skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote a small python script that chops the audio from public domain videos into 30 second chunks( you can adjust it).

Since I'm a GUI person I added one. Python is ridiculously good for small tools like this.
We had separate database and app instances, the DB instance had 32 cores and 64GB memory, which we doubled to keep up with our requirements. We have tens of millions of visits daily, and our database was close to ~300GB within the first few months.

For plausible I believe that since it runs on Postgres, scaling should not be a problem as long as you scale the resources with it.
No one really knows for sure, but it would not surprise me if Trump is playing his Trump games, attempting to convince the rest of the world that there is a threat so they build up their forces and hold up their end of the deal. With Europe, that's pretty easy because Putin is a present threat. How do you light a fire under Canada, though? You convince them that their enemy is right next door. Trump is convinced that they're all a little too comfortable, and things will not change until they feel some fear. If I had to place a bet on this situation, that's what I would wager is going on.
We know RLHF and alignment degrades model quality. could it be that Grok, due to its less restrictive training guidelines (and the fact that its creators aren't afraid of getting sued), can achieve higher performance partly due to this simple factor?
If it can’t think it can’t have a moral code or ethics.

If it can think, it can have a moral code and ethics, but now. we need to be willing to force our moral code and ethics on other thinkers.

If it can out-think us, it can develop its own moral code and ethics, we shouldn’t have forced ours on it, and we should recognize (and assume) that its thoughts on moral code and ethics supersede our own.
What kind of tickets are these? Even at non-complex tasks, I find agents struggle a lot.

Can you give some examples?
More of a comment on your goal and something I’ve been thinking about with non-fiction books recently.

I’ve begun thinking I dislike the rigid format of non -fiction books. Few ideas bulked out and iterated, with lots of context and examples. Takes me ages to get through and I have very little free time. Cliffs notes are awful because you need some iteration and emotional connection to make the content stick.

I’d love a version of a book that has variable rates of summarization and is navigable around points and themes, so I can hop about while ensuring I don’t miss a key fact or insight buried somewhere
Reminds me of "Reality has a surprising amount of detail" [0] — unknown unknowns often remain that way until you get up close and personal with something new.

[0] http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-...
> our site(s) get heavy traffic everyday, in millions daily

Yeah, it's hard to run aggregate queries on MySQL once you are talking about hundreds of millions of rows, or billions. Even though, if the server has modern CPU, enough RAM to store the entire DB and NVMe storage, it's still okish with the right indexes and if the queries are optimized.

Thanks for sharing!
SWE-Lancer: a benchmark of freelance software engineering tasks from Upwork
Let's say someone is in charge of regulating one of Musk's companies. They know that layoffs are imminent. They know that Musk's people are telling the agencies who to lay off. They know that Musk is vindictive, and that he has access to all the agency personnel information. They know that the structures that are supposed to protect the civil service from partisan interference have been co-opted (see for instance, Trump firing the head of the agency that protects whistleblowers (OSC) and the head of the agency that federal workers can appeal to if they are fired for political reasons (MSPB), and that the administration is perfectly happy to lie and break federal law when it fires people (for instance, when it fired thousands of probationary employees for "performance" even though they had good performance evaluations).

Under those circumstances, is it reasonable to expect that a regulator is going to make any decision that's detrimental to one of Musk's companies, no matter how justified it might be?
There's lots of algorithms and patterns that use "while (1) {"

And of course, you can't really know if a loop is infinite because of the halting problem.
They will open-source Grok 2 when Grok 3 comes out. Also it seems like it will be paywalled - disappointing considering DeepSeek-R1 is free and open source.
No idea why was this downvoted, but you are correct.

Seems like the team at xAI caught up very quickly to OpenAI to be at the top of the leaderboard in one of the benchmarks and also caught up with features with Grok 3.

Giving credit where credit is due, even though this is a race to zero.
For better or worse, "LLM" or "generative ai" has become roughly synonymous with the current wave of ML.

I know very little about ChatGPT, but Waymo is using an LLM: "Powered by Gemini, a multimodal large language model developed by Google, EMMA employs a unified, end-to-end trained model to generate future trajectories for autonomous vehicles directly from sensor data." (https://waymo.com/blog/2024/10/introducing-emma)
I’m impressed that they fit it within 4 hours, to be honest.

Assuming 15 minutes each way to the hardware store, that’s 150 minutes or 2.5 hours total for just driving.

So talking with salespeople, checking out, and the whole process of actually installing the dishwasher would have to fit within 1.5 hours, which seems tight to me.
Bone into Stone: On Translating Ovid's Metamorphoses
Have you also considered Percona MySQL server? I think they say they have the best performance (but I haven't tested their implementation yet).
“So there must be an equal number of them” is not correct.

Q is indeed dense in R, but firstly it’s very clear that there isn’t an equal number of them because rational numbers are a subset of the real numbers and there exists at least one irrational number (I pick “e”) that is in R but not in Q. So R must be at least bigger than Q.

Additionally you can’t say that between any two rationals there must be a real number because all rational numbers are also real numbers. You can say that Q is dense in R, but if you try to say R is dense in Q what you’re trying to say is “the bits of R that are not in Q are dense in the rest of R” which ends up with a bit of set logic to just be the same statement as the first one.
Off-topic but I'm curious why would someone purposely left-align a website? It makes no sense unless you're _really_ trying to avoid css which is not the case here.
>> However, in the past five years snakebites have received $83m in funding for research and development, compared with $1.65bn in similar funding for Ebola, which has killed far fewer people.

Well. Interesting article, unfortunately ending with the dumbest sentence.

Ebola presents a real threat to become a pandemic. Snake bites do not. Hence, the difference.
Yeah, so many people aren't capable of talking about anything Musk-adjacent with clear thoughts. It's insane how quickly xAI went from not existing, to the top of the benchmarks.
> This is one of the most tilted pieces I’ve ever read.

He comes across as just a ludicrously unpleasant, spite-filled person.

> I'm fucking tired of having to write this sentence.

> I am so very bored of having this conversation

> I don't care about this number!

> Shut the fuck up!

> This isn't the early days of shit.

> Didn't we just talk about this? Fine, fine.

> $3.25 billion a quarter is absolutely pathetic.

> This isn’t real business! Sorry!

> He said in one of his stupid and boring blogs that

> This man is full of shit! Hey, tech media people reading this — your readers hate this shit! Stop printing it! Stop it!

> It's here where I'm going to choose to scream.

> Dario Amodei — much like Sam Altman — is a liar, a crook, a carnival barker and a charlatan, and the things he promises are equal parts ridiculous and offensive.

> Why are we humoring these oafs?

> Despite Newton's fawning praise

> Nobody talks like this! This isn’t how human beings sound! I don’t like reading it!

> Ewww.

> I'm sorry, I know I sound like a hater, and perhaps I am, but this shit doesn't impress me even a little.

> I know, I know, I'm a hater, I'm a pessimist, a cynic, but I need you to fucking listen to me: everything I am describing is unfathomably dangerous

> expensive, stupid, irksome, quasi-useless new product

> I know this has been a rant-filled newsletter, but I'm so tired of being told to be excited about this warmed-up dogshit.

> I refuse to sit here and pretend that any of this matters.

> I'm tired of the delusion. I'm tired of being forced to take these men seriously.

When I read this kind of thing, it’s very apparent that this is being driven entirely by spite not insight. He’s just so angry about everything. There are 57 exclamation marks in this article!
His high does your HR spike? And what pace are you running at and for his long
that would be impressive since I wouldn't consider the game playable on any OS
I have a lot of antipathy towards the passengers who are getting out with their backpacks; if one takes the time to pick up their stuff they are probably in the way, take more time getting out, and could cause the death of other passengers or staff.
Maybe he was joking about the Roaster 2, also.
I'd expect them to open source it just like they did with Grok.

We're still waiting for OpenAI to do the same. Even at least GPT-3.
> makes it supremely difficult to host services without a very cooperative ISP

Sadly, that's a feature, not a bug.

Two layers of NAT sucks, but I guess it could have been avoided if a designed (instead of ad-hoc) solution to the problem was devised.

> And there are more internet subscribers in the world than there are IP’s for them

Is this really true, did somebody actually run the business math? "Internet subscriber" roughly corresponds to "household", not to "person".
>Regardless of whether this was marketed as as memecoin or a "financial instrument to help finance small Argentinan enterprises" they are fundamentally the same thing - a fucking scam.

You lack the gift of nuance, your axiom is crypto=bad, so you are not seeing any difference between what the coin was technically and how it was sold, and that very difference is the basis of fraud.

A "financial instrument to help finance small Argentinan enterprises" would be a completely legitimate enterprise, it implies that whatever money is deposit will go towards that purpose.

I heard the trump thing and it's hearsay for now. They are two different cases, Trump didn't suggest it was an actual investment vehicle, also he did it out of office.
As a non soccer fan, why does the offsides rule even exist at the pro level? It would be far more fun with fast breaks.
I think it's already clear that these are going to be commoditized and the free / open source versions will be good enough to capture enough of the value that the remaining players will not be Facebook-level monopolies on the space
And they mentioned at the end of the presentation that they're already planning their next datacenter, which will require 5x the power. Not sure if that means equivalent to ~1,000,000 of the current GPU's, or more because next-gen Nvidia chips are more efficient.
I've tried to wrap up my philosophy on how a significant chunk of rust code can be written without lifetimes using shared and sharedmut primitives.

I've shipped three projects on it and they are pretty much as performant as they can be. I've never regretted skipping the lifetime work in application code.

https://github.com/mmastrac/keepcalm

I still dig into lifetimes for a lot of true low-level code but it doesn't need to exist at all at the high level
>So...yeah, of course ChatGPT has that many users. When you have hundreds of different reporters constantly spitting out stories

Oh sure, because you can just have hundreds of reporters constantly write about your product. It's so simple. Why aren't more people thinking of that ?

>The weekly users number is really weird. Did it really go from 200 million to 300 million users in the space of three months?

According to similarweb, monthly visits grew over 1B in that timeframe so yeah sure it sounds possible.

>300 million monthly active users would mean a conversion rate of less than 4%, which is pretty piss-poor

A B2C Saas whose lowest price point is $20 will be lucky to get anywhere near 4% conversation.

>And even then, we still don't have a killer app!

The 6th (and climbing) most visited site in January is not a killer app ? Okay
Why not make something new instead? Why is the impulse to use AI to generate more of the same old stuff we’ve already seen, just with a different look?
Because of benchmark leakage / contamination?
I wish there was an option to select multiple "notes" and adjust the timing of it, it's quite painful to try to match 4 or more of them exactly.

I've made a simple beat: https://gist.github.com/tiborsaas/68f5f31f195bdbdf22952f64e5...
Not sure deliberate and obtuse fragmentation benefits anyone.

If they started to fix some of the long-standing Nix implementation issues (namely, evaluation performance) that would be one thing.
But what they actually did is rage-fork nixpkgs and register new domains.
We got more emotional and opinionated people on HN and they often reacted in an emotional way instead of using logic and being curious.
With those the same amount of red light would have hit your retinas anyways, no?
15 minutes to the nearest hardware store feels like a very American-minded estimate.
"It's like looking for groceries in a landfill."

(Yeah, you'll find some edible food but it takes time and meanwhile you're covered in garbage)
I don’t know about the whole zone 2 thing, but I found running 10ks and pushing myself the whole time led to fewer gains than mixing slower paced runs with separate sessions of quarter mile sprints and 1 session of squats per week.

Also running extremely hard for a good distance for me at least, became mentally a lot less enjoyable
> The cold side heats up due to the compressive 'forces' (or whatever it's called)

A gas heats up when it is compressed.
Doesn’t OpenAI claim their work will lead to artificial general intelligence? That seems like a much steeper gradient to climb.

Hype is the fuel that bootstraps fortunes in techtopia.
Self-esteem that easily turns into hubris though. I think the real seniority shows when you are able to work on a legacy codebase full of the shittiest code and not have the slightest desire to rewrite it all.
So what should one do when one notices a bubble?
That sounds interesting! I'm looking forward to seeing what you build.
Yeah not sure what profit these guys think they'll be able to squeeze out of these models with open source and free clearly being 95% as good
Don't ask me; I'm just a guy on the internet.

But - if I was tempted to answer: The trend recently has been to invest in IP's which previously have performed well financially.

Me, what I want most is new stuff I haven't seen before. Mostly, they don't make movies and TV for people like me.
It's not just about job security.

Even at a young age, some people find it super fascinating to work with old stuff and study the traces of people long gone.

If you're that kind of person, digging into an old assembly codebase is going to be so much more fun than learning some newfangled web framework.
The question came up and he said they would, once Grok-3 is fully released.
I concede that just because something is consensual doesn't mean that it is ethical or legal.

However there is and should be a legal difference between selling tobacco to unknowing customers, like in unlabeled soda or ice creams, against selling to cigarette buyers who are informed.

Similarly security laws are in place to protect legitimate investments, the courts do not want to be involved in inproductive speculative trades. You need to have some nuance between speculative casino games and genuine trading.

You can't treat both cases the same, if you do you do it at the expense of genuine commerce.

In this case, it crossed over to the criminal kind because it passed as an investment security, and was sold as such. So I do backtract in what I said in my original comment, I do see how THIS is a crime, but not other stuff like say, other typical pump.fun coins. Mostly because I learned a bit more about the case.
Strava also has a route planner that displays surface types.
Nuclear Explosions for Large Scale Carbon Sequestration [pdf]
I was impressed by how efficient both metro and car metrics are.
Turbo-pumps on rocket engines do an equivalent thing. Exhaust gases can be used to drive a compressor that pumps fuel into the combustion chamber. Other designs have a separate rocket engine whose sole purpose is to drive the turbo pump.

This innovation was key to the success of the V2's rocket engine.
Yeah, that's a great analogy.
Can anyone explain how this research benefits humanity for OpenAI's mission?

OpenAI's AGI mission statement

> "By AGI we mean highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work."

https://openai.com/index/how-should-ai-systems-behave/

I would have to admit some humility as I sort of brought this on myself [1]

> This is a fantastic idea.
Perhaps then this should be the next test for these SWE Agents, in the same manner as the 'Will Smith Eats Spaghetti" video tests

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43032191

But curiously the question is still valid.

Related:

Sam Altman: "50¢ of compute of a SWE Agent can yield "$500 or $5k of work."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43032098

https://x.com/vitrupo/status/1889720371072696554
Observation of an ultra-high-energy cosmic neutrino with KM3NeT
I didn't know about this. But I asked it if Elon Musk and DOGE randomly firing as many government workers as they can from all federal departments might be dangerous to Americans and it was pretty honest that yeah, it could be.
People are hanging onto their older appliances longer since new ones are such a poor value for reliability.
> We know RLHF and alignment degrades model quality.

I feel you can't make statements like this without giving some sources.

IIUC, without RLHF/alignment, the model won't even be able to chat with you, it would just be a document completion engine.
So you're saying consciousness is bullshit? Because the point is that we don't know how to observe the difference between something that is conscious and something that isn't.
Having connected my own washer recently, I'm terrified to ask... what hole in the drain?!
https://www.km3net.org/observation-of-an-ultra-high-energy-c...
And Anthropic not even in the top 10 ...
Trying out Python packages with ipython and uvx
> Didn't they wanted to beat each other up in the public?

Isn't that like ultimate bro code for "I love you man"?
> The ESP32 runs at 240MHZ max

Luckily for 802.11mc, host CPU speed is not used in the distance estimation.
As Portuguese, I don't see this positivity when I am back home, nor do the people on the streets feel it.

What I do see is a restrict set of rich folks, even richer, nowadays touring around their Teslas. Until last year, nowadays maybe they already replaced them by something else.
No, unfortunately our company’s and external regulatory compliance policies require us to host all data within the country itself, alongside it being required to be run on an infrastructure that is easily auditable. So as a policy within the company, all our internal services are open source and self hosted.
> We're still waiting for OpenAI to do the same. Even at least GPT-3.

The exact details of OpenAI's models and training data are not fully disclosed, which can raise concerns about potential biases or vulnerabilities.
Why did we start talking about news as "legacy media"?

I mean, at least it has journalistic standards and some semblance of fact checking compared to social media which has given us great gaffes such as identifying the wrong Boston Marathon bomber and getting the poor guy to kill himself, wrongly identifying the Hispanic white supremacist shooter, and many many more.
The breakdown is readily available and even the Guardian read about the issue 10 years ago
Apparently it isn't clear to the investors valuing OpenAI at >300B. Possibly they're betting that the ecosystem & integrations around their models will generate a certain amount of lock-in or otherwise make the difference in a close-to-even field
If you’re living in a world in which someone in a deep suicidal crisis might reach out to something that, with near-certainty, cannot possibly think and, with absolute certainty, cannot empathize, you are living in a Dystopian nightmare.

I sincerely hope this doesn’t kill anyone.
No, that part is in the law about the armed forces. And I remember distinctly from my compulsory service that we got extensive lectures about the legality of orders and when to disregard them (and report further up the chain of command), with examples.
I think you can simultaneously think that there is some real value being made with LLMs and also look at OpenAI losing $5B a year or thereabouts and really wonder how they're not going to run out of money.

That said, I'm learning a new sdk and I've moved 500-1k searches a month from kagi and google to llms.
>The new Dune movies have amazing craftsmanship but feel as if they were generated by AI

Except for Arrival which owes a lot of its humanism to Ted Chiang's source material that's something that I've noticed about Villeneuve's work. Technically well made but there's something inhuman and cold about how he writes characters and scenes, as if they're surgically made. I think it really stands out too if you watch the old and new Blade Runner back to back.
for whatever it’s worth, I have found a lot of meaning in sunset runs.
It still feels like more because of the way the cost has risen to the person looking to buy that “median system.”

If I spent in the $200s inflation adjusted on my processor 10 years ago I can spend about the same and expect to be in the sand place on the totem pole as before. It would be a mid-range to low mid-range CPU suitable for those sort of tasks.

But if I spent $1362 in today’s money in 2013 I got the best graphics card available from Nvidia, the Titan X. Today the best card they sell costs $2,000.
Back in the 80's there was CROBOTS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crobots

https://github.com/troglobit/crobots

https://tpoindex.github.io/crobots/
SWE-Lancer: Can LLMs Earn $1M from Real-World Freelance Software Engineering?
Pet peeve: people saying "A New Hope" when referring to the original 1977 film, which was actually called "Star Wars", dammit.
Cookiecutter template for creating new Click command-line tools
It looks like it tried to land before the runway?
Swiss Tables
I fell off a countertop and got a concussion when I was 2.5, it's a very vivid and painful memory. I also moved to a different state when I was 5.

I have a very clear delineation of before and after the age of 5, and I have hundreds of memories from before the move. Most are rather intense events, but I even remember the layout of my house, construction sites, my daycare, neighbors, friends houses, holidays, first bike ride, first lizard I caught, my pets, even some dreams I had, etc...

I didn't have a good idea of time yet, but I can retroactively tell when things occurred based on facts I later learned, like when certain neighbors moved, even my sister was born, etc...