skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This demonstrates empirically that ARC-AGI cannot be solved purely via memorization and interpolation

Now that the current challenge is over, and a successor dataset is in the works, can we see how well the leading LLMs perform against the private test set?
Without the black box, no one gets any medical treatment at all!
Fish Eyes
I think this concept is where the linux distro Slackware came from too. Although Slackware has to be pushing 30 by now.
> The miscalculation came about with the 386 coming out sooner than we expected.

Different times, different world.
Beautiful creatures! It’s interesting that they converged towards that rugged but still very dog-ish appearance.
> Is there any evidence to suggest this is true?

I can't find any sources _not_ mentioning billions of loss for 2024 and for the foreseeable future
> Legitimacy is not determined by majority vote.

> If the vast majority of them accept that the elections were legitimate, they were legitimate.

???

> determined by the people who don't like the results

So I guess I have to ask, which people and how are you determining majority legitimacy if not by vote?
The last several times I did a DC fast charge that wasn't just plug and charge it had a credit card terminal that took chipped cards, swiped cards, and tap to pay. Plug in, tap credit card, it starts charging.
> The only way to undermine democracy is to reject the results of the elections.

Do you actually believe this? Voter suppression and intimidation tactics don’t exist? Elections are always valid, no matter how they were facilitated?
"You cannot object to anything unless you object to everything" is not a particularly compelling argument
The flow lately has been transforming test cases to accommodate interface changes, so I'm not asking it to remember something from several hours ago, I'm just asking it to make the "same" transformation from the previous prompt, except now to a different input.

It struggles with cases that exceed 1000 lines or so. Not that it loses track entirely at that size, it just starts making dumb mistakes.

Then after about 2 or 3 hours, the size at which it starts to struggle drops to maybe 500. A new chat doesn't seem to help, but who can say, it's a difficult thing to quantify. After 12 hours, both me and the AI are feeling fresh again. Or maybe it's just me, idk.

And if you're about to suggest that the real problem here is that there's so much tedious filler in these test cases that even an AI gets bored with them... Yes, yes it is.
Fair point. So in this conceptualization, Google's "product" is advertising, and search is a feature that supports advertising.
I've only used the RAN chargers once, but IIRC, they don't really have an interface for allowing third-party transactions (i.e., paying with a credit card).

You have to register your vehicle through their app, which may also make this a bit more difficult.
I've heard the issue with high fructose corn syrup is that the levels of sugar in it does not correspond to its sweetness level. Corn syrup on its own is not very sweet, so to make it taste sweet you have to add much higher levels than if you had used other types of sweetener.
Yes, that sounds very nice and you are very privileged and lucky. Leisure is definitely a lot nicer than work, but there's a lot of work someone has to do. You can choose to pay people to work, or not, but if you pay people to not work you have to figure out some other incentive for workers or the necessary work won't get done at all.

I do prefer living in industrialized society to subsistence farming and slavery, personally, so maybe let's try to keep the incentives in place and NOT copy the Soviets, yeah?

And implying that there's a way we're "meant" to live implies we were created by a conscious being with intent, and I think you'll find that's a controversial view
Those aren't covered in the article. Timeshares, they're on the spectrum. What's up with sandwich franchises?

The set of franchise owners is smaller than the set of people who've endured the timeshare pitch and even bought into one is much smaller than those who've touched the slime of the healthcare system. And health impacts go beyond money and time.
Thank you for sharing this--I was also confused by the hand photos but viewing them again with this reference point gave me a new appreciation for the entire work!
Or you can just acknowledge that API is designed for a different use case and not have any limits in place.
At a certain point, if you don't approve of another regions labor policies, you have to buy less of their exports, otherwise you won't be able to produce your own goods.
Question: Were you born in SF?
Most of these problems have incorrect solution. For instance, the actual solution to parsing portrait or landscape is to not use a string for this. It should never have been a string! Other better solutions apply for the rest too.
It certainly has a strong Randian influence, despite that particular ideological leaning being beneficial only to a tiny fraction of the population. That could be indicative of tech culture in general though and not necessarily outside influence.

TBH I'd be surprised if any high-traffic public forum isn't heavily influenced by foreign or ruling-class interests at this point.
> Everybody knows a poor/normal man cannot fight for justice. What justice are you talking about?

Their point stands.
>Burn all my savings and assets

For about 25% of Americans this would take less than a month (https://bankingjournal.aba.com/2024/08/survey-one-in-four-am...)
How do you calculate the price?
I think the case could be made that “spreading your data” is exactly what you don’t want to do, you’re increasing your attack surface.
I think he is legitimately insane. He fits schizotypal personality disorder to a T. Multiple psychologists told me he fits.
If you're older I think some of this is obvious. Biggest example for me is grapefruit, they used to be barely sweet, when I was a kid they were mostly bitter and we used to add sugar to them, now they're always extremely sweet.
I am struggling to come up with a way you could run a health insurance company and NOT be hated. Can anyone come up with examples of successful, beloved health insurance companies?

Their role in the system is to more or less to do rationing / make resource allocation decisions (or at least be the "administrative face" of rationing policies) and this is always going to be unpopular. While "look inward" is always good advice, I think these companies understand that some percentage of customers will hate them simply because that is the nature of the business.

They have to say "no" to some things. The more things they say "yes" to the higher your premiums are. If they say yes to way too many things (like public health care systems will tend to do) then you will see rationing by waitlist rather than price. They are also subject to the laws of large companies and so will make both random and systemic mistakes (just like every other large organisation) for the usual bureaucratic reasons.

Even if major systemic change is made, whatever entity is left with the responsibility of saying "no, you don't get that care" will still be hated.
> the fact that his life-long diet caused his cancer and killed him

It's not even a fact that it was a life-long diet.

It's certainly not a known fact that it caused his cancer. You don't know. Nobody knows.
The 3rd place solution by Agnis Liukis, solves 40 tasks.
https://www.kaggle.com/code/gregkamradt/arc-prize-2024-solut...
To add to the understanding of why there aren't just extension cords for these, those cables are liquid cooled. You pretty much need the right sized cable the first time to handle this much power.
Just a proxy conflict. Just need to figure out if Russia is the main power or the Chinese (or NK) proxy.
building military is much much more expensive than paying influencers.

Russian propaganda machine is incredibly strong, because it was perfected on their own citizens for basically century now. They spend billions on pure propaganda.

While with military - they relied on propaganda as well. They projected power while not picking conflicts with anyone who can punch back.

Ukraine appeared too big to swallow this time and everyone can see, that king is naked. Russian military is a sham compared to US. Like, incomparable to be honest. But problem is that propaganda is much stronger than military. So west made a mistake dismissing russia because of their weak corrupt military while being invaded by propaganda.

West has nothing against russian propaganda machine and this is what thrtuthly terrifying to be honest.
Nice one.

Random key: balance is zero.

Real key: balance is (now) zero
makes sense but so far I haven't experienced that -- well, one time the precheck line was longer than the regular line (so I just went to the regular line)

but maybe for travelers who regularly travel at super busy times (i.e., flying out of DC on a Friday evening) benefit from CLEAR
What percentage of the 100+ Zettabytes of data now on the internet does this page take up?
How about we go further, and replace "Governments" with "human civilization" and "tax-free status" with "continued existence"?
Why was my comment flagged?
Is there anything inaccurate?
Is there something hateful?
Why are so many techies also keto fanboys.

I suspect it's because diets like keto say it's OK to eat loads of meat and basically don't require any sacrifice. Fuck the environment and fuck other animals right bros?!
The one who ends up calling the other one names always loses.
I thought levels of fructose weren't as important as other qualities, like fiber content. For example, Dates are often referenced as a good fruit option due to the high fiber content but that guide doesn't mention fiber at all and has dates in the high fructose category. This seems like standard operating procedure in anything dietary where it is more about a specific aspect of the food and less about communicating well rounded advice.
> cultures that fast?

Are there any culture that fast in a way that would matter here ? Most of fasting traditions are mostly performative. The average joe probably fasted more by default a few thousand years ago than most people do now
Comic relief.
For ChatGPT I've found this search extension useful to find previously used prompts: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/gpt-search-chat-his...

Source code: https://github.com/polywock/gpt-search
100% agree with this. I would say that the other highly likely mistake new managers make is trying to code their way out of problems. It makes sense, right? Previously when you're an IC and a project ran into issues you could just "code harder" and get through it, but that's rarely the right solution when you're a manager and will likely exacerbate the problem itself if you disappear into the trenches trying to code your way through a critical path. Your role is no longer primarily solving coding problems it's solving people problems.
Obviously yes, so is most chronic disease, but bring up people being healed by lifestyle & diet intervention and prepare for relentless attacks from both doctors and laypeople.
I have to admit I initially hired a few Papered Posers, and it was a mistake to pay them 2.4x higher than market rate to ensure the project would reach conclusion on schedule.

The lessons we learned:

1. "Manage or be managed...": your first lesson is people will try to manipulate those in positions of authority regardless of competency. i.e. the idea of "goodwill" being the true core product can escape the irrationally ambitious/sycophantic.

2. No amount of money can make someone care about company projects. The worker may be interested in the project, or is simply there for the wrong reasons. Remember you want to keep employees content, but a "kingdom of kings" is unsustainable.

3. People can postpone something until tomorrow indefinitely. Thus, pay very close attention to projected deliverable times.

4. Fire someone for being unproductive according to a defined workmanship-standard as soon as possible. It will notify the rest of staff you are not there to play games, and stupid behavior will have consequences. Mostly effective with Jr staff using ChatGPT to try and BS the world like any other con.

5. Delegation? Just initially run trial contracts with potential staff first for each project deliverable. Failure to deliver on time means they don't get another dime, or a second chance to be unaccountable for their behavior.

6. Entrenched incompetence: organizations have their own emergent structure, and it will usually drift back to the same dysfunctional patterns/designs.

7. Redacted

8. try to leave things slightly better than when you arrived.

9. Managers usually can never be a normal employee again. People subconsciously fear they cannot control authority, and will prefer to hire someone easier to "handle".

Best regards, =3
Medium hot take: this is why closed-source social media post promotion algorithms should be banned. We should not let a foreign private company with government links influence society in a hidden way like that.
> You can't run a campaign with no money, and he had no real grass-roots support

The fact he won the first round contradicts you on both points.

You seem to think your statements are axiomatic, but they have no basis.
That's why I put a newline in my username.
I've got a Rivian and have only used their chargers on a road trip to Whistler from the Bay Area. One was in Shasta behind a little hotel—you'd not see it if you weren't looking for it. The other was at a Homewood Suites lot somewhere in Southern Oregon. Unsurprisingly, these were back-to-back stops. So, I think they were specifically put there to help bridge a gap between Northern CA and Southern OR.
In general yes, but there are some good guests that were there. For example, in case of nutrition, Dr. Layne Norton called him out on having a guy that was talking nonsense on the podcast and then they got in touch with Layne and had him on the podcast where he explained many of the misinformation about nutrition currently in wild.
An unfortunate homonym.
This is from 2008
Do we want to get people excited about math? I think that as long as they're competent in it, it's fine if most people are mostly indifferent towards it and just see it as a useful tool.
U.S. courts are not "the government." They are a part of the government. It's not the court's job to "implement privacy regulation." That's the legislative branch's job.

The U.S. government is designed this way on purpose -- so that no one part of the government is more powerful than the other.

I assume you're not an American, because this is generally taught in elementary school.
I've come to notice that there is no incentive for 3rd party ev-chargers to be dependable.

Telsa and rivian have a vested interest in keeping the chargers working. Their sales depend on the chargers working. Even a little bad press is a multiplier against sales.

They also have significant engineering effort throughout the charging ecosystem, from the batteries, on-board infrastructure, standards, mapping, strategic coverage for sales and more. Lots of engineering support and problems solved quickyly

Meanwhile I kind of suspect 3rd party charging systems are probably like 3rd-party public telephones or atms -- a rent-seeking opportunity from someone who will not shell out for quick detection and fixing of broken chargers.

I noticed this years ago - chaging a non-tesla EV was a crapshoot. evgo was expensive and pretty reliable, but only ever had two fast chargers. blink was always broken - completely undependable ev chargers. chargepoint seemed ok, but only had l2/slower chargers.

There is basically no downside to these folks letting chargers be offline for a while.
> It seems that even if someone creates a model that can "solve" ARC, it still is not indicative of AGI since it is not "general" anymore

I recently explained why I like ARC to a non-technical friend this way: "When an AI solves ARC it won't be proof of AGI. It's the opposite. As long as ARC remains unsolved I'm confident we're not even close to AGI."

For the sake of being provocative, I'd even argue that ARC remaining unsolved is a sign we're not yet making meaningful progress in the right direction. AGI is the top of Everest. ARC is base camp.
I’ve been wanting to run into someone on the Databricks team. Can you ask whoever trains models like MPT to consider training an open model only on data clear of copyright claims? Specifically, one using only Gutenberg and the permissive code in The Stack? Or just Gutenberg?

Since I follow Christ, I can’t break the law or use what might be produced directly from infringement. I might be able to do more experiments if a free, legal model is available. Also, we can legally copy datasets like PG19 since they’re public domain. Whereas, most others have works in which I might need a license to distribute.

Please forward the request to the model trainers. Even a 7B model would let us do a lot of research on optimization algorithms, fine-tuning, etc.
> The million euros for the TikTok & social media storm that got him elected

I just read that it was approximately 360000 Euros paid to TikTok influencers, not millions. Doesn’t change the fact that somebody paid them, yes, but apparently not Millions. Or my source was wrong, am I missing something?

EDIT Thanks for downvoting - I did not want to defend anything, I just read in an article about the court ruling that it was this number that appeared quite low to me, that’s all, I was wondering.
same here! Thanks for bringing up memories of sugar grapefruit. My parents' generation used to sugar their strawberries...
I don't like the interviewer, but just three weeks ago, Eric Schmidt was on the podcast and he is obviously very smart and knowledgeable about technology and business.
I've taken a similar path:

I probably will continue bouncing back and forth for the rest of my career.
More like iterations and depth of tree of thoughts search 3× in the pro mode.
'Do Browser': Working AI Agent for Chrome
Believe it ir not, we've had superior electric vehicles for decades. They are called electric velomobiles and they are amazingly hard to google. You can buy them but they are made in such small quantities that they cost as much as a car.

Here is some random example.

https://www.sinnerbikes.com/en/modellen/comfort/comfort-e/

1990

The electric versions are somewhat lagging behind the human powered velo

https://en.velomobiel.nl/snoek-l/

They are not cars but for transporting yourself from a to b they should do more than fine. Almost no power consumption very little danger als they are to light to do the infamous car crash. They use almost no space on the road and the road lasts much longer.

You also get physical activity which extends life span. Travel normally consumes life span. Under 30 minutes per day you get to the destination in 0 minutes.
Large drones are flying over New Jersey at night and no one knows why
Monkeys at a UK were put off “human” bananas and developed diabetes[1]. Fruit is healthy desert not - like vegetables - main course.

[1]: https://edition.cnn.com/2014/01/15/world/europe/uk-zoo-monke...
North Korean troops 'poorly trained'
She would definitely consider herself a right wing candidate, and has even tried before the election to convince multiple right-wing parties to form an electoral alliance and run a single candidate (presumably either herself or the president of the National Liberal Party, the largest right wing party in Romania, Nicolae Ciucă).

This should not be confused to the far-right parties that backed her opponent for the second round, Călin Georgescu.

Basically Romania's political scene has one nominally left wing party, the Social Democratic Party (though their economic policies are often centrist, and their social policies are often right wing, with opposition to civil partnerships and even some resistance to abortion rights)*. They are quite hated as representatives of the pre-Revolution communist Romania, and as very corrupt. Their traditional electorate are those living in rural areas, those living in poverty, those working in the state apparatus, and generally with a lower education.

Then there is one traditional right-wing party, the National Liberal Party (liberal here in the "classical liberalism" sense, basically free market), that is slowly dying off, mostly due to the extremely unpopular current president who was elected on their lists; and due to governing in alliance with the SDP. They also have often been accused of corruption. They are relatively right wing both on economic and social issues.

Then, there is a much newer centre-right party, the Save Romania Union, which has similar economic policies to the NLP and is more socially liberal. They coasted to some success on a powerful anti-corruption, Change message, but have since become embroiled in internal infighting. There are also several small parties that split off from them that have very similar policies. For both these and the NLP, their traditional electorate is people living in larger cities, wealthier, especially white collar workers, with higher education.

All of the above parties are pro-EU, pro-NATO collaboration, agree on providing funds to Ukraine and so on.

Then there's the newest force, the hard right Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR, which also means "gold" in Romanian). They ran on populist somewhat left-wing promises (cheap houses for everyone!), hard right social conservatism (anti-LGBT, anti-abortion, very religious minded). There's also a splinter party with virtually the same promises, the SOS Romania Party, and a newer force, The Young People's party. All of these three are various degrees of euroskpetic, NATO skeptics and against providing resources to Ukraine.

Typically when someone in Romania says "the left", they mean the SDP; when they say "the right" they mean "the NLP and SRU", and when they want to refer to the other group, they'll either say "far right", "ultra nationalists", or their own preferred term "sovereignists" (from "national sovereignty").

* There is one small European-style left-wing party that ran in this election for the first time, but they only won 2,3% of the vote
Hi! Author here. You are very much on point. I only recently started looking for part-time jobs, and perhaps I should have mentioned it in the post. It's precisely what you said -- financial stress started impacting my hobbies and sports, and that's where I don't feel as comfortable anymore.
About two years year before <dialog> was rushed into all browsers, it had been implemented only in Chrome, and Chrome devs suggested removal of <dialog> completely. Reason? No consensus on multiple issues relating to accessibility and security: https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/4184#issuecomment-440405...

And then boom! It was shipped everywhere with none of the issues discussed or fixed.

Why?

My tiny conspiracy theory is because browsers are hellbent on removing "legacy" APIs like confirm/prompt, and Chrome tried to remove it about half-a-year to a year before <dialog> was suddenly shipped everywhere: https://dev.to/richharris/stay-alert-d
Mechanical merge algorithms can perform better or worse on different kinds of conflicts (the specific example of editing deleted text is just one of many edge cases) but in the end no CRDT can decide if your merged text is what you mean to say.

We go into a bunch more detail in the Upwelling paper about the differences between (what we call) semantic and syntactic conflicts in writing: https://inkandswitch.com/upwelling/

Ultimately, my feeling is that serious collaboration is a document review problem as much as anything else. That said, this is particularly true in journalism and scientific publishing and can be mostly ignored for your meeting notes...

Anyway, if you see this comment, thanks for a nice piece of writing, Alex. Love to see folks wrestling with these problems.