skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When you put aside the hype and anecdotes, generative AI has languished in the same place, even in my kindest estimations, for several months, though it's really been years. The one "big thing" that they've been able to do is to use "reasoning" to make the Large Language Models "think" [...]

This is missing the most interesting changes in generative AI space over the last 18 months:

- Multi-modal: LLMs can consume images, audio and (to an extent) video now. This is a huge improvement on the text-only models of 2023 - it opens up so many new applications for this tech. I use both image and audio models (ChatGPT Advanced Voice) on a daily basis.

- Context lengths. GPT-4 could handle 8,000 tokens. Today's leading models are almost all 100,000+ and the largest handle 1 or 2 million tokens. Again, this makes them far more useful.

- Cost. The good models today are 100x cheaper than the GPT-3 era models and massively more capable.
And don't forget that the programmers in question are specifically selected based on their ideological adherence and loyalty. Which is to say, they are already convinced that waste is there, and that it is welfare and entitlements mostly.
Yes and before reading HN on a screen which is my habit, unfortunately.
I use it because it's one of a few platforms that's not censored to hell. Sure, it results in some unpleasant crap sometimes, but generally the feed is good.
There's a big difference between something you post intentionally that doesn't age well versus theZuckTracker5000(TM) that follows you every where you go on the internet without you explicitly consenting to it. There's a difference between showing people you went to suchandsuch location with suchandsuch friends doing suchandsuch that might only be legal in 28 states versus knowing exactly what you bought from where for how much and when. The graph you make with your posts is not the privacy being discussed. It is about the graph made by the invisible data paparazzi selling the most intimate and private bits of your life with whoever has the cash vs some paparazzi catching you in an unflattering situation from a mile away with a telephoto lens while you think you're having a private moment.
Some of us are aware of the risks and choose to accept them. Last week I tried to analyze HTTPS traffic on my Linux machine using MITM to check what some programs were sending back home, but omg, it was a pain, I also partially failed. Some apps just ignore system certs and use their own. Tools like mitmproxy help (docs are lacking btw). I paid for both the devices and the software, shouldn't I be able to take a peek at what they are doing?
I have one of those https://www.eye-power.co.uk/

While I like the sensation using it I don't feel any noticeable effect.
> The problem with deregulating banks is that the banking industry is low-competition. A few corporations dominate the landscape. So deregulation just strengthens the predators.

But that's not a natural state of affairs. Look at the savings and loan scandal! Without the regulation, banking was intensely competitive. Why assume that, if you took the regulation away, banking would take no notice and stay exactly the same?

> All deregulation should be accompanied by an equal effort to foster a massive amount of competition within the industry.

Deregulation is an effort to foster competition within the deregulated industry. Those regulations are barriers to entry, which is why large companies always want more of them.
I know, I'm agreeing. Leaving everything "running" is just the ideal path of least resistance. So we have sleep mode.
Looks really interesting. Wondering if I would need special equipment like they describe in order to hit the intensity they describe specifically on the cornea or if it would be effective enough to buy a 670nm red light bulb and sit near it in an otherwise dark room in the morning?
Whoops of course! My mistake
I really enjoyed this read. Great connections.

I’m also impressed at how much suffering was saved by that E39 error instead of a backed up laundry room full of waste water.

Washing machines are cool.

A couple of other good perspectives on software estimation:

https://world.hey.com/dhh/software-estimates-have-never-work...

https://softwareforgood.com/estimates-lies/
Doh! My mistake. Thanks for pointing that out
Wonderful. I also want to say that very often Tor sells DRM free books. As a fantasy buff, I always try to find them
the entire sequence of scenes on Giedi Prime were far from visually predictable. Denis is a master and flexed it a number of times in Dune. i think a fair take is Dune 1 and 2 are doing more creatively than any other big budget blockbuster franchise has since Avatar 1
I suggest you read the section starting "The Zizians, believe it or not, are not the only cult-like groupuscule to have emerged from the heady stew of the Rationalist community" from [1]

Some quotes:

> (Alignment Group) would attempt to articulate a ‘demon’ which had infiltrated our psyches from one of the rival groups, its nature and effects, and get it out of our systems using debugging tools

> there were also psychotic breaks involving demonic subprocess narratives,” and where people in positions of power would “debug” underlings. “I experienced myself and others being distanced from old family and friends, who didn't understand how high-impact the work we were doing was,”

> Scott Alexander, maybe the most prominent Rationalist besides Yudkowsky, suggested that the problem was not really M.I.R.I. or C.F.A.R. so much as that Taylor was in a cult-like group centered around a former M.I.R.I. head

> I don’t know that I have the patience or energy to really get to the bottom of it all except to say: It all kinda sounds pretty culty to me! And I haven’t even gotten into the Burning Man camp Black Lotus or the Monastic Academy for the Preservation of Life on Earth

etc

[1] https://maxread.substack.com/p/the-zizians-and-the-rationali...
> Great take regarding 1 and 2.

lmao, where is the great take?

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. This is equivocal to the amount of effort you would put in to polishing a turd - it doesn't matter as the end result is exactly the same.

What makes it worse is that you'd expect that the Incumbent President of the free world to be held to a higher standard. Not only that, but one of the co-creators of Libra coin has revealed that insiders were able to buy into $TRUMP at $500m at a "special access" private dinner in DC, before it went public. He also reveals he was involved in Melania coin too.

https://youtu.be/EqizJTbxAEM?t=3241
Well, he isn't wrong.
I invite you to elaborate, because because while I see how it's true you should draw conclusions from what you see in general, abstract terms, I don't understand what you mean to imply in the context of the comment I made (eg "don't judge a book by it's cover" or "if you're judging a book by it's cover, don't be surprised or claim victimhood if you get the feedback you've come to errant conclusions").
I will add an option to sign in as guest and add a short vid. Thanks for the suggestion!
I actually thought was the Phoronix user called Volta who wrote that comment.
Putting aside that blanket statement, that just makes no sense whatsoever. You use Nix to generate pre-commit configuration. That configuration contains unique paths to linters. Those paths will always point to an identical build of a Nix package, ensuring consistency. There's no room for Nix to slow down the pre-commit hook, because it doesn't run during the execution of the hook at all.
You're not a... engineer, engineer if you haven't worked on a legacy project. You're a junior engineer. Title inflation.
Just a gas but maybe it's because they're using multiple esp32's in an array? But also I seem to recall something similar in the Snowden papers?
But I get your point, given that the esp32 and all its design files are available from SPRESIF maybe they built a board that's running out of much faster clock rate?
PS: sorry about the typos and miss takes but sadly I have to use Voice typing due to a recent traumatic injury.
We cover that too [0]. In addition, while I wouldn't blanket recommend a VPN usually, it's important to use a VPN in conjunction with Mullvad Browser (specifically). If you're not blending in with a crowd of similar browsers at the network level too, the fingerprinting protections are a bit pointless.

> Like Tor Browser, Mullvad Browser is designed to prevent fingerprinting by making your browser fingerprint identical to all other Mullvad Browser users, and it includes default settings and extensions that are automatically configured by the default security levels: Standard, Safer and Safest. Therefore, it is imperative that you do not modify the browser at all outside adjusting the default security levels. Other modifications would make your fingerprint unique, defeating the purpose of using this browser.

[0] https://www.privacyguides.org/en/desktop-browsers/#mullvad-b...
Relace
Why in the world would you want a car?? They are horrible to maintain, difficult to operate, expensive, smell bad, and are slower than horses! -somebody salty about automobiles, circa 1900.
> How does this industry actually continue? Do OpenAI and Anthropic continue to raise tens of billions of dollars every six months until they work this out?

It's been made fairly clear that the insiders are setting the stage for governments to back them (bail them out).
My head canon is that sitting around drinking tea and watching the sunset is what humans need most…
The "iPhone moment" gets used a lot, but maybe it's more analogous to the early internet: we have the basics, but we're still learning what we can do with this new protocol and building the infrastructure around it to be truly useful. And as you've pointed out, our "bandwidth" is increasing exponentially at the same time.

If nothing else, my workflows as a software developer have changed significantly in these past two years with just what's available today, and there is so much work going into making that workflow far more productive.
I asked Gemini to pretend that David Lynch directed the only existing version of ROTJ and write Roger Ebert's review. It got four stars, and I'd definitely go see it.
I think they were carved by "the builders"...
I remember using this back in 2004-ish. The web was much different back then. Finding a robots game that allowed you to program your own tank was awesome. This is what got me into building my own sumo robots.
> The valuations seem to be primarily based on the R&D progress

There hasn't been much R&D progress, though. Sure, as another commenter pointed out, context lengths have gotten longer and chat models can interpret images now, but the industry figureheads have been pushing agents, and we're not much closer to those than we were two years ago when GPT-4 came out. Current models simply are not consistent enough to do the kind of agentic stuff that AI valuations are predicated upon, nor is there any sign that a significantly smarter GPT-5 is just around the corner. Multi-modal chat is cute, but OpenAI is burning money. They're all burning money, and they don't have a product. They imply and imply that there's something big on the horizon, but it's been years, and there just isn't a killer app yet. Their platform isn't good enough, and it's not improving in the ways it would need to in order for Godot to arrive and for agents to be feasible.
I have a problem similar to what OP faced but with an NVIDIA GPU (RTX 4080). When I wake the computer from suspend, the computer will usually wake up, show me the timestamp changing on the lock screen. But sometimes randomly, the timestamp will not change the the screen will freeze on the old timestamp. After this, it is either REISUB or hard reset.

@nyanpasu64, do you think enabling nvidia-suspend/nvidia-resume services will do the trick? I didn't go through the codefix in the above post in detail, but it looks like the fix is to raise a relevant notification to all listeners in the suspend_prepare() method for amdgpus, not nvidia.

Running Ubuntu 24.10.
Looks impressive. OpenAI and Sam Altman might be cooked if its as capable as advertised.
It's a German library card
Giedi Prime was the only sequence that held me transfixed during the movie. Funny, I was considering mentioning it as an exception with my first comment lest someone point it out.
A DPO would disagree with you depending on the circumstance; if you know a user is unique then you have a fingerprint; if you keep that fingerprint forever, when the user comes back to the site, it's trivial to know it is that user.
I tried again. This time I chose “Set up later” after the factory reset, so that I don't have to waste time completing the steps after registration. I got a “Kindle Store is currently unavailable” error. This error is more likely to be the first error I got.

Edit: I finally got it working by trying one more time, without factory reset.
There is no EME DRM, but they actually go through some means to prevent the user from downloading the ebooks. That includes anti-devtools mitigations and storing much of the ebook contents encrypted in the cloud.
Orbit: Open-source Nuclei security scanning and automation platform
> And even then, we still don't have a killer app! There is no product that everybody loves, and there is no iPhone moment!

I would strongly argue that coding assistants are AI’s first killer app. Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf etc.
Spent a ton of time on Hotline servers in the 90s. I wonder if any of them still exist. I'd dearly love to be able to pop back into my teen self and mess around on one.
Is this yours?

It's a tough problem, I think. It's missing a lot of roads where I am in Bend, Oregon. Basically, anywhere in the western US with Forest Service or BLM land is going to have a ton of gravel roads. The trick is "are they pleasant to ride on?"
Seems to be a thing, had to do the same on JetBrain's Plugin Marketplace.

Check out Article 3 Definition (f) and Article 30 and associated Articles in https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:L...
Heh. I've got memories from ages two and three that are pretty solid, and there were not photos or other records to prompt them. Some people really can do this. Some of my early memories were "filled in" by later experiences when I learned something that "explained" the earlier memory, and it was then reinforced, but the early memories are independent from the later ones.

My earliest memory was President Kennedy's assassination, but of course I had no idea of what a president was, life, death, etc. I was 16 months old. What I do remember was a bunch of strange people in and out of the house with the TV on and everyone very concerned, but what I remember most of that day was that it was the day I learned how to shake my crib and move it around the room while I was inside. I remember my parents not liking the fact that I was able to do that. I've never discussed that memory with them, and they're both gone now, so I never will.

I've got memories from when I barely knew how to talk, and didn't understand what the people around me were saying. My memory isn't good enough to decode what was said after I learned the language. I can clearly remember sitting in my high chair eating Alphabet cereal, and trying to make words with the letters I had not yet learned. I get sad when I think about how my parents would brush me off, probably thinking that I was too young to learn much. (My parents were both school teachers!)
Is this true only for vision? Mitochondria are in other places too
Life in the top nations isn't as comfortable as it once was. Politics are more childish and socially harmful than ever. The public consciousness is a less fertile place for developing the will and excitement for big-idea things like exploration.
I’m a little shocked at how much negativity there is around LLMs among developers. It’s a new tool that requires some learning, and it’s sometimes not so great, but if you’ve used an IDE with real coding assistance built in (eg. VS Code in Edit with Copilot mode - NOT Chat mode, using Claude 3.5), it’s honestly not much worse than a junior dev and 100x faster. And if the code is bad you throw it away and try again 10 seconds later. The amount of speed up I see as a very experienced dev is astronomical. And just like 6 months ago it was awful. How great is it gonna be in a year or two? It doesn’t even have access to running unit tests or reading console errors or IDE hints, and it still generates mostly correct code. Once it gets more deeply embedded it’s just going to improve more and more.
Tbh they'd have been right. Cars are expensive to buy and to maintain. They are difficult to operate—people die every day. They do smell bad, and the particulate matter they emit is extremely bad for you. And they are slow: Traffic is an unsolvable problem in urban centres.

Redesigning our cities around cars was one of the big mistakes of the 20th century.
I had this issue and this MB for years I eventually solved it by physically removing a crappy USB C PCIE card I'd bought because my case didn't have any USBC ports.

(Additionally I also previously disabled PCI wakeup buses and haven't touched it again since it's working)

hope that info helps.
I'm surprised they got the phone account owner's details. Maybe what really happened is that his mum previously used the same number for something on Google before giving the phone to him, so YouTube thinks he's her. Still inexcusable since people can and do give their phone to somebody else like this.
I like to read book in the dark with the red LED on my headtorch (so as not to bother gf) before I go to sleep. It’s prob 630nm not 670 but I get about two pages in and fall instantly asleep. Can recommend
An interesting essay on the history and precursors to Dedekind’s construction of the Reals.

I was disappointed that the author didn’t talk about some of the modern opponents of the “real numbers.” For example I heard this interesting podcast with a professor Norman Wildberger about the “Problem of Infinity in Math”. He seemed to say that a theory of real numbers should be rooted in their intrinsic computational properties. Constructing them using set theory thwarts this goal. Then again, I personally don’t see a viable alternative to the set theoretical construction.

https://youtu.be/l7LvgvunVCM?si=eGYdJGHmCLjc968b
Very strange. Almost like the altimeter setting wasn't set to the right number?
I missed the first half hour, any highlights?
It's possible to get to your computer without hacking the "NAT server", but I'm not in a position to do it. There's no point setting up a demonstration if you don't make it possible for me to actually do the demonstration!

When I set one up for you (back here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39173556) I gave you the access needed to actually do the test (...but you either missed that message or opted to ignore it, so you never tried it). You need to either move your network to routed IPs or give me a tunnel to the upstream network of your router first.

Not doing either of those doesn't make you right. NAT is still not acting as a firewall here. I'm just not in a position to take advantage of that, due to your use of RFC1918 addresses on the LAN side.
His style is being ambiguous and surreal, making everything dream like. It has a pattern just lie anything else and I think AI would be able to emulate and apply it just fine.
It would be satisfying if he gets called out for repeating himself next time he tries to come out and say he is scared how powerful their next model is.
No link to their statement?

And please don't link to X. I don't have an account so I cannot read X threads, which is very surprising because the owner said he really wanted to make it so logged-out users could read X easily, but then changed his mind because he wanted to make more money. Sounds like a really untrustworthy person to me!
At this point I just don't think total rewrites from scratch are a good idea, full stop. I've never seen a rewrite from scratch that didn't lose most of the learned solutions from the previous attempt, repeat most of the same mistakes and have to re-discover the solutions, and utterly fail to even attempt a passable improvement on a model of the core complexity of the problem being solved.

I'm not granting a "rewrite from scratch in Rust" exception even though that's in vogue right now. I'm not saying don't rewrite it in Rust, I'm saying don't rewrite it from scratch. It's harder to write new features in Rust while maintaining the old C code, but it's the right way to do it.
Cross-winds are bad. I was in Vancouver once flying to Victoria with a co-worker. We were supposed to take a helicopter but the winds were too bad so we caught a plane. Taking off, I'm pretty sure a wing just missed a ground and we looked at each other. Things were OK but it was probably the roughest flight I ever had.
Thank you; the world needs more of that.
True, but this runs on the main CPU, although it does appear to make use of a hardware multiplier in the MMC5:

https://www.nesdev.org/wiki/MMC5#Unsigned_8x8_to_16_Multipli...
I am not sure that I agree. Can you elaborate? Perhaps you mean that a story intended to play out over centuries might get bogged down every time someone tried to make himself king? I think the Count to the Eschaton series has an obvious counterexample to that, but you might mean something else.
I love the part where he describes getting a massive headache. Its so relatable when your body is even telling you it doesn't want to do some big complicated thing.
I feel very similarly about the split between my professional and personal code.

Theres always something that needs to be rushed out the door at work and honestly nobody pays me for pretty code.

But my own projects? The code is a large part of why I do it .
I kind of love working on a legacy project, its like reading a love letter from past devs, their hopes and dreams, classes describing an abstraction that was never used. It's like reading hate mail from past devs, towards their bosses, towards ways of doing things they didn't like. It's like uncovering a stack of newspapers from a time before agile, when people had eldritch and archaic ways of naming tables and variables and methods, when they spoke of things we've forgotten.

Sometimes it is a pleasure and sometimes it feels distant and alien and frustrating.
Relevant comment about 850nm light: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21042852
Ed occasionally makes good points, but he's very very angry at Big Tech, and his anger often gets in the way of his message.
Reading his latest rant reminds me of Karl Denninger railing against Google around the time of their IPO, claiming they would never make enough money to justify an $85 share price (a $1000 investment then would be worth around $375,000 today).
This is a really fun combination of tech and music. I don't see why it has to stop at just drums though!
Deel covers more countries that Remote last time I checked. Whereas better experience than any other tool in the same niche.
https://grok.com/

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