skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Not just that: people learn mathematics mainly by _thinking over and solving problems_, not by memorising solutions to problems.

I think it's more accurate to say that they learn math by memorizing a sequence of steps that result in a correct solution, typically by following along with some examples. Hopefully they also remember why each step contributes to the answer as this aids recall and generalization.

The practice of solving problems that you describe is to ingrain/memorize those steps so you don't forget how to apply the procedure correctly. This is just standard training. Understanding the motivation of each step helps with that memorization, and also allows you to apply that step in novel problems.

> The original article is spot on that there is no AGI pathway in the current research direction.

I think you're wrong. The research on grokking shows that LLMs transition from memorization to generalized circuits for problem solving if trained enough, and parametric memory generalizes their operation to many more tasks.

They have now been able to achieve near perfect accuracy on comparison tasks, where GPT-4 is barely in the double digit success rate.

Composition tasks are still challenging, but parametric memory is a big step in the right direction for that too. Accurate comparitive and compositional reasoning sound tantalizingly close to AGI.
Semi-automated such is probably widespread by now.

Like imagine the Rust Evangelic Task Force, but for the next big thing, will probably be shilled by bots.

Low quality content like Youtube and Reddit comments are probably mostly LLM bots who comment on anything to hide the actual spam comments.
The images look very detailed, I don't see the typical artifacts in the textures, probably thanks to the better VAE used, I will wait for some anime finetuned model.
I grew up less than half an hour away from the fab site. Back then, if you told me that this would happen, I wouldn't believe you.
I’d say you’re uncommon. I’ve never seen anyone who is a typical engineer making $250k/yr at a startup that’s below $1B valuation. Same for the amount of work you’re doing and that it’s remote with that compensation.

It’s possible you’d be making $700k+/yr if you were at google. About triple what you are now.
Could they update the plugin to do a location.href at the appropriate time?
I thought so as well, that's why my latest RPi setup used this case [0] with this [2] expansion board. I still had instability. I didn't cheap out on the SD cards I bought either. I threw lots of money at a "cheap" board to try to improve reliability but just never got there.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07WP8WC3V/

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08MHYWJCP
There is a bigger story here - who uses iTerm2? It's gotta be like 95% developers, right?

If your most technically capable users, who are usually the MOST excited about new tech, are the people who are ready to burn down the world to stop you from adding AI features, what do you think normal people think?

I feel that, without several very major breakthroughs in the next few years, we're more likely to hit another AI winter in the 2030s than achieving AGI.
Would you expect every article about SQL to say "structured query language" at the top? Some abbreviations become so common they transcend the expectation of definition. BI is arguably one of those - if you're not familiar with it, you're probably just not the intended audience for the article.
> Can't compete no longer, can we?

Different COL that in China, different wages, subsidies, etc.
Unfortunately the people suffering the consequences are not the people who had any input into the design of the system.
Makes sense though if the route is already getting prepped for one load. It's a huge amount of work from logistical and coordinating effort (trains getting re-routed, hazmats cleared, roads shut down, etc) to get the route setup. May as well send any other extremely large shipments along while it's cleared.

Lots of companies have huge pieces of equipment sitting at factory X that they would rather have at factory Y for example.
It sounds like those cloth masks are not the style or not worn the way 99.9% of people did. And your quote doesn’t say how often they need to be washed or material or thickness
In many cases this sorts itself out in a few hours as downvotes rank the page. Luckily here I suspect the flamewar detector has kicked in and the page is being downranked.

FWIW I don't find this in other tech spaces though they usually have a lot more young people. The media coverage of tech has certainly become focused on negatives, but if you hang out in Discord channels or talk with random Bluesky/X builders (keyword is builders here) there's definitely a culture of just talking about building or the more "financial" market analysis aspect. I agree with GP that HN has hit a pretty strong downward trajectory at this point that probably disincentivizes more rational commentary on topics that HN gets a lot of hate on.
World faces 'staggering' oil glut by end of decade, energy watchdog warns
> making ~$1M per year working 6 hour days at FAANG

Can you say more on this? I didn't realize FAANG TCO was quite that high. Maybe it's time to swallow some pride and take the adtech money after all...
The prompt was:

I strongly suspect the story below was written by or with heavy use of an AI. write a report with citations from the article to argue my case.

and then copied the first half of the article
That's the most annoying bit, they target you with an ad when starting just a 1-2 minute video.

They present the ad in the most intrusive and annoying way possible. It ensures that I will either ignore it, or never purchase that item or service out of spite. If you do this almost every time I play a quick video, it generates a very negative user experience.

If they focused on how to have ads coexist with the user experience and mesh better with the media being watched, they might not irritate every user by trying to make them impossible to avoid - and they wouldn't have to play this cat and mouse bullshit that eventually leads to their platform being irrelevant.
LiveBench: A Challenging, Contamination-Free LLM Benchmark
Show HN: A React and Next.js UI Toolkit for LLMs
Hey HN,

I wanted to share a UI toolkit project I’ve been working on recently, born out of how difficult I found it to build a great UX on top of LLMs, and keep application state in sync. I’ve built:

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I'm glad to see someone else annoyed that GitHub doesn't allow commenting on the commit messages directly. One of the things I miss from Gerrit.
> when I think about "the dead internet theory", this is what I imagine. all of this happening over top of our heads as we chat on a forum, out of the way.

It won't necessarily be "over top of our heads as we chat on a forum, out of the way." You missed people replying to bots, thinking they're replying to a person: https://www.404media.co/facebooks-ai-spam-isnt-the-dead-inte....
A dead silent office
I got one that straight up told me my penis was too small to please my partner. I have to say that you'd think the supposed best and brightest that FAANG companies hire could come up with a bit more of a sophisticated pitch than "your peepee is too small".
does it support images (as in inserting images in my notes)? can it?
Letting entitled people be mad forever is absolutely a practical solution to peace of mind.
They don't necessarily need to re-encode anything, encoded video has keyframes which don't depend on any prior frames placed at regular intervals to facilitate fast random seeking, and you can splice the video at those points very cheaply without having to re-encode.
Yeah I feel like successful founders natural ambition and optimism is sort of weaponized against them by the VC industry here. From a VC perspective it's worth playing the odds for moonshots. As a founder though, if you can create a $100M company that you own 30% of, you can probably create a $20M company you own 70% of with a much more realistic and sustainable growth targets.

I can't help but feel this would be better for the founders, the employees and the customers of the company. It just doesn't make as much sense for the investors.
Even now my 4 year old P20 Pro with a Leica lens, takes better photos then my wife newer iphone - whenever it matters she asks me to take the photos as the colours are just better.

I really don't like the apple ecosystem (android is not a lot better, I just hate it less), so it is the only real option I have.
This may seem like a weird question but I wonder how much it is worth? Presumably it's very expensive and precise equipment. I wonder if it's protected from gunfire in transit.
You're correct, but rather in the worst of ways. The worst parts of the act, those that specifically enable and fund government produced propaganda were maintained. All the parts that limit its domestic dissemination were removed. So for instance one of the first effects of this change are described here. [1]

---

An unnamed Pentagon official who was concerned about the 2012 law version stated: "It removes the protection for Americans. It removes oversight from the people who want to put out this information. There are no checks and balances. No one knows if the information is accurate, partially accurate, or entirely false."[39] The monthly magazine The Atlantic echoed those concerns by pointing out to two USA Today journalists who became target of a smear and propaganda campaign after they reported that the U.S. military "information operations" program spent millions of U.S. dollars in marketing campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq criticized as ineffective and poorly monitored.[36][42] As it turned out, Camille Chidiac, who executed the marketing campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, admitted to be a part of the smear and propaganda campaign against the USA Today reporters.[43]

---

It's the same sort of stuff as when the exact same government administration also passed a law enabling the indefinite detention of American citizens without trial (that also remains to this day), again because reasons. [2] Incidentally it was passed in the exact same completely undemocratic way both times - by shoving it into a must-pass defense authorization bill. It's a suggestive pattern of behavior that's quite telling, especially given where we've ended up at today.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Authorization...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Authorization...
I think Sqlite is an option in many cases when people want to use Postgres. I believe there is more overlap between Sqlite and Postgres than iPhone and a general computer.
I don't want to be pedantic, but in fact point 13 in these slides says the opposite: Safari has copy&paste and the Samsung browser has not.

That's the interesting difference: While Android may have been "first" to copy&paste, Apple would not have released the feature in a state where it does not work system wide.
This sounds like a bad job and you should find another.

At some point you were happy with $200k and 2%. Now you aren't. I don't think there's a bump that they could give you at this point that would make you want to tolerate the shit that's bad about the job.

Note that this is a bad job. Startups are more prone to creating bad jobs.

The math for employee #1 at a startup is almost never ideal if you're being completely rational about expected value. That is, I think, a separate problem than you're dealing with.
Flameshot is great, I've been using it for years. I love being able to draw and add annotations in the moment I take the screen shot
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Inevitably you will encounter (a) a junior developer who considers commits to be 'save states' rather than individual logical changes or (b) someone who is used to squash merge and did not think commit history mattered.

Without squash merge, it then becomes very likely most commits do not even build making bisecting a bit of a nightmare.
This article is pretty light on details. Do we have data comparing sample microbiomes taken in the 80's compared to today? Are the specific bacterial species that have been identified that prevent or promote weight gain? Is there research into restoring the microbiome?
I don't think there are any combustion reactions here (besides the source flame), since these are already fully oxidized salts. It's only internal electronic transitions of the metal ions.
I think what you are actually describing is that you should value equity at zero. If to work at a startup you would need 28% equity you are describing a founder. That's fine but there is an enormous difference between these two things. There is also the question of where the $125k comes from to pay your base.
I don't believe in either of your listed secondary effects.

How does starlink existing make it more likely for other companies to build expensive infrastructure while having to price compete with it?
Why Agents Fall Short
Damn I was writing a blogpost about this exact problem inspired by a talk w/ a friend of mine.

Being an early engineer is the worst deal in all of tech, the people I've seen do it are either comfortably wealthy or just don't care about money.
The rise of ai and the huge energy requirements I think might upend some of these predictions. I hope not though as we are already moving too slow to get off fossil fuels and ai could make it slower
Sony has been significant investor for years already, and owns the minority of the company.
Yes, there are people I know who are still paying the same price Iliad offered at launch: 5.99€/month for unlimited calls and messages, and 30GB in 4G+. That price was basically half of what all other available providers offered at the time.
Related earlier discussion:

iTerm2 removes AI feature from core, creates separate plugin

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40458135

iTerm2 and AI Hype Overload

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40432446
I disagree. I believe that AI is fundamentally destructive to society because it concentrates wealth into the hands of tech companies, removes jobs at a faster rate than previous automations, encourages human isolation by making people less reliant on each other, and produces fake "art" that floods the market and devalues human expression. I believe it is the prime example if evil incarnate.
Try out your website in the spatial web
You're right, but I refuse to keep my mind busy with it. I'll look around when I need a new SBC for the task at hand, and if RaspberryPi has enshittified, I'll just pass.

So it's an if from my perspective, since I don't constantly watch them and ask "aretheyenshittifiedyet?".
Company cards and expenses exist. Also can’t believe you never once shared a card with someone in your family?
Weatherman AI: Your Personal AI-Powered Weather Assistant
According to their 2023 financials, they got 106 million in cash from investment sales, and nearly 8 billion from the trust. The investment side of their operation is a tiny drop in the bucket, especially also considering they gave away nearly 7 billion in grants and programs. If they’re trying to make money off the foundation they’re going about it in a very odd way by giving away 70 times more than they earn from investing
The rating was the minimum number of reads the motors in the CD drive of the Playstation would work for. Most likely, the rating was really low compared to what the drives could actually do.
I am showing support for the good choice of the designers. There is no issue here: they put it into a plugin.
Microsoft's Recall should be celebrated as savior of SMEs and scourge of CEOs
916k lbs = 415k kg
How can Google defend the mobile app where they do not let you close the screen in YouTube unless you pay, so you get both ads and they screw your battery, which is not ECO friendly? Tons of batteries and phones are sent to the garbage bin faster and Google is allowed to do it and seems nobody shits on them and the google devs for this EVIL actions.

Makes you wonder if Google devs could intentionally make the app eat more battery or do other EVIL shit since they prove they are OK with this tactics. 2
For other Ohioans who were wondering about this : ODOT started talking about the shipping routes a couple weeks ago and contrary to the article, we do have a timetable here : https://www.transportation.ohio.gov/about-us/traffic-advisor...

Im going between Cincinnati and Columbus several times over the next three weeks and am not looking forward to this even though it seems theyre taking a mostly out of the way route through the SE Ohio farming towns.
Ask HN: Collecting from Consulting Client
Share your experiences with collecting payment from consulting clients who refuse to pay for work performed. In particular interested in service providers and clients located in California and tips on what to do. Asking for a friend who has a client who owes him low 5-figures.
https://streamable.com/an7hso

I recorded it and slowed it for you

And just in case I was going mad I checked the frames of the gif. There are 50 frames. Frame 15 has the left dot, 17 and 18 have the right dot.
I'm a SRE and have used my fair share of BI tooling. I have a rule that if the dashboard has a sufficient number of consumers/users then it should actually be in an internal application. BI tools are for me to play and prototype with data, they don't produce products in themselves. Much of that has to do with what you mentioned here, the other half is that I will absolutely never devote another part of my life to debugging some dashboard query I made six months ago.
Can't they do on-the-fly stream concatenation to avoid re-encoding everything?
I did early employee several times because I didn't know any better, didn't have anyone around to tell me not to. I won't do that again. All the risk, none of the reward. 1% of $10-20M after 4+ years of 80hrs/wk is less than the difference between a startup salary and a good salary over that same time.
> It sounds like those cloth masks are not the style or not worn the way 99.9% of people did.

What in the studies are you basing this on?

> And your quote doesn’t say how often they need to be washed or material or thickness

Everyone I know washed theirs at least daily. Perhaps we should've done better "how to wear/wash" education, but we generally don't need regular PSAs to remind people to wash their underpants.
UUID7 basic information/examples - https://uuid7.com
I think the difference is you would have a lot of normal people traveling in the same roads, which does make it safer. Today you would be much more isolated as a traveling going through those roads.
At 10 employees the company is still incredibly risky. With this scheme you'll never grow past that size.
To be honest, this method appears more complicated and has more friction than my already tricky approach. By the way, it’s better in some aspects because it can perform a lot more functions than text actions.
Stable Diffusion 3 online demo
Distros like Debian should drop Firefox until they stop censoring.
Just checked my Ubuntu WSL, and telnet is installed. I don't think I would've installed that myself.

My memory of modern Linux distros is that it is still installed, but that the telnet daemon is disabled by default.
> All QM interpretations are unfalsifiable.

I agree. Others (not you) elsewhere in this discussion have said otherwise.

> here you're saying that MWI makes a claim that contradicts that we observe measurements to have single results.

Yes, overall I think the MWI contradicts itself in this regard. It has to say that measurements have all possible results, because that's what Schrodinger's equation says, but it also has to say that we observe measurements to have single results, because it's clear that that's what we actually observe. I don't think its claimed resolution of that contradiction is valid. But you are correct that that is not an issue that can be resolved by experimental tests.
I was working at a company that hired a lot of people new to dev. So one guy, comes to us saying his commits arent matching the standard they want. I see his commits, and I see like 50 of them that just say stuff like "fixing the bug", "finally fixing the bug", I tried to tell him, try to describe what the code is changing / doing with this commit as if you had to explain it to you mom. He gave me a look like I was crazy and proceeded to ask someone else for help. I assume he's still committing with awful messaging that matches their desired format.
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> They'll have to re-encode videos at all permutations across countries, regions and locales.

Nope. Just inject them right before a full keyframe, that can be done pretty much on the fly.
Might be a dumb question but I’ll ask anyways.
One of the main factors preventing me from owning a bike is the lack of a permanent residence. I’m forced to move every few months/years, sometimes to a different country. What’s the best way to bring such a large object with me? So far I’ve been forcing myself to own as little as possible such that I can bring everything with me in a single luggage and backpack
"The box is 23 feet tall, 20 feet wide, and 280 feet long, stretching longer than a football field."

Author doesn't understand football.
Usually the response is “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” but the change process for fixing anything that actually is broken is so onerous that no one bothers.
There’s going to be a split between premium and not watching YouTube. I’m not paying something like 2,000$ to per hour of advertising cut from my life.

I might click on a video I find elsewhere, but I’ve basically given up on using the YouTube interface for finding videos.
If we somehow ended up extinguishing gravity and we start floating upside down. Good to know we can now post water upwards.

Although thinking about it, water would float upwards too..
I wonder if:

* there are oversized load spotters like those folks with a hobby of keeping track of aircraft or trains?
* there is economic intelligence value in extracting and surfacing data from oversize load permits?