skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is so impressive that it brings out the pessimist in me.

Hopefully my skepticism will end up being unwarranted, but how confident are we that the queries are not routed to human workers behind the API? This sounds crazy but is plausible for the fake-it-till-you-make-it crowd.

Also given the prohibitive compute costs per task, typical users won't be using this model, so the scheme could go on for quite sometime before the public knows the truth.

They could also come out in a month and say o3 was so smart it'd endanger the civilization, so we deleted the code and saved humanity!
Apple IAP doesn't support refunds?
It never fully pulled out of Gaza, only partially. It continued to maintain control of borders, maritime and airspace, to maintain control over key resources, and to bomb and invade the territory on multiple occasions. That's why the territory is considered to be "occupied" per UN statutes.

"We pulled the settlements, therefore it's all good and people don't know what they're complaining about" is just the government's spin.
Quotes a guy as an example of a sweeping generalization who is massively controversial in his own country, is facing domestic charges and has tens of thousands of citizens protesting against him regularly.

Your choice of quotes is indeed not very interesting, but rather shows how little you know about Israel.

You should visit some time it's a beautiful and diverse country.

I'm sure you'll learn a lot.
Thank you! I came at it from the BBC Micro angle, which was the system I grew up with, and I have to say that analysing Elite been a brilliant way to learn about other 8-bit platforms. I’ve documented the NES version and now the Commodore 64, and the Apple II is next.

It’s the retro equivalent of discovering that if you like the Beatles, you’ll probably like the Stones, The Who and Pink Floyd. :-)
Maybe you missed the part where I said "this is fine". I don't have a problem with what they're doing, I have a problem with people saying that Apple doesn't do something that they very clearly do.

Also, I thought I was fairly clear in my comment, but Apple removed support in MacOS 13 for Firewire Audio... so it doesn't matter what kind of dongles you have, as soon as you update to 13, your firewire camera no longer works.

It's weird that Apple is removing driver-level support for a protocol. It's unexpected. It's also a dead tech that nobody cares about. The person I was responding to wanted an example of accessories that Apple stopped supporting, and "Anything with Firewire Audio" falls into that category. It is completely, utterly unusable with stock MacOS 13, though it's likely that some people have found a way to put it back in.
You're talking apples and oranges. The plateau the frontier models have hit is the limited further gains to be had from dataset (+ corresponding model/compute) scaling.

These new reasoning models are taking things in a new direction basically by adding search (inference time compute) on top of the basic LLM. So, the capabilities of the models are still improving, but the new variable is how deep of a search you want to do (how much compute to throw at it at inference time). Do you want your chess engine to do a 10 ply search or 20 ply? What kind of real world business problems will benefit from this?
But is it even a second company (and thus a license transfer) if Qualcomm bought Nuvia?
Yes. There are planet wide DEM (Digital Elevation Model) datasets which record ground level elevations but no planet wide set for DSM which includes built structures and vegetation.
LLMs need efficient matrix multiiliers. GPUs are specialized ASICs for massive matrix multiplication.
i've followed Rachel and Julia for a long time, but didn't know about Kellan - thanks so much for that.

re: human org scaling - true and this was the most surprising thing for me when i was running the platform org at discord. companies ship their org charts whether they like it or not. and refactoring org charts correctly, at scale, is essentially untested in the modern era
A ton of blog content is still "marketing" content. Even if it doesn't directly display ads. It's "SEO".
I was going to say this as well. If you haven't done competitive interviews, it's easy to underestimate how much prep / skill is required.
The only safe Internet is a dead Internet.
> There's nothing narrow about these models.

There is, they can't create new ideas like humanity can. AGI should be able to replace humanity in terms of thinking, otherwise it isn't general, you would just have a model specialized at reproducing thoughts and patterns human have thought before, it still can't recreate science from scratch etc like humanity did, meaning it can't do science properly.

Comparing an AI to a single individual is not how you measure AGI, if a group of humans perform better then you can't use the AI to replace that group of humans, and thus the AI isn't an AGI since it couldn't replace the group humans.

So for example, if a group of programmers write more reliable programs than the AI, then you can't replace that group of programmers with the AI, even if you duplicate that AI many times, since the AI isn't capable of reproducing that same level of reliability when ran in parallel. This is due to an AI being run in parallel is still just an AI, an ensemble model is still just an AI, so the model the AI has to beat is the human ensemble called humanity.

If we lower the bar a bit at least it has to beat 100 000 humans working together to make a job obsolete, since all the tutorials etc and all such things are made by other humans as well if you remove the job those would also disappear and the AI would have to do the work of all of those, so if it can't humans will still be needed.

Its possible you will be able to substitute part of those human ensembles with AI much sooner, but then we just call it a tool. (We also call narrow humans tools, it is fair)
i disagree because the job market is not a true free market. I mean it mostly is, but there’s a LOT of politics and shady stuff that employers do to purposely drive wages down. Even in the tech sector.

Your secrecy comment is really intriguing actually. And morbid lol.
Equinix teams up with Dell Technologies for private AI solution
So the UN is great if it's against Israel and Bibi Netanyahu and irrelevant if it goes against your own, preconceived opinions?

Got it!
The idea is that you set up the CI system to build from a different path as often as possible. Per build, per build machine, per build machine rebuild - whatever works for you. Just ensure it's a different path from the standard one that the developers use. Ideally, also make sure that the path the developers use is completely inaccessible on the CI machines.

Now the chance of introducing dependencies on the standard path is much lower. You can do it, and it will work for you, and it will work for everybody else too when they get your change. But at some point, the CI system will get it, and it will fail, and you'll know that you have something to fix.
This last step you gonna have to take yourself. The aesthetics eyes, you need to develop by yourself, no LLM going to help you.
Tacking doesn't work without water and a keel
Our way of life changed when electricity came around. It changed when cars took over the cities, it again changed when mobile phones became omnipresent.

Will LLMs or without LLMs, the world will keep turning. Humans will still be writing amazing works of literature, creating beautiful art, carrying out scientific experiments and discovering new species.
Correct.

Also correct: RISC-V is not anywhere near competitive to ARM at the level that Qualcomm operates.
I understood the point, thanks. But I'm concerned about the scenario in the article, where someone did a device recovery and got access to the cloud synced auth codes.

I don't particularly like that my codes were apparently synced to Google's cloud without my being aware, or the ux that prevented me from noticing. But I'm pretty confident that, having disabled the cloud sync, Google no longer has my codes

(And in fact I verified this by installing the authenticator on a tablet before turning off sync on my phone. The codes vanished from the tablet.)

In principle, yes I should rotate all the secrets. Because google may have borked their data retention, or is just outright lying and keeping my secrets. In practice, though, for my personal account, I'm content that nothing has been compromised.
> What Spotify is doing is taking the non-store-brand cereals off the shelf and putting them in the stocking room where you only get them if you happen to ask one of the store employees.

That's a terrible analogy.

Spotify has tons of ways to access the real artists. Often including dedicated playlists for each one of them. They show up in search. In related arists. In radio playlists. In top music playlists. Etc.

Spotify isn't taking anything "off the shelf". A more apt analogy is a grocery store with a dedicated section for store-brand goods only. Where everything's still normally on the shelves where you expect -- nothing has been taken off the shelf -- but you can also visit the store-brand-only section.

It's hard to see why that would be a bad thing for a supermarket to do.
I think this is the one, there's quite a few it seems, but not all work: https://boardgame.io/documentation/#/notable_projects
a) China is third to US and EU in terms of GDP. And their economy is on a downwards trajectory.

what about population? as that's the main driving factor for pollution - especially if you couple that with energy needs.
Interesting, would you share the link of this post please?
> I'm not aware of a single crime that he's committed and been convicted for that wasn't politically motivated. Both charging and convicted by the jury for political reasons.

you are writing exact words to prove my point… :)
I'm not sure why it seemed that way to you, server market >> consumer laptops (c.f. $INTL).
It does. Apple handles the refunds automatically. They also give you a chance to provide more information about the user’s usage so if the user used the app a lot, Apple might reject the refund request.
Yup

$19.95 per incident to talk to someone who could ACTUALLY resolve an issue would be totally worth it, especially for people who suddenly find themselves locked out for no known reason. A fee would also filter out most the silly calls, and if not, and they can resolve a password reset in 2 minutes, it is way worth it for both the caller and Google.
INT 2Fh was the so-called "mux" that various TSRs and drivers could hook into for (in essence) interprocess communication. The half-baked idea was to solve the problem of TSRs commandeering other interrupts for one-off needs, which led to lots of collisions.

In order for the mux to work, each TSR had to have its own identifier code. Other than some reserved ranges, no one organized such a namespace, meaning it was possible for two or more TSRs to intercept the same request, leading to the same collision problem.

This note from Ralf Brown's Interrupt List has the gory details:

http://www.ctyme.com/intr/rb-4251.htm

Incomplete list of TSRs and drivers relying on it:

http://www.ctyme.com/intr/int-2f.htm
"no one will be emailing you… except scammers, no exceptions."

Might be, because I was travelling a lot, but I got lots of unknown numbers calling me that turned out to be friends with a new number. Now I surely could have locked myself up in a cage then there would be no risk, but also not reward.

Calling a unknown number back - no. But taking a call and saying hello did never cost me anything. I also don't just send money away or would install weird things on my computer because someone on the phone says so, so what is the danger?
Agents are still a misaligned concept in AI. While this article offers a lot in orchestration, memory (only mentioned once in the post) and governance are not really mentioned. The latter is important to increase reliability -- something Ilya Sutskever mentioned to be important as agents can be less deterministic in their responses.
Interestingly, "agency" i.e., the ability of the agent to make own decisions is not mentioned once.

I work on CAAs and document my journey on my substack (https://jdsmerau.substack.com)
Electricity is not free and when one really needs something money talks right?

Given the distance from my home to others some people I cannot help because the voltage drop would be to great over the needed corded run. Those within proximity to me that would not suffer voltage drop and undue strain on my own storage system I would gladly help but my own storage is finite and if I help just one person then...

My proactive planning and execution for my decentralized energy generation and storage system was done for my own families quality of life continuity based on my life's experiences. Everyone's life experiences are different and therefore your mileage will vary.
The apple's "ancient ancestor" has been dead for thousands of years, this is at best a similar cousin. :p

Yeah, I don't know what they meant, but once you see that mistake in evolutionary discussions, it's hard to unsee it.

Sometimes I like to explicitly describe planting things as mankind's oldest technology. Know-how like which berries will kill you and which won't are an important knowledge base, and people today are likely to underestimate how much work--unsung, anonymous--was put into building it, and how much may have been forgotten.
I'm happy enough with it, but I'm also a little sad that it's essentially been chosen for me because of weak willed and valued people who don't want to use policy to make things better for us as a society. Plus we are in a bad world/scenario for AI advancements to come into with pretty heavy institutional decay and loss of political checks and balances.

It's like my life is forfeit to fixing other peoples mistakes because they're so glaring and I feel an obligation. Maybe that's the way the world's always been, but it's a concerning future right now
> that's going to put the industry through the pain of a new ISA,

X86s is supposed to radically simplify the pain, get rid of a very arcane ratcheting up of antiquated unused modes.

It's supposed to decrease pain. And simplify implementation too.

We don't dare to reimagine because it's not clear what ISA would be better or what the wins would really be. Folks like Apple turn to existing ancient instruction sets like ARM rather than reinvent because it works and the ISA doesn't really seem to have that much influence on the core design & performance.
I feel your anxiety. I often wonder how I arrange the remaining many decades of my life to maintain a stream of income.

Perhaps what I need is actually a steady stream of food - i.e. buy some land and oxen and solar panels while I can.
Religion as banal courtroom drama.
Your generated design is far from good from an UI/UX perspective, which, as GP said, LLMs lack and can only achieve good results if you, the user of the LLM, know what you are doing (in this case, as a designer/UI/UX engineer).
Please just adhere to the XDG-standards. Although my co-poster here didn't use the most diplomatic way of phrasing their grievance Grayjay is better off if it sticks to well established standards.

You would probably look weird at an software that installs itself in C:\MYAWESOMEAPPLICATION instead of using the Windows program folder like literally every other piece of software (except for legacy stuff like LTSpice). Creating visible directories in the home folder without asking is the Linux equivalent of doing just that.

Check if the XDG environment variables are set and store your stuff in these places — as it is now can be used as a last resort fallback. For reading config/data you do the same.
> I don't think you'll actually want to live in a society that works like this

If you don't have social credit or some other kind of consequences... then people will continue to abuse things because there is no guilt/shame/fear for their actions. But if you DO have it, then as you say it leads to a fake and unnatural way of living.

Perhaps the answer is somewhere in the middle?
You're safe, i guess, at least if you team up with the trailer voice guy.
I'd like to see this o3 thing play 5d chess with multiverse time travel or baba is you.

The only effect smarter models will have is that intelligent people will have to use less of their brain to do their work. As has always been the case, the medium is the message, and climate change is one of the most difficult and worst problems of our time.

If this gets software people to quit en-masse and start working in energy, biology, ecology and preservation? Then it has succeeded.
You're not being paid $150K to "write code". You're being paid that to deliver solutions - to be a corporate cog than can ingest business requirements and emit (and maintain) business solutions.

If there are jobs paying $150K just to code (someone else tells you what to code, and you just code it up), then please share!
Close enough to get mixed up, even if you know they're different words with different meanings. I often swap 2 completely unrelated words when typing if they sound kind of similar in my head. Called "spoonerism" apparently.
Partly, it's definitely the combination of the building and the plaza. I don't know the history but it seems as if commerce (cafes and the like) haven't been especially welcome on the plaza though they'd admittedly only be attractive for 4-5 months out of the year.
I advise my kids to stay curious, keep learning, keep wondering, keep discovering. Whether that's through university or some other path.
Discrete Flow Matching for Text and Image Generation
Stumbled upon this paper while trying to learn about conditional flow matching. Apparently, we can now use a similar technique that supercharged Stable Diffusion 3 (conditional flow matching), and apply it to text generation. And the 1.7B model does quite well compared to 7-8B class autoregressive LLMs like the llama series.

Goes to show the current autoregressive architectures are not the end-all of language models, and in fact the problem can be framed in a very general way -- given some data distribution, learn how to map a latent code to generate data from that distribution...
That's the answer and even then, after committing to it, it will take time to master. Then speed comes.
The NYT is very firm in their position:

People should use alcohol, tobacco and firearms, like the little baby jesus intended!

Any activity outside of the holy trinity may lead to divine punishment...
I tell everyone who would listen to me (i.e. not many) that white collar jobs like mine are dead and skilled manual work is the way of the near future, that is until the rise of the robots.
Affirmative Resolution of Bourgain's Slicing Problem
https://longwelwind.net/blog/networking-turn-based-game/
So you provided a thoughtful response, to show us how it is done?

The question was basically, can you rewrite that game for me?

Yeah sure, anything else?

Sorry, it was really not adding much to the conversation. The first question on its own would have been a simple yes.
The point of Notre Dame is to win football games.
More than just 'related' .. that is a thread started by buro9 the forum developer that the techdirt article discusses.

It's the primary source.
Intel sued again over struggling foundry business
> i.e. that these tests reflect the biases and interests of the people who make them

Of course. However i believe we can't move past that without being honest about where these biases are coming from. Many things in our world are the result of gender bias, both subtle and overt. However, at least at first glance, this does not appear to be one of them, and statements like the grandparent's quote serve to perpetuate such biases further.
You sail perpendicular to the wind, cancelling your horizontal velocity relative to the sun.

Then gravity crashes you into the sun
I also thought it was thoroughly unnecessary, and even risky from a plot perspective because they may have sliced the drive they were trying to recover, but thoroughly amusing none-the-less. Not terribly clever though. It was reminiscent of a scene from Ghost Ship. Although.. I guess I don't know which came first... ya, Ghost Ship did it first (2002 vs 2006). Not entirely the same, but close enough.
It is a sign of increasing inequality / hypergamy as the most desirable 1% of men have multiple partners while the rest have none.

In other words human society is reverting to the way it always has been since the dawn of the agricultural age 12,000 years ago.

There was never any reason to believe that the monogamous system of the 1950s West was a permanent stable arrangement and indeed we are seeing its death in our own lifetimes.
Set the controls.
Suno is the new streaming kid on the block.

And it makes decent music. In multiple languages and musical styles. Helps if you know a bit of music theory.

Shameless plug: My musical - in - progress : https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6CFiKHtsvsntUmyVe6VSm302...

These are the farm animal characters that I have been writing for kids about my farm except kids don’t want to read anymore. I think I can make this work.
Looks like an interesting project for sure, but they make it really hard to try out. At first, this submission links to a blog post with information and in the middle, a bunch of demos laid out in a grid.

I clicked on one of them, which took me to the actual app. When trying to click the button to generate something, it asks me to login/sigup. Fine, I signup. Then once finishing the sign up, I land on some sort of index page with tutorials and "my projects", but not at the demo I first wanted to see.

So I go back to HN, to this submission, click on the link but it still takes me to this index view instead of the blog post/page I first read. I just wanted to see what happened when I clicked the button inside the app...
While I understand why you feel this way, the meaning or standing of being a programmer is different now. It feels like the purpose is lost or it longer belongs to human.

But below is reality talk. With Claude 3.5, I already think it is a better programmer than I at micro level tasks, and a better Leetcode programmer than I could ever be.

I think it is like modern car manufacturering, the robots build most of the components, but I can’t see how human could be dismissed from the process to oversee output.

O3 has been very impressive in achieving 70+ in swebench for example, but this also means when it is trained on the codebase multiple times so visibility isn't an issue yet it still has 30% chance that it can’t pass the unit tests.

A fully autonomous system can’t be trusted, the economy of software won’t collapse, but it will be transformed beyond our imagination now.

I will for sure miss the days when writing code, or coder is still a real business.

How time flies
Show HN: Breastfeed tracker app for Garmin smartwatches
thanks for noticing! this is the first time we're expanding it from 'security at scale' to 'infra at scale', but we've taught this course 2 yrs in a row now
Yes, it’ll have single line comments notated with a hash symbol.
It would be more accurate to say that there haven't been any RISC-V designs for Qualcomm's market segment yet.

As far as I am aware, there is nothing about the RISC-V architecture which inherently prevents it from ever being competitive with ARM. The people designing their own cores just haven't bothered to do so yet.

RISC-V isn't competitive in 2024, but that doesn't mean that it still won't be competitive in 2030 or 2035. If you were starting a project today at a company like Amazon or Google to develop a fully custom core, would you really stick with ARM - knowing what they tried to do with Qualcomm?