skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe you have this backwards.

The market value of almost every single home in the Palisades, as someone with family from there, is due to the location, not the homes themselves.

If the land loses its intrinsic value because it is inherently unsafe, it will be cheaper to buy. Maybe only modest homes get rebuilt because decreased land value cannot support estates anymore, but that is the situation.

> It’s basically never a financially good idea to build a house in California, since market value will be below construction cost

No, I can assure you as someone who has both built and remodeled in Los Angeles, this is not the case. This region is so housing starved that even spending $200k to a convert a 500sqft garage into an ADU (which is extremely high cost per square foot, compared to national averages) immediately increased the property value by almost $400k. The reason Los Angeles has a housing shortage and not a housing boom is entirely self-inflicted: this city has a terrible zoning and NIMBY problem, and the city refuses to meaningfully fix it. Developers would _love_ to build here, if only they could: projects that take 60 days to get permitted in Dallas, TX take 3-5 years here.
calling it "last" is defeating their own premise - that tests need to keep pace developments in ability
Why Financial Data is so lucrative
> GPT-4o-2024-08-06 GPT-4o

From what I understand GPT-4o will map to the most recent generated model so it will change over time. The models with the date appended will not change over time.
I look up potential domains from ICANN for fear of getting the domain sniped: https://lookup.icann.org/en

I'm not actually sure that they are not involved in sniping, or even that others are involved. But it's my best bet on it.
If only we'd figured out a technology that let us move huge torrents of bits around.

If only there was a catchy name for it. Something like bit-torrent perhaps?
> Good engineers are right, a lot

But a manager wouldn't know right vs wrong if they themselves are not skilled enough - and thus managers should not be spending time judging and evaluating people
The crypto changes are being rolled into mainstream Go, just that mainstream Go does not want the openssl/SCOSSL/SymCrypt parts.
vscode with cline or roo + openrouter + free models. The latest free gemini ones are pretty ok.
Why is it we can’t use any DNS service by now? I want to use a completely alternate list that has the main domains like Google, Apple, Microsoft, and whoever wants to list, but doesn’t register everything like the global DNS system.

Seems silly we deify one DNS pay to play scheme when we can easily point to alternate DNS. As it stands the world has a naming scheme monetized and owned through no merit or logic based system, just entrenchment.

.onion kind of does this with privacy. .eth (ew) kind of does too, but critical mass is unlikely.
People us "AI" all the time without quotes, but this is where we pretend to care about literal definitions? Yeah, right.

> Donald Trump's policies resemble an administrative coup d'état, says journalist Annika Brockschmidt. He and Elon Musk are undermining the separation of powers in the USA and disregarding civil rights. The political opponent is becoming overtired.

https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/in-den-usa-findet-ein-adminis...
I learned to implement my own multiplication and division as part of learning bignum with a high level language (in my case Pascal). By the time I learned assembly language I simply focused on how to translate high level language to assembler; basically be a manual compiler and compare my output against a real compiler.

It seems unnecessary to learn any algorithm including the multiplication algorithm in assembly language.
Exactly! If its not experimental, it's crap! /s
Some of the example prompts are unintentionally hilarious:

> Hummingbirds within Apodiformes uniquely have a bilaterally paired oval bone, a sesamoid embedded in the caudolateral portion of the expanded, cruciate aponeurosis of insertion of m. depressor caudae. How many paired tendons are supported by this sesamoid bone? Answer with a number.

LLMs are so intelligent they don't know that a "how many" question is answered with a number.

Also, something something Goodhart's law.
> Unemployed people are not in a position to protest.

Well that's easy enough, put in a safety net so access to basic sustenance can't be used as a weapon to compel people.

Unless of course, you need to compel people to work for some reason
The number is, I believe, simply peak voltage. And personally I find the measure grossly misleading: an iPhone with an 80% battery has an almost useless runtime. It definitely isn’t 80% of the original runtime.
Well we do know pretty much exactly what they do, don't we?

What surprises us is the behaviors coming out of that process.

But surprise isn't magic, magic shouldn't even be on the list of explanations to consider.
What, exactly are you arguing for?

Are you claiming that an occasional need for a car dictates that every person needs their own dedicated full time car and that all dwellings need associated parking?

That would be extremely foolish.

You appear to be flopping about in circles here.
This is basically a misrepresentation of that tweet.
At least in my area of VA, the elections board does a great job supporting it's poll-workers.

If you have the capacity (I understand it's not compatible with everyone's schedule or capacity) I would recommend looking into it in your area as they usually need help, and it is a paid gig. It's easy to sign up the next time you go to vote, just ask the poll workers for the signup sheet.

I try to make it fun and make food for my precinct. Usually some bbq fresh bread and some sides, then feed any of the county voting board members who check in on us as well.

Good luck out there!
When don't they run scams? NEVER DO BUSINESS WITH GODADDY.
I'm a huge Newsroom sucker, but that one just felt weird. The whole "we used [clip] sarin" felt really drawn-out and kind of weird. On the other hand, my partner and I constantly say "we used sarin" to each other so maybe it has a way of sticking in your brain regardless. (And it might mean our relationship is... odd.)
Firstly this is meta ad hom. You're ignoring the argument to target the speaker(s)

Secondly, you're ignoring the fact that the community of voices with experience in data sciences, computer science and artificial intelligence themselves are split on the qualities or lack of them in current AI. GPT and LLM are very interesting but say little or nothing to me of new theory of mind, or display inductive logic and reasoning, or even meet the bar for a philosophers cave solution to problems. We've been here before so many, many times. "Just a bit more power captain" was very strong in connectionist theories of mind. fMRI brains activity analytics, you name it.

So yes. There are a lot of "us" who are pushing back on the hype, and no we're not a mini cult.
The worst part about it is we already have a playbook to actually reduce the US debt, which we did very well in the 90s.

Elect US senators and Representatives to go to the floor and debate about individual programs on CSPAN so people can actually hear arguments about it.

This is why, for example, the ISS didn't get cut, but the SSC did. Both were huge science programs that cost tens of billions of dollars and Clinton's administration explicitly wanted to keep both programs but the voting public, through senators and house reps, including democrat members of both forced them to pick only one.
Apparently OpenAI's Deep Research already saturated a quarter of this benchmark, more or less a month in. But I also imagine it makes baffling mistakes anyway.

"Humanity's Laster Exam" coming up when?
"Sources? Or are you just knowingly spreaing false and defamatory claims because you feel emotional or want to signal your political affiliation?" -You, nullc aka Greg Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com>, before being flagged for hysterically and partisanly carrying Musk's water, and then ninja-editing your comment so as not to appear to be hypocritical for feeling emotional or signaling your political affiliation.

Sources:

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/doge-staffer-out-after-soc...

>"Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool.” -@nullllptr

>“Normalize Indian hate." -@nullllptr

>"You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity." -@nullllptr

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50695593

>"Pedo guy." -Elon Musk

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/elon-musk-transgender...

>"not a girl", "dead, killed by the woke mind virus" -Elon Musk

>[Musk's own estranged daughter] Wilson, 20, in an exclusive interview with NBC News, responded to comments Musk made Monday about her and her transgender identity. On social media and in an interview posted online, Musk said she was “not a girl” and was figuratively “dead,” and he alleged that he had been “tricked” into authorizing trans-related medical treatment for her when she was 16.

>“I was in fourth grade. We went on this road trip that I didn’t know was actually just an advertisement for one of the cars — I don’t remember which one — and he was constantly yelling at me viciously because my voice was too high,” she said. “It was cruel.”

>“I no longer live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form,” she said in the court filing.

>“I lost my son, essentially,” Musk said. He used Wilson’s birth name, also known as a deadname for transgender people, and said she was “dead, killed by the woke mind virus.”

>And in a post on X, Musk said Monday that Wilson was “born gay and slightly autistic” and that, at age 4, she fit certain gay stereotypes, such as loving musicals and using the exclamation “fabulous!” to describe certain clothing. Wilson told NBC News that the anecdotes aren’t true, though she said she did act stereotypically feminine in other ways as a child.

>“He doesn’t know what I was like as a child because he quite simply wasn’t there,” she wrote. “And in the little time that he was I was relentlessly harassed for my femininity and queerness.”

>“I’ve been reduced to a happy little stereotype,” she continued. “I think that says alot about how he views queer people and children in general.”
They've got multiple, see here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/noobcomments

F.A.M.O.
Pick up that can, citizen.
That's a fun blog. The author writes about tall buildings almost to a point of fetishism, but seems at least aware of that obsession, hence the name.

Although I don't care much about most tall buildings, I do like that blogs on single, weird topics still exist and are being written. Niche blogs are one of the best uses cases for the web.
Society "regulating" the language of others is almost entirely how languages develop.

USofAian is almost unreadable and unrecognizable in text to the general public when compared with American.
Hasn't started yet. Give it a few months or a year for the Taiwan situation to start to really boil and for them to have had their fill of rounding up Hispanics.
Sure, that's true - though I can see a couple dozen of them out of the window behind my desk, and there'd be lots more if I were on the other side of the building - but I was really just replying to the previous commenter's mockery of the idea that one could go to the mountains via bus. It's not only possible, it's routine!
If you have a Kobo, it has built in Pocket integration and sync out of the box
I've seen this in the wild: for sale at Gamescape in San Francisco.
That is correct.

Play's hype did more harm than good. I work at a company that has many legacy projects in Scala because we were/are heavily invested in Spark, and Play is a disaster overall.
Oh, there are definitely Topics HN Cannot Discuss, and that's a long-time frustration of mine, see: <https://web.archive.org/web/20190115023534/https://plus.goog...> (2018).

Also: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30376111> (2022).

Point remains that the best way to resolve this isn't snark or whinging on threads, but emails to mods. They (dang and others) are well aware of this limitation and have occasionally expressed frustrations. Member-based moderation works relatively well, for much discussion, but does have some profound limitations. Acknowledge and work with those.
Israeli made pagers injured and killed many Palestinian people.

Is Bibi sending Trump a message, do as we tell you to, or we'll blow you up too?
Not at all, we are building conceptual reasoning machines, but it is an entirely different technology than GPT/LLM dl/ml etc. [1]

[1] https://graphmetrix.com/trinpod-server
alternative roots exist but they will not be taken seriously by operating system vendors (for damned good reasons that are touched on by RFC 2826 - https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2826).

You're free to use alternative roots. This doesn't quite address the structure of domain registration (the ICANN regime, perhaps?) because that's a different thing altogether, but kind of related. kind of.

I personally do not want to live in a world where there are competing roots. You would have massive fragmentation, confusion, poisoning, spoofing, severe trust issues. It's not going to happen.

EDIT: oh shit, it actually is happening. sad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_Internet_Law
Functional as in packed with explosives?
The bible obviously
You think we have AGI? What makes you think that?
And yet in 40+ years I've yet to exchange text with anyone that didn't understand it.
Notwithstanding modern time, Google is notably absent in this article because it provides a good counter to it.
A good literary production. I would have been proud of it had I thought of it, but it's a path to observe a strong "whataboutery" element that if we use "stochastic parrot" as shorthand and you dislike the term, now you understand why we dislike the constant use of "infer", "reason" and "hallucinate"

Parrots are self aware, complex reasoning brains which can solve problems in geometry, tell lies, and act socially or asocially. They also have complex vocal chords and can perform mimicry. Very few aspects of a parrots behaviour are stochastic but that also underplays how complex stochastic systems can be in their production. If we label LLM products as Stochastic Parrots it does not mean they like cuttlefish bones or are demonstrably modelled by Markov chains like Mark V Shaney.
Happened to me with a registrar whose name I can no longer remember. And yep, dropped them like a hot potato.

Waited the cancellation period (I think it was 5 or 7 days for a registrar to cancel a registration back in those days) and the domain became available (from a different registrar).
Generally in bid, if your price get rejected, you would bit for higher price and that's what we did, till you discover the price. I think with lower price they hook you in. The true price is sometimes 2x-10x of what they suggest.

Their bidding mechanism is not how a retail transaction works, where either you buy or you don't, it is not binary.
Python mostly, and Java if you are using Flink. We do both. The thing with Scala is, it's mostly linked to Spark, and then probably a good portion of the gigs out there using Spark are using Databricks, and Databricks is pretty expensive, so people are moving away from it. At least this has been my case for two companies -- one moved to self-host Vertica and the other is about to move to Flink.
And anyone else who might technically be called an American doesn’t want the name anyway.

“USian” could apply to Mexico as they’re the United States, too, and since they’re in America they could also be “USofAians”.
The name is very intentional, this isn't "AI's Last Evaluation", it's "Humanity's Last Exam". There will absolutely be further tests for evaluating the power of AIs, but the intent of this benchmark is that any more difficult benchmark will either be

- Not an "exam" composed of single-correct-answer closed-form questions with objective answers

- Not consisting of questions that humans/humanity is capable of answering.

For example, a future evaluation for an LLM could consist of playing chess really well or solving the Riemann Hypothesis or curing some disease, but those aren't tasks you would ever put on an exam for a student.
If a research group downloads material in order to train a model, is there some significant difference in copyright violation if they hand it to a second research group in order to fulfill the same purposes?
I'm assuming you live in a less populated area, which would also (on average) mean fewer criminals. Lower usage in high density vs lower usage in low density.
Just curious what do you do? I'm thinking about moving away from data, maybe into something that is a little bit lower-level.
I'm sorry someone put a gun to your head and forced you to read HN today.
Don’t forget to declare it an innovation, we have re-invented the way everyone was doing thing anyway!
Right on. I can definitely appreciate collecting media.

I've been buying cassette tapes from artists on Bandcamp. I am already buying their digital album, it's usually only a few bucks more to also get the tape. They're small and I've got a cool Bluetooth player[0], but they're mostly for show.

On the other hand, I don't buy physical media for movies or shows. Those are backed up digitally and served with Jellyfin for when they're inevitably unavailable on paid streaming.

[0] https://www.wearerewind.com/products/lecteur-cassette-blueto...
And kill it the 10th time
Yeah, wanting to increase diversity sure is, uh- wait...
Love how everyone is projecting their bigotry onto this lol.
> The worst part about it is we already have a playbook to actually reduce the US debt, which we did very well in the 90s.

Uh, we didn't. Even in the “balanced budget” years 1998-2001, the debt increased.

Unless you mean reducing the debt to GDP ratio, which we did in parts of the 1990s, and some periods since, but that's not much explained by the spending control methods you discuss, but by growing the economy.
Magic wasn’t mentioned here. We don’t understand the emerging behavior, in the sense that we can’t reason well about it and make good predictions about it (which would allow us to better control and develop it).

This is similar to how understanding chemistry doesn’t imply understanding biology, or understanding how a brain works.
Isnt it just a gambling simulator/stimulator?
Exactly! Qix 1981
A large number of these sometimes smell like an oil lobby working their contacts to convince people to put off their EV purchase for five years until the amazing and better battery (tm) comes out.

I can't tell if this is one of those. It does have many of the hallmarks.
I submitted this article to HN earlier. I’m not the author.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42818169

Short version is don’t be a “ticket taker”. Move closer to the customer/stakeholder and further away from the IDE. Think in terms of adding business value and focus more on strategy than tactics (pulling well defined stories off the board).

https://www.levels.fyi/blog/swe-level-framework.html

I didn’t just pull “scope”, “impact” and “ambiguity” out of thin air. The leveling guidelines of all the tech companies boil down to this in one way or the other.

This is Dropbox’s for instance.

https://dropbox.github.io/dbx-career-framework/

I’ve been moving closer to the “business” for a decade now after spending almost two decades as your bog standard enterprise dev. I haven’t done much active coding except some simple Python scripts in almost 3 years.

My focus is now strategic cloud consulting focusing on application development. I’m not saying necessarily “learn cloud”. Learning how to deal with “the business” and leading implementations that deliver business value is the objective. The “cloud” just happens to be my tool. I’m slowly adding Big Data/ML/“AI” to my tool belt.
The Will Eisner M-16 U.S. Army Rifle Maintenance Booklet, 1968
> and since they’re in America they could also be “USofAians”.

That's a stretch, the country they live in is United Mexican States which doesn't abbreviate to USofA.

Mexico in short doesn't have the ambiguity of America.
Yeah maybe jumping directly into x86-64 is not a bad idea. e.g. for Windows just have to understand the calling conventions and syscalls and such, to push some windows.

I need to look into my SDL2/C++ game's assembly code and see how it is done.
Better that than doing the right thing at the wrong time IMO
Lest LLMs turn into all-knowing but completely opaque oracles, I’d prefer every question ended with “and how do you know?”
I'd guess that the sort of people incidentally mugging others can't afford a car and so would generally be within walking distance of their home/haunts. Probably also not the sort to put in extra effort walking trails or chancing a long walk in case they found someone.

I've travelled and hiked in the US a lot. In outdoor tourism spots away from cities, I think the main threat for opportunistic thefts would be 20-30yo foreign tourists (shoestring travelling Europeans, South Americans, etc). Cities would be completely different.
No. It's a simple transpiler for now.
Worst Radiohead song ever
Anyone can set up a DNS provider, browsers make it easy to specify an alternate IP address. A pihole for instance has a list of domains it black holes to provide ad blocking etc, NSA provides “Protective DNS” to government contractors that refuses to resolve known malicious domains (via Akamai Govshield [0]), trick is getting anyone to use it. You’re not wrong about entrenchment being the main factor but hey, it ain’t called a network effect for nothin’ !

[0] https://www.nsa.gov/About/Cybersecurity-Collaboration-Center...
Not the person who said it and I wouldn't say "never"...

But I will say that until we have a robot that can fold laundry, we won't have a robot that can go into your crawlspace and replace a chunk of crusty old galvanized pipe with copper or pex.

Robots have excelled, so far, in controlled environments. Dealing with the chaos of plumbing in a building that has been "improved" by different people over the course of a century is the opposite of that.
And Amazon didn't break the rules any more than its maligned and bigger competitor, Walmart. Am I wrong? I think they grew by running a tight ship.
> I don't think anyone understands how they work

Yes we do, we literally built them.

> We understand how we brought them about via setting up an optimization problem in a specific way, that isn't the same at all as knowing how they work.

You're mistaking "knowing how they work" with "understanding all of the emergent behaviors of them"

If I build a physics simulation, then I know how it works. But that's a separate question from whether I can mentally model and explain the precise way that a ball will bounce given a set of initial conditions within the physics simulation which is what you seem to be talking about.
Boring, yawn, etc. Every mega-successful company ever lied, cheated, and stole their way to the top. That's how they win. Do you think Standard Oil and JP Morgan was a paragon of ethics? Why do you think tech would be any different? The article doesn't make any new or unique points against tech as an industry, its just making boring socioeconomic commentary on how every human system has worked, ever.

The CIA literally overthrew the democratically elected leader of Guatemala to protect the interests of an American banana company. But, Paypal paying their users $10 to sign up is spooky, yeah.
I’ve always been of the belief that it was intended as GodAddy but the owner backed off of this as it seemed too egotistical, narcissistic, or blasphemous.
"Could"

The National Science Foundation has received an annual budget of approximately $9 billion, the vast majority of which is spent on research and research-related activities.

We shall see.
While a bit late to the party, Akka on Scala 3 is perfectly viable nowadays, and they have a couple employees contributing to Scala 3.

The bigger issue comes from Databricks being the biggest Scala Center sponsor while holding the entire ecosystem back, for instance with their managed Spark runtime still on 2.12.