skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, yes, that is in practice what I’m seeing so far. A lot of spending, and if they’re lucky productivity doesn’t drop. Best case I’ve seen so far is that it’s a useful tool that gives a small boost, but even for that a lot of folks are so bad at using them that it’s not helping.

The situation now is kinda like back when it was possible to be “good at Google” and lots of people, including in tech, weren’t. It’s possible to be good at LLMs, and not a lot of people are.
I remember the old Squad Leader series did this; a basic game and enormous amounts of "flourish" that could be added as you went.

And the "basic" game was pretty damned complex to start with.
In affluent white neighborhoods somewhat true. Not at all true in my part of the city.
> I guess the camera is a little better.

Like many of the other items on the list, it’s a change that few people actually asked for and it’s more in the name of surveillance capitalism than consumer preferences or consumer choice.

Sure, social media can con children into thinking they need this. And after it’s normalized then adults might point it out as an improvement, but in the end it’s part of why the “improved” phone takes more hours of labor to pay for and the consumer has fewer options than ever with an illusion of more choice.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42330732.
This comes up a lot but infrastructure is not the expensive part of government. It's schools, criminal justice, and other labor intensive services. All of which are more expensive per capita in cities than suburbs.
If you want to approximate an X-Y oscilloscope on your system, check out https://github.com/timstr/oszilloskop
Sounds like a great market opportunity for consulting gigs to clean up the aftermath at medium size companies.
There's a huge gray area between "not understanding the law" and "being competent to litigate a case in court." It is entirely possible for non-lawyers to understand the gist of the law at a high level. And thus it's not acceptable to tolerate misleading headlines about legal decisions any more than it is to tolerate misleading headlines about any other decision. And God knows I've seen enough of them about other issues that are within my realm of professional expertise.

The problem is that our system as currently set up does not incentivize reporters working a "beat" for years where they develop enough domain expertise on a field to report on it competently. If we had actual senior legal reporters, senior national security reporters, senior tech reporters, and so on, they would have enough knowledge of those fields to effectively write for laypeople.
I've said before, but I'm not convinced LLM should be public facing. I know some companies have been burned by them and in my opinion, LLM should be about helping customer support people find answers faster.
> beginning to be worth less

the transition from worth less to worthless isn't very far. even in monospace fonts.
Discussion (89 points, 36 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42330666
expanding this take perhaps too much

...even the source code itself "says", in its own way, the same thing as the documentation, just to a different "audience" (the compilers)
Those are so important! I often struggle to suggest activities other than sports
hm that would be very interesting, hadn't perplexity already solved all my AI needs a while ago
Suppose an employee costs a business, say, $10k/mo; it's 50 subscriptions. Can giving access to the AI to, say, 40 employees improve their performance enough to avoid the need of hiring another employee? This does not sound outlandish to me, at least in certain industries.
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There's a bit in Dickens's Christmas Carol where Scrooge sees the generally pleased reaction to his death.

Wonder if any other CEOs are seeing this reaction today as a visit from the ghost of Christmas Yet to Come.
Here's the path:

1. Imprison executives who made the decisions that led to the result. Preferably in a way that makes them spend their fortunes on legal costs so that when they get out in 20-30 years, they're dependent on social safety nets for the rest of their natural lives. People are dead because they thought that possibility of profit was worth the risk of hundreds of deaths. That's negligent homicide.

2. There is no 2.
This is one of those things that if you find people into the same thing, you can instantly bond over since it is quite niche
Watterson's motivation seems to be to preserve the integrity of his art.

Disney's motivation seems to be to preserve their profit margins on hyper commercializing the creations of others.
My bought-as-used Subaru has a 3G modem, and there's no 3G service anymore. Good enough.
No, o1 is definitely not good enough to replace employees.

The reason we're launching o1 pro is that we have a small slice of power users who want max usage and max intelligence, and this is just a way to supply that option without making them resort to annoying workarounds like buying 10 accounts and rotating through their rate limits. Really it's just an option for those who'd want it; definitely not trying to push a super expensive subscription onto anyone who wouldn't get value from it.

(I work at OpenAI, but I am not involved in o1 pro)
Elden Ring, Baldur’s Gate 3, and Metaphor: ReFantazio seem to go against this.
I like Clickhouse more.

Unrelated, not sure if it is just me, but ever since LLMs became popular, I've been seeing an enormous amounts of special utf8 characters no one used regularly, like this em dash you used.

How is this simple to type? If you're on a phone keyboard, you have to switch to special characters, and then have to long-hold the dash and then slide to em dash.
But i would say they are very distinguishable. The man who drives as 85mph because the spiders are chasing him is insane. The man who drives as 85mph because facebook told him that the state lacks jurisdiction over roads painted with yellow lines is not. The incorrect behavior (speeding) is identical but the overall situation is very distinguishable.
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we've been waiting for it)
I consistently get significantly better performance from Anthropic at a literal order of magnitude less cost.

I am incredibly doubtful that this new GPT is 10x Claude unless it is embracing some breakthrough, secret, architecture nobody has heard of.
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tbh a lot of the rest of the world already has the ability to get tasks they don't want to do done for <$200 per month in the form of low wage humans. Some of their middle classes might be scratching their heads wondering why we've delegating creativity and communication to allow more time to do laundry rather than delegating laundry to allow more time for creativity and communication...
>Even if the std::string was guaranteed to hold a "SORRY, THIS STRING HAS BEEN MOVED FROM, PLEASE CONTACT YOUR LOCAL STRING SUPPLIER" string in it after being moved from

That's a rather weak "even if", given most implementations just reset to the empty string after moving.

>I doubt this would actually help that much with the overall correctness of the application.

Like I said, it depends on your use case. A pattern I use frequently when processing input is to have an accumulator that I build up progressively, and then when ready I move it into a result container, and since that resets the accumulator I can simply keep using it. If my algorithm required the initial state "SORRY, THIS STRING HAS BEEN MOVED FROM, PLEASE CONTACT YOUR LOCAL STRING SUPPLIER" rather than the empty string, such an idiosyncratic post-move value would be rather convenient.
Few factors:

- a ton of java is still legacy, ask works with java 7 vs java 17 and enjoy the laugh

- I assumed java culture was still too rotten by its roots. I've used streams but whenever I have to import BiFunction I feel very sad.

on the other side, the few go code I've seen was always very concise, or even when the code base wasn't very well designed it was, at worst, still below java
ChatGPT as a standalone service is profitable. But that’s not saying much.
The source is the actual FA dude.
> it will circumvent things you do to it that would stop it from completing it's task.

I thought you said a supercapable agent not one with long term blindsight. How can a model make its own chips and energy? It needs advanced processes, clean rooms, rare materials, space and lots of initial investment to bootstrap chip production. And it needs to be doing all of it on its own, or it is still dependent on humans.
> man who drives as 85mph because facebook told him that the state lacks jurisdiction over roads painted with yellow lines

This is a stretch, but possible. It breaks when that man is pulled over, cited, given the opportunity to research or consider another viewpoint, and then shows up in court to plead that case. That’s invisible-spiders levels of delusion, and while it may not be caused by a chemical or physical problem in the brain, it’s indistinguishable from it.
>Of course they are a bug

No.

When you build a bloom filter and it says "X is in the set" and X is NOT in the set, that's not a bug, that's an inherent behavior of the very theory of a probabilistic data structure. It is something that WILL happen, that you MUST expect to happen, and you MUST build around.

>And to fix it, we need to engineer solutions that prevent the hallucinations from happening

The whole point is that this is fundamentally impossible.
Yeah the online interaction can't convey the human warmth as well as irl does for sure.
If LLMs are trained on lots of human-written sci-fi, should we be surprised when the output resembles such sci-fi concepts?
As of last week, it was incapable of writing any useful Prolog as well.
at least 10k a month in the bay area
I respect his decision, but for many people "selling out" is actually code for "financial security and stability for themselves and their families," which is not nothing and not necessarily worth scoffing at.
> Since answers will take longer to generate, ChatGPT will display a progress bar and send an in-app notification if you switch away to another conversation.

I wonder if they are optimizing for batching, which might introduce even more delays.
The notion that this policy is to hide spy satellites from world or even regional powers is laughable.
Yes. GDP tries to measure "production", it's just easier to add up various types of spending, investment, etc. But if the service has been consumed then it was - by definition - produced, or in this case the service was rendered, I guess.

That's why bubbles are a problem because they represent a misallocation of real resources. (Especially when they're debt fueled. And crucially so when it's private debt like the typical mortgage.)

But that's why the fiscal multiplier is above one, because public debt is usually cough spent on things that increase productivity, growth, or at least has a positive ROI (eg. regularly screening the mythical token at-risk individuals likely prevents enough very expensive private+public spending, and people will spend that money on things like education or mayhaps even just allows them to have more productive years), etc.
That's not what being friendly is.

It's more about treating others with kindness and respect.
Oh very intriguing! Could you please elaborate how you are using MCP servers with VS code for coding?
I just picked up a $200 oneplus just for work accounts. It's completely fine. No lag. No issues. Zero bugs so far. 10 years ago were using what? Android 4 and iOS 6?
If it is trained on this forum it would learn even worse. We project a lot of doom imagination on AI here.
Yeah when I saw the price tag I was hoping that some amount of API usage would be budgeted for this. It doesn't seem that way though
Certainly likes to pretend that it is, anyway.
How would that work exactly? GM was in bankruptcy proceedings but Boeing is still a going concern. The federal government generally doesn't have statutory authority to impose financial oversight on companies.
In a hypothetical world where this was integrated with code reviews, and minimized developer time (writing valid/useful comments), and minimized bugs by even a small percentage... $200/m is a no-brainer.

The question is - how good is it really.
I guess I can finally move off Safari. The only thing holding me back was the password / iCloud Keychain integration.

Webkit as an Engine may have improved a lot. As evidence with Orion using the same webkit is simply a much better browser. Safari for whatever reason simply hasn't caught on. Compared to all the improvement Chrome and Firefox has had over the years.
US economy is soaring because the old guard (Europe) passed peak and all the new guard (Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China, BRICS) didn't quite live up to the hype once they reached near wealth parity.

Where would you rather invest today - US or a demographically stagnant, highly regulated Europe? US or rapidly shrinking countries with risk-averse cultures like Japan and Korea? How about China where they might expropriate you / throw you in jail? Or Taiwan which is under the cloud of Chinese invasion?

Etc.

Cleanest dirty shirt and all that.
uber drivers deserve to be eroded entirely if their occupation literally costs lives compared to an autonomous vehicle
Responsibility will turn out to be so diffuse that no individuals will be found to be liable. This is a superpower of large organizations and permeates our daily lives. Also one of the main reasons government regulation is always required. And why capatilist bros are constantly wittering about removing regulation.
This new plan really highlights the need for open models.

Individual users will be priced out of frontier models if this becomes a trend.
Sure, if you're measuring since 1850 or 1900.

But has this changed massively over the past 30 or 40 years? Not really.

Frozen dinners have been around since longer than most of us have been alive. Working couples in the 1980's were figuring out what they'd do with grandma. Nursing homes have been around for a looong time. Mail-order delivery of boxes has been a thing since the end of the 1800's -- there were Sears warehouses long before Amazon warehouses.

That's all I'm saying. However, employees genuinely are much more productive than they were in the 1980's, thanks to e-mail and cell phones and the Internet and collaborative online document editing and so much more. You can get things done in an hour that used to take you 2 weeks of back-and-forth.

The productivity growth is real. It's not an illusion based on what GDP doesn't capture.
Meanwhile, Berke Breathed is still available, still producing, still an amazing artist.

Even with a million Opus dolls, I don’t think any of it has chained him down or held him back.
That’s the wrong question. The only question is “is this price reflective of 10x performance over the competition?”. The answer is almost definitely no.
>Productions have been much cheaper and quicker in the past, and there's no technical impediment to making them that way again already (nothing has been lost)

Productions also looked a lot worse in the past. Some productions are more expensive today because that's the budget the kind of production requires. You act like a movie like Guardians of the Galaxy looking as good as it does was even remotely possible decades ago and studios just want to spend more money for vain spectacle. Star Wars 77 was great for its time but that's exactly it, 'for its time'.

77's budget adjusts to 60M today and while you certainly can't recreate a modern 'will hold up' star wars with that budget, 60M today gets you a lot farther than it did decades ago with much better looking movies.
That's very interesting and I wonder if it is related to your physical fitness? Social interaction and going out does require more from your body and I wonder if this is something you can train for like you train your muscles
Glad to be helpful-- I'm in the business of data process automation, so I appreciate the opportunity to learn about new use cases. If you are willing to share what your end goal was in more detail (even as simple as an SQL query that you would now run want to run against your current schema), I'd be interested to see how an optimal process could be designed to easily generate that, and possibly suggest some tooling you could find useful. You may also want to try posting questions like this in forums such as the Seattle Data Guy's discord channel, and I'm suspect you will get lots of suggestions and advice.
I don't know about you, but I get to solve algorithmic challenges relevant to my work approximately once per week to once per month. Most of my job consists of gluing together various pieces of tech that are mostly commodity.

For the latter, Claude is great, but for the former, my usage pattern would be poorly served by something that costs $200 and I get to use it maybe a dozen times a month.
That's a great point actually. Nearly everywhere (us included) is short-staffed (and by that I mean we don't have the bandwidth to build everything we want to build), so perhaps it's not a "reduce the team size" but rather a "reduce the level of deficit."
$200 per month means it must be good enough at your job to replicate and replace a meaningful fraction of your total work. Valid? For coding, probably. For other purposes I remain on the fence.
All training data? Even public domain and open source?
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Not a lot of companies when announcing its most expensive product have the bravery to give 10 of them to help cure cancer. Well played OpenAI. Fully expect Apple now to give Peter Attia an iPhone 17 Pro so humanity can live forever.
The Freeze-Frame Revolution by Peter Watts was one of the books recommended to me on this subject. And even saying much more than that may be a spoiler. I also recommend the book.
When high gas prices are over, they go back down to being relatively low.

When high inflation is over, prices don't go back down, they just increase at a more reasonable rate going forward. But they'll still feel high for at least a few years as people mentally adjust.
Soon it will be running a front company where people are tasked with receiving base64 printouts and typing them back into a computer.
Maybe. Gemini Exp 1121 is blowing my mind. Could be that OpenAI is seeing the context window disadvantage vs Google looming.
> Costs them a phone every 2-ish years and a service plan, so that isn't even remotely free

This doesn't seem relevant, honestly. People more or less need a phone to function in society nowadays, it's not really optional and it becomes more and more required all the time. So owning a phone and having a plan for it is more or less a sunk cost for almost everyone already

I suspect you will quibble about this, phones aren't actually required, people could live without them.. but more and more you cannot participate in society without one. More and more you need mobile 2FA to interact with your banking, government services etc. Hell some restaurants you can't even see the menu without a phone to view QR codes on. Owning a phone is "optional" but the cost of not having one is high enough that it is basically ridiculous to suggest people should save money by not having one

So if we take that a phone and plan is already a baseline, it's not really an extra expense for people to scroll feeds

Meanwhile a hobby that requires access to specialized tools is an extra expense, and sometimes a big one

Most poor people I've ever known (including myself, years ago) fix their own cars out of necessity because it's cheaper than going to a mechanic, not as a hobby
It's like yin and yang
Fair point, but would be interesting to see what characteristics make for a best in class ai database, rag, vectors? Or do you foresee ai to replace databases? “ChatGPT, can you remember this data for me?”
That'll make us less lonely? To be clear, I treat my coworkers with respect and kindness, but I don't put myself in a position where I get close to them or look to them for support or my emotional well being.
In New York City the homeownership rate has been about the same over the last 25 years, about 32%, about about 1% from pre pandemic. Looking at the national average it is about the same 65.5%, up about 1% from 5 years ago, with small changes over the last 50 years. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RHORUSQ156N
Well - you can take it as read they'll probably try to kill others while they are at it. Did you read the bit where Tetyana Aksenchuk was injured trying to put fires out and then drones attacked the ambulances killing a diver. At least the Russians are quite imaginative with their slaughtering the innocents.
And every high schooler, TedX speaker, and Malcom Gladwell impersonator gets this wrong: It only works if intro and conclusion present a different view on the information, otherwise it's simply boring the audience to death.
But Japan is also doing not great, right?
> In both C++ and Rust, "moving" an object will still copy the struct fields, but

Most people consider a shallow copy a "copy", certainly a shallow copy isn't a "reference"! One of the big problems in this space is in fact the divergence of terminology that leads to arguments like this.

The introduction of move semantics to C++ was a terrible, terrible mistake; not because it doesn't solve a real problem but because the language is objectively much worse now as a routine tool for general developers. People used to hack on code to implement features, now they get confused over and argue about how many "&" characters they need in a function signature.

It was a problem that was best left unsolved, basically.
Do you not like any of them?
Venus planetary science (Venusian?) lacks the abundance of in-situ data that Mars has. We'll know more in a decade.
Running in a flat/straight line is an artificial construct. Our bodies evolved for running on rough terrain. A slower trail run will do less injury yet burn more calories than any hard sidewalk.
So, wait a minute, when interviewing candidates, you're making them invest their valuable time talking to an AI interviewer, and not even disclosing to them that they aren't even talking to a real human? That seems highly unethical to me, yet not even slightly surprising. My question is, what variables are being optimized for here? It's certainly not about efficiently
matching people with jobs, it seems to be more about increasing the number of interviews, which I'm sure benefits the people who get rewarded for the number of interviews, but seems like entirely the wrong metric.
> The danger once you become fully financially independent is that neither you or companies are willing to compromise on your working terms and you retire by default.

Never share your situation and security. Your plan is sound otherwise, just say "I need more time for family" or whatever will trigger the response that gets you this outcome. As long as they need you, they'll accommodate.

https://www.amazon.com/Never-Split-Difference-Negotiating-De...
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Currently I have basic TTY and GUI environment with some of the basic UNIX utilities like cp, ls and stat. I have basic support for USB (keyboard/mouse/storage), disks (NVMe, AHCI), custom networking stack with TCP and UDP support, and a UNIX-like filesystem with /dev /tmp /proc filesystems.

The whole project is written in C++ except for my BIOS bootloader that is written in 16-bit real mode assembly. I have been testing the OS mainly on virtual machines but also frequently on real hardware.
What evidence or data, if you (hypothetically) saw it, do you think would disprove the thesis that "[LLMs] will ALWAYS be the wrong tool for the job"?