skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have created many innovations to speed up tasks and simplify certain jobs. These improvements are always marketed as ways to create more time for family, leisure, and personal interests. But they didn't actually free up time for these purposes. Instead, the extra time is often filled with even more work.
This looks quite fantastic!

Nice improvements in scores across the board, e.g.

> On coding, it [the new Sonnet 3.5] improves performance on SWE-bench Verified from 33.4% to 49.0%, scoring higher than all publicly available models—including reasoning models like OpenAI o1-preview and specialized systems designed for agentic coding.

I've been using Sonnet 3.5 for most of my AI-assisted coding and I'm already very happy (using it with the Zed editor, I love the "raw" UX of its AI assistant), so any improvements, especially seemingly large ones like this are very welcome!

I'm still extremely curious about how Sonnet 3.5 itself, and its new iteration are built and differ from the original Sonnet. I wonder if it's in any way based on their previous work[0] which they used to make golden-gate Claude.

[0]: https://transformer-circuits.pub/2024/scaling-monosemanticit...
"Neptunian Ridge" Discovered: Scientists Unveil New Map of Distant Planets
Oh, yeah. Basic human nature.
True, the guard rails there are that you can only do that for at most 2 people, limiting the impact of potential fraud there.
It's just bizarre to force a computer to go through a GUI to use another computer. Of course it's going to be expensive.
Researchers unlock door to unhackable tech using light particles
For me learning is fun. If I add any rule or framework or whatever on top of “just reading and practicing” then all of a sudden, learning is not fun anymore. So, I keep it simple at the expense of doing my learning not the most productive way.
Interesting stuff, i look forward to future developments.

A comment about the video: Sam Runger talks wayyy too fast, in particular at the beginning.
mount namespace and root directory are bit different things though.

/proc/$PID/ns is the place to look for namespaces
Socks goes on application layer, hardware sees it as normal tcp/ip4.
Why talk out of your butt instead of just checking? Ad Guard and Pi hole are free and open source. 90 percent of the time it actually is that easy, there are a ton of logs from my shield and phone that are just entries from places like tracking.hugetrackingcompany.net and ads.adcompany1.net.

You don't get everything from a Google or Facebook app, just use a cracked version of their apps in those cases. But most of the blocking is better than none.

You can also just continue to use Chrome and be tracked across the internet. Helps pay for those of us that block it.
Or any of these XD https://www.arewewebyet.org/topics/frameworks/
Sure, but that's it's own not-quite-markdown thing, which is extra annoying because it's just close enough that people think it is markdown and do things like writing code blocks with ```. IMHO it'd be much better to just actually do markdown, or at least a strict subset.
The same way that photography didn't kill painting. But it killed some specific forms of it.

What we have today isn't very useful. But once it gets good, gen AI will probably have a similar impact.
yes, "This final rule, among other things, prohibits [...] certain review suppression practices[...]"

https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/federal-register-no...

Further down the notice cites the scenario:
"[...] more than 4,500 merchants that were automatically publishing only 4- or 5-star consumer reviews"
This is what the Rabbit "large action model" pretended to be. Wouldn't be surprised to see them switch to this and claim they were never lying about their capabilities because it works now.

Pretty cool for sure.
I agree but also don't.

I crave authenticity. I recognise the creativity and talent in digital painting, but it lacks authenticity. I hardly feel I'll like AI art more.

Not all art needs to be high art, of course. I've bought prints of digital paintings and woodblock prints. Nonetheless, /r/ArtPorn today is like going to the cinema and being shown a compilation of TV adverts. AI art is probably not going to improve that.
I think as of this announcement that is indeed outdated information.
Polish radio station replaces DJs with AI
Great article, but I wish it would have made a more explicit mention of the* central limit theorem (CLT), which I think is what makes the normal distribution "normal." For those not familiar, here is the jist: suppose you have `n` independent, finite-variance random variables with support in the real numbers (so things like count R.V.s work). Asymptotically, as n->infinity, the distribution of the mean will approach a normal distribution. Usually, n doesn't have to be big for this to be a reasonable approximation. n~30 is often fine. The CLT extends in a

To me, this is one of the most astonishing things about probability theory, as well as one of the most useful.

The normal distribution is just one of a class of "stable distributions," all sharing the properties of sums of their R.V.s being in the same family.

The same idea can be generalized much further. The underlying idea is the distribution of "things" as they get asymptotically "bigger." The density of eigenvalues of random matrices with I.I.D entries approach the Wigner Semicircle Distribution, which is exactly what it sounds like. It plays the role of the normal distribution in the very practically-promising theory of free (noncommutative) probability.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigner_semicircle_distribution

Further reading:

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2010/01/05/254a-notes-2-the-c...

*there's a few normal distribution CLTs, but this is the intuitive one that usually matters in practice
iTerm runs a command with filename, line number, pwd etc. as parameters when you click a path. You can use so called shell extensions to let iTerm add hostname and user to those parameters. I usually grab those and point my editor to the appropriate share or sshfs mount. With vim you can seamlessly use rsync or scp.
Great progress from Anthropic! They really shouldn't change models from under the hood, however. A name should refer to a specific set of model weights, more or less.

On the other hand, as long as its actually advancing the Pareto frontier of capability, re-using the same name means everyone gets an upgrade with no switching costs.

Though, all said, Claude still seems to be somewhat of an insider secret. "ChatGPT" has something like 20x the Google traffic of "Claude" or "Anthropic".

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%201-d&geo=...
They should just adopt Apple "version numbers:" Claude Sonnet (Late 2024).
> Most of the time 1+1=10 because as a programmer I work in binary.

Really low level embedded work? Most programming I know about effectively works in base 10 or sometimes hex.
I'm past the edit window here, but have a couple more thoughts. First, I'm just a jazz player, so my gigs can get loud, but not screaming stooopid loud. Second, I am almost always amplified on stage, meaning that the most delicate subtleties of optimal tone quality are lost anyway.

Many of the rock players are moving to in-ear monitors, which block everything but replace it with your monitor mix, received via wireless.

On the other hand, some band mates, and my kids, play classical. Their needs are a lot more critical in terms of perceiving their tone quality. A benefit of the fitted plugs is that you can get the capsules with less attenuation, which means you're still safe in something like a classical ensemble, but without losing too much.
Great work!! I was just talking about how this is a major gap in Rust and here you are the very next day!
Looking forward to use and contribute!
Continue.dev's VS Code extension is fantastic for this
Basically yeah
You are no longer allowrd to provide compensation for reviews. So companies can still send out stuff for your to possibly reviews but it can't make recieving items dependent on actually writing a review, even 'implicitly', though we'll see how enforcement shakes out.
Litigator, Past Programmer, Looking to Come Back to Tech
I left software in 2015 for law school. At the time I was actually in release engineering but I had also spent some time in software development.

Since becoming a lawyer, I have periodically used coding to, for example, write scripts that turn 2 day document review assignments into 2 hour python writing sessions. I've used it indirectly in discovery and depositions, knowing what to look for in orgs and what to ask in questioning based on experience in the industry.

I have also worked on two separate startups (one failed, one ongoing), one in Vue.js and the other in React Native, both serverless with firebase. But because I was juggling those projects with full-time firm work, it took me years to do what I should have been able to do in months, and I still ran myself into the ground.

I hate litigation. I like building things. I can get up-to-speed with pretty much any new technology in a short period of time if it's my focus. Right now, though, I'm drowning and have too much on my plate, and so it feels like I can't take anything new on, even temporarily, to set myself up for a pivot.

I have considered a completely new path that leverages both areas of experience--i.e. in-house at a tech company, but they seem to vastly prefer transactional experience to litigation (I get why) and also tend to want more seasoned attorneys. I also just want to get back to building.

I am 100% WFH (I have been for my entire legal career, which was very lucky on my part). I make good money, but my expenses are high, I don't really have savings, and I have a kid on the way. So I can't afford to have a gap in income, which is probably my biggest limiting factor.

I'm struggling to find an exit strategy. I feel trapped.
I was under impression that he started around 1989 and also that's when he had a debate with prof. Tanenbaum, but now I see it was later. My mistake
It reads as a drive by advertisement. Also, people like full local vs renting as a default.
Huh. Good to know there's a solution, I suppose... Even if it's uncomfortably dependent on one guy and his warehouse full of disks.
Can this solve CAPTCHAs for me? It's starting to get to the point where limited biological brains can't do them.
Ultimately you know what's best for you. But I would follow what you wrote here:

> Last option, work on it while employed and hope I won't get sued. Maybe quit around the time I'm close to be done with a v1 and start marketing to reduce risk a bit.

Keep in mind that 99% of startups fail. Better be safe than sorry financially! Just don't mention anything to your colleagues at work, your boss, etc about it.
The Narrows Bridge: From Open Source to AI
Big models / huge models take weeks / month longer than the smaller ones.

Thats why they release them with that skew
> Malware on a router.

It doesn't even have to be on the router, just the same network segment plus some ARP spoofing tricks (assuming your switch doesn't have ARP spoofing protections or they haven't been enabled) could be enough to MitM a connection.
Open source Synthstrom Deluge to be sold through retail dealers
Leave a review, get the service, edit the review later.
I genuinely think they're being hyperbolic, or reaching for a metaphor, in order to regain agency. I'd wager his "inability to think" is an "inability to think for myself." Resolving the former is insurmountable (if not downright pointless because of the presuppositions involved; it's tilting at windmills), but resolving the latter is straightforward: read and write argumentative works more, study the structure of arguments, explain to yourself why one is more convincing than another, rinse and repeat. That follows with fixing a car just as much as it follows learning "how to think."
A similar paradox applies to interpersonal relationships: in many cases, if you try to reduce someone's workload, they will take on more tasks and end up where they started. E.g. Wife: "I'm too busy; you need to do more". Husband: cleans more. Wife: takes on the PTA fundraising auction. "I'm too busy; you need to do more."
> tl;dr for those who don't want to open CNN:

Thank you for your sacrifice. I have it blocked on a DNS level.
I'm convinced good students don't need good universities as much as good universities need good students. I get the same internships and job opportunities as someone that went to UofT and I'm studying much of the same curriculum.

A degree from a good university signifies a smart and dedicated student primarily because the school selects the best students for graduation. That occurs during acceptance and by making the program difficult, causing bad students to leave.

The higher level of competitiveness is hurting the best universities during that acceptance phase. Ontario universities are no longer able to differentiate between the best and average. Waterloo is an exception because it has introduced math competitions across the province as a way to identify "A+++" students, but only Waterloo benefits from that.

I'm noticing that many Ontario schools are now ignoring the acceptance phase and focusing on the weed-out phase. UofT accepts students into a common math/CS program, then only accepts the best students into CS for second year onwards. Queen's University has a common first year for all engineering majors.

Even so, because the acceptance phase no longer differentiates, a lot of good students that would beat the second phase are caught in the first filter.
I suspect they are gonna need some local offload capabilities for Computer Use, the repeated screen reading can definitely be done locally on modern machines, otherwise the cost maybe impractical.
Is it OS X all over again?
No, it's there but it's not popular and probably won't be for a while. Higher level languages like Java/JS/.Net/Go already do the job well enough for vast majority of use cases. Sure, there are cases like Discord where Go performance was impactful to their operations but those are pretty niche edge cases. Vast majority of people don't have those edge cases so any GC stutter is fine.
The number of establishments I have seen doing this has skyrocketed. The last 2, I edited my review afterwards to 1 star and saying “this place gives a discount for good reviews”.
While I was initially impressed with it's context window, I got so sick of fighting with Claude about what it was allowed to answer I quit my subscription after 3 months.

Their whole policing AI models stance is commendable but ultimately renders their tools useless.

It actually started arguing with me about whether it was allowed to help implement a github repository's code as it might be copywritten... it was MIT licensed open source from Google :/
Yes, that would probably fall under this because 10% off is a form of monetary compensation. But most review sites ban this type of thing, but businesses do it anyway.
Part of existing in a society is the fact you will interact with other people. There are places - particularly rural - where this is not the case. Such places would probably never not be automobile-centric, as it makes no sense to run lines to low populous, sparce areas.

But if you live in an urban area, the "cost tradeoff" of having everything close is there's more likelihood to be around people. It's untenable to have the desire to have 10 grocery stores, 5 banks, 3 schools etc within 5 miles of you and also have no people interaction. Who runs those places? And who goes to them? The privacy cars provide is therefore mostly an illusion.

Also, I wouldn't describe an automobile as a shield, considering it's by far the thing most likely to kill you. It's a sword, if anything.
I think there is another force at play here - the assumption that there is a platonic ideal good education system that works at every scale of population.

Attempting to scale something that large forces people into boxes that fit inside the framework - one must necessarily ignore little detailed differences between humans.

But from the perspective of those individual humans, ignoring those little details doesn't really work. Those things are important, and tend to ping our egos, so we react accordingly, and are eager for opportunities to give voice to this frustration.
> Anybody willing to ignore international agreements to develop weapons can reach for the very effective nuclear, chemical or biological weapons rather than for imaginary impossible ones.

Which, to be clear, happens quite frequently.

> Yet using lasers to shoot down drones is so ineffective that we're not doing it. You're proposing something a billion times more difficult.

Who said anything about shooting down drones?
Those famous "paradoxes" that are actually true are only paradoxes on the context of other widely believed ideas. And, of course, those other ideas are false.

This one is a paradox on the context that the way to create software is to make a complete specification first, then implement it.
Computer Use API Documentation
Given that you can, fairly easily, get a virtual stored value card on your phone, arguably little reason to change. As a visitor to SF, I was able to set up a virtual Clipper card and top it up in a few seconds, and it's presumably a lot cheaper and less complex for the operator (doesn't require talking to card networks).

Though, I still have ~$8 Clipper credit on my phone that I may or may not ever use...
Quickstart is here: https://github.com/anthropics/anthropic-quickstarts/tree/mai...
... no? Are we so car-brained that the options are "my car" or "somebody else's car"?
Because its a finetune of 3.5 optimized for the use case of computer use.

Its actually accurate and its not a 3.6.
* Some functionality is off-limits for sites loaded via HTTP. (Another commenter mentioned clipboard access.)

* Browsers will display annoying warning symbols whenever you try to access sites via HTTP.

* If you live in a shared living space such as an apartment you probably don't have control over your home network.

* Even if you have control over your network, a single compromised IoT device is enough to sniff your internal network traffic, assuming WPA2. (Probably not super likely tbh.)
I think the main issue is you're using "reactive" to mean something specific that you're not stating. The web is always going to have the DOM as its tree, so a system where one thing updates in reaction to another thing updating is always going to need to be explained in terms of DOM mutations, and their timings. The post details multiple ways of doing that, all of which are reactive by some definition. So, if you're saying it needs to be "reactive", it isn't of much value unless you detail how that works and how it's different to what's proposed.
Btw, hard not to love the line "it's just a hobby, won't be big" from original announcement of Linus... Be careful what you promise ;)
Why? Most people find it beneficial to disenfranchise criminals, don't want murderers walking free and hurting you. Why should people support policies that hurt them?
Thanks for confirming that you are intentionally trolling…

I feel flattered that a few sentences can flip expressed intentions of leaving, to staying until getting banned for trolling.

If your also being amused then sure I’ll help? IDK what else to say.
> It’s wild the type of contortions a person can fold themselves into instead of saying, “yeah this was meant to fuck people out of their rights.”

I'm mixed race from a family that is predominantly made up of PoC - these conversations used to infuriate me, now they just fascinate me. To me, trying to understand what motivates such lines of thinking is really important. Is it denial, naivete, rationalization, or is it something more insidious? I can never tell. Particularly the viewpoint, which is surprisingly popular amongst supposedly educated people, that racism doesn't really exist anymore/isn't a big deal anymore, which at least from my perspective, seems to fuel these types of comments. To the GP comment, I'm not trying to tear you down, I'm actually quite interested in what people commenting stuff like this have to say, because I truly cannot understand.
Once we have fusion reactors, it won't be.
So 3.5.1 ?
I tried Diesel years ago, it was too "Rusty" for me. It made you define your schema twice, and couldn't use the same structs for inserts and selects (so 3 times, really). Overall, great first attempt at matching database types to Rust types, but the ORM needs to be more flexible and ergonomic - it's supposed to make writing queries easier, not harder :)

As for templates, writing your own language is almost a right of passage into 30s+ nerd club. I never read the dragon book, but I always wanted to take that class in school. There will always be different implementations of the same thing, and writing this one that mimics very closely what ERB (Rails) does felt right.
Cars aren't a liberty, merely an illusion of it. Cars are the reason you can't go anywhere you want to go without paying for a hunk of steel and risking your life. True liberty would be being able to walk everywhere you need to go, but this is rare.
I use private Twitter posts as a password manager, so this new development is very concerning to me.

... just kidding. There needs to be xkcd about something like this.
People tend to have their minds made up for them by powerful interests who use money and influence to frame the narrative in their favor no doubt. In the case of climate change the fictional argument/narrative for years as been "ITS A HOAX - NOT REAL - PROPAGANDA!!!". Here in the US I don't even think idiots believe that anymore ... but here we are still.
Looks like a cool project! I gotta say though, I’m still always surprised how few papers include code. I hope it continues to become more common to include code in the future.
Similar to OpenAI when they update their current models they just update the date, for example this new Claude 3.5 Sonnet is "claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022".
Unless faster-than-light travel becomes possible.
UPC's do have a lifetime already, so it's not entirely outside of their model.

Large companies produce so many UPC's for short lived products, especially fashion apparel, that GS1's rule is that UPC's should not be reused for at least 3 years.
As SRE, I got interested in https://levkk.github.io/rwf/migrating-from-python/. On one hand, this is crazy neat you were able to pull it off. On the stability SRE hand, I'm internally screaming. At scale, this should be handled by Reverse Proxy (Caddy, Nginx, Traefik, whatever)
2007: "Choose a Vista" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-feCRQBkSs

2024: "Choose a Claude"?
The confusion here is that most manufacturers don't differentiate between Tongue Load (which is 1100), and vertical hitch load limits. From an alert panel in the manual's "Carrying Accessories" section:

"The hitch assembly is designed to support vertical loads up to 160 lb (72 kg). Exceeding this maximum weight can cause damage."

The CT bed is 6' by 4', the F150 has options at 5'5" (short bed), 6'5" (standard bed), and 8' (long bed). It's also universally wider than the CT's bed (albeit by only 2"), and the depth is greater at the tailgate, and consistent throughout.

As for blind spots, trucks suck, period. But the complete loss of the back window when the tonneau cover is closed is a major visibility issue. Yes, even with the rear view camera (which all vehicles have now). The A pillar in the front is also a larger issue for the CT vs the F150.

I have yet to see a single instance of a CT doing offroading that a Subaru Legacy couldn't do - I've seen more ford pickups towing CTs out of trouble to be honest. The weight and lack of articulation put the Cybertruck at an immediate disadvantage that no amount of power control can overcome.
Trillion dollar company creates editor and terminal...thanks for proofing my point.