skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just don't take any of the testing of these seriously anymore, OG GPT4 before the "GPT Store" and "Dev Day" this time last year still just felt way more powerful than anything on the market today.

3.5 Sonnet felt close but even that feels like it's being downgraded now.

Just feels like things are silently being quantized or downgraded in other ways to increase profitability once people jump on. Even trying same prompts that one shotted flawlessly pre-Dev Day 2023 now just fail for me on GPT.
> the client written in Zig (superchanged with raylib and Zerl).

What does "supercharged" mean here? I'd guess raylib simply does all the rendering and input handling, what is it "supercharging" here?
My guess is that they changed it from our definition of AGI to their own:

Artificial.

Good enough.

Intelligence.

Besides, most people i know that use AI say they would get much more out of it with smaller more specifically trained models than the all knowing one we have now, but that depends.
How gophers brought Mount St. Helens back to life in one day
That is a nice way to migrate to AsciiDoc. After the migration happened you can add more advanced syntax provided by AsciiDoc.
Very likely the training data.
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It's the opposite, usually. "My heart dropped" is a sense of doom, foreboding, a realisation of oncoming cataclysm. Like 'as I saw the second plane come into view my heart dropped'.

Of course, people don't use language in a consistent way, and people will use terms thinking they mean e.g. their antonym.

It's probably a common initial reaction to learning of impending parenthood. Life will never be the same. Initially one might only see the looming challenge of the mountain to climb.
Cheked, it is True,I rarely see or hear about iphones, so i just heard they sold badly and made a connection.

Though why was that fact never mentioned in the adverts? Or did i just not notice?
But does this not make the assumption that the Identity being provisioned is exactly you and only you? I've always seen these identities as my pseudonym on some identity provider and use them in that manner.

I suppose I've used some identities in enough places that it would be hard to deny to certain entities that the identity was mine, but even in that case it's a small subset of entities which have seen the identity that could prove that it's me.
Even blocking has changed!
It sure feels like everything after GPT-4 has just been an incremental improvement (putting aside multimodal capabilities and longer context windows) - GPT-4 Turbo, GPT-4o, o1.

GPT-3.5 with the ChatGPT front end was just such a massive improvement over everything that came before it, then 4 months later they release GPT-4 which was a significant improvement but more importantly gave the impression that progress was actually accelerating, then for the last 20 months we got incremental tweaks and new models that are a little better at certain tasks and a little worse at others.
Alzheimer's timeline shows changes start as trickle, become torrent
> They could draw from a lot of people already employed

which means the city would need to pay above the existing wage for those people, since they're _already_ employed and would have no incentive to jump.

> no incentive to mark up the price

and have no incentive to try to save money or find novel efficiencies, since the money spent is not "theirs".
Elephants that make other elephants laugh get laid more often.
Side note: “write everything twice” (WET) is originally meant as a reaction to DRY (“don’t repeat yourself”). I think the author uses the credo here for something else (which is still good advice).
"You're living life wrong" pretty much sums up all "advice" I get from Austrians when I point out any problem with Austria. Now it turns out I need to have "small rooms" and "deal with the noise". This dance can continue ad-infinitum.

> AC units do not create a vacuum

I have to insist of this, please watch the video I linked, single-hose portable AC units absolutely create a vacuum, and single-hose designs are the only ones you can get in Europe. The air for cooling the evaporator coils comes from the room and is expelled through the hose outside. This is of course different than any sort of real AC unit.

> houses are not air tight spaces

Indeed, this is how single-hose portable AC units can work, and the more air tight your house is, the more dangerous it gets with gas heating. Installing a single-hose portable AC unit in an old building with gas heating is not only very dangerous, it is also illegal (but people do it anyway). The only way to do it properly is to install an intake valve in your apartment (nobody does this). Please educate yourself about this, it is a very serious problem.

As for AC noise in general, no, a split-unit AC system makes only a trivial amount of noise. Even a crappy window unit makes far less noise than a portable AC unit because the compressor and fan is outside for a window unit, as opposed to inside.
Most Go players I know prefer the simplicity and elegance of Fischer time [1].
No more pausing the clock to count out N stones, or worries about using less
time than allotted for your N moves and wasting the rest.
I don't mind seeing byoyomi become a relic of the past...

[1] https://polgote.com/en/blog/time-controls-go-byo-yomi-fische...
Great product! What is the deal with the restricted country list for shipping? Seems like you ship to some of the EU, but not all of the EU? :D
I don't understand the thread mobility. I only see the overhead but surely there must be massive gains in performance by spreading the thermal load.
Vienna to me is a fascinating case of a city that found itself again after having lost its place in history more than once.

If you look at the geography, if you look at the political climate, just at the fundamentals it's not clear why Vienna is a large city. There really is not a lot of reason for this city to matter today yet somehow it is a wonderful place to live in, despite all that.

The city somehow managed to find an identity on its own that somehow makes it work.
And honestly, with the reactive programming approach ... a related UX for IDE should not be that hard either.

I think most framework developers unfortunately forget productivity as a key metric. Might be a bit unfair however, the lack of visual tools is disappointing.
There is a WebClipper - https://obsidian.md/clipper
> I think if I were in charge of presenting this material to students I'd do it by introducing the concept of memorylessness and by showing how good memorylessness is, how many wonderful things you can do with it. And then one day I'd be like, "well, it sure would be nice if we had any distributions like that!" and then whirl around with my piece of chalk to deliver the exciting news that we do. Exactly one, in fact.

Incidentally, this also goes for the determinant of a matrix. It's got a lot of neat and desirable properties, and it turns out to be the only thing that does. When it was finally taught to me this way, those weird algorithms we use to compute this seemingly-arbitrary number finally made sense. (And, in fact, this is the easiest way to prove that all those algorithms have to be computing the same seemingly-arbitrary number. Because the algorithms preserve the properties that define The Determinant, and The Determinant is the unique thing that preserves all of those properties, so must those algorithms all be computing The Determinant, no matter how different they might look.)

So I can vouch that this style of explanation really does work, at least for people like me.
Putt's Law
6 CDs because VS6 comes with 3 CDs and 3CDs for MSDN.

But later they switched to new format of MSDN and old IDEs can't use them. And there was some add-on that allow to old IDEs to use new MSDN format.
Will the game evolve further, and what is its future?
Subsonic: Personal Media Streamer
I suspect that's not the reason why the graffiti wasn't removed.
Play has a purpose, it hones reflexes, teaches youth about concealment, traps, ambushes, what their bodies can do, whether running away works in a scenario or fighting is better.

It also shows who is best to lead a fight. Play much like curiosity, makes you able to navigate your environment. It very much has extreme usefulness.
I think I am going to start doing that =D.

I wonder what keywords or tricks I might use to find such blogs in the current days.
My family lives in the US, I have lived my childhood there, as well as a good portion of my adulthood.

I know very well what kind of problems the US has, but I think a lot of US people have a very naïve view of Europe ("ah they just solved X, Y, Z there") when in reality nothing comes for free (and I don't mean money). Similarly, a lot of europeans have a very naïve view of Europe as well, pretty much by the same argument. They just do not realize the difference for the median person in the standard of living, they always concentrate on the same old tropes -- "but what about the poor, what about public transport, what about healthcare". Yeah, what about them? And what about the not-so-poor? Why is it that just mentioning these things, that allegedly Europe does better at, why is it that we can't consider anything else? A discussion about liveable cities should involve, well, standards of living.
That's a nice dividing line, science and engineering are different for sure. But science makes use of engineering knowledge and engineering makes use of scientific knowledge.
Germany needs to regulate a mandatory posting of the pay range with every job being posted. The power dynamic is very skewed towards employers because when you send in your application, you must also indicate your pay expectations but employers (except select few) never post the pay ranges. In the end what happens is that, two seniors in the same team will earn in 50-70% difference while doing the same duties.
This thread is about a book review and you started one tangential flamewar and are working on another. It's not how the site is supposed to work which you surely know having been here a while.
It's like the uncertainty principle: even the act of asking someone a question will likely change their views.
Now that's what you call high specific heat capacity!
Please elaborate how that road leads to hell. I'm still not in the position to prohibit others from behaviors, but i have a reason to disapprove.
Implementing Order-Independent Transparency
This seems to be a prevalent problem that people bring up.

I remember there was a forum post about it that got a lot of flack, but maybe they were onto something.

Here it is: https://community.openai.com/t/did-chatgpt-4o-get-progressiv...
OpenGL is not Right-Handed
C# has several constructs like anonymous types, tuples, named tuples, and records (for structs and classes). Each has different use cases (and sometimes limited scopes like anonymous types) that can serve different contexts for data modelling.

> with less verbose namespaces

This is, once again, the function of the team and not the language. There is no hard mandate on how namespaces are selected so verbose namespaces is a result of teams preferring it over more concise naming. Part of that might be purely practical. Whereas in JS, you would import a local module by path, C# imports via namespace and convention is to use pathing, but C# will of course allow any namespace convention you like for local modules and does not constrain to strict pathing.
If you really just want to know why some US states have anti-sodomy laws that aren’t enforced (and that most people don’t want to enforce), then it’s a pretty simple story. The laws were made a long time ago when attitudes were different. Then the laws were all ruled unconstitutional in 2003, meaning that there hasn’t been any strong incentive to repeal them in the time since.
> creation of the GUI boilerplate code from a form designer

why? i think the approach of of the form designer generating code instead of generating serialized objects that your code interacts with at runtime is a serious flaw. java got it wrong, cocoa got it right there.
My only anecdote is from ProServe where I use to work. But admittedly, I forgot that my part of ProServe didn’t really hire L4s. We would take a very few as interns and give them return offers.
VB6 was the best IDE by far for people that get things done right now.

I was installing PC based CCTV systems for a living back in mid 2000s, I had a restaurant customer have their mind blown by pandoras music service while demoing the PC. They asked "can I hear this over the restaurant speakers?". Yeah, I got 3.5mm to RCA to BNC in the car which I can run to your AMP.

Now he was really happy, felt like he got launched into the 21st century.

"Can I pause the music and make an announcement to my customers?". I made him a shortcut on the desktop to sndvol32.exe aka sound mixer so he can talk over the speakers and then resume the music and he was again floored.

"I want my staff to be able to do this but not here in my office but at the front counter".

Easy. "Give me a paper clip and 30 minutes". Went to the car to grab some stranded Cat 5 and an old beige two button IBM mouse. Ran the cables from the office to the reception area, soldered a cat-5 pair to the left mouse clicker, drove a sheetrock screw threw the mouse body to mount it on the wall like a taxidermied deer head. Back in the office I soldered the leads to the paper clip so I could have a solid connection to the LPT port on the PC (I didn't carry DB-25 back then).

It was easy from there: googled "VB6 Volume Mixer". Download that, open the checkbox for mute stereo mix, copy one liner into a timer, set interval for 100ms, check if the pins on the LPT are shorted, if so mute stereo mix, unmute the mic.

This was written in the field without any pre planning. I still have this customer to this day. What a great tool for us "jacks of all trades".
> On both Windows and macOS, windows are clearly delimited by drop shadows.

https://www.threads.net/@roblillack/post/DBYOuivOPFV
Master/sub would be funnier for getting a reaction out of prude Americans.
Nicely done! I just spent my last 16h of work time on implementing the reverse: parsing ethernet2 (with vlans!), ipv4+6 & UDP up to an automotive IP protocol. Use case is to understand a proprietary bus capturing stream that forwards ethernet frames (among other things) nested in ethernet frames that I receive on a raw socket. Fun stuff! Wireshark & Chatgpt are invaluable for this kind of task
How to make select in WinSock exceed the 64-socket limit
Yes, I assume that it is better to spread the generated heat across the die. Migrating threads between clusters probably does have some cost (mostly cache misses, minimal cost to pausing and moving) but if done less than every second that is likely miniscule.
Previous COVID infection enhances immunity, creating what we call hybrid immunity. This happens because current vaccines mainly target the spike protein, while natural infection exposes the immune system to other parts of the virus.

New vaccines in development aim to include multiple proteins and improved delivery methods, which could lead to longer-lasting immunity. For now, hybrid immunity (infection plus vaccination) offers broader protection, while vaccines safely boost antibody levels without the risks of infection.
Yes. That makes sense. But sometimes I wonder whether the ego is there to deny the immortality of the awareness.

https://realization.org/p/ashtavakra-gita/richards.ashtavakr...
I chipped my tooth on one just last wednesday
I didn't even realise mIRC worked on 3.11, wow! It was my first introduction to programming in a way.

It makes me wonder if adding something akin to the script editor you had in mIRC to for instance a game such as minecraft would serve as a good way to introduce people to programming, similar to how mIRC might have..
It’s not a tower, so it’s the other way around. At ground level, the cable only has to hold up the weight of a car. At a kilometer of height, it has to hold up that car plus a kilometer of tether.

At (about; adding cars to the tether changes things a bit) geostationary height (in this case I guess that could be called lunastationary), forces on the tether start going upwards, and tether size can go down as you go further up.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator#Cable
You suffer for a corporation when you use Windows, and they get richer and greedier.

When you use Linux, your suffering might push you to break and waste a weekend fixing an upstream bug, from which the entire world benefits for free. When you use Linux, your suffering builds positive karma, and next life you get to reincarnate as a cat, released from the hell that is software engineering.
It’s not that hard to walk with headphones on and pretend you’re in a call.
I developed a what I would consider a pretty small application with Power Apps, and it was an incredibly impressive platform. Internal application, about 200 users, 2000ish records of data generated each day.

However, I wouldn’t want to build anything in it again. The amount of gymnastics required to work with and around those kinds of limitations (500 records) through pagination, error checking, retry logic. I ended up needing to implement things I wouldn’t want even my worst enemy to maintain. Definitely nothing wrong would expect a citizen developer create or maintain.

But it’s ability to easily bring together multiple data sources, consistent uni-directional dataflow, and lots of other things made it a rally nice platform to work on
People doing a weird thing for clicks is not the shtick for me. People sharing their weird life, maybe.
Feels like an Adam Curtis documentary.
This is why you always use an URL shortner with an edit function in QR codes.
A sit-down with Ubuntu founder Mark 'SABDFL' Shuttleworth
You might not worry about the Apple ecosystem when your iCloud account is cancelled for issuing a chargeback.
And the circle completes.
NFTs: for imposing scarcity on things that have no reason to be scarce. It always struck me as backwards.
Sourceforge used to have it too!
Yann LeCun has been arguing this for a while, and that without a 'world model' there would be a limitation. It is only a matter of time before this problem is solved I suspect (nothing empirical to support this).
Encrypted ZIP files have long been a way to evade any sort of malware detection during transmission.
Surprised that groff is not mentioned. I've recently used it to typeset my CV and oh boy... It feels like something really really arcane. Despite fighting with it at the beginning I'm quite happy for the result and also like that I can now version the code (no more LibreOffice for that). The key difference between typesetting and textprocessing is that typesetting is like programming a document, you have basically access to common functionality offered by programming languages, which of course gives you a lot of power and flexibility. The thing I do complain about groff is its documentation (man pages are like very crude to follow on commands) and also there are almost no resources (tutorials, recipes, guides) out there.
None of these is GPT-5.

Also, intelligence isn't the only criteria. Updated knowledge also matters. Context length also matters for large problems that can't be divided.
Another T1D here. I do not have a compatible pump with looping. But I'd like to dip my toe into openaps.

I use a cgm (libre2).

Can I use autotune to tune my carb ratio, basals etc. without looping? How was your experience in this?

Do I have to use nightscout to run autotune?
Well,

https://www.sciencealert.com/plants-really-do-scream-weve-si...
That's like saying that it's not astronomy if I'm using a radio telescope, only optical telescopes are real astronomy. It makes zero sense. The tools are irrelevant. We don't have physics with and without ml journals.

It's like saying AlphaFold isn't biology because it uses ml. It's absurd

One goal of linguistics is to produce an account of how language works. If you understand how something works you can reproduce it. This was always a core part of linguistics. Just look at Chomsky's work. Or at what counts as evidence in a linguistics paper. It is a model that "explains" some feature of language.

NLP does exactly the same thing as linguistics. It produces explanations and makes predictions about language. But it does so with ML.

I think you're confused about optics and rasterization. There are countless ways to relate the two. Rasterization is not unphysical, no more so than say, finite element methods are unphysical. Heck physics is in the name of PBR. It's an approximation. And a fine one that people actually use in both science and games.
If you read to the end, some telcos even banned VoLTE on phones that were roaming on their networks.

Also emergency calls aren't routed via roaming, so you are very likely to end up not being able to make a call for help.
It's just a superlative to give praise to the two libraries they are using to develop their game.
Exploring SQLite with Go using the C API (cgo)
Rats have like 6 babies every other month. Elephants need like 2 years for a new baby. You get much more attached to offspring when they take a long time and they survive for a few tens of years instead of a few months. Feelings get synchronized with the r/K strategy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/K_selection_theory
> "You're living life wrong" pretty much sums up all "advice" I get from Austrians when I point out any problem with Austria.

Have you considered that they might just have a point?

Or in a slightly more friendly way - Vienna has the highest standard of living, but your personal preferences do not mash with it and if the Viennese lived like you would like to, it would no longer be as livable?
I think your parent comment is talking about AI bots consuming the content, while you seem to be making a point about AI bots posting content.
So cooool!
This solves exactly zero problems I have. Can't Dahl find something useful to do after 20 years?
It seems the biggest future proofing thing is that all recordings are just written to an SD card. So even if the app doesn't work at all, you can always pull the card and read data off there.
A primer on turning around your life before 2024 ends
It's like one day on earth project, but for every day
Maybe they don't feel comfortable calling it GPT-5 if it's not much of an improvement over 4o.
From the amount of data each successive generation used (which grew many orders of magnitude each time) to the decreasing, logarithmic performance, it's quite clear the steam is running out on shoving more data into it. If one plots the data to performance graph, its horribly logarithmic. In another perspective, the ability of LLMs to transfer learning actually decreases exponentially the larger they and the data sets get. This fits into the how humans have to specialise in topics because the mental models of one field is very difficult to transfer to another.
The wikipedia article on the word is an interesting read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke

The reductionist choice of the author and the way things are phrased seem like they're fact and argument based but are just a sugar coated simple and dull opinions.