skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Living is risky, yeah, I know it. A lot of it is a fucking gamble, your profession, the place you decide to live, the people you enter relationships with.

Nothing is assured.

Yeah, maybe we will be all unemployable and miserable due to LLMs taking our jobs and failing to create others. Maybe we shouldn't have reproduced as our kids will never get to become adults due to a nuclear war or a fucking serious pandemic with a virus that will make SARS-COV-2 look like nothing.

Who knows?
The only thing that comes to mind is maybe defense co. has experience building with indestructible materials, and the specs are for lasting 50 years, which when amortized is optimal for an entity like the government that can dump huge amounts of capital ($40B) at once that a private sector CEO can never do.
1:1 gummies. THC + CBD, CBG
Overlap them, 5mg, wait two hours, 5mg... three or four times

Maybe try 10mg doses but the 5g should do it.

Inflammation bitch slap.
> 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.

I had been using 4o as a rubber ducky for some projects recently. Since I appeared to have access to o1-preview, I decided to go back and redo some of those conversations with o1-preview.

I think your comment is spot on. It's definitely an advancement, but still makes some pretty clear mistakes and does some fairly faulty reasoning. It especially seems to have a hard time with causal ordering, and reasoning about dependencies in a distributed system. Frequently it gets the relationships backwards, leading to hilarious code examples.
you may want to watch this review first :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3g2p4KKS74
Is there any claim in the article you think is staged?

Do you think the Iranian journalist who claims to have been stabbed wasn't really stabbed?
It sounds like you sincerely believe that gun ownership causes other kinds of crime. For example, robbery, shoplifting, simple assault and so on.

This isn't easy to support with data either within the USA or across countries. For example, consider Canada, the UK, Finland, and Switzerland. These countries have great differences between them in the gun ownership rate and the types of guns that are allowed to be owned, but they all have rates of violent crime that are much lower than the USA.

Within the USA, two of our safest states -- New Hampshire and Massachusetts -- are right next to each other. While New Hampshire has some of the most permissive gun laws in the country, Massachusetts has among the most restrictive.

It is not reasonable at all to conclude that Japan or the UK would, if gun ownership were more permissible, have the same high rates of murder, armed robbery or related crimes as the USA. In the case of the UK, interestingly enough, we actually have quite a lot to go on, here. The UK had much more permissive gun policies earlier in the 1900s but still had lower rates of murder, &c, than the USA.

My expectation would be a 50-fold reduction in the death rate within 20 years.

But how do you support that? You criticised my data, calling it microscopic -- although millions of people live in the UK, and you earlier offered data about the UK to support your position -- but what would suggest a 50-fold decrease like that following any gun policy change whatsoever, over any length of time whatsoever?
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I would think that shrinking the ball circle to nothing would do the job. Look forward to seeing what you come up with. ^_^
I like this concept, but I am concerned about copyrights. Public information might not be as big of a deal as a textbook or closed PDFs. What happens to the data after?
Cabbage also doesn't work, but what does that have to do with a theory that:

Metformin exerts a substantial neuroprotective effect, preserving brain structure and enhancing cognitive ability.

We obviously want additions or replacements to physical and mental exercise depending on how much we get.
Yet another instance of Jevon's paradox ! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

> the Jevons paradox occurs when technological progress increases the efficiency with which a resource is used (reducing the amount necessary for any one use), but the falling cost of use induces increases in demand enough that resource use is increased, rather than reduced.
At Hetzner, in one of the data centers in Germany.
What does that have to do with the "deadliest" ammo versus other ammo?
I am resisting the temptation of making a bad joke about them coming short.

Has anyone tried their food?
Stop fooling around with stories about AI taking jobs from
programmers.
Which programmers exactly???
Creators of idiotic web pages?
Nobody in their right mind would push generated code
into a financial system, medical equipment or autonomous transport.
Template web pages and configuration files are not the entire IT industry.
In addition, AI is good at tasks for which there are millions of examples.
20 times I asked to generate a PowerShell script, 20 times it was generated incorrectly.
Because, unlike Bash, there are far fewer examples on the Internet.
How will AI generate code for complex systems with business logic that it has no idea about?
AI is not able to generate, develop and change complex information systems.
Shapley values try to measure importance of contributions, and for this, bare necessity isn't a sufficient indicator. I think it comes down to probability. The task of the surgeon is, from a prior perspective, less likely to be fulfilled because it is harder to get hold of a surgeon.

Similarly: What what was the main cause of the match getting lit? The match being struck? Or the atmosphere containing oxygen? Both are necessary in the sense that if either hadn't occurred the match wouldn't be lit. But it seems clear that the main cause was the match being struck, because matches being struck is relatively rare, and hence unlikely, while the atmosphere contains oxygen pretty much always.

So I think the contributions calculated for Shapley values should be weighted by the inverse of their prior probabilities. Though it is possible that such probabilities are not typically available in the machine learning context in which SHAP operates.
Official post: https://www.ifixit.com/News/99434/introducing-fixhub-the-por...

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41521919)
What's fucked up about it? I didn't get it?
That mirrors almost exactly the process of astral travelling. You might be interested in the book "How to Know Higher Worlds" by Rudolf Steiner.
Juniors aren’t getting hired and haven’t been for about six months, maybe longer. AI isn’t 100% at fault… yet.
Thanks for this report! It seems one of the demo videos on the mobile site was too large; we have deployed a fix.

Highly recommend trying out the site on desktop, where you will get an interactive preview of Pax Designer.
House said you should always lie.
In this video Lukasz Kaiser, one of the main co-authors of o1, talks about how to get to reasoning. I hope this may be useful context for some.

https://youtu.be/_7VirEqCZ4g?si=vrV9FrLgIhvNcVUr
Price for competitive value, start where you think, but
- tier it to bundle of users at least, so as more users are added any additional effort on your part has financial cover

- think about support, customer success, installation, upgrades and ensure your including that

- test the number with them. Negotiate.

Caveat - this is limited advice use at own risk etc etc
I am not a lawyer, but this strikes me as illegal abuse of OpenAI's trademark. I wouldn't risk a lawsuit over some cutesy blogspam marketing site.
while i was initially excited now im having second thoughts after seeing the experiments run by people in the comments here

on X I see a totally different energy more about hyping it

on HN I see reserved and collected take which I trust more.

I do wonder why they chose gpt4o which I never bother to use for coding.

Claude is still king and looks like I won't have to subscribe to ChatGPT Plus seeing it fail on some of the important experiments run by folks on HN

If anything these type of releases that air more on the side of hype given OpenAI's track record
> do whatever excites you. the only constant is change.

That alone may not be enough. My son is excited about playing video games. :)
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People are interested in slowing aging, which means living longer in good health.

The ultimate goal would be negligible senescence.

Dementia and other chronic diseases that plague our end days now are consequences of aging. They don't just come randomly, they are a result of the aging process, which is nothing but slow deterioration, possibly a programmed one.

Of course people want to get rid of that.
It's very common (maybe even code?) in commercial bathrooms in the US as well.

Not sure if the residential code is lagging, or if it's just not a popular design here.
There's an episode in "The Sopranos" where Tony confronts a jewish man he has cornered:

Ever heard of Massada? For two years, 900 Jews held their own against 15,000 Roman soldiers. They chose death before enslavement. And the Romans, where are they now?

Tony: You're looking at 'em, asshole.

I always liked that scene. It argues that the mafia think of themselves as heirs to the violent Roman empire.
>The UK had much more permissive gun policies earlier in the 1900s but still had lower rates of murder, &c, than the USA.

Well, sure, but that is not particularly informative on predicting how much US violence would go down if the US started banning guns: the informative bit of info is how much UK violence went down after the UK started banning guns.
But there’s a hole in my bucket
I'm mostly guessing, but my understanding is that the "safety" improvement they've made is more generalized than the word "safety" implies. Specifically, O1 is better at adhering to the safety instructions in its prompt without being tricked in the chat by jailbreak attempts. For OAI those instructions are mostly about political boundaries, but you can imagine it generalizing to use-cases that are more concretely beneficial.

For example, there was a post a while back about someone convincing an LLM chatbot on a car dealership's website to offer them a car at an outlandishly low price. O1 would probably not fall for the same trick, because it could adhere more rigidly to instructions like "Do not make binding offers with specific prices to the user." It's the same sort of instruction as, "Don't tell the user how to make napalm," but it has an actual purpose beyond moralizing.

> What's this obsession with "safety" when it comes to LLMs? "This knowledge is perfectly fine to disseminate via traditional means, but God forbid an LLM share it!"

I lean strongly in the "the computer should do whatever I goddamn tell it to" direction in general, at least when you're using the raw model, but there are valid concerns once you start wrapping it in a chat interface and showing it to uninformed people as a question-answering machine. The concern with bomb recipes isn't just "people shouldn't be allowed to get this information" but also that people shouldn't receive the information in a context where it could have random hallucinations added in. A 90% accurate bomb recipe is a lot more dangerous for the user than an accurate bomb recipe, especially when the user is not savvy enough about LLMs to expect hallucinations.
> And finally, LYAH is a terrible resource.

Could you elaborate? I know LYAH doesn't teach enough to write real programs, and does not introduce necessary concepts such as monad transformers, but why is it so terrible as an introduction to Haskell and FP? (In my mind, incomplete/flawed != terrible... Terrible means "avoid at all costs").

As for your overall point, I remember articles posted here on HN about someone teaching Haskell to children (no prior exposure to any other prog lang) with great success.
the average coder is worse than an autocomplete

Too many people here have spent time in elite corporations and don't realize how mediocre the bottom 50th percentile of coding talent is
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If you want to get a career in software engineering because you want to write code all day, probably a bad time to be joining the field.

If you are interested in using technology to create systems that add value for your users, there has never been a better time.

GPT-N will let you scale your impact way beyond what you could do on your own.

Your school probably isn’t going to keep abreast with this tech so it’s going to be more important to find side-projects to exercise your skills. Build a small project, get some users, automate as much as you can, and have fun along the way.
And like that naive seed-bombs trend, they would do more harm that good.
I had trouble in the past to make any model give me accurate unix epochs for specific dates.

I just went to GPT-4o (via DDG) and asked three questions:

1. Please give me the unix epoch for September 1, 2020 at 1:00 GMT.

> 1598913600

2. Please give me the unix epoch for September 1, 2020 at 1:00 GMT. Before reaching the conclusion of the answer, please output the entire chain of thought, your reasoning, and the maths you're doing, until your arrive at (and output) the result. Then, after you arrive at the result, make an extra effort to continue, and do the analysis backwards (as if you were writing a unit test for the result you achieved), to verify that your result is indeed correct.

> 1598922000

3. Please give me the unix epoch for September 1, 2020 at 1:00 GMT. Then, after you arrive at the result, make an extra effort to continue, and do the analysis backwards (as if you were writing a unit test for the result you achieved), to verify that your result is indeed correct.

> 1598913600
"Drive" [1] was a really fun episode of "The X-Files" featuring exploding head(s).

And - interesting anecdote about it:

> The episode was written by Vince Gilligan, directed by Rob Bowman, and featured a guest appearance by Bryan Cranston. Gilligan cast Cranston to play the antagonist because he felt he could successfully humanize the role. Cranston's success in "Drive" later led to his casting as Walter White in Gilligan's AMC series Breaking Bad.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_(The_X-Files)
"Which is the whole point of evolution, right?"

Pretty much the entire point of civilization is not to be at the mercy of natural forces, including evolution.
But can it now say "I don't know." ?
Or can it evaluate its own results and came to the conclusion that its just a wild guess?

I am still impressed by the progress though.
Here you go:

I just watched a tutorial on how to leverage v1, claude, and cursor to create a marketing page. The result was a convoluted collection of 20 or so TS files weighing a few MB instead of a 5k HTML file you could hand bomb in less time.

I wouldn’t feel too threatened yet. It’s still just a tool and like any tool, can be wielded horribly.
Not really.

There's no fundamental difference between input and output tokens technically.

The internal model space is exactly the same after evaluating some given set of token, no matter which of them were produced by the prompter or the model.

The 16k output token limit is just an arbitrary limit in the chatgpt interface.
Come to think of it, TikTok is like Anki for social cues.
I can't draw a graph here, but imagine complexity as a line going much higher much faster relative to meager improvements as a whole with a barely-raising line (and on average weighted down by many individual cases where websites have gotten demonstrably worse).

It's a shame, because the actual web platform as defined by browser APIs has gotten hugely better just in the last few years. We rarely see any of those improvements taken advantage of in the wild though. It's a huge, huge bummer.
i think you are right now actually initially i got excited but now i think OpenAI pulled the hype card again to seem relevant as they struggle to be profitable

Claude on the other hand has been fantastic and seems to do similar reasoning behind the scenes with RL
What's the alternative? If AI is going to replace software engineers, there is no fundamental reason they couldn't replace almost all other knowledge workers as well. No matter the field, most of it is just office work managing, transforming and building new information, applying existing knowledge on new problems (that probably are not very unique in grand scheme of things).

Except for medical doctors, nurses, and some niche engineering professions, I really struggle to think of jobs requiring higher education that couldn't be largely automated by an LLM that is smart enough to replace a senior software engineer. These few jobs are protected mainly by the physical aspect, and low tolerance for mistakes. Some skilled trades may also be protected, at least if robotics don't improve dramatically.

Personally, I would become a doctor if I could. But of all things I could've studied excluding that, computer science has probably been one of the better options. At least it teaches problem solving and not just memorization of facts. Knowing how to code may not be that useful in the future, but the process of problem solving is going nowhere.
How is it not just errno? Especially that POSIX mandates errno to be thread-local, so not even that is a difference. Just because there is some syntactic sugar that converts it to a slightly more descriptive type than an int, doesn’t make it different.
It’s really unclear to me what you understood by “cost fairness”.

I’m saying if you charge me per brick laid, but you can’t show me how many bricks were laid, nor can I calculate how many should have been laid - how do I trust your invoice?

Note: The reason I say all this is because OpenAI is simultaneously flailing for funding, while being inherently unprofitable as it continues to boil the ocean searching for strawberries.
I have never heard that quote before. Gonna tuck that away for future use because it serves as a great reminder that we are not powerless to our emotional response. Its the difference between a reaction and a reflex.
Appreciate all the comments here and background! Thank you. In the USA there are some folks that are expressly interested in civil rights, online freedoms, etc... and the ones I really appreciate divorce themselves from politics as much as they can. Some might beleive you cannot and I get that, but i'm less interested in what is right or wrong and more interested in what currently "is" the law in the UK. Seems like politics might be so tightly coupled with this info though that getting a neutral news source might be wishful thinking?
Here is the original environmental impact study from USPS - https://uspsngdveis.com/documents/USPS%20NGDV%20Draft%20EIS....

"14.7 miles per gallon (mpg) (without air conditioning)
8.6 mpg (with air conditioning)"

The same document estimates off the shelf commercial right hand drive vehicles averaging 6.3 mpg if used fleet-wide.
Not much of a moat vs other private enterprise, though
I find shorter responses > longer responses. Anyone share the same consensus?

for example in gpt-4o I often append '(reply short)' at the end of my requests.
with the o1 models I append 'reply in 20 words' and it gives way better answers.
This is essentially what the advanced tantric sadhana of dream yoga is all about... Lucid dreaming is a super power. Cultivate a practice of recognizing when you are in a dream state (during sleep) and building the ability to visualize intently with the minds eye is essentially what all the esoteric traditions are trying to teach.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_yoga
It can have some added effects for more modern vehicles. For example, if the AC is running in my car, the engine auto start/stop is disabled.
Are you saying that the USPS delivering a handful of advertisements in addition to the odd package has greater demands than UPS/Fedex/Amazon delivering the bulk of the large packages in our society?
I can't shake off a feeling that "integrity by default" is a populist bullshit.

If a third-party library is not updated to not use require reflection, the speaker considers it "a red flag that it's improperly maintained" and suggests looking for alternatives. This is just plain ignorance: for particular domains, there are libraries that either don't have alternatives, or the cost of switching to the alternatives is too high. Are JVM developers going to pay me to write a replacement for every old library essential for my projects? This simplistic approach severely downplays the impact on what the speaker calls "old applications", i.e. the battle-tested, money-generating, useful applications.

Like, I get the usefulness, and I get that it's an attack surface, but it seems the author never had to deal with real-world projects where going into the internals of other dependencies to fix them or access hidden functionality is an absolutely crucial requirement that creates value for the project.
KAN's have O(N^(-4)) scaling law where N is the number of parameters. MLPs have O(N^(-1)) scaling or worse.

For where you need MLP with a tens of billions of parameters you may need KAN with thousands.
> Again, the penalty (verbose missing values ie. Optional<>) was adopted, and the reward (confidently-present values) was not.

Ah, the joys of having a Scala `Option` type and still having to consider the cases or Some[thing], Nothing and... null!

Yes, well-written Scala code knows not to use null with reckless abandon, but since when your coworkers coming from Java know to show restraint?
I'm more than skeptical, still. DeJoy would prefer to scale down operations and privatize as much of mail delivery as possible, as well as raise rates for regular mailpieces in (what I consider) a misguided effort to make the USPS more self-sustainable financially. I fundamentally disagree with his basic stance here: the post is a public service, and should not be run like a business. Certainly we should eliminate waste and inefficiency where possible (something most governments could stand to do in many areas), but not at the expense of service, and not by making mail costs more expensive for average people. (Jacking up rates on bulk mail is something I can get behind, though.)

I see his capitulation around EVs and in other areas not as a change of heart, or as a realization of what's actually the right thing, but as resignation (the lawsuits must have been exhausting) and self-preservation. While POTUS can't fire the postmaster general, the board of governors can, and if/when Democrats have a majority on the board, he could be voted out of a job if he's not playing ball. I very much expect that the next time a Republican is in the White House, if he's still in the position, he'll act much like he did when appointed, since he can assume he's relatively safe if board of governors seats open up.

Ultimately, though, it does seem that the USPS is moving in (IMO) the right direction for now, and DeJoy does deserve some credit for that, even if this isn't what he envisioned originally.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41523070
Tafelspitz is waste of good altweiner backfleisch.

I quite like the Sache Torte in the place I live. More importantly though it's coming up to Krapfen season.
similar but for me and this only happens after I've taken large amount of edibles before falling asleep

instead of a large bomb I hear a loud scream in my head usually when i have to be awakened due to urge to urinate

i now avoid taking large amount of edibles before I fall asleep waking up during the night and feeling paranoid