skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People are choosing the cheapest option because they don’t have any money. It’s not that complicated.
It was an Israeli operation. Israelis celebrated it and bragged about it. It is a prime example of why I don't do business with Israel.
phrenology
In buggy numerical code many bugs go trough the software stack without any problems. No crash, no errors. For example,you might switch two double parameters to a function and if their value range is similar, everything works fine except it's all bullshit.

If there are bugs in AMD code that prevent running tests, I bet there are even more bugs that don't manifest until you look at results.
>It's not a question of belief, the evidence is clear as day.

Yeah, sure. The economic system that is boiling the planet and will make it unlivable is the best thing ever!
Looking into the Past
Well that's the thought exercise. Is there something you can do with almost unlimited "brains" of roughly human capability but much faster, within a few days / weeks / months. Lets say you can instantiate 1 million agents, for 3 months, and each of them is roughly 100x faster than a human, that means you have the equivalent of 100 million human-brain-hours to dump into whatever you want, as long as your plans don't require building too many real world things that actually require moving atoms around, I think you could do some interesting things. You could potentially dump a few million hours into "better than AGI AI" to start off for example, then go to other things. If they are good enough you might be able to find enough zero-days to disable any adversary through software, among other interesting things.
I hope to eventually get to at a place of luxury to where I can be so whimsical with my creative direction. Projects for personal pleasure, exploratory nature, or high risk of abandonment may have some % chance of uncovering something unique and fruitful, but those dice rolls cost a lot of real world hours
It wasn't "impressive", it just operated outside the bounds of moral values that the rest of the world holds, so it was unexpected.
And pro-Israel posts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42487615
Any kind of interoperability is optional to you to use, so why would you want Apple to force you to not even have the choice if you wanted it?

Apple has vast amounts of extra money, so it’s hard to imagine why they’d be forced to stop dedicating resources to other features.
I'm not claiming it's popular outside of MacOS. I just think your statement is too strong.

It doesn't matter what my background is. It is possible (supported, even, by Microsoft) to create ObjC binaries. They even had (until recently, project seems to be abandoned) a port of Cocoa derived from The Cocotron to make it easier to bring Apple apps over to Windows.
Not even one passing mention of gain of function research?

SciAm in 2021:

> The riskier version of gain-of-function research creates viruses with abilities they do not have in nature. In two separate studies in 2011, scientists famously and controversially did just that with the H5N1 influenza virus, or “bird flu,” resulting in a version capable of airborne transmission among ferrets.

> The naturally occurring virus does not have this ability.

> Making mammal-to-mammal transmission easier set off alarm bells and triggered discussion of a U.S. moratorium.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-scientists-tw...
Yes, that's exactly what I was checking out. You need fast enough hardware to run the speech to text, text to speech and (most importantly) LLM locally: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvbVePuP7NY (he has dual 3090 GPUs but that's not a practical setup for most people - budget / power / noise).
long as all companies can do this same thing, I'm ok with it..but right now it does feel like apple gets away with a ton more than everyone else
Heh no... I was going for "the average person thinks Rust is automatically safe." And "the average person thinks Tesla is automatically safe."
Dream Theater has a string of 4 albums (over 6 years) in which each album starts with the soundscape from the end of the previous album. The last album in the cycle, Octavarium, musically and thematically finishes in a loop, connecting the end of the last song to the beginning of the first.
Since when is forcing a company to give you more options considered an “iron curtain”?
There's plenty of machines which are expensive, bulky, single purpose and yet commercially successful. The average American household has a kitchen range, refrigerator, dishwasher, laundry machine, dryer, television, furnace, and air conditioner. Automatic coffee machines and automatic vacuums are less universal but still have household penetration in the millions. I really think the household tasks with no widely available automation are simply the ones that nobody cares enough about doing to pay for automation.

A robot servant that does literally 100% of chores would be a game changer, and I expect we'll get there at some point, but it will probably have to be a one-shot from a consumer perspective. A clever research idea to reach 25% or 50% coverage still isn't going to lead to a commercially viable product.
> We do understand how they work, we did build them. The mathematical foundation of these models are sound. The statistics behind them are well understood.

We don't understand how they work in the sense that we can't extract the algorithms they're using to accomplish the interesting/valuable "intellectual" labor they're doing. i.e. we cannot take GPT-4 and write human-legible code that faithfully represents the "heavy lifting" GPT-4 does when it writes code (or pick any other task you might ask it to do).

That inability makes it difficult to reliably predict when they'll fail, how to improve them in specific ways, etc.

The only way in which we "understand" them is that we understand the training process which created them (and even that's limited to reproducible open-source models), which is about as accurate as saying that we "understand" human cognition because we know about evolution. In reality, we understand very little about human cognition, certainly not enough to reliably reproduce it in silico or intervene on it without a bunch of very expensive (and failure-prone) trial-and-error.
Foundations for a Rust-Like Borrow Checker for C
Assuming humans make it to Mars is already a leap, but assuming a government won’t form almost immediately, if somehow one doesn’t exist from the beginning of colonization, seems even less likely
The zealots think Apple is a person with rights. Look at how they talk about the company. It’s not exclusive to this thread and is apart of the Apple faith.
But engineers do test their code for the most part. And some enjoy it. And QA teams also test. If you've got a product that makers it easier, do a 'Show HN'. Because I wasn't even one paragraph in before I scrolled down to confirm, "Yup, this is an ad."
Title shouild be:

"Welcome to twtxt!"
> It's a luxury product.

25-30% of smartphone owners have an iPhone. Something like 1.3b active iPhone users. That seems decidedly non-luxury. Neither here nor there but that’s part of your argument that seems pretty flawed (ie: it’s a luxury product so we shouldn’t have to worry about the vagaries of “anti/pro-consumer behavior, competition etc”). Sure most of Apple’s other products are in the more to much more expensive end of their categories, but the iPhone’s market penetration definitely makes the luxury categorization wrong IMO, even if it is expensive.

Anyways, your entire argument effectively boils down to “this problem does not affect me, therefore it is not a problem; I don’t care if there is a monopoly on some product or service or lock-in or anything because I’m fine with it, I like the service and have no plans on leaving anyways” - which is a position plenty of people take, and also one plenty of people disagree with, so I won’t try to argue either way with you here since you seem committed. It does seem short-sighted and generally anti-consumer to me (or like you are just evidence that their various lock-in strategies work and are good for their business - which you self-identified as being correct in re: intentionally buying into walled-garden).

Anyways, that’s not to say I totally disagree - I think most of your points are generally true/or something I could at least see being true even if I don’t feel convinced (ie potentially ending up in a sea of third party crap, creating a potentially undue burden on Apple engineering etc… tho even those I find questionable and not self-evident).
> and finally find a path to the solution.

But how does the student, or in your case the LLM, know that it actually has the solution? For students, this is done by: a grader grading the homework, asking the professor at OH, working on problems with other peers who crosscheck as you go. I see no reason why this LLM produced synthetic data, without this correction factor, would not devolve into a mess of incorrect, maybe even not-even-wrong style "proofs". And then how can training on this yield anything?
Ask HN: Predictions for 2025?
2024 has been a wild ride with lots of development inside and outside AI.

What are your predictions for this coming year?
I initially thought this would be an Instapaper alternative, or maybe a "Reader mode" similar to the one in Safari, but turns out it's a RSS reader? If so, I wouldn't necessarily call it a web reader.
It's wild to watch hackers say shit that could have come straight outta the Apple marketing/legal department verbatim.
Ask HN: Best tools for real-time API proxying/transformation?
I am a data engineer and do a lot of open source work writing API proxies over scientific APIs to present them as standardized formats [0] with better discoverability. I don't have access to the underlying db so I can't just create a new API directly.

When writing data pipelines for generating data assets, I have really benefited from using a scheduler framework like Dagster. It gives my projects a quick way to get a nice UI and common helpers (cron schedules, asset graphs, partitioned data, concurrency) with relatively little code.

However, it doesn't seem like an analogous framework exists for real time proxying. (i.e. something with config as code, a nice UI for tracing requests, concurrency/caching helpers for dealing with messy transformations). Am I missing anything?

[0] https://ogcapi.ogc.org/
I remember enjoying reading Computer Shopper, for the ads...

https://archive.org/details/computer-shopper-march-1994/mode...
The last time I used Rust for any sort of project was two years ago, and the code size concerns were one of the first things I thought about when contemplating writing for embedded targets in Rust. Executable sizes were really bad, especially at -O1 optimization levels, but I haven't really seen much of a problem in practice today so maybe they fixed it. From a performance and memory efficiency standpoint, Rust is on par with the C/C++ projects I've worked with. Some things slightly worse, some things slightly better, but nothing egregious in either direction.

I will say that the coroutine-based async facilities in Rust's embedded-hal and embassy-rs projects make task-based concurrency so easy to do with bare-metal code that there isn't much need to use an RTOS in many of the situations that a C/C++ project could do. That sort of OS-less concurrency is no doubt possible in C, but I shudder to think what it would look like.
same reason i watch steven seagal movies.
Yeah I don't really give a shit but I find the selectiveness with which this guideline is enforced annoying.

Either get rid of the guideline or enforce it all the time.

The removal of "why" and "how" from the start of titles automatically is also fucking stupid.
I don't see any concept of deletion or editing here, even though it looks like it would be easy to add.

I don't think I'd want to use a protocol that doesn't allow for easily correcting mistakes.

Or am I just missing something and there actually is editing features?
An interesting experience I had was deciding to enter my novel into a contest, and discovering the contest had strict requirements on how long each chapter had to be. They could have set a total word count requirement but instead they wanted X chapters of Y-Z total words.

It was interesting to re-edit my novel to fit this format because in some cases, it created this awful impetus to 'pad out' key moments or the flow of the plot in order to hit the Y mark, and in other cases I had 'too much' and might need to cut an interesting moment short or trivialize what someone was saying to fit it all into a 'chapter'.

Where before, I had just written more or less how much I thought needed to be on the page, which meant I had some chapters that were 500 words long and some that were 2000 words long.

In the end I think it improved the work in a few places just through the process of being edited again (for the 10th or 11th time - try writing a novel sometime, that part is fun, editing it all over and over is the hard part), but overall having new conventions enforced on it was just a lot of busywork, and the work breathed much better when allowed to be concise at the right moments and verbose at others.

A good lesson for me in terms of 'not all constraints are useful ones', since I'm used to thinking of constraints as something that enables creativity and productivity.
Features are not arriving here and likely won't in their original form because Apple needs to adapt to local regulations... which I don't care.

Just the other day some stupid rule came out forcing developers even the smaller ones to publish their address which prompted non EU developers to just unregister their apps on the region.

Yes. It's an iron curtain and another stupid outcome of misguided EU regulations that might have good intentions but end ruining everything like GDPR cookie modals.
I expect everyone has been saying it for a while, the calls are just getting more strident and public as it becomes clear that AMD's failures are strategic rather than tactical. And as people try to build business on their half-hearted attempts.

I still think it is a mistake to say that CUDA is a moat. IMO the problem here is that AMD still doesn't seem to think that GPGPU compute is a thing. They don't seem to understand the idea that someone might want to use their graphics cards to multiply matricies independently of a graphics pipeline. All the features CUDA supports are irrelevant compared to the fact that AMD can't handle GEMM performantly out of the box. In my experience it just can't do it, back in the day my attempts to multiply matrices would crash drivers. That isn't a moat, but it certainly is something spectacular.

If they could manage an engineering process that delivered good GEMM performance then the other stuff can probably get handled. But without it there really is a question of what these cards are for.
Sure, so the guideline should be changed and should not be selectively enforced.

It's HN's stupidest guideline.
In an era when humanity is more connected than ever in history, loneliness is decidedly a "you" problem unless you have some sort of medical condition that inhibits socializing.
The number of Apple apologists in this thread is why we can't have nice things with Apple.
>I'm going to have to talk about my goals with a trainer next week, I don't think I'm going to come completely clean that a fox sent me.

This is one of the wilder comments that I've read on this site.

Can you talk more about Ouija boards and the dowsing rods? When you say that they work really well for you, does that mean that you're able to use the Ouija board to correctly answer questions that people ask, even if you don't know the answer ahead of time? As for the dowsing rods, does that mean that you're able to find water/minerals/lost items?
In the light of the new normal of the world, EU should just follow the Chinese and American ways: ban foreign social media and telecommunication devices. This way it will guarantee that there’s a market for those willing to create EU specific devices and meanwhile will take back control of its comms.

The EU way of open market through regulations doesn’t seem to make anybody happy.

Banning worked wonders for China, Russia and USA. Nobody seems to be complaining.

The claim is that AI can write the software, ban everything and tell ChatGPT o3 to write you the alternative :)
Single-tube. Jumbotrons count and they are way bigger, but you can only boil electrons off a cathode at such a rate and velocity.
As "you are just a figment of my imagination" is solipsism, "I am just a figment of your imagination" must be cosolipsism.
Note that the measurements in the paper were made before they fixed a bug where they confused bits and bytes.
So SQLite only used 1/8 of the reserved bloom filter space, thus increasing the false positive rate significantly:

https://sqlite.org/src/info/56d9bb7aa63043f5

I found and reported the bug because I wanted to know how the bloom filters work in SQLite for my uni seminar paper. Still wondering if one can find those kind of bugs with test cases.
It’s like everyone suddenly forgot you can’t do O(n^2) compute in O(n) time.
I can hack my desktop machine all I want. I prefer my phone walled. If I ever wanted to hack my phone I would buy some pixel device.
It seems to me that given how AI is likely to continuously increase capitalism's efficiency, your argument actually supports the claim you're trying to dispute.
i'm ready i got my six masks on and i told my family no holiday this year and my boss i can't make any zoom meetings so i don't catch anything
When my first kid was born, I committed this poem and about a dozen more to memory. In the middle of sleepless nights, and zombie stroller walks, they kept me sane because I felt like I could focus on so little outside of work besides the all-consuming kid. I worried for a little bit what passersby thought when they heard me rambling to myself in the park, but that concern didn’t last long. Almost 4 years later, I’m typing this as I rock my second to sleep, thankful for the reminder to go through my list of poems - surprised how quickly they all came back - and still desperately trying to stay sane. Though it is easier this time around.
> automatic working copy snapshots

One of my favorite things about Sapling is that all commits are automagically backed up to the cloud. The D in DVCS is not important for roughly every project ever. So I’m not sure how to feel about “every state is a commit”.
Crucial discontinues the popular MX500 TLC SSD after seven years
This was also a thing in Alsace (France), under the same name. However I only ever heard of it from my mother, as it is was a thing people did when she was young, but isn't a thing anymore since decades. Maybe in a few villages?
Dumb American moment: I once visited Germany for a conference in Munich. My hotel was out in a rural town on the train line. One night my colleagues and I walked out the door for an adventure and into the first restaurant we found, a tiny little place.

We sat down at the Stammtisch.

The waitress kindly told us that we should move. Then everybody in the place was kind of cold to us, until someone picked up from our conversation that we were from the US. The waitress tentatively asked: "Are you Americans?" Yes. "Oh, we thought you were English." All of the sudden the whole place warmed up to us, and they even brought us complimentary glasses of the house liqueur, which I can tell you was quite potent.

I don't know why they liked Americans better than English, and we didn't press the matter.
I'm pretty sure that the parent implied that o3 is smaller in comparison to gpt5
X is significantly increasing subscription prices; Premium+ now ad-free
>What do you think the last few years have been all about?

Next token language-based predictors with no more intelligence than brute force GIGO which parrot existing human intelligence captured as text/audio and fed in the form of input data.

4o agrees:

"What you are describing is a language model or next-token predictor that operates solely as a computational system without inherent intelligence or understanding. The phrase captures the essence of generative AI models, like GPT, which rely on statistical and probabilistic methods to predict the next piece of text based on patterns in the data they’ve been trained on"
>25-30% of smartphone owners have an iPhone. Something like 1.3b active iPhone users. That seems decidedly non-luxury.

iPhones cost somewhere in the realm of $1000 to $2000 give or take. Meanwhile, actually cheap smartphones still from a reputable manufacturer (eg: Samsung) can be had for at least $200 to $300 or so.

So no, iPhones (and Apple products in general) are a luxury good. There is a lot more "want" than "need" involved when choosing to buy an iPhone.
> Can I draw from this that when the psychosis gets deep enough you can sort of recognize that you’re in the state (since you’re telling people sorry) but simply cannot control it?

No, it is too deep and I am fully in it. The sorry happens when I come out fo it and read the texts I sent out. :)

I did not have psychosis all the time. Mostly bipolar symptoms. Yes, meds stopped psychosis but made my life even worse. Klonopin will take me out of psychosis in about 30 minutes. See: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5354128/

And thank you.
Join a church, and if thats not your jam, join a choir. Its making friends on easy mode.
> Open ai haven't released any benchmark scores

there are multiple research results demonstrating that various benchmarks are heavily leaked to GPT training data.

Is it intentionally or not, we can't figure out, but they have very strong incentive to cheat to get more investments.

> Unless you have a reason to believe answers were leaked then again, not interested in baseless speculation.

this is scientific methodology when results have to be reproduced or confirmed before believed.
Just because the computer doesn't know why it crashed doesn't mean a human won't. At least print out a stack trace, or something, then print the haiku. Give someone a chance at figuring out what went wrong. Maybe there was a developer mode I wasn't aware of, but at least Windows at the time (3.1 and 95) was capable of giving the user some indication about what part of the software crashed, whether or not the user knew what to do with it. My first impression of the OS is what led me to avoid it, it's that simple. I don't know why other people didn't adopt it, I can't speak for them.
Have we really hit the wall?

Do they use GPS based data?

Feels like there’s data all around us.

Sure they’ve hit the wall with obvious conversations and blog articles that humans produced, but data is a by product of our environment. Surely there’s more. Tons more.
>In Germany, I have no way of making friends or meeting people, it’s a real struggle

I used to hear this quite a bit from people who work here, as the article hints at we're a country of clubs and associations, most of them free. Be it chess, football, poetry slams, the church choir, the local CCC given that you're on HN, etc. Most unis will let you sit in for free as well. I also wouldn't worry about age. We're not really that age conscious, very few people I know care if they're around people twice their age.

People tend to bash their head in trying to make friends at work but it's probably the worst country to do this, we just work 9 to 5 and go home.
Anyone who looks at the mess that is ROCm and the design choices they made could easily see that.

GPU support lagged behind for years, no support for APUs and no guaranteed forward compatibility were clear signs that as a whole they have no idea what they are doing when it comes to building and shipping a software ecosystem.

To that you can add the long history of both AMD and ATI before they merged releasing dog shit software and then dropping support for it.

On the other hand you can take any CUDA binary even one that dates back to the original Tesla and run it on any modern NVIDIA GPU.