skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The data sovereignty argument is likely more than just interesting, but can be essential to their startups surviving in the future. Who can look at and do what with the data, can be the difference between a country or region keeping a thriving infrastructure or having to outsource an entire related chain to somewhere else that can dictate terms or not be in their best interest.

Just as EU companies have the option of using only EU data centers, African countries can make the same argument for equivalent options, where AU companies (African Union) do the same.
You would see a different state. Quantum mechanics is random. It is possible that there is hidden state that determines the outcome, but there is Bell's Theorem that limits local hidden state and it has been tested by experiment.
How hard would it be to convert this so it could run in the browser using WebAssembly?
I find grok to be the best overall experience for the types of tasks I try to give AI (mostly: analyze pdf, perform and proofread OCR, translate Medieval Latin and Hebrew, remind me how to do various things in python or SwiftUI). ChatGPT/gemini/copilot all fight me occasionally, but grok just tries to help. And the hallucinations aren’t as frequent, at least anecdotally.
I think the problem is that duplex communication on the web is rarely useful except in some special cases, and usually harder to scale as you have to keep state around and can't as easily rotate servers.

Some applications it is important but for most websites the benefits just dont outweigh the costs.
Sadly few people noticed.

I don’t normally cosplay as a grammar Nazi but in this case I feel like someone should stand up for the little people :)
How is http2 bidirectional streams better than websockets? I thought they were pretty much equivalent.
This is the shittiest PR move I've seen since the AI trend started.
Evidence that our ancestors lived in rainforests 150k years ago
For the market data export, it'd be lovely to have a couple times a day static export of everything, dumped into a storage provider with a consumer-pays option (like AWS S3).

This has always been a core interest for players. Before the official APIs, there was Eve Market Data Relay (EMDR), a zeromq powered service players would run on their machines, which would watch the client updating local caches of market data & send it up to the relay. It was an incredible project. Makes me a little sad that market data is still so rationed-out/rate-limited by the official service, after years of players having kind of built something that was crude but worked. https://eve-market-data-relay.readthedocs.io/en/latest/overv...

One huge EMDR caveat was that market data was only as live as the last time any client quieried in-game! Its so good that the official API is live.

I wish more games would have APIs, would encourage read and especially read-write access to their sandboxes.
> And Star Citizen will prove to have been worth it along along

Once they've implemented saccades in the eyeballs of the characters wearing helmets in spaceship millions of kilometres apart, then it will all have been worth it.
I can chew through 1MM tokens with a single standard (and optimized) call. This pricing is insane.
Belief State Transformers
Same thing for the "Product Brief" document that maybe goes into detail about the hardware.

The Media section does have some details such as whitepapers and a doctoral thesis. Still it would be nice to have specifications for the actual product if you are trying to sell it...
Not really? It's a lot of work, a multi-week project, but reading a couple hundred word speech can be done in 5 minutes, following a checklist in hand, probably 10 minutes. Times 12 categories, and 80 years of history, that's a lot of time 160 hours, a working month. A lot of effort but humanely doable.
An honest review of my first year as a full-time indie dev
That's a good idea! An offline would be as easy as just making a parallel mediawiki API that serves from a local server. I will check out implementations.

Server fees aren't an issue with this deployment as it's just a small static app, though if this were to be big it would be a load on the mediawiki API, so if there's more interest than this as a hobbyist side project I should serve some of my own and cache (as I'm loading a lot of images in parallel)

I looked up your pingtype project, it looks like it's for translating English <=> Chinese. Would that be for translating articles? For that I imagine I should add the feature for viewing Wikipedia in different languages.
The ecnomist global democracy index: how did countries perform in 2024?
https://archive.is/6ursF

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Inde...
Certainly hope so. The tech billionaires are little to excited to achieve AGI and replace the workforce.
> It doesn't even matter if what the AI generates is true or not, if it leads the human to truth.

A weird statement. I think you only care about humans knowing the thing, right? Then it can be true that it doesn't matter if the machine is right or wrong.

However, if the machine is right.. that will have consequences.
Starlink poised to take over $2.4B contract to overhaul ATC communication
Huh, maybe I should give it a go...
I agree, but it represents a cavalier attitude, because the worst-case is you get fired.

If you know some other company will take you in, or you have "fuck you money", that's great, but it represents a culture of privilege that very few people have these days.
Airbus part in Washington state? Obviously it was in the personal collection of a departed Boeing engineer and his family didn't know what it was so they just gave it to the thrift store.
Umm dont you get 0-RTT resumption in all versions of http? Its a TLS feature not an http feature. It does not require QUIC
Anthropic’s CEO said their technology would end all disease and expand our lifespans to 200 years. What on earth do you mean they’re not playing the hype game?
The comments on the Red Alert sources are so detailed. This is awesome. Major props to EA!
A16Z-backed site hosts sexually charged conversations w underage celebrity bots
There's also nothing timed in balatro, so there's no need for the next game to be _now_.
Enjoyed reading this and thank you for sharing.

Anyone know what are inside those tubes? Thinking to create this with a few younger ones and want to understand any risks should those tube breaks and something escapes.
GPT 5 is likely just going to be a router model that decides whether to send the prompt to 4o, 4o mini, 4.5, o3, or o3 mini.
One nice side benefit of DNS-level adblocking (pi-hole, etc) is that a lot of mobile games never end up showing ads. It doesn't always work perfectly, but in particular I play a euchre game on my phone that frequently asks me to "pay X to play with no ads" and every time I think "What ads?"

That said, sometimes I pay to support the developer if I like the game. Sucks when a game I like doesn't offer the "remove ads" option.
So your position is that he placed a $10,000 bet on something he didn't actually believe in? That he's lying and doesn't really believe in those things, and is just claiming he does because he has an "emotional desire" for... something? Something that matters more to him than his family?

That's a pretty wild claim; do you have anything to substantiate it?
Historical CPU Performance Benchmarks (2021)
That last part has been announced, but not released yet. Amazon calls is AWS European Sovereign Cloud, see here for details: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/aws-plans-to-invest-e7...
In the meantime i found the best way to play on iphone safari is to tap aA/hide toolbars. The histograms shown are your top 10 games. I limited the list because after a while the earlier games and 10 seconds run just pollute the histogram by stretching the interval. A separate list of just the score could be nice, but i don't know if it's so interesting to know you player 30 or 40 games better than the current one before, right ? The goal being to reach high scores, i thought i'd show how they compare to their best version of themselves. There's no global leaderboard because i don't want to maintain such a server and the game is trivial to cheat in.
Yeah. Grant and Nick worked on modernist cuisine but it’s become clear they were more of the chef side where Chris was more of the food science side.

Chris does have a youtube channel now that has some okay content but the best stuff is like a lot of the peak Chefsteps stuff: rehashed fat duck recipes. It’s a shame Heston blumenthal seems to have stopped making as much around 2014-15 because his books and tv content were truly excellent and most of the modern “haute cuisine” stuff goes right back to him. More recently it appears he had manic depression, was pushing himself far too hard, and finally got treatment. I hope he is doing well. His contributions to the culinary world are tremendous and imo under appreciated.
Amazon is trying to stop people using AI to cheat in job interviews
> Could a jet cost 100k instead of 20million? Work from first principles and it can be..

What's your risk tolerance?
Fantastic. This is far overdue and looks like a solid start.
I have been particularly surprised by how few options there are in the CS space that are open source and options like Zendesk are SO expensive and the pricing tiers and cost structures are prohibitive for many small organizations.
Whatever the waxing and waning that Smalltalk has had over the years, it's going to wane big time unless it can incorporate AI coding into their environments. Coding without it is going to seem ancient, soon.
breakthrough in biology
To be fAir, SC is trying to do things that no one else done in a context of a single game. I applaud their dedication, but I won't be buying JPGs of a ship for 2k.
That still requires ongoing non-zero effort and time, with no guarantees of zero problems for them.
I'm also an anglophone from Ontario who learned French impulsively. I think if I'd studied things like grammar, vocabulary, and conjugation, I would've advanced from the B2 plateau easily, but when I was motivated to learn French, I wasn't sure sure how to study those things.
Wht does Open Source needs any terms of use?

This is into the opposite direction about what "free open-source" means.

You get that software into your computer, you are entitled to free unrestricted use or modify in any way you want.

Except by the Firefox trademark of course.
> is this thing emitting anything

In the most pedantic sense, yes: electrons, magnetic fields, infrared light, etc. It's not designed to, nor is it likely to, emit any sort of ionizing radiation

> simply a passive detector

Yes, it is a passive detector

> I’m mainly worried about any potential health risks

You are bombarded with radiation constantly. If you've flown on a plane, you are exposed to several times ionizing radiation levels that you experience on the ground. If you've stepped outside and witnessed a lightning storm you have exposed yourself to high energy gamma rays and neutrons. If you've ever eaten a banana, spent the night in a strangers bed, strayed near clay river beds, entered a basement of a house, or stepped outside in sunlight you have exposed yourself to substantial increase of ionizing radiation compared to baseline.

Humans brains have an extraordinarily hard team comprehending logarithmic scales. "Safe" radiation exposure isn't "None", as that's pretty much impossible. Your body has also long ago evolved to deal with these problems and can easily handle 100x times what occurs naturally at the ground without even a single health effect.

If you want zero exposure, the only real option is to move to an undersea bubble thousands of feet below the sea, but even seawater contains radioactive ions from the metal salts dissolved in it.
they are trying to copy Grok 3
Straight up cronyism.

People thought they saw waste before, wait until the guy calling the shots is personally profiting... directly.
I don't see the real difference between saying this and saying a Raspberry Pi is an alternative to AWS.
For efficiency, it should be referred to as an extended 3-letter agency.
>Chime also allows a meeting to start before (or even without) the host attending. How often have you had a meeting scheduled by senior leader, then they get pulled away and everyone is stuck in the virtual waiting room and end up coordinating/meeting in Slack instead? With Chime, the meeting starts anyway and the host can join when (if) they become available.

Not sure about other videoconferencing services but I never had this issue with zoom.
"I knew the dame was trouble the moment she walked into my office."

"Uh... excuse me, Detective Nick Danger? I'd like to retain your services."

"I waited for her to get the the point."

"Detective, who are you talking to?"

"I didn't want to deal with a client that was hearing voices, but money was tight and the rent was due. I pondered my next move."

"Mr. Danger, are you... narrating out loud?"

"Damn! My internal chain of thought, the key to my success--or at least, past successes--was leaking again. I rummaged for the familiar bottle of scotch in the drawer, kept for just such an occasion."

---

But seriously: These "AI" products basically run on movie-scripts already, where the LLM is used to append more "fitting" content, and glue-code is periodically performing any lines or actions that arise in connection to the Helpful Bot character. Real humans are tricked into thinking the finger-puppet is a discrete entity.

These new "reasoning" models are just switching the style of the movie script to film noir, where the Helpful Bot character is making a layer of unvoiced commentary. While it may make the story more cohesive, it isn't a qualitative change in the kind of illusory "thinking" going on.
"The Robot And The Moth" – by Vytautė Žiliskaite (1978) [pdf]
It's a translation of famous Lithuanian writer Vytautė Žiliskaite compilation of fairy tales which consists a tale about a preprogrammed robot interaction with a moth.
I haven't played the game haha but I was curious whats going on in that last moodboard slide.
If Gemini 2 is the top in your benchmark, make sure to re-check your benchmark.
Yes, the "personality" (vibe) of the model is a key qualitative attribute of gpt-4.5.

I suspect this has something to do with shining light on an increased value prop in a dimension many people will appreciate since gains on quantitative comparison with other models were not notable enough to pop eyeballs.
There are degrees of things. The father from this story wants all Democratic presidents of the last 35 years prosecuted for treason. For "murder" apparently as well. I mean, that's pretty far out by any standard. Never mind adjusting his entire lifestyle towards his political views (buying precious metals, survivalist gear, separating from his wife and becoming estranged from his daughter).

Everyone has "negative" impulses of all sorts. Most of us are an asshole sometimes. That's not great, but, you know, people are people. But some people are an asshole most (or all) of the time. That's not the same thing at all than being a flawed human being.
Meta makes money hand-over-fist (Mainly from FB and Insta) because:

1. Internet advertising works. I don't click on ads either, but other people do.

2. Social media feed advertisements happen to be pretty effective, and the average person is more receptive to them than other formats, e.g. a YouTube ad that interrupts the video they're trying to watch or a popover ad that blocks an article they're trying to read.

3. Meta has a very mature product for businesses to show ads in a targeted fashion. Half the world's population uses some Meta product every day, so the reach is unparalleled.
Agreed. Over a decade ago, to try to overcome my fear to make such a large purchase, I did the math and decided to bake very conservative assumptions into my decision-making. My rent then was $1800 a month, so 5 years of that is $108k. If I kept a similar mortgage payment as my rent (in reality, my payment was actually more like $1450), I realized that all I had to do was stay there 5 years while having it lose ($108k minus property taxes paid) in value and I'd break even in terms of cash flow, whereas the upside, if it stayed flat or appreciated, was that I'd have built up substantial equity.

(In the end, the gamble paid off great - the condo appreciated by about 300k in those 5 years)
According to a graph they provide, it does hallucinate significantly less on at least one benchmark.
No, but the supply constraints are part of what is driving the insane prices. Every chip they use for consumer grade instead of commercial grade is a potential loss of potential income.
That all sounds reasonable. Sometimes the economic problems are harder to solve than the technical ones, though, and that's what interests me about this proposal. I have had a bearish outlook on fusion power in recent years, because utility-scale grid power is the most competitive market there is, and the cost of solar & batteries have been dropping so fast that it's not clear there would be any economic justification for a fusion power plant even if we knew how to build one. An intermediate market, willing to pay much more money for far less power, where renewables cannot compete, seems like it might be just the thing fusion needs to transition out of research and into practical use - even if it does take more engineering to cope with the rigors of the sea.
GPT 4.5 is insanely over price, it makes Anthropic look affordable!
I guess this is as close to public domain that software can be until the 2070s. Functionally no different to use, but you are not allowed to make any money selling it.
> My usage has come down to mostly Claude (until I run out of free tier quota) and then Gemini

Yep, exactly same here.

Gemini 2.0 Flash is extremely good, and I've yet to hit any usage limits with them - for heavy usage I just go to Gemini directly. For "talk to an expert" usage, Claude is hard to beat though.
Just to clarify for people who are allergic to “bureaucracy”, paperwork here means a lot of quality assurance tests[1] have been run for the part and each of this test has been duly documented. It's not paperwork for the sake of paperwork!

[1] I'm not too familiar with the aerospace world, but for nuclear that would include shooting gamma rays at the valve in order to see if there's any microscopic crack in it, like you'd do with X rays for humans, but X rays don't go through metal so you need more penetrating radiations.
Einstein's IQ = 3.5x chimpanzees IQs, right?
Personal anecdotes are the "weak man fallacy". You can always find some fool to say any nonsense thing and partisans find it easier to dunk on the other village's idiot than be asked questions they might not have answers for.

People say "rude" when they mean insubordinate, as if subordination is something anyone is entitled to.
Drama at Goya
Goya's CEO has been fired, and it seems to be an IT/Bad Management angle, as opposed to a political one.
Http2 is needed for a GRPC route on OpenShift.
GriSeis: Frequency data from GB electrical grid and carbon intensity
"This must be the full-service island"

I'm dead. For that to be one of the only captions, I'm just glad I wasn't taking a sip when I read it.
That's for donations to the Mozilla foundation, they aren't used to fund development of Firefox. Mozilla corporation and Mozilla foundation are distinct entities.
I don't know the nature of their deadline, but when I've been working to meet a deadline that couldn't be moved for legitimate reasons, not being approved to work overtime made the stress worse not better. Something I made and cared about was going to ship broken because I couldn't fix the problems quickly enough. Weekends were spent trying not to think about everything I could be doing on the project right now.
Unfortunately, I noticed an error. The Committee’s Punch Bowl Bifurcation Island is much, much smaller than what is reported.

The reason for this, I'm sure you'll be delighted to learn, is about half of that area is in fact another bifurcation island!

See this unnamed lake in northern British Columbia here: 59°03'07.5"N 133°57'08.0"W

This lake has two drainages. The east side drains into Sloko lake and then the Pacific via the Taku river. The west side drains to Atlin Lake, then Tagish Lake, from which flows the Yukon River, traversing all of Alaska to dump out into the far north Pacific just south of Nome.

Thus the one large bifurcation island mentioned, is in fact two much smaller ones.
> we don’t have proof that he is

Sorry, I wrote that thinking that everyone know about his financiers. Trump’s business and personal loans aren’t from Americans banks… I’ll give you one try to guess which country they come from!
A Chinatown-by-the-Sea Popped Up on the Jersey Shore (2017)
Think tank seeks to give "Trump his rightful third term in office"
If this gets any attention from congress we need to hit the streets and make our voices heard: NO!
Can't help but make an argument: why should men shoulder the burden of going to war when there are other options for themselves? But I also think it wouldn't be that bad to just sit back and watch the world burn, not caring about birth rates. What is there to lose if life is meaningless?
There's also a standalone Grok app at least on iOS.
brief and detailed summaries by chatgpt (4o):

Brief Summary (40-50 words)

OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 is a research preview of their most advanced language model yet, emphasizing improved pattern recognition, creativity, and reduced hallucinations. It enhances unsupervised learning, has better emotional intelligence, and excels in writing, programming, and problem-solving. Available for ChatGPT Pro users, it also integrates into APIs for developers.

Detailed Summary (200 words)

OpenAI has introduced *GPT-4.5*, a research preview of its most advanced language model, focusing on *scaling unsupervised learning* to enhance pattern recognition, knowledge depth, and reliability. It surpasses previous models in *natural conversation, emotional intelligence (EQ), and nuanced understanding of user intent*, making it particularly useful for writing, programming, and creative tasks.

GPT-4.5 benefits from *scalable training techniques* that improve its steerability and ability to comprehend complex prompts. Compared to GPT-4o, it has a *higher factual accuracy and lower hallucination rates*, making it more dependable across various domains. While it does not employ reasoning-based pre-processing like OpenAI o1, it complements such models by excelling in general intelligence.

Safety improvements include *new supervision techniques* alongside traditional reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF). OpenAI has tested GPT-4.5 under its *Preparedness Framework* to ensure alignment and risk mitigation.

*Availability*: GPT-4.5 is accessible to *ChatGPT Pro users*, rolling out to other tiers soon. Developers can also use it in *Chat Completions API, Assistants API, and Batch API*, with *function calling and vision capabilities*. However, it remains computationally expensive, and OpenAI is evaluating its long-term API availability.

GPT-4.5 represents a *major step in AI model scaling*, offering *greater creativity, contextual awareness, and collaboration potential*.
AI could combat conspiracy theories, according to new research
My benchmark for this has been asking the model to write some tweets in the style of dril, a popular user who writes short funny tweets. Sometimes I include a few example tweets in the prompt too. Here's an example of results I got from Claude 3 Opus and GPT 4 for this last year: https://bsky.app/profile/macil.tech/post/3kpcvicmirs2v. My opinion is that Claude's results were mostly bangers while GPT's were all a bit groanworthy. I need to try this again with the latest models sometime.
very impressive... also interested in your trip planner, it looks like invite only at the moment, but... would it be rude to ask for an invite?
It still not smart enough to replace for example customer service.
USAID's chief economist has resigned. Here's why