skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry for the pie in the sky question, but how far away are we from prompting the AI with 'make me a new OS' and it just going away and doing it?
That’s not strictly necessary for the claim. You have to factor in the odds of getting caught. If you do this and only get caught 10% of the time, you can make slightly less than 1/10 of the fine per case and still make money.
They have no lever with which to fix the issue.
Read up on smt-lib: learning how to encode problems in that is a good way to start. The Python z3 bindings are a good starting point to play with it too.
I'm trying to parse that sentence and as it turns out... probably nothing is relevant to me that just writes end user front-end stuff. Most React development is in the backend / rendering or for specialists that write libraries, feels like.
if waymo cars are able to handle florida drivers. it’ll mean the end of uber.
Crushing is manageable but melting is the issue. At this point all planned missions are still orbiters, so Venus will still not have the wealth of in-situ data that Mars does.

There are two major concepts that I found really fun: 1) airships and 2) steampunk rovers.

Airships:

2018 JPL:
https://science.nasa.gov/resource/aerial-platforms-for-the-s...

2020s report on in-situ sampling using airships as mothership https://kiss.caltech.edu/final_reports/Venus_In_Situ_Final_R...

Clockwork rover for long-lived venus exploration:
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/a-clockwork-rover-for-venus/

I don't think that last one was (too) serious, but it was interesting to sus out the costs/benefits at TRL1-2 at least.

AGU is a fairly open, very accessible conference for tracking progress on these. Here's a short paper on venus long lived surface missions.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.03365
Interestingly, this prompt breaks o1-mini and o1-preview for me, while 4o works as expected — they immediately jump from "thinking" to "finished thinking" without outputting anything (including thinking steps).

Maybe it breaks some specific syntax required by the original system prompt? Though you'd think OpenAI would know to prevent this with their function calling API and all, so it might just be triggering some anti-abuse mechanism without going so far as to give a warning.
Personally I am cynical because in my experience @ FAANG, "AI safety" is mainly about mitigating PR risk for the company, rather than any actual harm.
>A scientist found mold in a petri dish that killed bacteria—and boom, we got penicillin.

Casually leaving out the vast effort of a whole team of people to develop the drug:

https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/how-was...

Fleming gets the credit, but Florey and a whole team of people of other people did the hard work.
+1. I've written one non-controversial RFC, and this is exactly it. What's missing is if the area you're working in controversial or has many, many stakeholders. For example of this just look at the DMARCbis last call happening now. There apparently is an art form to getting controversial work published by the IETF. It can by garnering a lot of support, but few well meaning voices can sink that effort as well. Working for a big tech company can hamper your efforts as well as some of those well meaning activists don't like big tech. I feel that work sponsored by small and medium sized companies has the best shot of actually happening.
Is it insane? It's the cost of a new laptop every year. There are about as many people who won't blink at that among practitioners in our field as people who will.

I think the ship has sailed on whether GPT is useful or a con; I've lost track of people telling me it's their first search now rather than Google.

I'd encourage skeptics who haven't read this yet to check out Nicholas' post here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41150317
Anyone who doesn't think $200/month is a bargain has definitely not been using LLMs anywhere near their potential.
Could you please stop posting flamebait to HN? You've been doing it repeatedly, unfortunately.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42306816.
Whenever I’ve used ChatGPT for this exact thing it has been very accurate and didn’t make up anyone
> but really saved me from moving to a different task and coming back

You missed this part. Being able to quickly fix things without deep thought while in flow saves you from the slowdowns of context switching.
Mass casualties stemming from a tsunami are predicated on the geographical significations of the region that it is hitting. One instance is the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and the havoc it wrought on the coast on much of the coastline of Thailand. There were coastal resorts that managed to avoid damage due to being situated in crescent shaped coves.
The paper's arguments [0] are from climatic modeling. When Venus formed, it had lots of water in its interior. If its magma oceans cooled very slowly, most of the water would have escaped into space. But if its magma oceans cooled quickly, there may have been liquid water on the surface at some point, and there would have also been lots of interior water left. This interior water wouldn't have much chance to escape, even after the surface water boiled away.

They found that there's very little hydrogen present in its volcanic gases, suggesting that it doesn't have much interior water, and that it didn't in the past, which precludes the formation of surface oceans. It's not incontrovertible proof (something we'll most likely never have), but it's still solid evidence against oceanic life.

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-024-02414-5
When you highlight only the negatives, yeah it does sound like no one should hire that intern. But what if the same intern happens to have an encyclopedia for a brain and can pour through massive documents and codebases to spot and fix countless human errors in a snap?

There seems to be two camps: People who want nothing to do with such flawed interns - and people who are trying to figure out how to amplify and utilize the positive aspects of such flawed, yet powerful interns. I'm choosing to be in the latter camp.
Could be a case of price discrimination [1], and a way to fuel the hype.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/price_discrimination.as...
They were describing the 1930s situation, when the dollar was backed by gold & it didn't go well
Exactly: "everything punishable should be punished, everywhere across the decision chain, all at once".

No sternly worded letter, no slap on the wrist... Consequences!

I'd even "scare them incorrupt" by threatening to nationalize the company if no sufficient corrective actions are implemented to stop being a net negative to society.
One lost methyl group = huge amounts of food production
Ronald Weiss, the 'Wayne Gretzky of Vasectomies,' Dies at 68
I've had a great experience using Golang + HTMX + DaisyUI using the tailwind-cli-extra standalone tool, negating the requirement for npm at all.
Sounds like x86-64 is starting to lose some of it’s market share very soon.
> Tesla is going to destroy Waymo, they can’t compete

You're both wrong. This remains an open question.

Tesla has promised a Level 5 product but hasn't delivered; FSD is Level 3. Waymo has a Level 4 product, but it requires an expensive sensor suite.

If Tesla can get Level 4 with cameras only, you're right. They win. We currently have no indication they've cracked that. We also have no evidence it's not doable with current technology.
absolutely. i have an sy99 and they often go for less or equal to a dx7, and they are much more of a powerhouse. can't recommend enough
My main approach, when it is something I control, I stay as much on .NET and Java solutions for Web development, with minimal JavaScript.

When not, I focus on backend and devops instead.

Although some SaaS products make our life harder, with React only SDKs.
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/health/ronald-weiss-dies-doctor-vasectom...
> In other words, it's a con.

Such a silly conclusion to draw based on a gut feeling, and to see all comments piggyback on it like it's a given feels like I'm going crazy. How can you all be so certain?
A11y enters the chat with their buddy "compliance"
Threat to claw back Rivian loan sparks criticism of Musk's conflict of interest
A few weeks ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42057647 was the largest thread in HN's history. More than twice the size of the previous largest thread, in fact.
Wild! LA?

Are there ever beach caveins?
I answered a comment asking how to do it.

I didn't say it was better!
Yeah, I personally wouldn't crossfit. It's complicated doing reps for time, exacerbating form with fatigue, etc.
Just buy a bidet and make your life better.
Arguably the same problem is occurs in programming: Anything so formulaic and common that an LLM can regurgitate it with a decent level of reliability... is something that ought to have been folded into method/library already.

Or it already exists in some howto documentation, but nobody wanted to skim the documentation.
https://vetted.ai/ as a shopping assistant.
OpenAI is racing against two clocks: the commoditization clock (how quickly open-source alternatives catch up) and the monetization clock (their need to generate substantial revenue to justify their valuation).

The ultimate success of this strategy depends on what we might call the enterprise AI adoption curve - whether large organizations will prioritize the kind of integrated, reliable, and "safe" AI solutions OpenAI is positioning itself to provide over cheaper but potentially less polished alternatives.

This is strikingly similar to IBM's historical bet on enterprise computing - sacrificing the low-end market to focus on high-value enterprise customers who would pay premium prices for reliability and integration. The key question is whether AI will follow a similar maturation pattern or if the open-source nature of the technology will force a different evolutionary path.
If they can't work another executive job, they can't go around harming other businesses and people. The first thing that should happen is that the bad actions stop happening, by whatever means necessary. Justice can come later if that's truly necessary.

I think the GP is on the right track. Business leaders need fear consequences, so they moderate their behavior, and that means messages must be sent. It would be perfect to have some fortune 100 CEO go to Davos one year, then return the next in a prison jumpsuit to tell all the collected elites about what it feels like to be utterly ruined. Then do it again and again until the message gets through.

There's no need to resort to extreme measure, unless things are truly beyond the pale. It matters far more that regulations are enforced and consequences are enacted. Consequence don't need to be dire, unless actions are so beyond the pale that it required criminal investigations and consequences. If things escalated to the point of criminal investigation, your system isn't working.

The first step is early detection, enforcement, and auditing. The FAA should be beefed up so that they can rely on their own agents for enforcing the rules, together with the ability to ramp up fines, stop production, and other gradual escalation until there are compliance to regulation.
> We'll have to see if the bump to $22 this year ends up happening.

I can't read the article. Any mention of the API pricing?
We import a lot of material that goes into paper products from Canada.

There’s talk of high tariffs on Canada starting, potentially, only a few weeks from now.

So. I mean, maybe do.
Yeah but they "detect" the characteristic AI style: The limited way it structures sentences, the way it lays out arguments, the way it tends to close with an "in conclusion" paragraph, certain word choices, etc. o1-Pro doesn't do any of that. It writes like a human.

Damnit. It's too good. It just saved me ~6 hours in drafting a complicated and bespoke legal document. Before you ask: I know what I'm doing, and it did a better job in five minutes than I could have done over those six hours. Homework is over. Journalism is over. A large slice of the legal profession is over. For real this time.
It seems important to you that others understand you are strictly utilitarian, that you're not like the others that busy themselves with frivolities like jewelry and designer sneakers. You dress yourself in a way that clearly communicates that. Some items are off limits because they don't fit the look. Flip flops? Not even as shower shoes, because you're a grown man.

Deep irony here.
Weirdly, I recently switched to Perl as a replacement for awk and sed, enjoying actual Perl regexps and very similar syntax for 1 liners.

I’ve had to deal with sed not accepting the same flags depending on systems and weird awk version too. At least it’s more consistent with Perl (which also happens to be installed by default).

Am I the only one?
"I feel like at this point someone needs to take a step back and think about the general vision and overall goals of this whole fully automated ride-hailing service thing."

The goal is to make money for the owners and managers of those companies.
Hummingbirds' Flight Offers Clues to Improve Drones
Give me a prompt and I'll share the result.
Fair game. The government shouldn't be able to force you to unlock a device. Even with fingerprint or face. But it is totally ok to get inside any way they can.
Fair.

Speeding isn't worth a $100 fine.

But if you only get caught 1/100 times you speed...
Reasoning through that from a customer perspective is interesting.

I'm hard pressed to identify any users to whom LLMs are providing enough value to justify $20/month, but not $44.

On the other hand, I can see a lot of people to whom it's not providing any value being unable to afford a higher price.

Guess we'll see which category most OpenAI users are in.
https://archive.ph/zjwjd

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/science/hummingbirds-robo...
Life is a never ending series of forking roads not taken, you take some and you leave others unexplored, there's an near infinite amount of things to learn and we only have so much time to learn them. It's not feasible to worry about it.

I presume most people learn to deal with that when they're like, twelve, or something. Otherwise you just live with constant regret and FOMO.
It doesn't necessarily mean that React does it right. When building React apps, developers spend too much time on designing architecture for many things that should have been taken care of by the tools they are using. The more I am in web development, be it backend or frontend, the more I'm disappointed that declarative programming is still not a thing. One too many hours wasted on reducing boilerplate, replacing big boilerplate with smaller boilerplate, optimizing boilerplate and writing that boilerplate. While still being far from perfect, other frameworks like Vue and Svelte do great job at making the developer write less boilerplate and more business logic.
Preventing panics in Go code
Dark chocolate has about half as much sugar as milk chocolate. Seems reasonable to be OK with eating a bit of dark chocolate but not milk or white.
Can webcomponents be trivially used with HTMX?

Like for example: https://shoelace.style/
F me. $2400 per year? That is bananas. I did not see if it offered any API channels with this plan. With that I would probably see it as a valuable return but without it…that is a big nope.
The article says they made approximately 85 million from this. Since it happened 10 years ago, they may very well have made money on this deal.
Solid.js is the real alternative to React
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act is a Domestic Corrupt Practices Act
Surely there have been relationships in your life that were net positive? Was your mother caring and loving when you were young? Did you ever have a best friend? Ever been in love?

The easiest way to have a positive relationship is to just be the good friend you’d want for yourself. The thoughtful lover you’d want to be with, the sort of sibling you wish you had.

Doing these things costs you nothing. You might even find some positive emotions when you do them.
That's the "Binary digIT [BIT]" line. Do you always go based on the input sounds rather than output reading or just sometimes though? E.g. for special weapons and tactics do you say it like you would in "the cat swat at the toy" or more akin to "sw@" (same first half but then "at" for the second half because the 'a' comes from a short 'a'?).

Of course, just for GIF alone I wouldn't mind your method was the universally obvious way... but now I might as well talk about religion and politics too!
The numbers are high because they jumped directly from 0.14 to 15.0, but the cadence is not particularly high: 18.0 was released early 2022, 17.0 late 2020 and 16.0 late 2017. That’s three major releases in seven years.

React is stable, upgrading it is painless as long as you don’t ignore deprecation warnings. What can be annoying is other (abandoned) dependencies holding you back from upgrading.
If you keep posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments, we're going to have to ban you. We asked you this just recently (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41604621), and you've unfortunately continued to break the site guidelines.
If you see shortages elsewhere, it’s not crazy to prepare by stocking up in case it spreads. I mean, you’re gonna use it eventually either way.

The remains true even if the entire and only cause of the shortage is people stocking up for fear of a shortage, and even if you know that.
Did you see a "steal his look" meme and think it was real?
Half of all CPUs in AWS are ARM already.

Update: "Over the last two years, more than 50 percent of all the CPU capacity landed in our datacenters was on AWS Graviton." So not half of all but getting there. https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/03/aws-reaps-the-benefi...
I think there are assumptions here that are not shared?

First, there is an implication that the HTTP model is benign in the complications that we see in web applications. I don't think it would take a lot of arguments to bust this? Trying to hide it, also leads to several problems of its own.

Second, that the rest of the abstractions in a browser are benign in the complications most people complain about. The DOM, CORS, general document structure, CSS(!), and all of the extra APIs that browsers have added through the years are building on some rather awkward layers. I don't think it is hard to argue that the biggest reason that browsers have had the success and development that they have had, is the privilege that we have given port 80 in the world.

Now. I think an area we would have solid agreement on, is that I don't necessarily think we had better options along the way?

Bringing this back to frameworks, though, tooling is tough to ignore. The tooling that people used to have in easy application creation is tough to scoff at. I think it is safe to say that Dreamweaver was also not that bad, looking back. We had some odd purity tests on whether or not it should use tables for layout. Hard to really keep that complaint top of mind when I look at the absurd amount of markup that is in so many sites, nowadays.
Do you not have to pay court costs if you’re convicted? That’s a pretty bad gamble if you get convicted maybe 90% of the time?
lets pack this altogether.

so you don't believe it would save lives?

prevention is better than a cure and with AGI this would significantly a lot of people, not just SF.

> smart people have already been working on,

If they were so smart why haven't they found it yet? We now have weather prediction and protein folding now solved problems which were extremely difficult problems.

I don't see how this doesn't apply to earthquake prediction, if it has to take AGI to solve it then so be it.
The Guy Who Bought (and Ate) That Banana Art Is a Dangerous Criminal
There are motion planners for six axis arms that go up to 11th order.
If you always assume breach, wouldn't you be forced to also assume that digital wallets (and by extension crypto itself) are unsafe?
The BFOI isn't require for Sole Proprietorships which is probably the case with your stone mason and maybe the restaurant owner too.

If they know enough to register and report as an LLC or Corporation then they likely know enough to fill out this report.

I agree with you on the disparity in tech knowledge among small businesses. And probably they'll never hear about this report.
wait actually this might be the wrong keyboard. anyway listen to my friend's band: https://nadirbliss.bandcamp.com/track/open-a-window-2
Yup,

https://www.google.com/finance/quote/INTC:NASDAQ?sa=X&ved=2a...
> This user experience is mostly good, as users typically care about domain-level filtering (commits between these time ranges) versus the arbitrary traversal of pages

If you're using SQLite, you can use temp tables as a hack to get arbitrary traversal:

Imagine an MS Excel-style spreadsheet that may have 10k+ rows that a user may search/sort on; I virtualize it and query for data in blocks of 100 rows. Being Excel-style, you can arbitrarily scroll any distance down the spreadsheet. OFFSET has terrible perf when skipping 15k+ rows, and users might want to jump to the bottom of the spreadsheet (or anywhere, really). I handle this in two steps:

1. Return the first 100 results of a query ASAP.
2. In a nonblocking manner, add all the relevant ids for that query to a temp table.

When a user tires of the first 100 results and starts randomly scrolling, I can use cursor pagination with the temp table's rowid (WHERE rowid > 15000 ORDER BY rowid LIMIT 100) by taking advantage of the fact that the spreadsheet's row number is now the same as the temp table's rowid. Building this cache is relatively expensive; it takes ~10 seconds on my devbox with ~15k rows. However jumping to the bottom of that result set takes ~200ms, so I'm happy with it. (Note I'm on a fork of wa-sqlite, i.e. it's running in the browser - "real" sqlite is much, much faster.)
lol, your "irl examples" are fantasies, made up on the spot by you to support your own made-up claim that "Success rarely comes from what we aim for". You should at least google some of the existing but exceedingly rare examples so your claims are not just hot air.
A great solution to disincentivize all investment into capital markets - bankrupting thousands of companies, resulting in hundreds of thousands if not millions of layoffs and widespread economic devastation not seen in the U.S. since the great depression.

Should we also start imprisoning everyone who voted for Obama because Obama's DoD conducted drone strikes against weddings, churches, and other civilian facilities and gatherings resulting in more civilian deaths than Bush's?

Shareholders are no more responsible for the misdeeds of management than voters are for the misdeeds of politicians, after all.

Your proposal goes against the core tenants of justice, liability, and property rights that have guided the civilization responsible for every part of your life that you cherish - from the device and connection you're posting with to the appliances that you cannot live without, to the economic systems that have lifted more human beings out of poverty than any other economic system ever conceived.

What's the argument in favor of your proposal that outweighs these cons?

P.S. - I upvoted your comment because as much as I vehemently disagree with your proposal, I believe we should all have the decency to discuss ideas we disagree with rather than attempt to censor them.
I can definitely relate a bit to this article, but I'd argue that you are in no way obligated to finish these projects and shouldn't have to feel guilt over them. Remember, they're side projects.

Also, I'd consider whether you really truly want to finish these projects, or if you moreso just want them to be finished. I've found that there's a big difference between wanting to work on something and wanting that thing to be finished, if that makes sense. In general, if it's not your main project, if you don't truly want to work on it, don't.
Django is still there and is still better than Phoenix by the way. I didn't really touch it in about 10 years, but ... nothing changed. It's amazing!