skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
C++20 is still fairly new. There are places where C++98 is still in use as c++11 is considered too cutting edge.
If you do a lot of work in an area that o1 is strong in - $200/month effectively rounds down to $0 - and a single good answer at the right time could justify that entire $200 in a single go.
If i'm happy to pay 20 in retirement just for the odd bit of writing help, then i can easily imagine it being worth 200 to someone with a job
We can only expect so much from the children in sweatshops making our clothing. When you replace skilled craftsmen and guilds with children and slaves you should expect products to be less fancy.
Obligatory reminder that Mozilla Foundation does not develop Firefox. (That's a different layoff.)
Why not host offshore in a non dmca jurisdiction?
Appears to be due to this M7.0 earthquake off the coast of California near Eureka, CA:

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000nw7b...

(early estimates of magnitude tend to vary; looks like magnitude estimates are currently ranging from 6.0 to 7.3)
AWS’ Route 53 API is awful. I wrote a Python CLI app around it that is very intuitive for simple DNS tasks like managing RR’s and scheduling with cron to DIY dynamic DNS:

https://github.com/ericfitz/r53
implement DIY
What are people legitimately worried about LLMs doing by themselves? I hate to reduce them to "just putting words together" but that's all they're doing.

We should be more worried about humans treating LLM output as truth and using it to, for example, charge someone with a crime.
A living artist exercising creative control is different from an immortal corporation repeatedly lobbying governments to extend copyright beyond an artist's lifetime.
Cool to see that Google Docs gives me this warning too https://imgur.com/a/B6qSboV
Does it give unlimited API access though?
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My tip: you start by avoiding React altogether.

It sounds bad, but if you can, do oldschool SSR with HTMX or the like.

It's sooooo much better. I was paid to develop frontends in React for 4 years, I wrote my first website in 2005... I am currently migrating one client project from React to HMTX and it's sooooooooo incredibly much better.

There are less bugs, less footguns with wrongly applied hooks...

If you need to do CSR, use Solid or Vue, but don't do React.

If you have no say in it: good luck!
Wish I got paid openAI money to produce such fan fiction :(
Maybe but Russia is not exactly short on natural resources and does seem like it could do with more manpower which it's depleting both through war deaths and young people leaving.

Also the war is apparently costing ~500m-1bn per day and looks like dragging on into another Afghanistan like situation.

I think the thing started a bit because Putin was reading 19th century books on invasions and similar during covid lockdown and imperial invasion used to kind of make sense back then - I'm a Brit and we had quite an empire. But now when the economy is dominated by tech I'm not sure it pays.
This is a good point, but at the same time GDP correlates with many metrics of national wellbeing. The USA isn’t the destination of choice for migrants for no razón
Definitely doesn't replace databases, at least LLMs as they currently are. We're going to be stuck with relational algebra for a long time to come, but the interfaces to interact with store might change over time from SQL to more natural language.

> what characteristics make for a best in class ai database

As I said before, I think the space is moving too fast on what is "best in class" - see all the vector indexing work that has happened in the last ~6 months or so. Big, centralised vector stores for some applications will have very different profiles to vector stores on the edge/on device, for example.

As mentioned, I'm a big fan of boring technology, so I'm going to happily wait we have a boring "winner".
That's not how pricing works.

If o1-pro is 10% better than Claude, but you are a guy who makes $300,000 per year, but now can make $330,000 because o1-pro makes you more productive, then it makes sense to give Sam $2,400.
To my understanding, Anthropic realizes that they can’t compete in name recognition yet, so they have to overdeliver in terms of quality to win the war. It’s hard to beat the incumbent, especially when “chatgpt’ing” is basically a well understood verb.
Looks nice, I want to go have lunch there (without the Tsunami).
PRELIMINARY EARTHQUAKE PARAMETERS
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* The following parameters are based on a rapid preliminary
assessment of the earthquake and changes may occur.

* Magnitude 7.3
* Origin Time 0944 AKST Dec 05 2024
1044 PST Dec 05 2024
1844 UTC Dec 05 2024
* Coordinates 40.3 North 124.7 West
* Depth 8 miles
* Location 45 miles SW of Eureka, California
215 miles NW of San Francisco, California
Sleep apnea detection is mostly about detecting changes in blood oxygen and paused breathing, so if you can do that, you can diagnose sleep apnea.

The actual medical protocol is sleeping a night with a pulse oximeter on.
https://archive.ph/jzyDK
Very nice. Lot of work.

What stand out challenges have you encountered?
blog https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42331498
It's not directly relevant "nowadays", but it is also fun to note that hardware ternary computers existed, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun

Also, I forget which RAM format it was, but I recall that one of the RAM formats still in use is essentially ternary at the physical hardware level and uses the "sign" of the (-1, 0, 1) trit as a "check half-digit" for very fast checksums in hardware (and then the absolute value as the bit), because the physical hardware was going to be three-state anyway and cheap checksums are something RAM will always want.
If we defined "LLM" as "any deep learning model which uses the GPT transformer architecture and is trained using autoregressive next-token prediction", and then we empirically observed that such a model proved the Riemann Hypothesis before any human mathematician, it would seem very silly to say that it was "not intelligent and not capable of reasoning" because of an a-priori logical argument. To be clear, I think that probably won't happen! But I think it's ultimately an empirical question, not a logical or philosophical one. (Unless there's some sort of actual mathematical proof that would set upper bounds on the capabilities of such a model, which would be extremely interesting if true! but I haven't seen one.)
Look what Arnavion wrote in this thread previously:

> If your firewall is disabled, an incoming v4 packet on the WAN interface with destination IP = a NAT'ed LAN device's address like 192.168.1.2 ....
It doesn't have to be 10x.

Imagine you have two options:

A) A $20/month service which provides you with $100/month of value.

B) A $200/month service which provides you with $300/month of value.

A nets you $80, but B nets you $100. So you should pick B.
They claim unlimited access, but in practice couldn't a user wrap an API around the app and use it for a service? Or perhaps the client effectively throttles use pretty aggressively?

Interesting to compare this $200 pricing with the recent launch of Amazon Nova, which has not-equivalent-but-impressive performance for 1/10th the cost per million tokens. (Or perhaps OpenAI "shipmas" will include a competing product in the next few days, hence Amazon released early?)

See e.g.:
https://mastodon.social/@mhoye/113595564770070726
That doesn't follow from the facts. Rideshare drivers get around 50% of the fare (though this seems to vary from 25%-75%). And many riders tip 10-20% of the total. Most of that cost goes away if a single operator is monitoring ~10 cars. The tip goes away entirely.

An average per-trip reduction of ~50% changes the economics entirely.
Perplexity does reasoning and searching, for $10/mo, so I have a hard time believing that it costs OpenAI 20x as much to do the same thing. Especially if OpenAI's model is really more advanced. But of course, no one except internal teams have all of the information about costs.
> If you engage in such thorough criticism and checking of every recalled fact as to eliminate that, you’ll

Experience tells us differently: creativity is not impacted. In fact, it will probably return better solutions (as opposed to delirious).
I think of them as different people -- I'll say that I use them in "ensemble mode" for coding, the workflow is Claude 3.5 by default -- when Claude is spinning, o1-preview to discuss, Claude to implement. Worst case o1-preview to implement, although I think its natural coding style is slightly better than Claude's. The speed difference isn't worth it.

The intersection of problems I have where both have trouble is pretty small. If this closes the gap even more, that's great. That said, I'm curious to try this out -- the ways in which o1-preview fails are a bit different than prior gpt-line LLMs, and I'm curious how it will feel on the ground.
Yeah, this is the bit for me. We have almost no good OSS layers for folks to "plug and play".

Its a bit of a vicious circle - because there is low exposure, no one is building those layers. Because no one is building the layers, there is no exposure.
Do you think appointing Maurice and Sanghi as new board members [0] will make a difference? I must say Pat Gelsinger was the only reason I believed Intel would make a comeback... Without him at the helm I'm afraid the bean counters will run the company to the ground.

[0] https://seekingalpha.com/news/4365859-intel-appoints-former-...
React v19
it will never happen. these company executives are major donors to politicians of both aisles. laws and regulations are for the common people like you and me. not for the ultra-rich. heck, even the judiciary is corrupt these days.
What happens when people get so addicted to using AI they just can’t stand working without it, and then the pricing is pushed up to absurd levels? Will people shell out $2k a year just to use AI?
Last time I looked at Ampere it was way less power hub but then the competition. EPYC is over 250W at idle!

Off the top of my head, the Ampere 128 core was 250W at max load. Big difference.

Only issue I had was cache size, and you could only buy them from NewEgg.

Oh… and the dual socket gigabyte board had the sockets too close together that I’d you put a big ass heat sink and fan, the outlet of one fan will go straight into the inlet of the other!
`Insurance premium` is an oxymoron even more so for non-native English speakers.
cool website, but I dont appreciate the false notion that " America got rich off of selling cotton picked by enslaved Black people"

Also the people who created the philosophical concepts that made the United States possible were all sitters.
Congrats on the launch! I second the request for lifetime pricing option.

Also, the jump between $4/mo to $59/mo could use more explanation to justify the price gap.

It's worth considering listing GinkoNotes on AppSumo if you decide to offer a lifetime deal. I think it would do extremely well.
No (naturally). But my thought process is that if you use advanced voice even half an hour a day, it's probably a fair price based on API costs. If you use it more, for something like language learning or entertaining kids who love it, it's potentially a bargain.
This announcement left me feeling sad because it made me realize that I'm probably working on simple problems for which the current non-pro models seem to be perfectly sufficient (writing code for basic CRUD apps etc.)

I wish I was working on the type of problems for which the pro model would be necessary.
> but tell you and every other frothing at the mouth motorist what, enjoy sitting in traffic

You're being quite rude here about this for no reason and projecting an identity on me that's not warranted. I'm generally pro public transit, but I'm also a realist and not suggesting it takes practically zero time to procure additional rolling stock and hire a lot more people. A lot of people think having a higher level of service is just run the trains/busses more, but chances are they're already running all the stuff they currently have the capacity to own and operate. It's not like most transit orgs have double the current capacity just sitting idle and nobody thought to run them.

It took them three years after finding the funding and getting all the approvals and signing the contracts to add rolling stock last time. So probably more like four or five years at least to add some additional trains. And that was replacing existing trains, not expanding the fleet, so its not like they had to considerably expand their existing workforce. I imagine most people would consider four or five years not "overnight".

The bus service near me is usually every 20 minutes. That's terrible. I'd absolutely love it to cut that in half. It also means it would cost significantly more to operate. Getting everyone to agree to pay that (a massive task at the start), getting all the proposals put together, soliciting bids, signing the contracts, getting the new busses, hiring the new drivers, and actually increasing the service isn't something that is going to happen in 2025. Probably also not 2026.
It's about as simple as it can get, plain questions - "Do you own a boat or did you buy one this year?"

At some point there is irreducible complexity, but most tax questions are of this nature for all normal people - a huge portion of people could file a form 1040ez and be done with it.
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I imagine the system prompt is something along the lines of, 'think about 10% harder than standard O-1'
I work in a big none tech corp and I cannot install WSL so I can try out Clickhouse.
But that's not how it'd work in practice.

In practice the spiteful billionaire will monthly send you offers $10K over the higher of your estimate or fair market value. So you'd be moving every month and incurring all the moving costs continually, or just continually dealing with the legal dealings of such an offer.

The transaction closes and the billionaire just sells the house at a small loss. The situation is asymmetric because the billionaire never actually uses the house.
We collect a boatload of earthquake data, too. Years ago I subscribed to USGS email alerts for my area as a fun novelty thing, but has to unsubscribe because there were too many of them! (This was in SoCal, so tons of tiny quakes all the time.)
Lots of boats beginning to move out
I just panic googled him when i read that as well! Wording!
It's disingenuous to suggest people are mainly interested in Watterson's ability to control the profits of C&H during his lifetime. No, it's because we cherish C&H's purity and are protective of it. I claim it's a purely emotional thing.
> The question of whether machines can think is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim

It's a program with a lot of data running on a big calculator. It won't ever be "smart."
React 19 Upgrade Guide https://react.dev/blog/2024/04/25/react-19-upgrade-guide
> detected in your system

How?
Until you can hop into the back seat of your Tesla and tell it to drive you somewhere with complete confidence then don't even compare the capabilities of Waymo and Tesla FSD.
any chance of a live feed of an affected beach?
So, another, or several more, layers of ethical dubiousness.
> CockroachDB

didn't it like go closes-source a while ago?
Crescent city live web cam. Currently showing boats going out to sea.

https://www.iplivecams.com/live-cams/crescent-city-harbor-di...
$2400 per year, that is a 4090
Any guesses as to OpenAI's cost per million tokens for o1 pro mode?
Said in another way: The US is the last standing haven for the robber barrons of the world. Once the US falls there will be nowhere left for them to go.

If we just fast forward the video tape we see where this is going. Maybe thats why Elon is so eager to get to Mars.
I'm seeing lots of boats exiting the harbor, presumably to enter the ocean where any tsunami effects will be lessened?
The issue is that most people, especially when prompted, can provide their level of confidence in the answer or even refuse to provide an answer if they are not sure. LLMs, by default, seem to be extremely confident in their answers, and it's quite hard to get the "confidence" level out of them (if that metric is even applicable to LLMs). That's why they are so good at duping people into believing them after all.
In guessing English isn’t your primary language based on the wording in the above comment. Hopefully this is a helpful FYI:

“Blows me” is a sexual euphemism for someone getting their dick sucked.

“Blows my mind” means your head exploded because something was too awesome.
My 3rd day intern still couldn't do a script o1-preview could do in less than 25 prompts.

OBVIOUSLY a smart OAI employee wouldn't want the public to think they are already replacing high-level humans.

And OBVIOUSLY OAI senior management will want to try to convince AI engineers that might have 2nd-guessings about their work that they aren't developing a replacement for human beings.

But they are.
People are already just hooking LLMs up to terminals with web access and letting them go. Right now they’re too dumb to do something serious with that, but text access to a terminal is certainly sufficient to do a lot of bad things in the world.
Watterson did get financial security and stability from the success of the comic, he wasn't distributing it for free. The point after that is where you find selling out, and that's where he drew a line.
The standard definition of a derivative c involves the assumption that f is defined at c.

However, you could also (probably) define the derivative as lim_{h->0} (f(c+h) - f(c-h))/2h, so without needing f(c) to be defined. But that's not standard.
Perhaps we need to rethink protecting shareholders from liability. I'm sure that would be unpopular, but having companies create harm for profit is a problem.
Haha, you haven't used an em dash at all. You even used -- in some of your comments.

LLMs are everywhere.
> $200 a month for this is insane, but I have a feeling that part of the reason they're charging so much is to give people more confidence in the model.

Is it possible that they have subsidized the infrastructure for free and paid users and they realized that OpenAI requires a higher revenue to maintain the current demand?
Of course it won’t be the same, but the comment said won’t work not won’t be the same
>Au contraire. Most executives will justify their pay packages by saying they shoulder all of the risk.

Feels like a strawman, or at least a misunderstanding of what "responsibility" is. Shareholders are willing to pay dearly for executives not because they need a fall guy in case something go wrong, they do so because someone in that position can easily fuck up the business, and therefore it's worth paying extra to get someone more qualified (at least in theory), so that doesn't happen. It's not any different than you not picking the cheapest guy on cragislist to housesit when you're on vacation. The premium isn't because you want a fall guy to sue in case your house burns down, it's so you don't end up with a guy who fucks up your house while you're away.
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On a log scale (you can select this on your graph) we're basically moving on the same trend line as we have been since 1960. Covid caused a big jump but the years of stagnation since then mean we're back to normal.
The concept that a given person's race or background makes them willing or even qualified to speak / address all people with similar background or race to me makes zero sense to me.
Duckdb is really great. DX is awesome.

I cloned the CVE repository and ingested it into duckdb without worrying about table structures. Build a fastapi wrapper to query CVEs like SQL. A little bit of caching and it was pretty fast. Was done in a few hours.

Shame that their Rust crate wasn't as performant as the python module.
They are perfectly fine people, but I have no desire to become comfortable enough with them that I feel less lonely. That implies some sort of intimacy, where I rely on or confide in them, it's being vulnerable really, and I keep my work life professional and my personal life private.
It can't do those things because it doesn't have the physical/write capability to do so. But it's still very interesting that it ~tries them, and seems like a good thing to know/test before giving it more physical/'write' capabilities - something that's already happening with agents, robots, etc.
The sheer number of these things that are going to get shot by angry Miami drivers ...
Small discussion (14 points, 1 day ago, 6 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42320506
Yeah workism is real [1]

1: https://theweek.com/culture-life/workism-new-religion
Come to Europe please
Presumably, this is what they want the marks buying the $200 plan to think. Whether it's actually capable of providing answers worth $200 and not just sweet talking is the whole question.
> purged of training content from movies, books

I think it's fine and a good thing. Now, absolutely no one who is using those LLMs can complain about piracy. They all suddenly became silent around me. "I'm training myself with the content of TPB, and I don't even get money from it" is my new motto.
> It also includes o1 pro mode, a version of o1 that uses more compute to think harder

I like that this kind of verifies that OpenAI can simply adjust how much compute a request gets and still say you’re getting the full power of whatever model they’re running. I wouldn’t be surprised if the amount of compute allocated to “pro mode” is more or less equivalent to what was the standard free allocation given to models before they all got mysteriously dramatically stupider.
does anyone know if they can output bonding box coordinates? like "where is the ball" -> [50, 75, 150, 175].

so far cogvlm is the only one I've seen that works but it's a bit of a pain to run.
From the link in other threads: https://www.tsunami.gov/events/PAAQ/2024/12/05/so1aq0/1/WEAK...

* Boat operators,

* Where time and conditions permit, move your boat out to
sea to a depth of at least 180 feet.

* If at sea avoid entering shallow water, harbors,
marinas, bays, and inlets to avoid floating and
submerged debris and strong currents.
Yep. I’m currently paying for both Claude and chatgpt because they’re good at different things. I can’t tell whether this is extremely cheap or expensive - last week Claude saved me about a day of time by writing a whole lot of very complex sql queries for me. The value is insane.
I view reasoning as something that LLMs do a kind of, or a subset of, and inference engines do a different kind or subset of. And there may be different kinds or subsets than just those two.

And just as inference engines, by themselves, were not enough to be really able to "reason", neither are LLMs, by themselves. (I think "AI" has historically been quite reductionist - they reduce thinking to only one kind of thinking, and then try to automate that. The result can sometimes be impressive, but always is less than what human thinking is.)

Tool calling or mixture-of-experts are in the direction that I'm thinking.
Most people in Western nations receive far higher pension payments than we do in the US. Hence the American need to hoard wealth for old age.