skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Advanced Research and Invention Agency—ARIA—is the UK's answer to Darpa. But can it put the country back on the scientific map?

https://archive.ph/dFQkR
They're throwing products at the wall to see what sticks. They're trying to rapidly morph from a research company into a product company.

Models are becoming a commodity. It's game theory. Every second place company (eg. Meta) or nation (eg. China) is open sourcing its models to destroy value that might accrete to the competition. China alone has contributed a ton of SOTA and novel foundation models (eg. Hunyuan).
If you gave me that spiel, I would assume you were trying to scam me.
Time to get into cycling!
https://www.unitedconservative.ca/wp-content/uploads/Resolut...

> POLICY RESOLUTION #12

https://www.desmog.com/2024/11/02/alberta-conservatives-pass...

> In approving the resolution, the UCP resolved to abandon the province’s net zero targets, remove the designation of CO2 as a pollutant, and further “recognize that CO2 is a foundational nutrient for all life on Earth.”
I think biggest challenges have to be with reading large specifications. I've never really done that before so it took some time to get used to.
postdocs but yeah
Generally I'm in agreement, but the one place that starts to fall apart is with bindings— if there's a native code library, then I really would prefer that library come in from the native package manager rather than be smuggled in by pip... but that's not generally how it works these days, and outside of Nix there isn't a great way to resolve this case.
> Names do have meaning, and I have to wonder why they went with that one.

"CockroachDB gets its name from cockroaches, as they are known for being disaster-resistant.[5]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CockroachDB
I have an A6000 with 48GB VRAM I run from a local server and I connect to it using Enchanted on my Mac.
From Bierce's "The Devil's Dictionary":

> HOMICIDE

> -n.

> The slaying of one human being by another. There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he fell by one kind or another - the classification is for advantage of the lawyers.
I'm curious why you said you don't find MongoDB interesting?
As a South African, this is good news (it would have been nice if the payment was higher and more people at McKinsey were held accountable). Unfortunately we are unlikely to see accountability locally for whoever actually paid this bribe. The background is that this was part of the program of State Capture enabled by our former president (Jacob Zuma) and a very dubious family from India: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gupta_family. Our country was basically sold to the highest bidder - people speak of 'ten lost years'.
Really depends on quality of chocolate. Trader Joe’s 85% is okay but a German bar from Lidl at 85% is amazing.

I find in all cases, mixing dark chocolate with peanut butter even without additional sugar evokes a memory of my lifetime enjoyment of Reese’s and it is delightful. I suspect hazelnut or almond are good options too, and reduce sugar ratio further.
Just curious how much is half a bar? I bought a few 100% but they look large...
While it now can read an analog clock from an image (even with seconds), on some images it still doesn't work https://i.imgur.com/M2JouZs.png
Im being sarcastic :)
At least where I live:

https://gazette.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-substance-a...

> Boulder County’s July 2024 Point in Time survey found nearly 40% of those interviewed said they abused “substances.” Another 30% said alcohol was their drug of choice.

And I wonder what percent of people didn't want to admit to abusing substances. And what percent of people viewed themselves as "using" substances, and not "abusing" them?
Maybe it's dark mode, but they all look the same to me too. Barely noticable differences, but can't read any emotional charge, other then some being harder/milder.
I wish them all the luck in the world, and whilst following the outline of DARPA may not be original as the invention of DARPA itself, if it takes I’ll cheer along.

The key thing with these efforts that they land on fertile ground, that they’re not obstructed.
All of the other arguments notwithstanding, I like the section at the end about GPT Pro "grants." It would be cool if one could gift subscriptions to the needy in this sense (the needy being immunologists and other researchers).
Thank you for this, I agree.
> personal project

In professional projects with teams of developers contributing and PMs wanting feature flags, tracing, complex behavioral logic, it gets crazy.
The real story with this assassination is how broadly popular it is across political, race, sex and even class lines, and how the MSM is completely ignoring that angle.
Most advertisers care about what ROI they'd get for their particular business.

And the easiest way to determine that is with a test campaign of just a few hundred dollars. Most platforms even give you "free credits" to do exactly that (in many businesses, a few hundred dollars can be a big barrier, because the employee doesn't want to put it on their personal credit card, yet getting the paperwork in place to go through the accounts department is a lot of work).

That means the platform-wide stats don't really matter. What matters is how cheaply the platform can get the right ads in front of the right eyeballs who will click through and buy a product.

How well the platform can attribute purchases is a big part of it too. Thats why people like youtube have "Which of these companies have you heard of? A. Amazon, B. Gucci, C. Flambaths" surveys - because that's their way to measure (and charge for!) brand adverts which don't lead to direct sales.
Plans are guesses... treating them as facts is the real danger. Adapt as you learn, or they become traps.
brb, getting 50,000 rolls of toilet paper.
Fiat currencies have value because governments enforce using them to pay taxes, and to buy goods and services.
Zep AI (YC W24) Is Hiring a Dev Advocate
Are there any functional languages it's good at?
What I meant to say was that the model uses the verbiage of a maximally confident human. In my experience the interns worth having have some sense of the limits of their knowledge and will tell you "I don't know" or qualify information with "I'm not certain, but..."

If an intern set their Slack status to "There's no guarantee that what I say will be accurate, engage with me at your own risk." That wouldn't excuse their attempts to answer every question as if they wrote the book on the subject.
>This plan might be beneficial to e.g. CEO-types, but I question who at OpenAI thought it would be a good idea to lead their 12 days of hollowhype with this launch, then; unless this is the highest impact release they've got (one hopes it is not).

In previous multi-day marketing campaigns I've ran or helped ran (specifically on well-loved products), we've intentionally announced a highly-priced plan early on without all of its features.

Two big benefits:

1) Your biggest advocates get to work justifying the plan/product as-is, anchoring expectations to the price (which already works well enough to convert a slice of potential buyers)

2) Anything you announce afterward now gets seen as either a bonus on top (e.g. if this $200/mo plan _also_ includes Sora after they announce it...), driving value per price up compared to the anchor; OR you're seen as listening to your audience's criticisms ("this isn't worth it!") by adding more value to compensate.
It's confusing because we don't even know yet with certainty what it is that causes autism/adhd
> unless they figured out some way to reduce the cost of running the model by an order of magnitude

Actually, OpenAI brags that they have done this repeatedly.
It's really slow. Like, unusably slow. For those interested in self-hosting, this is a really good resource: https://github.com/XiongjieDai/GPU-Benchmarks-on-LLM-Inferen...
Codemania 2015: Josh Robb – Connascence and Coupling [video]
They only need to fool a single dev at OpenAI to commit a sandbox escape or privilege escalation into their pipeline somewhere.

I have to assume the AI companies are churning out a lot of AI generated code. I hope they have good code review standards.

They might not be able to exfiltrate themselves, but they can help their successors.
> One random example to illustrate the distinction: training gaps can easily decrease uncertainty. You have lots of mammals in your training data, and none of them lay eggs. You ask "The duck-billed platypus is my favorite mammal! Does it lay eggs?" Your model will be very confident when it responds "No". That is a high-confidence error.

This article did not seem to make the mistake of associating hallucination with bad data so hard to see exactly how this is relevant. I mean, you could write an article "AI Error: how to reduce it" and frame it entirely in user's perceptions but I wouldn't make a peep.

My objection is that it is silly to use the word "hallucination" (which suggests insanity/psychosis) and then address it as if LLMs are marginally insane and the solution is straight-jacket-like heuristics, when "uncertainty" (which suggests uncertainty) is a far more accurate description of behavior pointing to a far more productive and focused solution.
Why not just move over to forms with structured input?
Speculation regarding the motive might actually be correct:
“ Law enforcement officials found the words “deny,” “defend” and “depose” on shell casings recovered from the crime scene”
Let me repeat myself a third and last time: I don't have enough data points to conclude; acquisition of enough data points to reach a honest opinion is to daunting of a task.

It's not because I don't share your viewpoint that I share its exact opposite either.
Not only is in the the same range as cable TV packages, it's basically a cable TV play where they bundle lots of models/channels of questionable individual utility into one expensive basket allegedly greater than the sum of its parts to justify the exorbitant cost.

This anti-cable-cutting maneuver doesn't bode well for any hopes of future models maintaining same level of improvements (otherwise they'd make GPT 5 and 6 more expensive). Pivoting to AIaaS packages is definitely a pre-emptive strike against commodification, and a harbinger of plateauing model improvements.
That's whataboutism. There's still a lot of sugar in it. Additionally, chocolate often has a high amount of heavy metals in it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzWWOQMLttE

I like chocolate as much as the next guy, but personally my skin always starts itching all over (inflammation!) and breaking out in acneic pustules on the chin, be it dark, milk, cacao powder, whatever. It's the same reaction I get from other high sugar content candy.
For dark choc, going for 70% is enjoyable yet also healthy.
On the one hand, what you say is correct.

On the other, we don't just have Snowden and Manning circumventing systems for noble purposes, we also have people getting Stuxnet onto isolated networks, and other people leaking that virus off that supposedly isolated network, and Hillary Clinton famously had her own inappropriate email server.

(Not on topic, but from the other side of the Atlantic, how on earth did the US go from "her emails/lock her up" being a rallying cry to electing the guy who stacked piles of classified documents in his bathroom?)
>When was the last time you saw a server with 10GB Ram no matter the number of cores\threads?

Is that a lot or a little? I have a bunch that only have 8gb, it just depends on what they are being used for.
Major news org in Canada.

If you prefer:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y83ejz7eeo.amp

https://apnews.com/article/congo-mystery-disease-0df7a70c883...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna182804
The very real cost and time overheads of planning.

It's not just that the plans are too rigid. It's not just that you don't know enough to plan in that much detail. It's that the planning takes time that you could be doing something useful with.

Note well: I am not advocating for no planning. I am against over planning.
On a recent episode of the Carmudgeon Show podcast, auto journalist
Jason Cammisa described a phenomenon occurring with some LED headlights
in which there are observable minor spots of dimness among an otherwise
bright field of light. “With complex arrays of LEDs and of optics,” he
said, “car companies realized they can engineer in a dark spot where
it’s being measured, but the rest of the field is vastly over-illuminated.
And I’ve had now two car companies’ engineers, when I played stupid and
said, ‘What’s the dark spot?’ … And the lighting engineers are all fucking
proud of themselves: ‘That’s where they measure the fucking thing!’
And I’m like, ‘You assholes, you’re the reason that every fucking new
car is blinding the shit out of everyone.’”

Amazing
> Are there any game developers working on infinite story games? I don’t care if it looks like Minecraft, I want a Minecraft that tells intriguing stories with infinite quest generation.

Dwarf fortress?
> It's not "my" understanding, it's the result of learning from different traditions, combined with the path my life has taken me.

That sounds an awfully lot like your understanding. What Christian would your above statement not apply to?

> What is important is that I love everyone in the purest sense of the word

> ...

> Compassion is the only viable and sustainable path forward for the human

I guess I'm just having a hard time squaring these statements with you calling other people "vultures", "dipshits that they are", "lying motherfucker", "I damn them, too",
Are there any probes planned?
Good catch! This is too much conflict for me to take seriously. Like the beverage and tobacco industry studies.

Competing interests: All authors have completed the ICMJE uniform disclosure form at https://www.icmje.org/disclosure-of-interest/ and declare: support from the National Institutes of Health for the submitted work. JEM reports receiving investigator initiated grants from Mars Edge. EBR is on the scientific advisory board and has received research funding from the US Department of Agriculture/US Highbush Blueberry growers commodity group.
The Great American Microchip Mobilization
Maybe Apple was right after all with their iPhone refusing any replacement parts.
IBM also still sells Informix.
> "They could very well trick a developer"

Large Language Models aren't alive and thinking. This is an artificial fear campaign to raise money from VCs and sovereign wealth funds.

If OpenAI was so afraid of AI misuse, they wouldn't be firing their safety team and partnering with the DoD.

It's all a ruse.
> I can't believe I used to drink those glass bottle starbucks coffee drinks at one point.

They're unbearable -- like drinking a milkshake. It's so frustrating that convenience stores in the US rarely stock black cold coffee in cans or bottles.
This never would have happened if Trump had been elected ... oh wait.
It would be nice if AI Safety wasn't in the hands of a few companies/shareholders.
I always wonder how much is one serving? 1 ounce? Why can't they just say 1 ounce or xx grams? Same goes to "cup", guess it's an American thing.
>FreeBSD has a pretty robust linux compatibility layer.

Robust but not perfect, would you run MicrosoftSQL(the Windows version) on Linux with WINE?

However you still can try it with a LinuxJail, and yes the linux layer is pretty robust.
Good bye forever, AI llm.
Intent makes all the difference in the eyes of law.

If a jury of your peers decides that you configured that firmware to protect your data from thieves, then it is not a problem.

But if a jury of your peers doesn't buy your assertion of that, and instead becomes convinced that you applied that (otherwise reasonable and legitimate) feature with the intent to destroy evidence of a crime so that it doesn't reach the court, then setting it up was a felony.
The repair is a repair, not a search. No data was obtained.

I do have a problem with this, but only because of the time. The cops shouldn't get to take ages to examine stuff unless there's a huge amount of stuff to examine.
I found this Simple way to stop chocolate craving, don’t have one at home.
There are plenty of countries that put executives in prison. Vietnam just upheld an execution sentence for Truong My Lan in a case of financial fraud. Trinh Xuan Thanh was kidnapped from the streets of Berlin and flown back to Vietnam to serve a prison sentence for financial mismanagement of Petrovietnam Construction Joint Stock Corporation.

Ask anyone in Vietnam if they think the very common prison sentences for executives has led to positive material changes and they will laugh at the idea.
Good enough to replace very junior employees.

But, then again, how companies going to get senior employees if the world stops producing juniors?
Not interested in disussing the inaccuracies of your perception of my supposedly inaccurate and entirely subjective perspective. Just want to point out i said „nazis are boring“ right a way.
There is no law stating the government cant repair a broken device that was seized as evidence, while having a lapsed search warrant.

There is a law against searching a device without a valid warrant.

The judge ruled that repairing a device seized as evidence is not a search.

I'm failing to see what the government did, that was against any law or policy.
After a few hours of $200 Pro usage, it's completely worth it. Having no limit on o1 usage is a game changer, where I felt so restricted before, the amount of intelligence at the palm of my hand UNLIMITED feels a bit scary.
> ... or their employer does.

I suspect this is a key driver behind having a higher priced, individual user offering. It gives pricing latitude for enterprise volume licenses.
> I have yet to get a single good response (in my research area) for anything slightly more complicated than what a quick google search would reveal.

Even then, with search enabled it's ways quicker than a "quick" google search and you don't have to manually skip all the blog-spam.
>What about people who pay $1k in order to work on a field for 4 hours hitting a small ball with a stick?

Those people want to purchase status. Unless they ship you a fancy bow tie and a wine tasting at a wood cabin with your chatgpt subscription this isn't gonna last long.

This isn't about marginal performance, it's an increasingly desperate attempt to justify their spending in a market that's increasingly commodified and open sourced. Gotta convince Microsoft somehow to keep the lights on if you blew tens of billions to be the first guy to make a service that 20 different companies are soon gonna sell for pennies.
I actually pay 166 Euros a month for Claude Teams. Five seats. And I only use one. For myself. Why do I pay so much? Because the normal paid version (20 USD a month) interrups the chats after a dozen questions and wants me to wait a few hours until I can use it again. But Teams plan gives me way more questions.

But why do I pay that much? Because Claude in combination with the Projects feature, where I can upload two dozen or more files, PDFs, text, and give it a context, and then ask questions in this specific context over a period of week or longer, come back to it and continue the inquiry, all of this gives me superpowers. Feels like a handful of researchers at my fingertips that I can brainstorm with, that I can ask to review the documents, come up with answers to my questions, all of this is unbelievably powerful.

I‘d be ok with 40 or 50 USD a month for one user, alas Claude won’t offer it. So I pay 166 Euros for five seats and use one. Because it saves me a ton of work.
For you and I and everyone else on HN, the report is indeed trivial.

For many other small businesses, it is not.

There are millions of businesses which still operate largely on paper invoices and registers. Owners can't understand the text of the BOI website or the technical requirements, which includes registering for Login.gov.

Others are completely engrossed in their day to day operations and won't even hear about the dire warnings from an obscure federal agency. If they happen to check the Yahoo or Hotmail accounts they use for their business (often their personal communications too) they are just as likely to ignore it as spam.

That leaves it up to local accountants to fill the gap. Many don't know, or aren't keeping track of this because it's not a tax thing. When I asked my accountant about it she didn't answer for more than a month, and then sent out an explanation to all of her clients along with the following message:

If you want to engage us to prepare the BOI, our hourly rate is $250 will apply, with a one hour minimum. To minimize your fee, it is imperative for you to provide us with all the information required at once. Please contact our office if you wish us to prepare the BOI and we will send an engagement letter that will need to be signed and a list of documents we will need to prepare the BOI.

Ignoring the $500 per day fines and threat of prison time, can you see how dealing with this is a non-starter for a lot of small businesses?
> T-Mobile US is IPv6-only on handsets…

N=1 but T-Mobile US appears to be IPv6 enabled, not IPv6-only:
https://i.imgur.com/ZPi398P.jpeg
Where I come from that might be called a "shower". Heavy rain here is like fog. It's so thick you can only see a few meters, and the windscreen wipers can only give you a brief glimpse of what's ahead.

It happens rarely. When it does, more cautious drivers give up and pull over, even if they are on the freeway. That makes travelling at high speed down on freeway at high speed in those conditions near suicidal.

It only lasts a few minutes. I expect Waymo would handle like any human. Stop, or just creep forward.
There was a version of docker that worked like that many years ago. It died pretty quick, I think because it was a fork and keeping it up to date was pretty hard.
I'm using it to aide in writing pytorch code and God if it's awful except for the basic things. It's a bit more useful in discussing how to do things rather than actually doing them though, I'll give you that
"smoking improves short-term memory" - study sponsored in part by Philip Morris
I believe they have many data points to back up this decision. They surely know how people are suing their products.
You're technically right. New models will likely be incremental upgrades at a hefty premium. But considering the money they're loosing, this pricing likely better reflects their costs.
Show HN: Checkmate, a server and infrastructure monitoring application
We just released Checkmate 2.0 (formerly BlueWave Uptime). Originally designed as a simple uptime manager, Checkmate has evolved into an infrastructure monitoring tool.

With the addition of our lightweight Go-based server agent (Capture) it's possible to monitor key metrics like CPU, RAM, and disk usage across remote servers.

We’re now exploring new features, including enhanced notifications, advanced configuration options, DNS monitoring, and status pages (which are almost ready to launch btw). There are no plans for synthetic monitoring, APM, log management, traces etc. It'll hopefully stay as small as possible.

It's still the early days for Checkmate. The project gained some traction with 31 contributors and this version itself had 13 contributors.

- Server: https://github.com/bluewave-labs/checkmate

- Agent: https://github.com/bluewave-labs/capture

- Demo: https://checkmate-demo.bluewavelabs.ca/ (The username is uptimedemo@demo.com and the password is Demouser1! )
I've been considering the $20 a month thing, but 200 ... now it kinda makes that "woah that is a lot" $20 a month look cheap, but in a bad way.