skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are some useful features that Go really should add, and enums might be one of them, but lacking a useful feature doesn't mean its not well designed.

The results are in for Go. It's already one of the most successful programming languages in history any way you measure it.

Of course Go should continue to improve and add features where the value outweighs the increased complexity. That's how it eventually got generic functions and other features.
Congrats on this work -- writing a debugger from scratch is a big job. I have cloned the repo, will take a proper look this w/e.
Language requires repetition and prolonged attention to learn. Anki is good for sure but even with push notifications is not pushy enough to keep most people coming back to it on a consistent basis. Miss a day of Anki and now you're doubled up on cards to review next time which can disincentivize people from ever coming back.

This is where Duolingo succeeds and why it's valued so highly. Twisting dark patterns to the benefit of the user for a process that requires prolonged retention is the perfect fit. The techniques it uses are derived from research on how best to keep someone's attention. Saying they add no value to language learning and that people should pick up a textbook is essentially saying that you trust people to be self-motivated enough to stick to something like that for potentially years. That is a losing bet. I'd wager the vast majority of people would never be able to do it in their entire lives.
Does anyone know why GPT4 has knowledge cutoff December 2023 and all the other models (newer ones like 4o, O1, O3) seem to have knowledge cutoff October 2023?
https://platform.openai.com/docs/models#o3-mini

I understand that keeping the same data and curating it might be beneficial. But it sounds odd to roll back in time with the knowledge cutoff. AFAIK, the only event that happened around that time was the start of the Gaza conflict.
These sorts of comments always make me wonder what you prefer.
What's extremely confusing to me (as a private pilot) is that traffic is almost always routed directly over an airport (midfield), to safely avoid departing and landing traffic. The sense that I get is that it became routine for traffic to be routed directly through the glidepath in a staggered manner, likely because it's military.

Such unsafe habits (like driving without a seatbelt on) statistically will eventually result in a tragic outcome.
I find Claude to be vastly better than any OpenAI model as a programming assistant.

In particular the "reasoning" models just seem to be less good and more slow.
I definitely am not getting that, perhaps the 671b model is notably worse than the 70b llama distill in this respect. 70b seemed pretty happy to talk about the ethnic cleansing of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang by the CCP and Palestinians in Gaza by Israel, it did some both-sides ing but it generally seemed to provide a balanced-ish viewpoint. At least I think it provided a viewpoint that comports with my best guess of what the average person globally would consider balanced.
I wonder if the relatively high level of VIP / security choppers in the area has led to a level of complacency / normalisation of deviance over near misses for aviators and controllers. Sure, they occasionally trigger alarms, but everyone knows the routes, so the pilots always know where to look etc. so nothing bad actually happens…
Queuing theory also says it’s wrong. That’s why the lines everywhere get so long. They’ve optimized for somewhere on the bell curve of usual activity levels and any time tasks come in faster than that, wait times grow extravagantly.

If you want wait times to be short you have to aim for hair under 60% normal usage.
What if you use ASCII 234? Ω
(edit: works!)
Isn't that true of more work than any of us care to admit ?
Since you are one of the maintainers of Ollama, maybe you can help me answer a related question. It is great that the software itself is open source, but hosting the models must cost a fortune. I know this is funded by VC money, yet nowhere on the Ollama website or repository there is any mention of this. Why is that?

There isn't an about section, a tiny snippet in a FAQ somewhere, nothing.
ChatGPT is still benefitting from first mover advantage. Which they’ve leveraged to get to the position they’re at today.

Over time, competitors catch up and first mover advantage melts away.

I wouldn’t attribute OpenAI’s success to any extremely smart marketing moves. I think a big part of their market share grab was simply going (and staying) viral for a long time. Manufacturing virality is notoriously difficult (and based on the usability and poor UI of ChatGPT early versions, it feels like they got lucky in a lot of ways)
the fact that openai hides the reasoning tokens from us to begin with shows that what they are doing behind the scenes isnt all that impressive, and likely easily cloned (r1)

would be nice if they made them visible now
Yay this is awesome! GDB is a buggy (https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18772 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9425) mess and rough code quality, I've wanted a do something like this for a while.

To be 100% clear, it's not using gdb/gdbserver under the hood right?

The bugs I linked above are over a decade old, and I have to patch them every time I compile GDB server. Ultimately (IIRC) GDB needs to rework how it handles signals (to their credit, ptrace is a horribly stupid API, especially before PTRACE_SEIZE, so I don't blame them for having issues)
Wow, this was really Delaware's game to lose and it looks like they might lose it.

Incorporating in Delaware was the "nobody gets fired for buying IBM" of corporate governance.
Fun fact story about the ADO and using it in ways not expected. This was a piece of equipment that post houses could charge $250-$500/hr for use. In the bad old days of analog tape-to-tape editing, it was possible to have a piece of gear setup incorrectly with the rest of the equipment in the shop. This issue would cause the color burst to flip when the signal was used as a source, and when the edited tape was played back the flip would happen twice--once at the start and again at the end of the edit--you could see the flips happen on the waveform. This flipping was worth of a fine from the FCC for any broadcaster that dared to air this. Some enterprising person realized that if you ran the signal through the ADO while using none of its designed features, the output signal would be corrected to no longer have the flipping burst issue. This was all analog, so a generation hit was taken just to fix the issue.

There was a very recent post about someone restoring an Amiga 1000 that had me reminiscing about my days with an Amiga 2000 with a video toaster. I commented there about how that device replacing all of the existing gear was how I decided what career path I was taking. Maybe that shell shock of new replacing old at a young age allowed me to accept old equipment being no longer of any value where the older coworkers just had not had to accept that just yet.
Abundant organic matter in samples from asteroid Bennu
So if I understand this correctly, this company gets certain information about 911 calls, and then sells it to third parties?

I wonder how much information they get, because this could get a lot darker. Imagine if calls to the police reporting domestic violence resulted in advertising material from divorce lawyers. (A domestic violence victim might well want a divorce lawyer, but unsolicited material showing up in their mailbox may put them at risk by enraging their already-violent spouse.)
See also "The goal" by Eli Goldratt
Same, I live in San Diego where there are lots of military helicopters and activity in close proximity to SAN. I mostly see them go directly above the airport. I wonder what is different about DCA (maybe noise abatement?) why this isn't done.
Specifically only selling off Chrome https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/27/24302415/doj-google-sear...

DoJ asserts that owning a browser gave Google an unfair advantage in building a search engine to the degree that it prevented meaningful competition.

I don't think Google losing Chrome is too harmful to Google. I would say it's probably equal to Apple losing billions from the default search deal.
Fast IoT data pipeline for infrared monitoring
It increases modularity and small-worldness, which are in my book critical for AGI (surprised by the way that this publication doesn't cite https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-023-00748-9).
That was how I learned to tense my ear muscles -- because I could see they made my glasses shift on my face.
The impact is kind of interesting, how do you know someone's legit, the person doing basejumping or whatever

Thanos/NFTs: where did that take you? right back to me

Thinking hardware with built in chain interface for proof

Oh man dating apps too

That's true love though, two people meet up IRL they're both like wtf who are you
So for posterity, in this subthread we found that OpenAI indeed trains on user data and it isn't something that only DeepSeek does.
A quick googling reveals: "About a third of all people can raise one eyebrow: left or right. [..] But the ability to raise both eyebrows separately is much rarer. If you're not among them, that's because you cannot yet control and move the corresponding muscles."
The USB-IF as well. Retroactively changing the name of a previous standard was particularly ridiculous. It's always been USB 3.1 Gen 1 like we've always been at war with Eastasia.
Tier 3 here and already see it on Limits page, so maybe the wait won't be long.
NixOS is great at mitigating some of systemd's sharp edges and putting its actual properties in stark relief so that they can actually be evaluated logically (and even swapped out for alternatives without having to drastically change the whole OS distribution).

Things I do not like:

Configuration splayed out amongst tons of tiny .ini files (this manifests in nixos by a mostly boilerplate ~10 line config burp for every service)

Multiple dependency types including its own enable/disable system including a whole parallel configuration tree of symlinks, as opposed to the simple/standard/traditional approach of configuration being disabled by not existing.

Network interfaces/drives/etc splayed out each into multiple services, some from concrete configuration, some implicit - seemingly to make everything visible to its uniform model.

Complex logical model making it hard to debug it without using bespoke tools to analyze dependency graphs and whatnot.

I'm not sitting around hating on systemd because sysvinit was also totally overwrought and obtuse, and BSD style init scripts weren't really scalable. But I get the hate. And I totally see the room for a drastically simpler init system (especially for NixOS). It's fantastic that someone finally dug in and attempted it.
Deepseek is the state of the art right now in terms of performance and output. It's really fast. The way it "explains" how it's thinking is remarkable.
So now Elon makes not only boring products, but also others that just suck?
Great news for all the people who voted on the price of eggs
The practice in question was abolished in 2018. https://www.faa.gov/faq/faa-getting-rid-air-traffic-skills-b...

The next year, Trump created his own diversity program there. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/30/faa-dei-t... (https://archive.is/dDusb)

> “FAA Provides Aviation Careers to People with Disabilities,” the agency announced on April 11, 2019. The pilot program, the announcement said, would “identify specific opportunities for people with targeted disabilities, empower them and facilitate their entry into a more diverse and inclusive workforce.”
That's true, especially with haptic feedback being unviable in a car.
Until recently they were the only game in town, so maybe they accrued significant spend back then?
How much would YouTube Inc make without having its infrastructure subsidized by Google corporate and taking advantage of Google’s ad network

And you speak of “platform charity”. But not thinking about VC charity?
IMO, the SV mindset, VC and big tech aren't interchangeable in that way.

Sequoia Capital, the 900 lb gorilla of VCs reportedly had $102B in funds/assets in 2024. Apple just had $124B as first quarter revenue and had over $200B in cash reserves after a $30B stock buyback. I don't know the size of the funds Vance oversaw, but I bet dollars to donuts, the scale is far bigger at big tech.
> You refuse to believe that millions of people hate podcasts

If you read what I wrote, you'll see I never said that. I don't know why you think it's worth replying to something other than what I wrote.
Elite on the 6502: The original 6502 assembly source, heavily commented
$Hood on Solana
How entwined is it with Linux specific APIs? Eg, how hard would it be to port to FreeBSD?
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If people did not buy cars with touch screens when they started to get introduced, they would be gone by now. But they seem to be accepted by new car buyers which is the market that matters to manufacturers.
I think a better approach would be to rewrite the Constitution, taking into account what has been learned over the centuries. The executive branch should become more like a bureaucracy and less like a monarchy. In particular, department heads should have a degree of independence from the President, and it should only be possible to remove them before the normal term expires by impeachment or if the President and the Senate agree.
> What features do you most miss?

one time I wanted to write generic printers. E.g. printer of any type which support C++ iterators. But gdb can't call C++ functions from python api (excepting weird hacks like evaluating `print c.begin()` and catching it output). Although this is not very useful because most of types we use changes very rarely, that's why writing printers is only matter of time.

Another feature is breakpoints which sleep next N seconds. We have breakpoints which can skip next N triggering, but similar with time will be useful to me to debug mouse events in gui apps, etc.

Also the most new gdb still have problems with tab-tab completion (and even Ctrl-C don't return control immediately).

Also lately I often meet problem cannot insert breakpoint 0. Probably this is a bug, because answers from stackoverflow isn't relevant for me
Not so easy. New WiFi Camera's show up in the location maps that these people may have access to.

Desperate homeless may be coerced to do the deed, while the malevolent person sits back and watches.

Some people seem to think these things don't happen, but they do. Just look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay_stalking_scandal for a perfect example, there are plenty of things that never make it to this level of harassment where there is no proof.
I know that kitty has a one line install and has done for ages, and the defaults are fine? One thing I really liked about the default config was that it lists every option with an explanation.
My guess is it will happen right after Sam Altman's next public freakout about how dangerous this new model they have in store is and how it tried to escape from its confinement and kidnap the alignment operator.
Lawyer here:
As a general rule, you can't bind non-parties with injunctions.
Courts have no authority to enforce such injunctions either.

A very recent example:
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/01/24/google-as-non-party-not...
Just chiming in to say I am incredibly sympathetic to this line of thinking, even though I am ultimately pro-privacy in spite of the real costs you talk about
I have mainly been using Claude 3.5/3.6 Sonnet via API in the last several months (or since 3.5 Sonnet came out). However, I was using o1 for a challenging task at one point, but last I tested it had issues with some extra backslashes for that application.

I also have tested with DeepSeek R1 and will test some more with that although in a way Claude 3.6 with CoT is pretty good. Last time I tried to test R1 their API was out.
Apart from the above differences, another important difference is that OLAP is often columnar based, as opposed to the typical OLTP being row-based. So, OLAP queries use different kinds of index. Snowflake has introduced Hybrid tables where the same data is stored and indexed twice, once in OLAP columnar type and the other in OLTP style row index.
Person 1: corruption that has either been proven in court; shrugged at by that person, or actively bragged about by that person

Person 2: corruption that has been claimed by Person 1 or his proxies but not proven or substantiated in any other way.

Are you paying attention?
That's beautiful and mesmerizing - video here: http://www.nablaman.com/relay/progress.php

I built one of these[0] a few years ago, and really enjoyed the build process and playing around with it. It was a pretty big project, but no special skills required.

[0] https://relaysbc.sourceforge.net/
> openai is no longer relevant.

I think you've spent a little too long hitting on the Deepseek pipe. Enterprise customers with familiarity with China will avoid the hosted model for data security and IP protection reasons, among others.

Those working in any area considered economically competitive with China will also be hesitant to use the vanilla model in self-hosted form as there perpetually remains the standing question on what all they've tuned inside the model to benefit the CCP. Perhaps even in subtle ways reminiscent of the Trisolaran sophons from the Three Body Problem.

For instance, you can imagine that if Germany had released an OS model in 1943, that the Americans wouldn't have trusted it to help them develop better military systems even if initial testing passed muster.

Unfortunately, state control of private enterprise in the Chinese economy makes it unproductive to separate the two from one another. Particularly in Deepseek's case as a wide array of Chinese state-linked social media accounts were promoting V3/R1 on the day of its public release.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/c...
I think trained knowledge is less and less important - as these multi-modal models have the ability to search the web and have much larger context windows.
To be fair, taking bribes for your presidential library has been apart of American politics for a while. Also, sorry, I forgot we don't call it "bribing" anymore, it's called "lobbying" now ;)

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2019/03/shining-a-light-on-...

(also I absolutely love your interpreter book - you single-handedly got me a perfect score for my bachelor thesis, sorry had to sneak this in)
> The available Linux debuggers are gdb and lldb. They both suck. They crash all the time, don't understand the data types I care about, and they don't make the data I need available at my fingertips as quickly as possible.

Okay, so this is the author's answer to the most important question: "why?"

For me this is a serious issue, making strong statements without any single backing example. If you experience crashes, please report to the maintainers - i guarantee that you won't be ignored. You say that it's missing some data that you need? Fine, but be precise - what data?

Otherwise it sounds like a "yeah, let's make a project for fun and pretend that it's serious by finding sort-of-justification/use case" (i'm not telling that it is the case for you - i'm telling that it sounds like it, based on your own description).

Also, would you feel nice if i put in my project's README a note that the project of you, the one that you put your effort to, "sucks"?
I will take the SCOTUS opinion on these laws being Constitutional over an comment on hackernews. We'll see what happens, I'm sure that Trumpy will try and get it to SCOTUS and test such institutions.
Struggling to perceive your thought process here. Did you really think you were making an effective point here?
Yes, something like this, the intermediate verified steps wouldn't have to be shown to the user.
at least if i ran the company you'd know that

ChatGPTasdhjf-final-final-use_this_one.pt > ChatGPTasdhjf-final.pt > ChatGPTasdhjf.pt > ChatGPTasd.pt> ChatGPT.pt
Thanks, I was conflating it with natural selection.
> ....Alexa/Google Assistant/Siri... and they obviously don’t make money.

If you take a very narrow view of "make money"

They are immensely valuable to the owners and an important part of the systematic maintenance of people as "consumers" rather than "citizens".

We would be better off, over all, without the whole thing.
You are wondering wrong. This is a security hole and data leak.

A large scale DDos is being directed against deepseek.

US big tech wants to quench the competition.
Yes a million times to this! It is crazy that you never have to retake your drivers license.
I think that OpenAI should reduce the prices even further to be competitive with Qwen or Deepseek. There are a lot of vendors offering Deepseek R1 for $2-2.5 per 1 million tokens output.
> remedy for all the cases will be to buy $25 million TRUMPCOIN

There, fixed it for you
The court's position here is strange - you can't bind non-parties with injunctions.

This is even part of the FRCP - see 65(d)(2)

The only exception is basically aiding and abetting.

This is well settled caselaw basically forever.
I posted it elsewhere in the thread, but here's a very recent example:
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/01/24/google-as-non-party-not...

(Youtube can't be ordered by a federal court to take down posts as part of an injunction, when they aren't party to the case).

The court may want to keep whatever scheduling it has, but it's going to royally screw itself if it tries to order an injunction that affects the rights of non-parties in a meaningful way like this, without being really really careful about it.

Especially with SCOTUS just itching to find important cases where they can reinforce the limited nature of injunctions and ensure courts only grant relief that deals with the parties at hand.
They're created by Congress but administratively part of the executive branch, as described in the first two paragraphs of the linked wiki article, and they're independent so they can be insulated from politics and regulate effectively.
99% of what people use ChatGPT is for very mundane stuff. Think “translate this email to English”, “fix spelling mistakes”, “write this better for me”. Data extraction (list of emails) is big as well. You don’t need o1 for that; and people make lot of those requests per day.

Additionally, o1 does not have access to search and multimodality and taking a screenshot of something and asking questions about it is also a big use case.

It’s easy to overlook how widely ChatGPT is used for very small stuff. But compounded it’s still a game changer for many people.
Why not take a look at both?

The financial connections reveal the larger infrastructure that enabled abuse - bankers, lawyers, and executives who helped conceal activities and maintain influence.
Why are they poor choices? What tradeoffs are they making?

I can't really evaluate/judge them without understanding that first.
Source WSJ article: https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-incorporation-texas-delware-f0...

> Last year, Delaware’s legislature made it easier for big shareholders to use stockholder agreements to assume powers normally held by a company’s board. The Delaware Chancery Court also ruled in Meta’s favor in April, dismissing a case that argued the company had to consider societal impacts in addition to chasing profits.

I wonder if this is an attempt to disempower minority shareholders (i.e. anyone that isn't Zuck)?
I'm kind of surprised that fraud protection isn't listed.
Apple would never have invested in Mx chips that are only 14% of Apple’s revenue - Macs + iPads. If it weren’t for the R&D from iPhone Ax chips and the volume.

So exactly who want Chrome? How would they monetize it and you can already get Chromium for free. Could Android not come with a browser? Chromebooks?

Who would fund Chromium development?
Anyone else stuck in a Cloudflare 'verify you're a human' doom loop?