skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly, his questions are simple tasks for classical computing and when you have one of those what you really want is for the AI to write and run the code. To its credit, GPT can often figure that out for itself these days (that it should respond by writing and running a program) but that leads to the other issue, that he's testing the $0.15 4o-mini instead of the $15.00 o1.
I signed up for Gemini Advanced to get access to Deep Research on Feb 1st and felt on top of the world. So cool, so advanced.

Then OpenAI announced theirs on the 2nd:
https://openai.com/index/introducing-deep-research/

Ethan Mollick called Google's undergraduate level and OpenAI's graduate level on the 3rd:
https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/the-end-of-search-the-begin...

And now this. I can't stop thinking about The Onion Movie's "Bates 4000" clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JCOBPMIgAA
> ... but if you get a notification when a mail arrives, it's most probably because your mail client uses Google or Apple's push service if you use a regular mobile device, or if you installed and configured microG.

Except it doesn't?

The Mail app on my iPhone doesn't use push notifications, fetch works well and I still get local notifications. No external push service at all.

> Alternatively, your app isn't doing this, but then it risks being unreliable and stop notifying you if the system kills your app because it's been inactive for some time to save battery, or to reclaim memory, and/or it uses more battery than it could.

You're saying a bunch of "issues" that never actually happened with me or anyone really, there is actually no issues here.

E-Mail is fine.
The reason that Jet Island doesn't make you sick is mostly that it does a lot of work to tie the movement to your physical actions. Games like Gorilla Tag have done well here also. The major insult to our vestibular system via visual input is when visuals change without any corresponding physical action... the classic example is vection when a train moves and your car stays still. You have no other physical inputs so the brain says "hol up".

Ironically, we don't puke every time we accelerate a car, and that's because we get to feel the pressure of the seat against us, maybe the decision to push the accelerator pedal, etc.

It doesn't hurt that Jet Island puts your hands right in front of you so you have a frame of reference. Frame of reference is another cue to helping with VR sickness. Cockpits are our friend.

But yeah, it sounds like you've pushed your personal boundaries pretty far. To be clear, I have no problem with enthusiasts testing themselves. The issue is when giant companies like Meta try to mainstream things and they flip the responsibility onto players. I don't appreciate that.
He ends with a very interesting proposition to "fix" dating apps:

> To me, the next revolution is really concepts that will make you meet other people without having much information about them. As a user, you will trust the algorithm to match you with the right people. And these concepts will be paying only

> So to summarize, a concept where users pay and commit that they will meet people without knowing them before. So yes, it will take a few dates to really find someone that you like, but so is going every day in dating apps and meeting people that you don't like either.

This is very close to the Dutch app Breeze: https://breeze.social/. There's no chatting in the app. It's focused on meeting people as soon as possible. People pre-pay for dates (covers drinks) and the app partners with venues to check on the couples (they know their names). People who cancel dates get a badge on their profile saying that they have canceled. Ghosters get banned.
iMessage and FaceTime are great. RCS is a 1990s telco non-solution, and Google's adverts negging Apple about it are weird. The less I am aware of the telephone company in my life, the better.

This Invites thing is a separate app requiring a subscription service, and not just a + extension within iMessage or Calendar integration or something, so I doubt that I will be using it.
The top of the line models are really cheap though. Getting an anthropic key and $5 of credit costs you exactly that, and gives you hundreds of prompts.
Kind of, but not really. My point is a bit further than the particular case they are focusing on. My point is that since Musk is part of the executive now and runs X any and __all__ censorship might be unconstitutional.

He doesn't have to say you are committing a crime to be interfering with your free speech. If an automated system blocks your account on X because you violated whatever terms of use, it might be a case of Musk violating your constitutional rights.

So for example if someone posts a bunch of porn on X it might be unconstitutional for X to take it down.

The same might also be true about Truth Social. Since the president controls* it.

*I don't know the extend of control he has.
> if you're talking about sifting through billions of messages it gets too expensive very fast.

Who's paying for that tho ? The same dumbass who get spied over, i don't see it as a reason why it wouldn't happen. Cash is unlimited.
NVIDIA was the most valuable stock for short period, before Apple took the record. It is now less valuable than Apple and Microsoft.
i’ve had some luck with asking conceptual questions about how something works if i am using library X with protocol Y. i usually get an answer that is either actually useful or at least gets me on the right path of what the answer should be. for code though, it will tell me to use non existent apis from that library to implement things
> Building the wrong thing fast is about as useful as not building anything at all.

SAY IT LOUDER

Fully agree. Plus, you may be faster in the short term but you won't in the long run. The effects of both good code and bad code compound. "Tech debt" is just a fancy term for "compounding shit". And it is true, all code is shit, but it isn't binary; there is a big difference between being stepping in shit and being waist deep in shit.

I can predict some of the responses

Premature optimization is the root of all evil

There's a grave misunderstanding in this adage[0], and I think many interpret it as "don't worry about efficiency, worry about output." But the context is that you shouldn't optimize without first profiling the code, not that you shouldn't optimize![1] I find it also funny revisiting this quote, because it seems like it is written by a stranger in a strange land, where programmers are overly concerned with optimizing their code. These days, I hear very little about optimization (except when I work with HPC people) except when people are saying to not optimize. Explains why everything is so sluggish...

[0] https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/80092

[1] Understanding the limitations of big O analysis really helps in understanding why this point matters. Usually when n is small, you can have worse big O and still be faster. But the constants we drop off often aren't a rounding error. https://csweb.wooster.edu/dbyrnes/cs200/htmlNotes/qsort3.htm
By that definition, a C++ program with heavy usage of std::shared_ptr has GC.
Man this makes me laugh.

The people with the money voted to approve a measure the hurts the people without money.

People wonder why we have the administration we have.
If someone sharing their view on an issue isn't curiosity-inspiring to you, isn't that mostly
an indication of your own incuriosity
I think Apple's right about at least part of this - something like Evite isn't an app (or worth paying for), it's a feature that needs to be stuck onside another app that gets paid for.
Relevant video https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-ImdlZtOU80
> Japan is in the West and last time I checked they were still Asians.

Japan is not in the west. Japan is not a western country. They are not a western peoples. They don't speak a western language. They don't have western culture. They don't even use western script.

In what world is Japan "in the West"? Ask a japanese person whether they are in the west or are westerners. They'd laugh in your face.

The west is narrowly western european or western european descended majority nations. Broadly it's european majority nations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_world
No switch flipping needed, if you send a text to another iPhone it’ll just do an iMessage instead.
all that fiddling and copy pasting takes me longer than just writing the code most of the time
Seems like a good opportunity for other countries to recruit scientists.

I think its underappreciated how much of America's modern success comes down to attracting scientists and intellectuals from war torn europe in the 30s-50s.
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Well, the broligarchy has their site on Americans, for one.
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The article says it all: paying is the losing strategy.

> Likes received [by men] have a positive impact, but it is very light, which is a good thing from a monetization standpoint (you can make guys pay and not show them to anyone; they will keep paying, just a bit less than if they received likes. [...])

I can confirm. Payed once for a whole year, and got absolutely buried. Went from a decent rate of interactions to 2~3 likes (not matches) per week. And after the premium period ended, exactly on that same day, the previous rate of likes was restored! That's how I know they were intentionally not showing my profile around to other users.

Taking revenge on other users because of the predatory design of a dating app is, sincerely, disingenuous, childish and even irresponsible. Just stop using the bad product and try to cultivate real connections with people out there.
Enabling people to make individual decisions, ensures the soundest decisions to be made in aggregate. (1)
This is not unlike the spontaneous order occuring in all natural systems.

This process can be subverted, but only to great detriment of the whole.

1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNQ3GccCAI0
It would not be just an "if X < N". Those decisions are going to depend on a lot of variables besides income such as credit history, assets, employment history, debts, and more.

For someone with a great credit history, lots of assets, a long term job in a stable position, and low debt they might be approved with a lower income than someone with a poor credit history whose income comes from a job in a volatile field.

There might be some absolute requirements, such as the person have a certain minimum income independent of all those other factors, and they they have a certain minimum credit score, and so on. If the application is rejected because it doesn't meet one of those then sure, you can just do a simple check and report that.

But most applications will be above the absolute minimums in all parameters and the rejection is because some more complicated function of all the criteria didn't meet the requirements.

But you can't just tell the person "We put all your numbers into this black box and it said 'no'. You have to give them specific reasons their application was rejected.
I'm surprised this wasn't on the front page. This caused quite a bit of trouble for me.
Air traffic control is almost 100 years old now. Unusual things happen, yes... but unpredictable ones do not. Ever. No conceivable emergency in ATC cannot be handled by a machine following a procedure, if it could be handled by people following the same procedure.

Just another perplexing case of humans insisting on doing a robot's job for no good reason.
Yes, I agree that they're taking the SV approach of "move fast and break things". They believe that government is severely broken, and this is their chance to reform it in significant ways. But obviously that's little comfort to you, if you get caught up in any breakage.

What I wish is that the Democrats had heard the plea of so many working class Americans, who were basically saying the same thing as you. "Your policies, (like mass immigration), make me fearful for the future, and I don't know how I will survive, or thrive". It was the dismissal of their fears, often with derision and insults, that pushed so many of them into the arms of Trump.
The nickname for these two is the "edit workflow" vs the "squash workflow," and both are good to know, for sure!
I have a response to a sibling comment showing where GPT 4o and o1-preview do not yield good results.

> assuming you direct it well.

But hey, I admit I might not be good at this. But honestly, I've found greater value in my time reading the docs than spending trying to prompt engineer my way through. And I've given a fair amount of time to trying to get good at prompting. I just can't get it to work.

I do think that when I'm coding with an LLM it _feels_ faster, but when I've timed myself, it doesn't seem that way. It just seems to be less effort (I don't mind the effort, especially because the compounding rewards).
A lot of you guys, including the author, will respond with these "you're holding it wrong" comments. But you never give examples of actual prompts that are somehow significantly different to what I use. The author gives a very small handful of his example prompts and I don't see anything in them that's fundamentally different to what I've tried. If anything his prompts are especially lazy compared to what I use and what I have read as best practice among "prompt engineers":

"is this idiomatic C?"

"not just “how does X work”, but follow-up questions like “how does X relate to Y”. Even more usefully, you can ask “is this right” questions"

"I’ll attach the entire file or files to Copilot chat, paste the error message, and just ask “can you help?”"
Why should people not get specific needs cared for, to exist for instance, because of who they choose to sleep with? I think that question precedes yours in priority.
I don't recall AA coming with affinity groups and explicit celebration and centering of differences.
Historically, unchecked corporate power tends to mirror the flaws of the systems that enable it. For example, the Gilded Age robber barons exploited weak regulations, while tech giants thrive on data privacy gray areas. Maybe the problem isn’t size itself, but the lack of guardrails that scale with corporate influence (e.g., antitrust enforcement, environmental accountability, or worker protections), but what do I know!

I guess corrupt cop vs serial killer is like amorality (profit-driven systems) vs immorality (active malice)? A company is a mix of stakeholders, some of whom push for ethical practices. But when shareholders demand endless growth, even well-intentioned actors get squeezed.
This is just an AI summary.
Known exceptional conditions can all be modeled and simulated preemptively. Like on each position update, for each plane, what does the overall situation look like if it needs to all of a sudden make an emergency landing.

(and just to be clear, no I'm not talking the "AI" genie but rather straightforward search algorithms that enforce the needed invariants)
This, and the first question I always try to answer is what off-label medications they were prescribed and what their diet was. This really needs to be studied.
Boosting their personal brand, perhaps?
That'll be the day I go back to Annandale
Also both George Bush Sr. and Biden were vice presidents of extremely popular/successful non-establishment presidents (Reagan and Obama). So really, there hasn't been an establishment president winning election since Jimmy Carter.
> That entire area is clearly not fit for human habitation, stop letting them build in dangerous areas.

I'm not sure that's the correct take-away. I think you had in correct in the second sentence.

> Do not rebuild in the exact same place, in the exact same way

If your area is a fire-prone, then yes I think you should be allowed to build there. However, your house better have taken into account fire. Whether it means you can't build houses within an acre of another or it has to be all stone, idk let qualified people figure out the requirements. But eventually everywhere in the US will have been hit by a natural disaster and the rule can't be you can't re-build, it just needs to be you need to account for what is likely to happen.

As to flooding, I don't know the specifics but if instead of rebuilding the same you put the house on stilts so just the staircase floods out every couple of years I think it's fine.
The ROC webpage talks about ROC doing web servers via Rust libs...

Behind the scenes, it uses Rust's high-performance hyper and tokio libraries to
execute your Roc function on incoming requests.

Will these be replaced with Zig networking libs?
From the article, however, you don't technically need an apple device...an iCloud+ account is sufficient. That said, I don't know many people with iCloud+ who aren't already in the Apple ecosystem, and obviously anything Apple releases will obviously have some advantage to it if you use the hardware alone.
Whereas you are an "Evil_Saint" ?

Hopefully you don't get to power yourself, with that kind of username, and all your book knowledge.
Are people all so useless now we need an app for this despite having all the tools we need already? No wonder innovation in software is dead when you can pump out the same crap over and over with shinier graphics
what about a swarm of drones 5 feet above the water?
This 1976 SciAm article has a lot of info including photos of the mine:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/24950391?seq=1
I don't think so, because there are more factors. For example, that women are extremely much more picky in apps than in real life. That's something that a FOSS product wouldn't solve, because it's a behavioral thing.
> Sounds like a doctor?

Not disagreeing, but the US also has a doctor shortage for at least a decade that it is seemingly unable to fix.
There is a wide range of moral and practical opinions between the statement “all weapons are evil” and “global corporations ought not to develop autonomous weapons”.
I would say prompting skills relative coding skills; and the more you rely on them, the less you learn.
Time is not on his side.
LLMs can work if you program above the code.

You still need to state your assertions with precision and keep a model of the code in your head.

Its possible to be be precise at an higher level of abstraction as long as your prompts are consistent with a coherent model of the code.
I want to be upset over this in an exasperated expression of oddly naive "why can't we all get along?" frame of mind. I want to, because I know how I would like the world to look like, but as a species we, including myself, continually fail to disappoint when it comes nearly guaranteed self-destruction.

I want to get upset over it, but I sadly recognize the reality of the why this is not surprising to anyone. We actually have competitors in that space, who will do that and more. We already have seen some of the more horrifying developments in that area.. and, when you think about it, those are the things that were allowed to be shown publicly. All the fun stuff is happening behind closed doors away from social media.
The idea is to destroy every part of the American federal government so that techno fiefdoms can be ruled by oligarchs. It's pretty obvious. Not sure if we can stop it!

In this particular case, the goal is to privatize science entirely.
> ELO score

What does ELO stand for?
Oh this looks neat!
I think the problem with leaving it all to premiums is that for things such as fires what everybody else does matters.

If everybody else has very flammable houses then the fire is going to spread and cause a ton of damage to _not houses_. The state really does need to clamp down on people using private land to cause public problems (like lack of water pressure in fire hydrants).
Take a fly on an airliner in MS flight simulator sometime or watch any of the YouTubers that show this stuff. CitationMax is a good one. The screens tell the flight plan, altitudes, traffic, weather, terrain and more. The audio part is, as mentioned above, extremely efficient and shared. The audio is used for clearances from one step to another ( very loosely speaking) This improves everyone’s situational awareness. This may have been an issue at DCA where the commercial flight was on VHF and the chopper was on UHF.

If a plane loses comms there are well defined procedures and everyone knows exactly what that plane will do as they proceed to their destination.
>all weapons are evil

That wasn't the quote that was removed. Not even close, really.
I don’t believe it’s just status symbol - until the recent RCS implementation having an Android phone in your group text meant that photos/videos would be awful MMS quality.
I thought so too, but the Chinese are much bigger in this space.
Maybe this is not for me, but I don't understand what it does

What do those groups and arrows mean?
WhatsApp absolutely has hardware lock-in. You need to be an Apple or Google customer to use it, and you need at least one Android or iOS phone.
The cheapest iCloud+ plan is $0.99/mo., which a lot of people are already on just for backup of photos and videos.
Yes, and that.
Anyone else read the article and say Oracle JET? What is that?
Slices are base pointer, length, and capacity, so three words. But there's a garbage collector, so you can install a thunk if the slice is updated in a way that torn reads cause problems. It makes reads slightly slower, of course.

Two-word loads could be used for interface values (assuming that alignment is increased), except if support older x86-64 is needed. There are implementations that require using CMPXCHG16B, which is a really slow way to load two words. Both Intel and AMD updated their ISA manuals that using VMOVDQA etc. is fine (once the CPU supports AVX and the memory is cacheable).
This isn't a discussion about shutting down an agency that was created by executive order.

It's a discussion about a bunch of anonymous sources and 'someone close to said' making extraordinary claims.

These claims need evidence - and "but I don't like what is happening with the Agency for International Development" is entirely irrelevant.

You are right that "This is not just a small understanding about read vs write access" though; it is a deliberate media blitz to insert the idea that this is happening into the cultural consciousness with absolutely 0 evidence.

If someone chimes in with some facts that can be validated from first party sources then I'll be happy to re-evaluate. This is just fear mongering as it is written today.