skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, but that does not seem to be the case. A friend of mine who runs a long context benchmark on understanding novels [1] just ran an eval and o1 seemed to improve by 2.9% over GPT-4o (the result isn't on the website yet). It's great that there is an improvement, but it isn't drastic by any stretch. Additionally, since we cannot see the raw reasoning it's basing the answers off of, it's hard to attribute this increase to their complicated approach as opposed to just cleaner higher quality data.

EDIT: Note this was run over a dataset of short stories rather than the novels since the API errors out with very long contexts like novels.

[1]: https://novelchallenge.github.io/
This makes no sense. A dividend is more akin to an annuity, paying out periodically.

Stock buybacks are cashing in your chips, a one-off payment.
ouch; that does sound unfortunate, I'll look into it, thanks.
Hof is a dangerous fraud. His identical twin brother doesn't follow these practices at all and has the exact same capabilities. They are just genetic outliers.

> Professor Mike Tipton of the University of Portsmouth, who has been studying the effects of cold water on the body for 40 years, found that young and healthy individuals had a 1 to 3 per cent chance of cardiac arrhythmia when in cold water.

> But when they were asked to hold their breath beforehand, that figure rose to 63 per cent. “It’s an incredible way of reproducing cardiac arrhythmias in otherwise fit and healthy individuals,” he said.

This man has blood on his hands and you're just lucky it isn't yours.
I'm surprised not so many people know about DivestOS[0]. It's the best option IMO if you don't have a google pixel for grapheneOS. Has similar support to lineageOS which it is based on. Same developer made Mulch and Mull web browsers. Monthly security updates. Obviously none of the hardware security features grapheneOS offers, but many other features, binary deblobbing, private DNS, MAC randomization etc.

Also, if you're handset model supports relocking, you can use banking apps etc.

[0]: https://divestos.org
Succinct and englightening - I had no knowledge of his visit to Berlin (East & West).
Yeah, maybe. But also the official SDKs are pretty good and you get support from Nintendo. It seems like a pretty big risk to use an unsupported SDK... for what benefit?
Aside from "making C++ safe", the design looks like a good opportunity to have better Rust interop, if a standardized FFI with clear object lifetime semantics can be established between C++ and Rust, it's a win for everyone.
> They skip the node means no customer demand an no incoming money.

Not really, it also has to do with timing, fab space, extra cost of maintaining that node, etc.
I don't want to get into details as I work on 20A/18A development but I'll say that they share the same major process, 20A is just an earlier version. So it's not like Intel is dropping the process, it's just deciding to put it into production later.

There's some more information here:
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/opinion/con...
Union Carbide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster
Do you pay ?
Zeroizing a register seems pretty straightforward. Zeroizing any cache that it may have touched seems a lot more complex. I guess that's why they work so hard to keep everything in registers. Lucky for them we aren't in the x86 era anymore and there are a useful number of registers. I'll need to read up on how they avoid context switches while their registers are loaded.
> Sensing that their likelihood of survival was getting slimmer by the hour, Enmark took matters into her own hands. She called the Swedish prime minister, Olof Palme, and begged him to let her and another hostage leave the bank with their captors. ‘I fully trust Clark and the robber,’ she told Palme. ‘I am not desperate. They haven’t done athing to us. On the contrary, they have been very nice. But you know, Olof, what I’m scared of is that the police will attack and cause us to die.’ Palme refused to let her leave, saying they could not give in to the demands of criminals. At the end of the conversation, Enmark says Palme said ‘Well, Kristin, you can’t get out of the bank. You will have to content yourself that you will have died at your post.’

If someone said this to you, would you be on their side?

> "Pop science" seems orthogonal to this concept -- it's like saying the concept of "jury of your peers" is pop science.

What? Pop science in this context means something that is widely believed to be rooted in scientific fact by the general public but actually isn't.

> But in hostage negotiation and rescue, keeping in mind that the hostages may not be sympathetic or cooperative with the authorities seems like a really great thing to keep in mind.

That's moving the goal posts dramatically. The whole point of this article is that stockholm syndrome does not have descriptive power because there are no scientific criteria to delineate what it is, when it's happening, or even if it's real. You can name things that don't exist, like dragons, but that does not mean people should be using dragons as an explanation for what they observe.
What's even more amazing is that 99% of the money behind SpaceX is outside investors and the government.

Even when it was founded, Musk was a minority equity investor.
It sure feels like Elon turned up the racism dial last month
Arrivederci, Francesca Gino.
As I am currently sitting on a flight from Tokyo to SFO I would greatly appreciate the flight taking half the time. Boom should be as efficient current aircraft. They will operate at 60K feet where the drag is much less and fly for less time. Their engines are being designed to run on 80% biofuels. But let's see how it turns out in the end.
Wait until we need to talk about billions!
For me, that moment was cryptocurrency. "Vastly overhyped, driven by pure greed and speculative narratives, limited implementation and high energy cost." - all applied. I couldn't understand why so many people thought it was the future. I actually see LLMs a little more positively - mildly interesting, certainly intriguing language mimics, but enormously expensive and overhyped. Are they useful? Maybe, but not to the degree that everything is focused on them now.
Yes?[0]

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=It%E2%80%99s+underpinned+by+....
> The process continues until the scheme is convoluted enough to satisfy the court

That works both ways. The courts can act as well by simply punishing even more convoluted schemes with larger and larger fines.
Yeah except. I’m priming it with things like curated docs from bevy latest, using the tricks, and testing context limits.

It’s still changing things to be several versions old from its innate kb pattern-matching or whatever you want to call it. I find that pretty disappointing.

Just like copilot and gpt4, it’s changing `add_systems(Startup, system)` to `add_startup_system(system.sytem())` and other pre-schedule/fanciful APIs—things it should have in context.

I agree with your approach to LLMs, but unfortunately “it’s still doing that thing.”

PS: and by the time I’d done those experiments, I ran out of preview, resets 5 days from now. D’oh
I prefer total energy use as a measure of human progress. At the end of the day, money is a proxy for energy consumption. By people in their labor, by machines, by the processing of information. Fortunately, it is steadily increasing.
"Over the past two years,"

suddenly they remembered to make it safe!!!

Seems others used their backdoors.
> we all need to find harder prompts

"One of the biggest traps for engineers is optimizing a thing that shouldn't exist." (from Musk I believe)
What is it that people do that breaks so often due to lack of backwards compatibility from the OS?

IMO, the lure of an LTS is that you don't need to keep testing if your computer is still working every week when a set of updates come. Not that things that your software depends on the details remain frozen. If your software depends on the details of something, you should add it as a dependency.
I joke that Larry is from that evil Star Trek universe and somewhere in the multiverse a clean-shaven, teddy bear of a man is trapped in a universe full of assholes because he was tricked into swapping with this Larry.
It doesn't matter whether I write a module in Fortran, fold laundry or sell a kidney on the black market. It's all morally equivalent!
Firing someone for having tattoos or having done sex work is completely legal in almost all US states. Generally speaking, the only things private employers can’t discriminate based on is things intrinsic to who the person is (race, sexuality, non-relevant disability), and religion. Past choices are completely legal to fire someone for, even if it has nothing to do with the job at hand.
There's no point. Rust can already be added incrementally in an existing C++ or C project. Like how Servo was in Firefox, or Rust in the Linux kernel.
Over the network most likely?
Condescending or not, saying "Now Apple just brought that price down to ~$250." is grossly overstating it.

But Apple always gets a pass, so...
Id make sex work legally equal to other work.

Of course a consequence of that would be the engineering boss can ask the team to pole dance, and if they refuse they can be fired as easily as they could be for refusing to take out the trash.
This is exactly what everyone means by “return to monke”
Docker is native Linux. Your app uses the same kernel as the host. Is "chroot" middleware? No. Neither is docker.
I found a few pictures:

https://www.nasa.gov/mission/acs3/

https://www.nasa.gov/smallspacecraft/what-is-acs3/
NOOOOOOooooooo......

This article doesn't explain you need to log out of all Google accounts before factory reset. If that's not possible, you'll have to find an FRP bypass and hope for the best. The e4plus is nearly 7 years old. It'll probably work, but newer devices are increasingly difficult.

And if there's no Google account, you can just skip wifi during initial setup. That way you can setup a firewall first by installing the apk over usb.
1: The cost of the gas engine is offset by the reduction in cost and weight of a smaller hybrid battery.

2: Hybrid buses are already a thing, and they're subject to even more usage and wear, and work very reliably.

3: Cheaper maintenance as an absolute number isn't the goal, but a reduction in total cost of ownership. Remember there's a bunch of gas that's not being used or paid for. The lower the starting MPG, the higher the benefits electrification brings.
The article is just stating reality in a sensationalized way. In summary, the article states that in the majority of cases, what was expected to happen happened - black enrollment went down, Asian enrollment went up. However, in a minority of schools, things didn't follow this pattern. Shocking.

The article shines a light on some schools that did not follow this pattern. One major reason is completely inconsistent reporting methods and requirements. This is always the challenge with US universities in everything from academics to athletics. Different states have different reporting laws and there are vastly different requirements for public schools vs. private.

What I found interesting was the point that maybe at some schools, this reflects reality - that black students were over-represented to begin with. Different factors that some schools are using like recruiting from rural areas and parental wealth do increase diverse representation in a more equitable and deserving way.
Ask HN: Who Is OpenAI's O1 For?
It's more expensive, can handle edge case (albeit embarassing) questions, but still makes errors. Where would you use this in production that you wouldn't use 4o, vanilla or fine-tuned?

For who and what is this for?
> clearly it’s not about the content per see which is a dim a dozen and available for free in trove.

I think there is a darker side there: many of those subscribers are minors, who discover this kind of content for the first time. That's why OF models stream on Twitch to expand their audience, there are plenty of kids who came there for Minecraft, but will end up subscribing to OF with mom's credit card.
Aflac's shift to passkeys brings big business benefits
I can understand sending cops based on a phone call - better safe than sorry - but being handcuffed and hauled away should require the cops to have seen something when they got there. No one should be detained solely based on an anonymous tip.
It's a good rebranding. It was getting ridiculous 3.5, 4, 4.5,
> If your argument is something like "memory safety doesn't really matter, even for critical applications"

Not at all, not even close. What I will say is "memory safety can be achieved by policy as well as by construction, and indeed, can only be achieved by construction through policy".

Let's break that down. Rust and Go are two examples of languages generally referred to as memory-safe. Rust achieves this by construction, through the borrow checker, Go achieves it by construction through the garbage collector.

If there are bugs in the borrow checker, or the garbage collector, then the result is no longer memory-safe. That assurance can only be achieved by policy: the garbage collector and the borrow checker must be correct.

TigerBeetle, the program I linked to, achieves memory safety with a different policy. All allocation is performed once, at startup. After this, the replica's memory use is static. This, if correct, is memory-safe.

Zig makes this practical, because all allocation in the standard library is performed using the allocation interface: any function which allocates receives an Allocator as an argument. Libraries can violate that policy, but they generally don't, and TigerBeetle is a zero-dependency program, so that's not a concern for them. Other languages where it maybe isn't immediately obvious if something goes on a heap? Not so easy to achieve a memory policy like that one.

So this:

> Zig not making it at all hard to violate memory safety

Is irrelevant. What's needed in high-assurance systems is the practical ability to create memory safety by policy, and Zig provides a difference-in-class in this matter compared to C.

> most "high assurance" systems continue to be built using C

Yes, other than your scare quotes, this is correct. Programs like SQLite are memory safe by construction and exhaustive testing, you're welcome to try and land a CVE if you disagree. Every few years someone gets a little one, maybe you'll be the lucky next player. Or you could try your luck at QEMU.

My premise is that Zig makes it massively easier to achieve this, through numerous choices which add up: the allocator interface, built-in idiomatic leak detection, a null-safe type system, slices and arrays carrying bounds, and much else. It has `std.testing.checkAllAllocationFailures`, which can be used to verify that a function doesn't leak or otherwise misuse memory even if any one allocation anywhere downstack of a function call fails. You might want to compare this with what happens if a Rust function fails to allocate.

Basically you're taking the lessons of C, with all of its history and warts, and trying to apply them, without due consideration, to Zig. That's a mistake.
Is there a study of "smooth"/"stable" "AI" algorithms - i.e. if you feed them input that is "close" then then the output is also "close"? (smooth as in smoothly differentiable/stable as in stable sorted)
Or the "other" languages

Zig/Nim/D/Go (or even scripting languages R, Julia, *Lisp, TCL, Ruby, Scilab, Python ...)

at last.
I still use javadoc a lot. I was shocked to see the author complain about it. I have always found javadoc to be one of the best language docs to date. I find myself missing it constantly when I am using other less documented languages and libraries. It is well structured and exhaustive, the only confusing parts of it are where the actual underlying class is poorly structured.

I would highly suggest using javadoc before something like SO when you are confused about how to use a class. The vast majority of SO's java help is frozen in time due to SO's 'no duplicate questions' policy. Java has improved a lot since java 7.
> It seems like NT was designed to fix a lot of the problems with drivers in Windows 3.x/95/98

NT was running in parallel with Windows 3.x/9x. The NT had better drivers because it was multiuser with some memory protection.

Just look at the recent Crowdstrike incident to see what they really fixed. /s
Burlesque shows are a 100% more fun than an actual strip club especially if they incorporate some good ol slapstick vaudeville routines in between the strip teases. The audience is also way less greasy.
Could be as simple as hover text "click to see other versions".
It's helpful, sure, but it's not the same thing.
I don't have access to Nintendo's SDK so I can't compare directly, but the article cites an inability to map executable pages. libnx supports this (but of course, this is moot if Nintendo wouldn't let you ship it). But the main benefit is being able to talk about and share your work without worrying about violating an NDA.

https://switchbrew.github.io/libnx/jit_8h.html

https://switchbrew.org/wiki/JIT_services
They are not _the best_ at making chips -- sure. But don't get it twisted, they are damn good at making chips. There are only 3 companies out there who are even in this race; Intel is still one of them.
I think almost all evolved galaxies have a central black holes, so my bet would be that no spiral galaxy lack a central black hole.
To be a billionaire you need colluders.
Jean-Yves Girard
Her work is just amazing. And makes me incredibly happy, as I like to write some CL here and there.
Yeah, also whatever they would build, the other platform vendors won't choose the same thing, and it wont be the exact variant of lisp or w/e that even the few nice developers would want.

I wish vendors would be just more supportive of different llvm tool chains. Rust isn't even well supported.
> the brain is not organized by some plan that existed before construction, and is not comprised of intelligible dedicated circuit that we can observe postmortem with perfect information.

Well said. You've reminded me of a beautiful sci-fi short story almost about this exact "mystery"

https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/exhalation/
No, because people don't usually form an opinion that the movie cares about them.
Sounds like normal human behavior.

The problem with subscription sites like that is that paying for a month's subscription gives you access to the entire backlog of the work that a person has been doing for years. There's only so much that an OF model is gonna be able to do in terms of posing before they've done all the angles that someone would want to see. Why pay for repetitive content when you can just pay for a month and download everything, wait a year, and then do it again?

If these sites were smart, they'd implement a 3 month rolling backlog and then a set add-on price for accessing additional months worth of content.
I wouldn’t say that movies per se are parasocial, but if you behave and feel like you have a relationship with somebody in a movie, then it’s probably parasocial.

To a degree it’s also quite normal to have parasocial reactions to personaes from media, it only becomes problematic once people substitute actual social relationships with extreme parasocial relationships.
You would be so very, very wrong. Try searching the news and you’ll find plenty of examples of employers who feel they should have a say in what employees do on their own time - that’s most commonly schools but far from exclusive: the most common justification is that this somehow reflects on their corporate image but some will use more overtly religious justifications, too. This is especially common as people climb the ladder, so someone might have a decision they made in college haunt them decades later.

The other thing to consider is that it’s not just whether you get fired but also whether it has other negative effects like creating a hostile workplace with “jokes” or having to fend off harassers who think you’re easy or will acquiesce as the price of silence.
Interesting to me that no one complains about the private Ivy League universities soaking up the 'best and brightest,' yet the 'consolidation of the best' is the core argument against private education for K-12, and also the thrust of the big freakout over the collapse of affirmative action Supreme Court ruling. This suggests a selective tolerance for elite consolidation depending on the educational stage and the implications for diversity and meritocracy.
All those cells have a zinc anode, which used to be amalgamated with a small amount of mercury to prevent corrosion and leakage[1]. (Mercuric oxide batteries certainly contain even more.)

[1] https://www.epa.gov/mercury/mercury-batteries
I wonder if they would worry about that being used as cover though. Make that call for a place you’re about to do something illegal in so the popo stays away.
> Google engineering with bespoke tools seemed almost magical.

Definitely not the case. It's good, but I miss git and a few other things. Their cloud IDE is really good now. Build system is OK. I miss using some better programming languages. Code cleanliness is quite high, but quality goes from yuck to really good.

The talent density is refreshing though. Every L4 I meet is pretty impressive, and it only gets better. It's not that I didn't work with amazing people at other places, it's just more frequent at Google.

Diverse backgrounds too. You see hotshot young up and comers along with grey beards at L5/L6, people with high pedigree degrees from top schools, and less common but not rare are kids who dropped out of school to do startups or something.

>What's not accessible in startups? Do you feel you gain experience on which you can build later?

I enjoy working on hard scaling problems. The scale of the problems you see at Google are unique to a handful of companies. You may or may not work on this depending on your team.

You're are the opposite of micromanaged. At L6 you are given vague goals and you have a long time to come up with a solution. Then at the end of the year they take a look at your solution and you either make the cut or don't. That is awesome for some people and terrifying for others.

>there isn't a sure financial upside.

Are you sure you're calculating all the benefits? G has an amazing 401k match, and the stock usually grows. Keep in mind if it doesn't grow, you can always get a new job, but if it does grow, you just keep raking in that extra equity.

On top of that, if you are planning on working hard and confident in your abilities, you can definitely get more than your target comp at review time. I ended up with 10% extra comp than what my offer letter said after the first year, not including stock appreciation. With stock appreciation, I'm making over 100k over what my 'target comp' (offer letter) said.

All in all, I'll say Google is not some magical programmer fantasy land utopia. It's a corporation, it has some annoying work, some politics, sometimes layoffs, sometimes bad managers, legacy code, understaffed teams and more.

But compared to all the places I've worked in my 20+ year career, it pays better, gives people more freedom, and has some really interesting problems.
Historically, many of societies' "norms" have been hateful, vile and narrowly targeted. There is a thousand years of history showing us that we are better off challenging norms than adhering to them.
It would have made so much more sense to sell to IBM though, and I don’t even like IBM. I respected their R&D at the time, but their global services division is a blight on society.

I can’t recall, did the feds block that option?
Politicians don't have much incentive to do this since plenty of them get cushy jobs at bigco benefactors of the spending bills they voted on. Trying to target prosecutors would cast a eye on themselves.

It's like trying to separate church and state in England back in 1600-1700s.