skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Those layers were still designed to serve a purpose - largely keeping warm

Yes and no.

Something that people often take for granted is doing laundry. The invention of the automatic clothes washer and dryer changed things dramatically.

Before automation, laundry day for a household of 4 was a huge, laborious, and often multi-day task.

Not only did garments need to be washed by hand, but there was a lot of attention to how to clean certain types of garments and fabrics effectively. A woman's summer dress with grass stains on the bottom hems, for example, needed different treatment than a man's 3 piece grey suit (which, by the way, were constructed very differently than they are today).

Since you needed your stove-top to heat water, most laundry was done in the kitchen which meant that you also needed to plan in advance what your family was going to eat that day and have things prepared.

I own a recreation Edwardian era 3 piece suit. It has no zippers and it is unlined (I recently wore this to a funeral here in Canada and it was COLD despite the layers that I was wearing).

The reason that the suit is unlined is because, as you say, it was common at the time to wear layers. So the thing is shockingly breathable and light compared to a modern, lined formal suit (which is also made out of different suiting wool so the texture is different too, an Edwardian suit "feels" less formal than a modern suit).

But the reason people wore those layers was not always necessarily to stay warm. In fact, the layers were worn in the summer in hot climates as well as during winter in cold climates.

Today people often assume that full body undergarments were born out of a prudish sense of modesty (a la "magic Mormon underwear"). This is a myth. The reality is that they:

a) kept the outer garment clean for longer by avoiding direct contact with the skin (and thus sweat etc.) and

b) they gave everyone in the family roughly the same general style of undergarment (in terms of colour and fabric) so that you could batch-wash what needs to be washed most often all together in a single pot on the stove

Here's a good YouTube video that really puts into perspective why laundry was so different pre-automation, and it was one major factor (though not the only one) that informed how people dressed:

https://youtu.be/88Wv0xZBSTI?si=c-YEogtMyy8pAFlA
First Tsunami Warning in Oregon in Years
Google maps has this neat map : https://www.google.com/maps/@40.4392216,-123.0674806,6z/data...
https://archive.ph/anChk
You make no sense at all.
here's what really matters: https://endoflife.date/react
Not to mention tips. I feel an obligation to tip drivers, in part because I know the economics of their job is rough. I don't tip robots.
Estimated tsunami start times for selected sites are;

Fort Bragg California 1110 AM.PST. December 5.

Crescent City California 1120 AM.PST. December 5.

Port Orford Oregon 1120 AM.PST. December 5.

Brookings Oregon 1125 AM.PST. December 5.

Charleston Oregon 1140 AM.PST. December 5.

San Francisco California 1210 PM.PST. December 5.
$200 a month is potentially a bargain since it comes with unlimited advanced voice. Via the API, $200 used to only get you 14 hours of advanced voice.
The difference between a person and a bot is that a person has a stake in the outcome. A bot is like a person who's already put in their two weeks notice and doesn't have to be there to see the outcome of their work.
Keeping books you wrote is not "hoarding" by any but the most insane standards.
Awesome release.

I feel sorry though for someone getting into frontend dev now.

> is a new hook to order Actions inside of a Transition with access to the state of the action, and the pending state. It accepts a reducer that can call Actions, and the initial state used for first render. It also accepts an optional string that is used if the action is passed to a form action prop to support progressive enhancement in forms.

I’m pretty sure it’s a cool feature but, what a mouthful. Imagine you decided to start developing websites today, how do you even start?

EDIT: React is still an exceptional framework and this release is certainly an improvement.

My criticism is more FE development in general not just React.
Hopefully if vigilante murders come for LLM creators or tech automation firms, our industry will have its long-postponed "are we the baddies?" moment.
The SF bay and Santa Cruz are on the south end of the effected area. On past occasions like this, waves have washed over low beaches and lagoons, but not come remotely close to overtopping the coastal terrace cliffs.
> You get the idea. From São Paulo to Riga to Seoul, people in the 2020s pretty much dress the same way.

This is incorrect. Even within the US there are differences between cities, people in Miami dress differently than people in Seattle.

People in Tokyo dress different than in LA, and people in London dress differently than in Mexico City.

Is there a rich tapestry of local clothes? Well, no, but people also don't dress the same by any means.

There is a lot of homogenization for sure, but people who travel a lot and pay even a little bit of attention can easily spot the differences between cities.
> LLM should be about helping customer support people find answers faster

That would be as dangerous as any other function: you still need personnel verified as trustworthy in processing unreliable input.
I didn't get that impression. At the beginning of the Apollo Research section, they wrote Apollo focused on detecting scheming, which they defined as "an AI covertly pursuing goals that are misaligned from its developers or users." I think the rest of the section is consistent with this objective.
I did a year of landscaping and did 6ish years at grocery stores. Those jobs are 100% less stress and much more enjoyable imo. If they paid the same I would switch in a heartbeat.

When you get to the Senior+ level in software, the buck often stops with you, and if you can't figure something out it can be a big ego hit. I never woke up or went to sleep wondering if I would be able to do landscaping or stock shelves the next day, but I often fall asleep stressed about how to architect something at work.

Ownership of problems is worth a lot of money, thats why CEOs get paid so much. In most other jobs you can blame a chain of managers and processes, but with engineering if you fail the blame falls straight on you.
I wish the second paragraph was the launch announcement
Please do explain how any of that follows from what I said. It's perfectly fine to export a limited resource like labor as long as you're trading for something of equal value.

Besides, you think India is doing great? China - now boasting an economy more than twice that of India's - absolutely lapped them despite India having a head-start in the 1950s. So if I was to respond to your bad-faith argument, that response would be that India should've adopted the Chinese model, not go back to "being a cluster of low-tech poor third-world villages". But all this is only weakly related to the point I was making with many other factors at play, so I don't even want to put that forward as a rebuke. We're completely off the rails here.
> 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.

How does this apply to Techdirt? Tim Cushing has been a staff writer at techdirt for 12 years and works heavily on a legal, civil liberties/policy beat with a tech perspective. By your criteria, he should be a perfect example of journalists who have enough knowledge to effectively write for laypeople.
A Shift in Development Environment
Are you talking about

>Standers are more likely to be exposed to the outdoors—something that will become more and more dangerous as our planet warms.

and

>America got rich selling cotton picked by enslaved Black people. America built the Transcontinental Railroad with Chinese immigrant labor, only to ban Chinese immigration a few decades later. And America feeds itself with animals killed and processed by Black and Hispanic meatpackers.

? If so, I'm not sure how either of those points are "barely coherent", and the characterization made by the gp is a gross misrepresentation of site's claims.
In general, in order to a store a thing with N values you need log_2(N) bits of information. This is actually really simple to see if N is a power of two. If you have four things, how many yes/no questions do you need to exactly determine one of the four things? The answer is two (divide the four into two groups of two, ask which group the object is in. Then, when you have that group, split into two groups of one, and ask the next question)[1].

So, for powers of two, it's obviously log_2(N).

Now we just extrapolate. For three things, on average, you need to ask log_2(3) questions. Sometimes you ask just one, sometimes you must ask two (depending on where you split the group). Either way, the formula is the same.

log(3)/log(2) is just a way of writing log_2(3) (since the value of log3/log2 is the same regardless of which base the log is in).

Note that two isn't special. It's only because we've limited ourselves to 'how many yes/no/questions'. If you wanted to know how many multiple choice questions of 3 responses would you need to exactly determine which object of a set of 4, the answer is log_3(4).

[1] You can think of any byte, word, double word, quad word as simply a path in a binary tree of all numbers in the range 0..2^N-1 (where N is bit width). The path uniquely identifies the number.
Scheming reasoning evaluations – o1 results
It sounds like a setup where applicants hire some third-party company to perhaps "represent the client" in the interview and that company hired a bunch of people to be the interviewee on their clients behalf. Presumably also neither the company nor the applicant disclose this arrangement to the hiring manager.
I'm really curious to see how this pricing plays out. I constantly hear on Twitter how certain influencers would be more than willing to pay more than $20/month for unlimited access to the best models from OpenAI / Anthropic. Well, now here's a $200/month unlimited plan. Is it worth that much and to how many people?
There's nothing wrong with the vanity of choosing a fanny pack over pockets or another bag these days. I support your fashion choice. Especially if you prefer your fashion to be functional. I do, too!
Nothing would please me more than to see that, along with the so-called Lunar Gateway. SLS only exists as a tribute to the Alabama congressional delegation’s success at crushing NASA in-orbit refueling studies.
How do Tsunami Warnings work?

For a Midwesterner a Tornado Warning requires someone to see it, or be be detected by radar. It's usually a good indicator that it is highly likely that the tornado exists and it is actively doing its thing somewhere. Warnings are pretty specific and almost always involve the thing happening.

Tsunami though, would it have to exist as far as seeing it on the coast, or is this more of a "conditions are ripe" kind of event?

I wonder if the Tsunami situation with all the under water variables is a lot more unknown?
Is it like.. still safe to be driving on 101/280 during this?
> Estimated tsunami start times for selected sites are;

Fort Bragg California 1110 AM.PST. December 5.

Crescent City California 1120 AM.PST. December 5.

Port Orford Oregon 1120 AM.PST. December 5.

Brookings Oregon 1125 AM.PST. December 5.

Charleston Oregon 1140 AM.PST. December 5.

San Francisco California 1210 PM.PST. December 5.

The tsunami warning will remain in effect until further notice.
Refer to the internet site tsunami.gov for more information.
> Come on, not with killing the parents, that's not that close to the human experience of reproduction.

Childbirth used to be one of the key killers of women.

(Also, depends on the kids...)

> And what would the anti-vax position here be?

Our ancestors didn't get eaten by xenomorphs, you'll be fine!
This webcam should let us know in a few minutes if this is real: https://www.pacificblue.biz/noyo-harbor-webcam/

Edit: arrival time has come and gone. No indication of movement in water level.
i believe they have monitoring deep ocean buoys
Intelligent people will know they made a mistake, if given a hint and figure out what went wrong.

A LLM will just pretend to care about the error and happily repeats the error over and over.
No lessons will be learned, but it’ll provide for some sweet, if unpleasant, contract gigs.
> they may argue more peacefully

bit of a stretch.
It is all 100% automatic based on earthquake data.
How is this a counter argument that LLMs are marketed as having intelligence when it’s more accurate to think of them as predictive models? The fact that humans are also flawed isn’t super relevant to a $200/month LLM purchasing decision.
They do "win" sometimes. The rational person just pays the ticket. The sovcit demands a jury trial and, rarely, gets a win when a deal is offered or a witness fails to show. And often just having the proceeding is the win. They get off on being the center of attention. Defending themselves in court is the one time all the important people have to listen to them. They enjoy it.
This is really cool! I like the name, too. Of all the things you've implemented for this, what has been the most difficult part? And have you hit any serious roadblocks along the way?
The company this guy controlled made money specifically by murdering people, by denying them needed medical care. It wasn't just any company, and it wasn't just any employee. And honestly, I'd be fine with it if some Rohingya guy smoked Zuckerberg.
Yeah, most people suck at verifying truth and reasoning. But most information technology employees, above intern level, are highly capable of reasoning and making decisions in their area of expertise.

Try asking an LLM complex questions in your area of expertise. Interview it as if you needed to be confident that it could do your job. You'll quickly find out that it can't do your job, and isn't actually capable of reasoning.
On a full keyboard it’s not too bad—just hold alt and tap 0151 on the numpad. Honestly I wish it was harder to type for stylistic reasons—it would help cure me of my em-dash addiction
Are drug expiration dates meaningless?
I think from this fine print there will be a quota with o1 pro:

> This plan includes unlimited access to our smartest model, OpenAI o1, as well as to o1-mini, GPT-4o, and Advanced Voice. It also includes o1 pro mode,
I fully agree. We need to adopt the same mindset they have in maritime tradition: the buck stops at the captain. If you're in charge you're responsible for the misdeeds of the people working for you. It does not matter that you did not explicitly order the bad thing or that someone took an initiative without your knowledge. At that level of pay/power/responsibility, "It was not me"/"I did not know" are NOT acceptable defenses.

As the CEO you're in a unique position to ask for more controls, more safety, more audit. So unless you went above and beyond and things were truly out of your control, then yes, you should be held responsible when disaster strikes. If you think this is too much risk, then you're free to walk from the job (and the 8 figures pay package).
I am no expert, but I believe they are triggered anytime there is an underwater earthquake. Often these still do not produce any tsunami, but they are issued out of an abundance of caution, there isnt generally a way to see if there really is or isnt until it actually shows up on the coast
> $200 a month for this is insane

Losing $5-10b per year also is insane. People are still looking for the added value, it's been 2 whole years now
True, we did get along fine without them, but at the cost of injury, death, and property damage. "Backover crashes" cause hundreds of deaths in the US each year.

https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/documents/13237-...

Add the backup camera to the improved restraints, the collision warning system, the blind-spot monitor . . . and soon you're talking about some real money.

One can argue about whether this is good or bad, but they're not really luxury toys.
So how, instead of with clothing, do subcultures express themselves now? By choice of memes? Which fanfic they read? Do people wear boring clothes but pick subculture-signifying avatars?

EDIT: Looks like goths are still a thing? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zjg1P_2IPOQ
Minor point, but the web site (under "Origin time:") displays a time stamp in local time (local to the web browser viewing the page), but doesn't tell the user that's what it's doing. imho very confusing.

Edit. Noticed it says in small print lower down the page: "Note: Times are local to your browser, unless otherwise indicated" so either I missed that before, or someone on this thread fixed it...
Maybe not with react
Criminal negligence that results in death is..... Get ready for this...

Negligent Homicide.
The AI We Deserve
I haven't used ChatGPT in a few weeks now. I still maintain subscriptions to both ChatGPT and Claude, but I'm very close to dropping ChatGPT entirely. The only useful thing it provides over Claude is a decent mobile voice mode and web search.
My new internet is in his 3rd day in the job and he's still behind o1-preview with less than 25 prompts.
280 is for sure safe.
Boeing's decisions were ultimately not a matter of the dubious leaders or the MD acquisition. They were a matter of the preferences of the owners, which is to say they expressed the preferences of Wall Street investors and the preferences are "provide a steady stream of revenues by cutting costs and gutting the company if necessary (subcontract nearly everything out, make the workforce disposable, etc)". You can see this in the decision of California's PG&E to give the money needed to maintain lines to their shareholder as a dividend. Overall, the process dispossesses the employees and mortgages the future of the enterprise.

To change this, you'd have to have a different source of funding for these enterprises at the least.
One of my son's best investments was his buying the Complete Calvin & Hobbes.

He also got the Complete Far Side and Bloom County as well. Both our teenagers have read them both.

It's funny hearing them know how Bill the Cat's brain was switched (?) into Donald Trumps brain. Ack-thpptt!

I only read them in the newspaper and in a couple of treasuries, but never completely, as our kids have.

What a remarkable blessing for them to be able to read those strips beginning-to-end.
Weird, but this makes me thing X86-64 might actually be better?

It isn't mentioned anywhere in __this__ article, but the power draw of that chip is 276W. I got this from Phoronix [1]:

> The AmpereOne A192-32X boasts 192 AmpereOne cores, a 3.2GHz clock frequency, a rated 276 Watt usage power

Which is interesting because it's almost half of AMD's 192-core offering [2].

Why is this interesting? the AMD offering draws a little less than double the wattage but has hyper-threading (!!!) meaning you get 384 threads... So this means that AMD is essentially on par with ARM cpus (at least with Ampere's ARM cpus) in terms of power efficiency... Maybe a little better.

I'd be more inclined to think that AMD is the king/queen of power efficiency in the datacenter rather than ARM/Ampere [3].

notes:

[1]: https://www.phoronix.com/review/ampereone-a192-32x

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-NbCPEgP1A

[3]: regarding Graviton/Axiom or "alleged" server-class apple silicon... Their power draw is essentially irrelevant as they're all claim that cannot be tested and evaluated independently, so they don't count in my opinion.
Discussion (57 points, 15 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42331326
I'll give you the phone thing.

You said:
> And yes, people may genuinely prefer to watch videos about working on cars rather than reading a book, when they would really rather be working on their own car but can't afford to

And then said:
> 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

These seem at odds with each other.

People are generally poor because they were never taught how to manage money, not because they don't have any.

I'm not trying to argue with you in the sense that one of us absolutely right and the other is not, I just can't see it.
FondationDB is such an incredible resource, but it’s so hard to access for the general public. It’s no wonder so few people know about it. I’ve always thought that if there were easier ways to interact with it, or some dev-friendly layers built on top (or public) it would become way more popular. it has shown how well it scales with Apple and snowflake, but is not an obvious choice for non-internet scale applications.

If you don't know about FDB; there's an amazing video about how they test it that really got me into learning more:

https://youtu.be/4fFDFbi3toc?si=9g3hZogBq3Ou25xZ
Stay safe people.
Discussion (62 points, 18 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42331326
FORECASTS OF TSUNAMI ACTIVITY
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* Tsunami activity is forecasted to start at the following
locations at the specified times.

FORECAST
START
SITE OF TSUNAMI
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* California
Fort Bragg 1110 PST Dec 5
Crescent City 1120 PST Dec 5
San Francisco 1210 PST Dec 5

* Oregon
Port Orford 1120 PST Dec 5
Brookings 1125 PST Dec 5
Charleston 1140 PST Dec 5

via https://www.tsunami.gov/events/PAAQ/2024/12/05/so1aq0/1/WEAK...
Is compute that expensive? An H100 rents at about $2.50/hour, it's 80 hours of pure compute. Assuming 720 hours a month, 1/9 duty cycle around the clock, or 1/3 if we assume 8-hour work day. It's really intense, constant use. And I bet OpenAI spend less on operating their infra than the rate at which cloud providers rent it out.
I mean this in what I hope will be taken in the most helpful way possible: you should update your thinking to at least imagine that intelligent thoughtful people see some value in ChatGPT. Or alternately that some of the people who see value in ChatGPT are intelligent and thoughtful. That is, aim for the more intelligent "Interesting, why do so many people like this? Where is it headed? Given that, what is worth doing now, and what's worth waiting on?" over the "This doesn't meet my standards in my domain, ergo people are getting scammed."

I'll pay $200 a month, no problem; right now o1-preview does the work for me of a ... somewhat distracted graduate student who needs checking, all for under $1 / day. It's slow for an LLM, but SUPER FAST for a grad student. If I can get a more rarely distracted graduate student that's better at coding for $7/day, well, that's worth a try. I can always cancel.
> can kill any profit margins for the product as a whole.

Especially when the base line profit margin is negative to begin with
We've leveraged Diataxis heavily for Hamilton and Burr documentation:

- https://hamilton.dagworks.io

- https://burr.dagworks.io

It's not always the easiest to follow (we often have disagreements about whether something is a tutorial or a how-to), but it's a really valuable framing and I think our docs have gotten better because of it.
you'll be throttled and rate limited
I take your point but keeping an app current enough to maintain the ability to hire, is hardest in this area. Not like SQL or C for example. Knowing that can be useful for decades. You build knowledge that persists - experience is a good thing. I can’t tell you the front end stuff I’ve not used in a long time because the list is very long. Much of that knowledge isn’t useful and the code has long changed. I can get involved but I’m not as interested.

It’s like in a war when the new guy shows up. Don’t get too friendly; he’s probably not going to make it.
You double the number of document types. But if it helps, it helps.