skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cover image is a Hieronymous Bosch woodcut of an English pub.

I’m not sure the author has seen the rest of Hieronymous Bosch’s oeuvre.

Edit: seems I phrased this badly, my point was that a Georgian woodcut circa 1810 is unlikely to be from Bosch (1450 – 1516).
> Connections, social intelligence, and knowing how to work the system is what moves things in Washington

You're not wrong, but this is a normative observation.

The question is, is this how it ought to be?
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Not quite. VW got in trouble for running _different_ software in test vs prod. These optimizations are all going to "prod" but are only useful for specific targets (a specific game in this case).
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> I probably would break the function down into smaller parts

Sure. Internally I have multiple functions. Though I don't like unit testing below the public API as it inhibits refactoring and gives false coverage feedback, so all my tests go through the main API.

> Pasting that into Claude, without any other context

The context is the important part. Like the context which says "0.5E0" and "nan" are specifically not supported, and how the calculations need to use decimal arithmetic, not IEEE 754 float64.

Also, the hard part is generating the complement with correct formatting, not parsing float-or-fraction, which is first-year CS assignment.

> # Handle special values

Python and C accept "Infinity" as an alternative to "Inf". The correct way is to defer to the underlying system then check if the returned value is infinite or a NaN. Which is what will happen here because when those string checks fail, and the check for "/" fails, it will correctly process through float().

Yes, this section isn't needed.

> # Handle empty string

My spec says the empty string is not an error.

> numerator, denominator = text.split("/"); num = float(numerator); den = float(denominator)

This allows "1.2/3.4" and "inf/nan", which were not in the input examples and therefore support for them should be interpreted as accidental scope creep.

They were also not part of the test suite, which means the tests cannot distinguish between these two clearly different implementations:

num = float(numerator)
den = float(denominator)

and:

num = int(numerator)
den = int(denominator)

Here's a version which follows the same style as the linked-to code, but is easier to understand:

if not isinstance(text, str):
return None

# Remove whitespace
text = text.strip()

# Handle empty string
if not text:
return None

# Handle ratio format (e.g., "1/2")
if "/" in text:
try:
numerator, denominator = text.split("/")
num = int(numerator)
den = int(denominator)
if den == 0:
return float("inf") if num > 0 else float("-inf") if num < 0 else float("nan")
return num / den
except ValueError:
return None

# Handle regular numbers (inf, nan, scientific notation, etc.)
try:
return float(text)
except ValueError:
return None

It still doesn't come anywhere near handling the actual problem spec I gave.
That article isn't as impressive as it sounds: https://gist.github.com/yoavg/8b98bbd70eb187cf1852b3485b8cda...

In particular, it is not an LLM and it is not trained solely on observations of chess moves.
Because this time, they are doing it right. /s

Compilers have anyway too few flags.
But often there's a special rule when you work in the company in question, in which case you have to pay income tax on a certain fraction of dividends, with something similar for the sale of the company.
Only because what VW did is illegal, was super large scale, and could be linked to a lot of indirect deaths through the additional pollution.

Benchmark optimizations are slightly embarrassing at worst, and an "optimization for a specific use case" at best. There's no regulation against optimizing for a particular task, everyone does it all the time, in some cases it's just not communicated transparently.

Phone manufacturers were caught "optimizing" for benchmarks again and again, removing power limits to boost scores. Hard to name an example without searching the net because it's at most a faux pas.
There's certainly demand for a helicopter that is half the cost and twice as reliable for emergency services and VIPs at least.
Yes, which is why this only matters when the person in questions works in the company.

In the Swedish system there's a rule whereby you accumulate something based on wages paid, and where you can thus avoid part of the sale counting towards income, provided that you've paid people so much in salaries that your work can be seen as a small part.

What I'm sort of arguing for though, is to tax work less, so as to encourage it.
Actually performing well on a task that is used as a benchmark is not comparable to decieving authorities about how much toxic gas you are releasing.
I distinctly remember the first time a lecturer used the "dx/dt" "symbol" in normal algebraic operations (that is, multiply both equation sides by dt and so on). I was so shocked it's actually not a elaborate differentation symbol, but something with actual division. Next time it was similar with integration, where the dx was substituted by some other function of du.

I swear I treated those as some grammar token, which doesn't hold any real meaning. I've been using those as such for years before.
I had code I wrote for someone in 2002 (php4) still running in 2017 (php 5.x). It broke trying to go to 7, and it was a small area that broke. It was core, so broke everything, but it had to do with re-assigning of $this at runtime. I think in 5 it was complaining about it as a warning, but no one was looking. Had I/we been stricter about the use of $this back in 2002, that code might still be running today. Doesn't mean it should or wouldn't be faster if rewritten with newer language features, but ... it had a good run for 15 years.

EDIT: Was reminded of another site started in 2000 (start of PHP4) that is still running. I can only see the login page now, but I see the login page is still displaying a particular URL structure that was/is slightly uncommon. If they kept that but rewrote the entire thing internally... that would be odd, because it would be easier to rewrite the whole thing. I've no doubt they've upgraded some internal parts, if only to accomodate new business needs over the past 20+ years (I stopped working with this project in 2003?) but it's still up and running.
True. But they did not optimize for a specific case. They detected the test and then enabled a special regime, that was not used normally.

It’s as if OpenAI detects the IP address from a benchmark organization, and then used a completely different model.
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What? We mostly get political ads in CEE region as most of the products or services being sold here are not applicable anyway.
I thought the same, but the description of the cat picture is pretty spot on. I wonder if this is a dataset issue. Cat pictures are far more prevalent than abstract art on the internet so might well be overrepresented. Can Vision LLMs deal with a long tail of underrepresented objects when small? Or can they only do so at scale?
Apples and oranges. VW actually cheated on regulatory testing to bypass legal requirements. So to be comparable, the government would first need to pass laws where e.g. only compilers that pass a certain benchmark are allowed to be used for purchasable products and then the developers would need to manipulate behaviour during those benchmarks.
I'm a researcher in this area if anyone wants to have a proper conversation. I'm 95% convinced that the major powers of the world have recovered crashed/landed non-human intelligence craft.

Before anyone responds to this comment, I would urge you to watch this video of Majority Leader Schumer and rising republican leader Mike Rounds giving a soliloquy on the senate floor to try to pass their UAP Disclosure Act and ask yourself - why would two senate leaders put their credibility on the line to try to pass a bill that references non-human intelligence 21 times?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8a0P617nqw&t=93s

And, I would urge you to read the bill. It's one of the most comprehensive pieces of legislations that has been put out this decade https://www.congress.gov/118/crec/2024/07/11/170/115/CREC-20...
This seems silly, a Hello World package benefits no one. Programmers make the conscious decision about whether they're developing a program or a library and not everything is suited to a library. Why would a game developer want to allow you to import their game as a package?
As a dev I see Meta made many decisions to respect privacy that constrain the kind of app I make although I've heard these will be somewhat relaxed.

I'd like to place a picture with a QR code in it, have somebody scan the code, then have the option of jumping into a world.

Apps can't access the cameras so you can't write a QR scanner. The Quest has a decent web browser but you can't access the cameras and make a web based QR scanner.

Without access to the cameras apps cannot at all understand the environment and enable you to interact with it. AR apps now have a special module that identifies a physical volume inside your space on a session by session but that's a pale shadow of the SLAM tracking of the Microsoft Hololens and Apple Vision that let you stick a "hologram" into the corner of your office and have it stay there.

Quest 3 devs need more access to make more interesting apps.
Oh, it's definitely malicious compliance. I have no doubt.
PHP still has PECL[0] which is a huge collection of C extensions.

[0] https://pecl.php.net/
It would be handy to have a reverse directory of starter packs, where you could search somebody's name and it would return a list of starter packs that they are listed in.
Yes, but people know who the head of the party was, and they knew who their local MP would be.

People dislike changes of party leadership by the party in power between elections because they get someone they did not vote for.

It is also only one layer removed from the people directly voted in. The EU Commissioners are another layer or too removed from who people voted for.
"As a matter of fact, I'm preparing for a tough war. It will bring us neither money nor fame. Want to join?"
I would be interested in the references to read please.
> Azure at 33%

Forcing people to use OneDrive surely has an effect. /s
Uno Platform will release a new visual editor soon:

https://platform.uno/blog/uno-platform-studio-featuring-hot-...
Ok after reading that I'm still amazed by the mistake. Surely it must have shown up before Swift was even generally available? And surely having even ONE case take several seconds for a single expression should have sent it back to the drawing board? Something still seems strange.

I can imagine people start linting to require (TypeName.Membername) instead of just (.MemberName) because they hope it can speed up compilation. And at that point it again feels like a big mistake to have allowed it from the beginning.
Haven't observed anything like that. Even with remote gdbserver on a low power embeddeded device, stepping has always been instant for me. Could be a C++ vs C thing.

The only thing which takes time is debuginfod downloads.
majority of sites don't have a clear "reject/decline all" button. I think they deliberately make it complicated.
Self host a simple blog. It's the best.
> Is it really that unlikely that some non-human intelligence potentially billions of years more advanced than us

I think there's a fine-tuning problem with that kind of argument. You have to believe all the steps that make intelligent space-faring life elsewhere come into being, and yet only one other manages to do so. If there were more than one, then it seems to me the same argument about government conspiracies would apply: every single one of them would have to work very hard to hide any evidence of their existence - not just from our mobile phones, but our most advanced telescopes.

I think if there were others close enough to matter, we'd have been colonised by an errant Von Neumann machine by now.
Yes. This is the big reason why muscle memory is the worst possible memory for music. The slightest glitch leaves you completely lost if you don't have conscious knowledge of where to go next.
Still haven't made my first thousand dollars.
I wish they'd stop serving scams too. I keep seeing shit like "make 75,000 using Ethereum and ChatGPT"
I think a lot of people who have their feet in multiple commonly "either/or" cultures have written quite a lot about the struggle to establish their own identity given those cultures framing many things in terms of, for lack of a better word, sole/primary membership.

I'm not sure anyone can say better or worse, in a useful fashion, objectively - more options can also lead to more ambiguity and stress, as with anything in life.

They're not wrong to say that by necessity, your experience is going to be different if it's defined in terms of choices made before you had agency, that are not mutable - your lived experiences are going to be very different if you cannot hear at all, and spent 10000 hours or w/e framing everything in your life around that, versus being able to hear.

Unfortunately, I think absent something else, this will go the same way as most narratives of cultures where there are utilitarian reasons to not remain in it - people will often choose the route of most visible potential benefit, in these situations.

Something more "ideal", in theory, would be if we could ignore critical periods, and just let people choose in adulthood to learn verbal language, but even that presents the problem that the majority dictates the "easy" option, and by nature, people who are not in that group will sometimes be the ones acting as sandpaper on rough edges in that interaction, as they're not as well-polished. (Look at all the government systems in the US that don't know how to handle more than the common "firstname lastname", for example.) So even that option presents the problems of utilitarian optimization resulting in rational actors just opting out of the more demanding route.

e: Just to be clear, I'm not trying to say I think any of what I just described is "good" - I think homogeneity in human experience deprives everyone of enrichment in the variation of life. But I don't see a way to optimize for this where given the ability, a lot of people don't choose the lower-friction route in their lives.
We already have the chess "calculator", though. It's called stockfish. I don't know why you'd ask a dictionary how to solve a math problem.
Not quite an LLM. It's a transformer model, but there's no tokenizer or words, just chess board positions (64 tokens, one per board square). It's purpose-built for chess (never sees a word of text).
Similar to https://rep.ai/ though they have gone down the AI route. Maybe you can investigate how they did their positioning and GTM.
How large is your code base? I am talking about 100K+ LOC with many complex dependencies (mainly Qt modules).
Being fast at doing linear algebra computations. (Is there any other kind?!)
The mice were the mechanism by which the hyper-intelligent, pan-dimensional beings observed their experiment. The experiment being "what is the Ultimate Question?" by running a 10 million year simulation.
I wish this comment were true, because this would mean political parties actually use knowledge and information to encourage people to vote for them. In the democratic elections I am exposed to (UK, US), this could not be further from the truth. Further, I think targeted marketing will always lean away from information and into exploiting emotional responses. A reduction in a bombardment of targeted marketing is a positive thing.

However, there should definitely be exemptions, as political information basically just means anything that matters. I feel that ads must have a clear intention to inform, not sell, when it comes to politics.
Just call it a country and be done with it.

It has a parliament, a flag (adopted - its the flag of Europe originated by the Council of Europe), a national anthem (likewise adopting a well known piece of music) and a de facto constitution (it was essentially PR move to drop plans to call it a constitution - the substance did not change).
Nope just the usual stuff shoved in there by every damn thing I install. But I don’t touch it myself. In fact I even stripped out ohmyzsh and whatnot a few years ago.
I get the point about packages, but creating a separate package to host the tests for another package sounds a bit silly to me.
Dementia is a progressive multi-system failure (CPU, RAM, SSD, Motherboard)

Anterograde Amnesia, on its own, is a failure to write to the SSD.

Medical amateurs, like tech amateurs, might struggle to differentiate between the two.

Medical professionals, like tech professionals, should not.

When it is not possible to upgrade the SSD, using the CPU and the RAM to compensate for the faulty SSD is an excellent hack.

There is a reason I check out Hacker News on an almost daily basis, this is it.
Who links to twitter anymore? That place is untrustworthy and irrelevant.
Hell if it keeps them from passing any laws for a couple years, have fun
> Instantly speak to a sales rep

Soo, if you’re like me, booking a call is a necessity. Most days, half of my day is booked. How do you work around this?

That said, I do like the idea of a uniformed platform with a low barrier of entry when it comes to contacting me.
Non-human intelligence does not imply extraterrestrial intelligence.
If you spend time around bicultural people or 3rd culture kids you’ll find this is definitely an issue.

Eventually most people figure things out and make the most of it in adulthood, but it definitely makes for teenage/young adult identity crises that monocultural people don’t have to deal with.
In a roughly two-week window of not having adblock enabled, I have seen a ton of "politics-adjacent" ads in Germany. They'd usually start off with something that will get right-wing nuts excited ("This Green Party politician ruined their career, learn more.") and will then pivot to some crypto-scam.

I'm wondering if those will be affected by the new ban as well, or if crypto scams aren't political enough to apply.
It costs as little as $10 a day to run ads on YouTube. Getting results realistically requires higher spend, but a few thousand dollars can make a decent impact.

Whereas traditional ad agencies and TV networks require orders of magnitude more spend to get started. Those are the placements you need oligarchs friends for.
So, a $200 display? With how many pixels? Is it better than a 29" curved monitor?
XBMC was so good at the time. Haven't been superseded yet in UX. Locate the movie in some network folder and go.

XBMC4Xbox seems to be a spinoff but I guess it can't play HD.

Edit:
And it seemed to have been running the original Xbox win32 interface, not Linux.
Standard patient monitoring indirectly monitors for blood loss. Decreased blood pressure, increased breathing rate, increased heart rate are all signs of blood loss. This can be and is done by machines.

The thing people don't seem to understand is the fact doctors also monitor consciousness. Depressed mental state is also a sign of blood loss. The patient's neurolopsychogical state is important information, it has diagnostic and prognostic value.

The most basic way of evaluating a patient's neuropsychological state is to bother them with questions.
Your comment's giving AI vibes too.
Sure, but feeding impressionable people garbage which then gets them to vote squarely against their own interests is worse than creators making a bit less.
> You have to believe all the steps that make intelligent space-faring life elsewhere come into being

I would argue that it's very selfish thinking we would be the only intelligent life in the universe, let alone our own galaxy. If you're throwing out the entire argument based on that presumption, then this conversation is pointless.

Science is about optimism to learn what we don't know. There are things in the sky that we can't identify, as Obama has said https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1hNYs55sqs We should be open to the idea of all possibilities, rather than dousing fire on it.
Article says this has been done other places already. Has this specifically been campaign ads or does it also involve things that are considered politically motivated messaging? For example, is there danger of vaccination PSAs getting banned because some politicians say bizarre things about them?
Sigh. Obviously, you don't need to avoid it in cases where it doesn't apply in the first place... The point I was trying to make is that businesses do take the GPL seriously - where it applies - and don't just ignore it.
Wir haben Kunst, damit wir nicht an der Wahrheit zugrunde gehen.
This is like reading an open letter from Stalin to Hitler
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> Not suing others for millions or billions and spreading misery. Nothing can bring those kids back.

> Maybe the government could have offered education and employment guarantees to the families?

The lawsuit wasn't about responsibility or compensation for the school shooting. It was about the years of harassment and death threats that the families of those killed had to endure from people who believed the lies that Alex Jones repeatedly told about them.
As bright as those lights are, they're still no comparison to the summer sun really.

I went into a rabbit hole a while back of investigating whether it would be possible to light a room in my house equivalent to the summer sun, so I could avoid SAD during the long nights of the British winter.

Taking that 35,000 lumen light above, even assuming it's lumen rating is accurate, in a 3 by 3 metre room, that's less than 4,000 lux, and that's if it was entirely focused on the floor area. Direct sunlight is 32,000 to 100,0000 lux. The sun is just really bright. Normal indoor home lighting is about 100 lux.

The most efficient LEDs on the market are 200 lm/watt, so a reasonable lower bound for the amount of lighting you'd need for a 3x3 room is 1440 watts to get to the minimum 32k lux, but you'd have to factor in electrical inefficiencies and the directionality too.

All that being said, those corn cob bulbs are fantastic and do make you feel a lot better. Just not quite the same as relaxing on a hammock in the garden, sadly.
At least in France I don't think I've seen either of those. More common are poster stuck on public infrastructure
as a foreigner, the language used is baffling (for example: "rarely addressed in moderate, bipartisan terms" that comes out of nowhere)
Not sure about the EU-27, but the UK has rules about election ads, to the extent that Cambridge Analytica was a scandal. Some of that scandal was due to bribery and offering prostitutes, but even the aspects that were purely what is considered "normal" for targeting online advertising was unacceptable by UK political standards.

That said, part of the latter being scandalous assumes that they were actually capable of providing the service they claimed, which is something I find myself increasingly unable to believe due to how wildly badly I get categorised by the main advertising platforms — nationality, country of residence, language, gender, all wrong.
> The EU is a doubly-indirect democracy: you vote for local politicians who appoint commissioners who vote for policies.

The EU Commission is the executive, not legislative branch. Though it does hold the initiative to create proposals, they have to be approved by the Council, which is where the real power lies. The Council consists of members of national governments.
Also there is a directly elected, but much less powerful, European Parliament, that has to approve the legislative too.