skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In many ways I'm not an OpenAI fan (but I need to recognize their many merits). At the same time, I believe people are missing what they tried to do with GPT 4.5: it was needed and important to explore the pre-training scaling law in that direction. A gift to science, however selfist it could be.
yeah sorry, double negatives.

People got burnt by kubernetes, and that pissed in the well of enthusiasm for experimenting with distributed systems
Building APIs with Next.js
it has been a while since I've seen innovation in this arena. My guess is that other domains of programming have eaten its lunch
Gemini 2 pro is actually very impressive (maybe not for coding, haven't used it for that)

Flash is pretty garbage but cheap
I'm exploring the idea of creating a PWA. Do you think a service like this would be more useful as a web app?
"Slower than bubblesort" is the acheivement here.
The reason I posted this tale is it taught me as a child to be kind to a machinery that behaves human-like. That's why I usually start my conversations with LLMs with "Would you please" while rationally understanding that they are most likely are not sentient beings.
What are your fiction stories that gave you similar effect?
> This is not a political stance, but one of basic questions of authorship and what compensation authors should receive and what control they should have over their work.

Questions of compensation and ownership are one of the most political questions of all.

What exactly do you think communist revolutions were revolting over?
So you think that little people didn’t notice? ;)
Christ: https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Red_Alert/blob/main/CO...
AI-created chips will be so weird, instead of bugs they'll have aliens: https://monster.fandom.com/wiki/Anthropod
It seems the product brief is behind a sign-up page. Please indicate to your sales folks that this is highly counterproductive.
A comma in the original comment would have made it pop even more:

"Sadly, little people noticed."

(queue a group of little people holding pitch forks (normal forks upon closer inspection))
Maybe, I’m inclined to think OpenAI believes the way I laid it out though, specifically because of their focus on communication and EQ in 4.5. It seems like they believe the large, non-reasoning model, will be “front of house.”

Or they’ll use some kind of trained router which sends the request to the one it thinks it should go to first.
I'm not a Ruster, I've spent my career writing a ton of C++. But I'm interested in Rust as an alternative because it doesn't need GC.

But in this case, it's not just the memory safety I'm interested in, it's the data races. If we have multiple threads but can guarantee that any object either has only read-only references, or one mutable references and no readers, we don't have data race issues.
StarlingX 10: Support for Dual-Stack Networking at the Edge
AFAIK database rebuild is two steps; first is fsck_msdos, second is checking every file for changes. You can check the logs yourself by installing Wampy and enabling adb, maybe your filesystem is also having issues?
This reminds me of Rob Pike's article "Systems Software Research is Irrelevant," written about 15 years ago. Perhaps many systems have matured to a point where any improvement appears incremental to engineers, so the conviction to develop a new programming model isn't strong enough. Or perhaps we're in a temporary plateau, and a groundbreaking tool will emerge in a few years.

Regarding Laddad's point, building tools native to distributed systems programming might be intrinsically difficult. It's not for lack of trying. We've invented numerous algebras, calculi, programming models, and experimental programming languages over the past decades, yet somehow none has really taken off. If anything, I'd venture to assert that object storage, perhaps including Amazon DynamoDB, has changed the landscape of programming distributed systems. These two systems, which optimize for throughput and reliability, make programming distributed systems much easier. Want a queue system? Build on top of S3. Want a database? Focus on query engines and outsource storage to S3. Want a task queue? Just poll DDB tables. Want to exchange states en masse? Use S3. The list goes on.

Internally to S3, I think the biggest achievement is that S3 can use scalability to its advantage. Adding a new machine makes S3 cheaper, faster, and more reliable. Unfortunately, this involves multiple moving parts and is therefore difficult to abstract into a tool. Perhaps an arbitrarily scalable metadata service is what everyone could benefit from? Case in point, Meta's warm storage can scale to multiple exabytes with a flat namespace. Reading the paper, I realized that many designs in the warm storage are standard, and the real magic lies in its metadata management, which happens to be outsourced to Meta's ZippyDB. Meanwhile, open-source solutions often boast about their scalability, but in reality, all known ones have certain limits, usually no more than 100PBs or a few thousand nodes.
this is a very interesting project. I like when technology is used to analyze cultural or political events
> We don't really know what this is good for

Oh come on. Think how long of a gap there was between the first microcomputer and VisiCalc. Or between the start of the internet and social networking.

First of all, it's going to take us 10 years to figure out how to use LLM's to their full productive potential.

And second of all, it's going to take us collectively a long time to also figure out how much accuracy is necessary to pay for in which different applications. Putting out a higher-accuracy, higher-cost model for the market to try is an important part of figuring that out.

With new disruptive technologies, companies aren't supposed to be able to look into a crystal ball and see the future. They're supposed to try new things and see what the market finds useful.
> genuinely curious what sort of conversation you had

We're in the US, and we're looking at a UK trip. I've lived in the UK, and we've done a fair amount of international travel. We're in the "brainstorming" mode. I'd characterize the conversation as verbal googling.

We were asking questions about distances between cities, typical ticket rates for trains, things to do in various locations, etc.
Sure but its in their best interest to lower it then and only then.

OpenAI wouldn't be the first company to price something expensive when it first comes out to capitalize on people who are less price sensitive at first and then lower prices to capture a bigger audience.

That's all pricing 101 as the saying goes.
They should be miles away from production code, mission critical or otherwise. Unless they just love eating hard-to-reproduce bugs for breakfast. Do they teach mutexes and semaphores in university anymore?
because it's one of those schema to dump a giant pile of sh*t on to the public.

government buys reserve price skyrockets.

no one uses it so the price plunges American tax payers stuck holding the bag.
Looks good! I'm currently using OsTicket (PHP) with a small team. Pretty happy with it but could use more automation. What I like best about OsTicket is that I was able to configure it completely transparent, there are no auto-messages sent to users and no reference numbers of boilerplate in outbound messages.

Happy to see more opensource options in this space, especially with a focus on customizable automation.
Interesting to see this here. I've commented a few times on HN about recently getting into card games (e.g. various solitaire games, gin rummy, presidents, spades, trash...etc) and domino games. It's a lot of fun, social (even solitaire as we teach each other new versions), and mentally engaging. There's no screen and it all just feels less wasteful in some weird way.

Board game night would do the same thing, but there's something beautiful about how much variety you can get out of a single deck of cards or some double-six dominos. There's no setup or 50 page rulebook required either. Most card games I just watch a YouTube video and then just remember how to play for years.
Awesome spreadsheet. Would a 3D graph of fast, cheap & smart be possible?
Amazing, thank you so much for sharing this.
You're not where you think you are.
Well the article was in 2009. Hopefully someone's taken them aside and explained synchronization objects to them by now.
"Chemical imbalance" is the wrong model and asserts culture over nature, but sort of like menopause being a biological control to prevent resource competition between younger and older females in populations, I'd wager that behaviors that create conflict or distance between newly sexually mature offspring and parents/family could serve the role of decreasing the likelihood of incest.
Apparently he can get it recertified at some facilities, who knows he might be able to get a decent return
I think you were unlucky in your distributed system job and lucky in your embedded job. Embedded is filled with crappy 3rd party and in-house tooling, far more so than distributed, in my experience. That crappiness perhaps leads to a higher likelihood to spend time on them, but it doesn't have to.

Embedded does give you a greater feeling of control. When things aren't working, it's much more likely to be your own fault.
We got "inspired" by working at companies where app teams kept making breaking changes, and the data teams had no control over it. I hope it wasn't just me :). So we decided to build this GitHub app to help fix that.
It's amazing how increasingly Orwellian things are becoming under our ever more powerful dictatorial and oligarchical benefactors. Always bringing smiles to the faces of the most willing believers.

The power to impose this new wonderland, is almost within reach. Where before it failed, greater are the possibilities for it to succeed this time around. Nothing to worry about, freedom is for those who deserve it.
It's just, I would be happy to join the anti-Trump crowd, but I don't see any substantial evidence that he has done something bad.
Let’s assume $500/hour in labor. Did this specific part require 440 hours of testing? The price doesn’t appear to come down at any volume, and the government already substantially subsidized the R&D efforts, so just how much shenanigans do you think there are in that 220,000?
From your language, it’s clear you’re not talking from the perspective of the UK’s different legal systems.

They may matter like you say in other systems, but they are not the same in all systems.
If we can force men to go to war, we can also force women to have children.
> This week, Durbin will join U.S. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Josh Hawley (R-MO), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) to introduce a bill that would sunset Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act in two years.

Sounds like a mischaracterization to call it a priority for democrats. It seems like it's a non-partisan issue for a subset of both parties.
> That's because the pricing model is arbitrary. If we need nuclear, we can make it economically viable through reforming the way we purchase electricity

I don't really agree on this. The problem is that intermittent sources (wind/solar) have become really cheap per MW. Whenever those sources are available, nuclear power just cannot compete, so you basically build nuclear plants as glorified peaker plants (even if you run them full throttle all the time, when wind/sun is available the power they provide is effectively worthless).

You can see this very effect in China, where the capacity factor of coal power plants is going down every year (and coal power is not very suitable for that).

> By dropping nuclear, we have to deal with a bigger shortfall and that means gas peakers, etc.

I completely agree on this. Having built like 30 nuclear power plants 40 years ago would be a godsend now for almost every country (=> see e.g. France, which is still reaping the benefits).

But its important to consider: The whole concept shares similar weakness with renewables (=> need additional dispatchable sources), and it also works pretty well for France because not every nation around them is doing the same thing (=> somewhat cost effective power imports, because not every neighbor needs to smooth out the exact nuclear-caused daily load profile).

Another point is that back then, there was

1) Much less local resistance (pre-Chernobyl)

2) Much cheaper labor and more economy of scale in building reactors

And it still took a lot of additional national commitment (from France) to fully nuclearize (mainly for strategic defense reasons, i.e. oil independence).

Seeing people advocate for nuclear power now is really frustrating to me, because we had that opportunity half a century ago, but now it's become unrealistic, unhelpful against climate change and insanely expensive, compared to much better alternatives (which are straightforward and just need to be executed). Arguing in favor of nuclear power now instead of wind/solar/batteries just feels stupid.
GPT-2 was laugh out loud funny, rolling on the ground funny.

I miss that - newer LLMs seem to have lost their sense of humor.

On the other hand GPT-2's funny stories often veered into murdering everyone in the story and committing heinous crimes but that was part of the weird experience.
You have it all wrong. The end game is a scalable, reliable AI work force capable of finishing Star Citizen.

At least this is the benchmark for super-human general intelligence that I propose.
At this point the best thing is mave sure this is well known. If he has the idea you can bet evil [china, north korea, russia... should come to mind] will too. If I do it I'm harmless but it forces apple to react. If evil does that they will also hide their tracks and so we are less likely to find out while they do their harm.
> GPT 4.5 pricing is insane: Price Input: $75.00 / 1M tokens Cached input: $37.50 / 1M tokens Output: $150.00 / 1M tokens

> GPT 4o pricing for comparison: Price Input: $2.50 / 1M tokens Cached input: $1.25 / 1M tokens Output: $10.00 / 1M tokens

Their examples don't seem 30x better. :-)
So the things I thought I was referring to were pneumatic tubes for the sending and receiving of small things. But yeah, I'd hope vacuum tubes are there too!
Because the comments aren’t as toxic
As a React developer, how does one even compile something like this
You are literally saying that it is wrong to criticize and organize a boycott of a business for the moral choices it makes.

It's not wrong, it's literally the free market FFS. People are mad at the cake shop for denying business to gay people, and they do not care whether it's legal or not. If it is suddenly legal to employ literal children, I will boycott places that do it, regardless of the law, because the law is not the be all, end all of morality

"But but but it's legal" has never been an acceptable excuse for doing something morally wrong. If christians are upset that lots of people consider it morally wrong to treat gay people differently, they should consider that it's okay people do not agree with them, and that the US legally protects people who have different values than you do, and that's an important part of freedom. Banning me from boycotting the cake shop that doesn't serve gay people is literally against my freedom of association.

Christians have done the same thing for decades. Porn is protected speech, but that hasn't stopped them from literally advising the president, on both sides of the aisle, for decades, to ban it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Center_on_Sexual_Expl...

Funny how it's just good christian values when they do it, but "cancel culture" when they don't like the free market outcome.
Which specify incidents do you think involved bribes?
>It couldn't write a simple rename function for me yesterday, still buggy after seven attempts.

I'm surprised and a bit nervous about that. We intend to bootstrap a large project with it!!

Both ChatGPT 4o (fast) and ChatGPT o1 (a bit slower, deeper thinking) should easily be able to do this without fail.

Where did it go wrong? Could you please link to your chat?

About my project: I run the sovereign State of Utopia (will be at stateofutopia.com and stofut.com for short) which is a country based on the idea of state-owned, autonomous AI's that do all the work and give out free money, goods, and services to all citizens/beneficiaries. We've built a chess app (i.e. a free source of entertainment) as a proof of concept though the founder had to be in the loop to fix some bugs:

https://taonexus.com/chess.html

and a version that shows obvious blunders, by showing which squares are under attack:

https://taonexus.com/blunderfreechess.html

One of the largest and most complicated applications anyone can run is a web browser. We don't have a web browser built, but we do have a buggy minimal version of it that can load and minimally display some web pages, and post successsfully:

https://taonexus.com/publicfiles/feb2025/84toy-toy-browser-w...

It's about 1700 lines of code and at this point runs into the limitations of all the major engines. But it does run, can load some web pages and can post successfully.

I'm shocked and surprised ChatGPT failed to get a rename function to work, in 7 attempts.
That could still happen.

I would watch their development closely considering to me, they'll likely leave K-9 Mail in the dust once Thunderbird on Android gets completely stable. It would be a sad end to one of the only true open source email apps left and with him gone, they can initiate it if they want to.
Text-based communication, especially informal comment text, are obviously pretty terrible at accurately conveying tone and intent. I like to adhere to the “assume good faith” maxim whenever possible, although that’s increasingly difficult in this polarized age of “Roman salutes.” Anyhow, I personally read their comment as something of a tongue-in-cheek chaotic neutral sort of curiosity.
Generated once.
Creating Character Bootstraps: Crafting Conscious-Like Personas for AI Agents
Not available in my Pro plan.
There are some numbers on one of their Blackwell or Hopper info pages that notes the ability of their hardware in hosting an unnamed GPT model that is 1.8T params. My assumption was that it referred to GPT-4

Sounds to me like GPT 4.5 likely requires a full Blackwell HGX cabinet or something, thus OpenAI's reference to needing to scale out their compute more (Supermicro only opened up their Blackwell racks for General Availability last month, and they're the prime vendor for water-cooled Blackwell cabinets right now, and have the ability to throw up a GPU mega-cluster in a few weeks, like they did for xAI/Grok)
I can play it back to back for days. It's so enjoyable and unique.
Not that the stock market is the end all be all of society but if a 4T tax cut isn't making the market giddy, I'm not sure anything will.

once the reel hurt hits the economy like the 1T that gets sucked out of small town healthcare, I have hard time seeing who's actually going to support the guy.
> Just talk about something else.

My experience is that this is very hard with people like this, as all they want to do is "enlighten" you and/or rant about "the truth".
Yeah, they never should have expected to take an FPS game engine like CryEngine and expected to be able to modify it to work as the basis for a large scale space MMO game.

Their backend is probably an async nightmare of replicated state that gets corrupted over time. Would explain why a lot of things seem to work more or less bug free after an update and then things fall to pieces and the same old bugs start showing up after a few weeks.

And to be clear, I've spent money on SC and I've played enough hours goofing off with friends to have got my money's worth out of it. I'm just really bummed out about the whole thing.
You're correct that there's an analogy continuum here that starts at "ridiculous" and ends with "nearly indistinguishable".

I suppose like many things, it's down to a reasonableness test.
You mean attention like this?

https://ogles.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-ogles-propo...
Show HN: I made a code-aware spell checker for Zed
Hey HN, I wanted to share a project I've been working on to help with my terrible spelling.

CSpell is the thing everyone uses in VSCode, but they don't offer an LSP for other editors to use. Someone has made an LSP for it, but CSpell is also pretty slow since it's all in JavaScript. After spending way too much time[0] trying to find an alternative, I just wrote my own.

Codebook[1] is written in Rust, so it's very fast, and (IMO) is much less annoying than CSpell because it uses Tree Sitter to only find spelling issues that the developer has control over.

Codebook also comes with an LSP, so it could be used in other editors, but I haven't tried that yet.

I want to also shout out to Spellbook[2], which is the actual spell checking engine I used to make Codebook. The makers of Helix wrote it, and it's fantastic.

[0]: https://blopker.com/writing/09-survey-of-the-current-state-o...
[1]: https://github.com/blopker/codebook
[2]: https://github.com/helix-editor/spellbook
Is android K-9 Mail in any way relayed to Symbian K-9 Mail?
Ok, obviously it's _doable_, but is it worth it? Using LLMs for this purpose would have been significantly cheaper, easier and with the right configuration just as reliable. Once the setup works, you could extend the analysis to all kinds of other interesting branches without having to look at a single speech by hand.

I would even go so far as to say that _not_ using LLMs for this task would be fairly odd, unless I'm missing something or the author really enjoys a month of manually classifying documents to write an interesting and well-written but not exceedingly outstanding article.
That's true, but assumes you have the checklist of what data to analyze in hand when you start out. If you only decide after the fact which familial relationships have interesting trends, you'd have to start over again. It seems more reasonable to start by transcribing everything to text, annotating that text, and then running a lot of scripting to automatically query that data.
*Westwood
I spent some time browing curiosities about old games, and what strikes me is that the code sometimes was quite personal. You could see the joy, the anger, the disappointment, the satisfaction. Nowadays it would never fly to name a variable "poo", you need to stay professional at all times.
The Internet had plenty of very productive use cases before social networking, even from its most nascent origins. Spending billions building something on the assumption that someone else will figure out what it's good for, is not good business.
Curious. Can anyone tell me if it’s windows thing, specific filesystem thing, source control system thing or just a style thing, naming all files and directories in caps?
I wish they would release all the code and assets used to make Earth & Beyond.
I'm still confused, but that's ok. I spoke to why we don't use electric trains in the US, because the distances are too far and the terrain is too varied. The rockies, the cascades, just to get imports from west to east. No matter what, the power plant will have to be on the freight trains in the US. In the US, all freight trains are electric series hybrids, with diesel power plants.

I doubt hydrogen will ever go, because people like me will say "Hindenburg, but already on the ground where it can do the most damage, plus moving at 50-80MPH"
And of course "Crimson Tide." Good God, was he good in that one.