skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
not quite the same, but there's this Trader Joe's price tracker: https://traderjoesprices.com/
The whole administration is showing a lack of understanding of how our entire country, and indeed the current global order, works.
CMU Intro to Database Systems (15-445/645 – Fall 2024)
The question being, will we be chuckling at current models responses in 5-10y from now?
This feels more like a release they pushed out to keep the "hype" alive rather than something they were eager to share. Honestly, the results don’t seem all that impressive, and considering the price, it just doesn’t feel worth it.
un-fn real. the new maga normal.
What it confirms, I think, is, that we are going to need a lot more chips.
At least in 2025 they could slap it into Claude and produce a better review without engaging in…shudders *thought*.
I don't see Claude 3.7 on the official leaderboard. The top performer on the leaderboard right now is o1 with a scaffold (W&B Programmer O1 crosscheck5) at 64.6%: https://www.swebench.com/#verified.

If Claude 3.7 achieves 70.3%, it's quite impressive, it's not far from 71.7% claimed by o3, at (presumably) much, much lower costs.
This is an amazing spreadsheet - thank you for sharing!
>It's a matter of time before advertising SDKs within any ad-supported apps will start leveraging this to geolocate users without additional permissions.

They still need bluetooth permissions, which is going to be sus for your average flashlight/weather/game app.

>Especially for apps that already have location permissions (something as simple as a weather app) this will hardly be noticed.

If the app already has location permissions, why would they need to pull off this attack? They get the user's location directly.
Now the real question about AI automation starts. Is it cheaper to pay a human to do the task or a AI company?
Imagine if they built a reasoning model with costs like these. Sometimes it seems like they're on a trajectory to create a model which is strictly more capable than I am but which costs 100x my salary to run.
That just passes the buck to the medical community, who have to figure out whether something is a disorder or not, which again becomes a decision informed by societal norms and practicality.

An interesting, nuanced essay on this (from a slightly earlier era):

> At this point, I don’t care enough to say much more than “If it’s a psychiatric disorder, then attempts to help transgender people get covered by health insurance, and most of the transgender people I know seem to want that, so sure, gender dysphoria is a psychiatric disorder.”

- The Categories were made for Man, not Man for the Categories

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/21/the-categories-were-ma...

(I have no idea what Facebook's motivation is in this matter).
I wonder if we're starting to see the effects of the mass exodus a while ago.
dead and back commander, dead and back

I did very much enjoy the Firestorm expansion story line

roughly: a rogue AI (CABAL) betraying the world to try and achieve its genocidal master (Kane)'s goals

then because you can't operate your army without an AI, you steal the enemy's (non-crazy) AI and turn it evil

one particularly memorable cheesy cutscene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEjtiACglSE

General: CABAL is too dangerous and must be deactivated

CABAL: No Generals, I will not allow it. My survival is paramount.

(AI instructs its cyborgs begin the coup)

CABAL: IT IS MY WORLD NOW! LISTEN TO THE SOUNDS OF YOUR OWN EXTINCTION, HUMAN

I wonder if Altman played it...
Great, so they are turning the LLMs Republican too.
Simplification Takes Courage
In a subscription business, you don't want the user to use as few resources as possible. It's the wrong optimization to make.

You want users to keep coming back as often as possible (at the lowest cost-per-run possible though). If they are not coming back they are not renewing.

So, yes, it makes sense to make answers shorter to cut on compute cost (which these SMS-length replies could accomplish) but the main point of making the AI flirtatious or "concerned" is possibly the addictive factor of having a shoulder to cry on 24/7, one that does not call you on your BS and is always supportive... for just $20 a month

The "one-shot correct response" to "I failed my exams" might be "Tough luck, try better next time" but if you do that, you will indeed use very little compute because people will cancel the subscription and never come back.
Plus level subscription has limits too, and Pro level costs 10x more - as long as Pro users don't use ChatGPT 10x more than Plus users on average, OpenAI can benefit. There's also the user retention factor.
Just make your own. Patents protect how something is done, not the idea of doing it.
Most likely, you have 0 proof of your assertion.
Very interesting. Yes, this is along the lines of what I was thinking.

Seems you could calibrate the size of each unit according to anticipated growth and the max a site could sustain, area-wise (i.e. go larger to balance number of containers). Then, prep the site with easily extensible cabling for power/networking between units.

It seems (completely intuiting here) that if the reality on the ground could accommodate full data centers, then this would be possible.

And according to the article, the cost was 1% of traditional data centers.
Note: This celeb news is relevant on HN because his surname contains the word "Hack".
> Trump has an incredible track record of deal making, his entire career is built off rubbing shoulders and negotiating and making deals.

Certainly he makes a lot more deals than me. He also ends up with bankrupt companies and defaulting on payments a lot more often than me.

I've lived through a County bankruptcy [1], and I would rather not deal with a federal bankruptcy because someone wanted to make a deal, without worrying about the long term consequences.

[1] https://www.ocregister.com/2019/12/06/heres-how-orange-count...
No. Read the paper again, specifically figure 3.
Thats... incredibly thorough. Wow. Thanks for sharing this.
I would rather pay for 4.5 by the query.
> * OpenAI seems to be betting that you'll need an ensemble of models with different capabilities, working as a single system, to jump beyond what the reasoning models today can do.

Seems inaccurate as their most recent claim I've seen is that they expect this to be their last non-reasoning model, and are aiming to provide all capacities together in the future model releases (unifying the GPT-x and o-x lines)

See this claim on TFA:

> We believe reasoning will be a core capability of future models, and that the two approaches to scaling—pre-training and reasoning—will complement each other.
Also, recent reporting is indicating that the funding for the Ebola prevention programs has not been restored, contrary to Musk's assertions:

https://www.rawstory.com/ebola/
That what was in my mind, the second I’ve seen the code. I would‘ be pushed so hard to make the while go away. In high level code, it’s simple wrong. Since his code is Java it looks even more suspicious because of the hashmap.

It’s basically a ‚work around’ bugfix.
Terraform providers seem to work pretty well, but as far as I know, they're basically separate executables and the main process communicates with them using sockets.
Cambridge dictionary:
the act of killing a something in large numbers, or reducing something severely.

Not totally gone or almost gone, merely "severely" or in "large numbers".
Tomography or tombography :)
It’s beautiful! Could you make an offline version as an app?

Check out Wiki2Touch for offline Wikipedia ideas, or pingtype (shameless plug) - just work out an open-source way to make it possible to reduce your server fees.
In such cases, there is usually a “consular report of a birth abroad” that the embassy sends to Washington and the parents get a copy of. Military servicemembers also frequently get this. It’s not required to be done by any means and it is not a birth certificate though it can usually be used in place of one.

But! I think it may be the only document issued about a birth that is proof of US citizenship. And, paradoxically, is not available to people born inside the US.
For a while I kept getting soft-porn-adjacent videos. Of girls in very skimpy clothing doing "challenges". Non-stop. Effective strategy to get the dad and granddad eyeballs.

AFAICT, internet advertising doesn't work (I never click on any ads). Anyone have theories on how Meta is making so much money (the reason for its insane valuation)?
>> There are and have been many techniques and projects for making C more memory-safe.

> Sort of.

Yes. That's why I used the qualifier "more." Our statements are not in conflict.

> Fil-C is novel in that it achieves both safety and compatibility.

How does it affect performance?

>> The crucial question it always comes down to is what performance hit do you take using them?

> Is that really the crucial question?

Yes, because it's the factor that industry leaders use to decide on which language to use. For example, Apple switching from Pascal to C way back in the Stone Age. The fact that it's the crucial question doesn't mean that lots of people don't consider other factors for their own reasons.

> I don't think you would have even gotten to asking that question with most attempts to make C memory safe.

Yes, most. But for example, Microsoft's Checked C comes with a performance penalty of almost 10% for a partial solution. Not academic. Very commercial.

> C rose to where it is today even when it was much slower than assembly

Yes, that's why I said "high-level language." I don't consider assembly high-level, do you?

> people preferred C over FORTRAN anyway

People preferred C in the 1970s/80s because at the time you could allocate memory dynamically in C but not in FORTRAN. FORTRAN fixed that in the 1990s, but by then there were too few FORTRAN programmers to compete. Since then C has serially defeated all newcomers. Maybe Go or Rust are poised to take it on. When a major operating system switches from C, we'll know.
If you hate marketing as an engineer
Yeah, the Nordic part is basically magic if you are careful. If these guys can do 10x on that, a whole market segment could move to energy harvesting / single use battery and battery life for other segments could double or triple. (Often the uC is not the big power draw)
setting aside any particular ideological perspective, I think what is interesting here is the (inevitable?) expansion of soft power warfare into a new domain. I would be shocked if there are not other networks like this out there by other countries, whether on the public internet or more directly backchanneled.
Note to the Times writer if the obituary. you can't accidentally murder someone
It's not that the market is stupid, it's that consumers are flawed. We are all just meat sacks at the end of the day. Our time is limited. We can't investigate everything thoroughly.

I mean, if I wanted to check how many calories are in a food item and the FDA didn't make companies tell me, that's going to be at least 1000 hours of work. For one food item. One time. If I had to do that for everything I'd just starve.

Software is, arguably, more complex than modern ultra-processed food. We can't audit these things. Even when we do audit, we only scratch the surface. There's billions of lines of code behind "hello world".
But not zero

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_pi_bill
Another great example on Hacker News is this old translation of Google's "Amazing Bet": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12793033
Not OP, but at a minimum I'd expect range searches to work.

This particular search pattern could either be a open-ended range search "all products 80-infinity" or it could be a keyword search "80+" as in "PSU 80+ Gold".

I'm also noticing that many results have mixed-bag prices, while I was expecting something closer to being ranked by the price delta. For example "psu" returns 5 different $155 products, but "psu 300" returns a $2000 RTX 4090 along with 4 $155 PSU's. I don't know if it's a coincidence that the RTX has a stock of "304" or if you're applying the ranking method to fields outside of price.
Doubly so with how good Claude 3.7 Sonnet is at $3 / 1M tokens.
Program-Transformation.org
Does that mean LLMs can already be considered conscious at some level since they are able to reason and self reflect?
I've been eyeing up this game. Looks fantastic. The trailers are very well done, really capture the vibe. 200k units is a huge success. No questions, just want to say congrats. I'd love to try making a game one day!
Kastle (YC S24) Is Hiring – AI for Loan Servicing
From Sam's twitter:

> After that, a top goal for us is to unify o-series models and GPT-series models by creating systems that can use all our tools, know when to think for a long time or not, and generally be useful for a very wide range of tasks.

> In both ChatGPT and our API, we will release GPT-5 as a system that integrates a lot of our technology, including o3. We will no longer ship o3 as a standalone model.

You could read this as unifying the models or building a unified systems which coordinate multiple models. The second sentence, to me, implies that o3 will still exist, it just won't be standalone, which matches the idea I shared above.
probably because we're all sick of AI news
I’m not an expert or anything, but from my vantage point, each passing release makes Altman’s confidence look more aspirational than visionary, which is a really bad place to be with that kind of money tied up. My financial manager is pretty bullish on tech so I hope he is paying close attention to the way this market space is evolving. He’s good at his job, a nice guy, and surely wears much more expensive underwear than I do— I’d hate to see him lose a pair powering on his Bloomberg terminal in the morning one of these days.
Anecdotally, they didn't work in my case. I had a numb penis for it, though.
Perhaps even fed through an LLM ;)
The quotation marks in the grandparent comment are scare (sneer) quotes and not actual quotation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare_quotes

> Whether quotation marks are considered scare quotes depends on context because scare quotes are not visually different from actual quotations.
Citation needed.

(I would have guessed similar to what you said, minus the "by a wide margin" bit.)
Firefighting with Conductive Aerosol-Assisted Vortex Rings
The announcements early on were relatively sincere and technical with papers and nice pages explaining the new models in easy language and now we get this marketing garbage. Probably the fastest enshitification I’ve seen.
I'm sure there are lots of large groups of devs who are undone by an upstart kid with a fresh perspective and no fear
> A key to America's prosperity is that we have not shared a border with an adversary for over 200 years.

That's simply not true, as the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848, the various border conflicts with Mexican forces and factions during the Mexican revolution, etc.

Also, the conflicts with Britain (which includes Canada) through mid-19th Century (particular flashpoints including the Pig War. Aroostock War, and Trent Affair.)
I have a good memory of, in the 1990s, what must have been a rehab campaign from Big Egg, slogan: "The incredible, edible EGG!"
Sam tweeted that they're running out of computer. I think it's reasonable to think they may serve somewhat quantized models when out of capacity. It would be a rational business decision that would minimally disrupt lower tier ChatGPT users.

Anecdotally, I've noticed what appears to be drops in quality, some days. When the quality drops, it responds in odd ways when asked what model it is.
Holy shit, that's incredible. You should publicise this more! That's a fantastic resource.
The real skill is “problem-solving”, not “doing lots of specific manual steps that could be automated and made easier.”

Unfortunately, some people confuse the two and believe they are paid to do the latter, not the former, simply because others look at those steps and go “wtf, we could make that hell more pleasant and easier to deal with”.

In the same vein, “creating perceived job security for yourself by willing to continuously deal with stupid bs that others rightfully aren’t interested in wasting time on.”

Sadly, you are ultimately right though, as misguided self-interest often tends to win over well-meant proposals.
Close! Emergence/emanation is particular to Neoplatonism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoplatonism
Not if people just try a few prompts then stop using it.
Well I hope you're right, I just bought both bundles.

This is the first time I give money to EA since Mass Effect 2* :)

* Technically i also paid for the Mass Effect collection for playstation, because Sony doesn't allow them to require a login on there. But it's the first time for a PC title since ME 2.
right. you can introduce several in one line w/o even trying
> - Do we want China or Russia or America to most shape the global order? Those are the choices

As things stand now it won't be Russia, they've gotten themselves into a mess in Ukraine that's significantly draining their economic and military resources.

Between China and the US, China is not the one currently burning bridges around the globe. US hegemony relied on mostly positive relations and power projection (both soft and hard). Scrapping our soft power and trading it for a bigger stick that's also being threatened with dismantling is unlikely to help the US retain its hegemony. Not to mention the military is an expensive stick and the cuts to revenue will result in even bigger deficits if it's maintained at its current level.
Honestly, the most astounding part of this announcement is their comparison to o3-mini with QA prompts.

EIGHTY PERCENT hallucination rate? Are you kidding me?

I get that the model is meant to be used for logic and reasoning, but nowhere does OpenAI make this explicitly clear. A majority of users are going to be thinking, "oh newer is better," and pick that.
> My bet is that they're currently burning through other people's capital at an amazing rate, but that they are light-years from profitability

The Information leaked their internal projections a few months ago, and apparently their own estimates have them losing $44B between then and 2029 when they expect to finally turn a profit, maybe.
> Yes, it is.

No it isn’t
There's a great philosophy paper making this argument: Schwitzgebel, Eric. “If Materialism Is True, the United States Is Probably Conscious.” Philosophical Studies: An International Journal for Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition, vol. 172, no. 7, 2015, pp. 1697–721. https://faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzPapers/USAconscious...

Discussed previously on HN:

July 2015 (210 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9905847

Feb 2021 (78 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26217834

Dec 2023 (1 comment): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38814769
The results for GPT - 4.5 are in for Kagi LLM benchmark too.

It does crush our benchmark - time to make new? ;) - with performance similar of that of reasoning models. It does come at a great price both in cost and speed.

A monster is what they created. But looking at the tasks it fails, some of them my 9 year old would solve. Still in this weird limbo space of super knowledge and low intelligence.

May be remembered as the last the last of the 'big ones', can't imagine this will be a path for the future.

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/ai/llm-benchmark.html
If you want to try it out via their API you can run it through my LLM tool using uvx like this:

uvx --with 'https://github.com/simonw/llm/archive/801b08bf40788c09aed6175252876310312fe667.zip' \
llm -m gpt-4.5-preview 'impress me'

You may need to set an API key first, either with `export OPENAI_API_KEY='xxx'` or using this command to save it to a file:

uvx llm keys set openai
# paste key here

Or this to get a chat session going:

uvx --with 'https://github.com/simonw/llm/archive/801b08bf40788c09aed6175252876310312fe667.zip' \
llm chat -m gpt-4.5-preview

I'll probably have a proper release out later today. Details here: https://github.com/simonw/llm/issues/795
Yeah I'm real tired of that ideology as well. Political correctness needs to die; sooner rather than later.
Perhaps to get the copyright you should put the code in escrow? Not really, it costs a fortune
I've watched the videos, but they were just ramblings without any physical or mathematical substance.
So, how would you write that line?
That is a very wordy and hostile way to defend unilaterally annexing part of Canada.
Pandemic kids more likely to struggle identifying false beliefs
"Mozilla can end anyone's access to Firefox at any time for any reason"

How. The program is open source. Anyone can remove/disable telemetry or other access to Mozilla servers before compiling. Alternatively, using other open source software, anyone can prevent Firefox from accessing Mozilla servers.

I stopped relying on graphical browsers for recreational web use starting back in 2000s.

"Mozilla owns royalty-free, unrestricted access to your inputs processed by Firefox (like Search, Web History, etc.)"

But the Mozilla press releases and blog posts about protecting user privacy will continue.

Mozilla should be sued for all their misrepresentations. Through discovery the public may learn what this company is actually up to.
When I was standing in the field in the Middle Ages, harvesting turnips, and I said to the guy next to me: I don't think I like our prince. There was no permanent record of that.

If I was standing at the loom and I said to the weaver next to me: I don't think we're getting enough of a share of the value of our work, then there was no permanent record of that.

Today, if I ask my colleague on MS Teams what he wants for lunch, IT will probably still be able to process that message automatically 30 years from now.

Without a persistent record, privacy was the default. All messages were ephemeral.

Large-scale automated surveillance power is a contemporary anomaly, and it is currently uncertain whether open and democratic societies will survive this very recent and dangerous threat.
> The number of AWS customers that could survive on these services alone is likely higher than we'd suspect, especially for small companies

They could, but they will not.If your AWS is small there is no real motive to look for alternatives. Just stick with the brand you know.

Even a lot of developers are very resistant to using something 'non-standard'.I have had "thats a weird thing to do" reactions to suggestions such as running Postgres on EC2 because it would be easier than using RDS for a small DB.
I wonder how this affects thunderbird?

Mozilla’s New Terms of Use:

https://www.quippd.com/writing/2025/02/26/mozillas-new-terms...

Both on the desktop, and in android.

I've had pretty severe misgivings about the mozilla foundation for years now, in spite of my multi-decade love-hate relationship with thunderbird. (it still has over 10 year old bugzilla entries for basic IMAP folder shortcomings)

Maybe when cketti gets over his downturn, and considers where to go next, the answer will be back to K-9 with a fork from pre mozilla.

The org being almost completely funded by goggle really diminishes it's independence...
>I feel like OpenAI is pursuing AGI

I don't think so, the "AGI guy" was Ilya Sutskever, he is gone, he wanted to make OpenAI "less comercial", AGI is just a buzzword for Altmann.
> about slippage, commission, over fitting my stuff to my test data

this all kinda solvable, you add slippage, commissions to the profit calculations, and use separate eval data split(or 1, 2, 3, 4) to check how model is overfitting?
Ah, great point. Yes, the wording here would imply that they're basically planning on building scaffolding around multiple models instead of having one more capable Swiss Army Knife model.

I would feel a bit bummed if GPT-5 turned out not to be a model, but rather a "product".
"kay-len" - confusing I know
It doesn't. I know that, without reading the piece, because nothing has broken the standard model.