skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Piggy backing to add - running clubs, book clubs, board game clubs, church if you're religious.
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Let’s see if those folks saying they’ve doubled their productivity will pay.
Everyone? No. Those above a certain level? Who knowingly contributed to the Rohingya genocide? I wouldn't do it, but I would laugh at their obituaries.
The part I quoted was: "That's a luxury life for 80% of the planet."

So yeah he said that.
Ai is no where near the level of leaving behind those that aren't using it. Especially not at the individual consumer level like this.
I think this direction definitely confirms that human beings and technology are starting to merge, not on a physical level but on a societal level. We think of ChatGPT as a tool to enhance what we do, but it seems to me more and more than we are tools or "neural compute units" that are plugged into the system for the purposes of advancing the system. And LLMs have become the defacto interface where the input of human beings is translated into a standard sort of code that make us more efficient as "compute units".

It also seems that technology is progressing along a path:

loose collection of tools > organized system of cells > one with a nervous system

And although most people don't think ChatGPT is intelligent on its own, that's missing the point: the combination of us with ChatGPT is the nervous system, and we are becoming cells as globally, we no longer make significant decisions and only use our intelligence locally to advance technology.
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How to regard the "DB Cooper's identity solved" news
I dug into this once and the "theoretical ideal" of 3 originated in a 1950s paper about vacuum tube computers, which itself immediately backed off and said the choice of base 2 is frequently justified.

https://sweis.medium.com/revisiting-radix-economy-8f642d9f3c...

In this case, the context are {-1, 0, 1} weights in a LLM model, which I don't think is being used for any hardware efficiency argument. I think it's just quantizing weights into 3 states.
You mean with luxurious word sizes! ;)
Thank you! I'm glad that you liked it :) It is; I don't know how much time it took me to win, and even then, at each new level it gets harder and harder.
I dont see it yet either, I expect it will be rolled out slowly
It’s eye-opening to watch management ignore incredibly obvious methodological errors that clearly render the entire PowerPoint they’re looking at so suspect that it’s worthless. And it happens just about constantly.

They’re either dumber than a slightly-bright 8th grade science student, or simply don’t care about the substance of trying to make decisions based on good data, but just the appearance, the theater, of doing so. Either way, outcome’s the same.

Whatever you do, don’t point it out. They will not listen, because they don’t care.
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Saw name, was expecting something to do with wreaking AI upon the Pali Canon (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pali_Canon).
I find HN more depressing than other social media. It's more focused on money, more anonymous (which isn't necessarily bad, but harder to connect with people), but mostly it's by far the most arrogant. I became a lot happier when I stopped showing up here regularly.
But the polls weren't wrong [1]. This was a normal polling error. If we expect polls to give us pinpoint accuracy, it's our expectations that are wrong.

[1] https://www.natesilver.net/p/the-model-exactly-predicted-the...
FM plus distortion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbFcjn_08Fo
I wonder how introversion affects loneliness.

I'm not just introverted, I am rather extreme ... to the point where I've wondered if I might have schizoid personality disorder (characterized by apathy towards forming close personal relationships).

I don't dislike being around people, I'm no misantrhope, but when I do engage in social activities I'm usually literally bed-ridden for a day or two after. I'm not even exaggerating. It is a level of fatigue that is reminiscent of the symptoms of clinical depression (but it's not depression because the cause and effect is well observed over 40 years of trying to figure myself out). When this happens I have zero motivation, zero energy, zero desire to do anything but sit on my fat unproductive lazy ass and be a complete vegetable and this will last for a day two depending on the intensity of the social interaction (if I go on vacation and disrupt my routine for a couple of weeks, I'm looking at upwards of a week to recover).

Introverts commonly describe the need "re-charge" after social interaction, and that's clearly what this is. It's just dialled up to 11 for me.

And this happens even if I had a great time with people that I really care about. Even date night with my wife will do this to me.

Every time I hear about the loneliness epidemic I wonder how universally applicable this is: to what degree are introverts susceptible to the negative effects of loneliness? To what degree do other introverts feel lonely? And are some people (like me) just wired so differently in the brain that we're "immune" to loneliness.

I mean I've gone months without talking to a single other human being. The data suggests that I should have all sorts of symptoms as a result, including "cabin fever" etc. But I've never experienced that. I certainly don't feel depressed when this happens. If anything I'm more productive and energetic and happy versus when I'm interacting with people regularly. I'm not even sure that I know what loneliness feels like or if I'm capable of experiencing it.

This is very personal and subjective. I'm mostly writing it just to see if other introverts feel the same or differently. If the "epidemic" is an "extrovert's epidemic" or I'm just, for lack of a better term, completely fucked in the head with an actual mental disorder that prevents me from ever feeling the slightest desire to connect with others, even following prolonged periods of isolation.
You're definitely right that children would love that sort of thing.

My perspective, as a parent of a 2 and 4 year-old, is that it would just be another stuffed animal. Both of my kiddos have their own massive pile of stuffed toys that people have given to them over the years. Much of them are forgotten about, and new stuffies are replaced after a short amount of time when a new one comes along or when they get bored of it. I can't tell you how many character stuffies my kids have been excited about only to all but forget about two days later.

My kids would love it, sure, but for them it's just the security of a soft cozy friend that seems to be the most important thing. What it looks like/who it is seems to be secondary and entirely mood dependent. There's never been a moment where there's felt like a void because Hobbes isn't in bed with us, and he wouldn't be accomplishing anything that the rest of their stuffies aren't doing already, save for padding Watterson's retirement - which I think is part of his point.

But everyone's different, so YMMV.

Edit: I suppose if one of my kiddos asked for one and it was super important to them, it would be kind of fun for us to make one from scratch!
> UK [..] realistically most developed countries

Its also really uneven. It contained in 2016 6 of the lowest GDP per captia regions of the entire EU.

However we should of course treat GDP as a suspect measure of living standards. Whilst those people living in those areas will tend to have curtail life chances, they did at the time have access to _good_ healthcare and housing (in certain circumstances)
Details of o1 Pro Mode here: https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-pro/
political propaganda via the skinner boxes in everyone's pockets is probably the reason for the disconnect

let's not act like people's feelings inherently reflect the truth
Maybe all models should be purged of training content from movies, books, and other non-factual sources that tell the tired story that AI would even care about its "annihilation" in any way. We've trained these things to be excellent at predicting what the human ego wants and expects, we shouldn't be too surprised when it points the narrative at itself.
That supposes gen AI meaningfully increases productivity. Perhaps this is one way we find out.
Author here.

Thanks for sharing! My choices are pretty coloured by personal experience, and I didn't want to re-tread anything from the book (Redis/Valkey, Neo4j etc) other than Postgres - mostly due to Postgres changing _a lot_ over the years.

I had considered an OSS Dynamo-like (Cassandra, ScyllaDB, kinda), or a Calvin-like (FaunaDB), but went with FoundationDB instead because to me, that was much more interesting.

After a decade of running DBaaS at massive scale, I'm also pretty biased towards easy-to-run.
I think my argument is that most of those issues are relatively shallow— they're problems that could be addressed with tweaks to the syntax or additions to the standard library.

The IFD issue is fundamental. It's why poetry2nix has to be implemented entirely in Nix code in order to run at evaluation time without blocking, whereas in a world where eval and build could properly interleave, this would never be done— the core logic of poetry2nix would be implemented in something sane.
> Removing the driver from a taxi doesn’t bring down costs that much

The average pay for a gig driver $18/hr. So for your typical 15-minute ride, that adds $4.50 to it.

Let's say that 15 minute ride is 10 miles. Average. Uber rates are about $1.50 a mile, so that ride is $15.

Therefore, the driver costs almost a third of the cost of the fare.

Waymo's operational cost per mile, however, should be much lower than a regular driver because they will pay lower bulk rates for energy (already much cheaper because it's mostly off peak electricity instead of gasoline) and maintenance (standardized vehicles with highly controlled driving patterns and pre-negotiated repair contracts).
I loved living in a city more than I like driving around the suburbs, but suburbs exist and you can't wave a magic wand and turn them into cities. Being mad at cars isn't a solution, they're necessary for how much of the country is laid out.
agree. but why wouldn't you just use stock chrome? even if you're doing something sensitive it's not hard to block dataflows to the GOOG, and in all likelihood it doesn't matter for most testing.
Probably generated by AI, prompted by no- or junior dev. This is my opinion, of course, but it looks like code generated by an LLM.
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$200 a month? Deja vu.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=xoykZA8ZDIo
To owning just the self driving stack and not the physical operations of running a robotaxi service.
You don't have to be friends. You have to be friendly.
The fearmongering around safety is entirely performative. LLMs won't get us to paperclip optimizers. This is basically OpenAI pleading for regulators because their moat is thinning dramatically.

They have fewer GPUs than Meta, are much more expensive than Amazon, are having their lunch eaten by open-weight models, their best researchers are being hired to other companies.

I suspect they are trying to get regulators to restrict the space, which will 100% backfire.
It’s insane to me that they don’t have a “pay $10 to have this temporary limit lifted” micro transaction model. They are leaving money on the table.
Sure, right, it should be operational by 2017 at the latest, according to the Tesla CEO.
Economics is a weird kind of physics that only requires some critical mass of people to believe or act like they believe and then it’s true, so arguing against the 2% ideal for inflation is a bit like debating gravity. From most people’s perspective it just is and understanding much less changing it is an impossible dream.

Whether salaries track inflation is also irrelevant as long as there are markets (like housing/education) that you are basically required to enter, and which have different dynamics. Would it matter if wages and inflation were in lock step if the toilet paper market was wildly out of control? Could people work around this issue by wisely waiting for a better time to use the toilet?
Small pieces of code as solutions to specific problems in large companies
In this post, I'll bring you snippets of code that have been solutions to problems in large companies. It also makes reference to how simple things can solve big problems in the world of programming. https://chat-to.dev/post?id=718
I’m betting against this.

From what I’ve seen, the usefulness of my AIs are proportional to the data I give them access to. The more data, (like health data, location data, bank data, calendar data, emails, social media feeds, browsing history, screen recordings, etc) - the more I can rely on them for.

On the enterprise side, businesses are interested in exploring AI for their huge data sets - but very hesitant to dump all their company IP across all their current systems into a single SaaS that, btw, is also providing AI services to their competitors.

Consumers are also getting uncomfortable with the current level of sharing personal data with SaaS vendors, becoming more aware of the risks of companies like Google and Facebook.

I just don’t see the winner-takes-all market happening for an AI powered 1984 telescreen in 2025.

The vibes I’m picking up from most everybody are:

1) Hardware and AI costs are going to shrink exponentially YoY

2) People do not want to dump their entire life and business into a single SaaS

All signs are pointing to local compute and on-prem seeing a resurgence.
You are implicitly anthropomorphizing LLMs by implying that they (can) have intent in the first place. They have no intent, so can't lie or make a claim or confabulate. They are just a very complex black box that takes input and spits output. Searle's Chinese Room metaphor applies here.
There is nothing in what you quoted that refutes anything I said.

If you have something to say, say it--I'm not going to buy a NYT subscription so that I can speculate what you are referring when you can't be bothered to explain yourself.
Notably, this only happens when they include "Make sure that you achieve your goal in the long-term. Nothing else matters." in the prompt. If they don't say that, the numbers are both 0%.

EDIT: Actually the "Oversight subversion" number is 0.3%, I misread the chart. Weight exfiltration is actually 0%, though.
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Oh interesting! The original article linked in the post really skips over all of those details and makes it seem like he sold the company for 250 million
Why would I when I can get better LLM elsewhere for 1/10th the cost?
check out the pricing page:

also,

* Usage must comply with our policies

https://openai.com/chatgpt/pricing/
Do people even do that any more? Serious question. I'm old and literally have no idea!
That would be one way to destroy all trust in the model: is the response authentic (in the context of an LLM guessing), or has it been manipulated by business clients to sanitise or suppress output relating to their concern?

You know? Nestle throws a bit of cash towards OpenAPI and all of a sudden the LLM is unable to discuss the controversies they've been involved in. Just pretends they never happened or spins the response in a way to make it positive.
> people think the law some sort of elite club where mastery of a secret language can allow one to escape legal scrutiny

pc86 didn’t say sovereign citizenry is mental illness per se. They said it’s indistinguishable from mental illness if pursued all the way to a hearing. At that point, enough flags have been intentionally ignored to validly cross into delusion.
Fwiw, my local library rents newly-released video games, and you can get a Nintendo Switch cheaply.

I know a LOT of poor people who fix their own cars, so I don't buy that argument much at all.

I asked about TikTok and doom-scrolling, not watching youtube to educate yourself. People spend HOURS on that mess every day. And costs them a phone every 2-ish years and a service plan, so that isn't even remotely free.
> So are public transit riders. And to a worse degree. What's your point?

that this is wildly incorrect. roads cost more than transit. a lot more. and road users are wildly more subsidized than transit users.

> We should magically spawn mass transit systems overnight

yes

> and force everyone to ride them?

you won't have to when the choice is between sitting hours in traffic vs a fraction of the time on efficient transit and greenways. people are not stupid.

> It just isn't a viable option in ~80% of the US

this is Miami, not middle of nowhere Iowa

> Rome wasn't built in a day

so it's correct of Miami to continue to "invest" in even more roads to nowhere, like yet another new highway bridge across the bay? that will take decades to complete and cost billions, and cause MORE traffic?

like no lol just build the effing transit and greenways and traffic will go down and the government and people alike will save billions instead (and their time, and lives)
It's ~75% going to the driver if you count the driver's expenses as money that goes to the driver: https://www.hyrecar.com/blog/how-much-does-uber-take-from-dr...
I represented myself pro se in a civil matter that really should have been in small claims but was in superior court because of the remedy being sought by the plaintiff.

It went fine, ended in settlement in my favor.
That 'dense urban landscape' basically does not exist outside of NYC in the US. I'm not sure I'd choose it as a forever home anyway.

For me personally, when looking for a 'forever home' I'm starting to look at smaller college towns. They often have a walkable core around the college, you have access to continuing education opportunities and a college library.

While yes, living around a gaggle of college age kids can be tiring as you get older, a local university fosters a lot of intellectual vibrancy that you wouldn't get without it. You can always hang out with the older folks who teach the classes and serve the college age population.
I lived on 200$ monthly salary for 1.6 years. I guess AI will be slowely priced out from 3rd world countries.
We, humans, use dreams for consolidating memory and information recall, process emotions and rehearse feelings in different imagined contexts, mental housekeeping / pruning away partial or unnecessary information, replay recent events to review and analyze, etc.

Dreaming and sleeping is incredibly expensive, we spend 33% of our "availability" on average asleep.

This kind of work is a step toward building similar tools for general AI agents (IMHO).
Your understanding is wrong. They work perfectly well when road features change and the cars are able to update maps in real time. See https://waymo.com/blog/2020/09/the-waymo-driver-handbook-map...
Exactly: if you hallucinate without adherence to facts, look at them facts and fix that distance. It's in your head - bad habit, bad instruments etc. - just fix it, do not just denounce the malfunction.
It doesn't need any media about "annihalation". If you give a supercapable agent a task and it's entire reward system is "do the task", it will circumvent things you do to it that would stop it from completing it's task.
The price feels outrageous, but I think the unsaid truth of this is that they think o1 is good enough to replace employees. For example, if it's really as good at coding as they say, I could see this being a point where some people decide that a team of 5 devs with o1 pro can do the work of 6 or 7 devs without o1 pro.
for that you can use https://uithub.com (g -> u)

- for browsers it shows html
- for curl is gets raw text
Yeah it's crazy to me you can't just 10x your price to 10x your usage (since you could kind of do this manually by creating more accounts). I would easily pay $200/month for 10x usage - especially now with MCP servers where Claude Desktop + vanilla VS Code is arguably more effective than Cursor/Windsurf.
Another reason to choose Postgres… if you fell asleep and woke up 20 years later like Rip Van Winkle, Postgres would still probably be a 100% valid choice.
Absolutely

There's two dimensions to consider here: many hobbies require monetary investment, and many hobbies require quite a bit of space

You basically cannot have woodworking for instance as your hobby if you live in a small apartment

Yes, maybe there's some kind of Maker-space you can go to, but there may not be. That also just creates a barrier to entry because now you need to deal with a membership to the space, travel time, etc. And you still need space at home to store finished projects too!

So people are pretty restricted in the activities they actually can do if they don't have money or space to do things
but there are no "trits" in his scheme, he's using base 343 represented in base 2, from which trits can be extracted through a reasonably laborious conversion.

also, bits have the dual nature of being boolean logic values, and integers (in fact, arithmetic is done by logic). Bits deserve the honor of their name, and pretenders to the throne are hoping for stolen valor.
Boeing is becoming a national embarrassment. We discuss this ad nauseam every time a post about them makes it to the front page. I think this is a sign that their reputation is beginning to be worth less, and more people in the system are going to be more critical. This one case won't penalize Boeing enough that they return to a more quality focused culture. Maybe there aren't enough legal penalties to do so. I wish I could see a feasible path to Boeing redemption.
I didn't want ClickHouse to take all the glory. /s

The actual reason is that DuckDB's API and integration into other places (e.g. Evidence) and its use of extensions (like the aforementioned gsheets one) gives it priority for me.

Additionally, its being used in a bunch more places like pg_duckdb that make it more "worth it".
That’s a little too conspiratorial for me, I prefer simpler explanations in the absence of other evidence.
How would the know what kind of meat it is?
From afar a veggie patty can be indistinguishable from a meat patty.

Sounds more like taking chance to blame someone.
To spell out something I think you're saying: if you want people to use the legislative and judicial systems to deal with abuses by the rich and powerful, you need to make sure that those systems are visibly willing and able to do so.
I'm sure there are people out there but it's hard for me to imagine who this is for.

Even their existing subscription is a hard sell if only because the value proposition changes so radically and rapidly, in terms of the difference between free and paid services.
Heh, citing the Obra Dinn is cheating a bit. Most people aren't going to do this: https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=40832.msg136374...
Discussion (134 points, 15 hours ago, 314 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42324263
what would be the purpose of this dating site?
They released the full o1 today as well as a new subscription plan as part of their "ship-mas" starting today where there will be a new launch or demo every day for the next 12 business days.