skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the grass roots of the tech world has some portion of the blame here. The introduction of hoodies, flip-flops, open drama and bickering, and kicker into the office environment is not unrelated. And it’s not just CEOs, we’ve now got a senator who looks like the guy I bought pot from as a kid.
I never thought I’d make this argument, but maybe at least appearing respectable increases the odds that you’ll actually be a little respectable.
>> If you don’t promote your work, no one else will.

> This has not been my experience. If you do interesting things then there are plenty of people who are willing to bring attention to it. I've been cold-emailed by journalists wanting to interview me without ever doing anything other than a) make my work publicly accessible and b) collaborate with like-minded people.

Both of those are promoting your work so it is your experience. Your experience just has been that you haven't had to put much work into promoting your work so it doesn't feel like promoting your work to you.
I hate it. Easily my least favorite kind of interactive content.
>If they IPO'd today, they'd easily be worth hundreds of billions if not more.

You can't just say things like this without justification. The last raise was in October, at $157B. Did OpenAI, the hottest startup in history, give away equity at a discount?

Now, since that time, has the value gone up or down? We now know they have serious technological competition and are losing lots of money.

I think the product is great, but they aren't worth limitless amounts of money.
When I lived in Kyiv and airports were still a thing, flying from Zhuliany was a bliss. Something like 30 minutes from the apartment door to sitting at the gate. The fact that it's small and in city limits was a deciding factor.
It's time for a Celebrity DeathMatch: Musk vs Altman. With Zuckerberg as an extra if possible. Aaaah I miss that show.
Basically all my cool college professors worked at DEC. Their impact in the Greater Boston area is huge and lingers. Don't forget Wang!
Ad-hominem and irrelevant to the facts. As you say, the premise is still spot-on here.
We'll see. After throwing out a few Nazi salutes, Tesla sales have been tanking in Europe.
I think the journalist that originally reported the story for the Wall Street Journal, that got sent the press release, is just misinformed about nonprofits and that has been parroted by every downstream outlet. It’s a pattern I’ve noticed a lot with reporting on OpenAI over the last year (and tons in HN comments any time the topic comes up).

Either that or Musk has a really bad lawyer or this is a publicity stunt. There is a process to turn a nonprofit back into a forprofit but it’s very complicated, probably requires dissolution of the entity altogether, would almost certainly involve California regulators, and might require that the nonprofit divest its assets to a different nonprofit (which would defeat the purpose since OpenAI Global likely has all the IP).
I thought competition was exactly what business was about and how the capitalist system was functioning and financing itself? I don't condone Musk's actions but I'm not sure how he ends up as a terrorist. That looks like aggressive competition in a line of business. It's not clear how critical infrastructure or public safety would be negatively affected by his actions, therefore not sure what to think of it.

PS: I do believe Musk should be subject to the federal criminal conflict of interest statute given his position in gov.
Pydantic.ai: Python agent framework from Pydantic team
The reason to encode it in the type system is it allows for optimization. Option<NonZeroI8> uses a single byte because it knows 0 is available to represent the None state. Option<BalancedI8> could do the same thing with -128 representing None.
Zitron is a blogger whose content/internet personality is centered around being anti-Big Tech, and very much falls in the "AI is dumb/useless and will die any day now".

He's a good writer, but his content is written through an extreme anti-AI lens, so take it with a pretty big grain of salt.
Genuinely curious, what are you doing that requires you to turn SIP off? I'd have thought only OS developers and maybe forensics people of various stripes need to do that.
Yep. I use ChatGPT a lot, so much so that each day there is some point where it switches from version 4 to version 3. I don't even notice a difference.
Most trains run much slower than 350 km/h however.
I presume you've never read any quanta magazine pieces before. They like to talk about & emphasize the human side of these discoveries too, instead of merely focusing on the abstract.

"It's like we need our own version of La La Land to glorify the survivors of computer success to motivate more to participate."

lol what
1. Crazy graph format lol

2. I thought management fees were supposed to pay for comp?

3. Buying SPY wins again?

4. I don't really care about rich people getting ripped off, but I wonder if any of my money leaks into these funds
>Indeed, which is why they are talking about it more than any other topic right now (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43003292 for a partial list).

As I said upthread of that comment, I still think this is the wrong way to look at it. A story being on the site is very different from the story being on the front page. Maybe "time on front page" should be something you look into tracking if it isn't something already available to you on the backend. Because I would guess that the most common way to interact with HN is via the front page. I don't come to HN to specifically talk to people here about this story, but I care about it so I will engage when something on the subject happens to be one of the stories I see on HN.

In fact, having these posts primarily only visible through search leads to worse discussions because the comments are full of people who are already motivated enough (in both directions) to actively seek out the conversation with few "HN normies", for lack of a better term, to help moderate the conversation through their comments, votes, and flags. And if there is a desire to avoid caving to "any vocal contingent", there needs to be an acknowledgement of how easy it is for any motivated minority to keep something off the HN front page with diligent flagging of a topic.

>I hope that doesn't sound dismissive—I've enjoyed this conversation!

Nope, not too dismissive. Thanks, same here.
Hunter S. Thompson's Letter on Finding Your Purpose and Living a Meaningful Life
Not entirely true, in Ireland you are required to take off boots that cover your ankles. Sneakers or other bare ankle shoes can be kept on.
Air travel can be revolutionized with a vacuum-sealed passenger transport system, reducing total airport time to just 10 minutes while maximizing efficiency and safety. Upon arrival, passengers would undergo a rapid preparation process, where an oxygen-rich biofluid is introduced through both mouth and anus, ensuring full oxygenation without the need for active breathing. They would then be gently encased in a flexible, vacuum-sealed transport sheet, immobilizing them completely to eliminate security concerns and expedite boarding.

These passenger sheets would be automatically sorted and loaded onto aircraft via a conveyor system, optimizing cabin space with a precision-stacked configuration. Without the need for traditional seating, aisles, or security screening, aircraft capacity could increase significantly, lowering ticket prices while enhancing operational efficiency. Upon landing, passengers would be swiftly unloaded, revived from stasis, and ready to continue their journey within minutes.

This system would not only eliminate delays caused by baggage handling and TSA procedures but also enhance fuel efficiency by optimizing passenger distribution within the aircraft.
In some countries officials block or delay things for no good reason, and bribing them may increase welfare both for the foreign company and the country itself.
Could it be that part of the the Musk-led group's offer of $100 billion is a tactic to drive up the valuation of Open AI-P, so that it's more painful/difficult for Open AI-P to buy itself out of Open AI-NP?
Didn't Microsoft save them from extinction with a $150MM loan?
It seems that today we can achieve similar functionality in fundamentally different ways (WSL, WSL2/virtualisation, Cygwin, etc.) What in your opinion is today's closest solution to colinux? and why we don't see such clever solutions today?
Your comments here and on other threads indicate that you have confused “socialism” with “state capitalism”. An unfortunate and increasingly common mistake.
danke, freund
These people are treasonous. Yes, I said it, and I will keep saying it. If you don't believe in the rule of law, get thee to some other country, you don't belong in this one.
Having faster flights could also increase the frequency of such flights, which lowers the impact of a missed flight, which lets people be more loose with getting there early enough.
Also what annoys me is how much friction airlines have added to the whole process. They want you there early, but too early and you wont have anywhere to sit. Show up a little later and it's a cluster trying to check a bag. Then boarding times are always wrong. Everyone rushes and blocks the lines. Process takes longer too when everyone brings all their luggage as carry on and argues about gate checking.
This is the best possible comment (besides perhaps the author replying that "Yes, I did read it after I wrote it")
I honestly don’t know who the audience could be, other than “people who like to tell others they’re in the know because they read AI companies’ press releases.”

At no point do I see an actual elevator pitch/tl;dr/summary of what the frak this index actually is, except that it’s part of some effort to track AI adoption. It just rains down figures about which industries are using how much AI without first grounding the new concept they’re introducing.

When you say you have a new economic index, you need to give me a number, how I should interpret that number, and where it comes from. I don’t see that.

GDP: measure if a country’s total economic output by adding up end product purchases.

CPI: general price level by taking a weighted average of prices throughout the economy

Big Mac index: how expensive goods are in a country relative to the US by reference to the local cost of a Big Mac, converted through the exchange rate.

Here I expect something like “the economic output-weighted fraction of production taken over by AI”, but instead it’s just a list of AI adoption by industry.

Why introduce an index and not headline with a definition of an index? Which audience prefers that?
Regulate against inaccessible and privacy invasive CAPTCHA (done and done in EU) and regulate against disruptive bot traffic (what's the hold-up there? Oh, I see, it requires actual competent law enforcement... That's a hard one). Me only half-joking while standing on my high EU horse.
You could also pass the father's name to boys and the mother's name to girls. Or all children get the same combined name based on the father's father's name and the mother's mother's name. So both matrilineal and patrilineal lines would be propagated.
Most of these are not evidence of lack of moat.

>Where are all the others?

You're funny.
Clean room tests with JavaScript's `using` keyword
This is sort of my problem with pushing at-home solar as a primary means to de-carbonize our electricity production. We still need grid access, but with more people not getting their electricity from the grid, the cost to maintain it gets shifted to those who still use it as their primary source of energy. And, well, it's not the poor who are installing kilowatts worth of solar capacity and battery storage on their property.
Huh? Some magic mushrooms forced him to make a bid to buy Twitter? Give the guy some agency!
$974 million maybe!
Yes, I did already propose (at the office) a parity-agnostic chunker (we only need the number of lines + a splitpoint from the chunker) that can do parallel work and only needs a small moment of synchronization to find out which of the two parities it is to lock in a final answer. There would still be a global serial dependency, but on blocks rather than on bytes.

But we only have a finite amount of time and tons and tons of work, so no one has gotten around to it yet. At least now we know that it might be worthwhile for >= ~32 core machines. PRs welcome :)
That seems like the wrong question to ask. After all, there's no shortage of people who are unfamiliar with Yao's conjecture.

Or alternatively, even the most well-read person is not au fait with the state of the art in almost all subjects, so they have a chance to make an accidental discovery there.

But this kid wasn't an outsider: he was already studying computer science at perhaps the most rigorous and prestigious institution in the world, and it's not a coincidence that he made this discovery rather than an equally talented twenty-year-old who works in a diamond mine in Botswana. There's no risk that we'll reduce the number of accidental discoveries by educating people too much.
Isn't the political climate already lumping people into bullshit vs bull.
This might be the worst cost benefit tradeoff I’ve heard of.
It's near the top now - just saw it this way. Weird though.
Surely there isn't a shortage of competition? Does everyone just want in on the big names?
Estimating the Performance of an ML Model in the Absence of Ground Truth
There was a brew pub in the building on the South side of the mill pond for a few years that I used to go to quite a bit, and when my son was a toddler and we were looking for a daycare place, there was one in the basement of one of the Mill buildings. But it felt weird and closed in so we opted for somewhere else. The closest I get these days is the Indian restaurant across the street.
Perhaps the technique requires a lot of additional metadata, so that you could fit a 50% full "normal" hash table in less memory than it takes to store a 99% full hash table using this new approach. Thus the normal hash table can always outperform the new hash table in practice despite worse big O performance because it doesn't hit the pathological worst case except in situations where the new hash table would have run out of memory.
From WSJ:

> The bid is being backed by Musk’s own artificial intelligence company xAI, which could merge with OpenAI following a deal. He also has several investors backing him, including Valor Equity Partners, Baron Capital, Atreides Management, Vy Capital and 8VC, a venture firm led by Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale. Ari Emanuel, CEO of Hollywood company Endeavor, is also backing the offer through his investment fund.
> I would estimate that junior positions shrank by 70-80%

This just isn't true, it's nowhere close.
The older a conjecture is, the more likely it is false.

That's why the conjecture resists proof -- there is an counterexample that people aren't seeing.
Discussions:

1.6% chance (526 points, 12 days ago, 348 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42864272

2.2% chance (27 points, 4 days ago, 7 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42964549
I've had similar questions like yours but AFAICT there's a real dearth of data and research that goes beyond broad, general trends.

There is a lot of research (both value neutral as well as from conservative and liberal lenses) studying both the US and various other countries and communities showing correlation between (and often arguing causation of) matrilocality on the one hand and the breakdown or absence of institutional marriage and/or economic codependence. When I wrote the above I had more in mind upper middle class norms where marriage and economic codependency are still quite strong. But in many cases the most proximate cause of matrilocality is pretty obvious--lack of cultural structures/pressures to support viable alternatives.
Unfortunately their blog doesn't have the example they have on x.com - https://x.com/ZyphraAI/status/1888996367923888341 - which I think is more illustrative.
Well...at least we know what those scammy as fuck crypto scemes for Donald and Melania were for.
September 2025: President Musk announces all new federal vehicles will be Teslas.
It's unfortunate Apple never shipped any of the modern OS's it worked on from 1988 to 1996. All of them would have had a classic Mac UI style on top of a microkernel. Resurrecting Pink would be an interesting retro move.
Also do a transmission drain and fill only not a flush which will distribute all the gunk around and mess things up.
Broken clock syndrome is orthographically connect to cherry picking expectations.

The reason Facebook will use community notes is because it lets "both sides" think they're getting what's right.
This is an advert disguised as a fear-mongering piece
Whether he was serious about buying Twitter or not, he put himself in the position where he was legally required to complete the offer to purchase. Nobody forced him into that blunder.
It's the opposite - it's a PR stunt to try to keep Sam Altman from discounting OpenAI even further and selling it to himself at a laughably low price.
>9/11 wasn't some coherent beef with US foreign policy; it was bog-standard religious extremism of the Salafist Islamic flavor.

Why would he bomb US and not SA then? At least in his own words it was about foreign policy and Palestine among other things.
Specifically, they focus on the human interest part, and a pop science into to the field, and avoid discussing the actual result, because the closer they get to the actual piece of research, the more mistakes they make in describing it.
> But for many routes, really security, and the sheer poor layout of the airport, is the big slowdown

Washington Dulles aka IAD is a fine example. It has a vast security area below deck for regular folks and a smaller one up top where all the Clear and Pre flyers go. That should be inverted.

Then, after security, passengers must walk 300m and change levels to catch a small shuttle train. Or, to take the special mobile lounge bus things. If you take the train, it drops you off 500m from the gate area, so you have tonget off the train, climb the stairs, walk through a tunnel, climb the escalator, and then walk the remainder of the terminal to your gate. It is absolutely laughable how poor Dulles is, esp considering its importance to United.
The provider (landlord) and payer (tenant) being two distinct entities is part of the problem, but the other part is that the landlord actively hides that sort of information. If you ask how much water costs, they'll likely not answer, might throw out some fuzzy idea of it being normal, perhaps give you the rate per gallon, and definitely not tell you about the actively leaking pipe whose costs the tenants have to share or about the outdated appliances using 3x too much water. You don't learn about that till you're trapped in a lease, and the amount they're scamming you isn't usually worth the activation energy of taking legal action or moving.
An apt analogy, and disturbing reality.
The source material for the article says otherwise:

> So let’s look at it again, remembering that the original answer defines certain conditions, the most significant of which is that the host always opens a losing door on purpose. (There’s no way he can always open a losing door by chance!) Anything else is a different question.

https://web.archive.org/web/20130121183432/http://marilynvos...
This seems to give up on the GP comment's goal of "everything a human can experience" and create nothing more than a fancy Mechanical Turk.
Old people who don't watch their assets, very rich people who don't watch their assets. Maybe we should build a protection mechanism for it - maybe call it the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau?
Twitters got more censorship than it ever had, and what's left is a cesspool of porn, conspiracy theories, elon ass lickers and spam.
I was hoping to be able to visualise a mountain peak, but watersheds doesn't work for that.
Can the reality of hardware be modeled with complexity analysis? Yes.

Is it, in practice? I haven't seen it.
Until you have a family and have set your next set of goals, you are likely to think you are in a better position than you are.

When you set your goals as a single young techie you are in for a surprise when real life hits
>Do you consider sentience and reasoning to be one and the same?

No, but I think they share some similarities. You can be sentient without doing any reasoning, just through experience, there's probably a lot of simple life forms in that category. Where they overlap I think, is in that they require a degree of reflection. Reasoning I'd say is the capacity to distinguish between truth and falsehoods, to have mental content of the object you're reasoning about and as a consequence have a notion of understanding and an interior or subjective view.

The distinction I'd make is that calculation or memorization is not reasoning at all. My TI-83 or Stockfish can calculate math or chess but they have no notion of math or chess, they're basically Chinese rooms, they just perform mechanical operations. They can appear as if they reason, even a chess engine purely looking up results in a table base and with very simplistic brute force can play very strong chess but it doesn't know anything about chess. And with the LLMs you need to be careful because the "large" part does a lot of work. They often can sound like they reason but when they have to explain their reasoning they'll start to make up obvious falsehoods or contradictions. A good benchmark if something can reason is probably if it can.. reason about its reasoning coherently.

I do think the very new chain-of-thought models are more of a step into that direction, the further you get away from relying on data the more likely you're building something that reasons but we're probably very early into systems like that.
My entire house and car use about 950kWh per month!
The number of devs that see something isn't supported on FF and do something other than shrug their shoulders is probably me and one other person on the internet. Maybe. It could just be me.

I don't think that moves the needle much on if people care it doesn't work in FF.
> But a lot of what we go through these days is security theater.

I just had a big dose of that this morning, getting my tool bag flagged by TSA, which I honestly expected, and told my calipers were not allowed (because maybe I'm going to hijack a plane by threatening to measure it??) but having my very sharp broaching tools, which could actually maybe do some damage as a weapon, completely ignored. And then, the second time through, after checking the calipers, having my watch case opener taken because it sort of looks like a knife, even though it's completely dull with no sharp edge.
> "Well, it's because they're so talented and brilliant [...]"

It's interesting to draw comparisons between Sam Altman and Liang Wenfeng, CEO of Deepseek, the latter of which is a domain expert, the former an exalted entrepreneur, supposedly gifted in allocating capital. If Sam has just been lucky with his one bet so far, there's bound to be some market corrections that are going to shake the world just like in the dotcom burst.
if there are nails in the boots it triggers the metal detector. My boots aren’t glued (like timberlands and doc martins might be) and they trigger the detectors.
Ended up leaving academia for the start-up world, which led to a Fortune 50 for the latter part of my career as a science manager. Very happy with how it ended up.
He is breaking the law, full stop. Sorry but you don't get to do that in a Republic without consequence. Process matters when it comes to regulation, because without it you get unchecked power and tyranny.
“ Ignored and without any type of compensation, I live attached to a car that needs a full recharge every 12 days to not die.”

12 days seems pretty reasonable for standby?
Does this graph format have a name? Google isn’t turning up anything for me.
It sure looks goods, but graphics will always need human action to have a soul