we barely reach a 2/3 recycling rate. US and global rates are much lower.

If Nestlé hadn't crippled their machines on purpose, I'd think third party plastic capsules might be a better option in Europe at least, since they end up in waste co-processing.
An often overlooked extension of simple exponential weighting is that if you take the difference of two or three exponential averages, you can get some very nice behavior.

One particular behavior that may be desirable is that you can build a system that allows flexibly defined short bursts, but limits long-term request rates which is really nice for chatty protocols where you might want to nearly ignore a burst of 100 requests as long as the burst takes less than a few milliseconds, but clamp down hard if there is a single query per second over the last thirty seconds.

Differences in exponential decay can also be used to implement a good approximation of a Gaussian kernel of any desired size. In image processing, for instance, this allows a Gaussian blur whose cost doesn't depend on the scale of the blur (unlike a true convolution).
I think CS skills will remain valuable, but you should try to build some domain specific knowledge in addition. Perhaps programmer roles will eventually merge with product owner / business person type of roles.
Is there a holder that doesn't include the $250 power supply?
I chose Uber because the concept of getting into a strangers car was the first shift of thinking a startup did that came to mind.

The rest I chose are examples from YC as they are the ones with phrase “Make something people want”.

I think if I spent some more time I could have came up with better ones.
That's more well balanced opinion comparing to others I seen here. I also believe that the golden age with 250k+ salaries with solving easy problems will be gone in 5-10 years. Most people look at this AI improvements at current state and forget that you are supposed to have a profession for 40 years until retirement. 250k+ jobs will still exist 10 years from now but expectations will be much higher and competition much bigger.

On the other hand now is the best time to build your own product as long you are not interested only in software as craftmanship but in product development in general. Probably in the future expectation will be your are not only monkey coder or craftman but also project lead/manager (for AI teams), product developer/designer and maybe even UX/designer if you will be working for some software house, consulting or freelancing.
Talk to the folks at your local bike shop, and they can 1) tell you what type of parts your bike has so you can find the right resources 2) refer you to local groups who work on bikes like "bike kitchens" 3) sell you parts and tools you may need.

Also, friends who work on bikes are usually happy to help!
I don't want to lean into negativity here, and I'm far from an "AI Doomer".

But... I will say I think the question you ask is a very fair question, and that there is, indeed, a LOT of uncertainty about what the future holds in this regard.

So far the best reason we have for optimism is history: so far the old adage has held up that "technology does destroy some jobs, but on balance it creates more new ones than it destroys." And while that's small solace to the buggy-whip maker or steam-engine engineer, things tend to work out in the long-run. However... history is suggestive, but far from conclusive. There is the well known "problem of induction"[1] which points out that we can't make definite predictions about the future based on past experience. And when those expectations are violated, we get "black swan events"[2]. And while they be uncommon, they do happen.

The other issue with this question is, we don't really know what the "rate of change" in terms of AI improvement is. And we definitely don't know the 2nd derivative (acceleration). So a short-term guess that "there will be a job for you in 1 year's time" is probably a fairly safe guess. But as a current student, you're presumably worried about 5 years, 10 years, 20 years down the line and whether or not you'll still have a career. And the simple truth is, we can't be sure.

So what to do? My gut feeling is "continue to learn software engineering, but make sure to look for ways to broaden your skill base, and position yourself to possibly move in other directions in the future". Eg, don't focus on just becoming a skilled coder in a particular language. Learn fundamentals that apply broadly, and - more importantly - learn about how business work, learn "people skills"[3], develop domain knowledge in one or more domains, and generally learn as much as you can about "how the world works". Then from there, just "keep your head on a swivel" and stay aware of what's going on around you and be ready to make adjustments as needed.

It might not also hurt to learn a thing or two about something that requires a physical presence (welding, etc.). And just in case a full-fledged cyberpunk dystopia develops... maybe start buying an extra box or two of ammunition every now and then, and study escape and evasion techniques, yadda yadda...

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_induction

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan_theory

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNuu9CpdjIo
Nitric oxide actually dilates your blood vessels, reduces blood pressure and improves cardiovascular outcomes. [1] Water fasting for a couple of days brings your systolic and diastolic numbers waaaaay down over 10 days.

> The average reduction in blood pressure was 37/13 mm Hg, with the greatest decrease being observed for subjects with the most severe hypertension. [2]

It's probably just a poor job of controlling variables in the study.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15722114/

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11416824/
*[video] This video from Dr. Ben Miles is a great intermediate review of the recent advances in technology that utilizes quantum mechanics to reduce the compounding errors inherent with inertial guidance systems, which reduces (eliminates?) the need for emissive navigation systems like GPS.
Also featured:

- A good introduction to how atomic laser cooling works.

- An interesting map that shows where GPS signals are being actively blocked or spoofed (largely Eastern Europe).
I don’t don’t doubt that it might depress salaries but that excel example is a good one in that suddenly every company could start to do basic financial analysis in a manner that only the largest ones could previously afford.
Besides Sheldon Brown, look for community bike shops in your area! They often need volunteers to help out with all kinds of things and you’ll get direct exposure to a huge variety of bike tech and really knowledgeable folks who live and breathe bikes.
It would still be auditable. In a few industries that is the only blocker for adoption--even if the outputs are incorrect.
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I can guarantee it is leagues better. Frankly, I won't solder anymore unless it is with a direct-heat iron. They heat up instantly, cool down quickly, provide far better thermal transfer, and are much more comfortable to hold.

Don't brush off what I'm saying before you try a direct-heat iron (Hakko sells them, Pace does, and JBC is the gold standard). They are usually expensive from the big names, but even a Pinecil direct-heat iron for $30$ would be many times better than non-direct-heat irons.
> People want more healthy years

...but that doesn't really answer why, does it? To "do more stuff"? To "see more things"? To "earn more money"? To "learn more"? Why?

A friend wasn't enjoying her job a year or two ago and said she felt seriously underpaid for the stuff she was being asked to handle. I asked her if she would feel any happier if they doubled or tripled her salary. After thinking about it she realised the amount of money wouldn't fix the problem, the issue was with the work environment, not the monetary package tagged on to her employment.

Life is finite.

So at least for all of us who don't have some desperately unkind medical issue that specifically shortens it, maybe we need to take a deep breath and learn to deal with that.

"Carpe diem", and all that.
This thread is a goldmine!
A lot of comments here claiming we need antibiotics. I can't disagree. But what can be said about the antibiotics we use on livestock? From my understanding it is a heck of a lot. When we then eat the meat do we essentially ingest 'unnecessary' antibiotics and do they contribute to the type of effect described in the article?
In an era of rapid technological advancements, gadgets are becoming increasingly integrated into our daily lives. While some devices are well-known staples—smartphones, tablets, and laptops—there are numerous lesser-known gadgets that can significantly enhance convenience, productivity, and enjoyment.
USPS' long-awaited new mail truck makes its debut to rave reviews from carriers
Average Joe's like myself will build our apps end to end with the help of AI.

The only shops left standing will be Code Auditors.

The solopreneur will wing it, without them, but enterprises will take the (very expensive) hit to stay safe and compliant.

Everyone else needs to start making contingency plans.

Magnus Carlsen is the best chess player in the world, but he is not arrogant enough to think he can go head to head with Stockfish and not get a beating.
I would think that the risk isn’t of a human being reading those instructions, but of those instructions being automatically piped into an API request to some service that makes chemicals on demand and then sends them by mail, all fully automated with no human supervision.

Not that there is such a service… for chemicals. But there do exist analogous systems, like a service that’ll turn whatever RNA sequence you send it into a viral plasmid and encapsulate it helpfully into some E-coli, and then mail that to you.

Or, if you’re working purely in the digital domain, you don’t even need a service. Just show the thing the code of some Linux kernel driver and ask it to discover a vuln in it and generate code to exploit it.

(I assume part of the thinking here is that these approaches are analogous, so if they aren’t unilaterally refusing all of them, you could potentially talk the AI around into being okay with X by pointing out that it’s already okay with Y, and that it should strive to hold to a consistent/coherent ethics.)
> I think it's better than the alternative.

I mean, why? Longer lives are not necessarily any happier. In fact, old age seems pretty physically miserable.
I put his value into my hex editor and it instantly showed 900 in the data inspector pane
> Asking the models to determine if my code is equivalent to what they reverse engineered resulted in a nuanced and thorough examination, and eventual conclusion that it is equivalent.

Did you actually implement to see if it works out of the box ?

Also if you are a free users or accepted that your chats should be used for training then maybe o1 is was just trained on your previous chat and so now knows how to reason about that particular type of problems
I usually use my phone zoomed in + flashlight in video recording, and an external macro lens. It probably isn't as good as a usb microscope, but it works really, really well.

Looking at videos of people using microscopes, the quality seems to be on-par or worse than my phone.
"Hell's Angels" isn't actually still a thing, is it? Like I just presumed they just melted into boomer Harley Davidson whatever clubs?
Sadly the website was knocked out by HN, I guess.

Anyway, I really like my Flair. It is fun to press the thing manually. And it is nice to have espresso still during a power outage (as long as I can get ground beans and fire).

I think this is a different definition of “do it yourself” though, hahaha.
Sarcasm or cynicism?
Yes - my point is: be that guy
What did your startup do?
Whether you agree with the lengths that are gone to or not, 'safety' in this space is a very real concern, and simply reciting information as in GP's example is only 1 part of it. In my experience, people who think it's all about "censorship" and handwave it away tend to be very ideologically driven.
I do it the good old fashioned way, with a reverse ssh tunnel from VPS to home. An added benefit is that SSL is terminated only at the very end, so the VPS provider is just a dumb pipe.