skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Giving an expensive knife to a new cook that has never cooked before will not make them a Michelin chef

Pick any Michelin-rated restaurant at random and visit the kitchen. You'll find plenty of $50 knives in use. It doesn't take a lot of money to build a good-enough-for-world-class-cooking knife. Once you get beyond a certain price point, it's mostly about personal preferences and "situations that apply to me but may or may not apply to you".
Honestly, this game didn't let me make as deep of cuts to social security and medicare as I would have liked. The reason this game has you make difficult choices in other areas is because you can't do things like "raise retirement age for unconditional benefits to 80" or "means-test all retirement benefits." The class of people that is drawing money out of social security and Medicare (old Americans) is the richest group of people ever in history. I have no interest in continuing to funnel money from the poor to the rich.
Because too many stories like this and tech employees might get Ideas.
I just tried o1, and it did pretty well with understanding this minor issue with subtitles on a Dutch TV show we were watching.

I asked it "I was watching a show and in the subtitles an umlaut u was rendered as 1/4, i.e. a single character that said 1/4. Why would this happen?"

and it gave a pretty thorough explanation of exactly which encoding issue was to blame.

https://chatgpt.com/share/66e37145-72bc-800a-be7b-f7c76471a1...
Clever, Dual wielding. Watch out failed PCBs, the scary man with two swords is coming for you. Blunt and slash damage.
Localdev.me DNS for Local Development
> Simple fact is that full-size trucks are the only vehicle category that Detroit is able to compete on

It's telling that, aside from the Mustang, Ford now exclusively makes SUVs, trucks, and a couple transit (not mini) vans.
Is there a publicly available version of the session?
Maybe the benchmark results are different, but it certainly seems like OpenAI is doing the same with it's "thinking" step
I was trying to get 4o today to do some medium-difficulty Typescript to map between two different ORM schemas. It's a great problem because it's really not too hard, pretty well constrained, and I can provide a ton of context and tests, declaration files, before/after expectations.

4o was struggling so I gave up. Tried o1 on it, and after trying nearly 15 prompts back and forth helping it along the way we're still far from correct. It's hard to tell if it's much better, but at least my intuition from this feel like this is pretty incremental.
> Some practical notes from digging around in their documentation: In order to get access to this, you need to be on their tier 5 level, which requires $1,000 total paid and 30+ days since first successful payment.

Tier 5 level required for _API access_. ChatGPT Plus users, for example, also have access to the o1 models.
> Also: we're not on the cusp of WW3.

We're on the cusp in the sense that the World War is not yet and might never be recognized (because one or the other side might fall apart without a fight); OTOH, we're not "on the cusp" in that, if the conditions which would cause it to be recognized occur, we're past the point that will likely be looked at as the start date.

The Russo-Ukrainian War, and the war between various Iranian proxies and Israel, are all part of the same global conflict between an axis centered around Russia and Iran and a broader one in the West
If you want to learn more about Dream Yoga, Alan Wallace's Dreaming Yourself Awake is a great resource that includes guidance and exercises you can practice.

When you experience fear in a dream, remind yourself that what you experience is not what you are, in the same way that the movie is not the same as the screen on which it is projected. The monsters in our dreams are a reification of our fear, and the best way to address them is by allowing conpassion to arise and kindly comfort your fear as you would do with a child who is scared. Nothing in your dreamscape can harm you.

Anyway, I hope this helps. Alan Wallace recommends letting the monster hurt you in your dream, but personally I think it is not the optimum approach.
Environmental and Energy Applications of Graphene-Based Nanocomposites
I liked the two of their games that I've played so far (Stray, and What Remains of Edith Finch).

Hopefully, whatever creative magic made these, will make more, and they'll be happy doing it.
But there are lots of models available now that render much faster which are better quality than sora
If programming requires lots of talking, dialog and patiently explaining things woman might be dramatically better at it.
Right but most people don't stick a single career anymore. An individual career is <30 yrs, and the average person will have >1 of them.

It's not as out there as e.g. this article (https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704206804575468...) - 7 careers is probably a crazy overestimate. But it is >1.
> The 16k output token limit is just an arbitrary limit in the chatgpt interface.

It is a hard limit in the API too, although frankly I have never seen an API output go over 700 tokens.
Why Do Students Remember Everything on Television and Forget Everything I Say?
Bold of you to expect transparency and clarity from a company like OpenAI.

You wanted reliable readable graphs? Ppphhh, get out of here, but pay of for the CoT tokens you’ll never see on your way out though.
This is the F# time that I've seen F# contrasted as the more mainstream option and it warms my heart.
This was my 'old man yells at cloud moment.'

I was playing with CachyOS recently, and opened a terminal and it absolutely frightened me. There was wayyy too much going on as I typed.

So I did what old fuds do and changed the default shell back to bash.

I was impressed with its completion/suggestion speed, but it seemed overwhelming. Is that something that gets better with time?
While it's likely not wrong that these things produce a bunch of suspended microplastics in your drink, we actually still don't know how unsafe microplastics are so I don't think you can outright state it is unsafe (not saying we shouldn't be worried about microplastics, I certainly am looking forward to more research on the topic to determine their impact because I am also worried, but it's just fear mongering to call it "unsafe")
I am not sure that arranging a deck to form a turing complete computer is an impressive feature. It would be much more impressive if you couldn't ubder any circumstance :)
>they could just remind people that China released COVID

Unfortunately for that narrative a lot of the research funding and ideas originated in the US.
“We just owe it to ourselves” is a propaganda line. There must be more productive uses for those funds than paying interest. Being on the creditor side of compound interest is far better than the alternative.
Wow I had no idea about this, thank you for chiming in!
How long does this tool take to verify a real drive?

"it only writes what’s necessary to test the drive"

How does that actually work, wouldn't that mean the whole stated capacity would have to be written?
I was just reading the first blog after installing and configuring fish. I wanted to see if she or anyone in my blogroll has any tricks I don’t know about.

Starting up with fish is very easy. You can install it on any new machine and just get on right way. The defaults are very well thought out.
I don't agree that "retroactively made illegal" is the same thing as "illegal", nor should it be called "skirting taxes" when everyone who was involved was okay with it until today where the EU unilaterally decides to alter the deal and punish apple.
I’m afraid these tools are really good at getting beginners 90% of the way there, but no further.
I think a reoccuring problem here is that there really isn't a consistent definition of 'facism'. The miriam-webster definition is basically just describing any authoritarian state, including the USSR, North Korea, or Uganda. Some people try to add a racialist component to it, but then struggle to apply that definition to governments traditionally understood to have been fascist, like Pinochet's Chile.
Fascinating, thanks for posting! Some interesting things I noticed:

1. I think we hugged your university site to death, lol.

2. When it finally loaded, I saw this: "Prerequisites: Programming 101" given this work, that's pretty hilarious! You at the very least used a Data Structure or two, which is Programming 201...

3. Am I correct in understanding the implicit approach is "look, the blue ones are all bunched up and the red ones aren't, so galaxies aren't randomly distributed"?

4. Any takeaways in terms of things you'd like to add, similar ideas that occurred to you, or other cool stuff? You seem like a creative soul and I love dreaming up Three.js-driven space simulations like https://platform.leolabs.space/visualization, so I'd enjoy hearing any thoughts you might have :).
> But as they increase programmer productivity fewer devs will be required.

Can you point me to any company whose feature pipeline is finite? Maybe these tools will help us reach that point, but every company I've ever worked for, and every person I know who works in tech has a backlog that is effectively infinite at this point.

Maybe if only a few companies had access to coding LLMs they could cut their stuff, when the whole industry raises the bar, nothing really changes.
If you're looking for a technical job, the easier path would be to find a PM/Designer job at one of your target companies and try switching to a dev role within the company. When you apply as a junior developer, your previous work experience will not be considered relevant. You'll be competing with other junior developers (who also likely don't have any relevant work experience) and it's much harder to differentiate yourself. Whereas if you want to switch roles inside a company, people who are familiar with your skills are likely to take a bet on you (if you have a good track record).

On the other hand, the masters program will introduce you to a new network of people, and working towards a goal with a cohort is much more motivating than learning by yourself.
The breville/sage machines are not "autogrinders" they're normal espresso machines with a grinder built into the same housing (which you can use stand alone) which you use to fill a portafilter basket and which you then need to tamp.

Machines which grind internally and produce a coffee fully automatically can be configured to produce decent coffee, but it's not exactly easy.
Treasury bills do have high interest rates compared to their recent historical average. That rate is about 5%.

You might then say that this is due to inflation, but that inflation almost certainly has something to do with lack of confidence in the dollar.
After playing with it on ChatGPT this morning, it seems a reasonable strategy of using the o1 model is to:

- If your request requires reasoning, switch to o1 model.

- If not, switch to 4o model.

This applies to both across chat sessions and within the same session (yes, we can switch between models within the same session and it looks like down the road OpenAI is gonna support automatic model switching). Based on my experience, this will actually improve the perceived response quality -- o1 and 4o are rather complementary to each other rather than replacement.
The Return to Island mandate must not have been a hit
If (when?) the future you're afraid of comes to pass, then basically all white collar work is cooked anyway.
Thank you so much for breaking this situation down with such clarity. I've had the Gagguino mod on my personal project list for a while, and when I saw that they went closed source I was flabbergasted. Your writeup is the first I've seen that puts the situation in context. And honestly... it's tremendously disappointing. I may end up selling my old Gaggia classic rather than keeping it around just for this.
You can make it minimal. fish_config is a builtin tool you can use to switch to a simple theme and prompt.
A common problem, no doubt, with a lot of training context. But man. What a time to be alive.
Yeah you’re right, all businesses are made of identical, interchangeable parts that we can swap out at our leisure.

This is why enterprises change ERP systems frictionlessly, and why the field of software engineering is no longer required. In fact, given that apparently, all business is solved, we can probably just template them all out, call it a day and all go home.
If you're not in a country where people regularly drink espresso then this is the problem you will find with literally every single non-specialty coffee shop. That being said, while crap coffee shop espresso is worse than nespresso, nespresso is still trash in compared to an espresso someone put in even 10 minutes of effort into dialling in.
Dunno, but it currently doesn't have a lot of votes, and only 1-2 substantive comments.

> 133. Entire Annapurna Game Team Resigns (bloomberg.com) 22 points by tmendez 56 minutes ago | unvote | flag | hide | 6 comments
A few questions to think about-

What are you wanting to do with the degree?

What are the requirements for the roles you're interested in?

Does the masters get you there or will you need to get some other experience along the way?

Do you know someone in the field who can point you to where you want to be and maybe skip some of the issues they had?

Are you willing to start as a junior technologist and work your way up again?
I tried to have it solve an easy Sudoku grid too, but in my case it failed miserably. It kept making mistakes and saying that there was a problem with the puzzle (there wasn’t).
If the US federal debt doesn't matter, why do we have taxes?

Surely, the government should just debt-finance everything and then we would all be happier.
22 year old coder today or 22 year old coder 30 years from now? How a 22 year old codes 30 years from now may look like magic to you and me.
>Whats really fascinating is billionaires you dont even know about. They are not in forbes. Their assets are a mystery. Their net worth exceed those of Jeff Bezos and Elon musk and Warren Buffett combined.

> For instance, one suspected trillionaire roughly pulls in $50 billion / year from money market.

Hmm... Who might this (and others like this) be?
The most recent 'study' was conducted by someone largely responsible for the UX as it is now.
Any resources online about this alleged trillionaire? And, re: the "billionaires you dont even know about" – do we know for sure that such people exist? I can't imagine it would be easy to keep a low profile with that amount of wealth, no matter how hard you try or how much money you throw at the problem. Surely they would be identifiable through some form of public filings...?

edit: the only way I can think of to remain anonymous at that level is basically through crime – drug lords, mafia bosses, etc
From NYT article on this model: "The chatbot also answered a Ph.D.-level chemistry question and diagnosed an illness based on a detailed report about a patient’s symptoms and history."

So it is not just software engineering, it is also chemistry and even medicine. Every science and art major should consider whether they should quit school. Ultimately the answer is no, don't quit school because AI makes us productive, and that will make everything cheaper, but will not eliminate the need for humans. Hopefully.
25 points in under an hour, and it's at #116 and falling; surrounded by 2 day old posts.

Pretty weird.

Edit: #230 now (90 mins in), with 36 points, next to 3 day old posts. Sus af.
So wait, is this fixed in BIOS or microcode?

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/lin...
I think once you use it for a while, you kind of expect it to be there and tune it out. Then you only really perceive it when you're interested.
> What's even are you?

An accelerator of reaching the Singularity. This is something more.
It was all quite friendly under Deng Xiaoping when China was mostly about peaceful trade. Sadly under Xi it's moving more to building up its military and trying to take other people land.
Structuring a Sabbatical Retreat
Well, to play student's advocate here for a second: wouldn't that make it harder to see the immediate difference, given the more complex presentation? IMO this visualization makes it pretty immediately obvious that galaxies aren't random in a way that a massive volumetric map might not.

Would definitely be cooler in 3D, of course, I agree with that. Out of curiousity, do you know of any systems that do that? All I can find is multipurpose industry tools like https://www.openspaceproject.com/images and broken tools like https://spacein3d.com/universe-sandbox/.
I’ve never dreamed. I wonder what would happen if I tried it?
Given the rate limits are 30 reqs/week most probably want to start with:

- Try it a bit with 4o, see if you're getting anywhere

- Switch to the new o1 model if it's just not working out, take your improved base prompt and follow ups with you so it only counts as 1 req
> ... which suggests OpenAI may be increasingly moving towards models that might be too risky to release.

Uh oh. That sounds like they'll use them internally though, which also presents some obvious problems. :(
Most cars can't dream of being anywhere near as efficient as a Prius. But yes if you can get your gasoline spending under $1000/year then you can probably match or beat electric. Throwing US averages at a calculator says an equivalently priced Leaf would have $200 less in fuel costs per year compared to the Prius getting 57 mpg. At that point it's up to the random maintenance costs.
The cheaper option:

- Learn python by watching the freecodecamp videos on YouTube.

- Learn AI stuff (enough to build some really useful shit) by watching the FastAI course on YouTube.

Don't worry about not having any good ideas on what to build when you start out. Once you start taking the FastAI class, the lecturer point out many good ideas, which lead to your own ideas.

And you know, practice, build some small stuff, build some bigger stuff, talk about it, write about it, network, etc.
Hi!

Regarding point 3: You are correct!
the galaxies are in fact clustered together in space. These groups are called gravitationally bound clusters.

Best regards,

Victor
I adore fish and can't imagine ever switching back to zsh or bash. First, it's nice and usable out of the box with a huge set of pre-configured completions. Second, it's incredibly easy to customize when I do want to tweak it.

For instance, writing my own prompt was what forever won me over from zsh. Basically, you edit a file named `~/.config/fish/functions/fish_prompt.fish`. That's where autoload functions live. If you type `foo` at the command line and it doesn't already exist, fish will look for a file named `foo.fish` in that directory, load it, and run the `foo` function defined there.

So in your editor, follow that pattern to write a function named `fish_prompt`. Put the commands in there that write your prompt to stdout. Make it as simple or complex as you want.

There. Done. That's all you have to do. Compare these:

Official fish docs: https://fishshell.com/docs/current/prompt.html

Official zsh docs: https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/Prompt-Expansion.htm

Anyway, that was emblematic of my whole experience with fish. It took a lot of un-learning special magic to settle in. It just feels so much more cohesive and consistent than any other shell I've tried. And because of that, I'm way quicker to add little scripts or completions to it that make it even more pleasant for me. I'd say the activation energy for that is far lower than with other shells I've used.

For context, I maintained the FreeBSD "bash-completion" port from 2003 to 2008 or so. It's not that I love fish because I don't know the alternatives. I love it because I do.
People still buy supermarket instant. I think the problem is actually that people don't know what good coffee tastes like, nor do they care.
> People gets lots of use out of them in their daily lives - it’s not just about towing horses or doing farm work, but also just hauling a family and gear around. Like if you’re a family of four going for a day at the beach, you can easily exceed the capacity of mid-size SUVs or small trucks.

Is it that much of an improvement, though? When I was a kid in the 80s and 90s, we did just fine with a 4-door sedan, including lots of multi-hour car trips to amusement parks and beaches and nearby cities. My parents eventually bought a minivan, but I was puzzled by that choice since I was in high school (and would move away in a couple years), and my sister was only a few years younger. (To me one of the big draws of a minivan or SUV for families is when you have young children and need to get into the car with them to strap them in or otherwise deal with them.)

To me, many SUVs are worse at these sorts of trips. You have a lot of extra unusable space because of their interior height, and the cargo space in the back is more vertical than horizontal, which can sometimes be a challenge depending on what you're bringing. Loading and unloading people inside is harder due to the passenger compartment being higher off the ground. Mid- and large-size sedans, station wagons (I know they've fallen out of favor, but so what), and minivans are way better for this.

Also not sure what kind of beach gear families of four are lugging out these days. Towels, toys, fold-up strollers, snorkel gear, and even some folding chairs and a sun umbrella should fit just fine in a sedan's trunk, no? (Ok, you might have to strap the umbrella to the roof, but otherwise...)

I won't comment on towing since I've never done it; you seem to know your stuff there.

I think people just make excuses for why they "need" the larger vehicle.
Salaries will only change if tech loses it's leverage on the economy. Think of it this way, if Google can operate Google with only 10% of its current staff, then there will be other Googles popping up. The downward pressure on salaries will start with the downward pressure on tech overall. I'm not sure I see this happening anytime soon because humanity is so good at using every resource available.
They taste horrible compared to a good coffee, but they do taste better than crappy coffee shop espresso served in any country where espresso is not a common drink.
You don't quite say, but I get the impression you want to keep working as a PM, not a software engineer, but be able to do so in these areas?

I think a masters that gave you expertise in the subject area be better than a generic CS masters. These are quite different areas. For medtech (and possibly BCI) medical compliance qualifications might open more doors than CS. For AI a masters in CS focusing on AI would presumably be a lot of use. I have no idea about aerospace but its seems likely that a different degree would be better than CS.

If instead you want to become a software engineer, then by all means do a CS degree, perhaps one which allows you to focus on the deep tech domain that interests you most.
Nushell looks very promising. I am waiting for it to mature and be available in distro repositories.
Apple turns AirPods into hearing aids, focusing on big health market
If my daughter dated someone who could solder, I think she would roll her eyes and find someone else to date the first time we geeked out over hardware.
Carpenters and other manual jobs might outlast software engineers. It seems that AI is advancing a lot faster than robotics.
It does dispel this idea that we are going to be flooded with too many GPUs.
4o’s answer seems sufficient, though it provides less detail than o1.

https://chatgpt.com/share/66e373d7-7814-8009-86c3-1ce549ca2e...
write 0001, read and confirm, repeat until drive is full.

For a fake drive, it'll take awhile, because the underlying storage is much, much slower than it should be, often usb2 speeds.

Realistically, this is just a test that satisfies curiosity without opening the drive. It's obvious when you have a fake drive because it won't benchmark anywhere near what it should.
Damn, the model really goes to length to those trivial but hard problems. Impressive