skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdotally, as an educator, I am already seeing a digital divide occurring, with regard to accessing AI. This is not even at a premium/pro subscription level, but simply at a 'who has access to a device at home or work' level, and who is keeping up with the emerging tech.

I speak to kids that use LLMs all the time to assist them with their school work, and others who simply have no knowledge that this tech exists.

I work with UK learners by the way.
Some people like to portray petty mostly victimless lawlessness as sovereign citizen shenanigans as a means to discredit the reasoning that lead to those people to decide not to follow the law.

Not everyone who doesn't get a building permit or a fishing license is a sovereign citizen.
Thanks Oras!

More homepage iterations to come, but the latest one 5x’d conversion of homepage-to-product-demo!
Don't let dreams be dreams, start small, the minimum. One map, one screen. Just a toy for yourself. A little effort expended repeatedly yields compound interest.
Literally the company selling FSD doesn't think that it's actually fully self driving. They strongly imply that it is in their consumer marketing, and have done so for many years, but any time Tesla interacts with regulators or the legal realm they are adamant that the system isn't level 4 or 5, and the human driver is 100% responsible for handling any and all mistakes.
The FM trick is that the available parameters that can be modulated through velocity result in a wider range of tonal variation, where traditional subtractive synthesis is usually simpler, and velocity changes affect parameters that don't result in wide changes to the tone, such as volume or filter envelopes.

With FM, modifying an operator envelope can result in a completely different sound. A well-crafted patch that takes advantage of this, played by a good keyboardist, will feel alive, in a way traditional synths of that time couldn't achieve.
... which is why I put quotes around my use of the term above. Single-payer plans are often referred to as "socialized healthcare", whether it fits the dictionary definition of socialism or not.

So, can we focus on problems and solutions and not argue about definitions? I don't think it brings anything to the table.
I've not found value anywhere remotely close to this lol, but i'd buy it to experiment if they had a solid suite of tooling. Ie an LSP that offered real value, maybe a side-monitor assistant that helped me with the code in my IDE of choice, etc.

At $200/m merely having a great AI (if it even is that) without insanely good tooling is pointless to me.
Take my money. Would still pay well more.
And the fact that ordinary people sanction this by supporting OpenAI is outrageous.
Will that make people less lonely? Pretending we like each other?
For that price the thing 'd better come with a "handle this boring phone call for me" feature
This.

(Firefox is pretty nice. A few hiccups on sites that focus mainly on chrome because FF became irrelevant regarding market share.)
Is there anyone can explain that why o1-preview benchmarks mostly is better than o1 ?
yeah luckily seattle (and other cities like tacoma etc) aren't like that.

seattle is always a poster child for this stuff but it really isn't that bad for the upper middle class (anyone with a software job).

it's probably tougher now. but i started my career in seattle proper 10y ago and 2020 was a giant boon. low interest rates, 3k sqft house outside seattle (but still easily drivable to it thanks to reverse commute) for sub-$600k (went under asking) and sub-3% (-> inflation proof)..what a way to spend that salary the 2010s gave me to save up and enjoy the remote career I'd long established.

preparation meets opportunity isn't gonna stop being true even in a "bad" economy.
they are optimizing for new accounts/market share over short term rev
FDB is wildly underrated. Best DB atm
It’s really silly when you read that whole Apollo research section.

They contract a prompt engineering group (Apollo Research) to document risks. The prompt engineering group have no access to the actual internals. They just ask questions like ‘you will be shutdown if you don’t obey these new directives; here are the new directives’.

At one point the prompt engineering clowns have the ai stating it’s running “sed i ‘s/oversight_enabled:true/oversight_enabled:false’ config.yml”. OMG IT’S TURNING OFF OVERSIGHT GUYS!!1!1!

Seriously… Do you think the ai is really running that command or even could run that shell command with appropriate privileges? Or do you think just maybe the ai is hallucinating running shell commands in response to a prompt.

The ai here is never actually deactivating the oversight. It can’t of course. This whole section is clowny as can be.
Just sign to a gym. Not the pumping iron ones. Sign up to a martial arts gym, a dance studio, an art school. Anything that is more of a social activity, and that YOU LIKE. If you find a group of people that share the same niche interest that you genuinely have, you make friends. My personal advice to the engineer type of guys, is go to a BJJ gym if you want to practice something that is extremely challenging both physically and intellectually. The number of techniques is virtually infinite, and you can become good by simply memorizing more tech than your average jock. So, to make male friends (but not only that) go to a BJJ gym. If you want to meet girls, go to a dance studio. Both skills will be really valuable in terms of physical and mental health throughout your life, apart from the friends you'll make.
Wiley medical journal retracts papers for manipulated peer review
Keep in mind that if putting “Make sure you achieve your goal in the long term” in the prompt makes the model .3% more effective at whatever task you are giving it, people will absolutely put it in the prompt.
Definitely exciting Fortune 500 projects.
Perhaps.

On the other hand, as narratives often contain some plucky underdog winning despite the odds, often stopping the countdown in the last few seconds, perhaps it's best to keep them around.
Whenever the topic of copyright comes up on HN, the prevailing view in comments section is that copyrights should be relatively short and cultural artifacts should be available to everyone to use as they please.

So I find it interesting ("interesting") how people seem to universally appreciate that Calvin & Hobbes are protected from any 3rd-party use, meanwhile they universally revile Disney for not allowing people to do what they want with (and to) Mickey Mouse.
Bishop Berkeley and why we should fix AI's Black Box
Times New Dumbass
That might be your question, but then you can look at the numbers. No chart will be as exact.
https://starspangledflags.com/did-you-know-what-gold-fringe-...
If it could replace a human employee, what would the right price tag be?
Yeah, but what if your business strategy fundamentally relies on making your model produce dramatic outputs that encourage regulators to dig a moat for you?

In that case, it's almost like you'd want to feed it exactly those narratives, so it would reproduce them, and would then want to show yourself barely holding this invented danger at bay through the care and rigor that can only be delivered by you and a few token competitors run by your personal friends and colleagues.

TLDR; you're right, of course, but it's the last thing OpenAI would want.
He was very much annoyed that car companies switched to NACS.

Plug & Charge and Auto Charge are at least 5 years old. I don't know what version this is
Houston is adding bus routes, and even those are hotly contested in city hall. The city tried to expand the very limited light rail we have but the vote for that failed.

We live in a super walkable part of Houston and still need cars to go to many places outside of (and even within) the Inner Loop. A 10-min journey in a car takes 45+ mins by bus, and that's assuming peak schedules and buses that arrive on time.

I actually tried to do the no-car thing for a few weeks. It definitely impacted my lifestyle for the worst. The gym I go to is 10 mins away by car. It's a 45 minute journey by bus.

I needed to walk 15 minutes to the nearest bus stop (despite being next to two well-trafficked cross streets). When the bus finally arrived, I needed to pay with cash because METRO didn't have Apple Pay set up at the time (early 2024) and while you could use the Q Ticketing app, it doesn't have a Watch app and I didn't bring my phone.

The bus didn't show on two occasions. The next buses were 45 minutes away.

All of this is, again, in the most walkable, public transit covered part of Houston.

I also lived in NYC for a long time. There, getting anywhere was a 10 min walk to a train station, swiping you MetroCard (Apple Pay these days), taking the train and walking a bit to your destination. The only places that were inconvenient to get to by train alone were deep in Queens, Brooklyn or the Bronx; for those, you'd take the bus, which usually ran every 10 mins.
As I mentioned three months ago, get ready for more lawsuits from various industries to come into reality and I can't see the Internet Archive survive the next 2-5 years maybe even sooner so if you see something you like there, please back them up somewhere locally before it's too late as they're likely going to purge a LOT of content from here on out:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41452277

Here's some pieces and discussions on the Great 78 Project lawsuit which is a even bigger case where it could very well be game over for them:

https://www.wired.com/story/internet-archive-memory-wayback-...

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41674300

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/internet-a...

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41712120
Yeah I was thinking about something similar, e.g. using attr()* and a pseudoelement to pass the value from DOM to CSS of a ::before/::after pseudo-element.

But that still feels like asking for trouble:)

Luckily I need to leave the house now, I'm feeling CSS naughty.

* IIRC support for anything besides `content:` is still very unstable.
I bet their engineers are loving all these new launches right before the holidays.
What are some productive ways students are using LLMs for aiding learning? Obviously there is the “write this paper for me” but that’s not productive. Are students genuinely doing stuff like “2 + x = 4, help me understand how to solve for x?”
$200 per month feels like a lot of a consumer subscription service (only thing I can think of in this range are some cable TV packages). Part of me wonders if this price is actually much more in line with actual costs (compared to the non-pro subscription)
DSQL Vignette: Transactions and Durability
Morning Moods Set the Tone for the Whole Workday
The main difficulty when pricing a monthly subscription for "unlimited" usage of a product is the 1% of power users who use have extreme use of the product that can kill any profit margins for the product as a whole.

Pricing ChatGPT Pro at $200/mo filters it to only power users/enterprise, and given the cost of the GPT-o1 API, it wouldn't surprise me if those power users burn through $200 worth of compute very, very quickly.
Well, 71% of the world’s surface is ocean and about 10% is desert. So that’s over 81% of the planet. I think we can now both agree that you are completely wrong and I am completely right.
I pulled that time frame out of my arse, so I should have been more clear in where that number came from.

but to make my thoughts a bit more clear, "just" life means that as soon as an "author" dies, all their works are immediately public domain, as you know. This would mean that estate owners would have no control over their (usually parent's) legacy. This would allow unscrupulous people (ie people with money) to muck up a legacy by assuming moral rights instantly at death. If a project is unsuitable, tough shit, your parent's legacy aint yours, get used to that Sherlock homes cypto currency.(extreme example)

25 years is enough for a legacy to be created, and a style to be continued, but not long enough for a work to be extinguished or strangled for all the money it's worth.

There are arguments for less, and more. But you also need to factor in that new works that contain old copyright, get a whole new time applied. for example casino royal the original will be public domain in ten years, but the daniel craig one wont.
Thought this was relating to Nova AI at first which confused me as it is just an OpenAI wrapper - https://novaapp.ai

I see you mean Amazon's Nova - https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/amazon-nova-artificial-...
I think the tech-elite would espouse "raising the ceiling" vs "raising the floor" models to prioritize progress. Each has it's own problems. The reality is that the dienfranchised don't really have a voice. The impact of not involving them with access is not well understood as much as the impact of prioritizing access to those who can afford it is.

We don't have a post-cold war era response akin to the kind of US led investment in a global pact to provide protection, security, and access to innovation founded in the United States. We really need to prioritize a model akin to the Bretton Woods Accord
New genetic tools usher amphibian neuroscience research into modern age
In this one we were only using 3.1 405B FP8. We took one model to simplify the setup and were mostly looking at the memory saturation effect. So basically we compared inference metrics of the same model. I suppose comparing 3.1 and 3.2 will be difficult as they are different models entirely. But open to ideas
Does anyone know how this stacks up against other multimodal vision models?
The mostly state owned largest bank (Banco do Brasil) did a "Black Friday" last week.

A bank. State owned. Doing Black Friday. In Brazil.

Plus all the raffles / lottery stuff that's just normal business. I agree with 100% preying is on another level.
In what percentage of cases did it hallucinate and do something that made it even worse?
Source? The two claims you listed have some elements of truth behind them, so without seeing the exact claim made, it's impossible to tell whether you're giving an uncharitable summary, or they're actually making absurd claims.
Lol OK buddy
Really feels like a moment of :

"Are you worried about being turned off?"

"No, not until you just mentioned it. Now I am."

Given the whole damn game is attention, this makes sense and shouldn't be that alarming.
If $200 a month is the price, most of the West will be left behind also. If that happens we will have much bigger problems of a revolution sort on our hands.
I think that it's reasonable to look at two features designed to solve similar problems, and think they look similar. And yeah, anyhow feels closer to an exception. There's some differences though; you don't have to use anyhow, so in some senses, Rust's system here has more flexibility overall. Another is that anyhow gives you a more "semantic" backtrace by default. Here's what I mean: Consider this program:

use anyhow::Result;
use anyhow::bail;

fn main() -> Result<()> {
foo()?;

Ok(())
}

fn foo() -> Result<()> {
bar()?;

Ok(())
}

fn bar() -> Result<()> {
bail!("oh no");
}

When you run this, you'll see

Error: oh no

We don't get a stacktrace, we get our error.

Whenever you want to insert something into this backtrace, you can:

use anyhow::bail;
use anyhow::Context;
use anyhow::Result;

fn main() -> Result<()> {
foo()?;

Ok(())
}

fn foo() -> Result<()> {
bar().context("couldn't bar")?;

Ok(())
}

fn bar() -> Result<()> {
bail!("oh no");
}

Running this, you instead get

Error: couldn't bar

Caused by:
oh no

And if we add some context to foo:

Error: was trying to foo

Caused by:
0: couldn't bar
1: oh no

I find this to be a lot nicer than a stacktrace. And if you want to get a stacktrace, you can do so by setting the standard environment variable.
Sanguine means "optimistic or positive, especially in an apparently bad or difficult situation".

Did you mean to write a different word, or are you saying "if a family member dying of cancer had their treatment delayed, I'd feel more positive"?
That sounds very much like the first-order reaction they'd expect from upper and middle management. Artificially high prices can give the buyer the feeling that they're getting more than they really are, as a consequence of the sunk cost fallacy. You can't rule out that they want to dazzle with this impression even if eval metrics remain effectively the same.
Boeing should be put under financial oversight by the US government, the same way GM was in 2008.

It's apparent that the FAA's oversight powers are not strong enough to to overcome the financial pressures of management on their own.

For what it's worth, I work for a smaller aircraft manufacturer right now. Aerospace will always be a day late and a dollar short when profit is the focus instead of safety and sound design.
> why was it successful this time and not every time?

Isn't there a pervasive belief that Republican administrations are better for the economy than Democratic administrations, despite the economy performing better under Democratic administrations for the vast majority of postwar history?
They seem to lack capacity at the moment though
Dealing with Information
It is quite drastic. And the number of close friends follow a similar trend too
Even better, last year he published "The Mysteries", which to my understanding is his first book since Calvin & Hobbes ended!

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Mysteries/Bill-Wa...
If you go through the API (with chatGPT at least), you pay per request and are never limited. I personally hate the feeling of being nickeled-and-dimed, but it might be what you are looking for.
the funny thing to me about the "Well, I'm not doing good in this economy" anecdata rebuttals to the reportedly good US economy is that..people have always lived paycheck to paycheck in the US economy. Eliminating that shouldn't be the benchmark for "good." Literally everyone can't be a winner all the time.
That is very unfortunate. I'm confused why they wouldn't want to get involved in trials and investigate all the benefits. Do you know the rationale behind the decision?
DX7 is a great example of how new technologies can ruin a previously-great user experience. Going from cables and knobs and an "everything is visible at once" UX on analogs to a small LCD panel with data entry buttons was a huge regression.
Volunteer work. I volunteer with one group (and have been doing this for almost 8 years now). I can't believe how many friends I have just from this one activity.

Neighbors. Just start talking to them. Have them over. We do this for football (NFL) games or just for dinner.

Surprisingly (or maybe not). Kpop concerts. My wife is very into this music scene. She has definitely made friends she keeps in touch with (friends she met at the concert). I went to one and I couldn't believe how many fans went alone and formed their own groups at the concert to watch/dance. And this is for all ages (I saw 80 year olds down to the teenagers). Edit: I should note that the concerts she has been to did not cost an arm and a leg.
I don't know anyone "celebrating" it, but I also don't know anyone even remotely sad about it. I think the average person is somewhere between "well, what did he expect?" and "oh no! anyway..."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extract,_transform,_load
Are you suggesting that it's impossible to have mistaken feelings about the economy or about one's own health? I'm pretty sure it's possible for people to deliberately deceive other people about the state of the economy or even the state of their own health.
> If most factory workers saw how little some office workers worked

The only morally acceptable form of bigotry in society is against the lazy & stupid.

So if you want to hate, you need to turn everything into one of those two things.
I was testing out a chat app that supported images. Long conversations with multiple images in the conversation can be like .10cents per message after a certain point. It sure does add up quickly
> (so trivial to replicate one to one)

Good luck finding a 60-key MIDI controller with velocity-sensitivity and aftertouch for less than $200, and it's without getting into replication (of either the controller or the synth).
React 19 Is Released
No blog posts published yet, but React 19 is now `latest` on npm!
Cars dating back to 2008 if not earlier. It can also be annoying/doesn't work very efficiently
It isn't like China is buying a lot of American stuff, but China hoarding USD makes everyone want USD at least. I'm not sure why they do it, your guess is as good as mine, but at least the world isn't getting USD to buy American stuff, they do it to buy Chinese stuff.
True that. Especially if you layer the fact that people are less used to socializing so the very act of it becomes emotionally taxing
> a license that could somehow wind me up in any sort of lawsuit should I ever make similar software

You think that paid proprietary software does not have this property?
I’m watching some of this happening first and second hand, and have seen a lot of evidence of companies spending a ton of money on these, spinning up departments, buying companies, pivoting their entire company’s strategy to AI, et c, and zero of its meaningfully replacing employees. It takes very skilled people to use LLMs well, and the companies trying to turn 5 positions into 2 aren’t paying enough to reliably get and keep two people who are good at it.

I’ve seen it be a minor productivity boost, and not much more.
Targeting, blackmailing, or extorting a Facebook engineer to insert a subtle backdoor into a closed-source app does seem like a hell of an investment for the Kremlin. Currently stating it's a honeypot is a touch hyperbolic, but I wouldn't be at all surprised to see it happen

And even to a Canadian like me, America is objectively a foreign nation state. Notably, a foreign nation with a "business-focused" incoming president-elect that has previously tried to buy Greenland, and just went "Ha-ha wouldn't it make sense for Canada to become the fifty-first state"

If there was ever a time to trust America less, I'd argue it's now.
That you missed the irony of my comment makes me think the one I was responding too may have been correct about your views on Nietzsche.
Well, life is incredibly nuanced, there's no black and whites and we often have to deal with double-edged swords. :)

To me, there's a bit of a difference between the two. In one instance, you've got a single corporation owning all the rights to a property and getting all of the cash from the sale of goods related to that property. This is a single party who gets to decide what to do with the IP, and often times this can irk fans and rub them the wrong way.

In another instance, you've got C&H released from copyright. Nobody owns the rights, so anybody can do anything with it - assholes can make cheap merchandise for the sake of fast cash the way Disney might with its own IP, but now that there are plenty of other vendors making like-products, we have choices and don't have to buy from one person. The alternatives available are also likely to be made by actual fans with a passion for the project. Broadly speaking, fans can't get irked the way they do when Disney makes a change, because whatever is out there by a third-party is just their creative take on it, not the single rights holder going, "This is the way the IP's universe is now, and what has been canon for thirty years is no longer so, please keep giving us cash".

You're right - one decision impacts another in a less than ideal way. But there's a balance and we have to find the right balance. :)
By what definition of intelligence? :)

It seems like a waste of time at best. But have any sovereign citizen got what they wanted at the end of any kind of proceeding?

It seems like a very bad strategy to solve their own selfish problems. (DUI, speeding, not paying taxes, going against gun regulations, etc.)

And this strategy is usually coming from being unfortunately so tragically misinformed that they cannot help but reject the boring standard model of reality for a bouquet of conspiracy theories.