skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting observation: I am in a circumstance where I am transitioning from an Android phone (Samsung Galaxy) to a iPhone. I observed that android phone alerted me about an earthquake and that I should be ready to feel tremors. To my surprise as I was pondering how this system works - especially wrt to latency - where it alerts me head of time, I then fell small tremors in 2 or 3 seconds after the alert. The tremors were very small and I would not have noticed it if it weren’t for the alert. ~10 (may 15 minutes) later, the IPhone gave a tsunami warning which I take it was due to the earthquake.

What I was surprised by is how behind the iPhone was. I expected iPhone to be on par with android in terms of safety alerts.

Anybody know if there is a way to get the early alerts on iPhone like I did on the android phone?

In general my impression of Android is that it’s quite ‘leaky’ and apps can abuse it quite easily and iPhone is more secure. Would love to hear thoughts on this or point me to resources that address this question.
It's the same "useful when we're learning" vs "useful when we're working" dichotomy, isn't it? :) When I want to tell someone about the idea of organizing their documentation into four buckets — or really, just about being conscious about the goals / the intended audience and usage — I really just want to plant a seed to have them open to the idea, i.e. at this point it's “Theoretical knowledge” rather than “Practical steps”. Later if they are persuaded they can go to diataxis.fr and learn more / get the “useful when we’re working” / “application” tools.

[Maybe diataxis.fr itself should be more clearly organized into an overview page (“explanation”), and separate sections for How-to guides and Reference. Right now it has an “Applying Diátaxis” and “Understanding Diátaxis” with a suggestion to start at the former, when in fact what I like most about documentation organized per the philosophy is that I as a reader can choose to start at the “Understanding” pages, instead of reading through tutorials and how-to guides and reference pages when I have not yet chosen to adopt whatever is being documented.]
According to the NPR article about this: "The judge also objected to a requirement that the monitor selection process adhere to the DOJ's diversity and inclusion policy."
So it seems as if the judge doesn't like something the DOJ routinely has, because the judge is saying the court should have a large part in deciding who the overseers are.
The judge brought up DEI. Neither of the parties seem to have, besides what seems to be a standing policy.
https://www.npr.org/2024/12/05/nx-s1-5217960/court-rejects-b...
I agree with you, it would be very odd (even as someone who is generally pro DEI) to include it in this provision.
Crazy pricing. $50-$75/month and we can talk.
Until then I'll keep using alternatives.
Everyone rants about the price, but if you’re handling large numbers of documents for classification or translations $200/month for unlimited use seems like a bargain.
Just start.

I don’t get how people get so paralyzed of making the most optimal decisions all the time that they end up doing nothing or procrastinating by convincing themselves they need to learn some other basic framework instead.
Precisely - DBs are the LAST thing I want to have to deal with swapping every 3 years.
I noticed that certain browsers started auto converting a double hyphen to an emdash as I type, no LLM needed, I think that’s just a timing coincidence
The marketing dollars spent by the care assistant service is additional GDP.

Using GDP to measure the health or rank of a company is like rating writers by the number of words they produce.
I have had lunch there, can confirm. Though I think the best food in the harbor is at Noyo Harbor Inn. The Wharf was pretty good for an old-school seafood restaurant.
There are a handful of good restaurants (e.g. Sea Pal Cove) and a nice off-leash beach beach there despite it being a very sleepy corner of the small city.
HTMX is certainly easier, but it's the worse if you want to actually learn FE
Presumably, but this is near the focal point of the earthquake, and surge should have arrived 8 minutes ago as I write this. No indication of any water level change. I think this was a false positive.
Your kid is awesome and, even with help from adults, this is an impressive accomplishment.
It has been bad for not having access to a device for at least 20 years. I can’t imagine anyone doing well in their studies with a search engine.
Do -1, 0 and 1 all occur with the same frequency in typical large language models or would there be a benefit in encoding 0 with 0 and -1 and 1 with respectively 10 and 11? (or something even more complex)

Edit: probably not when easy retrieval is needed.
I've got unlimited "advanced voice" with Perplexity for $10/mo. You're defining a bargain based on the arbitrary limits set by the company offering you said bargain.
The boundaries on this look very odd to me. I wonder what kind of model and terrain resolution they use for this forecast.

It seems very odd how some quite low lying shore areas in the SF Bay are excluded while other areas are painted over very high elevations including the SF peninsula and Oakland/Berkeley hills.
Which ChatGPT model have you been using? In my experience nothing beats 4. (Not claude, not 4o)
Could you be a bit clearer about what you're talking about here? This is like a vague hint, and I can't tell what you're actually trying to say.
Nothing generates more clicks and attention in press than a scary "OpenAI so powerful it's taking control" story.

Also, it doesn't help that the training material for these AIs includes a lot of stories about AI breaking free, so they have plenty of canned "I'm afraid I can't let you do that" responses to choose from.
My european wife (watching some US show) just asked me "what is it with Americans and their boxes*?" After determining the context of the question (being escorted out of the building with your personal items in a box) I attempted to explain At Will Employment...

* last time it was the red plastic cups, before that it was "being proud", etc. etc.
Untangling the "Male Loneliness Epidemic"
I can think of one reason, and it is that Boeing was accused of loosening hiring requirements because of their DEI policies. I do not believe this is the case for this ruling, and there is no evidence that Boeing changed hiring or training standards due to DEI policies.
You can change the leadership to someone who is amenable to a quick concession as opposed to a drawn out legal fight. But can you destroy the desire for profit?
They should test year round so they can drive year round.
Watterson is motivated by integrity, I have no doubt of that.

But Disney is also motivated --at least partly-- by integrity. Yes, they want to control profits, clearly. But I have no doubts they want to preserve the integrity of their character also.

> the creations of others

Others? Even after Walt's death, Mickey Mouse has been overseen by a continuous line of people who care about the character's integrity.
Wouldn’t mind that’s for sure
some great camera resources up and down the coast here - https://cameras.alertcalifornia.org/?pos=38.9615_-123.6676_8...
I’m pretty sure my original comment was referring to a YouTube video I saw of physically modelling a piano on the Montage. Can’t find the video now though :(

… but if you’re into modelling… man, I’m hankering for an Erica Synth Steampipe! Just found out about them yesterday. Dear Santa…
It strikes me as hilarious that we want a space station flying around the Moon when we can't even contrive excuses to keep one flying here around Earth.

All that money can be spent on much better things.
This is exactly a Succinct Data Structure. The solution proposed by the author doesn't allow random access; that is, you can't access a specific A[i] unless you unpack all of them. There is some research (e.g., [1]) allowing random access within reasonable time with slightly more storage, although it is almost entirely of theoretical interest.

[1]: Mihai Patrascu, Succincter, FOCS 2008 best student paper.
What, you don't believe white people were rolling around in chairs in the 1600s? lol.
Funnily enough Perplexity does this sometimes, but I give it the benefit of the doubt because it pulls back when you challenge it.

- I asked perplexity how to do something in terraform once. It hallucinated the entire thing and when I asked where it sourced it from it scolded me, saying that asking for a source is used as a diversionary tactic - as if it was trained on discussions on reddit's most controversial subs. So I told it...it just invented code on the spot, surely it got it from somewhere? Why so combative? Its response was "there is no source, this is just how I imagined it would work."

- Later I asked how to bypass a particular linter rule because I couldn't reasonably rewrite half of my stack to satisfy it in one PR. Perplexity assumed the role of a chronically online stack overflow contributor and refused to answer until I said "I don't care about the security, I just want to know if I can do it."

Not so much related to ads but the models are already designed to push back on requests they don't immediately like, and they already completely fabricate responses to try and satisfy the user.

God forbid you don't have the experience or intuition to tell when something is wrong when it's delivered with full-throated confidence.
ShellSage – Your AI Bash Buddy
Couldn't disagree more, I will be signing up for this as soon as I can, and it's a complete no brainer.
Find third party benchmarks of the relevant models and then this discussion is worth having. Otherwise, it's just speculation.
https://archive.ph/aJxp0
Likewise. Stopped in on a whim, and was pleasantly surprised. Delightful little area in that harbor, and the food was better than expected. I appreciate the surprise nostalgia from this webcam. :)
Does nobody really justify it? The argument for inflation is pretty simple I think. It encourages everyone to do something with their money now, invest or spend.
The math is never this clean, and no one has ever experienced this (though I'm sure its a justification that was floated at OAI HQ at least once).
the first 10 grants = $2000/mo? Seems a bit, odd to even mention
> It’s really hard to read this as anything other than a desperate attempt to pretend the ai is more capable than it really is.

Tale as old as time, they've been doing this since GPT-2 which they said was "too dangerous to release".
This is the biggest earthquake in California since when?
typically, yes. Tsunamis are usually unnoticeable away from the shore. They aren't like a massive, traveling, cresting wave. They are usually a pulse of high energy that can move a lot of water just a few feet, which can be devastating when it reaches the shore because it is relentless as it moves up to that height.
Small discussion (20 points, 2 days ago, 13 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42305604
Sounds like it could have just been a quirk. I've had a couple of iPhone earthquake alerts around 0-2 seconds before feeling it, so it's definitely not a general problem with iPhones. I've also had many more of the AMBER alerts and test broadcast alerts where everyone in the room receives them at the same instant regardless of phone manufacturer.
I'll second that recommendation. It's relatively short and enjoyable, at least when compared to a lot of Peter Watts.[1] I'd really like to read the obvious sequel that the ending sets up.

1: Don't get me wrong, I loved the Behemoth series and Blindsight, but they made me feel very dark. This one... is still a bit dark, but less so IMO.
I should have hit Fort Bragg by now but I'm not seeing that on https://www.noyocenter.org/live-web-cam

The earthquake was real but it is probably really hard to predict if that leads to a tsunami.
The rest of react still works. It’s not like it’s a primary entry point or required. Looks like an advanced feature.
PRs are welcome to add the new release (and merge all the 18 minor releases).
> In other words, it's a con. I'm a paying Perplexity user

I love this back-to-back pair of statements. It is like “You can never win three card monte. I pay a monthly subscription fee to play it.”
Is a "reasoning" model really different? Or is it just clever prompting (and feeding previous outputs) for an existing model? Possibly with some RLHF reasoning examples?

OpenAI doesn't have a large enough database of reasoning texts to train a foundational LLM off it? I thought such a db simply does not exist as humans don't really write enough texts like this.
That's it? "Tsunami Warning", no context? no advice on what to do to avoid panic?
FYI, this POSIWID concept has been heavily thought about, researched, reasoned, etc. within the cybernetics (or whatever you want to call it) community.

I am not going to do it justice, but the bottom line is that systems get complex very very fast (n! factorial complexity). Cyberniticians (or Stafford Beer at least) reason that we should just treat these systems as black boxes (and examine their inputs / outputs) as any attempt to explain or rationalize the inner working of the system itself (as you are trying to do) will never go well (again because of the complexity).
> so I kept giving the model the output, and it provided updated formulas back and forth for 4.5hrs

I read this as: "I have already ceded my expertise to an LLM, so I am happy that it is getting faster because now I can pay more money to be even more stuck using an LLM"

Maybe the alternative to going back and forth with an AI for 4.5 hours is working smarter and using tools you're an expert in. Or building expertise in the tool you are using. Or, if you're not an expert or can't become an expert in these tools, then it's hard to claim your time is worth $100/hr for this task.
You're assuming it must be one OR the other. Why can't it be both? If you're rewarded for your good decisions, it seems normal to also be punished for the bad ones, in a proportional manner.
The Verge's Vergecast podcast did a pretty in-depth story in the second half of an episode about this that was fascinating [0]

tldl: I do think the recommendation was installing the official ShakeAlert app

[0] https://podcasts.apple.com/mu/podcast/two-possible-futures-f...
I'm already an avid cyclist throughout the year, but there's a real drop in the number of people cycling during the winter months. If we can get people in AVs I think this will be a real positive for cyclist for the following reasons:

1. Reduced curb space dedicated to parking. If you don't need to come back to the same vehicle you only need space to be picked up/dropped off, reducing the amount of parking spaces needed. This space could be used for separated bike lanes.
2. Safer - This is still an unknown but data looks good atm [1]. It would be even better if AVs could be design to prevent cyclists being doored that would be amazing.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/12/human-drivers-crash-a-l...
care to cite some examples of deflation quickly destroying an economy? there are many such examples for inflation. Argentina, Germany, Zimbabwe, Greece

there is deflation that comes from shrinking of the monetary base
and there is deflation that arises out of productivity gains

often the "deflation" observed in bad economies is a symptom rather than the cause E.g. there were a few months of official deflation in the US following the global financial crisis, but this followed from the crash rather than caused it.
OpenAI has specifically said LLM’s aren’t a path to AGI, though they think they have utility in understanding how society can and should interact with a potential AGI, especially from a policy perspective.

Your other examples are giant companies with many focus who can trivially pay lip service to fundamental research without spending any particular effort. Take your link:

“Benioff outlined four waves of enterprise AI, the first two of which are currently real, available, and shipping:

Predictive
Generative
Autonomous and agents
Artificial general intelligence”

That’s a long term mission statement not actual effort into AGI. So if you’re backing down from actual work to “trying to get to AGI” to include such aspirational statements then sure, I’m also working on AGI and immortality.
Is discussing React vs. HTMX like comparing apples to oranges?
How does one livestream a nest camera feed?
Bit-serial but multi-conductor cable. The 6 pairs, ground and if I count correctly two single-ended status lines make more sense than 30-pair Cisco serial cables or 34-pair HSSI of the 90's…
They are just feeding the sausage back into the machine over and over until it is more refined.
it's literally the cost of a cup per coffee per day
they're not my fellow city dwellers. they've turned their back on city life, live 15-30miles away, rarely if ever visit. it's just an administrative, historical quirk that they have a claim on the city and local politics. other cities have different administrative boundaries, that hug the city proper much closer. Those cities have much better urban amenities (traffic calming, light rail, bikelanes, ...) than mine, because they don't have people who loathe city life have a voice in city matters.
There is a difference between "working on your car" as a hobby versus "working on your car" out of necessity because you need a working vehicle to get to work, get groceries, etc

Working on a car as a hobby is generally expensive, buying nice parts and building something awesome to drive. Maybe drive on a track, even.

Poor people working on a car are usually doing it out of necessity to keep it running.

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

I mostly disagree. Yes, financial literacy is a problem, but most poor people are poor because necessities like rent, groceries, a vehicle, insurance, etc are all expensive and they do not have in-demand skills to earn significantly more income than their expenses

"People are generally poor because they were never taught how to manage money" is an attitude that goes hand in hand with statements like "If people just stopped buying their daily coffee they wouldn't be poor"

But actually poor people can't afford a daily coffee in the first place
Not how many other HNners live in Humboldt County, but that was certainly the most intense earthquake I've ever felt. Thankfully we are inland with modern(ish) construction.
Am I missing the o1 release? It's being talked about as if it was available, but I don't see it anywhere, neither API nor ChatGPT Plus.
Any AI product sold for a price that's affordable on a third-world salary is being heavily subsidized. These models are insanely expensive to train, guzzle electricity to the point that tech companies are investing in their own power plants to keep them running, and are developed by highly sought-after engineers being paid millions of dollars a year. $20/month was always bound to be an intro offer unless they figured out some way to reduce the cost of running the model by an order of magnitude.
The idea of giving grants is great but feels like it would be better to give grants to less well funded labs or people. All of these labs can already afford to use Pro mode if they want to - it adds up to about the price of a new laptop every year.
It can't get too expensive otherwise it's cheaper to just rent some GPUs and run an open source model yourself. China's already got some open source reasoning models that are competitive with o1 at reasoning on many benchmarks.
I have an android (pixel 7), and I got not alert for earthquake or tsunami. IOS users around me got alerted for the magnitude 7, not entirely sure about the tsunami
SF drivers are pretty okay as far as my experiences go. Unless it rains, if it is raining then they'll act like this is the first time they have driven in the rain. Seattle-Tacoma area was the worst. I have never seen so many people drive with so little attention paid to their surroundings.
To be honest, I am less worried about the $200 per month price tag per se. I am more worried about the capability of o1 pro mode being only a slight incremental improvement.
I feel like a single bad answer at the wrong time could cost a heck of a lot more than $200. And these LLMs are riddled with bad answers.
Code embedding model with Matryoshka learning and quantization-aware training
> I feel sorry though for someone getting into frontend dev now.

Yeah. For the last decade or so frontend has felt like standing on shifting sands.

In part it's the ecosystem and entangled deps but also because JS frameworks are really still figuring it out. A couple of years ago I was hoping we'd reach some sort of stable plateau but it just keeps going...

"the DOM is slow we need a VDOM!"

"the VDOM wasn't such a good idea... signals with fine-grained reactivity is really the solution for DOM udpates!"

"oh wait but we now need a compiler!"

"oh wait there's too much JS now... we better move stuff to the server and do SSR with full page hydration!"

"maybe full page hydration wasn't such a good idea... we now need islands!"

Etc.

Don't get me wrong, each of these steps makes total sense. But we're getting into this uber complex solution that involves so much stuff across the whole stack... and it's not even clear to me that running JS in our servers was such a good idea to begin with.
Chocolate intake and risk of type 2 diabetes: prospective cohort studies
Maybe someone at OAI should have considered the optics of leading the "12 days of product releases" with this, then.
Planning and Learning are toxic to each other -

As you learn, the scope of the plan must change.

As you plan, you reduce the scope of what you may learn.

Example: We are migrating legacy code to new hosting with a small change. The plan is straightforward and simple. As we progress through migration we learn about unsupported dependencies and bad code practices in the legacy code, so we have to replan.

Previous comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41183984

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Bottom line:

If you don't address budget when you talk about planning, you are missing the biggest problem.
I’d like to see more evidence that it’s a scam than just your feelings. Any data there?

I certainly don’t see why mere prediction can’t validate reasoning. Sure, it can’t do it perfectly all the time, but neither can people.
Discussion (30 points, 9 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42331207