skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
o1 fails at this, likely because it does not seem to have access to search, so it is operating on outdated information. It recommends the usage of methods that have been removed by Google in later versions of the library. This is also, to be fair, a mistake gpt-4o can make if you don't explicitly tell it to search.

o3-mini-high's output might work, but it isn't ideal: It immediately jumps to recommending avoiding all google cloud libraries and directly issuing a request to their API with fetch.
Consider the situation where Trump is President, and someone is running against him.

He gets the police to arrest this opposition candidate, let's say for marijuana possession with the intent to sell (a felony), and with procedural chicanery ensures that the court trying the case is run by a Trump-appointed judge.

The opposition candidate is convicted of this charge.

Under your suggestion, they would then become ineligible to be elected.

It gets even worse if the corrupt President has a compliant Congress (which it seemed like he did for a little while, but that's less sure now). If he can ram through a new law making "criticizing the sitting President" a felony, then basically anyone who would oppose him and his regime would clearly be guilty.

In general, the sitting government decides what is a crime and what is not. If you make a law that says that those convicted of crimes cannot run for public office—either "any public office" or "only this specific public office"—then the sitting government, if it is seeking to act in its own interests rather than those of the people, has a perverse incentive to preferentially criminalize things that those who disagree with them are more likely to do, and to encourage (or coerce) bias in policing and trials to ensure conviction.
Software development is continually emotionally stunted by a lack of people with expertise in multiple other fields.

English absolutely has namespaces. Every in-group has shibboleths and/or jargon, words that mark membership in the group that have connotations beyond the many dictionary definitions of that word (in fact I wonder how many words with more than three definitions started out as jargon/slang words that achieved general acceptance).

You cannot correctly parse a sentence without the context in which it was written. It’s a literary device some authors use. By letting the reader assume one interpretation of a prophetic sentence early on, the surprise the reader experiences when they discover a different interpretation at the end intensifies the effect.
Congestion pricing isn't sufficient for the majority of American cities. If you have a major city with few to no inter-city transit options except cars, all the congestion pricing in the world won't shift transit modalities in the short to medium term because alternatives simply don't exist, at least until you price out the lower wage earners entirely and drop aggregate demand. You need to build out public transit options first to provide alternatives that people can take to mitigate the pressures of congestion pricing, but that takes us back to the original point.
IMO the distinction is important; it tells me, broadly, what I can and cannot do with the source code.

Heck, the .NET Framework source has been available for eons (referencesource.microsoft.com), but you can't go compile it and build your own .NET Framework distro (Mono is a different story).
Hyperinflation is not 6% inflation, it's not even "inflation but bigger."

Hyperinflation is better thought of as the rejection of a currency by the people, and it has historically always been associated with extreme exogenous factors like foreign-currency denominated debt, with war, civil war or rampant corruption.

The Weimar Republic had foreign-currency denominated debt, which famously you cannot satisfy with printing more domestic currency.

[edit] Here's a good write-up that aligns with my take.

[1] https://www.pragcap.com/hyperinflation-its-more-than-just-a-...
I think that you can omit the call to malloc, as realloc(NULL, size) does the same thing as malloc(size), and free(NULL) does nothing.

void *sane_realloc(void *ptr, size_t size)
{
if (size == 0) {
free(ptr);
return 0;
} else {
return realloc(ptr, size);
}
}

Unfortunately, when shrinking an array down to 0, you run into a complication. Detecting allocation failure now requires checking both size > 0 and sane_realloc returning 0. To simplify this further, just always allocate a non-zero size.

void *saner_realloc(void *ptr, size_t size)
{
if (size == 0) {
size = 1;
}
return realloc(ptr, size);
}
Are the people better off because of these properties? What about the counterfactual, where there are more Star Wars stories by more varied producers?

That they are valuable speaks to market inefficiency. Where is the consumer surplus?

Seinfeld wasn't greenlit due to Netflix streaming rights. Better Lion King adaptations might have been made instead.
A great book on this subject but I didn't see cited in the article is "When Money Dies": https://www.amazon.com/When-Money-Dies-Devaluation-Hyperinfl...

Uses a mix of old economic stats paired with German citizens journals and public newspapers to tell the story of how hyperinflation in Germany started and then ended, but not before creating so much distrust in society that the seeds were sewn for the country to take a militaristic stance to fixing its problems. Highly recommend the book above.
Yes, pretty often. Like I said, Alcatel 1 can't even handle it's own native UI. Just opening the search/url input has like 2 second latency. On a fresh start, it's like 20s. Typing on a native keyboard is super laggy and slows down the whole phone.

Sites like Hacker News and textual blogs work pretty fine if you get lucky and nothing is running in the background, but you have to wait for a while for the phone to stop crunching stuff. The scrolling has noticable latency and random hiccups. If you scroll too fast, the content will show up delayed.

Once you add some images or a bit of javascript, you start to feel a lot more jank. You often get a perf hit when you recieve push notifications or when you re-connect to wifi, or open a native keyboard accidentaly, same with triggering browser UI or tapping the back button. Also, the browser sometimes just crashes (I guess out of memory?).

It certainly is usable, but the latency variance of various actions is wild. Sometimes it feels ok to use, but other times the whole session is like 1 fps for 5 minutes.
We could live in a world where there was no injustice visited on Native Americans and Ayn Rand still either was or was not a hypocrite about Social Security. But I think Rand neutralized that by putting it in the context of losing money via taxation and recovering it as a benefit.

What's essential to that argument is what's contained in Rand's philosophy about taxation and her personal actions in electing to receive the benefit. Broadening the scope of the argument to include Native Americans in order to sustain the charge of hypocrisy is an indicator that the Social Security argument is not able to stand on its own.
You are absolutely correct, upon further review I seem to have misread it. Thank you for pointing that out, that's definitely an error on my part. Thank you for assuming good faith as well.
I'm not claiming to be the majority here, but I first learned about Yoko Ono and her work from a Fluxus artists' catalogue and much later found out that she was married to someone famous.
Standardisation of code and examples across codebases is a nice result of this too. This makes the code easier to learn and share
> I wasn’t talking about LLMs

Sorry for the misunderstanding. I was thinking of LLMs mostly.

> With the LLM it would be nothing to do with likeness, it would be to do with the copyright in the image

I guess I don't see why it wouldn't be about a character's likeness. It's not just a generic stock character, as an idea but it has enough distinctive characteristics, has a particular style hat, uses a whip. Showing that image to any jury and they'll say this is Indy. Yeah there are trademarks as well and both can apply to characters.
I legitimately have no idea what infrastructure provisioning tool to use anymore. I normally defaulted to Saltstack Masterless and Chef via Packer.

What "simple" tool is left anymore for me to create my immutable AMIs that aren't bound by some license?
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In the same way that human brains are just predicting the next muscle contraction.
That's interesting to consider. Some of the GNU code is getting quite old and looking through it is a blast from the past. I'm frankly amazed that it continues to work so well. I suspect there is a relatively small group of GNU hackers out there rocking gray and white beards that are silently powering the foundations of our modern world, and I worry what's going to happen when they start retiring. Maybe we'll get rust rewrites of everything and a new generation will take over, but frankly I'm pretty worried about it.
Thinking Fast and Slow's biggest issues are in the middle chapters that rely heavily on priming research, which has been pretty thoroughly disproven since the book's release.

The general gist of the core idea: that there are multiple modes of thinking and some of them are more likely to produce the most rational decisions than others in a given circumstance, is pretty trivially true.

I think where Kahneman's book does harm is in the implication (intended or otherwise) that "fast thinking" is bad. It's not. Thinking is expensive in time, attention, effort, and skill. We have instincts and emotional reactions for good reasons, they help us navigate crises when there isn't time for deep thought, and they are the consequences that reverberate through the complex web of interpersonal relations that makes up society.

Your note about anger management is really interesting though. I think there may be a tendency for people to generalize emotions that they feel into flavors that are more externalizable and less actionable. Vulnerability and betrayal are things that inspire changes in behavior, like building up defenses or reorienting loyalties, but when you're angry, well then you're just angry, and the only thing that will make you stop being angry is the world being different.

I think there's another version that I experience often, where I see my partner doing cool fun things with other people, and my brain triggers jealousy, which like anger is externalized and inflictive. If I slow down and spend some time with that feeling and drill down into it, I usually conclude that what I'm actually feeling is envy, which is more actionable: i can go get/do the thing that I am envious of (like make a plan to do the cool fun thing with my partner or somebody else in the future) and then I won't be envious anymore, without having to make the world change for me.
There's the pithy saying that "Python is the second-best language for anything", and that's kind of its superpower.
I had thought the Polaris Dawn mission did this a few months ago, but apparently that was ineptly named.
Additionally, this submission's title was changed from "Gumroad Did Not Become Open Source Today" to "Gumroad’s license wouldn’t meet the widely regarded definition of open source"
> "Maybe gets you fired from your job" is someone's entire livelihood you're trivializing.

yes, the left doing that was pretty bad and I have gotten into many arguments over my left leaning friends over it. But it was largely private companies capitulating to pressure. To compare that to people being abducted and incarcerated by the government without trial or even an actual law being broken is worse.

You do understand why thats worse right?
"SS TAX" does not pay for roads or parks, you know
One might think that they're using "group" because Apple is a multinational with subsidiaries in various other countries. But the article is in fact about a dispute between the US company and some of its US employees.
I now honestly think Trump is a Russian asset. It's the only way his actions makes any sense. It's that or he's insane. So guess the most charitable interpretation is: Russian asset.

I was his quiet champion up until about a month ago. So much crap to get rid off in the west. Still true.
Careful that hyperinflation is significantly different from the mainstream story - Mark Blyth writes extensively about this.
You are spot on, if no one is asking for automations or API endpoints yet to make more use of your SaaS, then your business is not there yet with the amount of power users and partnership opportunities.

So, it most likely wouldn’t make sense at this point, investing your time and energy into guesses about what stuff API clients might use in the future. After all, all those integrations are dev and maintenance intensive.

I like your idea about getting feedback from customers and finding the simplest solution from there.
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Also, though, how big was Apple Integer BASIC? As I understand it, you had an entire PDP-10 at your disposal when you wrote the Fortran version of Empire.
I forgot to add that in addition to being non-spectral, they are the most saturated colors of their hue. All colors inside the horseshoe are non-spectral; they are mixtures of spectral colors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_of_purples
I think they’re scared of what the protest represents. A protest is “peaceful” as long as it wants to be; the Black Lives Matter protests showed this can change very quickly.
Thanks, this is new to me and not something I could infer from OP's link.
Great post! I think it all comes down to self awareness. The more you are aware of your conscious and unconscious biases, you are the more empowered to mitigate the resultant rational failures.
Don’t want to sound repetitive, but yes
Late 2025, "its PhD-level knowledge of every field". I just don't think you're going to get there. There is still a fundamental limitation that you can only be as good as the sources you train on. "PhD-level" is not included in this dataset: in other words, you don't become PhD-level by reading stuff.

Maybe in a few fields, maybe a masters level. But unless we come up with some way to have LLMs actually do original research, peer-review itself, and defend a thesis, it's not going to get to PhD-level.
For web services maybe. I don't see Amazon destroy the business of a desktop application.
Pretty sure the labor disputes in question are with a specific legal entity, the US corporation, and not any of its subsidiaries.
Fantastic write up. I can't imagine the challenges they're working against here.
I watched a discussion the other day on this "NNs don't overfit point". I realize yes certain aspects are surprising, and in many cases with the right size and diversity in a dataset scaling laws prevail, but my experience with real datasets training from scratch (not fine tuning pretrained models), and impression has always been that NNs definitely can overfit if you don't have large quantities of data. My gut assumption is that original theories were not demonstrated to be true in certain circumstances (i.e. certain dataset characteristics), but that's never mentioned in shorthand these days when data sets size is often assumed to be huge.

(Before anyone laughs this off, this is still an actual problem in the real world for non-FAANG companies who have niche problems or cannot use open-but-non-commercial datasets. Not everything can be solved with foundational/frontier models.)

Please point me to these papers because I'm still learning.
What finally changed your mind/convinced you?
Ansible? Fabric? Cloud init?

Fabric is a favourite for this kind of thing (although I'm configuring VMs at runtime instead of building AMIs)
Some people would surprisingly agree with that.
For whatever reason. It was the original title and is descriptive. Are the mods having a bad day?
I wouldn't call the inflation that ravaged the world and real estate prices beyond the means of the middle class "saving".

His quantitative easing and zero interest rate policy only saved asset managers and corporate balance sheets.
Except they have billions of dollars to make that bet.
We don't let the facts get in the way of a "government regulation good" story.
Claiming VAT is a tariff.

Then, the other day, tariffing Ukraine with 10% but not Russia.
Yes, a lack of disincentive to hypocrisy and, in fact, considerable disincentive to pointing it out, seems to be the case. Why? From a utilitarian perspective, at the societal level hypocrisy undermines the "cooperate" Nash equilibrium; at the individual level, it undermines "conscience". The question we might ask is how did we lose conscience? If psychological egoism is the default "philsophy" of humans (and I think that it is, just as "autocracy" is the default governing system), then the better question is how did we get it and maintain it in the first place? In an ideal world you get to do tests, where one group's values are tested against another group with different values to see which group is stronger. An example of this is with war - WWII was liberalism vs fascism, and the Cold War was liberalism vs communism. We won both. So what happened? Could it be that liberalism collapses on its own when it's not measured against an alternative?
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> study seems to be focused on breaking rules imposed on the organization by external entities

Those rules similarly fall into traffic tickets and murder charges.
But shouldn't the planet start with a small, solid core (which would have always been solid due to the immense pressure), surrounded by the liquid magma, which is then in turn surrounded by the solid layer of crust (which solidified due to being exposed to the rest of the space to cool)? Then, as the Earth continues to cool down, the liquid part would also start to turn solid, starting from the near the core/crust, and therefore reduce its volume so... if the crust is sturdy enough, it will all end up as the small, solid core surrounded by the lot of empty space surrounded by the outer crust?

Like, that's also a pretty ridiculous scenario of planetogenesis, but it's at least somewhat plausible.
I went back to shell scripts.
As someone who has dabbled in real estate, this doesn't sound all that bad.

Yes, some (most? not sure) such companies did some wrong stuff - and perhaps you were involved (you don't really say, so I'm guessing).

But the category itself? It seems fine as long as they follow the regulations related to price fixing.

When you said you caused great harm in your professional life, I was thinking more along the lines of "being a terrible person to work with", which is probably more in line with the original person you responded to was thinking.
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I would argue it is possible to run a business and be sustainable on open source, it's just harder and is not so compatible with the growth that many want.

I don't have an issue with this kind of license being used where open source does not suit, but I don't think we should change/widen the definition of "open source" to suit the sustainability needs of those that open source isn't compatible with, at the impact of the freedoms and open rights it provides.
In my opinion, for the most part, the latter.
Electric cars are a new phenomenon. You don’t need to be a genius to figure that the old stock will be gasoline and diesel.
"Something went wrong."

<insert correlation id>

[no option to continue]

Those are our error messages of today.

And yes, even the brightest can be wrong from time to time or frequently
I guess my point is that sound waves are not terribly controversial. A simple device can measure sound waves present in the air. It would be much more difficult to build a device that told you whether music was playing. Reasonable people could disagree about whether certain sound waves constitute music or noise.
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It's not at all clear that performance rises with compute in a linear way, which is what they seem to be predicting. GPT-4.5 isn't really that much smarter than 2023's GPT-4, nor is it at all smarter than DeepSeek.

There might be (strongly) diminishing returns past a certain point.

Most of the growth in AI capabilities has to do with improving the interface and giving them more flexibility. For e.g., uploading PDFs. Further: OpenAI's "deep research" which can browse the web for an hour and summarize publicly-available papers and studies for you. If you ask questions about those studies, though, it's hardly smarter than GPT-4. And it makes a lot of mistakes. It's like a goofy but earnest and hard-working intern.
Thank you for the good discussion. I think we share a lot of the same vision. I'm more pessimistic than you about inherent limitations in crypto (and more optimistic that there's still room for improvement in fiat), but I hope you're right that the limitations of current crypto can be overcome. Your vision sounds a lot like an idea I've had for a more "open-source government" where laws are drafted as series of commits by experts in that topic, and debate happens over individual merge requests, etc. I don't know how crypto is supposed to help with that but maybe there are things I'm just not seeing. I hope there's a way to get the best of both systems.
In normal times I imagine there would be a lot more attention when a President effectively overrides a law passed by Congress and upheld by the Supreme Court.
It would be cool to have the ability to change the shape. Let us say into a circle, and maybe the ability add more fields than 2x2.
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