skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
McDonalds doesn't publish prices online, but for me in downtown Seattle - with a famously high minimum wage ($20) everyone said was going to destroy the economy - a smallest-size Starbucks Americano at my local one is $3.85 according to their website.

I think what you're experiencing might be "business owners charge what the market will bear" and you, as part of the market, are bearing price increases.
Dupe (82 points, 22 hours ago, 23 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42483500
I don’t speak for all Americans. I do hate gambling as I have seen it destroy families while not have any redeeming qualities. I can give justifications for sports, hunting, and drinking. But I see gambling as purely destructive. And yes the puritan in me sees Las Vegas as a city built to prey on gamblers and a way for the mafia to launder money.
https://feeds.twtxt.net/feeds (There are hundreds of us!! HUNDREDS!!!) /s
This was a very fun video. Both the technology involved and the passion of someone collecting these things.
Literally did something similar just last week, was looking for a good redis gui on windows and couldn't find one that clicked (closest I got was Another Redis Desktop Manager but it sorted my keys like 1, 11, 2 etc) so turned to sqlite and implemented this. Also added a "sync to disk" method so I get both the benefits of ram and persistence, worked out great since the data I'm getting over tcp has a sequence number so in case of any errors I resume from the last sequence number in the db. Thinking of fully committing and moving some stuff from the language like decoding the raw bytes to build a json object to an extension.
Basf.com: Forced Labor at the Factory in Auschwitz
O1 tops new aider polyglot leaderboard (61.7% vs. 45.3% for Claude)
Don't forget that fastmail is through an internet transport with enough latency to make hdd seek times noise
assumption here is the people posting vile shit are also broke&homeless?
Combinatorial can be quickly calculated primarily using factorials. 4 possible options, each where you're picking all 4 exactly once is 4!. The reasoning is pretty intuitive, when you start selecting there are four options, when you go to pick the next one there are 3 left in the pool, then 2, and finally 1. This turns into 4 * 3 * 2 * 1 = 24.

This site seems to have a pretty good overview of them if you'd like to become more familiar: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/mathematics-combinatorics-basi...
More generally, see also the Laplace-Beltrami and Laplace-de Rham operators, both defined on (pseudo-)Riemannian manifolds not necessarily embedded in ℝ³.

Even more generally, see the huge body of beautiful mathematics that has arisen from the study of elliptic differential operators in general (de Rham cohomology, Hodge theory, the Atiyah-Singer index theorem, …).
CUDA Moat Still Alive
They also have a SaaS product that lives in the cloud:

https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/08/30/journey-to-the-cloud-p...
Companies don't make products for customers anymore. They make sinkholes for rich peoples money. The reason everything feels like a scam is because it is. Everyone is scamming everyone else in every possible direction. The VC companies are scaming entrepreneurs by fuedalizing owning a business. The entrepreneurs are scamming their customers by creating a product that moves a metric that they then sell to a private or public equity firm. Those companies scam investors by selling stock without dividends. Those investors scam other investors ad infinitum by selling them the idea of an even bigger sucker. And the government scams people with money by saying if you don't do something with it they will take it away from you through taxes and inflation.

All of this is propped up by the middle and lower class, and even lower class in nondeveloped countries.
You don't need to delete data instantly, you just need to do it within a reasonable timeframe. So batching data deletion requests and running a clear out once a week should be fine.

You may even be okay to just reply to the user that you've deleted all active copies of the data and it'll be fully gone when your backups expire in 30 days.

IANAL tho.
Obviously not. I want legislation which imposes liability on OpenAI and similar companies if they actively market their products for use in safety-critical fields and their product doesn’t perform as advertised.

If a system is providing incorrect medical diagnoses, or denying services to protected classes due to biases in the training in the training data, someone should be held accountable.
William Butler Yeats...
The history of modern technology is the history of running away from government regulation.
Medical device mimics tapeworm hooks for soft tissue anchoring
kinda how we do it. language is just an io interface(but also neural obv) on top of our reasoning engine.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42485007
I’d say it’s less Freud than it is Internal Family Systems theory, which posits human personality is multiple. And we’ve somehow learned to suppress voices that we know sub-consciously to be unacceptable, maybe through socialization etc. Writing this, I make the leap to Jung and need for awareness and management of these suppressed voices before they overwhelm us.

I’m conscious I am (maybe we are) fumbling towards statement or acknowledgment of the same thing.

PS I like what you wrote!
Reducing the sheer volume is still a critically important step.

You're right that fundamentally there's an imbalance between the absolute mass of people producing the garbage, and the few moderators dealing with it. But we also don't have an option to just cut everyone's internet.

Designing platforms and business models that inherently produce less of the nasty stuff could help a lot. But even if/when we get there, we'll need automated mechanisms to ask people if they really want to be jerks, absolutely need to send their dick picks, or let people deal with sheer crime pics without having to look at them more than two seconds.
Users flagged it. We can only guess why users flag things, but there are usually clues in the comments. I've turned the flags off now.

p.s. @dang doesn't work - you have to email hn@ycombinator.com if you want mostly-guaranteed message delivery.
Well yes, heurstics for query planning is a very well researched field
To output "don't know" a system needs to "know" too. Random token generator can't know. It can guess better and better, maybe it can even guess 99.99% of time, but it can't know, it can't decide or reason (not even o1 can "reason").
Scientific theories are models, and models are based on data.
> "carnivore/herbivore dynamic, which seems like less of a dietary thing and more of a behavioral thing"

They're literally terms to describe dietary habits, nothing else. A human who eats meat is a carnivore, regardless of whether they're hunting live animals or being served chicken nuggets on a plate - the only behaviour that's relevant is whether the diet includes meat or not.
Some would go a step further and demand it be mandated.
If their AGI dreams would come true it might be more than enough to have 3 months head start. They probably won't, but it's interesting to ponder what the next few hours, days, weeks would be for someone that would wield AGI.

Like let's say you have a few datacenters of compute at your disposal and the ability to instantiate millions of AGI agents - what do you have them do?

I wonder if the USA already has a secret program for this under national defense. But it is interesting that once you do control an actual AGI you'd want to speed-run a bunch of things. In opposition to that, how do you detect an adversary already has / is using it and what to do in that case.
One issue with that is that the model may learn to smuggle data. You as a human think that the plain reading of the words is what is doing the reasoning, but (part of) the processing is done by the exact comma placement and synonym choice etc.

Data smuggling is a known phenomenon in similar tasks.
For $5 a month my local pharmacy delivers to my door.
Would be awesome if we had some actual proof (science) backing this up. Anyone?
In that example the constructor parameters were just moved, is there some cost in overloading the empty params?

Original (labeled bad by the book):

private void printGuessStatistics(char candidate, int count) {
String number;
String verb;
String pluralModifier;

Modified version:

public class GuessStatisticsMessage {
private String number;
private String verb;
private String pluralModifier;

public String make(char candidate, int count) {
createPluralDependentMessageParts(count);
return String.format(
"There %s %s %s%s",
verb, number, candidate, pluralModifier );
}

Once again, it was presented in the context of naming things....not object or data structures.

Often one has to resort to spherical cows to explain things.

(Edited to add the overloaded constructor params)
Thanks for the fast reply! For some background:

Rundoc is a tool for writing tutorials such that the author is guaranteed the outcome is valid (if a command fails, the tutorial fails) and for helping users see the exact output they would expect (instead of a static output). The tool has website integration that allows you to take screenshots and navigate a webpage.

Recently I wrote this tutorial https://schneems.com/2023/06/14/its-dangerous-to-go-alone-pu... which makes heavy use of vscode extension shortcuts and hover over tips. I would love to be able to keep that tutorial up to date by scripting the tooltips to make sure the options don’t change and the suggested commands like CMD+. Continue to work.
Even for adults, a robot that would likely have to be close to as massive as a human being, in order to do laundry and the like, would spook me out, moving freely through my place.
> Any usecase that requires interacting with a service is automatically excluded

This isn't correct. Many applications consist of a mix of static and dynamic content. Even dynamic content is often cacheable for a time. All of this can be served by a CDN (using TTLs) which is a much simpler and more cost effective solution than multi-region cloud infra, with the same performance benefits.
def should_upvote(headline: str) -> bool:
if "o3" in headline.lower():
return True
return False

Seriously though, is there anything new here? Also why the need for the editorialized headline? The article is titled "12 Days of OpenAI", not "ChatGPT O3 Preview Announcement" (which frankly makes it sound like it's about to be available to the public, which it isn't).
That's the point being made. It's transformed robotics research, yes, but it both remains to see whether it will have a truly transformative effect on the field as experienced by people outside academia (I think this is quite probable) and more pointedly when.
its a dying host and the xenomorph cant be bothered probably
Object Pascal was sadly mostly gone by the time NeXT was acquired, C++ was the main Apple language already.

Object Pascal got replaced with MPW environment, and a C++ version of Toolbox got introduced.

Additionally Metrowerks with the PowerPlant C++ framework, was eventually the main Apple partner for Mac OS development.
Good vibe-check on my day to day work in web tech. Sometimes I wonder how web deployments would work if we still deployed quarterly, yearly, etc.
Why do we even need a microblogging platform? Twitter turned into a dumpster fire. Why will these other alternatives not have the same fate?
Is it "eerie"? LeCun has been talking about it for some time, and may also be OpenAI's rumored q-star, mentioned shortly after Noam Brown (diplomacybot) joining OpenAI. You can't hill climb tokens, but you can climb manifolds.
Ofc, but at scale you absolutely need to
Very anecdotal but I’ve found that for things that are well spec’d out with a good prompt Sonnet 3.5 is far better. For problems where I might have introduced a subtle logical error o1 seems to catch it extremely well. So better reasoning might be occurring but reasoning is only a small part of what we would consider intelligence.
It's no different from how rebasing works in any shared git project; rebased commits are re-created with different SHAs.
> Clients learn to accept them and move forward. People might “truly believe that they are spies for the government and lived on Mars,” Menschel said. “But they now know not to bring that up in social situations.”

Many people believe in such things and are also successful. The difference is that successful people align themselves with those who hold the actual keys to Reality.
Next should be this -> https://x.com/lemire/status/1869752213402157131

What a progress we have with these. Amazing times.
I think the difference comes down to interacting with it like IDE autocomplete vs. interacting with it like a colleague.

It sounds like you're doing the former -- and yeah, it can make mistakes that autocomplete wouldn't or generate code that's wrong or overly complex.

On the other hand, I've found that if you treat it more like a colleague, it works wonderfully. Ask it to do something, then read the code and ask follow-up questions. If you see something that's wrong or just seems off, tell it, and ask it to fix it. If you don't understand something, ask for an explanation. I've found that this process generates great code that I often understand better than if I had written it from scratch, and in a fraction of the time.

It also sounds like you're asking it to do basic tasks that you already know how to do. I find that it's most useful in tackling things that I don't know how to do. It'll already have read all of the documentation and know the right way to call whatever APIs, etc, and -- this is key -- you can have a conversation with it to clear up anything that's confusing.

This takes a big shift in mindset if you've been using IDEs all your life and have expectations of LLMs being a fancy autocomplete. And you really have to unlearn a lot of stuff to get the most out of them.
Because if you don’t do such things, you spend more than you have to.
Yeah, we know about the ZFS encryption with send/receive bug, it's frustrating our attempts to get really nice HA support on our logging system... but so far it appears that just deleting the offsending snapshot and creating a new one works, and we're funding some research into the issue as well.

This is the current script - it runs every minute for each pool synced between the two log servers: https://gist.github.com/brong/6a23fee1480f2d62b8a18ade5aea66...
> I’ve personally been burned on Python by the last bullet point where one of the dependencies required version 3.14 or less of module such and such, and another dependency needed 3.15 or higher.

This is what people used to call “DLL Hell,” in Microsoft Windows.

COM was supposed to fix that, but I don’t think it worked especially well.
You don't have to tell HN, just report to GitHub, they're pretty good at banning annoying bots and users.
Only for you lot of Thouth-american thpanish thpeakerth.
>GPT-5 is called GPT-4o

This is the first I have heard of this in particular. Do you know of any article or source for more on the efforts to train GPT 5 and the decision to call it GPT 4o?
I think I understand your point, and this is not directed at you personally, but: I think "shift left" is another one of those phrases that's lost all meaning, like "synergy" or "agile" before it.
All URLs used when interacting with an API obviously identify API endpoints. There is no such thing as a URL which is part of an API but which is not an API endpoint.

There is a difference between /api/entity/123 and /api/search with a payload of 123, though.
haha the gif takes a bit to load :D I was also wondering "wait no screenshots of said gui?"

I have not tested the app yet, but im gonna, Im a fan of nice TUIs (terminal user interfaces) and it seems you did an exellent job!
My beard isn't entirely grey yet!

The new NVMe drives we've only had for a few years, but so far there's only been a single failure across the whole fleet, and we keep spares in stock. It's been very reliable, not like the weeks back in (hmm, 2006? 2007?) the ancient past, when we were losing 15kRPM velociraptors every other day. They had a firmware fault and we eventually got an update which made them reliable, but it was a wild few months.
it really isnt. its just that people love to throw kitchen sinks on top of kitchen sinks.
FWIW, my approach to IaC has been to focus on the “I” with CloudFormation — the networking, storage, IAM, other AWS primitives and etc. This stuff doesn’t change as often, and safe/reliable deployments are more valuable than quick ones.

The behavioral parts (aka. application, stuff running in a VM of some kind or something declarative like EventBridge rules or StepFunctions) I keep separate and prioritize quick turns. CodeDeploy can, for example, update code on EC2s in single-digit seconds.

I’m building systems that are a little more integrated in AWS than most folks, perhaps, which makes this approach a good fit. I do dozens of deployments a day (not an exaggeration — 21 so far today on a light day), including a couple infrastructure updates.

I think the secret here is not buying into meme-like simplifications and instead deliberately design an approach that works for your goals.
Ever see someone mention "The Donald"? It's the same thing.

It's when something or someone gets so recognizable that they can be referred to in a singular sense. There are lots of instances of this throughout pop culture.

In the context of the interview, it's someone who was part of the "Floyd-verse" (this word is a mashup of Floyd and Universe, another common affectation). Pink Floyd was a remarkably famous band, and they still are. Someone that was part of the "Floyd-verse" naturally would have felt the band as all encompassing. It wasn't just a band, it was tour after tour, hit song after hit song, millions and millions of fans - and getting caught up in that made "Pink Floyd" seem far bigger than the sum of its parts. Calling that phenomenon "The Floyd" is actually very succinct, and portrays how large a cultural phenomenon Pink Floyd was and still is, 60 years later.

I have to wonder why you can't/won't understand this.
The point is that vastly fewer people will become addicts in the first place if you don't literally advertise it during games and let them download an app and get going in a couple seconds. Stopping 100% of addicts isn't the goal. The goal is to discourage it, or at least not encourage it.

We don't need cartoons pushing cigarettes on kids, and rightly banned that. We don't need Disney and schools pushing gambling on young adults. The current situation is that some public schools are literally pushing gambling on students. It's a complete betrayal toward the younger generation by the older ones (yes, state lotteries are also bad).
What front ends work with jujutsu? Do I have to start doing all on the command line, or can I use existing clients such as Fork?

Kudos for the article. I have been seeing jj here and there, but this is the first that made me want to try it.
Neither do I, but that has nothing to do with the minimum wage increase.
I don't see a need for a tool like that.
More palace intrigue, sigh.

Meanwhile, the biggest opportunity lies not in whatever next thing OpenAI releases, but the rest of the enormous software industry actually integrating this technology and realizing the value it can deliver.
Counterexample: Everyone uses dishwashers. Yet I don’t think we’ll have a robot doing the dishes human-style, or even just filling up and clearing out a dishwasher, within the next decade or two, regardless of price.
they are though, similar to the way black people are “worshipped” in america. to be seen as callous to poverty is a weird black hole in england.
Marcus Aurelius, the famously stoic Roman emperor, made liberal reforms during his reign like increased welfare, orphanages, higher taxes on the wealthy and famine relief. You can use stoicism as a shield to hide under, or to fight behind. It's up to the wielder.
Maybe you should dive into additional references then,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34449912

And in that meeting he expresses the point UNIX being relevant due to the workstation market, not because he is such a big UNIX fan.
So we know a couple of digits and the splice points. We also know the date. Phone numbers used to be public back then.

It would be fun to grep for the pattern in the matching phone book to see if someone in Pink Floyd's circles comes up.

Only problem is to get hold of a digital version of the phone book.
It strikes me as odd how hard it is to retrieve information that used to be so ubiquitous.

Not too long ago police in Germany asked publicly for information about certain phone numbers related to the Madeleine McCann case. Apparently not even the police has an archive of old phone books.
Possibly https://www.avuxi.com/topplace/location-scores
I think my biggest pet peeve is when someone shares an insight which is unmistakably based on intuition, inference, critical thinking, etc (all mental faculties we are allowed to use to come to conclusions in the face of information asymmetry btw)

...and then gets hit deadpan with the good old "Source?", like it's some sort of gotcha.

I think people have started to confuse "making logical conclusions without perfect info" with "misinformation"

-

Before certain people start acting like this is advocating for misinformation (which would be an incredible irony...) it's not.

I'm saying if you disagree with what someone supposits, just state so directly. Don't wrap it in a disingenous query for a source.
I don't think Ireland has the pub culture you have in mind. Honestly not much to do besides pubs here, and unless you have an established friend group, good luck making one. Locals are in their own bubbles.

Irish people are quite famous for how not lonely they are, so much so that the tiny island only has 2 or 3 subreddits dedicated to making friends and meeting people.
Sorry, meant "special for using Gemini"
Based on their forecasts it’s still pretty sensible. I don’t personally believe the forecasts are sensible. But that’s besides the point.
We're (very boring I know) just putting it all in a git repository with a Makefile which deploys it, plus some basic orchestration to run 'make diff' across the cluster and see what's out of sync, and 'make install' across hosts to deploy it into pl ace.

It's clunky, but simple, repeatable, and easily (vsfo) understood.

As for the bigger things, software etc - we have scripts that generate Debian packages which we store in our own private repo. You just install `fastmail-server` and the dependency management updates everything. There's a daily cronjob which checks if there are updated security packages or thing we failed to correctly deploy and emails us as well.

It's amazing what you can build on top of the OS provided tools with not too much complexity if you don't overthink it.
Thanks for these suggestions. That is really good advice, writing down gained knowledge and assumptions, then presenting it to them for clarification or my future self. The codebase is quite massive, and while they have tests, the coverage is just a fraction. So, I might need to build more. To answer your question, I think the industry expectations have changed with AI and the BS of big-tech CEOs. But that is just me guessing based on the pressure I'm receiving.
It required the re-implementation of stable interfaces as the components updated in version number; not everyone did that. I guess. A case of good plan, lazy execution.
I think people overstate this.

Yes, the sqlite concurrency model is a bad choice if you have a high degree of concurrent writes. However for many applications that simply isn't true. When it comes to websites i think people significantly overestimate the amount of concurrent writes.