skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could be that, could also be the people taking a long time aren't at least causing a bottleneck (assuming there arent two of them at the same time). So you have this situation like this: first person takes 10 minutes, while there are 9 waiting in line that take only one minute a piece. With one teller, average wait time is ~15 minutes. With two tellers, its now ~5 minutes.

Which is why it is highly annoying when there's only one worker at the coffee stand, and there's always this one jerk at the front of the queue who orders a latte when you just want a coffee. With two workers, the people who just want coffee won't have to wait 15 minutes for the lattee people

And I've also noticed a social effect, when people wait a long time it seems to reinforce how they perceive the eventual serviced, that is, they want more out of the interaction, so take longer. Which makes it the situation even worse
So better than 4o but not good enough for a 5.0
The usage of "greater" is also interesting. It's like they are trying to say better, but greater is a geographic term and doesn't mean "better" instead it's closer to "wider" or "covers more area."
If you were to develop an MVP and release your first Saas in the next month, what would you like to know beforehand?
Not true, there are many places with traditional courtyard blocks and 3-5 stories that reach the population density of Manhattan
Yeah it was an abysmal result (any 50%+ hallucination result in that bench is pretty bad) and worse than o1-mini in the SimpleQA paper. On that topic, Sonnet 3.5 ”Old” hallucinates less than GPT-4.5, just for a bit of added perspective here.
> We don't do this because it's a performance hog and we assume you're already reverse proxying behind any responsible front-end server

What application servers have you written? I have never seen an application server readme say DON'T EXPOSE DIRECTLY TO THE INTERNET, WE ASSUME YOU USE REVERSE PROXY.
TCP would be fine if it had the concept of message, in addition to stream. The sender sends a message. It flows to the recipient. The recipient program can specify that a receive receives the entire message, no more and no less, as long as the application's target input buffer is large enough.

SCTP does this.

A shim on top of TCP socket receive could also do this also, as long as there is a convention to prefix each message with a length field, say 16 bits, with the MSB indicating that the message is incomplete and is continued in the next length delimited segment.
My not-super-humble opinion is that people didn’t notice because SSDs became mainstream/cheap around the same time cloud migration got popular. Lots of VPS providers offer pretty mediocre IOPS and disk bandwidth on the lower tiers; I’d argue disproportionately so. A $300 desktop from Costco with 8GB of RAM and a 500GB SSD is going to kick the crap out of most 8GB RAM VPSes for IO performance. So… right when rack mounted servers could affordably provide insane amounts of IO performance, we all quit buying rack mount servers and didn’t notice how much worse off we are with VPSes.
In a language that uses forking to achieve parallelism, terminating multiple tasks at the same endpoint will cause those tasks to compete. For some workflows that may be a feature, but for most it is not.

So that's Python, Ruby, Node. Elixir won't care and C# and Java... well hopefully the HTTP/2 library takes care of the multiplexing of the replies, then you're good.
Ah! I was so happy I can put postman to rest. What I didn't like is the landing page did not clearly communicate I am installing a non-free product with a trial, so I uninstalled it. I am only letting you know that this trick might affect retention.
Initial Impressions of GPT-4.5
Its particularly egregious that trying to figure out what is happening & who is doing keeps being met by shrills cries of "dox!". (For example, Washington Examiner's Byron York today, or xitter's Musk previously).

Often by the same people who have trumpeted free speech, or more recently transparency. (Which I tend to think are at best flags of convenience for these people, think they actively bring great harm to these causes).
Websites are coded in html, styled with css, and made dynamic/interactive with javascript.

When you right click on a Web page, such as the one you are reading now, and select View Source you can see the html, css and javscript that your browser reads in order to display the page.

Anyone can learn about these technologies and a good starting point would be Mozilla Developer Network (MDN for short) where they have all sorts of documentation on how to get started and what is the state of the art.

Of course, there is a lot more to it but if you just copied/pasted some files on a Web server and it worked this is all you need to know for now.
What does this say for the future? Find the embedding space trajectory, and convert it back to text. Use a reversible embedding.
Apparently she was in a special education program, but something went wrong within that program.
> Nobody, nobody, writes application servers with the intent of having them exposed to the public internet

For rust, go, lua (via nginx openresty) and a few others this is a viable path. I probably wouldn't do it with node (or bun or deno), python, or similar but there are languages where in certain circumstances it is reasonable and might be better.
You can just click the little "reader" button in firefox to bypass most of those paywalls. The only one I've found it doesn't work for is WSJ. Some sites you have to catch it mid refresh.
GPT-4.5 may be an awesome model, some say!
If all your "slightly conservative" post are rants that have nothing to do with the article in any shape or form, then no, I'm not surprised you're getting consistently downvoted.
There's a patched dll around that replaces IPX for TCP.

Turn off ipv6, the lobbies work but not the game when you try to start.
Sorry to be nitpicky, but I think the term for the concept you're talking about is depreciate, not deprecate
What you're looking for is Bridge. THAT is a card game you can teach someone the basics of in an evening, and still be learning more 3 decades later.
AI supertest for prostate cancer screening 'is game-changing'
https://archive.ph/ugwCi
It seems like, with sufficient users entering data (including previous sales/purchases if desired), you could begin to train models to take into account local/regional factors etc. do you have any long term plans to collect user data in such a manner?

Separately, it seems like it would be incredibly useful to use your models in various embodied carbon estimation tooling and other decarbonization research streams. Have you thought about partnering with any academic researchers on this? If you are interested, let me know, as I can definitely connect you with a bunch of researchers who would be interested!
I stopped reading after the words “Big Balls”
MIT physicists find unexpected crystals of electrons in an ultrathin material
An LLM on its own isn't necessarily great for fluid knowledge retrieval, as in directly from its training data. But they're pretty good when you add RAG to it.

For instance, asking Copilot "Who was born on July 3, 1962" gave the response:

> One notable person born on July 3, 1962, is Tom Cruise, the famous American actor known for his roles in movies like Risky Business, Jerry Maguire, and Rain Man.

> Are you a fan of his work?

It cited this page:

https://www.onthisday.com/date/1962/july/3
AFAIU Firefox Sync is end to end encrypted, right? I interpreted the language here to mean that the data might be sent to Firefox outside of Firefox Sync. Have there been any changes to Firefox Sync that we know about?
When a newsletter moves off Substack, can they take their incoming links and SEO mojo with them? If so, how does that work?
Tell HN: Substack Is Spamming
I subscribed to a (reputable) Substack and immediately found myself receiving unsolicited emails and other substacks I didn't subscribe for. I also found a shadow profile was created for me.

This must stop.
OK now that is some funny shit.
Numbers are incredibly common in many products - pretty much most computer parts (3080, 4090, z270, 13900k). Should probably always include them in ranking, but not necessarily filtering. Consider "PlayStation 5 games" should prioritize PS5 games, but many PS4 games may also be eligible. What it should not prioritize are $5 PlayStation 1 games.

Many of these challenges are obviated through "advanced" UI with separate fields for things like min/max price, though that's not available in text-only mediums.
I got gpt-4.5-preview to summarize this discussion thread so far (at 324 comments):

hn-summary.sh 43197872 -m gpt-4.5-preview

Using this script: https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/claude-hacker-news-themes...

Here's the result: https://gist.github.com/simonw/5e9f5e94ac8840f698c280293d399...

It took 25797 input tokens and 1225 input tokens, for a total cost (calculated using https://tools.simonwillison.net/llm-prices ) of $2.11! It took 154 seconds to generate.
I realized this in school but it was beaten out of me because making a wrong guess in the process was unacceptable.
“Were you picking your feet in Poughkeepsie!?”
API gateway is a fancy term for a configurable reverse proxy often bought as a service.
Supabase such a gem
Well your post read more like an Elon grumble, but in that case:

You narrow your work focus to those things you think will play well in next job interview. You put your efforts into doing a good job of them so can show off learnings from those projects.

Now you're not working for that boss, you're working to ditch them.
I built a little AI assistant to read my calendar and send me a summary of my day every morning. I told it to roast me and be funny with it.

3.5 was *way* better than anything else at that.
4o has a very strong artificial vibe. It feels a bit "autistic" (probably a bad analogy but couldn't find a better word to describe what I mean): you feel bad ? must say sorry then give a TODO list on how to feel better.

4.5 still feels a bit artificial but somehow also more emotionally connected. It removed the weird "bullet point lists of things to do" and focused on the emotional part; which is also longer than 4o

If I am talking to a human I would definitely expect him/her to react more like 4.5 than like 4o. If the first sentence that comes out of their mouth after I explain them that I feel bad is "here is a list of things you might consider", I will find it strange. We can reach that point but it's usually after a bit more talk; human kinda need that process, and it feels like 4.5 understands that better than 4o.

Now of course which one is "better" really depends on the context; what you expect of the model and how you intend to use is.
Until now every single OpenAI update on the main series has always been a strict improvement over the previous model. Cost aside, there wasn't really any reason to keep using 3.5 when 4 got released. This is not the case here; even assuming unlimited money you still might wanna select 4o in the dropdown sometimes instead of 4.5.
Nvidia Earnings Spark Chip, AI Stock Selloff
Nowadays I think people just lump it into the same category as other mass-market brown-paper-cover mags from gas stations like Penthouse and Hustler, but Playboy really was different.

Hefner set out to create a respectable, top-tier publication -- by design -- that just happened to also include nudity. "Golden age" Playboy pictorials were pretty tame and generally tasteful, and they were in a magazine that'd have (as noted) top-tier fiction, excellent reporting, and high-profile interviews.
>In 2010, the Academy sought to combat this verbosity with a new 45-second rule. In response, some winners sped through their acknowledgements, while others used humour or emotion to buy extra time before the music signalled them off. Occasionally, the orchestra was ignored entirely, with speeches like Adrien Brody’s 2003 win for The Pianist running well over the limit.

Brody so clairvoyant that he can ignore limits that don't even exist yet.
I love this blog even though I usually get nothing from the articles that I didn't know before. Still read it and still love it.
FCC Seeks Comment on Loud Commercial Rules
Even if projects use BIM internally it’s still completely possible that the final deliverables are all PDFs/drawings/etc generated from BIM/internal models for contractual/liability reasons etc.
"GPT-4.5 is not a frontier model, but it is OpenAI’s largest LLM, improving on GPT-4’s computational efficiency by more than 10x."[1]

I don't get it, it is supposedly much cheaper to run?

[1] https://cdn.openai.com/gpt-4-5-system-card.pdf (page 7, bottom)
If you call sendfile with kTLS I imagine it'd be fast in any language
DeepMind CEO Says AGI Definition Has Been 'Watered Down'
https://archive.is/WOPFs
It's illegal to gamble on a contest? Where?
Platforms are does-not-scale hard though: they require mooring and every bit of ocean floor is different. Drilling platforms come in multiple "species", as different as spiders, fish and birds. Roaming hydrolysers on the other hand would be one design fits any ocean. You'd want to build lots of them, more Model T than Death Star. And where a stationary platform would have to be able to brace a hurricane, the roaming unit would just go to a neighboring sea with a friendlier forecast. Or ride along on the edge, if power throughput has enough headroom.
Possibly, repeating the prompt I got a much higher speed, taking 20s on average now, which is much more viable. But that remains to be seen when more people start using this version in production.
I paid for pro to try `o1-pro` and I can't seem to find any use case to justify the insane inference time. `o3-mini-high` seems to do just as well in seconds vs. minutes.
FCC Improves Wireless Emergency Alerts by Enabling Silent Alerts
>One of my biggest complaints with 4o is that you want for your content to be more casual and accessible but GPT / DeepSeek wants to write like Shakespeare did.

Well, maybe like a Sophomore's bumbling attempt to write like Shakespeare.
This looks like a first generation model to bootstrap future models from, not a competitive product at all. The knowledge cutoff is pretty old as well. (2023, seriously?)

If they wanted to train it to have some character like Anthropic did with Claude 3... honestly I'm not seeing it, at least not in this iteration. Claude 3 was/is much much more engaging.
Seamonkey on my computers, and K-9 Mail version 5.6 on my phone. (Later versions don't have reliable IMAP IDLE notifications.)

I'm sure that's a pretty standard workflow.
I would posit that they're a single component for most consumers and buyers, and that a small majority will upgrade any single one of these three components in the lifespan of their computer. A quick check of r/buildapc reinforces this to be the case, as most posts are either full-system builds or peripheral upgrades (GPU, SSD).

My guess is that Framework had a unique opportunity with the AMD Ryzen AI and decided to capitalize on it to serve a fast-and-growing home market for this class of hardware, and the soldered LPDDR was a compromise considering the requirements of the CPU. If I had to choose between them offering this product with that restriction, or "sticking to their core values" and waiting for an alternative solution then I'm going to learn to live with the restriction. If the traffic queue wasn't just marketing BS, I assume many other people are also willing to live with it.

I want Framework to be a long-term successful company and that means making good use of their cash, and this gives them a safer opportunity to test a new product category. Maybe the result of this decision is an expansion of the category to include more modular options, at which point everyone wins.
In general yes, bench mark pollution is a big problem and why only dynamic benchmarks matter.
Designing a Table Format for ML Workloads
I would be curious to hear your opinion on this when you are closer to the end of your residency program. The way medical education programs are structured is inhumane, no amount of money would convince me to go through it in its current form (assuming a north american perspective).
Source: most of my family are in medicine.
A company called MonkeyLectric did make a quality commercial product for displaying video, but it retailed for around $900 so I suspect they didn't sell too many and they seem to have shut down. There seems to be stuck off their cheaper simpler models floating around still.

This demo looks like it's been achieved with cheap commodity hardware which is cool, but I suspect it's pretty heavy and awkward.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/minimonkey/monkey-light...
This is neat. Are you using some kind of slipring to pass the signal to the LEDs?
> They're trying to make curtis yarvin's insane bullshit real.

There's a non-zero chance this is exactly what's going on, at least for an influential faction in the administration (there seem to be... a few factions, at least for now). Vance has alluded to Yarvin a couple times in interviews, and AFAIK Thiel's outright said he likes Yarvin's ideas. Not sure how Musk feels about the guy.

A decent news media would have hammered anyone connected to the campaign over that kind of thing, any time they got a chance. We don't have that, though.
Nowadays it just depends on how shitty your job is.
I love that the company is called Q-Cat. Reminds me of another hyped piece of tech: the CueCat [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat
> When I thought distributed system design could not get any worse, someone actually pitched AI slop in it.

I am not sure that pointing out that today's models are going to be MUCH worse at reasoning about distributed code than serial code is "pitching".

Conversely, pointing out that the reason they are so bad at distributed is the lack of related information locality, the same problem humans often have, puts a reasonable second underline on the value of more locality in our development artifacts.
I heard from an obscure source (a former Zachtronics intern in a stream chat) that they're currently building a new game
Carlos Slim cancels his collaboration with Elon Musk's Starlink
Yes I'm aware it exists, was thinking more of what theoretical infrastructure might be needed if the full art assets/code/etc for the final release of Forged Alliance was open sourced and further built upon. My understanding is that FA Forever is a group of people who've implemented a server replacement since the officially-hosted multiplayer servers went offline some time in 2012.
The default. Nothing to hide, nothing to fear, right? Ironically even in my old car that doesn't even have parking sensors, I can still expect to have the police surveil me from roadside and drone cameras.
Did you consider JetBrains licensing model? I don't like renting software, I'd rather buy it upfront, but JetBrains with their fallback licenses really got me – you get your perpetual fallback license for a particular version of product. And guess what, I keep paying them anyway, because of confidence I can fallback, but they keep innovating with new updates.
They may not be more noble, but they're a necessary part for the people you describe as nobel. Charities, non-profits, and USAID workers, are there to distribute funds, do research, and audit the economic benefit of funds they are given. If a nobel person is volunteering instead of donating, it still takes individuals to coordinate and request help. If people working for non profits, charities, and aid groups quit to make money to donate, it would be harder to be nobel because there's no one who can distribute and act on the funding.
"...deep down inside, you secretly long for a cold-hearted Republican to lower taxes, brutalise criminals and rule you like a king!" - Sideshow Bob
This is concerning.

From the new Tos:

> We need a license to allow us to make some of the basic functionality of Firefox possible. Without it, we couldn’t use information typed into Firefox, for example.

I do not want Mozilla to use or have information I type into Firefox except when I explicitly give them such information. I disable all the settings I can to keep Mozilla from getting any such information.

From what I understand, this crap is only for the Mozilla distributed binaries. So I will now be using third party builds.
> We're far from the days of "this is not a person, we do not want to make it addictive" and getting a firm foot on the territory of "here's your new AI friend".

That’s a hard nope from me, when companies pull that move. I’ll stick to my flesh and blood humans who still hallucinate but only rarely.
When Declarative Systems Break
Using AI in the Browser for Typo Rewriting
EA... good?
Humans have all sorts of issues you have to deal with. Being hungover, not sleeping well, having a personality, being late to work, not being able to work 24/7, very limited ability to copy them. If there's a soulless generic office-droidGPT that companies could hire that would never talk back and would do all sorts of menial work without needing breaks or to use the bathroom, I don't know that we humans stand a chance!

I have a bunch of work that needs doing. I can do it myself, or I can hire one person to do it. I gotta train them and manage them and even after I train them theres still only going to be one of them, and it's subject to their availability. On the other hand, if I need to train an AI to do it, but I can copy that AI, and then spin them up/down like on demand computer in the cloud, and not feel remotely bad about spinning them down?

It's definitely not there yet, but it's not hard to see the business case for it.
FCC to Explore Further Opportunities in the Upper C-Band
Near the end of the article, the cause is described:

>>Elon Musk shared a post on his social network stating that Slim could have ties to criminal groups, and five minutes later, Carlos Slim canceled all business collaborations with Starlink in Latin America, which made Musk lose 7 billion US dollars.
You did a really great job describing the project and documenting it in the README. Congrats. The project looks super clean and professional.

That being said, TBH I don't see any real scenario where I would "prototype a CLI". Unlike a GUI where elements can be placed in some places vs others, a CLI is a CLI.

For any developer, it would probably take less time to write it directly using one of the libraries listed here : https://bloomberg.github.io/stricli/blog/intro (TS/JS) or https://github.com/spf13/cobra (Go) with stub implementations for commands.

The main problem for me is that defining the CLI in a JSON file lacks all the flexibility of code (reusability, etc.).
What if you have two books?
Investors at IPO lost quite a bit of money...
The older one is the more pointless it is to try. Not because it's impossible but because of all the friction and inertia required to get someone to change their habits and mindset. You quickly reach diminishing returns.
Sorry HashiCorp, been there and got the Tee-shirt (pink) :)

Actually for me, the company I was at that IBM purchased was on the verge of folding, so in that case, IBM saved our jobs and I was there for many years.
This is a transcript of a recent episode on the Naked Scientist podcast where this was discussed

https://www.thenakedscientists.com/podcasts/naked-scientists...

There has also been announced a similar test for pancreatic cancer, perhaps one blood sample can be assayed giving rise for multiple diagnoses in one go.
https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=43118925

I've been banging that particular drum for a while on HN, and the mental-model still feels so intuitively strong to me that I'm starting to have doubts: "It feels too right, I must be wrong in some subtle yet devastating way."