skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's totally fine.
My children get plenty of boring time, sometimes they get creative, sometimes they do not.

When they are creative, their creation is not always compatible with the environment (too noisy, too active).
Not all children like drawing either. Tablet is consistent, which is helpful when going to a restaurant.

Just to be clear, I use tablet only as a tv, I don't allow any games, too many exploits child's mind.

If I went more often to the restaurant, it would make sense to have different activities though, you are right. We go maybe once every 2-3 months, so the tablet was acceptable.
It has become way too expensive eating out.
See situational-awareness[1], see the "algorithmic efficiencies" section. He shows many examples of how models are getting cheaper. With many citations.

Costs are not just down on a specific service. Even though I don't see the problem in that, as long as you get the promised level of performance, without being subsidised.
See the deepseek model I linked above. It's an open model and you can run it yourself.

> At best, older models are getting cheaper to run.

What's your definition of old here? If you compare the literal bleeding edge model (o3) to 2 years ago best model (GPT-4)? Not only is this a ridiculously misleading comparison, it's not even valid!

o3 is a reasoning model. It can spend money at test time to improve results. Previous models don't even have this capability.
You can't look at one example of where they just threw a lot of money and say this is the cost. The cost is unbounded!
If they want, they can just not let the model think for ages and have basically "0-thinking" outputs. This is what you use to compare models.

If you compare _todays_ cost for training and inference of a model as good as GPT-4 when it was released, this cost has massively gone down on both counts.

[1] - https://situational-awareness.ai/from-gpt-4-to-agi/#The_tren...
I think the most interesting part of this article is that this "collusion" is enabled via 3rd party data provider. This is a massive issue, that enables this sort of "uncoordinated" price fixing exercises, via 3rd parties, similar to what happening on the rental market in the U.S.

I'm very surprised that there is not more work in Econ literature studying this. This is essentially breaking the efficient market hypothesis at scale, and is generalizable to every industry.
Preventing protestors from getting supplies like fuel to keep warm (etc) is an international crime.

They worked with local authorities to position trucks to allow adequate lanes and access to all of downtown.

Ottawa being the capital of Canada, it wasn't the first protest they've had - and so this was all standard practice/protocol for local authorities.
Reading this, thinking in terms of moats is useful, but in terms of AI, we are not there yet. There is a promise of exceptional improvement to everything, so much that many companies which takes ages to change a software are moving at a significantly faster pace.

One counter-intuitive thing here I believe is that thinking about moats is limiting. If you can deliver a solution today, which may not hold for a longer period (you keep innovating or launching newer products), is a preferable place to be than working out what could stand the test of time. Real answer is we don't know. A very real example is agents - thinking systems which can plan, reason, and take action. Within three months, an o1 equivalent would be able to do all that implicitly without a developer having to write complex pipelines, and companies woudl have to start over. AI democratizes human skill. That I think is a bigger mental model shift than many realize.
> Bezos nailed it on this topic: “[...] [I]n our retail business, we know that customers want low prices, and I know that's going to be true 10 years from now. They want fast delivery; they want vast selection. It's impossible to imagine a future 10 years from now where a customer comes up and says, 'Jeff I love Amazon; I just wish the prices were a little higher,' [or] 'I love Amazon; I just wish you'd deliver a little more slowly.' Impossible. And so the effort we put into those things [...] will still be paying off dividends for our customers 10 years from now. [...]”

This quote from TFA makes it sound like Bezos was the first to realize customers want low prices, but that's obviously false. What made Amazon special wasn't that realization. It was, among other things, to offer a better _shopping_ experience than the alternatives by making products easier to find, one-click purchases, customer reviews, detailed organized descriptions, FAQs, an increasingly growing selection... and then offer a better _shipping_ experience with later 2-day shipping for a flat annual fee, now often 1-day or same-day in some geographies, no-fuss returns and so on.

No one else has figured out logistics in the same way that Amazon has. Obviously scale helps, but Walmart had all the scale it could want and it still didn't figure out how to make it work. Shopify has also only faltered and fumbled so far.

Amazon created value because it organized the extremely complex activities of shopping and shipping in a way that makes them the obvious choice 99/100 times. That requires talent, software and hard work. It delivered so god damn much of those three things that it created AWS as a byproduct.

That's the Amazon DNA. That's where they shine and where they outcompete everyone else, including Walmart and other traditional retail names as well as FedEx, UPS and all other traditional shipping players.

When Amazon strays from that core DNA, they struggle too. Its successes with things like iRobot, the Fire line, Luna, Alexa, Whole Foods for the most part are either muted, late, or missing entirely.
Ending our third party fact-checking program and moving to Community Notes model
We might not, but Nvidia would certainly like it.
What grift? I'm only reporting first-hand and second-hand anecdata -- some of which is observations from the "prompt whisperers" who follow in Pliny's circles. Chain of thought poses an existential risk to prompt injection.
(total side track) There are other things that some customers want though:

- for the recommendations to offer me things I want or need, not things I just bought

- to be able to evaluate the quality of items rather than just the price of items

- for Amazon to extend it's brand around the items that I buy. "Amazon Recommends" is just so weak and offers no assurance or opportunity for loyalty. It's more or less meaningless and I suspect it's something that suppliers buy.

As every in business it's very difficult. I know that Amazon is humongous and knows it's business inside out. I am sure that Amazon insiders just feel tired reading other people's ideas about what would make things better, but on the other hand I do think that the narratives of business inevitability (and AI inevitability) are just false. Yes they have triumphed until recently, but what's happening in China really does undermine the idea that the future will be everyone just grifting to everyone else for a dime while the big corps enshitify anything that emerges from the primordial ooze.

Not that I think that what's happening in China is good.
I think the problem is that a large and growing part of the population is in a constant state of dissatisfaction, if not downright anger, often being fed or demanding simple solutions to complex problems. At that point it doesn't seem to matter if those solutions actually work as long as they promise change. And when it becomes clear they won't or require long term planning people will just demand new leadership and the cycle continues.

Let's face it. Most problems require patient approaches. Often changes that are made won't show their effects until years or decades later. Unfortunately that encourages short term thinking towards the next election in government and population alike.
That's how to pay for it, sure. But I said share the resource. Not everyone who wants to drive at a given time can do so, there simply isn't enough space. How does your plan help _share_ the resource? Who gets to use the roads at 8am when everyone wants to?
Much of SF didn't even exist until the 1930s-50s. For example, most of Sunset and Richmond is tract housing built during that era - before then it was sand dunes and chicken farms.

People underestimate how new much of the Western US is. For example, Dallas only began expanding in 1891 after the railways were built, LA was a small town until the 1910s-30s era expansion, modern San Jose only formed in the 1960s-70s after absorbing dozens of farming towns like Alviso and Berryessa, Seattle was mostly sand dunes until they were leveled in the 1900s-30s).

Because of how new it was, most of the cities are planned primarily with cars in mind - especially after the 1930s era Dust Bowl Migration and the 1940s-60s era economic migration. Same thing in much of Canada and Australia as well, which saw a similar postwar expansion.

> before the NIMBYists stepped in

NIMBYism in SF only really began in the 1970s onwards.

While NIMBYism is now elitist, it initially started out as part of the civil rights movement ("urban redevelopment" was often a guise for razing historically Black, Hispanic, and Asian neighborhoods in that era - for example much of Japantown/Fillmore) as well as the early environmental movement (eg. Sierra Movement, Greenpeace), which was opposed to profit motive compared to modern YIMBY+Greentech model.
Indeed, the world is not IID. As such, test cases should not be a uniformly distributed sample of some mathematical distribution.
How long does one single move take to calculate for you folks on a normal phone? On mine (running an i.MX 8M quad-core on Firefox), the first move took several minutes.
Societal pressures/responsibilities don't need to be consciously acknowledged by an individual for them to have an effect on that individuals' decision-making.
Nearly complete security isn't security. If the potential is there people will find it, other models will find it.

Everythings fine until one day $200m disappears from your balance sheet and no one can explain why!
And if anyone remembers: before Stack Overflow you more or less had to specialize in a domain, become good using a handful of frameworks/API, on one platform. Learning a new language, a new API (god forbid a new platform) was to sail, months long, into seas unknown.

In this regard, with first Stack Overflow and now LLMs, the field has improved mightily.
As a person from Latvia who uses blender, I am quite proud of this achievement. Saw the film a month ago, it is truly great and will certainly watch it again. Suggested to all ages.

I think with the popularity and the new budget they will rerender it, as it could be better.
If this is gonna be widely used by ML engineers, in biopharma, etc and they land 1000$ margins at half a million sales that's half a billion in revenue, with potential to grow.
$9 per day isn't going to make anybody change their route. A round trip on the subway costs $5.80.

IMHO, they would need to push higher than $50 to get drivers to blink.
Right. I guess I just think of OSX 10.0 as being NeXTStep 5.
Another bit I discovered is the quality of resistors. Pretty much any op amp circuit will use resistors. Often the resistors limit the static offsets.

Don’t stick with 1% for analog circuits as 0.1% precision resistors are cheap and come with low temp drift as well.
> At $3,000, it will be considerably cheaper than alternatives available today

$3000 gets me a 64-core Altra Q64-22 from a major-enough SI today: https://system76.com/desktops/thelio-astra-a1-n1/configure

And of course if you don't care about the SI part, then you can just buy that motherboard & CPU directly for $1400 https://www.newegg.com/asrock-rack-altrad8ud-1l2t-q64-22-amp... with the 128-core variant being $2400 https://www.newegg.com/asrock-rack-altrad8ud-1l2t-q64-22-amp...
Somewhat on same lines as this "challenge" and its responses ...

https://x.com/hobdaydesign/status/1634525287403728897
All studies show that free public transit is a bad idea. There is a reason no country provides it. People mis-treat free things. When you ask them to pay for it, it enforces civic contracts. With contactless terminals in place, a free MTA benefits no one. It's also difficult to get additional funding to improve something that's free.

An MTA monthly pass is 130$. That's the price of a single uber round-trip to JFK. NYC also allows employers to provide commuter benefits tax-free.

It's cheap enough.
Price fixing by algorithm is still price fixing.

Especially here that it's painfully obvious, there's not enough actors to justify this third party anyways.
> All universal statements like this are wrong and stem from basic ignorance
ONT sells its smallest MinION to regular people, too. But Illumina's and ONT's main market is universities, followed by large hospitals
As if presidential elections are the only elections, or even the only ones that matter.

What the prior commenter meant is that in some jurisdictions it's pointless to vote against one of the parties because they win so overwhelmingly.

For example, I live in Massachusetts. The legislature is 95% one party. There's no point in being in another party, you'll never get elected and your vote won't change the outcome. It sounds like a dream if it's "your" party but without inter-party tension there are a lot of shenanigans that go on.

Your municipal and state elections are, by a wide margin, the most consequential to your daily life. Congressional representatives have a moderate importance.

Who is elected president has the least impact to your daily life, and to the laws and politics of the country, of any person you ever vote for. It's actually tiny, even if some people would like you to think it's everything.
Yeah, I think labelling it "error" is a bit of a strange way to look at it to be honest.

It's only error if you're trying to measure time in seconds, but are doing it with a clock that can only measure hours and minutes. If you want to know the current minute, then a clock that can measure minutes it is 100% correct.

It's an interesting thought experiment, but really all it's saying is that half of the time 10:00 is closer to 10:01:00 than 10:00:00, but this imply you care about measuring time to the second which prompts the question why it's being measured in minutes?

To be charitable, I suppose in the real world we might occasionally care about how close 10:00 is to 10:01 in seconds, but the time shown on phones can't tell us that so on average we will be about 30 seconds out.
"don't deploy ̶L̶L̶M̶ ̶g̶e̶n̶e̶r̶a̶t̶e̶d̶ code if you don't know how it works (or what it does)"

(Which goes for StackOverflow, etc.)
True. My anecdata is that I don't see even the echoes of these pressures/responsibilities in my own historical choices, and as a result I doubt their effect on others.
Related keynote clip: https://old.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1hvmbcg/nvidia_just...
ChatGPT is one of the fastest growing apps ever. Saying that's there's no products is willful blindness by this point.

This is hackernews. I'd expect users to have a basic understanding of VC investment. The expected value of next-gen models times the probability to create them is higher than the billions than they are throwing at it.
3. New programming languages will face a big economical hurdle to take off.

I bet the opposite. I’ve written a number of DSLs and tooling around them over the last year as LLMs have allowed me to take on much bigger projects.

I expect we see an explosion of languages over the next decade.
> It isn't fundamental.

Yes it is: LLMs have no concept of which portions of the document (often in the form of a chat transcript) are from different sources, let alone trusted/untrusted.
The thing about congestion is that reducing the number of drivers slightly (e.g. 10-20%) could eliminate congestion by 100%! This is the same way it works for electrical congestion.

So you need pricing which will make a few people reconsider driving, who were on the edge of using public transit anyway.
> The easiest way to realise this is to imagine a clock without the minute hand. Can you tell when it's half-past the hour? You can. The hour hand is half way between the two hours.

Can I? Many analog clocks actually "tick" the second and minute hand. I've even seen some that tick the hour hand.
One of the reasons why they can do unified memory efficiently is because the CPU/GPU is a single SoC. If you separate them, you end up with a normal PC architecture, with memory having to go through a PCIe bus. This is possible to do with reasonable latency and bandwidth (thanks to CXL), but we haven't seen that in consumer hardware. Even in server space I think only MI300 supports CXL, and even then I don't think it's something AMD particularity promotes.

Personally I think Strix Halo workstations may come with expendable memory, storage and free PCIe slots. But then you have to deal with ROCm...
Or just keep density lower and match the car lanes capacity.
I have found LLMs to be 95% useful on documented software, from everything eg Uniswap smart contracts to plugins in cordova to setting up Mac or Linux administrative tools.

The problem for a regular person is that you have to copypasye from chat. That is “the last mile”. For terminal commands that’s fine but for programming you need a tool to automate this.

Something like refactoring a function, given the entire context, etc. And it happening in the editor and you seeing a diff right away. The rest of the explanatory text should go next to the diff in a separate display.

I bet someone can make a VSCode extension that chats with an LLM and does exactly this. The LLM is told to provide all the sections labeled clearly (code, explanation) and the editor makes the diff.

Having said all that, good libraries that abstract away differences are far superior to writing code with an LLM. The only code that needs to be written is the interface and wiring up between the libraries.
It simply worked better. I live in a country with strong hate speech laws. They don't work and they decrease possibilities for free expression.

It is legislation from the times of monarchy and doesn't fit the modern age. Instead of embracing liberties, my country restricts speech and opinions out of fear until it becomes the birthplace of the next autocratic personality again.

The idea of hate speech is ridiculous in the first place. Of course you are allowed to hate something, just as you are allowed to love it.
>I don't really get the big deal about needing meta programming in the language itself. If I want to generate structs, serialization, properties, instrumentation, etc, I just write a regular C program that processes some source files and output source files and run that first in by build script.

This describes exactly what people don't want to do.
This is also a good example of how horrible the web has become and how inefficient JavaScript programmers are.

Even if you hit the "end" none of the elements are cleaned up so will continue to use cycles in the background. If it's supposed to be a permanent end, then you should remove all elements besides the serenity media.
I just love how everyone suddenly becomes transportation experts in this thread and pour out their opinions that are purely based on their anecdotes and beliefs but nothing else.
It does use executable heap space, but I think it uses specific pages which might also be pre-initialized, but I need to check how they implemented it.
Whether you consider it a big deal or not is up to you, but with zig's approach you don't have to write/maintain a separate parser, nor worry about whether it's complete enough to process your source files.

I don't know a lot about debugging zig comptime, though. I use printf-style debugging and the built-in unit test blocks. That's all I've needed so far. (Perhaps that's all there is.)
I think you nailed it. Any basic SWOT analysis of NVidia’s position would surely have to consider something like this from a competitor - either Apple, who is already nibbling around the edges of this space, or AMD/Intel who could/should? be.

It’s obviously not guaranteed to go this route, but an LLM (or similar) on every desk and in every home is a plausible vision of the future.
shellmind: LLM powered pseudocode shell commands
Advocating and lobbying for system change such as abolishing reserve banking and other such monetary manipulations.

It's dystopian that some people have millions of dollars of passive income; easy money falling on their lap each year, mostly coming straight out of a money printer, then they give back a fraction of that to a fraction of the people who were victimized by that same system.

The system systematically steals a little bit of money from maybe a few million victims via inflation, taxes and loss of opportunities, the system then essentially gives some of that money to 1 person (e.g. gov contracts, cheap loans, etc... which props up their stocks, without them even being aware), then the person donates a portion of that money to maybe 10 to 100 hand-picked victims. Net result; it just serves to concentrate wealth from a majority of victims to a minority of victims and makes things even harder for the majority of people who aren't recipient of any donations or investments.

It creates a system where nobody can succeed without receiving help. Either the government helps you with their money printer, or some rich person (who is themselves helped by the government or banking system) helps you. It becomes increasingly difficult to succeed without help when everyone else is getting help.

Imagine playing a game of monopoly when half of the players are getting 10x the money than the other half every time they pass go. What happens to the people who are receiving less money? They're essentially guaranteed to lose the game. A miserable experience because it FEELS hopeless and it literally IS hopeless... Yet they're being gaslit that everyone else is on the same playing field. It's not, just look at how the system is designed, new money is being created constantly, clearly it's not being distributed evenly.

The system would be much better if rich people just retired and spent their time and unlimited printed money on their yachts and mansions instead of distorting the markets and monopolizing opportunities by funding all sorts of startups which only steal opportunities from more worthy competitors (who don't have priority access to a money printer).
Can one game on it?

If one can skip buying gaming rig with a 5090 with its likely absurd price then this 3k becomes a lot easier for dual use hobbyists to swallow

Edit 5090 is 2k
When are they going to crack down on the music pretending to be human made?

Guys, it is pointless.
I hate what it has done to Slack.

Specifically how it has bogged down a perfectly good piece of software in more notifications and redundant features.

One example is the Catch Up-feature, which is throwing notification badges even for channels from whitch I've explicitly silenced notifications.

Another example is the kanban board. Tried to make use of it, but got distracted by red badges every time I opened Slack with the intention of adding or tracking tasks.
This reminds me of the early days of Facebook. All silly click games.
> proprietary code outside the network

Thought exercise: what would seriously happen if you did let some of your proprietary code outside your network? Oddly enough, 75% of the people writing code on HN probably have their companies code stored in GitHub. So there already is an inherent trust factor with GH/MSFT.

As another anecdote - Twitch's source code got leaked a few years back. Did Twitch lose business because of it?