skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But still around 4 to 5% of the global population.

Yeah, but so? "Subsisitence farmers in sub-Saharan Africa spend substantially less per capita on online adult entertainment than Americans" is...not a surprising bit of information.

> Every stat in the global context of usage/consumerism gets weird when you consider this

Seems to me that the weird thing is the implicit premise that consumer and especially luxury spending should be expected to track population and not wealth.

> and even weirder when you account for debt-to-income ratio.

Are you assuming that the ability to borrow should be negatively correlated with luxury spending?
The simple answer is: I don't care. I'll statistically figure out what the typical total cost per call is from experience, and that's what matters. Who cares if they lie about it, if the model's cost per call fits my budget?

If it starts costing $1 per call, and that's too high, then I just won't use it commercially. Whether it was $1 because they inflated the token count or because it just actually took a lot of tokens to do its reasoning isn't really material to my economic decision.
Absolue game changer for me was T12 soldering iron (chinese clone which I still use till this date and 3 original tips which are still working after all these years of use)
Researchers find live fungi, bacteria and viruses high in the Earth's atmosphere
That's awesome. Have you tried asking it to convert Python (psuedo-ish) code back into C that interfaces with the kernel?
No she can't, comments likes yours are just made up nonsense that AI hype-mans and investors somehow convinced us are a fair opinions to have.
In my experience, no. They are cranking out code and managing directs (engineering, data, infra) 8-12 hours a day, 5-6 days a week.
Better-performing “25519” elliptic-curve cryptography
Can We Test Quantum Gravity? [video]
Is it? The article seems to indicate that stations geographically remote from the fjord recorded an unusual signal that was later connected to the landslide event.
My great aunt literally asked o1 for fantasy football bets and won $1000 on draftkings. This is a gamechanger
The person you are replying to points this out. They make a distinction between developers and users. An end user on a monthly subscription plan doesn’t care about how much compute happens for their chat.
I wouldn’t call customizing Android has building their own OS.
This looks like a winner to me as well. Personally I find university courses to be motivating, and unlike other programs this doesn't seem to be designed to rip you off or put you in debt. You learn the same good material as on-campus students, and you get an MS out of it from a good engineering school. The credential is meaningful because it requires completion of courses that are difficult but also designed to teach you the material.

If you have no engineering background, I expect you'd need to spend time doing prerequisite/undergrad courses beforehand.
An Empirical Study of Wireless Carrier Authentication for SIM Swaps
Paste multiple lines in zsh they won’t be executed either (nor in modern bash if I’m not mistaken). I’m not sold by the rest; most of what I read is easily achieved with zsh (or even bash!).
He has also given us “self-driving cars”, multiple times already — at least on Twitter, or whatever that shithole is now called.
I would agree. I'm the defendant in a (frivolous) trademark infringement case and my firm (which does work for the EFF) averages about 2 hours per (substantial) page, at a rate of $500/hour. I do wonder in the back of my mind if I'm being taken to the cleaners...
Rancher Desktop is free, supports Mac OS 10.15.7, and provides a much nicer Kubernetes distribution out-of-the-box compared to Docker Desktop.

https://rancherdesktop.io/

It also provides the Docker CLI and nearly the same features as Docker Desktop. In fact, some Docker Desktop extensions can run on Rancher Desktop.

Do note Rancher Desktop is more oriented for Kubernetes, so most of the GUI is for managing the Kubernetes cluster rather than individual containers.
Be very welcome, ask if you need hints and tips :-)
Find harder problems to solve.

I can easily make Claude freak out and run into limits. Claude is amazing but it only works at the abstraction level you ask of it, so if you ask it to write code to solve a problem it'll only solve that immediate problem, it doesn't have awareness of any larger refactorings or design improvements that could be made to improve what solution is even possible.
I’m conflicted on use of AirPods as hearing aids. I use one hearing aid and have normal hearing in the other ear. I often listen to things on my phone over the one hearing aid. It would be nice to have stereo. For this reason, AirPods for both listening to stuff and hearing assistance would be great.

On the other hand, when I see someone wearing AirPods I assume they are listening to something else or are otherwise trying to shut the world out. If I were wearing them to be able to engage more, I think I would just be sending the opposite message.
Doh! I read that as monthly. My bad.
Fantastic talk and direction for the Java ecosystem. Looking forward to future mitigating supply chain attacks (mentioned being left for another day at 9:17).
Streamlit vs. Gradio: The Ultimate Showdown for Python Dashboards
you are saying that the ai gf will not be like a real human female, but you are not making any argument that there is a defect in the bf's attachment to the gf.
Cursor also has the shadow workspace feature [1] that is supposed to send feedback from linting and language servers to the LLM. I'm not sure whether it's enabled in compose yet though.

[1] https://www.cursor.com/blog/shadow-workspace
If they hadn't intervened, would it have happened?
Brian Eno: How Should We Create Things?
10 décimas de saludo al pueblo Argentino :-)

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4bt_ARtcmg
> $1500 average creator pay is higher than 40 hours a week minimum wage.

Only in jurisdictions where minimum wage is less than $0.72/hr.
I'm guessing the true core of this product is still GPT-4, wrapped in whatever new logic they've created to force it through more reasoning iterations.

If o1 was indeed used to create synthetic data to make the upcoming GPT-5, you can perhaps glimpse an interesting level-up process laid out here. GPT-5 could then take over at the heart of a hypothetical o2, yielding a big upgrade. Which would then be leveraged to generate synthetic data to train GPT-6. Which would then form the heart of o3. Etc.
This is interesting since they claim it does well on STEM questions, which I’d assume would be a similar level of reasoning complexity for a human.
Live Stream Learning
I got the idea of live streaming from this community. It takes $0 and about 90-100 minutes to start from 0. If its something you have thought about doing hopefully this helps you.

Thanks
I'm fine with letting users sideload software, but I'm also fine with letting the people writing the software decide how they want it distributed. Everyone gets to have their say!
You mention voyager documentaries but fail to mention which one. There's lots, and its impossible to know which one is good until you finish it. Please tell us which one you wanted to watch.

It's sad how much documentation is honestly unreachable now.
lack of empathy does not stand in the way of forming an attachment. Empathy is a good feature for keeping a partner, but the ai doesn't care about that. It feels like people on your side of the argument are making a sort of moral/judgmental argument, "if you can't hold up your side of the bargain, you don't deserve an ai gf"
OpenAI's o1: advanced AI reasoning beyond GPT
Can you give an example of one of these problems for context?
When he was found in Pakistan he was in hiding, not being intentionally harbored by the government as in Afghanistan.

By all indications, he was being effectively harbored by the Pakistani ISI.

(There's also Hersh's theory that it was a "walk-in" from Pakistani military intelligence who actually tipped them off to, or at least provided strong corroboration as to the existence of Bin Laden's compound -- rather than the CIA sleuthing this out on its own from tracking various couriers. I never got caught up on how that particular theory panned out, as I've never been too obsessed with Bin Laden or the circumstances surrounding his extrajudicial execution anyway).

Let's not forget that the US was not being entirely rational at the time. The government and the public wanted revenge in a big way.

Indeed. My sense is that it wasn't so much a desire for revenge (thought there was certainly a large element of that). But rather fear, and a desire to send a "message". And so bombing the shit out of some dirt-poor country (whose population had generally no awareness of, let alone complicity in any of this) seemed to be the perfect way to do that.
Other than continuously copying files to new media every so often, are there reliable digital mechanisms for long-term storage (say, 50 years)?
This aroused my interest:

> describing some difficulty changing the decimal point to a decimal comma on a new Brazilian-bought HP-12c

Perhaps some wrong constant has been put in the firmware as a result of mixing up the command and period.
Luneburg lens reflectors make stealth aircraft visible on radar screens
What is the meaning of "Arrow" in this context?
Then paying down debt reduces the risk of exposure to interest rates and this lack of confidence situation, and also reduces interest repayments. I would think these are reasons to reduce debt you would weigh along the reasons to keep or increase debt, but apparently not?
One aspect that’s not achievable is they discuss hiding the chain of thought in its raw form because the chains are allowed to be unaligned. This allows the model to operate without any artifacts from alignment and apply them in the post processing, more or less. This requires effectively root and you would need the unaligned weights.
More on Luneburg reflectors

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luneburg_lens
No, but only because I have no use for it. I wouldn't be surprised if it did a fine job! I'd be remiss if I didn't note that it's way better at doing this for the Linux kernel than with codebases like Zookeeper and Kubernetes (though: maybe o1 makes this better, who knows?).

I do feel like someone who skipped like 8 iPhone models (cross-referencing, EIEIO, lsp-mode, code explorers, tree-sitter) and just got an iPhone 16. Like, nothing that came before this for code comprehension really matters all that much?
I mean they are the best of the big tech companies, by a country mile, but that's not really saying a lot. If you want the full details, go read the privacy policy with a skeptic's perspective.
just use the web site?
M-Discs have solved it. Obviously, we don't have 2000 years of data rot to verify it truly works.
> people in their teens and early 20s are being hooked en masse.

Any reference for the scale of this? It feels unlikely to me from my bubble but I only know one or two people I think would be likely to try it.
Also: nip.io, ip.addr.tools, traefik.me
Ok, this is incredible in an infinite number of ways.
This problem could be solved easily. One could put some kind of tiny sticker on their AirPods - it would take sometime for it to become mainstream - like an orange color ring - indicating the user is using the AirPods as hearing aids.
(This is a people problem…)
I would not suggest using the Japanese bond market as an example: Japanese bonds are pretty much exclusively owned by the BoJ and private Japanese banks, and they generally do this for mechanistic reasons. Basically everyone who can choose not to buy Japanese bonds is not buying Japanese bonds.

US bonds are not currently in the same place because it's hard to figure out who is in a much better position. The US has the guns and the petrodollar (although that is ending), and many other countries are in a more precarious economic and political position (thanks to Russia). However, there is no question that position would be better if the US had half its national debt.
I’m sure there’s more logic to it, but there are twelve notes in the chromatic scale, so six rows of four gets you two octaves. Also putting them in rows of four means you get a nice interval (a fifth?) if you go down vertically.
Comply first. Otherwise, you won't have a business bank account where you could direct the money from the first sale.
Interest in Mars colonization benefits from the fact that photographs capture the best of Mars and hide the problems.

The best of Mars is that the terrain is something we are well-adapted to and familiar with, effectively a desert. We can stand, walk around, drive around, build things, etc., just like on Earth.

You can see that in the photo: it looks like a desert on Earth; I think many people unconsciously assume it's like New Mexico. In a way the photos are like old scams enticing pioneers to settle in wondrous unseen places.

Photos suit Mars perfectly because they omit all the worst information: Temperature, pressure, magnetic field, gravity, and to a degree, isolation and almost complete lack of water. You can't see those in the photo.
No worries, use Tofu

https://www.tofuauth.com/
While AI is overhyped by some people, the parent's statement is not only true but was true long before o1 was released.
Check out replit agents, they can make games and apps autonomously now
Oh, perhaps. I mean that OpenAI won't do it because it would be bad for business and pop the AI bubble early.
Object storage in the cloud is likely to succeed there, but then cost and security issues arise.

If data are encrypted, then managing keys is another pain/cost dimension.

At the several decade point, keeping copies at multiple vendors becomes a discussion point, since even Google and Amazon are not likely to be immortal, and that Ukrainian data center might experience physical security challenges.
> They refused to cooperate with the request to extradite Bin Laden.

Which almost sounds reasonable until compared to when the US went after Bin Laden in Pakistan they didn't bother asking. I'm no UN level diplomat, but to me maybe 2 months negotiating before launching an invasion would make sense. Maybe even 12 months. A little bit of patience before setting off on a path lined with mountains of corpses.

That really showcases how flimsy the US justification was; the fact that the Afghan government didn't completely overturn their own sovereign system in under 30 days is held up in some sort of weird way as a provocation. And I don't even exactly object to the outrageous hypocrisy on what justifies a US invasion vs a Russian one, I just think that what is happening in Russia is risky, has no upside for the West and a lot of upside for China. I'd like someone to be able to put out a cold hard case for how destabilising large nuclear powers is supposed to lead to a better world. It seems like a hard case to make.

> In hindsight it was probably unrealistic...

Yeah. Maybe in hindsight maybe they didn't think it through. Everyone move on. Broken eggs required for omelettes except we burned the omelette because it turns out we didn't know how to cook. Oops.

You know what? Maybe we should be more thoughtful before invading people. It'd give the West a lot more intellectual credibility when they complain about other armies launching invasions. I have difficulty even pretending to respect the idea that Russia is a bad actor here given the US record we're all expected to look past. The Europe is not somehow more important than the Middle East.

We need an actual case for why we are supporting what is going on in Ukraine. The moral case that people try to hide behind is farcical, we've seen exactly how the US military handles this sort of thing over the last 25 years. There is no material upside for us in this war, and lots of real and potential downsides.

The same people who didn't think that through now think destabilising Russia is a going to work out great. What does that tell us.
Seismological devices all around the world detected this. Hardly a sensational title: it was a 110 meter tsunami bouncing around between two fjords for 9 days! This is roughly the planetary equivalent of when you're a kid in the bath tub and you start getting tiny waves to go back and forth between two ends of the tub until you finally make a mess, only that initial wave is 110 meters high!
I don't. People get to take home 80% of what they make, have full control over their work and it eliminates the biggest drawback of sex work which is safety issues. The day when enough people have a way to opt out of grueling min wage work is probably when it's finally automated or at least people get treated better.
Not the OP, but in my experience LLMs fail in ways that indicate they will never solve the problem.

Stuck in loops, correct their mistakes with worse mistakes, hallucinating things that don’t exist and being unable to correct.

Working on my own, I have the confidence that I know I can make incremental forward progress on a problem. That’s much preferable.
How long do the disc readers last?
Why would I pay for zero output? That’s essentially throwing money down the drain.
Is it? I think that thanks to transparency mode and conversation detection people are keeping them in “full time”. In noisy environments I just keep them on without music and they help me hear people talk.
Agree. The only advantage of an AI girlfriend is that you can shut her off when you're finished with her.
Please please please stop saying thought. This has nothing to do with the word thought. When we say the word thought it means something. Please don’t use the same word for whatever AI is doing and trivialize the word. Invent a new word if needed but for Pete’s sake be accurate and truthful.
This is actually a matter of two-way free choice, after all, there are many subjective evaluations
Do you know of an example game I can play right now?
Polaris Dawn astronauts perform historic private spacewalk wearing SpaceX suits
> Just giving the force law hardly counts as interpret-ability. You probably know that the 1/r^2 in the force law comes from the dimensionality of space. That is the interpretation.

I used to think the same, but don't the weak and strong forces decay differently?
I don’t think Substack will soon be struggling, either. It’s independent journalism that will have a hard time on Substack, or so the author thinks.
Do you know of an example game by someone with no coding experience using an LLM?
WinForms is the easiest gui platform I've ever used.

Still supported in .net 8. Windows only though.

Beyond that, I have not bothered.
it's all placeholders - that's my experience with gpt trying to write slop code
https://github.com/stanfordnlp/dspy
The innovation lies in using RL to achieve 1.) and provide a simple interface to 2.)
I'm 67, and I'm sure as hell not ready to go yet. Of course, anybody could go at any time, so live while you can!
I think this event proves you absolutely wrong.

They approved hearing aid “software”, meaning it can run on arbitrary hardware that may or may not have the restrictions you’re talking about… as part of other “software”
It’s interesting, I’ve always seen RICE as MICE. But I suppose reward makes more sense then just money

https://spyauthor.medium.com/mice-the-4-pillars-of-cia-spy-r...
While I grant that some and perhaps even most people won't want the AI girlfriend to disagree, there are some out there who treat arguments as a necessary and desirable spice in a relationship.

That said, I can't really think of anything that would be worth arguing with an AI over.
https://arrow.apache.org/

It’s a format for handling bulk columnar data.
Ok but this presses on a latent question: what do we mean by alignment?

Practically it's come to mean just sanitization... "don't say something nasty or embarrassing to users." But that doesn't apply here, the reasoning tokens are effectively just a debug log.

If alignment means "conducting reasoning in alignment with human values", then misalignment in the reasoning phase could potentially be obfuscated and sanitized, participating in the conclusion but hidden. Having an "unaligned" model conduct the reasoning steps is potentially dangerous, if you believe that AI alignment can give rise to danger at all.

Personally I think that in practice alignment has come to mean just sanitization and it's a fig leaf of an excuse for the real reason they are hiding the reasoning tokens: competitive advantage.
I don't have high expectations of this stuff. Im just saying what its doing is not reasoning.
> I'm not writing that much of my own code at my FAANG job.

> Most of the time, I just accept its changes.

This speaks more about the problems at FAANG, other companies, etc than AI vs a human developer. And AI isn't the real fix.

Are we just repeating things 100x a day or is it still so chaotic and immature? Or are we implying that AI is at a point where it's writing Google Spanner from scratch and you're able to review and confirm it passes transactional tests?
I generally agree, and I think interpretability is a fools errand for any sufficiently complex nonlinear model.

That said, I’d be surprised if there weren’t eventually successful breakthroughs from the fields of nonlinear dynamics / pattern formation.
Wouldn’t it be nice if we came full circle and went to listen to our politicians live because anything else would be pointless.
Well, if LLMs are system 1, this difference would be building towards system 2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow
> People are allowed to be outraged that Taylor Swift generates a larger carbon footprint than the average person

I mean, sure?

Same as it’s OK for Taylor Swift to be outraged that Jeff Bezos generates a larger carbon footprint than her. Or same as it’s OK for me to be outraged that you generate a larger carbon footprint than me.

What good does the outrage do besides help each person ignore the fact that theyre the problem?
Why fungi but no plants? There's sun up there, some moisture, so it seems more fitting for plants. Maybe there's not enough to sustain much of anything, and fungi survive starvation longer?
I hope you mean "defender".
Huh?

https://www.nasa.gov/earth/nasa-finds-summer-2024-hottest-to...
I’m curious what you think is awesome about its tooling? For me, mix is capable enough, but I consider the IDE story to be pretty lacking actually.
The reader is an ordinary DVD or Bluray drive. It's safe to assume these will continue to be manufactured for 20 more years and if they have solid state components, a shelf life of 100 years afterwards.
I'd agree with this take. Everyone is so pessimistic about LLMs, but I've really enjoyed this new era.

A lot of the tasks that used to take considerable time are so much faster and less tedious now. It still puts a smile on my face to tell an LLM to write me scripts that do X Y and Z. Or hand it code and ask for unit tests.

And I feel like I'm more likely to reach for work that I might otherwise shrink from / outside my usual comfort zone, because asking questions of an LLM is just so much better than doing trivial beginner tutorials or diving through 15 vaguely related stack overflow questions (I wonder if SO has seen any significant dip in traffic over the last year).

Most people I've seen disappointed with these tools are doing way more advanced work than I appear to be doing in my day to day work. They fail me too here and there, but more often than not I'm able to get at least something helpful or useful out of them.
> I'd say the set of people who want an AI girlfriend and the set of people whose defining trait is a lack of empathy is probably a bigger overlap than you think.

The defining trait of people who want an AI girlfriend is ugly, lonely men.

Is lack of empathy the defining characteristic of ugly men?

Or is it simply that people in general hate ugly people and thus ascribe various ills and character faults to them?

I'd say the set of people that disparage undesirable lonely men that desire AI girlfriend are usually those whose defining trait is severe lack of empathy. This is blatantly obvious here.